Middletown Township High School - Odranoel Yearbook (Middletown, NJ)

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FoREwoRD I The 1945 Odranoel Staff dedicates this yearbook to the High School teachers, who have done much to make our four years of High School happy and profitable. We, the Senior Class, appreciate their kind interest and loyal help. To the members or' our class who are now in the Armed Service and to those who will soon be leaving for the Service we sincerely hope this years Odranoel will be a source of pleasant recollections. As we go this year, each of us to his field of chosen endeavor, may we carry with us pleasant memories of our school days at Leonardo High. Page 5

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HISTORY OF THE HIGH SCHOOL ORGANIZATION OF THE HIGH SCHOOL. Up to 1911 those students desiring High School education had to provide their own transportation to Atlantic Highlands, Keyport, or Red Bank. In that year a few classes were held in Andrew's Hotel which stood on the highest point in Hillside until it burned down in 1920. This was the first Township High School. THE HIGH SCHOOL BUILDING. In 1911 M. A. Rice, President of the Board of Education at that time, really founded the present school when he gave the Township the site of the building and 51,000 towards its construction. Lewis S. Tompson, also a Board member, donated the land down the road from the school which was used for a playground and athletic Held. john H. Cooke, then editor of the Red Bank Register gave, until his death, all the athletic equipment. Another member of the Board, Robert Hartshorne, gave the frieze representing soldiers of Alexander the Great, replica of the ones now in the British Museum. I-Ie also had chestnut trim for the auditorium cut from his woods. GREENHOUSE. In 1916 realizing the need of a really practical agriculture course in this agricultural community, Robert Hartshorne gave the school its original Greenhouse and M. A. Rice completed it. This was probably the first school greenhouse in the state. The expense of the greenhouse as it now stands was borne by several residents of the Township. In 1931 a second greenhouse was added giving us the best plant equipment in agriculture in the state. MANUAL ARTS DEPARTMENT. The manual arts department consisted mainly of the small basement rooms which were originally built for a small gym. In 1927 the instructor, by a full summer of work, doubled the floor space for those activities. This along with new equipment was provided for by the Board of Education, paved the way for the introduction of diversified shop work and improved in work recognized as the best in the state. In 1931 two basement rooms were added, the east wing for courses in moulding and foundry, metal work, jewelry, and electrical work and the West wing foi mechanical drawing and eventually machine shop training. NEW ATHLETIC FIELD. Purchase of a ten-acre field next to the school in 1928 provided a playground and athletic field eliminating the danger of crossing the highway for the physical education classes. It also paved the way for necessary expansion. OTHER BUILDING CHANGES. In September, 1931, the present gymnasium was completed. In January the physics and chemistry rooms were fitted up with tables and equipment. A full size room was used for a library. The door from the present library gives access direct to the table in the back of the auditorium which gives us suflicient accommodations so that every pupil can do his studying under proper library conditions. The school record during the past years shows clearly that it is not the quantity, space or equipment, but the quality of the teaching that really makes the school. ,M Page 4

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H. LAWRENCE SCOTT Pwxidvnl Belford, N. BOARD OF ED UCATIO GEORGE B. MILLER DR. WYLIE G. FATE SIIPUYVIXIIIX Prinripal Vive-Pmxizlcn I Middletown, N. J. JAMES H. GOODSPEED Shrewsbury Country Club Estates Red Bank, N. J. DAVID F. SCHNOOR WILLIAM DENNIS Port Monmouth, N. W. GILBERT MANSON Lincroft, N. J. Page 6 Belford, N. J. SI-IUYLER SICKLES Navesink, N. J. GEORGE SMITH Middletown, N. HAROLD B. YOUNGS East Keansburg, N. J.