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

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Joseph Freeman, our popular baseball and basketball coach, was born in Central Falls, Rhode Island. Declining to describe his boyhood, he said he believes that all men are just boys grown old. He did say that he was always interested in athletics, and worried his mother continually by playing in the sand lots. He attended Moses Brown preparatory school in Providence, Rhode Island, where he was captain of both the varsity football and baseball teams and president of his class. In the summer of nineteen twenty-four he joined the Civilian Military Training Corps in Camp Devons, at Ayer, Massachusetts. Here he won a medal for being the outstanding student in his regiment of twenty-five hundred boys. After he was graduated, he was called back to Moses Brown to teach and coach football and baseball. He was there until nineteen thirty-four, and in thirty-five he came to Westfield High School. He coached football here for two years. As a side line Mr. Freeman coaches a semi-pro football team in Plainfield, where he lives. His hobbies all take him into the open—watching professional baseball games and fishing. In summer he sometimes coaches swimming and tennis at Narragansett Bay, his parental home, and spends much of his time sailing. Mr. Freeman left Moses Brown in nineteen twenty-six and took a two year trip around the world. He worked his way, so lie has had many extremely interesting experiences. (If you are good at persuasion, you may succeed in getting him to speak to you in Chinese.) When he returned from his trip, he entered Pawtucket High School in order to get enough credits to admit him to Brown University. While at Pawtucket he participated in dramatics, having parts in such productions as Tin Valiant and 11 ere V i g. He attended Brown University for a year, but his love for athletics was so strong that he decided to coach as well as teach. Therefore he transferred to Springfield College and finished his education there.

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I In appreciation of his personality, sportsmanship and understanding, we, the Class of Nineteen Hundred Forty, dedicate this nineteenth issue of the Weather Vane Annual to Mr. Joseph Freeman.

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SUPERVISING PRINCIPAL Charles A. Philhower, ITS., M.A PRINCIPAL Frank N. Neuhauer, B.A.. M.A., D. Sc. ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL Robert L. Foose. A.B., M.A. ENGLISH and HISTORY Joseph Freeman, B.S. Springfield College ENGLISH Carol Brinser, II S. Lebanon Valiev College ENGLISH Dolores Bordncr, A.B. Goucher College, M.A. University of Pennsylvania ENGLISH Margaret Dietrich. A.B. Kutztown State Teachers College, M.A. Columbia University ENGLISH Bernice Kimball, A.B. Middlebury College ENGLISH Victor Johnson, A.B. I’psala College