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When we bring old timers back to the school Creating Excellence in each October for Homecoming, they are Inner City Education inevitably thrilled. The place still looks the same to them - and encourages fond memories. The By Hal Braff, June 1952 place looks the same because it is exactly the same as it was 70 years ago when it was built. Six years ago the Weequahic High School Our kids go to school in an out-moded ancient Alumni Association was formed - its goals - to facility. We are lobbying with The Newark Public provide financial resources for students who Schools to get Weequahic on the priority list for were otherwise qualified for higher education but upgrading, for an athletic facility (we play basket- could not afford to go - and to bring together the ball games in a middle school because our gym two communities which almost equally make up is too small), and for repair and refurbishing of the history of the school, Jewish and African- the structure itself. Our kids play in an athletic American, to work together for the betterment of conference with schools in the Essex and Morris the lives of the students who attend our school. suburbs which look like college campuses. No We recognized that each year several classes wonder so many of them conclude that they are had reunions - celebrating the old days and we not entitled to better. wondered if we could tap into the energy people expressed for the past to produce something Now that we are established, we intend to use consequential today. our entity and our facility to create a major weekend symposium in Spring 2005 directed to With the help and commitment of many folks "Creating Excellence in Inner City Education." who saw possibilities in the concept, we have We have the support of our Principal, Ron Stone, done quite well. With an Executive Director and and The Newark Public Schools. To help us an office at the high school, over 35 graduates accomplish our goal, Vice-Principal Ras Baraka currently in college, supported in part with and Professor Manning Marable of Columbia donated scholarship funds, with a web site and University are assisting us in bringing the finest over a thousand dues paying members who educators in the country to Weequahic. receive our quarterly Alumni Calumet newsletter, we have accomplished our first step. We exist During this event, keynote speakers will address and are recognized in the high school, in the the question of what we must do now to excite alumni community, and by The Newark Public our students to see the possibilities available to Schools as a meaningful advocate on behalf of them through education. We will start from Weequahic students and their families. where we are, not debate as to how we got here. We will hear the statistics, but then move on to Imagine the force that organized alumni vision and action plans. Indeed, with distin- associations in each Newark high school can guished educators, government officials and have if we work together using the collective sociologists present at the symposium, we will power of our experiences to create the kind of begin the process of bringing the problem to the changes that can provide greater opportunities top of the national agenda - where it should be. for Newark students. And if we can make it work here it can be a model for urban schools and In my view someone must do this because we their graduates throughout the country - are allowing our wonderful kids to fall behind supporting, providing, engaging, mentoring, from where they should be in American life. relating to people whose common denominator is they grew up in the same place. Why shouldn’t it be us?

The Tavern Restaurant ON THE INSIDE: SYD’s Stays in the Weequahic Family Alumni Information Page Farewell to Retiring Faculty 2003 Alumni Weekend Sandra West: Harlem Renaissance Distinguished Alumni Athletic Hall of Fame Inductees New Scholarship Funds Alumni Profiles From the Voices of our Alumni / Faculty Biking in New Zealand On Jeanette Lappe Alumni Art & Sculpture Reunion Listings, Reviews, and Poem Enid Rudd’s new play Waldo Winchester Column In Loving Memory When we bring old timers back to the school Creating Excellence in each October for Homecoming, they are Inner City Education inevitably thrilled. The place still looks the same to them - and encourages fond memories. The By Hal Braff, June 1952 place looks the same because it is exactly the same as it was 70 years ago when it was built. Six years ago the Weequahic High School Our kids go to school in an out-moded ancient Alumni Association was formed - its goals - to facility. We are lobbying with The Newark Public provide financial resources for students who Schools to get Weequahic on the priority list for were otherwise qualified for higher education but upgrading, for an athletic facility (we play basket- could not afford to go - and to bring together the ball games in a middle school because our gym two communities which almost equally make up is too small), and for repair and refurbishing of the history of the school, Jewish and African- the structure itself. Our kids play in an athletic American, to work together for the betterment of conference with schools in the Essex and Morris the lives of the students who attend our school. suburbs which look like college campuses. No We recognized that each year several classes wonder so many of them conclude that they are had reunions - celebrating the old days and we not entitled to better. wondered if we could tap into the energy people expressed for the past to produce something Now that we are established, we intend to use consequential today. our entity and our facility to create a major weekend symposium in Spring 2005 directed to With the help and commitment of many folks "Creating Excellence in Inner City Education." who saw possibilities in the concept, we have We have the support of our Principal, Ron Stone, done quite well. With an Executive Director and and The Newark Public Schools. To help us an office at the high school, over 35 graduates accomplish our goal, Vice-Principal Ras Baraka currently in college, supported in part with and Professor Manning Marable of Columbia donated scholarship funds, with a web site and University are assisting us in bringing the finest over a thousand dues paying members who educators in the country to Weequahic. receive our quarterly Alumni Calumet newsletter, we have accomplished our first step. We exist During this event, keynote speakers will address and are recognized in the high school, in the the question of what we must do now to excite alumni community, and by The Newark Public our students to see the possibilities available to Schools as a meaningful advocate on behalf of them through education. We will start from Weequahic students and their families. where we are, not debate as to how we got here. We will hear the statistics, but then move on to Imagine the force that organized alumni vision and action plans. Indeed, with distin- associations in each Newark high school can guished educators, government officials and have if we work together using the collective sociologists present at the symposium, we will power of our experiences to create the kind of begin the process of bringing the problem to the changes that can provide greater opportunities top of the national agenda - where it should be. for Newark students. And if we can make it work here it can be a model for urban schools and In my view someone must do this because we their graduates throughout the country - are allowing our wonderful kids to fall behind supporting, providing, engaging, mentoring, from where they should be in American life. relating to people whose common denominator is they grew up in the same place. Why shouldn’t it be us?

279 Chancellor Avenue Contributors: Nat Bodian, Marilyn Bobrow, Steve Tuesday, February 17th Newark, NJ 07112 Bogner, Hal Braff, Charles Hall. Jr., Missy Haas, Beverly Beth Israel Medical Center Greenfeder Levine, Arthur Lutzke, Bert Manhoff, Arie Conference Room Office: (973) 923-3133 Neiderman, Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, NJ Fax: (973) 923-3143 Jewish News, Ron Parm, Martin Reisberg, Herb Send in nominations prior to meeting E-Mail Us At : Schonwetter, Sandra Rodetsky Slipp, Willie Thomas, Jr., [email protected] Loraine White, Don Wilks, Phil Yourish, Old Newark Web Site, Star-Ledger Staff & Photo, West Essex Tribune, HALL OF FAME Visit Our Web Site At: Weequahic HS Calumet. www.weequahicalumni.org In furtherance of Printing & Mailing: Village Press, Orange, NJ our effort to acknowledge Executive Director: with appreciation those Weequahic Phil Yourish, 1964 graduates who have attained significant WHS ALUMNI STORE stature in their fields and/or have served Co-Presidents: Order on Page 18 their community with distinction, the Alumni Harold Braff, 1952 Association has established Faith Howard, 1982 a Weequahic High School Hall Of Fame. Treasurer:

Sheldon Bross, 1955 The recipients of Secretary: the annual awards will be memorialized with a plaque in the Myrna Jelling Weissman, 1953 first floor hall and honored at an assembly Scholarships/Fundraising: each May. We welcome your nominations. Please submit a detailed statement Arthur Lutzke, 1963 describing the individual graduate and the Les Fein, Honorary Chair reasons she or he merits High School Liaison: the honor. Loraine White, 1964 The deadline for Committee Members: recommendation letters and the Velma Adams, 1975 announcement of selections is being Sylvester Allen, 1971 extended. So many of our graduates have Marjorie Barnes, 1985 led distinctive lives. Let us praise Judy Bennett, 1972 them appropriately in the Yvonne Causbey, 1977 High School On The Hill. Marshall Cooper, 1969 Mary Dawkins, 1971 Harold Edwards, 1966 Lois Blumenfeld Gilbert, 1960 Beverly Schulman Kass HELP US WRITE Dave Lieberfarb, 1965 GET BACK Bert Manhoff, 1938 ISSUES THE NEXT ISSUE Adilah Quddus, 1971 Gerald Russell, 1974 OF OUR Dave Schechner, 1946 NEWSLETTER Vivian Simons, 1959 Ron Stone, Principal Charles Talley, 1966 Send letters, articles, Gail Washington, 1971 Coming Soon stories, memories, poems, Sam Weinstock, 1955 recipes, photos, cartoons, TOTE BAGS trivia, obituaries, reunion with the WHS Logo information, etc. to MCMXXXII [email protected]

ALUMNI FROM ALL GENERATIONS ATTEND EVENT AT MUSEUM By Phil Yourish, 1964

The affair was to begin at 7 PM, but by 6:30, as we were still putting the finishing touches on the preparations for the evening, people were already impatiently waiting in line for the start of Weequahic’s annual alumni festivities. Then it all began. A gathering transcending generations. Legacy of Newark; and 1957 alumnus Warren People of all ages, colors, genders, and sizes Grover who wrote Nazis in Newark. Also present made up the large group of alumni, faculty, and was 1964 grad Sandra West who with Aberjhani friends that filled the atrium of the Newark recently wrote the Encyclopedia of the Harlem Museum on Friday evening, October 10th. Over Renaissance. 250 people, representing alumni from the 30’s through the 90’s, came together for the 6th The program for the evening began with 1972 Anniversary of the WHS Alumni Association at our grad Willie West singing the lyrics to Orange and 2003 ALUMNI CELEBRATION. Brown, a song he wrote to the tune of Old Man River. Speakers for the evening were Executive How many classmates did you see? How many Director Phil Yourish, Principal Ron Stone, Co- alumni friends did you recognize? How many President Faith Howard, Scholarship Chair Arthur acquaintances were renewed? How many new Lutzke, and Tutoring & Mentoring Chair Judy people did you meet? How many teachers did Bennett. Ronald Parm, from the class of 1964, you know? How many wonderful memories announced that he is establishing a scholarship flowed? fund in honor of his mother, Carolyn Parm, who was a business teacher at Weequahic. This fabulous affair featured a buffet by Lite-On Caterers, music by the Robert Banks Ensemble, Faculty from the past were represented by Morris photography by Peter Hercky (1964) and Ray Brinn, David Lieberfarb (1965), Harry Lutzke, Royster, alumni exhibits, and a slide show of Hilda Lutzke, Bert Manhoff (1938), Florence Weequahic past and present. Weequahic Misurell, Alice Saltman, and Roz Samuels. merchandise was sold and our new khaki color 15 current faculty members joined us as follows: was introduced on hats, T-shirts and sweatshirts. Principal Ron Stone, Vice Principal Bruce For those who haven’t experienced the pure joy of Bengiveni, Head Guidance Counselor Rowena reading our 20-page newsletter, Alumni Calumets Rose, James Andrews, Michele Bryant, John were also available. Floegel, Frank Gavin, Cheryl Howard (1978), Robert Jackson, Eleanor Perry, Loretta Mathis, From the growing Weequahic literary community, Isadell Riley, James Watkins, Loraine White (1964) we had book signings for two writers who recently and Philip Young. had their works published: 1938 Weequahic grad Jean-Rae Turner, who with co-authors Richard The highlight of the evening was when the Kane and Charles Cummings, wrote the Golden Distinguished Alumni awards were given to 1938 graduate Bert Manhoff and 1964 graduate Loraine White.

