Northampton Area High School - Amptennian Yearbook (Northampton, PA)

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pt morrir ghafir One of Northampton's most distinguished graduates has earned his distinction by serving mankind as a teacher. When Morris Shafer grad- uated in 1921, he entered Temple University but transferred to Muhlenberg to graduate with honors in 1925 with the Ph.B. degree. He taught Problems of Democracy at Easton High School and attended Lafayette College to win his Master of Arts degree in 1929. Still teaching, he entered New York Univer- sity in 1930 to work on his doctorate, and was awarded the Doctor of Philolsophy degree four years later. He remained at New York Univer- sity as a professor in the School of Education until 1943, when he entered the University of Pennsylvania School of Law to improve his knowledge of economics. He won his law de- gree in 1947 after serving on the school's Law Review Staff as an honor student, after which he practiced law in Allentown for several years. During this time he lectured at Rutgers Univer- sity. ln 1956 he was asked to accept the Deanship of the Dickinson School of Law, where he served until his retirement in 1965. ln addition to travel, he has done much scholarly pursuit, including maintaining the standard work, Henry, Pennsylvania Trial Evidence, current for four years. He and his wife, the former Mary Walker, of Allentown, reside in Wynnewood, Pennsylvania. sb Vs

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Experienced teachers and guides, THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE iii ' nmnnwsw me sm From left, seated, Albert L. Henry, Superintendent, Joseph Smida, Lehigh Township, Charles Hahn, Bath, Russell Becker, Moore Township, Paul Balliet, Allen Township, David Olson, Assistant to the Superintendent, standing, Guy Rice, Lehigh The chain reaction to the revolution in education touched off by Sputnik is still in progress. The radical changes in curriculum and teaching methods, the conversion to meet the novel de- mands of the dawning age of technology with its Conants and Rickovers, are by far the better known aspects of the educational revolution. But they are by no means the only facets. One of the most important innovations is the emphasis, at first voluntary but since required by law, accorded the consolidation of school districts, based on the premise that larger school districts would make possible more equal educational op- portunity for all, regardless of whether the area was rural or urban in character. One of the result- ant chain reactions was a state-wide wave of school construction - schools with facilities for developing the youthful mind which heretofore had existed only in the cities. Another was an emergent new kind of school administration, streamlined to fit the needs of new district orga- nization. Township, Ralph McCandless Jr., Moore Township, Howard McMurry, Lehigh Township, John Dreisbach, Carl Shoemaker, and George Bennis, all Northampton, Sherwood Mann, Chap- man Quarries, and George Henninger, East Allen Township. Both of these chain reactions have been re- flected here. They occurred almost simultaneously and the spark that touched them off came on July l, 1950, when the school districts of Northampton and Bath Boroughs, and East Allen, Lehigh, and Moore Townships signed a historic contract to pool their students and resources. This Jointure, as it was designated, affected secondary education only, or the grades from seven to twelve. On January 26, 1954, as the result of a district reorganization study by county superintendents for the Pennsylvania Department of Public Instruc- tion, a meeting of all the individual school boards of the iointure together with those of Allen Town- ship and Chapman Quarries Borough - these be- ing indicated by the study as logically forming a part of the jointure - was held to discuss the fu- ture of this organization. Another need which was becoming more and more apparent was that for a new high school, and plans were initiated to study this problem as well. Page eight