Alumni Association Awards NADIYAH DUHART Ronald Griffin 27 College Scholarships to Memorial Fund Weequahic Class of 2005 Bloomfield College - More on pages 2 & 3 -

FATIMAH THOMAS DELISA RAWLS Class of 1945 Academic & Performing Arts Fund Reada & Harry Jellinek Fund North Carolina A&T University College of Saint Elizabeth

SHAQUANAH MOULTRIE OYINDAMOLA SULAIMAN Class of 1963 Fund Maxine Boatwright Memorial Fund New Jersey City University Kean University

SHANTAY WHITE ARMEENA ADDISON Leo Pearl Memorial Fund Morey Bobrow Memorial Fund Montclair State University Fairleigh Dickinson University

JESSIE HECTOR DESCIA WHITE Edwin McLucas Fund Phyllis & Donald Kalfus Fund Bergen Community College Montclair State University

JUMAANAH KING MARISHA KENNEDY John Floegel Fund Class of 1964 Fund Essex County College Fairleigh Dickinson University

ALUMNI HOMECOMING AT WEEQUAHIC HIGH SCHOOL SATURDAY, 10 AM, OCTOBER 22, 2005 Brunch, Guided Tours, Slide Show, Alumni Merchandise Sale Neighborhood Parade with Marching Band at Noon Football Game at Untermann Field at 1:30 PM graduating from high school, I will enroll ...the voices of some of our scholarship students in a college that has an outstanding music curriculum. After four years I will earn a BA degree in music education. With this I am a young older I began to understand what it was Armeena Addison: that I wanted in life and that my degree I will return back to my hometown African American female with the desire, achievements academically would help me where I will teach music. determination, potential and ability to get what I want. I want to go to college, succeed in life and graduate from college. major in Computer Science and get my Shantay White: At a very young age my Going to college is an important choice bachelor's, masters and doctorate. ...I also for me because I have younger siblings younger sister was killed under suspicious want to continue to play basketball in circumstances. There was never a definite that look up to me. I want them to have a college. Basketball has been something I positive role model to look up to. I realize answer to the cause of her death. Grow- use to keep myself disciplined, focused ing up I realized that someone should that every little thing that I do has impact and athletically fit. Without basketball I on their everyday life. As the oldest have pursued the issue to search for do not know how I could keep myself details to discover the cause of her death. sister, I feel that my responsibility is to be balanced academically. their role model. I did not realize that she would be the reason for me wanting to pursue a career : My mother was my as a crime scene investigator for the F.B.I. : My inspiration is Marisha Kennedy Nadiyah Duhart role model. I idolized her and wanted to from my teacher. She played a major part be just like her...When I was nine years Once I decided on making this area my in my decisions. My teacher always told old, I became aware of the fact that my goal for a career, I knew I would need to me to live by choice not by chance...I've mother was dying. Living became a battle maintain excellent grades throughout my always wanted to be a nurse. Ms. Brown I thought I was surely losing after that. school years...[By] keeping my eye on the and I believe that it's the best choice for prize and staying focused, I will continue me...My teacher provided me with job My mother's last wish was that at least one to succeed. Unlike many others who have opportunities, internships, and other if not all of her children do something she fallen victim to peer pressure and lost their helpful programs ...Throughout my life never did - receive a college education. dreams, I hold on to mine and grasp them others have helped me to accomplish my Since my two older siblings didn't have with both hands because I have witnessed goals. Therefore helping others is my college on their agenda, fulfilling my the effects of what can happen if you do main objective in life. I believe in giving mother's last wish became a goal of mine not. I am just grateful that I had people back to humanity. I'm a very as well. around me to help me stay focused compassionate person. It makes me proud because everyone needs help and no one to see that I've made a difference in can do everything on their own. someone's life. Shaquanah Moultrie: Many of my achievements come from the support of Toure Williamson: I live in the city of : I have always known that my family...The one who really gets me Dawn Evans going is my single parent mother. She has Newark. In Newark you don't really hear in order to succeed in life you need faith in me and believes in me. ...For me a lot of success stories. I'm here to make determination, persistence, and a to see how strong she is and how she gets that statement change. I have a lot of goal...My mother and father died when I back up whenever she gets knocked down, aspirations in life. One of them is to find was very young and I really did not get really inspires me to keep going and never and own a successful business. I would the opportunity to know them. Their give up. like to show the young people of Newark deaths gave me the determination to that, yes, you can be successful even if perform at the highest level possible...I you live in an urban setting. plan to attend college which would be a Fatimah Thomas: Throughout my life I first for my family. I want to make a always wanted to be involved with the Observing Dr. Toki, my difference. arts, whether it was dancing, singing or Descia White: playing an instrument. My love and pediatrician, convinced me at an early age Even though I had a difficult life, with appreciation for music began at an early that her profession was the one I wanted many hardships and obstacles that I had to age when I would sit in front of a radio to pursue. As I grew older and continued face at a very early age, unlike others, I listening with my headphones turned up my appointments with Dr. Toki, and have never used that as an excuse to fail. very loudly. observed her interaction with children and Instead, I used it to build up my with parents, I needed to consider no other confidence. I used it as an excuse to I believed that I could sing just as well as career choice. I was going to be a succeed. Instead of letting my difficult the artist I was listening to. When my pediatrician! life hold me down, I let it strengthen me. mother observed me, she would tell me I would like to thank the Weequahic High that I could run a one-woman show. She School Alumni Association for getting me Jessie Hector: Growing up in a would also encourage me by telling me this scholarship. It is a great honor and is household of three (children) my parents that I was capable of doing anything I greatly appreciated. This scholarship will drilled my brother, sister, and me about chose to do. help give me the tools I need to succeed in the importance of an education. I must higher education. admit that it did not register in our heads My musical interest has continued through right away, especially me. As I grew my high school career. Therefore, after More 2005 Alumni Scholarship Recipients

MEGAN PITT ATTELUS MENSAHN DAWN EVANS Carolyn Parm Memorial Fund Weequahic HS Alumni Fund Weequahic HS Alumni Fund Montclair State University Bloomfield College Fairleigh Dickinson University

DOREENA ASIAMA DANIELLE LEWIS JESSICA BERGER Class of 1945 Academic & WHS General Fund College Women's Club Fund Performing Arts Fund Essex County College Bloomfield College Montclair State University

KIANA GOINES LAYTESSE CANTY KHADIJAH MUHAMMAD Hannah Litzky Memorial Fund WHS General Fund Weequahic HS Alumni Fund Fairleigh Dickinson University Kean Unviversity Felician College

KORIDIAN HOLTON LISA CONLEY KEONNAH WILLIAMS Weequahic HS Alumni Fund Marie O'Connor Fund Miriam Hample Memorial Fund Essex County College Fairleigh Dickinson University College of St. Elizabeth

NASEEB WASHINGTON John Floegel Fund TOURE WILLIAMSON AMOS CRUDUP Bloomfield College Sadie Rous Memorial Fund WHS General Fund Virginia State University Am. International University

TOLULOPE BAJOMO Weequahic HS Alumni Fund

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faculty, alumni, and classes. Why not of Jim Schwarz, a 1958 grad, at Smith Barney $30,500 given out establish a scholarship fund in the name of a (800) 526-4931 and ask for Karen for alumni scholarships family member, a favorite teacher, coach, Parker-Davis or Robyn Schlossberg. administrator, classmate or friend? This past year, the WHS Alumni Association Art Lutzke, 1963, is the Chairperson of the awarded 27 scholarships totaling $30,500. We now accept gifts of appreciated securities. alumni scholarship committee and Les Fein is Since 1998 when we first began the scholar- These donations would qualify for a charitable the Honorary Chairperson. ship project, we have awarded $111,000 in tax deduction if the shares have been held for first-year college scholarships to 108 students. more than a year. One advantage to gifting You can make scholarship contributions In addition, we have also given out 23 second, appreciated securities is that the donor is not through the Alumni Calumet newsletter on third and fourth-year scholarships. subject to capital gains taxes on the shares. page 18 or at our interactive web site at Before donating, it is recommended that you www.weequahicalumni.org. using Mastercard The alumni association now administers 20 consult with your tax advisor. To make a gift or Visa. Make your contributions now to scholarship funds in honor or in memory of of appreciated securities, please call the office support the graduates of 2006. ALUMNI PROFILE, JUNE 1937 Sid Dorfman: This Ledger legend is still going strong at 85

By Steve Politi, Star-Ledger Staff “No single person in the history of Sid Dorfman left his house in the spring this paper meant of 1935 with three nickels in his pocket - as much to its two for the round-trip ride on the No. 14 success as Sid Dorfman,” said Jerry bus and one “just in case” - and set out Izenberg, whom Dorfman helped hire as looking for a job. He showed up at the a sports columnist in 1962. “In a lot of downtown Newark offices of a struggling ways, there would not be a Star-Ledger newspaper called The Morning Ledger Suppose you wait a few years and try us without him.” and was hired to write high school results again.” at 10 cents a column inch. He was 15. 1935: START OF AN ERA Just six years later, Dorfman was

