A publication of the WHS ALUMNI ASSOCIATION 279 Chancellor Avenue Newark, NJ 07112 WHEN WEEQUAHIC GIVES A PARTY, Office: (973) 923-3133 Fax: (973) 923-3143 ITS ALUMNI RESPOND ... [email protected] www.weequahicalumni.org When the Weequahic High School Alumni Weequahic in the 90's with the same passion Association gives a party, its alumni respond as the older alumni who preceded him. And Executive Director & Editor: in a big way! That's exactly the phenomenon what a pleasant surprise when Willie West Phil Yourish, 1964 that took place on Sunday, October 13 at sang his own local version of “What A Congregation Oheb Shalom in South Orange Wonderful World.” Co-Presidents: when more than 600 people showed up to celebrate the 70th Anniversary of Weequahic Hal Braff, the founder and Co-President of Harold Braff, 1952 Faith Howard, 1982 High School and the 5th Anniversary of the the Alumni Association and MC for the Alumni Association. program, led the large gathering in the Treasurer: singing of popular Weequahic songs, and Sheldon Bross, 1955 The grand tradition of Weequahic drew spoke eloquently about the mission and goals alumni from all over New Jersey and its of the Alumni Association. Ron Stone, Secretary: neighboring states - and also from Maryland, current Vice-Principal and Loraine White, a Myrna Jelling Weissman, 1953 North Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Nevada, 1964 alumna and staff person for the past 32 Committee Chairs: and California. They represented the years, also addressed the audience and spoke different generations of the Weequahic High about Weequahic in year 2002. On behalf of Events: School family from 1932 to the present time. Mayor Sharpe James, Weequahic graduate Faith Howard, 1982 The affair was a part of Homecoming Marshall Cooper, a 1969 alum, presented the Scholarships/Grants: Weekend which included a tour of the high Alumni Association with a proclamation Arthur Lutzke, 1963 school on the previous day. from the City of Newark. WHS Liaison: Loraine White, 1964 The celebration featured photo collages, "The turnout was overwhelming and the poster displays, a computerized slide show, celebration was spectacular. It was our Committee Members: video- taped interviews, the award-winning most successful undertaking so far," stated Velma Adams, 1975 Weequahic High School Jazz Band, former Phil Yourish, a 1964 grad and Executive Sylvester Allen, 1971 and present faculty, and presentations from Director of the Alumni Association, who Marjorie Barnes, 1985 alumni who reflected on what it was like to organized the event with 25 alumni who Judy Bennett, 1972 be a Weequahic student in each of the seven served on the Planning Committee. Lawrence Bridget, 1980 decades. Yvonne Causbey, 1977 Marshall Cooper, 1969 There were also many positive comments Mary Dawkins, 1971 Les Fein, the high school's most successful about the festivities from those who Harold Edwards, 1966 basketball coach, opened up the program attended. Avis Weeks, a 1952 graduate, Lois Blumenfeld Gilbert, 1960 with fond memories of the Weequahic reiterated that "the party was terrific - lots of Dale Kundin Gordon, 1968 experience, praises for the Weequahic laughs and a few tears. I was delighted to Beverly Schulman Kass, 1953 faculty and students, and enthusiastic share the afternoon with my classmates, Dave Lieberfarb, 1965 support for the work of the Alumni friends and other alumni." Phyllis Layne Bert Manhoff, 1938 Association. Sharing their Weequahic from the class of 1944 described the event as Adilah Quddus, 1971 stories were Bea Kaplan Brown, 1937; Bert "a wonderful day." And 1951 graduate, Linda Reaves, 1972 Harry Reavis, 1982 Manhoff, 1938; Molly Taner Jay, 1942; Eli Seymour Spiegel, thought that "the Gerald Russell, 1974 Hoffman, 1956; Steve Dinetz, 1965; Adilah committee deserved accolades for the Dave Schechner, 1946 Quddus, 1971; Willie West, 1972; Marjorie program's style, pace, focus and intelligent Vivian Simons, 1959 Barnes, 1985; and Vaughn Crowe, 1998. It use of nostalgia." Charles Talley, 1966 was fascinating to hear Vaughn, a recent Gail Washington, 1971 graduate of Colgate University, speak about (Go To Page 3) Sam Weinstock, 1955 Audrey Williams-Holmes, 1982 Scholarship Make your donation to a scholarship fund by sending a check to: Contributions WHS Alumni Association, P.O. Box 494, Newark, NJ 07102 Nyoka Stackhouse-Green, Faculty Ellen Wiss Kaplan, 1964 WHS Alumni Association Charles Stewart, Faculty Alvin Lubetkin, 1951 General Scholarship Fund Cheryl Sampson Taylor, 1967, Faculty Myrna King Malec, 1959 Thomas Tilley, Former Faculty Linda Melton Mann, 1963 Irving Ackerman, 1944 Dolores Mayberry Trimiew, 1964 Sheila Bloom Noll, 1953 Beatrice Kaplan Brown, 1937 Anne Williams, Faculty Robert Pearl, 1955 Ellen Kimmelman Brown, 1960 Hugh & Doris Young Susan Kaiser Seigel, 1962 Luysynthia Carter, 1967 Phil Yourish, 1964 Charles Seigel, 1959 Class of January 1952 Elaine Smith-Koenig, 1949 Class of June 1952 Hannah Litzky Muriel Reider Swartz, 1955 Class of June 1980 Alan Sylvester, 1964 Memorial Scholarship Fund Merle Rosen Cohen, 1963 Marsha Gurvitz Weiss, 1965 Michael Cosby, 1974 Alan Adler, 1964 Seymour Weiss, 1948 Michael Diamond, 1963 Marvin Bernstein, 1940 Steven Weiss, 1962 Sandra Serbin Dresdner, 1956 Deborah Reider Bazes, 1966 Fraida Markowitz Yavelberg, 1960 Maria Piacente Galeota, 1959 Beryl Lieff Benderly, 1960 Howard Goldberg, 1964 Lou Bodian, 1964 Academic / Performing Arts Brian Klappholz, 1963 Lee Casper Scholarship Fund Anne Kramer, 1961 Bruce Cohen, 1955 Merle Kurzrock, 1964 Michael Cosby, 1974 Seymour Abrahamson, 1945 Lawrence Lerner, 1952 Nancy Wildstein Curtis, 1958 Jerome Burner, 1945 Arthur Lutzke, 1963 Dennis Estis, 1965 Herbert Chaice, 1945 Jerold Martin, 1954 Marilyn Feitel, Former Faculty Selma Horner Cohen, 1945 Irwin Markowitz, 1945 Stuart Friedman, 1959 Kenneth Coleman, 1944 Joan Martin, 1969 Judith Herr, 1964 Clive Cummis, 1945 Wilfredo Nieves, 1966 Harold Hodes, 1960 Marty Edelston, 1946 Allen Pearl, 1949 Helen Gorlin Hoffman, 1940 George Ehrlich, 1945 Marvin Phinazee, 1963 Ellen Wiss Kaplan, 1964 David Horwitz, 1945 Sharon Price-Cates, 1972 Simon Kaplan, 1942 Janet Krusch, 1958 Arnold Reiter, 1965 Michael Kerner, 1963 Helen Berg Landau, 1945 Deborah Rivera Stanley Levy, 1960 Anne Parsonnet Lieberson, 1945 Marvin Schlanger, 1965 Diana Lieberman, 1967 Seymour Margulies, 1945 Judith Wilson Schwartz, 1963 Paula Litzky, 1966 Irwin Markowitz, 1945 Richard Seroff, 1953 Paul Lyons, 1960 Janice Misurell-Mitchell, 1963 Doris Laskowitz Shakin, 1945 Janice Misurell-Mitchell, 1963 Allen Parducci, 1945 Robert Steinberg,1966 Sharon Gaidemak O’Neil, 1960 Bernard Robbins, 1945 Jean-Rae Turner, 1938 Robert Pearl, 1955 Arthur Silk, 1945 Ophra Rabinowitz von Hentig, 1957 Clifford Rosenthal, 1962 Jack Silverman, 1945 Jill Graifer Watkins, 1961 Burton Sebold, 1952 Dan Skoler, 1945 Joel Weiss, 1960 Sanford Simon, 1950 Robert Smith, 1944 Jean-Rae Turner, 1938 Claire Boorstein Smith, 1945 Maxine Boatwright Marc Weiner, 1966 Phyllis Burdeau Schwarz, 1945 Memorial Scholarship Fund Paula Silverman Weinstock, 1941 Lois Wilner, 1953 Leo Pearl Memorial Lawrence Belford, 1957 Fraida Yavelberg, 1960 Walter Brownlee, 1961 Scholarship Fund * Marshana Chapman, Faculty Weequahic HS Alumni Tema Yeskel Javerbaum, 1964 Arnold Cohen, 1965 and her husband Ken Peter Cutty Scholarship Fund / Sadie Rous Frances Davis Memorial Scholarship Fund Class of 1985 Scholarship Fund * Saunders Davis, Former Faculty Martin Bernstein, 1940 Martin Dickerson Marjorie Barnes, 1985 Janice Findley, Faculty Sidney Bernstein, 1955 Linda Sarnow Boginsky, 1956 Mildred Givens Class of June 1940 Mary Hicks Bruce Cohen, 1955 Adelle Howard Harvey Cohen, 1953 In 1990, the class of 1940 contributed two $250.00 Janice Lanier, Faculty Clive Cummis, 1945 scholarships. In 2000, they contributed two $500.00 Mary Larsen Seymour Zoom Fleisher, 1940 scholarships and also donated $100.00 to the Dave Lieberfarb, 1965, Former Faculty Ezra Friedlander, 1958 marching band towards the purchase of new Lela Lynch Barbara Rous Harris, 1959 uniforms. Mordecai Podhoretz, 1964 Judy Herr, 1964 Anna Acey Robertson Helen Gorlin Hoffman, 1940 Harold Hodes, 1960 Grace Simmons * New Scholarship Funds 70 YEARS OF WEEQUAHIC HIGH SCHOOL: 1932 - 2002

1937 - Bea 1938 - Bert 1985 - Marjorie 1965 - Steve 1971 - Adilah 1972 - Willie 1956 - Eli 1998 - Vaughn 1942 - Molly Kaplan Brown Manhoff Barnes Dinetz Quddus West Hoffman Crowe Taner Jay

