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
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The eighth-grade class stands on the front steps of Oak Street School in Basking Ridge, N.J. in June 1948. The photo shows 34 people including students and teachers. The name “Flint” is on the back in upper left corner and refers to Louise Flint, a teacher at the school. Also on the back are the signatures
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We’re deep into back-to-school season and what better way to celebrate than reading a great book about schools? Josephine M. Waltz’s Schoolhouses of Early Bernards Township is a nostalgic look back at the history of familiar and not-so-familiar local schoolhouses. Bernards Township was originally much larger than it is today, so the book covers schools
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In 1938, construction workers were hard at work on Bernards Township’s newest school, Oak Street. These photos were taken November 21, 1938 by teacher Louise M. Flint (c.1889-1976) and preserved in her scrapbook. The title on the page reads “Basking Ridge School, West Oak Street.” Oak Street School was financed partially with an $80,000 grant
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