Clifton High School - Rotunda Yearbook (Clifton, NJ)

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CLASS DIRECTORY Robert Bennett...... Amy Clough.......... Elsie Dahlen........ Alfonse DeRose...... Winifred Drukker ... Fred Friend......... Vito Fritz.......... Grace Grimshaw...... Charles Hilton ..... Helen Hollingsworth . W. Husselrath ...... Charlotte Keppler ... Eugene Laue ........ Nicholas Mandak..... Margaret McMurray. .. Rita Merritt........ Antoinette Muller. ... Frank Muller........ Ernest Otto......... William Peterson ... Emil Poles ......... Huldah Robbins ..... William Sander ..... M ARGAR ET SCH N EE W EIS S James Shaw ......... L. Smolensky........ Elfreda Schnuetgen . Hazel Stagg......... Emily Strickland George W. Surgent... Evelyn Train ....... Kenneth Warren...... Marion Warren....... Helen Windhorst Kenneth Woodruff .. Margaret Bowman ... ...........College Secretarial School ..........Business .....Law School ...........Law School ..............Medical . . . .Montclair Normal .............Business ........Normal School .................Work .............Business .............Business .............Business ........Normal School .....Montclair Normal ........Normal School Mechanical Draftsman .......Textile School .............Business .............Business ..............College ..............College .....Coucher College .............Business .......Medical School .............Business ........Normal School .............Business .......Medical School .............Business .....Stevens Institute Business Business Business twenty-eight

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SENIOR SECTION -.....IM COMMENCEMENT PROGRAM PART I. 1. March..........................High School Orchestra 2. Invocation.............................Rev. J. G. Martin 3. Recitation “America”.......Miss Margarets Schneenveiss 4. Selection......................High School Orchestra f . Recitation—“Message of the Flag” ... Mil Robert H. Bennett (i. Solo—“In June”.............................Miss Helen Murray PART II. 1. Organ Solo—Selected.........................Miss Maude Erikson 2. Address ............................................. 3. Presentation of Class............Prin. Walter F. Nutt 4. Presentation of Diplomas.............Mr. W. O. Jackson President Board of Education 5. Selection......................High School Orchestra Class Colors Red and Blue Class Motto—“Vincit Qui Laborat” CLASS HONORS First Honors... Second Honors. Third Honors.. ..........Fred Friend ........Amy B. Clough Rita K. Merritt Margaret Schneenveiss CLASS DAY PROGRAM Class History............................Miss Amy Clough Piano Solo—Selected.........................Miss Margarete Schneenveiss Class Prophecy......................Miss Margaret Bowman Vocal Solo—Selected......................Miss Rita Merritt Presentation of Gifts.....................Mr. Eugene Laue Flute Solo—Selected........................Mr. B. F. Derr Class Win...........................Miss Grace Grimshanv

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HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1919 HE opening day of school in September, 1915, was a day of great commotion at the Clifton High School, for on that day the largest class that had ever entered the high school presented itself at the school entrance. And we might state here that the school has been in commotion ever since. Probably no other class, at least no other that has attended high school during our four years’ stay there, has caused quite as much trouble to the teachers. Our girls, that is certain groups of them, will talk and keep on talking, while our boys will fool and joke. The two senior section teachers certainly would have become gray-haired had we re- mained in school much longer. Anyone who has had occasion at any time to be present at a senior class meeting, realizes that there was prac- tically as much commotion there as on that first day of our Freshman year. This does not sound like a very gratifying recommendation for the class. Nevertheless, it seems true. But to return to the class where we left them, standing at the school entrance. Many, of course, were bashful, and kept to the background, hesitating to make their appearance among our future upper class-mates. But the braver ones, mostly boys, led the way, up to the high school de- partment. The faculty had been “forewarned” of this large crowd of Freshmen which was to sweep over the school; therefore, they had pre- pared the assembly hall for our section room. No ordinary sized room such as those used for section rooms was adequate for us. Naturally enough, we as Seniors laughed at the Freshmen who en- tered the school this past September and February. Probably every senior class before us has done the same thing and every class after us will continue to do it. So it is not strange that we thought ourselves superior to them and considered them very small and very childish. But do we ever consider how we were made fun of by the Seniors of 1916, too? Though it may seem to us that since we have entered high school, we have always been the same as we are now, nevertheless, others have noticed a distinct change in us. We hope that no hard feelings will be caused if we mention several names to illustrate the change that has taken place. One of the faculty has said that every time she looks at one of the Freshmen, Mr. Jackson, she is very much impressed with the resemblance to Mr. Husselrath when he was a Freshman. We all know the size of little Mr. Jackson and also that of Mr. Husselrath at the present time. Many, perhaps we may say the majority of our Freshmen boys were about that same size. Likewise, we must also mention the twenty-nine