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

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The Advisory CommiTTee from I957 To I958 for The American AssociaTion of School AdminisTraTors. ln acl- diTion, he is a member of The STaTe CommiTTees on AdulT EducaTiOn, School Board Manual, Teacher Cer- TiTicaTion, and QualificaTions for The SelecTion of Com- missioner OT EducaTion. l-le is also a member of The Advisory COmmiTTee for ReorganizaTion of The School of EducaTion aT RuTgers UniversiTy, The AdminisTraTive Advisory CommiTTee To The American Psychological AssociaTion and The American Academy of PoliTical and Social Science. Dr. McClain is aTfiliaTed wiTh Cyrus Lodge No. l48, F. and A.M., Phi Kappa Psi. Kappa Phi Kappa, and Pi DelTa Epsilon. Dr. McClain has always done more for The commu- niTy Than serve in an educaTional capaciTy. ln Danville, Pennsylvania, 'he was Church TrusTee of The PresbyTerian Church and SuperinTendenT OT Sunday School, D'irecTor OT CounTy ScouT Council, founder of The LiTTle Theafer and a member OT The Kiwanis. ln DowningTOwn, Penn- sylvania, he 'was again a Church TrusTee and Super- inTendenT of The Sunday School. ln addiTion, he was direcTor of Cub ScouTs, a member OT The CounTy Coun- cil OT The Y.M.C.A., and a member of The RoTary. ln PenningTon he was direcTor of The Library, member of The Y.M.C.A. Council, Deacon of The Church, Super- inTendenT of Sunday Schools, a mem'ber of The Boy ScouT Council and PresidenT of The Lions Club. Dr. McClain has devoTed much Time and efforT To parTicipaTing in The civic aTfairs of Woodbury. l-le has served as DirecTOr OT The CounTy Council Of The Y.M. C.A., as Chairman of Fund Drives Tor The Y.M.C.A.. Boy ScouTs, March OT Dimes, and UniTed Fund. He has held The posiTion of AcTing PresidenT of The GloucesTer- Salem Council of Boy ScouTs, PresidenT OT The Kiwanis, LT.-Governor OT Kiwanis, Chairman of The Woodbury TercenTenary CommiTTee, and Chairman of GloucesTer CounTy CommuniTy College. ln T956 he was presenTed wiTh The Man of The Year Award. For his eminenT parTicipaTion in and conTribuTions To The foregoing organizaTions and commiTTees. Dr. McClain has been lisTed in boTh'Who's Who in EducaTion and Who's Who in EducaTion in EasTern U.S.A. Giving direcTion To The educaTional sysTem of Wood- bury. Dr. McClain has helped To malce iT The ouT- sTanding sysTem ThaT iT is Today. Surveys conducTed by Columbia UniversiTy, The STaTe DeparTmenT of Educa- Tion, and The Commission of Secondary Schools TesTiTy To The excellenT qualiTy of our schools. The policy which has led To such encouraging resulTs is one of progress insTiTuTed in a circumspecT, Thorough, and meaningful manner. Dr. McClain has inclicaTed ThaT he is greaTly exciTed abouT The whole fuTure of educaTion, buT aT The same Time he realizes The Tremendous responsibiliTy which resTs wiTh any educaTor, for he is dealing wiTh people, and a misfalce in The field of human relaTions is someTimes damaging and irrevocable. AlThough The newer 'meThods of Teaching are aT This Time in The highly experimenTal sTage, Dr. McClain feels ThaT They will be Tenable ancl pracTical in The fuTure. The main problem of Their applicaTion now is ThaT Their proper use has noT been deTermined. NeverTheless. edu- caTion is a dynamic and changing area in which The horizon poinfs To a brighT fuTure. Dr. McClain and The Woodbury Public Schools are willing and able To meeT ThaT fuTure and To assimilaTe iT wiThin The highesT sTand- ards ThaT any educaTional sysTem will allow.

