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School Photos and World’s Fair 1940

Teacher Louise Flint gathered these photos of 8th grade students from 1940-41 at Oak Street School in Basking Ridge, NJ. Her scrapbook is now at the Brick Academy.


The class, along with the 7th grade, visited the World’s Fair in New York in 1940 as a class trip. The photo below shows Louise Flint at the fair with Jack B. Twichell, school principal, and student Marie Hendershot.

Many of these students went on to graduate from Bernards High School in 1945.

Row 1 (top)
Phyllis Rosenbohm
Marie Hendershot
Marie Goldsborough
Irene Bettler
Patricia Condon

Row 2
Rose Marie Connolly
Clare Richey
Katherine Saebic
Anna Kacenak
Evelyn Wright

Row 3
Frances Headley
Paul Bettler
John Gimler
John Becht
Nelson Schaenen

Row 4
Jack Callahan
Douglas Sloss
Carl Truppi
Richard Swartz
James Pitman

See catalog record for biographies of some students.

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