West Side High School - Lamp Yearbook (Newark, NJ)

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To the Class of MR. CHARLES BRODSKY Principal Most of you, tired of the discipline of compulsory formal education, will sigh with relief upon your being graduated from high school. All, however, will cherish the memories of your years at West Side. To those who will continue your formal education in colleges throughout the country, I sincerely hope that we have helped prepare you for a successful college life. To those who will seek employment, I wish you the very best of luck. The employment market is crowded. However, there is always a job for the person with a skill. We have trained your mind as best we could; it is your responsibility now to train your hands so that you have a skill to offer a prospect employer. I sincerely wish all of you Godspeed and success. MR. ROBERT LETT June, 1962... My feelings toward this graduating class are especially warm since we came here together in the fall of 1959. These have been exciting and full years both for you as students and me as principal. I must admit to you now how flattered I have always felt at your rapt attention when I have spoken words of advice to you at our assemblies. Please accept this last bit of advice. You are entering the adult world at a rather wonderful time in history. Scientific advances in space and medicine are coming with increased rapidity. Higher education can be had by all who want it. Jobs are available and employers are anxious for the skills and workmanlike habits you have learned here at West Side. If there are many problems still to be solved, be happy that as a citizen in a democracy you have an opportunity to help your countrymen solve them. Accept the best wishes of all the faculty and myself for a happy, interesting and successful future. CHARLES BRODSKY R. A. LETT Acting Vice Principal

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I ( The student’s life is a hard road, but with the aid of the faculty, it has been made much easier. In the past three years, they have helped us whenever we needed help. For their patience and understanding. we owe the faculty our heartfelt gratitude. Administration and Faculty

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ENGLISH DEPARTMENT Front Row: Mr. Smith; Mrs. Korfmann: Miss Norton; Or. Zachar. chairman; Miss Cullimore; Mrs. McNeil. Back Row: Mr. I. Friedman; Mr. McElroy; Mr. Herron; Mr. Aslanian; Mr. Ormond; Mr. Fiorito; Mr. Wacker. Not Pictured: Miss Mazeika, A Faculty ol Warmth and Understanding Every student in West Side is required to take English throughout his stay. Me must pass every course to lx eligible for graduation. Each required course includes the following work: Literature, grammar, composition, spelling, punctuation, speech, library work, reading improvement, and vocabulary improvement. In addition to the required English courses, many elective courses are offered. Pupils from any grade level are permitted to take these elective courses which include: Creative English, Journalism, Dramatics, and Speech. They are designed to develop the students’ abilities in the fields of writing, acting and directing, and public speaking. The English Department sponsorship includes the Drama-teers, the Westonian Editorial Staff, and the Annual American Shakespeare Festival Trip to Stratford, Connecticut. The Yearbook, the FTA, and Debate Club are also the concerns of the department. West Side’s Foreign I-anguage Department offers courses front the I itin of the ancient Romans to the present-day French, Spanish, Italian, and Russian languages. Students following the College Preparatory pattern are required to take at least two years, and preferably three, of a foreign language. In the modem language classrooms, emphasis is placed on the spoken language; in the I-atin class, however, stress is placet! on grammatical analysis. Students are taught not only the language, but also the history and customs of the people and the country. The first year of the language deals with the basic grammar and elementary reading. During the second year, the student is subjected to more difficult reading in larger amounts, and to the finer points in grammar. In the third year, the time is spent in reading the classics and masterpieces of the specific country. Many of the language teachers sponsor after-school clubs. LANGUAGE DEPARTMENT Front Row: Mrs. Ruhino; Mr. Salerno, chairman; Miss Pormann. Back Row: Mr. Aslanian; Mrs. Newman; Mr. Chimacoff. Not Pictured: Miss Virgilio.