School Houses as Social Centers: Authorized by rules adopted by Bd. of Education, Aug. 31, 1915, under act of N. J. Legislature, passed, 1913. First used as polling places in 1917 primaries.

School Names Changed:

Alyea St.to Binet No. 3.
Ann St. " John Catlin.
Coes Pl. " Binet No. 2.
Park Ave. " Dayton.
18th Ave. " Milford.
Elliot St. " Elliot.
15th Ave. " Moses Bigelow.
Hamburg Pl. (Wilson Ave.) " Monteith.
Hawthorne Ave. " Hawthorne.
Lafayette St. " Lafayette.
Madison St. " Madison.
Miller St. " Hamilton.
Montgomery St. " Montgomery.
Morton St. " Joseph E. Haynes.
Newton St. " Newton.
No. 7th St. " Garfield.
Oliver St. " Carteret.
Peshine Ave. " Berkeley.
Ridge St. " Ridge.
7th Ave. " McKinley.
State St. " Binet No. 1.
13th Ave. " Robert Treat.
Webster St. " Webster.

School Savings Banks: Purpose: To inculcate and encourage thrift.

Essential features of plan: To have pupils themselves manage banks' work as far as possible.

To organize a board of savings bank directors, appointed for each school by its principal.

To place school accounts, over $1.00, with such Newark banks as have endorsed the school bank plan.

To open individual accounts with the same banks for those pupils who have deposited a sum that shall be thought sufficient and to require that no sum be withdrawn without the parent's written consent.

1st bank established in East Side High School, March, 1915.