Barringer High School - Athenaeum Yearbook (Newark, NJ)

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THE PARTHENON 7 FOREWORD With the hearty co-operation of the Class of January, 1922. the Parthenon Board has compiled this memory book, as a record of the deeds of its classmates. In its more serious sections, we aimed to make it historically cor- rect. Into the remaining ones, we have tried to put things which might appeal to one’s sense of humor. Our foremost thought throughout has been good fun, and we hope all will take it as such. FAREWELL As a last word, we, the Class of January. 1922, in full appreciation of all that you have done for us. wish to extend our hearty thanks to the Faculty. We realize that words of thanks are of small value, but at present we are at a loss to express ourselves in any other way. When we entered these halls, fresh from the grammar schools, we were proud of what we knew. Soon this pride gave way to fear. That goal of graduation, which we had de- termined to reach, appeared so far away that we doubted our ability to attain it. We list- ened open-mouthed and wide-eyed to the talcs of the upper classmen. How this one had been in school for at least seven years, how that one had been expelled by the mere “wave of the hand” for practically nothing, and how still another had acquired hours and hours of indefi- nite detention, for being tardy. It was then that we were in the plastic state, ready to be molded in any way that the fates decreed, and it was then that you took hold of us and steered us into the right channels. From then on we have been struggling upward con- tinually becoming better Americans and bet- ter able to carry on our struggle for existence Now we arc within sight of our goal. Some attaining it in few and some in many years, but all determined to go out into the world and do our best to reflect honor and glory upon our Alma Mater. WHERE WE GOT IT Dear Editor: When your class adviser was graduated, long years ago. from a Newark grammar school, he had the great privilege of receiving his diploma from the hand of William Bar- ringer who had recently laid down the task of the Superintendent of Schools. Part of what Mr. Barringer said at that time has remained fresh in memory. ‘‘The Athenians,” he said “used to assert, ‘All the world centers in Greece, all Greece center in Athens; all Athens centers in the Acropolis.’ So perhaps we may say. ‘All the world centers in America: all America centers in Newark; all Newark cen- ters in its educational system, all the educa- tional system centers in the High School.” Then he urged us all to continue our studies in this, “the new high school,” then nearing com- pletion. From those words of Dr. Barringer, it seems probable arose the name of our school paper. The Acropolis. Since you have asked me to suggest a name for this special number. I offer the name. Parthenon. The old Parthenon was the crown of the Acropolis, the most beautiful building ever created by the hand and brain of man. As used in Athens, the word meant the maiden’s chamber.” the abode of the chaste maid of Athens. Athena, goddess of wisdom. But the word can mean more than that. “Parthenon” might mean not only a virgin, but also a boy just turning to manhood, in all the splendor of his young strength and purity. Therefore as a symbol of the beauty, purity, strength and youth of both boys and girls. I suggest that you take for your paper the name, Parthenon. Very sincerely yours, R. F. HAULENBF.F.K.

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6 THE PARTHENON THE PARTHENON STAFF Editor-in-Chief—HARLAN S. I)K VOE Business Manager—BARNARD S1CHEL Associate Editor—ROBERT METCALFE Circulation Manager—WILLIAM K. PERRY SCHOOL NEWS Imre Donionkos, Ch. Hilda Semon Benjamin Resnick Marjorie Chapman Jess Levitt PHOTOGRAPHS Julius Yadkowsky, Ch. Ruth Soden Ruth Krout SCH O LAST IC ACT IVITIES Joseph Stabilo, Ch. Myrtle Loder Burton Salisbury INDIVIDUAL CHARACTERISTICS Gordon Hart, Ch. Dorothy Benjamin Almeda Hoplcr Saul Siflf Literary Advisor...MORRIS L. BARR Treasurer.......GEORGE W. STONE STATISTICS Florence Hass. Ch. Theodore Rissell Samuel Starr SPORTS Robert Wolfe, Ch. Jerry Garfola Loise Alberts Alice Hodson James A. Rotunda PROPHECY Katherine Elkins, Ch. Eugene Frey Jeanne English PERSONALS Anne Bishop, Ch. John Hammond Eleanore Reynolds Milton Salzman Edna Doyle Class Advisor......R. HAULENBECK Ass't Business Mgr. ..LENA EDELSTIEN

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8 THE PARTHENON SENIOR ASSEMBLY NOTES On Newark Day the school assembled in the auditorium to hear interesting talks on Barringer High School's History given by dis- tinguished visitors and members of our facul- ty. Mr. Stearns, our principal, gave a brief history of Newark’s first high school. Newark was the third city in the country to establish a high school for the education of its boys. The number of students who enroll- ed for the first term was ninety-one. The average attendance was seventy-five. Admis- sion to high school was obtained by examina- tion. Although a resolution for a Boys’ H. S. was passed in 1838. the Newark H. S. building on Washington and Linden streets, which now is the Girls’ Vocational School, was not erected until 1855. Girls were also admitted to high school in the new building, and strange to say. the number of boys and girls admitted was the same, namely one hundred and ninety- seven. However, the boys and girls were or- ganized in separate departments. In 1850 the first high school library in Newark was started with the book called “De Boc’s Classical Cen- sus Statistics for 1850.” From this beginning grew our large high school library now on the second floor of our building. Newark High School moved in 1899 to the present Barringer High School building and the school was nam- ed after Dr. Barringer, superintendent of New- ark Schools, who did much for the advance- ment of high school education. Mr. Richard C. Jenkinson, an alumnus, spoke of the great citizens of Newark, lie pictured Newark in his youth as a small, in- dustrious town bounded on the north by State street, on the east by Railroad avenue, on the south by Lincoln Park, and on the west by Belmont Avenue. Within a radius of twenty- five miles of Newark dwelt and worked the nations greatest men. such as Morse and Ful- ton, and even Newark had its inventors, such as Seth Boyden and Thomas Edison, the form- er of whom invented the process of making malleable iron and made Newark a very im- portant shoe-manufacturing town, while the latter, who had his shop on Mechanic street, invented the phonograph and incandescent lamp. Miss Margaret Coult spoke on Recollections of her days in the Girls’ High School. The high school, as before mentioned, was not co- educational. The bovs and girls were taught in separate rooms and likewise had separate entrances. The girls entered on Washington Street, while the boys entered on Linden Street. Consequently the girls who came to school by cars running on Broad Street had to pass the boys entrance on Linden Street. The boys would stand in lines and watch the girls pass by. Miss Coult said that she soon discovered that by looking steadfastly at the boys’ shoes, the boys became nervous, started to fidget, ami soon “evaporated.” Mr. Arthur Taylor, also a Barringer alum- nus, spoke to us about the boys in the high school. He listed the many things which the