Timeline & Notable Graduates

1930/1931

Stuyvesant and NYC Public Schools

• The Soccer Team is named City Champs.
• The Debate Team wins the City Championship.
• The Symphony Orchestra is the only financially independent high school orchestra in the nation.
• Basketball wins the Tri-Boro championship.
• The Spectator and Caliper win second place in the Columbia Press Competition.
• A Physics Club is organized.

'31 Notable Graduates

• Bernard "Red" Sarachek '31 Basketball Coach & Athletic Director, Yeshiva University; Coach, American Basketball League (Scranton, League Championship, 1949-51); NYC Basketball Hall of Fame; Jewish Sports Hall of Fame
• Sol Schoenbach '31 Principal bassoonist, Philadelphia Orchestra; composer/arranger; Director, Settlement Music School; National Service Award, Chamber Music America
• Philip H. Sechzer, MD '31 Director, Pain Medical Center, Maimonides, Brooklyn, NY and Fordham, Bronx, NY; Inventor/co-developer, Pain-Controlled Analgesia system for patient self-medication; professor, anesthesiology, U. of Penn, Baylor School of Medicine, SUNY Health Science Center

1931/1932

Stuyvesant and NYC Public Schools

• Caliper is named the best magazine in a nationwide competition.
• The Basketball Team sets a PSAL scoring record.
• Fencing Team takes 5 titles and six trophies in 13 years in PSAL.
• From 1932-45, it wins 5 city championships and 6 trophies, 2 second place awards.

'32 Notable Graduates

• Irving V. Glick, MD ‘32 Sports medicine & orthopedic surgeon; Women's Tennis Association & US Tennis Open physician; worked with NJ Nets and St. John's University teams; Co-founder, North Shore Community Hospital; member, International Tennis Hall of Fame
• John T. McLoughlin '32 President, Vick Chemical Company
• John F. McManus '32 Assistant Dean, Engineering, Cornell University
• David Randolph '32 Music Director, St. Cecilia Chorus and Orchestra; Founder, conductor, Masterwork Chorus, NJ; Music Specialist, US Office of War Information; four time Ohio State award winner for best radio programs of music and commentary in the nation
• Vito L. Salerno '32 Dean, Engineering, Fairleigh Dickinson University

The Wider World

• 1931, Reynold B. Johnson, a high school teacher in Michigan, devises a way to score multiple-choice tests by sensing conductive pencil marks on answer sheets.

1922/1933

Stuyvesant and NYC Public Schools

• The Soccer Team earns the title of Manhattan Borough Champs

'33 Notable Graduates

• James B. Herbert '33 Track and Field Hall of Fame; won more races than any other runner at Madison Square Garden; twice National AAU indoor champion; Recreation Director, NYC Dept. of Parks; Senior court officer, NYS Supreme Court; Delegate, Democratic National Convention
• Edward V. Kolman '33 NFL player (Chicago Bears), coach (NY Giants); came to play violin in the orchestra at SHS but converted to football; honor roll for NFL players who served in WWII

The Wider World

• Franklin Delano Roosevelt is elected President
• Saran and Polyethylene invented

1933/1934

Stuyvesant and NYC Public Schools

• School is on two sessions, with graduating Classes in January and June.
• The highest average in the graduating class is 91.13 (2nd is 89.9).
• The Senior Prom is held at the New Yorker hotel.
• Extracurricular activities now include: ARISTA; German Club; Rifle Club and Team; Basketball; Cheering Squad; French Club; Bunsen Chemical Society; Glee Club; Architectural Society; Astronomical Society; Historical Society; Trigonometry Scholarship Class; Debating; First Aid; Chemistry Service Squad; Aero Club; Health & Hygiene; Latin; Library Squad; Radio Club; Chess Club; Caliper; Indicator; Literary Society; The Spectator; Business Board; Short Story Club; Orchestra; State Scholarship Class; Soccer Team (Manhattan Champions); Football; Cross Country; Track; Swimming; Math Society & Team; G.O. Council; Camera Club; Stuyvesant Club; Fencing; Electrical Society; Forge Club; Biology; Medical Society; Mineralogy Club; Physics; Spanish; Engineering; and the Stamp Club.
• Principal Ernest von Nardroff retires after 26 years.

