Plainfield High School - Milestone Yearbook (Plainfield, NJ)

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20 HE ORACLE Class History This class of 1907, which you see before you, is so well known and of such famous repute that it is almost unnecessary to go into details of its achievements. However, we make this small summary to bring back memories of some of the successes and pleasures we have experienced during our high school career. When we entered the school some four years ago we were timid and scared», (like all Freshmen) but under the baleful taunts of the upper classes, ’06 especially, we soon began to assert ourselves, and show the real nature of the class. In the Freshman year, three members of the class—Douglass, Williams and Srager—made the football team, and Douglass made the hockey team; and a 1907 girl—May Cogan—won the Girls’ Tennis Champion- ship. The only fault in the freshman year was that we were too much above the average. The wise and aspiring faculty gained such a high opinion of our ability that they tried to make us do two years of algebra in one. This misfortune considerably reduced the size of the class. Following the standards set in the Freshman year we have continued to partake in the school activities with characteristic spirit and success. Big Chief Douglass has three years captained the football team, and was also captain of the baseball nine. Without the class of 1907, all the teams would have been dismal failures. The Girls’ Basketball team acquired a valuable member in Miss Gertrude Moodey, who has been one of their swiftest and surest homes. 1907 has never received last place in the track meets and this year easily won the championship. Under four years of ’07 influence the ORACLE has grown in size, wealth and quality, and it was never more successful than when under the able management of Weston Gavett and Will Osgood, with Rollin Williams as Editor-in-Chief. During the past year most of the editorial staff has come from the ranks of ’o7. The Musical Clubs will also suffer an irreparable loss by the gradua- tion of this class. The instrumental clubs will lose six members and the Glee Club will lose eight, including the star soprano soloist, Miss Queena Tillotson. There was but one class that did not at first have a proper respect for our worth and valor. This was ‘06. In our Junior year one night about

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THE ORACLE 19 YEAR BOOK Class of 1907 Cet AeS SrA COMMIT TEE WILLIAM H. OsGooD, Chairman. FREDERICK M. SMITH HELEN JOHNSON WESTON GAVETT GERTRUDE ABBOTT ALICE BROWN All Whame Doughty Douglass Led All whame doughty Douglass led, All wha’ve loved the Blue and Red, All wha’ve joined in raising Ned, All wha hope for heaven! All come here and join our song, We'll nae be here vara long, We're the class that did nae wrong, We're auld Naughty Seven! We've been here for four lang years, We're the class that has nae peers, We hae had our joys and tears, We hae gotten leaven! Noo the last day soon will pass, Noo let every lad and lass Sing a song for our dear class, Guid aud Naughty Seven! J. De Lancey FERGusOoN, ’07. We've been working on our Exams— All the livelong day We've been working on our Exams— To pass the time away? Spoken (1 guess not!) Can’t you see our cheeks are hollow, And we're growing thin? Can’t you see the awful effort It cost ’07 to win?

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Hk ORACLE 21 Christmas time this conceited class located themselves in the school thinking they could thus keep out their rivals. This illusion was soon shattered, for we got in the front door and rushed into the hall. For a while a rough house reigned supreme, but when the noise finally subsided 1907 was still in the building. The remainder of the night rapidly passed, with amateur vaudeville, eraser fights and a midnight feast. At the Christmas festivities of that year, the Seniors presented us with gifts, accompanied by appropriate and complimentary verses, and in re- turn we gave them an appetizing banquet. In the middle of our Junior year we moved to this new school, an event of which we had almost despaired, although we were sorry to leave the old school and its time-honored associations. Our first day in the new build- ing we made memorable by presenting to the school a fine photograph of Columbus’ ship, the Santa Maria. Our last days in the old building are lurid with red and green paint and we must pass hastily onward lest we dwell too long on these glorious and at the same time painful happenings. We gave our first dramatic performance in this hall in our Junior Play, “A Proposal Under Difficulties.” This was one of the most entertain- ing and successful plays ever given by a Junior Class. At the end of the year, we bade our old friends of 1906 farewell and stepped into their places as Seniors. This year we have kept up our high standard of merit, without, however, sacrificing any of our usual enjoyment in life. At Christmas, according to the ancient custom, we had the agreeable task of roasting the members of the Junior Class. We did it well and no poor Junior escaped his fate. The great event of the year, however, was the Senior Play, “Twelfth Night.” This scored another huge success for the class. Only lack of space prevents us from enthusing upon the worth of the cast and thanking Miss Goddard more at length for her excellent coaching. So through these four years we have tried to bring honor to the name of the Plainfield High School, and now in saying good-bye we resolve to continue the good record of the class and with love in our hearts for our Alma Mater, uphold her dearest traditions.