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The Campaign for Stuyvesant/ Alumni(ae) & Friends Endowment Fund, Inc.
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Timeline & Notable Graduates
1940/1941
Stuyvesant and NYC Public Schools
- The Stuyvesant HS Training Corps is reorganized; during WWII, more than 250 members participate in air raid drills and reviews.
- More NY Philharmonic Scholarships are awarded to Stuy students than to any other school.
- Cheering Squad has a great season.
- Track Team is Cross-Country Champions in Manhattan.
'41 Notable Graduates
- Judson (Judah) Baron, PhD '41 Professor, aeronautical engineering, MIT; Space flight expert; pioneered computational fluid dynamics; Bronze Star, WWII; associate editor, Journal of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics; Air Force Exceptional Civilian Service Medal (1988)
- Jean Cook, MD '41 Asoociate Dean/Professor, medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
- Saul Ferdman '41 Director, Space Vehicle Development, Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation; Apollo/Lunar Excursion Module team
- Rudolph Hunte '41 Chief Transportation Officer, NYC Transit Authority
- Alfred H. Kleiman '41 NYS Supreme Court Justice; NYC Criminal Court Judge; Judicial Hearing Officer; Deputy President, World Zionist Court, Jerusalem
- Arnold A. Lear, MD '41 Hematologist, Washington, DC; counseling, Medicare Modernization Act of 2003
- Joshua Lederberg, PhD '41 Pioneer, bacterial genetics;
Nobel Prize, 1958, for Medicine (with George Beadle and Edward Tatum) for discovering the mechanisms of genetic recombination in bacteria; Medal of Science, 1989; Member, National Academy of Sciences and the Royal Society, London; President/Professor, Rockefeller University; Presidential Medal of Freedom, 2006. - Asriel Rackow '41 Philanthropist; EVP, Jack Resnick & Sons, NYC builder & property management firm
- Marshall Rosenbluth, PhD '41 Nuclear scientist, with Edward Teller hydrogen bomb project, Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory; senior scientist, International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor; Albert Einstein Award, Enrico Fermi Award, and National Medal of Science
- George Roth ‘41 Marketing Consultant, Jerusalem, Israel; Editor-in-chief, The Spectator
- Albert J. Rothman, PhD '41 Chemical engineer; Sierra Club trip leader; award-winning poet
- George Segal '41 Sculptor; subject of PBS documentary George Segal: American Still Life; art editor of Stuyvesant literary magazine Caliper; first prize, Art Institute of Chicago's "American Exhibition"; American Institute of Arts and Letters, American Academy of Arts and Sciences; Federal Design Achievement Award
- Robert M. Topol Jan ‘41 Philanthropist, Mamaroneck, NY; EVP, Shearson Lehman Bros.
The Wider World
- Sep. 7, 1940, Germans begin the Blitz of London.
- Dec.29/30, 1940, Incendiary devices cause massive fires in and around St. Paul's cathedral.
- Jan. 20, 1941, Roosevelt’s third inauguration, he is the first and only president to be elected to a third term.
- May 10, 1941, The last night and worst night of the Blitz - as many as 3,000 Londoners were killed. Germany fails to break the British spirit.
1941/1942
Stuyvesant and NYC Public Schools
- SHS is designated as an Air Raid Shelter.
- ARISTA puts gummed tape over all windows facing the inside corridors of the School.
- In cooperation with the Aeronautical Society, students collect model airplanes for use in the civil defense plane-identification program.
- W2CLE, the “ham” radio station, the first in any high school, is ordered off the air by the FCC to better track down enemy broadcasts originating in the US.
- Handball Team wins first place in PSAL.
- Math ranked number one.
- Chess Team wins Division.
- The "most famous Stuyvesantian," James Cagney '18, wins Oscar for Best Actor in "Yankee Doodle Dandy".
