Barringer High School - Athenaeum Yearbook (Newark, NJ)

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The Joy-Stick HE Joy-stick! How much it has meant to us! And how much it will mean! What joy we have experienced as we have controlled the joy- stick, the steering rod of our plane, through our four years at Barringer. Some of us have had to make forced landings; some have taken off once more, but others have dropped out of the fight. We have encountered innumerable air-pockets, storms and fogs. We have been near ground several times, hut always our joy-stick has guided us upward, taking us farther, with the teachers of Barringer as our beacons. Let us fly back to the year 1838, the year of the founding of Barringer High School, and trace the relative progress of Barringer and the airplane. Let us sec how dear Barringer and the renowned carrier of the joy-stick have fared through the years. Here we arc back in 1838, having landed unobserved in a meadow near Newark. Upon asking for Newark High School, we are directed to the second floor of Nathan Hedge’s famous school on Bank Street. There we are informed that there is a huge attendance of ninetv-onc pupils. How proudly one pupil tells us that his school is the third oldest High School in the United States; that it was established in 1838, being the second to one established in 1837 at Philadelphia, and third to one estab- lished in 1821 at Boston. At this time we learn of a faint rumor from England concerning an “aerial steam carriage.” but. when we mention it. much joking and ridicule ensue. We take flight again and land on January 4. 1854. Here, having landed at Hedge’s School, we are informed that a new building has been put up at Linden and Washington Streets for the exclusive ure of the High School. We go to the spot and find the new school housed in quite an impressive looking building. Now there arc three hundred and eighty-two boys and girls in attendance. How quaint they look and how enthusiastically we are shown through the building! Still there is no news or sign of an “aerial steam carriage.” Having taken flight in 1854. it does not take us long to flv through forty-six more years and land in 1900. Newark High School is now located on Parker Street. It is no longer called Newark High School, but Barringer High School in honor of a former City Superintendent of Schools, Doctor Barringer. Here at last we are on familiar ground, and know our bearings pretty well, for this building is none other than the one in which we have spent four unforgettable years. We search in vain for the Branch Brook Park we know, but all we find is a swampy dump, as Bar- ringer’s front yard. We spend a short time talking to some of the teachers and then ask one point-blank if there has been any development in the airplane theory. He scouts the idea and condemns the flight of man as an impossibility. He does mention, however, the unsuccessful experiments of a certain Professor Langley along this line. Hereafter we shall have to hug the ground very closely, for it is in the next few years that things begin to happen in the development of the airplane. We touch at Barringer on September 24. 1904. Eager informants tell us about the reported flight of the Wright Brothers, made on the day before. But. like the rest of the world, they refuse to believe it has happened, and also like the rest, they remain unaware of the flight of man until more than four years after the first flight has been recorded. Having completed the last lap of our flight through the years, let us land again in 1929. where we first took off. Here is Barringer graduating the class which has flown to the top. the class of January, 1929. Here also is the airplane at its best, becoming a part of our life. What heights will the airplane reach in the years to come? What deeds will the class of January, 1929, accomplish for the world with the airplane? Now that we have received our license, in the form of diplomas, we are able and prepared to set forth on our solo flights—out into the world to attain success and to hear Barringer’s standards on with us. [ Fourteen ]

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9 Joy-Stick Board Editor-in - Chief Harry Katz Associate Editors Sami el Carl Grant Lillian Zblifp Julius Lombardi EXECUTIVE BOARD Frances Herda Evelyn Wells Frederic Sam mis Business Manager Hector Mattia Assistant Business .Managers Carmine I)e Paolo Julius Freedman Elwood Mills Arthur Silvbrberg William Ward Morris Tarn poll Sales Manager Frederick Kirch ner Assistant Managers Allan Amiano James Cherry Ida Ciccone Eunice Grove Burman Stitt ndividual Photographs Thomas D’Amico, Chairman Katherine Bell Mary Damiano Martinette Horbach Croup Photographs Frances Schroedter. Chairman William Evans Bernard Maas Edward Mullen Club Photographs Arthur Lipstbin, Chairman Richard Hansen Joseph Jantausch Specialties Robert Schembs, Chairman John Bain Marjory Knight Doris Potter Sports Charles Higgins, Chairman Theoixjre Bloom Ada de Zayas Americus Muti Hugh Scott Sam Tulino Humor Janet Ryder, Chairman Samuel Cohen John Simpson Gertrude Sonnabend Dominick Spina Personals Doris Van Ness, Chairman Beatrice Blum Dorothy Coe Frances Long Popularity Contest Helen Seeley, Chairman Dorothy Fisele Eleanor Schmitt Perse Frances Carroll Catherine Jones Art Caroline Edwards, Chairman William Caputo Violet Gr x Constantine Rotunda Statistics Barbara Crosse. Chairman Michael Bocchini Edmund . Iancusi-Ungaro [ Thirteen }

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