Long Branch High School - Green Wave Yearbook (Long Branch, NJ)

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CONTENTS History .... Academics Fall .. Winter . Spring Activities Seniors . 'YU

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FCREWORD 1899 - 1964 63 nam of Long Branch High School 2

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HISTORY In 1873 a supplement was added to HAn Act to Establish a System of Public In- struction whose purpose was to uprovide for the erection of school buildings and the establishment of the Graded School in the town of Long Branchf' In 1876, the first graduation was held at the Graded School. The Hrst publication, the Catalogue of the Long Branch High School, was issued in 1878. The announcement in 1898 that it was Hof the greatest importance for the steps to be taken looking towards a new high school buildingw brought about the decision to build a separate high school. The building was completed in 1899 and named after Dr. Thomas G. Chattle, the father of the public school system in Long Branchf, IL in Y 3, 11,1 l.rr T ':.ffi3i'1Y.-3tf' H '5JElf1. ' 'itll ' ',p. 1:2-1f ' f '517 - fl if- 'Ql1it5lliil1ifll?lli',i III illl'lliflt1i3' i l U l llill l i1+l,'.i W'll1flgil til 1 .,vY l L?lll ' ll ' l'll'ililli l 1111111 ll lt ljlliriirli1l,, t,,'lllill l l l f L, ,ixmmww J. , B Fug 'IIVNWZI X tirltwtlii! V .a . . . ittriitllflltlll. 1. Q i t llt,E,5., y ,,.,,, -,gw ,,,.A M I ' ' ' ' ' ' I-IIGI-I SCHOOL BUILDING. At the turn of the century, Grace L. Imlay, Henry I. Milligan, Lulu V. Johnson, and May Belle Sexsmith, members of the first class to attend Chat- tle High School, graduated from Chattle High. The first Chattle High School graduation, held at St, Luke's Methodist Church in 1903, featured the Woz1ien's Semi-Chorus chanting L'The Violet's Fatew and Edna Van Nortwickis Valedictory address, The Mythological Explanation of Nature. Che-e-e-se ' 4