Johnson, Claude. "'Pimp' and 'Lyss': The Immortal Young Brothers", Black Fives Foundation, November 20, 2015. Accessed August 29, 2021. "William Pennington Young, sometimes known as 'Pimp' to his friends, and his older brother Ulysses S. Young, known simply as 'Lyss' to his pals, were an unstoppable sibling pair of African American basketball stars that played during the 1910s and early 1920s.... Lyss and William attended nearby Orange High School, where they starred in football, basketball, and baseball."
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Wilson, James Grant; and Fiske, John. "Hartford, Edward Vassallo", Appleton's cyclopædia of American biography, Volume 8, p. 493 ff. D. Appleton and company, 1918. Accessed November 13, 2017. "Hartford Edward Vassallo, engineer and inventor, b. in Orange N. J., May 28, 1870, son of George Huntington and Josephine (Ludlum) Hartford.... acquirement of an education in the Orange high school, Seton Academy, and Stevens Institute claimed the attention of Edward V. Hartford until he reached the age of nineteen, when, owing to poor health, he abandoned his studies and entered upon his business career in the office of The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company."
Ragozzino, Joe. "Orange HS alum Jamar Summers playing for the Birmingham Iron of the new AAF", Essex News Daily, February 22, 2019. Accessed August 30, 2020. "Jamar Summers, an Orange High School graduate, is a member of the Birmingham Iron of the Alliance of American Football, which began its debut season early this month."
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"Obit for Carolyn Marie Plaskett Barrow", Episcopal Diocese of Newark via Ancestry.com, August 20, 2002. Accessed July 23, 2018. "Born Jan. 31, 1917 and raised in Orange, Carolyn Marie Plaskett was the daughter of the late Rev. Dr. George M. Plaskett, who was originally from Frederiksted, St. Croix, Virgin Islands, and Mrs. Carrie Davenport Plaskett of Orange.... Growing up in the Church of the Epiphany, Mrs. Barrow attended and was graduated from Orange High School in 1934."
Ruskie, Mark. "St Peter's '5', Orange Champs", The Morning Call, March 30, 1968. Accessed February 20, 2021, via Newspapers.com. "Emerson of Union City's bid to become Hudson County's 43rd NJSIAA basketball champion fell short last night as the Bulldog title express was derailed by unbeaten Orange, 64-56, before 6,913 at Convention Hall. In annexing their first Group 3 diadem, the Hoddy Mahon-coached Tornadoes reeled off their 27th win in a row."
"Plainfield ends Neptune streak", The Record, March 21, 1976. Accessed February 1, 2021, via Newspapers.com. "Orange raced to a 50-34 half-time lead and held on to beat Glassboro, 82-77, for the Group 1 championship....The Tornadoes, who played Group 4 opponents in the Big 10 Conference most of the regular season, finished 25-7 in relegating Glassboro to runner-up status for me second straight year. Orange has won the Group 1 title twice ln the last three years."
McLaughlin, Marty. "Orange Completes the Cycle, Captures Group 2 Crown", New York Daily News, March 20, 1977. Accessed January 3, 2021, via Newspapers.com. "We finally completed the cycle," said Orange coach Cliff Blake, after his team racked up an impressive 76-65 win over Pleasantville to win the Group 2 state championship at Princeton. The Tornadoes (26-3) would have never made it without the outstanding play of 6-2 senior guard Bob Butler who pumped in a game high 31 points with some fine outside shooting."
Kurland, Bob; and Schwartz, Paul. "Greer's 32 pace Middle over Hillside", The Record, March 14, 1994. Accessed January 20, 2021, via Newspapers.com. "Orange blew a 12-point second-half lead, but rallied to win the Group 3 boys State championship Sunday with a 65-63 victory over Camden. Trailing 43-31 midway through the third quarter, Camden switched to a man-to-man defense midway through the third quarter and got back in the game."
Bergmann, Randy. "Former governor pulls few punches in book", Courier-Post, June 5, 2011. Accessed January 24, 2022, via Newspapers.com. "He speaks with candor and humor about his academic shortcomings. He attended three high schools, all beginning with the letter 'O' Orange, Our Lady of the Valley and Oratory. (He says his father wanted him to be true to his Irish heritage.)"
Zedalis, Joe. "After time away from game, football head coach comes home to lead TCNJ", NJ Advance Media for NJ.com, August 3, 2013, updated March 30, 2019. Accessed December 16, 2019. "Wayne Dickens wrestled with the traffic in the all-too-frequent construction zones on the Pennsylvania Turnpike Wednesday night then survived a night on a sciatica-irritating dormitory mattress in his first full day on The College of New Jersey campus Thursday.... The 62-year-old graduate of Orange High School and Rutgers College had an office, his new, full-time assistant coach was evaluating players on videotape and he had accidentally discovered the Starbucks just north of the school on Route 31."
Izenberg, Jerry. "Happy 95th birthday Monte Irvin", The Star-Ledger, February 25, 2014, updated January 17, 2019. Accessed January 24, 2022. "He lives in Houston now, but there is a piece of him that never left New Jersey, where as a teenage superstar at Orange High School he won 16 varsity letters in four years"
Pete D'Alonzo, profootballarchives.com. Accessed March 28, 2015.
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Steverson, Bryan. Cal Irvin, Society for American Baseball Research. Accessed August 29, 2021. "Calvin Irvin was the graduation speaker in 1942 for his senior class at Orange High in Orange, New Jersey. During his high school years, Cal had won the highest award for excellence in scholarship and athletics."
