Weequahic High School

Weequahic High School
Address
279 Chancellor Avenue Newark , Essex County , New Jersey 07112 United States
Coordinates	40°42′33″N74°13′13″W / 40.70917°N 74.22028°W / 40.70917; -74.22028
Information
Type	Public high school
Established	1933;91 years ago (1933)
School district	Newark Public Schools
NCES School ID	341134002206 [1]
Principal	Kyle Thomas
Faculty	32.5 FTEs [1]
Grades	9-12
Enrollment	454 (as of 2022–23) [1]
Student to teacher ratio	14.0:1 [1]
Color(s)	Orange and   Brown [2]
Athletics conference	Super Essex Conference (general) North Jersey Super Football Conference (football)
Team name	Indians [2]
Rivals	Malcolm X Shabazz High School
Publication	Ergo
Newspaper	The Calumet [3]
Yearbook	The Legend [4]
Website	www.nps.k12.nj.us/WEQ/
Weequahic High School
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Architect	Guilbert and Betelle
NRHP reference No.	100010170
Added to NRHP	4/11/2024

Weequahic High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school serving students in ninth through twelfth grades, located in the Weequahic section of Newark in Essex County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. The school is operated by the Newark Public Schools and is located at 279 Chancellor Avenue. The school has been accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Elementary and Secondary Schools since 1935. ^[5] The school was listed on the New Jersey Register and the National Register of Historic Places in 2024. ^{[6] [7]}

As of the 2022–23 school year, the school had an enrollment of 454 students and 32.5 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 14.0:1. There were 323 students (71.1% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 35 (7.7% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch. ^[1]

Awards, recognition and rankings

The school was the 325th-ranked public high school in New Jersey out of 339 schools statewide in New Jersey Monthly magazine's September 2014 cover story on the state's "Top Public High Schools", using a new ranking methodology. ^[8] The school had been ranked 258th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 310th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed. ^[9] The magazine ranked the school 305th in 2008 out of 316 schools. ^[10] The school was ranked 308th in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state. ^[11] Schooldigger.com ranked the school 353rd out of 376 public high schools statewide in its 2010 rankings (an increase of 6 positions from the 2009 rank) which were based on the combined percentage of students classified as proficient or above proficient on the language arts literacy and mathematics components of the High School Proficiency Assessment (HSPA). ^[12]

History

Construction of the high school was completed in 1932 and classes began in September 1933. ^[13] Max J. Herzberg was the first principal and remained as the leader of the high school for 18 years until his retirement in 1951. ^[14]

The high school is home to the New Deal era mural "Enlightenment of Man" ^[15] painted by Michael Lenson who was director of New Jersey mural activities for the Federal Art Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA). ^[16]

The Weequahic section of Newark, which is the neighborhood sending students to the high school, was described as it was in the 1930s and early 1940s by Weequahic alumnus Philip Roth in The Plot Against America and in the miniseries based on the book. ^[17]

Weequahic High School has an active alumni association that raises scholarship monies for the students. ^[18]

The documentary film, Heart of Stone (2009), is about Ron Stone, former principal of the high school and his efforts to work with students and further the mission of the high school. This documentary was presented at the Sundance Film Festival and has been shown in selected venues. ^[19]

Athletics

The Weequahic High School Indians ^[2] compete in the Super Essex Conference, which is comprised of public and private high schools in Essex County and was established after a reorganization of sports leagues in Northern New Jersey under the supervision of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA). ^[20] Prior to the NJSIAA's 2009 realignment, the school had participated in the Hills Division of the Iron Hills Conference, which included schools in Essex, Morris and Union counties. ^[21] With 276 students in grades 10-12, the school was classified by the NJSIAA for the 2019–20 school year as Group I for most athletic competition purposes, which included schools with an enrollment of 75 to 476 students in that grade range. ^[22] The football team competes in the National White division of the North Jersey Super Football Conference, which includes 112 schools competing in 20 divisions, making it the nation's biggest football-only high school sports league. ^{[23] [24]} The school was classified by the NJSIAA as Group III North for football for 2024–2026, which included schools with 700 to 884 students. ^[25] The school's athletic teams are called the Indians and its colors are orange and brown. ^[2]

