2004 BOARD OF TRUSTEES

OFFICERS

CO-PRESIDENT CO-PRESIDENT SECRETARY TREASURER EXECUTIVE HAROLD BRAFF JUDY BENNETT MYRNA JELLING SHELDON BROSS DIRECTOR June 1952 1972 WEISSMAN Jan. 1955 PHILIP YOURISH Jan. 1953 1964 TRUSTEES

DAVID LIEBERFARB YVONNE CAUSBEY ARTHUR LUTZKE ADILAH QUDDUS BERT MANHOFF 1965 1977 1963 1971 Jan. 1938

FAITH HOWARD SAM WEINSTOCK LORAINE WHITE DAVID SCHECHNER MARY BROWN GERALD RUSSELL 1982 Jan. 1955 1964 June 1946 DAWKINS 1974 1971

CHARLES TALLEY MARJORIE BROWN Principal SHARON VIVIAN ELLIS 1966 1985 RONALD STONE PRICE-CATES SIMON 1972 1959

› Newark News ON THE INSIDE: › The Little Shul That Could › Behind The Scenes › From the Voices of Alumni, Faculty, & Friends › $40,000 Scholarship Donation › You Ruined My Day › Hisani Dubose, NJ Filmmaker › Carl Prince: Brooklyn’s Dodgers › Herb Schon's Rugelach Recipe › In Loving Memory › Profiles of Distinguished Alumni › Sheldon Belfer’s POP QUIZ › Waldo Winchester Column › Reunion Listings › Scholarships Are A “Class” Act › WHS Alumni Store › From the High School On The Hill › Football Fantasy Fundraiser 2004 BOARD OF TRUSTEES

OFFICERS

CO-PRESIDENT CO-PRESIDENT SECRETARY TREASURER EXECUTIVE HAROLD BRAFF JUDY BENNETT MYRNA JELLING SHELDON BROSS DIRECTOR June 1952 1972 WEISSMAN Jan. 1955 PHILIP YOURISH Jan. 1953 1964 TRUSTEES

DAVID LIEBERFARB YVONNE CAUSBEY ARTHUR LUTZKE ADILAH QUDDUS BERT MANHOFF 1965 1977 1963 1971 Jan. 1938

FAITH HOWARD SAM WEINSTOCK LORAINE WHITE DAVID SCHECHNER MARY BROWN GERALD RUSSELL 1982 Jan. 1955 1964 June 1946 DAWKINS 1974 1971

CHARLES TALLEY MARJORIE BROWN Principal SHARON VIVIAN ELLIS 1966 1985 RONALD STONE PRICE-CATES SIMON 1972 1959

› Newark News ON THE INSIDE: › The Little Shul That Could › Behind The Scenes › From the Voices of Alumni, Faculty, & Friends › $40,000 Scholarship Donation › You Ruined My Day › Hisani Dubose, NJ Filmmaker › Carl Prince: Brooklyn’s Dodgers › Herb Schon's Rugelach Recipe › In Loving Memory › Profiles of Distinguished Alumni › Sheldon Belfer’s POP QUIZ › Waldo Winchester Column › Reunion Listings › Scholarships Are A “Class” Act › WHS Alumni Store › From the High School On The Hill › Football Fantasy Fundraiser From Hal Braff, Co-President, June 1952 You Can Now Create a Scholarship Fund Behind The Scenes A Landmark Decision On with Cash or Stock Equal Opportunity In Education You have your hands on a very unique The WHS Alumni Association encourages journal. The Alumni Calumet, now in its On May 17th, I addressed a group of you to establish a scholarship fund in 12th edition, is the much praised Weequahic students in the high school honor or in memory of a family member, a brainchild of our wonderful Executive library on the history of racial favorite teacher, coach, administrator, Director, Phil Yourish (1964), who sees segregation and the role it still plays in classmate or friend. to it that every detail of interest to our society today as we commemorated Weequahicphiles everywhere is deposited the 50th Anniversary of the United We are pleased to announce that we can in your mailbox. State’s Supreme Court decision in the now accept gifts of appreciated securities. first Brown vs. the Board of Education of These donations would qualify for a Phil has also developed our web site and Topeka, Kansas. charitable tax deduction if the shares has arranged for us to have ample have been held for more than a year. merchandise to respond to your orders Joining me in this interactive dialogue (Do your grandkids have WHS tote bags were Principal Ron Stone, Vice Principal One advantage to gifting appreciated and t-shirts for this summer’s trip to the Ras Baraka, history/computer teacher securities is that the donor is not subject beach?). He also responds to your Robert Jackson, and 1995 graduate to capital gains taxes on the shares. inquiries and sees to it that our Alturrick Kenney. Before donating, it is recommended that commitments to the high school are you consult with your tax advisor. promptly kept. After my presentation, I raised the following question: “What must be done To make a gift of appreciated securities, Many people are responsible for the to create a culture at the school which please call the office of Jim Schwarz amazing presence your alumni values and takes advantage of the (WHS 1958) at Smith Barney at (800) association has established - but the opportunities stemming from 526-4931 and ask for Karen Parker-Davis Board sends special thanks to Phil for his education?” or Robyn Schlossberg. devotion to our goals, his excellent To establish a scholarship fund, contact newsletter, and the leaps we’ve taken The students were asked to compete for a us at (973) 923-3133 or e-mail us at under his baton. $200.00 prize, from the alumni [email protected]. association and the city of Newark, for Join him and his 40th reunion class for the best essay on the subject. The To make a donation to one of our sixteen our annual tour of the high school on winning composition will be published in scholarship funds, see page 18. October 9th. the next edition of the Alumni Calumet.

$40,000 Donation Establishes The Reada & Harry Jellinek Scholarship Endowment Fund

