Westfield High School - Weather Vane Yearbook (Westfield, NJ)

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HARVEY F. GERBER, B.S, One of the greatest privileges open to West-field students is knowing Mr. Gerber, either in algebra class or on the football field. All who have had this privilege know his friendliness and his warm but impartial interest in all. Mr. Gerber's first year at Westfield High School was 1946-47. He had served in the Navy from 1943 until 1946 as an athletic specialist. He instructed in the Navy VI2 program at Colgate. Previously he had been for several years a teacher at the Haddonfield High School and before that at the Atlantic Highlands High School. Mr. Gerber attended Muhlenberg College and has done graduate work at Rutgers and Temple Universities. His home was in Summit Hill, Pennsylvania, until, as he puts it, I set up a little establishment of my own. Mr. Gerber is married, and there is a Harvey, junior. At Muhlenberg, Mr. Gerber, playing in the backfield on the football team, was a three year letterman. As our B Squad coach, he has shown that those years were not wasted by producing four highly successful B Squad teams, two of which went undefeated. Any boy who went out for football will also testify that Mr. Gerber is one of the foremost administrators of Calisthenics in the business. In school, Mr. Gerber makes an effort to give his classes a little something extra, to keep them from becoming stereotyped or routine. He has a multiplicity of clever sayings and devices to make math easy and enjoyable, ranging from My dear Aunt Sally —multiply, divide, add, then subtract—to the definition of zero, A foot in a stocking without a leg. Yes, says Mr. Gerber, it's corn, but it helps you remember. It will be a long time before we forget Mr. Gerber. Knowing him has been an enriching experience; it should happen to everybody. [5]

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