NEW JERSEY
The Star-Ledger
By Kevin Manahan/The Star-Ledger
BERNARDS — Bill Crane Sr. remembers the sweaty August day in 1964, when he drove his Pontiac onto the sprawling Delbarton School campus, hoping to land a job as a history teacher that paid $4,400 a year. Married, he had a freshly printed diploma from Upsala College in his pocket and a baby on the way.
But he wasn’t desperate. After all, he had just told a “stuffy” administrator at Hanover Park High School in East Hanover that he didn’t want the job the guy was offering.
“Where do you see yourself in five years?” Crane was asked.
“Anyplace but here,” he replied, then walked out.
But Delbarton was different. Even in midsummer, the place had the feel of serious academia.
“As I stepped out of the car, I said to myself, ‘Now, this seems like a great place,’ ” Crane recalled in a phone interview Wednesday from his home in Washington state. “Knowing what I know now, I would have shut the door and driven away — in a hurry.”
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