Weequahic Alumni Award $51,000 in scholarships to 34 students including the high school’s top five students pictured below:

1 - Karim Gifford 2 - Lenita Onque

3 - Evette Fedd 4 - Al-Mustafa 5 - Perry Williams Ingram More on scholarship recipients on page 4 HOMECOMING 2010 Now on Thanksgiving Day - Thursday, November 25th Weequahic vs. Shabazz Football Game at Untermann Field Join us for breakfast between 8 & 10 a.m. See the neighborhood parade. Tour the high school. Buy alumni merchandise. At 11 a.m., watch the greatest rivalry in the South Ward as Weequahic defends its Thanksgiving Day championship trophy. provides students with opportunities that Why Give To Weequahic might not otherwise be available to them. ALUMNI CALUMET is a publication of the By Phil Yourish, Executive Director So many see the value in giving to WHS ALUMNI ASSOCIATION Weequahic. Others say why give to Look at the faces of Editor, Layout & Design: Weequahic. It’s not the same place that I our Weequahic alumni Phil Yourish, 1964 remember. So much has changed. That’s scholarship students, just the point. Let’s help create a Proofreading: read their words, hear Weequahic where students 50 years from Dave Lieberfarb, Hal Braff, and their voices. This why now can have the same wonderful Myrna Jelling Weissman we, as an alumni memories of their high school and association, exists. In Printer: neighborhood that we have. Budget Copy Centers, Bloomfield a world where so many of us have been blessed with so much, this Alumni Merchandise: Yes, their circumstances are different. is what makes our Weequahic alumni All Star Sporting Goods, West Orange Their needs are diverse. Their challenges experience so meaningful and gratifying. are vast. But their dreams and aspirations Our thanks for articles and photos from The Star-Ledger, NJ.com, NJ Jewish are the same as ours. They deserve For so many of us, we have fond memories News, and our WHS alumni and friends. nothing less than the outstanding of a very special place in the City of education that we received in our growing Newark where you and I grew up known up years. Given the chance, their potential CONTACT US: as Weequahic. Today that name is magic. will blossom. When uttered, it immediately launches a flow of wonderful memories from the past. Good ideas and visions take money – lots It connects us with our roots, to the days Alumni Association of money over time. We are privileged to of our youth, and to the moments when have such generous alumni and friends P.O. Box 494 everything just felt right and good. who want to invest in the current and Newark, NJ 07101 future generations of Weequahic. By When people speak of Weequahic, they (973) 923-3133 - office doing so, we all win as our young people usually describe it as follows: the best (973) 303-5294 - mobile grow and develop into productive men and years of my life; an outstanding high women who will have a significant impact [email protected] school; a great place to grow up; I wish it on the world to come. [email protected] had never ended; I wish my children could have grown up there. And from this www.weequahicalumni.org Can there be a better legacy for us leave special place, so many successful people than to return to the “old neighborhood” have sprouted and plant the seeds for future success for HELP WRITE THE the many wonderful kids who go to NEXT ISSUE: Our alumni association is a wonderful Weequahic today. example of passing on one's legacy as Send us letters, articles, previous generations of Weequahic "give stories, memories, poems, recipes, Look at the faces of our Weequahic back" to support the students currently at photos, cartoons, alumni scholarship students, read their the high school. The alumni association trivia, obituaries, reunion words, hear their voices (on Chancellor has had a tremendous impact on the information, etc. Avenue; in Washington, DC; in Paris, Weequahic of today. It has become an France; at a sports camp; at college) - and important resource to the high school as it GIVE...and then give some more. WEEQUAHIC ARCHIVES: Send us your Weequahic things: yearbooks, jackets, sweaters, letters, Save this special date on your calendar, palm, blackberry, i-pad, or smartphone Calumets, class pictures, photos of the old neighborhood, etc. Weequahic High School Alumni Association fundraising dinner honoring our co-founders RECENT DONATIONS OF NOTE: Chancellor Foundation, Provident Bank, Kalfus Fund, Boose Fund, Griffin Fund, Masin Fund, Walter Hastreiter Scholarship HAL BRAFF & SHELDON BROSS Fund, Jewish Historical Society MetroWest, Hearft of Stone Donations, Zach Braff, Irv Newman, Nancy Small, Lou Bodian, Judy Herr, 1964, Class of 1939, Class of 1945, Thursday, May 19, 2011 Class of Jan. 1950, Class of 1963, Classes of 1965 & 1966 at the historic Robert Treat Hotel in Newark Lutzke also told of the chilling Seniors recall their effect Sen. Joseph McCarthy and his hunt for communists had on school years in local educators, particularly French instructor Robert Jewish Newark Lowenstein, who lost his job. Mix said he fought the charges by Debra Rubin, 9/27/10 for six years and was eventually NJJN Bureau Chief/Middlesex reinstated with back pay, rising to become chair of Weequahic’s Ikey, Mikey, Jakey, Sam foreign languages department. We’re the boys that eat no ham, “He also taught algebra,” called out a man from the audience. “I We play , we play soccer, Now a Verona resident, Lutzke spoke of had him for algebra. And it was Dr. We keep matzos in our lockers the excitement she felt her first day as a Lowenstein. He had a PhD.” Aye, Yiye, Yiye, Yiye Weequahic High! teacher at Weequahic, “the newest high school in the city, where the kids were Lowenstein, who is still alive, had written a That old-time school cheer from Newark’s smart and clever.” The school was filled letter to be read to those gathered in which Weequahic High School brought back a “with parents concerned about their he corrected a common fallacy - that he is flood of memories as Jews with roots in the children.” Her annual pay was $1,000, 103 years old. “I am only 102,” he wrote city gathered for the Sept. 13 meeting of higher than some others because she had a while expressing the hope that the former the Jewish Historical Society of Central graduate degree. Jersey. student who contacted him still had the “spit and vinegar” he remembered. “My husband was a grade school teacher The program on Jewish Newark drew with a master’s, and he made $900,” said Others had their own fond memories of about 200 former city dwellers, mostly past Lutzke as audience members gasped. “In Newark. Jack Cohen said that while students of Weequahic High - and some 1975, I retired making $10,000 a year.” fighting in Guadalcanal in World War II, whose alma mater was South Side High - They were years “of joy and hard work.” his commanding officer told the soldiers to Congregation Etz Chaim Monroe Considered one of the best high schools in they could request one thing from home. Township Jewish Center. America, Weequahic producing renowned Cohen decided he wanted photos of alumni, including author , a Newark. “My poor mother didn’t know The program featured Hilda Lutzke - an 1950 graduate whose novels often feature where to get pictures,” said Cohen, so she English teacher at Weequahic from 1937 to Newark and Weequahic. 1975 who turned 97 on Sept. 14th - contacted two city dailies for help. speaking about colleagues and students and The program was chaired by Marilyn Mix, “One of them, I can’t remember which, her “lovely” hometown of Newark, whose herself a former Newark resident and decided to run a story on the front page Jewish community was once 80,000-strong school teacher who spent two years at something like, ‘GI from Newark prefers and thriving. Weequahic High. Like most others pictures of Newark to bathing beauties of present, she now lives in one of Monroe’s the time.’” The nostalgic talk elicited sighs and nine adult communities. She shared stories murmurs of recognition as audience of socializing at the Weequahic Diner, Charlotte Anker described Newark as “fun, members spoke of their own memories of where “everyone ate.” Ever the teacher, family, and friends.” “terrible” high school football teams; she used a pointer and easel in sharing peaceful streets; and safe, close-knit trivia and discussing Newark’s greatest “It was perfect,” she said. “I learned neighborhoods. philanthropist, department store owner about philanthropy and how to be kind and Louis Bamberger. thoughtful. I have such good memories.”