'42 Notable Graduates
- Howard P. Aronson, CPA '42 Contributor, CPA Journal; Wirthum, Smith & Brown, NJ
- Edward M. Bruner, PhD '42 Professor, anthropology, University of Illinois; President, American Ethnological Society and Society for Humanistic Anthropology; expert on world tourism; Author, International Tourism
- Tom Dowd '42 Pioneer recording engineer, Atlantic Records; Manhattan Project participant; recording collaborations with Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, Otis Redding, John Coltrane, and Eric Clapton; documentary film subject, Tom Dowd & the Language of Music; Grammy Award Winner (1992), album notes, Aretha Franklin's Queen of Soul
- Jan Merlin (Wasylewski) '42 Movie/Television/Broadway actor. Roger Manning in Tom Corbett Space Cadet; Emmy Award (1975), scriptwriting, Another World; Member, Nina Fonaroff Dance Company; Novelist, Ainoko and Gunbearer; Navy destroyer torpedoman, WWII
The Wider World
- Dec. 7, 1941, Japanese planes attack the American Military base at Pearl Harbor.
Pearl Harbor, 1941 - Dec. 8, 1941, the United States entered World War II as Congress declared war against Japan one day after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
- The Science Talent Search competition for US high school students begins; Westinghouse is the sponsor until 1998.
1942/1943
Stuyvesant and NYC Public Schools
- Principal Sinclair J. Wilson (1892-1943) dies after serving nine years.
- ohn P. Clark is the Acting Principal this year.
- Soccer Team wins Manhattan Championship.
- Science clubs join to form the Science Association.
- Chess and Math Teams win City Championship.
'43 Notable Graduates
- Art Baer '43 TV writer, The Jefferson's, Happy Days, Odd Couple, The Partridge Family, Get Smart, Hogans Heroes, DIck Van Dyke Show and Andy Griffith Show; TV producer, Love Boat; Emmy winner for episode of The Carol Burnett Show
- Rolf W. Landauer, PhD '43 Pioneer, computer theory; IBM Research Fellow; contributor to the physics of information processing
- Peter D. Lax, PhD '43 Mathematician; Professor, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, NYU; Winner, National Medal of Science and Wolf Prize; President, American Math Society
The Wider World
- Nov.12, 1942, the World War II naval Battle of Guadalcanal begins. This will be a major American victory over the Japanese.
Devastation after the battle of Stalingrad - Aug. 19 to Feb. 2, 1943, Soviet Union engages in desperate fight with Nazis in the decisive Battle of Stalingrad.
- May 31, 1943, construction begins on the ENIAC at the Moore School of Electrical Engineering in Philadelphia.
1943/1944
Stuyvesant and NYC Public Schools
- Fred Schoenberg, '15 and former Mathematics Chairman, is Principal and serves for 10 years. He plans for the modernization of the building and a return to single session.
Fred Schoenberg - Cross-country wins Manhattan.
'44 Notable Graduates
- Howard Caine (Cohen) '44 Actor, Hogan's Heroes, as Major Wolfgang Hochstetter; member, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science; banjo and singing trophy winner at Southland
- Robert Fogel, PhD '44 Professor, American Institutions, University of Chicago; Nobel Prize Laureate, Economics (1993); Author (Escape from Hunger and Premature Death, The Slavery Debates, and Time on the Cross); Program director, Development of the American Economy
- William Greaves '44 Independent filmmaker, teacher, lecturer; Documentaries: Ralph Bunche, Ida B. Wells, Booker T. Washington, Frederick Douglass, Ali; Producer, Bustin' Loose; Director, Symbiopsychotaxiplasm; Emmy Award, Black Journal; Video & Filmmakers Life Achievement Award
- Irwin Zahn (Zahnstecher) '44 Mechanical engineer; Chairman, Autosplice Inc., San Diego; President, Moxie Foundation, San Diego
The Wider World
- Nov. 28, 1943, President Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Josef Stalin meet in Tehran during World War II.
The Battle of Normandy - June 4, 1944 Rome is liberated.
- June 6, 1944 D-Day, Allied troops invade France
1944/1945
Stuyvesant and NYC Public Schools
- Track Team takes Manhattan championship.
