Plainfield High School - Milestone Yearbook (Plainfield, NJ)

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GJ; THE ORACLE | “T am Sir Oracle, and when I ope my lips, let no dog bark.” YEAR BOOK OF THE CLASS OF 1917 BOARD OF EDITORS PERCY M. STELLE, Editor-in-Chief MILDRED M. CLARK FANNIE MANN BURNHAM CARTER BZA ee es Vee © Ete AN ASSOCIATE EDITORS MISS HELEN L. BROWN MISS ELLEN K. CUMMING BUSINESS MANAGER EDWARD A. CRONE ASSISTANT BUSINESS MANAGERS CHESTER S. WAGNER GEORGE E. SMITH. Entered as Second-Class Mail November 17, 1904, at the Post Office at Plain- field, N. J., under the Act of March 5, 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 Phoenix Printing Co., 332 Leland Avenue, Plainfield, N. J. 25 CENTS THIS Copy. go CENTS THE YEAR VOE, XV. JUNE, I917. No. 9. As our four years of happy High School life come to a close, we wish to give some tribute to one of our many friends, who has been prominent in making our school life so worth-while and happy. This year it is especially fitting for us to honor Dr. Maxson, for it marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of his supervision of our Public Schools. For twenty-five years he has inspired and helped the school children of Plainfield by his high ideals and noble manhood, and we know that his interest and friend- ship will follow us even when we pass beyond his personal influence. So it is with sincerest gratitude that we, the Class of 1917, dedicate our Senior Oracle to our “friend of friends,” Dr. Maxson. Deep impressions always linger, and the memory of him will not end with our High School days.

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HENRY M. MAXSON

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4 TREVOR AGERE Salutatory Address Fannie Mann It seems an unnecessary formality to bid you all welcome here this even- ing; but this Commencement season is the only time in which we have an opportunity, as a class, to greet friends and to express our gratitude for their interest and support. We are especially glad tonight to give our friend, Dr. Maxson, our earnest con- gratulations upon the completion of his twenty-five years of unselfish ser- vice to our school, and to express our heartfelt thanks for his warm friend- ship and inspiration. By your words and example, Dr. Maxson, you have taught us lessons that will never leave us. May we always strive to be “optimists” and “road-menders!” and to fulfil the ideals you have set before us. We would also include in our greeting and gratitude the gentlemen of the Board of Education, who have supported our superintendent; so loyally ; our principal, who has been our sincere friend and adviser, our guest, who. is to speak to us this evening, and all our friends of Plainfield. “At first and last a hearty welcome.” Long ago,-in the palaces ot ancient (Greece, or in the castles on the Mediaeval Saxons, when friends gathered together for pleasure and inspi- ration, they called upon one of their number to entertain them with a story. And through their bard, they learned of the past, handed down the stories of their heroes, and drew lessons for the future. This evening I am going to tell you a story, a legend of a far-away land, a land where battles have been raging, where the armies of the Great War, shifting back and forth, have laid waste the beauty of the quiet country, and brought terror and death to the innocent folk. The thought of this legend has come down to me from one who lived in this far country, where for many years it has been told by father to son.