Tag: West Morris Regional High School
This Week in Chester History
In 1962, the Observer-Tribune reported on Miss Martha, a West Morris Regional student, who will be attending school in a unique way. House-bound due to an injury that left her in a cast and unable to leave her home for six months, Martha will have one two-way speaker installed in her bedroom and the other carried class to class by a student whose schedule matches hers. The “bedside” instruction is supplemented by occasional home visits by her teachers– making skipping homework impossible, cheekily noted the newspaper.
Most interesting is a final note by the newspaper, who mused that “it is not inconceivable that these same technical geniuses will… come up with a portable television-telephone. They will probably call it something like “phony-vision.” If only they knew some schooling would be done virtually in the 21st century! Maybe we should petition Zoom to rebrand as “Phony-Vision”…
This Week in Chester History
In 1978, the Observer-Tribune reported that a check for $2,500 from Chester Flea Market proceeds was presented to Welkind Neurological hospital by the Chester Lions Club. The gift was used for the purchase of two electronic beds. Other money was given to Chester Volunteer Fire Company, Police Athletic Association, and eye screenings for 3,400 students at West Morris Regional HS in Chester and St Joseph School in Mendham.
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More than 400 people attended the Talent Show at West Morris Regional High School in 1960. The show benefited the Foreign Student Exchange Fund. Gail Ardin and Nancy Sturzenegger won first prize for their version of “I Can’t Say No,” from Oklahoma. The winners were determined by an audiometer, which measured audience reactions. Source: Observer-Tribune
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In 1961, the Observer-Tribune noted the feedback given by recent West Morris Regional High School graduates to juniors and seniors in a special assembly. The college students said there was a need for more training in high school “in the art of communication of ideas, and that high school students should take very seriously their work in composition and written analysis.”
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In 1961, the Observer-Tribune reported that 48 local residents completed a 12-hour course in Family and Personal Survival at West Morris Regional High School, in cooperation with the Morris County Division of Civilian Defense. The course covered the effects of radioactive fallout, protecting your family from danger, protection from natural disasters, heat and blast effects from hydrogen bombs, and general personal and family planning. The course was so popular that 16 people signed up immediately when the second course was announced for the following January.
This Week in Chester History…
Fifty-five people from the local area attended a 3-hour adult class on Personal and Family Survival at West Morris Regional High School, in 1961. Topics discussed included Russia’s present preparedness, the need for personal readiness as a deterrent to war, a film of the hydrogen bomb at Bikini Atoll, and the effects of a 20-megaton nuclear detonation. Source: Observer-Tribune
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The Observer-Tribune reported that Nancy Sturzenegger held a swimming party and buffet supper for 24 other female graduates of West Morris Regional High School’s class of 1961. Party-goers were from Chester, Mendham, Washington Valley, Long Valley, Flanders, and Hackettstown.
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In 1960, the West Morris Regional High School Board hired Carl Rosequist, a mathematics teacher from Trenton. He replaced Leonard Ziacoma, who took a year’s leave of absence to pursue graduate work in the field. Rosequist was paid $6,350 as an annual salary. Source: Observer-Tribune
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The Observer-Tribune reported that Gail Ardin, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Emile Ardin of Hillside Road, would serve as the Women’s Club’s delegate to the Douglass College Citizen Institute for Girls. The alternate delegate was Nancy Sturzenegger, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Werner Sturzenegger. Both women were juniors at West Morris Regional High School.
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In 1960, to celebrate the first graduating class of West Morris Regional High School, Mrs. Zelda Goldberg, faculty advisor of the senior class, along with Senior Week Committee Chair Travis Cronshey, planned a schedule of special events for the students. Some of the unique privileges afforded to the seniors included exiting buses first, being first in the lunch queue, wearing hats to classes, and taking over administrative and teaching duties for a day. Source: Observer-Tribune