With a generous contribution of $40,000, Dr. Harry Jellinek was a teacher, Dr. Jellinek died in 1986 and Mrs. Jellinek Theodore Jellinek, class of 1957, has Chairman of the Business Department, and lives in an Assisted Living residence in established the alumni association’s first Acting Vice Principal prior to becoming Massachusetts. endowment scholarship fund in honor of his Principal at West Kinney Jr. High School and parents, Reada & Harry Jellinek. Central Evening High School. The endowment fund ensures that scholarship money will be available well into the future for They were both original members on the In retirement, both Mrs. Jellinek and Dr. deserving Weequahic students who want to faculty of Weequahic High School when it Jellinek served as president of the Essex pursue a higher education. opened in September 1933. County Retired Teachers Association. The scholarship committee and the entire Reada Jellinek was the librarian at Weequahic Dr. Jellinek also devoted considerable energy alumni association want to take this for 40 years until retiring in 1973. to promoting the interests of senior citizens, opportunity to thank Theodore Jellinek and his especially in the areas of educational wife Marie for this wonderful gift. opportunities and travel. on ABC's daytime drama All My Children, Hisani DuBose actor Leon, who appeared most recently in NJ Filmmaker, 1971 Grad Buffalo Soldiers, Newark filmmaker Hafiz Farid, and comedian Willie Asbury, the Excerpts from an article by emcee for the evening. As part of its Barbara Kukla, Star-Ledger educational mission, the group also honored the Snyder High School Media Years ago, when she practically was Team and board member Fharah, the plucked off the stage at Newark's Theater team's producer. of Universal Images by dance master Arthur Mitchell for a dance scholarship with Despite the hard financial hit, which finds his Dance Theater of Harlem, Hisani the network still trying to pay expenses for DuBose was contemplating a career in the dinner and handsomely designed dance. awards created by her son, Dadisi, DuBose remains confident that it's just a In typical fashion, she still pokes fun at matter of time before the organization herself although she truly appreciated the board, which includes the founders plus sprouts wings. Much of that feeling comes honor: "I don't know if I was really good or Henrietta Parker, Carol Spann, and Patrick from the fact that she comes from an artistic he just felt sorry for me and wanted to help Fharah, pooled their money to start a series home. me get better." Whatever the reality, of monthly workshops on movie making at DuBose didn't become a dancer, but she did their home base, the Robert Treat Hotel. To "My father Harry Porter played tenor sax on get better - much better, honing artistic skills pay for the room rental and other expenses, the road with the Count Basie and Lionel that eventually led her and her friends, an admissions fee was required of Hampton bands," said DuBose. "My mother Bertha Freeman and James Taliaferro, to participants: $20 for nonmembers, $10 for (Johnnie Porter who now lives in a small create the New Jersey Movie Makers members and $15 for students. The yearly town in Arkansas where she is working on Network. membership rate is $40. her doctorate), is an illustrator. She went to the Newark School of Fine and Industrial "Almost every state has an organization like By year's end, the fledgling organization was Arts and studied fashion design. this except New Jersey," DuBose said. "The off to a good start, building its membership to first movie was made in Fort Lee, New 50 and attracting enough interest to pay the DuBose's children also share her passion for Jersey. Thomas Edison, a New Jersey bills for workshops on subjects such as how the arts. Although she didn't become a resident, invented the movie camera and to get a movie made, finance a project and dancer, her daughter, Hakika, did. A dance motion picture technology. We are entertain- develop strong characters. By September, major at Montclair State College, Hakika ment rich and we supply everyone - actors, JVC of America was on board, paying for a studies also under three well-known hip hop writers, technicians, cinematographers, workshop for digital movie-making. choreographers at the Broadway Dance make-up artists - to the industry, yet Center in New York City. Dadisi DuBose, a strangely we always have to go to New York Then came Dec. 5 - what was supposed to visual artist, studied at the Philadelphia for workshops or to find work." be the organization's biggest night of the School of the Arts and is completing his year - its first Prime Time Awards for studies at Bloomfield College, focusing on Steve Gorelick, associate director of the NJ Excellence & Support in Movies and the visual arts. Film Commission, feels exactly the same Television. With nearly more than one foot way. "I'm very excited about this particular of snow on the ground or on its way by late Born and raised in Newark, Hisani DuBose organization because Hisani started it from afternoon, less than one-third of the 300 enrolled at Seton Hall University as a biology scratch and it already has become a guests showed up. major after graduating from Weequahic High legitimate force in the film making School (in 1971 - when she was known as community," said Gorelick who presented Piscopo, who was being cited for "all of his Johnnette Porter), where she played flute in the network's first workshop last April. talents, accomplishments and inspiration to the marching band. Although she later others," was stuck at an airport. Friedman , changed her major to political science with a In filling such an important need, the who planned to give opening remarks, called biology minor, it was the arts that most Newark-based network also has won some to say the roads were impossible to navigate piqued her interest. prestigious support along the way from from South Jersey. Half the award-winners people like actors Joe Morton and Joe also were forced to stay home. Still, 70 Full of ideas, her appearance with Voices Piscopo, independent filmmakers Marylou hearty souls showed up, turning the black-tie United, the Seton Hall gospel choir, in a Tibaldo-Bongiorno and Jerome Bongiorno, event into a not-forgotten black tie and boots production of "Purlie" lead her to write the and Joseph Friedman, the longtime event. book and lyrics to her own musical, "Different executive director of the NJ Film Kind of Blues," which was produced by the Commission. Following business tradition, the show went Theater of Universal Images in downtown on. Among those on hand to pick up their Newark. ...And so, instead of starting off with any awards was 16-year-old Michael Jordan, an kind of budgetary cushion, the six-member Arts High student who plays Reggie Porter Continued on Page 15 HERB SCHON’S Grandma’s Traditional Cinnamon Raisin RUGELACH RECIPE For Pastry: 3 1/2 cups (plus) unbleached flour 2 egg yolks, 2 tablespoons sour cream, 1/2 LB cream from a Jan. 1950 Grad cheese, 1/2 LB melted butter or margarine, 1 tablespoon vanilla, 3 tablespoons sugar. They’re called rugelach and they’re For Filling: (this will make enough filling for the six bite-sized pastries, made with a rich pastry balls) 12 heaping tablespoons canned, whole cream-cheese pastry wrapped around a cranberry sauce, 2 cups sugar, 2 cups chopped variety of fillings. Those who have sampled walnuts, 2 cups dark raisins, 2 tablespoons these treats describe them as incredibly cinnamon. delicious! And the good news is that they’re For Topping: 1 part cinnamon and 3 parts sugar in tastefully made by Herb Schon, an ex-New shaker. Yorker, now Santa Fe, New Mexico resident. 1. Blend all pastry ingredients and divide into six equal pieces. Shape into balls, flatten, cover and Herb Schon (Schonwetter at WHS) moved to Raspberry, among others. And each either refrigerate to chill or freeze for later use. Eldorado five years ago after selling his New participant leaves with an abundant supply of 2. Flour surface. Further flatten pastry and roll out York-based “Grandma’s Recipe Rugelach,” these tasty pastries. into a 12-inch circle. which he had established in 1991. Starting 3. Place two heaping tablespoons cranberry sauce with his grandmother Freda Orbach’s family Herb will not divulge the calorie content per on pastry and spread around. recipe for the Traditional Cinnamon-Raisin, rugelach, suggesting that there are some 4. Mix dry filling ingredients and spread Schon went on to create and market a total of things in life that should be enjoyed, not one cupful of filling over pastry to within 1/2 inch of 13 flavors, including El Rancho, made with agonized over. edge. jalapeno jelly, and Tennessee Twist, which 5. With palms of hands, lightly press filling into included a well known brand of sour-mash “Grandma” was my maternal Grandmother, pastry whiskey. These treats have come a long way Freda Orbach, who emigrated from Poland to 6. Mark pastry with cake marker or carefully cut into from their original Eastern European origins, the United States in 1921. She brought two of sixteen triangles (8 cuts). where these pastries were called “little twists - her children along with her...my mother, Bebe, 7. If using cake marker, cut along lines with pizza rugelach.” and my Aunt Evelyn. Others stayed behind to cutter or knife. run the family mill. As a child, I spent much of 8. Starting at outer edge, tuck in ends and gently roll Within a few years, the product was being my time with Grandma, who lived across the each triangle toward center. sold throughout the world through retailers’ street from us in Newark, NJ. 9. Place tail end down on parchment lined baking catalogs, including Neiman-Marcus, sheet. Space about 1/4 inch apart. Bergdorf-Goodman, Dean & DeLuca, Zabar’s, It was a treat to be in the kitchen when she 10. Dust tops with cinnamon-sugar mix. Balducci’s and Bloomingdales as well as most prepared rugelach, a favored family dessert, 11. Bake in pre-heated 350 degree oven for between of the top gourmet shops in New York. Food because there were always lots of nuts and 15-20 minutes or until golden brown. writers often described Grandma’s Recipe raisins that escaped the pastry, either 12. When slightly cooled, cover baking tray with a Rugelach as “the very best.” inadvertently or as a treat for her first-born second one and flip over. Remove parchment. grandson. Schon settled into his dream life here in New Mexico...cycling, hiking, skiing and cooking. Grandma’s version of rugelach was the In the spring of 1999, intrigued by the cooking Traditional Cinnamon Raisin. It wasn’t until classes offered at the Las Cosas Kitchen the family truly embraced the “American way” Shop in DeVargas Mall, he suggested that and began celebrating Thanksgiving that perhaps there might be some interest in Grandma was supplanted in the kitchen by my learning how to make rugelach. He had mother, who was first to learn about the conducted classes in New York at the holiday traditions of turkey, dressing, candied Grandma’s bakery as well as for fund-raisers sweet potatoes and pumpkin pie. We and a variety of Synagogue groups. Las embraced the traditions of the United States. Cosas’ John Vollertson agreed and scheduled a class. Schon was again smitten with the joy But for Grandma, this didn’t bode well. The And finally, sage advice as passed down by of teaching people how to make these little kitchen had been her domain! And finally, Grandma Freda: “Look inside the ice twists and decided to plunge back into the after a few years of being excluded from box...see what you have...put it in...” Which baking world. Thanksgiving dinner preparations she translates to not being timid... use your returned with her contribution to this most imagination. How about peanut butter spread Later that year, Herb began holding American of festive holidays. Grandma began topped with chocolate mix or poppyseed paste three-hour-long participation classes held in making her rugelach to include cranberry and chopped apple, or pineapple preserves his own Eldorado kitchen. The classes cover sauce, and this is her recipe as discovered with chocolate and coconut or raisins flavored the art of pastry prep along with the creation among boxes of papers, cards and letters with rum or bourbon flavoring in the of a variety of fillings, including the above collected by my mother and found among Traditional mix. Lighten up....have some mentioned El Rancho and Traditional as well storage cartons upon her death in 1969. fun....bake some rugelach! as Chocolate-Raspberry, Mocha, Apricot and Scholarships Are A WALDO WINCHESTER “Class Act” This popular column from the Calumet first appeared in 1950. Please let us know about how our alumni have distinguished During the past few years, class reunions have become an themselves in their lives after Weequahic. important source for scholarship funds. Through their classes, Weequahic alumni are making contributions that help provide current students at Weequahic with an opportunity for higher Our appreciation to Harriette Steinberg, 1945, for donating golf clubs and golf balls education. We want to commend the following classes and to the Weequahic HS Golf Team. individuals for their generosity in donating to our various scholarship funds and we hope that other classes will follow Dave Horwitz and Rhoda Rosenfeld, class of 1945, are co-editors of an their lead. informative monthly newsletter called The Calumet, Again for members of the classes of January and June 1945. June 1940, June 1943, January & June 1945, 1949, January & June 1952, June 1953, 1963, 1980 Hal Braff, June 1952, was honored by the New Jersey America Inns of Court with a testimonial dinner for his work in organizing 21 Inns of Courts in New Jersey during Kudos to Dan Skoler and his classmates from January and June the past 17 years. 1945 who established the Academic & Performing Arts Charlie Bernhaut, Jan. 1954, has returned to the airwaves in NJ after an 8 year Scholarship two years ago. This scholarship fund continues to hiatus. He hosts one hour of cantorial music every Tuesday night from 10:00 to grow with 60 contributors who have raised $4,514.00. 11:00 over WSNR, 620 on the AM dial. Charlie previously hosted Two Hours of Additional donations would be welcome. Checks made out to Jewish Soul for 18 years. He has a private collection of over 14,000 Jewish albums. WHS Alumni Association, with Academic and Performing Arts He recently co-founded Cantors World, dedicated to promoting cantorial music. Scholarship in the memo line, can be mailed to Dave Horwitz, Visit the web site at www.cantorsworld.com. Also, he co-hosts Israel Update that 229 Vista Drive, Cedar Knolls, NJ 07927. can be seen every Sunday night at 6:00 over Comcast channel 27 in metro NJ. Seymour Abrahamson, Janice Sprei Balicer, Dr. Jerome Berner, Gail Malmgreen, June 1960, is the associate director for archival collections at Herbert Chaice, Dr. Alfred Cohen, Selma Horner Cohen (1944), Tamiment Library / Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, New York University and also Kenneth Coleman (1944), Clive Cummis, Philip Drill, Martin Edelston serves on the Board of the Newark History Society. (1946), Dr. George Ehrlich, Helen Landsman Feirstein, Ellen Bogner Fellers, Cecelia Levy Gallagher, Claire Brenner Gottlieb, Ellen Some members of the class of Jan. 1961 had a mini-reunion at Don Pepes Gradenwitz, Corrinne Tzeses Greenstein, Frances Sachs Honig, David restaurant in Newark this past May. They were Marvin Brown, Gene Elson, Horwitz, Arthur Jacowitz (1949), Martin Kesselhaut, Lila Miller Richard " Pug" Hersh, Marshell Kasen, Mike Kleinman, Kenny Masarsky, Phil Kleinman, Myles Kranzler, Janet Krusch (1958), Helen Berg Landau, Meadow, Gary Prager, Steve Schulein, Bob Singer, Allan Sherman, Sandy Janet Harnisch Leonard, Harold Levitz, Enid Sackin Levitz, Anne Parsonnet Lieberson, Barbara Barrett Lipton, Jean Canter Margulies, Sward and Jay Yarnold. Irwin Markowitz, Janice Misurell-Mitchell (1963), Alfred Morgenroth, Jehudah Reinharz, Jan. 1963, is the President of Brandeis University. Marilyn Gruber Novick, Deborah Rabinowitz Parducci, Dorothy Jacobson Perlmutter, Gilbert Raff, Dr. Bernard Robins, Alvin Cynthia Brown, 1973, is the City Clerk of East Orange, NJ. Schatzberg, Joan Wolf Schatzberg, Rhoda Cohen Scheiner, Phyllis Burdeau Schwarz, Doris Laskowitz Shakin, Arlene Geltman Silk, Jack Marjorie Barnes, 1985, a writing instructor at Union County College, will be the Silverman, Dan Skoler, Morton Skoler (1941), Robert Smith (1944), keynote speaker at Weequahic High School’s 100th graduation ceremony. Claire Boorstein Smith, Harriette Orenstein Steinberg, Marcia Cantor Stubbs, Irwin Tallan, Roslyn Schneider Trunsky, Jerome Waldor, Henry Warner, Dr. Martin Weich (1950), Dr. Helen Thorworth Williamson, Notable Accomplishments From The Children Of Our Alumni Leonard Wolfe (1947), Marvin Zwillman. Hi! I'm Caren Lissner, daughter of Clark Lissner, a 1963 Weequahic alumnus. I graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1993 and got a journalism job for a Bravo to the class of 1963 which just celebrated its 40th chain of weekly newspapers in Hoboken, and I also began writing short fiction and reunion this past October and established a Class of 1963 novels on the side. Scholarship Fund with moneys raised through reunion memory book ads and contributions made by 25 classmates after the I finally published a book in June of last year entitled, CARRIE PILBY. It's a reunion. The total amount donated towards the scholarship to humorous look at the misadventures of a 19-year-old genius who graduates from date is $2,500.00. Additional donations would be welcome. Harvard early but doesn't know how to socialize or "fit in" in the real world. Her Checks made out to WHS Alumni Association, with Class of therapist pushes her to go on dates and meet new people, and she has to decide 1963 Scholarship Fund in the memo line, can be mailed to Jac which compromises she should make to fit in. The novel is being reintroduced this Toporek, 215 Normandy Road, Edison, NJ 08820. summer and is in bookstores across the country, as well as on Amazon. Richard Blecker, Rosalind Kaplan Blinder, Michael Diamond, Arthur My second novel, STARTING FROM SQUARE TWO, was just published this past Drescher, Lenore Ausborn Ferguson, Phyllis Moskowitz Frakt, Paul April. It's about a 29-year-old woman whose college sweetheart died two years ago Galpen, Gerry Gelfand, Sandy Greenberg, Judith Tiplitz Jacobs, Bruce in a car accident, and her bitter single friends drag her out in NYC to start dating Kasen, Susan Bain Ledner, Myrna Manders Levy, Arthur Lutzke, again. It got a short mention in People magazine and is doing well. Stanley Marcus, Marvin Phinazee, Marshall Sampson, Calvin Schwartz, Judy Wilson Schwartz, Fred Steinberg, Jacob Toporek, Norbert Toporek, Richard Trechak, Sheri Kroner Trugman, Gail Greenfeld Weitz. And my dad is still an all-around great guy, too! profiles of distinguished Weequahic alumni / profiles of distinguished Weequahic alumni

