Stuyvesant High SchoolThrough Time | The Campaign for Stuyvesant

Many of us have fond and special memories of Stuyvesant High School: our exceptional classmates and fine teachers, landmark formative experiences, and the beginnings of lives away from home on the road of adult life.

Stuyvesant then and now stands out, not only in New York City, but in the nation. Since first opening its doors in 1904, Stuyvesant has operated on the belief that New York City’s most gifted students deserve the best in public secondary education.

The Stuyvesant timeline is split up into decades from 1886 to 2004. Simply click on a time frame in the menu on the left to learn more about Stuyvesant's rich history.

1886

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The Statue of Liberty, Dedicated in 1886

Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed sunset-gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome, her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin-cities frame.

"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she,
With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore;
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
- Emma Lazarus

The Wider World

October 28th, 1886,
Statue of Liberty dedicated.

1891

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Architect BJ Snyder
Architect Charles B.J. Snyder is appointed Superintendent of School Buildings, Manhattan and annexed district of the Bronx; he designs dozens of new NYC schools, including Stuyvesant HS, and serves until 1923.

1893

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The Manual Training High School is organized in Brooklyn (later to be Brooklyn Technical High School).

1897/1898

The Coney Island Steeplechase Park

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Oct. 21, 1897, The Board of Superintendents plans to establish a manual training school in Manhattan and resolve to name it Stuyvesant High School.
Jan. 1, 1898, Incorporation of the City of New York.

The Wider World

Steeple Chase opens
Marconi successfully transmits wireless code across the English Channel

1899

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William H. Maxwell
William H. Maxwell, first Superintendent of Schools, on the creation of a manual training high school in Manhattan:
"It is now realized that the manual training high school in the teaching the use of tools, without aiming at making craftsmen, and teaching the practical application of science and art to industry, forms the best preparation for life in the case of those who have a mechanical turn of mind and who intend to devote themselves to any kind of manufacturing industry. Experience has also demonstrated that the keenness of observation, deftness of hand, and mental ingenuity developed by work of the manual training high school constitute the best possible preparation for entrance to a medical school or one of the great scientific schools."

1900

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The Kodak Brownie
1900, Kodak introduces and successfully mass markets $1 Brownie cameras and film processing services.
New York City is the world's second-largest (after London); the Lower East Side is the most densely inhabited place in the world.

1901/1902

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Centralized management by the NYC Board of Education under a single Superintendent of Schools is established.

The Wider World

The IBM Keypunch

Sep. 6, 1901, President McKinley is mortally wounded.
Sep. 14, 1901, McKinley dies, Vice-president Theodore Roosevelt becomes president.
The keypunch appears and changes little for over 50 years.

1902/1903

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Jan. 1, 1903, The NY Times reports that a manual training high school in Manhattan will be one of the next school construction projects.

The Wider World

The Ford Model A, AKA “Fordmobile”
July 23, 1903, First Ford Model A (aka Fordmobile) sold

1903/1904

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April 1904, Board of Education's Committee on Building approves plans for a school, to be named Stuyvesant High School, for a location between Livingston Place and First Avenue.
Dewitt Clinton High School will be transferred out of the former Public School 47 building (1865), at 225 East 23rd Street, and the building remodeled for temporary use as Stuyvesant HS.

The Wider World

The Wright Brothers' Flyer

Dec. 17, 1903, Wright Brothers first flight.
June 15, 1904 1,000 people die on an annual outing of an Evangelical German Lutheran Church when fire erupts aboard the steamboat General Slocum in the East River, the worst catastrophe in NYC until Sep. 11, 2004.
June 16, 1904, James Joyce's Ulysses takes place on this day.
1904, John A. Fleming patents the diode vacuum tube.
John Fleming's diode vacuum tube
1904 Number One Song: "Come Take a Trip on My Airship"

1904/1905

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On Sep.12 1904, Stuyvesant High School opens its doors to 155 male students and 12 male faculty at its temporary site, 225 E 23rd St.
Dr. Frank Rollins, Stuy's first principal
Dr. Frank Rollins is the first principal. The school opens as a manual training school, offering students the opportunity to combine technical training with academic coursework. Soon, a literary society is founded.
Football, Basketball, Rifle and Tennis Teams are instituted under the aegis of the Athletic Association.
During the year the school almost doubles in enrollment and 9 teachers are added.
The SHS Mathematical Society is founded.
The first exhibition of shop work is held.
The Glee Club and Dramatic Society are established.
The first Indicator, the annual yearbook, is published, for "both instruction and entertainment."

The Wider World

Oct. 27, 1904, New York City IRT subway opens, to a slogan, "From City Hall to Harlem in 15 Minutes!"
The construction of the Panama Canal
Theodore Roosevelt's Panama Canal Commission restructures the canal effort to solve political, engineering and human problems; work resumes.
Jan. 2, 1905, Russia surrenders to Japan, ending the Russo-Japanese War.
June 30, 1905, Einstein publishes his Special Theory of Relativity, including E=MC2.
Freud's Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality (1905) is published, this follows his publication of The Interpretation of Dreams (1900).

1905/1906

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On September 21, 1905, the cornerstone of the new Stuyvesant High School at 345 East 15th Street is laid by Commissioner Richard Adams, Chairman of the Building Committee of the Board of Education.
The cornerstone holds copies of NYC daily newspapers, Board of Education documents, a Bible, a list of the teachers and students at SHS, and a copy of the Indicator. When the East 23rd Street school becomes too crowded, an annex is added for Stuyvesant freshmen at the former DeWitt Clinton annex near Broadway between 108th and 109th Streets, the Robert Simon School, PS 165.
The Lowell Literary Society is founded
The Orchestra is formed
There are 21 faculty members
The first issue of Caliper arrives January 2, 1906. Mr. Scholz writes the school song, “Stuyvesant, Dear Stuyvesant.”
Colonel Bruce gives a speech on sub-target guns and presents one to the student body.
The Rifle club is founded
SHS Technical Society is founded
The Crew Team started
French Society founded.

The Wider World

Apr. 18, 1906, San Francisco earthquake and subsequent fires devastate a large part of the city. Official death count around 700.

1906/1907

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On Jan.16, 1907, a fire seriously damages the 23rd Street building, and classes are moved to the annex for one week while repairs are made. Only one day of school is lost. On East 15th Street, at a cost of $1.25 million, city builders construct a permanent home for SHS. The building comprises 4 acres of floor space, numerous shops and other necessities for a technical high school education.
Seniors have the option of enrolling in advanced physics. The annex, with 10 classrooms and two shops, continues to serve students, and in keeping with SHS spirit, maintains its own Annex Literary Society. SHS has 34 teachers, and student registration had doubled. A 25 page Student Guide is created. SHS crew participates in the Decoration Day Regatta on the Harlem River.

'07 Notable Graduates

Albert A. Alexander, DDS '07 Professor, Columbia College of Dental and Oral Surgery (now Columbia Dental School); SHS and U. of Penn, baseball and track star.

The Wider World

Christmas Eve 1906, the first commercial radio broadcast, Silent Night, is unexpectedly heard by wireless telegraph operators listening for Morse code.
July 28, 1907 The first SteepleChase Park burns to the ground.
Bakelite, first structural plastic, invented

1907/1908

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Ernest Von Nardoff
Sept. 9, 1907, the new Stuyvesant building opens. Dr. Rollins leaves Stuyvesant to become the Assistant State Commissioner of Education in Albany.
Dr. Ernest Von Nardroff, the eminent physicist, becomes principal. He will remain principal for 26 years.
June 12, 1908, the new building is formally dedicated.
A Camera Club is founded.
The Crew Team wins third place in the Harlem Regatta.
The Basketball Team takes second place in the PSAL Championship.
The Stuyvesant Evening Trade School is started and soon has a waiting list.
Dec. 23, the first alumni reunion is held and sets a precedent for holding reunions the week before Christmas.
SHS holds its first public speaking contest.

Stuyvesant High School, 1907

'08 Notable Graduates

Angelo Lipari, PhD '08 Chairman/Professor, Italian, Yale; authority on Dante; author, The Dolce Stil Novo According to Lorenzo De Medici

The Wider World

The City College campus, designed by George B. Post in Collegiate Gothic, is completed.
May 17, 1908 SteepleChase, rebuilt, reopens

The Re-opening of Steeplechase park

1908/1909

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The Basketball Team defeats Central High School, Philadelphia and becomes the Champions of the Eastern Region. The team goes on to beat freshmen teams from Columbia, Yale, and CCNY.
ARISTA is created as an honor society; ARISTA requires students to have an average of 75 % or better for admission and candidates must to be approved by the Senate, (a body comprised of the faculty and other ARISTA members).
A SHS Indoor Track Meet occurrs at the 71st Regiment Armory.
The Irving Dramatic Society is founded. Dramatic groups present “She Stoops to Conquer” and “Dr. Bilby’s Aeroplane.”
Basketball wins third in PSAL Champs, so does the Rifle Team.
The Swimming Team is formed.
The Drum Corps organize.

'09 Notable Graduates

Leo Roon Feb '09 Chief, chemical division, Squibb & Sons; Chemist, founder, Roxalin Flexible Finishes/Nuodex Products; Chairman, Industrial Section, NY Paint, Varnish and Lacquer Ass'n; Chairman, Board of Trustees, Columbia College of Pharmacy
Manuel Komroff '09 Novelist, Coronet and 44 others; biographer, The One Story, Big City Little Boy, and for children, Beethoven, Jefferson, Caesar, Whitman; editor, The Travels of Marco Polo, War and Peace, Brothers Karamazov; Editor-in-chief, The Russian Daily News, Petrograd; Socialist, husband to Elinor Barnard (noted portraitist), good friend of Eugene O'Neill

The Wider World

Sep. 9, 1908, Orville Wright makes 1st 1-hr airplane flight, Fort Myer, VA.

1909/1910

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The Stuyvesant Basketball Team is named “Champions of the East.”
Hockey and Boxing Teams form.
The Indicator enhances its athletic highlights with action pictures.
Golf Club, Aeronautical Society, Chemistry Club, Sketch Club, Senior Debating Society, Societas Latina Stuyvesantensis, Civics Club, are all organized.
The Radio Club starts and builds its first crystal set.

'10 Notable Graduates

Ralph Colp, MD '10 Professor, Surgery, Mt. Sinai Medical School; Fellow, American College of Surgeons
Henry Masson, PhD '10 Engineer & educator; Ass't Dean, Graduate Division Director, Dept. Chairman, Professor, NYU; petroleum technology specialist; inventor holding basic patent for the manufacture of carbon black, key ingredient in automobile tires.