3rd WEST COAST REUNION Sunday, February 20, 2011 Temple Beth Yahm 949-644-1999 Newport Beach, CA Open to all West Coast (CA, OR, WA, AZ, NM, TX, CO, UT, NV) alums and all other interested alums & their guests Contact Reunion Organizer: Fran Katz Sekela Home: (760) 944-7384 / Cell: (760) 207-1795 [email protected] OUR 2010 SCHOLARSHIP RECIPIENTS

Felicity Appiah-kubi Kadim Bobbit Andrew Bodison Niyale Branch Elijah Brice Marquis Brown Jerry Butler

Our 1st Scholarship fullest because tomorrow isn’t promised, economic status through attending and but when do you start working towards graduating from college? These are the Celebration Dinner your long-term goals? Today a high questions that I face on a daily basis. world, and society is a lot more Theses are the issues that are at stake in Our first Scholarship Celebration competitive...there are those who wallow my life. Dinner, with 120 people attending - in the should have, would have, could representing students, parents, have, rather than making something of Jamil Coleman - Growing up I had family, faculty, and WHS Board themselves...I want to wake up everyday one choice and that was to get a good members, took place on June 17th at and do something I love. I do not want education. Ever since I was young my the Solid Rock Baptist Church in limit myself to just having a job to get mother would always say, “If you don’t Irvington. Nadine Walker Jenkins, by. I want a career...I am almost at the have an education you’re just wasting WHS 1983, was the keynote end of my [time] in high school and I am space.” I took that seriously because we speaker. Thirty-four Weequahic High in the beginning of the building blocks of all need an education to survive in this School students received 2010 my future. After high school I either sink scholarships from the WHS Alumni world, especially now. My mom stressed or swim and I plan on swimming to Association totaling $51,000. Alumni education. We used to talk about college success. Co-President Mary Dawkins all the time. Also, I have three little organized the event. Art Lutzke brothers watching my every move. So I chaired the scholarship committee Felicity Appiah-kubi - Being born can’t do irresponsible things because with members Myrna Weissman, in Ghana, I have witnessed a lot of they will mimic what I do. I have to be a Harold Edwards, Dave Schechner poverty. These experiences have role model for them so they can see what and Judy Bennett. The scholarship allowed me to see firsthand how hard it they should do when they get administrator is Phil Yourish, our is to survive with only a high school older...College can expand my horizons Executive Director. diploma or GED. My background and and make my mother proud...I don’t want environment has had a tremendous effect let to her down. Below are excerpts from the personal on my life, as well as my future goals... statements of some of our scholarship Education is important to me, and I will Kadim Bobbitt - I am a skilled recipients: do everything in my power to gain the writer and avid reader. The literary best education possible. world has intrigued and interested me Niyale Branch - My future is the since I was nine years old. My dream is As I reflect on life, most important thing to me. I live in a Jerry Butler - to become an author and to see my name community where for some people there are several questions that come to embossed, in golden point, on the cover education is a lesser value. Everyone mind. What college am I attending? of my novel. I hope that with the would rather live in the moment than live How am I going to pay the required knowledge and experience gained from a for the future. I know that when you are tuition? Will there be any hindrances to good college education, I will be able to young you are supposed to live life to the detour my plans in getting into college? realize my dreams. How can I contribute to my family’s

Jamil Coleman Keyana Davis-Fuentes Eunice Dwumfour Leemu Freeman Aiyanna Griffin Curtis Grimsley Sharon Grimsley DeVante Hawes Quadir Hargrove Sabrina Houseman Rochelle James Keanu Johnson Tanaya Jones Tashebia Jones

Kareem Gifford - The first time I choices were going to be impactful to I’m writing, my pen is unstoppable and ever tried to write my name I was me in a profound and positive way. it only gets better...Writing. This is sitting at the living room table and my Thus, fear settled in my being because who I am. mother was behind me on the couch. not knowing where I was going or how She gave me a pencil and a yellow I was going to get there was unsettling. Perry Williams - Holding it sheet of lined paper and she told me to Though I am a young man, I know that together, seeing the bigger picture, start writing my name. I struggled at there are options in life I have yet to being like “glue” that’s what many first, the pencil slipping out of position consider. I also realize that one phase people look to me for - to hold them between my fingers. My mother would of my life is ending and the next phase together through the toughest reposition it and tell me to keep is just beginning. turbulence they suffer at nature’s will. writing. I did not give up until I had They look for me to be strong and to written my name correctly, and I could Lenita Onque - Writing. To form direct them from their tunnels of hold the pencil without dropping it. words, numbers, or symbols on a insanity to righteous paths. My life has Now I sit typing, thinking about the surface with a pen or pencil. This is been far from easy sailing because of first time I wrote my name, I now see who I am. I grab a blank sheet of the tempests I have encountered and at that moment in time I was showing paper and think of how I will turn the even I am astonished when people determination. I was not going to give white paper into a black and white refer to me as their “Glue.”...Various up until I could get my name right. form of art. I sit, I ponder, I run words programs and mentors contributed to That determination has followed me and sentences over and over in my the metamorphosis I underwent. The through the years and now I don’t give head, all the while looking at this most memorable was the “UR up at anything...My determination simple lifeless sheet that hold all my Worthy-Rites of Passage: a 20-week helps to complete assignments that I senses captive. Nothing else matters to program in which I became the “Glue.” have to work on all night. Any me. All I want to do is complete the At the end of the program, I was obstacles that you put in front of me, I task. The first group of words finally awarded “The Glue” certificate for will overcome. Any task you lay out form in my head. At this discovery, I going above and beyond the calls of for me. I will complete. No matter am smiling. My hand, impatient to membership...It was then that I realized what the problem is I will solve it one move since the paper first came out that the award was merely a frame for way or another. reaches for the pen which is an what I had always been...Being “the extension of me...As my hand enfolds Glue” to so many people, I silenced Curtis Grimsley - “What did you the pen in a loving grip my arm grows. gravity’s laughter with the realization do today to impact your future?” That I am connected to this tool, loving the that I do not have to be another proverbial question often asked by my feeling of it in my hand...I have a way statistic. I became glue and not only mother, in which I often had no reply, to express myself and fight the held many things together through my made me contemplate about my every blankness of this paper in front of strength but, like the substance itself, day choices and the consequences they me...I write a letter, that letter turns began taking the shape of whatever I had on me in terms of how I live my into a word, that multiplies into a imagined. And I imagined many great life. Yet, I was never certain that my sentence. I can’t be stopped now... things for my future.

