This Day in History: 1940-06-13
Eight members of the Board of Education addressed a letter to Township voters urging their support for the bond issue vote on June 24th. It authorized $75,000 for the construction of a combined auditorium and gym to the east of the Mahwah Grammar School. The letter stressed the importance of daily assembly programs and for indoor physical training facilities, neither of which was possible with the existing school facilities. The lack of daily calisthenics, they said, had resulted in the inferior posture habits evidenced by the pupils of today. They pointed out that the new facility would free space for a kindergarten or for vital home economics facilities. The new building would provide a vitally needed music room as well. They maintained that a defeat of the bond issue would only result in raising the cost of a facility which would have to be built anyway. The letter was signed by Board President H. M. Smith and by the following members of the Board: Robert Dunning, E. A. Grisewood, Alice MacArthur, Eleanor Miesse, I. B. Tiedeman, John J. Vanderbeek, and John J. Warhol Jr. (Bristow)