Wantage School will be celebrating its 70th birthday on September 27, 2007. 

To celebrate this event, the Wantage School History Committee has been formed.  It’s primary focus is to compile a written (and electronic!) history of the school, concentrating on the stories and memories members of the community have about the school. 

This is where we need help!! We are hoping community people will come forward and tell us their memories of school life. We would like to have people come to school and allow the children to interview them and write the stories down they have collected. If people are unable to visit the school, we would love to have them write down their stories and memories and mail them to us. We would also love to have copies of any old newspaper clippings, programs, pictures, or school memorabilia to include in our “book.” We would like to have our students help with compiling and editing the book, doing illustrations, designing a cover, and so on. Research also needs to be compiled concerning the actual history of the physical building.

We also have a list of “secondary tasks” we would like to work on after the history is completed.  We have talked about preserving news clippings and photographs through scanning and copying. We would like to frame some of the larger photographs from earlier times.  We would like to refurbish the large Depression-era paintings we have hanging in the main entrance hallway, and we would like to replace the school weathervane. 
 
People interested in coming in to be interviewed should contact Candy Blazier at the Wantage School (973-875-4589). 

Project coordinators are: Nancy Moody & Jean Ann Jaeger.  Other committee members at this time include: Paula Russell, Kelly Kistler, Kathy Cafasso, Robert Coates, Allen Terwilliger, Bekki Schnetzer, and Dolores Polyi. Those who would like to send written material, the address is: Wantage School, 815 Route 23, Wantage, NJ  07461—attention Paula Russell.

Thank you!