- Students of Adam H. Brenzinger (part-time instructor of Ship and Airplane Design) start plans for "Stuyvesant Town," to be built east of First Avenue.
'45 Notable Graduates
- Carlos Cuevas '45 NYC Clerk; Democratic Party leader
- Howard Golden '45 NYC Councilman & 16th President, Borough of Brooklyn, 1977-1997; created the Brooklyn Unity Campaign
- Arthur Hecht, MD '45 Internist/endocrinologist, Beth Israel and Cabrini; Professor, Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, NYU School of Medicine
- Edward M. Kosower '45 1996 Rothschild Prize in Chemistry (one of Israel's highest prizes in science); First Place in Westinghouse Science Talent Search, 1945
- Mace (Morris) Neufeld '45 Film producer, The Hunt for Red October, Patriot Games, & Clear and Present Danger; Television producer, Emmy award for East of Eden mini-series; Eastman Kodak First National Salon of Photography's grand prize and Picture of the Year by New York's World Telegram-Sun, for Sammy’s Home
- Nicholas Panepinto '45 Director, Bureau of Funeral Directing Regulation, NY State Department of Health
- Dominic Purpura MD '45 Dean, Albert Einstein School of Medicine, Bronx, NY; Established first laboratory for basic neuroscience research, Columbia University
- Andrew Streitwieser, PhD '45 Professor, Chemistry, Berkeley; member, National Academy of Sciences; Fellow, Sloan Foundation, Miller Institute, Guggenheim and National Science Foundation; California Section Award, American Chemical Society, Petroleum Chemistry
- Frank Torres '45 NY Supreme Court Justice, Bronx, NY
- Thomas A. Wood '45 Founder/President, TAW International Leasing; first African-American Director, Chase Manhattan Bank
The Wider World
- Jan.17, 1945, Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, credited with saving tens of thousands of Jews, disappears in Hungary while in Soviet custody.
- Spring 1945, Soviet troops capture Poland, liberate Auschwitz, and descend on Berlin.
- Apr. 12, 1945, Franklin Roosevelt dies in office, Harry Truman becomes President.
- Apr. 30, 1945, Hitler commits suicide.
- May 8, 1945, VE Day (Victory in Europe) - end of World War II in Europe.
- Aug. 6 and 9, 1945, Hiroshima and Nagasaki hit with first combat use of atomic weapons, speeding end of World War II in Japan.
- Aug. 14, 1945, Japan calls for cease fire and surrenders.
1945/1946
Stuyvesant and NYC Public Schools
- The Atomic Age Council is formed “to educate the student body to the dangers of atomic warfare and to the uses of atomic energy in peacetime.”
- Basketball team enters the City Championships.
- The Spectator goes on a subscription sales basis.
- The second stringers of the Swimming team beat Roosevelt’s first team, 58-9.
- Track takes Manhattan PSAL meet.
'46 Notable Graduates
- Philip P. Agusta '46 Architect; founding member, NY Professional Design Center; commissioner, NYC Board of Standards and Appeals; Ridgewood Historical Society; Kiwanis Club
- Otto Eckstein, PhD '46 Economist; Member, Council of Economic Advisors; co-founder, Data Resources; economic consultant to Lyndon Baines Johnson; introduced concept of "core" inflation
- Ben (Biaggio) Gazzara '46 Award winning actor; Emmy (Hysterical Blindness), National Board of Review (Happiness), Golden Eagle, and Theater World awards
- Cyril L. Greig '46 Lt. Col., USAF and Eastern Airlines Pilot
- Stanley Hart '46 Writer, MAD Magazine
- Jack Nash '46 Founder, Odyssey Partners; The Honors MBA Program, Baruch College, named for Mr. Nash; Chairman, Avatar Holdings
- Harvey Jacobs '46 Author, American Goliath
- Albert Shanker '46 President, American Federation of Teachers; Presidential Medal of Freedom; member, National Board of Teaching Standards
- Sanford Socolow '46 Executive Producer, Walter Cronkite Productions; Director, Internews Network
- Frederick Schult, PhD '46 Professor, history, NYU; studied American Indian policy (19th century); frontier in America; Old South industrialization; early American Republic (Jackson Era)
- Robert Werman, MD, PhD '46 Neurophysiology; Professor, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Columbia University; Author on medical research, self-help, and the Gulf War; Diplomat, US Board of Neurology & Psychiatry; led team that identified glycine as a central nervous system transmitter
- Hans Wolf '46 Vice Chairman, Syntex Corporation; Philanthropist; Awards: Palo Alto Tall Tree (1998), Lifetime Achievement (1998), Thomas W. Ford (2002)
The Wider World
- Sep. 2, 1945, Japan signs surrender instrument on the USS Missouri in Tokyo harbor.