test and knowing I could do it,” Drill said. “It lose their middle-market clients,” he says. Philip Drill gave me a good feeling.” “...we would pick up that work. The larger Class of June, 1945 companies are equipped to do very capable, Drill serves as co-chairman of his company, high quality work. But they don’t have the along with his brother Richard (a 1942 WHS personal relationship a middle practitioner has. grad). Together, the two provide the overall We were a smaller firm and clients thought direction for the business, which constructed they would get better personal service and did the original Turtle Back Zoo in West Orange think we were trustworthy. People still trust and Montclair State University’s softball us.” stadium. The business has grown into a tri-generational lineage, as its management Bond declines to be specific, but says has been passed on to his sons, David and Bederson brings in more than $10 million a Jonathan, and to Richard’s sons, Larry and year with thousands of clients and a staff of 80 Roger. The four members of the third people. Bederson started in business 65 Philip Drill, 76, is a general contractor from generation of the Drills provide the day-to-day years ago, and Bond has been with the West Orange and a 1945 Weequahic leadership of the company. company for more than 35 years, except for a graduate. Since 1950 when he joined his four-year stint on Wall Street. He has been father’s general contracting company, he has “My brother and I decided we had to have back at accounting since 1972. “I...have worked in the general contracting field. plans for succession if the company was to developed a specialty in the insolvency exist after the next generation,” said Drill, who bankruptcy area and state litigation support. I As his position grew with Drill Construction, so took over the company from their father, Max, now oversee it, more a rainmaker in terms of did his involvement in the development of the in 1975. “The company is managed by the bringing in business,” says Bond. field. He co-founded the Garden State younger generation and we’ve insured chapter of the ASPE and joined the advisory ourselves for the future.” He frequently serves as a trustee under the federal bankruptcy law where he is a board of the School of Engineering at his alma Continued on page 15 mater, Widener University in Chester, Pa. middleman who manages the finances of individuals and companies that try to work He is also one of the contracting professionals their way out of their financial problems advocating certification for constructing Edward Bond, through a Bankruptcy Court for the District of estimating. “The U.S. Postal Service and the Class of Jan., 1951 NJ. “With all the publicity out there, we are state on major projects require a certified seeing a lot of bankruptcy these days, but not professional estimator to sign off on the the size and volume we used to see,” he says. estimate,” Drill said. “There is a movement to have estimates on those types of projects.” Bond says he urges small business owners to Construction estimating is the practice of avoid denial. If they discover a financial having a skilled professional determine the problem, they should call a lawyer or financial estimated cost of a construction project. consultant. He especially warns against using Recently, federal and state governments creditor money to make payments. “That’s a began implementing a requirement that form of theft,” he says. compel some government-funded projects to receive approval from a certified construction Despite the gloom of bankruptcies, Bond says company estimator. he also sees and hears about an improving economy. “My read is a lot more positive than The accounting world has been turned upside Drill took his first step towards receiving his it was two years ago,” he says. “We’re slowly down and inside out by the scandals that certification last year, when he wrote a coming back, but I don’t think there will be a rocked Enron, Arthur Anderson, WorldCom 2,500-word article on building automated large increase in employment.“ Bond says and Adelphia. At first, all accountants were systems and how they work. He also took an that he has to temper his enthusiasm because tainted with the same brush. But as the dust eight-hour test in which he had to make a of intangibles, such as “the world situation with began to settle, businesses still needed series of estimates. “I thought I had the terrorists, the situation in Iraq and Israel, all accounting services. In New Jersey it appears knowledge,” said Drill of his decision to take places that could explode, and we have to more of this work is finding its way to small the certification test. “I see that it is going to commit a lot more money to support our and midsized firms, says Edward Bond, 70, be required for certain types of proposals and forces overseas.” chairman of the West Orange based decided I ought to do it. It’s a rather accounting firm, Bederson and Co. and prestigious certification.” Bond, a graduate of Seton Hall University, President of the West Orange Chamber of lives with his wife Abby in Convent Station. Commerce. Drill learned he passed the test in December They also own a vacation home in Naples, and was honored in February at a state Florida, and although not a very good golfer, “What ended up happening, in a lot of chapter ceremony at the Priory Restaurant in he enjoys playing golf. respects, the large accounting firms started to Newark. “I was quite satisfied in passing the profiles of distinguished Weequahic alumni / profiles of distinguished Weequahic alumni

Jan. 1941 This past year, Hal was the recipient of the formerly in Newark and now in South Orange. Harold Lefcourt, Pennsylvania 2003 Experience Works Prime Following in his father’s footsteps and those of Time Award. This is a national yearlong effort both grandfathers, he has also presided as At age 80, Hal Lefcourt to salute older workers and to spotlight the President of the congregation and has been a (Lefkowitz at WHS) is important contributions of America’s seniors Board member from 1956 to the present. On somebody “who makes while providing numerous positive examples of a national level, David has been active in the things happen.” He is no productive aging. United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism stranger to multi-tasking. and is a member of the Board of Directors As the owner of his own from 1997 to the present. Currently, he is the public relations company David Schechner, June 1946 President of the New Jersey Region of that for nearly 50 years, he organization. has also served as the After graduating from Executive Director of the Although David stays busy with many Weequahic High National Constables activities, recently the Weequahic High School School in 1946, David Association since 1976, and the Executive Alumni Association has caught his fancy. He Schechner entered the Director of Pennsylvania Constables, Inc. is one of the more active members of the world of higher since 1994. Board of Trustees and on many occasions has education by attending given us the benefit of his sage advice. He Lafayette College and He is also a leading consultant in government was also instrumental in revising the Board’s Harvard Law School. relations and a successful political campaign by-laws and is a valuable member of the Upon graduating from director and strategist. In addition, he has Scholarship committee. published books on public relations and law school, he entered the United States Army as a draftee. He government affairs. David can be expected to liven up any began his military service as a cook, but meeting with a few stories of the old days and finished as a legal clerk in the Washington DC Through his supervision and leadership, the his early life on Renner Avenue, at Peshine area. National Constables Association has grown Avenue School, and summers in Bradley from 18 to 34 state constable associations. Beach. He is the first one to admit that the Following his discharge from the Army, David He has developed an array of in-service time of his life when he attended Weequahic returned to NJ and began a legal career which training programs that have been adopted by High School still stands out in his mind as a has now spanned some 50 years, starting as more than 34 states. golden era which he would not surrender even an associate of Maurice Schapira which later if he could. While it will come as no surprise became the law firm of Schapira & Farkas. In Hal has always been active in community to those who know David, he was elected 1959, David left to establish his own practice sports. He has been a coach, an athletic most talkative in his class by an almost and in 1965 formed his present firm, director, high school basketball official, and an unanimous vote. advisor to a Pony League baseball league and Schechner and Targan, becoming Of Counsel with that firm in the year 2000. At age 75, he to Jewish athletes competing in the Maccabiah Beside bringing his knowledge of the college continues to go to work on a regular basis. Games. He was named national chairman of scholarship process to the WHS Alumni physical education for the Young Men’s Association, David also serves on the David has always exhibited an interest in Hebrew Association, and a regional scout for Scholarship Committee at Columbia High trying to aid those who are less fortunate in the Montreal Expos major league baseball School in South Orange/Maplewood and is a our society. In addition to serving as a trial team. recruiter for Lafayette College. counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union during the demonstrations of the Viet Nam Moreover, he has been active in community While he still engages in the daily practice of War, he has also served as counsel for the organizations. Hal was honored by his local law, he now specializes in transactional N.J. Association of Brain Injured Children, the synagogue for service to Israel, Bucks County, matters and is well-known as someone who is N.J. Tourette Syndrome Association, and has and his community. He has participated in quite knowledgeable on many fields, been a member of the Board of the Hospital many organizations including the Masons, the particularly in the areas of zoning, municipal Center At Orange, chairing its Foundation and Shriners, the Lions Club, Easter Seals, and law and realty. This is because of his service Bio-Ethics Committee. At the present time, he B’nai B’rith. for ten years as counsel for the Planning is a member of the Panel of Experts for Board of South Orange, followed by some 12 Bottom Line Personal, a well-known national Today Hal volunteers with several local years as Village Counsel. organizations, including the Bucks County publication where he serves as the expert on real estate matters. Council for Individuals with Disabilities and the David has been married for over 50 years to Lower Bucks County Chamber of Commerce. his wife, Norma. They have three children and Since the day he was born, he has been a A friend of Hal calls him a “tumler,” a Yiddish seven grandchildren which is the central focus member of Congregation Oheb Shalom, word for “one who makes things happen.” of their lives.

