Sharing Kind Words from Alums & Friends

So finally the last week or so, I, as a Volunteer, have had some time to finally get into the office and go through, literally, a foot of address updates that I input into the Alumni Database...some of which were from our Centennial Celebration 2 years ago, in which we commemorated 100 years of towering over Clifton. (Our beloved school, itself is 160 years old this year.) In doing so, I found some comments that were mailed in and I just had to share them somewhere...since we have not done a newsletter in several years...our dear BLOG was as good of a place as any....These are just a few of the many...

Nomination from Carol Steele, Class of 1959, for Beloved Teacher recognition:
RUTH AUSTIN, teacher or Latin and Advanced Math for 40+years.
"Ms. Austin taught my Aunt in the late 1920s for Latin and she was a Math teacher into the 1960s.  I believe she graduated from Mt. Holyoke College and our class Valedictorian Barbara Phelps also attended Mt. Holyoke with help from Ms. Austin."

What a legacy!!!!


From Otto Sieber, III, son of Carol Smith-Sieber, Class of 1950:
Taken from a letter Mr. Sieber sent to inform the Hughes Alumni Foundation of his mother's passing.

"...I know from talking with Mom that she was truly proud to have graduated from Hughes and she cherished the reunions over the years. [...]  I do have a request of Mom's surviving classmates. I would greatly appreciate it if they could pass on any stories that they remember about Carol from Hughes or any other times in your lives...."

If you have stories about Carol, please feel free to post here, or email to hughesalumni@gmail.com and we will gladly pass them onto her family.


Ms. Carolyn Cooke, Class of 1952 sent the following poem in honor of our beloved Hughes:

"Sh...Listen
I've got something to say

I get the blues
Thinking of Hughes

There in boot camp
Changed from being a kid tramp

While watching Big Sisters 
Received heel blisters

Where I left baby shoes
To be bronzed, one, twos

Taking tiny steps with some misgiving
Into the adult Fine Art of Living."


The Hughes Alumni Foundation gladly salutes and accepts all Hughes legacy stories! If you have memories to share, poems/prose from the heart, bits of Hughes history...or anything else...please submit them at hughesalumni@gmail.com and we will post them here.