East Side High School - Torch Yearbook (Newark, NJ)

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THE CLASS OF 1914 (Below: 1912 Faculty Photographed in Gym) In September, 1910, a competitive exam for principal was held and Mr. Thomas F. Kennedy was selected from a field of 50 applicants. 1 Mr. Kennedy then selected a faculty, choosing “front a wide field of applicants. The school was organized February 1st, 1911, in the Market Street Annex with all first year pupils. The following April the school moved into the new buildings.” with an enrollment of 450 students coming from all parts of the city. 4 The first mention of the story of the class of 1914 comes with an editorial greeting to the new principal; Mr. Kennedy, having transferred to the newly opened South Side High, Mr. Eli Pickwick. With Mr. Pickwick came a number of changes and the establishment of the precedents for the first graduating class.

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Another battered copy was sent by Mr. Carl Olsan (Olsh-nctsky) who was class president in 1914. Die Photo used on page 6 is a photo copy of the 1914 class picture donated to East Side by Mr. John Muller, a graduate of the class of 1914. The remainder of the photographs used in this section arc not authentic pictures of the class of 1914. but are used with the intention of portraying the costumes, homes, furniture, and mode of living of that period. The reader, if curious about the people, places, and events of tho class of 1914, if referred to the East Side Library and the early editions of The Orient for authentic pictures. Due to technical circumstances we arc not able to reproduce them here. The Library also supplied the photo of the student body seated in the auditorium (now the cafeteria' and the 1912 Faculty. Several friends of East Side supplied the remainder of the photographs used on these pages and the division pages throughout this edition of the Torch. On November 25th, 1908, a resolution by the chairman of the committee on buildings, grounds, and supplies calling for the construction of East Side High School. 1

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Plans for a 4-B dramatic program (to raise funds for a class trip to Washington ) and “Senior Recognition Day were among the new additions.1 On Wednesday, November 12, came “the greatest event in the school's history Senior Recognition Day; jhe seniors marched in and took scats on the platform, following the reading of letters of congratulations from the city’s high school principals, a program of class messages followed. These messages consisted of poems (written for the occasion) gifts (Guildcd horseshoe, an account book) and a banner in the class colors (Blue and Gold). After the singing of a song(Written by Mr. Pickwick for the program), Carl Olshnetsky, the class president, addressed the student body. The program concluded with school song; the new seniors boldly wore the class colors for the remainder of the day. 1ST. GRADUATING CLASS 1. Editorial. The Orient. Vol. Ill, No. II. p. XVII. 2. Op. Cit. p XVIII. 3. Ibid, p XIX.XX.