INVEST IN WEEQUAHIC’S FUTURE BY CONTRIBUTING TO OUR SCHOLARSHIP FUNDS hard-pressed to find a single piece of paper FROM THE HONORS on the sidewalk. Graves’ home features two HIGH SCHOOL lions on the front steps and a garden of tulips The following 8 Weequahic High School and petunias. The avid gardener, whose ON THE HILL students were inducted into the National driveway is lined by 20 pots of plants, said he Honor Society this year. They are: Shonta has encouraged all residents to develop a Below are some excerpts from Grace, Megan Pitt, Fatimah Thomas, Descia articles in the Star-Ledger. green thumb. White, Quanessha Mincy, Lisa Conley, Delisa Rawles Krystale Walker. Loraine White, a The Grumman Avenue area was once part of HOOPS 1964 grad and a faculty member since 1970, Weequahic’s farming community. In the was the keynote speaker. 1880’s, real estate developers converted This past winter, the Weequahic High School farms and the big houses that sat on them basketball team, coached by Frank Gavin, 3RD ANNUAL into hundreds of homes and businesses, completed another successful season with a STUDENT VOICE FAIR according to the research of Newark historian 16-7 record. The team Charles Cummings. was led by 5-11, In May 2004 at Rutgers University in Newark, sophomore phenom, Grumman Avenue was named after one of a group of Weequahic students came in 1st in shooting guard Keon the first farmers to allow his land to be sold the 3rd Annual Student Voice Fair Lawrence, whose and subdivided, William Grumman. He was competition. Their project was a presentation highlight game was an ancestor of Leroy Grumman of Huntington, on the problems and consequences of when he scored 31 NY, who founded Grumman Aircraft. pregnancy in Newark and Essex County. The points against Grumman Avenue and surrounding streets school received a $500.00 prize and a plaque. Mendham in a 63-62 became a Jewish community. The Rabbinical Social studies teacher Mr. Fazlu Rahaman double overtime victory College of America, founded in 1956, was was their advisor. Students were: Latoya in January. For the located on the street season, Keon averaged more than 20 points a Evans, Travis Freeman, Laurie Gibbons, game and many times was the leader in Tamia McKenith, Nijuan Moody, Radera assists and rebounds. His signature plays are Rivers, and Dana Thomas. weaving though traffic to make great looking lay-ups and shooting long-range jump shots. During the season he was capably assisted RESTORATION by teammates Tahri Marshall, Dwight Jackson, Bobby Curry, Aaron Millner, and SPRUCE-UP Two South Ward churches and neighborhood Quishawn Dixon. residents were determined to keep a 24-hour Like other neighborhoods in Newark, gas station/convenience store out of their MARCHING BAND Grumman Avenue emptied after the 1967 neighborhood last year. They protested at riots. Most of the residents sold their homes Newark planning board meetings and held and moved to other municipalities in Essex rallies at Leslie and Wainwright streets, where The Weequahic High School Marching Band, the gas station would have been located. under the leadership of Band Director, County. “The people were moving out and we moved in,” said Woodie Graves, 78. Michael Page, and The churches - Clearview Baptist and Union Assistant Band Chapel AME - have welcomed New Life Director, Darryl What had been part of the South Ward’s Jewish enclave became an African- American Missionary Baptist Church into the fold to help Taylor (WHS 1987), clean up the area. Now, all three have won 2nd place community. It is now a community of 30-year friendships. The people who set up teamed up with community residents to take a honors at the Orlando hard look at the neighborhood. All-Star Music residences along the tree-lined street leading Festival in Orlando, to historic Weequahic Park still live there in They have formed the Chancellor Avenue Florida. retirement, and Graves said they share a commitment to keep their street looking Corp., an organization that seeks to redevelop the corridor from Fabyan Place near Route 78 They were rated beautiful. to Hobson Street. “We are committed to “excellent” in the bringing back life to the upper Weequahic marching category. Graves, a retired shipping clerk, founded the Grumman Avenue Block Association 13 years section of Newark,” said Rev. Marlowe Weequahic has won Washington. this competition three times in previous years. ago. “After I retired, I wanted to try to keep the block looking good,” he said. One is

Answers to Sheldon Belfer’s Pop Quiz from Page 19: 1. Rubins and Leeds 2. Garden, Lerhroff, Wiglers & Shustacks 3. Berkeley Savings Bank 4. Esso 5. Burgerama 6. Lou Rose 7. Philip Roth 8. Bernheims 9. Howard Savings Bank 10. Mings 11. St. Peters 12. Lyons Food Market 13. Lehrs 14. Schmerel Brothers 15. Lyons Den 16. Young Israel. recently won a grant from the Corporation for you can’t take the neighborhood out of the NEWARK NEWS Public Broadcasting to begin a conversion to guy,” he said. Valli’s appearance on a Below are excerpts from articles in the digital transmission. Soon they will be putting Soprano’s episode has put him in the spotlight Star-Ledger by Peggy McGlone, Nikita Stewart, a new antenna on the roof of 744 Broad once again. On March 28, he appeared as Barry Carter, and Peter Genovese. Street. mobster Rusty Millio and has completed four episodes. Weequahic’s Vice Principal So as it celebrates its 25th anniversary, it Helps Broker Truce looks forward to the unfolding of the next Until he was six, Valli lived with his family off Between Rival Gangs quarter-century. Garside Avenue in Newark’s First Ward. “It was a cold flat - no heat, no hot water. We Ras Baraka, a Vice Principal at Weequahic had a wood stove, and used lots of blankets.” High School and Deputy Mayor of Newark, has CHERRY BLOSSOM LAND Then the family moved to Stephen Crane been instrumental in brokering a pact with the Village. He attended Abington Avenue School Bloods and Crips that will reduce gang For two weeks each April, Branch Brook Park and Central High School. A jazz fan since he violence in and around neighborhoods and in Newark is transformed into a sea of pink was a kid, he would cut out of class to catch schools. The truce began to take shape over and white as 2,700 Japanese cherry trees concerts in downtown Newark. He remained the past few months when two Crips members bloom. The park is home to the 28th Annual in Newark until he was 30. and a Blood member who are friends felt it Cherry Blossom Festival which attracts more was time to put an end to the violence. The than 10,000 people and generates $300,000 in trio took their concerns to Baraka who contributions. B’nai Jeshurun and the implored gang members to give up that life. The gang members then met among It all began in 1927 when Caroline Bamberger Hopewell Baptist Church Fuld, the sister of department store owner themselves and crafted an agreement which Vanessa calls for an immediate cease-fire. Louis Bamberger and widow of the store’s vice president Felix Fuld, was inspired by the Alexander display of cherry trees in Washington, D.C. remembers how Over the past few years, many of the gang she played on members said they realized the violence had and donated 2,000 Japanese cherry trees to the park. the steps of a to end because it was not only killing their Jewish members, but it was taking innocent lives as synagogue on well. To resolve conflicts in the future, gang Over the next decade, the park will have a new look. The Branch Brook Park Alliance and High Street in members will call on Baraka, Byron Kelley, a Newark. She resident familiar with both gangs, and Saving Essex County are working together on a $25 million, 10-year project to restore the park to remembers how Ourselves, Inc., a group made up of gang her neighborhood changed in the 1960’s, members. its original beauty, while updating Branch Brook’s final 1937 design with modern uses following the civil disturbances. and structures. The B’nai Jeshurun synagogue became the 25 YEARS OF JAZZ The 370-acre park which stretches from Hopewell Baptist Church and High Street became Martin Luther King Boulevard. At the Remember when WBGO was the radio station Newark to Belleville was originally designed by time, she couldn’t foresee how the church of the Newark Public Schools? Remember Frederick Law Olmstead and his sons who are would become the place she met her husband when it was located at Central High School? well known for New York City’s Central Park or where she now works as secretary. She Remember when you would listen to their and Yosemite National Park. takes pride in how the church has made programs in your classrooms from a radio so inroads into the community. large it could stand on the floor? Well, the school system no longer has a radio station, NEWARK’S FRANKIE VALLI The church, under the leadership of the Rev. but 25 years ago WBGO reinvented itself as a Jason C. Guice Sr., has been growing steadily jazz station and has become an important part Big girls, no need during the past 13 years to house an array of of Newark’s cultural scene. to cry. Looks like Frankie Valli, who services and programs that benefit residents, children and senior citizens. There’s a soup In a city once famous for its jazz venue, with the Four kitchen, an adult day care center, and a WBGO is now a public radio station that Seasons, ran off a charter school that plans to expand over the broadcasts jazz 24 hours a day from its dazzling string of next two years. The church also works with state-of-the-art facilities at Park Place in hits - Sherry, Walk several social service agencies to get people Newark. It is known as Jazz 88 and can be Like A Man, Rag the help they may need. found at 88.3 on the FM dial. It is funded by Doll, Big Girls grants and contributions from its many Don’t Cry and Recently, the city of Newark held its annual listeners. others in the late 60’s, is coming back home. Valli, born Francis Castelluccio in Newark in Holocaust observance there, and members of Temple B’nai Jeshurun came back to The radio station has a web site at May 1937, lives outside of Los Angeles with participate in the event. Warren Grover, a www.wbgo.org which features live audio feed, his family. But he misses New Jersey, and 1957 Weequahic alumni who wrote the book, archived interviews and an up-to-date calendar hopes to move back in the near future. “You Nazis in Newark, was the keynote speaker. of live jazz concerts in the metro area. It can take the guy out of the neighborhood but from the voices of our alumni, faculty and friends, from the voices of our alumni, faculty and friends

