Shading the school was the water tower that served the Westbury neighborhood. Mary Beth Kulp and Donna Harkness, the editors of the first yearbook, imagined the water tower as a silent citadel watching over the students, teachers, and administrators as they busied themselves with the task of transferring from one generation to the next the culture of the western world. They imagined the water tower thinking as it looked down on the school. "I, the majestic water tower beside it, hear its name and feel a part of it." The metaphor of the water tower as citadel became the title of Westbury's yearbook. The students became the "Westbury Rebels".