The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-09-30
AFTER FIVE YEARS.
High School Pupils of the
Class of 81 to Cele-
brate Their Wooden
Wedding.
THEIR ALMA MATER HONORED.
Bright Young People Who Are
Making History-Beauties
and Barristers.

October s. at two O'Clock in the after
noon. there will be notable gathering in
the Jersey City High School building on
Bay street. On that occasion the Glass of
1887 will celebrate its wooden wedding"
the fifth anniversary of its entrance upon
new phase of life. Although the classes
Immediately preceding and succeeding
'87 have held frequent reunions, the for
mer at the residence of Miss Armstrong
in Greenvilie. the latter at the school
building, this class had never met since
its graduation, until Walter K. Birdsall,
one of its bright particular stars, and
subsequently, student of law, issued
call to the members, which resulted in
| the formation of a committee and prepar-
alton for a reunion on large scale.
Exactly what form the wedding cere
monies are to take no one knows, except
the committee, aud they won't tell, but
from the fact that the three young men,
| who five years ago were the ringleaders
| in every piece of fun. are announced as
officials, one may judge that the affair
will be something remarkable. These
officials are Messrs. Birdsall, Lorrin
Andrews and Robert l.. Flemming.
When the Glass of 'S7 started on the
ID" side of the assembly room to work
| its way over to the Senior rows, there
were 100 members. Some of these, for
| reasons known to themselves and the
| Faculty, were earnestly requested to join
| the Glass of 1888. and complied after the
annual examinations. Iu 1885 twenty
| three graduated in the commercial course.
then a new experiment, and after Two
more years of wedding out, forty-n1ne ap-
peared on the Academy stage and re-
ceived their diplomas. OF these thirty
| one young women entered the training
school for teachers. The average per
cent. in scholarship for the four years
| was S8M-pretty we'll up. when we con-
slider how far down one or two can pull
an average. George NJ. Taimage. of 49,
| delivered the Masters Grafton, for the
| last time at a ]. q. H. S. commencement
| Seven out of the nine young men entered
| college, and five of the young women
write Mrs. before their names, which
| have undergone change siuce they
| figured on the programme five years ago.
CLASS BEAUTIES.
In those days there were two class
| beauties-not that there were only two,
but these were SO very pretty that they
| Kept the whole school debating as to
which was the more beautiful. One was
a blonde, with soft golden hair, which
| she wore in Gretchen plaits at the back
| of her head, pair of violet blue eyes,
| and the most lovable expression. There
| was no one, not even the girls who were
| not so pretty, who did not fall under the
| influence of her gentle kindliuess. and
| when, TWO years la er. it was told in the
| school that May Adams was dead, even
| those who had seen her but a moment
| felt that one was gone whocould i'll be
| spared. The other beauty was Miss
| Carrie B. Morrison, now Mrs. Green, tall,
| dark, stately, with q complexion ten de-
| grees better than an ivory miniature.
| The D class infants used to squabble
daily over the comparative charms of
| these divinities.
Then there was pianist, Miss Lillian
| Terrell, now one of the busiest young wo-
| men in the county, for she teaches i'll
| public school, and has great class of
! piano pupils besides. With all this she
| keeps up her practice so that she can
| keep a critical audience in as good humor
| as the school used to be when she played
everything from 'Lohengrin" to 81 Owe
Ten Dollars to O'Grady'' for marching
| purposes. There were Two other musi-
clans, Miss Augusta Churchill and Miss
| Alicia Durell, who used to sing duets,
and who have since attained local cell
| brity. Miss Churchill's voice is a rich
contralto, which has not been heard of
| late, siuce she married an old schoolmate
and Became Mrs. Piaget. Miss Durell
also decided that she preferred duets
| with masculine voice to suprano solos,
| and so her name isn't Durell any more
| Miss Josie A. Munson, as church-goers
| know, is now an excellent soloist, hut l
doubt whether she gives any more pleas
| ure to congregations now than she did
| when she sang in the High School choir
BUDDING BARRISTERs.
| AS for the men, they took TO the law.
perhaps because they had studied so
| much of the parliamentary article in the
| Forensic Society. Walter K. Birdsall
won the Classics medal and that offered
E1 .Ink k1r oiya. of
| tered Yale and is now promising young
lawyer, who seems determined to fulfill
| all the glowing predictions people made
| for him. Robert l.. Flemming is lawyer
| too, and although the present chronicler
| can't say what Mr.. Lorrin Andrews has
been doing since he went to Brooklyn to
| live, before that he was a bright progress
| sive collegian, even il he did have rather
| warped ideas On the subject of woman's
| suffrage. Howard Gurney went to
! Stevens and left good record there, ana
| Robert H. Moxham became merchant.
| The other young men were Oscar Smith,
| who won the Botany medal; Robert Nc
| Cague, who took first rank in mathe-
matics. and put his talents TO use in the
| Hoboken Bank, Richard A. Brown aud
| William ID. St1vers.
| One OF the number, at least, entered the
medical profession. and you may see her
| sign out now, on Mercer street, ''Dr.
say that she was one of the few who came
out of the four years. fray with 100 per
cent. ia department. They did such
| things at the High School then, but that
| was five years ago. The other well de-
| ported members were Misses Annie
| Cooke. Maggie Inwright, Cora Jennings.
| the salutatorian, and Josie Munson.
| There were two, q boy whose name begins
| with G, and girl who was known as
| Maggie Carrick, who could share the
| BOBBY prize In department, If such a one
mad been offered. What the latter, in
| particular, could not invent in the line of
! fun wasn't worth inventing.
THE HONOR PUPILS.
The valedictorian was Miss Jennie F.
| Owens, one of the most gifted young
| women who has held that honor. Her
| medal was awarded for first rank in
scholarship, department aud attendance,
| English science and pedagogics, and the
| words of the class song were her colnpo-
| sition. Her seatmate and firm friend
was the salutatorian, Miss JeEnings, who
| came within a hands breadth of first
| rank, the difference in rank being as
| 98 rs to 97.04. She has since changed her
| name to Mrs. White. Then there was
| Miss Sadie Smith. who used to go through
1 her graduating essay on "Cu-ri-os-ity"
! every afternoon during study hours, as
| was the custom in those days, until the
| innocent babes, who were not within
three years of graduating, knew Just ho,v
! TO act when the time came. And the
rest were Misses Florence Baur, Mamie
Brister, Hattie Bumsted-only she has