The boys' basketball team won its first Group IV state championship in 1962 (defeating Westfield High School in the tournament final) and repeated as state champions in 1966 (vs. Hackensack High School), 1967 (vs. Camden High School) and 1973 (vs. Atlantic City High School) and won the Group II title in 2001 (vs. Pleasantville High School). ^{[26] [27]} Lester Fein was the coach of the basketball team in the 1960s, coaching many winning teams. A crowd of 4,500 watched as the 1962 team won the Group IV title with a 55–52 victory against Westfield in the championship game to finish the season with a record of 24–3. ^[28] A 62–38 win against Hackensack in the championship game played at Convention Hall in Atlantic City gave the team a 25-1 season record and the Group IV state title. ^[29] In 1967, the team finished the season with a 26–0 record after winning the state Group IV title with an 80–60 win against Camden in the championship game played in front of a tournament-record 12,000 spectators at Atlantic City's Convention Hall. ^[30] The 1967 team was listed as the number-one ranked team in the country and extended the school's winning streak to 40 games. ^[31] Some of his players went on to play in the National Basketball Association. ^[32] The 2002 boys' basketball won the North II, Group III state sectional championship, edging West Side High School in the tournament final. ^[33]

The football team won the NJSIAA Central Jersey Group II state sectional championship in 2006 and the North II Group I title in 2016. ^[34] The sectional title win in 2006 was the first ever for Weequahic and the first for a Newark high school since 1975. Coach Altariq White was named state Coach of the Year and Amara Kamara was selected as the state Defensive Player of the Year. In 2016, in the first sectional title game played between two Newark high schools, the football team defeated Malcolm X Shabazz High School by a score of 18–8 to win the North II, Group I championship, the program's second sectional title in the playoff era. ^[35] 2009 marked the return of the Thanksgiving Day game called the "Soul Bowl" between Weequahic and Shabazz High School, which had last been played in 1993 and had been in abeyance due to the two schools being placed in different athletic conferences. ^[36] The 2011 game was the 29th between the two teams, ending in a 27–20 win for Weequahic, which won its fifth consecutive defeat of Shabazz. ^[37] The intra-district football rivalry with Shabazz was ranked third on NJ.com's 2017 list "Ranking the 31 fiercest rivalries in N.J. HS football". Shabazz leads the series with an overall record of 35–28–6 through the 2017 season. ^[38]

The boys' winter track team won the state relay championship in Group III in 1991 and 1992, and won in Group I in 2016. The girls team won in Group I in 2015 ^[39]

The girls spring track team was Group III champion in 1991 and won the Group I title in 2015. ^[40]

The boys track team won the Group I spring / outdoor track state championship in 2016. ^[41]

Extracurricular activities

The high school newspaper is The Calumet, the literary magazine is Ergo, and the yearbook is called The Legend. The school's student governing body is the Orange and Brown Association (OBA). ^[42]

Administration

The school's principal is Kyle Thomas. His administration team includes three vice principals. ^[43]

Notable alumni

See also: Category:Weequahic High School alumni

Notable alumni of Weequahic High School include: ^[44]

