West Essex High School - Milestone Yearbook (North Caldwell, NJ)

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STerIing Through ond Through . . . is The only woy To de- scribe Wesi Essex Senior High School on iTs silver onniversdry. Anniversories ore o Time for looking bcrck, d chdnce for refIecTion on whoT Time hos wroughT. In Twenly-five yeors, The size of The sTudenT body, The size of The focully ond The number of courses offered hos grown Tremendously. WesT Essex hos ochieved The disTincTion of being one of The Top high schools in New Jersey in boTh ocodemics ond sporls. AI- Though we ore now con- sTonTly looking Towdrds The fuTure, cherished memories will olwoys Tronscend Through Time. Below A 1960 crchilecfs concepluol drdwing of Wesl Essex Senior Right An oeriol phoiogroph Token in Februory,1985,ofboThThe senior ond Junior high schoo s,

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I-IOVV IT ALL BEGAN . . . The history of West Essex Senior High School begon in the fdll of 1951 when students from the District - Coldwell Township fnow Foirfieldl, Essex Fells, North Coldwell, Roselond - were occepted by Coldwell High School on o sending-receiving bdsis. lt soon become oppdrent thot other fdcilities would hdve to be found to serve the future educdtiondl needs of the dred. Rutgers University Extension Service, in 1956, suggested the fomwdtion of d regiondl school district for grddes 7-12 for Cold- well Township, Essex Fells, North Coldwell, dnd Roselond. Subse- quently in June, 1957, eoch of the four towns oppointed two citizens to serve on o study committee with the dssistonce of Dr. Willidm S. Twichell, then the Essex County Superintendent of Schools. The study committee recommended thot d referendum be held in the four towns to seek the opprovdl ofthe voters concem- ing the formdtion of o regiondl school district. By December, 1957, the referendum wds possed. The first Regionol Bodrd of Educotion wos elected by the voters in Februory, 1958, with Wolloce S. Jones of Essex Fells ds its PEP AND SPIRIT: Origlnol Wessex cheerleaders proudly display their new uniforms. 8 first president. ln July, 1958, voters outhorized S290,000 for d 73-dcre site, of which 60 dcres ldy in North Coldwell ond 13 in Coldwell Township. At this time, the Bodrd selected Dr. Wdlter D. Stille for the position of superintendent ond Dr. Rdymond lvl. Trdvis os ossistont superintendent of schools in chdrge of business offdirs. The Boord retdined Englehdrdt, Englehdrdt, Legett, ond Cor- nell ds educdtionol consultdnts ond Ddvid Ludlow ds orchltect. ln dddition, on December9, 1958, voters dpproved o 34,495,600 bond issue to findnce the building, This bond issue wds pdid off in full in 1984. Throughout 1959. detdiled plons were drown up for the new school building. Much time wds lost over d drdwn-out disdgree- ment ds to whether the school should be heoted by electricity or oil. By d 5-4 vote, loter upheld in court, the Boord of Educdtion fdvored electricity. lt wos decided ot the Februdry. 1960, election to tedch the 9th, 10th ond 11th grdders in 29 clossrooms rented from the Coldwell- West Coldwell school system for S75,000 during the 1960-61 We-.1 g T ' fic:-7-CX mon 9mm S1138 Uh6gfgq1QQx K . it WQLK' in xndtkfi S2 - z-. inward Siesta fr' L sogkcvf .AV 1 t....,, fQ o,.ofv,,.'fj'gQ,, 9 .24v:... IQ' X A D Us 5,,,':::L VW: , ' gf , Wu x-'Q 'QfZ .,. w- ' .S I , . .1-,V ,K ,wud . r FF' - 'Y ,g N