"Written By His Mother-In-Law, Mary E. Jackson Who Loved Him Dearly"
The noon church bells seemed to peal a little louder and a young girl dressed in black seemed to stand a little taller in the bright May sunshine on Saturday at the Park Avenue School yard in Pleasantville.
They were presenting the first annual award to the most deserving pupil from the fifth grade to be known as the Arthur F. Foreman Award. This year the award went to Sandra Epps.
Arthur F. Foreman, husband of the young girl mentioned earlier, was a fifth grade teacher at Park Avenue Public School. They were married 15 months and parents of a son eight weeks old when the young teacher , 25 years old, so tall and handsome, so full of life and health came down with an illness of undetermined origin, and after three weeks, left the little family and his teaching career.
The Master of us all had called him to Eternity!
Arthur Foreman had shown such a fine example in every phase of his young life that everyone who met him was inspired by the zeal he displayed. He loved God and proved it by almost daily attendance at Mass. He taught a Confraternity Of Christian Doctrine class for public school students one night every week.
He was personally interested in every child he taught at Park Avenue School and played ball daily in the school yard rather than relax over a leisurely lunch. His warm smile, sense of humor and willingness to do a favor at any time for young and old endeared him to his fellow men from 8 years old to 88.
To keep the memory of this remarkable young man evergreen, Mr. John Garrity, principal of Park Avenue School, together with Art's fellow teachers arranged the award to be presented every year to the fifth grade student who would show the greatest Effort, Consideration, and Sportsmanship-for these were indeed the outstanding qualities of Arthur F. Foreman.
The noon church bells seemed to peal a little louder and a young girl dressed in black seemed to stand a little taller in the bright May sunshine on Saturday at the Park Avenue School yard in Pleasantville.
They were presenting the first annual award to the most deserving pupil from the fifth grade to be known as the Arthur F. Foreman Award. This year the award went to Sandra Epps.
Arthur F. Foreman, husband of the young girl mentioned earlier, was a fifth grade teacher at Park Avenue Public School. They were married 15 months and parents of a son eight weeks old when the young teacher , 25 years old, so tall and handsome, so full of life and health came down with an illness of undetermined origin, and after three weeks, left the little family and his teaching career.
The Master of us all had called him to Eternity!
Arthur Foreman had shown such a fine example in every phase of his young life that everyone who met him was inspired by the zeal he displayed. He loved God and proved it by almost daily attendance at Mass. He taught a Confraternity Of Christian Doctrine class for public school students one night every week.
He was personally interested in every child he taught at Park Avenue School and played ball daily in the school yard rather than relax over a leisurely lunch. His warm smile, sense of humor and willingness to do a favor at any time for young and old endeared him to his fellow men from 8 years old to 88.
To keep the memory of this remarkable young man evergreen, Mr. John Garrity, principal of Park Avenue School, together with Art's fellow teachers arranged the award to be presented every year to the fifth grade student who would show the greatest Effort, Consideration, and Sportsmanship-for these were indeed the outstanding qualities of Arthur F. Foreman.
