Kimberley School - Kimberleaves Yearbook (Montclair, NJ)

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. -. ... ,..., 'visa' N Rohearsing for Wafer Ballet in fha pool. was remodeled, wilh a new dining room, arl sludio. and spacious classrooms lhal are always iusl The righl lemperalure. lTl1e bar was removed, and along wilh il' wenl smolcinq privileqes.l Will? 'rhe move, Miss Eleanor Henney, our beloved hislory leacher lWill we ever lorgel lhose slories in hislory classll was elevaled 'ro 'rhe posilion of assislanl principal. The nexl year, Miss Elhel M. Spurr came lo us wilh an impressive record ol B.A. from Rad- cliff lsumma cum laude, iusl as a passing lhoughll. M.A. from Columbia, and graduale worlc al Har- vard and 'rhe Universily of Minnesola. Those are some of her pasl accomplishmenls, buf whal of her recenl' ones? Well, by her loresighledness and energy, she has pul K.S. on ils loes and made il more alive lhan ever. We may well be proud of Alma Maler, all lhe way from lhe lazy, warm sun slreaming in lhe windows ol room 2l7 lo +he brisk lypewriler on lhe deslc in lhe lronl office. Working in fha lab. Playing baslrolball in fha gym Compeling on lhe lloclrey field.

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Baal: view of fhe school. Sfudying in fha library. SCHGOL HISTGRY Here we are wifh our pink and blue walls, con- frasfing green blaclcboards, baseball diamond, fen- nis courls. bowling alleys. and swimming pool. We have become so accusfomed fo our many advan- fages fhaf we have all begun fo fake fhem for granfed. Buf how many of us know how fhese fhings came abouf? ln I906. Mary Kimberley Waring. a feacher from Monfclair High School, sfarfed a school of her own. Her middle name accounfs for fhe presenf name of fhe Kimberley School lYou see, if wasn'+ fhe dia- mond mines in Soufh Africall. Miss Waring fool: one of her Smifh classmafes. Miss Jordan. info parfnership. and fhey boughf fhe properly a+ 33 Plymoufh Sfreef and erecfed a new building. In I9I0, fhe firsf girls wifh brighf. eager faces gradu- afed from Alma Mafer. Jusf fhinlc. ouf of five members of fhe senior class idon'+ lef fhese figures fhrow youll. fhere were a presidenf, vice-presidenf. secrefary. freasurer. and one-! Well, fhe years rolled by. and as more fafhers wenf broke sending fheir daughfers fo Kimberley. fhe senior classes expanded enough fo have a few followers insfead of nofhing buf leaders. By l940. Miss Helen Bun' Mason and Miss Margaref Muir Gallie had become principal and assisfanf principal respecfively. Bofh fhese ladies had a number of degrees. and Miss Gallie had sfudied af Oxford Holly good fown, eh. Ole Chap?1. Kimberley was now so large and lively fhaf a board of frusfees was appoinfed fo guide fhe affairs of fhe school. A big sfep was falcen in May, I949. The school was moved fo fhe Monfclair Afhlefic Club. much fo fhe elafion of our Kimberleyifes and fhe dismay of fhe afhlefes of Monfclair. The whole building

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