Let’s hear a drum roll from the Weequahic HighSchool Marching Band. During 2002-03, the WHSAlumni Association raised more than $50,000 forcollege scholarships! An impressiveaccomplishment - and the magic of Weequahiccontinues. So how did all this happen in such arelatively short period of time? Here’s our story.

In 1997, the Weequahic High School AlumniAssociation was established with a unique vision. Wewanted to use the large resources of successfulWeequahic High School graduates to provide supportfor the current students at Weequahic. But we alsohad some difficult questions to ask and doubts toovercome. What could we offer the students ofWeequahic High School today? In what ways couldwe give back to a school that had given us so much?How could we make a significant difference in the livesof students who follow in our footsteps?

We also realized that visions do not always turn intoreality, that good intentions have a way of falling shortof their mark, that sometimes the challenges are justtoo overwhelming. What would make us think that oursmall fledgling alumni group could create somethingthat rarely ever happens within a public urban highschool setting?

We tried to imagine how this vision would translateinto alumni action. Would it be possible for us tocapture the interest of our alumni and transform ourfond memories and good feelings into somethingspecial and enduring that would benefit studentstoday? Would our alumni want to pass-on our richlegacy - growing up in a caring community andattending an outstanding high school - to futuregenerations of Weequahic students? Would ouralumni be willing to buy into the concept of “givingback” - and if so, in what numbers?

In June 2003, we received an answer - a resounding“YES” when our scholarship account hit an all-timehigh. It's gratifying to know that all these monies havecome from both sizable as well as smaller gifts fromalumni, faculty and friends. And we now have 10scholarship funds honoring teachers, parents, andclasses.

The funds created in memory of legendary teachersHannah Litzky, Sadie Rous, Leo Pearl, and MaxineBoatwright are becoming more substantial. With thisissue, three new funds begin - two in honor of formerteachers Marie E. O’Connor and Reada and Dr.Harry Jellinek - and one established by the CollegeWomen’s Club of Essex County.

Class reunions have also picked-up our momentumand are now donating their surplus monies forscholarships or are creating funds in the name of theirclass. Our thanks to the classes of June 1940, 1945, 1949, January 1952, June 1952, 1980, and 1985.

More than a year ago, we formed a Fundraising-Scholarship Committee currently chaired by ArtLutzke, 1963, with Sheldon Bross, 1955, DaveSchechner, 1946, Judy Bennett, 1972, and YvonneCausbey, 1977, as members. Coach Les Fein is theHonorary Chairman. Our goal is to create a largeendowment fund that would finance scholarships onan annual basis. During the past four years, over 50awards have been made, ranging in amounts from$500 to $4,000. Many of those students are on theirway to getting a college degree.

“We are so proud of you,” says Hal Braff, our founderand Co-President. “So many of you have honoredformer teachers donating to our scholarship funds intheir memory, that we can now provide opportunity formore of our kids to enter college than ever in ourhistory. What a glorious and meaningful way toacknowledge the gifts we received from the remark-able faculty who brought us up and opened our eyesto the wonders of life.

“We encourage all of you to provide a permanentmemorial to your parents and teachers by establishinga fund in their name - and thereby giving a Weequahicyoungster a chance for a college education and amore fulfilled life. Thank you so much for yourgenerosity.” If you would like to establish a scholarship, pleasecontact Art Lutzke at alutzke@yahoo.com. To make adonation to a scholarship fund, send a check to: WHSAlumni Association, P.O. Box 494, Newark, NJ 07102.See page 18 for a listing of the various funds.

ALUMNI ARE GIVING BACK! We Raised Over $50,000 For College Scholarships

A publication of the WHS ALUMNI ASSOCIATION279 Chancellor AvenueNewark, NJ 07112Office: (973) 923-3133 Fax: (973) 923-3143E-Mail Us At :whs@weequahicalumni.orgVisit Our Web Site At:www.weequahicalumni.org

Executive Director & Editor:

Phil Yourish, 1964Co-Presidents:Harold Braff, 1952Faith Howard, 1982Treasurer:Sheldon Bross, 1955Secretary:Myrna Jelling Weissman, 1953Scholarships/Fundraising:Arthur Lutzke, 1963Les Fein, Honorary ChairHigh School Liaison:Loraine White, 1964Committee Members:Velma Adams, 1975Sylvester Allen, 1971Marjorie Barnes, 1985Judy Bennett, 1972Lawrence Bridget, 1980Yvonne Causbey, 1977Marshall Cooper, 1969Mary Dawkins, 1971Harold Edwards, 1966Lois Blumenfeld Gilbert, 1960Beverly Schulman KassDave Lieberfarb, 1965Bert Manhoff, 1938Adilah Quddus, 1971Linda Reaves, 1972Gerald Russell, 1974Dave Schechner, 1946Vivian Simons, 1959Charles Talley, 1966Gail Washington, 1971Sam Weinstock, 1955

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Thank You For Your Scholarship Fund Contribution!1. WHS Alumni General Fund

Irving Ackerman, 1944Dorothy Barnes, 1959David Beckerman, 1943Beatrice Kaplan Brown, 1937Ellen Kimmelman Brown, 1960Luysynthia Carter, 1967Class of June 1940Class of 1949Class of January 1952Class of June 1952Class of 1980Merle Rosen Cohen, 1963Stuart Confield, 1963Michael Cosby, 1974Michael Diamond, 1963Sandra Serbin Dresdner, 1956Maria Piacente Galeota, 1959Howard Goldberg, 1964Marvin Goldberg, 1947Brian Klappholz, 1963Anne Kramer, 1961Merle Kurzrock, 1964Harold Leder, 1940Lawrence Lerner, 1952Arthur Lutzke, 1963Jerold Martin, 1954Irwin Markowitz, 1945Joan Martin, 1969Wilfredo Nieves, 1966Allen Pearl, 1949Marvin Phinazee, 1963Sharon Price-Cates, 1972Arnold Reiter, 1965Deborah RiveraMarvin Schlanger, 1965Judith Wilson Schwartz, 1963Richard Seroff, 1953Doris Laskowitz Shakin, 1945Robert Steinberg,1966Jean-Rae Turner, 1938Ophra Rabinowitz von Hentig, 1957Jill Graifer Watkins, 1961Joel Weiss, 1960Carl Wolf

2. Maxine Boatwright Memorial Fund

Lawrence Belford, 1957Jeanette Bevett-Mills, 1963Walter Brownlee, 1961Marshana Chapman, FacultyArnold Cohen, 1965Peter Cutty & Sandra GraffFrances DavisSaunders Davis, Former FacultyMartin DickersonLinda EdwardsJanice Findley, FacultyMildred GivensMary HicksHilma HitchenerAdell HowardCheryl Howard, FacultyFloyd Hunt, Jr.Janice Lanier, FacultyMary LarsenDave Lieberfarb, 1965, Former FacultyLela LynchMordecai Podhoretz, 1964Anna Acey RobertsonGrace SimmonsNyoka Stackhouse-Green, FacultyCheryl Sampson Taylor, 1967, Faculty

Thomas Tilley, Former FacultyDolores Mayberry Trimiew, 1964Anne Williams, FacultyMary YoungHugh & Doris YoungPhil Yourish, 1964

3. Reada & Harry Jellinek Fund

Theodore Jellinek, 1957Marie JellinekJean Carol Jellinek

4. Hannah Litzky Memorial Fund

Alan Adler, 1964Judi Ayre, 1962Marvin Bernstein, 1940Deborah Reider Bazes, 1966Beryl Lieff Benderly, 1960Lou Bodian, 1964Lee CasperBruce Cohen, 1955Michael Cosby, 1974Robert Gabriner, 1959Nancy Wildstein Curtis, 1958Dennis Estis, 1965Marilyn Feitel, Former FacultyRichard Friedman, 1965Stuart Friedman, 1959Judith Herr, 1964Harold Hodes, 1960Helen Gorlin Hoffman, 1940Simon Kaplan, 1942Michael Kerner, 1963Howard Klein, 1966Susan Levine, 1965Stanley Levy, 1960Diana Lieberman, 1967Paula Litzky, 1966Paul Lyons, 1960Janice Misurell-Mitchell, 1963Sharon Gaidemak O’Neil, 1960Robert Pearl, 1955Martha Rennie, 1964Clifford Rosenthal, 1962Suzanne Salsbury, 1966Burton Sebold, 1952Sanford Simon, 1950Jean-Rae Turner, 1938Marc Weiner, 1966Paula Silverman Weinstock, 1941Ellen Weisburd, 1966Carolyn Krichman Widerman, 1945Lois Wilner, 1953Fraida Yavelberg, 1960

5. Marie E. O’Connor Fund

Harold Braff, 1952Elaine Braff

6. Sadie Rous Memorial Fund

Martin Bernstein, 1940Sidney Bernstein, 1955Linda Sarnow Boginsky, 1956Herbert Brotspies, 1959Bruce Cohen, 1955Harvey Cohen, 1953Clive Cummis, 1945Fred Decter, 1960Seymour Zoom Fleisher, 1940Ezra Friedlander, 1958Barbara Rous Harris, 1959Judy Herr, 1964

Lester Heyward, 1967Helen Gorlin Hoffman, 1940Harold Hodes, 1960Marion Kaplan, 1963Ellen Wiss Kaplan, 1964Alvin Lubetkin, 1951Myrna King Malec, 1959Linda Melton Mann, 1963Sheila Bloom Noll, 1953Robert Pearl, 1955Susan Kaiser Seigel, 1962Charles Seigel, 1959 Elaine Smith-Koenig, 1949Muriel Reider Swartz, 1955Alan Sylvester, 1964Marsha Gurvitz Weiss, 1965Seymour Weiss, 1948 Steven Weiss, 1962 Fraida Markowitz Yavelberg, 1960

7. Leo Pearl Memorial Fund

Ellen Kimmelman Brown, 1960Fred Decter, 1960Les FeinHarriet Freeman, 1960Maria Piacente Galeota, 1959Aileen Marcus, 1968Ken JaverbaumTema Yeskel Javerbaum, 1964Dana Jo-PearlAda PearlLauri Pearl FriedmanRonald PearlNeil Rothstein, 1959Les Schofferman, 1964Lawrwnce Toma, 1950

8. Academic / Performing Arts Fund, Class of 1945

Seymour Abrahamson, 1945Jerome Burner, 1945Herbert Chaice, 1945Selma Horner Cohen, 1945Kenneth Coleman, 1944Clive Cummis, 1945Marty Edelston, 1946George Ehrlich, 1945Ellen Gradenwitz, 1945David Horwitz, 1945Janet Krusch, 1958Helen Berg Landau, 1945Anne Parsonnet Lieberson, 1945Seymour Margulies, 1945Irwin Markowitz, 1945Janice Misurell-Mitchell, 1963Allen Parducci, 1945Bernard Robbins, 1945Arthur Silk, 1945Jack Silverman, 1945Dan Skoler, 1945Robert Smith, 1944Claire Boorstein Smith, 1945Phyllis Burdeau Schwarz, 1945

9. College Women’s Club of Essex Cty Fund

Dorothy Rowe Scott, 1939

10. Class of 1985 Scholarship Fund

Marjorie Barnes, 1985

In 2000, the class of 1949 donated $842.00 fromtheir reunion for scholarships.

ALUMNI STATS(The following list represents only thehighest numbers in each category)

Mailing List5,123Membership1,201By States2,887 - New Jersey 500 - Florida 310 - California 235 - New York 79 - Pennsylvania 74 - Maryland 48 - Massachusetts 44 - North Carolina 43 - Arizona 41 - Texas 40 - Georgia 38 - Virginia

By Counties in NJ 1,193 - Essex 551 - Union 301 - Middlesex 200 - Morris 150 - Monmouth 91 - Ocean

By Cities/Towns in NJ 375 - Newark 178 - West Orange 165 - Livingston 134 - Springfield 85 - Millburn/Short Hills 80 - Edison 61 - South Orange

60 - Monroe Township 58 - Maplewood

100 - New York City

By Countries 15 - Israel 4 - Canada 3 - England 2 - Spain 2 - Germany 1 - Holland 1 - France 1 - Switzerland 1 - Denmark 1 - Ecuador 1 - Costa Rica 1 - Virgin Islands

By Class Years1963 - 384 1964 - 3641945 - 340 1960 - 2711966 - 224 1940 - 2141961 - 205 1959 - 1951953 - 194 1948 - 1891951 - 171 1991 - 135

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Reada & Dr. Harry Jellinek

When Weequahic High School opened in1933 with an exciting young faculty, two ofthe original members were Reada Sieglerand Harry Jellinek. They met and beforelong were married. Thus began a longfamily association with Weequahic.