Ali Myrick Yasmina Reed Katrice Sheard Laquan Steed Sheena Tomas Destinney Kamia Williams Williams Marven Neptune not pictured Mars Almond Bar, the 3 Musketeers, and A new look and other changes M&M Chocolates the Snickers bar were introduced. From 1948 to 1954, a number of changes took place: the original cardboard tube Newark, the original home Origin of Idea for M&M's packaging was changed to the packaging Forrest Mars Sr., having been raised in still in use today; the company began of the world-famous candy the shadow of a world of candy-making, imprinting an m on each candy, a heavy had gotten the idea for M&M's in a visit national advertising was launched and by Nat Bodian to Spain during the Spanish Civil War in M & M became a household name; the late 1930s. He'd encountered soldiers M&M Peanut Chocolate Candies were One of the world's most famous eating pellets of chocolate encased in a introduced; TV advertising with a new and biggest-selling chocolate hard sugary coating which prevented them slogan - "The milk chocolate melts in from melting. Inspired by this idea, your mount, not in your hand." confectionery brands got its start Forrest Mars went back to his kitchen and and ascended to international invented the recipe for M&M's chocolate Leaving Newark stature from a base in Newark. candies. In 1958, after the M&M operation left its I'm talking about M&M's coated North 12th Street premises, along with its milk chocolate candies. departure went the smell of chocolate that had constantly lingered in the neighbor- hood air. The chocolaty aroma for 17 Start-up operations were begun in 1940 years had from a factory building at 285 Badger been Avenue, between West Bigelow and West instantly Runyon Streets in Newark's Clinton Hill recognizabl section. However, with America's entry e to into World War II and receipt of neighborho government od visitors, contracts, the but was company M&M's in World War II something soon moved Shortly after the company that nearby to larger began production as M&M's residents had learned to ignore. The quarters in Ltd Newark NJ the tiny M&M operation relocated to Hacketts- the old 11th chocolates became a favorite of town, where it still maintains its world Ward on 200 American GIs serving in world headquarters. The current CEO and North 12th War II. Packaged in cardboard Co-President is Forrest E. Mars Jr., son of Street, at tubes, they were quickly the company founder, Forrest E. Mars Sr. Fourth Avenue. It remained in this adapted by the military who included building for 17 years until 1958. them in American soldiers' C-rations Space Age Chocolate because they withstood extreme temper- On April 12, 1981, M&M chocolates rose The company was originally founded as atures. In the hot tropics, these candies to heights never before achieved by any M&M Limited. One of the two M's was were especially practical. In the war other chocolate. The first space shuttle for Forrest Mars Sr., the company years, the company's advertising was astronauts, John W. Young and Robert L. founder. The other M was for Bruce largely on billboards, which reflected the Crippen, asked for M&M's to be included Murrie, who put up some of the capital wartime theme . in the food supply for a two-day, record- for the projected new candy-making setting earth orbit. Consequently, M&M's operation. When operations were started, Newark Plant Production Capacity became a component of the space food the hard-coated chocolates were made in With the 12th Street candy factory going exhibit at the National Air and Space six different colors: Brown, Yellow, full blast during World War II, when it Museum in Washington D.C. Orange, Red, Green and Violet. could reach peak production, it would turn out 200,000 pounds of M&M's a Note: After his father’s death, Forrest Son of Milky Way's 'Father' week - nearly all of it going to the Mars Sr took over the family business, The founder of the Newark company, military. By war's end, with help from Mars, Inc., and officially merged his Forrest E. Mars Sr., was the son of Frank Ingmar Monson, an engineering con- company with it in 1964. C. Mars, a candy-maker dating back to tractor from Fairfield NJ, who was putting 1911. In that year, Frank Mars and his in 80-90 hours a week, the Newark plant's wife began making candies in the kitchen capacity was gradually stretched to of their Tacoma, Washington, home. 600,000 pounds per week. By the Frank Mars then moved his candy-making 1950s, the capacity was further operations to Minnesota in 1923, where expanded to reach its maximum he introduced the Milky Way bar. His output - 1 million pounds a week, company, in 1926, was then relocated to a running in variable shifts, 1st, 2nd, new plant in a Chicago suburb where the 3rd, 24 hours a day. SWEDE - Weequahic’s Gentle Giant A Poem For Graduation WEEQUAHIC WRITERS By Marcia Rosenzweig By Robert Masin (the son) Federbush, Jan. 1952 Philip Roth, Jan. 1950 You’ve heard us say A Kirkus Book Review We couldn’t wait From the Good Reads web site Until the day We’d graduate. Well, it appears We’re through at last, Four high school years Have fin’lly passed. Right from this night Our paths must vary, Some will fight And most will marry. Some will learn As historians turn more and more to intimately An occupation, Some return drawn, tightly focused stories of the Everyman To education. In the "stifling heat of equatorial Newark," a to provide meaning and texture to the progress terrifying epidemic is raging, threatening the of time, this biography is just the kind of Slowly we children of the city with maiming, material they will seek out. Masin has written a Shall all grow wiser. paralysis, lifelong disability, and even death. loving story of his father, who, like all good There will be No grade advisor. This is the startling theme of Philip Roth’s fathers, was an exceptional man in his son’s wrenching new book: a wartime polio epidemic eyes: generous (except with allowances), Teacher made in the summer of 1944 and the effect it has on a gentle, attentive and full of quirks and A point to guide us, closely knit, family-oriented Newark eccentricities. But their Aid community and its children. Will be denied us. But the senior Masin, known as “Swede,” was Thinking we At the center of Nemesis is a vigorous, dutiful also a star athlete - state champion in the shot Must do alone, twenty-three-year-old playground director, put, voted most outstanding state player in For now, you see, We’re on our own. Bucky Cantor, a javelin thrower and basketball and All-American in soccer (when weightlifter, who is devoted to his charges and he happened to pick up the sport) and captain We leave behind disappointed with himself because his weak of three teams in college - as well as humble A school inspiring, eyes have excluded him from serving in the war and a gentleman. And must find alongside his contemporaries. Focusing on A boss who’s hiring. Cantor’s dilemmas as polio begins to ravage his He inspects not only the lay of this particular Or a sign playground - and on the everyday realities he land, but the day-to-day life of his father’s part That says “recruits,” faces - Roth leads us through every inch of of town: where he hung out, the street life, And join the line emotion such a pestilence can breed: the fear, school, socializing, food, architecture, theater, For army suits. the panic, the anger, the bewilderment, the sledding in the park, liberal politics and more. Perhaps go straight suffering, and the pain. Masin also explores how Swede was “this nice To school instead, Jewish boy, living in a wonderful Jewish Or find the mate Moving between the smoldering, malodorous neighborhood, with kind Jewish parents,” a kid We choose to wed. streets of besieged Newark and Indian Hill, a who rarely gave his parents grief, “but What’s Best to do pristine children’s summer camp high in the marrying a shiksa, well, that was devastating.” Is hard to say, Poconos - whose "mountain air was purified of Though school is through all contaminants" - Roth depicts a decent, His parents managed to survive the devastation We’d like to stay energetic man with the best intentions and the book pays nearly as close attention to At times we all struggling in his own private war against the Estelle’s Italian background as it does to Have hated school, epidemic. Roth is tenderly exact at every point Swede’s; a feisty, outspoken family, though But we’ll recall about Cantor’s passage into personal disaster, Masin’s most evocative memory is the That as a rule. and no less exact about the condition of spaghetti and meatballs. Playfully teasing We’ve found each day childhood. portrayals of the author’s brother and sisters A pleasant one. adds a satisfying completeness to the Swede’s I’s like to say - Through this story runs the dark questions that impact. Then I’ll be done - haunt all four of Roth’s late short novels: What I hope we will kind of accidental choices fatally shape a life? Affectionate, with a bracing air of locality - the These next years find How does the individual withstand the kind of microhistory that will yield gold for Far grander still onslaught of circumstance? more sweeping history projects. Than those behind! WEEQUAHIC WRITERS Tractenberg Class of June 1960 - 50th Reunion characterizes as an “epoch.” October 9, 2010 at the Kenilworth Inn. Tour of Paul Tractenberg, June 1956 A fifth chapter Weequahic High School earlier in the day. The The results of offers “the committee members: Gil Lustig, Warren Bratter what began as voices and (class president), Marian Kaufman, David a suggestion by visions” of Kessler, Mike Kessler, Judy Lieb, Ed Muster, Professor Paul some of the Steve Rosen, Merle Starkman, Phyllis Bernstein, Tractenberg school’s most Sue Bohrer, Charlie Hershkowitz, Riva Rock. about how to memorable commemorate personalities, a the first 100 list that Tractenberg concedes is years of “highly selective and highly Rutgers School personal” and that includes of Law in Professors Arthur Kinoy, Ruth Newark have Bader Ginsburg, Saul Mendlovitz been captured in and Al Slocum, and the Class of A Centennial History of Rutgers 1977’s A.J. Smaldone, who became Law School in Newark: Opening a one of the country’s pioneer Thousand Doors. Writing with advocates for the disabled. In the affection and candor informed by his final chapter, he expresses optimism four decades on the faculty, that the law school, in the face of Tractenberg sketches the school’s financial and other challenges, will crises, transformations and triumphs find a way to continue its from its opening in 1908 as the New commitment to opportunity, Jersey Law School through the excellence and impact. present day. Professor Tractenberg earned his Tractenberg, who is Board of B.A. from Wesleyan and his J.D. Governors Distinguished Service from the University of Michigan. A Professor and Alfred C. Clapp member of the Rutgers faculty since Distinguished Public Service 1970, he is the author of numerous Professor of Law, sought to involve publications on education law; a faculty, students and alumni in frequent lecturer; and consultant and celebrating the past, present and adviser to many national, regional, future of the law school. In a and state organizations and agencies. year-long Centennial Seminar, he In 1973, he established the proposed, students would explore Education Law Center in Newark, a the history of the school in the public interest law project, and context of its impact on the law, served as its director for three years. legal education, and the legal profession. He is involved in several landmark constitutional cases about public The seminar, together with two education, especially Abbott v. major programs on which his Burke. In 2000, Tractenberg students collaborated and which established and continues to serve as featured faculty and alumni, co-director of the Institute on underscored Rutgers Law School’s Education Law and Policy (IELP), significant role in the development an interdisciplinary research project of legal doctrine, its introduction of at Rutgers-Newark. He is also clinical legal education and other co-director of the Newark Schools curricular innovations, and its deep Research Collaborative, a major and successful commitment to racial, project of IELP. ethnic, gender, and socioeconomic diversity within the profession. New Jersey Goes A-Courting: 10 Legal Cases That Shook the Nation, A Centennial History of Rutgers his 2nd book growing out of the Law School in Newark presents the Centennial event, will be soon be history of the school in four published. Most of the cases have a chapters, each describing what major Rutgers Law School imprint. has also been written in the style of an epic Classes of 1965 & 1966 WEEQUAHIC WRITERS odyssey that many experience not only Combined 45th reflect a single life but purposely engulfs the Wayne Chen & Gary Goss, 1964 lives of every man, woman, boy and girl. Reunion This book’s contents skillfully utilize the "the sweet smell of success" Holy scriptures to uncannily reveal God’s The classes of 1965 and 1966 plan and purpose for mankind in a straight- spent a great weekend together on forward matter-of- fact-way. As each October 9th and 10th. We partied, chapter unfolds, another piece of the great reminisced and did some dancing “puzzle of life” comes together. It is the at the L’Affaire restaurant in second greatest love story that has ever been Mountainside and continued the told. celebration the next morning at the Springfield Holiday Inn. Irv Sternberg, Jan. 1947 It was great to do this jointly with another class with which we had a lot of connection during high school. Personally, it was exciting to see 6 members of the first wrestling team that Weequahic ever had, back in 1963-64 and we reminisced about our old coach, Mr. Mudd.

