Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-08-30
REGRET PASSING
OF OLD SCHOOL
Old Pupils of German-Ameri-
can Academy Mourn for
Fate OF Property.
PROPOSED TO LEASE II
TO BOARD OF EDUCATION
Founded Fifty-six Years Ago
and Patronized by Many
Newark Citizens.

Many of Newarfi's professional and
business men and many women who
learned their three RS and passed
much of their childhood in the Green
Street School," mourn the passing of
the old German-American Academy,
The famous school. with its tradi-
tions and it's long roll of distinguished
graduates, seems doomed.
The Newark Sehulverein. which
owns the property. has at last decided
thai not enough pupils are coming to
the academy to make it worth while
to continue longer.
Tt is proposed to sell or lease it to
the Board of Education for the use
of defective children, and Superin-
tendent Poland is preparing a report
on the matter.
founded Fifty-six Years Ago.
For fffty-six years the school has
been ~patronized by Germans through
out the State. Until ten years ago
1t occupied the Green Street school,
a building in the rear of where the
City Hall now stands. Then a new
structure was erected in Goes place
at a cost of s25, 1000.
But the membership has been
gradually dwindling. There was a
time when 800 or 400 pupils studied
in the OLD schooirooms or romped
outside. At the end of the last term
only 100 were on the rolls.
The school will be opened again
next Tuesday. under Carl Schmidt.
the principal, but it viii only go on
until The Board of Education takes
it over or the property is otherwise
disposed of.
Among those who studied in the
old school building we're: Frederick
C.. Wackenhuth, who went there
1ifty-five years ago; August and
julius Hahne, Gustave A, George w.
and Joseph f. Wiedenmayer, Chris
tian W. Feigenspan, Board of Works
Commissioner Charles f. Kraemer,
George w. Jagle, Frederick A. and
Herman C. Schuetz, Mrs. Gerhard
Mennen. Mrs. Otto Hahn. Henry
Schnellbacher, Carl A. Giese, GustaVe
l.. Erb. the Rev. Oscar E. Braune,
August E. Roemer, Ferd r. Moeller'
DIR. Louis A. Koch, William and Paul
FL. Koch. Andrew z. Voss, DR.. c. Fred
webner. F. NJ. Schulz, former Sheriff
f. Fl. Sommer. r. F. Anthony, f. ;.
Simonson, DIR. Otto r. Leis, Dr. Paul
E. Menk, Frank Million. Edwin G. and
Albert s. Koenig, Henry j. Inland.
John b. Inland. jr.. Lewis {. and
Hugo L. Kleinhans. Frederick G.
Wackenhuth, jr., Benedict and Edwin
S. Prieth, Michael Helmstaedter,
Louis G. Kempf and Theodore Aab.
Herman Won der Heide was for
about thirty years the head of the
academy, and in that long term of
service became we'll known here.
: The school has for pupils children
varying il age from 8 to 10 years
and if they complete the course they
are then ready to enter high school.
Although German is taught, other
subjects are taught in English. Fees
for kindergarten children are 81 a
month. and for other pupils they
vary from $3.50 to SO a month.
The officers of the Newark Schulz
verein are: President, Gustave L.
Erb; vice-president, Herman A. Dit
tier; secretary. Ferdinand Beisler;
treasurer, George Grimme. Its direc-
tors are: Henry S. Pfeil. George
Busch. Carl A. Giese. Simon Hahn,
Fred Dorpfeld. William Lange, Her
nan A. Dittler, P. H.. Strunk, Gus
tave L. Erb. George Grimme and
George Stickei.