Plainfield High School - Milestone Yearbook (Plainfield, NJ)

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w| The ORACLE |® “Tam Sir Oracle, and when I ope my lips, let no dog bark.”’ Year Book of the Class of 1911 BOARD OF EDITORS LOUISE BIRD BELEN EE. PEARCE EMILY MACLAY MARGARET HUTCHINSON Jee WILBUR OV BITE ANNE R. JOHNSTON i) SEWELIE UERICEL BUSINESS MANAGERS ASLERED lb. CLARK FRANK V. SCHWED NATHAN W. WILSON Entered as Second-class Matter November 17, 1904, at the Post Office at Plainfield, N. J., under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. Published on the first Wednesday of every month during the school year, by the students of the Plainfield, N. J., High School. Printed by THe Recorper Press, Babcock Building, Plainfield. 25 CENTS THIS Copy. 75 CENTS THE YEAR, Wot, OX JUNE, IQII. No. 9. Miss Cumming In parting, the class of 1911 carries with it a store of sweet memories and the abiding comfort of true and lasting friendships. We feel that every teacher in the building has been and is still our friend; but the one who has been closest to our hearts, who shared in all our pleasures, and helped us through our difficulties is Miss Cumming. She is doubly dear to us; as our Freshman teacher, she first inspired us with the ideals of the school and started us well upon our course; returning to be our Senior teacher, she has been a continual inspiration to us all, to live sunny, happy lives and above all, to.do our best under every difficulty and handicap. Now that the time has come to say good-by, we realize, more and more, all

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Photo by Langhorne. MISS ELLEN K. CUMMING

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2 A PSORACLE, that she has done for the class. So, in appreciation, we of I91I wish her the greatest happiness and highest success in the years to come, and leave with her our heartfelt, loving thanks. The Chess Club Every class, in passing out of a school, leaves behind some permanent mark of its existence. It is splendid to leave an example of fine class and school spirit for the under-graduates, and equally worthy to hand down to other classes a new institution, tending to broaden the schoo! life, and representing an entirely different opportuity for pleasure. In our course, here, we have always striven to keep up the school traditions and to live up to the Plainfield High School Idea. Moreover, under the leadership of several of our members, we have instituted the Chess Club, that has gained the interest of both the Faculty and the student body ard has every prospect of a successful future. With the support of the school next year, it ought to flourish, and so remain an everlasting monument to the energy and initiative ability of the class of 1911. One of Many Donna A. Campbell (Winner of Babcock Prize) Life somehow had not proved very pleasant to little Katie Kavanagh, she had no recollection of the frail young mother, who had given up life as hers began; but the memory of her father, cheery, lusty Tom Kavanagh, was a bright and shining star. He had loved her, tended her in his awkward way, and dried her tears; and to him she owed the supreme development of her abnormal taste for candy. After her mother’s death when she, a sickly infant, had cried for the loving care denied her, he had walked the floor hour after hour trying vainly to pacify her. “Yez ought to put the childer in some institushun, Tom,” old Mike Conlin said, “’Tis too much fer a lone widdy man to worrick all day, and walk all night with a fretful babby.” But the father only smiled, and pressed the little mite closer to his heart, as he answered, “I shall manage somehow, Mike. ’Tis poor Kate’s babby, and I couldn’t bear to part with her, besides, ’tis only fair I should tend her nights when Mrs. Brophy has the care of her days,” and he trotted little Katie gently on his knee, holding her with one big hand, while the