Paramus High School - Delphian Yearbook (Paramus, NJ)

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Motif Makers Mr. John N. Montemurro President of the Board of Education Mr. Lincoln Koenig Director of Maintenance Mr. Wesley Van Pelt School Business Administrator-Secretary Mr. Ralph Mele Administrative Assistant Personnel and Administrative Services

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Board of Education • • • Back Row: Mr. Gregory P. Cinnella, Mr. Kenneth R. Arnold, Mr. Harvey W. Schaffer, Mrs. Irma Leeds, Mr. Joseph Cipolla, Mr. William H. Schmidt, Mr. Robert J. Superti. Front Row: Mr. Paul A. Shelly, Superintendent of Schools, Mr. Wesley Van Pelt, Business Administrator-Secretary, Mr. John N. Montemurro, President of the Board of Education, Mr. Milton Katine, Vice-President of the Board of Education. Concern for our educational system and the corresponding costs to the taxpayers are of growing importance to more and more people every year. Keeping in tune with these demands, the members of our Board of Education spend approximately one hundred nights each year in search of the best possible education within the com¬ munity’s ability to pay. Nights are long and the problems are often complex. Board trustees join with the school staff, the community, and the students in continuing the study of the nature, value, and direction of contemporary education in our society. This is all done so that they may be aware of, and help to bring about, any needed changes within our school system. Sometimes thankless, and often frustrating, but truly representative democracy at its best, is the job of the Board of Education trustee. 8

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Our Three Spinners and Dyers of Greatness Mr. Paul Shelly Superintendent of Schools Public service is a sacred trust. I am committed to that belief. As your Super¬ intendent of Schools for the past two years I have grown to love and respect the com¬ munity of Paramus, its school system and its other fine institutions. We live in a day and age when people expect more from their institutions than ever before . . . and rightly so. Maybe the ad that says, “Expect more and you’ll get more” isn’t so far from wrong. When this expectancy, however, takes the form of withering criticism, it has one effect. When it takes the form of con¬ structive criticism, it has another effect. John Gardner put it this way. He said that our most important institutions are caught in a cross-fire between those who are “un¬ loving critics” and those who are “uncrit¬ ical lovers.” I urge you to be neither of these as you make your way in the main¬ stream of our society. I urge you to be a “critical lover” of the institutions of our democratic society, critical of their weak¬ nesses but equally committed to their im¬ provement. I can charge you with no higher goal. — Paul A. Shelly Superintendent of Schools Dr. William V. Dunn Assistant Superintendent of Schools for General Administration This year — 1973 — will be remembered by all of us because of the end of the United States in¬ volvement in Vietnam and the revival of hope that peaceful solutions to problems may become a social reality. For high school graduates, in these times the de¬ cision-making process can become more difficult. Economic conditions, political concepts and social customs will be changing. The purposes of American society will be subject to re-examination. Young people in the last ten years of turmoil have made bold attempts to shape society toward lofty pur¬ poses. The sincerity of the young and their willing¬ ness to intelligently govern their actions will either result in significant progress or deterioration in human relationships. It is my hope that the educational program of the Paramus Public Schools and the other forces which influence an individual’s personal development (pa¬ rental guidance, religious orientation, community environment) have provided each graduate with sufficient background and personal strength to make decisions which will contribute to individual fulfillment and a higher social order. — Dr. William V. Dunn Assistant Superintendent for General Administration Mr. Harry A. Galinsky Assistant Superintendent of Schools for Secondary Education My role as Assistant Superintendent of Secondary Education makes me re¬ sponsible for curriculum, budget, staff¬ ing, and recommendations for new pro¬ grams in grades 7-12. I am committed to the concept of academic excellence, balanced with con¬ cern for the individual. I believe that the schools are designed for the stu¬ dents and programs must be flexible enough to meet the needs created by a rapidly changing society. I will continue to work with all seg¬ ments of the school community — students, faculty, administration and parents to develop goals and plans to maintain the leadership position of the Paramus Public Schools. — Harry Galinsky Assistant Superintendent of Secondary Education 10