St Bernards School - Crusader Yearbook (Gladstone, NJ)

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Compliments Compliments of of I Debus Drugs R. MceC0llum Peapack New Jersey C 0 mplimenn 0 f W. C. HGRTON AGENCY C.ORBY'S ENTERPRISE LAUNDRY, Inc. In Our Fifi iefh Year C ongrutulute SA IN T BERNA RD'S SCHOOL In Their Fiftieth Year G. E. HILL CCMPAN Y GLADSTONE, NEW JERSEY H71

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The next four games showed defeats by Delbarton 43-31, Montclair C. H. S. 46-44, Oratory 53-47, and Stevens 35-33. All four games were close and were lost by missed foul shots. On February 17, Morristown Prep was defeated. D'Apolito paced the winners by scoring 11 points. The final score: S.B.S. 37 - Morristown 34. The Saints lost by a close margin in the second game with Eastern Academy, 51-47. Oliver took scoring honors with 18 points. Traveling to Morristown, the Saints again beat them by the close score of 38-32. Hun won the next game 41-31. The last two games of the season were won by S.B.S. against Solebury 41-33 and 54-30. Oliver was high in both games with 17 points. THE STARTING FIVES F. D'Apolito - - - Disley F. Lien - Dunning C. Whatley ---- Walter G. Oliver - - Walkden G. Tingle - - Colton Lower School Basketball The team, in the 1950 season, combined with the Peapack-Gladstone group and had a very successful season. Coached by Mr. Lyons, they showed a good record, winning eight and losing two. Both defeats were by a strong Bonnie Brae team. THE FIRST FIVE F. VanCleave F. Van Arsdale C. Case G. Nicholls G. Stansbury Substitutes: Murray, Lundie, Jacquemot, Bladen, Harcourt, Hargreaves, Drecher and Sanborn. Varsity Baseball With quite a few lettermen back, Mr. Harold D. Nicholls expects to have a good season. A lot of newcomers will be on hand. The team is going to try and take the league which will win them a cup. There will be new devices which will help the team improve its potentialities, such as a sliding pit, bunting cages and many other things. With eighteen games on schedule the team will certainly have its hands full. April 12 Eastern Academy at Paterson April Morristown Prep at Morristown April Oratory School at Summit April Delbarton at Gladstone April Morristown Prep at Gladstone May Wardlaw at Gladstone May College High at Montclair May Hun School at Princeton May Hackettstown H. S. at Gladstone May Oratory School at Gladstone May Solebury School at New Hope May Montclair Academy at Gladstone May Friend's Academy at Gladstone May Alumni at Gladstone May Delbarton at Morristown May Wardlaw at Plainfield May Eastern Academy at Gladstone 1463

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Sl. 1111111111111 Silllllll 111111 11. 11. 11N THE spring of 1900, the Reverend Thomas A. Conover and a pioneering group of trustees first rented a farm of one hundred and thirty-six acres on the northern boundary of Gladstone, N. J., and founded St. Bernard's School. Three years later the farm was purchased from the Hillard Estate. The superintendent farmer, Mr. John Wortman Tiger and family arrived from Bernardsville, and with the help of a farm hand began the work on the farm, which was named Clairvaux. The rector took up his residence in the present Hillard House, the day of his marriage, June 2. During the summer of 1900, preparations were made for receiving boys in September. The first group came from the mission stations where Mr. Conover had been a missionary: one from Branchport, three from Point Pleasant and one from Westfield. Four boys also came as day pupils, one the son of the farmer, one the son of a neighboring farmer, and two sons of the superintendent of Blairsden. The cost of tuition and board charged the boys was only 5100.00 a year. The rector did all the scholastic teaching the first year, using the dining room of the old Homestead for a class room. He was assisted in the industrial work by a Princeton graduate, Mr. Leigh Roy Urban, who later com- pleted his studies for the ministry in the Episcopal Church. Of the boys who attended the first year, one became an electrician, another entered the rail- road business, another into the fruit business, an- other into the hotel business, and one became the head dairyman on two large estates on Long Island. Of the day pupils, one followed farming, another became a master plumber, two entered the office of Blair and Co., and later were very successful business men in Texas. A notable pupil who arrived on February 22, 1901, met with success in electric communications and real estate. The western end of the present Hillard House was used by the Rector and his family, the eastern end by the boys, all coming together for meals. It was a small beginning, but had promise of greater things. The Reverend Thomas A. Conover was the guid- ing spirit and inspiration of the trustees, faculty, staff and students for forty-three years, until his death on September 29, 1943. ww fgrnfntlt nf the Sclgnnl 1900 Nine Boys One Teacher Grammar School One Building Old Farm Buildings 136 Acres 1 950 Seventy-eight Boys Ten Teachers Grammar and High School Seventeen Buildings Modern Farm Buildings 300 Acres