Winston Churchill - Oct. 24, 1945, United Nations is established.
- Nov. 20, 1945, 24 Nazi leaders go on trial before an international war crimes tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany.
- Feb.14, 1946, ENIAC, is unveiled at the University of Pennsylvania.
- March 5, 1946 Winston Churchill delivers his famous "Iron Curtain" speech at Westminster College in Fulton, Mo.
1946/1947
Stuyvesant and NYC Public Schools
- May 20, 1947: Stuyvesant wins the Manhattan PSAL outdoor track and field competition for the third year in a row.
'47 Notable Graduates
- Italo H. Ablondi, Esq. '47 Founder/senior partner, Ablondi, Foster, Sobin & Davidow; US International Trade Commissioner; Editor, U.S. Trade Policy; Board member, U.S. Selective Service System; President, Unalane Foundation, religious/educational purposes, Alexandria, VA; Stuyvesant HS basketball star & forward on three American Basketball League teams; Horseman/founder, Non Sequitur Stable
- Anatole Beck, PhD '47 Professor, mathematics, University of Wisconsin; author, Excursions into Mathematics
- Herbert Burkholz '47 Author, Brain Damage; Writer-in-Residence, William & Mary and Chadwick Colleges
- Julius Richard Block, PhD '47 VP Planning and Professor, psychology, Hofstra University; author, Seeing Double, on visual perception
- Alan J. Carlan '47 Author, Learning Pre-Algebra Step by Step, for home study of mathematics; Race Manager, US Sailing Association
- Gary Felsenfeld, PhD '47 Molecular Biologist, National Institute of Health; National Academy of Sciences
- Gary S. Franklin '47 News writer/TV personality, ABC, CBS
- Larry Gralla '47 President, Gralla Publications; major sponsor, Stuyvesant HS robot team
- Michael J. Harner, PhD '47 Author, The Way of the Shaman
- Jeffrey Hart '47 Conservative scholar, social critic; editor, National Review; Professor, literature, Dartmouth; co-founder, Dartmouth Review; Reagan speech writer; Young America’s Foundation Engalitcheff prize winner ; Author, When the Way Was Good (American Life in the 1950’s) and Smiling through Cultural Catastrophe; newspaper columnist and letter writer
- David Margolis '47 Chairman/CEO, Coltec Industries
- Hans Mark, PhD '47 Chancellor, University of Texas; Deputy Administrator, NASA; Secretary, U.S. Air Force; Fellow, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics; Member, National Academy of Engineering; Director, Pentagon Defense Research and Engineering; National Advisory Board, The Campaign for Stuyvesant/Alumni(ae) & Friends Endowment Fund, Inc.
- Jerry Mutchnick '47 CCNY basketball star
- Aaron R. Rausen, MD '47 Pediatric Oncologist, NYU Medical Center; Foudning director, Stephen D. Hassenfeld Children's Center for Cancer and Blood
- Herbert Sandler '47 Chairman, Golden West Financial, Oakland, CA
- Joe Sirola '47 Actor; voice-over for advertisements; inventor
- Richard Stenta ‘47 Movie producer, Wind Talkers, Mod Squad, Across 110th Street
- Lester Tanzer '47 Managing Editor, U.S. News and World Report
- Albert M. Wojnilower, PhD '47 VP & Chief Economist, First Boston; Sr. economic advisor, The Clipper Group
The Wider World
- Apr. 9, 1947, Rescue workers dig their way through tons of accumulated newspapers and magazines to retrieve the bodies of the reclusive Collyer brothers.
