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In Loving Memory
The Campaign for Stuyvesant/ Alumni(ae) & Friends Endowment Fund, Inc.
P.O. 2626
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New York, NY 10009
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Timeline & Notable Graduates
1960/1961
Stuyvesant and NYC Public Schools
- Miss Lorenzo starts teaching.
- Caliper is modernized with poetry, photography, and art, and institutes a policy of competitive membership.
- Bowling wins the Manhattan championship.
- Nucleus publishes its first issue.
- Math Team wins City Championship and garners high honors in several nationwide competitions.
- Tennis is second in its division.
- The Rifle Team becomes Manhattan Champs.
'61 Notable Graduates
- Cary Aminoff '61 Founder, Harbor Capital LLC, Riverdale, NY; Financial Advisor, The Campaign for Stuyvesant/Endowment Fund, Inc.
- Marc D. Charney '61 Foreign Editor, New York Times Week in Review
- Neil Flanzraich, Esq. '61 Vice Chairman/president, IVAX, Miami, FL; Chairman, Israel America Foundation
- Robert Gottlieb '61 Director, Urban & Environmental Policy Institute/Henry R. Luce Professor, Occidental College, LA; Editor, Urban & Industrial Environments (MIT Press)
- Kenneth L. Haehnel '61 Musician, composer; Pilot, Certified Flight and Instrument Instructor
- Barry S. Lubetkin, PhD '61 Clinical Director/Founder, Institute for Behavior Therapy, NYC; Author, Bailing Out: The Sane Way to Get out of a Doomed Relationship; former President of The American Board of Behavioral Psychology; Regular guest expert on numerous television shows, including several appearances on OPRAH
- Lawrence F. Marshall, MD ’61 Chairman/Professor, Neurosurgery, Univ. of California, San Diego
- Alexander Byron Miller '61 Chairman/CEO, Georgeson Shareholder Communications
- Elliott Naishtat '61 Representative, Texas House of Representatives
- Harvey Pitt, Esq. '61 Chairman, SEC; managing partner, Fried, Frank, Harris, and Shriver
- Joseph R. Rindler Jr., Esq. '61 Chairman, Gabelli Asset Management
The Wider World
- Nov. 8, 1960, Massachusetts Sen. John F. Kennedy defeats Vice President Richard M. Nixon for the presidency.
John F. Kennedy - Jan.17-18, 1961, Independence leader Patrice Lumumba is tortured and murdered in CIA-assisted plot in the Congo.
- April 17, 1961, 500 CIA-trained Cuban exiles launch the Bay of Pigs invasion in a failed attempt to overthrow Fidel Castro.
- Aug. 1961, Germans build the Berlin Wall.
1962/1963
Stuyvesant and NYC Public Schools
- 531 seniors win Regents scholarships.
- Fencing Team wins City Championship with Larry Miller and Tom Musliner, Jeff Kestler, Frank Lowy, Robert Chernick, Brant Fries.
- SHS again holds the record the most alumni with doctorates, 435.
- Debaters join the National Forensic League.
- Caliper wins a Medalist rating in Columbia competition.
- The Chess Team becomes City Champs.
- Rifle, Golf, and Tennis Teams take Manhattan Crowns.
- Bowlers and Riflemen are Manhattan Champs.
- Math team wins City Championship, led by captain William Lepowsky (individual City high scorer) and co-captain Roger Lehecka (who also is editor of the Math Survey).
- Stuyvesant places first in the country on "the M.A.A." (the Mathematics Association of America contest) and Bill Lepowsky has the highest individual score nationwide.
'63 Notable Graduates
- Richard Axel '63 Nobel laureate, physiology or medicine (2004); professor, Columbia, University and College of Physicians and Surgeons, Biochemistry, Molecular Biophysics and Pathology; National Academy of Sciences, American Philosophical Society, and American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Merrill (Eric) Gershwin '63 Professor, medicine, and Chief, rheumatology, allergy and clinical immunology, University of California School of Medicine, Davis
- Jerry R. Green, PhD '63 Economist; Professor/Department Chairman/Provost, Harvard; Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences; 1980 J.K. Galbraith Prize, excellence in teaching
- Thomas Keller '63 Photographer; Founder, Tom Keller Associates; President, Magnum Photos
- Roger Lehecka ’63 Director, national alumni programs and special adviser to the Dean, Columbia University
- Eric Maisel, PhD '63 Author, self-help books, The Art of the Book Proposal and Van Gogh Blues: The Creative Person's Path through Depression
- Richard Rothenberg, PhD '63 SHS teacher, and Math Department Chairman; "Influenced thousands of students and scores of teachers with his scholarship, award-winning teaching ability, guidance, and warm-heartedness." NY Times, May 15, 1997 (9 Ivar 5757)
- John P. Sangimino '63 Member, NY Stock Exchange; President, Floor Brokers Ass'n
- Ron Silver '63 TV Actor, including roles in West Wing (Bruno Gianelli), Billionaire Boys Club, and Kissinger and Nixon
- Henry Tenenbaum '63 Radio/television anchor, correspondent, critic, KRON4 News Weekend and Henry’s Garden; Host; Beyond 2000, Discovery Channel program on science and technology
The Wider World
- Oct./Nov.1962, Cuban Missile Crisis. President Kennedy denounces Soviet Union for secretly installing missile bases on Cuba and initiates a naval blockade of the island.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. - Stanford and Purdue Universities establish the first departments of computer science.