Reada Jellinek attended South Side HighSchool and New Jersey College for Women(now Douglass College). With a degree inLibrary Science she worked at the NewarkPublic Library before beginning a career ofabout 40 years as librarian at Weequahic.She is remembered for her keen intellectand her cheerful eagerness in helping

students use library resources, as well as her resolutenessabout maintaining an atmosphere conducive to seriousapplication. She remained active after her retirement, servingas president of the Essex County Retired EducatorsAssociation.

Dr. Harry Jellinek, originally a dropout from Barringer, wentback to complete his high school studies at the pre-collegiatedivision of New York University. He continued his education atNYU, earning Bachelor's and Doctoral degrees, the latter inExperimental Education. At Weequahic he was teacher, thenhead of the Business Department, and finally ActingVice-Principal.

He then became principal of West Kinney Junior High School,and ultimately principal of Central Evening High School (wherehe started a program for continuing education for pregnantgirls). His natural leadership skills melded gracefully with hiswarmth and compassion. In his retirement he devotedconsiderable energy to promoting the interests of seniorcitizens, especially in the areas of educational opportunitiesand travel.

Dr. Jellinek died in 1986. Mrs. Jellinek lives in an AssistedLiving residence in Massachusetts. This scholarship is inhonor of two of Weequahic’s devoted and talented charterfaculty to provide an opportunity for a present day student - incontinuity with the long dedication of Dr. and Mrs. Jellinek toWeequahic students during their tenure.

This fund is being established by Reada and Harry's son anddaughter-in-law, Dr. Theodore and Marie Jellinek and theirdaughter Jean Carol, with the initial amount of two thousanddollars.

Marie E. O’Connor

With a contribution of $1,000, ascholarship fund in honor of famedEnglish teacher Marie E. O’Connor hasbeen established. Miss O’Connor, now 94years old, is revered by thousands of herstudents. She taught at Weequahic for 18years from 1940 to 1958.

In an article written by one of her many adoring students,Robert Werbel, 1955, describes Miss O’Connor as follows:“...she brought to the classroom a disciplined love of learningthrough which her students knew that, while she would besetting high standards for them, they would not be greater thanthe demands of excellence that she required of herself as ateacher.” During her tenure at Weequahic, she becamefamous for her “word of the day,” her familiar maxim “writing isre-writing,” and for wearing “purple.”

If you have fond memories of Miss O’Connor, please honor herby contributing to this scholarship fund and also by writing toher at Applewood Estates, 1705 Applewood Drive, Freehold,NJ 07728. She would love to hear from you and promises tonot send back your letter with red marks and comments in themargins.

College Women’s Club of Essex County

In 1903 in the city of Newark, the College Women’s Club ofEssex County was founded with the purpose of providingsupport for women who wanted the opportunity of a highereducation. The group joined the American Association ofUniversity Women in 1925. The current President is DorothyRowe Scott, a 1938 graduate of Weequahic High School.

With great sadness, the organization, after one hundred yearsof service, has decided to disband. One of their final acts wasto donate $6,000 to the Alumni Association for the creation ofan annual scholarship fund for deserving young women fromWeequahic. A $1,000 scholarship will be awarded for each ofthe next six years. The name, College Women’s Club ofEssex County, will live on as the name of the scholarship fund.

Three New Scholarship Funds

It was in the late 1940s, and the NegroMigration was drawing to a close. Themigrants brought with them stories from theold country. Some stories were chilling. Sochilling that a retelling was forbidden.Others, up North stories like this one, weretold time and time again by migrants andbecame family lore. One of those migrants,from North Carolina, was my Uncle Edward.He was 17 and I was 18 months. Mymother, and my father who is UncleEdward’s brother, invited him to stay with usin the industrial promised land of Newark,New Jersey in our tiny G.I. cottage at 19Boyd Street.

19 Boyd Street was Government Issue (G.l.).It was set up for Black servicemen when theycame home from World War II. They don’tmake houses like that anymore. We lived inthe Third Ward, straight up SpringfieldAvenue, where houses were huge, two andthree-story, gray clapboard structures, somewith outhouses, and fire trap stairs runningdown the back. Houses for drylongsopeople like in the 1960s movie classic“Nothing But A Man” with Abbey Lincoln andIvan Dixon. Drylongso means “ordinary” asJohn Langston Gwaltney explains in“Drylongso: A Self-Portrait of BlackAmerica.” My people were drylongso.

The Boyd Street house was great, I thought.It was a one story, one family house, not ofusual Third Ward breed. It had a huge frontyard where my fluffy dog Snowball loved torun. There was a picket fence all around.When cousin Carolyn came from Harlem tovisit, she rocked me in my wooden horse ona sunny back porch all day long. GodmotherCarrie was right next door in the apartmenthouse on the left, so I had easy access toher warm bosomy bear hugs. Next door,Regina’s mother made fragrant soup for allthe kids from vibrant carrots and peas surelyplanted and nurtured by a gardener namedVan Gogh. It was a delicious, loving place tolive, that Boyd Street.

Directly across the street from my housewas a junkyard. They don’t make thoseanymore either. Big city junkmen were thegenesis of the modern environmentalmovement. The Boyd Street junkman dealtin rags and old iron from a horse-drawnbuggy, just like what Oscar Brown, Jr. sangabout in his urban folk song 20 years later.Next door to the right of our cottage was theTwenty-Three Club. The Twenty-Three was a

hole in the wall that had a wailing jukebox.The club played twangy, downhome bluesthat the Carolina migrants sang to andmoaned over. They listened to “Bad BadWhiskey, Made Me Leave My Happy Home”and “Caldonia, Caldonia, What Makes YourBig Head So Hard” and cried out for townsand hamlets with idyllic names, names thatroared and fell off their lips like decades ofunrequited longing. Kinston. Falling Creek.Roaring River. LaGrange. The migrantswere homesick.

Music was also a given inside our house. Atiny parlor Victrola played crooners andbluesers from the latest 78-speed records.Tunes like “I May Hate Myself In TheMorning For Falling In Love Tonight” and“Everyday I Got The Blues,” songs I stillknow all the words to, songs I know now arethe same songs.

Our two-bedroom cottage was compact butlarge in communal spirit. There was alwaysroom for one more during the migration. Mymother and father made a cot for UncleEdward in my nursery. He slept across theroom from my crib. He left our room everymorning to work at Mothers Food Company. Uncle Edward came to New Jersey to workbecause there were no decent jobs inKinston for young Black men. In Kinston, asmall town that calls itself a city, grown Blackmen were always boys. That’s what theywere called: boys. So, they migrated Northfor manhood, into the Industrial Age of goodjobs. There was Mothers Foods in Newark.The Ballantine Brewery on Belmont Avenuearound the corner from Boyd Street staredstraight into the stained-glass windows ofQueen of Angels Roman Catholic Church.

Englehard Meat Packers hired aconsiderable number of Black men, myfather among them and, later, GeneralMotors in nearby Harrison. Eventually,almost all of my uncles and my fatherworked at General Motors for middle classsalaries, a new car every year, and fat, earlyretirement packages.

There was no industrial revolution for Blackpeople in Kinston or Falling Creek. Justtobacco, cotton, and domestic service.Uncle Edward, a drylongso man, wantedmore. So, the government issue house at19 Boyd Street was moving on up for him.Even if it meant sharing the nursery with me.

Being the only child at the time, I wasn’tused to sharing my space with anyone. Allthe family’s attention was showered uponme. My mother constantly held me in herarms. My father breathed life into red andblue balloons and twisted them into animalshapes to decorate my nursery. So manyred rabbits and little blue kitty cats hung byhair ribbons from my nursery room ceilingthat Uncle Edward advanced to his cot withcaution every evening after a full day’s workat Mothers.

The nursery was full of rainbows and mymother’s red and white kitchen dazzled withsouthern fried chicken, pork chopssmothered in onion gravy, and hot butteredpotatoes. There was plenty. But, I was agrowing child, and it seemed I never gotenough. I was quick to cry for milk so theytook to giving me a bottle to take to bed withme. I’d sleep with that bottle and sip as if itwas laced with cognac. When my bottle wasempty, around midnight or so, an alarmwent off in my little head. My eyes poppedopen immediately. I pulled myself up by thecrib slates, planted chubby feet sturdily onthe mattress, held the bottle up to themoonlight shining through my nurserywindow and wailed at the empty sight beforeme. Enraged, I threw the empty milk bottleclear across the room towards poor UncleEdward asleep in his cot.

Whether at a West family reunion or at anelder’s wake, Uncle Edward - now a NewJersey homeowner and retired supervisorwith years of Temple University educationunder his slim belt - takes center stage. Hetells a litany of clean and slightly tintedjokes, tales from the old country, andmigration lore. He recalls, for us, migrantswho left rural homes with outhouses only tofind those same outhouses in northern,promised-land flats.

He remembers for us, lest we forget,Twenty-Three Club sorrow songs played outon twangy steel. As he speaks, you canhear the rags and old iron man cloppingdown Boyd Street in his horse and buggy.Among the tales, always, is the now 50-year-old empty milk bottle story. Two partsgriot and two parts Hollywood gag man,Uncle Edward sets the dramatic stage. Hepaints the picture of the red and bluemenagerie in my Boyd Street nursery. Ofthe empty milk bottle sailing through the airat him from my crib across the room. Andas he weaves the story in honor of timesgone by, he still remembers to duck.

Sandra West is a writer and English professor living inRichmond, Virginia

He Still Remembers To Duck - A Newark Story By Sandra E. West, Class of 1964 - From the Newark Arts Council Newsletter

WHAT I WANT TOBE WHEN I GROW UP?

We found 750alumni from ourdatabase who listedtheir occupation.We then chartedthose occupationcategories thatcame up mostfrequently. The“unscientific” butinteresting resultsare as follows:

1. Education

2. Medicine - Dentistry 3. Attorneys - Judges

4. Executives - Managers

5. Accounting - Bookkeeping

6. Sales

7. Entrepreneurs 8. Investments

9. Real Estate

10. Secretaries - Adm. Asst.

11. Engineering

12. Nursing - Practitioners

13. Insurance

14. Homemaker 15. Technology

16. Law Enforcement

17. Journalism - Writing 18. Marketing

19. Social Work

20. Musicians

21. Pharmacy

22. Music

Tudy

On March 19th, Charles and Alvin Lubetkin receivedthe 2003 Distinguished American Award from theEssex County Chapter of the National FootballFoundation and College Hall of Fame at their 38thAnnual Scholar Athlete Dinner. Both Lubetkin brothershad exceptional athletic careers at Weequahic HighSchool in the late 40’s and early 50’s.

Charles Lubetkin received Weequahic High School’sOutstanding Athlete Award in 1949. He gained All-Citybasketball honors and captained the school’s trackteam. He is a 1953 graduate of Newark College ofEngineering where he earned a degree in CivilEngineering and played three years of basketball andran track. For his athletic exploits, he was elected tothe Hall of Fame by the NJ Institute of Technology(formerly NCE) in 1994. In 1953 he was commissioneda 2nd Lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force and served as ajet fighter pilot in the European Theater.

Charles joined Brick Church Appliance in 1965 andbecame President of the company until its retail assetswere sold in 1990. Since then, he has served asPresident and General Partner of several real estatecompanies. He has also been involved in many civiccommittees and associations, including the New JerseyEconomic Council. Charles was appointed to that postby Governor Brendan Byrne and re-appointed byGovernors Kean and Florio. Since 1979, he has alsobeen on the Board of Directors of the New JerseyRetail Association.

Alvin Lubetkin also received Weequahic High School’sOutstanding Athlete Award in 1952. He was anAll-State football selection in 1951, the year the highschool won its first city championship. He scored 12touchdowns in that season in an eight game schedule -a school record. He also gained All-City and All-Countyhonors in basketball and set a single game recordwhen he scored 30 points in 20 minutes of court time.Alvin is a 1957 graduate from Harvard University wherehe earned a degree in economics.

He moved to Houston in 1961 and joined J.S.Oshman’s, a sporting goods company where he waselected President and C.E.O. in 1970. During the next15 years, Alvin led the company’s expansion from tenstores to two hundred with revenue growing from $10million to $300 million.

He later conceived and developed SuperSports USA,the most exciting sporting goods retail format operatingtoday. His new concept placed basketball courts,tennis courts, batting and golf driving cages in 60,000square foot upgraded Oshman stores to provide a trulyexciting shopping experience for the sports enthusiast.Integrating his passion for sports with a successfulbusiness career, Alvin focused on the Super SportsUSA concept as the cornerstone of Oshman’s future.

In recognition of his achievements, he was named abronze award winner in Financial World magazine’s1996 Chief Executive Officer of the Year competition.After leading the transformed company to record salesand profits in 2000, he merged the company with GartSports a year later. He now serves as a consultant andmember of the board of the $1.1 billion sporting goodsretailer.

