Thomas Jefferson High School - Quid Yearbook (Elizabeth, NJ)

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MISS RUTH CLARK DEDICATICN MPELLED and motivated by a sincere desire to give recognition to and offer gratitude for her unstinting and painstaking expenditure of effort and energy, which she graciously devoted at all occasions without heed of time or inconvenience, in an endeavor to cause our Senior year to be reminis- cent of a happy, successful and fructuous cycle of well-employed days, we, the Class of June 1937 do hereby pleasurably dedicate this issue of the TEE-JAY to Miss Ruth Clark. Simultaneously, we acknowledge with a depth of feeling akin to the above our spontaneous appreciation of the sympathetic, kindly and under- standing interest that was always manifested in our scholastic welfare, progress and contact by Mrs, Florence Gorgens, Mr. Lehman Shugart and Miss Grace Eldred so ever affably. Nor are we unmindful at this time of our former charming and pleasant adviser, Miss Dorothy Mancini, to whom we extend our fondest hopes for happiness in her marital venture. MRS. FLORENCE GORGENS MR. LEHMAN SHUGART MISS GRACE ELDRED

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! OUR - PRlNClPAL'S MESSAGE TO THE CLASS OF JUNE 1937: E welcome this opportunity to ex- tend to you our kindest wishes for a successful future. We trust that your graduation from high school will not be taken as the finish of your education but the beginning of your opportunity to plan and further your own advancement. In this class we graduate over 400. Of these, l4O have indicated their inten- MR P W AVERILL tion of pursuing definitely some further type of training in college or a special- ized school, the rest of the class will be absorbed in business and industry-especially to these latter we wish to give the thought of definitely planning to advance themselves in whatever po- sition they may accept, and to keep in mind the thought expressed so well by Hamilton D. Mable: There are two kinds of men in the world, those who sail and those who drift, those who choose the ports to which they are going and skillfully and boldly shape their course across the seas with the wind or against it, and those who let winds and tides carry them where they will. He continues to point out that a man gets what he pays for, in material, in character, in work and in energy. Men fail because they are not willing to work hard enough, to prepare thoroughly enough, to put themselves heartily into what they are doing. In this metropolitan section opportunities for young men to carry on their education, in more thoroughly preparing for their type of work or in the aesthetic or spiritual lines, are constantly open. Upon graduation from high school you should determine to avail yourself of these opportunities. We hope that you will find your work at Jefferson a good foundation for further endeavor. Sincerely yours, P. W. AVERILL, Principal Two

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-, if A- f H 'T'ff'lWVR'? SHUOR HOMEROOM FACULTY ACKNOWLEDGMENTS T is our happy privilege and joyous opportunity to dedicate this page to our homeroom teachers who have sympathetically watched and alertly ob- served our scholastic progress since our ingress within Jefferson's portals Perhaps at times we were deeply irked at some of their punitive measures for our infringement of some disciplinary regulation, mayhaps at other times they were profoundly vexed by some of our mischievous pranks and character lapses. At this twilight of our secondary school life, we ask their pardon for our errors of commission and omission and sincerely ask them to remem- ber us, one and all, in the same fond light that we shall them, Though like men we refrain from any exhibition of sentimentality, we are sure that a tearful trace is pardonable when we now reluctantly bid farewell to Mr. Clifton J. Hopf ll2Al l, Miss Lyda Gallagher ll2A2l, Mr. Albert E. Warsley and Mr. James Mclntyre ll2Sl l, Mr. Walter Kroemmelbein ll2S2l, Mr. William Hann l12S3l, Mr. Robert Luse llZS4l, Miss Ruth Glasier ll2Cl l, Miss Ruth Clark ilZC2l, Mrs. Florence Gorgens ll2Tl l, Mr. Lehman Shugart ll2T2l, Mr. Charles Winter ll2T3l, Miss Ruth Ely ll2T4l , Miss Grace Eldred ll2T5l. It likewise devolves upon us at this point to recollect thoughtfully some several other teachers who by their services to us have materially contributed to our school life among whom, not already mentioned, are Mr. Charles Harm for his ever-willing cooperation from the Laboratory Press, Mr. Harold Vogt and Mr. Arthur Brandenburg for their delightful musical guidance in our affairs, Mrs. Edna Stokes for her typing services with her typing classes in the preparation of copy for this annual, Mrs. Margaret Maclfarquhar, Miss Catherine Close and Mr. Schuyler Townsend for gathering together much of the literary material herein presented, Mr. Clifton J, Hopf for his patient training and guidance of us in our Class Night and Graduation pro- cessions, Mr. Ralph Gallagher for his untiring efforts in securing for many of us positions that will be our first step in our successful journey through life. Thank you, alll Four