Plainfield High School - Milestone Yearbook (Plainfield, NJ)

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THE ORACLE. 13 Junior German. First Prize—Edmund Y. Sampter. Second Prize—Otis Hovey. Honorable Mention—Marguerite Van Zandt. Ethel Skillman. Latin Prizes—Given by Mr. Alexander Gilbert. Virgil. First Prize—Louise Townsend Nicholl. Second Prize—Agnes Marguerite Van Norden. Honorable Mention—Sarah Anne Brouwer. Cicero. First Prize—Ruth Klein. Second Prize—Elsie Emery Bird. Honorable Mention—Meta Pennock. Caesar. First Prize—Louise Bird. Second Prize—Helen Pearce. Honorable Mention—May Day. COMMERCIAL PRIZES: Given by Mr. Ernest R. Ackerman. A first prize of three dollars and a second prize of two dollars, to be expended in books. Bookkeeping. First Prize—Horace Nathaniel Adams. Second Prize—Louisa M’Cormick. Honorable Mention—Louis Rottberg. Typewriting. First Prize—Ruth Frances Stryker. Second Prize—Gertrude Wilhelmina Enander. Honorable Mention—Marion Wheeler. Stenography. First Prize—Ruth Frances Stryker. Second Prize—May Greenwood Stafford. Honorable Mention—Alice Agnes Leighs. Amanuensts. First Prize—Harry Brick. Second Prize—Beulah Miriam Van Winkle. Honorable Mention—Annie Mauger.

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18 THE ORACLE. Award of Prizes, 1909 ENGLISH COMPOSITION. I. The George H. Babcock Prize, given by Mrs. George H. Babcock. First Prize—$15.00 expended in books, Grace Denton Parker. Second Prize—$10.00 expended in books, Clara Savage. Honorable Mention— Albert Hardcastle. Kathryn Moynihan. Celestine Waldron. II. The Daily Press Prize for the best essay written by a member of the Senior Class on a topic relating to municipal affairs. Prize—$10.00 in gold, George Stanley Robins. Honorable Mention—Washington McIntyre. III. Prize for best essay on a given topic, offered by the Equal Suffrage League. Prize—$5.00 in gold, Caroline Lambert. Honorable Mention—Wilbur Tovell. Madeline Durar. IV. Prize for the best essay on a given topic, offered by the W. C. T. U. Prize—$5.00 in gold, Alan Fitz Randolph. Honorable Mention—Douglas Davis. MATHEMATICS. The Dr. C. H. Stillman prize, given by Mr. Wm. M. Stillman. First Prize—$15.00 in gold, Meta Pennock. Second Prize—$10.00 in gold, Lewis T. Matlack. Honorable Mention—Bessie Alpaugh. ERAN SA TIONSE RIZE: For the best translation of assigned passages, a first prize of three dollars, and a second prize of two dollars, to be expended in books chosen by the receiver of the prize. Mopvern Lancuaces—Given by Mr, Ernest R. Ackerman. Junior French. First Prize—Washington McIntyre. Second Prize—Elsie Bird. Honorable Mention—Mary Pauline Cowen. Ouida Hetfield. Senior German. First Prize—Alan Fitz Randolph. Second Prize—Agnes Marguerite VanNorden. Honorable Mention—David Bryant Thickstun.

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14 TOERORA CEI: A Sketch in Green Paint BY GRACE DENTON PARKER. Awarded First Babcock Prize Trolley cars ads are fascinating. They illustrate so gaily the hopeful, inspiring, idealistic side of everyday life. In them the children’s faces are always chubby, the women always smiling and stylish, the men always broad-shouldered. It was at one of these ads I stared, on my way to town. An especially lovely ad with a smiling Titian-haired lady in mauve and white, down on her hands and knees painting green, a light, artistic, olive green, the floor of a delicately pink bedroom. Under the picture was this stirring verse: DEVOES4G. 72 HAS SMADE“THIS KLOOR TAS, GOOD) AS NEW: I had an idea! How much I needed a floor as good as new in my room! How well a light, artistic, olive green would go with the woodwork! How cool and pretty the lady in the picture looked! That afternoon I con- sulted my mother. She did not exactly agree on green, but when I explained that Devoe’s No. G 72 was a light, artistic, olive green she thought it a rather pretty idea, and so ordered three quart cans of Devoe’s No. G 72 from the hardware store. Bright and early the next morning the hardware wagon stopped in the drive, and a small, swaggering, important boy, with a stylish, bored air, becoming to any king forced by fatal circumstance to drive a delivery wagon, pounded on the back door. I was glad the paint had come and opened the door with a smile. The boy tipped a—no, not an artistic green, but just an ugly green—hat, and dumped a bag on the porch. “Them’s your potatoes,” he cried with a majestic nod. Indeed it must have been embarrassing for such a mighty person to make a mistake, so I said as sweetly as possible: “Oh, we ordered paint, we didn’t order potatoes. There must be some mistake. I know mother don’t want potatoes. She always gets them from the) etocer.” He was disgusted. Planting his hands deep in two baggy pockets, he tried to frighten me with a long stare from two wrathful, gray eyes. “T guess I know your mother when I see her, don’t I?” I replied, he ought to. “And I guess she ordered them potatoes when she was in our store this morning, didn’t she?”