Alvin has always been active in community, businessand civic organizations. He has served on the board ofthe March of Dimes and for three 3-year terms on theBoard of Directors of the National Sporting GoodsAssociation. He also is a frequent speaker and panelmember at real estate and sporting goods conferences.

Charles (Tudy)

Alvin

CHARLES & ALVIN LUBETKIN Weequahic brothers are recipients of the 2003 Distinguished American Award

L-R Charles Lubetkin, Bert Manhoff (1938 Grad &VP Essex NFF Chapter), Alvin Lubetkin

The 1st Decade of TV$64,000 Question77 Sunset StripAbbott & CostelloAlfred Hichcock PresentsAmerican BandstandArthur Godfrey Talent ScoutsBozo The ClownBing Crosby ShowBob Cummings - Love That BobBurns & AllenCaptain KangarooCaptain VideoDavy CrockettDecember BrideDennis The MenaceDick TracyDinah Shore ShowDing Dong SchoolDragnetEdward R. MurrowEd Sullivan ShowFather Knows BestFelix The CatFlash GordonGE TheaterGoldbergsGunsmokeHave Gun Will TravelHit ParadeHoneymoonersHopalong CassidyHowdy DoodyI Love LucyI Remember MamaI’ve Got A SecretJack Benny ShowJackie Gleason ShowJohn NagyJunior FrolicsKukla, Fran & OllieLassieLawrence Welk ShowLeave It To BeaverLiberaceLife of RileyLife & Legend of Wyatt EarpLone RangerLooney TunesMartha Raye ShowMaverickMerry MailmanMickey Mouse ClubMighty MouseMillionaireMilton Berle ShowMy Friend FlickaMy Little MargieName That TuneOur Gang / Little RascalsOur Miss BrooksOzzie & HarrietPaul Winchell & Jerry MahoneyPerry Como ShowPerry MasonPinky LeePrice Is RightRawhideReal McCoysRed Buttons ShowRed Skelton ShowRiflemanRin Tin TinRomper RoomRootie KazootieRoy RogersSergeant Bilko - Phil SilversSid Caesar - Show of ShowsSky KingTales of Wells FargoThis Is Your LifeTopperWagon TrainWalt DisneyWinky DinkYou Bet Your Life - Groucho MarxZane Gray Theater

Larry Dinetz, of Monroe Township, NJ , a 1954 grad, recently madea hole-in-one using a 9-iron on the 115-yard 17th hole at TheMeadows at Middlesex, in Plainsboro.

WALDO WINCHESTER

Dorothy Scott Rowe, 1938, was the first graduate of Weequahic HighSchool to become the director of the Weequahic Adult School and is the President of the College Women’s Club of Essex County which is establishinga scholarship fund at Weequahic.

Paul Goodman, 1945, has been nominated for a Grammy 22 times inthe Sound Engineering category and is the winner of three Grammys. For 36years, he worked for RCA as an Audio Engineer doing Broadway shows andorchestral, classical and jazz recordings.

Hal Braff, 1952, has become Of Counsel to the firm of Margulies, Wind &Herrington in Jersey City and will continue his practice in litigation andAlternate Dispute Resolution.

Lois Weinstein, 1953, has served as the President of the NJCounseling Association and President of the National EmploymentCounseling Association. Currently, she is the Legislative Chairperson for thestate AFL-CIO Retirees Department.

Myrna Jelling Weissman, 1953, has been installed as President of theBeth Israel Hospital Auxiliary and is the chair of the Hillside Planning Board.

Harlene Gelman Horowitz, 1958, a member of SHARE, INC., participated in its 50th Anniversary benefit performance by tap-dancing withHollywood stars. The organization raises funds for children who are abused,developmentally disabled, or have AIDS.

Don Kalfus, 1958, serves on the Board of Directors of the NJ TapEnsemble which has performed at the NJ Performing Arts Center in Newark.

Regina Marshall Adesanya, 1967, is the President of the EssexCounty Zonta Club, a volunteer group that has 70 clubs and 32,000 membersworldwide and develops projects designed to enhance the status of women.

Sheila Oliver, 1970, the Director of the Essex County Department ofCitizen Services, was a recipient of the “Dare To Dream” award presented bythe Essex County Urban League.

Captain Bryan H. Morris, 1974, was recently promoted to DeputyChief of the Newark Police Department.

Alturrick Kenney, 1995 is an aide to Mayor Sharpe James of Newark.

Darryl Handcock, 1996, former WHS basketball star and NewarkAthlete of the Year graduated from Morehouse College in Georgia as a Business Administration major.

Mazel-tov to Les and Ceil Fein on their 60th Anniversary. Les was aformer WHS faculty member and basketball coach in the 50’s & 60’s.

Ron Stone, WHS Vice-Principal and leader of the administrative teamthis past year, has been appointed Acting Principal at Weequahic.

Gabe Nevola, former music teacher and orchestra leader at ClintonPlace Jr. High School, has served as the conductor of the 35-piece BloomfieldMandolin Orchestra for the past 30 years. He retired from the Newark SchoolSystem in 1989 after 40 years.

This popular column from the Calumet first appeared in 1950. Please let us know about how our alumni have distinguished themselves in their lives after Weequahic.

Some Notable AccomplishmentsFrom The Children Of Our Alumni

Mitchell J. Freedman, the son of Tina CentuoriFreedman and Bud Freedman, 1952 has written a bookentitled A Disturbance of Fate. This book is a vibrant work ofalternative history that answers the provocative question of whatwould have happened had Robert F. Kennedy survived the 1968assassination attempt. A Disturbance of Fate dares to dreamabout an alternative past...and provide inspiration for a moreenlightened present and future. Dan E. Moldea, author of TheKilling of Robert Kennedy says that “I am simply blown away by theimagination and scholarship that has gone into Mitchell Freedman’sfabulous novel.”

Keith Gaby, the son of Patricia Venokur Gaby Kaplan,1952, and Dan Gaby, 1951, had a film he wrote "The Qualityof Light" shown at the Santa Barbara Film Festival and thePhiladelphia Film Festival. The Festival audiences voted it one ofthe top three American independent fiction features (aside fromdocumentaries and foreign films). It won the NFL Films TechnicalAchievement Award, which is for cinematography, editing, sound,and overall production values. The Philadelphia City Paper'sreview called the film "something worth prizing.”

Zach Braff, the son of Hal Braff, 1952, has been the star ofthe hit TV comedy “Scrubs” for the past two years. The show is inthe top 15 of the Nielsen ratings and has been renewed for a 3rdyear on NBC. In addition, he is currently directing and acting in amovie that he wrote called “Large’s Ark” with Natalie Portman andRon Leibman, which was filmed in North Jersey.

Annual Reunion Dinner in Long Beach CaliforniaCharlotte Laufer Goldstein, Les Safier, Debby Schwartz, EdBerman, Ruth Blumer Greenstein, Gene Greenstein, ShermanNinburg, Rose Ninburg, and the late Lenny Kaplan

When I was inhigh school inNewark, I usedto take the busdowntown afterschool to workat a collectionagency onBranford Place.It was an awfuljob, trackingdown poor

people who couldn't pay theirbills, but I liked being downtownwhere all the action was. Hahne& Company, Bamberger's,Kresge's - what teenager didn'tenjoy shopping at those greatdepartment stores?

My mother worked atBamberger's, and sometimes wewould meet at Hobby'sDelicatessen & Restaurant fordinner before heading home. Itwas convenient, the food wasgood, it was always jumping andyou usually ran into someoneyou knew.

In hindsight, I guess, althoughHobby's wasn't in a neighbor-hood per se, it's been ameet-and-greet place for a lot ofpeople from a lot of differentneighborhoods for as long as Ican remember. Today, Hobby'sis still jumping and it's still ameet-and-greet place for peoplefrom all over who work and shopin downtown Newark. And it'snice to see that everything old isnew again.

At lunch, for instance, the crowdmay be multi-cultural, but mostare ordering the same dishes asmy mother and I did. I visitedHobby's a few weeks ago andtalked to the Brummer family tosee what's happening at the90-year-old deli. I hadn't beenthere since the 1970s, I guess,but I'd have to say the placelooks and feels pretty much thesame as I remembered.

It turns out some of the staffhave been here so long, theymight have waited on us backthen. As for the food, you stillget a bowl of pickles on the tablewhen you sit down and, notsurprisingly, a "#5" over- stuffedsandwich is still the biggest selleron the menu (corned beef andpastrami with cole slaw andRussian dressing, $8.95).

Everything I tasted at Hobby's Iliked, especially the potatopancakes ($1.50 each). Theywere crispy, with a good onionkick, and I could have eaten twoif I didn't "have" to try the cornedbeef, which was lean anddelicious. I also tried a piece ofbrisket and some chicken soupwith a matzo ball ($2.60 perbowl). The matzo ball was agood compromise to the sinkersor floaters you usually have tosuffer through and theconsommé was well-seasoned.

There are 17 over-stuffedsandwiches on the menu andnone is for the dainty palate - orfor those in fear of heartincidents, for that matter. Youcan combine the old standbys -corned beef, pastrami, turkey,tongue and chopped liver - anyway you wish and you mightwant to split it with a friend soyou can try something else. What I like the most aboutHobby's is what hasn't changedthrough the years. Corned beefis still pickled on the premises,whole turkeys are roasted everymorning, blintzes are hand-made. Even the onion rings arefresh.

The menu has plenty ofsandwiches, both cold andhot/open, daily specials likehomemade turkey pot pie andopen tuna melts (both $6.50) andtuna, chicken or egg saladplatters. If you're really hungry,you can order meat loaf ($8.50),brisket and potato pancakes or

roast turkey dinners (both$10.75), among other completemeals.

Another thing that hasn'tchanged is the hands-onownership you notice as soon asyou walk in the door. How manyother restaurateurs can say theiroffice is literally in the middle ofthe restaurant? Just inside thedoor are two desks put together,piled high with work. The wallbetween them is filled withorders, bills and other papers;this is obviously not for show -the Brummers want to keep aneye on things at all times.

Hobby's has a history ofmemorable owners who kept theplace going through good timesand bad. Samuel Brummer, whobought the place in 1963 with hiswife Ronni, told me how itevolved. He said a man namedTeitelbaum - who originally had adeli on Bergen Street - openedthe present site about 90 yearsago. Teitelbaum sold it to a mannamed Hockhauser, whorenamed it Hocky's in the 1930s.The people who bought it fromHockhauser just before WorldWar II simply removed the "c"and the "k" to save money on anew sign, substituted "bb" andHobby's was born.

Brummer had worked in a fewarea delis and eventually owneda couple in Newark and lowerManhattan after arriving fromPoland in 1940. His sons Marcand Michael grew up in thebusiness as kids and then wentaway to college, with degrees inpolitics and economics,respectively. Having spent all

their childhood summers at thedeli instead of camp, they andtheir parents had decided goodeducations would keep them faraway from the family business.

Wrong. When Samuel had aheart attack in '86, Marc andMichael came back home andwent to work doing what they didbest. Samuel turned thebusiness over to his sons in1992, but you can find him andRonni here on most days, busyas ever. Ronni's mother, HelenLalin, known to all as "Meema,"is 92 now, but still does thepayroll once a week. This is aclose, affectionate family. Afterworking side by side six days aweek, they talk on the phone atnight and gather together at oneor the other's home on Sundays.

Hobby's has survived throughstreet riots and the economicdevastation that followed, theclosing of the department storesand the flight of the largecorporations. But in the past fiveyears, downtown Newark hasseen a significant rebirth, and theBrummers' family business hasprospered along with theirneighbors.

As for their clientele, no doubttoday's city kids who workdowntown after school meet theirmoms at Hobby's to enjoy a "#5"or some soothing chicken soup.Some things, thankfully, neverhave to change.

Star-Ledger writer BrookeTarabour is a 1965 graduate andRona Lalinga Brummer, the wifeof Sam Brummer, is a January1951 graduate.

Some January 1948 grads at their 55th Class Reunion, The Cameos at their 50th Class Reunion, January 1952,

REUNIONREVIEWS

Florida Reunion atHunters Run, BySandy Guritzky, 1953I live at Hunters Run, acommunity of 1600 families inBoynton Beach, Florida. A smallgroup of us discovered that weall graduated from WeequahicHigh School. We decided to havea Hunters Run Weequahicreunion. We thought maybethere were 15 to 20 Weequahicgraduates here. I put a noticeon the bulletin board and byword of mouth, to our surprise,people began coming out of thewoodwork.

The reunion was planned forMarch 9, 2003. What wethought would be a group of 15to 20 people grew to 58graduates from the years 1935to 1959. Some people who meteach other in our community didnot know that they were bothgraduates of Weequahic HighSchool.

