Columbia Grammar and Preparatory School - Columbiana Yearbook (New York, NY)

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Henry Goldberg Milla!! Greenbaum Guxkxvug T, Kirby Mqufig, Mayer' jr. Presidenf Vice-President frgqgg,-er ' s 'Wwe Wwe '7w4leeL Mrs. Jerome Richheimer fa Florence Leonard Assislanf Treasurer ,lf Frederic A Alden Headmaster 'ta James J. Reynolds I. ! Hamilton Holt

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1856 Irving Hall 327 Fourth Avenue From 1764 to 1857 the school was located on the grounds of Columbia University. 1884--Our own building- 34-6 East 51st Street. 1949 Irving Hall is gone!

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ci YQWN X if t 1? Qi? Y ill g Q ei il iii ll!!! f..-... it' When we arrived at school in the morning, we went to the library to return a book. The library, one of the busiest places in our building, had been a p t fC. .f twenty- five years. When it myFgu of only a few textbooks an antiquated re erence booksp and students were not permitted to bor- row them. Gradually, through gifts of money and books and through school appropriations, the library became a valuable and convenient source of knowledge for us. Its shelves then held 5529 nearly six thousand volumes, forty-seven maga- zines, and thousands of pamphlets, Our libra- rian, Miss LeClare Clemons, also supervised the v' ual aids: movies, film strips, maps and photo- r . e excellent reference collection was u nsively by students engaged in pro- iects such as themes and reports. During the morning we had a class on the third floor in one of the rooms which had been fitted out with plastic folding partitions and a new type of blackboard. On these boards .. - QKL. f 713:-,.t71 , ' 4,fA4.s,3c,s:, . , ff ?'i':J'S- V 1 I i .yt V ,, 7 si-KD' WMM - fry., 4 VCA-7Q:7!Nfr' 4 p . Wis if QOL f 754 --:AQAJ