TOUR OF THE HIGH SCHOOL On Saturday, October 11th, over 50 Weequahic grads and family members gathered at the high school for a tour conducted by current Weequahic students. Refreshments were served in the cafeteria and Weequahic merchandise was sold. A slide show of Weequahic’s past was presented in the auditorium. Two weeks later on the morning of their 50th Reunion, the class of June 1953 brought a busload of classmates to tour the high school and watch a slide show made up of pictures from their yearbook. BERT MANHOFF, class of 1938 for me to attend college because I was an WEEQUAHIC’S 2003 excellent machine stenographer,” I followed the After an emotionally scarring experience as a “heart’s desire” of my two very strong, very soldier in World War II, Bert returned to NJ in DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI supportive parents. It was through their 1945 and was told by his doctor to keep himself parenting process that my sister and I were fully occupied. At Rutgers, he served on the Rutgers Board of assured that we had the potential to be whatever Trustees, was President of the Alumni we wanted to be - and hard work was the Association, was founder of the Football requirement. “When someone says you can’t, Letterwinners Association, was an active member you can ...until you think you can’t.” This was of the Touchdown Club, and was involved with the message I received through Central Avenue, the establishment of the Rutgers Football Hall of Garfield, Hawthorne, Clinton Place Jr. High, and Fame. In addition, he has served as President of Weequahic - and the message continues today the Newark and Essex County Coaches from both of my parents. Associations and has played an important role in the Project Pride scholarship project. It was through my learning and teaching experiences with Francis Judson, a hard nosed Ask Bert and he will tell you that he still Health and Physical education teacher, when the teaching bug hit. “Once a mind is stretched, it Fifty-eight years later, including 53 years of has more to do. never returns to the original position.” marriage, two children, seven grandchildren, and a plethora of activities as a teacher, coach, LORAINE WHITE, Class of 1964 counselor, camp owner, and volunteer, he is still I have been blessed with so many opportunities following his doctor’s directives. In honoring Loraine White who has been a over the years to fulfill my “heart’s desires:” teacher, coach, and counselor at her alma mater Newark Public Schools since 1968, Seton Hall At 83 years of age, Bert Manhoff, is a Weequahic for the past 33 years, we present excerpts from University Upward Bound Program, Newark Beth wonder. He heads up the Reunion Committee for her remarks upon presenting her with this award: Israel Medical Center Adopt A School Program, NJ his WHS class of 1938, does the same for his State Department of Education, and Educate Rutgers University class of 1948, is Vice America, Inc. President of the Essex County Football Foundation, serves on the committee for the It is my belief that everything one does emanates Newark Athletic Hall of Fame, and is a member of from our “heart‘s desires.” It takes courage to the planning committee for the WHS Alumni keep commitments that make a difference, for in making a difference one creates change. There is Association. absolutely nothing that has disappointed me in my life experience. Each lesson learned and Bert graduated both Weequahic and Rutgers as taught has made me a stronger person. Life is the class President. He and Weequahic legend propped up with bookends, grace and mercy. I Swede Masin were the first All-State football am appreciative of the many gifts and blessings I players from WHS - and he was also All-State in I am deeply moved by this tribute from the alumni have received. I freely pass them on. basketball and a state discus champion. At association. Recently, I heard a eulogy preached Rutgers, he had an outstanding football career. for the mother of one of my oldest friends, Joyce I am humbled by this award and thrilled to be in Swain. A theme in the eulogy was “the heart’s the company of other distinguished WHS alumni Bert has taught physical education and health at desire.” such as Al Attles, Les Fein, and Benjamin Epstein. the high school level at Weequahic, East Side, and Any accomplishments that I have made are Parsippany Hills. Over the years, he has coached “Heart’s desire” to me is to fulfill my earthly minute. It’s not hard to be a Weequahic Indian, baseball, football, basketball, fencing and purpose to the fullest. In spite of my guidance it’s an honor. wrestling. counselor stating that “It would not be necessary

Daaimah Morrison Talley, crafts as they take on the role of the aged-but-not-too-infirmed sisters. Their body language is integrated into the emotional context of their roles, as is 1966 grad, stars in “Having Our Say” the use of their voices.

“As close to perfect as theater can get, “Having Our Say” at the Theater However, the real highlight of their work lies in the total believability of their Project at Union County College is a thorough delight from the beginning to characters. Whether in the subtle nuances they’ve woven through the end. The two-character play, which earned Tony Award nominations on characterizations or the complexity of their relationship, Aldridge and Talley Broadway, takes place in the home of Sadie Delaney, 103, and her create a complete reality.” 101-year-old sister, Bessie. As the two maiden ladies prepare a meal for Bill VanSant guests - us, the audience - they regale us with tales of their century-plus “They play the music of their story like virtuosi - theirs is the rare gift of years on Earth. sprezzatura, making the difficult seem effortless. If you miss these amazing performances, you will be the poorer for it. I am in awe of these two “...Clearly an “actors’ piece,” the shows stars Tamela Aldridge and company actresses. You must see them.” regular Daaimah Talley in twin bravura performances. Both actresses - Ellen Dooley decades younger than their characters - deliver a master class in theater to create Newark's most unique and famous of a printed 4-inch by 6-inch card, with a eating establishment. selection of a five-course luncheon for sixty five cents, or a dinner for a dollar. Sam Teiger and the Crowds Attention to Honesty and Efficiency Sam Teiger was the most genial of hosts. Here is a recollection of Teiger by former As The Tavern flourished in the 1940s and Newark journalist, educator and fraternal 1950s, Teiger employed the Willmark Service By Nat Bodian, from the Old Newark web site organization leader, Ben Unterman. "No System of 671 Broad Street, Newark, licensed It started out as a simple neighborhood matter how hard you tried to beat the crowd, private investigators, to have its operatives restaurant, on an Elizabeth Avenue street you lost. It was always crowded, and you had visit the Tavern as patrons periodically, and to corner, across the street from Weequahic to stand in line in the vestibule. There you observe and report to him on the quality of the Park, in what originally had been a private would get a warm greeting with 'forshpeisers' service and "irregularities in the handling of residence. In thirty years under its founder, while you were waiting. You didn't mind cash payments." it evolved into Newark's greatest restaurant waiting, because there was Sam greeting one ever, with a national and international repu- and all, 'Hi, Ben; Hi Dave; Hi, Jack!'...always Bill Newman, the Assistant Manager at tation, serving as many as 2,300 patrons the elite, or those who thought they were elite Willmark, made "test" visits personally as he daily. for you to talk to while you were waiting. considered this a plush assignment. He would report the test results directly to Teiger. I'm writing about The Tavern Restaurant at "I recall, one time Teiger called my name. Oh, "Mr. Teiger was proud of the reputation of The 444 Elizabeth Avenue, on the corner of oh! I had forgotten to wear my jacket! No Tavern," he told me recently, "and he always Meeker Avenue, in Newark's Weequahic worry...Sam looked at me and figured my size looked pleased with a positive report. section. In its lifetime, it won a reputation for and came back with a tan jacket...sometimes the excellence of its food, for the quality of its too small, sometimes too big. No matter how On those rare occasions when I made a food service, and as a place where the long we had to wait in the vestibule, we didn't report that affected an employee's honesty, he average Newarker could meet and eat with mind because we considered ourselves a would get a hurt look on his face, and tell me the elite. Almost everyone who was anyone member of the elite. Those who didn't want to "I'll take care of it. It must all be a mistake." ate at The Tavern. wait were the 'commoners' who left to go to "From my dealings with him," Newman added, the Weequahic Diner, a short way down "I found him to be conscientious and It was a place where Newark politicos Elizabeth Avenue.” hard-working - a real gentleman of the old ate...where leaders of Newark business and school." industry met for power luncheons...where Tavern Food Style Key to Good Service: organizations had their late night planning Aside from the fact that The Tavern originally Operation By the Book sessions...where you went for a special opened in what became the heart of Newark's occasion, an important meeting, or a date that upwardly-mobile Jewish community, it was not Pressed for information about Teiger's you wanted to impress. Though its interior a Jewish restaurant in the dietary sense, management practices, the former Willmark design was not too pretentious, it was although its menu included many Jewish-style operative recalled to me "Sam was a tough attractive in its simplicity, and at its peak in the dishes. Over the years, in virtually all of disciplinarian where any phase of the Tavern 1950s, The Tavern was doing business in Newark's Jewish organizations, important operation was concerned. He ran the place excess of $1.5 million a year. meetings would usually end with the partici- like a military installation. He was known to pants moving on to The Tavern to continue fire an employee that set a table with a piece Not only was the food fare considered of the their discussions. of dirty silverware." highest quality, but its baked goods enjoyed such a demand that a separate Tavern Pastry Struggles in Early Years Over the years, Teiger developed and refined Shop was built adjacent to the restaurant that a service handbook which outlined recom- In the restaurant's early years, founder/ sold only the Tavern's pastries, and had its mended procedures for his waiters and other manager Sam Teiger went through many own following. food service personnel in virtually every struggles before his restaurant caught on with aspect of Tavern operations related to dealing its patrons. The turning point, according to In the recollections that follow, I will try to with and serving customers. The Tavern Teiger's recollection in an old newspaper re-create the life and times of The Tavern, Service Guide was periodically updated and interview, came in the mid-1930s when his and of its founder/owner/manager - Sam revised. Teiger, who built the business to its greatness food establishment by being a good businessman who mixed graciously catered a buffet hard work and dedication to high professional dinner for more than 1,000 standards with common sense and diplomacy, guests at a benefit for the Beth Israel Hospital.