1910/1911

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The Baseball Team takes second in Greater New York, and first in Manhattan.
Stuyvesant's tennis team participates in its first match.
In November, the Gymnastics Team organizes.
The Fencing Club forms.
The Bunsen Chemical Society and the Short Story Club are organized.

'11 Notable Graduates

David Klein '11 Founder/President, U.S. Bronze Sign Co.
Jacob Lieberman, returned to SHS to teach chemistry in 1916 for over 50 years.

The Wider World

Pennsylvania Station is built.

1911/1912

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Track wins a PSAL Championship and takes first in Greater New York.
The Chess Team is second in the city.
The Architectural, Engineering, and Philatelic Societies form.
In April, the Freshman Class presents a play, “The Lost Purse.”

'12 Notable Graduates

William McKerer '12 VP, Chris-Craft Company
Lewis Mumford '12 Urban planner, architectural and social critic; Author, Sidewalk Critic; lifelong opponent of large-scale public works; co-founder, Regional Planning Association of American; awarded National Medal for Literature, National Medal of Arts, U.S. Medal of Freedom and Knight of the Order of the British Empire
Guy B. Panero '12 Principal, Guy B. Panero Engineers & Panero-Weidlinger Salvadori, Paris, Rome and Lausanne; project work for Rockefeller Center, Jefferson Memorial, and Royal Medical Center of Baghdad
Felix E. Wormser '12 Mining engineer; US Ass't Secretary of the Interior; Director, Lead Industries Association; VP, St. Joseph Lead Company

The Wider World

The Titanic, 1912
April 15, 1912 The British luxury liner Titanic sinks in the North Atlantic off Newfoundland, less than three hours after striking an iceberg; 1,500 die.

1912/1913

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SHS Riflemen are City Champions. Students form The Forge Club to advance the arts of forging, tool-making, hammered-metal and art and metal work.
The Rifle Team wins the championships for 75-foot ranges.
A Washington Irving issue of Caliper, is published, combining photos of their high school with its chief features and history.

'13 Notable Graduates

William I. Hohauser '13 Architect, NYC theaters, luxury apartments; received "quite decent" appraisal from harsh critic and fellow Stuyvesant alum Lewis Mumford '12 for Manhattan low-rises
Charles W. Taussig '13 Industrialist, American Molasses Company; Member, FDR's New Deal "Brain Trust"; Caribbean authority; Economic Advisor to UN Charter Commission; Author, Rum, Romance, and Rebellion; Chairman, National Advisory Committee, National Youth Adminstration
Philip Sporn '13 President, American Power Co.; electrical engineer; author, Technology, Engineering, and Economics; National Academy of Sciences; National Commission on Technology, Automation, and Economic Progress; John Fritz Medal (1956), joining former winners Bell, Edison, Goethals, Wright, and Marconi

The Wider World

Grand Central Terminal is built.
Cellophane invented

1913/1914

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A two-session system is introduced due to large increases in enrollment.
Caliper, containing 56 double column pages of cartoons, stories, jokes, and school news, is named best high school monthly in the country.
The Track Team wins the coveted Princeton Meet.
The swimming team becomes PSAL Champs.

'14 Notable Graduates

Leffert Holz, Esq '14 NYS Insurance Superintendent; real estate tax law authority
Herman Jessor '14 Architect, designed over 40,000 units of publicly subsidized co-operative housing; employed in the United Housing Federation
Saul Streit '14 NYS Supreme Court Justice; heard case of Alice De Rivera vs. NYC Board of Education re her right to take test for Stuyvesant HS, and ordered the City to show cause in Jan. 1969, paving the way for Alice to take the exam; ruled in 1951 college basketball betting scandal case
Herbert E. Vollmer '14 Olympic Bronze Medalist (1924), water polo; Set numerous swimming records at Stuyvesant HS and Columbia

The Wider World

The Ford assembly line
Henry Ford of the Ford Motor Company builds the first moving assembly line, and introduces a minimum wage scale of $5 per day.
By 1914, unemployment and economic problems in Greece lead to migrations (almost entirely to US) of 350,000, one-fifth the total population
June 28, 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria is shot, leading to outbreak of World War I.
Aug. 15, 1914, Panama Canal, major engineering feat of the twentieth century, opens.

1914/1915

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In February, the first issue of The Spectator appears; the newspaper calls itself the ‘pulse of the student body’.
Rifle Team members organize the Stuyvesant Training Corps, the nation’s first volunteer unit, in response to conditions abroad. 300 men train, and a battalion is formed. The Corps engages in “drill-down” competition against Clinton and participates in Decoration Day Parades. Rifles are supplied by the War Dept while uniforms are purchased with funds raised at a Review and Formal Ball at the 71st Regiment Armory. Hikes and "battles" are staged in Van Cortlandt Park, Spring Valley and Dunwoodie, NY, with weekly drills at the Armory.
A symphony orchestra is formed.
Track wins the PSAL Championship.

'15 Notable Graduates

Joseph V. McMullan '15 Engineer; VP, Naylor Pipe Company; designed hydraulic dredges, portable pipelines, shortening WWII North African campaign; world-famous Islamic rug collector; author, Don't Forget to Stop and Smell the Flowers Along the Way
Nathaniel Rose '15 Transportation executive
Fred Schoenberg '15 Principal, Stuyvesant HS, 1943-1952; deputy, high school division, NYC Superintendent of Schools

The Wider World

Jan. 25, 1915, The inventor Alexander Graham Bell demonstrates U.S. transcontinental telephone service. Schedules commercial service to begin Mar. 1, 1915.
Apr. 24, 1915, Armenian Genocide by Young Turk Party begins, as 300 leaders, writers, thinkers and professionals in Constantinople (now Istanbul) are deported and killed; 1.5 of 2.5 million Armenians are murdered by 1922.

1915/1916

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Footballers beat Clinton at the Polo Grounds 43-0, with a record attendance of 6,000.
Faculty baseball team defeats the seniors.
“Bibliophiles” discussed literature.
Cross-Country track wins Manhattan Championship.
The Stuyvesant Training Corps is organized; Captain Henry F. Davidson, father of Garrison H. Davidson '23 (who was the mascot of the STC), is the Drill Instructor.

'16 Notable Graduates

Ralph DeJur '16 President, DeJur-Amsco, manufacturer, electrical precision instruments, components, cameras, photographic apparatus, and photoelectric cells.
Jack Kriendler '16 Restaurateur; founder/owner, NYC's famed '21' Club
Samuel Spewack ’16 Prolific playwright, Kiss Me Kate; screenwriter, Boy Meets Girl; Novelist, Murder in a Gilded Cage; Non-fiction, Red Russia Revealed: The Truth About the Soviet Government and Its Methods; WWII information officer in London, producing The World at War & later in Moscow, assigned to Averill Harriman

The Wider World

April 24, 1916, Irish Easter Revolt.

1916/1917

'17 Notable Graduates

Ray Arcel '17 International Boxing Hall of Fame, Jewish Sports Hall of Fame; Trained 20 world boxing champions, the first in 1924 (Abe Goldstein), and the last in 1982 (Larry Holmes); five of his fighters won world titles in 1934!
James Cagney '17 Actor/dancer; our "Most famous Stuyvesantian"; Oscar-winning Best Actor, Yankee Doodle Dandy; American Film Institute Life Achievement Award; president/founding member, Screen Actors Guild; 33¢ USA commemorative stamp, legends of Hollywood; Black Belt in Judo;14th Greatest Movie Star of all time, Entertainment Weekly
Andrew A. Farago '17 Chemist; VP, D'orsay Perfumes
Edward Kilinski '17 Geologist, explorer, writer; specialist in foreign oil discovery---in Venezuela, the Guianas, Mexico, Canada
Eugene R. Kulka '17 Founder/President, Kulka Electric Co.
Brig. Gen. Alfred Reuthershan '17 CO, 71st Regiment, NY National Guard

The Wider World

Kingsland Explosion at Kingsland, NJ (now Lyndhurst, NJ) Due to German sabotage, leads to the U.S. involvement in World War I.
February 5 - The constitution of Mexico is adopted.

1917/1918

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More than 400 faculty and students enter into service during WWI; 19 die: Walter Antosch, Otto Brandt, John Brotherton, Frederick M. Fischer, Jacob O. Gilcher, Nathan Golob, William D. Gray, Calvin W. Greene, Richard Morgan, Frank K. Neumark, David H. Rogers, Harold E. Russell, George Schnitzler, Irving Slicklen, Frank B. Stadler, Nicholas Stark, Charles F. Volk, Stephen S. Warner, and Churchill P. Webster.
Dr. Frederick Houk Law organizes the first high school journalism class in the US.
The Track Team is PSAL Indoor Track Champs.
The Basketball Team wins as “Champions of the East.”
The PSAL holds a freshman swimming meet and SHS places first.
The Drawing Team wins the Municipal Art Trophy.
Chess wins Manhattan and Bronx Championship.
The New Journal and Stuyvesant Daily Bulletin appear.
The Radio Club is awarded its own call signal, from a modern, 50-watt transmitting station, which is heard in Germany and England, as well as by other amateurs in the US.
Football is discontinued due to war.
Students solicit more than $1 million for the 3 Liberty Campaigns.
The Junior Red Cross has 100% membership within two days and SHS has a Red Cross drive, an Armenian Relief Fund, and a Fund for the Relief of Disabled French Soldiers.
Faculty contribute more to the Ambulance Fund than the faculty of any other City high school. The proceeds of two semi-annual concerts go to the Red Cross Fund, which purchases materials for students to build--in school shops--furniture that are needed in hospitals.
When the military training law goes into effect, members of the Stuyvesant Training Corps teach military tactics to civilian students. Our Corps is the best trained military organization of all the NYC high schools, and is formally recognized by the government.

'18 Notable Graduates:

Abram J. Abeloff, MD '18 Director, Surgery, Lenox Hill Hospital; Columbia trustee; Colonel, U.S. Army Medical Corps consulting surgeon, WW II Persian Gulf Command, Legion of Merit
Gustave Rosenberg '18 Chancellor, NYC Board of Higher Education
Chester H. Roth '18 President, Kayser-Roth, brands including Calvin Klein and TImberland; Founder, Chester H. Roth Company
Abraham Taub '18 Professor, Pharmacology, Columbia University; $1 million donor to Columbia in 1962; fellow, American Institute of Chemists and American Association for the Advancement of Science
Robert J. Trainor '18 NYS Supreme Court Justice

The Wider World

Barnes & Noble opens the largest bookstore in the world at 122 Fifth Avenue.

