Holyoke High School - Annual Yearbook (Holyoke, MA)

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CHARLES SAMUEL HEMINGWAY, son of Willis H. and Teresa Qliriesej Hemingway, was born in Fair- haven, Connecticut. He was educated at the Clas- sical Institute, Guilford, Connecticut, Hopkins Grammar School, New Haven, and at Yale Col- lege, from which he was graduated, A.B. in 1873. In Yale Mr. Hemingway was a member of the baseball, football, and track teams, and rowed with the varsity crew. He taught in Bloomfield, New Jersey, and in January 1874 became principal of the Holyoke High School, remaining until May 1885 when he resigned to enter the paper business with the Mittineague Paper Company. Later he 1 organized the Millers Falls Paper Company, leav- i ing some years afterward to join the Byfron-Weston Company of Dalton, where he remained for many years. He was president and treasurer of the Hemingway Paper Company of Cornwall-on-the-Hudson. Mr. Hemingway was dis- tinguished as one of the most successful paper salesmen and manufacturers in this country and enjoyed a nationwide circle of friends. He served two terms as a member of the Holyoke Board of Aldermen. In 1876 he mar- ried Alice Higginbottom of the class of 1879 at the Holyoke High School. After his retirement Mr. Hemingway moved to Cambridge to be near his two daughters. He and Mrs. Hemingway made long sojourns in Germany with their oldest daughter who had married Mr. F. O. Von Pfister of Munich.

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GEORGE WALTER EDWARDS was born in Provi- dence, Rhode Island, March 20, 1846, the son of Girden and Huldah QHortonQ Edwards. He pre- pared for college at the Providence High School and was graduated A.B. from Brown University in 1868. His Hrst position was at Earm Ridge Sem- inary, Farm Ridge, Illinois. The following year he came to Holyoke as principal of the Grammar School, later known as the Appleton Street School, then as the Lawrence School. Mr. Edwards served as principal of the high school from September, 1870 to December, 1873 when he had an oppor- tunity to realize his ambition to enter newspaper work. He served as editor of the Syracuse Daily Standard until 1888, studying at the same time at Syracuse University and receiving the A.M. de- gree in 1876. Brown University had granted the A.M. degree in course in 1871. Resigning as editor of the Standard , Mr. Edwards returned to school teaching in Brooklyn, New York, where he organized and became the first principal of Public School Number 70, a position he held for 28 years until his death on April 6, 1916. On July 25, 1905 Mr. Edwards married Clara Helene Mensing of Brooklyn, who with two sisters survived him. His ashes were interred in Swan Point Cemetery, Providence. Rhode Island.

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WILLIAM E. JUDD, teacher in Holyoke High School from 1874 to 1880, principal of that school from 1885 until 1897, principal of the Hamilton Street and Morgan Schools successively from 1898 until 1925 holds the record for Holyoke's longest serv- ing schoolmaster. Mr. Judd came to Holyoke in June 1874-three months before his nineteenth birthday-fresh from Amherst College where he had won a Phi Beta Kappa key and where later he was to receive an M.A. degree. He began his work as one of the three teachers in Holyoke High. At that time there was only one grammar school in the city. , Mr. Judd left the high school to become principal of a new grammar school in South Holyoke. Two years later he was called to Hartford High School. He returned to Holyoke after three years to assume the principalship of the high school, a position he held for twelve years, thus making a record for time not excelled except by Dr. Howard Conant. Although Mr. Judd was principal of the high school when it was housed in the old Elm Street building, he had much to do with the planning of the present high school structure-its size, its large assembly hall, and its wide corridors being features realized largely through his foresight. After an interregnum of two years during which Mr. Judd conducted a private business school and served as a representative in the Massachusetts legislature, he re- turned to the South Holyoke schools where he served for more than a quarter of a century. For a brief time he was principal of Hamilton Street School, but soon be- came head of the newly built Morgan School, in the construction of which he took a great interest. He felt pride in the fact that it was because of his insistence that Morgan had so fine an auditorium. At Morgan, Mr. Judd did his greatest and most satisfying work. According to a statement made by Mr. Judd himself during his last year of service: 'QApproXimately 1700 boys and girls have graduated from this school and have gone out into the world to gain honor and respectf, In June, 1925, Mr. Judd having reached pier seventy, was retired with the title Principal Emeritus of Morgan School. During the four years of Mr. Judd,s retirement he devoted much of his time to his favorite stud , histor , and he was in reat demand as a lecturer u on historical sub- Y Y 8 P jects. However, his greatest interest still was in education. He made weekly visits to