Teiger said The Tavern's future success started on that day. Its beginning menu, when the restaurant opened in 1929, consisted Our New Scholarship Funds of giving back to the community, so...HAPPY He also served as President of the West Essex ANNIVERSARY! We love you and wish you many Teachers Association. In addition, he was a color PHYLLIS & DONALD KALFUS more years together. commentator for Suburban Cable TV-3 and a stock Health & Education Scholarship Fund broker for Gibraltar Securities. MOREY BOBROW Memorial Scholarship Fund His wife Marilyn, son, Scott and daughter, Amy Steinberg request that donations be made to this Morey Bobrow guided scholarship fund in his memory. his students towards not only improving their CAROLYN PARM painting strokes, but Memorial Scholarship Fund towards growing as We’ve never been to Weequahic High School. Our individuals. He always The late Carolyn T. Parm school colors were not brown and orange. And added a comic touch to devoted a lifetime to yet, WHS has certainly influenced our lives a great every activity, made teaching the children of deal. Please allow us to introduce ourselves. We every lesson fun, and Newark. She was a are: Missy, Howard, and Allisyn. Our parents, offered a smile to every product of the Newark Phyllis (Wulkan) and Donald Kalfus are WHS student. Throughout the years, he received visits Public Schools, having alumni. on a regular basis from his former students who attended Miller Street wanted to let him know that he had been a School and graduating Our mother, Phyllis, graduated in 1961, and our meaningful influence in their lives. from Weequahic High father, Don, is a 1958 graduate. Since high School in 1938. She school, Mom has proven to be a jack-of-all-trades In November 2003 at age 62, Morey Bobrow then attended Virginia State and New York and a master of all. She got her teaching degree passed away, but he is fondly remembered by Universities and received a BS degree and MA from William Paterson College and her Master’s students and faculty at Weequahic and West Essex degree in Education from Seton Hall University. from Montclair State. We were so proud of her high schools. A 1959 graduate of Weequahic, when we attended her college graduation, saw Morey became an Art teacher at the high school in The former Business education teacher had an what a wonderful teacher she was, and then 1963. He was also the swimming team coach, impressive career that spanned two high schools - watched her tackle graduate school. After that, assistant football coach and yearbook advisor. Weequahic and East Side - and more than thirty her career turned to the elderly - providing Although, he only stayed at Weequahic for 6 years, years. She will be most remembered for her counseling for them and their families. he was a popular teacher and a successful coach. dedication to her students, often rising early and Under his leadership, the swimming team won the working well into the evenings trying to place Dad attended Rutgers University after high school, City Championship in 1968 and the junior varsity students at part-time jobs. Even after her and then moved to West Virginia to attend WVU’s football teams captured the City League titles in retirement in 1995, she refused to abandon the dental school. After two years in the Air Force, 1965 and 1966 with two straight undefeated classroom, filling in almost daily as a substitute New Jersey beckoned and he began his dental seasons. teacher. The popular educator and long-time practice in Maplewood. Today, Dad has an office Newarker will also be remembered for the lessons in Millburn with an incredible support staff led by In 1969, he joined the West Essex High School she inspired both in and out of the classroom. Mom. When not busy in the office, both of them staff where he was an art teacher and coach for dedicate time to charitable organizations and 32 years prior to his retirement in 1999. Famous Her beliefs were not only witnessed within the support the arts as much as possible. for his unmistakable tan, mustache, and decorated realm of her career, but in her outside projects as smock, Morey was devoted to developing the well. In an effort to always put children first, Mrs. At home, education is a top priority, and our creative abilities of his art students. Parm was committed to making students work to parents’ pride in their high school and respect for their fullest potential. She was one of the original its faculty has always been evident. WHS gave In 1999, the high school’s yearbook was dedi- founders of the Cooperative/Distributive Education each of our parents an educational foundation to cated to him. “It is for his unrivaled love of and Job Placement Program for the Newark Board be proud of. Whether it was our mother’s fond students and daily beyond-the-classroom lessons of Education. reminiscence of good friends, dances, and that the 1999 Milestone wishes to dedicate the creative teaching to spark her interest, or our yearbook to the illustrious Mr. Bobrow.” His Mrs. Parm came from a family with a good father’s appreciation of the educational and long-time friend Robert Schnauffer said, “He just business sense. Almost a century ago, her father, leadership opportunities WHS provided, their loves interactions with his students and they Reverend Thomas Tucker, founded the Union enthusiasm for high school was contagious. After always keep him alert and amused. He loves to Baptist Church on Somerset Street in Newark. Her over 40 years, Phyllis and Don’s enthusiasm has improvise and add humor to everything he does.” brother, Frank Tucker, founded the Newark Bridge not ebbed. Old friendships have been renewed. A Club, currently housed on Washington Street in reunion of Dad’s class was recently planned and Morey contributed to West Essex much more than Newark, which hosted some of the greatest jazz thoroughly enjoyed. just his amazing artistic ability. From 1969 to legends in the 1940’s, including Sarah Vaughn. It 1977, he also served as the head varsity was that business sense that she impressed upon So, as our parents celebrate their 40th wedding swimming coach. In fact, his coaching allowed him her sons, Ronald H. and David Parm, and her anniversary, it is only natural for us to honor them to live out his gym-teacher fantasy. grandsons, Ronald D. and Harrison. They, too, by starting a scholarship fund, the Phyllis and continue her commitment to Newark and its Donald Kalfus Health and Education Scholarship. Morey received his BA degree from Montclair State students by establishing the Carolyn T. Parm Mom, Dad, you’ve always stressed the importance College and an MA in Guidance from Kean College. Scholarship Fund. MIRIAM HAMPLE on the pages of this magazine - a goal I accom- because he was not granted a full scholarship. He Memorial Scholarship Fund plished in both 1968 and 1969. then was drafted into the Army and played two seasons of military football in Europe. He was also Miriam Hample passed away I was a better than average athlete growing up. the Army’s European heavyweight boxing in October 2003 at age 89. However, I was not a particularly aggressive child champion. There he met Lou Agase, then a She taught business subjects nor did I have a great deal of confidence. There- Michigan State assistant coach. Agase was putting and served as a guidance fore entering high school I had only one goal - to on a clinic for military football. Michigan State liked counselor at Weequahic High make the football team. It was hard for freshmen. to do this as they felt it was a source of untapped School and also taught at Newark did not have the budget to field freshmen- potential with college eligibility still remaining. Barker and Ithaca High only teams within their high schools. Freshmen schools in New York. tried out for the junior varsity and competed with The rest was history. Ed enrolled at MSU in the fall boys I to 3 years their senior. Somehow I made of 1957. He made their team and became a Miriam graduated from Elmira College in New York the team and survived until my body began to starting tackle in 1959. Prior to his senior year in in 1933 and later earned an advanced degree at develop and I could proceed on my journey. 1960, he had a real opportunity to become their Columbia University in New York City. After retiring, first African-American football captain. Halfway into she volunteered as a teacher of English with The journey took me to the Star-Ledger’s second his final spring practice Ed suffered a very serious Russian immigrants. team All-City and a scholarship to Boston knee injury. He was in a full leg cast for 9 months. University. I started on the B.U. Freshman team in The injury ended his college football career. Born in Elmira, NY, she lived in Newark for many 1966. From there I started most of the 1968 However, the coaching staff at State thought so years before moving to West Orange. She is season and all of 1969. We had a strong club in highly of him they made him a graduate assistant survived by her sister Deborah. The family has ‘69 and played in the now defunct Pasadena coach. In 1962, he earned his MA degree. requested that donations be made to the Miriam (California) Bowl against a very strong San Diego Hample Memorial Scholarship Fund in Miriam’s State team coached by Don Coryell and quarter- Then he returned to Newark looking for a job. memory. backed by Dennis Shaw and Brian Sipe. Both Shaw Fortunately his old high school coach, Sal Comissa, and Sipe went on to start in the NFL. I played with was working for the Board of Education. He told EDWIN McLUCAS 18 guys who signed pro contracts. Half were draft Ed of an opening at football patsy Weequahic. Mr. choices and the others were signed free agents. Fein, the outstanding basketball coach and athletic Athletic Scholarship Fund Several of my teammates went on to stellar pro director, saw this opportunity and encouraged Ed’s A Tribute From Steve Bogner, 1966 careers. Bruce Taylor was the 1970 NFL rookie of hiring. Suddenly, we all had a very strong, solid the year with the 49er’s. role model in front of us. Ed spoke of desire, I can still see him. I can still feel the day. I can accomplishment, sacrifice and commitment. As I vividly remember the date - Sept. 6, 1962. It was I also did well as a shot putter and discus thrower. told him years later, anyone could say things. He a cloudy, muggy late summer afternoon in Newark. I was City League champion twice in each event. personally did them. He accomplished them. As a senior I placed third in Essex County, won the Therefore I believed him. I believed I could do the Newark Board of Education Invitational and finished same things if the desire was present. fourth at the state meet in the discus. Track for me was just second to my real love - football. Our relationship took me to levels that would have been impossible considering my background. As a The catalyst for all of my accomplishments came senior at Boston University, I was named to the into my life that muggy September day in 1962. I Associated Press All-New England first team and am referring to Mr. Edwin McLucas. I was not yet the AP All-East second team behind Charlie Zapiec cleared to practice and was standing around in of Penn State. That year I was named to the Star street clothes. For some reason I looked toward Ledger’s New Jersey only All-America team that L-R: Ed McLucas & Steve Bogner the field house. A broad-chested man in a sport also featured Jack Tatum and Joe Theismann. jacket and gym bag was asking the field attendant I had finally arrived at the doorstep of my high where the locker room was. Five minutes later this Since then I have gone on to a successful business school career. We grew up on the corner of Lyons same man dressed in a dark green sweat suit came career. I own my own company, have a great Avenue and Wainwright Street. I was the youngest running in the direction of the football practice. family and the fringe benefits of success. All of it of a number of cousins to attend WHS. My father was created by the confidence given to me by that had been a high school football player at Central in I was immediately taken with his strong athletic man in the sport jacket. I first saw him on that the late 20’s. I grew up in a sports oriented bearing. The sweat suit had the letters MSU muggy, September day in 1962. What I did not household. From very early on I had visions of stenciled on the pants. I realized this meant realize until many years later was how he was athletic accomplishment in high school and beyond. Michigan State University. The football palace! going to change the entire direction of my life. That is the right of childhood. The right to dream Home to many legends! Names raced through my of someday being the star. mind. Adderly, Daugherty, Walker, Peaks, Morrall. I coached briefly after college and met Cal Stoll who Could this be real? It was real, very real. Suddenly was then the head coach at the University of I bought my first college football magazine in the a neighborhood that produced almost no football Minnesota. I knew he was an assistant at Michigan summer of 1956. It was Stanley Woodward’s Dell role models had one. Ed had been an All-City State when Ed was there. I told him Ed was my Football. Shortly thereafter I bought my first copy player at Central High School in 1950. After high school coach. He smiled at me and said, of the famed Street & Smith’s Football Yearbook. working for 2 years he enrolled at Morgan State “Son, he was one of my all time favorites.” TCU’s Jim Swink was on the cover. I was not yet 8 and become an instant starter on their team. years old and I thought my name was going to be Married young he had to leave after one year Mine too! Continued on page 15 1. Academic / Les Fein, Former Faculty Performing Arts Fund Harriet Freeman, 1960 Started by the Class of 1945 Thank You For Your Donations Maria Piacente Galeota, 1959 Seymour Abrahamson, 1945 Lawrence Hellring, 1964 Jerome Berner, 1945 Janice Lanier, Former Faculty Merle Kurzrock, 1964 Bruce Cohen, 1955 Tema Yeskel Javerbaum, 1964 Janet Sprei Balicer, 1945 Mary Larsen Harold Leder, 1940 William Cohen; 1955 Aileen Resnick Marcus, 1968 Herbert Chaice, 1945 Dave Lieberfarb, 1965 Lawrence Lerner, 1952 Michael Cosby, 1974 Dana Jo-Pearl Selma Horner Cohen, 1945 Lela Lynch Arthur Lutzke, 1963 Nancy Wildstein Curtis, 1958 Ada Pearl Kenneth Coleman, 1944 Mordecai Podhoretz, 1964 Jerold Martin, 1954 Dennis Estis, 1965 Lauri Pearl Friedman Clive Cummis, 1945 Anna Acey Robertson Irwin Markowitz, 1945 Marilyn Feitel, Former Faculty Ronald Pearl Philp Drill, 1945 Grace Simmons Denise Sarbone Marcus, 1960 Richard Friedman, 1965 Neil Rothstein, 1959 Marty Edelston, 1946 Nyoka Stackhouse-Green, Faculty Joan Martin, 1969 Stuart Friedman, 1959 Les Schofferman, 1964 George Ehrlich, 1945 Cheryl Sampson Taylor, 1967 Wilfredo Nieves, 1966 Robert Gabriner, 1959 Lawrence Tomas, 1950 Claire Brener Gottlieb, 1945 Thomas Tilley, Former Faculty Allen Pearl, 1949 Sandra Greenberg, 1963 Ellen Gradenwitz, 1945 Dolores Mayberry Trimiew, 1964 Marvin Phinazee, 1963 Judith Herr, 1964 16. Sadie Rous Fran Sachs Honig, 1945 Anne Williams, Faculty Marilyn Greenfeder Pomerantz, 1964 Harold Hodes, 1960 Memorial Fund David Horwitz, 1945 Mary Young, Faculty Sharon Price-Cates, 1972 Helen Gorlin Hoffman, 1940 Rhoda Appel-Mosesof Martin Kesselhaut, 1945 Hugh & Doris Young Arnold Reiter, 1965 Simon Kaplan, 1942 Robert Lowenstein, Former Faculty Lila Miller Kleinamn, 1945 Phil Yourish, 1964 Evelyn Friedrich Reinhard, 1938 Michael Kerner, 1963 Zachary Bernard, 1965 Myles Kranzler, 1945 Deborah Rivera Howard Klein, 1966 Martin Bernstein, 1940 Janet Krusch, 1958 4. Morey Bobrow Marvin Schlanger, 1965 Carole Kohn, 1961 Sidney Bernstein, 1955 Helen Berg Landau, 1945 Memorial Fund Judith Wilson Schwartz, 1963 Susan Levine, 1965 Linda Sarnow Boginsky, 1956 Janet Harnisch Leonard, 1945 Lynn Bailey Richard Seroff, 1953 Howard Levine, 1941 Herbert Brotspies, 1959 Anne Parsonnet Lieberson, 1945 Glen & Mary Brown Doris Laskowitz Shakin, 1945 Stanley Levy, 1960 Bruce Cohen, 1955 Seymour Margulies, 1945 Francis & Susan Dean Robert Steinberg, 1966 Diana Lieberman, 1967 Harvey Cohen, 1953 Irwin Markowitz, 1945 Gerald & Barbara Devisser Alfred Steiner, 1938 Paula Litzky, 1966 Stuart Confield, 1963 Janice Misurell-Mitchell, 1963 Eileen Dormer Jean-Rae Turner, 1938 Paul Lyons, 1960 Clive Cummis, 1945 Marilyn Novick, 1945 Anita & Maurice Johnson Ophra Rabinowitz von Hentig, 1957 Janice Misurell-Mitchell, 1963 Fred Decter, 1960 Allen Parducci, 1945 Anthony Ortiz Jill Graifer Watkins, 1961 Sharon Gaidemak O’Neil, 1960 Diane Newmark Denburg, 1948 Gilbert Raff, 1945 Enid Schenkman Joel Weiss, 1960 Robert Pearl, 1955 Joseph Dombrowski, 1962 Bernard Robins, 1945 Stanley & Myrna Levy Donald Wilks, 1953 Martha Lowenstein Rennie, 1964 Seymour Zoom Fleisher, 1940 Phyllis Burdeau Schwarz, 1945 William & Ellen Michaels Carl Wolf. Clifford Rosenthal, 1962 Ezra Friedlander, 1958 Doris Shakin, 1945 West Essex Education Assoc. Suzanne Salsbury, 1966 Lois Blumenthal Gilbert, 1960 Arthur Silk, 1945 Marion Wychules 7. Miriam Hample Burton Sebold, 1952 Sandra Greenberg, 1963 Jack Silverman, 1945 Jo Ann Wolsky Memorial Fund Florence Brockman Seglin, 1938 Barbara Rous Harris, 1959 Dan Skoler, 1945 Carol Susan Hai Ralph Sherman, 1947 Judy Herr, 1964 Robert Smith, 1944 5. College Judith Hample Russo Rozalyn Sherman, 1959 Lester Heyward, 1967 Claire Boorstein Smith, 1945 Women’s Club of Debra Hample Sanford Simon, 1950 Helen Gorlin Hoffman, 1940 Harriet Steinberg, 1945 Essex County Fund Florence Kreech Jean-Rae Turner, 1938 Harold Hodes, 1960 Marcia Cantor Stubbs, 1945 Dorothy Rowe Scott, 1939 Hilda Lutzke, Former Faculty Marc Weiner, 1966 Marion Kaplan, 1963 Leonard Trunsky, 1945 Paula Silverman Weinstock, ‘41 Ellen Wiss Kaplan, 1964 Marvin Zwillman, 1945 6. General 8. Jaqua Foundation Ellen Weisburd, 1966; Blanche Scale Kugel, 1940 Alumni Fund Eli Hoffman, 1956 Seymour Weiss, 1948 Herbert Lerner, 1955 2. Brenda Iris Barnes Irving Ackerman, 1944 Carolyn Krichman Widerman, ’45 Stanley Levy, 1960 Memorial Fund Dorothy Barnes, 1959 9. Reada & Harry Lois Wilner, 1953 Alvin Lubetkin, 1951 Marjorie Barnes, 1985 David Beckerman, 1943 Jellinek Fund Fraida Yavelberg, 1960 Myrna King Malec, 1959 Bob & Patty Bender Theodore Jellinek, 1957 Linda Melton Mann, 1963 3. Maxine Boatwright Beatrice Kaplan Brown, 1937 Marie Jellinek 12. Edwin McLucas Sheila Bloom Noll, 1953 Memorial Fund Ellen Kimmelman Brown, 1960 Jean Carol Jellinek Athletic Fund Robert Pearl, 1955 Lawrence Belford, 1957 Luysynthia Carter, 1967 Steve Bogner, 1966 Barbara Rappaport, 1966 Jeanette Bevett-Mills, 1963 Class of June 1940 10. Phyllis & Donald Byron Rhett, 1968 Martha Lowenstein Rennie 1964 Walter Brownlee, 1961 Class of 1949 Kalfus Health and Susan Kaiser Seigel, 1962 Marshana Chapman, Faculty Class of January 1952 Education Fund 13. Marie E. O’Connor Charles Seigel, 1959 Arnold Cohen, 1965 Class of June 1952 Michael & Allisyn Adelsohn Fund James Shipman, 1940 Peter Cutty & Sandra Graff Class of June 1953 Melissa Kalfus Haas Harold, 1952, & Elaine Braff Elaine Smith-Koenig, 1949 Frances Davis Class of 1963 Howard & Tina Kalfus Lawrence & Sheila Rothman Peggy Rottenberg Spivak, 1965 Saunders Davis, Former Faculty Class of 1980 Margit Sirgo Howard Smith, 1954 Muriel Reider Swartz, 1955 Martin Dickerson Merle Rosen Cohen, 1963 Seymour Weiss, 1948 Alan Sylvester, 1964 Linda Edwards Stuart Confield, 1963 11. Hannah Litzky Marsha Gurvitz Weiss, 1965 Janice Findley, Faculty Michael Cosby, 1974 Memorial Fund 14. Carolyn Parm Seymour Weiss, 1948 Michael Diamond, 1963 Mildred Givens Alan Adler, 1964 Memorial Fund Steven Weiss, 1962 Sandra Serbin Dresdner, 1956 Mary Hicks Judi Ayre, 1962 Ronald Parm, 1964 Fraida Markowitz Yavelberg, ‘60 Maria Piacente Galeota, 1959 Hilma Hitchener Martin Bernstein, 1940 Howard Goldberg, 1964 - and funds raised in Adell Howard Deborah Reider Bazes, 1966 15. Leo Pearl Marvin Goldberg, 1947 memory of Sadie Rous’ sister, Cheryl Howard, Faculty Beryl Lieff Benderly, 1960 Memorial Fund Arnold Aronowitz Keller, 1952 Gertrude Rous King, Floyd Hunt, Jr. Norman Bierbaum, 1944 Morey Bobrow, 1959 Brian Klappholz, 1963 who recently passed away. Delores Langford-Bridgette, 1963 Lou Bodian, 1964 Ellen Kimmelman Brown, 1960 Anne Kramer, 1961 Lee Casper Fred Decter, 1960