1918/1919

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The Corps becomes inactive.
Stuyvesant has 50 organizations.
A Club Council is formed, with 2 representatives from each club, to ensure cooperation among clubs.
SHS contributes $436.96 to French orphans, and $4,219.15 to the “Victory Boy” Movement.

'19 Notable Graduates

Harry A. Charipper, PhD '19 Chairman/professor, Biology, NYU
Ted Husing '19 Sportscaster, largely responsible for the advent of play-by-lay broadcasting; most popular sportscaster in national poll; author, My Eyes are in my Heart

The Wider World

Nov. 11, 1918, Armistice ending World War I is signed.
Jan. 6, 1919, Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th president when SHS opened in Sept. 1904, dies in Oyster Bay, N.Y. at age 60.

1919/1920

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Admission to Stuyvesant HS is restricted, based on elementary school academic achievement.
Mathematics, advanced chemistry and physics courses strengthen the curriculum as Stuyvesant transforms to a "science high school", the first in the City.
Shop classes in carpentry, pattern-making, blacksmithing, and ship design are offered.
Students practice surveying in Stuyvesant Park.
Increased enrollment leads to two sessions, each consisting of six periods: morning classes run from 8:00am to 12:35pm, while the afternoon session is from 12:40pm to 5:20pm.
The Journalism Club is founded.
"A Pageant of Democracy" is staged.
The freshman swimmers win in the PSAL (Public School Athletic League).

'20 Notable Graduates

Capt. Joseph R. Horn '20 U.S. Navy Dental Corps
August Henry Nordhausen '20 Artist, portraits and nudes

The Wider World

Aug. 26, 1920, the 19th Amendment to the Constitution is ratified, guaranteeing American women who are citizens the right to vote.
CUNY opens the largest business college in the US, it will be named for Bernard Baruch in 1953.

1920/1921

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Students stage the pageant spectacle “America’s Making.”
Soccer claims the title of Eastern State Champs.
Cross-Country becomes second in the city

'21 Notable Graduates

Capt. Charles Gartenlaub '21 Chief, Radiology, US Naval Hospital, St. Albans, Queens, NY
Marcus D. Kogel, MD '21 NYC Hospital Commissioner; founding Dean and advisory council, Albert Einstein College of Medicine; Chairman, Epidemiology and Social Medicine
Peter Sammartino, PhD '21 Co-founder/Chancellor, Fairleigh Dickinson University; Member, President's Commission on Higher Education

The Wider World

New York City is unique in world history: the majority of the population lives in apartments and are renters.

1921/1922

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Track Team wins PSAL and a National Championship!
Football Team almost wins first City Championship.
Principal von Nardroff and Dr. Tennent prepare the Student Guide.
Radio Club has up-to-date equipment made in Stuy’s shop.
Seniors’ graduation and dance is at the Hotel Pennsylvania.
Broadway play, “It Pays to Advertise,” is first 3-act play attempted by Dramatic Society.
ARISTA institutes The Stuyvesant Club, to develop a high standard of character in the student body and promote a greater spirit of sociability among students.
Bicycle Club tries to establish HS Bicycle League and gain PSAL status. They organize Sunday trips to Coney Island, Sing Sing, Pelham, Rockaway and Rye beaches, some trips include camping.
Bibliophiles meet.
Biology Club practices "the gentle art of vivisection, and it is done with the gust of true biologists.”
Camera Club organizes the HS Camera Club League.

'22 Notable Graduates

George Bragalini '22 NYS Tax Commissioner; VP, Manufacturers Trust
Harry B. Frank '22 NYS Supreme Court Justice
William M. Hitzig, MD '22 Surgeon, Mt. Sinai Hospital; Professor, Medicine, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University; "Hiroshima Maidens" physician and friend of Albert Schweitzer; president, Mt. Sinai Alumni Administration
Victor Keppler '22 Photographer; lecturer; author, Victor Keppler Man+Camera, photo-autobiography; Trustee, Photographic Hall of Fame; one of the most successful commercial photographers in the U.S.; First color photo cover of Saturday Evening Post
Harold T. McLaughlin '22 NYS Supreme Court Justice
Philip Neufeld '22 Wall St. financial consultant; founding Member, SHS Alumni & Scholarship Association (1954)
Ernest W. Rovere '22 Bridge Life Master; Member, American Contract Bridge League; Author, Point Count Contract Bridge Complete
Irving Saypol, Esq. '22 Prosecutor, Ethel & Julius Rosenberg and Morton Sobell '34 espionage case; then NYS Supreme Court Justice
Sidney Sugarman '22 US District Court Judge, Southern District of New York
John J. Theobald '22 Chancellor, NYC Board of Education; NYC Deputy Mayor
Herbert Zelenko, Esq. '22 US Congressman, Manhattan, west side; Assistant U.S. Attorney, NY southern district

1922/1923

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Students flock to Stuy from all boroughs and school goes to triple-sessions for this year only.
Francis ("Frank") Hussey ties the world record in the hundred-meter.
Baseball wins City Title.
Track Team wins Princeton Meet and is named "Best team in City".
Football Team wins City Championship; beats Clinton, 14-0.

'23 Notable Graduates

Norman C. Armitage (Cohn), Esq. PhD '23 Six Olympic fencing teams, twice US flag bearer, saber bronze medal winner (1948); Chemical engineer and patent attorney; VP, Deering-Milliken Textiles
Harry Berlfein '23 Reporter, entire career, Women's Wear Daily
Leroy Brown '23 Olympic silver medal high jumper (1924); US National high jump champion
William Canton, Esq. '23 Founding Secretary-Treasurer, SHS Alumni & Scholarship Ass'n (1954); instructor, aviation branch, US Navy in WWII
Lt. Gen. Garrison H. Davidson '23 SHS Championship football teams 1921/1922; West Point football team, then Head Coach, 1933-37; Gen. Patton’s Engineer in WWII, 1941-45; Korean War Division Commander, 1951-52; Superintendent, US Military Academy, West Point, 1956-60; Commanding General, US Seventh Army (Germany) 1960-62 and First Army (New York); US Military Representative to the United Nations, 1963. (Gen. Davidson's son, Thomas Marshall Davidson, Sr., Davidson Capital, McLean, VA, is National Spokesperson for The Campaign for Stuyvesant/Alumni(ae) & Friends Endowment Fund, Inc. since 1999)
Adolph Gottlieb '23 Artist; founder, NY school of Abstract Expressionism; started with class of '19, finished after hiatus with '23; winner U.S. Treasury sponsored nationwide mural competition; developer of "Pictographs"; 1st prize winner, Brooklyn Society of Artists Annual Exhibition
William Lebowitz '23 Executive Director, Alconox
Sam Levene '23 Actor, Broadway and Hollywood, Three Men on a Horse, Guys & Dolls, The Babe Ruth Story, and Sweet Smell of Success
John Shaw '23 Captain, SHS basketball and swimming teams; Captain and stroke, championship crew team; President, G.O.; member, football and track team; Coach, SHS and Clinton; Chairman, Physical Education, Franklin K. Lane HS, William C. Bryant HS
Herbert Tenzer, Esq. '23 Founder, Tenzer, Greenblatt, Fallon & Kaplan; US Congressman, 1964-68; Founder, Albert Einstein College of Medicine; Founder, Chairman, Board of Trustees, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, endowed school's Florence and Herbert Tenzer Chair in Jewish Law and Ethics; Awarded honorary degrees by Yeshiva University, L.H.D. 1972, and LL.D. 1984
Frederick Zimmerman '23 Double bassist, NY Philharmonic; author, Contemporary Concept of Bowing Technique for the Double Bass

The Wider World

Feb. 16, 1923 Bessie Smith makes her first recording, "Down Hearted Blues."

1923/1924

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Francis Hussey, the track captain, is a member of the record-breaking Olympic Gold Medal Relay Team.
SHS wins The World’s Biggest News Contest.

'24 Notable Graduates

Thomas Chimera '24 NYS Supreme Court Justice
Frank Hussey '24 Olympic Gold Medal relay sprinter (1924)
Joseph L. Mankiewicz '24 Four-time Oscar-winning producer, writer, director; brother of Herman Mankiewicz who won Oscar for writing "Citizen Kane"; son of Stuyvesant teacher Frank Mankiewicz.
Robert M. Weitman '24 Producer, Paramount, ABC, CBS, MGM, Columbia, and independent productions; started career as a doorman at the Times Square Paramount

The Wider World

Calvin Coolidge
Dec. 6, 1923, a presidential address is broadcast on radio for the first time as President Calvin Coolidge speaks to a joint session of Congress.

1924/1925

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Swimming team takes 1st place.
Francis (Frank) Hussey leaves Stuy; he was Track Captain, 100 yd PSAL Champion, and a member of the USA Olympic record-breaking relay team.
Footballers beat Clinton 25-0, Morris and Erasmus, and are City Champs.
Principal Ernest R. von Nardroff, EE, Columbia and DSci, St Lawrence leads a faculty with degrees from these schools, colleges and universities:
Columbia; Williams; Bowdoin; Amherst; Wellesley; Hunter; CCNY; Teachers College; NYU; Smith; Brown; Bristol (England); Barnard; Yale; Temple; Harvard; Purdue; Hamilton; Cornell; Middleburg; Dartmouth; Laval University; the Universities of Paris, Heidelberg, Berlin and Madrid; Haverford; Escuela Normal (Vera Cruz, Mexico); Ohio Wesleyan; University of Pennsylvania; Swarthmore; Rochester; Rutgers; Alfred; Springfield, Syracuse; the Pratt and Brooklyn Polytechnic Institutes; the Universities of Indiana, Michigan and Vermont; Mt. Holyoke; Cooper Union; Boston; Tufts Medical College;...and the librarian graduated Vassar.

'25 Notable Graduates

Charles Belous, Esq. '25 "Mr. Stuyvesant"; Student leader; NYC Councilman and elected political leader in NYS and NYC
Philip Birnbaum '25 Architect, Parker Meridien and Trump Plaza
Samuel DiFalco '25 NYC Councilman; NYS Supreme Court Justice and Surrogate; NY Italian-American community and Democratic Party leader
Sheldon Leonard (Bershad) '25 Emmy-winning director, actor (Dick Van Dyke Show, I love Lucy, It's a Wonderful Life), and producer; author, And The Show Goes On

The Wider World

The Scopes Monkey Trial ruled the teaching of evolution illegal.
Mar. 23 1925, Tennessee passes a law against the teaching of evolution in public schools, setting the stage for the Scopes Monkey Trial (July 10-25).