A Review of Weequahic High Jinks In The 60’s FRED GOLDMAN, JUNE 1962, NEW JERSEY fantastically. Some of us are professionals CRUISING BILLY FROMKIN, and some are very successful businessmen, JANUARY 1962, and all of us are Weequahic Indians at heart. This is about the typical guys BRADLEY BEACH, NJ who turned 17 in 1962 who came from the In the summer, things didn’t change much, other side of Lyons Avenue (the Wolcott only the location. I was lucky to be able to MEMORIES Terrace Association) and went to the big W. summer in Bradley Beach - while the group came and went as the situation dictated. In reading the Alumni Calumet, I get such a Let’s start at the beginning. It’s a spring night What we did for the summer was to move our rush. The memories pour in faster than my and all of our homework is done (yea), so we headquarters from the Burgerama to Mike and now slightly aging brain can handle. When I pile into whoever’s father’s car we could use Lou’s. Who can ever forget Ma Tichlers! went from Maple Avenue School to for the night. The first place we head for is Weequahic, it was a real challenge. I had to Chancellor Avenue. When we get there, we This was a great era to grow up in, and one live up to, or not be associated with my park at the Dairy Queen parking lot across accumulated enough fabulous memories to brother Lew (Blackie), my cousin Lou (Whitie), from Valley Fair and check out what’s going last a lifetime. Go anywhere in the world and or my cousin Sammy, but at the same time on and then on to the Indian Pizzeria. honor the Fromkin name. The task turned out you can always run into Weequahic alumni, who will be more than willing to talk about the to be not a challenge but four years of fun, If nothing good is happening, we walk down school on top of the hill! Once a Weequahic thrills, and most of all, lasting friendships and the street to the Y to see who is hanging Indian always a Weequahic Indian! Weequahic High memories. around in front. There is always a good crowd of people there, so it is good to check. We formed our own group, first at the Indian After shooting the “bull,” we head back to IRWIN STEINLIGHT, Pizzeria, and then at Burgerama. Life Dairy Queen for some great homemade consisted of girls, sports, bowling, pool, poker 1963, NEW Jersey ice-cream and then drive to Woolsey Street in and hanging out at one of the above estab- Irvington where we put the pedal to the medal lishments. In order to be “one of the boys,” THE STEIN BOYS for a ¼ mile. Sometimes we drag race, but you had to spend hours in front of or in one of not tonight. those places. Of course, the group was tight. Way back in the mid 50’s From Maple, Richie and Dicky Rubin, Woody We end up on Lyons Avenue to check out the and then the late 60’s, a couple of dozen Eig and myself. From Chancellor, Joel action at Lyons Lanes. From there we go people (85% guys) hung out at Stein’s Candy Jarman, Harvey Lehroff and Malcolm Reback. down to Elizabeth Avenue, hang a right, drive Store at the corner of Osborne Terrace and From Peshine, Gary Lemmer and Eddie Klein. towards Hillside to Fun Fair where they have Shephard Avenue. There were basically two This was quite a group! bowling, pool, slot cars, and also a lounge (too groups, older and younger. young to get into). Oh yes, GIRLS, we enjoyed the top of the line. Stein’s was our home. We literally did You didn’t need e-mail or cell phones if you Next we’re off to Elizabeth Center to pick up everything there. We had our nickels lined up wanted to get the scoop, just show up at the some girls. No luck. It’s off to St. George on the pinball machine waiting our turn to Burgerama. Just below girls on our list was Avenue to the hot dog hangout (can’t play. We gambled, talked trash and kool sports. Playing for the Indians was good, but remember the name). No luck there, either. yanged each other for hours, and hardly ever being on a winning team in the playground After a night of driving around, we head home stayed out of trouble. was a much higher prize. To get a trophy and plan our next night of cruising. from Bucky Harris or Phil Barone was a real Izzy Stein and his wife Martha, the owners of thrill. These men, along with Hal Ginsberg, Most of our nights start off the same way, but the store, were always blaming us for stealing. taught us how to be tough and prepared us for sometimes we head to Route 22 to the We ate more Devil Dogs and drank more egg all of life’s challenges. For this, I salute you. Adventure Car Hop or over to the high class creams (I can’t remember if I paid him for any Stanley’s on Morris Avenue. We are always of it - Ha, Ha). Stein’s without question was Spike Schwartz called us BUMS and said looking for action, cars and girls. As I look the best and greatest hangout of all time. All that we would never amount to anything. We back on those times, I wouldn’t trade them in of us were just too kool - street smart and bad, proved him wrong. Our group did for malls, video games or even a computer. but good.

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I would like to hear from any of my class- FLORENCE HOWARD BOTNICK, JAN. 1942, mates. You can e-mail me at MISURELL, COLORADO [email protected] FACULTY, NEW JERSEY Weequahic Park, Sabins & Millmans I am very impressed by ERRY ICHINSKY, NEW JERSEY Every issue of the J W the organization, the (FROM JAC TOPOREK’S WHS’63 NOTES) motives and the goals of Calumet I've received the WHS Alumni Association. You are a has a story about On Dave Warner Syds, the Bunny Hop, unique organization among high school I was going through some old pictures last graduates. Within a short period of time you Halems, Weingartens, the Weequahic Diner, night and came across a picture taken in have become so successful. In honor of the Washington, DC in 1960, with Dave Warner many happy years teaching at Weequahic the Tavern, etc. They are all wonderful and members of the South Ward Boy's Club. High School, I wish to make a small It brought back many happy memories to me. contribution. The students and the teachers places and all great memories, but some of I was wondering how many Weequahic alum were united in their goals for success and out there also have fond memories of the happiness. my best memories are from a different place back in the early 30s. I'm talking about Boy's Club. Weequahic Park when it was in its glory. A PAUL LAPPE (husband of the late few feet from the Tavern were two hang outs I first joined in the mid 1950's. It really wasn't WHS teacher Jeanette Lappe) called Millmans and Sabins, both rival hot officially a "Boy's Club" then. My mother was dog stands, where as a kid my father would a childhood friend of Dave's, and we used to get together in his basement and go on trips. Copies of your Alumni Calumet have reached take me on a Sunday. There were probably 20 members then. I also me from good friends of my late wife, Jeanette remember playing on a Boy's Club baseball Lappe. They, as well as I, were impressed The entrance on Meeker Avenue was where team in Weequahic Park. and gratified to read so fine a tribute to her the boat house was, and for a few cents one outstanding qualities as a teacher from a could rent a row boat for an hour of rowing on After the membership reached 50 or so, and student who was in her class more than 50 a clean lake and enjoying the pleasure of too large for Dave's basement, we would meet years ago. drifting along and relaxing. A bit farther was a dock where the big Swan Boat would take kids at Tunis Mansion on Bergen Street (and then go to Jo-Ray's for pizza afterward). This was I must compliment you, your organization, and for a few minutes of fantasy around the lake. years before they would move into their the ideals you are bringing into the Weequahic building that was formerly the Hawthorne High of today. I would like to receive future In winter we went ice skating when the lake movie theater on Hawthorne Avenue. Calumets, so please add my name to your froze and we put on our skates in the boat membership list - check enclosed. I am also house. I remember the Grandstand and the What I remember most about the club in those enclosing the message I sent to Jeannette’s race track where the trotters would race with days was all of the wonderful trips we used to sons and grandchildren attached to a copy of their drivers sitting in their sulkies egging them go on - the boat ride up the Hudson to Rye the article about her by Sandra Rodesky Slipp. on. I remember the barns in the back where I would go to pet and feed the horses, and one Beach, Palisades Park, countless Knick and owner would let me sit in the sulky while he Yankee games, visits to the Normandy Beach Yacht Club (how many kids from Newark went MICKEY MINTZ, JUNE 1959, INDIANA walked his horse to cool him off after a race. to a yacht club?) and many other trips, all for Dreamland My fondest memory of the park, was watching no or little cost. the semipro baseball team named the Your recent Alumni "Mohawks." Every Sunday my father and I Dave Warner was a really wonderful man, and Calumet was interesting would go to the park, he would buy two large it is sad that he is not remembered more. I from a standpoint that you salty pretzels for a nickel and a Bryers or know my brother, Alan (Manhattan Transfer had a picture of Vic Castle Dixie Cup and we would settle down to singer Alan Paul), has said that he owes his Brown’s Dreamland. I enjoy the game. entire career to Dave and all of the support started skating there in that he gave him when he was a child. 1949 and was on the I had two favorite players, one an outfielder Dreamland dance and speed skating team named Gabby and the catcher named Davie, Unfortunately, the Boy's Club building is now under the direction of professional Betty Lytle. and also the manager called Pop. Once in a closed down, but I'd like to think that Dave's while my cousin Whoops, an athlete of some real legacy is all of the wonderful memories I skated with John Dewry who later became fame, would come down and pinch hit for the that we have, of all the trips we took that we the World Champion speed skater by winning Mohawks. My biggest thrill was when Pop let could never have made, Sundays at the his title in 1962 or 1963. Later, I bowled at me take a swing at a ball after the game and I Littleton Avenue Boy’s Club, and all of the Dreamland. As a second career, I became a hit a long ball about three feet foul down the lifelong friends many of us have made professional bowler and a member of the first base line. because of our membership in the Boys (and Professional Bowler’s Association. Girls) Club. stickball box is still there!!! We couldn’t play life. I am an educator in a high school very YOU RUINED MY DAY stickball at the playground because it much like Weequahic, yet nothing there can By Fred Decter, Class of 1960 interfered with other games on the same compare to what I grew up with. When I tell fields, but on weekends, if we wanted to climb my own students what my younger years I simply must write to tell that high fence, we could have about 6 were like, they are amazed. Actually, I you how you “ruined” a stickball games going at the same time, honestly feel many of them do not believe me beautiful Saturday for thanks to whoever painted those boxes on the when I tell them the school had no dress me. It was a gorgeous, playground side of the Untermann Field wall. code, no behavior rules, no formal attendance end-of-the-summer day. Maybe some fresh donuts or a sugar bun policy, no police officers in the building, no My wife (class of ‘65) from Lehrhoff’s? Up to Syd’s for a bag of security measures, no drug, alcohol, sex ed. had gone out. I had greasy flies? How ‘bout Hot Dog Haven programs, personal counseling programs, finished everything on (now that must really date me), later to psychologists, Learning Disability consultants, my “honey do” list, and become the Bunny Hop? Those two places etc. since I had to be out very late that night (i.e. were real trend setters. A really long walk on after 9:00), I figured I would take a nice little a hot day took us to Dairyland, even though Those things were taken care of by our nap. But first I went for the mail. Mistake! that was “foreign” territory (Irvington). parents. The school’s job was to TEACH, and Taking it out of the box, I spotted a color nothing else! And our teachers did just that! combination which immediately rang all kinds Take the 14 Clinton Place bus downtown to For me, two very influential teachers were of bells, for no other organization in our world do some browsing through Woolworth’s? Senor Friedberg and Senora Birnbaum. I would ever select colors quite like the famous Anything good playing at the Park Theater? am now a Spanish teacher and administrator, brown and orange. (that was usually a Friday night activity, embarking on my 40th year! (I was very followed by Jo-Rae’s for pizza or Henry’s for saddened to read about the passing of Mrs. I walked back in to the house, and figured I ice cream (the Roosevelt Theater on Clinton Birnbaum, and had I known she was at the would only take a “quick peek” at the Alumni Avenue was too far to walk). On Yom same nursing home as my mother-in-law, you newsletter, and read the rest after my nap. Kippur, we would head for the White Castle can be sure I would have visited to thank her). So much for the “quick peek”. Once I started, on Elizabeth Avenue for a “sack”. Every- I had to read every word and scrutinize every thing else was closed and we were always Dr. Henry Melnik, who passed away in the picture. After finishing, it was time for the “starving”. Besides, our parents would not late eighties, was another major influence in nap. I went to my recliner, leaned back, and catch us eating before the holiday ended. For my life. After “straightening me out”, we ...back went my emotional clock! Back to the sure, there was never a lack of places to go, became quite close outside of school. He fifties and sixties. End of nap. Time to people to see, or things to do. The problem trained me and several others on his personal remember the past. was figuring out what you wanted. time, and we became very competent musicians. Thanks to him, I went on to have I was born in the Beth (were there other In the mid 80’s, I had to take care of some a very successful and happy 15 years as a hospitals in the world?) and my first home personal business in the area, so my wife and professional musician before getting married was 188 Goldsmith Avenue, right behind I decided it was time to show our two and settling down. WHS. We spent a few years there before teenagers where mom and dad had grown moving to 339 Leslie Street, across from St. up. We drove through the ‘ole neighborhood. Other teachers, such as Leo Pearl and Peters Orphanage. We stayed there until The residential streets and houses were nice, George Martino still bring back lots of fond 1966 before departing the city. None of us although not the way we remembered them. memories of the lime spent in their classes. wanted to leave, but it was time. Things were The houses looked so small! “Big George”, as we called him, was not one not quite the way they had been and my to mess with. Once that bell rang, he turned parents (actually it was only my mother) felt it Just this past spring, it became necessary for his back to the class, and began putting was the right move. us once again to pass through the area to visit chemistry notes on the board, all the time a relative in (where else?) the Beth. After our talking as he wrote. No one’s attention was Ah...what memories! As a kid, walking that visit, we again toured the area, going past the ever diverted from this former pro-wrestler. “huge distance” to Chancellor Avenue (in library on Osborne Terrace, the old Andy’s Boy, did we learn our chemistry reality, probably no more than two hundred Sporting Goods store, back up Lyons yards or so). What to do now that I’m here? Avenue, down Leslie Street and up And then there was Leo Pearl, former Harjay’s for an ice cream soda or candy? To Chancellor to the school. Boy, did this turn Marine, who thought his senior boys should the playground to hang out or play ball? Mr. back my calendar! We actually stopped in really have a “physical education’. He gave Drexel, Mr. Barone, and Mr. Hams would get front of the school and just sat in silence for a us just that. He would have us run 4 laps me into a game. And who can forget “Abe” few minutes. In those few minutes, I would around Untermann Field with a mouthful of (pronounced Abey)? He was there day and venture to say my whole life went by, from my water, and at the completion of our laps, spit night, a fixture on the playground and infancy on Goldsmith Avenue, up until the day out the water in front of him to show him we Chancellor Avenue. If it was a hot day, “Al” we left Newark. had been breathing through our noses. God was there in his wheelchair with his dog and a help the student who didn’t have that water in pail of cold soda. How about stickball in If you spent your teen years at WHS, they had his mouth. Bemheim’s parking lot? Gilly Lustig’s to have had a major, positive impact on your Continued on Page 15

