What did the Saucon Valley Defenders do for the GIs? Thirty young men “entrained” at Bethlehem and received $2.50, which is equivalent to today's value of $50.00.
These boys mostly had nothing but courage and drive, so $2.50 meant a lot to them. Many walked out of high school to enlist. Most have never been away from home, and now they go to serve their country somewhere around the war-torn world.
Good Job, Saucon Valley Defenders Committee and Saucon Valley
for raising funds for our “Greatest Generation”.
What follows is mostly a collection of images taken from the 1942 Hellertown yearbook.
Read the write-ups on the students who enlisted before they even finished high school!Observe the wartime theme of the sectional caricatures that appeared throughout this yearbook.
Image the latent anxiety that must have existed amongst the whole teenager population at that time!
Read Principal Illick's solemn message to the student body.
Charles Bloss
Bertram Schrantz
Raymond Weaver
Pages between various yearbook sections
