Perth Amboy High School - Reflections / Periscope Yearbook (Perth Amboy, NJ)

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1960 HALLS OF IVY Perth Amboy High School Perth Amboy, New Jersey

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FOOTBALL has been an inter-school sport at Amboy High since 1907. Traditions and FORMER HOME of our high school was No. 4 School, outer Smith Street. Our building, which marked the sixtieth anniversary of its dedication on May 25, 1960, served as the first permanent home for secondary education in this city. When in 1893, the Board of Education decided to call the upper classes of No. 1 School a high school, six students became the first graduating class. Classes continued to be held there until 1896, and then at No. 4 School from 1896 to the opening of the Perth Amboy High School. Built on the site of the Presbyterian cemetery which, in pre-Colonial days, had been an Indian burial ground, the building was highlighted by an auditorium, a bonnet and cloak room, a library, and seven classrooms. Only a FACULTY MEMBERS OF 1919 typify our teachers who gave us fine principles and high standards. 4