'34 Notable Graduates

• Matthew M. Cammen '34 Engineer, Air Compressor Division, Ingersoll-Rand
• David J. Cavell '34 Actuary, pension plans for labor unions, businesses, and the IRS; violinist, Suburban Symphony Orchestra, Cleveland OH
• Jerome Gross, MD '34 Biologist, Massachusetts General Hospital; Professor of Medicine and Dermatology, emeritus, Harvard Medical School.
• H. Sherwood Lawrence, MD '34 Professor, immunology, NYU Medical School; pioneer, lymphocyte biology; co-director of medical services, Bellevue and NYU Hospitals; Medical officer, Navy, WWII; Normandy invasion, Omaha Beach; founding editor, Journal Cellular Immunology
• "Dr." Bernard Meltzer '34 Call-in radio show host, What's Your Problem (advised on mortgages, leaky basements, Medicaid, feuding neighbors, retirement plans, recalcitrant children and philandering husbands); Chairman, Philadephia Planning Commission; Professor, U. of Penn.
• Morton Sobell '34 Co-defendant, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg "A-Bomb Spy Case"; sentenced to thirty years; served 16 years including 5 in Alcatraz; maintains innocence; Author, Serving Time

The Wider World

• Nov. 16, 1933, the United States and the Soviet Union establish diplomatic relations. President Roosevelt sends a telegram to Soviet leader Maxim Litvinov, expressing hope that United States-Soviet relations will "forever remain normal and friendly."
• Dec. 5 1933, national Prohibition comes to an end as Utah became the 36th state to ratify the 21st Amendment to the Constitution, repealing the 18th Amendment.

1934/1935

Stuyvesant and NYC Public Schools

• Sinclair J. Wilson
  Sinclair J. Wilson is Principal.
• New courses in mathematics, science, and the humanities are offered and admission is based on the standardized entrance exam.
• ARISTA has joint session ARISTA of Julia Richman, to provide social activities for students who have proven themselves to be of "ARISTA quality".
• The “S” Club of athletes cooperates with ARISTA for its few social events, and ensures that no one unauthorized wears the “S.”
• The Philharmonic Society awards 20 prizes to orchestra members.
• An Astronomical Society forms.
• The “Silver Jubilee” is organized to celebrate the Track Team’s 25 years and holds the largest Stuyvesant track meet to date.

'34 Notable Graduates

• Daniel Bell, PhD '35 Professor, sociology, Harvard, Columbia; Editor, Common Sense, The New Leader, Fortune; Author, The End of Ideology
• Jules Lipcon '35 VP, Engineering, Maidenform; US Army Major, Ordnance; WWII 1st Army, from Normandy to Germany, repairing tanks, trucks, artillery, small arms, instruments and "everything imaginable"
• Thelonious Monk '35 Jazz musician/composer (a permanent display case dedicated to Monk is located in the lobby of Stuyvesant HS at 345 Chambers Street);
• Thomas Macioce '35 CEO, Allied Stores; Chairman, Board of Trustees, Columbia University
• Louis M. Zwiebach '35 Electrical engineer; Founder, South Florida Stuyvesant HS Alumni Association

The Wider World

• Jan. 11, 1935, aviator Amelia Earhart begins a trip from Honolulu to Oakland, Calif., becoming the first woman to fly solo across the Pacific
• Apr. 8, 1935, Works Progress Administration is established under FDR's the New Deal.
• Aug. 14, 1935, Social Security Act is passed.

1935/1936

Stuyvesant and NYC Public Schools

• The Chess Team leads the Bronx-Manhattan Division.
• Chemistry Chair Robert W. Fuller leaves Stuyvesant after 32 years.

'36 Notable Graduates

• Leopold Oberst '36 Director of operations for New York City under Mayors Edward I. Koch and Abraham Beame; VP, New York Telephone Co.; Earned the nickname "Mr. Fixit" for his handling of a major New York telephone service outage.
• Stanley L. Wallenstein '36 Psychologist; Sloan-Kettering, College on Problems of Drug Dependence; Lyceum Club of the New York Academy of Sciences; founding member, Eastern Pain Ass'n, American Pain Society and Int'l Ass'n for Study of Pain.
• Nathaniel K. Zelazo ‘36 Founder/CEO, Astronautics Corp. of America; Chairman, Kearfott Guidance & Navigation Corp.; Chairman, Astronautics C. A. Ltd. (Israel); Director, AKE Joint venture, St. Petersburg, Russia;
• Cornelius Zittere '36 Cooper Union, BME '50; University of Delaware, MME '53; Senior consultant, Dupont Co.

