"Murray's Niece Appears in Film", Courier News, October 25, 1950. Accessed February 9, 2022, via Newspapers.com. "A niece of Police Capt. and Mrs. Patrick J. Murray. 7 Jefferson Ave., appears in the motion picture Our Very Own, now showing at the Strand Theater. She is Phyllis Kirk, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Kirkgaard of Elizabeth, a graduate of Battin High School in Elizabeth, and a former Conover model."
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Hatala, Greg. "Glimpse of History: When Battin was co-ed", The Star-Ledger, June 11, 2012. Accessed March 16, 2015. "According to research by Kristin Kulick, director of special projects for the Elizabeth Board of Education, the academic year 1976-77 was the last year male and female students attended classes separately."
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Horowitz, Ben. "Elizabeth Awaits Coed High School", The New York Times, July 10, 1977. Accessed March 16, 2015. "ELIZABETH'S 48-year role as the only community in the state with separate public high schools for boys and girls will end in September with the opening of a new four-building complex at the corner of South Pearl and South Streets."
Staff. "James P. Mitchell Is Dead at 63", The New York Times, October 20, 1964. Accessed March 16, 2015. "After his graduation from Battin High School in 1917, Mr. Mitchell went to work in a grocery store after failing to win an appointment to the Naval Academy at Annapolis."
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Bloom, Kathryn Ruth. "Battin High in Elizabeth, the only All-Girl Public School", The New York Times, September 24, 1972. Accessed March 16, 2015. "ELIZABETH – With women having invaded Princeton and Vassar a coed college, the days of the single-sex school might seem to be over. They're not, though, for the girls at Battin High, one of three public high schools in this industrial city; the girls are students at New Jersey's only public all-girl high school."
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Staff. "Fay Gillis Wells, 94, Aviator, journalist.", The Washington Times, December 10, 2002. Accessed March 16, 2015. "Born in Minneapolis, she grew up in various towns in the United States and Canada following her father, Julius H. Gillis, who was a mining engineer. She graduated from Battin High School in Elizabeth, N.J., in 1925 and attended Michigan State University."
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Elizabeth Through The Ages, Visit Historical Elizabeth, NJ. Accessed May 29, 2015. "1913 Opera House opens and later becomes Gordon's Liberty Theater (HB); Battin High School is built on site of local mansion that first housed the school."
