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...oldster nervously adjusted his hood. As the name Adam Denhardt was called, he stepped up to become a Master of Arts. What made Master of Arts Denhardt remarkable was not his age (64) but the fact that so far as could be determined he is the first public school janitor in the U. S. to earn a graduate degree...
Interviewed by newshawks in his office at the Winterhalter School, Janitor Denhardt calmly displayed his two caps (one with a special officer's badge for directing traffic), a tin lunch bucket, a neat list of his day's duties beginning "Faucets to be repaired," a pile of English and German books. No ordinary janitor, Adam Denhardt was a German teacher for 33 years until he was pensioned off in 1924. When he and his wife Agate went to the U. S., leaving their three daughters behind, the only job he could get was one as "house father...
Before going back to work, scholarly Janitor Denhardt observed: "I am unhappy unless I am busy. ... I started to study theology once, but I dropped it. I now have no faith. The existing faiths, they do not convince me, though I would like to believe. ... I have no political opinions either. I was a member of the Provincial Legislature in Germany once. Then after the War there .was . . . violence and beatings and I could not stand seeing that. I would never be interested in politics again. It is not civilized...
When the class objected to the estimate of $2000 damage, including two new fire hoses, the janitor locked the Common Room as "exhibit A" until the management could see for themselves. As yet no estimate on the damage has been given, but when it is, it will be divided among the members of the class, it is understood...
Smith Clark, for twenty years a janitor at Phillips Brooks House, received a diploma for his many years of faithful service and a check last night at the annual P. B. H. banquet...