Ridgewood High School - Arrow Yearbook (Ridgewood, NJ)

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A FULL MEASURE OF DEVOTION -c s L ix. i MISS WILMA J. McVElGH . ,-,N . - -'--..c... ' - Rf.,-,.,,.,,x x D , ...,...-, - .ox ---- ,Q ' QR 1' , -on ps. , -.fo ,dugg g ' 1' v-I-94-.,. --on-un-,, -wa no-omg., mango. A - 9' -5' -musvuupp ' N -:nur ---gd. lull vu-u . .-.on--1 r ..,.....-.-.- .-Y 'z ,f M MRS. MARIE F. CONNAUTON No one has iourneyed further afield in her educational career than Ridgewood's own Arkansas traveler, Miss Wilma J. McVeigh, Dean of Girls. Witness the iaunts of this girl: To Drury College in Springfield, Mo., for her Bachelor of Arts, to the University of Cincinnati, Ohio, for her Master of Arts, to Columbia, New York City, for her graduate work, to high schools in New Mexico, Missouri, and Tennessee, and to the Uni- versity of Wisconsin to serve as house counselor. Mathematics was her field when she started at Alba High School in Alba, Mo., but by the time she arrived in New Jersey at Montclair High School, where she was Dean of Girls, she was in the field of student activities, which she directed from 1940 to 1954. When she retired as Dean of Girls in Ridgewood in I954, the late Dr. Lois B. Knox requested that Miss McVeigh be named her successor. Since the fall of that year, Miss McVeigh has been in charge of girls' guidance in which field her principal concern has been the post-graduation plans of all students. Other activities have seen her serving as secretary to the Village Youth Commission, as a member of the Baptist Church Board of Education, and as president of the New Jersey Deans and Counselors. She has also worked on various committees of the YWCA and on various scholarship committees. Possessor ofa fine contralto voice, the Dean of Girls originally planned to sing in opera. When she turned to education, she kept her music interest alive by singing in groups, including barber- shop ensembles. For a while she sang with the Emmanuel Baptist Church choir here in Ridgewood. Among her hobbies she lists horseback riding and sewing. On retirement Miss McVeigh plans to stay at her home on Cedar Street in Ridgewood and to work with young people in Bergen County. Presently she is working on a commission to set up iunior colleges in New Jersey. The only southern drawl we have belongs to Mrs, Marie F. Connauton, Alabama-born and raised. This clothing stylist was not content with a Bachelor of Science from Ala- bama College though, and she earned a Master of Science from the Univer- sity ot Minnesota. To keep in touch with her world of practical education, she also attended Ohio State Univer- sity, the University of New Hampshire and, here in Jersey, Douglass College. After teaching three years in her native state, Mrs. Connauton ioined the faculty of Beaver College in Pennsyl- vania. Then she taught in six schools y in Cape May County at the request of l the State of New Jersey. It was her iob to set up courses of study in home economics and to structure a course for students not concerned with the academic world. From Cape May she moved half-way north to Princeton, then on to nearby Teaneck, Mrs. Connauton left Teaneck High School in i947 to come to Ridgewood where she taught all clothing classes in both iunior and senior high schools, all three units then comprising 1,671 students. She added two classes in family living to her work. Later she added an interior design class and was chosen to be Supervisor of the Home Economics Department in l955. She presently teaches all family living classes, meeting l l7 girls three times a week. She has also worked with elementary school teachers in the field of nutrition, The tasting parties there enioy a happy reputation, Mrs. Connauton has also taught in the Adult School. ln the tall and spring she works in the Ridgewood camping program with sixth graders, and she assists the girls with their fashion show. She has now revised the home economics course of study for both junior and senior high schools. Mrs, Connauton's major hobby and her teaching interest run side by side. She prizes her collection of Early American dresses. These, along with the antiques she has collected, have her toying with the idea of opening an antique shop. Until she makes up her mind, she is concen- trating on gardening, her fourth field of interest, and keeping house for her sea-captain husband. What may prove an obstacle to her antique shop is her desire to be of service to the community after she retires. She would like to can- tribute either as a Gray Lady or as a member of the Family Coun- seling Service, She is o member of Delta Kappa Gamma, honorary society for women educators and many educational associations.

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In Recognition of 2.5 Years As Publications Adviser The cosmopolitan air of the man the English Department refers to as Our Leader, Julian P. Darby, belies his birthplace of Cortland, N. Y. The polishing probably came at toney Amherst where he was awarded his Bachelor of Arts. More English courses at Cornell and Columbia put enough credits on his transcripts to be awarded a doctorate. This ivy background also accounts for the tweedy coats he hangs on his tall, spare frame. His three years of teaching at a private school in Connecticut probably accounts for his decline from being a highly talented violinist to what he now describes as a bad fiddler. Which isn't true, as can be attested by his duets with his violinist daugh- ter, Susan, music student and secretary of her class at Oberlin in 1963. Mr. Darby's father was a professor of Music at Syracuse University. ln 1927 he came to Ridgewood High School where some 22 years later he was chosen head of the English Department. For 25 years he served as faculty advisor to the Arrow Literary maga- zine, formerly issued three times a year with the fourth issue published as the yearbook. Mr. Darby has no plans on retiring, but his friends are certain that Martha's Vineyard looms large in them. There every summer Mr. Darby catches up on his reading, his rest and the local doings at Vineyard Haven. Whenever any of the family can-wife Barbara from the Ridgewood YWCA iob, son Paul from Ridgewood High School, or daughter Susan from Boston, father Julian from his books- each is 05 and running for the ferry from Woods Hole to the Vineyard. Mr. Darby's organizations include National Council for Teach- ers of English and national, state and local teachers' organiza- tions.