ALUMNI AFFAIR y awarded 39 scholarships totaling more than $35,000 y received a $75,000 grant from the (Continued From Page 1) Jaqua Foundation to purchase new band An interesting sidelight was when two alumni uniforms and instruments y received a from different eras were reunited - Marjorie two-year $70,000 grant from the Chancellor Barnes, 1985, met her former Stockton State Foundation to fund the management of the College professor, Paul Lyons, 1960. Marjorie, association y purchased new uniforms for the an instructor at Union County College, was so basketball team y funded a variety of student impressed by the event that she decided to activitiesy sponsored career day and establish a scholarship fund in the name of the African-American History Month events at the class of 1985. school. In addition, the Alumni Association publishes The Weequahic High School Alumni Association the popular Alumni Calumet, a 16-20 page is unique in so many ways. Unlike alumni newsletter, three times a year and recently groups which are interested in only the good opened its new interactive alumni web site. memories and having reunions, many In a relatively short period of time - only 5 Weequahic grads want to “give back” and years - the Alumni Association has made create something special and enduring that significant progress and has quickly become an will benefit Weequahic High School students in integral part of the Weequahic High School the new millennium. Building on the rich experience. tradition and experiences of its alumni over the past 70 years, it raises funds to provide Our special thanks to David Schechner, ’46, for additional opportunities and supports for the students who attend Weequahic High school making the arrangements with Congregation today. Oheb Shalom; to Allen Brown, Executive Director of the Temple; to Sam and Ellen It now has over 5,000 alumni on its mailing list. Weinstock, ‘56, for the ad about the Alumni Celebration in the Temple journal; to Lois Above L-R: Les Fein & Loraine White - 1964 Middle Last year it became an official non-profit L-R: Ron Stone & Dave Schechner - 1946. Below organization. It has an office at the high school Blumenthal Gilbert ’60, for the flower L-R: Hal Braff - 1952 & Marshall Cooper - 1969 and a part-time Executive Director. Moreover, centerpieces for the tables; to Arnold Goldblatt, it is driven by a dedicated group of alumni ‘56, and Exquisite Caterers for the wonderful volunteers. food and service. And our special appreciation to all of the members the WHS Alumni Its accomplishments are noteworthy. Some of Association Planning Committee who worked so them are as follows: diligently to make this a very successful event.

In front: Beverly Schulman Kass - 1953 & Vivian Some of our alumni volunteers: L-R: Yvonne Causbey - 1977; Dave Lieberfarb - 1965; Judy Simons - 1959. In back: Myrna Jelling Weissman - Bennett - 1972; Sam Weinstock - 1955; Lois Blumenthal Gilbert - 1960; Gerald Russell - 1974 1953; Phil Yourish - 1964; Mary Dawkins - 1971 January provides Americans with the opportunity for the Study of Negro Life and History - seeking a A Winter of Renewal to acknowledge the only person who lived in the mechanism for Americans to explore the twentieth century for whom a National Holiday was contributions its Black citizens had made to our and Commemoration named - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Born in 1929 country's history. In 1926 his prayer was and assassinated in 1968, Dr. King showed us as answered and Negro History Week was By Hal Braff, 1952, Co-President no one before him had that Freedom and Dignity established to be held in the second week of were the inalienable rights of all people. We February because both Frederick Douglass and Since 1966 December's cultural-spiritual scene, honor him - whether we are black or white - for Abraham Lincoln were born in this month. In brightened with wreaths and Santas bringing good bringing the dream that is America from the 1976 the then renamed Association for the Study cheer in honor of the birth of Jesus, and clouds to the earth. of Afro-American Life and History succeeded in Chanukah Menorahs commemorating the victory promoting the commemoration into Black History of the Maccabees in their struggle for religious Month. freedom, has included a holiday specifically celebrating the growth and development of This year, as we have in the past, the Weequahic African-Americans. It is called Kwanzaa, derived High School Alumni Association provides our from the Swahili phrase "matunda ya kwariza" students with a look into our relationship with the which means "first fruits", and is traditionally past. On February 7th, Emmanuel and Pauline observed from December 26 through January 1. Dongala will address the students at the high school about their life in the Congo Republic and Rooted in the first harvest celebrations practiced their escape from civil war to the United States. in various African cultures, Kwanzaa seeks to enforce a connectedness to African cultural Ironically, it was through the efforts of 1950 identity. Conceived and developed by Dr. Manlana Weequahic graduate and Pulitzer Prize winning Ron Karenga, it was born out of the whirlwind of Emmanuel & Pauline Dongala writer Philip Roth that the Dongalas were liberated social and political changes experienced in the from the Congo to come to this country. Roth sixties, designed to provide African-Americans a He reminded us that: “Injustice anywhere is a played a major role in obtaining visas for the unique holiday - one devoted to honoring their threat to justice everywhere” and that: “A person Dongala family and a job for Emmanuel Dongala growth and development. The experience of who won't die for something is not fit to live” and as a visiting professor of chemistry and African Kwanzaa - now celebrated by millions - has he proclaimed: “I refuse to accept the view that culture at Simon’s Rock College in Massachusetts. provided an opportunity for Black Americans to mankind is so tragically bound to the starless relate to a long ignored past with new midnight of racism and war that the bright Dr. Dongala earned a BA from Oberlin College, understanding and pride. daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never MS from Rutgers University and a doctorate in become reality. I believe that unnamed truth and chemistry from the University of Montpellier in Though Kwanzaa is a spiritual, festive, and joyous unconditional love will have the final word." As France. He has also become well known as a celebration of the oneness and goodness of life, Senator Robert Kennedy eulogized: “Martin writer. In 1999 he was awarded a Guggenheim it has no ties with any religion, but reflects a way Luther King dedicated his life to love and to Fellowship. His novels have been translated into of life - a time to remember, reassess, recommit, justice for his fellow human beings, and he died eight languages. His new novel about child reclaim, reward and rejoice with particular because of that effort.” soldiers in Africa has just been published. emphasis on the unity of the family. It is a time for families to come together and honor the past, February is Black History Month, the outgrowth of The WHS Alumni Association is proud to welcome critically evaluate the present and commit to a the dream of a historian named Carter G. the Dongalas to our high school. fuller, productive future. Woodson, who in 1915 founded the Association

Jean-Rae Turner Rotary Club. I represented the New Jersey Press 1982, and worked briefly in the Public Women as New Jersey’s outstanding reporter in a Information office at Kean with Gene Picker, Continued From Page 15 national awards program. another Weequahic Alumni, who also was on the Journal staff with me, co-authored “Elizabethtown I have won several The Newark Landmarks and Preservation and Union County” sponsored by the National Journalism prizes. One Committee gave me a plaque for my work in State Bank, Elizabeth; and I have done three was from the New researching the history of the Evergreen “Images of America” books for Arcadia: Jersey Press Cemetery and the Images of America book on “Elizabeth,” “Newark,” and “Hillside” and one Association for an Newark and the various talks I have given. “Making of America” book on Newark. edition of the Journal in Evergreen Cemetery was placed on the State and 1976, published for the National Historic Sites lists. I’m currently working on another “Making” book. nation’s bicentennial. All of these books were done with Richard T. Koles, another former Journal employee. Dick The Hillside Lodge, In addition to my work at the Journal, I did a and I were included in the Center for the Book B’nai B’rith presented historical column on Eastern Union County for program at the Newark Public Library. The library me with their “The Citizen” in Hillside for 10 years, wrote put out a booklet naming all Newark authors. citizenship award for historical pamphlets for the Hillside National Bank Philip Roth of course was listed. I was awed to my first book, “Along The Upper Road - The from about 1954 to 1962, a booklet for the be included. History of Hillside,” published by the Hillside Eastern Union County Chamber of Commerce in Visit The Old Neighborhood At A Scholarship Fund in WWW.WEEQUAHICALUMNI.ORG Memory of Leo Pearl - Teacher, Coach, & See 70 Years of WEEQUAHIC on the Internet Vice Principal

A new scholarship fund has THE WEB SITE IS OPEN been established in the Just click on the logo memory of Leo Pearl, who was a physical/health and enter the halls education teacher, coach of Weequahic High and vice principal at School once again! Weequahic for 23 years from 1957 to 1980.

