Weequahic High School - Legend Yearbook (Newark, NJ)

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Ofltc of tkm Principal To The Class of June, 1965: Your class leaves Weequahic High School In the era of the question nark. How can we proviso for the need3 of the peoole bom at the time of our great population cxolosion? How do we eliminate poverty forever from American life? Can we keeo the world at oeace and eliminate the oossibility of humanity destroying itself in a nuclear war? What steos must we undertake to guarantee that the disgrace of racial inequality is wined out of our life forever? How do we meet the challenges of automation and the employment problems that come from it? How ranidly can we build the schools and colleges we need and staff then with capable teachers? What shall we do about the complex problems of transportation in our crowded communities? What will we find and how far will we go in outer space? How do we preserve our ever-shrinking natural resources? Can we produce a slumles3 community? Will we find the cures for cancer, heart disease, and many other human scourges? These auestlonsand many others need answers - they demand solutions. We hope tiiat at Weequahic you have learned to recognize the questions. We would like to believe that we have stimulated you to want to play a part in finding the answers. We are sure that we have tried to show you, that each individual has it within his ability to contribute in some degree to achieving their solutions. In the yearn to come, when you browse through this record of your class, you will see the f3ces of many who will distinguish themselves in the search for the answers.

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Weequahic Faculty January. 1936 How does a high school mean? Of the seventy-six teachers who taught at Weequahic when it opened its doors in 1933. eight are still here today: Mrs. R. Blum. Miss C Bowerman. Mrs. B. Butler, Mrs. E. Glucksman. Mrs. R. Jcllinek, Mr. E. Kobetz. Mr H. La Penna. Miss L. Stcinholtz. Miss C. Bowerman. our current Vice Principal, who taught English. Latin and Spanish during her years at Weequahic and who. from September 1953 to February 1956. was Acting Principal, remembers: THE THEN AND NOW In some respects, a comparison between the Weequahic of September 1933 and the school of today might lead one to conclude that really there is nothing new under the sun. We are again housed as we were in our infant years and have been, intermittently, throughout the history of Weequahic. in additional classrooms in the Chancellor building; some freshmen are still trying to locale that mythical swimming pool; among our student body, the girls continue to outnumber the boys; the name Weequahic is still being massacred in mispronunciation! And. until this year, when Barringer captured the crown, we were still the newest and the largest high school in Newark. Most of us like to think we are still the best! Perhaps one of the most striking changes over the years has been the increase in the number of faculty personnel. While the total school enrollment in the year 1964-1965 surpasses that of 1933-1934 by fewer than two hundred pupils, the over all size of the faculty has increased from seventy-six to one hundred twenty-seven members. While we do not regard as ideal our present average class size, students of the present-day Weequahic have the advantage of smaller classes than did their predecessors The positions of Administrative Assistant and Head Counselor were unheard of when Weequahic opened its doors In the intervening years, both the office staff and the laboratory as- sistant corps have doubled in number, while the library force has been tripled. Since September. 1933. Weequahic has had five principals: Max Hertzberg (1933 to 1951). Michael Conovitz (1951 to 1955). Julius Bernstein (1956 to 1959). David E. Weingast (1959 to 1961), and Benjamin Epstein (1961 to date). Among our present teachers, twenty-one arc former Weequahic graduates: Mr. G. Barr. Mr. B. Bauer, Mr. M. Bobrow, Mr. L. Dultz. Miss E. Fmkelstein, Mr. B. Finkelstein, Miss M. Hayes. Mr. G. Krotenberg. Miss M. Lemerman. Miss P. Lemer, Miss F. Markowitz, Mr. S. Ostrin. Mrs. R. Attcrmann Septee, Mrs. C. Tucher Parm. Miss M. Piacente. Mrs. B. Schwartz Rice, Miss T. Schulman, Mr. M. Seltzer. Mrs. G- Barr Sommer. Mr S. Sperber, and Mr. S. Weil. A high school means through a continuing tradition of teaching and administrative excellence. 6

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Ir 'in : Goldbcrs Aiminiuratirt Aitiilanl to the Principal (ok It Jit) Leo Pearl A fling AJminillratirt At-siitJHi to the Principal Of fife Staff Lila Gollin Evelyn TaKinkin Naomi Harish Mildred Franzblau Bert Weiss Florence Rostoff 8