• Janet Abu-Lughod (1928–2013, class of 1946), urban sociologist ^[45]
• Daniel M. Albert (born 1936), ophthalmologist, ocular cancer researcher, medical historian, and collector of rare books and ocular equipment ^[46]
• Hasson Arbubakrr (born 1960, class of 1979), former American football defensive end who played in the NFL with the Minnesota Vikings and Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and in the CFL with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers and Ottawa Rough Riders ^[47]
• Al Attles (1936–2024, class of 1955), former NBA basketball player who was head coach of the Golden State Warriors from 1970 to 1983 ^[48]
• Al "Bubba" Baker (born 1956, class of 1972), former NFL defensive lineman ^[49]
• Seymour Bernstein (born 1927, class of 1945), pianist, composer and teacher who was the subject of the documentary Seymour: An Introduction directed by Ethan Hawke ^[50]
• Susan Bordo (born 1947, class of 1964), feminist philosopher ^[45]
• Eunice Dwumfour (1993–2023, class of 2010), member of the borough council of Sayreville, New Jersey, from 2021 until her assassination ^[51]
• Sherman Edwards (1919–1981), songwriter best known for his songs from the 1969 Broadway musical 1776 and the 1972 film adaptation ^[52]
• Martin S. Fox (1924–2020), publisher who served as President of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency ^[53]
• Muriel Fox (born 1928, class of 1945), public relations executive who co-founded the National Organization for Women in 1966 ^{[54] [55]}
• Marvin E. Frankel (1920–2002, class of 1937), United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York and human rights activist ^[56]
• Norbert Freinkel (1926–1989), endocrinologist and diabetes researcher ^[57]
• Allen Garfield (1939–2020, class of 1957), film and television actor ^[44]
• Edward K. Gill (1917–1985), politician who served as Mayor of Cranford and was elected to two terms of office in the New Jersey General Assembly, where he represented the 21st Legislative District ^[58]
• Ina Golub (1938-2015), fiber artist who specialized in Judaica ^[59]
• Paul Goodman (class of 1945), Grammy award-winning sound engineer ^[44]
• Lorraine Gordon (1922–2018, class of 1937), jazz music advocate who was best known as the owner of the Village Vanguard jazz club in Greenwich Village ^[60]
• Robert J. Gorlin (1923–2006, class of 1940), oral pathologist, human geneticist and academic at the University of Minnesota School of Dentistry ^[44]
• Martin L. Greenberg (1932–2024, class of 1950), politician and jurist who served in the New Jersey Senate from 1974 to 1979 ^[61]
• Jerry Greenspan (1942–2019), NBA basketball player ^[62]
• Sandy Grossman (1935-2014, class of 1953), television sports director of 10 Super Bowls, 18 NBA Finals and five Stanley Cup finals ^[63]
• Ben Hawkins (1944-2017), professional American football wide receiver who played in the NFL for the Philadelphia Eagles and Cleveland Browns, and for the Philadelphia Bell of the World Football League ^[64]
• Stanley Herr (1945–2001, class of 1963), President of the American Association on Mental Retardation, University of Maryland law professor and activist for the rights of the mentally disabled ^[44]
• Reggie Jones (born 1951), retired boxer who represented the U.S. at the 1972 Summer Olympics, where he was controversially eliminated in a fight he was generally accepted to have won ^[65]
• Amara Kamara (born 1988), starting linebacker for the Temple Owls football team ^[66]
• Arnie Kantrowitz (1940–2022), LGBT activist and college professor ^[67]
• Irwin I. Kimmelman (1930–2014), politician who served in both houses of the New Jersey Legislature and served as the Attorney General of New Jersey from 1982 – 1986 ^[68]
• Allen Klein (1931–2009, class of 1950), businessman, music publisher, writers' representative and record label executive ^[69]
• Donald Kornfeld (c. 1929–2022), psychiatrist best known for his work on psychiatric issues associated with medical practice ^[70]
• Barbara Kruger (born 1945, class of 1963), conceptual artist ^[71]
• Mo Layton (born 1948, class of 1967), retired American professional basketball point guard who played in the NBA for six seasons ^[72]
• Michael Lerner (born 1943, class of 1960), rabbi, political activist and editor of Tikkun magazine ^[44]
• Dana Lewis (born 1949), retired professional basketball player ^[73]
• Swede Masin (1920–2005), early professional basketball player ^[74]
• Joseph S. Murphy (1933–1998, class of 1951), political scientist and university administrator, who was President of Queens College, President of Bennington College, and Chancellor of the City University of New York ^[44]
• Sheila Oliver (1952–2023, class of 1970), politician who served as the Lieutenant Governor of New Jersey from 2018 until her death, before which she served in the New Jersey General Assembly from 2004 to 2018, where she represented the 34th legislative district ^[75]
• Sherry Ortner (born 1941, class of 1958), cultural anthropologist ^[76]
• Victor Parsonnet (born 1924), cardiac surgeon who contributed significantly to the evolution of cardiac pacemaking ^[77]
• Bo Porter (born 1972, class of 1990), coach and executive with the Atlanta Braves, who was manager of the Houston Astros from 2013 to 2014 ^[78]
• Richie Roberts (born 1937), former law enforcement officer and disbarred attorney who was played by Russell Crowe in the 2007 film American Gangster ^[79]
• Philip Roth (1933–2018), author, whose works — notably Portnoy's Complaint — have mentioned the school ^[80]
• Reese Schonfeld (1931–2020), television journalist, who was co-founder of CNN and the Food Network ^[81]
• David Shapiro (born 1947, class of 1964), poet and art historian ^[82]
• Howard Smith (1936-2014, class of 1955), Oscar-winning film director, producer, journalist, screenwriter, actor and radio broadcaster ^[44]
• Margery Tabankin (born 1948, class of 1965), progressive political activist who served as head of AmeriCorps VISTA ^[44]
• Akrum Wadley (born 1995), American football running back ^[83]
• Milton Waldor (1924–1975), politician who served in the New Jersey State Senate from 1968 to 1972, representing Essex County ^[84]
• Naomi Wilzig (1934–2015), writer and art collector, who is the director and owner of World Erotic Art Museum Miami ^[85]
• Jack Wolf (1935–2011, class of 1952), researcher in information theory and coding theory ^[44]

