Union Hill High School - Orange and Blue Yearbook (Union City, NJ)

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Jfiatonlg ot clinton J'ltfUl High .Schooll . QMYTARCE SCHOOLS from small beginnings grow. About fifty-two years ago. the first class of Union Hill graduated, consisting of five girls. Sme that time Union Hill has graduated several thousand students. The school was started under the supervision of Otto Ortel, and a very small staff of teachers, in the old grammar school which was torn down and replaced by Washington School. VVhen School Number 2, which stood on the present site of the Capitol Theater building, was built, the advanced classes , as the high school grades were then called, were transferred to this place. A few years later they were moved to tl1e second floor of the Town Hall. Graduation ex- ercises were held in the Turn Hall, which stood where the Hudson Dis- patch building now stands. Wlien the Town Hall became crowded, some of the students attended classes in Jefferson School. Later on, all classes were moved to the present high school building, which was erected in 1914. The first classes had a faculty of only four members. They were: Clif- ford Morton, Nathan C. Billings, Mae I. Bumsey, and O. VVatt. Compared with this modest beginning Union Hill now has a faculty of sixty men and women. Up to this time Union Hill has had four Principals: Otto Ortel, Nathan C. Billings, Clifford Morton, and our present principal, Harry Stahler. The first class to have formal graduation exercises was the Class of '96 . This group contained five boys and eleven girls. Some of the members were: Philip Brill, valedictorian, who becalne an engineer, 'Charles Kappes, who is a prominent lawyer in our city, Harry McCrokey, who is prac- tising medicine in East Orange, N. J.: John Behrens, a successful coal and f'ue1 merchant, Bertha Giphers, Sarah D. Smythe, Louis Houlis, Euretta Valient, Julia Uppelpy, Albert Curr, Lottie Dugley, and Julia Quatlander. It is interesting to note the majority of girls in the early graduating classes. It was two members of this class, Charles Kappes and Edward Hollander, who started tl1e Alumni Association. This organization encouraged ath- letics in the high school, and offered various medals for high attaimnents in sports. One of the first persons to receive one of these medals was Frank Rinauldi. Two