Fart Without Fear: Comfort Food for Sy Mullman, chair of the 1966 Uncomfortable Times is the world’s first Reunion Committee, and I, chair of I'm pleased to announce the release of my laugh-out-loud, instantly useable, the 1965 Reunion Committee, latest novel, The Persian Project, which self-improvement comfort food cookbook. could not have been more pleased. foreshadows today's events in Iran. Writing Find out what uptight politically correct We are both looking forward to under my pen name, Mark Irving, my new chefs, nutritionists and scientists have known our individual 50th year reunions book completes the Clint Jagger series of for years but haven’t told you. Think fried in 2005 and 2006, hoping that international thrillers. Readers of the chicken, macaroni and cheese, meatloaf, and everyone will be well and make the previous Clint Jagger books, Deadly Boston baked beans; this cookbook for effort to be there. The effort of the Passage and Sakura's Stratagem, know of everyone includes more than 70 low-to Reunion Committees was just his ventures involving the English Channel no-odor producing comfort food recipes. tremendous. Complete with a unique rating system, tunnel and a rogue Japanese mission to Mars. favorite recipes, special menus, and fun facts, Fart Without Fear will show you how After careers at the old Newark News as a to eliminate odors but not the flatulence columnist and as a speech writer for AT&T, caused by your family favorites - all without I began writing books and have published six sacrificing the flavor, joy and fun they during retirement. Inspired by my work evoke. experiences in Tehran before the revolution, The Persian Project has had a long gestation Neal Salkind, another 1964 grad, is the period. agent for the book. As my first novel, it gathered dust in my desk Gwen Woods Ziegler, 1966 for years before I exhumed it, rewrote large chunks, and heavily edited the rest. The result is a timely story that brings alive the people, places and events of that time and foreshadows the rise of a militant Islam and today’s events.

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JUDGMENT WORK, A Conclusion To The I'd love to hear from my 1947 classmates and Matter starts out as autobiography using this other WHS grads. Contact me at author’s life as a revelation in itself, but it [email protected]. My web site is www.irvsternberg.com. $100M Grant to Newark Schools The Beth is still the Best NEWARK NEWS (from the Star-Ledger’s NJ.com web site)

A New “Schools Stadium: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg (from the Acropolis announced on the Oprah Winfrey show Alumni News) that the title of a program to pump $100 million into the Newark school system is the "Start Up Education Foundation." "Every child deserves a great education and right now that's not happening," Zuckerberg said to a standing ovation. The hospital where most of us were born U.S. Education Commissioner Arne was the top rated hospital for cardiac care Duncan from satellite said "I'm really and heart surgery by U.S. News & World proud of these guys," adding that the Report when it evaluated close to 5,000 dropout rate in Newark is "morally, hospitals. The Newark Beth Israel economically unacceptable," and Medical Center was among the nation’s top 50 hospitals for the second Obituaries have referred to it as “The Old complimented everyone on stage. consecutive year. Lady,” the official Essex County map Duncan and Winfrey both extolled the identified it as “” and the bipartisan co-operation exhibited by According to a full page ad announcing Board of education and the City fathers Christie and Booker. this distinction, the following was stated: called the “.” It is through the skill and compassion of However, generations of Barringer our cardiologists, surgeons, specialists, students have simply and proudly called nurses, technicians and all the employees it, “the Stadium,” as though if it was a that enables us to be the best in New part of the school, like the “gym” Jersey and in the top 1% in the Untied building, “music” room, or the States. “auditorium;“ and understandably so, because it was situated in our Weequahic is proud of the hospital’s neighborhood and in walking distance accomplishments and also of the many from our school, our homes, and our Weequahic alumni who work there, practice fields in Branch Brook Park. It was our stadium for more than eighty including Dr. Victor Parsonett, who was years and the site where so much inducted into the first class of the excitement and so much fame was Weequahic Alumni Hall of Fame. achieved on the gridiron, the track, and the diamond, Alumni, with vivid Booker Honored By Jewish memories of their youth have been Historical Society of MetroWest saddened with the stadium’s gradual Mark Zuckerberg, co-founder and CEO decline (and there were widespread of Facebook. Zuckerberg is No. 35 on At the annual gala of the JHSMW in reports that it was going to be Forbes’ new list of richest Americans. September, Newark Mayor Cory Booker demolished). The magazine estimated his worth at $6.9 received the Lasting Impressions award billion - up $4.9 billion over the past from President Howard Kiesel and a Like the legendary phoenix rising from its year. contribution was made in his honor to ashes, we will now witness a new stadium provide a scholarship for a student at on Bloomfield Avenue emerging on the Christie wants to place Newark’s school Weequahic High School. footprint of the old. Construction began system, under state control for 15 years, this January and contracts call for its under Booker’s authority with his completion in April, 2011. The new support. An ambitious series of changes, stadium will still have the long row of long opposed by teachers unions, will impressive arches on its entrance side. It take place. They include an expansion of will be green year round because the charter schools, new achievement football, soccer, and softball fields will be standards and methods for judging which covered with maintenance free synthetic schools and teachers are effective. turf. The track will be reconfigured so that championship track meets can be Zuckerberg’s pledge of up to $100 scheduled. Seating space is planned for million in initial money can be matched, 5,500 spectators, which is considerably presumably by a Booker-led fundraising less than the 14,500 which existed in the effort. Taken together, the announcement old stadium in its prime. could mean a $200 million infusion into Continued on next page the Newark schools. ...Ginsberg’s life and career were long and, (Editor’s Note: The panels at Central were NEWARK NEWS frankly, not without their valleys. But this installed by a firm owned by Leon Baptise, a film captures the late poet at his early best 1983 grad of Weequahic.) New film on Newark-born poet, - when he woke up one morning Allen Ginsberg determined to speak for himself, and went NJ NETS Debut at the ROCK to bed realizing he had spoken for a (Excerpts from a review by Stephen Whitty, generation. Star-Ledger)