CREATE A SCHOLARSHIP FUND - You can now use CASH or STOCK The WHS Alumni Association encourages you to establish a scholarship fund in honor or in memory of a family member, a favorite teacher, coach, administrator, classmate or friend. We are pleased to announce that we can now accept gifts of appreciated securities. These donations would qualify for a charitable tax deduction if the shares have been held for more than a year. One advantage to gifting appreciated securities is that the donor is not subject to capital gains taxes on the shares. Before donating, it is recommended that you consult with your tax advisor. To make a gift of appreciated securities, please call the office of Jim Schwarz at Smith Barney at (800) 526-4931 and ask for Karen Parker-Davis or Robyn Schlossberg. To establish a scholarship fund, contact us at (973) 923-3133 or e-mail us at [email protected]. To make a donation to a scholarship fund, see page 18. Reunion Reviews 40 YEARS AGO By Sandy Scheps, 1963 Class of June 1953 - 50th So here we are after all these years. By Beverly Greenfeder Levine Most with smiles and some with tears. Many live close, others What a wonderful feeling to have your come from far and wide To celebrate our 40th dream come true. Two years ago I started with much love and lots of pride. planning the 50th reunion of the class of June 1953. After a lot of work and a lot of From other sections of Newark, help, it happened. On October 24-26, we came just to learn and grow. Young and open in a changing world, 2003, we all came together from far and there was a lot to know. near (Hawaii, London, California, Florida, From Vailsburg, Clinton Hill and Arizona, Nevada, Michigan, Missouri and Down Neck just to name a few, other places) at the Marriott Hotel at 561 of us came together, but of the future we had no clue! Newark Airport. On Friday night we had almost 70 people meeting for dinner at the Where’s my locker located Vila Nova de Sol restaurant in Newark. Most and how do I open it? Belfer’s, Henries, Harjay’s, Margies, The 13, 14, 48, 8, 6, and 107 of us took a chartered bus from the hotel. It takes too long from class to class. Stein’s and Halem’s were no fools, were easy ways to get around I’ll surely have a fit. Food and ambiance were wonderful but the Wouldn’t tell your parents as long Before our parents let us drive, 32 cents got you a hot lunch as you really paid for those Cools. and then nowhere could we be found. piece de resistance was the camaraderie without sheet cake or Jell-O. A cherry Coke, root beer, egg cream, We discovered the suburbs for movies, and affection contained in the room and, of Those cafeteria matrons malted, 2 cents plain or lime rickey, food, sports, racing or finding a date. course, all the memories. weren’t especially that mellow. Sipping through a paper straw and Our parents didn’t like that much dreaming of your very next hickey! because we often came home too late. 40 years ago, just beginning On Saturday morning we took another bus to live our dreams. The Park, Roosevelt, Cameo, We learned that if we sat to tour Weequahic High School. Most Perhaps a lifetime ago Branford, Paramount & RKO under our desk with our head in our lap, childhood places you revisit as an adult or so it simply seems. Were great old Newark movie A detonated nuclear bomb usually seem smaller than you remember Diploma in our hands theatres where we all would go. would not blow us off the map. and the world at our feet, Then there was the Little Theatre And some jerk in an ice cream truck them, but the high school seemed larger to Promises to our parents and Minsky’s for the guys, that needed to make lots more money, me. I found myself wondering how I ever we thought we had to keep. And if we got in, what we saw, Called in bomb scares most every day made it from one class to another without we couldn’t believe our eyes. that Ben Epstein thought wasn’t very funny. being late. We met with members of the Colleges, trade schools, jobs and military The Ormont was in Orange, We grew up together, alumni association who actually made the did separate us all. showing foreign film fare. some since kindergarten tour possible. We were escorted in small Chancellor Avenue and Newark Just to be seen on a Saturday night, and some since sophomore year. groups by several current students showing were memories by that fall. we really had to go there. While others fell in somewhere along the us the way. We said our good-byes and ventured Movies with English subtitles way and our relationships became so dear. on to opportunities and fame. were popular way back when, White, black, yellow, gentile, and Jew Most found a safe comfortable life, And if you were lucky enough we all touched each other’s lives. Saturday evening the big affair began with but Newark would never be the same. to have a date, We needed those high school relationships the taking of grammar school pictures. The the movie didn’t matter much then. in order to survive. final picture was of the June 1953 class. We Meet you at the Rock, our favorite gathering place. On to Gary’s or the Clairmont, Then we lost Jack & Bobby & Martin had 109 classmates there with a total for From the Adventure Car Hop on 22 to eat or to find a date. along our next path on the journey of life. dinner of 180, including spouses. We had a we most certainly did drag race. Yet many of us stayed home alone, Our 60’s started out so bright DJ playing music of the 50’s along with a Cruising Chancellor, Lyons, Elizabeth watched Zacherly or just ate. and ended in so much strife. wonderful buffet dinner and balloons with and Broad on the weekend after dark. Maybe we had submarine races on From Viet Nam to 9-11 and on to tonight, Behind Monroe Gardens on Schley Street some lonely dark dead end street. we’ve buried many with so much sorrow. our names on them, which we used to mark where many went to park. Getting to second base Our days now grow shorter as time flies by our seats at the tables. Lots of dancing, was such a wonderful treat. so we look forward towards tomorrow. singing of school songs, and distribution of Burgerama, Dirty Dave’s, diplomas and a class journal followed. Millman’s, Sabin’s, Amato’s, Cousin Brucie, Murray The K, So I ask you all to raise a glass JoRays, The Indian & Tom’s, Jocko, Alan Freed, Dick Clark, and make a toast with me Give me a Cucamonga from Syd’s Danny Stiles & Peter Tripp It’s all happened oh so fast On Sunday morning we all got together for and a Bunny Hop Jerry Bomb! Played our music, taught us to dance, that here we are celebrating 1963. brunch and to say good-bye. We were (and A slice was fifteen cents back then helped with romance and made us hip. We ask for forgiveness still are) a great class and I think there was and a Hershey Bar was a nickel. 78’s followed by 45’s and then 33’s if we hurt you in any way. With a sandwich at the Chancellor Deli, gave us the greatest tune, We want to make it right a reluctance to have the weekend come to you never had to ask for the pickle. In our room, on TV, in the car or on the by starting a brand new day. an end. At one point on Saturday night I transistor by the light of the moon. had a very proud moment and I thought my And, Hawthorne Avenue May our lives be rich in prosperity, heart would burst knowing we managed to was a terrific street, too. Coming back from New York health, peace and love. There were Cohen’s, Bragman’s, Silvers achieve this major reunion and to know that where the booze was certainly not free, May we never know pain and Kiel’s just to name a few. The Weequahic Diner was a great place and be protected from high above. for three days nothing went wrong. Jake Mohawk’s club on Clinton Place to stop and eat and yes, just to pee. May we all gather again together should not be confused with the Boys Club, And Rubin Brothers drug store in 10 very kind years, Here’s to the class of June 1953. I’m proud And the Hawthorne playground for had virtually everything we needed, To share in more memories, love, young and old was a great athletic hub. to be a part of such a great group. See you Because the advice hugs and collective tears. we got from our parents in a few years. Long Life! more than often went unheeded. ENCYCLOPEDIA OF WALDO WINCHESTER THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE This popular column from the Calumet first appeared in 1950. Please let us know Sandra West, a about how our alumni have distinguished 1964 grad, and her themselves in their lives after Weequahic. co-author Aberjhani, have written Marion Morris, 1933, wrote to tell us that she graduated in the first graduating class in Encyclopedia June 1933. She also informs us that the students during that year selected the school’s of the Harlem colors, its school song, and its cheers. Renaissance, a book with 107 pages of Edward Bond, 1951, is the chairman of the West Orange accounting firm, Bederson & text, black and white Co., and President of the West Orange Chamber of Commerce. Recently, an article in the photographs and Star-Ledger was written about him. illustrations. The book is a fascinating Marian Berzon, 1952, has operated a Los Angeles talent agency for the past 25 years. guide to this colorful The agency represents actors and writers - and individuals who work in the areas of Print, and culturally Voice-Over, Trade Shows and Industrials. productive era in African-American history. It includes a forward by Dr. Cynthia Pfeffer, 1960, is a professor of psychiatry and director of the child Dr. Clement Price, an esteemed scholar and the bereavement program at Weill Medical College of Cornell University. She was recently director of the Institute on Ethnicity, Culture, and the quoted in an article in the NY Times as an expert on the impact of suicide in families. Modern Experience at Rutgers University in Newark.

