Westfield High School - Weather Vane Yearbook (Westfield, NJ)

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ADMINISTIQATICDN Supervising Principal Charles A. Philhower, B.S., M.A. Principal Frank N. Neubauer, B A., D.S:. Assistant Principal Robert L. Foose, A.B., M.A. GERMAN I. Isabella Dcdds, B,A. Macalester College, M.A. Columbia University MATHEMATICS Annie P. Hewitt, West Chester State Normal School, B.S. Temple University COMMERCIAL SUBIECTS Brose Thompson, B.S. Grove City College SOCIAL STUDIES William H. Warner, B.S. Trenton State Teachers College, M.A. Rutgers ENGLISH Dolores W. Bordner, A.B. Coucher College, M.A. University of Pennsylvania MATHEMATICS Dama Hill, B.S. Farmville State Teachers College, M. A. Columbia University Dodds eight Hewitt Thompson Warner Bordner Hill ul

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Mr. Gesner, the head of our High School French Depart- ment, was born in the French industrial town of Tour- coing, which is the last town in France on the Paris- Brussels railroad. There he attended, as a boy and young man, L'lnstitut Colbert, a preparatory school. On November 28, l9l3, he was called for service in the French army. While he was serving his three year period of enlistment, war was declared and Mr. Gesner was in one of the first French regiments at the front. ln the first battle of the Marne he was seriously injured and received the Croix de Cuerre for bravery in action. While recup- erating in Marseille, Mr. Cesner attended the Uni- versity which conferred the degree of Bachelier-es-Sciences upon him. Also while at Marseille Mr. Cesner studied singing under Professor Edouard Choppin, formerly first baritone of the Paris Opera. in April l9l8 Mr. C-esner came to America to study mining engi- neering at Columbia University. He changed his course, however, and became a teacher of French. He taught in a variety of places,'including Havana, Cuba, but since i925 he has taught in West- field, where he has been unusually successful. Mr. Cesner, whose main ambition was to become an actor and singer, was deflected from his course by friends and relatives. His advice to young people is, Set a goal for yourselves, strive toward it, and never let others turn you from it.

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AND FACULTY Freeman Cameron Allen Hemphill Brinser ENGLISH joseph Freeman, B.S. Springfield College HISTORY Ruth Cameron, B.A., M.A. Pennsylvania State College LATIN Edmund C. Allen, B.A. Wesleyan University, M.S. University of Penn- Sylvania SPANISH Stella Hemphill, B.A. University of Texas ENGLISH Carol Brinser, B. S. Lebanon Valley College SCIENCE Richard L. Goodrich, B.S. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Goodrich Aline May Margaret Buchanan jane Snevily Margaret Cupitt Helen Arneson nine