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

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Editor-in-Chief, and Chester Grant, Business Manager. A total of three hundred pages of news and seventy-seven pages of advertisements were printed, with the June Optimist at the top. The June number published eighty pages of good, sound printed matter. The Mystic Pen continued in its work for this term. The Optimist had been increasing in popularity and our exchanges were as favorable, and even more so than before. The cartoons and literary works kept up their good standing. During the eighth year of the publication of The Optimist, with Gcrold Foley, Editor-in-Chief, and John Schott, Business Manager, at the head of the board of editors, a total of three hundred and thirty-four pages of material, and fifty-nine pages of advertisements was published. There were no changes in the departments and the Mystic Pen was again published. Each of the numbers contained the usual editorial by the Editors-in- chief and many artistic cartoons and photographs. The Orient told us what they thought of us in the following manner. Your January issue cer- tainly showed skilful management in all your de- partments. The ninth year proved equally as successful. This year, in nineteen hundred and twenty-two, Frank K. Waxman was placed as Editor-in-chief, and John Grammar, Business Manager, for the first term. I. Bernard Harkavy successfully reared The Optimist for the second term in co-operation with Joseph T. Harrison, Business Manager. This term, due to the graduation of the unknown edi- tor. the Mystic Pen was discontinued and a col- umn known as Our Library, which contained advice as to what books to read, was put in its place. The tenth year was ushered in with William Zimmer as premier and Norman Levy as chan- cellor of exchequer. Since this Anniversary Num- ber is among the monthly issues of Tiif. Optimist, this year bills to be the best of all its years of publication. Our First Faculty 26

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'SsTl THE OPTIMIST SOUTH SIDE’S FUTURE This article, by R. B. Menkes, is taken from the first Optimist, November, 1913. Hail to the future of South Side High School! A glorious future is indeed in store for the noble institution of learning which is a gift of the citizens of Newark to their posterity. We expect South Side to take the lead in every field! And why not? Have we not every impetus to urge us forward to success? With so capable a faculty, so co-operative a student body, such inspiring surroundings and environ- ments, success is inevitable. South Side shall excel in every branch of school life! First she shall achieve great re- nown for her high standard of scholarship; the school shall send out into the world scholars who shall attain great fame for their Alma Mater and for themselves, her name will become a universal password for athletics, under the guidance of our capable instructors, the standard of her organizations shall be recog- nized by the highest authorities to be the best, she shall enjoy literary circles, athletic clubs, de- bating societies, dramatic associations and other clubs that eventually rise with the growth of an institution, she shall have developed a spirit of democracy; her young men shall be of a chivalrous type—her young women of a gentle learning spirit. Our principal. Dr. Kennedy, will become famous as the leader of a model institution of learning, our teachers shall attain renown, their names shall be bywords of great minds, her student body shall be one of perfect harmony and concord—they shall achieve the highest standards and become the best citizens. Our students, when they are graduated, shall have become well acquainted with the meaning of Obedience, Truth. Honor and Perseverance. South Side will succeed—that is inevitable. Every knowing person of our city expects to see our school soar high above the older ones. We have every means of accomplishing success. So here's to the future of South Side High School! Long may the Gold and Black wave! May all her ambitions be realized! Success to South Side! • • • We are proud to say that the history of our Alma Mater has shown that the prophecy of the writer of the above article really has come true. South Side's standard of scholarship is higher than that of any school in the city and this high standard has gained renown for us all over the country. We arc known all over the metropol- itan district for our athletics, and we are ad- mired by every school in the United States for the character and ability of our graduates. Summer By Hclga Feddersen Summer has come, that season so dear, A little bird told me so; The berries and flowers are blooming. I hear And the rose-buds have started to grow; Blue and cloudless is the sky; The sun shines down on the earth. The daisy carries her head so high While the sweet red clover is filled with mirth At the pranks of her buds as the wind rushes by. The apple tree proudly displays her small fruits Which day by day more beautiful grow. And the little brook gurgles and laughs with the roots. And mothers the seeds which the farmers sow; Shy violets peep from under green leaves. The pansies flirt with the sun; Gay swallows are building nests in the eaves. While the butterflies have no end of fun Flying on bright wings which cheer everyone. SHI IlftV I You tveg UM 10 «N urn; Mt; no now rip ou tvtR an r» to us«m ? 28