Sometime before 1980, Miss Mabel Clark shared this fantastic photo of herself in a class at Maple Avenue School in Basking Ridge, NJ (where the Bernards Township Library now stands).  Not only does it provide close-ups of the faces, but the teacher and many students are identified. 

[on back]
7th Grad, Maple Avenue School, 1914
Teacher, Miss Cheney

Left hand row, front to back
Ed Adams, Bessie Bunn, Gertrude Duval, Mabel Clark, Blanch Homler (Bornman)

Middle row, front to back
Louis Allen, Ruth Craig, ——-,   Floyd Boss? ——–,

Right-hand row
Susie Dupay, Floyd Boss(?), Edmund Wilcox, Robert Pope, Henry ——.

Three students:  Elizabeth (Bessie) Bunn, Susan Dupay, and Edmund Wilcox went on to Bernards High School and graduated in 1916, so the photograph may be a year or two earlier than 1914.  See Bernards High Graduation Program 1916.  Also, the children appear younger in the photo than what their ages calculate to–Edmund Wilcox would be 16 and Robert Pope 18 in 1914.

Name                            Birthdate
Louis Allen                    Feb. 1898
Elizabeth Bunn            Aug. 1896
Mabel Clark                  Jan. 1896
Susan Dupay                Jul 1897
Gertrude Duval           1895
Blanche Hormler        Feb 1897
Robert E. Pope            Sept. 1896
Edmund Wilcox          Jul 1898

What Became of Them?

Robert Pope and Edmund Wilcox served in the military in World War I and sadly, Pope died in 1918 in Pittsburgh during the Great Influenza epidemic.

Louis Allen went on to become Bernards Township police chief and roads supervisor.

After graduating Bernards High, Susan Dupay attended Temple University in Philadelphia, married Thomas C. Harrell, and moved to North Carolina.

Blanche Hormler married Arthur H. Bornmann and lived in Bernards Township most of her life.

Mabel Clark also remained in the area.

For more information on the photo and biographies of the students, see: THSSH Archive.