Janice Misurell-Mitchell, 1963, is a well-known musician (flutist) and composer in In the decades of the 1920’s and 1930’s in the section of Chicago. In 2002, she was chosen as “Chicagoan of the Year” in music. New York know as Harlem, there developed a unique awakening of mind and spirit, of race and consciousness The class of January 1958 is organizing a 7-day cruise to islands in the eastern and artistic advancement. This declaration of African- Caribbean scheduled for December 2004. American independence became known as the Harlem Renaissance. It was marked by an emergence of new Les Fein, Weequahic’s legendary basketball coach in the 50’s and 60’s, was the ideas in political thought, numerous groundbreaking recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Jewish Sports Hall of artistic developments in theater, music, literature, and Fame for 2003. visual arts; and an inauguration of civil rights organizations, unions, and other associations.

Notable Accomplishments From The Children Of Our Alumni The Atlanta Daily World reports that “the Encyclopedia of Zach Braff, 28, the son of WHS Alumni Association Co-President Hal Braff, June 1952, the Harlem Renaissance takes an important look at one has received high praise at the Sundance Film Festival for his film “Garden State”, which of the great artistic periods in the history of the United he wrote and produced. Zach, the lead actor in the NBC sitcom “Scrubs”, stars in the States...It is indeed an important work. Aberjhani and movie with Natalie Portman and Peter Skarsgaard. The film rights have been purchased West should be commended for their efforts to bring this by Miramax and Fox Searchlight. Recently, Zach made the front page of the Spotlight history to the public.” section of the Sunday Star-Ledger.

Dan Zevin, 37, the son of Dr. Ronald Zevin, June 1953, has received good reviews for SPELLING BEE CHAMPS his hilarious new book The Day I Turned Uncool: Confessions of a Reluctant Grown-up. USA Today writes that “Zevin wants us to know that he’s just a guy who was once a boy, and that the boy is still alive inside the guy, and that neither of them is entirely comfortable with the grown-up they’ve become. It’s very funny. Zevin delivers the laughs because he knows, like all good humorists, that they make weathering life’s little traumas just that much easier.”

Weequahic in Primetime: In August, 1950, Weequahic was rated as “one of the most outstanding high schools in the country” by the Commission of Secondary Schools of the Middle Atlantic States Association of Secondary Schools and Colleges. On June 17, 1960, this same organization praised Weequahic’s college program. On December 17, 1963, Weequahic was ranked 1st in NJ and 56th in the nation in the number of graduates who had earned a Dave Lieberfarb, 1965 (Copy Editor) and his Ph.D during the preceding five years. In 1964, Weequahic had more national merit Star-Ledger team, won the Newark Literacy scholars than any high school in the tri-state area. Campaign’s Leaders for Literacy Spelling Bee fundraising event for the 4th consecutive year. For Charles Hall, Jr. With only 6 years in the MYRNA J. WEISSMAN CHARLES N. HALL, Jr. Named President of helping people and giving working world, Ebony back to the community in Newark Labor Leader Magazine in 1993 featured Hospital Auxiliary which he grew up has Charles as one of the “30 always been a guiding Young Leaders of the Myrna J. Weissman principle in his life. He probably Future” from around the country has been elected learned these lessons well from who have excelled in their careers President of the his father, a union leader, and his but also recognized the importance Auxiliary of Newark mother, a social worker. He also of giving back to the community. Beth Israel Medical maintains a strong belief in God. During this time, he had become a Center. She will Charles states that “when the mentor for the NJ “School Centered serve a two-year issues involve social injustice, I Youth Program” for 2 years and term as head of the am always prepared and willing to served as President of the Michael 500-member fight the good fight.” G. Steele Civic Association voluntary (lrvington’s Mayor). organization. The Charles was born and raised in Newark - and Auxiliary supports the programs and services was a 1981 graduate of Weequahic High Charles was climbing the union ladder very of Newark Beth Israel by sponsoring School. At Jersey City State College, he quickly. In 1994, he was elected 2nd Vice fundraisers and other special events held earned a BS degree in criminal justice with a President of Local 108. Under the training of throughout the year. It has existed since minor in political science in 1987. Following his father, he became an aggressive and Newark Beth Israel was founded in 1901. college, Charles began to pursue his career in skillful negotiator. His belief was that every the criminal justice field as a corrections member is a VIP and should be represented Myrna has been a member of the Auxiliary officer. He also took on a part-time clerical job as such. for 5 years, having previously served as at Local 108, the Retail Wholesale and treasurer of the Auxiliary Board. Her strong Department Store Union (RWDSU) where his At the General Membership meeting in 1998, ties to Newark Beth Israel date back to her father was 2nd Vice President. Charles Charles, only 34 years of age, was elected to own birth here as well as those of her two always looked up to him and admired the work a three-year term as President of Local 108. daughters and late husband. “Newark Beth he was doing with the union. He saw this During his tenure, the union has had many has always been a very important part of my position as a unique opportunity to view the accomplishments. It has aggressively life. For 102 years, it has served the Newark inner workings of the labor movement and to negotiated progressive collective bargaining community and beyond, and today is help others. agreements, increased the diversity of the recognized as one of the state’s leading staff, made organizing a priority, improved health care institutions. I am proud of my By the latter part of 1988, Charles found communication with the membership, affiliated association with The Beth and look forward to himself at a crossroads when he was offered a the local with the New Jersey State AFL-CIO, leading its Auxiliary fundraising efforts,” said job as a full-time business agent for the union. and created a newsletter and web site. Ms. Weissman. Should he follow his lifelong dream of being a public servant in law enforcement where he It has also become more involved with With several years’ experience in law firm would be able to protect and serve the community issues. The union forms administration, Myrna is highly knowledgeable community - or should he join the struggles of partnerships with various community groups, in information management, finances, record the labor movement helping working people raises funds for breast cancer, participates in keeping, and human resources. Her work achieve a better quality of life? clothing drives, prepares and serves holiday experience includes time at Sacher, meals, volunteers time with children, and Bernstein; Rothbard, Sikora & Mongello in After serious consideration, Charles felt that provides a place for individuals to serve as Plainfield; Kirsch, Gelband and Stone in being a union representative and helping interns in the union office learning filing, Newark; and Joel S. Ziegler in Maplewood. working people would bring out the best in mailing and office machinery. him. So he went to work for Local 108 and Myrna graduated from Rutgers University in found that he had a love for servicing the Charles’ leadership and ability has been Newark with a bachelor of arts degree in membership and an ability in negotiations and recognized by both national and state groups. business. She has taught business law interpreting contracts. Although Charles’ early He has been elected to the Advisory Board of courses at Taylor Business Institute in work at the union was promising, he decided the RWDSU, and also elected as a 1st Vice Bridgewater and the Sawyer School of to sharpen his skills in labor relations by taking President of the Industrial Union Council. Business in Elizabeth. Myrna has been a classes at the George Meany Center for Labor presenter at workshops for the New Jersey Studies in 1989. When asked to cite his greatest achievement Association of Legal Secretaries (NJALS) and in the labor movement, his response echoed a contributor to the handbook, “Managing a A year later he was on the road working with what is important to him in life. “I feel that Law Firm for Survival.” the local’s international, organizing campaigns each and every time the local negotiates a in Georgia and Mississippi. Meeting and good contract, resolves a member’s grievance, Myrna has been a member of the Hillside talking to workers during this time showed him assists a member with a problem, or helps Planning Board since 1989, having just the need and true value of unions. It also someone in the community - that all of these served a two-year term as its chairperson. enlightened him about the important role the are very important achievements, just by the She is also secretary of the Weequahic High union plays in empowering workers. fact that the local was able to help someone School Alumni Association. on a given day.” from the voices of our alumni, faculty & friends

MARTIN REISBERG, JAN. 1960, CA SANDRA RODETSKY SLIPP, 1952, NJ study by Morton Deutsch comparing 51 Summit Avenue On Jeanette Lappe differences in racial attitudes in the My connection to WHS and Chancellor Avenue More than 50 years after Newark segregated School go back to my birth, as we lived in the graduating from WHS, two bi-racial housing apartment house at 51 Summit Avenue. My teachers are indelibly project and a New bedroom window was adjacent to Syd’s back marked in my mind - the York housing project kitchen door. I can still smell the partially legendary Marie O’Connor which was integrated. blanched french fries as Heschy brought them and the less-frequently outside to cool and seal the exquisite tastes mentioned Jeanette The housing project within - the soon to be served up bag later in the Lappe. Both have had a visit was notable day. lasting effect on my life. because we were But this remembrance will addressed by the director of the housing project, All the football fans who lived at 51 Summit would be about Jeanette Lappe. an African- American (then called Negro) woman. watch the home football games at Untermann She was a professional woman who spoke Field from the coal tar pitch and gravel roof. As I remember vividly all these years later how eager eloquently about the housing project. Frankly, I a toddler, I remember that distinct pungent I was to go to Mrs. Lappe’s class. I seemed to don’t remember that much about the content of almost acrid odor emanating from the tar walk faster going to her room. I literally couldn’t what she said. But it was her delivery and bubbles as the grown-ups crunched the brittle wait to get to there because her class was so presence that left a tremendous Impression. She “blueberries” on cold autumn days. stimulating - in a deeply personal way that was was literally the first African American profes- different from any other class. Her teaching and sional women I had seen or heard. And she was My memory is almost photographic of the her perspective had a profound influence on my a wonderful, eloquent and elegant speaker. My neighborhood. It seems I was at the Chancellor sensibilities, values and career choices. Why? exposure to people of color was pretty much playground more than I was at home during the limited to household help and media stereotypes. 50’s. I knew the great, the near-great and the She taught with passion and conviction on I had never seen an African American woman or ingrates. important social issues, past and present. In man in a professional capacity. Remember, in retrospect, I think she was on a mission to have those days, Newark - at least the Weequahic As I begin a new adventure in teaching, I am her students look at the world with a critical section - was highly segregated with only a few constantly reminded of the fine caring educators perspective and think about what was or was not exceptions. That field trip visit was the beginning who urged me to do my best. In fact next week “fair’ in our society. For me, and I think most of of my questioning the experiences and the I’ll be a substitute for a Gym teacher at our local the others in the class, we simply had no ex- stereotypes I had grown up with. high school. My rememberences turn posure to the issues or the experiences she immediately to Leo Pearl whose infamous Marine described and that we discussed. At the same The other field trip was to a speech by Adam D.I approach to sports helped me break my best time, she was very careful not to “preach.” On a Clayton Powell. Powell was an incredibly dynamic times in swimming (or else)! paper or exam I wrote about some injustice, she speaker at that time. What a powerhouse. I noted, “Why didn’t you mention this in class?” I guess we all knew about him from news reports, His warmth and caring extended beyond school had the feeling that she wanted students to come but I had never heard him. Like the director of to Spring Lake Swim Club where he helped me to their own conclusions about situations and the housing project, he was a fabulous speaker - get a job the summer before I matriculated at the learn from each other. She raised topics. We smart, eloquent, dynamic, clear, inspiring. University of Chicago. He was also thoughtful had to make a judgment. enough to send a condolence card upon the Different from the low-key women, he was occasion of my Dad’s passing. I am glad that I Class discussions were about racial injustice, rousing in his denunciation of racial injustice. He knew him. I know that he and each of my inequality, social consciousness. Remember, this described unfair discrimination in housing, jobs, mentors are alive and well in me while I give my was in the early 1950’s - before the civil rights or schools and the criminal justice system. I best to the students in my care. women’s movements. Her class opened up a remember how upset I was about hearing about whole way of looking at the society we lived in. the issues as he described them. I remember I am extremely proud of the schools and the But although she didn’t “preach”, it was clear thinking, “How unfair it all is.” playgrounds in the neighborhood where I grew that she was personally involved in the issues we up. However, I was very sad to observe the mass discussed. This was not a simply academic Again, those two experiences, along with the exodus from the Weequahic section. Yes, it was exercise or exposure to rote learning about facts whole course taught by Jeanette Lappe opened part of the ongoing social milieu of our times. It and dates. She cared very deeply about up a world of social awareness. Subsequently, I was not the first or last urban neighborhood that everything we discussed. majored in political science, became a social moved as money moved. studies teacher for a few years and then went on In addition to our class assignments and discus- to graduate work in social policy. For the past Although a resident of Sonoma County in sions, she exposed us to two experiences that I 25 years, I’ve been a consultant on managing California for almost 1/2 my life and only of will never forget. One was a visit to a large low- diversity in the workplace, being concerned about Newark for less than 3/10ths, those early child- income housing project in Newark that was equity in employment and workplace effective- hood and pubescent years occupy a significant racially segregated in its occupancy pattern. ness. I attribute the roots of my interest to that part of my heart. That project was the basis of a classic sociology social studies class with Mrs. Lappe. Famous SYD’S Restaurant Memories of Israel 1940 Grad Completes Acquired By WHS Alumnus Inspired Weequahic Artist Bicycle Trip to New Zealand

