2004 BOARD OF TRUSTEES OFFICERS CO-PRESIDENT CO-PRESIDENT SECRETARY TREASURER EXECUTIVE HAROLD BRAFF JUDY BENNETT MYRNA JELLING SHELDON BROSS DIRECTOR June 1952 1972 WEISSMAN Jan. 1955 PHILIP YOURISH Jan. 1953 1964 TRUSTEES DAVID LIEBERFARB YVONNE CAUSBEY ARTHUR LUTZKE ADILAH QUDDUS BERT MANHOFF 1965 1977 1963 1971 Jan. 1938 FAITH HOWARD SAM WEINSTOCK LORAINE WHITE DAVID SCHECHNER MARY BROWN GERALD RUSSELL 1982 Jan. 1955 1964 June 1946 DAWKINS 1974 1971 CHARLES TALLEY MARJORIE BROWN Principal SHARON VIVIAN ELLIS 1966 1985 RONALD STONE PRICE-CATES SIMON 1972 1959 Newark News ON THE INSIDE: The Little Shul That Could Behind The Scenes From the Voices of Alumni, Faculty, & Friends $40,000 Scholarship Donation You Ruined My Day Hisani Dubose, NJ Filmmaker Carl Prince: Brooklyn’s Dodgers Herb Schon's Rugelach Recipe In Loving Memory Profiles of Distinguished Alumni Sheldon Belfer’s POP QUIZ Waldo Winchester Column Reunion Listings Scholarships Are A “Class” Act WHS Alumni Store From the High School On The Hill Football Fantasy Fundraiser 2004 BOARD OF TRUSTEES OFFICERS CO-PRESIDENT CO-PRESIDENT SECRETARY TREASURER EXECUTIVE HAROLD BRAFF JUDY BENNETT MYRNA JELLING SHELDON BROSS DIRECTOR June 1952 1972 WEISSMAN Jan. 1955 PHILIP YOURISH Jan. 1953 1964 TRUSTEES DAVID LIEBERFARB YVONNE CAUSBEY ARTHUR LUTZKE ADILAH QUDDUS BERT MANHOFF 1965 1977 1963 1971 Jan. 1938 FAITH HOWARD SAM WEINSTOCK LORAINE WHITE DAVID SCHECHNER MARY BROWN GERALD RUSSELL 1982 Jan. 1955 1964 June 1946 DAWKINS 1974 1971 CHARLES TALLEY MARJORIE BROWN Principal SHARON VIVIAN ELLIS 1966 1985 RONALD STONE PRICE-CATES SIMON 1972 1959 Newark News ON THE INSIDE: The Little Shul That Could Behind The Scenes From the Voices of Alumni, Faculty, & Friends $40,000 Scholarship Donation You Ruined My Day Hisani Dubose, NJ Filmmaker Carl Prince: Brooklyn’s Dodgers Herb Schon's Rugelach Recipe In Loving Memory Profiles of Distinguished Alumni Sheldon Belfer’s POP QUIZ Waldo Winchester Column Reunion Listings Scholarships Are A “Class” Act WHS Alumni Store From the High School On The Hill Football Fantasy Fundraiser From Hal Braff, Co-President, June 1952 You Can Now Create a Scholarship Fund Behind The Scenes A Landmark Decision On with Cash or Stock Equal Opportunity In Education You have your hands on a very unique The WHS Alumni Association encourages journal. The Alumni Calumet, now in its On May 17th, I addressed a group of you to establish a scholarship fund in 12th edition, is the much praised Weequahic students in the high school honor or in memory of a family member, a brainchild of our wonderful Executive library on the history of racial favorite teacher, coach, administrator, Director, Phil Yourish (1964), who sees segregation and the role it still plays in classmate or friend. to it that every detail of interest to our society today as we commemorated Weequahicphiles everywhere is deposited the 50th Anniversary of the United We are pleased to announce that we can in your mailbox. State’s Supreme Court decision in the now accept gifts of appreciated securities. first Brown vs. the Board of Education of These donations would qualify for a Phil has also developed our web site and Topeka, Kansas. charitable tax deduction if the shares has arranged for us to have ample have been held for more than a year. merchandise to respond to your orders Joining me in this interactive dialogue (Do your grandkids have WHS tote bags were Principal Ron Stone, Vice Principal One advantage to gifting appreciated and t-shirts for this summer’s trip to the Ras Baraka, history/computer teacher securities is that the donor is not subject beach?). He also responds to your Robert Jackson, and 1995 graduate to capital gains taxes on the shares. inquiries and sees to it that our Alturrick Kenney. Before donating, it is recommended that commitments to the high school are you consult with your tax advisor. promptly kept. After my presentation, I raised the following question: “What must be done To make a gift of appreciated securities, Many people are responsible for the to create a culture at the school which please call the office of Jim Schwarz amazing presence your alumni values and takes advantage of the (WHS 1958) at Smith Barney at (800) association has established - but the opportunities stemming from 526-4931 and ask for Karen Parker-Davis Board sends special thanks to Phil for his education?” or Robyn Schlossberg. devotion to our goals, his excellent To establish a scholarship fund, contact newsletter, and the leaps we’ve taken The students were asked to compete for a us at (973) 923-3133 or e-mail us at under his baton. $200.00 prize, from the alumni [email protected]. association and the city of Newark, for Join him and his 40th reunion class for the best essay on the subject. The To make a donation to one of our sixteen our annual tour of the high school on winning composition will be published in scholarship funds, see page 18. October 