Butler High School - Nugget Yearbook (Butler, NJ)

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BU7 LLR PUBLIC SCHOOLS - 7HL C ARUJ { LARS 7 he firAt AchooIhouAe waa a three room Atone. Atructure completed In 7889 and ornamented with a clock and tower, When opened in that year joAeph H, Dare waA Principal and Lila Roome ( LamAcha ) waA the Aole teacher, By 2-U- y 1 bt 7 922, twenty addit ional claAAroomA had keen added plu.A a gymnaAium and auditorium, In 7 928, two portable buildinga were added, On july 7 7, 7 894, the Butter Board of. education merged with that of Brook Valley and Pompton PlainA ua the Pequannock 7 ownAhip Board, However, on Planch 73, 7907, Butler waA incorporated aA a Borough, and the Butler Board waA withdrawn from the regional Board and eAtabliAhed under it'a own juriAdiction by the County Superintendent, Until 7903 all graduateA of Butler Qrammar School who wiAhed to continue their education and could afford to do Ao, travelled to PaterAon High School, the neareAt inAtitution for advanced education, 7he record iA unclear whether public tranAportation waA either provided or financed, 7he newly deAignated Butler High School opened with it'a firAt 7reAhmen cIuaa in 7903 and an intenAe effort waA begun to have the Achool approved. I would aAAume that the word approved” aA UAed then iA equivalent to accredited” ratingA today. Adjoining communitieA were -5-

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quick to notice, the advantaget o- L£ened Ly the laly Batten High School and toon studentt finom all nean(Ly dittnictt wene ennolied, {jou might tay Butlen High School wat a neceiving dittnict JLnom the yean it wat lonn. By 1911 ennolment in Butlen High had neached 106 student ) o whom 6 4 came £nom outlying dittnictt. The £intt clatt wat gnaduated .nom Butlen high in 1907 and the gnaduated wene Tlonence Richandt ( hanly ), Clany haycock ( Sweeny ), and Stella Be Bow ( Cook ). Until 1925 ttudentt £nom tending dittnictt neached the tchool .y tnain on tLy individual meant o tnantpont- ation, howeven, the “Nugget o that yean mentiont the beginning o£ Lut tnantpontation and tLy 1927, the tnain wat gone and luttet wene in. Clott matenial Ion thit chapten wat gleaned £nom an anticle PutLlic Schoolt tLy Bnuyn Qlann, eminent Butlen hittonian, and putLlithed in Butlen, hew }entey in Stony and Pictunet ly Lawnence Uattmen, Sn. and Chanlet Payne, co pynight 19 51. Medical nepont on the lady who loti hen entine lef.t tide in an automolile accident - - - the't all night now. -6- Anonymout