18-Weequahic Newsletter Summer 2006
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OUR GOAL IS TO RAISE $100,000 LET'S MAKE IT HAPPEN! Invest in Weequahic's Future By Providing Students With The Opportunity For A Higher Education More information on next page OUR GOAL IS TO RAISE $100,000 LET'S MAKE IT HAPPEN! Invest in Weequahic's Future By Providing Students With The Opportunity For A Higher Education More information on next page . RESERVATION & JOURNAL AD ORDER FORM Honorary Committee ALUMNI CALUMET Please return this form with payment (in formation) is a publication of the The WHS Alumni Association is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization The Scholarship Fund WHS ALUMNI ASSOCIATION incorporated in New Jersey. The cost of tickets is tax deductible to the extent allowed by law. Raising Dinner Hosted Editor, Layout & Design: By Alvin Attles: Phil Yourish RESERVATIONS: RSVP NOW! Dr. Niathan Allen Proofreading: Tickets - $150 Tables of 10 - $1,500 Newark Director of Development Dave Lieberfarb, Myrna Jelling #_______ #_______ Hon. Bilal Beasley Weissman, Vasco Jardim Essex County Freeholder Our thanks for articles from Hon. Donald Bradley the Star-Ledger and our Newark Council President TABLES/JOURNAL Silver - $5,000 Weequahic alumni ADS COMBINATIONS: Silver page in journal / Signage / Zach Braff & Donald Faison 1 table of 10 Co-stars of TV show "Scrubs" Printing: Platinum - $10,000 Bronze - $4,000 Steve Dinetz, 1965 Grad Village Press of Orange, NJ Event sponsor / Signage /Premier Bronze page in journal / journal placement / Platinum page / 1 table of 10 President, Chancellor Foundation Premium table seating / 2 tables of 10 Orange $3,000 Barbara Attles Deans, 1957 Grad Full Page Ad / table of 10 Gold - $7,500 Hon. Joseph DiVincenzo CONTACT US Event co-sponsors / Signage / Gold Brown - $2,000 page in journal / Premium table seating Essex County Executive / 1 table of 10 Full Page Ad / table of 10 Weequahic High School Harvey Dock Alumni Association Sid Dorfman, 1937 Grad Star-Ledger Sports Writer JOURNAL ADS 8 X 10: RSVP August 1, 2006 P.O. Box 494 Lester Fein Newark, NJ 07101 $1,000 - Inside Front, $125 - Half Page WHS Basketball Coach, 1956 - 1968 Inside/Outside Back, (973) 923-3133 $75 - Quarter Page Hon. Kenneth Gibson Centerfolds Mayor of Newark, 1970 - 1986 [email protected] $200 - Full Page $50 - Business Card Gerald Greenspan, 1959 Grad President, Archie Schwartz Realtors www.weequahicalumni.org PAYMENTS: Eli Hoffman, 1956 Grad President, Jaqua Foundation HELP WRITE Tickets/Tables Journal Ads Irwin Horowitz, Esq., 1954 Grad General Counsel, Hartz Mountain THE NEXT ISSUE $_____________ $_____________ Hon. Sharpe James Send us letters, articles, Tables & Journal Ads TOTAL PAYMENT: Mayor of Newark, 1986 - 2006 Sandra King, 1965 Grad stories, memories, poems, $_____________ $________________ New Jersey News recipes, photos, cartoons, trivia, obituaries, reunion Type of payment: Check Credit Card Monroe Krichman, 1955 Grad information, etc. Gerald Owens Make checks payable to WHSAA. VP, Longshoremen's Union Mail to: WHS Alumni Association, P.O. Box 494, Newark, NJ 07101 Hon. Donald Payne SEND US YOUR U.S. Congressman WEEQUAHIC / NEWARK Credit card payment: Mastercard Visa Burton Sebold, 1952 Grad MEMORABILIA Essex County Economic Dev. Corp. __ __ __ __ / __ __ __ __ / __ __ __ __ / __ __ __ __ Patricia Sebold We are creating an archive Essex County Freeholder of all items relating to Weequahic Expiration Date: ____ ____ Ira Skolnick, 1955 Grad and Newark for exhibitions at our events. So if you have old photos; ________________________________________________________________ Hon. Wayne Smith Name newspaper articles; yearbooks; Mayor of Irvington __________________________________________________________ films, Calumets; Ergo magazines; Address Hon. Calvin West books; schedules; rosters; __________________________________________________________ NJ Governor's Office certificates; letters; hats; jackets, City, State, Zip Code Rev. Levin B. West, Sr., Pastor, sweaters; WHS athletic equipment __________________________________________________________ Grace Reformed Baptist Church Home Telephone and uniforms; or any other __________________________________________________________ Benjamin Wolfe, 1955 Grad interesting memorabilia, please Work Telephone call us before you discard any of Lois Attles Wyatt, 1953 Grad ___________________________________________________ these items. E-mail Address in redevelopment projects that include the MARSHALL new Martin Luther King, Jr. Federal Courthouse, 1,500 units of new housing, a E. COOPER major shopping center, a multiplex movie theater and an industrial park. 1969 Grad and The fiscal management information Alumni Board Member system he implemented there was instrumental in increasing rental revenue By JahJah Shakur, by 20 to 30 percent as well as raising Weekly Visions Metro revenue from property taxes. He also generated $28 million in sales through Marshall E. Cooper is currently the auctions of surplus municipal property, a Director of the Mayor’s Office of figure that was increased by making Employment and Training (MOET) and is improvements to those properties prior to responsible for the oversight of the sale. Newark One Stop Career Center, as well as serving as Executive Director of the Newark's Home Grown Cooper is a giant in terms of assisting city Newark Workforce Investment Board. residents in getting employment and Renaissance Man training services. His staff is supportive Under Cooper’s leadership, MOET has public, and governmental agencies. He and encouraging in helping him to fulfill become known in the Employment and coordinated redevelopment projects with his multitasking position as director at the Training industry as one of the fore- the City of Newark Business Admini- Newark One Stop Career Center. His runners in One-Stop system operation. strator and worked with major developers number one cheerleader is his wife of Cooper also works very closely with the to develop market rate housing, office and twenty plus years. Workforce Investment Board to create other commercial buildings, including and implement policies that will put hotels. Cooper said, “My wife is my number one Newark on the map for Workforce supporter. She stands beside me in this Development. As Newark’s Director of Neighborhood journey called life to fulfill the reason of Services, Cooper oversaw municipal my being. She is an educator who has Born and raised in Newark, Cooper was operations that touched the lives of achieved her own level of success. My educated in the local school system and thousands of Newarkers each day. His wife is such a phenomenal understanding graduated from Weequahic High School, department, which maintained a $26 woman. She is studying to become an where he ran cross-country for then-coach million budget and more than 450 ordained minister which helps to keep and current NJ State Senator and Newark employees, was responsible for solid myself grounded in the foundation of my Mayor Sharpe James. He went on to waste disposal and collection, demolition family and career mission.” attend Kansas Wesleyan College, where of dangerous structures, enforcing the he earned his Bachelor’s Degree with a city’s housing and commercial codes, Cooper continued, “My children also dual major in History/Political Science sweeping and snow removal on 322 miles support my career and family success and Secondary Education. He then of roadway, and maintaining Newark’s accomplishments. I am proud of my obtained a Master’s Degree in Urban green spaces. daughter’s college and career achieve- Planning from Wichita State University, ments, and my only son is the joy of my also in Kansas. Cooper currently resides From the time that he became Director in life.” in Newark’s North Ward with his wife, 1994, Cooper oversaw a number of son and three daughters. innovative programs aimed at carrying Marshall Cooper then explained out the public’s mandate to improve the Newark’s Urban Renaissance by saying, Throughout his tenure with the city, local quality of life. He implemented the “Sharpe James’ urban renewal plan is for Cooper has worked to maximize Graffiti Eradication Team that tackled the entire city. He is building Newark to efficiency and revenues. At Neighbor- vandalism on a daily basis. He developed become an urban world-class destination hood Services, he helped generate $2.2 the Illegal Conversion Task Force city - second to none. Everyone in the city million through successful prosecution of designed to stabilize the city’s residential is going to benefit from the Newark code violators. With Property Manage- districts. And he created the city’s Illegal Renaissance. We are looking to build up ment, he modernized the administration of Dumping Task Force that helped to Newark, [and] Newark’s most prized 400 city-owned structures and 4,500 significantly reduce the amount of trash rebuilding is its investment in the vacant lots with a computerized and debris illegally dumped in Newark, rebuilding of its indigenous peoples. Not inventory. much of it by out-of- towners. since the Newark rebellions of 1967 has Newark seen such a vested concern in its Prior to his appointment to MOET, Cooper joined Newark’s city government city and people.” Cooper held the position of Aide to as manager of the Division of Property Mayor James, serving as the liaison with Management in 1987. There, he directed Continued on page 8 the Newark Municipal Council, the the assembly of sites for nearly $1 billion Class of June 1956 / 50th Reunion Committee Newark News A New Mayor For Newark Katie Wang & Jeffrey Mays, Star Ledger With his political nemesis on the sidelines, Cory Booker swept to victory in the Newark mayor's race by a historic margin, collecting more than 70 percent of the Howard Botnick's 83rd Birthday Celebration vote from an electorate that rejected his candidacy four years ago. Booker's closest challenger, State Senator Ronald L. Rice, finished with less than 25 percent. The election of Booker, a 37-year-old Rhodes scholar and Yale-educated lawyer who moved to Newark just a decade ago, opens a new chapter in the city's political history. A self-proclaimed reformer, he is Newark's first new mayor in 20 years and just the second since 1970.