He was a nice Jewish boy from New Jersey (Editor’s Note: Many alumni may not know that the late Allen Ginsburg is the nephew of - born in Newark, raised in Paterson, a Hannah Ginsburg Litzky, a popular English student at Montclair State (before trans- teacher at Weequahic for many years.) ferring to Columbia). His father taught high school. He thought he’d be a labor Solar Panels on the Rooftops lawyer. But he also felt drawn to the work of another, long-gone New Jersey native: of five Newark Schools Walt Whitman. And so Allen Ginsberg (Excerpts from an article by Victoria St. became a poet, too, singing a song of Martin, Star-Ledger) They will only be here for two years but himself that lasted for more than 40 years. their debut at the “ROCK” was memorable. Homes and businesses across the state will The NJNets, trying to rebuild their team run off power generated on the rooftops with new talent, a new owner, a new and carports of a handful of Newark general manager, and a new coach, excited schools, according to officials from Public the more than 15,000 fans who came to see Service Electric & Gas when they unveiled the Nets play at their new home, the a project that will install more than 9,000 , by beating the Detroit solar panels at five city schools by the end Pistons in the opening game of the season. of 2010 as part of their Solar 4 All They then delighted their fans again when initiative. they won their second game against the Sacramento Kings. Commissioner David As part of the $515 million investment Stern, who hails from Teaneck, announced James Franco, right, portrays Allen Ginsberg, program in renewable energy and green that the 2011 National Basketball Associa- with Aaron Tveit as Ginsberg's lover Peter tion draft will take place at Prudential. Orlovsky, in the movie "Howl." jobs, PSE&G is targeting big, flat-roofed buildings in urban enterprise zones. The “Howl,” a new film, looks at the man at his Dodge Poetry Festival In Newark peak. In 1955, after struggling with the formal demands of poetry (and his own The country’s largest celebration of poetry attempts at heterosexuality), Ginsberg came out of the west Jersey woods at finally put other people’s expectations Waterloo Village and onto the gritty streets aside. He would write whatever he of Newark, bringing more than 50 poets wanted. He would love whomever he and musicians for four days of readings, wanted. And an astonishing poem poured conversations and performances. out of him, the lament of someone who had Activities kicked of on Thursday, October seen “the best minds of my generation 7th on the main stage at the New Jersey destroyed by madness, starving hysterical Performing Arts Center. It continued - naked,” the love song of someone plan, which also places panels on utility often at 10 venues simultaneously - entranced by sailors, by “angel-headed poles, is to generate 80 megawatts of solar through Sunday, concluding with four U.S. hipsters,” by life. It was a shout of capacity for the state by 2013. poet laureates sharing the stage for a The freedom and so, naturally, there were those 13th biennial Dodge Poetry Festival final who wanted to shout it down. The five Newark schools - Central High reading, a celebration of renowned poet School, Barringer High School, Park Lucille Clifton, who died in February after “Howl,” a feature directed by two longtime Elementary School, Camden Middle being a fixture at previous festivals. nonfiction filmmakers, breaks its story School and Camden Elementary School - down into four parts. There is a are the first learning institutions in the state faux-documentary interview with Ginsberg to have solar panels that create energy to (played by James Franco). There is a flow directly into an electrical grid. The cartoon visualization of the poem. There is systems will generate 2.6 megawatts, a long scene of Ginsberg reading the poem enough to power about 400 average sized at a coffeehouse. And there is the 1957 homes, according to a PSE&G press trial for obscenity brought against release. Ginsberg’s publisher, the poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Continued on next page The Jewish Museum of New Jersey is moderate-income people through NEWARK NEWS located at 145 Broadway, Newark, NJ, at research, education and training on public historic Congregation Ahavas Sholom. policy issues important to working Continued from page The Museum is open on Sundays from families and seniors, direct counseling 1:00-5:00 P.M., and by appointment. For and services. Their goals promote social Dodge Poetry Festival Cont. information call (973) 485-2609 or email and economic justice for all. [email protected]. The festival’s lineup included heavy (Editor’s note: Julian Bond has a Weequahic hitters, from the elegant crowd-pleaser Julian Bond “performs” for connection. In 1970, he was invited by Gwen Billy Collins to master poet Galway McClendon, a 1965 grad who was teaching at Kinnell now in his 80s. And there was New Jersey Citizen Action event the high school, to speak to the student body. Sharon Olds who celebrated family, love Phyllis Salowe-Kaye, the Executive Director and the erotic. of NJ Citizen Action, is the wife of 1960 grad, Stewart Kaplowitz.) Kay Ryan and Rita Dove, both former poet laureates, also took part. There were Union Chapel A.M.E. Church - many new faces this year, too, represent- once Wainwright Street Schul ing diverse cultures and languages, - to host interfaith service reflecting the move to the multicultural environs of Newark. To all who were members of Congregation Ahavat Israel (the Many Faces of Yisrael exhibit at Wainwright Street Shul) or who have memories of Rabbi Mordechai and/or Jewish Museum in Newark The New Jersey Citizen Action Education Rabbi Joseph Ehrenkratz, the congregants Fund (NJCAEF) in partnership with the of the Union Constitutional Law Chapel A.M.E. Clinic presented a very special Church which appearance by Julian Bond. In "Crossing purchased the the Color Line: From Rhythm 'n' Blues to building at 209 Rock 'n' Roll," Mr. Bond presents a Wainwright Street history of American music, tracing the in 1969 have melding of jazz, blues, country music and invited us to join pop into rock & roll, stopping along the them for a service way to examine the influences of race, commencing at 11 demographics, war, immigration and a.m. on Sunday, technology in this transformation. November 21, 2010. You will have a wonderful time. The sanctuary is His presentation was accompanied by beautiful and service is musical and fun. music and photos describing how black Please call Hal Braff at (201) 333-0400 and white Americans, immigrants and x208 for further information. “The Many Faces of Yisrael: Return from their music, and entrepreneurial efforts the Diaspora,” an exhibition of paintings, came together to create a new type of sculpture, drawings and photographs, music. This entertaining and informative A Statue For Justice Brennan opened at The Jewish Museum of New program recognized among other things Jersey on September 26 , 2010, and will the interplay of race and public policy. Twenty years after William J. Brennan run through the middle of January 2011. Jr.’s retirement from the U.S. Supreme Featured artists are Jahheal Massac, From his student days as a founder of the Court, a statue of the late justice was Phillip DeLoatch, and Mansa K. Mussa. Student Nonviolent Coordinating unveiled at the Essex County Hall of Committee to Chairman of the NAACP, Records in Newark. The city is a fitting “The goal of this exhibition is to present Mr. Bond has been a leader in the spot to honor Brennan, whose landmark art and objects that are powerful and movements for civil rights, racial equality, decisions on everything from civil rights moving,” said Max Herman, President of economic justice and peace. The holder to free speech made him the court’s most the Board of Trustees of the Museum. of 20 honorary degrees, he is a influential member during a tenure “But it will also expand many visitors’ Distinguished Professor at American spanning five decades. No one can fully views of who Jews are, what they look University in Washington, D.C., and a appreciate the passionate champion for like, where they live - and of what it Professor of History at the University of justice that Brennan became without means to be Jewish. We expect this Virginia. . understanding his roots in Newark, where exhibition to trigger new emotions and he was born in 1906 on an unpaved open eyes.” NJCAEF is a non-profit organization stretch of New Street, just beyond the old founded in 1983 to empower low-and Morris Canal. literacy through the Principal’s Book of 1974, she was cum laude at Lincoln Weequahic Indians the Month Club, 25 Book Read Challenge University in Pennsylvania where she Inducted into the and Family Literacy Night. received her Bachelor’s degree in He was a strong advocate of the middle sociology. Two years later, she earned a 2010 Newark Athletic school scholar athletes who went on to Master of Science degree in community Hall of Fame high school and beyond. He kept in touch organization, planning and administration with them throughout their collegiate from Columbia University. careers supporting them financially and (Each of the following persons were emotionally when needed. He knew the Sheila represents the 34th Legislative inducted in the General category which importance of discipline in athletics and District, which includes Clifton, East honors individuals who may or may not be the positive influence the field inspires in Orange, Glen Ridge, Montclair, and athletes or involved in athletics, but have young people. Woodland Park. As Speaker she presides made meaningful contributions to the over the 214th Assembly. In 2003, she Newark community.) He retired in 2006 but always maintained was first elected to the Assembly and a keen interest in the advancement of re-elected in 2005, 2007 and 2009. Carl L. Gregory, 1966 Newark children. He worked as a site During the 2008-09 Legislative Session, monitor of the sports programs for the she served as Deputy Speaker Pro Born and raised in Extended School Day Program to keep his Tempore, chaired the Human Services Newark, Carl hand on the “pulse” of children. He Committee, and sat on the Higher Gregory dedicated especially enjoyed working the elementary Education and Labor committees. She his life’s work to school basketball tournaments held around was also the Assistant Majority Leader in the City of the city. Carl loved Newark and its the 2006-07 Legislative Session. Newark, children. On August 3, 2009, he departed particularly its this life leaving a rich legacy of commit- Some of her many accomplishments youth. He was an ment to his hometown. include co-sponsoring the law creating the employee of the Department of Children and Families, and Newark Public A family man, Carl was deeply committed sponsored legislation signed into law that Schools for 28 to his wife Deborah and his children, requires that the Department of Human years, serving 10 years as a teacher and 18 Sharifa, Aminifu Robert (Janine), Kamau Services report physical assaults and years as an administrator. and his stepsons Rahsaan (Mildred) and deaths at state psychiatric hospitals on its Hakim (Dana) and grandchildren. web site and report deaths to the Public Some of Carl’s fondest memories came Advocate. She has also sponsored from being a defensive end on the His motto: “Keep your eyes on the prize. legislation creating paid family leave, Weequahic High School football team. Stay strong and focused.” amending the state’s wrongful death law, After graduating from Weequahic High providing specialized social services and School in 1966, Carl entered Kent State Sheila Y. Oliver, 1970 medical treatment for persons in the University in Kent, Ohio and graduated in criminal justice system with mental health issues, and providing low-cost auto 1970 with a Bachelor of Arts in Sheila Y. Oliver Sociology. He then returned to his insurance for individuals with low took the oath of incomes. beloved Newark pledging to make a office as New difference in the lives of young people. Jersey’s 169th For much of her career, Sheila has been a Assembly Speaker non-profit administrator, specializing in The 1980s brought Carl closer to children. on Jan. 12, 2010. For the first five years of the decade, he program development, grant writing, and She is the first training. She is a former faculty member worked through the NJ Criminal Justice African-American System for a program entitled, Genesis, of several colleges and universities, and woman to lead a taught a course in nonprofit management which offered positive mentors to legislative house incarcerated young people at the Essex at the Rutgers Graduate School of in New Jersey. Business Administration in Newark. County Youth House. While contributing She is also, to this program, he continued to pursue according to the National Conference of educational excellence. Currently, in addition to her duties as a State Legislatures, just the second legislator, she is currently the Assistant African-American woman in American Carl served as principal of Morton Street Essex County Administrator, and history to lead a legislative house, previously served as the director of the School from 1993 to 2006. During his following Karen R. Bass of California. tenure, his passion for education and love Essex County Department of Citizen of children endeared him to his students Services and the Department of Economic A native of Newark, Sheila graduated Development, Training and Employment. and staff which resulted in increased from Chancellor Avenue School in 1966, student achievement. He promoted and Weequahic High School in 1970. In 2010 Newark Athletic Hall of Fame Class of June 1960 - 50th Reunion More than 115 members of the Class of June 1960 and 34 - Recreation Supervisor at Chancellor Phil Barone spouses attended the celebration of our 50th class reunion on October 16, 2010 at the Marriott Renaissance Hotel in (Editor’s Note: Although Phil was not a graduate of Woodbridge. Class members traveled from fourteen states Weequahic or on the faculty of the high school, he impacted including California, Ohio, Florida, Texas, Oregon, and the lives of many Weequahic kids who spent their after-school, Washington to return to their Weequahic roots for this special early evening, and weekend hours at the Chancellor Avenue event. This was by far the largest turnout for our class reunions playground. Phil is a member of our Alumni Association and which have been held every five years, and exceeded the we have designated him “an honorary Weequahic alumnus.”) expectations of the Reunion Planning Committee which worked over the last 18 months to plan this event. The Committee Phil Barone was born and raised in consisted of Harold Klein, Lois Blumenfeld Gilbert, Allan Newark and attended Webster Street Halperin, and Miriam Nusbaum Span. School and Barringer High School. He graduated from Barringer in 1947 and The reunion began on Saturday morning when 55 class members then went on to Rutgers University. and their spouses met Liz DelTufo, the tour guide, at the Newark Phil graduated from Rutgers with a Museum to begin the Philip Roth bus tour of Newark. The bus Bachelor of Science Degree in went from downtown to and through the Education in June of 1951. He served residential neighborhoods near the high school. And then Alumni in the United States Army and upon his Association Executive Director Phil Yourish led the group on a discharge was employed by the Newark tour of the high school which included a slide show of Board of Education. He was assigned to Chancellor Avenue Weequahic and Newark’s past. Everyone who went on the tour School as a recreation teacher and later became the Director of was very impressed. Recreation. In 1960, Phil earned a Masters Degree in Administration and Supervision from Seton Hall University and in 1970, became the President of the Newark Recreation Teacher’s Association.