See also

• Weequahic, Newark
• Weequahic Park
• Weequahic Golf Course

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32. Lester Fein Archived December 26, 2010, at the Wayback Machine , International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame. Accessed November 3, 2020. "His most successful year was the 1966-67 season, when his Weequahic High (Newark, NJ) basketball team went undefeated (26-0) en route to capturing the New Jersey State Championship. Weequahic was named 'the No. 1 high school team in the United States' and Coach Fein was honored as USA Coach of the Year."
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37. Kinney, Mike. "Weequahic (27) at Shabazz (20) - Football" Archived January 14, 2012, at the Wayback Machine , The Star-Ledger , November 24, 2011. Accessed January 2, 2012. "Hopefully, the Weequahic players conducted themselves a bit more graciously at the table yesterday than they did in the first half of the 'Soul Bowl' at Shabazz Stadium in Newark.... Marquis Armstrong rushed for two touchdowns in the first half and helped his squad control the football for 17 minutes in those opening quarters on its way to a 27-20 victory before approximately 4,000.... It also was its fifth straight victory against Shabazz, which leads the overall series 15-12-2."
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48. Johnson, Roy S. "Attles Coaches In A Personal Way" Archived August 7, 2017, at the Wayback Machine , The New York Times , January 28, 1982. Accessed January 2, 2012. "Attles, who was graduated from Weequahic High School in Newark, concedes that he was not as good at basketball as at baseball. His interests even shifted to football, in which, at 155 pounds, he was a wide receiver and defensive back."
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51. "Eunice Dwumfour, Sayreville councilwoman killed outside her home, had just won 1st elected office", NJ Advance Media for NJ.com, February 3, 2023. Accessed November 10, 2023. "Dwumfour is a 2010 graduate of Weequahic High School in Newark."
52. "Creator of Show 1776 Working on New Musical" Archived November 18, 2021, at the Wayback Machine , The News, September 20, 1969. Accessed November 18, 2021, via Newspapers.com. "Eventually he graduated from Weequahic High School in Newark, then worked his way through New York University by playing in the top bands of the day and often appeared in the 9 a.m. history class in a tuxedo."
53. "Martin S. Fox" Archived April 15, 2020, at the Wayback Machine ., The Martha's Vineyard Times , April 15, 2020. Accessed December 30, 2021. "Martin was born in Newark, New Jersey, the eldest of four sons of Jacob and Mae Bonda Fox. He attended Weequahic High School and went on to receive his BA from Amherst College and his JD from Harvard Law School."
54. Picture Gallery: Muriel Fox Archived July 1, 2019, at the Wayback Machine , Weequahic High School Alumni Association. Accessed July 22, 2016.
55. Zhang, Wenxian. "Interview with Ms. Muriel Fox: Rollins Alumni, Executive Vice President of Carl Byoir and Associates, & Co-Founder of NOW" Archived September 22, 2016, at the Wayback Machine , Rollins College, November 25, 2010. Accessed July 22, 2016. "Well, I grew up in Newark, New Jersey, went to the high school of Philip Roth Weequahic High School, and then my brother had dramatic fever, and so my family moved to Miami Beach and I was fortunate enough to get a full scholarship to Rollins."
56. Greenhouse, Steven. "Marvin Frankel, Federal Judge and Pioneer of Sentencing Guidelines, Dies at 81" Archived June 4, 2019, at the Wayback Machine , The New York Times , March 5, 2002. Accessed December 19, 2019. "Marvin Earle Frankel was born on July 26, 1920, in New York City.... He grew up in Newark and graduated at 16 from Weequahic High School, made famous by Philip Roth."