WE ENJOYED A WONDERFUL PAST, SUPPORT WEEQUAHIC’S FUTURE! Brooklyn’s Dodgers The Bums, the Borough, and the Best of Baseball, 1947-1957

By Carl E. Prince, class of January 1953

Carl E. Prince, a January 1953 Weequahic grad, is Professor of History at New York University, and a past chair of the department. A specialist in early American history, he has written several books and many essays on early American political culture. With this book he picks up professionally a subject in which he has had a lifelong interest. Myrna Jelling Weissman, 1953, Carl Prince, 1953, During the 1952 World Series, a Yankee fan trying to watch the game in a and Warren Grover, 1957 at the panel discussion on the Brooklyn bar was told, “Why don’t you go back where you belong, Yankee Newark Bears and Newark Eagles at the NJ Historical lover?” “I got a right to cheer my team,” the intruder responded, “this is a Society in Newark sponsored by the Newark History Society free country.” “This ain’t no free country, chum,” countered the Dodger fan, “this is Brooklyn.” Brooklynites loved their BUMS - Pee Wee Reese, Jackie Robinson, Duke Snider, Roy Campanella, and all the murderous parade of regulars who, after years of struggle, finally won the World Series in 1955. One could not live in Brooklyn and not catch its Weequahic at Age 10 spirit of devotion to its baseball club. From the June 1943 Yearbook

In Brooklyn’s Dodgers, Carl E. Prince captures the intensity and depth of It was September 1933 and the new building, the team’s relationship to the community and its people in the 1950s, showing how the team extended its influence well beyond the sports the bricks and mortar piled high, arena. He captures both the racial intensity surrounding Jackie anticipated life. Robinson’s breaking the color line, and the controversy it generated on the team, in baseball, and the nation. Then came the teachers He takes a hard look at the Dodger’s ubiquitous presence in the life of with the life giving qualities of Brooklyn, the team’s closeness to the children, female fans, and enlightenment, tolerance, and initiative. Brooklyn’s diverse ethnicity. Prince goes on to open the door to the male culture of Brooklyn’s bars, the wonderful baseball played by thousands of The barren structure thrived Brooklyn’s boys on the Parade Grounds, including many who made the and the students surged forward in leap to the Dodger’s minor league farm system, and those who made the ultimate jump to the majors. And Prince doesn’t ignore the underside of fellowship and the spirit of youth. the Dodger experience: the paternity suits and “baseball Annies,” the routine baseball-related 50’s sexism, and the ethnic conflicts that went Ten years ago it was new, with the Brooklyn territory. now it can view with pride a decade In this superb volume, Carl E. Prince provides a stirring history of the of service, a generation of prospects. depth and intensity of the relationship between Brooklyn and its Dodgers Now it has instilled its ideal of service in in the golden years after the Second World War. students whose ranks are legion.

“[Prince] has rummaged through long-departed newspapers...and tracked Through its doors have passed the usual volumes and then some, to explain the loyalty of Brooklynites to the Dodgers.” - The New York Times tomorrow’s lawmakers and citizens - its corridors have laughed and cried with “A book that should resonate deeply for those who were there.” the varying moods of youth. - USA Today Thus, the years have passed, “At long last, a scholar using the tools of modern history has demythologized the Brooklyn Dodgers.” - Sporting News and yet the innumerable cavalcade continues. The inanimate object has gained a “[A] brilliant deconstruction of the Dodger phenomenon.” - New York heart, a soul, a tradition - it can never grow old. Newsday now stand at the pulpit, bless the Torah, and count towards a minyan. Today, THE LITTLE SHUL younger people are coming to services and the congregation has become quite THAT COULD diversified with Russian, Persian, Brazilian, and African- American Jews. By Phil Yourish, class of 1964 At the heart of the shul’s mission is its passionate pursuit of tikkum olam During the past 10 years, I have read with (repair of the world) and tzedakah curiosity some newspapers articles about (social justice). the (almost) last remaining synagogue in Newark - usually about a bar-mitzvah or In 1997, Marshall Steinbaum of wedding taking place for the first time in Montclair had his Bar Mitzvah at the many years. These articles peaked my shul, the first since 1970 when Michael interest and I silently promised that some Terry was called to the Torah. Also that day I would go and visit. But it just never year, Bryce Gundy of West Orange had seemed to happen. the shul’s first ever Bat Mitzvah. Then And as the Jews left the city, the synagogues Mindy Krazmien and Daniel Miller were So it was quite a pleasant surprise when I followed - some constructed new buildings, married in the shul, the first wedding in 60 returned home from summer vacation two some merged with other synagogues, and years. They discovered the shul on the years ago and received a message from my some closed down. Today, there are only two Internet. A few months ago, the bris for brother Stu (WHS 1962) and his wife Jane remaining, Ahavas Sholom and Mt. Sinai in Azaryah Hillel BenLewi took place, the first telling me that they saw an ad in the Vailsburg - the last vestiges of a remarkable such ceremony in 13 years. newspaper about High Holy Day Services at a legacy representing more than 150 years of a synagogue in Newark and asking if I would Jewish presence in Newark. From 1960 to 1985, Rabbi Guttman officiated like to join them. Thinking about missed as the spiritual leader of the synagogue. For opportunities, I enthusiastically accepted. It is somewhat ironic that Ahavas Sholom the past eight years, Rabbi Art Vernon has would survive in a predominantly Italian area served on a part-time basis. Recently, he And it was an even greater surprise when we that never had many Jewish residents. The accepted a position in New York and the arrived to services on the first day of Rosh synagogue served mostly the Jewish Board of Trustees is now organizing a search Hashanah and almost all of the small wooden businessmen who owned stores on Broadway for a new rabbi. seats were filled. What an inspiring sight! and Bloomfield Avenue. However, in the late Over 90 people gathered in this little shul, in 60’s, the future of the synagogue appeared Eric Freedman, 46, a business owner from the city of Newark, in the year of 2002. It bleak as attendance at services steadily Jersey City, is the President of the seemed so out of time and place, yet so declined. Unfortunately, as with so many of synagogue. He also plays a major role in the wonderful and exciting. Newark’s other synagogues, it looked like restoration of the building. A master plan has Ahavas Sholom would need to close its doors been developed by an architect and the In a city with few Jews, the Jewish tradition forever. synagogue needs more than $2.1 million as continues at Congregation Ahavas Sholom on part of an overall restoration plan. Broadway in the North Ward. After many This was not a fate acceptable to the stalwart years of relative inactivity, this little shul is group of elders under the leadership of Ben Recently, a new foyer and doors were experiencing a resurgence as it moves and Ceil Aarons, Rabbi Marton Guttman and donated by the Hirschorn family and an forward with a growing congregation, sisters Bessie Fried and Sadye Gerson who elevator for the handicapped was installed. progressive young leadership, and ambitious were determined to save the synagogue. And The balcony will be converted into a library restoration plans. The synagogue has been even though it was difficult to get a minyan and museum. In the meantime, members of named to the New Jersey and the National (the number of men required to conduct a the congregation volunteer to clean, repair, Register of Historic Places. So how has this service), they persevered for more than 20 restore, and paint. Centennial 2005 is the transformation come about? years. Ben Aarons, in particular, always capital campaign that has been established remained upbeat as he enthusiastically for raising funds for the restoration. At one time there were over 40 synagogues welcomed congregants, constantly made and a Jewish population of over 70,000 in the telephone calls, and strongly opposed the Ahavas Sholom has also become involved in city of Newark. German immigrants arrived in sale of the building. community activities. It is a tutorial site for the the mid-19th century and eastern Europeans Newark Literacy Campaign and it has came in the early years of the 20th century. Then in the 90’s, with publicity in the local developed relationships with two local The majority of Jews was first located in the newspapers, the little shul was “redis- Hispanic neighborhood organizations, La Central Ward near Springfield Avenue living covered” by Jews who were former Casa De Don Pedro and FOCUS. Its doors on streets named Prince, Howard, Broom, Newarkers now living in neighboring towns or are always open to groups who would like to and Spruce. They then migrated to the coming from afar. And it has evolved into an use its facility for meeting space. Weequahic section until the late 50’s and 60’s egalitarian, conservative synagogue, offering when many moved to suburban towns. women the same rights as men. Women can Continued on page 15 The Little Shul That Could Drill said that he always wanted to go into the Before forming the New Jersey Movie Maker's Continued from page 14 construction business and worked with a Network, DuBose spent six years as an And as couple of contractors before joining his father. associate programmer for the New Jersey usual, “My father had a liberal outlook,” said Drill of Performing Arts Center, helping to build Weequahic his father, who died 20 years ago at age 96. cultural bridges to the community. Through is there, too. “He wanted us to work for someone else. He her work, she was able to place internationally I have met allowed us free reign to learn by our mistakes.” acclaimed artists like Paquito de Rivera and other alumni Hugh Masekela into schools, churches and at the shul, The company expanded beyond its other community-based organizations. While in particular, construction borders, orchestrating at NJPAC, she also wrote and produced three Jeffery communication systems equipment for the short films through her production company, Haveson U.S. Air Force that stretched from the Seven Generations. (WHS 1967), Bahamas to Greenland. The company also the secretary has completed numerous projects in 14 states. "Anyone in cinema knows that is it not an easy of the synagogue’s board, who also organizes “I really wouldn’t want to do anything else,” business," DuBose said. "It's a project to periodic Friday-night dinners in the basement’s said Drill of his career. project undertaking. Even if you are social hall following services. successful, nobody cares about what you did When Drill is not working on a construction yesterday. All that counts is what you are Sitting in the little shul, with a yalmulke on my project, he is shaping metals through his other doing now." That, too, explains the handsome head and a tallis draped over my shoulders, passion: sculpting. Drill found his artistic awards given Dec. 5 by the organization - a looking at the magnificent wooden ark, my interest in 1975 in the YMCA class, where he person holding an unraveled piece of film mind becomes flooded with memories from my made figures out of copper. He gradually skyward as the sun comes up - was created growing up years. worked his way into designing abstract art by Dadisi DuBose. "They represent people made of steel, glass, bronze and other rising out of the struggle to reach their goals," materials. His art has been displayed in more his mother said. "They are full of hope." What an oddity for me. Here I am thinking than 50 shows, including Richard Stockton about the Talmud Torah, the tiny orthodox College and the National Arts Club in New synagogue on Osborne and Conklin, one York. “Since it requires patience, it’s really a You Ruined My Life block away from my home, where I had my challenge,” Drill said. “I enjoy the shapes. I Continued from page 12 Bar Mitzvah and spent 6 years attending can’t believe I do it.” Hebrew School. Today the synagogue is no There was also a time when he brought in more - replaced by Interstate Route 78. When rubber bayonets to teach us hand-to-hand I travel this highway, meandering through the Hisani DuBose - NJ Filmmaker combat. After a demonstration with the Weequahic section, I can still visualize the shul Continued from page 3 biggest guy in class, no one dared to and hear the “davening” of the old men. challenge him. Let me tell you, we came out Seton Hall also was the place were she got of that class in top physical condition. His Why am I sitting here, I hear myself say? I’m into African dance, an interest sparked by class was truly one which deserves the name not an observant Jew. I too often have lessons she took as a girl at Joyner Dance Physical Education. questioned organized religious practices and School at Lyons Avenue and Bergen Street. occasionally have explored different spiritual Fresh out of college, she was spotted by Ah, those were the days...From what I read paths. So here I am, after more than 40 years, Mitchell and offered a scholarship to study and find out about “our” classmates, both old and to my surprise, it feels good. dance and music in Harlem while appearing in and young, former and current, Weequahicites "Different Kind of Blues" at TUI. Mitchell had are a very special breed, with a very special Ahavas Sholom is flourishing once again, and been invited to see the show by Brenda place in their hearts for the school, even though I’m not sure why, I find myself Saunders, the choir director at Dance Theater neighborhood, and the environment in which drawn to this little shul, in the city of Newark, in of Harlem, who teamed with DuBose by writing we were so fortunate to have lived and the year of 2004. the music for "Different Kind of Blues." learned. This year, my wife and I have determined that we will return to our school for “My experience with Arthur Mitchell shaped the annual tour and alumni reunion in October. Philip Drill my whole career," said DuBose. "He was a ‘We shall return”. Continued from page 6 creative genius who was meticulous about standards of professionalism. And he was a In closing, I just want to remind you again that The first generation started with Max Drill, who master of audience development at a time you “ruined” my Saturday nap, but that’s OK, began the company in 1926. He and his wife when there were few black ballerinas." With for now I’m sure I will have no problem staying Rose, a homemaker, raised their two sons in Mitchell as her inspiration, DuBose soon up “late” tonight. In fact, I probably will not be Newark in the South Ward. She died when turned to screenwriting, studying at the Writers able to sleep the entire night, with all the Philip was eight, and his father later married Guild of America East and the Writer's Voice, thoughts of Weequahic running through my Augusta Berns, a single mother of two who both in New York City. head. Thanks again for the memories. worked as a photographer.