What do you do when your favorite hot dog restaurant By Andy Seyka, Star-Ledger Staff From the West Essex Tribune, 2/14/2002 is for sale? If you’re Arie Niederman and his son, you buy it... In 1976, Judy Stein and her husband, Ralph, (At age 81), Dr. Julian Orleans of Livingston has made the first of many trips to Israel to visit their returned from a month bicycling in New Zealand. Arie Niederman, a 1965 daughter, who moved there after marrying an After a long flight to Aukland, Dr. Orleans WHS grad, and his son Eric Israeli. Each trip over the next 20 years felt less reported that he visited his friends, James purchased Syd’s on October 1, and less like a visit. Stein, a lifelong artist, would Brookman, who is a former Livingston resident, 2003. When Arie heard that often go into Jerusalem and open her sketch- and his wife, Rebecca Rizzo, at their Sunnybrook Syd’s was for sale he book and sketch some of the locals on the Farm on the North Island. The couple had immediately asked his son Eric street. She also did several paintings evoking emigrated there in 1999. Following his three if he would like to become an the landscape of Jerusalem. day visit, Dr. Orleans flew to the South Island entrepreneur to his father’s where he joined 15 other members of the high school hangout on the During this past December, an exhibit of her Bicycle Adventure Club. Avenue. At that time Eric was work, “Israel - Memories and Dreams,” was on managing The Chippery, a fish display at Family Framers on East Railroad The group then cycled about 700 miles over and chips restaurant in Avenue in Jamesburg. “The work is a mixture of high mountain passes called the Southern Alps, Fanwood, NJ. memory and imagination,” she said. along peaceful river valleys and around beautiful lakes. In addition, Dr. Orleans hiked with the When eating at Syd’s in the past, Arie would often tell Stein has not returned to Israel since 1996, group through rain forests to spectacular his son stories about growing up in Newark and how when her daughter’s husband died of a heart waterfalls and the Franz Josef glacier lip. Syd’s was an icon on Chancellor Avenue. With the attack. Shortly after that, Stein’s husband thought of owning his own restaurant, particularly suffered a stroke. He died two years ago. When Dr. Orleans went Syd’s, there was no holding Eric back. Eric is now at her daughter, Naomi, returned to the United para-gliding off a high Syd’s six days a week. Come in and say hello! States, she brought several of her mother’s cliff, took luge rides paintings and several sketchbooks back with her. down a mountain and Arie owns a retail fabric store in East Orange called a boat ride in Milford Central Fabrics and still makes sure to stop at Syd’s to “This body of work is phenomenal,” Family Sound. He saw get his fix of the best hot dogs in New Jersey nearly Framers co-owner Teddy Ehmann said. “I was in bungee jumping off every day. love with her work from the first time I saw it.” the Queentown bridge and observed such Eric and Arie are sprucing up Syd’s, to make it just like Stein first became enchanted with art as a senior diverse wildlife as old times. If you have photos or memorabilia of Syd’s at Weequahic High School in Newark. She penguins, albatrosses, from the old days please bring them in. They would credits her passion and enthusiasm for the and sea lions in the like to put up a wall to remind customers of the subject to Alice Saltzman, her art teacher that Catlin area. “old Syd’s”. year. “I always had it in me, but she opened up a new world to me,” Stein, 79, said of Saltzman. They also would like Weequahic High School alumni to “I knew from that point on that I was going to In addition, Dr. Orleans visited a synagogue, know that with every purchase of a Syd’s hot dog, study art.” botanical gardens and museums in the larger there’s no additional charge for mustard! Don’t be cities, where he also learned about the Maori surprised if you run into someone you haven’t seen in From that point on, Stein knew how she wanted tribes and the English explorations and years - it’s still a ‘hangout’ for many of us who love to earn a living. She taught art at Oliver Street settlements there. The group took a train ride Syd’s hot dogs. For those of you who want something and South Street schools in Newark, after through the Taieri Gorge, a gondola ride up to a besides the good old original dog, Syd’s has a wide earning a degree in fine arts in 1944 from skyline restaurant and a bus ride to Mount Cook. variety on their menu, like delicious steak and chicken Newark State College. She then taught for 35 sandwiches and wraps, salads, homemade soups and years at the junior high and high school levels in They divided up and stayed with local families on daily specials. Montclair and Parsippany. She also taught at two occasions, seeing the sheep, cattle and deer William Paterson College and Caldwell College. on thousand acre farms and learning first hand Syd’s is located in the Millburn Mall at about rural life in that part of the world. He 2933 Vauxhall Road in Union. Please call for “I loved working with the kids,” Stein said. “The watched the Super Bowl at a local bar in a small take-out orders, (908) 686-2233. Feel free to creative process was something that was very town. e-mail questions and comments to [email protected]. important to me, not the finished result.” For Syd’s is still “a great place to grab a bite.” Stein, art will always be a high priority in her life. Dr. Orleans has a pediatric practice in Livingston She goes to the studio in Hightstown about once and has taken bicycle trips to foreign countries each summer for the past 20 years. He also Note: Eric’s grandfather, Dr. Samuel Solomon ,is a week. “The great thing about the Art Station is rode his bicycle from coast to coast in the USA a WHS alumni from the class of 1940 and his that I can be around other artists and talk with during the summer of 1992. grandmother, the late Audrey Hart Solomon, was them about certain pieces. That’s what I enjoy,” a WHS alumni from the class of 1948. Stein said. “I’m just happy whenever I look at art. I just need to do it.” A FAREWELL TO WEEQUAHIC TEACHERS NEWARK ATHLETIC HALL AFTER MANY YEARS OF SERVICE OF FAME INDUCTEES FROM WHS

During the past year, 7 Weequahic teachers have retired. The alumni By Barbara Kukla, Star-Ledger Staff association applauds them for their long-term service, dedication and commitment to the students at the high school. They are as follows: Lorenzo Zackery, a sheriff’s officer for the past 17 years, also is familiar to Newarkers as an athletic standout during his days at Weequahic High. Zackery, one of the newest members of the Newark Athletic Hall of Fame, excelled in two sports. An All-America hurdler during his junior and senior years, he was considered poetry in motion in track. At the Penn Relays, he ran a 1:52 half-mile, one of the fastest times in the nation. On the gridiron, he played quarterback, making the All-State team. L-R: Jacqueline Blount, Art Coles, Edna Foster From Weequahic, where he graduated in 1979, Zackery went to Jacqueline Blount, 35 years teaching; 8 years at WHS as a Colorado State University, earning a bachelor’s degree in business. A Schools to Careers coordinator and practical arts teacher. sports icon there as well, he made NCAA track appearances, qualifying for the Olympic trials in 1983 and 1984 as one of the nation’s fastest Arthur Coles, 36 years as a fine arts teacher and assistant to the 500-meter runners. In football, he was featured in Sports Illustrated Principal. He is also the Vice President of the Newark Athletic Hall of and went on to play for the Washington Redskins and Montreal Fame. Alouettes. Edna Foster, 32 years as a physical education / health teacher. “It’s important to support our kids,” Zackery said. “Growing up in Newark, I know there are many distractions like drugs and gangs. We have to teach them not to be followers.” Zackery was inducted into the L-R: Janice Lanier, Albert Mattia, Anthony Saganski, Peter Trunk Newark Athletic Hall of Fame at the organization’s 15th annual dinner at the Robert Treat Hotel by Leonard Moore, his track coach at Weequahic. Burney Adams, Zackery’s football high school coach, was also among the inductees.

L-R: Jacqueline Blount, Art Coles, Edna Foster Ron Howard, a Weequahic graduate who was L-R: Janice Lanier, Albert Mattia, Anthony Saganski, Peter Trunk on the school’s All-City baseball team from 1969-71 and was his alma mater’s Athlete of the Janice Lanier, 34 years as a business teacher. Year in 1971. Howard was a football All-American at Wagner College, where he was rated the Albert Mattia, 30 years as a science teacher. third-best wide receiver in the East in 1974. During Anthony Saganski, 30 years as a business teacher. a 25-year teaching career in the Newark Public Schools, he served as head baseball coach at Peter Trunk, 35 years as a physical education / health teacher and West Side and Vailsburg high schools and coach. assistant football coach at Weequahic, West Side and Vailsburg, which won five city championships. 40 YEARS TEACHING ON THE HILL Charles “Tudy” Lubetkin was basketball and Put your memory module in reverse and go track captain at Weequahic High, where he back to 1963. If you attended WHS then, you graduated in 1949. As a senior, he gained All City might remember a young physical education / honors in basketball and was named Weequahic’s health teacher named Miss Christmas. Now Outstanding Athlete. After graduating from the let’s fast forward to December 2003. Miss Newark College of Engineering (now NJ Institute of Christmas, now Mrs. Ileathern McCloud, was Technology) in 1953, he served as a jet fighter pilot honored by her colleagues at a surprise party in the European theater. Following his military to celebrate her 40th year of teaching at service, he joined Brick Church Appliance in 1965 Weequahic. The alumni association and became president of the company. He also presented her with the above picture from the has been president, general partner and managing member of several 1963 yearbook and made her an honorary member of the association real estate development companies. by giving her an alumni pin, hat, sweatshirt and T-shirt. DON WILKS - June 1953 Grad After a successful business career in radio station ownership, Don Wilks, a June 1953 graduate of - from business to sculpture Weequahic High School, has in recent years pursued a long held interest in sculpting. Don indicates that he “has always been intrigued by the beauty, flow and elasticity of the human body. To see a figure bend, stretch, pull and twist is a true wonder of nature that has always stimulated my imagination.”

Don captures this fascination in bronze sculptures. His work has been displayed at both private galleries and public exhibitions. He has studied and worked with several prominent teachers including the creator of the Heisman Trophy. Don expects to have some of his pieces on exhibit at the Nathan D. Rosen Gallery in Boca Raton, Florida, March 21 to April 25.