57. "Norbert Freinkel '47", Princeton Alumni Weekly , December 4, 2013. Accessed November 10, 2024. "Norbie prepared for Princeton at Weequahic High School in Newark, and came to us with the V-12 program."
58. Fitzgerald's Legislative Manual, 1984 Archived August 2, 2023, at the Wayback Machine , p. 259. J.A. Fitzgerald, 1984. Accessed September 19, 2019. "Mr. Gill, a graduate of Weequahic High School, Newark, served in the Air Force from 1942 to 1946."
59. Durbach, Elaine. "Ina Golub, 76, a weaver of fine Judaica; Mountainside artist left a legacy on walls of homes, synagogues" Archived September 29, 2022, at the Wayback Machine , New Jersey Jewish News , October 28, 2015. Accessed September 19, 2019. "They grew up in Newark and Irvington; their father, Irving, was a distinguished musician and a talented artist.... Golub attended Weequahic High School in Newark, studied art at Montclair State University, and did her master’s at Indiana University."
60. Gordon, Lorraine. Alive at the Village Vanguard: My Life in and Out of Jazz Time Archived August 2, 2023, at the Wayback Machine , p. 288. Hal Leonard Corporation, 2006. ISBN   9780634073991. Accessed December 19, 2019. "Then I went to Arts High on High Street. I really had artistic tendencies: I wanted to draw and paint.... I transferred to Weequahic High School (ahead of Philip Roth by about ten years), and ultimately graduated from there."
61. "Interview with Martin Greenberg" Archived March 4, 2016, at the Wayback Machine , Rutgers University Center on the American Governor, July 5, 2006. Accessed October 26, 2015. "And I learned more about it as I did get into Weequahic High School and we had a teacher who not too long ago passed on, Dan Epstein, who was the president of the teachers union.... The war came before I was in Weequahic, I graduated Weequahic in 1950."
62. The Lifetime Achievement Award: Lester Fein Archived December 26, 2010, at the Wayback Machine , International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame. Accessed January 25, 2011.
63. Sandomir, Richard. "Sandy Grossman, Maestro of N.F.L. on TV, Dies at 78" Archived August 7, 2017, at the Wayback Machine , The New York Times , April 3, 2014. Accessed October 26, 2015. "Sanford Morton Grossman was born on June 12, 1935, in Newark and graduated from Weequahic High School."
64. 2009 Hall of Fame Inductee, Benjamin Charles Hawkins Archived November 10, 2019, at the Wayback Machine , Nutley Hall of Fame. Accessed November 9, 2019. "Benjamin Charles Hawkins was born in Newark, NJ in 1944. He attended Weequahic High School and Nutley High School."
65. Reggie Jones Archived December 1, 2017, at the Wayback Machine , New Jersey Boxing Hall of Fame. Accessed November 23, 2017. "Reggie was born in Savannah, Georgia. He came to Newark at the age of 9. He attended Avon Elementary School and Clinton Place Junior High. He is also a 1969 graduate of Weequahic High School."
66. Mink, Nate. "Temple linebacker Kamara cares" Archived March 3, 2016, at the Wayback Machine , The Philadelphia Inquirer , July 23, 2010. Accessed January 25, 2011.
67. Stewart-Winter, Timothy. Interview with Arnie Kantrowitz Archived November 18, 2021, at the Wayback Machine , Queer Newark Oral History Project, June 1, 2015. Accessed January 24, 2022. "I went to Weequahic High School, which was considered a very good school."
68. "Irwin Kimmelman" Archived March 20, 2020, at the Wayback Machine , Attorney General of New Jersey. Accessed September 19, 2019. "Irwin I. Kimmelman was born in Newark, New Jersey on September 10, 1930. After graduation from Weequahic High School, he studied accounting at the Rutgers University School of Business Administration."