9th. the next edition of the Alumni Calumet. $40,000 Donation Establishes The Reada & Harry Jellinek Scholarship Endowment Fund With a generous contribution of $40,000, Dr. Harry Jellinek was a teacher, Dr. Jellinek died in 1986 and Mrs. Jellinek Theodore Jellinek, class of 1957, has Chairman of the Business Department, and lives in an Assisted Living residence in established the alumni association’s first Acting Vice Principal prior to becoming Massachusetts. endowment scholarship fund in honor of his Principal at West Kinney Jr. High School and parents, Reada & Harry Jellinek. Central Evening High School. The endowment fund ensures that scholarship money will be available well into the future for They were both original members on the In retirement, both Mrs. Jellinek and Dr. deserving Weequahic students who want to faculty of Weequahic High School when it Jellinek served as president of the Essex pursue a higher education. opened in September 1933. County Retired Teachers Association. The scholarship committee and the entire Reada Jellinek was the librarian at Weequahic Dr. Jellinek also devoted considerable energy alumni association want to take this for 40 years until retiring in 1973. to promoting the interests of senior citizens, opportunity to thank Theodore Jellinek and his especially in the areas of educational wife Marie for this wonderful gift. opportunities and travel. on ABC's daytime drama All My Children, Hisani DuBose actor Leon, who appeared most recently in NJ Filmmaker, 1971 Grad Buffalo Soldiers, Newark filmmaker Hafiz Farid, and comedian Willie Asbury, the Excerpts from an article by emcee for the evening. As part of its Barbara Kukla, Star-Ledger educational mission, the group also honored the Snyder High School Media Years ago, when she practically was Team and board member Fharah, the plucked off the stage at Newark's Theater team's producer. of Universal Images by dance master Arthur Mitchell for a dance scholarship with Despite the hard financial hit, which finds his Dance Theater of Harlem, Hisani the network still trying to pay expenses for DuBose was contemplating a career in the dinner and handsomely designed dance. awards created by her son, Dadisi, DuBose remains confident that it's just a In typical fashion, she still pokes fun at matter of time before the organization herself although she truly appreciated the board, which includes the founders plus sprouts wings. Much of that feeling comes honor: "I don't know if I was really good or Henrietta Parker, Carol Spann, and Patrick from the fact that she comes from an artistic he just felt sorry for me and wanted to help Fharah, pooled their money to start a series home. me get better." Whatever the reality, of monthly workshops on movie making at DuBose didn't become a dancer, but she did their home base, the Robert Treat Hotel. To "My father Harry Porter played tenor sax on get better - much better, honing artistic skills pay for the room rental and other expenses, the road with the Count Basie and Lionel that eventually led her and her friends, an admissions fee was required of Hampton bands," said DuBose. "My mother Bertha Freeman and James Taliaferro, to participants: $20 for nonmembers, $10 for (Johnnie Porter who now lives in a small create the New Jersey Movie Makers members and $15 for students. The yearly town in Arkansas where she is working on Network. membership rate is $40. her doctorate), is an illustrator. She went to the Newark School of Fine and Industrial "Almost every state has an organization like By year's end, the fledgling organization was Arts and studied fashion design. this except New Jersey," DuBose said. "The off to a good start, building its membership to first movie was made in Fort Lee, New 50 and attracting enough interest to pay the DuBose's children also share her passion for Jersey. Thomas Edison, a New Jersey bills for workshops on subjects such as how the arts. Although she didn't become a resident, invented the movie camera and to get a movie made, finance a project and dancer, her daughter, Hakika, did. A dance motion picture technology. We are entertain- develop strong characters. By September, major at Montclair State College, Hakika ment rich and we supply everyone - actors, JVC of America was on board, paying for a studies also under three well-known hip hop writers, technicians, cinematographers, workshop for digital movie-making. choreographers at the Broadway Dance make-up artists - to the industry, yet Center in New York City. Dadisi DuBose, a strangely we always have to go to New York Then came Dec. 5 - what was supposed to visual artist, studied at the Philadelphia for workshops or to find work." be the organization's biggest night of the School of the Arts and is completing his year - its first Prime Time Awards for studies at Bloomfield College, focusing on Steve Gorelick, associate director of the NJ Excellence & Support in Movies and the visual arts.