Plainfield High School - Milestone Yearbook (Plainfield, NJ)

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14 Alumni Notes Dr. F. J. Miller, Professor of Latin at the University of Chicago, and former Principal of the Plain- field High School, is spending the year abroad. °86.—Captain Tieman Horn, U.S. A., has been appointed one of ten captains to takea specialcourse in the torpedo school at Fort Tot- ten, ’90.—Edward Petrieisin business in Chicago. ’91.—Miss Edith Gilbert is teach- ing in the Randolph-Cooley colleg- iate school. ’94.—Champlain Riley, who was graduated from Cornell in 1898, has lately taken up his residence in Plainfield. °97.—Miss Edith Burt is teaching in the Seminary, Plainfield, New Jersey. °97.—William B. Van Alstyne has completed a course at Columbia, and will enter upon hospital work in January. 97.—Earnest Suffern who was graduated from Williams’ in 1901 has announced his engagement to Miss Georgia Greene, of Elizabeth. 97.—Louis Squires, Williams’, 1901, is studying law in New York City. ‘98.—Miss Constance S. Patton, Smith, 1902, is teaching at Saint Timothy’s School, Baltimore. °98.—Miss Carolyn Kampman, TAPES ORAC ITE Wellesley, 1902, is teaching in Can- ton, Ohio. °98.—Miss Lillian B. Hunt is the principal of a kindergarten in New York City: 98.—Miss Sarah Richards was graduated from Smith in June, and is now living in New York City. °98.—Miss Adele H. Kirby, after three years as assistant librarian in the Plainfield Public Library, has resigned her position. ’98.—Elwood L. Davis, Rutgers, 1902, is studying medicine in Phila- delphia. He was awarded third scientific honor at his graduation from Rutgers in June. °99.—Miss Angie Kuhl has been appointed the leader of the Glee Club at Wellesley. While on the Inter-Collegiate Geological Tour, she has recently been visiting her friends at Mt. Holyoke and Smith College. ’99.—Miss Helen Hall, who will be graduated in June from Welles- ley, is now specializing in German. ’99.— William C. Morgan is a Senior at Amherst. °00. —Miss Mary Lock is aJunior at Barnard. ‘00.—Miss Flora Campbell after two years spent at the Woman’s College, Baltimore, is now at Bar- nard. ] ’00.—Miss Emily Runyon is tak- ing a course in kindergarten work at the Ethical Culture School in New York. °00.—Miss Ruth Maxson is a Junior at Smith College.

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THE ORACLE for shelter, for the portals of the Iris are always open, and surely one of those beruffled ladies reclin- ing under her silken canopy will gladly offer him a refuge. Then leaving the three damsels to enjoy their siesta in peace, perhaps he will meet with a jolly bumble-bee. He will find the bee an entertaining, sociable body, who keeps up a con- tinuous hum of conversation. He is a harmless gossip who knows everybody’s business as well as he knows his own, and that is very well. They both will drop into a sip from the fragrant larder of a hospitable Honeysuckle, and ram- ble away to thenearest Lily-of-the- Valley, where they will be accom- modated with dainty finger-bowls, filled with perfumed dew. Night would have no terror for our little man if he were a butter- fly. And being a charmed but- terfly, and not an ordinary moth, he would not stick on the back ofa maple leaf all night, but snuggling down in the heart of a rose, he would sleep a charmed sleep among its velvet pillows, till daybreak. These long, joyous days pass only too soon from the prince, and Time, by his cute arguments, con- verts him toa republican. Time’s arguments are hard, and the repub- lican chafes under them, and looks back for consolation to the time ‘‘when birds, and flowers and I were happy peers.”’ Mercy HILLMANN, ’06. 13 NOVEMBER. Death haunts the earth And whispering to the breeze, Shakes from the stately trees The vigor and the strength of youth; And from the bush The emerald leaves, Green from their birth ; And dark as one who dares not speak the truth, Throws all the land in weirdest mystery. With bony hands he shrivels up the corn, He cuts the fiery sheaves, And, o’er the jewelled leaves, By his pale charger borne, Looses his poison’d breath. Moaning in wind and storm, He wails the last song of the dying year, Soon his forever, And, on some midnight drear Bids us remember. VAN WYCK BROOKS, ’04. THANKSGIVING. It was in one cold November Near three hundred years ago, When the Indians were masters With the quiver and the bow ; In the little town of Plymouth, On that wild New England shore, Came the settlers for thanksgiving, Just thanksgiving,—nothing more. They had passed long days of hardship, Under Bradford’s guiding hand, When they gathered in the court-house At the governor’s command. High above all earthly sorrows Did the pilgrims’ stout hearts soar: They were gathered for thanksgiving, Just thanksgiving,—nothing more. Since that meeting of the Pilgrims, Many years have passed away ; But in each, by their descendants, Has been kept thanksgiving day. Year by year our country’s prospered, ' Till at last we seem to be Standing first among the nations, Conquerors on both land and sea. Let us on this next Thanksgiving Count our blessings o’er and o’er, Set aside the day for thanking, Just for thanking,—nothing more. R. S. LANE, 703.

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THE ORACLE ’00.—Miss Alice Morgan is a Junior at Mt. Holyoke College. ’00.—Miss Edna Burr is a Junior at Mt. Holyoke College. ’00.—Miss Mary A. Ross, who is now a Junior at Alfred University, has been chosen Editor-in-Chief of ‘The Alfredian.”’ 700.— Miss Emma Miller is a Sophomore at Wellesley College. 00 —Miss Fanny Fish has changed her residence from Chicago to Brooklyn. ’00.—Charles Fountain, formerly of Columbia, is now taking his Junior year in the Baptist Theologi. cal Seminary, Louisville, Ky. ’00.—Walter Squires is at Wil- liams’ College. ’01.—Miss Ethel Titsworth, who is a Sophomore at Smith, has been made a member of the Washburn House Hockey Team, the champion hockey team of the College. ’01.—Miss Beulah Cline has se- cured a position as private secretary to Mr. Walter McGee, of the Stand- ard Oil Company. ’01.—Miss Lillian Maclay, after a post-graduate course at the High School, entered Mt. Holyoke in the fall. ’01.—Holly Titus, the class presi- dent, and Cyrus Kinsman are at Cornell University. ’02.—Miss Margaret Abbot and Miss Lulu Fuller are freshmen at Mt. Holyoke. Herbert Dyer, ex-’03, iscaptain of of his base-ball team in the Cincin- Bio hd e Boek 15 H. K. Doane, president, ex-’03, has been enjoying (?) immensely his first few months at Rutger’s. “Dave’? Pond, ’00, Princeton, 05, has been playing a snappy game at tackle on the varsity scrub this fall. He was full back on our 1900 team. Kenneth Bulkley, ’01, Columbia, 06, is playing half back on the Freshmen team. He played half back on our 1900 team. ALUMNUS LETTER. PRINCETON, N. J. Nov. 24, ‘02. The Editor of the ORACLE: May I congratuiate you and the students of the High School in general upon your decision to com- mence the issue of a school paper. Now-a-days a school, likea college, seems hardly complete without at least one publication, and this de- cision of yours seems to me to mark one more stepin thesteady advance our old institution has been mak- ing within the last few years. I suppose at present the most in- teresting subject down here at Princeton is football. While our season ended with the Yale game two weeks ago, we are now await- ing the decision in regard to the championship. Ofcourse Yale will have first place this year and by the result of last Saturday’s game we should have second, Yale having defeated Princeton 12-5 and beaten Harvard 23-0. In view of the fact that we lost through injuries Burke and Kaper,