Plainfield High School - Milestone Yearbook (Plainfield, NJ)

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PHEVORA Ces Ira Winthrop Travell, Principal Plainfticld High School. ay

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18 THE .ORACLE: ) Wr c ¢ —r 9 uf 9 vf Ira Winthrop Travell BY CLARA SAVAGE. One of the greatest privileges in life is to come into contact with strong and noble personalities, to feel their influence and be helped by their pres- ence and example. Such is the privilege of every pupil in Plainfield High School. Mr. Travell is a principal who has the love and respect of all pupils, for they recognize in him not only the authority and control necessary to his office, but also a friendliness and personal interest in the progress of each pupil, that inspires and encourages. He is anxious that the school should be a pleasant place, that the boys and girls should as- sociate it with happy hours spent together in working, and with evenings full of fun. He helps to make school-life a joy by entering enthusiastically into the amusements and encouraging interest in athletics, dramatics and all other pursuits that help to arouse and maintain school spirit. The boys are his loyal friends and pay him high tribute by declaring him to be “perfectly square.” The girls are no less loyal. A “new girl” finds that the tall man, of whom she is rather afraid, at first, takes especial pains to make her feel at home in Plainfield High School, and when he meets her on the street, he has not forgotten her name. Mr. Travell is honored by the pupils of Plainfield High School because he exemplifies devotion to a noble cause; he is loved by the pupils because they know him to be their personal friend and confidant. Each boy and girl will remember him for some individual kindness. “That best portion of a good man’s life— His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.”

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20 THE-ORACEE, The Class of 1909 Edward P. Abbott Joseph Silbert Ernest Banks Allen S. Snyder Alfred DePierre Beeken David B. Thickstun Arthur Levis Bingaman Francis Wilcox Frank Burdick Miss Caroline M. Baker James M. Cullen Miss Bertha B. Brick Franklin Clyde Doane Miss Sarah A. Brouwer Guion Hillman Fountain Miss Edna B. Burdick Richard Harrigan Miss Frances T. Carr 3arnard Kline Miss Mary Pauline Cowen Walter Edward Knowlton Miss Rosalie Kling John W. Lyness Miss Elsie L. Knowlton Washington F. A. McIntyre Miss Caroline A. Lambert S. Sherwood Parsons Miss Mary J. Matthews C. W. Stanley Parsons Miss Loretta E, Mitchell Charles Edward Prior, Jr. Miss Harriett Moodey Alan Fitz Randolph Miss Louise T. Nicholl George Stanley Robins Miss Helen M. Rogers Harry F. Sawyer Miss Clara Savage Cornelius F. Schenck Miss Ethel Skillman Harold Schenck Miss Agnes M. Van Norden Miss Esther Wolfe