 In July 2007, the original Bunce Court school bell was retrieved from California, where it had been saved and stored by Ernst Weinberg, a former pupil, and was reinstalled on top of the schoolhouse.A plaque honoring Essinger and the school was erected at the same time.In 2004, the "Oxford Dictionary of National Biography" added an entry for Essinger, unusual for someone who became a naturalized British citizen late in life.