Schools Under Pressure
Pictorial collage of Englewood Public School Buildings
by plumwalk2
A Walk About
The above photos were taken on a tour of the outside of Englewood's Public School Buildings. Since this tour I have been on the tours described in the articles of this blog. Quarles School is not included in the slide show, because I was walking. I was losing the light and it is uphill from where I live.
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| Dwight Morrow High School 1950 |
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| Dwight Morrow High School 2011 |
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| Janis E. Dismus Middle School |
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| Dr. Leroy McCloud Elementary School |
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| John Grieco Elementary School |
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| Donald A. Quarles Early Childhood Center |
80 years since the naming of Dwight Morrow High School for this man of vision. Dwight Whitney Morrow attended the public schools, graduated Amherst, Studied Law Columbia University, Law Practice NYC, lived in Englewood, Instrumental in prison reform, Champion of the working class, Ambassador to Mexico, celebrated mediator between nations, banker, Advisor to General Pershing, and the list goes on. His life is a fantastic and engaging read.
This is a call to service for Dwight Morrow High School Graduates! Roll up your sleeves and pitch in. Help keep the spirit of Dwight W. Morrow High alive. Did you know that Dwight Whitney Morrow spear headed prison reform in the state of New Jersey? He and his wife had a pet peeve. They were very OCD about BUDGET and spending money. Empty pockets brought the newlyweds to Englewood, NJ. The rents in NYC were too high for Dwight and his new bride. When he passed away October 5, 1931 he was worth more than 10 million dollars. Our Alma Mater bears this man's name for a lot of reasons. I'd say he was a bleeding heart liberal in a time when it was not fashionable.
Dwight’s people came to the American frontier from Ireland. They carved out a piece of land in Hancock County Va. As armies marched by to fight they farmed. James Elmore Morrow was a school teacher from a farming family. He had 8 children. He and his family realized that Dwight, like his father before him, was not cut out for that life. They were poor people but they raised enough money to send him off to college when he was fifteen. Dwight worked his way through. The early Morrows were working class folk.
Why does Dwight Morrow High School in Englewood, New Jersey carry the name of Dwight W. Morrow? (1873 – 1931)
Relevant Dates
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Important Events in the a life of Dwight W. Morrow
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1873 – Jan 11
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Born in Huntington, West Virginia
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1885 - 1887
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Attended High School in Allegheny, Pennsylvania
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1887 - 1891
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Worked as Clerk and errand boy in a Pittsburgh coal company
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1891 - 1895
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Attended Amherst College, Amherst, MA
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1895 – Jun 26
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A. B. Amherst College, magna cum laude; Phi Beta Kappa; Beta Theta Pi; Literary Monthly; Hardy Prize Debate; Bond Prize (oration)
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1895 - 1896
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Worked as apprentice in Scandrett & Bartlett, a Pittsburgh law firm
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1896 - 1899
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Attended Columbia University Law School
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1899 Jun
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LL.B. Columbia University (Law School)
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1898 Sep
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Sworn in as Attorney at Law of Pennsylvania
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1899 Jun
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Sworn in as Attorney at Law of New York
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1899-1914
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Simpson, Thatcher & Bartlett, a New York law firm
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1899-1905
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Worked as clerk
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1905 Jan 1
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Made partner
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1903 Jun 16
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Married Elizabeth Reeve Cutter
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1904 Mar 17
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Elisabeth R. Morrow born
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1906 Jun 22
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Anne S. Morrow born
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1908 Nov 28
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Dwight W. Morrow, Jr. born
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1913 Jun 27
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Constance C. Morrow born
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1914-1927
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J.P. Morgan & Co.
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1913 Dec 30
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Invited to join banking firm
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1914 Apr 15
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Entered offices of J.P. Morgan & Co.
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1914 Jul 1
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Made Partner with J.P. Morgan & Co., New York; Drexel & Company, Philadelphia; Morgan Grenfell & Company, London; and Morgan, Harjes & Company, Paris
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1916
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Negotiated Anglo-French $500,000,000 loan
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1921
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Represented an international banking syndicate for $50,000,000 loan to the Cuban government
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1927
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Represented an international banking syndicate for $50,000,000 loan to the Cuban government
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1927
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Sep 30 Resigned from J.P. Morgan & Co.
