Park Ridge High School - Hoot Yearbook (Park Ridge, NJ)

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6 ffinlw THE lessor W Z-5 N the fifteenth of September in the year 1870, Arthur M. Hulbert was born in the little farming town of Brookside, New Jersey. His mother, as our principal has often told us, was the best mother ever a boy had ' while his father was one of the men whose quiet yet active industry contributes so largely to the sturdy life of America. As a boy Mr. Hulbert received the best education afforded by the district school and, during the vacations and after he had left school, until the age of nineteen, he worked on his father's farm. Mr. Hulbert spent his early life ina home atmosphere of culture and refinement which early instilled a desire to aquire the best education within his power and to become an active and worthy citizen of the educational world. In the year 1890 he left the farm and began teaching in Ironia, New Jersey, on a country certificate. In the month of Feb- ruary, two years later, Mr. Hulbert entered the State Normal School at Trenton. Here he made the most Of the excellent advantages offered him and graduated with honor in June, 1894. Immediately upon graduation, Mr. Hulbert was offered a position as Vice Principal of the Park School, Rutherford. He accepted and filled this office very creditably for one term at which time he became Principal of the Public School at Dumont, New Jersey. He con-

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FW! I9 THE gHQQT1'1l!ElIjSXXB 7 tinued in this position for four years, leaving in 1899 to engage in the Commission Pay Business in the city of New York. However, after being employed in this business for a single year, he felt called to return to the educational work for which he was so admir- ably suited and in 1900 was made principal of the school of Cresskill, New Jersey. In the following year Mr. Hulbert received the call whose acceptance has resulted in so many years of fruitful endeavor in our own community. When in September he assum- ed the duties of Principal of the Park Ridge School, classes were held in the old building which formerly stood in the south corner of the present school grounds. There were at that time but three teachers to assist Mr. Hulbert in teaching the one hundred and thirteen pupils then attending the school---eighty in the primary aud thirty-three in the grammar grades. Under the new management the school progressed rapidly and in 1910 through Mr. Leach's generosity and Mr. Hulbert's untiring energy and zeal, it was made possible to erect a new school building. In 1909 the high school was organized and has ever since been a thriving and progressive institution. Mr. Hulbert has now been with us sixteen years. During' that time he has done sev- eral years study at Teachers College and at the New York University, studying those subjects which would, afford him a more extensive knowledge of his educational work rather than those which would secure him a degree. He has also taught during the sum- mers of 1915 and 1916 in the State Summer School at Newton, New Jersey. For the last eight years Mr. Hulbert has been a member of the County Board of Examiners and, in addition, has Often been sent to investigate new educational methods in the West and South as a representative of some of the most active Commissions of the East. As Principal of the Park Ridge High School Mr. Hulbert has endeavored to make Park Ridge have the best schoals in the state. Each student of the High School during his course has individually received Mr. Hulbert's hearty sympathy and help. He has set a high standard in both schoolroom and field which the student feels bound to respect. All the improvements, material and otherwise, affected under his leadership have proved wonderfully successful. Mr. Hulbert has now been offered and has accepted an appointment at Rutger's Col- lege in the Department of Agriculture as State Leader of Boys Club Work in agricultural extension. The sincere sorrow experienced by the students of the High School upon hearing of his intended departure cannot be expressed. However, in this, our year book, the Class of 1917 wishes to assure Mr. Hulbert, our sincere friend, as a class and individu- ally, of our hearty good wishes for success in his new and broader field of activity.