Seventy years later, Dorfman is still a beginning a newspaper career. This was The editor Dorfman met that day in 1935 vital part of The Star-Ledger, and along a different era in journalism. Deadlines, was Willie Klein, who was beginning a the way his contributions have helped Klein said before he died in 2001, were career at the newspaper that would last this newspaper grow into the biggest in “when you finished.” The Ledger was more than six decades. “Do you have New Jersey. Think about that number: sinking into bankruptcy. Dorfman experience?” Klein asked. Dorfman said 70 years. Most companies give a pension showed up for his first day at work and he did, working for the school newspaper and a gold watch in less than half that was handed a picket sign. The workers at Weequahic High. “Can you type?” time. Most people are eager to retire well were on strike. “I never worked a day in Klein asked. Dorfman said he could. He before they hit their 70th birthday, much my life!” Dorfman said. “I told my got the job. less 70 years with the same company. father, ‘I can’t catch a break’.” But not Sid Dorfman. “You’re led by the hand of fate. You Soon, he caught two big ones. Samuel I. can’t plan these things,” Dorfman said. And this is not a story to announce his Newhouse purchased the Ledger with "Willie Klein was there that day, and if retirement. He will begin working on plans to make it into a much better and he wasn’t, I don’t know, I might have year No. 71 next month and, at 85, he has financially sound newspaper. Then, a been working in a dockyard or no plans to step aside from the job he man named H. Stuart Morrison opened something.” loves. He still runs Dorf Feature Service the Metropolitan News Service as an in Mountainside, which supplies The independent contractor to provide the Dorfman had never heard of the Ledger Star-Ledger with high school and college Ledger and several New York news- until that day, and in fairness to him, sports coverage and town news. He also papers with local news coverage. He plenty of Newark residents had not, writes a weekly sports column. hired Dorfman to handle sports. either. It was a distant third in the

circulation race, well behind the “It’s mind-boggling.” said acting Gov. A few months later, Morrison established leader and well-respected Richard Codey, who covered town hall mysteriously disappeared, leaving the Newark Evening News. But this was the meetings for Dorfman as a college news service without a boss. Dorfman Depression, and Dorfman was happy to student in the 1960s. “And when he calls struck a deal with Newhouse to take have a job - especially as a writer, me about a story even now, he still has over, and changed the name to Dorf something he had wanted to do since enthusiasm about what he’s doing. Feature Service in 1938. Morrison submitting a story to the Saturday There’s no burnout there.” reappeared in a few weeks. “I was on Evening Post as a 9-year-old. That story vacation,” he said. “Well, you still are,” was turned down, and Dorfman still has No one has worn more hats. Dorfman Dorfman replied. ‘‘Get out.’’ the neatly typed rejection letter in a has covered golf, midget bike races, binder filled with other mementos from boxing and virtually every other sport as In 1939, Newhouse purchased The his career. a reporter. He has designed the front Star-Eagle and merged the two news- page and the sports pages, lobbied to get papers into The Newark Star-Ledger. “We have been very glad to read your more funeral homes to post obituaries in The newspaper was still just a nuisance story, Lucky Boy, and are sorry that we the newspaper and set up a system of to the powerful News, known for its can’t use it in the Saturday Evening bureaus that puts reporters closer to the gossip columns and expansive comics. Post,” the letter reads. “Nine is very suburban towns they cover. Dorfman helped change that over the young to begin work for the Post. next three decades DORFMAN Continued ranking for high school sports around the sports columnist job at The Star-Ledger. state, and started All-State teams, not just Izenberg was unsure, but he said Dorfman VERSATILE, INDISPENSABLE for football and boys basketball, but for “convinced me it was the right place for girls sports as well - the first newspaper in me, and he had never given me bad He did everything in the early years. He the metropolitan area to do so. “When advice. He was my first boss in this was the first golf writer at the newspaper, nobody paid attention to women’s business,’’ said Izenberg, who has been even though he had never played or even athletics, Sid was on the case,” said with the newspaper since that day in 1962. watched the sport. He first worked under Donald Newhouse, president of The “He really encouraged you to want to stay the pseudonym Pat Ryan because an Star-Ledger. "History has proven his in this business — and in those days, it editor was convinced the country clubs instincts infallible.” took a lot of encouraging, because you would not allow a Jewish writer onto their were making no money.” courses. He soon dropped that name and His biggest contribution may have come covered several legends - from Bobby in another unfamiliar area: death notices. Len Fisher, who went on to become an Jones to Ben Hogan to Arnold Palmer. The Star-Ledger still lagged behind the associate editor at the newspaper, But that was hardly his most colorful Newark News when Mort Pye, the news- remembers handing in his raw copy and assignment. paper’s longtime editor, approached seeing Dorfman, through the glass Dorfman in the early ’60s with a dilemma: window in his office, looking over his He covered midget motorized bike races How could the newspaper break the glasses and shaking his head. “Sid was a at the Velodrome in Nutley, a popular stranglehold the News had on the obituary great writing teacher in the old fashioned event that was canceled when one of the listings in the area? Pye had brought in way - let the story tell itself,” Fisher said. racers was decapitated under a metal several experts to take on the job, but they “Get the reader the story, and get the fence. “I can still picture the head rolling failed. Dorfman relied on his knowledge reader the story fast. Sid could take a raw down the embankment,” Dorfman said. of the state and, slowly, one funeral kid right out of college and make him a “That was the end of midget races in director at a time, brought the newspaper writer.” Nutley.” He was the “Masked Lady,” some much-needed business. picking horse races at the local tracks. He Dorfman also had an impact on the covered amateur boxing at the Newark “I knew them all from sports. I might athletes he covered. Len Coleman, a Athletic Club. He worked as a copy have put them on an all-county team,” Montclair native, was given a 1966 Dorfman said. “They were easy to get. All-State trophy by Dorfman before he editor on the sports desk, and there were nights when he not only put out the sports Now, we’re probably tops in the country became president of the National League for volume. People want their obits - and and a senior adviser to Major League we give them their Baseball. The two became friends. “Sid “No single person in the history of this paper meant obits. It made a is like the New York Yankees - a man of major contribution many championship seasons,” Coleman as much to its success as Sid Dorfman,” ...In a lot of to the well being of said. “The Star-Ledger is on the mast- ways, there would not be a Star-Ledger without him.” the paper.” head, but on Wednesdays when he writes, you’d sell just as many newspapers if Sid “Together,” said Dorfman was on the masthead. He’s been section but filled in on the news side, Pearl Pye, Mort’s 83-year-old widow, a bridge from the 20th century into the laying out the front page as well. “they broke the monopoly of the Newark 21st century, not just for sports but for the

News for death notices, a major achieve- state.” He was, in a word, indispensable. ment in those days. We celebrated all the “They didn’t let me go on vacation for first columns with great joy.” Codey is quick to point out that only one five years,” Dorfman said with a laugh. Dorfman alumnus has gone on to become But he is best known for his bureau’s In August 1972, the Newark Evening a governor. He remembers pumping expansive coverage of high school sports. News ceased publication. The Star- quarters into a pay phone in the late ’60s, Few newspapers provide more scores, Ledger, the underdog for most of its calling in reports from town meetings - an results and features about school athletes existence, had won the circulation war. early exposure to New Jersey politics. “I than The Star-Ledger. “There is no made $22 a meeting,” Codey said. “This question in my mind that The Star-Ledger A ‘ NEW JERSEY TREASURE ’ was back in the late ’60s, so that was covers high school sports better than any pretty good money. What Sid has done other state,” said Boyd Sands, executive The true measure of Dorfman’s success, over his career has been amazing.’’ director of the New Jersey State Inter- however, might be the numerous scholastic Athletic Association. “Sid is journalists he has trained throughout the And it’s not over. Not by a long shot. behind it all. It’s thanks to Sid that so years. The list of alumni from Dorf "Sid is a special New Jersey treasure." many of our student athletes are show- Feature Service includes national sports said Jim Willse, editor of The Star- cased around the state and across the columnists and editors at major Ledger. "In addition to being a great country.” newspapers. Izenberg was working at the columnist, he is a terrific editor, mentor New York Herald Tribune when Dorfman and friend, and the best thing of all - he’s Dorfman introduced some features that called him during a road trip with the just warming up." are still among the most popular in the Yankees and told him about the open newspaper today. He started the Top 20 Judith Nusbaum, Jan. 1956 Newarkers of the world unite