69. Goodman, Fred. Allen Klein: The Man Who Bailed Out the Beatles, Made the Stones, and Transformed Rock & Roll Archived August 2, 2023, at the Wayback Machine , p. 8. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015. ISBN   9780547896892. Accessed December 19, 2019. "At Weequahic High School he was the loud ringleader of a small group of neighborhood boys who shuttled between the movie theaters and the playgrounds.... His high school yearbook was signed by just one classmate: Philip Roth, the neighborhood's future chronicler and literary light."
70. Donald Kornfeld Obituary Archived July 7, 2022, at the Wayback Machine , Legacy.com. Accessed July 9, 2022. "Donald S. Kornfeld, MD, died peacefully on July 5, 2022, at age 93 in Tenafly, NJ. Born and raised in Newark, NJ, he was a proud graduate of Weequahic High School, Franklin & Marshall College, and Yale Medical School, cum laude ('54)."
71. Witzling, Mara Rose. "+weequahic Voicing today's visions:writings by contemporary women artists, p. 265. Universe, 1994. ISBN   0-87663-640-7. Accessed March 5, 2012. "Barbara Kruger B. 1945... The only child in a lower-middle-class Jewish family, Kruger was born in Newark, New Jersey. She graduated from Weequahic High School and, in 1964, spent a year at Syracuse University."
72. Dennis “Mo” Layton Archived December 19, 2019, at the Wayback Machine , NJSports.com. Accessed December 19, 2019. "Dennis Layton was born December 24, 1948 in Newark. He honed his game on the city’s playground, using his lightning speed and left-handed jumper to become one of the top young players in his neighborhood, which bordered Hillside and Elizabeth. The teenager everyone called 'Mo' attended Weequahic High School and, in 1966–67, he led coach Les Fein’s varsity to a 27–0 record and the #1 ranking among U.S. prep teams."
73. Staff. "New Jersey Sports; The Dream Team" Archived July 1, 2018, at the Wayback Machine , The New York Times , June 18, 1974. Accessed September 19, 2019. "The players were Dennis Layton, Dana Lewis, Leroy Cobh, George Watson and Bill Mainor. Layton, a 6‐foot‐2‐inch guard, played with Phoenix and Portland in the N.B.A. after a brilliant college career at Southern California. Lewis, a 6–10½ center with a fine outside touch, was the Philadelphia 76ers' first‐round draft choice a few years ago but failed to pan out."
74. Kaplan, Ron. "A son recalls a Weequahic legend in new book", New Jersey Jewish News , September 9, 2009. Accessed January 2, 2012. "When New Jersey-born Bob Masin, a resident of Portland, Ore., for the last 20 years, learned that a Weequahic High School alumnus lived nearby, he gave the gentleman a call. 'I introduced myself and said, "By the way, did you know of my father, Swede Masin?" And this guy is probably 30 years behind my father and he answered the same way everyone answers: "Of course I knew about your father; he was a legend."'"
75. Ramaswamy, Swapna Venugopal. "NJ Lt. Gov. Sheila Oliver, a beacon for women in politics, is not afraid to take on status quo" Archived August 2, 2023, at the Wayback Machine , The Record , July 19, 2019. Accessed September 19, 2019. "After graduating from Newark’s Weequahic High School in 1970, Oliver went on to receive a bachelor's degree from Lincoln University in Pennsylvania, a historically black colleges and universities[ sic ]."
76. Neatby, Nicole. "Sherry B. Ortner, New Jersey Dreaming: Capital, Culture, and the Class of '58.", Labour/Le Travail , March 22, 2005. Accessed July 8, 2008. "Sherry Ortner is a respected anthropologist who has turned her attention away from Sherpas in Nepal to the Class of '58 Weequahic high school in Newark, New Jersey, the high school from which she herself graduated that year."
77. McGlone, Peggy. "Music from the Heart; Cardiac surgeon gives his life to Newark hospital, orchestra" Archived August 2, 2023, at the Wayback Machine , New Jersey Jewish News , September 21, 2008. Accessed September 19, 2019. "Parsonnet was born in Newark on Aug. 29, 1924, the older of two children of Eugene and Rose Danzis Parsonnet. He attended Maple Avenue School and Weequahic High School before enrolling at Cornell University."
