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Lyndsey Gallagher sity Soccer and Varsity Lacrosse. She has volunteered her spare time with the Rodale Institute
and the Horizon Youth Summer Program. Lyndsey Gallagher, Salutatorian, is the daughter of Vince and Sue Gallagher of Northampton. Lyndsey will be attending George Washington University this fall as a Public Health major. Lyndsey has been involved in a variety of activities during her high school career. She is a member of the National Honor Society, the Youth Group at Queenship of Mary Church, and the North County Envirothon. Lyndsey also participates in Cross Country, Track and Field, and Indoor Track, and she has volunteered with Teen Summer at LVHN. The Class of 2017 is the 116th graduating class of Northampton Area High School and will celebrate its commencement at Stabler Arena on Saturday, June 3 at 4 p.m.
someone needed something. This was my first full-time job. I earned $2.50 a week. You didn’t worry about how many hours you were there. The store was also a favorite hangout for the men, especially in winter or when the quarry wasn’t working. They played cards, checkers and had plenty of conversations. One night the men wouldn’t go home, they wanted to keep me there as long as possible. At 2:30 a.m. my father came looking for me. He said it was time to come home and with that the store emptied pretty quickly. 7 a.m. to 2:30 a.m. was a bit long for a young fellow.” “We sold kerosene from 50 gallon drums for light and heat. The first wrapped bread was brought in from Bethlehem by Mr. Raines. After awhile it was on our shelves. As a youth, milk was sold raw and dipped from a can. The first bottled milk at the store came from the ‘Northampton Dairy.’ The post office was in the store. The mail was brought in from Bath by Roy Repsher, a World War I vet-
eran who lost a leg in the conflict. We sold stamps and people picked up their mail any time the store was open. I had to keep records and they were checked each year by a government auditor.” For some reason, I think Mr. Lakey and the Chapman’s store kept better records than this company called Enron! The Chapman’s store experience could have done Enron a world of good. Mr. Lakey spoke kindly of another Chapman’s resident, Mr. Clyde Roberts. He said, “When Clyde was born, his father rushed into the store and said, ‘It’s a boy.’ The nickname Clyde ‘Boy’ Roberts stuck, a nickname not recalled by younger Chapman’s residents.” Earl Chapman ran the Chapman’s Quarry Company store. Mrs. Lakey remembers, “We bought most of our things there. The company gave the workers credit. The first thing you did was pay the bill at the end of the month. If work was slow, you couldn’t pay and the store had to wait.” Next time: Rent $8 a month.
NAHS VALEDICTORIAN AND SALUTATORIAN submitted by JILL STOUT The faculty and staff of Northampton Area High School are pleased to announce the selection of Ms. Brandy Moser as Valedictorian and Ms. Lyndsey Gallagher as Salutatorian of the Class of 2017. They rank first and second in their graduating class. Brandy Moser, Valedictorian, is the daughter of Suzanne and Brian Moser of Northampton. Brandy plans to attend Boston University this fall, and she intends to major in Biochemistry. Brandy has been an active student in her high school career. She is a member of the National Honor Society, the EPC Student Athlete Character Council, Caring Kids Club, Guitar Club, German Club, Volunteer Club,
Brandy Moser and Envirothon. In addition to these activities, Brandy has also participated as Captain in Var-
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(Originally published in 2002) Today I am up in Chapman’s the Nazareth Cement Company, sitting in the kitchen with some so each day I walked over to the fine folks, Mr. and Mrs. Wilfred plant for a ride home. I didn’t like Lakey, who are “looking back” for school, so I left to help the family.” our Home News readers. Hope you The family had eight lively chilread last issue’s column. dren. Young Lakey started working After his days in the Chapman’s after school when he was ten years one-room school, Wilfred took a old. He remembered, “I used to go high school entrance exam up at up to Cyrus Minnich’s Chapman’s Klecknersville. He passed and was store, filling the shelves, weighing enrolled at Nazareth High School. sugar when it came in bulk, cleanHe drove over with Melvin Jones, ing up and anything I was told to who was an older student and do. I was paid fifty cents a week. had one of the few automobiles in The store hours were 7 a.m. to 8 Chapman’s. Wilfred recalls, “When p.m. six days a week. On occaMelvin graduated, he got a job at sion we would open on Sunday if
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