Elizabeth Weiffenbach was an Art teacher at Lafayette High School

Lafayette High School (Buffalo)

Lafayette High School is the oldest public school in Buffalo that remains in its original building; a stone, brick and terra-cotta structure in the French Renaissance Revival style, by architects August Esenwein and James A. Johnson. Although classes began off-site during construction of the...

 in Buffalo, New York

Buffalo, New York

Buffalo is the second most populous city in the state of New York, after New York City. Located in Western New York on the eastern shores of Lake Erie and at the head of the Niagara River across from Fort Erie, Ontario, Buffalo is the seat of Erie County and the principal city of the...

, from the school's opening in 1903 until her retirement in 1952. During that period, she influenced artists and architects who went on to local, national, and international renown. They included:

Bruce Shanks

Bruce Shanks

Bruce McKinley Shanks was the Buffalo Evening News editorial cartoonist, and won the 1958 Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning with his cartoon "The Thinker," published on August 10, 1957...

(class of 1927), Pulitzer Prize-winning political cartoonist;
Gordon Bunshaft

Gordon Bunshaft

Gordon Bunshaft was an architect educated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 1988, Gordon Bunshaft nominated himself for the Pritzker Prize and eventually won it.-Career:...

(class of 1928), noted twentieth-century architect;
Frank Kelly Freas

Frank Kelly Freas

Frank Kelly Freas , called the "Dean of Science Fiction Artists", was a science fiction and fantasy artist with a career spanning more than 50 years.-Early life, education, and personal life:...

(class of 1938), famed science-fiction cover artist;
Jeremiah Goodman

Jeremiah Goodman

Jeremiah Goodman is an American artist.Like many artists, he began drawing at an early age, when he was given a box of crayons to keep him occupied while convalescing from a childhood injury...

(class of 1939), known simply as "Jeremiah", painter of interior still lifes of famous residences; and
Ted Lewin

Ted lewin

Ted Lewin is an author/illustrator of children's books. Lewin and his wife Betsy Reilly drew on their travels to exotic places such as the Amazon River, Botswana, Egypt, Lapland, the Sahara Desert, and India when collaborating on their many books...

(class of 1953), artist, author and illustrator of children's books.