College High School - La Campanilla Yearbook (Upper Montclair, NJ)

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Dr. Anne Castens, Director and Senior Advisor Truly, there are not many high schoolers who are fortunate enough to have had a principal such as Dr. Castens. Perhaps principal is not the right word, for too many, it implies a coldly impersonal figure of authority: someone who makes the rules and keeps the school functioning. To us at College High, Dr. Castens is more than that. She has taken an active interest in all College High activities since her arrival in 1966, and she is thoroughly acquainted with all its students. Perhaps this is facilitated because of the small sire of the student body, but it is primarily because of her interest in knowing each of us personally — as individuals, rather than a faceless group. How many principals are willing to leave their desks and go into the halls simply to get a chance to talk with the students and get better acquainted in this informal way? Always alert to the goings-on within the school. Dr. Castens does not hesitate in complimenting students or in applying firm, but just discipline. As director of College High, she commands our respect; for the job she is doing, our admiration.

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Mrs. Joan Gaeng, Guidance Counselor and Senior Advisor There is not one student in our class, or in any other College High class, who has not received some form of help, guidance, or simple friendliness and concern from Mrs. Gaeng. Acting as principal, guidance counselor, advisor and friend for 13 years, she is one of the warm and lasting memories we will cherish of College High. She has shown interest and warmth in each of us: interest in our goals, our opinions, and our personalities; warmth, by readily listening to our joys or concerns about college acceptances, various problems we may have had, or College High life in general. She is always seen working busily in the guidance room, or bustling around in the hall, reminding us of Achievement Test deadlines, applications to be filled out, or reminding us just to smile. Always there when we needed her, listening with concern when something went wrong, advising, offering to help in whatever way she could, Mrs. Gaeng has been an integral part of our College High experiences — one for which we are all very grateful.

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Mr. Gordon • — English 12 Mr. Rich — English 10 FACULTY Mrs. Loomis — French 12 Mr. Guillory — French 1 1 Miss Liberatore — French 10