Grad, Seeks Kidney Donor In June representatives from the Newarks in the United States and around the world gathered at the Before I ask you of Research Hilton Gateway in Newark, NJ for a celebration. for your kidney, and Develop- Among the attendees was tiny Newark, Vermont, a let me introduce ment for a town of 450 people; Newark, California, the myself. local incom- youngest Newark in the country; and ing tour Newark-On-Trent, England - the originator of the I was born in company in name. The idea for a Newark gala originated when Newark, N.J., 67 Jerusalem. current Newark, NJ Mayor Sharpe James visited years ago. I Today, I Newark, California in 1987. attended Maple direct the Avenue Grammar School, graduated Jerusalem Office of the Unity Coal- Newark, NJ city historian Charles Cummings has from Weequahic H.S., and earned a ition for Israel, a joint Jewish and found 30 Newarks covering four continents. The B.A. from Rutgers in 1959. Follow- Christian Israeli advocacy populations of all the towns that have Newark as a ing graduation, I worked as a resident organization based in America. name total about 453,000. Newark, NJ has most of buyer, and later as an editor for a them with 277,000. trade publication in Manhattan. In In 2000, I was diagnosed with renal Newarks in the United States: 1961, I married, had three children, failure. For five years I managed Arkansas, California, Delaware, Georgia, Illinois, and became active in the Edison / with careful medical treatment, but Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Maryland, Michigan, Metuchen community. four months ago my condition Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New Jersey, New deteriorated and I was advised to York, Ohio, South Dakota, Texas, Vermont, West My parents, ardent Zionists, and I had begin dialysis. Since my veins are Virginia, Wisconsin. been actively involved in the very narrow I've had to have two establishment of the State of Israel. fistula procedures to enable the Newarks in the World: Therefore it was not a surprise to dialysis to work. For me, dialysis has Australia, Canada, England, South Africa. anyone when, as a young married, I been and remains very emotionally became involved in Israel related and physically painful. I've Upsala College transformed organizations. Slowly, I began to feel completed all the tests required by the "pull" to make aliya, and in 1976, Israeli Medical Association, and am Upsala College in East Orange, which closed its after two extended trips to Israel, I on the National Kidney doors in 1995 after 71 years, will be turned into a moved, with the children, to Transplantation List in Israel, but the semi-gated residential community by December Jerusalem. Today, my daughters, wait for a compatible cadaver kidney 2006. The residential development, which is called Deborah (and my three grand- could take five years. At 67 I don't Woodlands at Upsala, will have 51 three and children), and Susan live in Israel, but have the years to wait. four-bedroom homes and 16 three-bedroom my son, Jonathan, (and my grand- attached townhouses. A small portion of the daughter) decided to return to Hence this appeal. Perhaps you might campus was previously used for the new East Orange Campus High School. Upsala flourished as America. consider donating one of your kidneys to me? The testing and a private liberal arts college until the early 1980's when the school experienced a significant reduction During the past three decades I have transplant could either be done in in enrollment. Although it eased its standards and had several careers. After completing Israel or in America, since I have accepted many at-risk students, the school encoun- the Israel Ministry of Tourism's insurance in both countries. I would, tered serious cash-flow problems. Officials course for tour guides in 1979, I however, prefer if you would agree to borrowed funds to stay open, but eventually had to guided for the Foreign Ministry, the have the testing and procedure in declare bankruptcy. American Jewish Congress and Israel. several other organizations. In the mid 1980s I was sent to NY for two You might want to come a week Jewish Museum of NJ Event years to work as the director of early, tour the country as my guest, On Sunday, November 6th at Congregation Ahavas "Volunteers for Israel." Upon my then as the apex of your trip, Sholom in Newark, the Jewish Museum of NJ will return I joined the staff of the Hebrew experience Israeli health care at its present Roosevelt: A Utopian Experiment in NJ - a University of Jerusalem as the best! All your expenses would be lecture with slides by Dr. Arthur Shapiro, the Town director of the Department of Special covered totally, including flights to Historian. He will relate the fascinating story of this Academic Programs in the School for and from Israel, tests, operation, hotel cooperative community established for Jewish Overseas Students. and touring. garment workers by the United States' government in 1936 that later became an enclave for artists. The I may be reached via e-mail at: In 1996, I was appointed as an United Synagogue of Hoboken Choir will also [email protected] or by assistant to the Israeli Ambassador in perform. Admission is $5, but free to members. For regular mail at: Judith Nusbaum, Washington. When I returned to more information and reservations, call (973) Mivtza Harel 46, Rishon Letzion Israel in 1998, I became the Director 227-8854 or e-mail at [email protected]. 75443, Israel. ALUMNI PROFILE, JUNE 1960 woman before it was fashionable to be so. SLOPPY MIRIAM NUSBAUM SPAN Span said her mother Superior Court Judge Retires never finished college JOE'S RECIPE but she was always By Judith Lucas, Star-Ledger Staff looking to improve From Sandy, herself. Nusbaum Peterman's Deli, On the bench, Superior Court Judge Miriam was involved in Clinton Avenue Span is the soul of reason: calm, measured. Hadassah and the in Newark deliberate. Her supporters say she is brilliant. Zionist Organization The mother, wife and Union County judge for of America and 21 years said she stumbled into law as an served on the Newark Now this is undergraduate at Rutgers University in 1963. It Board of Education in the 1950s. She died in became her passion. The judiciary was enough 1994. a sandwich! for Span, 63, until cancer claimed her only son, Henry. She took time off to care for the Span's former law partner Gerri Gomperts said 1. Start with 3 slices 36-year-old who was too ill to carry on as a law her friend was tailor-made for the judiciary (thin sliced) Jewish professor at George Mason University in because of her “extraordinary sense of Rye (Arnold’s Melba Virginia. He died in January, character, strength and compassion.” "I thin works great) learned from her the importance of being She returned to work in March, desperate for a thorough, being fair and caring." said Span's 2. First slice - layer of diversion, but found she could not carry on. first law clerk, Paul Endler, a civil litigator with corned beef, coleslaw Span decided to retire on June 30, turning a practice in Westfield. “She never loses her (drained, dry cole instead to volunteer work. "I am too emotional cool. She communicates such a presence slaw), Russian to be working," said Span, who sits in without screaming and yelling. She has such dressing , top with Elizabeth. "I thought I would be diverted by control over the courtroom." layer of roast beef. work. My heart is not in it." Union County Prosecutor Theodore 3. Second slice - So many of Span's supporters said the Newark Romankow, who went to law school with Span, pastrami, layer of native has been all heart in the years she has described her as "a breath of fresh air. Her drained coleslaw, served as a public defender, family lawyer and decisions are well-thought-out and she is fair. Russian dressing, judge. "She knows her stuff," said her boss, She has been a major part of the success of the layer of turkey. Place Assignment Judge Walter Barisonek, pointing judiciary. There is nothing but good to say second slice on top of out that since Span was elevated to the bench in about her." first slice. 1984, she has served in every division, moving from family to civil and criminal chancery, and Span is married to real estate lawyer Gerald 4. Third slice - put back to criminal. “She is a good judge," Span. They have a daughter, Jenny, 33. light coat of Russian Barisonek said. “She knows the law." on top of last slice, Span said the pinnacle of her legal career came close sandwich. Put State Supreme Court Justice Virginia Long not when she oversaw major criminal or civil toothpicks in, cut and praised her longtime friend. The pair met on cases, but as a defense lawyer. She defended a serve. the first day of law school. "She is hard- Plainfield woman in 1982 who killed her working and compassionate," Long said, "For husband after years of abuse. The woman was 5. You need approx. 2 a judge, that is essential." But Span can be acquitted in one of the first cases in which a oz. of meat per layer, tough. Even when her tone is mild, she lays battered woman defense was used. "It was my so each sandwich has down the law. She can dress down a lawyer or proudest moment." Span said. a total of ½ lb. meat. defendant in such a mellow manner, they leave feeling that at least she was fair. Still Span recalls a heartbreaking case of a 6. The secret of a mother who contracted AIDS after a blood Sloppy Joe is good "She is soothing to people” said another transfusion while giving birth in 1984 just Russian dressing. Rutgers Law School colleague and friend, before the time when blood was tested for the Make your own (it’s Kenneth Javerbaum. “Yet you know she is in deadly virus. Her husband wound up simple). 3 parts charge. Nobody leaves her courtroom, even contracting the virus and the woman managed mayonnaise, 2 parts when they did not prevail, thinking her to get a hefty settlement for her children ketchup, 1 part sweet decisions were unfair. She makes the job look following her civil claim against a blood bank relish. Be generous easy. This is an enormous loss for the bench." that was involved. with the Russian dressing. Her high school friend, Leonard Wolkstein, Span said she did it all for her mother - who said Span is the way she is because of her wanted to be a lawyer. "It was a fulfillment of mother, Frances Nusbaum, who was a liberated her dream." Harold Cohen Herb Krautblatt Gerry Greenspan Charlie Schneider Inducted into JCC Sports Hall of Fame L-R: Hesh Cohen, Herb Krautblatt Kay, Gerry Greenspan, Charlie Schneider

