Wood Ridge High School - Dial Yearbook (Wood Ridge, NJ)

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Page Foufr FOREWORD The Class of '40 wishes to thank Mr. Donley, Mr. Coppens, and the faculty for the patient, unselfish and efhcient guidance they have given us through the past four years. They have helped us build foundations which in later years will support us with knowledge, understanding, and the desire to succeed. As the first senior class of the high school, we have not had long established customs and traditions to help us, but rather we have had to develop our own. With the aid of our faculty and advisers, we have succeeded in forming the traditions which will become deeper, more meaningful and more beautiful as each class participates in them on its way through high school. Although the four years spent in high school are but a very small fraction of our lifetime, they probably are the most im- portant -years, for in a great many cases it is then that we decide our plans and goals for the future and in all cases prepare for it. No matter where the future takes us, what we meet in it, or how successful it is, we shall forever carry and cherish mem- ories of those acquaintances and experiences encountered while at our Alma Mater, Wood-Ridge High School. -Maurice Bickert

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Page Six . I To the Graduates of 1940: It is a pleasure and an honor to be able to offer, through the pages of the first Wood-Ridge High School Annual, congratulations and commenda- tions to the first graduating class of this new institution. For seven years I have been in rather close association with your mem- bers. I have pleasurably, and sometimes anxiously followed your achievements from one year to the next since you were in the sixth grade. I know you all so well that it is with a feeling of confidence in your future achievements that I bid you farewell. Some of you will be going to higher institutions of learningg most of you will be concerned with the immediate problem of making your own living. Whzitever the near future demands of you, I am certain that all of you are fully prepared to meet the exigency of the occasion. It is with sincere regret that I look forward to next year without your friendly greetings in the high school corridorsg it will be with keen interest, however, that I follow the fortunes of each of you in your work beyond our school. The fact that you are the first graduating class to leave this high school should place such a feeling of responsibility upon you that its realization is ever present with you. If in the years to come I can look back through the pages of this first Wood-Ridge High School Year Book and point to each 1940 senior picture and say, this boy or this girl has lived up to the finest traditions we all had hoped to build in our new schoolf' then I can feel that our years of association and study together have not been wasted. -F. D. Donlay