About 350 fourth-grade students from took a trip to Wednesday to learn more about local history.
Drama students from played various historical people from Chatham's past, currently interred at the cemetery. These included Shepard Kollock, Frederick H. Lum, the Rev. Joseph Ogden and Linda Phillips.
The 14 participating Chatham High students learned the biographies of their characters from members of the Chatham Borough Historical Society, who orchestrated the event.
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Christine Grobert from arranged for the elementary students to visit the cemetery, and Lynn Polan from Chatham High arranged for the drama students to bring the historical figures to life.
The students who portrayed the characters from Chatham's past were:
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- Jason Ahrens - Jimmy Littlejohn
- Chris Dunleavy - Frederick Lum
- Anastasia Arvanites - Edna Van Sickle Budd
- Hannah Brogan - Herbert M. Dawley
- Isabel Daly - Jan Westfall
- Maggie Elliott - Shepard Kollack
- Matthew Fertakos - Rayman A. Whiteman
- Osfer Hansha - Anthony Ruzicka
- Kaitlyn Helmstetter - Lynda Phillips Lum
- Olivia Konteatis - Frank Kelley
- Jenny Reilly - Margaret Keisler
- Paige Pendergrast - Rev. Joseph Meeker Ogden
- Lauren Srygley - The Day Family
- Derek Walsh - George Shepard Page
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