Weehawken High School - Zenith Yearbook (Weehawken, NJ)

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The Package ... Unity. The one word which can best describe our small town, our small school community, is unity. There is a special feeling, a special atmosphere within a place where you can gaze about you at any given time and recognize at least one friendly face. There is a comfort which comes with the knowledge that your classmates have come to understand and appreciate your individuality while welcoming you to join them in sharing the learning experience. The friendships established here are lasting ones, the kind which have a quality that can only result from living in a small town — friendships which develop when people have shared their lives, from childhood joys to adolescent pains, friendships which are bonded by good and bad memories and the knowledge that there are people who will always be there in victory or defeat. TOP: Close friendship, as displayed here by Nora Vitulano. Glenda Santiago, Yadira Rivera, and Tricia Quidor, is typical of WHS ABOVE: Sharing their lunch hour. Trina Karabin. Koren Hamer. Rose Gaccione and Susan Applegate finally return to school.

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Inside: . . Weehawken High School Activities Pace 81 Sports Page 99 Ads Page 121 People Page 29 Academics Page 7 5 Closing ... Page 141 Index ... Page 143 Opening ... Page 3 Student Life Page 3 Table of Contents

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... a sift of sharing The low student faculty ratio encourages communication between the pupils and the staff and provides an ease which comes with the resulting familiarity. The teachers are more than willing to roll up their sleeves and work side by side with the students and soon they begin to recognize and appreciate the diversity among them. The relationships which sometimes develop between the students and the faculty are based on mutual trust and concern and at times the students and staff will loosely resemble a family. The courses offered are not always available due to a lack of student enrollment (Weehawken has all of 540 students in four grades). However, the quality of teaching and a great diversity in those which are offered more than makes up for the limited number. The school teams may lack substantial size, but we've developed a certain pride in them and the people on them. Although many times we are quick to complain among ourselves, we are even quicker to come to their defense when students from rival schools knock them. After a game, the general feeling is we won or we lost, since almost everyone who supports a team can claim at least a few friends among its members. Of course, there are disadvantages to having a small team. For instance, playing within a conference where opposing schools have a much larger student population, our teams are greatly out- numbered by most squads. Yet the knowledge of this fact substantially sweetens each victory. Size is never a factor where dreams are concerned, and, as in any other high school, students here share dreams of greatness. Weehawken is a small school with giant aspirations, and many of us strive to achieve in all aspects of life. Though we lack size, we won't sell ourselves short I 4 Opening Student Kim Enriquez and Theresa lampmann work hand in hand to further the learning experience