1925/1926

Stuyvesant and NYC Public Schools

Symphony orchestra wins first place in Inter-Scholastic Orchestra Meet, and goes on to win for the next six years.
Dr. Law returns from a trip to Africa, and tells students that the new Africa “will undoubtedly be the result of the well-managed villages of the continent.”
Dr. Von Nardroff presents one of his famous lectures, “Acoustics of the Flute.”

'26 Notable Graduates

Milton Gabler '26 Recording industry mogul; Jazz & Rock ‘n Roll pioneer; independent music producer & distributor; member, Rock ‘n Roll Hall of Fame; founder, Commodore Music Shop, Commodore record label, & first mail-order record label, United Hot Clubs of America (UCHA); originated business of reissuing surplus records; produced Billie Holiday’s Strange Fruit, Ella Fitzgerald/Louis Armstrong duets, & the seminal Bill Haley’s Rock Around the Clock; vice president, Decca Records; Uncle to actor/entertainer Billie Crystal; National Academy of Recording Artists’ Trustees Award for lifetime achievement; career began at SHS after-school job at Commodore Radio Store.
Abraham M. Lindenbaum, Esq. '26 Brooklyn lawyer, lobbyist, fundraiser; represented developers Zeckendorff and Trump; President, Brooklyn Law School; NYC Planning Commissioner; Trustee, Federation of Jewish Philanthropies
Irving A. Sarot, MD '26 Professor, Cardiac & Thoracic Surgery, NY Medical College; WWII Army Major, field hospital head; Normandy invasion; liberation of Buchenwald concentration camp

The Wider World

Dec. 15, 1925, 1st hockey game is played at Madison Square Garden, Montreal Canadiens 3, NY Americans 1

1926/1927

Stuyvesant and NYC Public Schools

The Debate Team claims the title of NYC Debating Champs.
Baseball wins championship, beating Clinton 1-0.

'27 Notable Graduates

Irving C. Fischer, MD '27 Ob/Gyn, Mt. Sinai; 1954 Founder/President of the SHS Alumni & Scholarship Association (until his untimely death at 50 in 1962); son David Fischer, MD '60, psychiatrist, Washington, D.C., was Pegleg QB
John R. Raggazini '27 Dean, Engineering and Science, NYU; Professor, applied science, NYU; Chairman, electrical engineering, Columbia University; WWII Manhattan Project

The Wider World

Charles Lindbergh and his plane, The Spirit of St. Louis
May 21, 1927, Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane, "The Spirit of St. Louis."

1927/1928

Stuyvesant and NYC Public Schools

The Baseball Team wins its first PSAL championship, shutting out Clinton 1-0 (See last year.)
Jawetz, Muslin, and Weekes, Track Team members during ’28 and ’29, set 4 high jump records.
A record number of students, over 5,000, are registered at SHS.
SHS comes in second in NYC Debating.

'28 Notable Graduates

Col. Adam J. Rapalski '28 Army Surgeon General's Staff
John Ashley Wells, Esq. '28 Rogers and Wells; NY Republican advisor to Thomas Dewey, Nelson Rockefeller, and Jacob Javits

The Wider World

May 11, 1928, The first regular schedule of TV programming is begun by General Electric in Schenectady.
First Academy Award for Best Picture: WINGS

1928/1929

Stuyvesant and NYC Public Schools

The Debate Team wins NYC Debating Championship.
The Soccer Team ties for the championship with the Monroe team.
The library grows through many book donations.
SHS students win 15 state scholarships.
Swimming wins the relay championship.
In order to join the Bunsen Chemical Society, one needs to pass a test with at least 75%; the club is the only high school club allowed to visit the Loft Candy Company’s plant.

'29 Notable Graduates

Ciro James Digangi '29 Motion picture/TV producer, production manager, art director; Movie production supervisor, Man in a Glass Booth
Buddy Walker '29 Band/Orchestra leader; Harlem Socialite; discovered/promoted tennis great Althea Gibson

1929/1930

Stuyvesant and NYC Public Schools

With the roster continuing to swell, a system of entrance exams are inaugurated.
Indicator resumes publishing after 5-year hiatus.
SHS is named City Champs in Swimming (breaking the school relay record) and Debating.
The Radio Club holds its own class, which replaces a requirement. Students in this class are exempted from a Regents examination, provided that they take a licensing exam, the contents of which are taught as the class’ curriculum.
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.

'30 Notable Graduates

Robert Alda '30 Actor/entertainer, Broadway (Guys and Dolls), Hollywood (George Gershwin in Rhapsody in Blue), TV (M*A*S*H), vaudeville, burlesque, and radio; born Alfonso Giuseppe Giovanni Toberto D'Abruzzo; father, actor Alan Alda
Gustave Dammin, MD '30 Professor, pathology, Harvard Medical School; President, Armed Forces Epidemiological Board; Binford-Dammin Society of Infectious Disease Pathology, International Academy of Pathology; Legion of Merit award; field & lab research on dysentery in India and Burma; Organ transplant pioneer; lyme disease researcher; namesake, lyme tick: Ixodes Dammini

The Wider World

The stock market crash of 1929
Population of NYC is almost 7 million. New York is the largest city in the world.
Oct. 29, 1929, the stock market crashes.

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

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

Pearl Harbor, 1941
Dec. 7, 1941, Japanese planes attack the American Military base at Pearl Harbor.
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

Devastation after the battle of Stalingrad
Nov.12, 1942, the World War II naval Battle of Guadalcanal begins. This will be a major American victory over the Japanese.
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
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.
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

The Battle of Normandy
Nov. 28, 1943, President Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Josef Stalin meet in Tehran during World War II.
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

Winston Churchill
Sep. 2, 1945, Japan signs surrender instrument on the USS Missouri in Tokyo harbor.
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

The Independence of Israel declared in 1948
Oct. 14, 1947, The sound barrier is broken by test pilot Charles Yaeger.
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.

1950/1951

Stuyvesant and NYC Public Schools

Styvesant defeats Clinton, 14-6
SHS football team vanquishes Clinton, lead by Bosco and Cimino to a 14-6 triumph.
Peace essay contest awards go to SHS graduates Robert Brand, Robert Dobrow, and Paul Levine at a United Nations ceremony.
SHS graduates Arthur Schleifer, Henry G. Schaefer, and Stuart A. Hendrix build revolving chair for Presbyterian Hospital Cancer Unit.

'51 Notable Graduates

David A. Halperin, MD '51 Clinical professor, Psychiatry, Mt. Sinai Medical School; editor, Psychodynamic Perspectives on Religion, Sect, and Cult; writer, Cultic Studies Journal; board member, American Family Foundation
Albert Kabot '51 Chairman, Economics Department, Hunter College
Lawrence S. Lerner, PhD '51 Professor, Physics and Astronomy, California State University; Author, Physics for Scientists and Engineers; science education consultant
Kenneth D. Levy '51 Chairman, PowerDsine; founder/chairman KLA-Tencor, producer of semiconductor manufacturing instrumentation
Serphin Maltese '51 NY State Senator, 15th District in Queens; Infantryman, Korean War; member, American Legion, Catholic War Veterans, Korean War Veteran's Ass'n., Veterans of Foreign Wars, and Vietnam Veterans of America; chairman, Senate Standing Committee on Elections; co-founder, NY State Conservative Party; President's Medals, St. John’s University and LaGuardia Community College; Man of the Year, Commission for Social Justice
Martin D. Rubenstein, Esq. '51 Broker and Consultant, MDR Business Brokerage
Harold I. Steinberg '51 Associate Director for Management, Office of Management and Budget in the Reagan Administration; Director, Office of Federal Financial Management, Bush (1) and Clinton Administrations; Partner, Peat Marwick
Peter Vlachos ’51 President, Austin Investment Management; VP, Hellenic American Neighborhood Action Committee

The Wider World

Dec.16, 1950, President Truman proclaims a national state of emergency in order to fight "Communist imperialism."
June 1951, First commercial computer, UNIVAC I, delivered to the Census Bureau.

1951/1952

'52 Notable Graduates

Norman Amaker, Esq. Jan '52 Civil rights lawyer
Stephen M. Aug, '52 Journalist. Business correspondent/anchor, ABC News; Business editor/assistant managing editor, Washington Star.
Sam E. Beller ’52 President, Diversified Programs Inc.; Executive Committee, American Friends of the Open University of Israel
Alfred N. Blumberg '52 President, Tetrahedron Associates
David A. Braver ‘52 Philanthrpoist;President, Braver Stern Securities
Gerald D. Cohen '52 Founder President and CEO, Information Builders, NY, NY; Chairman, NY Software Industry Association
Kenneth H. Keller, PhD ’52 President, University of Minnesota; Professor, Science, Technology, and Public Policy; member, Commission of Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Applications, National Research Council; National Academy of Engineering
Roy Innes '52 National chairman, Congress for Racial equality; Board of Advisors, Foundation for the Advancement of Monetary Education; Korean War Veteran
Robert Moses '52 The Algebra Project (with Harvard) and Mississippi Freedom Summer in 1964 for The Council on Federated Organizations; worked for Ministry of Education, Tanzania from 1969-1976
Alvin F. Poussaint, MD '52 Professor/Dean, Harvard Medical School; consultant, Bill Cosby programs; director, Media Center, Boston's Judge Baker Children's Center; New England Emmy for children's special, Willoughby's Wonders; co-author, Raising Black Children, Lay My Burden Down; race relations expert, prejudice, and diversity; fellow, Amer. Psychiatric Ass'n, Amer. Ass'n for the Advancement of Science
Peter Samton FAIA '52 His firm is co-architect of the new Stuyvesant HS building
Bernard Seabrooks '52 Producer, CBS News; Director of Programs, Pittsburgh, Pa. Sports Channel (HSE) Chief (Director) National Park Service Film & Audiovisual Division
Thomas F. Weiss, PhD '52 Professor, Electrical and Bioengineering, MIT; principal investigator, Research Laboratory of Electronics, Micromechanics Group; member, Eaton-Peabody Laboratory, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary

