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JUNE 1-7, 2017
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Northampton Sports Banquet honors School’s best athletes
Athletic Director Shaun Murray presents the David Olson Memorial Trophies to Brandy Moser and Dylan Baird.
By JUSTIN SWEITZER Northampton Area High School athletes were recognized for their successes on and off the field at the school’s annual sports banquet on Wednesday, May 24. Northampton athletes were awarded over $9,500 in scholarships and $1,500 in trophies for their accomplishments as members of their respective sports teams, with members of the local community heralding them for their work and dedication throughout the academic year. Among the awards given out at the 2017 Varsity All-Sports Banquet were senior trophy awards for individual athletes in their sports, scholarship awards, senior plaques, and scholar athlete recognitions. The Northampton Class of 2017’s Valedictorian Brandy Moser and Salutatorian Lyndsey Gallagher were recipients of both trophy awards and scholarships, showing the academic ability that was prevalent throughout many of the athletes in attendance at the all-sports
banquet. Multi-sport athlete Colin Schucker also received an abundance of awards at the event, being honored as a football Eastern Pennsylvania Conference scholar athlete, a senior plaque recipient, the recipient of the Richard J. Derkits Memorial Scholarship, the Gabryluk Family Thrower’s Scholarship, the Louis J. Wolf Athletic Scholarship for a senior football athlete, and the Northampton Football Booster Club Scholar Athlete Award. Senior plaques were given to 71 athletes who a had varsity letter in two or more sports, or three or more letters in one sport. Three athletes received a senior jacket award for receiving eight or more letters during their academic career. The athletes receiving the jacket recognition were Moser, Gallagher and Aja Blount. The banquet also honored Northampton’s 21 Eastern Pennsylvania Conference scholar athletes, their four district champions Continued on page 10
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(Originally published in 2002) It’s 12 p.m. and I’m still in for the company home. Later Mr. and Mrs. Wilfred Lakey’s the company asked if the tenkitchen questioning and listen- ants wanted to buy the homes. ing to memories of the Borough My father bought the home for of Chapman. I better leave so $1200, which I thought was they can enjoy their lunch. a high price, but I was only Mr. and Mrs. Lakey’s fathers earning $2.50 a week workwere hardy slaters at Chapman ing at the Minnich’s store. My Quarry. While young Wilfred father always saw that we had worked at Minnich’s store, his a good supply of potatoes that father Albert and his wife Bet- he bought at the Jones Farm. ty’s father worked in the quarry. Mr. Jones’s son, Robert Jones, Mr. Lakey recalls, “As young- is a longtime Bath area farmer sters, we went down to the whose uncle, Owen Jones, was quarry on Sundays. We weren’t quarry superintendent.” to be there but we crawled into He adds, “When the quarry the quarry cars and pushed was slow my father and other them on the quarry railroad.” laid off quarry workers worked “The boys would swim in for the W.P.A. on roads and govFisher’s Quarry, it was only for ernment projects. boys. We would undress in the My oldest sister went over woods and swim, no one would to Nazareth and worked at the bother you. Mr. Chapman Kramer Hosiery Mill and that lived in Bethlehem. He built a really helped out.” metal bridge across the KlondI asked about Christmas. “We ike Quarry and installed diving were glad for some clothing, you boards for a Boy Scout troop. didn’t get much. A toy or two to We learned to swim in the small be shared by a family of eight quarries named the ‘Pint Hole’ was all you had but you were and the ‘Quart Hole.’ satisfied.” I asked Mr. Lakey My father was strict. He had what he did during the depresto be with eight children. He sion. His reply, “My job at Minwould spend 50 years work- nich’s store ended, the post ofing in the quarry.” I asked Mr. fice in the store which brought Lakey to comment on the de- in customers closed in 1934. As pression. “Times were tough, a result, less people were comparents paid $8 a month rent Continued on page 3
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