- The first video game is invented and is soon played in computer labs all over the US.
- Aug. 28, 1962, Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., delivers his “I Have a Dream” speech before a crowd of 200,000 during the civil rights march on Washington, DC.
- Pennsylvania Station is torn down.
1963/1964
Stuyvesant and NYC Public Schools
- Caliper wins First Place in Columbia Scholastic Press competition.
- The Spectator’s editorial policy strongly backs the Civil Rights Movement.
- A memorial assembly tribute to John F. Kennedy is held.
- Nick Meglin ’53, MAD magazine's Associate Editor, speaks to Seniors.
- Jazz band is formed.
- Fencing wins City, with Jeff Kestler and Frank Lowy (Co-Captains), David Nichtern, Charles Schwartz, Michael Block and James Kuhn.
- Kestler is the individual City Champion.
- Track & Field finishes undefeated in division under Coach Moses Davis.
- Golf is Manhattan Champs under Coach Walter Gaffney.
- Handball Team, led by Coach Sheldon, places second.
- Gymnastics Team begins to compete.
- Math Team places first in City.
- Varsity Club honors SHS’s 60th Anniversary.
- History Society discusses Presidential and Senatorial elections.
- SHS loses “It’s Academic” to Erasmus.
- Cheering Team is undefeated.
- Rifle wins in Manhattan.
'64 Notable Graduates
- Len Berman '64 Emmy Award-winning NBC sportscaster
- Gene Cooper, PhD '64 Professor, Anthropology, U. of Southern Califoria; expert on China; author, The Artisans and Entrepreneurs of Dongyang County
- Paul W. DeBaylo ’64 CEO DeBaylo Associates, Princeton, NJ, a management consulting firm specializing in business process assessment, design and improvement
- M. Felix Freshwater, MD '64 Hand surgeon, Miami Institute of Hand & Microsurgery; Board of Directors, The Campaign for Stuyvesant/Alumni(ae) & Friends Endowment Fund, Inc.; Chairman, Class of '64 Fund
- Lawrence Goldstone '64 Author, rare book collector experiences, including Out of the Flames
- Richard N. Gottfried '64 NYS Assemblyman, 64th District; first elected to the Assembly in 1970, at 23, while a student at Columbia Law School
- Jonathan Hale '64 Architect/architectural critic; author, The Old Way of Seeing (And How to Get It Back)
- Dennis V. Kent, PhD '64 Professor, geology, Rutgers University; Member, National Academy of Sciences; Expert in paleo-, geo-, and rock magnetism; Fellow, Geological Society of America, American Geophysical Union, and American Association for the Advancement of Science
- Ted J. Kaptchuk, OMD '64 Assoc. Director, Center for Alternative Medicine Research, Harvard Medical School; Ass't Professor, medicine, Harvard; Author, The Web Has No Weaver; SDS leader before Mark Rudd at Columbia University; trained at Macau Institute of Chinese Medicine
- Jeff Kestler, Esq. '64 Vice Chairman, The Campaign for Stuyvesant/Alumni(ae) & Friends Endowment Fund, Inc.; Corporate Counsel, Lucent Technologies; Author, Questioning Techniques and Tactics; 1968 NCAA Fencing Champion, Columbia; National Foil Team Champion, NYAC, 1971; USMC, 1974
- Eric Van Lustbader '64 Author, The Bourne Legacy and Ninja
- David B. Malment, PhD '64 Professor, logic & philosophy of science, University of California, Irvine; Editing board, Philosphy of Science and Studies in the History and Philosophy of Modern Physics; Editor, Reading Natural Philosphy
- Lenny Mandel '64 Actor, stage (The Flame Keeper) and film (Machiavelli Rises)
- Bill Michaelis, PhD '64 Professor Emeritus, San Francisco State University; Author, The Game and Play Leaders Handbook; Principal, BillandEzra.com
- Dennis Mihale, MD, MBA '64 Medical Director, IBM Global Services; Founder/CEO & CMO, St. Augustine HealthCare; Founder/Senior VP & Medical Director, Ultramedix Healthcare Systems; biomedical researcher for IBM and NASA
- Dick Morris '64 Political advisor to President Clinton and others
- Tom Mulligan '64 TV/Movie Actor; appearance in NYPD Blue