According to Don, “the action and interaction of the body is the primary force that I try to convey. To achieve this I am continually working on my techniques and knowledge of anatomy, body motion and fluidity. Currently I am doing this under the watchful eye and inspirational guidance of New England artist Pablo Eduardo.”

Each of Don’s pieces is cast in bronze at a foundry in Sarasota, Florida. The edition limits for each work are between seven and twelve pieces to assure that detail of each piece is properly rendered. Don resides during the winter in Stuart, Florida and in Boston 5 months of the year.

Herb Schonwetter, Jan. 1950, NM Continued from page 7: "BIG" Willie Thomas, Jr., 1970, NC Edwin McLucas Scholarship Fund Every time I'd pick up a book with a plastic On Coach Burney Adams cover I would check underneath to see the Ed continued on at Weequahic as head football Bro-Dart logo. The Brodys lived directly coach through the 1969 season (he also coached This is about a coach across from us on Harding Terrace and wrestling). During the 1968-69 school year, he who was our mentor. when they started the book jacket business gave up his position as a physical education He taught us the game I would work on the line after school and teacher and became Assistant to the Principal. In of football, how it is during holidays. The "plant" was in a the early 1970's, Ed became an assistant director played and why we basement on Bergen Street between of physical education and athletics for the Newark play it. This is Coach Lehigh and Mapes Avenues across the school system. He eventually became the director Burney Adams. I had street from the Park Theater. of physical education in the later part of the the opportunity to play decade. He was then hired by Mayor Sharpe for him in 1968-69 Lou Levy, who also lived on Harding James as the Director of Parks and Recreation for when he was an assistant to coach Ed Terrace, kept the machinery running. Lou the City of Newark and held this position until the McLucas. was an uncle of WHS student Sheldon mid 1990's when he retired. Stein (June 1950.) I remember the elder Coach Adams not only coached us on the field, Brody as being an elegant gent, always in He now resides in Westfield, New Jersey with his but invited us to his home where he had suit and tie. Little did we know how this wife Joan. He has four children and numerous professional players come in and talk to us little basement business would grow into a grandchildren. He also owns a travel agency in about life, and about being black in this society. national giant in book jackets. Madison, New Jersey. This helps satisfy his desire He also put us in his car and took us to local to take vacations and cruises. colleges in the N.J. area. He got so many of us into colleges and I would like to thank him. Considering the obstacles Ed overcame, he is one of the most accomplished people I have ever met. Coach, if you are reading this, I want you to In his honor, I establish the Edwin McLucas know that I love you for all the things you Athletic Scholarship Fund. taught me, not only in football, but in life.

"Orange and Brown Forever." Ridiculous), as well as radical political movements she had in Newark and in particular the fond In Loving Memory from the 60s onwards. She was a courtroom memories of all the fun and the wonderful artist for several TV networks, covering a number education she received at Weequahic. She will be of history-making trials, including the trials of missed by all her family and friends. Mildred K. Zorn passed away on November Rubin “Hurricane” Carter and the Black Liberation. 26, 2003. Mrs. Zorn was a Eddie Rose, 80, of Altamonte Springs, teacher at Weequahic High Rita was a vibrant and compassionate person who Florida and a former Newark, School for 15 years before touched the lives of so many people. She main- N.J., resident who made a retiring many years ago. She tained an unflagging perseverance and zest for career as an entertainer in earned a bachelors degree in life despite debilitating illnesses and other venues from vaudeville to business education from New personal setbacks throughout her life. television, passed away on York University. She was a September 6, 2003. Mr. member of the Kriegman Donations may be sent to Raw Media Network to Rose toured the world as a Family Association of Essex County. Born in assist with the costs of producing a documentary comedian with the Newark, she moved to Maplewood in 1957. film of Rita’s life being produced by her son, Zev International Water Follies Surviving are daughters, Susan Coren and Linda Greenfield. Donations can be directed to Zev and entertained in vaudeville, Edelman; a son, Robert; a brother, Melvin Krieger; Greenfield at 222 W. 23rd St. #1020, NY 10011. stage shows, clean burlesque and theater. He a sister, Dorothy Tankel, and five grandchildren. also appeared in nightclubs, films and television with, among others, Ed Sullivan, Buster Crabbe, Gertrude Rous King, 85, passed away in Johnny Weissmuller, Esther Williams, Eddie Cantor September 2003. She was a secretary for the Rita Fecher, 69, passed away peacefully, and Merv Griffin. after a long illness, on Newark school system for 25 years at Summer Avenue School, Clinton Place Jr. High School, and June 13th, 2003 in her An Army Air Corps veteran of World War II, Mr. Bragaw Avenue School before retiring 25 years home in New York City in Rose was a tail gunner on a B-24 bomber and ago. She was the sister of the late Sadie Rous, a the loving arms of her was shot down over Austria. Wounded on his teacher for many years at Weequahic. three sons, Haskel, Zev 47th mission, he was the recipient of the Purple and Abraham (Avi) Heart, Silver Star and Air Medal with eight Born in Newark, she graduated from East Side Greenfield. She was a clusters. January 1952 graduate of High School and received the Bamberger Medal upon graduation, which was awarded by L. Weequahic High School. A longtime member of the Altamonte Springs City Bamberger & Company to the top commercial and Commission, he was director of civic centers in the clerical student in Newark. She moved to Millburn Rita was born in Newark to Eastern European 1970s and vice mayor for numerous terms. Orthodox Jewish immigrants. The youngest of 4 25 years ago. Mrs. King served on the board of the Senior Citizens Program at the MetroWest sisters, she married at 18 and left college to raise Born in Newark, he moved to Altamonte Springs YMWHA. She was also active with the Brandeis her family. At 23, following the birth of her third 33 years ago. While at Weequahic High School Alumni Annual Book Fairs and with many public son, Rita’s passion for education won the battle (Jan. 1942 grad), Mr. Rose participated on the library and civic book fairs. over her duties as a traditional orthodox football, track and swimming teams and became housewife. Despite extreme economic hardship state diving champion. In 1981, he was inducted She is survived by Henry, her husband of 63 following a divorce, Rita raised her sons as a into the International Swimming Hall of Fame. years, her daughters, Weequahic alumni, Myrna single parent while becoming a full-time student; Surviving are his wife, Mary; a son, Charlie; a Malec (1959), and Sandra King (1965), a sister graduating from Rutgers University (BA, 1966) daughter, Beverly Gidlow, and two grandchildren. and Hunter College (MA, 1973) in Fine Arts. She Celia Hait, and three grandchildren and a great was the first in her family to attain a post- grandchild. The family has requested that graduate level of education. donations be made to the Sadie Rous Memorial Marilyn Kurtz, 58, passed away on Nov. 3, Scholarship Fund through the Weequahic High 2003 at Overlook Hospital, While teaching art in NJ and NYC high schools School Alumni Association in Gertrude’s memory. after a long and valiant (1966-1999), Rita simultaneously expanded her struggle with multiple sclerosis. artistic endeavors to include painting, book Helen Rosen Schreider, 56, passed Illustration, print making, courtroom art, and away on December 29th A resident of Springfield, film-making. She was the recipient of numerous 2003 in Irvine, Ca. after a she was born in Newark awards for exemplary teaching skills, her exhibited prolonged illness. She was and graduated from works, and political activism. She was recognized a 1965 graduate from WHS. Weequahic High School in by the Police Athletic League, NYC Board of She leaves her husband 1963. She is survived by her brother, Alan E. Education, and Manhattan Borough President for Jerry, son Adam, her Kurtz of San Francisco, many cousins in the her teaching and outreach efforts to inner city mother Jeanette and her 3 United States and throughout the world and her kids. A film, ‘‘Flyin’ Cut Sleeves” which she sisters Annette, Elaine and devoted friend, Bill Stone of Newark. co-produced with Henry Chalfant, documenting the Robin. Helen graduated revolution of street gangs in the Bronx from the Paterson State in 1969. In 1974, she moved to Donations in memory of Marilyn may be made to l960’s-80’s, continues to receive international California where she and her husband ran an art the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. Please attention. gallery. She was an avid tennis player and direct all correspondence to Alan Kurtz, 1956 achieved a life master in bridge. Helen would Lombard St., San Francisco, CA 94123. Rita documented experimental theater groups always reminisce about the wonderful childhood (such as the Living Theater and Playhouse of the Norman Pokras, 1950 GRANTS: David Polechuck, 1964 Thank You For Your Support Jeffrey Reiber, 1960 Chancellor Foundation Evelyn Friedrich Reinhard, 1938 Jaqua Foundation Martin Greenberg, 1950 Linda Belford, 1964 Gary Grossman, 1957 Saul Ring, 1940 Harold Hodes, 1960 Beryl Lieff Benderly, 1960 Glenn Hall, 1969 Annette Rosen, 1964 LEGEND MEMBERSHIP: Robert Hodes, 1953 Edward Berman, 1948 Allen Halperin, 1960 Ronald Rosen, 1960 Harold Braff, 1952 Luther Howard, 1969 Jesse Beim, 1951 Sidney Handler, 1950 Vivian Rosenberg, 1966 Steven Bogner, 1966 Herbert Iris, 1948 Samuel Bloom, 1939 Linda Nelson Hasan-Austin, ‘71 Herman Rosenfeld, 1967 Sheldon Bross, 1955 Sharon Jones, 1968 Jean Brewster Bonanno, 1947 Gloria Hastreiter, 1946 Louis Rosler, 1947 Beatrice Kaplan Brown, 1937 Alan Kampf, 1948 Thomas Boose, 1959 Libby Friedman Heller, 1964 Walter Roth, 1965 Yvonne Causbey, 1977 Stephen Kass, 1964 James Boyd, Jr., 1968 Ophra Rabinowitz Hentig, 1957 Gerald Russell, 1974 Clive Cummis, 1945 Ina Mae Kirsch, 1952 Gerald Brandmeyer, 1951 Lester Heyward, 1967 Nathan Sabin, 1962 Steve Dinetz, 1965 Ned Kirsch, 1943 Gerald Cappasso, 1952 Robert Horn, 1961 Sanford Scheps, 1963 Judy Herr, 1964 Morton Leiwant, 1946 Lee Casper Susan Horn-Moo, 1957 Stephanie Bernstein Segall, ‘68 Eli Hoffman, 1956 Diane Lerner, 1956 Martin Chaplowitz, 1947 Harlene Gelman Horowitz, 1958 Charles Seigel, 1959 Tema Yeskel Javerbaum, 1964 Herbert Lerner, 1955 Bruce Cohen, 1955 Gayle Brody Jacobs, 1952 Susan Kaiser Siegel, 1962 Theodore Jellinek, 1957 Howard Levine, 1941 Charlotte Cohen, 1958 Thomas Jenkins, 1959 Donald Shachat, 1952 Arnold Aronowitz Keller, 1952 David Lieberfarb, 1965 Lynn Hilf Cohen, 1961 Shirley Johnson, 1970 Ronald Sharpe, 1964 Arthur Lutzke, 1963 Lester Z. 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Fax: ( ) ______e-mail: ______In Loving Memory James E. DuBose Jr., 50, passed away Ned Kirsch, 78, passed away in January on November 26, 2003. He was a 1971 graduate 2004. Mr. Kirsch was the Audrey Hart Solomon, 73, passed away of Weequahic High School. founding and managing on November 29, 2003. partner of the Newark law She was a June 1948 Mr. DuBose was a deputy director in the Essex firm Kirsch, Gelband & graduate of Weequahic County Sheriffs Office in Newark. Earlier, he Stone, where he practiced High School. served the Newark Police Department for many for the past 49 years. He years and had been a corrections officer at the specialized in personal Transcribing novels into Essex County Jail. injury and workers Braille so the blind could compensation law. read and enjoy them was Surviving are his wife, Patricia; his parents, Alice an enriching experience and James DuBose Sr.; a brother, Sanford, and a A 1943 Weequahic High School alumnus, he for Audrey Solomon. But what she found even sister, Beverly Honore. graduated from Rutgers University in 1947 with a more satisfying was transcribing textbooks for BA degree. In 1950 he earned a law degree from children so they could succeed in school on an Rutgers University Law School. even footing with their sighted classmates. "She Gertrude Bierman Ginsburg, 83, got involved doing children's textbooks, which was passed away on November A certified civil trial attorney, Mr. Kirsch was a most rewarding because she saw these children 30, 2003. She was a member of the American Bar Association, the move up in grade with sighted children because 1938 graduate of Association of Trial Lawyers of America, and the they had the textbooks available to them. She felt Weequahic High School. New Jersey, Essex County, New York and Florida so good doing that," said her husband, Samuel, a Mrs. Ginsburg transcribed bar associations. retired dentist. Braille books for more than 50 years for the Red Born in Newark, he leaves his wife of 46 years, Ina Mrs. Solomon was a volunteer Braille transcriber Cross, for which she Mae (Webber, 1952 WHS graduate); sons, Michael for the American Red Cross for more than 30 received several awards. and Robert; a daughter, Jill Stone; a brother, years, an undertaking she happened upon after She was a volunteer at Melvin; a sister, Edna Stiglitz, and nine meeting another volunteer. Solomon said his wife The Jewish Vocational grandchildren. decided to pursue a college education late in life Services teaching English as a Second Language. after becoming a grandmother. She earned an Mrs. Ginsburg also volunteered at the Medical associate degree from Union County College. "She Research Library of Saint Barnabas Hospital in Alumni: had a desire to blossom and learn," he said. "She Livingston and was a member of the Brandeis just loved people and loved learning." She also Women’s Organization. She attended Essex Theodore Beady, 1963 was an accomplished artist, specializing in oil and County College and Fairleigh Dickinson University, Sanford Greenfeder, 1963 watercolor landscapes. Madison. Joseph Knapp, 1955 Leonard Molk, 1960 It was while attending Union County College that Born in Newark, she lived in Verona and West Mrs. Solomon encountered a product in a Orange before returning to Verona. Surviving are Donna Kresch, 1964 supermarket that led to positions as a volunteer a son, Mitchell Ginsberg; a daughter, Randy Glatt; Barbara Wilcox, 1979 and then an employee at the Union County a brother, Gerome Bierman; a sister, Mariam Division of Consumer Affairs. The product was a Biddleman, and three grandchildren child's toothbrush with a handle shaped like a gun, and Mrs. Solomon was flabbergasted and Faculty appalled that such a product would be on the Morey Bobrow, 1959 market. Lamar Campbell, 18, Terrance Miriam Hample Campbell, 14, Jameel Khan, 18, passed Mrs. Solomon spent 10 years with the consumer away in a car accident on West Kinney Street in affairs office before being offered a job at the Newark in October 2003. Trust Company of New Jersey in Jersey City. The Community: bank officer who handled the financing of the Lamar and Terrance Campbell were cousins and Fan Jacobs, teacher at Solomons' vacation home in Florida extended the Terrance was a student at Weequahic High School. Chancellor Avenue School job offer and she became a vice president before Lamar graduated from Arts High School last year, Tony Peele, Executive Director of the retiring in 1993 after 11 years. but played center for the Weequahic High School Community Agency Corporation (formerly football team. He was recently elected President Ms. Solomon was born and raised in Newark and of the Young Usher’s Board at Greater Abyssinian Protestant Community Centers, Inc.) and wife lived in Union for the past 50 years. In addition to Baptist Church in Newark and was known for his of Carol Peele, former WHS faculty. her husband and daughter, she is survived by two talent in singing and dancing. Aaron Narol, former municipal court sons, Jack of Chester Springs, Pa., and Michael of judge in Newark. Atlanta; her mother, Helen Hart of Westfield, and Jameel Khan was a graduate of University High nine grandchildren. School in Newark and was majoring in business Edward Scudder, owner of the management at Union County College. Newark Evening News. - Rudy Larini, Star-Ledger: Rudd’s own memories of Newark with Rita Moreno and Anne REUNIONS Enid Rudd’s are happy ones, though. “Newark Jackson, and Crowded Paradise, in The Other Side of Newark was a fantastic city. I graduated which she costarred with Hume May 23, 2004 from Weequahic High School Cronyn. She also appeared in debuts at Luna Stage (1946), which was a fantastic high Kraft Television Theatre, January 1954 - 50th school..a really special place. It Playhouse 90, and as Ophelia in Dolce - Hamilton Park in Florham Park, Theater in Montclair was, in fact, where I first started to Hamlet at the off-Broadway Cherry NJ. Contacts: Maxine Shara Bier write.” Lane Theatre, a performance that Weckstein at (973) 761-4247 / Excerpts from an article by Deborah earned her praise from legendary [email protected] or Charles Bernhaut Shapiro in the NJ Jewish News New York Times critic Brooks at (908) 217-1358 / [email protected] The Other Side of Newark is not Atkinson. A new work, Rudd’s first dramatic work. Other plays on her resume are Does The Other June 6, 2004 Anybody Here Do the Peabody?, Rudd said she enjoys tackling a Side of performed as part of the Best New range of subjects in her writing: 1939 - 65th Newark, by American Play series at the Actors Her latest effort is Dearest Cousin, Essex House, West Orange, NJ. West Orange Theatre of Louisville, and Rumors a two-character play about Queen Contact: Mickee Lublang at playwright (973) 857-0353 in the Palace, staged in Stamford, Elizabeth I and Mary, Queen of Enid Rudd Scots. The play has been will have Conn., and published in the Best Stage Scenes of 1992. optioned by The Storyline Project October 2, 2004 its world and is headed, Rudd hopes, to premiere at Montclair’s Luna either Broadway or off-Broadway. June 1954 - 50th Stage Theater on January 29th. Her other works include The Ashes Headquarters Plaza Hotel in of Mrs. Reasoner, which was Morristown, NJ. Contact Sheila Dishell Rudd said it takes her about year The play tells the story of the produced in the 1970s for at [email protected] to complete a play; she considers relationships between a Jewish Hollywood Television and starred Charles Durning; and 1965’s all of them her babies. As for real schoolteacher, a gentile babies, she and her husband October 9, 2004 communist, and a black student in Peterpat, which ran on Broadway with Joan Hackett and Dick Shawn Bernard (WHS 1943) have a son 1964 - 40th the 1930’s. It compellingly and two grandchildren. explores issues of love, race, and in the cast. Peterpat also played Saturday, 7 PM, Marriott Hotel at Newark in London’s West End and toured Liberty International Airport, Newark, NJ. religious intolerance - touching Rudd has lived in West Orange for upon the plight of German Jews as the United States with Patty Duke A full weekend of events. Contact and John Astin. decades, but Newark clearly Wendy Kaufman Nowak at (908) the Nazis rose to power - as well continues to occupy a special 722-1874 / [email protected]. For as New Jersey’s changing urban In addition to writing for the stage, place in her heart (in fact, her class news, visit the 1964 web site at landscape. husband, a retired Superior Court www.angelfire.com/stars4/weequahic64 Rudd has authored works for film and television. She has also judge, sat in the Newark The author based the play on her Courthouse). own memories and experiences: taught play writing workshops at Reunions Being “I am a Newark native; I grew up Seton Hall University and Upsala College as well as throughout NJ The Other Side of Newark runs Planned there in the 1930’s,” Rudd said. from January 29 through February “I had an Aunt Rose who taught as part of the Writers in the Schools program. 22. Jane Mandel is the Director. June 1960 - 45th in the Newark school system at Tickets can be purchased by Beginning preparations for reunion. that time. She was a very good And before turning her hand to calling (973) 744-3309 or e-mail If you are interested in volunteering for teacher who really enjoyed writing, she was a performer. “I [email protected]. Luna the committee, contact Harold Klein at teaching. She often told me wanted to be an actress, so I did Stage is located at 695 Bloomfield (609) 655-3778 / [email protected] anecdotes about her students that for 10 to 15 years.” Her film Avenue in Montclair. or Lois Blumenfeld Gilbert at that were funny and poignant credits include So Young So Bad (732) 462-4808 / [email protected] ...and sad.”

