Slatington High School - Reflections Yearbook (Slatington, PA)

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QD MZ EW H To Professor J. W. Snyder, our supervising principal, whose inspir- ing personality and untiring and loyal service have linked him inseparately with memories of our high school days, this annual of Slatington High School is affectionately dedicated.

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T HE H ISTOKY OF ATH' 'FTIC S .nl IN SLA'flN6TON HIGH SCHOOL With the building of Smith Hall, Slatington High School has achieved one of its greatest triumphs for athletics. With the recent publicity that Smith Hall has justly received,we have learned with a certain sense of pride that Slat- ington High School has almost always been athletically-minded. Do we, the athletes and their sup- porters of 1938, know that our former high school athletes did not have the opportunities that we have? We are in- clined to accept all our conveniences too complacently, as if they had always existed. Today, under able supervision, with good equipment and in our new gymnasium, or on the newly improved athletic field, we engage in basketball, football, base- ball, and track. Our pioneer athletes had very little equipment, but a great deal of that which it takes to bring success--determination and team work. The first sport engaged in by our high school was basketball: it is still our foremost activity. The first high school team was organized in 1907. The games were played in the old Lyceum Hall on the third floor of the Post Office building on Saturday afternoons. Out- standing in this sport at that time were Roy Campbell and Charlie Moyer. The team was not restricted to pupils only, for occasionally outsiders participated. When the team came out on the floor, it was not greeted by cheer leaders or by a band. The players came out with only one purpose in mind--to win. This first basketball team was coached by members of a local team, one of whom was John Richards. In 1912, Mr. Miles, a teacher in the high school, who had had considerable experience in ath- letics, accepted the position of coach. During the next three years many good basketbaD.players represented Slat- ington. Among them were Carl Ritter, William Keener, Herbert Jones, Fred Williams, Raymond F. Kern, Norman Smith, David F. Kern, Russell Geist, Ray Hand- werk, Russell Handwerk, Harold Jones, Harry Jones, Alfred Neff, Russell Rauch, Roy Kern,WEddieN Maeselon, Ray Stettler, Allan Kester, who was one of the best foul shots ever to attend Slatington High School. During this 1915-1914 season, the team consisted of Norman Smith, sell Geist, David F. Kern, UJimmien der, and John Roberts, Catasauqua Slatington, two undefeated teams, met in a game that ended in the thirdequarter with Slatington leading, 14-ll, in a ufree-for-allu among the players. This misunderstanding resulted in the sever- ance of athletic relations between the two schools for several years. While Mr. Miles served as coach, games were played on the Band HaD.f1oor, until the time when the Band Hall was remodeled. Basketball was then dllcon- tinusd until the winter of 1917. With the completion of the new high school building in 1917, with its new gymnasium, which was one of the largest in Lehigh Valley at the time, a new era in basketball in Slatington High School opened, with Mr. Elmer Hausman, a teach- er in the grade schools, as coach, Some of our early opponents were prep schools, such as Bethlehem Prep, Y.M.C.A.'s, Catholic High of Bethlehem, Fleetwood, Northampton, Mauch Chunk, Muhlenberg College students, Lehighton, and also teams that did not come from schools, such as the NNeff's Bunchn, the nMajesticsn, and the nstars anduSatel- litesu. Since many of the other high schools had neither a gymnasium nor fa- cilities for playing basketball, most of these teams came to Slatington to play. Return games were infrequent. Their mode of transportation con- trasted strangely with ours. The teams came with the trolley or train, and of- ten, if they came a long distance,stayed when Rus- Sny- and i1l..........i--11 IUQSBSZ