Thank You For Being A Member Of The WHS Alumni Association During his lifetime, Mr. Chaice became a Mr. Chapman was a 1965 graduate of Weequahic In Loving Memory nationally ranked chess player, a tournament High School and a 1970 graduate of Kansas bridge player and an adept skier. Wesleyan University and received an MA degree in developmental and child psychology from Herbert H. Chaice, Class of He is also survived by his wife, Judith Chaice, and Kansas University in 1973. He was the director 1945, Bullfighter and Attorney two sons, Alexander Chaice, a theatrical agent in of the Consumer Affairs Association in Lawrence, Los Angeles, Christopher Chaice, an attorney in KS from 1978 to 1987. Since 1988, he had Herbert H. Chaice, a lawyer New York City, and three nephews, Superior Court been the proprietor of The Chapman. He is who managed the trusts Judge Douglas Chaice Mintz, and attorney Richard survived by many friends. and estates of a variety of Lewis Mintz, both of Norwalk, CT, and attorney celebrities including Bill Alan Lee Mintz of Washington, DC. Cosby died on April 10 at Lance Austin Posner, his home after a long Class of Jan. 1956, Attorney illness at age 74. Clyde Chapman, Class of 1966, owner of “curious goods” Lance Austin Posner, of A native of Newark, NJ and son of an attorney, Livingston passed away at Mr. Chaice put off for some years the practice of When a Christmas Eve fire age 66. An attorney, Mr. law. Instead, after graduating from Rutgers destroyed the The Posner was a senior University in 1949, he went to Mexico where he Chapman in 1990, Clyde partner with the firm of hoped to emulate the famed Brooklyn, NY Chapman, owner of the Brach, Eichler, Rosenberg, bullfighter Sidney Franklin. He did well enough as used and curious goods Silver, Bernstein, Hammer, a professional bullfighter to win a few “ears and shop, still showed up at a and Gladstone in Roseland tails” and came to be known as that “New North friend’s house for an before retiring several years ago. While there, he American.” annual Christmas Eve was the partner responsible for associate gathering. He said, “My store has just burned training. Two years after becoming a relatively down,” said friend Phil Riehle “He could handle accomplished bullfighter, he was gored seriously any kind of adversity with aplomb.” Mr. Posner was a graduate of the University of enough to reconsider the career choice. Pennsylvania Wharton School of Finance and the Returning to the states, he earned a law degree Chapman opened a new and bigger shop with the Rutgers University School of Law. A member of from New York University in 1957 before joining help of funds raised by friends. “His own home the Essex County Bar Association, he was also a the firm of Patterson, Belknap, Webb and Tyler in had burned a few years before,” Riehle said. member of the New York and New Jersey Bar associations and the Montclair Book Club. In Manhattan where he remained until his “Some people would fall apart, but he was never addition, he served in the Army Reserve. retirement in 1999. like that. He always tackled his problems and dealt with them.” Mr. Chaice had acquired an advanced degree in Born in Newark, he was a January 1956 graduate of Weequahic High School. He also lived in Union taxation in 1962 which made his services even It was with that same tenacious spirit that and Livingston. Surviving are his wife, Marilyn; more valuable to the firm’s clientele. “Clients Chapman confronted brain cancer. Despite his daughters, Gwen Colemen, Beth Yakoby and relied on Herb for so much more than estate illness, friends say, Chapman was still talking Jillian Braunstein; his mother Lena Posner, and matters,” said Jack Schmitt, vice chairmen of the about reopening his store, which had been closed five grandchildren. firm. “He was such a trusted advisor that after since he became ill last winter. But, he lost his he retired, his clients continued to call him for battle with cancer at age 53 in January of 2002. advice. He brought true meaning to the term Leonard N. Buechler, ‘counselor-at-law.’” Clyde Chapman always had an eye for the Class of 1942, Pharmacist unusual. One peek through his store reveals a Indeed, Bill Cosby felt obligated enough to smorgasbord of eccentric used goods: glass Leonard N. Buechler passed immediately establish scholarships in Mr. Chaice’s swans, a basket of colorful matchbooks, a stack away on November 25, name at both Rutgers University and NYU Law of clarinets. “I think that Clyde had an eye for 2003. He was a 1942 School, the scholarship from Rutgers earmarked different kinds of things that most antique dealers graduate of Weequahic High for a high school graduate from Newark. He also didn’t have,” said Pat Kehde, who frequented The represented among others actress Katherine School. After graduating, Chapman. “I think that’s one of the things that Mr. Buechler served in the Hepburn and Countess Mona Bismark and was a set his shop apart.” trustee of the Harry Winston estate. U.S. Army Air Force during World War II. Upon Chapman had been a collector all his life. He was completion of his military The son of the late Abraham Chaice, an attorney also known for striking bargains with customers who had his own Manhattan law firm, and the late service, he attended and graduated from Rutgers who fell in love with items in his store but didn’t College of Pharmacy. Mr. Buechler then worked Dr. Eva Kornblith Chaice, the first woman have enough money to pay the marked price. His periodontist in New Jersey, he was a June 1945 as a licensed pharmacist for many years, finally generosity of spirit is what attracted so many retiring in the mid-1990’s. For over 35 years, he graduate of Weequahic High School in Newark. folks to him, said friend Don Jochems. “He’s just His parents had met in Newark after immigrating lived in Rahway and them moved to Monroe a magnificent person, a truly unique individual. If Township upon retirement. Mr. Buechler is from Europe, his father from Russia and his there were lots more people like that, the world mother from Poland. survived by his wife, Elaine, three sons and 12 would be a much better place.” grandchildren. LEVINE & ATTLES

SCENE I - December 1944: The above photo was taken in the WHS library right before Christmas 1944. Several alumni who were on leave were visiting the high school and were asked to be in a picture Event organizer and WHS 1965 alumna Susan Levine with Al showing gifts that had been collected to be distributed to servicemen. Attles, VP of the Golden State Warriors professional From left to right are: Unknown sailor, Arnie Schuman, Morton basketball team and a 1955 Weequahic grad. Al worked hard Rosenstein, Leon Friedman (all June, 1940 grads). The picture was as a celebrity waiter for the Seventh Annual Celebrity Waiter to appear in the Calumet and the Newark Evening News. Lunch that benefits Berkeley High School Athletics in Berkeley, California. Al also brought with him three "Warrior Girls" and SCENE II - Spring 1951 (6 ½ years later): Morton meets Harriet was a big hit with the crowd of over 400 people. Honigfeld, June 1947. They were married the following year. SCENE III - Several years later: Going though old pictures, Harriet discovers the WHS library photo. Look towards the upper left and you will see a girl in ¾ view. That’s me when I was in 10th grade! We didn’t know each other yet, but that Weequahic connection is sure a powerful force. EPILOGUE - The present: The Rosensteins live in sunny Tuscon, AZ and are enjoying retirement.

