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Bernards High Yearbook Board

November 14, 2025February 8, 2026 by Editorial Staff Leave Comment

These smiling people are the Bernards High (NJ) Yearbook Board in June 1921. The students graduated with the class of 1922, so the committee was likely formed to produce the upcoming yearbook. Their names are written on the back. Bernardsville High School 1921Taken June 1921. The honorable Year Book BoardReading from left to right Standing:Janet

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Bernards High Document Collection

October 17, 2024October 28, 2024 by Editorial Staff 6 Comments

THSSH has released another Online Collection of documents—this time featuring Bernards High in Bernardsville, NJ. Bernards High was built in 1905. Two years later a class of two–Effie Beekman and Florence Rowell Conklin–became the first students to graduate. Until construction of Watchung Hills High and Ridge High, Bernards was the only high school in northern

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