- Lance Olssen '64 Defensive tackle, Purdue Rose Bowl champions, 1966; San Francisco 49ers, New Orleans Saints; Circulation Manager(retired), Evansville (Ind.) Courier and Press
- Noah Perlis, Esq., MBA '64 Attorney/entrepreneur
- Sam Rosen '64 TV voice, NY Rangers, hockey team
- Robert Siegel '64 Host, National Public Radio's All Things Considered
- Eugene F. Sofer, PhD '64 Partner, The Susquehanna Group; Deputy Director, Commission on Holocaust Assets in the US; Director, Congressional and Intergovernmental Relations, Corporation for National Service; author, From Pale to Pampa: The Jewish Immigrant Experience in Buenos Aires
- Harvey Sohnen, Esq. ’64 Law Offices, Oakland, CA; admitted to practice, US Supreme Court; SHS Class of '64 Fund leader, The Campaign for Stuyvesant/Alumni(ae) & Friends Endowment Fund, Inc.
- John J. Van Aalst, MD '64 Pediatrician, Advocate Health Care
- Robert J. Zimmer '64 Provost, Brown University; Professor, mathematics, University of Chicago
The Wider World
- Nov. 19, 1963, 100th Anniversary of President Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, given when he dedicated a national cemetery at the Civil War battlefield in Pennsylvania.
- Nov. 22, 1963, John F. Kennedy is assassinated. VP Lyndon Baines Johnson becomes President.
- Jan. 8, 1964, LBJ Declares "War on Poverty" in his first State of the Union address, just weeks after succeeding Kennedy to the presidency; the Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO), food stamps, Medicare, and Head Start are part of this plan.
- Jan. 20, 1964, Meet The Beatles! album released in the US.
- June 1964, James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner beaten, shot and buried alive by local MS police and Klansmen.
- July 3, 1964, LBJ signs US Civil Rights Act barring race and sex discrimination by private employers, employment agencies, and unions.
- Robert Moses '52 leads Freedom Summer in Mississippi.
- Aug. 7, 1964, Congress approves the Gulf of Tonkin resolution.
- President Johnson orders the bombing of North Vietnam.
1964/1965
Stuyvesant and NYC Public Schools
- 29 seniors are finalists for the National Honor Society Scholarship and 348 are Regents Scholarship winners, with 131 alternates.
- Indicator wins first place in the Columbia Scholastic Press Association Competition.
- The Executive Council, the student governing body of the G.O. (General Organization) is established.
- Senior Prom is held for the first time in years.
- Graduation held at Carnegie Hall.
'65 Notable Graduates
- Stephen H. Glickman '65 Associate Judge, District of Columbia Court of Appeals
- James D. Kuhn '65 Chairman, NYU Real Estate Board; President, Newmark & Co. Real Estate, Inc., NY, NY; Co-Captain of the 1965 SHS Fencing Team
- Richard Lary '65 Computer designer/inventor; Storage technology director, Digital Equipment Corporation and Compaq; member of team that built the DEC VAX computer; holder of 25 patents in processor and storage systems architecture and design
- Jerrold Nadler '65 US Congressman, Manhattan-Brooklyn
- Steve Rothman '65 One of the inventors of the VAX computer family, Digital Equipment
Benjamin V. Tadelis ’65 SVP, Financial Advisor, Morgan Stanley
The Wider World
- Nov. 1964, Lyndon Johnson defeats Barry Goldwater for President. Hubert Humphrey is VP.
- Jan. 4 1965, President Johnson outlines the goals of his "Great Society" in his State of the Union address.
- March 21, 1965 More than 3,000 civil rights demonstrators led by the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. march from Selma to Montgomery, Ala.
- Apr. 6-8, 1965, Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) hold first major anti-war rally in D.C.
1965/1966
Stuyvesant and NYC Public Schools
- The Rifle team places second in the City Competition.
- Bowling wins Manhattan Division Championships.
- Graduation at The Manhattan Center...no air conditioning, no caps and gowns, just the homeroom teachers handing out diplomas.
