Home Room
Home is where one starts from.
There's no place like home.
The
Pledge of Allegiance
I pledge Allegiance to the flag,
of the United States of America,
and to the Republic, for which it stands,
one nation under God, indivisible,
with Liberty, and Justice for all.
One country, one constitution, one
destiny.
-Daniel Webster
School days, school days, dear old golden rule days!
Treat your friends as you do your
pictures,
and place them in their best light.
-Jennie Jerome Churchill
Here they are - - our home room pictures from
Junior, Sophomore and Freshmen years; these are the best scans I can get, sorry
for a couple of blurry edges - my Nesaki was flattened to no avail. There
are 21 pictures here that were scanned in Grayscale at 300 dpi at 200%, then
cropped from the page and resized to 50%, auto enhanced, year and room number
added and the layer merged, then saved as a jpeg (that's for you techies out
there!). To see the full sized picture, you must
open the thumbnail - just click it. The larger file may take a little time
to load. There are no names on these pictures, (explanation on main page). Our
thanks to the writers of our class histories they are found below. Click your
browser's back button to return here after viewing the big pictures (do not
close windows).
So, you want to save the full sized picture? -Here's how... (for PC's)
1. with your mouse, RIGHT click on the picture.
2. a small popup window comes up, point to "Save Picture As" click it
3. a popup window enables you to save the jpeg file on your pc
4. you can make a second copy on your pc and edit, crop, or resize
Don't remember your home room number? Don't worry we're alphabetical!
1961 starts 201 with the A's... work ==> ==>
1960 starts 201 with the S's... work <== <==
1959 starts 101 with the A's... work ==> ==>
Have fun!!
...play some tunes while viewing, there's a midi file for each year.
Hope you enjoy them!
Friends are the family you choose for yourself. -Edna Buchanan
Junior Year 1961 Nesaki pages 44, 45, 46
The Old calendar on the wall tells us that the time is
almost here for us to take over the title of senior. Thinking of the many
responsibilities to be heaped on us next year, we wonder it we are ready for
this honorable title.
Looking back at the calendar we remember many important
days; the first day of school, meeting all our old friends and making new ones,
Booster day, band concerts, choral performances, baseball, basketball, and
football games, dances, and, of course, exams. But our junior year was also
filled with many "red letter" days. The wonderful day that we got our class
rings, and those nerve wracking days of College Boards and National Merit exams
are all high on our list of memories, but the most important date was our Junior
Prom We can never forget that wonderful night and the hours of work that
preceded it.
In the past we have proved that we are an alert and
enthusiastic class, and our primary goal is to maintain this reputation.
Let us be grateful to people who
make us happy;
They are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
-Marcel Proust
Top row, l. to r. room 201, 204, 205; bottom row l. to r. 206, 207, 208 & 209.
It takes a long time to grow an old friend!
Sophomore Year 1960 Nesaki pages 43, 44, 45
With Freshman year safely behind us, we, the class of '62, felt very adult on
the first day of school. It was our turn to point the way to the library and to
explain that there wasn't any room numbered 202! We heard a bit too often that
sophomore means "wise fool," but, with that exception, we were free from the
ribbing so common last year.
Many new activities were open to us, and we showed our
enthusiasm by joining varsity sports, Concert Choir, the Green Room Players, and
Student's Review. Those of us who had maintained a B average became members of
the Sophomore Pro Merito Society. We were introduced to typing and to French,
both interesting and useful subjects. "Parlez-vous francais?"
Our job is only one-half done; our goal, graduation, is
still two years away. But we are determined to do a successful job in the
future, as we have in the past, and to be a credit to Northampton High School.
A friend is someone who knows all about you but loves you anyway.-Anon.
Top row, l. to r. room 201, 203, 204; bottom row l. to r. 205, 206, 207 & 208.
Little moments add up to the friendship of a lifetime.
Freshman Year 1959 Nesaki pages 44, 45, 46
The first bewildering days of high school, the pranks, and initiations are in
the past and school life, in ever enlarging ways, looms ahead for us - the class
of 1962! Homework, extra activities, marshalling, and rushing to lunch are part
of our future at Hamp High.
For the first time we've encountered the confusing
subject of algebra and the strange people for the pages of our history books,
along with some old friends, such as poetry, and sentence diagramming!
We've become interested in new activities and a great
many of our ideals and ideas have changed since our first days as highschoolers.
And we know that this growing process will continue to the end of our school
career.
But at the close we will be able to hold our heads high
for, though we come from various schools, all our loyalties gradually have been
formed into one great allegiance - to Northampton High School.
Friendship need no Reason! -Ibycus
Top row l. to r. room 101, 102, 103; bottom l. to r. 104, 105, 105, 106 & 107.
Ah! How good it feels - the hand of an old friend. -Longfellow
To know someone here or
there
with whom you can feel there is
understanding in spite of distances
or thought unexpressed -
That can make this life a garden.
-Goethe