It's the people-who make a model town. Building, roads, government and, most important, its way of life - these are but products of their aspirations, and their work. The Army made a film of life in Teaneck, to show democracy in action. While holding to its basic principles, the community, has pushed its development to meet the needs of a growing population whose horizons, too, were broadening. Townspeople differ widely in economic circumstances and in the value of their homes, but jointly they have given Teaneck a single pleasant aspect of a trim, colonial, tailored town on the Hackensack River's east bank.
Democracy is inherent in the community's major public shaper of the pleasant life.
Its public Recreation Department, headed for 18 years by Richard Rodda, for example, in its vast program it sponsors a Retired Men's Club. Members include a couple of millionaires and some retired railroad workers. When he gets home to Mildred St., singer Pat Boone spends a lot of time with his Little League ball team. Residents are high in the ranks of the arts, sports and industry. Its high schools were first in the state teach aviation back in 1932.