The Wider World

Sep. 4, 1951, President Truman speaks in first coast-to-coast live television broadcast
Dec. 20 1951, First peacetime atomic power generated in Idaho
Grace Murray Hopper develops A-0, the first compiler.
June 10, 1952, the Equal Pay Act establishes equal pay for men and women performing the same job duties

1952/1953

'53 Notable Graduates

Mark D. Alper, PhD '53 Senior Scientist and Division Deputy of the Material Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Anthony DiBiase '53 Welterweight Golden Gloves Champion
Henry Breitrose, PhD ’53 Professor, Stanford University graduate program, documentary film and television; NBC European Production Unit, BBC, Thames Television; Consultant, French National Television system, National Film Board of Canada, Asian Institute for Broadcast Development, and Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Founding editorial board member, Quarterly Review of Film Studies; founding general editor, Cambridge Studies in Film
Frank Conroy '53 Director, Iowa Writers Workshop; Author, Body and Soul, containing a Stuyvesant HS related chapter, and Stop Time; Accomplished jazz pianist
David Durk '53 NYPD Officer/Reformer, working with Frank Serpico and after
Stanley Friedman '53 Bronx Borough President
Paul Frommer '53 Insurance Sales, self-employed independent broker
John F. Gault '53 EVP, Time Warner Cable; OpVista advisory board
Emanuel Gold '53 Member, NYS Senate (23 years!)
Norman E. Goldstein, PhD '53 Sonoma grape grower, Carigger Creek Vineyards; Senior Scientist and Division Deputy of the Earth Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
Neil Grabois '53 VP/Director, Strategic Planning and Program Coordination, Carnegie Corp.; President, Colgate University
James Kushner, MD '53 Professor/Chief, Hematology, University of Utah Medical School
Nick Meglin (Megiola) '53 Co-editor, MAD Magazine; artist; author, Drawing from Within: Unleashing Your Creative Potential
Sol Stern '53, P'02 & '04 Editor/writer, Breaking Free: Public School Lessons and the Imperative of School Choice; contributing editor, City Journal
Peter Salzer '53 Actor TV/Film/Stage, Breaking Vegas; impersonator, George Burns; stand-up comic
Howard Silverman '53 Chairman/CEO, Gruntal Financial Investment; director, Valera Pharmaceuticals, Work Wear Corp., and Carteret Savings Bank; Trustee, Long Island University; charter member, Financial Analysts Federation.
Herbert S. Terrace '53 Professor, psychology, Columbia University; expert, primate communication
Bruno Wassertheil '53 CBS radio correspondent, Israel, Middle East reporting

The Wider World

Nov. 1952, On television, a Univac I predicts the outcome of the presidential election. It likes Ike!
June 19, 1953, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are executed for passing secret information about U.S. atomic weaponry to the Soviets.
July 27, 1953, Korean armistice agreement is signed.

1953/1954

Stuyvesant and NYC Public Schools

Fred Schoenberg is promoted to Assistant Superintendent of Schools for the HS Division.
Jacob Wortman
Jacob Wortman takes over as Acting Principal.
Interior work is done, remodeling classrooms and shops, and installing a new library and lunchrooms.
New Stuyvesant HS Alumni Association is established, led by Dr. Irving C. Fischer '27, a prominent NY OB-GYN.
All but a few graduates go on to higher education, a Stuyvesant norm now.
Football wins City Championship.
Undefeated Math team wins City. Fencing is PSAL Champion.
Chess Team is City Champion.
Baseball beats Franklin in the third playoff game to win the Manhattan Championship.
Fiftieth Anniversary of Stuyvesant HS in June '54.

'54 Notable Graduates

Charles Aronowitz, Esq. '54 Immigration attorney; musician--keyboard, timpani and other percussion in a variety of groups, including David Randolph's '32 Masterwork Chorus; chess club and certified senior level tournament director; amateur astronomer, variable star observer
Larry Bensky '54 Print & community radio journalist; Teacher, communication and media studies, Cal State, Hayward and Stanford; Pacifica Radio national affairs correspondent, Sunday Salon host; awards: George Polk (Iran-Contra coverage), five Gold Reels (National Ass'n of Community Broadcasters), lifetime achievement award (Society of Professional Journalists), and Golden Gadfly (Media Alliance) ; political writer/columnist, East Bay Express
Irv Brazinsky, PhD '54 Professor, chemical engineering, Cooper Union; Co-inventor, Cooper-Cool rapid beverage cooler
Joseph Dorinson ’54 & T'63 Professor, history, Long Island University; Author, Jackie Robinson: Race, Sports and the American Dream and Paul Robeson: Essays on His Life and Legacy
David Milton Goldenberg, PhD, MD '54 Founder/president, Garden State Cancer Center; cancer researcher; Chairman, Immunomedics
Edward N. Halperin, MD '54 Psychiatrist, Jewish Child Care Association, NY
Alan Heim '54 TV/Film editor, American History X; Academy Award (All That Jazz); Emmy Award (Holocaust, mini-series)
Edward Morrison, Esq. '54 NYC Deputy Mayor in Lindsay administration; Chairman, NYS Crime Victims Compensation Board
Aryeh Neier '54 President, Open Society Institute, Soros Foundation; national director, American Civil Liberties Union; founder/executive director, Human Rights Watch
Bernard W. Nussbaum, Esq. '54 Partner, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz; Assistant United States Attorney, Southern District of New York; Senior staff member, House Judiciary Committee, during "Watergate" impeachment inquiry; Counsel to the President of the United States, Clinton Administration; Lecturer, Columbia University Law School
Joe Paletta '54 Olympic, NCAA, U.S, National and Stuyvesant HS fencer; Men’s Individual NCAA Foil Champion (1959)
Herbert J. Stern '54 US District Court Judge, NJ; led Malcom X murder investigation; partner, Stern & Greenberg; Clarence Darrow Award for public speaking; special coun,Iran-Contra indictments against Lt. Colonel Oliver North

The Wider World

Feb 23, 1954, Dr. Jonas E. Salk reports the success of the polio vaccine.
May 17, 1954, The Supreme Court, led by Chief Justice Earl Warren, unanimously declares segregation illegal in Brown v. Board of Education (Topeka, Kansas).

1954/1955

Stuyvesant and NYC Public Schools

Principal Dr. Leonard J. Fliedner
Dr. Leonard J. Fliedner is principal and serves for 17 years.
$2-million interior reconstruction is completed during his early tenure, and single session restored.
The Fencing Team wins the Castello Trophy, City Championship, and Championship of the Eastern Seaboard.
New Stuyvesant HS Alumni Association is established, led by Dr. Irving C. Fischer '27, a prominent NY OB-GYN.
All but a few graduates go on to higher education, a Stuyvesant norm now.
Football wins City Championship.
Undefeated Math team wins City. Fencing is PSAL Champion.
Chess Team is City Champion.
Baseball beats Franklin in the third playoff game to win the Manhattan Championship.
Fiftieth Anniversary of Stuyvesant HS in June '54.

'55 Notable Graduates

Stephen Berger '55 Chairman, Odyssey Investment Partners, LLC. Executive Director, Port Authority of New York and New Jersey
Melvyn E. Bergstein, '55 Co-founder/chairman, Diamond Cluster International; Widely known leader in the information technology consulting industry; partner, Arthur Andersen Consulting; director, Simon Property Group
Michael Alan Bleyman, PhD '55 Founder/executive director, Carnivore Preservation Trust, Pittsboro, NC; International Scientific Coordinator, Institute of Sustainable Tropical Resource Management; director, Carnivore Evolutionary Research Institute
Gus Constantin '55 CEO, Phoenix American Inc., San Rafael, CA
Arthur Damond '55 Editor and Publisher of Wine Discoveries; Journalist and news editor; Sports Editor, TV Guide; Selected by NY Times wine editor, as the country's foremost expert on inexpensive wine.
Claude Erbsen '55 Vice President and Director of World Services, Associated Press; director, World Press International; senior consultant, the INNOVATION International Media Consulting Group.
Arnold Goldschlager, MD '55 Cardiologist, SF Bay Area; Assoc. Professor, UCSF Medical School; Founder of Air Ambulance, Calif. & Hawaii; Internationally recognized big game hunter.
Irwin Goldstein, PhD ’55 Vice chancellor, academic affairs. University System of Maryland; Full professor, psychology, University of Maryland, College Park, Dean of the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences; fellow, American Psychological Ass'n, American Psychological Society, and Human Factors Society
Roald Hoffmann, PhD '55 Nobel Laureate (1981), Chemistry; Professor, Cornell; American Chemical Society; National Academy of Sciences; Author, Chemical Sciences in the 20th Century: Bridging Boundaries and Old Wine, New Flasks: Reflections on Science and Jewish Tradition; Published poet, Soliton, Oxygen, and Memory Effects
Seymour Kaufman '55, Crosslink Capital, San Francisco, CA
Stephen P. Maran, PhD '55 Astrophysicist and expert on comets; Namesake of an asteroid he discovered; Assistant Director for Space Sciences at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center; author of ten books, the latest, Astronomy for Dummies available in French, German, Chinese, and Russian; Klumpke-Roberts Award (Astronomical Society of the Pacific)
Edmar Mednis '55 Chess grandmaster, world class competitor; chess author, How to Beat Bobby Fischer
Richard Louis Miller, PhD '55 Clinical Psychologist, U. of Michigan Medical School; Founding director, California School for Professional Psychology; Founder, Cokenders Alcohol and Drug Program; National VP, Parkside Medical Services; CEO, Wilbur Hot Springs Health Sanctuary; Columnist; radio host; motorcyclist; triathlete
Allen G. Rosenshine '55 Chairman, BBDO Worldwide; Executive Vice President, Chief Creative Officer; The Partnership for a Drug-Free America
Solomon S. Steiner, PhD ’55 Chairman/CEO, Global Positioning Group, Danbury, CT; pharmaceuticals and medical devices, for drug delivery, diabetes, central nervous system diseases; Founder, Pharmaceutical Discovery Corp; Professor: adjunct, NY Medical College; research, NYU; physiological psychology, CCNY; Chair, CCNY Graduate Program in Neuro-cognition; concert master as SHS student; Director/Chairman, Planned Giving, The Campaign for Stuyvesant/ Alumni(ae) & Friends Endowment Fund, Inc.

The Wider World

Nov.1954, Dwight Eisenhower (Ike) is reelected.
Dec. 2, 1954, the Senate votes to condemn Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy, R Wis., for "conduct that tends to bring the Senate into dishonor and disrepute."
Apr. 4, 1955, 25 Japanese girls and women--the "Hiroshima Maidens"--arrive in NYC for reconstructive surgery by William Hitzig, MD '22 at Mt. Sinai Hospital.