by Ron Kaplan, NJ Jewish News The Springfield resident said he was for then Jersey City State College in the especially grateful for “the friends I was health and science department. He was Four athletes from the heyday of Newark’s able to make playing ball, that we’ve been also a teacher and director of athletics for Weequahic High School were among the friends for 70 years. We’ve been lucky; 45 years at Central and Weequahic high six sports legends inducted into the Jewish we’re still around - most of us are around schools in Newark, retiring in 1963. Community Center of MetroWest Sports - and it’s a rewarding experience.” Steve Reichman was on hand to accept the Hall of Fame at a dinner ceremony held award for his grandfather. “I was June 22 at the Crystal Plaza in Livingston. Cohen still works as an accountant and thrilled,” he told NJJN, when he heard still plays “a little golf, as best as I can.” about his grandfather’s selection to the In addition to the Weequahic quartet - With the NBA pro-basketball finals Hall. “He probably had the biggest affect Harold “Hesh” Cohen, Gerry winding down, he said, “I watch it. It gets on my life.” Schneider passed away in Greenspan, Herb Kay, and Charlie a little late - I read about it the next 1988. Reichman, 53, and a resident of Schneider - the Hall of Fame, now in its morning. But it’s a different game than Edison, has a prized possession from his second year, also recognized Jerry what we played. I was considered a big grandfather. Izenberg, the award-winning sportswriter kid at six feet. [Today’s players] are with The Star-Ledger in Newark, and Moe six-eight, they run like deer, and they can “There is this little felt derby hat that I Berg, whom Casey Stengel, one of the shoot the ball.” “We were lucky,” he wear every day in the winter, and I always national pastime’s legendary characters, repeated. “We had a good era - we went feel like I have a piece of [him] with me. called “the strangest man ever to play through the war, came back, went to It’s something that is very special, to the baseball.” college…. No regrets.” point where it’s falling apart and I’m afraid that it’s going to go bad and I have The evening was full of the type of good Cohen’s joy, however, has been tempered to figure some way to save it.” While he humor brought on by reunions, with the by a recent tragedy: His son Bruce died knows there are specialists that can restore accents and anecdotes making many of the suddenly two months ago at 49. Cohen’s old hats, Reichman said, “I also don’t 185 attendees sound like characters from daughter-in-law and three grandchildren want to give it up.” the pen of Damon Runyon. arrived well into the Hall of Fame induction ceremony, coming from his Reichman spoke of the lasting impression Harold Cohen, WHS June 1942 granddaughter’s middle-school his grandfather had made as a role model graduation. for generations of students. “Not only is it “This is quite an honor,” something special…. In my acceptance Cohen, 81, told NJ Jewish Charles Schneider, 'Sweet Inside' speech, I’m going to refer to my grand- News prior to the father as a sabra, which is an Israeli fruit, festivities. “At this age, to Charles 'Charlie' Schneider was known because on the outside he was one tough get awarded, to be more for his work behind the scenes than son of a bitch, but when push came to recognized as a Jewish on the field. Although he was a standout shove, he would give you the shirt off his athlete in the area, is school player in football and basketball in back because he was so sweet inside. fantastic.” Cohen was a the early part of the 20th century, he That’s just something that everyone basketball and baseball star for Weequahic earned his reputation as an educator and remembers about him.” in the early 1940s, leading the hoops team coach. to a 30-3 record and named All-State. At Les Fein, an inductee last year in the the same time, he earned All-Essex After a stint as a sports reporter for the inaugural class of the MetroWest Jewish County honors as a third baseman and Newark Star-Eagle from 1918 to 1919, Sports Hall of Fame, presented helped his team reach the 1942 state Schneider became recreation and Reichman with Schneider’s plaque. Fein tournament. He continued amassing playground director in the Essex County spoke of his own relationship with athletic achievements at Newark Park System and the Newark public Schneider, which began in 1955. “I’m University, now Rutgers Newark, and schools, supervisor of physical education here today,” he said, “because Charlie Rider University, then Rider College. and recreation for North Plainfield public took a shot and made me a coach at schools, and supervisor of student teaching Weequahic.” JCC JEWISH HALL OF FAME notion that he was “a nice Jewish boy.” www.weequahicalumni.org continued from previous page “I was the meanest, nastiest basketball player on the college scene,” he In his introductory remarks, Hall of recalled. He cited a few incidents of VISIT OUR NEWLY Fame chair Jay Blumenfeld remarked anti-Semitism he faced while on the RENOVATED WHS ALUMNI how gratifying it was to notify the college hardwood, remembering how it ASSOCIATION WEB SITE inductees, or their families in the case made him all the more determined to of Berg, Kay, and Schneider - who do well. were inducted posthumously - of the 1,325 alumni have honor. WNBC-TV sportscaster Bruce Greenspan’s mother had been born a already registered Beck, a native of Livingston, served as Christian but converted to Judaism. master of ceremonies. “Thank God,” he said. “I never would have made it into the Christian Sports You can now use Gerry Greenspan Hall of Fame.” your credit card to: WHS 1959, 'Old Friends' Herb Krautblatt Kay y Become A WHS Alumni Gerald “Gerry” WHS 1944, 'A Mensch' Association Member Greenspan was another basketball powerhouse The late Herb Kay, y Purchase Merchandise for Weequahic, born Hebert Krautblatt, y Make Scholarship winning All-Newark, was best known as a All-Essex County, and basketball star for Contributions All-State honors before Weequahic from 1940 his graduation in 1959. to 1944, but was also Welcome to the old He played for the University of named All-City and neighborhood! Take a step Maryland Terrapins, leading the team All-County in football. back in time and explore in scoring and rebounding to win He was a graceful left-handed shooter All-Conference honors, and was with great leaping ability. As captain 72 years of Weequahic! drafted by the Syracuse Nationals, now of his Rider College squad, he set the known as the Philadelphia 76ers. team record for scoring and became the y View class lists. only player in the school’s history to Greenspan played alongside some of reach the professional ranks as a y E-mail your classmates the game’s greatest players, including member of the NBA Baltimore Bullets and friends. Wilt Chamberlain, Dolph Schayes, and in 1948 and 1950-51 and the ABL Hal Greer, a fact that he admits Trenton Tigers-Paterson Crescents y Share your favorite hastened his departure from the NBA. from 1950 to 1960. memories in the Forums. He stayed in the game, though, playing in the Eastern League for several more Kay, who lived in Springfield and y Read about our years before finally retiring and going South Orange, died in 1999. Bruce distinguished alumni and into the real estate business. Beck’s father, Felix, offered intro- faculty. ductory remarks about his friend. “As “This is great,” Greenspan told NJJN, a gentleman, he was gracious and he y Remember faculty and scanning the room, still looking trim was kind. Herbie was a mensch, and alumni who have passed that’s the nicest thing you can say and fit and, at nearly six-and-a-half away. feet, towering over everyone in the about anyone.” room. The 63-year-old, who resides in y Look for the latest class Kay’s grandson, Robert Streit of New York City and Roseland, reunions. admitted, “I don’t think I was excited Hoboken, accepted the award on his till I got here.” It was good seeing all behalf. “My grandfather would be y Tour the picture gallery. the old friends, he said. “I know them more than grateful,” he told the all, even though they’re not here just audience, recalling how, even in the y Discover what's happening for me.” throes of advanced Parkinson’s at the high school today. disease, Kay was still able to toss in a After listening to the flattering intro- few baskets in the driveway. “His y Learn more about the WHS duction by Fein, who was his coach at presence was truly admirable. If you Alumni Association. Weequahic, Greenspan told the didn’t know him, you wanted to. He audience that time enhances a player’s never asked to be in the spotlight; the y Visit often. greatness. “The older you get, the spotlight found him.” better you were.” He demurred at the www.weequahicalumni.org WALDO WINCHESTER Enid Hinkes, 1960, published her first book for children, Police Cat, which This popular column from the Calumet first was released in March 2005. Police Cat appeared in 1950. Please let us know is a picture book for children from 4 to 7 about how our alumni have distinguished years old. The illustrations are by Wendy themselves in their lives after Weequahic. Rasmussen and the book is published by Albert Whitman. Marty Edelston, 1946, the publisher of Boardroom, The story is about a cat named Noodles that wants to become a Inc. will be inducted into police officer, but there is no place on the force for cats, even The Direct Marketing the best rat-chaser in the city. Still, he goes out every night on Association Hall of Fame. patrol. Early one morning, he discovers a fire in a house and From a business in his rescues the family, but the police dog gets the credit. The basement 30 years ago, family sets the record straight, and Noodles becomes a hero Marty built Boardroom, Inc and an official member into a multimillion- dollar of the police department. publishing empire. The book has been Lester Lieberman, Jan. 1948, received his second honorary reviewed by Booklist of degree from the University of Medicine and the American Library Dentistry-NJ this year. He previously received Association, School an honorary degree from Clarkson University Library Journal, and an in 1991. In addition to a long career as a English on line review, business executive and engineer, Les served as Through the Looking Chair of both Irvington General Hospital and Glass. Booklist des- Newark Beth Israel Hospital and is presently cribed it as a "lively Chair of the HealthCare Foundation of NJ. engaging story about a heroic tabby, hand- Philip Roth, Jan. 1950, at 72 years old, has been admitted to somely rendered in this country's most exclusive literary club: appealing, realistic the Library of America. Only two other illustrations." School living writers have been awarded Library Journal called the story "above the general stock group membership: Eudora Welty in 1998 and of books about animals saving lives." Through the Looking Saul Bellow in 2003. The first two Glass wrote that "Gentle humor and wonderful illustrations volumes are just out, Novels and Stories make this a picture book which children want to look at again 1959-1962 ("Goodbye, Columbus & Five and again." Short Stories" & Letting Go) and Novels 1967-1972 (When She Was Good, Enid Hinkes graduated from Barnard College and Ohio State Portnoy's Complaint, Our Gang & The University of Law. She practiced law in Washington, DC Breast), and the plan calls for six more to be issued, one every before moving to Cooperstown, NY where she is the Village year or so, for a total of eight. Justice. She lives with her husband and their three cats.