'66 Notable Graduates
- Bob Frankston '66 Co-creator of Visicalc, ACM Fellow, PC Magazine Life Time Achievement Award
- Steven A. Gelb ‘66 Managing director, Yield Management Systems, hospitality industry financial optimization
- Ken Grauer, MD '66 Cardiologist; Author, ECG "Pocket Brain"
- Joseph Nacchio '66 President/CEO, Qwest Communications; EVP/Chief Engineer, AT&T
- Charles Scott '66 NBA Basketball guard, North Carolina, Phoenix Suns, Boston Celtics, and LA Lakers; Olympic Gold Medal Team (1968)
The Wider World
- 1965, Lyndon Johnson's Executive Order 11246 takes the 1964 Civil Rights Act a step further, requiring federal agencies and federal contractors to take "affirmative action."
- Nov. 9, 1965, the great Northeast blackout occurs; several states and parts of Canada are hit by a series of power failures lasting up to 13 1/2 hours.
1966/1967
Stuyvesant and NYC Public Schools
- Stuyvesant has 36 Semifinalists in the National Merit Program.
- A teachers’ strike in September lasts nearly three weeks. Some SHS teachers participate.
- Larry Opoliner '69 and Richard Schiffman '70 run a radio program on WBAI-FM.
- Two new English ‘major’ electives are added to the curriculum: Theatre and Humanities. The other English courses offered are: Speech Arts, Honors English, Creative Writing and Journalism.
- Gasper R. Fabbricante becomes Chairman of the Foreign Language Department.
'67 Notable Graduates
- Walter Becker '67 Guitarist/songwriter, Jay and the Americans; Co-founder, Steely Dan
- Robert James McNamara, PhD '67 author, Second Messengers
The Wider World
- Jan. 15, 1967, the Green Bay Packers of the National Football League defeat the Kansas City Chiefs of the American League, 35-10, in the first Super Bowl.
- Jan. 27, 1967, Astronauts Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom, Edward H. White and Roger B. Chaffee die in a flash fire during a test aboard their Apollo spacecraft at Cape Kennedy, FL.
1967/1968
Stuyvesant and NYC Public Schools
- Alice de Rivera and the National Emergency Civil Liberties Committee go to court because, after having passed the specialized high school entrance exam, she is denied the right to enter Stuyvesant. Later, the Board of Education votes to allow her to attend Stuyvesant, but she chooses not to attend.
Alice de Rivera - June 7 is a day of mourning for Robert F. Kennedy.
'68 Notable Graduates
- Paul Appelbaum, MD '68 Professor/Chairman, psychiatry, University of Massachusetts Medical School; Director, Law & Psychiatry Program; President, American Psychiatric Ass'n. and Amer. Acad. of Psychiatry and the Law; Member, Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences
- Steve Bellovin '68 AT&T Bell Labs internet security expert; author, Firewalls and Internet Security: Repelling the Wily Hacker
- Richard Cantor, MD '68 Associate Professor/Vice Chairman, Emergency Medicine/Pediatrics, University Hospital, SUNY Health Science Center, Syracuse, NY; Medical Director, Central New York Poison Control Center
- Edward G. Elgart '68 Director, US Army Communications & Electronics Command Acquisition Center, Ft. Monmouth NJ; Presidential Meritorious Executive (twice) in the Federal Senior Executive Service; Fellow, National Contract Management Association
- Mark L. Paris, PhD '68 Deputy Director, Health Affairs, Performance Improvement, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense
- Steven E. Koonin, PhD '68 Chief Scientist, BP (originally British Petroleum), UK; Provost/professor, theoretical physics, Caltech
- David S. Lee, MD '68 Physician, Brockton (MA) Hospital
Steven P. Rosenberg, MD ‘68 President, Palm Beach Dermatology, W. Palm Beach, FL - Robert Schnitzer '68 Founder/Chairman, Oasis Television Network (global cable-TV network, Body-Mind-Spirit programming)
- Carl I. Schoenberger, MD '68 Medical Director, intensive care/respiratory therapy, Shady Grove Adventist Hospital in Rockville Md; President, Medical and Affiliate Staff; Lecturer, Maryland Health Care Educational Institute.
- Richard L. Weiner, MD '68 Director of Pediatrics, Montefiore Medical Group, Associate Professor of Pediatrics - Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
The Wider World
- Jan. 31, 1968, The Tet Offensive begins.
- Apr. 4, 1968, Martin Luther King, Jr. assassinated.