1936/1937

Stuyvesant and NYC Public Schools

• The Football Team is named Manhattan Champs.
• Soccer attains The Manhattan Championship Crown.
• Cross Country comes in 3rd in the city and is declared Manhattan Champs.
• A new system of fire exits is installed.
• SHS has a very active Jewish culture society.

'37 Notable Graduates

• Bernie Silverman '37 President, NY Metropolitan Conference, North American Federation of Temple Brotherhoods
• Phil Stern '37 Photojournalist; Jazz and Hollywood celebrity photographer; author, Phil Stern: A Life's Work & Phil Stern's Hollywood
• Col. Leonard R. Sugerman '37 USAF (Ret.) PhD Director, Physical Science Laboratory, New Mexico State University (NMSU); numerous contributions to the arts and sciences of navigation; 33 years in the Air Force working on aircraft, missile, satellite and re-entry systems, including two wartime overseas tours; studied at MIT, University of Chicago and NMSU; fellow of the Institute of Navigation and honorary Doctor of Laws from NMSU

The Wider World

• The Golden Gate Bridge
  Golden Gate Bridge opens in San Francisco; longest suspension bridge until 1964.
• Dec. 10,1936, King Edward abdicates the British throne.
• Jan. 19, 1937, Millionaire Howard Hughes sets a transcontinental air record by flying his monoplane from Los Angeles to Newark, N.J., in 7 hours, 30 minutes.

1937/1938

Stuyvesant and NYC Public Schools

• The second specialized science high school in the city, Bronx Science, is founded; Bronx Science draws one-quarter of its faculty from Stuyvesant.
• Cross Country wins Manhattan.
• Soccer is 3rd in the City Championships.
• Fencing and Track are City Champs.

'38 Notable Graduates

• Manny Albam '38 Jazz composer, saxophonist; Founder, BMI Jazz Composers Workshop
• Albert ("Albie") Axelrod '38 Fencing great, foilist; Five US Olympic teams over 20-year span; Olympic bronze medal (1960); National Champion
• Lt. Col. Charles W. Dryden '38 Professor, Air Science, Howard University; USAF-retired; Graduate, Tuskegee Army Flying School in Alabama; Founder, Atlanta Chapter of Tuskegee Airmen; in a WWII P-40, nicknamed “A-Train,” led first combat mission by black American pilots of U.S. Army Air Corps; Professor, air science, Howard University; Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Hofstra; Author, A-Train: Memoirs of a Tuskegee Airman
• Thomas P. Farkas, ’38 Aerospace engineer; founder, Dynamic Controls Corporation, S. Windsor, CT; Chief Design Engineer, Hamilton Sundstrand; Thomas P. Farkas ’38 Fund for Science & Technology, by Gail Farkas Munger, The Campaign for Stuyvesant Alumni and Friends Endowment Fund, Inc.
• Eugene Garfield, PhD, attended SHS for one year Founder/Chairman, Thompson Scientific; President/Founding Editor, The Scientist; Collaborated with Joshua Lederberg '41, Genetics Citation Index; Pioneered indexing of articles published in scientific journals
• Edward J. Greenfield '38 NYS Supreme Court Justice
• Irving Lang ’38 President of Jewelry Manufacturing Corporation; Vice President, Florida Stuyvesant HS Alumni Association
• John L. Tatta '38 Urban cable television pioneer; founding director, president/CEO, Cablevision
• Felix Wroblewski, PhD '38 Enzymologist

The Wider World

• June 25, 1938, Fair Labor Standards Act is passed. The first minimum wage in the US is set at 25 cents/hour.
• Teflon Invented

1938/1939

Stuyvesant and NYC Public Schools

• The Swim Team has one of the most successful seasons in years.
• The Tennis Team is reinstated.
• Indoor Track Team wins first place in the Dickenson Meet and places third at the National Championships held in Madison Square Garden.
• The Fencing Team remains undefeated in the city.
• The Soccer Team misses the city championships by one game.

