This Day in History: 1961-09-07
Schools opened again in Mahwah with an estimated total enrollment of 1.645 pupils, in increase of nearly 100 over the previous year. 885 students were expected in the Junior-Senior High School; 403 in Commodore Perry, 257 in Betsy Ross and 100 in George Washington and its annex in the Fardale Firehouse. The remaining 537 pupils would be attending parochial schools. Thirty-five in the Holy Cross Lutheran Church School, 320 in the Immaculate Conception School and 192 in the Immaculate Heart of Mary School. (Bristow)