East Rockaway High School - Rock Yearbook (East Rockaway, NY)

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EAST ROCKAWAY PUBLIC SCHOOLS EAST ROCKAWAY, N.Y. NEVIN L. JUDD Principal - Rhame Avenue School WILLIAM K. LOUIS Superintendent WILLIAM A. BERG Principal - High School JOHN A. RUCKDESCHEL Principal - Centre Avenue School M. DOUGLAS SACKMAN Director - Pupil Personnel High School Dear Seniors: Like many previous graduating classes, if the Class of 1967 were to recall world events during the relatively short life-times of its. members, it would be evident that your school years were also associated with some trying times and unusual developments. There is little doubt that your schooling has been influenced by Civil Rights issues, satellites and improved communications, wars, inflation, desegregation, expanding federal powers and a host of other changes. New aid-to-education laws alone, on state and federal levels, have affected schools and classrooms throughout the nation; they have affected you at Bast Rockaway High by improving your educational opportunities. We are hopeful that this new interest and investment in your future has added up to an increased awareness of human dignity, to rational thinking, to a creative spirit, to self-reliance, to economic competence and to informed citizenship. Of course, during all this time, you have been persuaded and guided toward these same goals by your loving and concerned parents. These combined school and parental efforts in your behalf have now brought you to a stage where you are almost completely on your own. Having helped you to grow, we reluctantly bid you farewell. Having shared your hopes and dreams, we happily wish you good fortune as you strike out for yourselves. Sincerely, William A. Berg Principal IX

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ADMINISTRA TION MR. WILLIAM BERG Combine a friendly, warm nature with a sincere dedication to his job and students, and the result is our principal, Mr. Berg. He is always striving to improve our school in its physical appearance and to create an educational atmosphere. Providing our teachers and us with the best environment and newest equipment, he is truly concerned for each student and is always attempting to uphold the traditions on which East Rockaway is based. MR. DOUGLAS SACKMAN Familiar to all students as the Director of Pupil Personnel, Mr. Sackman is the capable man handling various problems from assisting college bound students to conducting Junior High assemblies. His patient manner and diligent work, although often unrewarded, is nevertheless vital to the smooth running of our school. MR. HENRY FREUND Although missed in the athletic department, Mr. Freund has more than adequately adapted to the role of Dean of Students. During this past year he has come to be respected and admired by all for his fine job where his qualities of sincere understanding and firm discipline are exhibited through a congenial personality. VIII

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SPECIAL MRS. IRIS HALFORD Mrs. Halford is our own Madame DeFarge, Julius Caesar, and Cress Delahanty rolled into one. She is a person full of charm, wit and a personality as vibrant and alive as the above mentioned characters which she enlightened us to in sophomore English. Energetic both in and out of the classroom, Mrs. Halford spices her class with a bit of the unexpected that makes everything worthwhile and enjoyable. Conducting the class with a gracious manner, she has gained the respect she deserves from all of her students. Outside the classroom we can count on her as a loyal friend, one who is always willing to help. She is always there with a smile and words of encouragement. Not only has she molded the character of many individuals, but she has influenced our class as a whole. Therefore, with the greatest of gratitude, we pay this tribute to one of the finest teachers we know— Mrs. Halford. . . . Educational Relations MR. GERALD HONIG As every class feels indebted to the one teacher who helps them produce their final contribution as high school students, so, we, the members of the class of 1967, feel Mr. Ilonig deserves our special thanks for his dedicated assistance in the production of the 1967 ROCK. Throughout this past year he has reassured us when all seemed lost, advised us wisely when we were in doubt, and brightened up many black days with a sense of humor all his own. Always willing to listen to and understand the many problems that we have been confronted with, he has stimulated us to work toward successfully achieving the goal we sought. Dedicated not only as the adviser of the ROCK and the National Honor Society, but as a teacher, Mr. Honig deserves the respect of all his students. He is always willing to go along with a practical joke whether it be on him or on one of his students. Through this quotation he has enlightened us to the practical uses of math. “ His allergy to Math is definite, 1 lis teacher often grades him “F” in it. That censure seems a trifle drastic. In view, each spring, of his fantastic Omniscience, on a daily basis. Of figures in the pennant races For these contributions and many more we give Mr. Honig our special thanks, for without his helping hand we would never have emerged successfully with a yearbook of which we can be proud.