Weehawken High School - Zenith Yearbook (Weehawken, NJ)

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MISS MILDRLD POXVL LL Born IH Nermont Xllss Powell I9 alxxays happx to talk of her natlxe Xexx Lngland 'I here she attended high school and college at the Um XCISIIW of Xermont She recerxecl her Xlasrers degree at Columbna The hrst prmexpal of the hlgh school 1n 1976 xx rote to her xn Nexx l ngland x here she had taught PFCXIUUSIX He asked her to come to XX eehaxx ken xx here she has ton tmued hcr career as a soclal studles mstructor for these mam xears -Xt present she 15 faculty adx 1ser ot the junior Class a far from nexx expe rlence as she has formerly adxlsed both juniors and Senlors and has been connected xxlth hxstory and debatlng clubs Xllss Poxx ell ns en doxxed xxxth a xxonderful sense of humor and 19 a greatlx hked and re pected person x it X x Z? i s Q 111'-'Q .HQ X X - o 5-L-. 9 S. jf MR JOHNI SARAFIAW' Another natrxe New Englander Nlr Sarafian came to lNexv Xork as a chlld and contlnued h1s educatxon nn the publlc schools of the b1g clty Later he attended Cornell Dela xxare Unlon Nlontclalr NexvXork Lmx CISIIY and xx as axx arded hls -X B and Nl -X degrees from Colum bla He entered the XVeehaxvken sy stem rn 1926 and smce has taught mathematrcs brology chemxstry general scrence and physxcs Mr Sarafian s exploratlons 1nto the field f photography have become one of h1s mam lnterests and hrs expert adx xce ns xx rselx meted out to mem bers of the Photographx Club of xx hxch he lb adxlser Another of hls hobbles mus1e was pursued when he xx as conductor of the orchestra at the old hxgh school Hrs travels ox er the Unlted States haxe nexer faxled to brmg h1m back to VVee haxx lxen, xx here we hope he xvrll re mam for many years to come .v,',: . 4 , '- W i- if t ' S . L - six ' X s 'M ' l ' ' Y 1 ,Ill A .X X .v ,x' ' If V B 5 X .V v Y' 5. A I 1 ll A ,153 . V S . Q 1' i Q i.,4f 1' , ,' . . A, Y l S N- - I ffflsa I U 'W x XXQ I Q I ly , f ,,'tN 1, I f fn, 'gr' ' g fl I I ' ' . l gl S . A .4 f XXX lx f A '- - 7 . 1' ' - . . . I , I xx ' , ' ,A ' ,lv Y 7 Q , 1 Y .v '. ' Y 1 Y . r, qi. A - y U '. , if ' I , V , ' 5. . . 4 4 ' K, ,g l If 1 D- , ' . XX ' X I l ' ' Q I ,Y 1 xx vvku 'x 'l . ' so - 'Z . A A ' x, f' :ff ,v r ' ' -

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MR G HAROLDBILLINGI-IAM In September of 1924 Mr Bill mgham entered the XVeehawken school system As the only male teacher he xx as prnileged to sit on the platform with the Board of Lducation at graduations A student of the Umtcd States lNax y Officers Training School in 1918 and the recipient of his BS degree from the Unix ersity of New Hampshire Market New Hampshire Evening School while stlll a Senior ln col lege' Mr Billmgham has had many avocations throughout his life and has achiexed many honors along with them He has been college checker champ Lastern Inter Col legiate tu o mile championship ree ord holder captain of the unde feated New Lngland Championship Cross country team and Hudson County table tennis champion to mention but a few of his many ac comphshments He has also had over eighty articles on engineering subiects published VVhen asked about his special hobbies a broad grin lights his face and he proceeds to mention his three children X MISS MARGARET HOGAN Though at present Supervisor of Instruction, Miss Hogan's long career at XVeehawken has also in- cluded the teaching of the commer- cial subiects. She attended New York University and there received her BS. and M.A. degrees. XVhile teaching at Kearny, New jersey, which at that time xx as also a new school 'Xllss Hogan xx as observed by Mr johnson the principal of our old school She thought he was a book salesman but at the end of the day he made known the fact that he had come to offer her a position at W eehawken During her sabbatical leave she has traveled to Canada Mexico and to various parts of the United States In 1941 a family illness prex ented hcr from completing a trip to I-Iawau If she had been able to leave conditions at that time might have prexented her return I-Ier flou er garden one of her faxorite pastimes seems a poor comparison with her own sunny cheerful personality .9-fr? ,- ff .J ,I . ' buf I I' . 1 . ' ' 1 ' . . , X . . H I f . . . t I ' f he became principal of the New X 'X . . 1,45 l : , - I Q. , I ' X 8

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Pist Superintendents of School F. A. Balch ......... 26-26 Ravmond L. Pinkham -- 28-32 kenneth F. Woodbury -- 3 3-44 XVilfred H. Graves -- 44-48 Urban VV. Chase .... -18- ' it School The lVeehawken high school svstem is now look- ing back on a quarter of a centurv-25 vears of progress-the result of which is our own Alma Klater. Our educational unit has come a long wav from a one-room wooden schoolhouse to the one-million dollar architectural achievement that is XVeehawken High School todav. Until 1926, when VVoodrow XVilson school was opened. there was no high school in XVeehawken. Those students who wished to supplement their granmiar school educations were forced to travel to Hoboken, or, later, to the alreadv well-filled Union Citv high schools. The new school solved the problem temporarilv. but it soon became evi- dent that something would have to be done to alleviate the problem created bv the growing population and the ever-increasing demand for education. lt was proposed that a new high school be built on the site then occupied bv Hamilton School No. 3, but there were several serious di11 iculties to be overcome. Many of the VVeehawken tax- pavers. goaded on bv political leaders, declared the proposed school an extravagant and unneces- sarv expenditure of public funds, stating that the old school with some reasonable improvements would sufice. Despite heated controversies. the Presidents of the Weehawken 1926- Thomas E. Coyle 26-28 H. Frank Eisinger 29-30 Edward Hollander 30-31 Henry Paul 31-32 WVil1iam Diebold . 32-33