Columbia High School - Mirror Yearbook (Maplewood, NJ)

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 First Row: SOUTH HOUSE DIRECTOR MR. THOMAS FLEMING. MISS ELEANOR BURKE Second Row: MR. DONALD GRIESEL, MR. LAWRENCE DEAN First Row: NORTH HOUSE DIRECTOR MR. THOMAS JACOBSEN, MR. ANDREW KOOISTRA Second Row: MRS. DOROTHY DHARNI, MISS JUSTINE DELLA SALA MR. THOMAS FLEMING, MR. THOM AS JACOBSEN 28

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As we, the class of ’72 graduate, Mr. Robert L. Amsden, our principal, is also leaving Columbia High School. After being principal for twenty years he was able to say, “I feel good about the years, the school and the two communities. And that’s the right way to leave.” It is easy to understand his good feeling and sense of accomplishment. When Mr. Amsden be- came principal of Columbia High School, the school was in need of visionary leadership. It has since benefited from his vision and great sense of dedication. This vision became a real- ity during the past three years when Columbia became one of the best equipped and finest schools on the Eastern Coast. Because education has been his “life” for thirty-eight years, Mr. Amsden’s retirement will not mean the end of his service to institutions in need. His early years as principal in a school in Argentina, his recent experience as a traveler in Kenya, Greece, Turkey, and Israel under a grant from the National Association of Secondary School Principals and, of course, his work as a warm, understanding, hard-pressed principal of Columbia High School equip him magnificently for the work he plans to do with the underprivileged of Latin America and Africa, and with the Indians of New Mexico. His leadership will be greatly missed by students, faculty and staff of Columbia High School.

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First Row: WEST HOUSE DIRECTOR MR. GEORGE GOETZ, MISS ELIZABETH McHUGH Second Row: MRS. MARION MURRILL, MR. GEORGE PLISHKA MR. STEWART BENJAMIN. MR. GEORGE GOETZ. First Row: EAST HOUSE DIRECTOR MR. STUART BENJAMIN, MRS. ARLENE BURNS Second Row: MR. HAROLD YOUNG, MR. EDWARD BUHRER 29