While in the Recreation Department, Phil was responsible for programming activities for Chancellor students, Weequahic students, and adults. Phil became the Director of the Chancellor Avenue Youth Council upon the retirement of Bucky Harris. He was influential in guiding the Council and helped to raise funds to enhance the recreation program. Because of the collaborative efforts of Phil and the Council, a special evening designated as “Trophy Night” became an annual function. Trophies were awarded to winners of various L-R, Miriam Nusbaum Span, Hilda Lutzke, teams conducted from September through June, such as Touch Lois Blumenfeld Gilbert and Allan Halperin Football, Volleyball, Basketball, and Softball. In addition, On Saturday night, it was like a gala homecoming! There was an boys and girls were afforded the opportunity to go to Williams aura of genuine enthusiasm as classmates mingled and greeted Port, PA and basketball camps. Through the tireless efforts of each other warmly, many of them seeing each other for the first Phil Barone and the Council, moneys were raised and made time since our 25th reunion. Many others were attending their available as book scholarships to graduating seniors throughout first reunion. The food and music were secondary to the renewal the district. of friendships and the sharing of memories.

Upon the demise of the Recreation Department, Phil was We were also fortunate to have three special guests at the dinner. assigned to Science High School as a Physical Education Mrs. Hilda Lutzke was a member of the English Department Teacher and later became the Department Chairman. He also faculty from 1937 through 1975. She recently celebrated her 97th served as the Athletic Director during the initiation of high birthday. Alain deFontenay, an exchange student from France, school sports at Science High. Phil Barone along with who enjoyed his experience with our class so much that he still Principal Pat Restaino was instrumental in the admittance of lives in Newark and teaches at Columbia University, spoke Science High School into the Colonial Hills Conference. briefly. Also honored was Phil Barone, the beloved supervisor Science High School became the first Newark high school to be at the Chancellor Avenue Playground for so many years, who admitted to any suburban conference. Phil’s dedicated efforts was recently inducted into the Newark Athletic Hall of Fame. and belief in his students proved successful as they performed excellently both athletically and socially. It is very difficult to put into words how spectacular and special this reunion was. We had to force a giddy bunch of WHS alumni Phil Barone retired in 1989 after thirty five years of dedicated to leave at 11:30 p.m.! It was an evening we will always service to the children of Newark, and currently resides in remember. Verona with his family. VOICES OF OUR ALUMNI large by Chinese standards) and is the He found things to post from the Alumni capital of Yunan Provence. Yunan is in Calumet, as well as the Weequahic Hall of southwestern China, near the border with Fame induction ceremony that he Bob Lapidus, Jan. 1950 - NJ Burma. The allied troops used Kunming attended. Nat and I would talk about as a base from which to supply troops Newark often during my visits with him, A Global Volunteer in China fighting the Japanese in India. Thus, the and during one such session, he related a Japanese were determined to take Yunan. story that I had not heard before - how the As the name would imply, Global Weequahic section became the Jewish Volunteers is an organization that engages They never did. They were stopped by neighborhood in Newark. in aid projects in about a dozen countries. General Chenault's Flying Tigers. The Their primary mission is the teaching of Flying Tigers, operating from several At a time when most of the city’s hospitals conversational English. But they are also improvised based around Kunming, were Catholic-based (Saint Barnabas, involved in child care, health projects, and attacked, harassed and disrupted the Saint Michaels, Saint James, etc.), it was the like. Japanese troops and supply lines. difficult for doctors and other health In the process, about half of the professionals of the Jewish faith to find allied fliers died. positions and succeed in these hospitals. Thus, the Newark Beth Israel Hospital was Kunming was also the terminus founded. Its location was in the Central of the famed Burma Road. Ward, on High Street (now Martin Luther Supplies were flown from there King Blvd.). When it outgrew its facility through the Himalayas to India. in the Central Ward, it moved Or, ‘over the hump’ as it was to the South Ward - 201 Lyons Avenue. called. A large park contains the ‘hump monument’ dedicated to As a result of the many Jewish medical those troops. We visited the park staff now moving closer to their new This was my 4th GV program. The with our students on a field trip. It was a facility, Jewish merchants began setting up previous ones were in Vietnam, Xi'an, and very moving experience. shops on Lyons and Chancellor Avenues, Romania. This trip was to Kunming, and Bergen Street. Many more Jewish China and the mission was improving the Lou Bodian, 1964 - NJ families moved into the area, as a result of skills of Chinese teachers of English. stores catering to their tastes (kosher My Uncle Nat Bodian butchers, etc.). There were about 50 Chinese teachers in the group of learners, and 6 members of In memory of my uncle, and his (and my) our team. (If you are even slightly love for all things Newark, please accept interested in participating in a program this modest donation. I only wish it could like this, note that I, class of '50, was not be more. even close to being the oldest member of the team.) We met our classes for 4 hours Marvin Eisler, 1943 - Florida every day. We also took part in cultural events, attended theatre, and visited points The picture below is of three old of interest. Accommodations were at a Weequahic students from the early 40’s. tourist class hotel. Most meals were Standing in front of Weequahic High native Chinese cuisine, which is nothing I just received the latest issue of the School. The occasion was our 50th like you remember from Mings, or expect Alumni Calumet, and as always, you have Reunion for Chancellor Avenue Grammar to see at a typical Chinese restaurant here. done a great job of putting together a School in Spring 1990. I am in the middle quality publication. Each issue seems to with Victor Silverman on the left and Bill The program was for 2 weeks. It was a get better. Davidon on the right. richly rewarding experience, as were all of my previous participations in GV projects. Thank you for the wonderful stories you Particularly rewarding was the enthusiasm included by and about my uncle, Nat of the students. The Chinese know that Boding. Nat loved to get his Calumet and facility in English is a critical element of pored over every word - particularly personal advancement. A highlight was looking for facts about Newark. In the 'Speech Festival', where we could see addition to the articles he submitted to the the progress so many of our students had web site oldnewark.com that were made in a short time. mentioned in his obituary, he also submitted trivia items about Newark to the Adding to the experience was the newarktrivia.com web site. In fact, he historical importance of Kunming. This is contributed almost 23,000 posts to this site a city of about 4 million (not particularly - about 25% of all postings! WALDO Weequahic WINCHESTER

This popular column from the Calumet Sweethearts first appeared in 1950. Please let us know about how our alumni have distinguished

Daaimah Talley, 1966, performed in the The Theater Project’s musical production of Regina Taylor’s “Crowns” at Union County College in Cranford in October. In a Star-Ledger review, it was stated that “Daaimah Talley’s rendition of ‘When the Saints Go Marchin’ In’ would spur heavenly beings to leap to their feet. Gerald Eber, June ‘47 & Janet Goldman Eber, June ‘53 What are the odds of two people with completely different personalities living happily together for 47 years? Jerry is the reserved one and acts, so Janet says, as if anything can be explained by reason and logic. Janet, by contrast, relies more on the power of emotion to explain human behavior. If you hear them speak, Jerry’s tone is sober; Janet sounds the way she did as a Weequahic cheerleader, which means that her voice can still travel like a sonic boom from Untermann Field to Bergen Street. These are just a few examples. Nevertheless, they did become a couple. What’s most amazing about their story, however, is not their differences, but that there’s even a story to tell.