We had close to 70 peopleincluding spouses for ourreunion. People brought theiryearbooks, old issues of theCalumet and some people woretheir school letters. Thisgathering brought back manymemories for us. People wereoverjoyed to rediscover eachother and to talk about our daysin high school. There was a glowin the air. We now have formed acamaraderie among the group.It was decided that we shouldcontinue this reunion every year.

There is just something aboutour days at Weequahic thatcannot be duplicated and Icannot in words express whatthis reunion meant to all of us. Iknow that there are manycommunities like ours and if thisis read in the Calumet morepeople may rediscover theirroots. Thank you for what youare doing.

June 1948, 55thReunion, By Ron LauerA good time was had by all at theDolce Hamilton Park Hotel inFlorham Park on May 17th whenthe class of 1948 celebratedtheir 55th class reunion. Thecamaraderie, ambiance, dinner(created with a flair and pleasingto the eye and palate) and musicby Kravitz combined to delighteveryone.

The opportunity to catch-up,reminisce, and share storiesabout our school days and thepresent was fulfilling and fun.Approximately 70 classmates ofthe June 1948 class, 4 or 5 fromthe January 1948 class and morethan 30 “mates” and friendsattended the evening affair.

Wally Babbitt greeted theassembled, Artie Buckner servedas “MC”, and Class PresidentGeorge Kaye and Vice PresidentRon Lauer spoke briefly. Schoolspirit was evident from theresounding chorus of voicessinging “Hail Weequahiic.”

The committee deserves plauditsfor developing the concept,making the arrangements,negotiating with the various

parties involved, and planningthe menu and decorations. Our thanks to Wally Babbitt,Chairman, Artie Buckner, NatalieDuberStein Diamant, Roy Dickes,Ernie Giordano, Eilene and RonLauer, Lillian Levy Lerner, GerriJerusky Levine, Joan ClaireMarcus, Don Mopsig, Arnie Ram,Lila Glassberg Roberts, ClaireBernstein Schulman, Pearl UdinSorkow, and Elaine KatowitizZirulnick. In addition, JerryLevine and Pete Robertscontributed at meetings andmanned the “welcome” table.

January 1953, 50thReunion, By BeverlySchulman KassMay 3rd, what a perfect evening.Excitement filled the air. Smilingfaces and so many thoughts ranthrough the minds of ourclassmates. “I wonder what soand so will look like?” “Will soand so remember me?” Thenwhen classmates began to enter,you heard over and over again“Is it really you?” It’s been solong.” It was wonderful!

The program presented by ourclassmates brought backmemories of football, baseball,swimming and track, etc. Weeven spoke about the halls of theschool. Each table had the nameof someplace that was familiar tous, such as Weequahic Diner,Halems, Stash’s, Sid’s, BettyLynn’s Sweet Shop, Sabins, TheTavern, etc. The tables werefestive and the food was tastyand plentiful. It was truly a nightfilled with wonderful memoriesthat will last for many years tocome.

Reunions Coming Up1986-87, Aug. 23, 2003 Saturday, Reunion Picnic, South MountainReservation, Oakdale Section, West Orange,NJ. Contact Elliott Clayton at elliottclayton1987@hotmail.com.

1983, 20th, Sept. 19, 2003Friday, Galloping Hill Inn, Union, NJContact Janice Jones (973) 273-1887 /jahaadnasir@hotmail.com or Roz Samuelscrs@ntuaft.com.

1963, 40th, Oct. 11, 2003Saturday, 7 PM, Hilton Hotel, East Brunswick.Contact Jac Toporek at (732) 388-8699 /whsalum63@aol.com

1943 Jun., 60th, Oct. 12, 2003Sunday, 11:30 AM, Orange Lawn Tennis Club,South Orange, NJ. Contact Alan Brookman at(908) 221-0578 / ahbdds@optonline.net or SarahDoppelt at (973) 992-7488 or ssd92@aol.com

1953 Jun., 50th, Oct. 25, 2003Saturday, 5 PM, Marriott Hotel at Newark LibertyInternational Airport, Newark, NJ. Contact Beverly Greenfeder Levine at (914) 693-1266 /b.levine@fordfound.org.

1964, 40th, Oct. 9, 2004Saturday, 7 PM, Marriott Hotel at Newark LibertyInternational Airport, Newark, NJ. Contact Wendy Kaufman Nowak at (908) 722-1874 /weequahic1964@aol.com.

Reunions Being Planned

Jan. 1954, 50thMonth of May 2004. More details coming.Contact Charlie Bernhaut at (908) 217-1358 /chasjew@aol.com

Sail Away ReunionTO ALL WEEQUAHIC ALUMNI across thecountry. Let’s reunite from the Hard Time 30’s,War Torn 40’s, Rock Time 50’s, Sophisticated60’s, Swinging 70’s, Elegant 80’s, andProsperous 90’s. Winter with us in Florida in February at a SAILAWAY REUNION. Let’s hear from you, detailswill follow upon interest shown. Contact Judee Slatnick Horel at (561) 744-7788 /judee.sh@juno.com or Jane Manheim Jurick(954) 472-2215 / janejurick@aol.com

L-R: Barbara RichterWeinberg, Joanne RosenFriedman, Paula TischlerGoldfein, Marcia KahanRosenthal, Barbara SmithTripp, Paula Katz Clupper,Leatrice Friedman Minzter,Avis Dresdner Weeks,Natalie Confield Tublitz. In Front: Jane AusterWeisman

SPLASH!!! - 1947By Larry (Tomasula) Tomas,

Class of January 1950

Rumors of aswimming pool atWeequahicpersisted longbefore I enteredour alma mater in1947. Of course,after manyexplorations andinterviews with“honest” upper-classmen, theyproved to be false.

What I did discover was that we did have a swimteam which was dissolved during World War II forvarious reasons including the fact that qualifiedcoaches were serving their country during thishorrendous period.

One thing did happen that year...a strong interestin having a swim team developed. Whether it wasfaculty or student motivated escapes this writer’smemory; however, with the avid support of theChairman of our Phys. Ed. Department, Mr. CharlesSchneider, affectionately known as The Bald Eagle,a notice was posted on the gym bulletin boardrequesting that those boys interested in a swimteam should sign up. Well, over fifty young menresponded.

A group of us went to discuss this matter with Mr.Schneider and thus “the current” of an aquaticteam began to flow. He contacted BennyDispenziere who managed the Morris Avenue Bathswhich also housed a 20 yard pool. Mr. ”D” wasalso the coach of the West Side High Swim Team. Itwas arranged that our boys could use the poolseveral times a week to practice on our own, butunder Benny’s supervision. Our attendance wasgreat, even though we had to travel quite adistance across Newark. But we were highlymotivated as we desired to have a swim team.

Charlie Schneider was quite impressed andinformed us that when “Mr. D” thought we wereready, then obtaining a swim coach was the nextstep. Several of us helped coach the rest and aworkout schedule was established. Fortunately, achildhood friend of mine was doing his studentteaching in math at Weequahic. He also had aminor in Phys. Ed. Irving “Skippy” Stein was anoutstanding swimmer for South Side High andshowed considerable enthusiasm when approachedfor this new challenge. An interview was arrangedwith Mr. Schneider and aquatic history was made: we had our team and our new coach.

During the 1946-1947 season there were four highschool teams competing in the City League: WestSide, East Side, South Side and Central. Now, ayear later, Arts and Weequahic were added to thelist. The original four schools had many seasonedveterans, and with exception of a few, the vastmajority of Indians were novices when it came tocompetition.

Some of our members assisted Coach Stein inhelping the less-experienced swimmers. I had theopportunity of being in service in that capacity andalso served as co-captain. The varsity membersincluded Elvin Zeider, Alan Julian, Arnie Lambeck,Frank Glassgall, Neil and Ken Braun, Sandy Simon,Sheldon Sattler, Dick Shreiber, Art Carr, FrankDondershein and Larry Tomasula.

Our 1947-48 season proved to be a learning andgrowing experience for all. We did not win manydual meets but progressed as the season movedtowards its conclusion...The City Meet. Outstandingresults were earned for Dick Shreiber, Neil Braun,Alan Julian and our 120 yard medley relay teamwhich placed third and won a bronze medal forLarry Tomasula (backstroke), Arnie Lambeck(breaststoke), and Elvin Zeider (free style). Theseawards were given to us personally in the office ofour Principal Max J. Herzberg.

Our swim team was a dream that materialized. Wewere confident that the 1948-49 season wouldbring “more honor to Weequahic High.”

MEMORIESBy Sara Friedman Fishkin,

Class of 1960

I lived the first 2 years of my life in an apartmenthouse on the corner of Avon Avenue and BelmontAvenue, but then our family moved to Schley Streetbetween Keer Avenue and Field Place. I lived onSchley Street until the day I married, 20 years later. My Dad, worked in Bamberger's more than 40years, and he also worked their Thanksgiving Dayparades. My mother worked in Ohrbachs. I recallone year when I was about 6 years old. It was abitter cold day. My mother, brother and I took the#14 bus to either Military Park or Lincoln Park andwaited on the curb for my father to pass by on hisfloat.

While waiting, "The Mummers", that great marchingband from Philadelphia, passed in front of us.Their wild costumes scared me because the menwere so tall and their costumes so wild looking.

Just then my father's float arrived and he rescuedme as he scooped me up onto his float and werode all the way to the finish line of the parade.Another vivid memory is of the animated Christmaswindows of Bamberger’s which were filled withfantastic displays for the holidays.

It was one of the Bauman brothers, of WeequahicDiner fame, Leo I think, who lived in the next houseon the corner of Keer Avenue and Schley Street.When their daughter grew out of her "2 wheeler" Iwas given that Schwinn bicycle and it became myfirst bike. I used to travel with other neighborhoodkids into Hillside and Irvington in expeditions ofadventure trying to "get lost" but we always foundour way back home.

More Memories: "knock hockey" during the warmweather in the playground of Chancellor AvenueSchool. Air raid drills under the desk and in thebasement of that school. My first kiss in front of"The Rock" at school. Well-done French fries insmall brown bags with wooden forks at Syd's. Myfirst "club jacket" bought from K&K Sporting Goods.

One of my greatest birthday presents was going toEbbets Field in Brooklyn for a double header withthe Dodgers vs. the Cincinnati Reds. And I'll neverforget sitting in the stands of Untermann Field witha new boyfriend who explained football to me andenabled me to be the rabid NFL fan I am today.

I can still name every teacher in Chancellor Ave.Grammar School, starting with Kindergarten, Mrs.Herman, up to 8th grade, Mrs. McCaffrey. Mr. AbeKaplowitz was my 6th grade teacher and by far myfavorite but I also adored the 5th grade teacher,Mrs. Dorothy Bonda. I started taking the #14Clinton Ave. bus, alone, when I was 10 years old.My fondness for Newark, and Weequahic H.S. inparticular, is made more special by dear friendsfrom WHS. I am still in close contact by personalvisit, phone and e-mail with Jeanette, Bette andHarriet.

...Several years ago, on a Sunday morning, Idragged my husband and New Jersey neighbors(he owned Brody Shoes on Bergen St. and LyonsAve.) down memory lane as we traced the route Iremembered of that #14 bus by driving downChancellor Avenue, across Clinton Place, downClinton Avenue, around Lincoln Circle, past the oldMedical Tower, past the old Mosque Theater (whereI went to see Fred Sales, Junior Frolics and CostaFrench Ice Cream on Channel 13), down BroadStreet to the new NJPAC.

...Thank you for each edition of the Calumet. Notonly do I relish each one, but I adore the picture ofthe school itself which graces page one of eachissue. I can still see myself sharpening my pencilwhile looking out from a window on the third floor.

ORDER BACK ISSUES OF THE ALUMNI CALUMET - See Page 18

Weequahic/Clairmont Diner Cheesecake Recipe

(copied directly from instructions given by the Clairmont's pastry chef to Simeon Baron)

Ingredients: 2 1/2 lb cream cheese (Philly only); 7 lg. eggs,room temp.; 2 cups heavy cream, room temp.; 1/2 cupevaporated milk, room temp.; 3 tbsp fresh lemon juice; 4 oz. butter (sweet); melted 1 3/4 cups sugar; 4 tbsp allpurpose flour - combine with the sugar; 1 tbsp real vanillaextract (single fold preferred)

The original recipe specified that all ingredients were to bemixed by hand. The use of a really good mixer like theKitchen Aid K5 using the beater blade on the stir settingserves very well.

1. Cream the cheese slowly until there are no lumps.2. Add the flour and sugar mixture alternately with themelted butter, scraping the bowl often.

