South Side High School - Optimist Yearbook (Newark, NJ)

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Wl THE OPTIMIST | the Editor-in-Chief of the Optimist are all Four A’s, while the Demosthenes of the school is the President of the Seniors. And now we are ready to graduate, South Side’s first graduating class. Of the original two hundred or so, only eighty- eight remain. The four years of happi- ness are over—for they have been years of joy. The clouds are all forgotten, the petty cares no longer trouble us. Upon looking back we see only a broad, bright. shining road of acquaintance met and friendship formed. Now comes the part- ing. The vistas of the future lie open, stretching out far away. But may there be many reunions! May the days spent at South Side be always remembered with pleasure. And may our motto never be forgotten, “Non Nobis Solum” (Not for ourselves alone). PERICLES E. BELFATTO. Honor Roll, 4A Room 50 Edna Green Estelle Gelb Esther Goldberg Gladys Kaiser Lydia M. Koehler Claire Newman Edna Rech Jeanette Residor Helen Miller Room 109 Pearl Barlow Pericles Belfatto Emilie Kuebler Marjorie Marcy Elizabeth Shoyer Minet Singer Mortimer Weiss Jeanette Weisbrod Room 57 Louise Ackerman Marion Bisson Ruth Clairville Madeline Ellerman George Kalnitzky Morris Wosnitzer Abraham Zucker 4B Room 50 Walter Makosky Room 215 William Grogan Margaret O’Connor 3A Room 54 Celia Berlin Room 214 Edson Gould Estelle Greenfield Room 105 Kathryn DuPont Sidney Silverstein Anna Weidenbaum Room 207 Dorothy Anker Helen Finley Sadie Fisher Lillian Kerstein Gertrude Ratner April, 1917 3B Room 53 Edna Meliser Margaret Schneeweiss Helen Simon Room 110 Ellen Schultz Gertrude Smith Room 56 Florence Minnick Minna Stahl Room 104 Michael Alenick William Carson Isadore Flax Hans Volk Room 52 Frieda Lagner Jennie Ogareck Harry Polinsky 2A Room 212 Winifred Jackson Ida Packer Frank Zwigard Milton Richman Room 205 Muriel Hedden Ruth Schrenzel Beatrice Weiss Pearl Zucker Room 100 Freda Hauptman Carolyn Robinson Emma Weinstein Room 201 Madeline Bisson Idabelle Berger Sara Kaolan Room 113 Herbert Deininger Louis Fried Malcolm Mcllroy Carl Menier Harry Haines Room 58 Gertrude Braun Anita Faatz Eleanor Glucksman 2B Room 108 Janet Maclver Room 112 William Krinsky Room 204 Florence Danzis Room 103 Beatrice Crawford Ralph Jacobson Room 211 Robert Nolan Esther Farber Room 4 Max Friedman Albert Oliner Abe Spiegel 1A Room 206 Jerrold Stern Room 102 Ruth Levias Emma Volk Room 114 Fanny Finger Helaine Myers Winifred Springer Room 60 Gertrude Lachenauer Room 55 Mildred Bowie Anna Cluesman Charles Finkel Carl Kepplar Samuel Rosen Room 106 William Feinstein Emma Shoyer IB Room 51 Mary Curcio Pauline Curcio Bayard VanRenselaer Reuben Zimmerman Room 216 Pearl Resh Room 3 Raymond Boardman Morris Finkelstein Clara Held Room 210 Helen Clark Mabel Duesel Room 111 Marion Bergner Bertha Lantz Meta Rosenberg Abe Salbin Room 209 Dinah Gash Room 208 Pauline Beller Beatrice Eichhorn Viola Keyl Mildred Sinn Room 107 Rose Hahn Mildred Wildman I’M NOT fftEf WED TO-DAY! BELFATTO « rri never GOING TO HAKE ANOTHER SPEECH . GROEL THINGS THAT WILL NEVER HAPPEN 17