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Fax: ( ) ______e-mail: ______WHS ALUMNI In Loving Memory HALL OF FAME Sheldon’s Belfer’s POP QUIZ In furtherance of our effort to Leon Tunis, Class of 1952 acknowledge with appreciation those From a 1951 grad for alumni from the Weequahic graduates who have attained 40’s and 50’s -- or for anybody else who Leon S. Tunis, 70, of significant stature in their fields and/or still has their memory chips functioning Livingston died in May have served their community with 2004. Mr. Tunis was distinction, the Alumni Association has 1. What were the names of the two co-owner and operator established a Weequahic High School pharmacies located at Chancellor of Benjamin’s Garage, a Hall Of Fame. and Wainwright? family business, where 2. What were the names of the four he worked for 55 years The recipients of the annual awards will bakeries between Leslie and before retiring in 1996. be memorialized with a plaque in the Fabyan Place? He was a member of the men’s club of first floor hall and honored at an assembly each May. We welcome your 3. What was the name of the bank at Temple Beth Shalom of Livingston and Fabyan and Chancellor? a past master of the Rising Star Lodge nominations. Please submit a detailed 109 of Hudson County. statement describing the individual 4. What was the name of the gas graduate and the reasons she or he station at Chancellor and Born in Newark and a 1952 graduate of merits the honor. The deadline for Crescent? Weequahic High School, he moved to recommendation letters and the Livingston 39 years ago. Surviving are announcement of selections is being 5. What was the name of the diner across from Chancellor Avenue a daughter, Debbie; a son, Wayne, and a extended. brother, Donald. School? So many of our graduates have led 6. What was the name of the florist Alumni: distinctive lives. Let us praise them at Summit and Chancellor? appropriately in the High School On 7. Who is the famous author who Leonard Schreiber, 1940 The Hill. lived on Leslie Street between Seymour Jacowitz, 1944 Lyons and Chancellor? Harry Levine, 1945 From Abby Weinberg, George Bleznick, Jan. 1945 8. What was the name of the funeral June 1936, Florida parlor on Chancellor? Evelynne Gottfried Dinsfriend, 1945 9. What was the name of the bank David Pollack, Jan. 1948 Believe it or not, some of the graduates on Clinton Place and Chancellor? Joan Blaney Gerrity, 1951 of June 1936 are still alive and kicking. Deanna Kaiser Cohen, Jan. 1957 One of the (Alumni) Calumets was sent 10. What was the name of the Ellen Bernstein, 1959 to someone named Spitalny in Chinese restaurant at Clinton Harrisburg, PA. He mailed it to his Place and Lyons Avenue? Charles Yablonsky, 1960 sister, who graduated with me in 1936. 11. What was the name of the She now lives in Boynton Beach, orphanage on Lyons? Faculty: Florida and is now married to my brother-in-law. We are in touch 12. What was name of the super Leonard Morris, 85, former chair of constantly and also with Sanford market across from the orphanage Social Studies Department at Weequahic and Gutentag, another 1936 graduate. We on Lyons? South Side; history teacher at Arts High all see each other for lunch occasionally. School for 17 years; also basketball and 13. What was the name of the cigar We relive good times on Chancellor baseball coach. store on Bergen Street? Avenue. We are still proud of the brown and orange! 14. What was the name of the furrier Community: on Bergen and Lyons? It might amaze you, perhaps even stun Theresa David, 81, principal and 15. What was the name of the you to know that I have (and treasure) assistant school superintendent in Newark. luncheonette on Elizabeth and volume 1 of the (original) Calumet, Lyons? Nathan Heard, 67, author of Howard along with 10 or 15 that followed. I Street - a popular novel about life in Newark. don’t throw anything away. I’d 16. What was the name of the appreciate it if when you receive this synagogue on Maple & William J. Brennan III, 71, note, you would write me and tell me Weequahic? attorney, son of Supreme Court Justice, and what you think about hearing from a former Newark resident. 1936 grad. Answers on Page 8 REUNIONS WHS ALUMNI STORE ALUMNI CALUMET June 6, 2004 SEE PAGE 18 TO ORDER is a publication of the 1939 - 65th WHS ALUMNI ASSOCIATION Sunday, 12 noon, The Atrium, West Editor, Layout & Design: Orange, NJ. Contact: Mickee Lublang at (973) 857-0353 or Shirley Finkelstein Phil Yourish at (973) 731-2068 Editing: Dave Lieberfarb & Hal Braff August 28, 2004 Contributors: 1989 - 15th Star-Ledger Photos Saturday, 12 noon, Rahway Park, Rahway, NJ Contact Karimah Williams Printing: at (973) 371-1488 or Village Press of Orange, NJ [email protected]

October 2, 2004 HELP US WRITE 1938 - 66th THE NEXT ISSUE Saturday, 11:30 AM, Essex House in West Orange, NJ. Contact Shirley Send letters, articles, Rabinowitz at (973) 736-2637. stories, memories, poems, recipes, photos, cartoons, October 2, 2004 trivia, obituaries, reunion information, etc. June 1954 - 50th Saturday, 7 PM, Headquarters Plaza Hotel in Morristown, NJ. Contact CONTACT US Sheila Dishell at [email protected] or Thelma & Herb Schnitzer at WHS Alumni Association (973) 762-8992 P.O. Box 494 Newark, NJ 07101 October 9, 2004 (973) 923-3133 1964 - 40th ALSO GET BACK ISSUES OF OUR NEWSLETTER [email protected] Saturday, 7 PM, Marriott Hotel at Newark Liberty International Airport, Newark, NJ. A weekend of events. Contact Wendy Kaufman Nowak at (908) 722-1874 / FOOTBALL [email protected]. For class news, visit the 1964 web site at www.angelfire.com/stars4/weequahic64 FANTASY September 18, 2005 FUNDRAISER 1945 - 60th Sunday, 12:00 PM, Headquarters Plaza Make a Contribution to the Hotel, Morristown, NJ. Contact $1,000 Dave Horwitz, (973) 539-5158 WHS ALUMNI ASSOCIATION and you will receive (4) four 50-yard line tickets to the GIANTS and JETS Exhibition September 24, 2005 Football Game at Giants Stadium on Saturday, August 14th 1960 - 45th The first person to make the contribution, gets the tickets Saturday, 7 PM, Woodbridge Sheraton Hotel, Woodbridge, NJ. Contact Harold Klein at (609) 655-3778 or Lois Weequahic High School Alumni Association First Class Mail Blumenthal Gilbert (732) 462-4808 U.S. Postage P.O. Box 494, Newark, NJ 07101 PAID October 8, 2005 Permit No. 205 Orange, NJ 07050 1965 - 40th Saturday, 7 PM, Woodbridge Hilton Hotel, Woodbridge, NJ. Contact Dennis Estes at (732) 549-5600 REUNIONS WHS ALUMNI STORE ALUMNI CALUMET June 6, 2004 SEE PAGE 18 TO ORDER is a publication of the 1939 - 65th WHS ALUMNI ASSOCIATION Sunday, 12 noon, The Atrium, West Editor, Layout & Design: Orange, NJ. Contact: Mickee Lublang at (973) 857-0353 or Shirley Finkelstein Phil Yourish at (973) 731-2068 Editing: Dave Lieberfarb & Hal Braff August 28, 2004 Contributors: 1989 - 15th Star-Ledger Photos Saturday, 12 noon, Rahway Park, Rahway, NJ. Contact Karimah Williams Printing: at (973) 371-1488 or Village Press of Orange, NJ [email protected] October 2, 2004 HELP US WRITE THE NEXT ISSUE 1938 - 66th Saturday, 11:30 AM, Essex House in West Send letters, articles, Orange, NJ. Contact Shirley Rabinowitz stories, memories, poems, at (973) 736-2637 recipes, photos, cartoons, trivia, obituaries, reunion October 2, 2004 information, etc. June 1954 - 50th Saturday, 7 PM, Headquarters Plaza Hotel in Morristown, NJ. Contact Sheila Dishell CONTACT US at [email protected] or Thelma & Herb Schnitzer at (973) 762-8992. WHS Alumni Association P.O. Box 494, Newark, NJ 07101 October 9, 2004 (973) 923-3133 ALSO GET BACK ISSUES OF OUR NEWSLETTER 1964 - 40th [email protected] Saturday, 7 PM, Marriott Hotel at Newark Liberty International Airport, Newark, NJ. A weekend of events. Contact Wendy Kaufman Nowak at (908) 722-1874 / [email protected]. For class FOOTBALL news, visit the 1964 web site at www.angelfire.com/stars4/weequahic64 FANTASY September 18, 2005 1945 - 60th FUNDRAISER Sunday, 12:00 PM, Headquarters Plaza Hotel, Morristown, NJ. Contact Make a $1,000 Contribution to the Dave Horwitz, (973) 539-5158. WHS ALUMNI ASSOCIATION and you will receive (4) four September 24, 2005 50-yard line tickets to the GIANTS and JETS Exhibition Football Game at Giants Stadium on Saturday, August 14th 1960 - 45th The first person to make the contribution, gets the tickets Saturday, 7 PM, Woodbridge Sheraton Hotel, Woodbridge, NJ. Contact Harold Klein at (609) 655-3778 or Lois Weequahic High School Alumni Association First Class Mail Blumenthal Gilbert (732) 462-4808 P.O. Box 494, Newark, NJ 07101 U.S. Postage PAID October 8, 2005 Permit No. 205 1965 - 40th Orange, NJ 07050 Saturday, 7 PM, Woodbridge Hilton Hotel, Woodbridge, NJ. Contact Dennis Estes at (732) 549-5600