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

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Mdj'1U6fhU.V WILLIAM F. BOUCHER, M.D.y School Medical Examiner N It LlLLlAN STETTLER, R.N., B.S., School Nurse F ! ,gig ' ,e- if W MARY ZIRINSKY, B.S., Dietician FACULTY GETS TACKLED TOO Two of the teasingest tackles in school, Pat Haas, left, and Proctor, center, while selling programs 'mid a Catty game Martha Funke, right, do a terrific tackling iob on Mr. Albert ballyhoo setting in the main hall. Page twenty

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We will conquer neu' lzefghls. ROBERT J. SNYDER, B.S., M.A., Earth Science, Physics LINDA P. WIMMER, B.A.p English RAY WAHL, Ph.B., M.A., Safety Education, Driver Education, Amptennian Adviser HARRY K. WITEMEYER, B.S., World Cultures, Lighting Crew, N Club Adviser HARRY B. WALL, Ph.B., M.A.y English, Head Wrestling Coach, Public Relations Director JOAN D. WESLEY, B.S.g English, Speech, Dramatics Adviser, Senior Class Play, Tri-Hi-Y, Speech Contest, Commencement Speakers JANET A. YELENICS, B.S.p Health, Physical Education, Girls' Gym Team, Band Front, Cheerleaders NABEEH A. YOUNES, B.S.g Spanish Page nineteen

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Retain their spirit QigQQhgt if?TSSSFg Lester Ray Yeager August 16, 1893 A familiar figure to countless of our former classmates, Lester R. Yeager left us for his eternal reward last December 8. A native of Roaring Creek, Pennsylvania, he attended the schools there and graduated from Locust Township High School. He entered the teachi-ng profession before going to college and taught in the Locust Town- ship schools from 1913 to 1925. However, during that time he was called to serve his country in World War I and fought with the American Expe- ditionary Forces in France as a machine gunner. ln 1923 he entered Bloomsburg State ithen Normal Schooll College and was graduated in 1925. lt was at Bloomsburg where he met his wife, Bernice, also a student. He went on to Muhlen- berg College later to earn his bachelor's degree in 1936. It was also in 1923, on February 13, to be exact, that Mr. Yeager came to Northampton to teach in the Washington Building. The following year, 1924, he became Principal of the Washington School and continued as such until the new Junior High School was completed. In 1928 he transferred to the new school to teach Page December 8, 1965 the manual arts, particularly metal shops, and mathematics. When the area schools jointure had been formed, he taught the same subjects in the Wolf Annex, Northampton, and the Bath Annex, Bath, from 1953 until his retirement in June, 1956. His love of children and education was shared by Mrs. Yeager, who also taught, both full-time and as a substitute, for a considerable period of time in Northampton. Both were ardent lovers of the outdoors and flowers. Their Northampton home was a show- place of color and they spent as much time as pos- sible at their cottage at Promised Land Lake. How- ever, Florida came to assume more and more the proportions of a promised land, and when Mr. Yeager retired, they moved into a ranch cottage in St. Petersburg, Florida. Here, under kindly southern skies and the hands of the Yeagers, it was not long before their yard burst forth in bloom. The countless students who came under Mr. Yeager's guidance and influence, his colleagues, and the host of Yeager friends all knew and loved him, and all ioin in this tribute to a kindly man whoj has now passed over into his last Promised Lan . twenty-o e