Meriden High School - Annual Yearbook (Meriden, CT)

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T 1 k DR. DAVID GIBBS, SUPERINTEND1-QNT n N R Q N Y

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Preface Four short years ago we, the Class of 1915, and many others who have left us year by year, entered Meriden High School as wee little Freshmen. Four short years, and now we are no more students, hut alumni, looking eagerly forward to see what life holds in store for us. But we cannot help hut stop and rest a minute in the shade of our alma mater, and look hack over the road we have just come. 'llhose were pleasant days, perhaps the pleasantest of our lives, and, therefore, Cannot and should not he forgotten. It is, then, fitting and proper that we, the Class ol' 1915, should, in aes eordanee with a long and wisely-estalmlished custom, issue this Animal as a reminder to tts of our classmates, our teaehers and our deeds, and as a memorial to our undergraduates, who soon will he as we areealumni. There will be mistakes, but we, the editors, apologize for all sueh, and ask you to remember that the publication ol' :L hook like this is new work to us. 1Ve thank all our advertisers, suhserilvers, and the many others who have made it possihle for the Vlass of 1915 to have an Annual. And now our work is done. Now we must leave the shade of our alma mater, and go out into the sunny highways and hyways ol' the world, and as we go let us ever keep in mind our motto: Sui palms, jmfens rerun: omiriiun. w

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Superintendent Gibbs Dr. David Gibbs, who succeeded Mr. W'illiam P. Kelly as superintendent of the Meriden public schools, was born in Kingswood, New jersey, where he received his grammar-school education. Graduating from the New jersey State Normal School in 1894, Dr. Gibbs entered Harvard University, where he spent five years doing scientific and post-graduate work. In 1906, Clark University gave him the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Our superintendent has had a very large experience in school work. He has been the head of district and grammar schoolsg held the position of superintendent of schools in Massachusetts and New Yorkg was a district superintendent in the Philippines, and was the head of the New York State Normal Training School, in Oswego. He came to us from the latter plnee, in August, 1911.