Weehawken High School - Zenith Yearbook (Weehawken, NJ)

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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

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Ordinary (and Extraordinary) People TOP LEFT: After on hour of lunch, Jose Bacquerizo, George Arango and Frank Ortiz return reluctantly to school. TOP RIGHT: Battling with invading Asteroids. Santos and Francine Fontana take advantage of the new arcade one block from school. ABOVE: Robert Mendez is first in line for hot lunch on a cold day RIGHT: A rare Occasion. Danny Hogan. Mike DeBari and Pepe Manso all look positively spiffy 6 Student Life