Plainfield High School - Milestone Yearbook (Plainfield, NJ)

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THE ORACLE. 20 “They are happy people to have about.” Miss Iota Moore. “They will be ‘gone but not forgotten.’ ”’ FrepertcK H, BEALS. eAles ine Miss S. Lena Bass. “All my relations with 1911 have been delightful. I shall miss their faces very much in the new year.” H. M. Maxson.

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28 THE ORACLE, From The ‘‘Powers That Be’’ “There “ate no’ ciphers in Ore” LinpsEy Besv. (Patience adapted.) “When they first took my English course on, I said, as I looked at the class, ‘It’s one to a milion that any civilian Their purpose and brains will surpass.’ ” Miss ARIADNE GILBERT. “With the class of Nineteen Eleven a large percentage of the dramatic ability of the school leaves us. We shall miss them for many and varied reasons.” 5) Bagelowe a) R: “If they could only play basketball as well as they play Shakespeare!” H. R. Husparp.

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30 Ee ORACLE: The Class History of 1911 J. Wilbur Tovell This is the last time we shall hold our Fair on the fair grounds of Plainfield High School. For three successive years we have returned, and we have shown that we could equal and surpass the best our older friends had done. So it is fitting for the underclassmen to hear of our powers ere the gates of Time close on the final night of our great Fair. The first season saw indications of our greatness when we almost won the basketball championship from 1908. We lost the cup in the last game, because the men of 1908 put on their team one of the best shots P. H. S. has ever seen, Bruce Caldwell. In that same year we won two Honorable Mentions, the seeds of future scholarship. Returning the next year we carried out the custom of handing some- thing to the Freshies at Christmas. A bottle of “Mellen’s Food” with “The Children’s Hour” printed on the outside was given to every member of the class of 1912. This custom has never been observed since. By this time our strength began to raise us above our sister classes; we won the inter-class championship in baseball; and Eugene Lidgate walked off with the individual championship of the school in track athletics ; in the race of brains, too, we excelled, capturing five Honorable Mentions and seven prizes. Last year we remembered our superiority and generously scattered among the other classes so many of our athletes that we could win no championships. Confining our efforts, then, to studies, we added to our list four more Honorable Mentions and seven more prizes. Ours was the first class to steal the Seniors’ banner at Christmas. Then to show 1910 that we had no grudge against them, we gave them a jolly spread in the gym. Last year saw the first classical play given by a Junior class, the class of IQIT. This year we found that, in the place of those we had given away, new athletes had sprung up. So it was that another champion came into our midst, Lud VanDeventer, Tennis Champion of the school. But this was not enough glory. We craved for more. We got it: the poor, de- jected Faculty fell victim to the beating of the Seniors’ mighty baseball bats. Careless of marks and frowns, shattering custom and precedent, we made our teachers bite the dust. Upon the stage our class has made a record: both prizes in the Public Speaking Contest were won by Seniors; “Twelfth Night” was pro-