The story didn’t start at Weequahic; it began way before that, in 1936. Jerry was living in a two-family house at 205 Osborne Terrace. (Included among so many places in Newark that have disappeared, the building was turned to dust by the construction of Route 78.) The Ebers lived on the first floor. Daaimah Talley’s is in the middle Upstairs were the Goldmans and their infant daughter, Janet. In the photo above, taken in front of the house, Janet was about six weeks old and was Ceil Arons, the mother of Susan Sullivan, 1961 and being held by a nurse. To the right in the picture, you can also see Jerry celebrated her 100th birthday, which was attended sitting on the stoop, oblivious to every thing that was going on. Some weeks by Newark Mayor Cory Booker. Ceil and her late after that photo-op the Goldmans moved away and Jerry and Janet had no husband Ben are mainly responsible for keeping contact, much less even flashed a memory of each other, for twenty-seven Newark’s only remaining synagogue, Ahavas years! Sholom, from closing. Was it fate that finally brought them together again? No, it was actually Uncle Murray. Janet’s Uncle Murray had died and her mother and Jerry’s older brother, Bob, Weequahic ‘44) met while making a condolence call. They remembered each other from Osborne Terrace and out of their small talk the fact came out that Janet and Jerry were still single and living in New York. Phone numbers were exchanged, Jerry made a call, and after almost three decades they finally re-connected in March 1963.

Love at first sight? No, it didn’t happen right away (remember those personalities!), but things changed fast enough. They became engaged in August of that year and married in November. Probably nothing in their lives has been as unusual as the way they became a Couple. They’ve had the usual ups and downs; some things in their careers they loved, other things were not so great, but they’re still working. They’ve traveled and have lived Students in the Union Chapel Community most of their marriage away from New Jersey. All in all, it’s been a Development Corp. Youth Enhancement wonderful, loving shared experience. They have two happily married Sons After-school program use the dictionaries donated and three exhausting young grandsons, and a terrific life in Manhattan. They by Alumni Board member, Arnold Keller, 1952. chalk it up to good luck, good health, plus supportive families and caring The Executive Director is alumni Board member, friends who have helped make it possible. Of course, they’ll always Ruby Baskerville, 1961. remember Uncle Murray. more than 50 years. Irving was a U.S. In Loving Memory Jack Friedman Army veteran of World War II, serving on the island of Corsica with the lst Signal Walter Hastreiter, 1943 Jack Friedman of Springfield died on Service Platoon. He is survived by Nancy, Friday, December 14, his wife of 60 years; his son Hal of WHS Alumni Scholarship 2007. Born in Morristown; his daughter Susan of established in his memory Newark, Jack was Massachusetts; three grandchildren, and predeceased by his predeceased by brother, Eugene Alex Walter, 87, parents, Deborah and Lieberman, a 1952 WHS graduate. passed away on Nathan Friedman. October 7, 2010 Upon the early loss of Abner Weinberg, 1936 leaving behind his his mother, he was beloved best friend raised by a second loving mother, Fannie Abner Weinberg of and wife, Gloria, his Friedamn from six years of age. Lenox, Mass. died on daughters who made February 17, 2010. him burst with pride, He graduate from Weequahic High School He was born in Laurie Rippon and Kim Hastreiter, his and then served in U.S. Army during Newark, NJ on July grandsons whom he adored, Max and World War II in an Engineers Combat 24, 1918, son of George Rippon, and his devoted loving Battalion in battles and campaigns in William and Jennie sister Hillary Peck. Normandy, Northern France, Ardennes Rubenson Weinberg. and the Rhineland. He owned and He was a graduate of Walter was a jeweler by trade and even operated the Star Jewelry Repair Company Weequahic High School and attended after retirement could be seen pulling out in Springfield for 50 years. He was a Penn State College where he set track and his loop on 47th Street to examine a member of the Springfield chapter of B’nai field records. He was the owner and diamond or pearl for flaws to help a friend. B’rith and the Jewish Community Center operator of Abby Book Bindery. He was a non-judgmental person, rarely of West Orange. noticing people's differences, interacting During World War II, he served with the with all folks in the same manner whether A soft-spoken, patient, loving, content, Army Air Corps as a sergeant. Abby was they were intellectuals, janitors, kind and gentle man, Jack’s smile always a World war II history buff, and also celebrities, drag queens or the man selling gave warmth and comfort. His love will tutored underprivileged children in civics fruit on the corner. He was a good guy be with his family forever. Jack was the and chess while living in Florida. Abby and a piece of work. dearly beloved husband of Joan Friedman was an avid athlete and enjoyed golf, for 60 years, adored father of Nancy Jill tennis, bowling, and watching track, Walter loved to: wear bowties, fish for Towie and loved and respected baseball and football. bluefish that he barely ever caught on father-in-law of Richard James Towie; Martha's Vineyard, sneak Mallomars while cherished grandfather of Jared Scott He leaves his first wife, Doris Greenberg driving home from work, wear ill-fitting Margeson; dear brother of Herman Carlin; his second wife, Rita Wechsler, blue jeans with suspenders and his Friedman, and was predeceased by whom he married in 1964; two sons, orthopedic shoes, travel an hour to the brother, Abraham, and sister, Ruth. He Martin Mazur and Paul Weinberg; four Upper West side by bus with his trusty was the devoted brother-in-law of Evelyn daughters, Ellen Sky and husband, Bert, leopard schlep-cart from his home in and Seymour Reeff and dear uncle of Nicky Ruxton, Michele Gazit and to save ten cents on a many nieces and nephews. husband, Casey; and three grandchildren, quart of orange juice, and secretly slip a Adam, Lior, and Matan Gazit. few twenties into his grandkids' pockets Irving Lieberman, 1939 every time he saw them. (Editor’s Note: I met Abby in Florida and he Irving Lieberman of Hackettstown died on had saved of all of the Calumets published Walter was a sweet, kind and generous December 2, 2008, on during his time in high school which he man who told his wife he loved her more his 87th birthday. donated to the Alumni Association.) than once a day for almost 60 years and Born and raised in kept his family and friends in stitches with Newark, he lived in his eccentricities. He was unique to this West Orange for 34 world and will be missed terribly by all years before moving who were lucky enough to know and love to Hackettstown in him. Donations: Walter Hastreiter 1987. Mr. Lieberman, Scholarship Fund c/o Weequahic High a certified public accountant, was the School Alumni Assn., P.O. Box 494, founding partner in 1948 of Lieberman & Newark, NJ 07101. Co., CPA in Netcong and Chester. He graduated from . He was a member of the NJ Society of CPAs and a member of the Kiwanis Club for Three past obituaries: Membership / Merchandise / Scholarship Form

Mail to: WHS Alumni Association, P.O. Box 494, Newark, NJ 07101

- Please Print Clearly - DATE: ______TOTAL AMOUNT: $______

2 Payment Choices: 1. ___ CREDITCARD (by mail or telephone): __ MC __ VISA __ AMEX __ DISC - Amount $______

Credit Card #: ______Exp. Date: ______Signature: ______Zip Code ______

2. ___ CHECK: Make out check to WHSAA - Amount $______

Weequahic Murals Restoration Project : $______

9 Merchandise Choices (add $5.00 for shipping & handling) circle your size if applicable: 1. ____ $25.00 BOOK: JEWS OF WEEQUAHIC (soft cover book) 2. ____ $20.00 BOOK: SWEDE: WEEQUAHIC’S GENTLE GIANT (soft cover book) 3. ____ $10.00 DVD: TRIBUTE TO MR. FEIN (21 minute video on legendary coach, Les Fein, with interviews and basketball footage) 4. ____ $12.00 T-SHIRT: (sizes S, M, L, XL, 2XL, 3XL - in either dark brown, orange, and khaki with the WHS logo) 5. ____ $15.00 HAT: (one size fits all - in either khaki or dark brown with Weequahic Alumni lettering) 6. ____ $20.00 GOLF SHIRT: (sizes S, M, L, XL 2XL - orange with Indian head and WHS “alumni” wording) 7. ____ $25.00 SWEATSHIRT: (sizes S, M, L, XL, 2XL, 3XL - in either dark brown, orange, and khaki with the WHS logo) 8. 9. __ $5.00 ALUMNI LAPEL PIN: (O & B in the shape of the WHS logo) or TOTE BAG (in either orange or brown with WHS logo)