3. Add the eggs one at a time, incorporating each slowly.

4. Add the rest of the liquid ingredients, scraping the bowloften to keep everything evenly mixed and smooth.

5. Spray 1 10" or 2 8'' springform pans with Bakers Joy orPam and sprinkle graham cracker crumbs around the panparticularly where the sides meet the bottom of the pan.

6. Bake in a 365 preheated oven for 1 hr., 5 mins. Thecake should be golden on top. Add 10 mins. more ifnecessary -- DO NOT BAKE ANY LONGER.

7. Turn off the oven and leave the cake to rest 1-2 hrs.

8. Refrigerate to thoroughly chill before removing the pan.The best way to cut this cake is to use a cheese wire,monofilament fish line or non-minted dental floss.

ABOUT LEO PEARL:

Ron Pearl, (Leo Pearl’s Son)

Everyone in the Pearl family is thrilled about theLeo Pearl Scholarship Fund that has recentlybeen established. We are eager to help in anyway we can to further its growth and successand to see that it reflects the essence of whatDad contributed to all the students who had the“pleasure” of being in one of his Phys. Ed.classes, on one of his swim or cross countryteams or were in some way helped by hisdedication, guidance and devotion to gettingkids on the right track to success.

Enclosed are checks for the Leo PearlScholarship Fund totaling $5,000 from mymother Ada, my sister Laurie and her husbandHoward, my sister Dana and her husbandHenry, and my wife Candice and me.

...Thanks again for helping to keep Dad’s nameand memory alive. We would be happy to beinvolved in as many facets of the Leo PearlScholarship process as you feel practical andappropriate and look forward to hearing fromyou as the Leo Pearl Scholarship Fundcontinues to gather momentum.

Larry (Tomasula) Tomas, 1950

It seems that every time the Alumni Calumetarrives, I am more and more impressed with ourgroup and what you are doing; therefore I amupdating my membership and also including acheck for the Leo Pearl Memorial ScholarshipFund.

Leo touched my life very strongly long beforehe came to Weequahic. After graduation inJanuary 1950, he hired me to lifeguard andteach swimming at Temple B’nai Abrahamwhen I was not doing my educational pursuitsat the “old” Newark State Teachers College.

We became close...good friends and upongraduation, I was able to begin my first teachingposition in Newark; thanks in part to hiswonderful recommendation. Our relationshipcontinued during my military duration and uponmy discharge, this fantastic person hired me todirect the aquatic program at Spring GardenCountry Club in Florham Park. This position ledto other swimming positions in Westfield andHunter, N.Y.

Leo was a very, very important person in mylife; so it was with great sadness to learn of his

passing. Also, I had the good fortune ofmeeting his lovely wife and children (when theywere quite young). My best wishes go to thePearl family.

Maria Piacente Galeota, 1959

I especially loved the article on Leo Pearl as hewas my mentor at WHS when I taught therefrom 1964 to 1973. We had lots of fun with himbecause he was a tremendous personalityeveryone loved and respected at a time whenWHS and the city of Newark went throughsome very tough times. I became close to himand his family and my husband and I felt hisloss deeply. We lost not just a friend but a truerole model.

ABOUT ESTHER TUMIN:

Martha Lowenstein Rennie, 1964

...Esther Tumin was a warm human being aswell as a terrific teacher. I had her for physicslab 2nd period in the morning. She’d not onlyhad all of the experiments set up, but hadcompleted the NY Times crossword puzzle - inink - before we arrived each day. My class wasa new A.P. Physics course in which theteachers were just one lesson ahead of thestudents all year long, as Esther herselfmentioned the last time I saw her, a year and ahalf ago at my parents’ 60th anniversary party.She and my mother remained close friendsover the years, playing a weekly game ofScrabble until shortly before Esther’s death. EdTumin was her brother-in-law. I shall missEsther and remember her always with muchfondness.

Marilyn Greenfeder Pomerantz, 1964

I have fond memories of Esther Tumin. Shewas a kind women and a fine example of how ateacher could be a friend while still remainingan authority figure. How could I forget her inphysics lab teaching us wave theory withslinkys.

During my sophomore year, Mrs. Tumin neededsomeone to watch her dog, a “mature” beaglenamed Pogo, while she was on sabbatical. Ivolunteered, and one semester of dog-sittingturned into a permanent adoption. Mrs. Tvisited Pogo frequently, but didn’t want todisrupt her life again, so that dog remained withme, much to the delight of my whole family.

...from the Voices of our Alumni, Faculty & Friends

WHS ALUMNI STOREOrder on Page 18

Photos by Peter Herckey, 1964

Marion Bolden is Re-Appointed Superintendent of Schools

For the previous 8 years, the Newark PublicSchools have been under state control and for thepast 3 years Marion Bolden has served as theState-appointed Superintendent of Schools. Atransitional process has been set up for returningNewark to local control sometime in the near future.The first step was recently taken when Ms. Boldenwas re-appointed by the State Board of Educationas the permanent Superintendent.

Unlike many of Newark’s past school leaders, Ms.Bolden is “home grown.” She is a 1968 graduate ofSouth Side High School and has been a teacherand administrator in the Newark school system formany years. We congratulate her on her selectionand we look forward to a close and productiveworking relationship.

A New Athletic Center???

Newark Superintendent ofSchools, Marion Bolden, isasking the City of Newarkfor $15 million in aid tocover upcoming statebudget reductions and alsoto consider floating $147million in bonds for school

improvements which could impact Weequahic HighSchool. If implemented, about $5 million would beused to build a new athletic center at the highschool where the school district can host statetournaments and another $2 million would be spentto renovate Untermann Field. Currently, the highschool basketball teams practice in the school’santiquated gymnasiums and play its home gamesat George Washington Carver Elementary School.

High School Is Upgrading Facilities

Even with limited funds due to severe budget cutsthroughout the Newark School System, WeequahicHigh School has been earnestly working onupgrading its facilities. From areas that were onceused for storing outdated equipment, two newrooms have been designed to enhance the highschool’s athletic and music programs.

For some time now, the football team and theparents of some of the football players have beenadvocating for a weight room with new equipmentfor exercising on a daily basis and building strengthand endurance. They realize that the suburbanschools that they play in the Iron Hills Conferencehave a definite advantage as a result of superiortraining facilities.

So recently the high school opened its new exerciseroom on the 1st floor next to the Auditorium. Thislarge area with brightly orange painted walls andorange padded exercise equipment will serve all of

the sports teams and physical education classes -and in the near future - the faculty and community.

In the meantime, the award-winning marching andjazz bands have been using a small classroom fortheir practice sessions with no soundproofing orplaces for storage. Students and parents havebeen complaining about the inadequate space for aband that has been the pride of the high school formany years.

Currently, a large room next to the new exercisefacility is being renovated for use by the band. It willbe able to accommodate more students. It also hasample room for the storage of uniforms and musicalinstruments that were purchased a few years agowith a grant from the Jaqua Foundation, whosePresident Eli Hoffman is a 1956 graduate.

Newark Teen Arts Festival

This year 14Weequahicstudent artists hadtheir works ondisplay at theNewark Museumduring the annualTeen Arts Festival.They exhibited stilllife watercolors ofbottles andglassware which

gave a sense of reflected light; flat pattern designsusing tempura paints; linoleum block prints, andabstract watercolors with free flowingexpressionistic lines. The students were: TeresaTurner, Sylvia Webb, Itei Wesley, Jahad Sabb, ZaidWilliams, Jawan Perine, Damien Lewis,Shamonique Hooper, Maurice Williams, DianteFord, Eric Lasure, Brandon Davis, Craig Thomasand Shaunte Pickett.

National Honor Society Inductees

DEBATE TEAMWins State Championship

We are very proud of the Weequahic High SchoolDebate Team, coached by Eunice Singleton, whichwon the 2003 State Championship for PolicyDebate. The star debaters, who have been on theteam for the past two years, were TerrenceManderville and Gary Tillery. The competition wasprovided by Science, University, and Technologyhigh schools from Newark and from BergenfieldHigh School.

The teams debated the issue of the federalgovernment increasing public health service formental health care. During the year, the team hasparticipated in competition in New Jersey as well asin New York, Vermont, Rhode Island andMassachusetts. Ms. Singleton, the WHS Debate Coach, would liketo see the students exposed to the debate processduring their middle school years and advocates fordebate to become an integral part of the district’scurriculum. She believes that the skills learnedthrough debating can have a positive impact on thestudents’ ability to resolve conflicts in their everydaylives.

STUDENT NOTES:

Demario Armour and Lamar Campbell (vocal)and Steven Byers (instrumental) participated in theStar Ledger Scholarships for Performing Artscompetition Bisola Taiwo, a reporter for theCalumet, won a laptop computer from theFamilyCare High School Journalism Contest

Six members of the Close Up Club traveled toWashington, DC for a six day program with students from 9 other states to experience thegovernment at work Kudos to the WeequahicGolf Team which went undefeated during theregular season with an 8-0 record. Last year theywon the City Championship Sanjay Spence,the high school’s best track performer, wasaccepted at New Jersey City University GenevaBrown was the recipient of the Doric Lodge No. 6Scholarship Grace Akoentry was awarded ascholarship from the Alma E. Flagg ScholarshipFund Nichelle Tolliver received a ProjectPride scholarship.

FROM THE HIGHSCHOOL ON THE HILL

Malcolm Anthony, Medina Collier, Karnley Cooper,Tarwo Cooper, Shonta Grace, Kenya Ingram,Taleatha John-Jules, TaMara Johnson, FabyenManley, Audrey Roberts, Bisola Taiwo, LeshahWilliams, Stephanie Wilson, and Nana Yeboah.

...from the Voices of our Alumni, Faculty & Friends

Charles Williams, 1972, IndianaOn Saturday, March 8, 2003, I received a largeenvelope in the mail from my cousin, DeborahJackson-Wiggins, Class of 1972, that contained acopy of the Fall 2002 edition of the Calumet.Since I have been residing in Indiana for the pasttwenty-three years, I had heard of the wonderfulthings that the WHS Alumni Association has beendoing over the years, but did not realize howdiverse the membership of the Association wasuntil I received the publication.

I must commend all the individuals who helpedput this newsletter together and of the activitiesand programs that the Association havesponsored over the years. Being in this part ofthe country, very seldom do I ever come incontact with anyone from Newark, let alone NewJersey, but when I do, it's always good to hearsomeone talk about what they know aboutWeequahic.

My years at Weequahic were, and still are, verycherished memories that I will have for the rest ofmy life. The Class of 1972 was unique in theexperiences we shared and how we stayed incontact over the years. In the fall of 1968,Weequahic was now a school where the studentswere predominately African-American. We tookpride in that fact and everyone made a consciouseffort to maintain the high academic and athleticstandards that the school always had.

Who can forget that during our freshman year('68-69), because of a large enrollment, theschool instituted a "Split Session" schedule,where the majority of freshmen had to attendclasses from 12:00 noon to 4:30 p.m. - the onlytime the school had to resort to such a schedule;school strikes during our sophomore and junioryears; if you were part of the "in crowd" you wentto all the "hookie parties" or if you were like me,went to school (all the teachers didn't strike), gotahead in some classes and/or played basketballin the gymnasium all day.

I vividly remember that one day during the strikeof "69, the students were entertained by a hot,local group from Jersey City - Kool and TheGang, whose performance was so riveting thatMr. Monprose, our principal at the time, senteveryone home at 12:30 that day. It was duringthese years, I learned the valuable lesson ofarriving for a scheduled event "on time"; who

could forget how Coach Joe Nerenburg, if youhad either his gym or health class at 8:00 a.m.,use to make you go get a late slip if you weren't inyour seat or on "your assigned spot" in gym classwhen the bell rang.

I vividly remember during my junior year, theBoard of Education chose our school (and myhealth class) to take part in a revolutionaryconcept called the "Co-education" health class,which Mr. Moore and Ms. McClendon (both physed. teachers at the time) taught. That was thefirst time I realized females my age were much,much more mature than the guys who were inthat class. The females did all the talking (asusual). The guys were too embarrassed, at thattime, to fully share our experiences or non-experiences, so the "experiment" ended afterthree weeks (to the relief of all the young men inthe class).

The sports teams, cheerleaders, majorettes,pom-pom girls, the school spirit we exhibited ,singing "Orange and Brown" and "It's So Hard tobe a Weequahic Indian"; and who can forget thebands, under the direction of Mr. Foster, were thebest in the City, bar none and my classmates whoachieved academic excellence and have gone onto represent the city, county and state in apositive way.

The Class of 1972 had the proud distinction ofhaving Mr. James Barrett, the first African-American principal of a high school in Newark,lead us in Untermann Field for our graduationexercise. Also, the message board that ispermanently affixed in the front of the school wasa gift from the Class of 1972. Finally, I also wantto commend the scholarship committees; itwarmed my heart to see that two of Weequahic'sgraduates of 2002 were given scholarships toDelaware State University, of which I am analumnus of the Class of 1977.

