Woodbury High School - Sun Dial Yearbook (Woodbury, NJ)

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The commercials are anoTher bunch ThaT work hard. They had a choice beTween general or secreTarial. The secreTarial required Typing, sTenography, iunior business Training, bookkeep- ing, secreTarial pracTice, halT a year oT civics and halT a year oT commercial geography. Some who weren'T Too keen on shorThand Took The General SecreTarial Course, which gave Them one year oT commercial maTh and one year oT oTTice pracTice. They Took all The oTher subiecTs excepT secreTarial pracTice and sTenography. l.esT we TorgeT The hard working pre-indusTrial Tellas who made The scenery Tor The plays and Common Branches Class-Mr. Keebler is explaining in- come Tex. Modern HisTory Class-Johnny shows e hisTorical place on The map To The kids. someTimes props Tor The big dances, They were required To Take indusTrial arTs Tor'Tour years, a couple oT years oT indusTrial science, and a year oT blueprinT reading. LasT buT noT leasT was The general course. This one was Tor Those who had no plans Tor The TuTure. They had To Take a year oT common branches and a year oT eiTher indusTrial or domesTic science and Tour years of English. Besides ThaT, They could have any choice oT subiecTs. Seems like ThaT preTTy well covers The dry, dry diggings. ArT Class-In order To geT True To life models, The erT class oTTen Takes To The ouTside world. French Class-Yvonne Swanson, our sTudenT from Bel- gium, shows Two of The girls how To wear Their bereTs. Q T 1 1 'uJ' f

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mm ls-A The ollice praclice class learns lo file using praclice lile Too many fingers spoil a cake. boxes There goes lhe bell and kids are scallering in all direclions, weary aller anolher day al lhe dry diggings. Brings back lond memories ol my days back in 'lorly-nine. Yep, seems like a mighly long lime ago bul I guess lheir curricula havenll changed much. l'll bel lhe kids slill have lo lake lour years ol English. Never wenl books! Seems like lhey're kepl mighly busy. I'll bel lhey're iusl as heavy as my pick and shovel. School books were always lhal way lo me. Guess lhal's why l never carried lhem. As I recollecl, lhree years ol malh were needed in lhe academic course. Geomelry, where lhey draw squares and circles, and lwo 3:06 Quillin' lime! We lay our 'pick and in lor lhal slull mysellg l always lell kinda lool- ish making speeches in lronl ol people and l never was much al readin' books. Grammar always had me slumped, loo. Well, well, look al lhose academics and lheir years ol algebra l21TR2l, lwo years of U. S. hislory and a year ol science were necessary, and al leasl lwo years ol any loreign language. l had enough lrouble in English wilhoul gelling mixed up wilh Senorilas or Mademoiselles. There may be a fulure Chippendale here. shovel down.

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Unrled Sfalos Senafor Roborl C. Hendrickson, class of l9l8. New Jersey Assembly Speaker Hugh L. Mehorlar, class of l The Woodbury High School Alumni Associa- lion was re-aclivaled on Augusl l5, l948, al which lime ils presenl conslilulion was adopled. The lirsl board ol governors or execulive com- millee consisls ol: Marlin Headley, presidenlg Helen Horan, vice-presidenl, Thomas Jackson, lreasurer: Edna Herbert secrelaryy Gloria Fisher: Kennelh Fleck, lvlarlin Oppenheimer, Carl Pohlg and Roberl Sliles. The immecliare obiecls ol 'rhe Associalion are lo increase ils membership and 'lo provide a scholarship award for deserving sludenls. Any graduale ol Wood- bury High is eligible lor membership in The Associalion, which has ils home al 21 Harrison Slreel. Colonel Roberl C. Hendriclcson was born in Woodbury on Augusl IZ, l898. Shorlly before his gradualion from Woodbury High School, he enlisled in The Army. He received his high school diploma in June, l9l8 .ln l9l8 he ma- 'rriculaled al The Temple Universily Law School, where he oblained his legal degree. He was admilled lo lhe bar in l922. From l93I unlil I948 he was Cily Solicilor of Woodbury. He served as Treasurer of The Gloucesler Counly Bar Associalion and in I937- 38 served as Presidenl of lhe same associalion. He enlered The Slale Senale in IQ34 and was re-elecled in l935, l938, and I94I. He became Presidenl of lhe Senale in I939. ln addilion lo his Senalorial dulies, Senalor Hendrickson served The Slale in many ways. He was Republi- can nominee for Governor in l94O and was elecled Slale Treasurer in l94l. ln July, l943, he was granled a leave ol absence from his dulies as Treasurer and reporled lor aclive mililary duly in The Army. Colonel Hendrickson was re-elecled Slale Treasurer in I946, and in I948 he was elecled Uniled Slales Senalor. Hugh L. lvlehorler was born January 24, I899. He allended Wenonah Public School and Woodbury High School .Aller relurning from 'rhe Army in l9l9, he enlered The Tire insur- ance business. He is a lormer member of The Board of Freeholders, a pasl Presidenl of The Gloucesler Counly Hislorical Sociely, a pasl