Irvington Public Schools history

After graduation he came to New Jersey, teaching first in Bloomfield and then, in 1872, in the small two-room schoolhouse at Middleville, now part of Maplewood.

Irvington had no high school until 1895, and those few students who desired more than eight years of education finished their studies at Newark's Barringer High School or Columbia High School in South Orange.

After Matthew C. Hamilton succeeded Morrell as principal in 1905, the Board of Education extended the high school course to four years.

Morrell never missed a day of school until January 1924, when a childhood wound flared up, led to blood poisoning and eventually the pneumonia to which he finally succumbed on January 29 at the the age of 78.

In 1925, the football team, coached by Milton Weiner, won seven and lost three.

While his appeal was pending, Saunders and the Board reached a settlement, and he was succeeded by Herschel S. Libby in 1934.

Stanley Wnek, who served as Doc's assistant for several seasons, succeeded Gantz in 1954.

Loretta Elizabeth Lynch born May 21, 1959 in Greensboro, North Carolina was the 83rd Attorney General of the United States.

Like his brothers, Milton, who retired in 1973 as principal of Irvington High School, Harold, and Bernie, Al Weiner went on to greater athletic fame at Muhlenberg and later was one of New Jersey's most successful coaches.

Erected at a cost of nearly $1 million, Frank H. Morrell High School has a current (1974) enrollment of 2,500 students.

A native of North Carolina, Loretta Lynch graduated from Harvard Law School in 1984.

She practiced law in New York becoming a federal prosecutor in 1990, rising to become head of the Eastern District office.

On November 8, 2014, President Barack Obama nominated Loretta Lynch to succeed Eric Holder as Attorney General.