› sign-up › get your password › bookmark this site › view A gift of $10,000 was lists of classes › tour the photo gallery › e-mail your presented to the WHS classmates › share your favorite memories › check out the Alumni Association by Tema Yeskel Javerbaum and her calendar of events › look for the latest reunion information husband Ken, the trustees of The Fannie Klugman Trust. › find out what’s happening at Weequahic › learn about the Two $1,000 scholarships will be awarded each year. important work of the WHS Alumni Association Mrs. Javerbaum, a 1964 graduate, who had Mr. Pearl as a homeroom teacher, states that “he was a wonderful WEB SITE COMMENTS: It’s great! And what a service to Weequahic and its alumni! - Jerry Lieberman 1961 teacher and outstanding person who contributed so much and in so many ways to the high school This is Great.....Orange and Brown Forever!!!!! community. I have no doubt that he is remembered with - Willie Thomas, Jr., 1970 The WHS Alumni Association is doing an outstanding job. The new webmaster is a affection and respect by thousands of students who were jewel. Nothing but quality. Congratulations! privileged to know him as a teacher, coach and Wonderful and informative. administrator during his long tenure at Weequahic. It is I LOVE IT ALL - Luther Howard, 1969 - Mary Dawkins, 1971 also my hope that other past Weequahic graduates who share my admiration and esteem for him will be moved to Great job! The pictures brought back many Terrific idea! Thanks for offering it. make their own contributions to the fund in his memory.” - Gail Meyer Dunbar, 1960 fond memories of some of the best years of my life. My congratulations and appreciation Leo Pearl passed away at age 78 in 2000. He worked A great job for a great school in a great to those who put in the time and effort to for the Newark Public Schools for 41 years. As a neighborhood, and most of all, for great make this happen - Thom McCloud, 1965 swimming coach at Weequahic, Mr. Pearl’s teams won 6 people! Keep up the great work for city championships and he holds the state record of 77 Fred Decter, 1960 I am so happy to have found you all. I can't everyone's benefit. - dual meet victories. His cross-country team also won the wait to chat with my old classmates and city championship. After leaving Weequahic, Mr. Pearl friends. Those were the days, though we First visit to the site. It is wonderful -- now I was the supervisor of the physical education department Carole get my Weequahic "fix" any time I want, and were in such a hurry to grow up! - for the Newark Public Schools until retiring in 1987. don't have to wait for the (much appreciated) Sandler Kahn, 1958 Earlier, he taught at Dayton St., South St. and Oliver St. newsletters! Thanks for all the work you have elementary schools in Newark. done to make this a special place to visit; I The WHS Alumni web site and association look forward to seeing many more memories reflects a great commitment of time and much Mr. Pearl earned a BS degree in health and physical and people - Leslie Goldman Pumphrey, appreciated effort by those who have caused education from Panzer College, an MA in education 1962 it to happen. Thank you for not giving up on administration and supervision from Rutgers University, such a daunting challenge. You have caused and did post graduate study at NYU, Rutgers and Seton I think it's fantastic! I never would have made me to once again enjoy the fondest of Hall. In World War II, he served in the Marines and Navy. contacts with about 20 past classmates if not memories from my youth. - Steve Kass, 1964 for this venue - Lawrence Koonce, 1963 From 1955-62, Mr. Pearl was the general manager of I would like to thank and commend all of my Spring Garden Country Club in Florham Park and from I'm glad Weequahic has a web site that allows fellow alumni who took the time from their 1963-80, he was general manager of the Skyline Tennis me to look up old friends and memories of busy schedules to establish this web site. and Cabana Club in Jersey City. He was also the Athletic when I was a student - Felicia Carter, 1987 This web site is the "bomb"!!! Who would Director at the Temple B’Nai Abraham and President of have thought in 1967 (when I graduated) the Newark Physical Education Association. I love this site. I know it took a lot of time that we would have such an amazing way to and planning and you have succeeded in communicate with each other - Cheryl For 54 years he was married to Ada Carris Pearl; had 3 making it what it is. GREAT! - Flo Dubinsky, Sampson Taylor, 1967 children, Ronald Pearl, Laurie Pearl Friedman and 1948 Dana-Jo Pearl Buschinski, and 4 grandchildren. HIGH SCHOOL’S WISH LIST WALDO WINCHESTER Although Weequahic High School is part of The Newark This popular column from the Calumet Public Schools, it has needs that cannot always be met first appeared in 1950. Please let us know or met in a timely manner. This past year, the school about how our alumni have distinguished system experienced serious budget cuts which had to be themselves in their lives after Weequahic. absorbed by all of the schools in the city. Are there ALUMNI out there who would like to help with providing › Dr. Anthony M. Solomon, 1937, is the former Chairman of the New York for some of the items listed below? Please let us know. Federal Reserve Bank and former Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs. Currently, Weequahic is building a new exercise facility, He also is well known for his comprehensive collection of tomb sculptures. band room, and health clinic. This list was prepared by Weequahic’s head administrator, Ron Stone. › Dr. Sanford B. Halperin, 1941, is a retired Professor Emeritus of Insurance at the University of Louisiana at Monroe; in World War II was awarded the Combat Building: Infantry Badge, Bronze Star Medal, Purple Heart, and Meritorious Service Medal; y New two-way P.A. intercom system - main office. was granted a Fullbright Scholarship; and was elected to the Outstanding Educators y Electronic bulletin board outside of school. of America. y Sidewalks in rear of building need replacing. y Construct concrete platform for food dumpsters. › David S. Steiner, 1947, who runs Steiner Equities Group LLC of Roseland, NJ y Repave delivery area by cafeteria. was appointed by Governor James McGreevey as a member of the board of the Port y Replace mag locks on exit doors to Vasser Ave. Authority of New York and New Jersey. y Air conditioners for Library/Media Center. Auditorium › Harvey Levine, 1951, who recently passed away, wrote the Waldo Winchester y New PA system . column from its inception until he graduated. He later used the name H. Jory Levine. y New window drapes. y New stage curtain. › Marcia Federbush, 1952, was inducted into the Michigan Women’s Hall of Fame y New seats in lower auditorium. for pioneering work in overcoming sex discrimination in education. y Floors and stage need resurfacing. y Repair to stage front. › Hal Braff, 1952, and his wife Elaine traveled to Geneva, Switzerland to attend y Painting of walls & ceiling. the Global Peace Initiative of Women Religious and Spiritual Leaders. Gymnasium › Sheldon Bross, 1955, a partner in the law firm Giantomasi Bross Oliveira, is y New bleachers. chairperson of the Jewish Federation of MetroWest’s Newark Advisory Council. y New lockers in boys’ & girls’ locker rooms. y New clock. › William Gelfound, 1961, was elected to a 5th, three-year term as Councilman of y Repairs to showers and floors. Sea Bright, NJ at the good old Jersey Shore. Cafeteria y Water fountain in each cafeteria needs replacing. › Dr. Glenda Johnson-Green, 1967, is the Executive Assistant to the Newark Superintendent of Schools. Office Equipment y Heavy duty copying machines for each floor. › Linda Wymisner Norton, 1967, taught Physical Education at Weequahic from Hallways 1972 to 1977. y Replacing or repair of lockers. y Painting of lockers. › Judy Bennett, 1972, is the new Director of Youth Initiatives for the Community y 2 security gates on first floor. Agencies Corporation in Newark and the Director of the South Ward Weed and Seed drug prevention/intervention program. Room Conversions y Rm. 101 to Intervention Center/Conference Room. ›15 alumni attended the WHS California Alumni Dinner, organized by 1948 grads y Rm. 103 to classroom/storage area. Ed Berman, Debby Schwartz and Sherman Ninburg, on Saturday, December 7th y Relocate Transcript/Records Room. in Los Angeles. Debby also sends out a newsletter called the Calumette. Custodial y Leaf blower, weed whacker, 2 heavy-duty vacuum › Ken LaKind (a Union HS 1961 grad) noticed a picture of Bragmans Deli on our cleaners, wet/dry industrial vacuum unit. web site and wrote to tell us that his parents owned the store as LaKind Kosher Caterers in the late 50’s. Building Additions: y State-of-the-art Athletic Facility. › Nat Bodian, 84, (not a Weequahic grad), who entertains us with stories about Newark and the Weequahic section at www.oldnewark.com and in the Alumni Calumet, is the uncle of 1964 grad Lou Bodian. administration at Seton Hall University. As a youth Andrew Castro, 6, of Boynton Beach said: “I Gwendolyn Sanford - growing up in Newark, she attended Peshine brought a book from home today to read. I like 1966 Grad Named Regional Director Avenue School and Weequahic High School. being with Ms. Schneider.” Today, Schneider’s of Community College Association group numbers 43 children, ages 6 to 12. “I listen In addition, Sanford owns and manages a small to their concerns, joys and problems and try to Essex County College personalized business centered on the art of the teach them the importance of education, values, Board of Trustee Kente cloth and she creates trips to the motherland manners and respect,” she said. “Self-esteem and Chairperson Gwendolyn for students and teachers. lack of positive attitudes seem to be the biggest Sanford, a resident of problem for these kids.” Montclair, has been Marilyn Schneider - 1943 elected Northeast But Schneider doesn’t stop there. She noticed Regional Director of the Grad Volunteering in Delray Beach some of the children had problems with reading and Association of By Sar Perlman, South Florida Sun-Sentinel math. In addition to her time with the Listen to the Community College Children program, she started tutoring two students Trustees (ACCT). As a Delray Beach resident Marilyn Schneider spends after school in the summer of 2001. The two regional director, three full days each week at S.D. Spady Elementary, children, who moved on to middle school, are now Sanford will serve a tutoring and mentoring students. But she doesn’t on the honor roll, she said. Schneider is tutoring three-year term on the get paid for it. Last year she put in more than four children this year. “We read, and sometimes 26-member Board of Directors. The northeast 1,000 volunteer hours. For her efforts and we talk about attitudes, and she helps me on my region, one of five in the ACCT, encompasses 10 dedication, Schneider recently was awarded one of reading. She helps me a lot,” said Tierney Mosley, states. Gov. Jeb Bush’s Point of Light Awards. The weekly 11, of Delray Beach. award recognizes exemplary volunteer and ACCT is an educational organization representing community service throughout the state. more than 6,500 elected and appointed trustees at more than 1,200 community, technical, and junior “Ms. Marilyn Schneider is committed to each and colleges in the United States, Canada, and England. every child she tutors at Spady School,” Bush said It offers trustee training and professional in a statement. “At age 77, this dedicated and development programs, educational programs, generous woman has become a loving role model research and publications, extensive board for the students and faculty, and has also set up services, and public policy advocacy. the Marilyn Schneider Fund to assist students and their families who are in need.” “Marilyn is like an Sanford is a graduate of Essex County College and angel to our school,” said Martha O’Hare, Spady’s holds the distinction of being the first Essex principal. “If you need anything done for the graduate to serve as one of its trustees. Appointed children, she steps in and helps to do it. She to the board in 1996, she is serving her fourth term doesn’t wait to be asked.” as chairperson and serves as head of the board’s To help the school’s needy students, the former executive committee and is also one of two trustees The former co-owner of a surgical supply company, businesswoman set up the Marilyn Schneider Fund on the Essex County Board of School Estimate. Schneider had always wanted to work with children in 2000. It has provided food certificates, toys and but never had the time until she retired. In 1995, clothes during the holidays, and has sponsored Her career in education includes 21 years of she responded to a newspaper ad for volunteers needy students for the school’s summer camp. The service as a teacher of the handicapped in the for the Listen to the Children program sponsored by fund is also raising money to pay for 11 students Newark School District and her current post as an the Alexandria, VA based National Mental Health who can’t afford the Safety Patrol trip to education program development specialist for the Association. She was assigned to Spady Washington, D.C., and to send the school’s choral state Department of Education. While working in Elementary and began working with four children, group to Carnegie Hall in New York. the Newark district, Sanford was designated a talking about their behavior, the way they treat mentor teacher and was instrumental in introducing each other and self-esteem. “It was great, and I Schneider said she wished more people who could a new assessment program for special needs really fell in love with it. I didn’t have any trouble volunteer would. “We all have talents to contribute students. with these kids,” she says. to a child. There are children begging to be exposed to a person whose life has been filled with Sanford also earned a BA degree from Upsala The children say the feeling is mutual. “She’s a knowledge and experience,” she said. “With each ‘I College and MA degree in education from Kean good friend,” said Jimmy Melanson, 9, of Delray love you, Ms. Marilyn,’ my heart just soars, knowing University and the University of Nairobi in Kenya. Beach. “We talk about stuff, how to play games, that I’ve brought happiness into their world.” She is currently enrolled in a degree program in how to be nice to others, how to make new friends.”

