Plainfield High School - Milestone Yearbook (Plainfield, NJ)

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THE ORACLE Class Poem We toddled as Freshmen through these classic halls, We wondered with open-eyed glee To think that a place of such stairs and such walls Should have place for us,—so “‘petit’’! We stumbled as Soph’mores; ambition ran high, For we visioned our far distant goal; While knowledge and courage we gained bye and bye, “Till our Freshman fears far away stole. By friendship and service we always were bound; As Juniors, we climbed and aspired, And ’neath twenty’s proud colors we all could be found. Each by her spirit was fired. Then in this last year we gathered once more | To pull for the glorious end. : We tried to be faithful, true ‘“‘sports to the core Our honor and name to defend. ) ; Our errors were many, our faults were more yet, As through this school we have passed ; But we hope that our fair deeds will cancel the debt When in the last records we’re classed. O Future that stretches through infinite space And holds for us all a new day, Soon grant that our there we shall find the right place To continue a far better way! May you, for old twenty, keep close in your store What we strive and hope for—no less; Then, as the old world can give us no more, Crown each one with lasting success. M. A. GREENE.

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THE ORACLE 1870---1920 With this commencement the Plainfield High School enters upon its fiftieth anniversary. For half a century, our Alma Mater has been sending out into the world men and women. In these years improve- ment has been great and rapid. he facilities of all departments have been increased materially; in fact, the physics, chemistry and biology laboratories rival those of any high school in the land and are on a par with facilities afforded for the same work in many colleges. Plainfield High School alumni are doing creditable work in the leading colleges and universities of the nation and are also giving good account of them- selves in the various walks of daily life. | The Class of Nineteen Hundred and Twenty is, indeed, proud to have been a member of this beloved school. We look back o’er the past four years and sigh wistfully as we think of the many pleasures and good times we have had here. But, looking even further back, we are a bit awed at the gleaming record of past graduates. Ours is resolution to uphold that record. Business men and women, engineers, artists, writers, soldiers—in the Americas, Asia and Europe—all add glory to the honored name of their Alma Mater—Plainfield High School. | We resolve to do our best to keep that name on the high plane to which former graduates have elevated it; we resolve to maintain that exalted position they have made for you, our school. We go forth to face a new life—with you behind, pointing to that which is before us— Everything.

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6 | THE ORACLE Salutatory Address DorotHy M. By Les Perhaps never since we have held | our exercises in this new building have we had a Commencement of greater interest and significance than this June of 1920. The class of this year is welcoming tonight not only all of its usual guests (the Board of Education, our beloved superintend- ent, our principal, the speaker who will address us, and the citizens of Plainfield), but, in commemorating the fiftieth ARES of the Plain- field High School, we are extending especially cordial greetings to all who have shared its life and contributed in any way to its progress. To one and all, a hearty welcome.