1955/1956

Stuyvesant and NYC Public Schools

The Cheering Squad includes girls from nearby high schools
Stuyvesant swimmers break an eight-year record in the medley race.

'56 Notable Graduates

John Banzhaf III ’56 Professor of Law, George Washington University Law School; Founder, Action on Smoking and Health (ASH)
Stanley E. Cahn '56 Financial Planner, Wachovia Securities, Hilton Head, SC
Jay Freeman '56 Author, From Brooklyn / I Saw Mountains
Steven E. Gross, Esq. '56 Co-chairman/Managing Partner, Sills Cummis Epstein & Gross; Vice-Chair, The Healthcare Foundation of New Jersey; Board Member/Legal Counsel, Prosperity New Jersey; Board Member, Papermill Playhouse
Leon J. Hoffman, PhD ‘56 Clinical Psychologist; fellow, American Group Psychiatry Association; diplomate, American Academy of Group Psychology; advisory council, Amateur Chamber Music Players
David Katz ’56 President, OmniMath Inc., NY, NY
Saul B. Katz '56 Co-Founder/President, Sterling Equities; President, New York Mets and the Brooklyn Cyclones baseball teams; General Partner, SP Capital Management; Honorary Chair of the Board, North Shore Long Island Jewish Health System
William T. Nicholas ’56 Criminal Administrative Judge, Montgomery County, PA

The Wider World

Aug.1955, Fourteen year old Emmett Till is murdered in Mississippi for supposedly whistling at a white woman; the men tried for Emmett’s murder are acquitted, and the case remains unsolved. In the 1990s a documentary filmmaker, Keith Beauchamp, uncovers new information that leads to public pressure for the federal government to investigate the case.
GI Bill of Rights provides educational benefits for 7.8 million veterans, strengthening US economy after WWII.

1956/1957

Stuyvesant and NYC Public Schools

The first major renovations of the building are completed.
Foundries are removed to make room for the east and west cafeterias, and a new library is built.
The double session is finally eliminated, and all students began attending school from 8:40 to 3:00 for the first time in years.
A new curriculum includes a wider range of electives and more rigorous graduation requirements.

'57 Notable Graduates

Gerry L. Golub, CPA '57 Chairman and CEO, American Express Tax & Business Services
William Hecht ’57 VP/CEO, MIT Alumni Association
Leonard S. Hyman '57 Internationally recognized financial analyst and economist; president, Private Sector Advisors; VP, Merrill Lynch Utility Research; author, America's Electric Utilities: Past Present and Future
George Kalbouss, PhD '57 Associate Professor, Slavic Languages, Ohio State University; Author, Russian Culture
Jeffrey H. Loria ’57 Owner, major league baseball team, World Champion Florida Marlins (2003); All-City second baseman, Stuyvesant H.S.
Bernard Salick, MD '57 Salick Group Holdings Ltd., LLC; Nephrologist; Medical Entrepreneur; Founder of Cancer and Cardiovascular Comprehensive Diagnostic and Treatment Centers
Joseph Shenker '57 Provost, C.W. Post College; President, Bank Street College of Education

The Wider World

Sep. 9, 1956, Elvis Presley appears on national TV for the first time on the Ed Sullivan Show.

1957/1958

Stuyvesant and NYC Public Schools

Former President Harry S. Truman visits Stuyvesant and speaks with students about the importance of education, especially in the sciences.
A survey finds that Stuyvesant graduates earned more PhDs than the alumni of any other high school in the US. The Box Seat, a sports magazine, is founded.
Vector, a physics, chemistry and astronomy magazine, is revived after a lapse of 2 years.
Math Survey, a mathematics magazine, is started.
The Radio-club re-establishes its "ham" radio station.
The Photography club makes 35mm color slides of school activities.

'58 Notable Graduates

Stan Altman, PhD '58 Professor, CCNY, Princeton, Stony Brook, and Baruch; Dean and Deputy to the President, Stony Brook; Dean of Public Affairs, Baruch; Founder/President of People & Concepts, Mini Computer Analysis, and Institute of Public Services; numerous honors and fellowships
Peter Biskind '58 Author, Down and Dirty Pictures, Easy Riders, and Raging Bulls; contributor, Vanity Fair; executive editor, Premiere magazine Artheur
Martin Goldstein ’58 Clinical Professor, Obstetrics Gynecology, Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, NY, NY
Sheldon L. Goodman '58 Investment Executive, North Star Investment Services; trustee, Interlochen Center for the Arts & Artsjournal.com
Jerald A. Halpern, PhD '58 Marine Biologist; Biology teacher, former professor and researcher; Nationally ranked college fencer; namesake of two asteroids - one a starfish (Tamaria Halperni), and the other orbiting the sun, in honor of his mentoring a Science Talent Search finalist
Andrew Kaplan '58 Author, Hour of the Assassins, Scorpion, Dragonfire, and War of the Raven; Founder/CEO, technology companies: Andrew Kaplan Associates and Learning Adventures; in Israel, helped start the University of the Negev (now Ben Gurion University) and the Israel Olympic Fencing Team
Theodore W. Makarewicz '58 Army colonel; Fulton Country Schools, GA, Director of Purchasing
Donald Mitzner '58 President, CBS Cable
Michael N. Rosen, Esq. '58 Board secretary/director, Barnes & Noble; partner/executive committee, Bryan Cave Robinson Silverman, NY, NY
David Sarnoff '58 Honorary Chairman, Radio Corporation of America at June 1958 Graduation, with diploma
Rick Traum '58, above General Sarnoff
Stuart Balaban '58, with hand on General Sarnoff's shoulder
Robert R. Timberg '58 Baltimore Sun deputy chief, Washington Bureau; author, The Nightingale's Song, John McCain: An American Odyssey, & State of Grace: A memoir of Twilight Time; Harvard Nieman Fellow; marine, Vietnam veteran

The Wider World

The Sputnik Satellite
Oct. 4, 1957, The Soviet Union launches Sputnik I.
Velcro invented

1958/1959

Stuyvesant and NYC Public Schools

Ed Slisky Co-Captains "The Peglegs" football team, and earns All-City tackle honors.
Dr. John J. Theobald '22 is the new NYC Superintendent of Schools, until 1962.
Joshua Lederberg, PhD ’41 wins the Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1958.

'59 Notable Graduates

William Berkowitz ‘59 President, Dreyfus Liquid Assets; President, Reich & Tang Mutual Funds Group; VP/Board member, Gabelli Asset Growth, Equitable Life's money market mutual funds, and Speers, Benzak, Solomon and Farrell Funds; established William and Dale S. Berkowitz Family Foundation; Art collector/patron in Sarasota, Fl
Charles DeFanti, PhD '59 Professor, English, Kean College, NJ; author, The Wages of Expectation: A Biography of Edward Dahlberg
Morton Fleischner '59 ABC News producer/writer
Joel D. Kellman ’59 Managing director/founder, Granite Global Ventures; co-founder, Silicon Valley law firm Fenwick & West and KLM Capital; advisor, Singapore Inc.; director, Qpass, 2Wire, Xenoport, and Oculex Pharmaceuticals
George D. Marlow ’59 Supreme Court Justice, NY Appellate Division
Charles H. Silver '59 Honorary Industrialist, philanthropist, civic leader; president, NYC Board of Education; VP, American Woolen; President, Beth Israel Medical Center
Sheldon E. Steinbach, Esq. '59 VP/General Counsel, Government & Public Affairs, American Council on Education

The Wider World

1958, Bell’s modem data phone enables telephone lines to transmit binary data.
Jan. 1, 1959, Fidel Castro leads Cuban revolutionaries to victory over Fulgencio Batista.
Jan. 3, 1959, President Eisenhower signs a proclamation admitting Alaska to the Union as the 49th state.

1959/1960

Stuyvesant and NYC Public Schools

Stuyvesantians Albert Axelrod '38 and Joe Paletta '54 are on USA Olympic Fencing Team in Rome; Axelrod wins Bronze Medal in foil.
Graduation students heckle Principal Fliedner, which leads the principal to cancel graduation.
Mel Shaftel sets a new meet record in the shot put.
The Nucleus, a science magazine, is established.
Jeff Checkes '60 is Capt. of City Champ fencing team; Jeff competed in foil at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City.

'60 Notable Graduates

Richard Ben-Veniste, Esq '60 Watergate prosecutor; Democratic Counsel, Whitewater Committee; Member, US Commission on Terrorism
George M. Bergman, PhD '60 Professor, mathematics, University of CA, Berkeley; Author, Invitation to General Algebra and Universal Constructions
Arthur Blank '60 Philanthropist; Founder/CEO, Home Depot, Atlanta, GA; Owner, Atlanta Falcons; Arthur Blank '60 Fund for Football, The Campaign for Stuyvesant/Endowment Fund, Inc.
Michael J. Droller, MD '60 Professor/chairman, urology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine; Editor-in-Chief, Urologic Oncology
David Fischer, MD '60 Psychiatrist, Washington, DC; son of Irving Fischer, MD '27; Founder/President, SHS Alumni & Scholarship Association (1954)
Marv Goldberg '60 Music historian in the field of Rhythm & Blues; author, More Than Words Can Say: The Ink Spots And Their Music
Melvin Hochster '60 Professor, mathematics, University of Michigan; Member, National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; Cole Prize winner
Joseph V. Hollweg, PhD '60 Solar Astrophysicist, Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space, University of New Hampshire; fellow, American Geophysical Union
Randolph Jackson ’60 NYS Supreme Court Justice; Life member, NAACP; Bible teacher, empowerment consultant, motivational speaker and arts patron; author, How to Get a Fair Trial by Jury and Black People in the Bible
Allan Katz, MD '60 Chairman, radiology, St. Petersburg, FL General Hospital (SPGH) and Edward White Hospital; moderator, Board of Trustees, SPGH
Jack T. Litman, Esq. '60 Criminal defense lawyer; Sr. Partner, Litman, Ashe, and Gioiella
Robert J. Lopatin, MD '60 Oldest graduate, at 55, Albert Einstein College of Medicine; Executive, Evelyn Pearson, ladies garment manufacturer
Matthew J. Mallow, Esq. ’60 Partner/Attorney, head of Corporate Finance Group, Skadden Arps; Treasurer, Board of Directors, Brown University
Stanley Rothschild, MD '60 Orthopedist, Washington, DC
Mel A. Shaftel '60 Investment banker, Lehman Brothers and Rosetta Partners
Elliot R. Siegel, PhD '60 Medical Informatics, National Library of Medicine/National Institutes of Health

The Wider World

Feb. 1, 1960, Four black college students sit-in at a lunch counter where they had been denied service in Greensboro, N.C.
May 1, 1960 The USSR shoots down a US U-2 reconnaissance plane near Sverdlovsk and captures the pilot, Francis Gary Powers.

