This school which was erected in 1897 continued until 1942 when it passed out of existence as the Air Force took it over as a training school. It was an old time school teacher. Nathaniel Phillips. also a lawyer who had early shown an interest in the diverse composition of the population of his school. all children of immigrant parents who had heeded the call of Emma Lazarus whose words read: Give me your tired. your poor. your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. They came to these shores and a great number settled in the area a few miles away from the port of entry. Phillips organized the League of Foreign Born Citizens primarily to benefit the elders and help them to citizenship. In 1957 he gathered around him several of his old pupils and founded an alumni association to carry on the wonderful school tradition which had brought forth men who had achieved national and international reputations. all of them children of immigrant parents. The alumni petitioned the mayor in 1960 to restore the school. Addressing the board of education they requested that the new school. in the naming be dedicated to an idealthe East Side Immigrant mother who sacrificed much and labored so intensely to bring her children to achievement. The mother of the then president of the board of education. alumnus Charles H. Silver. was proposed as the symbol of all the mothers. and the school was named the Anna Silver School.
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