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

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Tfze Hoot 5 Mr. Louis Scfzmerber Supervising Principal of Park Ridge High School, who is labor- ing untiringly for a larger and better school.

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Tfze Hoof Mrs. Beatrz'ce'Bach Stumpf whose Wonderful help and hearty co-operation have enabled the Class of 1921 to carry its senior year to a successful close and to whom we are indebted for What- ever success this volume may achieve.

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6 The Hoot y History of Park Ridge High School N eighteen hundred and eight the first schoolhouse was erected in Park Ridge. lt was a wooden building of one room, in fact a typical country school. At this time there were about thirty pupils in attendance. About eighteen hundred and fifty-five the old building was found to be too small. After long and heated discussions, the citizens of Park Ridge finally decided to build a new one. The new school altho somewhat larger was still composed of only one room. Shortly after this another room was added and the faculty doubled in numbers: there were now two teachers. The school re- mained the same until eighteen hundred and nine- ty, when it was once more enlarged at a cost of some four thousand dollars. This was only after a hard struggle between the farmers and the city people or commuters who had moved to Park Ridge from New York. The number of students, however, continued to increase and in nineteen hundred and seven it be-