Weaver High School - Portal Yearbook (Hartford, CT)

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NATIONAL HONOR SOCIETY (left to right): Back row— Robert Ellis, Alvin Berkon, Robert Gilman, Joseph Toce, Harvey Remer. Middle row — Rosanne Druckman, Beverley Pattison, Ginette Gosselin, Melvin Kopel, Myrna Nearman, Burton Eisenberg, Peter Katz, Danny Pisetsky, John Aniello. Front row — Simone Goldman, Barbara Strickland, Paul Michaelson, Orlando Ferreira, Gale Nussbaum, Paula Slutsky, Arnold Segal, Joyce Siegel, Allan Adoff, Shirley Goldstein. Front — Susan Goldman. HONOR SOCIETY What a bunch of eggheads!” I’ll bet they do n’t do anything but study.” Brains, brains, brains.” Is that the Honor Society at Weaver? Emphatically not! Like the rest of Weaverdom, Honor Society members worry about dates, homework, jobs, money, and all the other things that plague young people. They like rock and roll, jazz, sports, the Beatles, and sharp clothes. They’re anxi- ous about the world situation and vitally interested in important issues. Because of this, they brought Robert Dwyer and Paul Kuntz from WTIC to Weaver this winter to recount their recent experiences in Viet Nam, illustrating their talk with fascinating slides. An Honor Society member is alert, sometimes meditative, liable to spurts of joy and depths of depression. But he is also an asset to his school and a potential out- standing citizen of the world. 4 mmmL. si % f •[ Br- . I i Wkt 1 L J 1 E=,J PORTAL EDITORIAL BOARD: Row 1 — Rosanne Druckman, Jonnell Johnson, Ed Kornbrath, Lucille Newson and Eileen Bailey. Row 2 — Susan Kargman, Margie Basch, Susan Goldman, Marshall Milner, and John Aniello (photographer).

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' Steven Guttenplan and Margie Basch at Coun- cil meeting. Alvin Berkon and Robert Gilman. BOYS ' CLUB OFFICERS (from left to right): Gregory Kendall, Vernon Shelton, Vernon Baisden (below), Steven Guttenplan, Michael Graham, Alvin Berkon, Ken Demers and John Smith. BOYS’ CLUB AND GIRLS’ LEAGUE Through the Boys’ Club, Weaver High School re- wards three worthy seniors with two hundred dollar scholarships. The members of the club are the ad- mirable men who buy Boys’ Club membership cards. This species of Beaver peddles pencils in the halls, and cold drinks on the football field in sub-freezing weather. Brrrrrrrr! As officers of one of the most active clubs, the Girls ' League Executive Board meets every week to plan a calendar of interesting social and school events. The school events started with the installation as- sembly at which the 1965-66 officers were installed. Miss Anita Roche and Miss Marie DeBartolo were also installed as honorary members. For a second event, the Annual Christmas Assembly, in which the choir and the orchestra combined their efforts and presented a variety of religious and secular music, was most successful. On the social calendar, the Girls’ League spon- sored a party for their Room Representatives who worked hard to interest many girls in the activities. A new innovation was the Father-Daughter Spaghetti Supper. The Junior Tea and the Girls’ League Ban- quet concluded the activities for the year. GIRLS ' LEAGUE OFFICERS: Back row—Ilona Yousman and Rosemary Minyard. Middle row — Olivia Pittman, Margie Basch and Linnel Nesmith. Front — Miss Jeannine Belisle, (advisor).

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HONOR SOCIETY FOOT- BALL TEAM: Back row — Harvey Remer, Burton Eisen- berg, Joe Toce. Middle row — Robert Ellis, Orlando Fer- reira, John Aniello, Steven Weinberg, and Danny Piset- sky. Front row — Marshall Milner, Michael Graham, Ho- ward Wein. PORTAL As Frankenstein had a creator, Portal ' 66 had an edi- torial board. Unsuspecting as innocent bystanders, we were moved to volunteer our services thinking to make an unselfish contribution to humanity — the yearbook. Maturity is something which is acquired soon after work- ing on a yearbook staff — so is disillusionment, rebell ion and general anarchy, long hours in a darkened school without pizza and softened murmurings of threatened assassinations. Happily we presented a united front when under attack by the opposition, which came quite fre- quently once production began. Throughout the entire tragicomedy, one smile remained unfaltering, one laugh remained uncracked. Our faithful, intrepid advisor, Miss Kathleen Gallagher, remained oblivious to the pressure of exterior forces and each time, as Humpty Dumpty left his wall, she glued him back together. Her smiling face will always remain a cherished memory, locked in the file cabinet along with all the other paraphernalia, and her philosophical advice, Don ' t give up.” While the editorial board struggled with its creativity, the business board squeezed ads out of stones. Early morning conferences in the lobby were followed by hordes of students swarming over merchants and eloquently de- manding that they should have equal advertising rights. Thoroughly overwhelmed and, in some instances even convinced, the ad sales became definite contracts and even more definite payments. The long-suffering and kindly Mr. Alibrio had weathered another yearbook. Back at the layouts, things were becoming a little tense. Only one man, Miss Gallagher, still smiling, announced periodically our deadlines were already passed. In fact every week there was a gentle reminder that we were a little behind. We began to ask the seniors if they really wanted a yearbook or wouldn’t they be content with an eight page supplement to the senior issue of the Lookout. Things were a little indefinite and we contemplated ac- quiring the services of the Caped Crusader and the Boy Wonder. Press nights turned into weekend affairs, and they moved cots into 227. But we work well under a little bit of pressure, one happy family and all that jazz. Miss Gallagher smiles on into the night and you are reading your yearbook. Banzai? We hope everybody is happy. PORTAL BUSINESS BOARD (left to right): Steven Gut- tenplan, Danny Gross, Paula Slutsky, Peter Katz (mana- ger), Jeannette Walker, Nata- lie Boynton, Sharon Farrell, Henry Hurvitz, John Jacco- bucci, Myrna Nearman, Gale Nussbaum, Mark Kurtz and Burton Eisenberg.