Alvin Attles, 1955, will be honored on books, photography and travel. Thursday evening, October 20 at the annual Her favorite food is Thai, and Newark Athletic Hall of Fame affair. Al is favorite place is Iceland. vice-president of the Golden State Warriors basketball team and was the one of the Judy declares: When I decided to starting guards for the Philadelphia Warriors retire, I started a list of things I when Wilt Chamberlain scored 100 points might want to do, in an effort to against the NY Knicks in 1962. ensure that my retirement would be all that I hoped for. First on my list was to compete for the Judi Ayre, Jan. 1962, of Springfield was selected to attend the Munchmobile crew the first summer of my retirement. So Star-Ledger's Munch University as a "student taster" for the please indulge me in my retirement wish. I’m Martha Stewart their weekly Munchmobile project which visits and evaluates without the baggage, Ruth Reichl without the literary ability food establishments throughout NJ. Judi refers to herself as a and Julia Child without the skill. My enthusiasm, zest for life "retired bureaucrat" with hobbies that include pottery, diner and many years experience with eating and cooking all kinds of food will certainly add to the Munchmobile pool - and I’m only getting older and hungrier. " From the Voices of our Alumni, Faculty and Friends

Herman Rosenfeld, At the time, all of this seemed to be go to Washington, D.C. on their yearly Class of 1967, Toronto, Canada wasted on me. Lost in a fog of TV trip. Could we have a talent show, and watching, day dreaming, laziness and a would I help? Remembering Mrs. Lappe naïve belief in the promise of the post- war liberal ideal (and my place in it), I Of course, word spread and before I It was with great resisted all of Mrs. Lappe’s efforts. I knew it we had 80 kids signed up with 32 sadness that I read must have seemed to her as something of acts. It was a challenge to say the least. about the death of a lost cause. It was the biggest excitement around Marc Lappe, the son school. The school faculty became of Weequahic High It wasn’t until I went to university, involved with the selling of hot dogs, School social learned about alternative ways of candy and cookies. science teacher, understanding society and tried to make Jeanette Lappe. I sense out of the turmoil of the 1960’s that The show drew the largest attendance of was blown away by Mrs. Lappe’s approach began to ring true any previous event at the school with this man’s to me. It was like a seed, waiting for an over 300 people. We made a profit of dedication to the struggle against appropriate time to flower. Over the $800. We are already planning our next environmental degradation and the years, as I have faced intellectual and talent show but this time with faculty and amount of books, articles and research he political challenges, or have found myself students. contributed. On the other hand, thinking becoming a little too complacent in my about the effect his mother had on my thinking, I remember some of the things One idea can inspire so many people as own life, it really came as no surprise. she said in class and acted accordingly. Lavinia Rogers has proved. I originally wanted to touch the life of one child and I was in Mrs. Lappe’s class in my senior I never spoke to her after we graduated. seven years later I have had the privilege year at Weequahic. She taught in a I read about some of the wonderful of mentoring hundreds of boys and girls two-teacher program with an English experiences other students had in her in my community. Last year I was teacher, Mrs. Weinstein, called classes over the years and her work in the honored by the Governor of Florida to be “Humanities.” What I remember most teacher’s strike through the Weequahic selected as the Senior Volunteer of Palm about that experience was Mrs. Lappe’s Alumni Calumet. Sadly, I read about her Beach County. Volunteering for me relentless pursuit of critical thinking. She passing there, as well. I pass on my gives me a love of children and a zest for never wavered in her call to “question condolences to Marc’s father, Mrs. living. Life can still be exciting at 80. everything.” Lappe’s husband.

Whenever students uncritically accepted Dorothy Crawford Barnes, government propaganda about the war in Marilyn Newman Schneider, Class of June 1959, Nevada Vietnam - or the supposed necessity of Class of Jan. 1943, Florida the nuclear arms race (as I invariably did Remembering Mr. Schulman in both instances) - she would plant the Mentoring Children seeds of doubt by raising the need to be I know I’m tardy, ruthlessly honest about the underlying I have just finished but I would like to assumptions and facts. reading the Calumet send my sincere from cover to cover. condolences to Mrs. Lappe did this for every issue, as we It was most Mr. Lawrence plowed through the post-Civil War enjoyable reading Schulman’s history of the United States. For every about the alumni and family. I am a “establishment” view of a historical issue, present day students. proud product of Mrs. Lappe provided us with a critical I was especially Mr. Schulman’s alternative, be it Reconstruction, World inspired by Lavinia teachings. War I, or the Cold War. Rogers, the French teacher who made her dream come true with the French students He was one of the few history teachers She always emphasized the critical role traveling to Paris. who held a rapt audience. It was during that intellectuals should play in acting as this classroom period that we students a conscience for social justice. She was A small idea can definitely turn into came alive. Mr. Schulman was quite the first teacher I ever had to propose that something big. I am a volunteer mentor witty and often wove a humorous the entire framework of thinking I had and listener to 45 boys and girls in Delray anecdote in his history teachings. I am been brought up to believe, might have Beach, Florida. One of my girls came to happy to have known such a wonderful holes in it. me with the idea that she would like to person. raise moneys to help her fellow students Summit Avenue 20 years before we socioeconomic escalator effect of GROWING UP AND moved in. education so that the grandchildren of OUT OF NEWARK people who preferred Yiddish to English Like many of the families described by could make their way to a better life. Ortner and the quasi-autobiographical But the divides that she describes By Daniel J. Fink, class of 1966 family created by Roth, all my certainly circumscribed our lives. My This article appeared in the grandparents were immigrants from parents did own their own home, but it NJ Jewish News on 05/26/05 Russia and Poland, and my parents went was an apartment house and we lived in to public colleges in New York City one of the apartments because they could When I was before moving to Newark after the war. not afford a single-family residence. My growing up in Dad became a social worker on the GI brother and I were not athletes, not Newark, first at bill; Mom had learned to be a physical "cool," but intellectuals. And the world 169 Elizabeth therapist in the Army. Intellectually, we had already begun to change before the Ave., then at 27 were always culturally engaged, with riots of 1967, which destroyed the Jewish Edmonds Place books and magazines at home, frequent ghetto. Weequahic High School of 1966 (both small trips to the library and museums, and was approximately half African- apartment attendance at concerts, especially those American, but the white half was still 90 houses torn that were free. Rabbi Joachim Prinz and percent Jewish. down when I-78 Temple B'nai Abraham supplied a Jewish was built), and anchor to our lives. Like Roth's The Roth story also rang true. We didn't finally at 85 protagonist, I even collected stamps. want to be different from the goyim, Summit Ave; although we somehow knew that we I had no idea that I was living a life that Economically, though, we were solidly were. We didn't want to stand out - even would be chronicled almost a half century lower middle class. My two brothers and though everyone we knew was Jewish - later by America's leading novelist and a I shared a bedroom and we each had three but we knew we did. And we were MacArthur Fellowship winner. I was just or four pairs of pants and shirts, about the somehow afraid. Until Eichmann was trying to grow up. same amount of underwear and socks, captured, even those who had survived one pair of leather shoes and sneakers, the Holocaust spoke only in infrequent The Weequahic neighborhood, Bragaw and hand-me-down outerwear from older whispers about the "camps." Avenue School, Chancellor Avenue cousins. School and Weequahic High School, my That world is unfortunately now only Newark alma maters, are featured Failure was not an option. We had to get history. The last time we celebrated prominently in Philip Roth's The Plot out of the ghetto. Taught well by Pesach as a family in Millburn, I took my Against America and in Sherry Ortner's predominantly Jewish teachers who had teenage children and my niece on a tour nonfiction study New Jersey Dreaming. somehow survived the Depression and of the old neighborhood. I told them, "If Even though Roth was Weequahic '52 were glad to have "good civil service they were to illustrate the phrase 'gritty [actually Jan. 1950], Ortner '58, and I was jobs," we worked hard in school, learned urban neighborhood' in a dictionary, it '66, the Jewish Newark that I lived in was our lessons, and each of us went on to would be Newark's Weequahic section." not very different from what they Yale and medical school. My twin But to us, 40 to 50 years ago, it was describe. brother and I were in college when the home, simultaneously and paradoxically, riots occurred, and the family moved to a ghetto and a paradise. A good place to And the location was certainly the same. Millburn in 1968, where my younger grow up in, a good place to leave. The Ortner family lived across Keer brother went to high school. Avenue from us in a rare single-family Dan Fink is a physician at Cedars Sinai home in the immediate neighborhood Reading the Ortner book provides a Medical Center in Los Angeles. He (she was away at college when we moved sociological and anthropological would love to hear from people from the in, but my father played paddleball with explanation for what we lived through: old neighborhood or people with Newark her father at our synagogue), and Roth's the opening of academic and economic memories they'd like to share. You can family had lived briefly next door at 83 society to Jews, the return of women like contact him at [email protected] my mother to the workplace, the

