Weequahic High School - Legend Yearbook (Newark, NJ)

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•mvf Lunch: The lunch period, to Weequahic’s students, is really the only breathing-space encountered during the day. The lunchroom is the one place in the school where one can, within limits, do as he chooses. The informality of sitting down at a long communal table, talking with a full mouth, and trying to finish next period’s homework simultaneously can lead to the formation of lasting friendships (not to mention acute gastric disorders). Under the Lunchroom Exodus” plan, which was born and buried during the last two years at Weequahic, students used to be able to eat lunch in school, and then walk outside for a coke, and a breath of fresh air (and a cigarette?) Now that the plan has been discontinued, any student wishing to leave the building during his lunch period must go to his locker before the period starts, get his coat, leave the building, and not return before the beginning of the next period. There are some Weequahic students who haven’t seen the inside of the lunchroom since their first few days as freshmen. These students can usually be observed, from the beginning of fourth period to the end of seventh, hovering around the entrance or strolling in groups of two and three along Chancellor Avenue. 22

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Dorothea E. August Marion Wohlfarth Regina K. Mazaica Frances Judson Meyer W. Schwartz Leonard E. Watson Frances Valente Harriet Shapiro

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They also make their presence felt at the pizzeria, the Bunny Hop, Halem's and the Dairy Queen. Sometimes, when the pressure of academic responsibilities mount up, students will forego their lunch periods in favor of undone chem labs, last-minute cramming sessions, or unavoidable make-up tests. To most of Weequahic’s students, however, the lunch period is the one time of the school day when they can, if they may, relax. WEEKLY MENU The price of a subsidized school lunch is $.37 Hot Lunches Cold Lunches Monday Chicken Noodle Soup Creole Sausages Potatoes and peas Bread and Butter Milk and Dessert Tuna Sandwich Salad Fruit Milk and Dessert Tuesday Tomato-Rice Soup Hamburger on Roll Mashed Potatoes Buttered Carrots Bread and Butter Milk and Dessert Egg Salad Sandwich or Pastrami Sandwich Fruit Milk and Dessert 23