1947/1948
Stuyvesant and NYC Public Schools
- First squad of all-girl cheerleaders, from Washington Irving High School.
'48 Notable Graduates
- Bernie Brillstein '48 TV producer, film star manager; Brillstein-Grey talent agency, developing John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, GIlda Radner; CEO, Lorimar Film Entertainment; Dean's Council, NYU Tisch School of the Arts; daytime Emmy, Wayne Brady Show
- Sidney I. Lirtzman, PhD '48 President, Baruch College; Dean/professor, Baruch's Zicklin School of Business
- Paul C. Martin, PhD '48 Professor, physics, and Dean, Applied Sciences, Harvard University; member, National Academy of Science
- Vladimir Pozner '48 Russian media figure and political talk show host; multiple Soviet, Russian, and American awards, including two Emmy certificates
- Alfred P. Rubin ’48 Professor, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University; chairman, executive committee, American branch of the International Law Association
- Sherwood M. Schwarz ’48 Insurance Magnate; owner, Toronto Argonauts; sports Interests started at Stuyvesant HS
- Thomas Sowell '48 Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution; editor, Twentieth Century Literature
- Leonard Thun '48 Founder/Chairman, Imperial Kitchens (on projects for Trump, LeFrak, Milstein, Tishman and DeMatteis, provided over 1 million cabinets!)
The Wider World
- Oct. 14, 1947, The sound barrier is broken by test pilot Charles Yaeger.
The Independence of Israel declared in 1948 - Dec. 23, 1947, Bell Labs scientists report they have developed the first transistor.
- May 14, 1948 Israel declares independence.
1948/1949
Stuyvesant and NYC Public Schools
- With Julia Richman girls, there is a co-ed forum and Dancing Class.
- The play, “Dead End,” is performed.
- Carl Holub, oboe, wins the NY Philharmonic Orchestra Scholarship.
- Insurance for athletes is secured.
- Debaters defeat Erasmus.
- Edward Posner is #1 in Latin and wins the Classical Award.
- Basketball team reaches finals in Madison Square Garden, but loses a heartbreaker to Lincoln by one-point, decided in the last seconds of the game; stars include Jack Molinas, Stan Maratos.
- Martin Brilliant '49 is a Westinghouse Competition finalist and prize winner. Edward Posner '50 wins Latin prize.
- Joseph Mankiewicz '24 wins 2 Academy Awards--Best Director and Best Screenplay--for "A Letter to Three Wives".
'49 Notable Graduates
- Paul Biegel, JD, CPA Jan. '49 Chairman, The Ferrite Company
- Malcolm Mark ("Sparky") Brauer, PE and CSP, '49 Safety andpetroleum engineer; inventor
- Norman Dvoskin '49 On-air weathercaster, News 12, Long Island, NY; Meteorologist, Grumman Aerospace
- Marshall Greene, MD Jan ‘49 Faculty member and Trustee/Treasurer, San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute and Society
- Milton J. Horowitz ‘49 Book and journal editor; author, Educating Tomorrow's Doctors
- Jacob L. Molinas, Esq. '49 Basketball star, Stuyvesant HS, Columbia, and NBA (Fort Wayne Pistons) ; Gambler/game fixer, jailed and disbarred; "executed by the mob"; see biography, Against All Odds
- Maurice A. Mufson, MD '49 Professor/Chairman, Internal Medicine, Marshall University; Master of the American College of Physicians; Fellow, Infectious Diseases Society of America; Alpha Omega Alpha (medical academic honor society); President, Association of Professors of Medicine
- Oscar White Muscarella, PhD '49 Archeologist/Curator, Metropolitan Museum of Art; authority on Middle-Eastern antiquities; author, The Lie Became Great
- Ernst Rosenberger '49 NYS Supreme Court Justice, Appellate Division; named one of New York's best judges by New York Magazine and Village Voice
- Nicholas P. Samios, PhD '49 Director, Brookhaven National Laboratory; physicist specializing in elementary particles; led construction, Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, at Brookhaven; Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award; Bruno Pontecorvo Prize by Joint Institute for Nuclear Research
- Ivan R. Samuels Jan. '49 President, Abbott's of Boston, Inc.; Captain, US Naval Reserve; National VP, The Navy League of the U.S.
