Florence Township Memorial High School - Clavis Yearbook (Florence, NJ)

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MISS MARCELLA DUFFY The theme for the 1951 Yearbook, Florence Township High School is a typical school in an American community, presents a real challenge to I h S h l. the Community, Students and Faculty o t e c oo Do we want it to be typical? Yes, of the good things in our Community. No, of any of the poor conditions we Hnd here. Bringing all the adolescents of a community to- gether in a high school creates a real problem as the individuals in a school are so widely diiferent in character, industry, intellect, initiative, health, eco- nomic privilege, home conditions, and purpose. Students with high ideals coming from good homes are entitled to find a program to meet their needs and good, moral conditions in the high school and community. Students with no definite purpose or coming from home conditions which foster no desire for learning are equally entitled to the same good things. But in this melting pot, the American School, we who believe in it and are products of it can only keep working and praying to keep it typi- cal of the good place it should be for all the students of this American Community. We are proud and happy of the successes and right doings of our students, no matter how seem- ingly insignificant, and sorry and humble about their failures and wrong doings. So let us, the Class of 1951, the Members of the Community, the Students and the Faculty, endeavor to make the High School typical of all the good people and line things we have in the Community. Sincerely, Marcella L. Duffy 7 A MESSAGE FROM MISS DUFFY

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In Honor 0 DR. IERRE MORELAND We, the Senior Class, take great pleasure in dedicating the 1951 Clavis to Dr. Ierre F. Moreland, the Supervising Principal of Florence Township Schools. We bestow this honor upon Dr. Moreland to show our appreciation for his vision in planning our new high school, and indeed in helping it to be- come a reality, We feel that Dr. Moreland best typifies the spirit of our 1951 yearbook . . . Florence High School, a truly American School, in a typical Democratic community. With his unfailing service to our high school, his courage, and optimism, he has furnished us with inspiring leadership. Dr. Moreland began his studies with a two and one-half year course at the University of Southern California, in Los Angeles. He then went on to receive the following: A.B. at the University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, in 1925: M.A. in 1930 at Colorado State College of Education, in Greeley, Colorado: concluded his studies at Teachers' College, Columbia University, in New York City, where he obtained his E.D.D. in 1940: and then came to Florence in 1941. Our Supervisor feels that the new high school building, to be completed in the near future, will become the core of our larger and greater community of tomorrow. This new building is so constructed to make possible the addition of a wing in later years. With this wing, if necessary, a junior high school of seventh and eighth grades can also be maintained in this institution in the years to come. If junior colleges are later required after high school, due to present crowded facilities in colleges, we shall be able to meet the problem and handle up to 3,000 students in all. Never before in all his years of experience has Dr. Moreland found greater support given by the townspeople for so worthy a cause. Undaunted by high costs and present threats to the United States and world peace, the citizens backed the plan to give their children and future generations the center of a great community. To the Graduating Class of 1951, Dr. Moreland wishes to extend his con- gratulations for their unselfish support. l-le further stated that he felt the mem- bers of this class would continue to be successful if they maintain the same attitude they have had while working under the inadequate facilities of the present school, bedication

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in 'Civ Glue-. MARY P. BRAGG B.S., Beaver College Home Economics, Guidance CATHERINE C. CLYDE School Secretary CLAIR M. DANIEL B.S., Lebanon Valley College Algebra, Trigonometry, Solid Geometry, Plane Geometry GLADYS W. DAWSON Trenton State Normal School B.S., Education, Rutgers Uni- versity U, S. History I and II MARGARET M. DOUGHERTY R.N., St. Francis Hospital School of Nursing School Nurse ETHEL K. ELLIOTT Trenton State Normal School B,A. in Education, Pennsylva- nia State College Master of Education, Temple University English II and IV MARTIN FISCHBEIN B.S., Panzer College of Physi- cal Education M.A., Rutgers University Physical Education, Health, Athletic Coach MARY E. GORDON B.S. in Education, Trenton State Teachers College English I and II, World History SVEN HEDLUND Attended Rutgers University, Trenton State Teachers College Industrial Arts, Mechanical Drawing .1 A