Hartridge School - Tempora et Mores Yearbook (Plainfield, NJ)

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IN MEMORIAM Of these three score years and ten, one halt were spent by Miss l-lartridge in building up our school and in making it one with a line reputation for high academic standing, recognized alike by the col- leges and the other schools with similar high aims. At the beautiful memorial service held on last October llth, at the Crescent Avenue Church, Dean Thompson of Vassar College paid tribute to Miss Hartridge's achievements as an educator. As she reviewed Miss Hartridge's early lite, she made us understand how, more than all else, she cared to go to college, and then how financial reverses almost prevented her from finishing her course at Vassar. We understood then why education for girls became her lite work and also why she so swiftly and generously came with scholarship aid to her own students who faced sudden need. In close collabora- tion with other principals in the Head Mistresses Association, she achieved distinguished results in raising the standards tor all inde- pendent secondary schools. Dean Thompson praised highly Miss Hartridge's work as Presi- dent of the Associate Alumnae of Vassar College when during those depression years they successfully raised funds for the new sports building. In many other ways she gave ot her time and energy to advise and work for her college. We think of her as carrying all the detail of the school, the sched- ules, the advice on college preparation, teaching Latin, and taking any class in the absence of a teacher, equal to every emergency and always planning ahead something better for the school. Her great interest in each girl as a person with fine qualities to be developed as well as with weaknesses to be cured-of this all her pupils were PAGE FOUR

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IN MEMCRIAM aware. To meet her standards one had to be honest, courageous, able to do hard things, developed to enjoy the fine and beautiful things, ready to assume responsibility in the school, in town, in col- lege, in later life. Plainfield owes to Miss Hartridge much beside a distinguished school. That the Monday Afternoon Club has today its tine club house is due to her planning when she was President of the Club. The formation of our very efficient Red Cross Chapter and ot the lunior Red Cross during the last war was due to her initiative. Before Muh- lenberg Hospital had even planned a Childrens Ward, our school under Miss Hartridge's direction was holding yearly fairs to furnish the ward when it should be built. And that today the school enjoys the spacious grounds and beautiful trees of Oakwood is also due to her plan for a Country Day School with all the requisite equipment. We all remember when the school library was dedicated two years ago to Miss Mapelsden, how bravely and humorously Miss Hartridge related the history of the early days of the school. She wanted her girls today to have in mind the traditions of the school, and when you, as alumnae, read again that record and Dean Thomp- son's tribute, the essential qualities of Miss Hartridge will live again tor you-her bravery, her ideals, her humor, her capacity for hard work, her vitality, and her vision for her girls in the school. M. B. W. PAGE FIVE