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1915
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Sep 12 Met with Financial Commissions from Great Britain and France
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1916 - 1931
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Life Trustee of Amherst College
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1920 Jun
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Chairman of the Finance Committee
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1920-1927
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Chairman of the Executive Committee
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1921
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Chairman of the Centennial Committee
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1925
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Morrow Dormitory donated
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1926 Dec 21
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Offered Presidency of Amherst College
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1917-1918
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New Jersey Prison Inquiry Commission
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1917 Jan 26
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Appointed to the Prison Commission by Gov. Edge
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1917 Jul 25
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Named Chairman of the Prison Commission
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1918 Mar 2
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Member State Board of Charities and Corrections (successor to the Commission)
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1918 Mar 20
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Named Chairman of State Board of Charities and Corrections (Board later re-titled State Board of Control of Institutions and Agencies)
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1919 Oct 26
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Awarded medal by National Committee on Prisons and Prison Labor
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1920 Mar 24
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Resigned as Chairman of Commission on Prisons
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1922 Mar 22
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Resigned as member of the Board of inquiry of Prisons
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1918
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Director of the War Savings Commission of New Jersey Advisor to American Shipping Mission, Allied Maritime Transport Council (Imports Committee)
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1919
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Awarded Distinguished Service Medal by the United States \gov. The Society of Free States published
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1923
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Anson Morse's Parties and Party Leaders published, introduction by Morrow
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1925 – Sep, Nov
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Chairman of the President's Aircraft Board
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1926 Jan 19
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Named Director of the Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics
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1927-1930
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Ambassador to Mexico
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1927 Sep 20
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Commissioned by President Coolidge as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Mexico
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1930 Sep 30
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Resigned as Ambassador to Mexico
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1928 Jan
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Delegate to Sixth International Convention of American States (Pan American Conference) in Havana, Cuba
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1928 Jan
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Regional Plan of New York and its Environs published
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1930
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London Naval Conference
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1930 Apr
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Treaty draft completed
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1930-1931
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U.S. Senator from New Jersey
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1929 Dec 17
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Filled appointment senatorial vacancy
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1931 Mar 3
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left by Walter E. Edge.
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1930 Nov 4
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Elected U.S. Senator from New Jersey for term commencing March 1931.
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1931 Jul 20
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Conference at White House on International Debts
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Oct 5 - 1931
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Died in his home, Englewood (NJ)
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Honorary Degrees
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1920 Jun 16
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LL.D University of Rochester
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1925 Jun 16
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LL.D Princeton University
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1926 Jun 16
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LL.D. University of Pennsylvania
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1926 Jun 21
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LL.D Williams College
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1927 Jun 22
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LL.D Yale University
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1928 Jun 10
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LL.D Brown University
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1928 Jun 22
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LL.D Harvard
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1931 Jun 16
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LL.D Dartmouth College
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1931 Jun 18
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LL.D Bowdin College
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Decorations:
Distinguished Service Medal (USA)
Chevalier of the Legion of Honor (France)
Officer of the Crown of Italy
Chevalier of the Royal Battalion of George the First (Greece)
Board of Trustees/Directors Affiliations:
Amherst College
Bankers Trust Company
The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Commonwealth Fund Corporation
Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
Englewood Civic Association
General Electric Company
Hampton Institute
Institute of International Education
National Aeronautic Association [for New Jersey]
National Institute of Social Sciences
New Jersey Society of Sons of American Revolution
New York Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor
Palisades Trust & Guaranty Co.
Phi Beta Kappa
Russell Sage Foundation
Regional Plan of New York and its Environs
School of Public and International Affairs
Princeton University [Advisory Board]
Smithsonian Institution
Society of the Cincinnati in the State of New Jersey
Union Theological Seminary
Howland, Hewitt W, Dwight Whitney Morrow. A Sketch In Admiration With an Introduction by Calvin Coolidge, The Century Company, 353 Fourth Avenue, New York 1930.
McBride, Mary Margaret, The Story of Dwight W. Morrow, Farrar & Rhinehart, Inc., On Murray Hill, New York, September 14, 1930.
Find more in his papers and letters donated to Amherst Archives http://asteria.fivecolleges.edu/findaids/amherst/ma28_bioghist.html
Donald A. Quarles
On Oct. 1, 1953, he was appointed assistant secretary of defense (research and development). Selected jointly by the secretaries of defense and commerce to be the first chairman of the reorganized Air Navigation Development Board in January 1954. Two months later, the president appointed Quarles a member of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. Quarles was given an interim appointment as secretary of the Air Force by President Eisenhower Aug. 11, 1955, sworn into office Aug. 15, 1955, and confirmed by the Senate Feb. 16, 1956. He died in Washington, D.C. in 1959.Donald A. Quarles
