Holyoke High School - Annual Yearbook (Holyoke, MA)

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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

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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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Morgan to attend the Friday assemblies. At Holyoke High School he substituted fre- quently in Latin or in History, and gave each year lectures to the United States history classes. His last lecture-the eighth of a series of thirteen-on the Formation and Adoption of the Constitution was given just a week before his death that oc- curred March 5, 1929. Mr. Judd is a descendant of the early settlers who drove their flocks and herds be- fore them into the Connecticut Valley and settled in New Englandf' He was not born in New England, however, but in Michigan, the son of Samuel A. Judd, a cap- tain of one of the first regiments to be organized in that state at the beginning of the Civil War. One of Mr. Judd,s childhood recollections is of being with his mother Qformerly Clara L. Smith of South Hadleyj and with his little sister Cknown later in Holyoke as Mrs. Charles P. Lymanj in camp in Virginia where officers were al- lowed to take their families for a short time. Mr. Judd's first lessons in history were learned from war bulletin boards and were recited to anxious relatives and neigh- bors. His first great grief was the news of the death of his father who was killed in the famous battle of Fair Oaks. Mr. Judd remained in Michigan after his father,s death and was educated in the Grand Rapids public schools, but spent his summers in South Hadley. When he was thirteen he came East, prepared for college at Monson Academy and under private tutors, and entered Amherst with the standing of a second year student. At Amherst he was a member of the varsity baseball team of which Frederick H. Gillette, who be- came United States Senator, and Speaker of the House, was captain. Mr. Judd,s love of baseball and indeed of all other sports, remained with him throughout his long life. For many years he played baseball with his pupils, inspiring them to play good clean games, and even after his retirement followed all their sports with the greatest zest. In 1878 Mr. Judd married Frances I. Brown, one of the pupils in the Junior class when he first came to teach in Holyoke High, and for two years after her gradua- tion, a teacher in Holyoke grades. They had two children: Mabel L. and Samuel E. Miss Judd had taught in Holyoke High School, since the year following her gradua- tion from Mount Holyoke College in 1901, but retires at the close of this school year to enter the Foreign Mission Sisters of St. Dominic. Mr. S. E. Judd, Yale 1901, taught for several years in New York City high schools, and then for twenty-one years was with Life Savers, Incorporated, Port Chester, New York, retiring from its Executive Vice Presidency last July. He married Rosalthea Haigh, and they have one daughter, Althea, a graduate of Randolph Macon College, Lynchburg, Virginia. During Mr. Judd's long life in Holyoke, he made an enviable place for himself in his community. He interested himself in every phase of its life, whether political, so-