Weequahic High School For More Information, Contact: Mentoring Project BE A MENTOR JUDY BENNETT, class of 1972 ALUMNI Who Made a Difference [email protected] In Your Life? Make A Difference VOLUNTEERS For Someone Else!!! WANTED GIVING BACK for THE FUTURE REUNIONS THE CLASS REUNION They awarded a prize to one of the guys Author Unknown Who seemed to have aged the least. Another was given to the grad who had driven 65th-Class of 1938 Every ten years, as summertime nears, The farthest to attend the feast. June 9, 2003,11 AM, Essex House, An announcement arrives in the mail, West Orange, NJ. Contact Bert They took a class picture, a curious mixture Manhoff at (973) 992-4513 / Fax: (973) A reunion is planned; it'll be really grand; Make plans to attend without fail. Of beehives, crew cuts and wide ties. 992-8154 / [email protected] Tall, short, or skinny, the style was the mini; I'll never forget the first time we met; You never saw so many thighs. 63rd-Class of June 1940 We tried so hard to impress. June 29, 2003, 11 AM, Hanover At our next get-together, no one cared whether Marriott Hotel, Hanover, NJ. Contact We drove fancy cars, smoked big cigars, And wore our most elegant dress. They impressed their classmates or not. Sonya Fast Facher at (973) 731-5777 or The mood was informal, a whole lot more normal; Harriet Hirsch Eisenberg at By this time we'd all gone to pot. (973) 857-0418. It was quite an affair; the whole class was there. It was held out-of-doors, at the lake shores; 58th-Class of 1945 It was held at a fancy hotel. We wined, and we dined, and we acted refined, We ate hamburgers, coleslaw, and beans. June, 8, 2003, 12 Noon, Westwood And everyone thought it was swell. Then most of us lay around in the shade, Restaurant, Garwood, NJ. Contact In our comfortable T-shirts and jeans. Dave Horowitz at (973) 539-5158 / [email protected]. The men all conversed about who had been first To achieve great fortune and fame. By the fortieth year, it was abundantly clear, Meanwhile, their spouses described their fine houses We were definitely over the hill. 55th-Class of Jan. 1948 And how beautiful their children became. Those who weren't dead had to crawl out of bed, April 27, 2003, 11 AM, Suburban Golf And be home in time for their pill. Club, Union, NJ. Contact Alan Kampf The homecoming queen, who once had been lean, at (973) 758-9573 / [email protected] or And now I can't wait; they've set the date; Diane Denburg at (973) 763-7669. Now weighed in at one-ninety-six. The jocks who were there had all lost their hair, Our fiftieth is coming, I'm told. And the cheerleaders could no longer do kicks. It should be a ball, they've rented a hall 50th-Class of Jan. 1953 At the Shady Rest Home for the old. May 3, 2003, 7 PM, Cedar Hill Country No one had heard about the class nerd Club, Livingston, NJ. Contact Beverly Repairs have been made on my hearing aid; Schulman Kass at (973) 467-0582 / Who'd guided a spacecraft to the moon; Or poor little Jane, who's always been plain; My pacemaker's been turned up on high. [email protected] or Stanley Lewis at My wheelchair is oiled, and my teeth have been (908) 687-2618 / [email protected]. She married a shipping tycoon. boiled; The boy we'd decreed "most apt to succeed" And I've bought a new wig and glass eye. 50th-Class of June 1953 Was serving ten years in the pen, October 25, 2003, 5 PM, Marriott I'm feeling quite hearty, and I'm ready to party Hotel at Newark Liberty International While the one voted "least" now was a priest; Just shows you can be wrong now and then. I'm gonna dance 'til dawn's early light. Airport, Newark, NJ. Contact It'll be lots of fun; But I just hope that there's one Beverly Greenfeder Levine at (914) Other person who can make it that night. 693-1266 / [email protected].

40th-Class of 1963 October 11, 2003, 7 PM, Hilton Sitting L-R: Hotel, East Brunswick. Contact Jac Toporek at (732) 388-8699 / Myrna Kivitz, '53 [email protected] Sandy Bodner, ‘52 Audrey Spellman, ‘52 Howard Friedman 40th-Class of 1964 Ron Figer, ‘52 Evening - October 9, 2004, 7 PM, Bev Siegel, '53 Marriott Hotel at Newark Liberty Len Garrett, ‘52 International Airport, Newark, NJ. Essie Gross, '53 Contact Wendy Kaufman Nowak at Gene Lieberman, ‘52 (908) 722-1874 / [email protected]. Nancy Ehrlich, ‘52

40th-Class of 1964 Standing L-R: Afternoon - October 16, 2004, Paula Katz, '53 11 AM, Newark Club, Newark, NJ. Barry Dvorin, ‘52 Contact Cheryl Alterman Elblonk at Myra Tatz, '53 (561) 795-4443 / [email protected]. Irwin Rothbard, ‘52 JUNE 1952 PROM with Weequahic High after that. By that time, in The Indomitable fact, my deepest connection to Weequahic, one even deeper than the ties created during my four Sadie Rous years there, was broken by the death of my Social Studies Teacher mother, Sadie Z. Rous in July 1968. Weequahic and Newark were two of the great loves of my from 1934 - 1967 mother’s life. Her students and the high school where she taught for thirty-three years, were one By Paula Gilliland, from the of the main topics of conversation in our house, Star- Ledger on June 23, 1968 while many of her political passions in the 1950’s and 1960’s were rooted in her fury at the political Editor’s Note: Mrs. Rous passed away one month and economic interests and prejudices that were after this article was printed, In the original article, a threatening the stability of the high school, picture was included with Mrs. Rous talking to two neighborhood, and city that she loved. former students, Carl Gregory and David Wright, who were juniors in college. Today Mr. Gregory and are not basically changed, Mrs. Rous said. “The The Newark riots came as close as anything I ever Mr. Wright are both Principals in the Newark Public top students are as good as they’ve ever been,” witnessed to breaking her heart. It was, of course, Schools. she said. “The only difference might be that some typical of her that her response was not to give up of the students entering high school aren’t as on Weequahic or her city. Instead she created the It’s not difficult to understand why Mrs. Sadie Z. academically prepared as they should be.” She scholarship fund that was renamed for her when Rous is such a popular teacher in Weequahic High said the atmosphere in her classroom is the same she died suddenly at the age of 55. I think she School in Newark. Just to visit the warm-hearted as it was 33 years ago. “I’m a very strict teacher would be thrilled that three decades later the fund history teacher is an inspiration. During the 33 and I set very high standards for my students,” she continues to help Weequahic students and that an years she’s been at the school, she’s taught all said. alumni association has been created to keep alive types of history courses, established an alumni the interest of its graduates in their alma mater. scholarship fund and personally touched the lives She noted that some believe that there’s a split of thousand of students. between the community and the faculty at At the time I Weequahic High school and the assumption is a attended my 10th Her teaching philosophy is really quite simple. false one. “We have a great number of faculty reunion, I was “You have to love the students and your subject,” members, both Negro and white, who really care married, teaching she said. “No one should go into teaching unless about the community,” she said. “Most of the history at Pace he loves it.” students here are good children...it’s only the few University in New unruly ones who get the publicity.” She said the York City, and had She said if a person doesn’t get satisfaction from principal, William Monprode, was perfectly one son. Since then teaching, he shouldn’t enter the profession. marvelous and the faculty was inspiring. “Our I have divorced, faculty is as good as any in the country,” she said. moved to North “You can’t fool the students,” she said. “They “Weequahic High school is a great place to work.” Carolina, where I am know if you really care about them...if you know Professor of History what you’re doing.” For over a quarter of a She and her husband, Samuel, live in Newark (“we and Women Studies at the University of North century the students at Weequahic High School wouldn’t live anywhere else”), have one daughter Carolina at Chapel Hill, and remarried. My son, have known that Mrs. Rous does care about them (“who went to Weequahic”) and one grandchild. almost thirty-five, still lives in New York City. and does know what she is doing. “I’m always at The couple’s hobby is to travel and their chief love my desk each morning before eight o’clock and my is people. “My husband is as excited about helping The combination of living in North Carolina and my door is open,” she said. “The students know they students as I am,” she said. mother’s death made Weequahic High School seem can come to me with their problems at any very far away and relegated it to my memories of time...and they do.” In addition to teaching, Mrs. A native of Newark, Mrs. Rous received her the distant past. But two different contacts re- Rous was a guidance counselor for 20 years. bachelor’s degree from Montclair State College, her established that connection for me within the last master’s from Teachers College at Columbia few years. My closest friend and first cousin, Her role in seeking financial assistance for University and has done graduate work at the New Myrna King Malec, also a member of the class of deserving students hoping to go to college has School for Social Research in New York City. She 1959, joined the Alumni Association and told me been a major one. In 1962 she wrote letters to went into teaching because she’d never wanted to about it. In fact she bought me a Weequahic 100 alumni, requesting $100.00 each towards a do anything else. Except for one semester spent T-shirt, which I proudly wore when I celebrated my scholarship fund. She was told to expect no more at South Side, her entire career has been at 60th birthday with our families in the mountains of than a seven per cent response. Instead, 90 per Weequahic. North Carolina this past summer. cent of the alumni sent checks. The fund has now grown to $23,000 and scholarships are given on ******************************** The other contact was Sherry Ortner of the class of the interest and other gifts. Recipients are chosen 1958, who was a scholar at the National from applications sent to a scholarship committee Barbara Rous Harris, Class of Humanities Center in the nearby Research Triangle composed of faculty members. Park two years ago. As some of you may know, 1959, Writes About Her Mother Sherry has written a book about her class at When Mrs. Rous joined the staff at Weequahic, it Weequahic, which will be published, I believe, this was a predominantly white school. Today the I was a member of the class of 1959. I attended spring. I for one can’t wait to read about ourselves enrollment is about 70 per cent Negro, but things my 10th reunion but have had very little contact and our high school through anthropological eyes. ...from the Voices of our Alumni, Faculty & Friends

