Meriden High School - Annual Yearbook (Meriden, CT)

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-L ' DR. DAVID GIBBS, SUPERINTENDENT

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Foreword Now is the time when we must part, We comrades of four short years, Who've shared each other's hopes and joys, Each other's griefs and fears. And yet, before we say goodbye To Alma M aier, dear, 'Tis fitting We a parting gift Should leave-shed one last tear, Laugh one last laugh together, And give to those behind A memory of other days, To keep us in their minds. This Annual, then, a loving task, VVe dedicate to you, Undergraduates of M. H. S., Bearers of the red and blue. And to all who have helped us We here our thanks extend, While the faults contained Within this book We to your mercy commend. The motto We have chosen ls our goal, not low nor mean, 'Esse quam widerif' Let us seek it, 1916! ' C7

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Superintendent Gibbs The superintendent of the Meriden public schools, Dr. David Gibbs, came to us in August, 1911. He is a native of Kingswood, New jersey, where he received his grammar-school education. Dr. Gibbs graduated from the New Jersey State Normal School in 1894, and spent the next Hve years at Harvard University, doing scientific and post-graduate work. Clark University conferred upon him the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in 1906. Dr. Gibbs has, indeed, had a wide experience in school work. He has been the head of both district and grammar schools, held the position of superintendent of schools in Massachusetts and New York, and was district superintendent din the Philippines. He was later the head of the New York State Normal School, in Oswego, from which place he came to Meriden to take his place among us.