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edication Dr. Warren J. McClain, The su-perinTendenT oT The Woodbury Public School SysTern. serves our schools and our communiTy as an acTive leader in civic and educaTional aTFairs. 'Born in PiTTslourgh, Pennsylvania, Dr. McClain aT'Tend- ed DormanT High School in PiTTsburgh. He aTTended college aT Bucknell UniversiTy, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, where his exTracurricular acTiviTies included TooTloall, baskeTbal'l. Track. drarnaTics, and iournalism. He re- ceived his Bachelor oT ArTs degree in l93I, where- upon he ,assurned The posiTion oT boTh Teacher and TooTball coach aT Danville High School, Danville. Penn- sylvania. Four years laTer he was principal oT The school. a posiTion which he held unTil I938. He received his MasTer oT ArTs degree in l939 from Bucknell Univer- siTy, simulTaneously working as lnsTrucTor in EducaTion and Dean oT Men. From I938 unTil I94O he was The Principal and FaculTy Manager of AThleTics aT Down- ingTown High School, DowningTown, Pennsylvania. ln PenningTon, New Jersey, from i940 To I944. he was Supervising Principal of The Hopewell Township Schools. Dr. McClain came To Woodbury in I944 To become The Su'perinTendenT oT Schools, buT he conTinued To increase his already subsTanTial ToundaTions in educa- Tion. Tor he obTained his DocToraTe in EducaTion in l954 from RuTgers UniversiTy in New Brunswick, New Jersey, and was lnsTrucTor OT EducaTion aT RuTgers from l957 To I958. ln addiTion, Dr. McClain has done addiTional work in educaTion aT Temple UniversiTy and Bloomsburg STaTe Teachers College. Dr. McClain has served The commfuniTy well Trom a professional sTandipoinT, as is indicaTed 'by The many organizaTions in which he has served. He is pasT presi- denT oT boTh The GloucesTer CounTy EducaTion Asso- ciaTion and The GloucesTer CounTy SuperinTendenTs AssociaTion. He is secreTary oT The GloucesTer CounTy Planning Commission and served as presidem' oT The GloucesTer CounTy HealTh AssociaTion, The SouTh Jer- sey SchoolmasTers Clulo and The New Jersey DeparT- menT oT SuperinTendenTs. The New Jersey Council of EducaTion and The New Jersey EducaTion AssociaTion are also acTiviTies in which he has served. He was on

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n emoriam Unselfishly serving The Woodbury School SysTem Tor sevenTeen years, Joseph P. BroadhursT made an indelible impression upon his associaTes. Mr. BroadhursT was presi- denT OT The Woodbury Board oT EducaTion Trom I953 To l957. He died in November oT I964, aT The age oT 78. Born on a Tarm in Lahaska, Pennsylvania, The young Joseph Broadhursi' absorbed The knowledge oT The dairy indusTry ThaT was To make him famous. ATTer aTTending The Friends' CenTral School in Philadelphia, he sTudied agriculTure aT Penn STaTe Uni- versiTy beTore beginning his dairy career aT Hood Farm in Lowell, Tv1assachuseTTs. Earning wide-spread recogniTion among dairymen, Mr. BroadhursT's abiliTy 'broughT him, in I928, To l.ocusT Grove Farms, where he was employed as manager unTil l956, when The Farms were sold. He was widely soughT as a iudge OT Guernsey caTTle and parTicipaTed in numerous 4-H and FuTure Farmers oT America proiecTs. Belonging To several caTTIe associaTions, Mr. BroadhursT received many awards ciTing his devoTion To The livesTock indusTry. In T963 he was honored by The GloucesTer CounTy Board oT AgriculTure in recogniTion oT his conTribuTion To agriculTure in This area Tor many years. Mr. BroadhursT was TirsT elecTed To The Woodbury Board of EducaTion in I9-44. He also served The comrnuniTy as direcTor oT The FirsT CounTy NaTional Bank and TrusT Company and as a signiTicanT member oT The Kiwanis Club Tor TwenTy-Tive years. On November 4, I964, in The Buckingham Friends' Me-eTing, in Lahaska, Pennsylvania, where Joseph BroadhursT had been raised, Dr. Warren J. McClain paid his TribuTe To This man: VincenT Van Gogh has said, 'The besT way To know God is To love many Things. This man indeed was knowledgeable and alerT To all The beauTies of The earTh aibouT him. His love Tor The birds, Trees, and Tlowers and all Things beauTiTul was maTched only in The depTh oT his love and beliei in people. All oT This grew Trom an abiding TaiTh ThaT The beauTies of earTh and The innaTe goodness oT man are expressions oT The love oT God. Joseph BroadhursT came Trom a heriTage which TaughT TideliTy, conTidence, and an unTalTering courage which would noT permiT appeasemeni' or The reward oi someThing Tor noThing. He Taced liTe possessing Tirmness wiThouT harshness. conTidence wiThouT brashness, and courage sTripped oT all vaniTy. SomeThing oT him will remain a parT oT us Toreverf'