Susan Levine, 1965, California

Two Weequahic alumni, Al Attles Class of 1955and Susan Levine Class of 1965, both living in theSan Francisco Bay area came together on March18, 2003 to help out yet another high school.Berkeley High School, Berkeley, California isexperiencing severe budget cuts which will affectall departments next year.

Susan Levine, a member of the Berkeley AthleticFund (a group which has been raising money forBerkeley athletics for the past 18 years), asked Alif he would come as a celebrity waiter for theSixth Annual Celebrity Waiter lunch. Of course Alagreed and the event was a huge success raisingover $20,000 to help supplement the budgetdeficit. In addition to Al, we had representativesof the media, the Warriors, the 49ers, and someCAL coaches who were also Berkeley HighAlumni.

Harriet Goldberg Schreiber,1944, OhioAs you can see, my husband (Leonard) and I areboth graduates of Weequahic - he in June of 1940and me in January of 1944. We were delighted toget a copy of the Calumet. Another aspect ofbeing alumni of Weequahic has been the amountof Weequahic graduates we have met throughoutthe years.

Len and I have been very fortunate to be able totravel quite a bit. After World War II when hecame home from the Navy, Len went to work forT.W.A. which gave us access to the world and wetook advantage of it. The great part is that in ourtravels we constantly ran into other Weequahicgraduates. As much as it happened many yearsago, names are not easily recalled, but thelocations of our meetings are really varied.

To begin with there are (or were) 5 right here inCincinnati. 2 have passed on and the other 3 arefriends. In San Francisco while we were lookinginto a store window, a fellow graduate tapped uson the shoulder. In K.C. where we lived for someyears we ran into 3 graduates while in a deli. InWilmington, Delaware, where we also lived for awhile, we counted 4 alumni among our friends.

Then in Jerusalem, London, Arizona, on theIsland of Kauai, again we ran into graduates. Thelast time we were in Newark, we drove over toChancellor Avenue to get a look at the school, butwe haven’t been back in over 20 years, and untilreceiving the Calumet we had no idea it was stillin existence...but it’s great to know that it is.

My husband and I are delighted to know there issuch a thing as the Alumni Association and justas delighted about the Calumet. Keep sendingthem.

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OUR HALL OF FAMEIn furtherance of our effort toacknowledge with appreciation thoseWeequahic graduates who haveattained significant stature in theirfields and/or have served theircommunity with distinction, the AlumniAssociation has established aWeequahic High School Hall Of Fame. The recipients of the annual awardswill be memorialized with a plaque inthe first floor hall and honored at anassembly each May. We welcomeyour nominations. Please submit adetailed statement describing theindividual graduate and the reasonsshe or he merits the honor.

Recommendation letters must bereceived by January 15, 2004. The winners for next year will beannounced on March 31, 2004. Somany of our graduates have leddistinctive lives. Let us praise themappropriately in the High School OnThe Hill.

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On Sunday, May 3rd at NJ PeaceAction’s Annual Dinner, Susan MagezisBerkowitz and Elliot Schwartz werehonored as the Peace Action Couple ofthe Year. Susan is a 1961 graduate ofWeequahic High.

Before most people in this country wereeven aware of the existence of Vietnam,Susan Berkowitz wasone of six people whogathered indowntown Newark toprotest the war.Seven years laterthousands of peoplemarched through thestreets of Newarkvoicing theiropposition. Beingpart of thatmovement taught her that change waspossible even when the odds seemedinsurmountable.

Susan also organized for civil rights inNewark’s South Ward in response toblockbusters (greedy real estateenterprises) inciting fear in the Jewishcommunity causing them to flee whenpeople of color moved in. She startedblock organizations on every block in herdistrict supporting a team of black andwhite candidates. They were victorious,displacing two district leaders who hadheld office for 16 years. Susan wasinvolved in other campaigns supportingblack and white coalitions including civilrights marches, some of which were ledby Dr. Martin Luther King.

In 1973, Susan created a multiculturalholiday for her family called All People’sDay in celebration of our commonalityand individuality. It is based on thecreation of crafts that have embeddeddiversity issues such as race, nationality,and age as well as humanitarianism and

peace. This has been ongoing for threedecades. During the past four years,Susan has worked full-time to spread theideals of All Peopie’s Day in schools,houses of worship, and festivals with thegoal of making it an international holiday.

Meanwhile, Elliott Schwartz was gettinghis political education by listening to

WBAI Radio. WhenSusan and Elliottbecame a couple, theyjoined the antinuclearmovement, the S.E.A.Alliance andparticipated in manyactions, ranging fromprotests at utilitycompanies to civildisobedience on WallStreet, which Elliott

documented on film and Susan on adrawing pad.

Elliott’s flim-making efforts also includeda documentary on Atomic Veterans.Since they were both involved in the arts,they were among the organizers of theArtists for Survival Festival, an anti-nuclear art event held in New York City.The S.E.A. Alliance transformed intoSANE-FREEZE, which eventuallybecame Peace Action.

Through the years, Susan and Elliotthave joined marches and rallies for socialjustice in Newark, New York City,Philadelphia, and Washington, DC. Inthe aftermath of 9/11, they became thefacilitators of the Morristown Peace Vigilwhich is an ongoing weekly event forpeace, held on the Green in Morristown.

If you would like to find out more aboutALL PEOPLE'S DAY, contact Susan atsusan@allpeoplesday.com or at the website www.allpeoplesday.com.

Susan Magezis Berkowitz & Elliot SchwartzPeace Action Couple Of The Year

BE A MENTOR TO A WEEQUAHIC HIGH STUDENT For More Information, Contact:

JUDY BENNETT, class of 1972 at jjdbennet@aol.com

KUDOS! Warren Grover, 1955, Authors Nazis In Newark

After Hitler came to power in 1933, Nazis established organizations in majorAmerican cities to propagate their racialdoctrines. Newark, New Jersey, with itsconsiderable ethnic mix of Jews, Germans,Italians, Irish, and African-American, was aprimary target. Throughout the thirties and up toAmerica’s entrance into World War II, NewarkNazis worked to convert the city’s sizableGerman-American population to their cause.Their efforts did not go unopposed.

In his book Nazis in Newark, Warren Grover, a 1955 Weequahic alumnus, chronicles the local Jewish resistance, both organizational and private, and also records the efforts of Newark’s other ethnic groups to fight the Nazipresence that shook Newark during these years. At the center of WarrenGrover’s account is the story of two unlikely bedfellows: S. William Kalb, aphysician who led the Newark Division of the Non-Sectarian Anti-Nazi League,and Nat Arno, a prizefighter and gang member who led the Minutemen.Together they forged an alliance against Nazism, employing propaganda,public relations, and physical assaults.

Among the extraordinary events that resulted were Jewish prizefighters whoprotected Newark crime boss Longie Zwillman’s bootleg whiskey shipments -turning their attention to stopping the Nazis after prohibition ended in 1933.Grover looks at the major ethnic components of Newark, analyzing alliancesand conflicts as they reacted to the Nazi present. He records battlesbetween the German community’s democratic and Nazi factions and conflictsbetween isolationists and interventionists. He describes the unsuccessfulefforts of liberal Protestant leaders to convince their co-religionists to opposeNazism and anti-Semitism, and analyzes, as well, the strained relationsbetween the city’s black and Jewish populations.

Cynthia Graham, 1975, Pens Nothing Is Lost In The Spirit

Cynthia Graham, a 1975 graduate of WeequahicHigh School, has written a book entitled Nothing IsLost In The Spirit. A book signing took place atthe Newark Public Library on June 21st.

Her book is about two middle aged African-American females who analyze the way people intheir families handle various situations. Anima andBaset both work corporate jobs and have families

of their own. As multiple issues creep into their lives, the women decide toapply spirit to each situation that comes along, to help them understand whatthey are undertaking. By analyzing others, they learn to deal with issues intheir own lives.

After studying scriptwriting through a local cable company in the earlyeighties, Ms. Graham has written and directed plays for a private elementaryschool. She is also published in Contemporary Poets of America & Britain - ADorrance Anthology - Winter of 1994.

Dr. Alan Brookman, 1943, Is Honored By The BETH

Long-time Newark Beth Israel Medical Centerdentist Dr. Alan H. Brookman always vieweddentistry as more than just a profession. Rather,Dr. Brookman believed that dentistry gave himthe opportunity to give something back to hiscommunity and society through teaching andvolunteering.

Newark Beth Israel Medical Center’s Departmentof Dentistry recently recognized the BaskingRidge resident and former Livingston dentist forhis 50 years of caring and dedicated service tothe profession and the medical center. “We arefortunate to have benefited from Dr. Brookman’sexpertise for the past half-century,” said Dr.Abraham Speiser, chief of dental services atNewark Beth Israel Medical Center. “Over the

past 50 years Dr. Brookman has imparted his vast knowledge to hundreds ofdental residents and has made a significant impact on dental education andtraining in New Jersey.”

Dr. Brookman began his career at The Beth in July 1952. One of Dr.Brookman’s main roles was as director of dental education and residenttraining. He lectured on restorative dentistry at various local, state andnational meetings in the United States, Canada and Israel. He enjoyed theteaching aspect of his career and takes pride in the number of dentalresidents he helped train over the years. “I drew a tremendous amount ofsatisfaction from teaching residents,” Dr. Brookman said. “Whenever I go todental meetings it is a great feeling to have many of my former residents whoare now dentists come up to me and say hello.”

A graduate of Rutgers University and New York University College of Dentistry,Dr. Brookman is a fellow of the Academy of General Dentistry and served aspresident of the New Jersey Academy of General Dentistry. In addition, he is afellow of the American College of Dentists and the International College ofDentists. He is a life member of the American Dental Association.Throughout his career, Dr. Brookman has volunteered as a dentist on severalkibbutzim in the Jordan Valley and in the Jezreel Valley under the AmericanDental Volunteers for Israel and served as a member of its board.

Dr. Brookman is a 1943 graduate from Weequahic High School and his latewife, Rhoda Trachtenberg, was a graduate of the class of 1947. He hasmaintained a private practice in Livingston for 47 years.

He is proud to be honored and is in awe of the growth of the Beth’s DentalResidency Program. “When I came there, we had only two dental residentsand our department was in the hospital basement. We now have nine dentalresidents and our own dental health center. Our program is now one of thelargest and finest in the country.”

WE ENJOYED A WONDERFUL PAST, SUPPORT WEEQUAHIC’S FUTURE

.More Vignettes of a Newark ChildhoodBy Marcia Kahan Rosenthal,

Class of January 1952

The Butcher ShopMy grandparents, Ida and NathanZukerberg, (Buby and Zaidy), owned a kosher butcher shop onHawthorne Avenue in Newark...thatwondrous street (to a 10 year old)of bakeries, delicatessens, candystores and movie theatres. A childneedn’t go any further than aroundthe corner from Tillinghast Street toHawthorne Avenue, to be exposedto a world of exotic smells andtastes.

One very small store on that street,measuring, I am sure, no more than5 feet by 12 feet, and run by a tiny,ancient-looking lady, sold only‘schmaltz’ herrings and sour pickleswhich you could pick out yourselffrom barrelsful of herrings andpickles in brine. When you wouldfind a herring you wanted, the oldwoman would wrap the fish in anewspaper and you, reeking of theherring aroma, would run all the wayhome, so eager to eat thatdelectable treat with pumpernickelbread and whipped butter, a boiledpotato and onion slices.

While a “shtickel” herring wasconsidered an old country repast or‘nosh’, even a little girl, born inAmerica, could look forward to thatonce-a-week (usually Saturdaynight) special treat. I admit thatmost of my contemporaries neverentered that store and would nomore have eaten a ‘schmaltz’herring than I would have eaten alobster, but I was Buby’s andZaidy’s granddaughter, after all, withlots of ‘old country’ tastes. Andbesides, the herring store wasdirectly across the street from theirkosher butcher shop.

That sawdust-strewn shop, with thegleaming white showcases andwell-worn and well-nicked butcherblocks, was my second home duringmy grammar school years. I wouldgo there often after school or afterHebrew School, which was on

Osborne Terrace, and always lookedforward to watching Zaidy at work. His deft handling of the tools heused when he would cut and poundthe meat fascinated me. Iparticularly loved watching him trimoff the thick layers of fat from theIamb chops. The knives were sosharp and Zaidy so skillful, that thechops were soon half the size andso terribly naked-looking. Zaidysold meat and poultry and some ofBuby’s homemade dishes such asstuffed ‘kishka’ and sweet and sourcabbage, to all the neighborhoodhousewives.