- Elias Stein '49 Professor, mathematics, Institute for Advanced Study, distinguished teaching award, Princeton University; National Academy of Sciences; Wolf and Schock Prize laureate; expert in Fourier analysis
- Paul M. Weichsel, PhD Jan'49 Associate Chairman, Mathematics Department, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; co-chair, Jewish Federation and Jewish Community Relations Council; Chairman, The Campaign for Stuyvesant/Alumni(ae) & Friends Endowment Fund, Inc.; Cantor; Yiddishist
- Martin Vogelfanger ’49 EVP/Market Research, Leiberman Research, NY, NY
- Robert L. Weinberg, Esq. '49 Senior Partner, Williams & Connolly, Washington, DC
- Nicholas Wolfson, Esq. '49 Professor, University of Connecticut School of Law; expert in corporate law, securities regulation and free speech; Member, American Law Institute; Assistant director, SEC
The Wider World
- Nov. 1948, First Polaroid camera.
- Nov. 1948, Margaret Chase Smith (R-ME) becomes first woman elected to the U.S. Senate in her own right.
- Truman pulls historic upset over Dewey.
- Silly Putty invented
1949/1950
Stuyvesant and NYC Public Schools
- Co-ed clubs include automobile driving, and there is cheerleading with Washington Irving girls
- A proposal for a co-ed lounge in the cafeteria emerges.
- A Play Festival is held at Julia Richman.
- Soccer is Manhattan Champs.
- Fencing, led by Cy Steiner and Wally Rubenstein score "the greatest season in the history of the school."
- Norman Amaker is first black student elected GO President.
- Joseph Mankiewicz '24 wins 2 Academy Awards for second consecutive year, best director and best screenplay, for "All About Eve."
'50 Notable Graduates
- Howard Aduss, DDS ’50 Professor, orthodontics, University of Illinois, Chicago
- Earle S. Altman Jan'50 Senior VP, Helmsley Spear; Executive VP, Murray Hill Properties; Advisor, Baruch College, Steven L. Newman Real Estate Institute; chairman, Young Man/Woman Real Estate Association; Real Estate Ass'n Young/Senior Man of the year awards
- Paul J. Cohen '50 Mathematician; Fields Medal Laureate (1966); National Medal of Science; Bocher Memorial Prize of the American Mathematical Society; renowned ham radio operator; featured in Mathematical People, Profiles and Interviews
- Louis J. DiTrani '50 Justice, District Court of Maryland
- Robert Levine, PhD '50 Professor, English, Boston Univeristy; researcher, Old, Middle English, and Medieval Latin; translator, France Before Charlemagne, A Thirteenth-Century Minstrel's Chronicle, author, Gower as Gerontion: Oneiric Autobiography
- Robert Shapiro '50 Chairman, Mutual Benefit Asset Management Corp; Trustee, United HealthCare System; Director, Broad National Bank; President, Essex County Mental Health Ass'n.
- Thomas Tse Kwai Zung '50 Architect, Buckminster Fuller, Sadao & Zung. Author, Buckminster Fuller: Anthology for the New Millennium
The Wider World
- 1949, Nationalists flee to Taiwan and Mao Zedong proclaims the People's Republic of China.
- Jan. 26, 1950, India officially proclaims itself a republic as Rajendra Prasad takes the oath of office as president.
- Apr. 27, 1950, Students descend on City Hall in noisy protest in support of teacher salary demands.
- June 25, 1950, North Korean communists invade South Korea.
- June 27, 1950, President Truman, without the approval of Congress, commits American troops to battle.