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Wl THE OPTIMIST The Class History thirteen, the first Freshman class, numbering nearly two hundred, entered the South Side High School. How proud each one felt! What did it matter that the South Side building had not as yet been completed? Were they not all High School students? Part of the class took up its studies in the old Normal School on Washington street, while the rest went to East Side, although classed as “South Siders.” In East Side High, under a splendid corps of teachers, Mr. James A. Hulse, Miss M. M. Hoppen, Miss Denton and Mr. Lewin, the class soon sat down to business. But within a few months it packed up its luggage and moved into the building on Johnson avenue, which had been made ready for occupancy. Then the school began to organize in earnest. Innovations in the school’s man- agement marked the progress of the class as well as that of the school. One of these was the establishing of a system, called the General Organization, which is not only the pride of South Side, but also the envy of all “frat-laden” schools. Then there was a system of “class ad- visors,” a system which was of great ben- efit to both pupils and teachers. It was the good fortune of the class to have as “class advisor” Mr. Hulse. As during the first year the develop- ment of the class had kept pace with that of the school, so it was during the sec- ond year. The affairs of both the class and the school began to take a definite shape, and to point to a definite end. By the middle of the second year things be- gan to move smoothly. During this year the class suffered a deep sorrow, for Mr. Hulse died in April, 1915. Not only the class but the school, not only the school, but Newark, lost a friend when they lost Mr. Hulse. He was loved by everyone, for it can be said that he devoted all his energy, all his interest to making this world a better world for all. Each member of the class felt this loss a personal one, and when the ques- tion of giving a gift to the school was taken up, it was voted unanimously that the gift should be a large picture of its friend. During the last two years of this course the unity of the class was preserved. Mr. Wakefield became class advisor, succeed- ing Mr. Hulse. The fact that, as far as it was possible, the teachers went on with their classes, tended toward unity among the students. But only Miss Hoppen has been with us since we began as Fresh- men, four years ago. It was she who made us feel at home when we were un- accustomed to the new conditions. It is she to whom we have so often gone for advice. One seldom speaks of our class without mentioning Miss Hoppen. During the third and fourth years there were many social events; chief among these were the Three A Social at which the class met informally for the first time, the Four B Social in December, 1916, held in honor of the class of January, 1917, and the social held by the class of Jan- uary, 1918, in honor of the present grad- uating class. While the class has had many other interests, still it has not neglected ath- letics. Some of its members have made ’varsity teams, while in inter-class ath- letics, it has a remarkable record. The boys have won the Boys’ Basketball championship and the’ girls the Girls Basketball championship of the school. The class has also had great influence in school politics. The President and Secretary of the General Organization, 16

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 7 THE OPTIMIST The Class GER and excited we finally reached the temple of the Sibyl. Hither we had come to find out how we might learn the future of our class- mates. After we had explained our mis- sion the Sibyl answered: “About five minutes' walk directly east- ward will bring you to an immense grove. In that grove there is a tree containing one golden branch. This you must find and pluck off in order that you may learn what you so desire.” After rendering our thanks to the Sibyl we rushed out of the temple and east- ward. It was not long before we reached the grove and started through it. No- where in sight was any golden bough. On and on we walked. All of a sudden two caterpillars fell from a tree onto my shoulders. I looked upward and there hidden amongst the leaves was a glitter- ing of gold. Quickly I parted the boughs and plucked that so desired branch. “I have it! the golden branch, covered with leaves!” I cried. “But what are we to do with it? How can this help us?” My companion, who was now eagerly examining the bough, calmly said, “Use your eyes.” Sure enough. On every leaf was a name and a few words. My com- panion pulled off one leaf: I plucked an- other. Immediately two others took their place. “Listen to this,” she exclaimed. “Here are at least two patriotic members of the class. Pericles Belfatto is to be a colonel and Gladys a Red Cross nurse.” “I bet over half the class will be fol- lowing their example before long, but I suppose, first of all, we will see them started in their respective professions,” I remarked. Then, as I read my leaf, I ex- claimed: “Look at this! These must be the speakers of the class! Fred Groel, Prophecy a distinguished street vender of patent medicine. Harry Levin a lawyer! Well, I hope he makes as good use of his mouth in that line as he has in school. Morris Wosnitzer a stump speaker. Marion Bis- son a lecturer on pronunciation and clear speaking, and Louis Schrenzel a ventrilo- quist. Oh! I wonder if he’ll go around with a doll the way the men do down at the shore! What fun! I hope------” “Oh! stop talking so much,” my com panion chided; “and let me tell you what this leaf says. Ella Mabus is to be the head buyer for a large department store owned by Alexander Goldfinger. And, oh! imagine it! Bess Phillipson is to be the demonstrator for a new corn cure just on the market, and Mortimer Weiss a floor- walker. I wonder in what city that fa- mous store will be.” “I don’t know and don’t care,” I an- swered. “Here’s something better yet. Petite little Julia Howell is to be an equestrienne in Barnum Bailey’s, and Abram Zieger an acrobat. Don’t you worry. I’ll never miss the circus when it comes to town.” “Oh! but we have real actors also among our class. Sadie Felzenstein as a comedienne and William Rabinowitz as a tragedian certainly will make the class of 1917 famous.” My! But here are two lucky boys. William Margerum and Edward Hyman will some day both be worth millions.” “But,” added my companion, “they will be kind-hearted, for this leaf tells me they will establish an orphanage and Cecile Hecht is to have charge of it.” “Guess what Sam Waldman is to be— a hypnotist. And Gustave Goldstein a magician. Oh! I hope they’ll work to- gether. They’d make such a cute couple!” “Why, this class is even represented 18