Matawan High School - Pillar Yearbook (Matawan, NJ)

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Through These Portals American Youth Will Learn of the Better Life — Knowledge and Truth. Our Minds Are Open. i Our Feet Our Goals Are Selected. k ! The Dye is Cast.

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Grateful to the Community For the Cost to Be Borne Building General Construction ............................................ $1,246,570.00 Heating Ventilating .............................................. 216,386.00 Plumbing ........................................................... 191,569.00 Electrical ......................................................... 178,272.00 Structural Steel ................................................... 137,633.00 Gross Area of Building 142,191 square feet Cost per square foot $13.85 Equipment and Furniture General Shops ..................................................... $6,661.00 Wood Shop ............................................................ 7,151.46 Classroom Furniture ................................................. 21,357.70 Office Furniture ..................................................... 5,220.40 Home Making ......................................................... 13,917.00 Cafeteria Furniture................................................... 8,094.15 Library .............................................................. 9.226.00 Laboratories and Dark Room .......................................... 36,315.00 Fine Arts ............................................................ 8.057.27 Miscellaneous Office Furniture ....................................... 1.421.80 Nesbit Shelving ...................................................... 3.919.00 Landscaping........................................................... 6.880.00 Shades and Draperies ................................................ 14,481.00 Kitchen Utensils ..................................................... 4.615.00 Electronics Laboratory ............................................... 4.390.00 Cafeteria Kitchen Equipment ....................................... 50.000.00 Athletic Field and Track ............................................ 67.000.00 Flowers Were Sent; Our Staff Had Arrived. This Meant We Opened, Bursting with Pride

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ADMINISTRATION, FRESH FROM BUILDING TASK, Luther A. Foster. Superintendent of Schools TO THE CLASS OF 1963: Oliver Wendell Holmes oner said, A child's education must begin at least a hundred years before he is bom.” There can he little controversy over the effect of the past upon the present. The Matawan Regional High School, as it is in 1962-63, is not the creature of the moment. It is the carefully developed results of years of living, thinking and experiencing on the part of students, alumni, faculty and the community. Eacli of you in the class of 1963 has helped to make our high school grow strongly and vigrously, just as our high school has helped you to grow. Matawan Regional High School is now irrevoc- ably a part of you. It lives constantly in you. in your thoughts, in your actions, in your personal values, in your achievements. We are all proud to have! you server as the; mirror of Matawan Regional's purposes and success. Hut in similar fashion you arc now a part of Matawan Regional, an institution with a past, a present and a future, all of which is part of the reflected image which you, as an alumnus, will project in the mirror of life. People make the world. Matawan Regional's people are prepared to make it better. Luther A. Foster Superintendent of Schools 14 Mrs. Wenzel. Mrs. Bennett. Mrs. Carothcrs