24 Scholarship Choices:

1. $______ALVIN ATTLES Endowment Fund 13. $______WALTER HASTREITER Memorial Fund 2. $______MAXINE BOATWRIGHT Memorial Fund 14. $______READA & HARRY JELLINEK Endowment Fund 3. $______MOREY BOBROW Memorial Fund 15. $______PHYLLIS & DONALD KALFUS Fund 4. $______CLASS OF 1945 Fund 16. $______HANNAH LITZKY Memorial Fund 5. $______CLASS OF 1963 SCHOLARSHIP Fund 17. $______BERT MANHOFF Memorial Fund 6. $______CLASS OF 1964 SCHOLARSHIP Fund 18. $______SEYMOUR 'SWEDE' MASIN Memorial Fund 7. $______CLASS OF 1968 SCHOLARSHIP Fund 19. $______EDWIN McLUCAS Athletic Fund 8. $______GENERAL ALUMNI Fund 20. $______MARIE E. O’CONNOR Memorial Fund 9. $______SHARONNICELY BOOSE Memorial Fund 21. $______LEO PEARL Memorial Fund 10. $______LES & CEIL FEIN Endowment Fund 22. $______RICHARD ROBERTS Fund 11. $______RONALD GRIFFIN Memorial Fund 23. $______SADIE ROUS Memorial Fund 12. $______MIRIAM HAMPLE Memorial Fund 24. $______RON STONE Memorial Endowment Fund

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___ $25 ALUMNI ___ $50 ORANGE & BROWN ___ $100 ERGO ___ $500 SAGAMORE ___ $1,000 LEGEND

Class (Month & Year): ______Current or Past Occupation: ______Name: ______Last Name at Weequahic: ______Street: ______City/Town: ______State: _____ Zip: ______Phone: ( )______Business: ( )______Cell: ( )______E-mail: ______In Loving Memory Sheldon Kimmelman, 1947 Fine Arts and Craft Show Sheldon Kimmelman Alice Mintz Saltman ended his journey in Dallas, Texas on January 14, 2010, after complications from leukemia. He died peacefully surrounded by his wife, six sons, and one daughter. He graduated from Cornell University and served in the A Fine Arts and Craft U.S. Army during the Korean War. Exhibit is currently being planned for the Shelly was active in many endeavors near future to be held aside from the businesses he owned, at The Jewish White Glove Maintenance, Zip Museum of New Art Teacher at Weequahic Delivery, and Mercury Express. He Jersey, located at the served on the board at Shearith Israel historic Congregation Alice Mintz Saltman died on Sept. 2, synagogue, held several community Ahavas Shalom in 2010, exactly two months past her posts, and volunteered as a DFW Newark, the only 101st birthday. She was the widow of Airport ambassador. remaining active Eli Saltman, to whom she was married synagogue in the city. for 66 years. Born in Dover, N.J., on But, his primary focus was his wife July 2, 1909, to Solomon and Fannie and family, with whom he shared many, many good times. He was Mintz, Alice entered college at age 16 Bob & Jarrett known for his friendly manner. His and was the first of three generations Goldberg, class family and friends said he could talk of family graduates of Douglass of 1955, who met to a telephone ploe and never met a College - Rutgers University. in Mrs. Rouse' art stranger. All who met him were class when they inspired by his generosity to others, An artist, teacher, art therapist, and were 15 years old his strong morals and ethics, and his community activist throughout her and who will be great strength of will. INVICTUS. life, she was a lifelong member of the celebrating their American Jewish Congress and active 52"d wedding Surviving is Elaine, his bride of 55 in the Newark Teachers Union. Alice anniversary in years; children: Jeffrey, Neil, Paul, taught art at Weequahic High School, December, are Lewis, Edward, Robert and Alison Newark, for more than 30 years, from helping to plan Mark; 12 grandchildren and 2 great its opening to the mid-1960s. the show. Jarrett taught art for 30 years in the grandchildren. Millburn schools. Now in their retirement, She was highly committed to Jarrett enjoys doing sculpture and Bob is a potter. enhancing the artistic and intellectual Richard Bennet, 1962/1963 They are very much aware that many of their capacities of her students; she Rae Berkenfeld Sussman , 1945 fellow Weequahic High and Arts High students jump-started the careers of many Phyllis Burdeau Schwartz, 1945 who grew up in Newark in the 50's & 60's have Richard Davidove, 1968 successful artists and designers and produced outstanding works. increased the appreciation of beauty Ben Epstein 1951 Jerome Hirschhorn, 1945 and form for thousands of others. Doris Lewis Passner, 1945 If you or someone you know has been doing Jerry Mandel 1954 outstanding works of art please let us know. Alice leaves a brother, Dr. Sidney W. Miriam Jennett Rosen, 1941 We need and appreciate your help in finding Mintz (Jackie); three children, David, Natalie Reich Lozowick the names and addresses of those artists so we WHS 1958 (Pemmy WHS 1959), Melissa Philip Rosenbaum, 1960 can invite them to participate in this planned Meyer (Brad) and Susanna Brooks, Adele Salz Hirschhorn, 1956 exhibition. WHS 1965; six grandchildren, Sabrina William Satz, 1942 Steve Schanes, 1941 Levin (Erik), Julie Saltman, Jennifer Interested in this proposed exhibit or need more Summers (Ron), Nicholas Meyer Robert Schenkel, 1945 Molly Schwartz Metz, 1950 information, contact Jarrett and Bob at (Michelle), Jake Meyer, and Nathaniel Myron Sheller [email protected] or call Meyer (Erin), and two great- Martin Shumsky, 1956 (973) 379-7582. grandchildren, Emma Summers and William Sousa, 1962 David Wasserman, 1948 Samuel Meyer. June Trugman Zucker, 1963 Sally Weiner Bader, 1945 Toby Umansky Drucker, 1962 Helene Weinick Silverman, Linda Whittle Reininger, 1963 2010-2010REUNIONS2011 Weequahic High School Alumni Association P.O. Box 494, Newark, NJ 07101 REUNIONSJune 11 & 12 / 1977 - 33rd Friday, 8 p.m. at the Crown Plaza Novemberin Edison. On 26 Saturday/ 1970 - a - Class 40th Cookout. Contacts: Nona Smith Davis at Westwood Banquet Hall, Garwood. (201) 341-3215 or Dexter Adams at Two-Day Celebration. Contact Patricia (864) 877-1104. Price at [email protected]. June 13 / 1939 - 71st MaySunday, 5 11/ 1946 a.m., at - 64thPal’s Cabin Maplewoodin West Orange.CountryContacts: Club Fran Kasen at C(973)ontact 731-7061;Dave Schechner or MickeeatLublang at fishhooks(973) 857-0353;@aol.com in Florida, Irv Newman at (941) 349-5766. April 30 / Jan.-June 1961 - 50th J12:30uly p.m.24 / Hilton 1990 Hotel, - 20th Short Hills ALUMNI STORE WHS ALUMNI SContactaturday, Barbara 7 p.m.Galex at theat historic Robert See page 18 to order [email protected] Hotel in Newark.or Phil 3 daysMeadow of fun at ASSOCIATION [email protected] starting on Friday evening at the Established in 1997. the WHS Alumni hotel. Contact: Nashonda Hutchins, Association is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit (908) 482-3594 / [email protected]. organization incorporated in New Jersey. September 26 / 1945 - 65th Phil Yourish, 1964, Executive Director Sunday, 12 noon at the Martinsville Inn, Martinsville. Contact: Dave Horwitz Board of Trustees: at (973) 539-5158 / [email protected] Hal Braff, 1952, Co-President Mary Brown Dawkins, 1971, Co-President Sam Weinstock, 1955, Treasurer October 9 / Jan. 1960 - 50th Myrna Jelling Weissman, 1953, Secretary Saturday, 6 p.m. at the Kenilworth Inn, Kenilworth. Contacts: Michael Kessler at Tharien Karim Arnold, 1984 (973) 992-8817 / [email protected] & Ruby Baskerville, 1961 Larry Bembry, 1966 Susan Bohrer Barr at (732) 574-0721 Judy Bennett, 1972 [email protected] Sheldon Bross, 1955 Marshall Cooper, 1969 October 9 / 1965 & 1966 - 45th Harold Edwards, 1966 Saturday, 7 p.m. at the L’Affaire, Route Arnold Keller, 1952 Arthur Lutzke, 1963 22, Mountainside. Contacts: Dennis Estis, Adilah Quddus, 1971 1965, at (908) 812-8750 & Sy Mullman, Gerald Russell, 1974 1966, at (973) 376-5929. David Schechner, 1946 Vivian Ellis Simons, 1959 October 16 / June 1960 - 50th Charles Talley, 1966 John Tonero, Principal Saturday, 7 p.m. at the Marriott Renaissance Hotel, Woodbridge. Includes tour of WHS & Philip Roth Tour of Newark. Contacts: Harold Klein ([email protected]), Allan Halperin ([email protected]), Lois Blumenfeld Gilbert ([email protected]), Miriam Nusbaum Span ([email protected])

October 16 / 1985 - 25th Saturday, 8 p.m. at the Rio Rodizio, Newark. Contact Kim Jones at (201) 349-4523 / [email protected]

November 26 / 1970 - 40th Westwood Banquet Hall, Garwood. Two-Day Celebration. Contact Patricia Price at [email protected].