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5 r f I MR. JOHN H. CAMBLIN Despite a vigorous life, Ted Stratton refuses to sprout one gray hair, even on retiring. Whatever became of that red-haired farm boy from here who went to Colgate and played end? asked one of the landed gentry in Far Hills at a recent social event on the estate ofa leading New York pub- lisher. That red-headed boy, J. Theodore Stratton,is winding up a career of 38 years at Ridgewood High School. Born in Far Hills, he grew up as a farm boy and then played iust about every sport there was at Ber- nardsville High School. Later at Colgate University, where he was awarded his Bachelor of Arts degree in l925, Mr. Stratton played varsity football and ran the hundred in track. He continued his football career after graduation with the Golden Tornadoes, a professional team in Orange, N. J. ln l926, he ioined the English Department at Ridgewood High where he coached the football squad for the next I2 years as well as the debate team. In 1950 he took over the iob of teaching all public speak- ing classes. The pride Ridgewood has in its landscape and flower beds owes its measure to the role and carefully mapped plans of Mr. Stratton's Green Thumb committee. He organized this group to reupholster the local terrain in i950 and is its advisor today. Green Thumb is not the only successful organization he started. ln l96l he organized a cross-country squad and set it winging on its way so well that in i963 he was coaching a team that won the Northern New Jersey Interscholastic League championship. As the father of five, for all of whom he had ambitions, he knew he had to add to his income. So he turned his English talents to writing. Before he put his typewriter aside as a professional, despite calls for more from his New York agent, he had written 200 pieces including stories, novelettes, and some detective fiction in the paperback field. His Time to Kill sold more than 400,000 copies. Until his children had graduated from Ridgewood Schools, Mr. Stratton lived in Ridgewood on Oak St. Now he resides in Wyckoff with his wife, Alicia. An inveterate walker, John H. Camblin has probably put in more shoe-leather time than any man in Ridgewood. Brisk walks probably account for his vigorous appearance. Between these walks he has devoted long but rewarding hours to the field of industrial arts. This native Rochesterian started as a manual training teacher in his home town in New York after completing his work at the Rochester Institute of Technology. RIT was the first of many stops on his scholastic iourney. Other high institutions of learning include Columbia, where he earned his B.A., Rutgers, Montclair State College and New York University. In i925 to a high school of some 550 students, John Camblin came to teach mechanical drawing. He became Supervisor of lndustrial Arts in l927. In his early years he taught shop classes for fifth and sixth graders in one elementary school every year. Faced with the task of putting four daughters through college, he added an extra work load. For some years he worked on o property evaluation survey in Ridgewood and nearby communities, putting his knowledge of maps and blueprints to highly practical use. In l95l, he became Director of the Ridgewood Adult School which now enrolls more than 800 students. Though indefinite, plans after June do not call for John and his wife Mary Camblin to sit in their home on Kenilworth Rd, dreaming of the past. His neighbors will see more of his rolling gait, but you can bet he'lI be off on his way to do something worthwhile. ln his wallet he carried a long list of membership cards, There's Epsilon Pi Tau, lnternational Society of lndustrial Arts and Vocational Education, the National Education Association, the New Jersey Educa- tion Association, the Ridgewood Education Association, the New Jer- sey Vocational Arts Association, the American Council of Industrial Arts Supervisors, the Adult Education Association of the U.S.A. and the National Association of Public School Education, so AV: .vi .' 2,4 ,-Q gs, ' ' f :vw MR. J. THEODORE STRATTON MISS FRANCES C. GARRETSON The Christmas Tea with its tasteful decorations and even more tasteful petit pastries, rolled dates and sand- wiches won't be the same without its charming hostess, Frances C. Garretson. Miss Garretson gradually worked her way north to Ridgewood from Cape May City where she was born and where she first started teaching, To prepare for her career, she moved over to Philadelphia and Temple Universty where she was awarded both Bachelor and Master of Science degrees. Since coming to Ridgewood in 1956, she has taught foods, homemaking and home nursing. From i958 to i960 she sponsored the Future Homemakers Club of America. In i960 a dinner that she arranged put the Mide dle Atlantic States Evaluating Committee in a happy, festive state of mind. On retirement, Miss Garretson plans to return to South Jersey where she will put her nimble fingers to work on her hobbies of sewing, cooking, fashioning iewelry, leather goods and her guitar. W, , As a pleasant interlude she is contemplating travel in Europe and the United States. Florida is attracting K.i considerable attention in her travel plans,