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Subject: Re: [NJHUDSON-L] Weehawken High School-prior 1940
Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 23:45:46 EST

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From: (Joel R. Simon)
Subject: Weehawken High School prior to 1940
Date and Time: Friday, 11 February 2005 at about 11:36 P.M.

From about 1898 on, the Weehawken Board of Education paid the tuition of any
of its (8th grade) graduates who desired a high school education. Some went
to nearby Union Hill High School or Emerson, or even as far away as Dickinson
in Jersey City. When Hamilton School was opened in 1902, a high school
department was contemplated, but the money was never appropriated, and the idea
remained dormant until 1926, when Woodrow Wilson High School was opened on
Hauxhurst Avenue. When the P.W.A.-built Weehawken High School opened in 1940 on the
former site of Hamilton School, Wilson became a junior high. At present, the
building is leased to neighboring Union City. Possibly the most famous alumnus
of Wilson High School is choreographer Jerome Robbins, known then by his
birth name of Jerome Wilson Rabinowitz.

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