Pingry School - Blue Book Yearbook (Elizabeth, NJ)

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gram rp. MR. S. ARCHIBALD SMITH, A. B. CMICHIGANQ Heudluustel' EI!AQfI5lI.' Hl'5IfI1,1' Zlcahrmir 33eparrnu2x1t MR. ALEXANDER M. BLACRBLRN, A. B. ICOLIQU M.Ii!14'111Jlifs,' PfII'S1't'S,' CfKU7iII'Sf1-'I' MR. ROBERT C. MCMAHON, A. M., PH. D., QCOLUNIBIAQ l..7Ii11.' GJIPM' MR. NATHAN B. BLACIQBURN, A. B. Q.VIINNESOTAj HI'SfrJ1iI',' 1W.zI!fw11mf11's MR. ALFRED N. FULLER, A. B., II-'IARVARDJ lf1v11d1.' GU1'111.711 Elementary Bepartnneut MISS HARRIET BUDD, VII GRADE MISS LILLIAN BUDD, V, VI GRADES MISS AGNES W. BROWER, I, II, III, IV GRADES MRS. FLORENCE C. LYON, PUBLIC SPEAKING MR. JOHN WENDELIQEN, GYMNASTICS 12

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flies 4242 ll W l QVW lil if Eimgtls' i iilef Ng i ta st i , 4 Q WllMliillll'lml . Q hmmm Cwelihrrzh at Qllnmmentementb Upon this. our lust clay zts Senior Class of the Pingry School. it is hut right that we Should leave that for this As a clztss we were lirst organized fur hack in the grades, when an election was held to determine selected were the ofticers of this hotly. How successful this election wats, .and how well the ezuiilidzttes, is fully shown hy the fact that the president ot that year hits reinztinecl in office ever since. lt was not until our Second Form Yeztr. however, thztt we tirst ztttrztcted puhlic notice, for then we :required :i reputzttion as l,z1tin scholars and indeed were so populztr with our instructor in that suhjeet that for one whole week he detztinetl us after school merely to heztr lls recite. Of course this was for his own pleasure. Up to our Third Iiorm Year we had all pursued the sztme course of study. hut in that ycztr our wztys parted, the clztssiezilly inclined 'taking up Greek, while the more scientitit explored the mysteries of physical phenomena. This yeztr was noteworthy for we :zppeztred in ull the gh unztccountnhly lost. Then. too. in the Spring we acquired clztss hztts, which will l-ing renienihered in the school. lluring our Qenior Year school ztffztirs have developed wonderfully. thouffh without the P . , - 5 heztrty support which the fztculty has given to these new departures, their success wO1il.l i not have been ztssured. Lute in the tztll. to all admiring' eyes, il slcztting rink ztppeztred upon the Ural, and though we hrtd no skating thereon, still the satisfaction of having at rink renizuns. Then. too. the old custom of having :t mid-winter plzty has heen revived and Mr, Holi ztuordecl great ainusenient to those who ztssenihled. iNlz1rch 6th, in the ztutlitoriuin T nd of the Town :uid Country Cluh, lsut our efforts have not heen wholly in It soeiztl ri drzunzttie direction: for seyerztl of our nnmher went to New Yorlc lztst January for the purpose of taking the mid-winter college entrztnce exzmnnations. Such success :ts they met with hits seldom hefore heen eneountertl hy any students. Klztnv were the honor marks received. Ind eefl, one report reztched perfection :uid the others were very near it. Ancl now. in closing, wc wish as Z1 class to thank our instructors without whose :tid we should hztye been unzthle to write the history of the Clztss of l9llS. Though :tt times. no douht. we hztye sorely tried their pzttienee. they huye zilwztys heen rezuly to exert themselves in our hchztlf. :md we ztsk them to rememher our clztss with the hest of good wishes, Ceizrts Cl, CVLIN, Jie. 1.i some few words of advice for coming Seniors, and of coursei we helieve purpose there could he nothing more suitzthle than the history of thc Clztss of 1908 ary ot new clztss pins wlnch. although provided with satety czttehes. were lit'