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

John F. Kennedy
Nov. 8, 1960, Massachusetts Sen. John F. Kennedy defeats Vice President Richard M. Nixon for the presidency.
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.

1961/1962

Stuyvesant and NYC Public Schools

Stuyvesant holds the US record for highest number of Westinghouse Science Contest Semi-Finalists.
More than 500 seniors win NY State Regents Scholarships.
Students build the first cyclotron in a US high school, but it does not work.
Fencing, Bowling, Math, Chess & Baseball teams are City Champs.
Swimmers are Manhattan Champs.
The Spectator wins First Place at Columbia Scholastic Press Association.
Fencers Bruno Santonocito (Co-Capt.), Tom Kalfa (Co-Capt.), Mark Berger, Charlie Wertheimer, Ron Wallenfels, Alfred Liotta (alternate) -- all members of Class of '62 -- Brant Fries '63 and Mo Cabrera win the 1961 City Championship.
In the early 1960s, Ms. Reeni Goldin, passing the entrance exam, demands admittance. She is refused entrance on the basis that there were no girls’ restrooms. (awaiting research)
Phil Cohen (Columbia College '66, Phi Beta Kappa, and MD in Washington, DC), Valedictorian, Brendan Byrne (NYC Board of Education), and Mike Silverstein (MacArthur 'Genius' Award winner, now University of Chicago Professor), Salutatorian, address the graduating Class at Carnegie Hall.
Steve Green and Joe Albeck are G.O. Presidents
Richard Rabinowitz is President of ARISTA
Irving Perlman edits The Indicator
Neal Hurwitz, Mark Blitz and Joshua Chasan are Editors-in-Chief of The Spectator.
Dr. Irving C. Fischer, MD '27, Co-Founder and President of the Stuyvesant HS Alumni Association, dies at 50.

'62 Notable Graduates

Ismawan Basorie ‘62 Chief Financial Officer, PT Djarum, Jakarta, Indonesia
Harold Bloomfield, MD ’62 Psychiatrist. Author, Creating Peace and Passion in Your Love Relationship & How to Survive the Loss of a Loved One
Dennis Carson, MD ’62 Director, Moores UCSD Cancer Center.; discovered Leustatin, now the standard treatment for hairy cell leukemia; inventor on over 60 U.S. and international patents
Bobby Colomby '62 Musician/producer; drummer/owner Blood Sweat & Tears
Matt Deming '62 Planning engineer, Columbia Gas Transmission, system simulation and demand forecasting; Amateur researcher, Tesla coils; contributor, papers on coil optimization; Director/advisor, The Geek Group
Alan Dombrow '62 Software author, APR, tests accuracy of interest rate calculations; authority on "Truth in Lending Act"; Stuyvesant photographer.
Samuel Dorn, DDS '62 Endodontist; President, American Association of Endodontists; diplomate/director, American Board of Endodontists; professor/director, postgraduate endodontics, Nova Southeastern University
Ian Bruce Eichner, Esq. '62 Real estate developer/philanthropist; Chairman/CEO, The Continuum Company; owner, Manhattan Club, NY, NY
Arthur J. Epstein, PhD '62 Professor, physics and chemistry, Ohio State University; director, Center for Material Research, Magnetic and Electronic Polymers; fellow, American Physical Society, American Ass'n for the Advancement of Science, and Institute for Scientific Information
Russell B. Goodman, PhD ’62 Chairman/professor, philosophy, U. of New Mexico; Author, Wittgenstein and William James
Jay Gottlieb '62 Founder/owner, The Computer Factory
Col. Ron Grabe '62 Astronaut on four Space Shuttle missions; lead astronaut for development of the International Space Station; EVP/General Manager of Orbital Sciences Corp., Launch Systems Group.
Robert Grauer '62 Professor, Computer Information Systems, University of Miami; author of Exploring Microsoft Office applications text book series
Kenneth Alan Grossberg, PhD '62 Professor, Waseda University, Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies, Tokyo, Japan; Founder/Director, Waseda Marketing Forum; Author, Japan Renaissance
Eric Herbst, PhD '62 Professor, physics, astronomy and chemistry, Ohio State University; Royal Society of Chemistry Centenary Lecturer; renown for research on formation of molecules in interstellar space; scientific editor, The Astrophysical Journal; co-author of Chemistry and Spectroscopy of Interstellar Molecules
Marshall Hilsberg '62 Chairman, Lord & Taylor, NY, NY
Elliot W. Jacobs, MD '62 Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeon, Park Avenue, Manhattan, NY; Fellow, American and International Colleges of Surgeons.
Robert Kanigel '62 Author/historian, science and technology, ; Professor and first director, MIT Graduate Program in Science Writing; historian/philosopher, science and technology; author, The Man Who Knew Infinity, Apprentice to Genius, and The One Best Way
Michael Kwatinetz, PhD '62 Founding General Partner, Azure Capital Partners, SF; Author, The Big Tech Score
Steven Markowitz ’62 Chairman, Multistate Associates; President, Temple Israel, Great Neck, NY
S. Michael Nadel '62 Justice, Court of Claims, NY, NY
Paul A. Pensig, Esq. '62 Managing member, BiCoastal Communities, property developer and manager; writer, on real estate and tax issues
Richard Rabinowitz, PhD '62 President, American History Workshop, Brooklyn, NY; Author, The Spiritual Self in Everyday Life
Eric Rabkin, PhD '62 Professor, English and Literature, University of Michigan; Awards: University Teaching, LS&A Excellence in Education, American Council for Learned Societies and American Philosophical Society. Author/editor, Stories: An Anthology and an Introduction
Bruce-Sean Reshen, CPA, MBA '62 President/CEO, MGI Environmental Partners, leader in public and private brownfield restoration programs
Gary Roebuck, DDS '62 Class of '62 rep, creating inclusive and congenial atmosphere for the '62'ers; orthodontist; Co-Publisher, Orthodontic CYBERjournal
Bruno M. Santonocito ’62 Vice President for Development and University Relations, Fordham University, Bronx, NY; Capt of the SHS 1961 Championship Fencing Team
Arthur Schack, Esq. '62 NYS Supreme Court Justice, Brooklyn/Staten Island
Roger Schank, PhD '62 Professor, Carnegie Mellon; national educational innovator/educator; author, Designing World Class E-learning
Michael Silverstein, PhD '62 Professor, anthropology, linguistics, and psychology, University of Chicago; committee member, General Studies in the Humanities; language and linguistics scholar; MacArthur "Genius" award recipient; editor, Natural Histories of Discourse
Jerry Spitz, MD '62 Practicing internist, Hartford CT.; entrepreneur/publisher, The Little Blue Book and MDHub; Consultant to WebMD
Anthony Starace, PhD '62 Professor, physics, University of Nebraska
Robert T. Tunis '62 Real estate executive, Peregrine White; author, Plan of Attack: A Powerful, Principled Strategy for Office Space Negotiation
Steven J. Wallach '62 Advisor, CentrePoint Venture Partners; professor, management, Rice University; consultant, U.S. Dept. of Energy; 35 patents in computer design; founder, Convex Computer, chief designer of its supercomputers; VP, technology, Chiaro Networks
Charles E. Williams III, Esq. ’62 Partner/Attorney, Peckar & Abramson, NY/NJ
Benjamin Wolkowitz, PhD '62 Managing Director, Morgan Stanley; Consultant, finance and financial markets; Co-author, Bank Capital; Board of Directors, The Campaign for Stuyvesant/Alumni(ae) & Friends Endowment Fund, Inc.
Curtis Yamaoka '62 Senior VP, Bank of New York

The Wider World

First industrial robot is used to automate the manufacture of TV picture tubes.
Marilyn Monroe, 38, is found dead in CA.

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

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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.
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
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.
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.

1970/1971

Stuyvesant and NYC Public Schools

Principal Gaspar Fabbricante
Gaspar Fabbricante, Chairman of the Foreign Language Department, is Principal.
On February 18, students protest the Vietnam War and the invasion of Laos. They boycotted school, and refuse to go to class.
In September, Dr. Fliedner retires after 17 years.
The SPARK (School Prevention of Addiction through Rehabilitation and Knowledge) is established at Stuyvesant.
Forum, a Social Studies/History magazine is founded.
The Out-to-Lunch program is instituted.
The Spectator establishes a new policy of distributing the newspaper to the entire student body (instead of using subscriptions).

'71 Notable Graduates

George Barany, PhD '71 Professor, chemistry, University of Minnesota; organic chemistry researcher noted for work on peptides; brother, Francis Baranay, PhD '74
Denny Chin '71 US District Judge, Southern District, NY; President, Asian American Bar Association of New York.
Bruce J. Einhorn '71 Professor, human rights law, Pepperdine University Law School; Deputy Director (litigation), Nazi War Crimes Prosecution Unit, US Department of Justice
Eric K. Goodman '71 Professor, English, Miami University, Oxford, OH; writer/author, In Days of Awe and Child of my Right Hand
Michael Oreskes '71 Ass't Managing Editor, The New York Times; As Washington Bureau chief, 3 Pulitzer Prizes won during his tenure
Jay John Rakow, Esq. '71 Sr. EVP/General Counsel, MGM
David Schiffer, '71 President, DLS Design, corporate web sites and graphics

The Wider World

Backed by American air and artillery support, South Vietnamese troops invade Laos.
Apollo 14 makes the third successful moon landing

1971/1972

Stuyvesant and NYC Public Schools

The transition to a co-ed school is complete.
Fencing wins City Championships for the sixth consecutive time, totaling 58 consecutive PSAL wins.
A girls’ Fencing Team is established.
The yearbook is full of protest pictures that include SHS students and nature photos, as well.
The first girls admitted to SHS graduate in June, 1972.