Les Fein, Former Faculty & Coach association of nonprofit, community controlled Florida. I play golf 2-3 times weekly and bridge credit unions that serve low-income and minority almost daily. An idyllic combination! Send me The Celebration was wonderful and all should be communities. The work of the Weequahic Alumni down another female alumnus. congratulated. I was glad to be a part of it. The Association makes me prouder than ever of my panel from the 1930’s to the 1990’s was great! roots. Keep up the great work! It covered a huge time span. I have a Dorothy Crawford Barnes, 1959, suggestion. The goal for 2003 should be to have Nevada every alumni member recruit a non-member to Judy Lieb Samwick, 1960, NJ It was with great anticipation that I received my join the Alumni Association. Let’s double our As a recent member of the WHS Alumni 7th copy of the Calumet. Reading the stories of strength in 2003. I repeat my support for the Association, I can’t tell you how thrilled I was to other alumni brought back a flood of beautiful Alumni Association. Weequahic stands tall, read my first Alumni Calumet. I put down the NY memories. I recalled some of my favorite . because we care Times with its pages of terrorism, economic teachers - Mrs. Saltzman, Miss Reisberg, Mr. decline and possible war, and sat and read and Friedman, Mrs. Birnbaum, Mr. Martino and Dr. Sharpe James, Mayor of Newark, remembered a time filled with innocence, laughter Melnick. (I could go on and on). I now have the NJ, South Side HS Grad and friendships in Newark. I can hardly wait for pleasure of meeting with other graduates of the my next issue. 1959 class whenever I return to the East Coast. I wholeheartedly congratulate all the hundreds of We all feel privileged to have graduated from alumni representing the different generations of Weequahic High School. The name still holds the the Weequahic High School family from past to Marcia Federbush, 1952, Michigan magic. present and acknowledge their extraordinary Your devotion to Weequahic is so admirable! I did achievements and contributions as lawyers, enjoy this big issue of the Alumni Calumet. After doctors, scientists, ministers, athletes, educators, my 50th high school reunion (September 2002), Audrey Curtis Keeley, 1944, NJ judges and politicians. I stopped at Marie O’Connor’s apartment. Now, I think the whole idea of the Alumni Assn. is she must have had 5,000 (10,000?) students, wonderful. Weequahic was such a special school. Herman Friedman, 1951, NJ but she greeted me with, “Hello, Marcia. How are If I had not run in to David Schechner at a mutual Jason and Laurel (my children), and how is your friend's home, I never would have known about it. A short note to tell you that yesterday’s Alumni brother Richard, and those two darling Japanese He got me hooked right away. I enjoy the get-together was an excellent affair. This is not grandchildren (my son married a Japanese Calumet and really enjoy being an "official Alum.” only my opinion but all of the people I spoke to. I woman)?” I said, in wonder, “Marie, how do you know it took a lot of planning and coordination to do it? I can’t even remember the ends of make it a success. Congratulations on doing an sentences.” Howard Botnick, 1942, Colorado outstanding job and I’m sure the alumni group The Class of 42 was the class of World War ll. will reap continuing benefits. In the last edition of the Alumni Calumet - the first Most of us guys and some gals that graduated one I received, with delight and amazement - I that year went straight into the armed services. was a little surprised that the person who wrote Seymour Spiegel, 1952, NJ I've received two issues of the Calumet, and really up Marie O’Connor’s 85th birthday didn’t mention haven't read about any of my classmates who I'm Dear Phil: That was a fine 70th birthday party. that I sang a song in her honor. I’ll never forget sure went into service after getting our diplomas Harold Braff and the committee certainly that evening - it was unbelievable. from WHS. deserved the accolades they received at Oheb Editors Note: Thanks for your comments, but most Shalom that Sunday afternoon for the program’s Irwin Krupnick, 1944, Florida of what is printed in the Alumni Calumet comes style, pace, focus, and intelligent use of nostalgia. from our alumni. Below is a picture reprinted from But I was especially pleased that Harold called I was thrilled to receive my first copy of the Weequahic Alumni CALUMET and to even learn issue # 2 of nine WHS grads in the 40’s on the you to the platform to acknowledge publicly the island of Guam. miracle you performed. You literally started with that there existed a thriving alumni association. nothing but a few names, and in a very short time ...Although I lived in Hillside (2 houses from the via the Alumni Calumet molded successfully the Newark line) on Wyndmoor Avenue - which is the thousands of Weequahic graduates into a viable extension of Hobson Street in Hillside) my alumni association. I would not have believed it parents saw fit to pay tuition ($50.00 per possible. semester) for me to attend Weequahic High. For that, I am extremely grateful.

Cliff Rosenthal, 1962, NY Upon graduation in January 1944, one year at Thank you for the acknowledgment of my Cornell University, one and one-half years in the contribution. Please accept, too, my appreciation Navy, and term back at Cornell, I married another of the work that you and others of the association Weequahic alumnus, Audrey Wigler, of the famous are doing to bridge the social, economic, cultural, Rye Bread WIGLERS of Prince Street. I was 19, From the Newark Evening News, 1944 and generational gaps that might otherwise she 19. “THEY” said it wouldn’t last. Audrey (In Back) Pfc. Herbert Samuels, Cpl. Ralph Adler, S1/c separate graduates of Weequahic from across the died in 1998. We were married 52 years, raised Jerry Weissman, Pfc. Herman Targanski, Lt. John Burke, 3 wonderful children, and had a marvelous life. (In Front) S1/c Stanley Levy, Pfc. Eddie Kazin, decades. I have devoted my career to this kind Today, I live alone in Palm Beach Gardens, Sgt. Melven Miller, Lt. Walter Reichman. of work. For the last 23 years, I have directed an Law Olmsted. On its wide, tree-lined streets, large enhance their current athletic and academic WEEQUAHIC BULLETIN historic revival houses were constructed to create performance, but also better prepare them for a an enclave for upper- and middle-class residents. productive future. At Weequahic High School, Keith The neighborhood, now home to primarily Dent, is the Play It Smart coach who tutors and A New Historic District? African-American residents, has a variety of mentors the football players three days a week mansions, middle- and working-class houses, throughout the school year. He is a graduate of Excerpts from an article by Barry Carter, Star-Ledger apartment buildings and a commercial strip along Georgetown University and has an MA in Non-Profit Bergen Street. The district, according to the Management. Newark, the third-oldest major nomination, would be bounded by Lyons, Keer, city in the nation behind New Elizabeth and Mapes avenues. If approved on the York and Boston, has a rich state level, the district would be recommended to Above The Rim be listed on the national register. Once it receives architectural and historic Excerpts from an article by Jeffrey May, Star-Ledger heritage recognized on the a state and federal designation, properties within state and national levels. the district would be protected from projects such The boys and girls of the Above The Rim basketball as bridges and roads that would encroach on the There are more than 70 camp ran up and down the Weequahic Park neighborhood. buildings and four historic basketball court while their coaches yelled for them districts along with parks and to rebound and to work harder. Sweat poured Nonprofit organizations also are eligible for grants, other sites listed on the down their faces in the 90-degree-plus heat and which is what the Weequahic Park Association is national and New Jersey humidity. At half-time instead of getting more registers of historic places looking toward as it continues to restore the coaching tips, the two teams, along with the 100 because of the work of the nearby park. There are plans to renovate the boat other kids at the camp, piled into the bleachers at Newark Preservation & house and resurrect a grandstand. "We can do a the park. They listened to Lionel Leach, NJ Landmarks Committee. whole array of things to make this one of the Coordinator for the NAACP voter empowerment world's greatest parks," said Wilbur McNeil, effort, talk about the importance of being The committee, a private organization formed in president of the association. He said the registered to vote. 1973 to promote and restore the city's heritage, is designation is significant because part of Newark's now pushing to create its fifth historic district, this revitalization has to be its historic value. "Newark time in the Weequahic section of Newark. The is the third-oldest city, but they're not recognized Weequahic Park Historic District, which consists of as that," McNeil said. "When you start talking the 311-acre park, 28 residential streets and about New York and Boston, Newark is never in the about 650 homes, is the one area of the city the mix." He said Weequahic, when combined with the landmark committee had not focused on to other four historical districts, could help spur preserve its historical treasures. tourism for the city. "It brings more to the table when you talk about your city," McNeil said. The other four historic districts scattered around the city are: Four Corners - 27 blocks on Broad Michael Westbrook, chairman of the Weequahic Street between Hill Street and Raymond Boulevard. Homeowners Association, said a historic district Lincoln Park - 10 blocks, including Lincoln and within Weequahic would be a tremendous lift for the Clinton parks and portions of Broad, Halsey, South Ward. "For the past two years, the Spruce and Washington streets. Forest Hill - 56 association has been gradually raising awareness And that’s how it’s been every day for youngsters blocks bounded by Branch Brook Park and Mt. among residents on quality-of-life issues and how ages 9 to 18 at the Above The Rim camp where the Prospect Avenue between Verona and Second the ward has a chance to regain its prominence as organization’s subtitle: “More than just basketball,” avenues. James Street Commons - 21 blocks, a first-class residential community. is taken to heart. For about a month every including Washington Park and bounded by summer for the last nine years, Above The Rim, Inc. portions of Warren, Halsey, Broad, Orange, Bleeker Newark Mayor Sharpe James, who lives in the Program Director Delano Gordon (a former and Summit streets. Weequahic community, praised the landmarks Weequahic student) has provided Newark kids with commission for its effort to nominate the area for the skills to do well on the basketball court with "We felt that we should not just do the park, but the the registers. "Granting this status will confer a camps and coaching. He has also given them whole Weequahic neighborhood, because it's singular honor on its buildings, the great something to think about. Mentors and guest beautiful," said Douglas Eldridge, executive director Weequahic Park, and the people who live, work and speakers talk about everything from avoiding gang of the Landmarks Committee. In recognizing its play in the neighborhood," James said. violence and HIV and AIDS prevention to careers in value, Eldridge said the neighborhood, a Jewish electronics. enclave before the 1967 riots, stands a good chance of recapturing the prestige it once knew Play It Smart At The High School But running the camp is expensive, and Gordon begins fundraising for next year’s tournament and with a historical designation. "I think it enhances Play It Smart is a school-based program funded by the image of the area," he said. "It can be camp right after this one has ended. A computer the National Football Foundation (NFF) that seeks advertised, and it can improve the property values technician by trade, Gordon said he inevitably ends to use the sports experience as a vehicle to in the area." up spending some of his own money to put the enhance the academic, athletic, career and camp and tournament together. “I’ve been able to personal development of high school athletes. The ...The Weequahic section was one of the last do this for 10 years with a limited amount of goal of the program is to demonstrate that the segments of the city to be developed in a relatively resources. If kids are our future, when are we right kind of sports experience can provide short period of time - between 1910 and 1930 - going to start investing?” - Want to HELP? participants with opportunities to learn about after the park was designed by architect Frederick Contact “Above The Rim “ at (973) 277-9198. themselves and to develop skills that will not only ...from the Voices of our Alumni, Faculty & Friends

