Weehawken High School - Zenith Yearbook (Weehawken, NJ)

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We’re In The Money Teenagers are often considered to be lazy and unconscious of where their spending money comes from. Students at Weehawken High School do not fit this stereotype. Our students can be found working for their money in many different places in and around Weehawken. They are counterpersons at fast-food restaurants, clerks at foodstores, packers at factories. Amusement centers, pharmacies, and offices also employ Weehawken High's students. Some even have quite unusual jobs; for example, Carl Sass worked as Santa Claus during the Christmas season and Karen Nersesian and David Mulder work as Computer Operators. Most students go home as soon as the 2:35 bell rings, but Ana Garcia and Mary Oakley work in school as secretaries. Seniors Rich Karabin, Lois Dow, Ann Marie Dorian and Kati Gaulkin all work at the Marriot Service area on the Turnpike. They work as waitresses, cashiers, cooks and utility persons. McDonald's and Burger King are favorite places of employment for students. Seniors Monica Clavareza and Eileen Cardenas work as cashiers. Amtex Ampex Inc. (a Weehawken com- pany) employs more students than any other company in the area. Seniors Lazara Hernandez, Eileen McLaughlin, Rosie Gaccione, and Silvia Hector are a few who work as factory packers. It's a tough job to keep grades up and to be a good employee at the same time. The students who work and go to school often have very little free time to hang out, waste time or be rowdy because they are always on the job. ABOVE RIGHT: Senior Ana Garcia intently punches out a letter in Mr Wisniewski's office. BELOW RIGHT: Mary Oakley gets a kick out of playing post office as she routes faculty mail as port of her office job. 8 Student Life

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LEFT: The Liberty lunchroom is always particularly crowOed on rainy and or freezing day CENTER LEFT: Soccer players and football players congregate by the Eldorado Place entrance BELOW: High spirits are evident in the crowded corridors. BOTTOM LEFT: Outside Minner's. a popular student hangout. Jimmy Terlizzi and Anna Szczyradiowski bask in the autumn sun. I I ey, wait for me! Did L-l you do Urchuck's I homework? Oh stop! Spare it! Snob! Don't you say hi anymore? I'm late again-sigh! Practice? In the rain? Did you hear that song ...? School life in Weehawken is a mirror of friends, activities, favorite hangouts, and everyday hall and classroom conversation. What makes the school unique are the numerous activities outside the school halls. Many of the kids work after school, while others hangout, study, or just get involved in sports, squads and clubs. One of the best things about a small school like Weehawken is the fact that it is very friendly. Often you may see students talking, giggling, yelling, hugging, even kissing in the hallways. Students know they can count on each other to talk to. go places with and just pal around with. Students at Weehawken love to have fun, so weekends are the highlight of the week. Monday morning is a different story, however, when 540 bodies sit in comas until Tuesday afternoon. The rest of the week passes rather quickly except for one day- Friday, the longest day of the week. When 2:35 finally arrives both students and faculty rush out en masse to face a new week- end. Student Life 7

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First Injun Fins Esccrts Queen TOP: Homecoming King and Queen Tommy Englese and Tricia Quldor ABOVE: (clockwise from top left): 1st runners-up, Ruma Fernandez and Yadira Rivera. 2nd runners-up. Mike Oebari, (not pictured, Karen Hamer). 4th runners-up. Pepe Mansi and Joan Michkowski; 3rd runners-up. Frank Ortiz and Sylvia Enriquez. ABOVE: Talented Susan Hllferty enjoys the music, dancing in a whole new style. The traditional event of electing a football queen became an unforgettable experience for students this year. The student body not only elected a queen, but also the first football king in our school's history. Now even more than before, students awaited the Thanksgiving festivities eager to find out who the king and queen of '81 would be. The pep rally started things rolling when senior members of all squads were presented with roses and were escorted around the gym by soccer and football players. Finally, at the dance held that night, the king and queen. Tommy Englese and Tricia Quidor, were crowned. The four couples of runners-up were announced by ex- Student Council president Jim Sabato. It turned out that the idea of a king, which originated with the Student Council, was a great success and will probably be continued in the future, Homecoming King and Queen 9