He was patient with his customers,scrupulously honest and kind...andfor me, whenever I came in, therewas a nickel for ice-cream, or morelikely, several pennies for thegumball machine and a loving smileand kiss, no matter how busy hewas.

Buby came in to help Zaidy forseveral hours every day and if shehappened to be there when I camefrom school, I could expect to havethe happiest of times. She and Iwould go into the back workroom,where I would help her as sheprepared for us a snack of choppedliver or some chicken wings.Sometimes, we would pluck thechicken feathers from the chickensthat were to be sold.

As we did this and other intriguing(to a 10 year old) chores, Bubywould tell me the wonderful ‘meisas’(stories) of her childhood in Russiaand she would teach me songs ofevery language...Yiddish, Russian,Polish and even a few favorites ofhers that were in English (Shedearly loved one popular melody of

the day called, “Did you Ever See ADream Walking...Well, I Did.”). Then, if things were slow in thestore and nothing was pressing athome, Buby and I and sometimes,my little sister, Francine, would walkup the avenue together to theHawthorne Theatre, to see adouble-bill. Buby would pack usdelicious snacks and we would sitthere for hours.

Buby was a strong and sometimesstem woman with customers,tenants and merchants. Andalthough she was charitable andalways helped the needy and sick,she could drive a hard bargain andsometimes be unforgiving...butnever with me. In my adoring eyesand heart, she seemed to be anangel.

Our times together wereadventurous and exciting and filledwith fun. We played and danced anddressed up and acted and, ofcourse, always, always, there wasthe singing. She had a lovely voice,a beautiful face, an indomitablespirit and she made me feel that Iwas the most wonderful child in theworld and that life, itself, waswondrous, as well.

Zaidy provided other pleasures for alittle girl. I watched, mesmerized, ashe would total up the costs of hiscustomers’ orders with his little stubof a yellow pencil that was twoinches long, at the most. He wouldwet the point each time he wrotedown a figure in columns on brownwrapping paper and when he haddone the adding up, the pencilwould go behind his ear.Miraculously, it stayed there, thattiny remnant, until the nextcustomer’s purchases were to beadded up.

Finally, the stub got too small, evenfor him and he would throw it away.From out of the air, it seemed,another pencil stub appeared andhe would start writing. I don’t think Iever once saw a regular-sized pencilin his hand...or in his ear. How didthey get so small if they neverstarted out big? And why didn’t Iever ask him about that? (Andabout a hundred other things that Iwould love to know about him, now).

Zaidy was a neighborhood hero,too. There was the time that he wasaccosted by two men who came intohis butcher shop and demanded hismoney, at gunpoint. They began toforce him into the big meat freezerand would have locked that thickdoor behind him. When he arguedwith them, saying that he wouldfreeze in there before anyone couldfind him, they shot at him.

The bullet hit him in the area of hisstomach but was deflected by anoversized belt buckle that he waswearing. When the bullet bouncedoff and struck and shattered theshowcase, the robbers turned andran. Zaidy was saved...and hebecame a local hero, with his storyand photograph in the Newarkpapers the next morning.

During the war, meat was rationed,but Zaidy always managed toprovide us with enough food. Lambchops were (and are) my favoriteand he regularly sent over somebaby chops for my sister and forme. My Uncle Hesh, Buby’s andZaidy’s youngest child, (who is onlyeight years older than I am), woulddeliver them to us...one of his manydeliveries to customers’ homes. MyUncle Mickey often helped out, too,and my mother, Rose, the onlydaughter, would often prepare anddeliver a meal from home for mygrandparents to enjoy while theywere working.

So, many times, we would findourselves there at the same time... my sister and I, my mother, (myfather was often traveling onbusiness during these years), myuncles, and Buby and Zaidy. It washere, too, that we cried together onApril 12, 1945. I was dismissedearly from the Talmud Torah HebrewSchool soon after our principal, Mr.Halberstader, came in to tell us thatPresident Roosevelt had just died.

I ran all the way to the butcher shopand found some of the family there.We held each other and consoledone another in that wonderful littlekosher butcher shop on HawthorneAvenue, which provided not onlysustenance for our bodies but forour souls, as well.

Marcia, age 68, and her mother Rose Zukerberg Kahan, age 86

Barbara Kruger WHS 1963 Grad &Artist of Renown

Barbara Kruger was born in Newark, NewJersey, in 1945. After attending SyracuseUniversity, the School of Visual Arts, andstudying art and design with Diane Arbus atParson’s School of Design in New York,Kruger obtained a design job at Condé NastPublications. Working for MademoiselleMagazine, she was quickly promoted tohead designer. Later, she worked as agraphic designer, art director, and pictureeditor in the art departments at House andGarden, Aperture, and other publications.

This background in design is evident in thework for which she is now internationallyrenowned. She layers found photographsfrom existing sources with pithy andaggressive text that involves the viewer inthe struggle for power and control that hercaptions speak to. In their trademark blackletters against a slash of red background,some of her instantly recognizable slogansread “I shop therefore I am,” and “Yourbody is a battleground." Much of her textquestions the viewer about feminism,classicism, consumerism, and individualautonomy and desire, although herblack-and-white images are culled from themainstream magazines that sell the veryideas she is disputing.

As well as appearing in museums andgalleries worldwide, Kruger’s work hasappeared on billboards, buscards, posters,a public park, a train station platform inStrasbourg, France, and in other publiccommissions. She has taught at theCalifornia Institute of Art, The School of theArt Institute of Chicago, and the Universityof California, Berkeley. She lives in NewYork and Los Angeles.

Neighborhood Nostalgia By Seymour Spiegel, Class of June 1951

I wonder how many other high school alumnigroups retain the special elementary schoolidentities that were imprinted upon us. To me,that lineage is part of the unique community thatwas Weequahic. The neighborhood was animportant and meaningful construct, centered onthe school but transcending it socially andculturally.

When I attended Hawthorne Avenue School fromkindergarten through fifth grade - 1937 through1943 - the building was for me a citadel ofstrength, learning, and joy. I recall with marvelousclarity the wooden floors in the “old” wing, the tall,angular, imposing principal, Mr. Schmidt, theauditorium in which Mrs. Paul taught art apprecia-tion, my third grade teacher, Miss Wilson, whoreceived notification right in our classroom that herbrother had been killed in action, Miss Orr readingClemetis and Uncle Dan to us in second grade,Miss Conlon, whom I feared, Mrs. Brodsky, my firstlove, Mrs. Renz who brought a “Jack-in-the-Pulpit”to class one day and revealed a world of plantsunknown on the cement fields of Nye Avenue.

All of my teachers were sufficiently significant tome as a little boy so that sixty years later I can stillrecite the names of them all and picture theirclassrooms. However, Hawthorne Avenue Schoolwas much more than my school. Except forsleeping, I spent more hours there than I didanywhere else. The playground, enclosed by anenormous three-story chain link fence, wasstrangely rectangular with irregular courtyards thattested our creativity in laying out baseballdiamonds and basketball courts. Additionally, formost of the years I played there, the surface was agray colored, fine dirt-like substance mixed withgravel.

We were extraordinarily fortunate to have MaxYaney as the recreation teacher in the playgroundduring those years. He structured our leagues sothat no one was excluded. Despite the minimalconditions of the Hawthorne playground, he taughtus fundamentals of the sports, including how toslide (scratches, cuts and all on that gravel), howto hit, how to field, how to dribble, and how to playcompetitively without rancor or disrespect.

Mr. Yaney alsoencouraged theformation of teamsthat would beidentified with theHawthorneplayground. I wasa “Bobcat,” and Iwore my blue andgold jacket withgreat pride. Theboys in myneighborhood weremy teammates: Bernie “Red” Goldwater, the bestbaseball player I ever knew personally, his cousinNorton “Natie” Weiss, Aaron Blutman, LennieGeller, and others.

We represented our playground in an endlessseries of games against the “Rams” who werefrom that distant neighborhood loosely known asMaple Avenue School. Those boys lived onHuntington Street, Renner Avenue, SchuylerAvenue, and the like - rich kids, we thought. Welived on Nye Avenue, Hawthorne Avenue, ClintonPlace, Demarest Street, and Dewey Street,certainly to us a step down on the economicladder. The Chancellor teams, if there were any,were in a “league of their own.”

Bragaw, which I attended from the sixth throughthe eighth grade, never became an essential partof my psyche. I still spent my playing hours at theHawthorne playground primarily because of itsproximity to my home, but also because I had arole to play on that playground. The Bobcats andHawthorne needed me, not to minimize thegrowing importance of my awareness that MarilynWalsh lived on Demarest Street across from theplayground and Sandra Kessel only a few housesdown.

That neighborhood also provided a safe “hangout”before I was old enough to learn about Syd’s andHalem’s. On the corner of Nye Avenue and DeweyStreet was Krutman’s Candy Store. Mr. and Mrs.Krutman were very tolerant of our presencewhenever the playground was closed. Joe Murphy,Bernie, Natie, “Yutz” Krutman, and I would “hang”on the corner, spend the very little money we hadon sodas and the like, and learned the “myths” ofsex from the older boys who always spoke from“experience.” As I grew older, the unlearning wasthe funniest part of all.

I don’t know how much my memory has distortedthe actual facts, but I have related them truthfullyas I remember them. Weequahic certainly had aprofound and potent impact on my life, but thesevery early formative Hawthorne years had alreadysculpted my personality and skills, so thatWeequahic could be the joy that it later was.

Hawthorne Avenue Schoolwas much more than my

school. Except for sleeping,I spent more hours there than I did anywhere else.

Thank You For Supporting Us By Joining The WHS Alumni Association!OUR FUNDING THROUGH GRANTS & MEMBERSHIPGRANTS:

Chancellor FoundationJaqua FoundationLEGEND MEMBERSHIP:

Harold Braff, 1952Sheldon Bross, 1955Beatrice Kaplan Brown, 1937Yvonne Causbey, 1977Clive Cummis, 1945Steve Dinetz, 1965Eli Hoffman, 1956Tema Yeskel Javerbaum, 1964Theodore Jellinek, 1957Arthur Lutzke, 1963Marvin Schlanger, 1965Dan Skoler, 1945David Steiner, 1947

SAGAMORE MEMBERSHIP:

Marvin Dinetz, 1952Sharon Price-Cates, 1972Ellen Ertag Weinstock, 1955Sam Weinstock, 1955Carl Wolf

ERGO MEMBERSHIP:

Harriet Menkes Alpert, 1940Alvin Attles, 1955Marjorie Barnes, 1985Alan Baskin, 1964Bruce Baumgarten, 1965David Beckerman, 1943Peggy Bernheim, 1946Stuart Bloch, 1955Lou Bodian, 1964Herbert Brotpies, 1959Ellen Kimmelman Brown, 1960Sheryl Brunswick, 1965Merle Rosen Cohen, 1963Larry Dinetz, 1954Harold Edwards, Sr., 1966Lawrence Erlbaum, 1953Les FeinDavid Fink, 1966Seymour Zoom Fleisher, 1940Rita Bromberg Friedman, 1952Maria Piacente Galeota, 1959Judie Girion Gerstein, 1960Lois Blumenfeld Gilbert, 1960Robert Gold, 1952Michael Gottlieb, 1959Martin Greenberg, 1950Marc Grodman, 1969Barbara Rous Harris, 1959Judy Herr, 1964Larry Hirshenson, 1966Harold Hodes, 1960Herbert Iris, 1948Alan Kampf, 1948Stephen Kass, 1964Arnold Keller, 1952Michael Kerner, 1963Ina Mae Webber Kirsch, 1952Merle Kurzrock, 1964Morton Leiwant, 1946Diane Lerner, 1956

Herbert Lerner, 1955Lawrence Lerner, 1952David Lieberfarb, 1965Lester Z. Lieberman, 1948Alvin Lubetkin, 1951Paul Lyons, 1960Myrna Malec, 1959Aileen Marcus, 1968Alfred Marcus, 1949Dean McCargo, 1971Bryan Morris, 1974Linda Reaves, 1972Arnold Reiter, 1965Leonard Robinwitz, 1954Annette Rosen, 1964Donald Rosen, 1953Clifford Rosenthal, 1962Marvin Ross, 1953Marshall Sampson, 1963Susan Braff Sayers, 1957David Shapiro, 1964Ben Simon, 1948Gary Skoloff, 1951Lawrence Tomas, 1950Pamela Scott Threets, 1966Suzanne Wallis, 1960Marc Weiner, 1966Myrna Jelling Weissman, 1953Selvin White, Jr. 1973Lucious Williams, 1964Muriel Berney Williams, 1961Phil Yourish, 1964Stuart Yourish, 1962

