Butler High School - Nugget Yearbook (Butler, NJ)

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CLINTON ACKERMAN BERNARD BREWSTER CHARLES DILZER LEON KOPELMAN ROBERT MORGAN WILLIAM PAULISON WILLIAM VAN HOUTEN

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BOARD OF EDUCATION PASCHAL PROCTOR President JAMES OSAR Vice-President 8 CLARENCE DECKER Secretary

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A Strong School Begins At The Top ... The co-ordinated strength of our administrative staff is a natural outgrowth of the diversified backgrounds and rich educational experiences of four key people. Superintendent of Schools NEIL B. EASTERBROOK came to Butler in 1923 as a science teacher. Since then he has devoted a lifetime to education on local, county, and state levels, serving at one time or another as president or director of leading professional associations in the county and state. In the summer of 1961, he was chosen to represent New Jersey at the 20th Annual National Work Conference for Superintendents. He is currently a member of the Seminar for New Jersey Superintendents under the auspices of Teachers College at Columbia. Keenly inter- ested in community affairs, he has been director of such community groups as Chilton Memorial Hospital, Area Council of Boy Scouts and Butler and Bloomingdale Sav- ings and Loan Association. He is past district governor of Rotary International. Mr. Easterbrook is listed in Who's Who In The East in 1951. Principal JOHN M. BECKER came to Butler in 1948 as a social studies teacher and as head coach of football and basketball. Appointed assistant principal in 1954 and principal in 1959, he has brought to his present post a dynamic blend of academic and athletic interests. A leader of youth in summer camp and in community playgrounds he has been director of the Butler Summer Recreation Program. He is past president of the Butler Lions Club. Vice-principal BENJAMIN GOLDBERG first came to Butler in 1950 as a U. S. history teacher. Strongly inter- ested in student government, he served as Student Council adviser until 1957 when he left Butler to teach at Mineola, Long Island. He returned to Butler in i960 to assume the post of vice-principal. Guidance Director GLADYS H. JAECKLE came to Butler as a Latin teacher. Later she taught English IV, advised Y” Teens, Student Council and Honor Society and initiated an individual counselling service which be- came the first full-time guidance program in Morris Count)'. She has held leadership posts in the county YWCA and Council of Social Agencies, in Marquis Scholarship Fund, in Camp Morris and in other youth leadership institutes. In 1956 she participated in the New Jersey Bell Telephone Company school guidance program; in 1950 she was a member of the Midcentury White House Conference for Children and Youth in Washington. Miss Jaeckle is listed in the first edition of Who’s Who Among American Women in 1959. NEIL B. EASTERBROOK Syracuse University, B.A. Rutgers University, M.Ed. Further graduate work at Rutgers University, Montclair State College, and Teachers College at Columbia.