Eastern District High School - Eastern Senior Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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the bridge would mean in terms of increased opportunity in trade and industry. So it was that in 1901, Eastern acquired an annex at PS. 143. But the bridge kept pouring more people into this rapidly developing section of Brooklyn and, with the inauguration of trolley service over the bridge in 1905, the population influx really hit its stride. There were no two ways about it. The new school needed a new building and the cornerstone of the present Eastern building was laid on June 26. 1906. With appropriate ceremony and speeches, a copper box was placed inside the cornerstone. Some future archaeologist will. perhaps, discover it some day and perhaps he will find its contents interesting: records of the Board of Education, newspapers. an American flag, and a Bible. The new school building was opened on February 3, 1908, and dedicated formally on October 16. ln the same year, elevated train service over the new bridge went into operation. The world was certainly rushing at a dizzy pace. The automobile was proving to be more than a passing fad. Horse-drawn trolleys were giving way to electric ones. W0mCl17S ankles had begun to appear in public. The pace was getting terrihc. Life at Eastern. too, was getting more complex. Five courses were being offered: the classical. the Latin. the scientific, the modern language. the English and the commercial courses. Numerous clubs were being formed. all enthusiastically sup- ported. Dr. William T. Vlymen, Eastern's First principal, found his school growing by leaps and bounds. In 1924. Princeton Lniversiiy conferred honorary degrees on a number of notables, among whom was our first principal. Dr. Wm. T. Vlymen. L. to r.: Frank Calvin Roberts. Michael 1. Pupin. Edward Robinson, Sec'y. of State Chas. Evans Hughes, President Hibben, Ambas- sador ,lohn Wm. Davis, Chas. Albert Coffin. Philip Ashton Rollin, Wm. T. Vlymen. Nine

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Scene in Girls, Lunchroom-1910. 4This is the main lunchroom today. Boys had a Separate lunchroom until the l9I50'S.P lffourlcsy uf Hiklyn Daily Eaglvl Eight 1913-World War I Mr. Frederick Paine leading: hoys of Ifastern in parade down Fifth Avenue. This house and garden once Stood on the site of the present Eastern District Branch of the Brooklyn Public Library -Division .Xvenue and Rodnev Street. IBVHWI Daily' Eagle! ,- Sketching from Life-1913 Daisy Art Club under direction of Miss lVlanahan. .

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