78. D'Alessandro, Dave. "D'Alessandro: Newark's Bo Porter hopes to help revive baseball in the city by succeeding as Astros manager" Archived August 7, 2017, at the Wayback Machine , The Star-Ledger , October 5, 2012. Accessed July 31, 2013. "Porter was named the captain of those teams by Bill Hicks, who would later coach him at Weequahic."
79. Jones, Richard G. "A New Jersey Crime Story's Hollywood Ending" Archived March 14, 2017, at the Wayback Machine , The New York Times , November 1, 2007. Accessed June 4, 2016. "As the opening of American Gangster approached, Mr. Roberts was the subject of several celebrations — including one held by the alumni association at Weequahic High School in Newark, which sponsored a screening of the film last week as a cautionary tale for students — and he attended the film's premiere in Harlem last month."
80. Lubasch, Arnold H. "Philip Roth Shakes Weequahic High" Archived March 5, 2016, at the Wayback Machine , The New York Times , February 28, 1969. Accessed September 8, 2007. "It has provided the focus for the fiction of Philip Roth, the novelist who evokes his era at Weequahic High School in the highly acclaimed Portnoy's Complaint.... Besides identifying Weequahic High School by name, the novel specifies such sites as the Empire Burlesque, the Weequahic Diner, the Newark Museum and Irvington Park, all local landmarks that helped shape the youth of the real Roth and the fictional Portnoy, both graduates of Weequahic class of '50."
81. "Judith Weinraub interview of Reese Schonfeld" Archived March 1, 2017, at the Wayback Machine , New York University Digital Library Technology Services, August 18, 2009. Accessed March 1, 2017. "Weinraub: And what kind of education did you all have? Schonfeld:... Both my brother and I went to Weequahic High, which was famous."
82. Forgosh, Linda B. Jews of Weequahic, p. 9. Arcadia Publishing, 2008. ISBN   978-0-7385-5763-2. "It was also possible to graduate from Weequahic High School in three and one-half years. David Shapiro, author of 10 volumes of poetry, including the poem Weequahic Park in the Dark, graduated early to attend Columbia University."
83. Dunleavy, Ryan. "NFL Draft 2018 | N.J.'s Akrum Wadley after visiting Giants, Jets: 'I'm going to produce' | Next RB steal?" Archived August 2, 2023, at the Wayback Machine , NJ Advance Media for NJ.com, April 9, 2018. Accessed September 19, 2019. "In order to be ready for his future, Akrum Wadley is reliving his past. About 20 hours after temporarily filling a locker two down from Eli Manning's at the Giants training facility, Wadley was back in the weight room at his alma mater, Weequahic High School."
84. Manual of the Legislature of New Jersey, 1971 Archived December 21, 2022, at the Wayback Machine , p. 355. Accessed December 21, 2022. "Milton A. Waldor (Rep., West Orange) Senator Waldor was born in Newark, New Jersey, on September 28, 1924, and was educated in the Newark Public Schools, and was a graduate of Weequahic High School and Rutgers University Law School."
85. Durbach, Elaine. "Naomi Wilzig, collector and philanthropist, 80; A supporter of Jewish causes built a famed museum of erotic art" Archived September 2, 2015, at the Wayback Machine , New Jersey Jewish News , April 15, 2015. Accessed October 26, 2015. "Naomi, who graduated from Weequahic High School in Newark and attended Montclair State Teachers College, married Siggi when she was 18."

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• School Performance Report for Weequahic High School , New Jersey Department of Education
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