WEAR WEEQUAHIC Buy Alumni Merchandise ALUMNI PROFILE, JUNE 1954 through the wilderness from Egypt to the Promised Land, I have learned that Frances Katz Sekela one should never lose hope, that it is never too late to challenge personal Coming of Age growth and to tie up the loose ends. Prior to my Bat Mitzvah, I felt On June 18, Frances Katz Sekela spiritually incomplete. As an adult, the was called to the Torah for her prayers, history and affiliation with my Bat Mitzvah at age 68. She shares heritage took on a deeper meaning than her words from that special day with us. if I had become a Bat Mitzvah at age 13. I’m the first female from my generation I was born on April and family to reach this goal. However, 17, 1936, a miracle it took my grandchildren and my baby girl, one of a daughter Cheryl’s inspiration to move pair of identical me onto my destined spiritual track and twins, reared in a to progress on my sacred journey. very traditional loving Jewish home author, Philip Roth, Connie Francis, Not only did I find my shalom (peace) at in which no one Jason Alexander, Rabbi Joachim Prinz, Temple Solel, hopefully, my lessons ever dreamed of Jerry Lewis and Paul Simon. Some will never end. I will do whatever it eating a ham friends remained in touch with me takes to make my parents who are in sandwich with mayo on white bread. through the tumultuous years and we heaven as well as my husband, children still share a genuine back and forth and my grandchildren to be proud of me My mother, Dora Katz, was a typical today. for participating and learning about my doting Jewish mother who would go to rich Jewish heritage and integrating it any extreme to provide her children with I led a very pampered lifestyle until the with our common immortal enduring the spiritual, educational and material time of my thirteen year chaotic Jewish spirit. well-being for a lifetime. However, Bat marriage. My father passed away at 54 Mitzvah was unheard of in our days. years of age, this and my poor choice of Thank you my darlings - Len, Cheryl, My family instilled in me the essential, my lifetime partner made me ambivalent Seth and my grandchildren - Danielle, indelible impressions of Jewish culture about my Judaism. “Why me, poor me, Eric, Marisa and Michael. though everyday experiences. I was and where is my G-d???" ran through taught to play the piano, speak Yiddish my head. But much of the darkness and Although they are away at summer and Hebrew and to love the arts. I also struggle of being alone for the first time camp, they remain very close to my took voice lessons and enjoyed music. in my life produced a bit of enlighten- heart, my devoted niece Susan, family, ment. I found that life was a lesson in friends, Gabrielle and Temple Solel staff I adored my folks and particularly the trial and error, struggle and just plain for nurturing me, helping me to cultivate fondness for mama’s old world Jewish old growing up!! new and meaningful friendships and a cooking. I always felt safe and did not lifetime of wonderful memories. Genie, want for anything. My parents put us I met the man of my dreams, Len, who thanks for being my bester shvester through the best available, mostly instilled in me true love, stability, during the highs and lows of the past Jewish populated, schools. I went to security and a purpose in life. My two years and making the difference. college and was about to fulfill my children and my mother knew from the Lenmeister and I love you more than we dream of becoming a social worker. I get-go that although Len wasn’t Jewish, can ever put into words. Hopefully, we wasn’t ambitious enough to dream about our relationship was “bashert” and he will ALWAYS be there for each other. being the mayor somewhere in New was the ideal mate and father figure - Jersey. However, today, many of my the answer to all of my dreams. After A special TODAH RABAH to my friends believe that I would have no 28 years of connubial bliss and son-in-law Joseph for being such a trouble becoming mayor of Carlsbad, recuperation from a major stroke, my wonderful role model and an important California, where I now reside. arthroscopic knee surgery and problems cog in the Production and Direction of with my lower lumbar spine, Len is still our beautiful family. I am so Blessed!! I took the wrong road when I married and will always be the love of my life. Refuah shlaymah for my twin-sister Jo, my first husband, the biological father of Through the fat and the skinny we are may G-d be with her for a full recovery. my two precious children, Cheryl and always here for each other. Seth, and dropped out of school. People of importance that lived in my old While my journey is a pale comparison Shabbat Shalom community were the classical American to the Hebrews’ forty year odyssey

Take a magical tour of Weequahic at www.weequahicalumni.org Jerome Fleischer and this wardrobe, the neighborhood children were quite nice to us in school, though Ronald Minzer, 1957 there was an occasional dispute or fight.