Jerry Poznak, 1952, Massachusetts encountered today. (Remember the “spelling” and operate a 200 slip marina and boat dealership on “poetry” lists containing four years worth of spelling Lake Champlain. It’s a long way from Newark, New Thanx so much. I received the extremely well done words and poems to memorize turned out by Mr. Jersey, but I’d enjoy hearing from other members of missive!. So interesting. When the paper came, I Maier’s basement print shop?) the class of 1957. put it aside and waited till 3 a.m. to read - when the world was very still so I could savor every word and just concentrate on the crunch of Syd’s hot dogs Joan Radin Gerard, 1962, NJ Michael Warner, 1953, Florida and the texture of the Weequahic Diner’s cheese- I was so excited to see the Alumni Calumet The one thing that binds us together culturally is cake without any interruptions! Every paragraph - a newsletter. My brother, “Seymour (Steve) Radin” the neighborhood we grew up in and our friends trigger for memory floods...what a trip. 1953, told me about the alumni organization and it and classmates from Weequahic. The education, evoked so many memories of life back then. I values and social experiences remain strong years Fran Sachs Honig, 1945, NJ attended Clinton Place Jr. High School and entered later. Weequahic as a sophomore. Our class was faced Reading the Calumet is like “going home again.” with joining those students from the “other side of I went to Chancellor Avenue School and lived on Through the years my husband Herb (class of Lyons Avenue.” (I lived on Schley Street, between Vassar Avenue just 2 blocks down the “Big Hill” 1942) and I have revisited Newark on numerous Bragaw Avenue and Shaw Avenue). How we from both schools; Weequahic and Chancellor. My occasions - to the museum and planetarium, which worried about being accepted by our fellow elementary school days were during the WW II years our children and grandchildren loved, our old classmates! My years at Weequahic were the until 1949 when I attended the “Annex.” neighborhood, and the “down neck” Portuguese greatest! I can still picture my homeroom with Mr. Untermann Field was just a big dirt pit until it was restaurants. We have had interesting talks with Eisenberg and typing with class with the feared Mrs. dedicated and became an official stadium. Since I present residents, giving them some history of the Butler. Chemistry with Mr. Martino “Wally” was lived only 2 blocks from the playground, I spent neighborhood when we were growing up and unbelievably fearsome. I attribute my love of many after-school hours (when not attending remembering that some of our peers could only language to the late Mr. Chasen. I went on to major religious school) playing games, softball and stick ride the bus through our neighborhoods, but in French and minor in Russian due to his ball against that concrete wall that divided the field couldn’t live there because of the segregation inspiration. Mrs. Tova Malamut, my beloved from the playground. One of my strongest existing in the South Ward at that time. We enjoyed counselor, also will remain in my heart forever. memories of the Untermann Field area was the reading about Carrie Jackson who we first heard at circus setting up there while I was a student at an alumni meeting and had the pleasure of hearing Phyllis Dubrow Klein, 1957, NY Chancellor Avenue School. During the day in at our own Englewood, NJ library. The reunions school, and especially at night, I could hear the roar have helped us renew many friendships. Our three I wanted to take this opportunity to thank you for of the lions and sounds of the other animals from children and four grandchildren have heard all your efforts in establishing and maintaining the my bedroom. about our great “Wigwam on the Hill” and the alumni association and the Calumet. In the past, I wonderful education we received from our truly often wondered whether or not my years at ...High school at Weequahic was an educational and gifted and dedicated teachers. We are extremely Weequahic HS were really special or just special to social adventure. The standards were high and grateful for all of this. me. But after reading the commentaries of other most of us went on to college. Many of our alumni alumni, I realize that Weequahic HS was a special contributions to the Weequahic Alumni Calumet Jack Lippman, 1950, Florida place in a special time in a special world. I can have mentioned Syd’s, Cohen’s Knishes, Halem’s remember thinking that the whole world was Jewish and other hangouts, but how about the traditional I was puttering on the lawn of my new house here because my world was Jewish. It was quite an Friday night movies; either at the Roosevelt or Park in Florida when a morning stroller from the awakening when I entered Rutgers Newark College theaters? In those days not everyone had access neighborhood stops by to welcome me to the of Arts & Sciences in 1957 and learned about the to a car. My friends and I would walk the distance community. “Where are you from,” he asks. “Long other world. Now, it’s great to see that same and walk home at night - even in the winter. We Island,” I reply and he then says, “I’m from Jersey.” feeling of comradeship and pride exhibited by the would stop at the Watson Bagel Company to get the

African-American student body at Weequahic today. hot bagels to keep our hands warm on the way “Gee, I actually was born and raised there before I home. I remember that we would walk to football got married. We lived in Newark. Where are you Weequahic HS in those days had great dramatics practice at Irvington Park, carrying all our from?” I asked. “Newark, too!” Morty replied as program under Frank DeLisi. Mr. DeLisi had a equipment, both ways, unless we were lucky we quickly identified ourselves as Weequahic knack for bringing out the “ham” in us, and I guess enough to have some loose change for the bus. graduates!” We pumped each other’s hands, I willingly fell under his spell during freshman year compared notes, talked about people we both as the femme fatale in “Growing Pains” and later I cannot conclude without mentioning the extended knew, and took pleasure in the fact that there were playing Bob Kampf’s wife Ellen in the “The Male Weequahic environment of Bradley Beach, N J. How now two Weequahic alums in our community of 600 Animal,” which was a rather ambitious undertaking many great summers we spent down families. (Actually three, since Morty’s wife, Zeta, for a high school play. I wonder how many others there... Ronny, Larry, Mel, Marty. Unfortunately, also went to Weequahic.) remember their roles in those productions? I Bob and Alan are no longer with us to enjoy these wonder if Bob Kampf ever pursued an acting reminiscences. But we shall remember the great I suppose you are hearing things like this all the career; he was very serious about it then. I don’t times we had hanging out at Mike and Lou’s, or time. Well that’s a good thing! I enjoyed reading run into any Weequahic alumni in upstate New York getting on the beach without that badge you were the Alumni Calumet. It is very well written and - it’s too cold up here and got to ski in the winter to supposed to wear. The evening dances further evidence that Weequahic graduates were keep your sanity. However, it’s beautiful here in the (Cha-Cha-Cha) in the Pavilions on the Boardwalk given a command of the English language rarely spring, summer and fall. My family and I own and were great opportunities to meet girls... Lorraine Gordon 1937 Grad Owns Famous NYC Jazz Club

By Howard Mandell It doesn’t seem to matter: this is one of the best departed or awaiting their turn its the spotlight. acoustic situations jazz of any style has ever To pay one’s way into the Vanguard is to make a enjoyed. pilgrimage not to a den of entertainment but to a When the hallowed grounds sanctuary of sound. No talking is allowed during of jazz are hailed, special “We have a great sound system, very expensive, sets, few whoops of laughter are indulged and reverence is received for the but I can’t tell you what it is”, says Lorraine rowdiness is strictly verboten. Recently a music’s renowned dives. Gordon, the handsome woman of a certain age beautiful Hollywood starlet and her escort were The Village Vanguard, who’s owned and operated the Vanguard since asked to leave for smooching too heavily at a Manhattan’s underground the death in 1989 of her second husband, Max banquette. If you make reservations, you’d better chapel of modernism, is Gordon, who was in his late 80s. “The ceiling’s show up on time. foremost among these for its the right height, the floor’s the right depth and current action as well as its we’re on our third Baldwin piano, the best we’ve It’s all about the music at the Vanguard, and history. The Vanguard is a nightspot that’s had yet. That’s why the guys like it here, because those who come to listen help keep it so. “This is survived without interruption for seven decades, they sound so good.” a funny room,” Gordon recognizes. “Audiences featuring jazz and nothing but jazz since the make this room, too. You can’t cram things down mid-’50s. ...Such moments encapsulate what makes the their throat. I won’t book just anybody. I have to Vanguard special. It is managed by a determined hear the musicians and like them. I want to enjoy When it was opened in the mid-’30s it presented woman with taste, experience and attention to everything we have. I keep my eyes and ears poets, then folk singers, cabaret reviews and a lavish on detail; a small but devoted crew staffs open for the young guys; they may not be all politically incorrect breed of comics. Today it is the club, including Gordon’s daughter Deborah, wonderful but some of them prove to be, and I’d the place to go to listen seriously, with little who keeps the books and paints signs for a rather they do it here. I like to find older distraction and even less hype, to established jazz window announcing the week’s attractions, and musicians who can still play and get them to do stars who can really play and emerging talents the most talented musicians remain interested in something new. Jazz doesn’t have to be cerebral; just a bit left of center. performing here. it can be fun, and wildly exciting, although one thing I abhor is drummers who go berserk. That On 7th Ave. South, down a steep flight of stairs The Vanguard is a year-round jazz festival in itself upsets me. Drumming can be so beautiful and and through a single, nearly soundproof door, the presenting two or three sets seven nights a week, subtle. Vanguard is a wedge-shaped room that holds an starting roughly at 9 p.m. and winding down, audience of 233 snugly, sitting on straight chairs when things are hot, in the wee hours. On its Web “I’ve got the background to run this place. I around teeny round tables in the center, on site, www.VillageVanguard.net, there’s a gallery of know jazz, after all. My whole life has been in padded benches at the edges and on half a thumbnails depicting the covers of more than 90 jazz. I was collecting records when I was 16; dozen barstools pulled up close to an unfancy albums recorded here live, including masterpieces Bessie Smith was my favorite singer. I worked all counter. The booze that’s served is equally basic: by Cannonball Adderley, Kenny Burrell, John those years with Alfred Lion (her first husband, no single malts, microbrews or wine lists, and Coltrane, Bill Evans, Tommy Fanagan, Dizzy co-founder of Blue Note Records), and learned don’t expect special attention from the bar-tender Gillespie, Dexter Gordon, Joe Henderson, Earl from Ike Quebec (saxophonist and Blue Note’s or waitresses. No food is available, not even Hines, Keith Jarrett, Art Pepper, Sunny Rollins and first modern jazz A&R man). Max’s tastes ran chips. recent issues by Wynton Marsalis (a seven-CD pretty much the same as mine, though he was boxed set), Brad Mehldau, Joshua Redman, Mary more old-fashioned; he didn’t understand Monk, Red is the color of the felt on the walls, which are Stallings and Chucho Valdes. who I kept telling him was a genius. I love it here. hung with photos of the men and women who’ve Why wouldn’t I? The most beautiful thing in the played there, and the upholstery. There are To play the Vanguard is to arrive - to join the world is to sit at the back and hear the music, nondescript carpets, and futuristic murals on the pantheon whose vibrations echo silently as sonic look out on all the people sitting, without anything curved wall farthest from the stage. But that ghosts in the nooks and crannies of the extraneous, listening, transfixed. I get so much stage is the focal point of the room. It’s slightly coat-check closet, the ladies’ room and the back out of that.” raised and big enough, though not by much. A lot stairs to the delivery entrance. The musicians of times, the drummer is packed in behind a post. sense each other hovering in the wings, recently