'39 Notable Graduates

• Howard Greyber (Goldgraber), PhD '39 Astrophysicist; Fellow, Royal Astronomical Society; Member, International Astronomical Union
• Richard Held, PhD '39 Professor, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT; Author, Sensory Systems One:Vision and Visual Systems
• Edward N. Marwell '39 Founder/Chairman, Curtis Instruments, Mt.Kisco, NY
• Ernest Nukanen '39 Documentary filmmaker/cameraman; Co-founder, USC School of Cinema-Television documentary film program; crew, Killers Kill and The Very Eye of Night
• Sheldon Preschel, MD '39 Medical Director, SBLI; Former President, Stuyvesant HS Alumni Association
• Richard Skalak, PhD '39 Professor, civil and bio-engineering, Columbia University and UCAL San Diego; pioneer bioengineer; published. over two hundred scientific papers; author, Handbook of Bioengineering; first quantitative description of red blood cell flow in human tissue
• Theodoros Stamos '39 Artist, abstract expressionist painter; original NYC abstractionist school
• Morris Wasserstein '39 Co-Founder, Wasserstein Brothers Ribbons; Inventor, ribbon manufacturing processes and products; father, playwright Wendy and financier Bruce Wasserstein
• Bernard A. Weisberger, PhD '39 Historian/U.S. History; Author, America Afire: Jefferson, Adams, The First Contested Election; Professor, Swarthmore, Antioch, Wayne State, University of Chicago, University of Rochester; Editor, American Heritage
• Tobias Schneebaum Jan '39 Adventurer, painter; Author, Keep the River on Your Right: A Modern Cannibal Tale, documented in film by siblings David Shapiro '81 and Laurie Gwen Shapiro '84

The Wider World

• Fall 1938, The Bronx HS of Science opens as an "exam" school; girls are admitted in 1946.
• Oct. 30, 1938, Orson Welles and the Mercury Theatre radio broadcast an adaptation of H.G. Wells’ “War of the Worlds.” Many listeners panic, mistaking the play--which simulates a news report on Martians landing in New Jersey--for reality.

1939/1940

Stuyvesant and NYC Public Schools

• Chess is undefeated in the City.
• The favorite motion picture of the senior class is "Gone with the Wind.”
• Track wins Indoor City Championships.
• Fencing Team is undefeated and wins 19 consecutive matches, 1940-42. Chess is second in Division.

'40 Notable Graduates

• Mortimer Bader, MD '40 Professor, clinical medicine, Mt. Sinai School of Medicine; with twin Richard, 1940 SHS Valedictorian and namesake of Mt. Sinai's "Drs. Richard and Mortimer Bader Professor of Medicine"
• Richard Bader, MD '40 Professor, internal medicine, Mt. Sinai; Board, Life Sciences Foundation; with twin Mortimer, 1940 SHS Valedictorian and namesake of the Mt. Sinai "Drs. Richard and Mortimer Bader Professor of Medicine"
• David Becker, MD '40 Professor, Radiology/Medicine, Weill-Cornell Medical College; Chair, Chernobyl Fallout Joint Study Group; President, American Thyroid Association
• Col. Joseph File '40 Princeton Nuclear Engineer; Chairman, Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation; Marine in WWII and Korean War; original experiment leading to MRI; awarded highest medal and rank of Commandatori by his native Italy
• Norman Kretchmer, PhD, MD '40 Pediatrician, Stanford University and National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Bethesda, MD; studied "gray baby" syndrome & responsible for present-day cautions about taking drugs during pregnancy
• Nat Militzok, Esq. '40 NBA basketball player. NY Knicks; Honored, Jewish Sports Hall of Fame; first assist, first game in NBA history
• Benjamin Stanley Rosenthal '40 US Congressman from NY for over 20 years; chairman, European subcommittee, House Foreign Affairs; introduced Oct. 1973 resolution calling for Nixon impeachment and special Watergate prosecutor
• Arnold Roth ’40 Supervisory Physical Scientist, USAF, McClellan Air Force Base, CA; California Senior Legislature
• William Solomon Jan.'40 Aeronautical Engineer for research, supersonic military aircraft design and development, surface-to-air missiles, and nuclear submarine equipment design. Engineered the aerodynamic configuration design for the Navy's supersonic attack airplane, RA-5 Vigilante
• Harry Tishelman '40 NYC Finance Commissioner
• Kai Winding '40 Composer, bebop jazz trombonist

The Wider World

• Gone With the Wind poster, 1939
  Dec.15, 1939, "Gone With the Wind" premieres in Atlanta