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27-Weequahic Newsletter Summer 2009 The Weequahic High School Alumni Association presents the screening of “Heart of Stone” The award-winning documentary about Weequahic, its Principal, and its Alumni Association by local filmmaker, Beth Kruvant. Audience Award, Slamdance Film Festival; Jury Award for Best Documentary and Kaiser Permanente “Thrive” Award, Cinequest Film Festival; and Best Feature Film, Philadelphia Film Festival. Monday, June 8th Two showings at 5:45 & 8:15 South Orange Performing Arts Center Tickets are $25.00 and can be purchased directly through the SOPAC web site at www.sopacnow.org, the SOPAC box office at (973) 313-2787, or by going to the box office in person. Visit www.heartofstonethemovie.com for information on the film. Proceeds will be used for Weequahic High School scholarships and student activities. The Weequahic High School Alumni Association presents the screening of “Heart of Stone” The award-winning documentary about Weequahic, its Principal, and its Alumni Association by local filmmaker, Beth Kruvant. Audience Award, Slamdance Film Festival; Jury Award for Best Documentary and Kaiser Permanente “Thrive” Award, Cinequest Film Festival; and Best Feature Film, Philadelphia Film Festival. Monday, June 8th Two showings at 5:45 & 8:15 South Orange Performing Arts Center Tickets are $25.00 and can be purchased directly through the SOPAC web site at www.sopacnow.org, the SOPAC box office at (973) 313-2787, or by going to the box office in person. Visit www.heartofstonethemovie.com for information on the film. Proceeds will be used for Weequahic High School scholarships and student activities. present but, instead, Weequahic, start concentrating The ALUMNI CALUMET on the future. is a publication of the remembered and WHS ALUMNI ASSOCIATION "Heart of Stone" Editor, Layout & Design: (maybe) reborn won awards at Phil Yourish, 1964 Utah's alternative By Stephen Whitty, Star-Ledger, 03/11/09 Slamdance Film Proofreading: Festival, and is still Dave Lieberfarb; Hal Braff; In 1960, Newark's Weequahic High School on the festival Myrna Jelling Weissman; was known as one of the best in the country. Beth Toni Kruvant circuit; with any luck, theatrical Our thanks for articles from The Star-Ledger, The NJ Jewish By the time Principal distribution, or a public- broadcasting slot, Standard, The NJ Jewish News, NJ Ron Stone took over in will soon materialize. Monthly Magazine, and our WHS 2001, it was one of the alumni. worst. What had once Some alumni in the film are: Printing: Village Press of Orange been called a "school for strivers" was now seen as a battleground Mary Dawkins, 1971 CONTACT US for gangs. What's changed since then and Weequahic High School Alumni Association Ron Stone what hasn't and how people have tried to P.O. Box 494 make a difference - despite some tragic Newark, NJ 07101 disappointments - is at the core of "Heart of Hal Braff, 1952 (973) 923-3133 Stone," a new documentary. Sheldon Bross, 1955 [email protected] Much of the movie is shot through with a www.weequahicalumni.org bittersweet nostalgia for what's dubbed "Philip Roth's Newark," and a solid post-war neighborhood with blissfully safe streets, HELP WRITE THE NEXT ISSUE men in Packards and fedoras, and a cherished Sheldon Bross, 1955 institution said to produce more future Judy Bennett, 1972 Send us letters, articles, stories, doctorates than any high school in America. memories, poems, recipes, photos, cartoons, trivia, obituaries, Long-time residents - or homesick exiles - Arnold Keller, 1952 reunion information, etc. will be particularly thrilled to see old yearbook pictures from the `50s, interviews WEEQUAHIC ARCHIVES with retired teachers, and reminiscences from former classmates. Recent donations to our archives: Arnold Keller, 1952 Elsie Steiner Selikoff, 1936; They may also - if they've lost touch, or track Phil Yourish, 1964 Anita Blumer Cohen, 1951; - grow tearful at what's changed. Students Bernard Freedman, 1952; now pass through metal detectors. The Monroe Krichman, 1952 Carolisa Pomerantz, 1965; principal is shown putting on a bullet-proof Sidney Handler; 1950; vest under his Weequahic warm-up jacket. The Kleinmans Gang members are everywhere. Other alumni board members and Yet "Heart of Stone" - directed by former faculty who contributed to Montclair's Beth Toni Kruvant, whose Monroe Krichman, 1955 the filming of “Heart of Stone”- parents grew up in Newark, and whose father Richie Roberts, 1956 went to Weequahic - is neither a misty Sam Weinstock, Myrna daydream of what was, nor a long lament for Weissman, Ruby Baskerville, what's lost. Larry Bembry, Marshall Charles Cooper, Harold Edwards, Dave Instead, it's a well-reported, sharply photo- Talley, Lieberfarb, Arthur Lutzke, graphed and cleanly edited look