Barringer High School - Athenaeum Yearbook (Newark, NJ)

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OVER THE TOP Over the Top! What does it mean? Why we have finished our four years of training at Camp Barringer and we are now awaiting the zero-hour signal. When it comes we shall sally forth into “no-mans land” and shall put that training to the test with breath- less enthusiasm. Many regiments have gone before us and many «ire still to come. We may not be the strongest regiment that has ever been sent from this training camp though no convincing evidence to the contrary can be found. Vet on the other hand we are probably not the worst in spite of the arguments to that effect which we have been given in the occasional explosions of our drill sergeants. That’s only a pleasing little way of theirs. Whether we are better or worse, we arc cheerfully indiffer- ent for we are confident that in spite of our many difficulties we have been well-drilled in the last four years for our future tasks. But aside from the preparations for what- ever lies ahead we carry with us memories of those many experiences which we cherish perhaps quite as deeply as the curriculum training. These memories consist of our num- erous contacts with “school life.” In our years of training we have steadily played our not too small part in the Bar- ringer school activities. The athletics, the dramatics, the Acropolis, the language clubs, and science clubs, the Girl's League and the class organizations have all contributed their full share of labor and triumph. There are few or no pupils who have no interest in one or more of these activities. For four years we have rubbed elbows,” so to speak, with other girls and boys in our classrooms and in the corridors. There is seldom a strange face. We have made many friendships at the age at which, as our elders tell us, real true and lasting friendships are chiefly formed. These friendships we have made not only with our classmates but also with our teach- ers. During the lull just before we go over the top a panorama of all we have done and all we should have done in the past four years pass before us, but it is this thought that pre- dominates and claims us all now. Though we are very glad to attain the sheepskin as that symbol of work accomplished, deep down in our hearts we are sorry to leave associa- tions which have been so near and so dear to us. But after all is said and done we are supremely happy that we still have these memories to take with us to conjure before our minds when we are lonesome or feeling blue. Xo matter what that voluminous future may bring we feel for the most part that our lives will be quite a great deal more than a little bit richer for what we are leaving be- hind us. Dear Mother Barringer, we who are about to go “over the top” salute thee. APPRECIATION We wish to extend our thanks for the help given us by Mr. Stevens and Mr. Stone. 9

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ZERO HOUR BOARD Editor BRUCE I . HARDEN Asst. Editor (.RETCHEX RETRY HISTORY Elizabeth Eagles, Ch. Robert Olton STATISTICS Edward Burke, Ch. Edythe Hcrbell Kenneth Carbcrry Leona Fusco Frances Resnick ATHLETICS Edwin Jamieson. Ch. Myrtle Reilly Abe Jacklen SPECIAL FEATURES Virginia Leach Violet Peterson Dorothy Aierstok GRAD NOTES Lillian Knight. Ch. Inez dc Vita HUMOR Gertrude Taylor, Ch. Evelyn BrinkerhotT Ellen Crowhurst Ethel Buchanan Marian Connelly ART Eleanor Boyd. Ch. Eleanor Caruso Louise Davis Geraldine Beltrani CIRCULATION James Yuill, Mgr. Knight Clift Emmanuel Shapiro. Asst. Editor ARTHUR HAYES QUOTATIONS Viola Cinti. Ch. Marie Caprio Elizabeth Alpcrn PROPH ECY Mary Ninaj. Ch. Ruth Licber BUSINESS Henry Goldhor. Mgr. Mary Schuelke Howard Acken Salvatore Mari Frank Gordon SALES Ellen Oldknow, Mgr. Salvatore Barbera Bernice Brown 8

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PERSTARE ET PRAESTARE CRIMSON AND SILVER