Growing Up at the My religious education began at the orphanage. We ate kosher meals and Hebrew Orphanage and attended Hebrew school classes every Sheltering Home day after we came from public school. We played all kinds of sports. I liked Some of Jerry's Memories: baseball and boxing the best. Being quite small in stature compared to the Before Weequahic other children, I instigated fights and High School. Before usually ended up on the ground with Madison Junior High someone beating me up. No doubt, I was School. Even before the victim of nose bleeds, bruises and Avon Avenue School. black eyes. There was the L-R: Ron and Jerry HOME! The Hebrew Sleeping in a large room with a bunch of her. I eventually did. There were no Orphanage and guys probably prepared me for my stint other children around. My mother left Sheltering Home, 141 in the Marine Corps Boot Camp at Parris and I started to cry. I think the big yard Lincoln Avenue, known to everyone Island, South Carolina. I will never and no one being around scared me and I associated with it as the HOME, came forget Mischief Night on Halloween cried till the kids started coming into the into my life when I was six going on when the local gang would throw rocks yard. They were returning from camp. I seven years old and stayed until I was through our dormitory windows while don’t remember too many of them. nine. the other kids would hide under their beds. I would panic and run through the The orphanage was run by a very matter My mother Mildred Fleischer died when dormitory to the bathroom for safe- of fact nurse. I believe her name was I was six, and my father, Irving keeping. Luckily, I never got struck by a Mrs. Pram, not sure about that either. Fleischer, who had the responsibility of rock. On Saturdays, we would go to the Maybe it was Mrs. Prim. Anyway, I did taking care of my grandmother, placed Elmwood movie theater. In the winter, not enjoy my first afternoon and evening me in the orphanage. The HOME we would go sledding at Branch Brook there. I soon started school and walked became my actual home for the next few Park. Summers were my favorite time the few blocks with lots of other kids years. Some memories of the orphanage because we would go to the YMHA from the HOME as we called it. After are quite vivid while others are vague. I Camp in Milford, PA. school we went to Hebrew School down remember Mrs. Siegel, whom we stairs, had dinner, did our homework, affectionately called Mama Siegel. She I look back to when tragedy came into and then went to bed. was overall director of the institution. my life, but every cloud has its silver Len was our faithful chauffer or driver lining. Mine was the HOME. When I Friday came and my Uncle took me to who drove us in a station wagon see my mother in the future, I will tell my mother and I returned to my wherever we needed to go. her that I was well taken care of. neighborhood to once again be reunited with my real friends. On Sunday I had a number of friends. All of the Jerry graduated from the Panzer School afternoon my mother and I got on the children in the HOME were orphans like at Montclair State College with a BA bus, the number 27, for downtown, got me. Two of them entered my life again a degree in Physical and Health off and changed to the number 13, and number of years later. Ronald Minzer, Education. He has an MA in Counseling continued back to the HOME. This whom I liked especially due to his mom and Guidance from Spalding University routine continued until the summer I was being pretty, popped up at Weequahic in Louisville, KY where he presently nine and I returned home permanently. High School. Seymour Braunstein, who resides with his wife Babette of 36 years. My summers were spent, partly, at the Y. liked calling me Jerry Jerome while I For 36 years, Jerry was a teacher and a I say partly because first I went for the called him Dagwood Bumstead, popped guidance counselor. He has a last 3 weeks of August, then the first 5 up at Panzer College in East Orange 34-year-old son who works for the weeks of July and then the full 8 weeks where I was a Freshman and he was a federal government in NYC. from July through August. I liked camp. senior. Through the grapevine, I have heard that some of the residents of the Some of Ron's Memories: I eventually made acquaintances and orphanage have held reunions in the some friends. I remember Harry Lauer years after they left the HOME. I was five years old and my mother who was a big kid and was the room brought me to a new place on a fall day monitor. He made sure we all made our One of my most painful memories was in mid afternoon. I was introduced to bed, brushed our teeth and generally kept going off to school every day wearing Mrs. Betty Siegel, a very large woman. the room clean and neat. knickers, a tie and suspenders. Despite I am not sure nor do I remember if liked Continued on next page More Voices From our Alumni, Faculty and Friends Fleischer & Minzer continued There were guys I played games with Barry K. Gold, also. We laughed and talked about the outside and in. Robert Cohen and good old days at WHS and Newark in Class of Jan. 1958, Del Ray, Florida Jackie Zuckerman are two who come to general. mind. I remember a girl named Dee Dee but not her last name. The yard Understanding Memorial Day About an hour had gone by and a woman was big, I would guess maybe 5 acres. who was seated at the table next to me, There were swings, a sand box, sliding The arrival of leaned over and said “Hey. I went to board, a see-saw and lots of open area Memorial Day Weequahic and graduated in 1955." She to run and play tag or any other weekend is the asked me my name but said she really running games. signal of the start of didn’t remember me. I asked for her name summer. This year and she said Roz Feinstein! As you can The building was in the shape of a U was no different, imagine, I could not believe what she said with the offices, kitchen and dining other than the fact and asked her again. Again she said, Roz room on one side and the sleeping my wife and I are Feinstein. For the moment I was stunned quarters on the other side. There was a now living in South and told her what had happened to me the downstairs area for Hebrew classes and Florida. We were day before when I thought about her and a large area to play when it rained. I invited to a friend's house for the her brother. She was astonished that I remember a group of harmonica obligatory barbecue to celebrate the start of remembered all that had happened so long players coming to entertain us down- the summer and the Memorial Day holiday. ago. We talked for awhile and then an stairs. They were good, as I recall. Lots of people who are Weequahic alumni announcement asked us all to quiet down were at the party. because the memorial service for the vets Things there were pretty good. I got who gave their lives for this country was enough to eat and I had some funny During the get-together, we were talking about to start. looking clothes, like knickers and high about what Memorial Day really means. top shoes. But, all in all, things were Several people asked if any of us knew The ceremony began with a color guard pretty good. I guess I made a lot of someone who had made the ultimate bearing Old Glory and all the services' friends, but after I returned to my real sacrifice for his country. At that very banners provided by an ROTC unit from a home I lost contact with all of them. moment a long ago and forgotten memory local college. They marched to the center I wanted to forget the place entirely. I popped into my head. Mind you, that it of the area and we saluted, and sang the returned many years later to visit with was there for only a few seconds, but was national anthem, and God Bless America. Mrs. Siegel. When she passed away, as real as anything I have ever felt or seen. The ceremony concluded with a bugler I never went back. sounding taps and you could hear a pin When I was attending Bragaw Avenue drop and the poignant notes of that tribute Ron currently lives in Arizona. He was School, and I guess I was about 9 or 10 to the heroes of America. At that moment married and has a daughter. He years old, I remember there was a rumor I realized that Roz and I were standing next spends a lot of his time traveling. going around the neighborhood about a to each other and when our eyes met she guy named Jerry Feinstein, who at the age looked at me and said "thank you for of 18 was killed in combat in Korea. For remembering my brother." At that moment those few seconds, I remembered where he with tears in my eyes, I realized I now In Loving Memory lived on Leslie Street, what his house knew what it meant to die for your country looked like next to the playground of the and what Memorial Day is really about. Phyllis Stern, January 1955 school. I remembered also that he had a sister, Roz Feinstein and how at that age Phyllis Stern, 68, of Summit, I didn’t quite understand what dying for Vickie and Peter Rogers - parents of formerly of Hillside, died your country really meant. Again, that French teacher, Lavinia Rogers, who June 29. Born in Newark, thought was in my mind for a few seconds. organized a trip to Paris for 13 students. Miss Stern lived in Hillside, I went on and enjoyed the rest of the day. Safety Harbor, Fla., Our daughter brought home the Alumni Berkeley Heights, Lakewood The following day, my wife and I were Calumet for us to read. This is an overdue and Bradley Beach before going to attend another Memorial Day thank you for all of your support, financial moving to Summit three party at the pool area of our community and otherwise, for her students. You made months ago. She was a clubhouse. When we got there, many the trip to France possible. This was an self-employed investment counselor in Lake- people were out and about, having a drink, experience of a lifetime for all involved wood for 20 years before retiring in 2000. Miss a snack, and generally enjoying the ...from the idea to the fundraising, to the Stern was a graduate of Kean University, beautiful South Florida weather. I was going and returning - to the reflection. Union, where she received a BA in education. wearing a Weequahic HS T-shirt as I often Lavinia's extended family all thank you. Surviving are a son, David Forgash; a do and several people came over to me to You have helped her prove to her students daughter, Kelly Bunting; a brother, Lawrence say that they had gone to Weequahic HS and herself that all things are possible. Stern, and three grandchildren. 'Born at the Beth' Exhibit welcome” as both patients and staff, she HIGH SCHOOL NEWS said. At the time, some 45,000 Jews by Robert Wiener, NJ Jewish News lived in Newark, then a city of 246,000. OUR BEST WISHES Excerpts from this article follow: Although Newark had five major hospitals, all imposed strict limitations on At the end of the 2005 school black and Jewish patients and doctors year, the following Weequahic alike. While Beth Israel’s founders were teachers retired. They are: seeking donations large and small, Community Hospital was being built by African-Americans across the street from Marshana Chapman, the Beth’s first location on Kinney and Librarian High streets.

Throughout the decades, outside events would threaten the hospital’s existence. During the Depression of the 1930s, Beth Israel managed to escape bankruptcy. In the 1960s, even as most whites fled Annie Williams, English As she looks back on the two-year Newark’s violent racial tensions for the gestation of a project that will detail the presumed safety of suburbia, the board of unique life and times of Newark Beth trustees voted to keep the hospital in Israel Medical Center, Linda Forgosh, place. curator at the Jewish Historical Society Frank Gavin, History, of MetroWest, likens her work to “the “I never respected the Jewish community Basketball Coach longest pregnancy anybody could ever more,” said Forgosh. “The board under- imagine.” Her offspring is an exhibit stood it was not the Jewish hospital of WELCOME Sharon Northcutt, English called “Born at the Beth,” which will their mothers and fathers, that there was present the rise of one of America’s no longer a Jewish community surround- The new librarian and leading hospitals from a 21-bed facility ing it. Everybody had long since moved. director of the media center is Waunita Scott, a at the turn of the 20th century to a state- Even the funding was no longer 1991 WHS grad and the new varsity boys of-the-art facility created through the primarily from the Jewish community. basketball coach is Derrick Butler. generosity of Newark’s Jewish But they decided not to leave Newark community. and to keep the commitment to maintain CONGRATULATIONS the wellness of that community.” Megan Pitt, 2005, a Weequahic HS Alumni Its story will be told in words, photo- Scholarship recipient was one of three Newark graphs, artifacts, and audio and video Then, in 1996, faced with the trend students who participated in an internship program recordings when the exhibit makes its toward mergers and acquisitions in the at the Newark office of Merrill Lynch this summer. debut Thursday, September 15, in the medical care industry, the board sold Weill Atrium of the Alex Aidekman Beth Israel to a conglomerate, the Saint Keon Lawrence, 2006, Weequahic's highly touted Family Jewish Community Campus in Barnabas Healthcare System, for $125 basketball star, has made a verbal commitment to Whippany. The Beth’s story, spanning million. attend the University of Missouri in 2006-07. The more than 100 years of local history, will 6-1 scoring guard averaged 27 points a game last be on display until November 18, when it The proceeds helped create the season for a 21-4 WHS basketball team. will become the newest of the JHS’ Healthcare Foundation of New Jersey, traveling exhibits. which finances major medical initiatives WEEQUAHIC'S FOOTBALL TEAM in both inner-city Newark and the Last year Weequahic was 7-4 and won its first At the heart of this exhibit will be suburban areas of MetroWest. “I believe NJSIAA playoff game. This year Weequahic is hundreds of individual photographs Beth Israel was the greatest collective picked to finish 3rd in the 10-team Iron Hills submitted by those born at the hospital. accomplishment this Jewish community Conference behind West Essex and Mendham. Forgosh started collecting source ever sponsored,” said Forgosh, “and it Players to watch are Jamaal Perry, Mark Ingram, material by asking NJ Jewish News still is perpetuated in a living legacy Terrence Banks, Eddie Pantoja, Dujuan Jenkins, readers, Weequahic High School Alumni every time a grant is administered by the Al-Quan Greene, Al-Tarik Harris, and Demetrius Association members, and subscribers to Healthcare Foundation of New Jersey.” Cunningham. Beth Israel's electronic newsletter for their photographs - if they happened to Alongside its medical achievements, the be born at the Beth. Beth has a celebrity “A-list” of sorts as In Loving Memory the birthplace of such noted Americans Three WHS alumni recently passed away: The hospital was founded in 1901, as novelist Philip Roth, poet Allen Swede Masin, 84, 1938; Jerome Waldor, 77, “somewhat as an act of desperation for Ginsberg, comedian Jerry Lewis, and Jan. 1945; and Manuel Lylerly, 1963. The first-generation Jewish immigrants activist Rabbi Michael Lerner. obituaries will be in the next newsletter. looking for a hospital where Jews were