at what is. 1966 Adilah Quaddus, Gerald and how teachers, police and a wonderfully Russell, Dave Schechner, Vivian inspired alumni association have been work- Simons, and Hilda Lutzke. ing to stop mourning the past or fearing the Weequahic High School is alumni and current students, Al Attles, who became an NBA player and coached the featured in film about gangs San Francisco Warriors to the league title and the power of education in 1975, tells the kids, "education is a lot more competitive than basketball." By Mark DiIonno, Star-Ledger Most of the Weequahic kids know that. In Young gang members, at heart, are still just the film, history teacher Bashir Akinyele kids. As gang members, they may shoot, says, "We have a lot of A students, and B and be shot, deal and use drugs, menace students and kids who want to go to corners with territory-marking violence. college." But the hard cases can be But in the end, the young ones, the smart reached, too. Intervention programs put together by Stone, former assistant ones, those still giving school a chance, are Rayvon, a gang member, received an just kids. Kids who can be reached. Kids alumni scholarship to attend college. principal Ras Baraka, and administrators who can be convinced they have a future Ron Morse and Elizabeth Hayden continue beyond life and death on the streets. Filmmaker Beth Toni Kruvant, whose to this day. Akinyele and Kcyied Zahir, the father grew up in Weequahic, takes a dean of discipline, run weekly "conflict This is the over-riding message of hope in sentimental journey through those days, resolution" meetings. In the film, Zahir sits with Bloods and Crips and gets them the new documentary "Heart of Stone," a with a collection of home movies and talking. "These are kids who need help," film about Newark's legendary Weequahic interviews with alumni and former Zahir says in the film, adding that with High School, which is winning film festival teachers. Early in the film is a Kruvant- little family or money, the gang is awards from coast to coast. shot video of Philip Roth, the great American novelist and Weequahic's most sometimes the easiest outlet for acceptance. The film follows former principal Ron famous graduate, who was honored a few Acceptance. The goal of every teenager in Stone as he restores order and pride to years ago when his home-block of Summit every clique, whether it's the Bloods or the Weequahic, with the help of concerned Avenue was named "Philip Roth Plaza." alumni. It is a marriage of the "Newark is my Stockholm and that plaque Chess Club. The kids in "Heart of Stone" then-and-now cultures of a school that is my prize," Roth says, referring to the find it at school. Rayvon wins an alumni understands its proud history while fighting Nobel Prize, for which he has been scholarship, to the cheers of his classmates. modern problems. nominated. Sharif gets his diploma and dances across the stage like a chunky class clown, rather Then, it was all about education. Now, it is The opening scene of the film shows a than a Bloods leader. Ricky, too, all about education, too. But, as Stone says more recent Weequahic. Stone straps on a graduates, prodded by Stone after he is in the movie, "school has to be the bulletproof vest to walk the no-violence grazed in a drive-by shooting. In one of psychologist, the parents, the police." zone. He is out there on patrol; to keep the most moving scenes of the film, Stone Mostly, it has to be safe, so kids can learn, peace and to counsel. Subsequent scenes takes Ricky to the cemetery where Ricky's and Stone convinces the gang kids to show him on neighborhood streets, talking father is buried. Life on the streets killed respect school grounds and a wide to the young men who describe themselves his father, Ricky acknowledges. Ricky, perimeter as a no-violence zone. as members of the Bloods or Crips. The now on crutches, talks about surviving to boys have one thing in common. No do more. Weequahic High, then, was a Great fathers. He has a breakfast of pancakes, American High School, the academic sausage, bacon, eggs and grits cooked by In the end, all the boys make it to college. launchpad for thousands of mostly Jewish the grandmother and aunt of Ricky, who Rayvon, whose last name is Lisbon, was kids, who grew up on the safe, tree-lined calls himself a Blood, but is mannered back at Weequahic last week, as he often streets of the Weequahic section. enough to let "Mr. Stone" fill his plate first. is, visiting Zahir and Akinyele. "Mr. Zahir Weequahic, like Vailsburg and other Stone sits at a table in a room of unpacked called me just the other day, making sure I Newark neighborhoods of the day, was boxes with Rayvon, who describes himself was staying on point," he says. He has more suburb than city.
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