East Side High School - Torch Yearbook (Newark, NJ)

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£a»t Side High School Torch 1986 Volume 127

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1911 1986: THEN AND NOW On November T5.1908. a resolution was proposed for the building of East Side High School. The school was organized and opened on the first of February in 1911 for its first term, at the Market Street Annex. The following April the school moved to the new building with an enrollment of about 450 students coming from all parts of the city. Now. 75 years later. East Side has an enrollment of approximately 1600 along with three buildings. Courses of study offered in 1911 were the General or Classical, which prepared the students for college; the Commercial for those students interested in a business career; the Technical, which helped prepare boys for industries and trained girls in the arts and sciences for the purpose of practical home-keeping. Today. East Side has become very diversified in its course offerings. No longer are girls given only cooking courses in order to become better homemakers. Today, every student has a chance to select what courses they wish to study in addition to a required program. Another area which varies greatly with the past is athletics. There was a time when the only physical activities available for girls to participate in was basketball. field hockey, and dance class, while the boys were involved in baseball, football, hockey, basketball. track and tennis. Now. along with the other li Then And Now Mr Jjmrt Kennedy. 1 1 Principal. Ea t Side High School Mr Robert Wuiciak and Mr leonor Outor current Ea t Side Principal .