Weequahic High School Alumni Association First Class Mail P.O. Box 494, Newark, NJ 07101 U.S. Postage PAID Permit No. 205 Orange, NJ 07050 Rudd’s own memories of Newark with Rita Moreno and Anne REUNIONS Enid Rudd’s are happy ones, though. “Newark Jackson, and Crowded Paradise, in The Other Side of Newark was a fantastic city. I graduated which she costarred with Hume May 23, 2004 from Weequahic High School Cronyn. She also appeared in debuts at Luna Stage (1946), which was a fantastic high Kraft Television Theatre, January 1954 - 50th school..a really special place. It Playhouse 90, and as Ophelia in Dolce - Hamilton Park in Florham Park, Theater in Montclair was, in fact, where I first started to Hamlet at the off-Broadway Cherry NJ. Contacts: Maxine Shara Bier write.” Lane Theatre, a performance that Weckstein at (973) 761-4247 / Excerpts from an article by Deborah earned her praise from legendary [email protected] or Charles Bernhaut Shapiro in the NJ Jewish News New York Times critic Brooks at (908) 217-1358 / [email protected] The Other Side of Newark is not Atkinson. A new work, Rudd’s first dramatic work. Other plays on her resume are Does The Other June 6, 2004 Anybody Here Do the Peabody?, Rudd said she enjoys tackling a Side of performed as part of the Best New range of subjects in her writing: 1939 - 65th Newark, by American Play series at the Actors Her latest effort is Dearest Cousin, Essex House, West Orange, NJ. West Orange Theatre of Louisville, and Rumors a two-character play about Queen Contact: Mickee Lublang at playwright (973) 857-0353 in the Palace, staged in Stamford, Elizabeth I and Mary, Queen of Enid Rudd Scots. The play has been will have Conn., and published in the Best Stage Scenes of 1992. optioned by The Storyline Project October 2, 2004 its world and is headed, Rudd hopes, to June 1954 - 50th premiere at Montclair’s Luna Stage either Broadway or off-Broadway. Theater on January 29th. Her other works include The Ashes Headquarters Plaza Hotel in of Mrs. Reasoner, which was Morristown, NJ. Contact Sheila Dishell Rudd said it takes her about year The play tells the story of the produced in the 1970s for at [email protected] to complete a play; she considers relationships between a Jewish Hollywood Television and starred Charles Durning; and 1965’s all of them her babies. As for real schoolteacher, a gentile babies, she and her husband October 9, 2004 communist, and a black student in Peterpat, which ran on Broadway with Joan Hackett and Dick Shawn Bernard (WHS 1943) have a son 1964 - 40th the 1930’s. It compellingly and two grandchildren. explores issues of love, race, and in the cast. Peterpat also played Saturday, 7 PM, Marriott Hotel at Newark in London’s West End and toured Liberty International Airport, Newark, NJ. religious intolerance - touching Rudd has lived in West Orange for upon the plight of German Jews as the United States with Patty Duke A full weekend of events. Contact and John Astin. decades, but Newark clearly Wendy Kaufman Nowak at (908) the Nazis rose to power - as well continues to occupy a special 722-1874 / [email protected]. For as New Jersey’s changing urban In addition to writing for the stage, place in her heart (in fact, her class news, visit the 1964 web site at landscape. husband, a retired Superior Court www.angelfire.com/stars4/weequahic64 Rudd has authored works for film and television. She has also judge, sat in the Newark The author based the play on her Courthouse). own memories and experiences: taught play writing workshops at Reunions Being “I am a Newark native; I grew up Seton Hall University and Upsala College as well as throughout NJ The Other Side of Newark runs Planned there in the 1930’s,” Rudd said. from January 29 through February “I had an Aunt Rose who taught as part of the Writers in the Schools program. 22. Jane Mandel is the Director. June 1960 - 45th in the Newark school system at Tickets can be purchased by Beginning preparations for reunion. that time. She was a very good And before turning her hand to calling (973) 744-3309 or e-mail If you are interested in volunteering for teacher who really enjoyed writing, she was a performer. “I [email protected]. Luna the committee, contact Harold Klein at teaching. She often told me wanted to be an actress, so I did Stage is located at 695 Bloomfield (609) 655-3778 / [email protected] anecdotes about her students that for 10 to 15 years.” Her film Avenue in Montclair. or Lois Blumenfeld Gilbert at that were funny and poignant (732) 462-4808 / [email protected] credits include So Young So Bad ...and sad.”

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