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Send articles, stories, memories, poems, obituaries, photos, trivia, reunion information, etc. . Vignettes of a I learned to use a horse rein on that surprisingly), I was able to convince (like a Charlotte Russe), was on the stoop and how to knit, and the words her. My mouth watered as the stoop. (It was only and always Newark Childhood to all the popular songs of the day. peddler put that 8 or 10 pound chocolate for me. I never By Marcia Kahan Rosenthal, My favorite, which I learned when I watermelon into my skinny experimented with other was 9 (and which I now sing to my nine-year-old arms. flavors...what if I didn’t like it”...a Class of January 1952 grandchildren), was “You’ll Never nickel wasted!). Know.” I pictured myself as Alice I had just made it up the stoop and Perhaps it’s torn down, now...that Faye singing to John Payne, or into the vestibule when the melon On the stoop, I could concentrate on house on Tillinghast Street in better yet, John Payne singing to me. suddenly fell out of my grasp, broke every delicious lick, perfunctorily Newark, NJ, in which I idyllically spent I also discovered from ‘stoop gossip’ open and splattered all over the watching the panorama around me, most of the first 11 years of my life that one of the tenants of the walls and floor in a collage of seeds, but thinking only of my Mellorol and (1934-1945), surrounded by an building , whose daughter was my juice and rind. My heart was broken savoring every drop. Eating it in the extended loving family, familiar playmate, entertained a boyfriend and I could only imagine how house was not fun and licking it as I landmarks (Charlie’s Candy Store, while her husband was at work at a delectable that mouth-watering walked home from the candy store the Hawthorne Avenue Movie defense factory. watermelon would have been, for could be disastrous as I learned one Theatre, Keil’s Bakery, Hoffman’s there was no money to be spent on fateful day when I was 8 years old. I Green Grocer), and friendly The stoop was the place to await the another that day nor, most likely, for had just been given a nickel for my neighbors who never seemed to fruit and vegetable peddler. When I the rest of that week. Mellorol and was returning from move away. Perhaps it is all gone would spot his old horse and cart Charlie’s candy store with the now, a casualty of the riots, poverty, ice-cream roll in one hand and my a mass exodus to the suburbs, and ever-present tennis ball in the other, exists only in my memory...All the planning, no doubt, to play “Stoop more reason to try to give the Ball” when I finished eating the scenes life again, on paper. Mellorol.

The Stoop Inadvertently, and much to my In summer, during the late afternoon turning the corner onto Tillinghast The stoop had other daytime uses, horror, I bounced the Mellorol and and evenings, I would often sit on Street, I would immediately call up to too. It was there that we children stuck the tennis ball into my mouth! the front stoop...those outside steps my mother on the second floor to tell played a game called “Stoop I can still, 60 years later, remember and small platform at the top of her of his imminent arrival. His cart Ball”...throwing a tennis or rubber the shocking taste of that ball and stairs just before you entered the was full of “New Joisey” tomatoes, ball against the point of the steps, recall the tears welling up as I six-family building in which we had green vegetables, and there was with each succeeding step up from watched, with horror, as that the middle-left apartment. always a cornucopia of wonderful the ground worth more points than longed-for ice-cream melted and summer fruits. My favorites were the lower one, if the ball hit the point spread out on the hot sidewalk. It was a small stoop, just enough to (and still are) peaches, cherries, and was caught on the fly. This was From that time on, I kept the Mellorol hold about five or six of us, unlike and, especially, watermelons. no mean feat for a little girl not “under wraps” until I got to my stoop those large, many- stepped stoops known for athletic prowess. I usually to enjoy it. found in other areas of the eastern One day, as I remember it, my confined my outdoor games to “A, United States that had to mother was unable to come down so My Name” or “Russia” (otherwise Watermelons and ice-cream desserts accommodate dozens of tenement she called out the window to tell me known as ‘onesies, twosies, were certainly not daily treats and families on hot summer night. The to buy a quarter of a watermelon. I threesies), jump rope, marbles, were so special that those two grown-ups would gossip with one ran up the stairs two at a time to get jacks, trading cards, hide and seek episodes in which I lost the chance another or talk about the war or the money and to try to talk her into and hopscotch. to have them, made indelible commiserate on life’s hardships, letting me buy a whole one...so impressions - as did the little stoop particularly during those years delicious and cool on those hot The best place to eat a chocolate on 42 Tillinghast Street, where so between 1940 and 1945. We summer days in Newark, when I Mellorol, that creamy, luscious many of my sweet memories were children would take it all in. could eat at least a half of a melon ice-cream roll that came wrapped in made. all by myself. Luckily (and paper and had to be slowly unpeeled

The Ocean, by Krystle Walker The 8th Decade: ERGO Literary Magazine 2002-03 When I am laying by the ocean, The Rain, by Ciara Martin I feel special. Rain is like a plane flying high in the sky, Rain has heavy winds that act like saws, Everyone else goes away, Sometimes it makes noise, Tearing things apart with its ragged jaws. And my mind is blank from worries. Sometimes it’s as quiet as a fly. Rain, nature’s watering can, Just laying there with the waves, Rain is the crying of the gods, Makes things grow and die for always hungry man. Rushing against my legs, They are down and blue, Chills start to come over me, Rain sometimes gently puts you to sleep, Maybe they need light, because of the slight breeze. Sometimes it makes things beautiful to keep. Maybe they need love, too The wind and the waves comfort me, Rain, Rain, Rain, While I watch the sunset, Rain sometimes brings lightning and thunder, Is the most wonderful thing. The ocean is where I can be free. Sometime not, which makes me wonder. I took golf. We had to work in the Jean-Rae Turner community. My work was advisor to a 1938 Grad, Reporter & Author Shares Her newspaper the Trenton YWCA put out Memoires of Growing Up In Newark and teaching Sunday School. Trenton gave graduates Bachelor of Science of the North Jersey Alumni Association was adjacent to the church. On the Degrees in Education. of Worcester Polytechnic Institute. He corner was an open air school also was president of the Hillside Old apparently torn down about 1928. The first job was as a teacher at Guard. He was a 50-year member in Hillside High School with three English the Masonic Lodge in Whitman, Mass. Our sleigh rides began at Ward’s classes composed of boys who backdoor. A good run would take us couldn’t read and one Problems of Mother never taught after she got almost to Bergen Street. After Dr. American Democracy class for senior married. Married women were not Ward died, the street was cut through girls. In the meantime, I went to supposed to work! But she never and houses built. A synagogue went Teachers College, Columbia for an MA stopped teaching. She was in charge on the Ward house site. It became a in Teaching of History. I was elected I’m an only child. My parents, William of the Beginners’ Department Baptist church after 1967. The Wards to Phi Lambda Theta, a graduate R. and Jessie E. Turner, lived on High (pre-school) at the Elizabeth Avenue also owned property across the street honorary society. I was employed by Street, three houses from Central Presbyterian Church. She organized where an apartment was built in the The Trenton Times in the summer of Avenue, Newark, now site of a a Mothers’ Class and found another 1930s and at the corner of Chancellor 1942 and the Military Information Rutgers dorm. We moved to 69 teacher to teach it to stop the women and Parkview where another Service in the Pentagon in the Grumman Avenue in 1923. Our from talking in the back of the room apartment was built in I think the summer of 1944. house was the last one on that side of when she was working with the 1950s. A house occupied by the the street for awhile. The landlord children. She was among the Adams family occupied the fourth I returned to Columbia to attend the owned the lot next door which was a founders of the PTAs at Maple Avenue corner. Adams owned the Adams Journalism School after I joined the rose garden. I watched most of the and Weequahic and the League of theater and Proctors. They were staff of The Elizabeth Daily Journal. I houses being built on Keer in back of Women Voters. She also worked on Greeks. An apartment and two had to quit because I won my battle to us and up the street. A brook was the Community Chest and she was the houses now are on the land. work nights to cover the township filled in between Maple and Parkview Air Raid Warden on our block in World meetings I was assigned to cover. I Terrace. A woman who had a War II. Incidentally she lived to be was the first female to work nightly at carriage rode past us daily and waved almost 104 years old and she was I watched most of the Journal. I took courses at the to us. She didn’t approve of still attempting to teach and/or help the houses being built New School after the civil automobiles or apartments. Other patients in the nursing home where on Keer in back of us disturbances of 1967, and at Kean people used to horseback ride up the she was for more than 10 years. and up the street. University when I was thinking of street. returning to teaching. On April 29,1927, we moved to 45 I was with the Journal for 34 years Father was employed by Celluloid Hansbury Avenue. Although we In high school I was on the Archery until I was fired during a strike with 99 Company as plant engineer in 1919. looked at houses in Millbum etc., my team, named the second best girl others. We were attempting to keep An uncle, a member of Newark Rotary father wanted to stay in Newark athlete (Miriam Goldman was first), our jobs. From there I went to New Club, asked members at a luncheon if because of the library and the school worked on the yearbook staff, (I didn’t Jersey Newsphotos as the photo any of them had a post for my father. system. We did. Even after 1967, have the nerve to try out for the librarian. Newsphotos formed in Three of them said send your disturbances as my mother reported newspaper), belonged to the 1964, was the photo department of brother-in-law to us. He took the two moving vans on the street on the International Relations Club and The Star-Ledger until 2000. I was Celluloid job and became plant same day. They didn’t want to move. several others, and the Junior downsized in October, 1996. Since manager of the plastics division when Contemporary of Newark, the Girl then I’ve been doing books. Celanese purchased Celluloid. He was The farm of Dr. William R. Ward Sr. Scouts, various church affiliated there 39 years. The last three years was still up the street. It ran from groups and taught Sunday School. he spent building a plant along the Chancellor Avenue to Keer Avenue My only child, Margaret-Ann Phillips, was a member of the Class of 1967 at Delaware River. and covered most of the second block I selected Trenton State because I Weequahic. She died December of Hansbury Avenue except for four or wanted to live away from home. 24,1996. Her only son, William R. When I was little I frequently went to five houses nearest Bergen Street. History was my major and since we Richter, has lived with me since 1989. the Newark Public Library on We cut through the property on our had to select two, I took English. At His father, Paul F. Adams, now Washington Street with him because way to and from school. I used to Trenton I was on the staff of the Richter, also was in the Class of 1967. he studied all the time. He was a swing on an apple tree. The grapes newspaper and became editor my mechanical engineer doing chemical supplied the juice for communion senior year, belonged to numerous Go To Page 4 engineering work. He was president services at the church. A piece of the clubs including an International land was donated to the church for Relations Club. We also had to take the parsonage. Until 1938, when Dr. some athletics after class work. I did Ward urged that it be moved, the old swimming except my senior year when Lyons Farms School, built in 1784, we might be called for interviews, then

