Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-04-28
WIENER NAMED
NEW TECHNICAL
HIGH PRINCIPAL
Long Experience in Practical
Chemistry, in Industries
and as Educator.
HEAD OF SCIENCE DEPT
OF LOCAL HIGH SCHOOL
Pupils Rank High in Chemistry,
Physics and the Allied
Sciences.
.eThe school that meets sbso-
IufeIx the demand of fhe r.,anufac-

HtuDOl In8l fHtE1B EU8U-
luteIy the demand of the manuf.c-
turing and business community
This is the ideal technical high school
as pictured today to a STAR reporter
by Professor William Wiener. the
newly appointed principal of the Cen
tral Manual Training and Commercial
High school, over the erection of which
at High and New streets there has been
waged a continual labor war
Professor Wiener's experience has
been peculiar for that of a teacher, in
that he has been identified as much
with the industrial and the practicable
as with the scholastic and tbs thec-
retical.
For twenty years Professor Wiener
has been identified with Industrial in
terests. He was active years ago in
the campaign for the present flne water
supply. AS chemist and efficiency en-
gineer he has been connected IN vari-
Gus ways as an expert with the city
works and improvements ever since.
He has also been official chemist for
the Board of Health OF Elizabeth for q
number of years.
In fact" the professor laughingIy
admitted today, i've been connected
with almost every type and form OF
industry exploited here in Newark
Although l couldn't very well give my
cnents names. I've been actively en-
gagged in the leather business. the var
nlsn industry, foundry work, metal
/ work generally, the manufacture OF
machlnery-aimost the whole range OF
industrial endeavor in Newark"
/ The fact that Professor Wiener has
been able to DO all thus during the last
twenty years. while uniformaily secur-
ing a mark of excellent" from lhs
school work, Is not a little remarkable.
Congratulated by Many.
The professor has received many per
sonal letters of congratuIation and APP
proyal from both industrial concerns
and colleges. Stevens, the Institute OF
Technology and other Of the foremost
technical schools are unqualified in
their Endorsement of Professor Wiener
while firms like the Westinghouse Man
ufacturins Company, the Baibach Re
finery, the Newark Tool and Gear Com
pany, the Celluloid Manufacturing Corn-
pany many of whose assayists and
chemists have been taught by Professor
Wiener. have been equally pleased 70
indorse the professors work.
The Rev. DR.. Lyman Whitney A1iea
Senator John d. Prince and former
Comptroller Herman Metz, Of New
York. who has a factory in this city
are also arrayed on the side of those
who favored Professor Wiener's ap-
pointment.
Pupils Rank High.
/, During the period Professor vyiene.
has been head of the department oI
physics and chemistry at the Barringel
High School, the graduates have beer
ranked with those of the Boys Higl
School of Brooklyn as being the besi
prepared of any entering the colleges
Many of the graduates sull recall
, the professors picturing of the way
in which the men in the leather tan
neries used to taste the tanning mix.
ture to determine its condition befors
the days of Industrial science.
1T was not a question of tanninf
leather. it was question of tanning
thCb AAlodlSs Ahc prOleSSpI NOuit
say
He adapted and graduated a scien
tific device that ultimately did away
with this practise.
Vote stood to 2.
Professor Wiener was last night ap
, pointed by 'he Board of Education b.
vote of to 2, Chairman Brown and
, President Guild casting the dissenting
> votes. The opposition of the presiden'
. and chairman, who claimed the ap,
! pointment would be contrary to Stat,
law and board rule, was overruled
, Commissioner Tomkins. vice e-presiden
! of the board, wrote a letter in which
! he declared himself opposed to thu
; candidacy Of Professor Wiener
The fact that Professor Wiener la
had as meritorious a record and ha'
been SO Intimately acquainted witt
the industrial and business life o
Newark during the past twenty years
caused the other members Of the boar
to support him steadily in spite OF TIL
president and chairman's opposition.