Plainfield High School - Milestone Yearbook (Plainfield, NJ)

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io.) TE ORAGLE. Class Poem When Spring was smiling from a cloudless sky, So rich with promise of the autumn yield, Our hands were eager and our hopes winged high To wrest a worthy harvest from the field. We turned the furrows, deep and long and straight, Dropping the tiny seed with lavish hand, Hoeing and tilling, ’til the shadows late Crept o’er the gardens of our Promised Land. The budding shoots we nourished tenderly, In fancy, dreaming of a coming fame, Or pausing at the plow, gazed lovingly Toward the great world where we would But now the ripened grain is gathered in, The goodly harvest taken from the soil Is bursting from the overflowing bin, Our recompense for hours of summer toil. For we have reaped exactly as we sowed, With joy returned abundantly for care. With happy hearts for ev'ry heavy load, That in the heat of noon we had to bear. Beyond the hill, the untried city street; Is beckoning and calling you and me, With daily trials, daily tests to meet, Demanding all our strength and honesty. So farewell, toilers of the sunny days. win a name. Tho’ now we all must sow and reap apart, The lasting friendships sweet with memories, Will gladden and refresh each weary heart. HELEN FE. PEARCE.

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THE ORACLE. 7 Latin Prizes—Given by Mr. Alexander Gilbert. Vergil. First Prize—Loutse Bird. Second Prize—Margaret Prescott Vail. Honorable Mention—May V. Day. Cicero. First Prize—Nora McDonough. Second Prize—Helen Ryder. Caesar. First Prize—Felix Janke. Second Prize—Mabel Foster. Honorable Mention—Marguerite Shotwell. 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—Frank V. Schwed. Second Prize—Jacob Stierer. Honorable Mention—Ellen V. Sandberg. Typewriting. First Prize—Marguerite A. Neal. Second Prize —Hazel Piddington. Honorable Mention—Mildred E. Barnes. Stenography. First Prize—Mildred E. Barnes. Second Prize—Albertina T. Braun. Honorable Mention—Marion J. Dorthy. Amanuensis. First Prize—Edna M. Bird. Second Prize—May G. Stafford. Honorable Mention—Ora A. Bush. AMERICAN HISTORY. The Dr. J. B. Probasco Prize, given by Mrs. J. B. Probasco. Prize—$10.00 in gold, Arthur Brinkerhoff McKay. Honorable Mention—Dorothy Simons, Edward Sachar.

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DHE SORACLE, 9 Salutatory Address May V. Day For what your presence means we welcome you to our Commencement Exercises. To you, Gentlemen of the Board of Education, we extend a hearty wel- come. We hope to show our apprecia- tion of your unselfish work in our be- half by our endeavors for the good of others. Dr. Maxson, our greeting to you is of the warmest and deepest. Your cheery presence has made bright our days and your kindly advice has strengthened us on our way. Mr. Best and Members of the Faculty, you know what is our greeting to you. You have been the means of bringing out whatever was best in us. You have made the years of work in Plainfield High School years of pleasure as well as of profit. | We look upon you not only as teachers, but as friends. And you, our friends and relatives, citizens of Plainfield, we are glad that you are here. We realize our responsibility to you as the givers of these privileges which we have enjoyed, and we realize what return is fitting in devotion to the service of others and zeal for the welfare of the world. We thank you all and make you welcome.