- June 5, 1968, Robert F. Kennedy assassinated
1968/1969
Stuyvesant and NYC Public Schools
- Arthur Linder, a biology teacher and guidance counselor, organizes the campaign to save specialized high schools.
'69 Notable Graduates
- Chris Albrecht '69 Chairman/CEO, HBO; talent developer, Int'l Creative Management; co-owner, Improvisation Nightclub, NY, NY
- Michael S. Altmann '69 EVP, Health Learning Systems; Member, American Gastro-enterological Ass'n, American Academy of Sleep Medicine, Society of Gastroenterology Nurses and Associates., and Alliance for Continuing Medical Education
- Stuart Binder-Macleod, PhD '69 Professor/Chair, Physical Therapy, Univ. of Delaware; Fellow, American Physical Therapy Assoc.; Board of Scientific Counselors, NASA’s National Space Biomedical Research Institute
- Martin Brest '69 Actor, director, producer, and writer; director, Scent of a Woman, Midnight Run, Beverly Hills Cops, Going in Style, and Hot Tomorrows
- Harris L. Cohen, MD '69 Professor, Vice Chair (Research) Radiology, Stony Brook School of Medicine; Visiting Professor, Johns Hopkins; Fellow, American College of Radiology, American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine, Society of Radiologists in Ultrasound, and American Academy of Pediatrics; Editor/Author, Ultrasonography of the Prenatal and Neonatal Brain; Fetal and Pediatric Ultrasound: A Casebook Approach; Obstetrics & Gynecology; Editor-in Chief, American College of Radiology's Professional Self-Education Syllabus series. New York magazine "Best Doctors in New York" (multiple years!).
- Joseph A. Grundfest, Esq. '69 Professor, Stanford Law School; SEC Commissioner and presidential economic advisor. Lawyer, corporate governance issues, securities regulation, mergers and acquisitions
- Eric H. Holder Jr., Esq. '69 Litigation partner with Covington & Burling, D.C.; Former U.S. Attorney General (acting); Deputy U.S. Attorney General, Clinton administration; Associate Court Justice, Superior Court, D.C., Reagan administration; board member, Meyer Foundation, See Forever Foundation, Organization of Concerned Black Men, and director, MCI
- Don Jackson '69 NFL, Columbia, football player
- Peter I. Mason, Esq. '69 Executive, Toplander Corp., May & Speh; Founder of Freeborn & Peters; Director, Mutual Fund Life Insurance; Trustee, Goodman Theater and Illinois Institute of Technology
The Wider World
- Nov. 1968, Richard Nixon elected President.
- July 20, 1969, Astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin, Jr. land on the Moon.
- Aug. 1968, Soviet Union invades Czechoslovakia.
1969/1970
Stuyvesant and NYC Public Schools
- n September, the first group of girls attend after the Board of Education fails to prove in court why girls can not attend Stuyvesant.
- First girls included: Eve Berman, Valerie Blackman, Ruth Haber, Laren Herman, Evelyn Horn, Debbie Leong, Judy Levy, Paula Marcus, Kathryn Parks, Suzanne Rose, Risa Saperstein, and Abigail Scheck.
- On May 5, students demonstrate against the Vietnam War, and fight to influence the completion of the American withdrawal from Southeast Asia.
- Students refuse to attend school for 10 days, protesting each day on Fifteenth Street.
- On May 15, an agreement is reached between the students and the administration, and students return to classes.
- 223 girls are admitted.
'70 Notable Graduates
- Reed Brody '70 Special Counsel, Human Rights Watch; Human rights advocate, for the UN and others, relating to Cambodia, Nicaragua, China, Haiti, El Salvador, Mongolia, East Timor, Congo, and Iraq
- Ed Dunkelblau, PhD '70 Director, Institute for Emotionally Intelligent Learning; clinical psychologist, private practice; consultant, schools, social-emotional literacy programs; consultant, Fortune 500, workplace issues; contributing author, Handbook of Humor and Psychotherapy; featured subject, the Chicago Tribune, USA Weekend, & CNN
- David Harbater, PhD '70 Professor, mathematics, U. Penn.; Cole Prize winner
- Dennis Johnson '70 EVP, The Children's Health Fund
- Ray L. Lent ' 70 Founder/registered investment advisor, Putney Financial Group, San Rafael, CA; Chartered Life Underwriter (CLU); Staff Commodore, SF Yacht Club
The Wider World
- Dec. 1, 1969, The first draft lottery since 1942 begins.
- May 4, 1970 Ohio National Guardsmen fire on anti-war student protesters at Kent State University, killing four and wounding nine.