Essex County chapter of the National Fein, Mr. Manhoff and Dorfman belonged In Loving Memory Football Foundation Hall of Fame with to the tight-knit Jewish community that the Distinguished Coaching Award in once passed through the doors of 2000. Mr. Manhoff was a member of the Newark’s Weequahic High School. Years Bert R. Manhoff, 1938 board of trustees of Rutgers University afterward, they would meet, to reminisce from 1979 to 1984, and was the 1977-78 about games and glory past. “It is like the By Suleman Din, Star-Ledger Staff president of the Rutgers Alumni end of an era,” Dorfman said. Association, which honored him with an (Ed. Note: Bert R. award for lifetime service. The last years were the hardest on Mr. Manhoff of Living- Manhoff, said Florence. Age and illness ston died at age 84 He was part owner of Camp Roosevelt in got in the way of her husband, who had in July 2005. He Monticello, N.Y., for 19 years, and taught always done things for himself. People, was a member of religious school at Congregation B’nai though, never forgot how he gave. the Weequahic Jeshurun in Short Hills for 25 years. He “Many felt that Bert was an absolute High School taught and coached football at East Side legend,” Florence said. “It is comforting, Alumni Association High School in Newark from 1957 now, to know that.” Board of Trustees through 1969, then at Parsippany Hills and in 2002 High School until 1972. He earned a Surviving are his wife, Florence; sons, received our bachelor’s degree in English in 1948 from Scott and Rabbi Harry Manhoff, and “Distinguished Rutgers University. seven grandchildren. Alumni Award.” In his memory, the alumni association has established a Scott Manhoff said his father’s accom- scholarship fund in his name.) plishments were always a source of pride, Neil Markowitz, 1964 considering his tough upbringing. Mr. Few gave like Bert R. Manhoff did. Manhoff became an orphan at seven when Neil Gary Markowitz passed There are hundreds indebted for the his father, a worker with PSE&G, was away in September at age guidance and encouragement he offered killed in an industrial accident. Despite 57. Mr. Markowitz was vice freely as a teacher, football coach and having to support his family, Mr. Manhoff president of global real counselor. And they never forgot him for made sure he got an education. He went estate with CIT, a financial it. Brian Crockett recalled how Mr. into teaching “to keep busy” after World corporation in Livingston, for Manhoff followed his high school football War II, Scott said. Mr. Manhoff was a the past 10 years. He was a career in Verona and inspired him with an member of an Army reconnaissance team graduate of Jackson unwavering dedication to Rutgers that landed in the second wave of the University in Florida and University. “He let me know in his own D-Day invasion at Normandy. He saw received both an MA degree in business special way that he kept an eye out for things that would weigh on an idle mind. administration and a law degree from Seton me,” said Crockett, who became a star It was Mr. Manhoff’s wartime experience Hall University. A native of Newark, Mr. Markowitz lived in Convent Station for many player for the Scarlet Knights in the 1980s that nurtured a desire to help others, Scott years. Surviving are his wife, Helen; a son, and now is an executive with the Rutgers explained. “He made it his business to Lucas; his mother, Jean Markowitz; a brother University Foundation. make people feel good.” Sanford (WHS 1963), and a sister, Fraida

Yavelberg (WHS 1960). Mr. Manhoff’s friends, such as longtime Mr. Manhoff loved coaching, and took Star-Ledger sportswriter and columnist special pride in seeing his athletes Sid Dorfman, said he was a volunteer who succeed, said Les Fein, a close friend and never said no, with a seat on just about one of New Jersey’s most accomplished David 'Mickey' Ackerman, 1953 every committee “except a congressional high school basketball coaches. Mr. one.” Manhoff was tough to play for, he said, David Alan 'Mickey' but inspired absolute loyalty. “Coaching Ackerman passed away in His work didn’t make them wealthy, said was the dessert of teaching,” Fein said. July 2005. Born in Florence Manhoff, his wife of 55 years. “It wasn’t about getting the touchdown. Newark, he lived in Edison Still, he would send money to athletes he It was about the work to get a team before moving to Monroe had helped when they found things were together and able to play together.” Township nine years ago. tight. “He wanted to be there for every- Mr. Ackerman owned the body, though there were not many there His commitment to cultivating athletic Comet Pizzeria in Hillside for him,” she said. “He lived his whole talent extended to Rutgers University, and NuWay Vending in Pennsauken. Most life like that.” where he worked for years to attract the recently, he was a part- time cook at Monroe best students to the school. “We have lost Village. He is survived by his wife, Alice, four Born in Newark, Mr. Manhoff compiled a a great ambassador,” said Keri DeMayo, daughters, Jill Schneiderman, Amy Cuccio, wide list of accomplishments. He was a director of alumni relations at Rutgers. Beth Percely, and Wendy; a son, Steven; two founding member of the Newark Athletic “To many, he was Mr. Rutgers.” sisters, Leila Sellinger and Mildred Rottenburg Hall of Fame, and recognized by the of Jersey City; and six grandchildren. MEMBERSHIP / MERCHANDISE / SCHOLARSHIP Form Send to: WHS Alumni Association, P.O. Box 494, Newark, NJ 07101 or make your purchases with a credit card at www.weequahicalumni.org - Please Print Clearly -

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Ms. Orlans, a former area coordinator for the WHS ALUMNI ASSOCIATION IS New Jersey Special Olympics and a teacher Community: COLLECTING MEMORABILIA for 25 years in the Matawan schools, died Judge Irvin Booker - passed away at August 21, 2005. She was 60. The Middle- We are creating an archive of all items age 72. Judge Booker was a town resident had battled cancer for six years. relating to Weequahic and Newark for South Ward resident for many She died at home, on her birthday. "I think exhibitions at our events. So if you have years and a Newark and she planned it that way," Quine said. "She old photos; newspaper articles; Superior Court Judge. He wasn't going to die in her 50s. She was going yearbooks; films, Calumets; Ergo mentored Weequahic High to hang on." magazines; books; schedules; rosters; School students and founded certificates; letters; hats; jackets, the Father's Club at the high A teacher for 32 years, Ms. Orlans began sweaters; WHS athletic equipment and school. He also established uniforms; or any other interesting teaching in the Florham Park and Howell the Paddle Ball League at Weequahic Park schools. But she spent the bulk of her career memorabilia, please call us before you and the Paddle Ball Court is named after him. in the Matawan schools, mostly teaching discard any of these items. WHS ALUMNI REUNIONS 2005 WHS ALUMNI STORE October 8 SEE PAGE 18 TO ORDER ASSOCIATION 1965 - 40th OR ORDER FROM OUR WEB SITE Established in 1997 Saturday, 7 PM, Woodbridge Hilton Hotel, Woodbridge, NJ. Contact Executive Director: Dennis Estis at (732) 549-5600. Phil Yourish, 1964 Co-Presidents: October 22 Harold Braff, 1952 1955/JUNE - 50th Judy Bennett, 1972 Saturday, 7:00 PM, Somerset Treasurer: Marriott, Somerset, NJ. Contact Alvin Barr at (732) 574-2519 or Joel Sheldon Bross, 1955 Kampf at (973) 635-2926. Secretary: October 22 Myrna Jelling Weissman, 1953 1985 - 20th Board of Trustees: Saturday, 7:00 PM, Sheraton Hotel Judy Bennett, 1972 at Newark International Airport, Harold Braff, 1952 Newark, NJ. Contact Kim Jones at Sheldon Bross, 1955 (732) 602-5528 or (201) 349-4523. Mary Dawkins, 1971 Faith Howard, 1982 Dave Lieberfarb, 1965 October 23 Arthur Lutzke, 1963 1950/JAN - 55th Sharon Price-Cates, 1972 Get Back Issues Of Adilah Quddus, 1971 Sunday, 12:30 PM, Crestmont Our Newsletters Gerald Russell, 1974 Country Club, West Orange, N.J. Dave Schechner, 1946 Contact: Eileen Lerner Greenberg Vivian Simons, 1959 at (973) 379-4321. Barry Kolton at Ron Stone, Principal (973) 543-6742. Norman Krueger Charles Talley, 1966 at (973) 992-2893 Sam Weinstock, 1955 Myrna Jelling Weissman, 1953 Planning Reunions: JUNE 1956 - 50th Plans for a 50th reunion are under way and we are searching for 1971 Cheerleaders classmates. Contact Carol Miller with Weequahic at (303) 751-5650 or Banner - a gift from [email protected]. the class of January JUNE 1957 - 50th 1943. The class of June 1957 is looking for classmates who are interested in organizing and attending a 50th Reunion in 2007. Contact Bea Austrager Chaiklin at (973) 992-3650 or [email protected]. Weequahic High School Alumni Association First Class Mail JAN. & JUNE 1962 - 45th P.O. Box 494, Newark, NJ 07101 U.S. Postage PAID The classes of January and June Permit No. 205 1962 are jointly organizing a reunion Orange, NJ 07050 for 2007. Contact Bonnie Zunk Vogel at [email protected] or Cookie Wax Gulkin at [email protected]