ORANGE & BROWNMEMBERSHIP:Deborah Harris Adler, 1960Judie Saperstein Amsterdam, 1952Jane Auster, 1952Beryl Coppock Baker, 1966Louis Ball, 1962Robert Barish, 1964Theodore Becker, 1950Lawrence Belford, 1957Linda Belford, 1964Robert BerkowitzEdward Berman, 1948Michele Gelayder Berman, 1960Sidney Bernstein, 1955Samuel Bloom, 1939Barbara Bierman, 1954Thomas Boose, Jr. 1959Joan Musto Bitter, 1953Gerald Capasso, 1952Lusynthia Johnson Carter, 1967Lee CasperHoward Casper, 1948Martin Chaplowitz, 1947Bruce Cohen, 1955Lynn Cohen, 1961Michael Cosby, 1974Dwain Darrien, 1968Barbara Prager Davis, 1964Mary Brown Dawkins, 1970Fred Decter, 1960Marcel Dutwin, 1951Diane Newmark Denburg, 1948Sheldon Denburg, 1943Joseph Dombroski, 1962Blance Dorman, 1955Nathan Dorman, 1951Philip Drill, 1945Susan Hupart Dunsky, 1964Gail Meyer Dunbar, 1960Robert Eber, 1944Martin Edelson, 1946Peggy Eisen, 1957

Charles Eisenberger, 1959Evelyn Epstein, 1934Dennis Estis, 1965Andrew Ettin, 1961Ronald Feiger, 1952Sharon Rous Feinsod, 1966Judith Feld, 1952Jerry Field, 1959Terry Fields, 1977Martin Fischer, 1937Wendy Zive Fishman, 1963Judith Klein Flynn, 1964Sara Franzblau, 1940Marty Friedman, 1951William Fromkin, 1962Sondra GelfondIna Marcus Gelfound, 1961William Gelfound. 1961Ellyn Marks Geller, 1961Beryl Goldberg, 1960Stephen Goodman, 1959Lory Greenbaum, 1956Louis Greenberg, 1941Martin Greenberg, 1950Joan Greenspan, 1948Joel Grodman, 1964Gary Grossman, 1957Glenn Hall, 1969Allan Halperin, 1960Linda Hasan-Austin, 1971Gloria Hastreiter, 1946Libby Friedman Heller, 1964Larry Hellring, 1964Barry Herman, 1953Lester Heyward, 1967Aaron Hipscher, 1961Harlee Gelman Horowitz, 1956Robert Horn, 1961Susan Horn-MooHoward Johnson, 1972Jeffrey Ignatoff, 1960Beverly Kanengiser, 1944Ruth Klein, 1964Molly Taner Jay, 1942Thomas Jenkins, 1959Joseph Jentis, 1952Sharon Jones, 1968Beverlee Kanengiser, 1944Gary Kaplan, 1960Stewart Kaplowitz, 1959Dana Gleicher Kissner, 1963Ann G. Klein, 1958Allen Klein, 1960Dan Klein, 1939Phyllis Dubrow Klein, 1957Lawrence Koenigsberg, 1964Julian Kramer, 1936Meredith Kurz, 1958Herbert Lerner, 1955Dave Lessin, 1956Ellen Ignatoff LeVine, 1964Karen Hinkes Levine, 1965Rosalind Slate Lewin, 1960Gene Lieberman, 1952Sandy Warner Luftig, 1951Milton Luria, 1939Lynn Lustig, 1953Alvin Lynn, 1950Joan Lyons, 1956Stuart Manheim, 1951Bert Manhoff, 1938Zaundria Mapson, 1964Aileen Resnick Marcus, 1968Jerry Marger, 1959Neil Markowitz, 1964Allen Markus, 1966Edwin Marshall, 1964George Marshall, 1969Joan Martin, 1969Neil Mayer, 1952Rita McGurk, 1960Eileen Lippe McManus, 1964Joseph Menker, 1958

Linda Merling, 1957Phyllis Meyer-Dubow, 1957Irwin Miller, 1945Daniel Mintz, 1964Harvey Morantz, 1959Arthur Newman, 1960Sandra Newman, 1953Steve Newmark, 1961Wilfredo Nieves, 1966Arthur Novom. 1954Wendy Kaufman Nowak, 1964Sherry Ortner, 1958Martin Ostroff, 1953Robert Pearl, 1955Marvin Phinazee, 1963Dave Poleshuck, 1964Jeffrey Reiber, 1960Evelyn Friedrich Reinhard, 1938John Clinton Reynold, Jr., 1968Saul Ring, 1940Ronald Rosen, 1960Arlen Fisch Rosenbach, 1960Vivian Rosenberg, 1966Herman Rosenfeld, 1967Mitchell Rosenthal, 1966Walter Roth, 1965Eileen Watenmaker Rowe, 1946Gordon Rubin, 1953Nathan Sabin, 1962Judith Lieb Samwick, 1960Sheldon Schachter, 1945Beverly Lauer Scharago, 1963David Schechner, 1946Ronald Schnack, 1964Harold Schwartz, 1942Dorothy Rowe Scott, 1938Burton Sebold, 1952Charles Seigel, 1959Susan Kaiser Seigel, 1962Donald Shachat, 1952Jerome Shipman, 1940Michael Siegel, 1959Harvey Sigelbaum, 1954Sheldon Simon, 1958Natalie Kransner Simon, 1959Judy Shapiro Silverman, 1959Robert Singer, 1961Gary Skoloff, 1951Sam Skurtofsky, 1959Trudy Burakoff Slater, 1964Arnold Slifer, 1957Fran Kram Slifer, 1965Sondra Hildebrandt Slotnick, 1953Janet Solondz, 1954Seymour Spiegel, 1951Michael Steinberg, 1960Robert Steinberg, 1966Herbert Strulowitz, 1947Brooke Tarabour, 1965Irwin Traurig, 1937Ophrah Rabinowitz von Hentig, 1957Suzanne Schwartz Wallis, 1960Edwin Weinstein, 1966Daniel Weiss, 1948Joel Weiss, 1960Marcia Gurvitz Weiss, 1965Steven Weiss, 1962Florence Horn Weissman, 1954Geraldine Greenfield Weitz, 1963Gwendolyn Wesley, 1977Loraine White, 1964David Wildstein, 1962Samuel Williams, 1972Lois Wilner, 1953Ivan Wyden, 1955Lisa Zimet, 1964

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we appreciate the support from the hundreds of other alumni who have

become basic members.

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In Loving Memory

Robert Kalter, 78, lovedjournalism, Jan. 1942 gradExcerpts from an article By Patricia C. Turner, Star-Ledger

For 50 years, Robert Kalterworked as a reporter andeditorial writer for TheStar-Ledger. And,according to his wife andcolleagues, he relishedevery day in thenewsroom. His wife,Norma, said Mr. Kalter"adored journalism and

adored politics. He knew world affairs, he knewevery politician in the state of New Jersey. He wasa brilliant man."

Stanley Terrell, an editorial writer for TheStar-Ledger, said Mr. Kalter was always one of thefirst in the newsroom each morning, "goingthrough the newspapers and preparing to write hiseditorials and plow through the volumes of lettersto the editor that were under his charge. Heseemed to genuinely like what he was doing, andcame to work full of enthusiasm. Kalter was fondof repeating an adage someone once told him:‘Find a job you love and you'll never work a day inyour life.’ To him, a day at the office seemed to bejust as much fun as a day at the beach or a nightat a hockey game."

Mr. Kalter, who lived in Union, died at age 78.Chick Harrison, former managing editor and nowThe Star-Ledger's reader representative, notedthat Mr. Kalter was "the son of a longtimenewspaper reporter for the Hudson Dispatch, JackKalter, who covered Hudson County politics. Bobfollowed in his father's footsteps."

Born and raised in Newark, Mr. Kalter graduatedfrom Weequahic High School before earning hisbachelor's degree in English literature from NewYork University. He served in the Army duringWorld War II, and, at 18, was the youngest man inthe country to hold the rank of second lieutenant.He was in the second wave to land at Normandyand was with the troops that liberated theconcentration camps. Mr. Kalter, a recon-naissance officer in field artillery, was awarded thePurple Heart.

Mr. Kalter enjoyed photography, music from jazzto opera, working at the computer, fine dining, andtravel. He was a great conversationalist and lovedbeing with politicians. He was passionate aboutlife and interested in everything.

Mr. Kalter was for many years on the board ofdirectors of the Essex County Mental HealthAssociation, as well as the board of the UnionYMHA. He was also a member of the Lions Club ofEssex County. In addition to his wife, Mr. Kalter issurvived by his son, Bill, and daughter-in-law,Janet, of Springfield, as well as his sister, PhyllisKrupnick of Monmouth Beach.

Charles Stewart, WHS English Teacher & Performer

Charles Stewart, apopular English teacherat Weequahic High Schoolfor many years, passedaway on May 7, 2003.

Mr. Stewart spent 33years in the NewarkSchool System at

Shabazz (South Side) High School and Weequahic.He was also an adjunct instructor at Seton HallUniversity, the Bethlehem Theological Institute anda Sunday School teacher at the BethlehemCommunity Church.

While at South Side High School in 1970, Mr.Stewart formed the Good News Singers made up ofSouth Side High students interested in singinggospel music with a unique sound. In 1979, Mr.Stewart and the Good News Singers recorded theirfirst album entitled “Steppin.” His love foreducation and young people led him to establishthe Good News Scholarship Fund in 1998.

Mr. Stewart was educated in the Newark SchoolSystem and received his BA degree form RutgersUniversity. At Bethlehem Community Church hewas a church organist, Music Administrator, andformed Praise Power, a community choir. Thechoir under his direction created a revival-likeatmosphere, drawing young people of variousdenominations from the tri-state area. He alsospent many years involved in the musicdepartment on the state and national levels of thePentecostal Assemblies of the World. In July 2002,the NJ State Council of the Arts honored him at anappreciation banquet.

In 1985, radio personality Vy Higginensondiscovered the wealth of Mr. Stewart’s talents and invited him to join the cast of “Mama I Want ToSing,” where he originated the pivotal role of theMinister of Music.

Surviving are his wife, Winifred; mother, Annie E.,brother Walter E., and sister Alpha Langlais.

Robert Reisman, Jan. 1958, New Lab Named in His MemoryExcerpts from an article by Maura McDermott, Star Ledger

Robert Reisman, the chief ofprecision munitions atPictatinny Arsenal inRockaway, NJ passed awaylast November frompancreatic cancer at age 62.He was a January 1958graduate of Weequahic HighSchool.

In June 2003 the Pictatinny Arsenal dedicated itsnew $8.4 million high-tech laboratory in his honor.The laboratory, a 215-foot-tall tower with sevenplatforms of steel beams, looks like an overgrownerector set. But it serves a unique purpose. Ittests weapons sensors that can detect enemytargets under a miserable range of conditions,from ice, sleet and snow to blinding fog and densefoliage.

Those who spoke at the dedication ceremonyrecalled Reisman’s skill, kindness, and wit, thepranks he pulled on coworkers - he managed 250engineers and scientists - and his ready supply ofjokes and stories. Reisman, who rose to Directorof Army Technology at the Pentagon after 34years at Picatinny, was one of the first engineersto recognize the potential of “smart” weapons.

A few weeks before his death, Reisman learnedthat the lab - which he helped conceive - would benamed in his honor. His wife, Sheila Reisman, saidthat he “thought it was incredible that everyonewould seek to honor him in this way.”

His daughter, Lainie Reisman, works as a peaceprogram coordinator in Guatemala for the U.S.Agency for International Development and his sonGarrett Reisman is an astronaut living Houston.

Graduates:

Marc Steinberg, 1960Justine Marsh Lipkin, 1961Beth Susan Meltzer, 1963Judy Palent, 1963

Community:

Mickey Fisher, local boxer and one of thefounders of Fisher Brothers Cleaners in Newark

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THE WEEQUAHIC ALUMNI CALUMETSUMMER 2003 / ISSUE # 9

ON THE INSIDE: Alumni Are Giving Back! Three New Scholarship Funds A Newark Story, by Sandra West Honoring Charles & Alvin Lubetkin Hobby’s Delicatessen, by Brooke Tarabour Splash!!! - 1947, by Larry Tomas Schley Street Memories by Sara Friedman Fishkin Peace Action Couple Of The Year Weequahic Diner Cheesecake Recipe The Butcher, by Marsha Kahan Rosenthal Barbara Kruger, Artist of Renown Neighborhood Nostalgia, by Seymour Spiegel From The High School On The Hill Voices Of Our Alumni, Faculty & Friends Kudos! Dr. Alan Brookman, Warren Grover, Cynthia Graham Reunion Listings Waldo Winchester Column Listing of Memberships Listing of Scholarship Donors In Loving Memory