Living on Hansbury Avenue for the past 76 years which greeted commuters Esther Tumin, each morning as they Former Weequahic Teacher In Loving Memory passed the inn’s marquee. He was also proprietor of Esther Tumin, 84, several other motor inns passed away on In 1948 he received his law degree from Columbia and restaurants in the January 9, 2003 in University where he was editor of the law review. surrounding area Maplewood, NJ. Mrs. The following year, he went to work for the Solicitor Tumin was a physics General’s office in Washington, DC, helping to write An avid sports enthusiast, lab instructor at briefs and argue cases before the Supreme Court. he completed 10 Weequahic High School He argued his first case before the high court in marathons around the and a guidance March 1952. From 1956 to 1962, he was a world and countless local counselor at Livingston partner in the New York law firm, Proskauer Rose runs and triathlons. His High School before Goetz & Mendelsohn. He began teaching at interests ranged from fine art, music, literature, retiring in the early Columbia University Law School in 1962. With the horticulture and birding. A lover of language, he 1980’s. backing of Robert F. Kennedy, he was nominated to wrote for many local publications including The the federal bench and took his place in New York’s Speaker, Big Eye and The Women’s Newspaper of She graduated in 1938 from the New Jersey southern district in 1965. As a judge, he presided Princeton. College for Women in New Brunswick. Mrs. Tumin over a wide range of cases and was known for his was a founder and Sunday School teacher at Bet penetrating but literary style in his decisions. His philanthropic nature led to the creation of the Yeled and a member of the Habonim and Pioneer Levine Foundation for the Arts and generous Women, all of Newark. As a volunteer for EIES, a Judge Frankel surprised the legal community in donations to many national and local charitable foundation for the blind, she read the newspaper 1978 by returning to private practice, at Proskauer organizations. His intelligence, charm and humor aloud twice a week for people who were blind. She Rose, until 1983. From that year until his death he will remain a part of all that was also a member of the National Council of worked as a partner at Kramer Levin Naftalis & Jewish Women in Livingston. Frankel, a Manhattan law firm, where he was Leonard Kaplan, 1949 Grad, litigation director for many years. After leaving the Was President of Company Born in Lyubar, Russia, she lived in New York, bench, he quickly transformed himself into a human rights crusader, becoming chairman of the board of Newark and Livingston for 30 years before moving Leonard Kaplan, 72, of to Maplewood five years ago. Surviving are the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights. He traveled to the Soviet Union and criticized the Newport Beach, California daughters, Vivian Unterweger and Judith, and a passed away in January grandchild. repression of Jews, and to Israel, where he said living conditions for political prisoners were “quite 2003 from injuries sustained terrible.” He also went to South Africa to criticize in a car accident. Mr. Kaplan Marvin Frankel, 1937 Grad, apartheid and to Argentina and Zaire to publicize was president of Prime Medical Facilities in Newport Was Famous Jurist kidnappings and murders by military regimes. In 1988 he was arrested for two days in Kenya when Beach for many years. he attended an inquest into the death of an On March 5, 2002, Judge opposition leader who had perished in police Born in Newark, Mr. Kaplan lived in Kansas City, Marvin Earle Frankel, a custody. Mo., before moving to California in 1984. A 1949 1937 graduate, passed graduate of Weequahic School in Newark, NJ, he away at age 82 in New Twelve days before his death, in a wheelchair, he was named to the All-City basketball team. York City. In a career of made a last argument before the Supreme Court, more than 50 years, Judge saying that the use of school vouchers in Cleveland Surviving are sons, David and Richard; a daughter, Frankel, a former member was an improper entanglement of church and state. Marci Kaplan Marchand; a sister, Doris Losseff and of the Federal District Court The argument came just days before the 50th four grandchildren. in Manhattan, made his anniversary of his first argument before the court. mark as a widely traveled Bertram Schneider, 1946 Grad, campaigner for human rights and as an advocate He is survived by his wife Alice Kross; daughters Was Elementary School Teacher before the Supreme Court. Eleanor Perlman and Mara Wallace; two stepchildren, Ellen Schorr and David Schorr; a Bertram Schneider, 74, of Linden recently passed He was instrumental in drafting the brief for The sister Marjorie Frankel; and six grandchildren. He away in February 2003. He was a sixth-grade New York Times in the landmark First Amendment teacher in Edison, a member of the B’nai B’rith, case, Times vs. Sullivan, which set sharp limits on was also married to Betty Streich for 20 years. Linden Chapter, and the Men’s Club of libel suits brought by public figures. His final Congregation Anshe Chesed. In addition, Mr. appearance before the high court was in February H. Jory Levine, 1951 Grad, Was Schneider was a volunteer senior clerk at the 2002. While on the bench, he wrote “Criminal Entrenpreneur & Philanthropist Surrogates Office at the Union County Court House. Sentences, Law Without Order” with Gary Naftalis, a book that argued that judges seemed to mete out On September 5, 2002, H. Jory Levine (Harvey Born in Newark, he lived in Union before moving to sentences with more caprice than rules. The book Levine) passed away at age 69. Born in Newark, Linden in 1964. Surviving are his wife Beatrice; a provided the intellectual impetus for federal he was a resident of Bridgewater for over 30 years. daughter, Ellen Greenfield; sons, Arthur and William; sentencing guidelines which brought order to the Mr. Levine was the owner/manager of the Red Bull a brother Lewis, and three grandchildren. highly subjective sentencing process. Motor Inn of Somerville, NJ for over 25 years. He became well known for his razor-sharp witticisms Join the whs alumni association!

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Fax: ( ) ______e-mail: ______Graduates: telephone network to communicate with others similarly equipped. Ira Berger, 1940 In Loving Memory Mary Holland Gerber, 1940 In 1976, his dedicated engineering and design Selma Bauers Cytryn, 1940 efforts led to more innovations, included visual Josephine Kestner Bodarsky, 1940 Orange Neighbors, a community stabilizing signalers to alert deaf and hard of hearing people organization and she was active with the Jewish to telephone, doorbell, baby cries, and fire and Richard Waton, 1944 Community Center of Union County and the United Nat Weissman, 1944 smoke. He also created visual alarm clocks, and Jewish Federation of MetroWest. the world's first Braille TTY for deaf-blind people. Al Lichtenstein, 1947 Brody was involved in the development of Larry Sheehan, 1963 Born in Newark, she moved to South Orange software that allowed computers to function as Bobby Cohen, 1960 several years ago. Surviving are her husband TTYs. In addition, he developed the hardware and Mort Belfer James; daughters, Amy, Rachel and Rebecca; her software used by nearly every state Robert Silverman mother, Chuddy Polk; and a grandchild. telecommunications relay service to provide a telephonic link between deaf people using TTYs Community: Jason Seley, 1936 Grad and hearing people. Rabbi Ely Pilchik, Rabbi, Temple B’nai Was Famous Sculptor Jeshurun in Newark & Short Hills Brody was also a long-time civic leader. He was the past president of New Jersey Association of Edward L. Kerr, former Newark When Jason Seley passed the Deaf; past president of Temple Beth Or of the Police Director away in 1983, he left an Deaf; founder of NY/NJ PC Deaf Connection, a international legacy of personal computer user group for the Deaf; and unique sculpture. Seley’s Lauretta Bateman Olshan past chairman of the New Jersey Committee on work in chrome sculpture Alcoholism and Hearing Impaired. 1938 Grad Was Bookkeeper earned him acclaim throughout the world. Brody attended the Central Institute for the Deaf This is written in loving in St. Louis, and graduated from Weequahic High memory, by her classmates, “Jason Seley was a sculptor School in Newark, NJ. He then attended Newark who remember her as the of the first rank among the University, and Washington University in St. Louis, perennial treasurer of their artists of his generation,” Missouri, and received his B.A. in psychology from reunion committee. She said Thomas W. Leavitt, director of the Herbert F. Rutgers University. was our record-keeper and Johnson Museum of Art. “He discovered a pivot-point for inter- medium which he developed importantly for over communications over all the 20 years - the welding of automobile bumpers John Iannuzzi, President of the years of planning reunions. into sculptural forms.“ Barringer HS Alumni Association She will be sorely missed by us, by her family and her many friends and most Seley graduated from Cornell in 1940, and From the recent Barringer High School Alumni remembered for her cheerful disposition. returned as a professor of art and dean of the Association newsletter: It is with deep sorrow that College of Architecture, Art, and Planning. His we announce the passing of our beloved Lauretta attended Maple Avenue School and then sculpture is included in the collections of the president, John Iannuzzi. John passed away graduated to Weequahic as a member of one the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of suddenly on Thursday, December 19th (at age first classes to meet in the new high school. She Modern Art, and many other museums and public 65). He leaves behind his wife Addie, daughters worked as a bookkeeper for 41 years for Iris institutions. Gina, Karen, Joanne and sister Phyll. Construction Company in Union. She became active in community organizations, Women’s Irwin Lee Brody, 1945 Grad John was active in civic and social organizations, American ORT, Hadassah, Kidney Research Was Telecommunications Pioneer and for the past four years was the major impetus Foundation, among others. Always active and behind the Barringer Alumni Association. Through involved. the focus of his energy and dynamic leadership, Irwin Lee Brody, 70, of the activities of the organization expanded and Boonton, New Jersey, died Lauretta lived in Union with her late husband, grew...We will miss his organizational skills and his Tuesday, February 11, Milton, and her two children, Michael and Susan infectious enthusiasm, which rubbed off on us all, 1997. He was president of for many years, before moving to Manchester, NJ. and resulted in the success of all projects we Phone-TTY, Inc. and She was ill for several months and died at home undertook under his leadership. on January 31, 2003 at age 82. executive director of NY-NJ Phone-TTY, and a Editor’s Note: Over one year ago, I met John for the long-time leader in first time when I had lunch with him, his sister Phyll, and Diane Polk Schwarz, 1960 Grad developing and producing Was Elementary School Teacher Pat Restaino, a former Principal at Weequahic, to talk assistive devices for people about creating a citywide alumni association. He was who are deaf and hard of very excited about the prospect of both alumni Diane Schwartz of South Orange recently passed hearing. Brody was instrumental in refurbishing organizations working together. In October, I saw John away. A graduate of the University of Chicago, teletypewriters (TTYs) and adapting them to be again when I attended Barringer’s alumni affair. Our Mrs. Schwartz was a fourth-grade teacher in used with specially constructed modems. This alumni association has a lost a new friend and an Westfield. She was also the founder of South enabled deaf people to use the commercial outstanding individual. ON THE The Weequahic INSIDE: ALUMNI CALUMET › The Alumni Celebration WINTER-SPRING 2003 / ISSUE # 8

› Scholarship Donors

› A Winter of Renewal and Commemoration

› Weequahic On The Web

› Leo Pearl Memorial Scholarship Fund

› Profile: Gwendolyn Sanford, 1966

› Profile: Marilyn Schneider, 1943

› Waldo Winchester

› A Wish List for the High School

› The Indomitable Sadie Rous

› Voices Of Our Alumni, Faculty & Friends

› The Class Reunion Poem

› Reunion Listings

› Weequahic Bulletin

› Lorraine Gordon’s Village Vanguard

› Vignettes of a Newark Childhood

› ERGO In The 8th Decade

› Jean-Rae Turner: Growing Up In Newark

› In Loving Memory

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