'72 Notable Graduates

Scott A. Biller, PhD '72 VP/Global Head, Drug Discovery, Novartis Institutes; National Institute of Health Post-Doctoral Fellow
Douglas Murphy-Chutorian, MD ’72 Chairman, MD Data Direct, Menlo Park, CA; Chairman/CEO Eclipse Surgical Technologies; CEO, Acueity Inc.
Eugene Schlanger, Esq. '72 Deputy general counsel, Nomura Hold America; former branch chief, NY office of the Securities and Exchange Commission; known as the "wall street poet," published in Western Humanities Review, American Scholar and Sewanee Review; first poem written at SHS
Brian Tokar '72 Environmentalist; author, Green Alternative: Creating an Ecological Future and Redesigning Life?: The Worldwide Challenge to Genetic Engineering

The Wider World

Richard Nixon visits China
Feb. 21-27, 1972, Nixon makes historic visit to Communist China.
March 22, 1972 Congress sends the proposed Equal Rights Amendment to the US Constitution to the states for ratification; it fails to secure the three-fourths approval needed.
May 26, 1972, U.S. and Soviet Union sign strategic arms control agreement known as SALT I.
June 17, 1972, Watergate - police arrest five men, all employees of Nixon's reelection campaign, are caught breaking into rival Democratic headquarters at the Watergate complex in Washington, DC.
June 23, 1972, Title IX of the Education Amendments requires that "No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving federal financial assistance."

1972/1973

Stuyvesant and NYC Public Schools

The GO (General Organization) is replaced by the SU (Student Union).
In April, the first production of SING! is staged, Paul Reiser prominent.
"Inside the Sty" is established in order to address issues the founders feel are not addressed in the school, and are censored by the school administration in other school papers.
The Student Sex Information/Peer Group starts as part of an experimental program in NYC high schools to set up places where students can get information on sex, health and family living from their fellow students and to serve as an informal, relaxed place (‘rap room’).

'73 Notable Graduates

Paul Achitoff, Esq. '73 Managing attorney, Earthjustice (Hawaiin nonprofit environmental law firm protecting endangered species, restoring streams, and challenging the secrecy of the genetic engineering industry)
Natalie Blagowidow, MD '73 Medical Director, Genetics Prenatal Diagnostic Center & Director, High Risk OB Center, Obstetrics, Greater Baltimore Medical Center/Harvey Institute for Human Genetics; One of the first female fencers at Stuyvesant HS
Karen Von Damm, PhD '73 Professor, geochemistry/chemical oceanography and deep sea explorer, University of New Hampshire Institute for Earth, Oceans and Space; fellow, American Geophysical Union
Raymond Fong, MD '73 Founder/owner, New York Eye Center; President, Chinese American Medical Society & the Chinatown Health Clinic Foundation
Stanley Greenberg '73 Photographer; photo book author, Invisible New York: The Hidden Infrastructure of the City and Waterworks; Guggenheim Fellowship, 2005
John Gordon Harold, MD '73 Chief of Staff, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles; Clinical Professor, medicine, UCLA; Fellow, American College of Cardiology, American College of Physicians, American Heart Association
Gerard Houarner '73 Mental health professional, writer of science fiction, fantasy and horror: Black Orchids from Aum, Going Postal, & Dead Cats Bouncing. Fiction Editor for Space and Time Magazine
Arthur M. Keller, PhD '73 Co-Founder, Mergent Systems (acquired by Commerce One); Advisor to startups, expert witness on patent cases; Author, First Course in Computer Programming with Pascal
Steven E. Krug, MD '73 Head, Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Children's memorial Hospital; Professor of Pediatrics, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University
Paul Levitz '73 President/Publisher DC Comics & MAD Magazine
Paul accepts a commendation for his work as Chairman of the Centennial Book, June 4, 2004
Howard Mandel, MD '73 Fellow, American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology; Contributor/volunteer, Los Angeles Free Clinic
Drew Nieporent '73 Restaurateur; President, Myriad Restaurant Group (Montrachet,
Tribeca Grill, Rubicon, Nobu, Nobu London, HeartBeat, Earth & Ocean, Icon, Lucca,
Pulse, The Coach House, and more!)
Paul Reiser '73 Comedian/actor; author, Babyhood and Couplehood

The Wider World

Nov. 1972, Richard Nixon reelected President
Dec. 30 1972, The United States halts its heavy bombing of North Vietnam.
Jan. 22 1973, In Roe versus Wade, the Supreme Court legalizes abortions, using a trimester approach, effectively canceling the anti-abortion laws of 46 states.
Jan. 23, 1973, President Nixon announces the Paris Peace Accords and ends the American combat role in Vietnam.

1973/1974

Stuyvesant and NYC Public Schools

The Stuyvesant Voice is founded, becoming one of the most successful --and longest-lasting -- "underground" publications in the school's history. The publication is loosely modeled after "New York" magazine in its combination of serious journalism and service features. Operating independently from school departments and budgets, the publication makes a small profit from direct sales and paid advertisements.
Stuyvesant Voice Editors in Chief: Founder/Editor, 1973-1975: Michael Kaplan Editor, 1975-1976: Jenny-Anne Martz Editor, 1976-1978: Jeff Trachtman.
Dec. 5, NYC Mayor, Abraham D. Beame presents a Certificate of Appreciation to SHS students in recognition of the students collection of $1,000 for the United Nations Children’s Fund.

'74 Notable Graduates

John C. Abell '74 Reporter/editor, Reuters; Editor, Multimedia Production, the Americas; designed/developed software to publish real-time news and multimedia for Internet customers and www.reuters.com; in first group of Department of Defense "Media Boot Camp" embed trainees
Elias K. Aivazis '74 Deputy Special Agent in Charge, US Secret Service, Inspection Division; Assistant to the Special Agent in Charge, Vice Presidential Protective Division, 1996 - 2000
Francis Barany, PhD '74 Professor, Microbiology, Cornell/Sloan Kettering Institute; adjunct, Rockefeller University; director, Mutation Research, Strang Cancer Prevention Center; Named to 2004 "Scientific American 50", "Research Leader in Medical Diagnostics" for genomic chip disease detection — especially breast and colon cancer; brother, George Barany PhD '71
Ayesha Jalal, PhD '74 Professor, history, Tufts; Fellowships: MacArthur; Trinity College; Centre of South Asian Studies; Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars; Academy Scholar, Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies; authority, on history and culture of Pakistan and India; author, Modern South Asia: History, Culture, Political Economy
Marlene Jupiter ’74 Managing Director, Bessent Capital, NY, NY; Author, Savvy Investing for Women
Jeffrey M. Krauss, Esq. '74 member, Psilos Group Managers; Chairman, Quovadx
Eric S. Lander, PhD '74 Professor, biology, MIT; principal leader, Human Genome Project, at Whitehead Center for Genome Research; developed most of the key tools of modern mammalian genomics; founding director, Broad Institute; Professor, managerial economics, Harvard Business School; MacArthur "Genius" Award winner; SHS Valedictorian; 1st prize winner, Westinghouse Science Talent Search
Betty Ming Liu '74 Assistant Professor of Journalism at New York University and The New School.
John H. Reiss '74 senior broadcast producer, NBC Nightly News
Carrie Ruzal-Shapiro, MD '74 Professor, clinical radiology and pediatrics, Columbia; Director, Pediatric Radiology, Columbia-Presbyterian; 2002 Teacher of the Year; SHS Salutatorian
George Sands ‘74 Dimensional Funds Advisors, Coronado, CA
Eric M. Wassermann, MD '74 Capt. US Public Health Service; Chief, Brain Stimulation Unit National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, NIH; Senior Medical Advisor, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response, Department of Health and Human Services; Adjunct Professor of Neurology, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences; Lead editor of the Oxford Handbook of Transcranial Stimulaton

The Wider World

Oct. 6, 1973, Yom Kippur war begins when Egypt and Syria attacks Israel.
Oct. 25, 1973, a cease fire is declared; Israeli troops are successful on the battlefield but the war is a diplomatic failure for the Middle East.
Oct. 17, 1973, Arab oil producers begin embargo against the United States.
Nov. 17, 1973, President Nixon told an Associated Press managing editors meeting in Orlando, Fla., that "people have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook."
July 1974, House Judiciary Committee approves three articles of impeachment.
Aug. 9, 1974, Nixon resigns the presidency. Gerald Ford becomes President of the U.S.

1974/1975

Stuyvesant and NYC Public Schools

Stuyvesant Soccer wins Divisional Championship
Soccer team captures Divisional Championship; Marc O. Ellman '75 and Oleh Dekajlo, '75 are the Co-Captains.
The autobiography, Cagney by Cagney, Stuyvesant's "most famous" alumnus--Academy Award-winning actor James Cagney '18--is published in 1975.
Antares, a science fiction magazine, is founded.

'75 Notable Graduates

Cynthia Ambres, MD '75 Chief Medical Officer, Kaleida Health System; President, Ambres Health Care Consulting
Yvonne (Gomez) Carrion '75 Medical Director OB/GYN Community Practices, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston MA
Lauren Eisenberg Davis '75 author, Autumn Leaves
Alan Jay Gerson '75 Elected NY City Councilman, district including Stuyvesant HS
George E. Hellman, Esq. ’75 Director, planned giving, US Holocaust Memorial Museum
Carl Hendricks '75 Author, Rootin’ for the Crusher
Richard P. Sedano '75 Energy consultant; commissioner, Vermont Department of Public Service; advocate for energy efficiency, renewable energy, and competition in regulated markets; Chair, National Association of State Energy Officials; Member, US Department of Energy Task Force on Electric Reliability
Nina Silber '75 Professor, history, Boston University
Paul Zeitz '75 Professor, mathematics, University of San Francisco; author, Art and Craft of Problem Solving

The Wider World

Sep. 16, 1974, President Gerald Ford offers clemency to draft evaders and military deserters.

1975/1976

Stuyvesant and NYC Public Schools

Mr. Fabbricante limits the number of publications, permitting only one publication per department. This policy was, according to Mr. Fabbricante, made because of the need to cut the school budget. This decision causes an uproar among the students.
Jeff Trachtman, a junior, brings suit against the Board of Education for disallowing publication of a sex survey he and the staff of the Stuyvesant Voice had done. Charging violation of the First Amendment, Trachtman wins the case at the district court level, then loses on a Board of Education Appeal taken to the Federal Court of Appeals of the second circuit. Trachtman's request for a hearing in the US Supreme Court is ultimately denied

'76 Notable Graduates

Marc S. Ganis '76 President, Sportscorp, Chicago consultancy; sports marketing, finance, and stadium expert; Crain's 1997 annual 40 under 40; City Club of Chicago
Arlene Pedovitch '76 Director, Center for Jewish Life, Princeton University; VP, Mellon Financial & Bank of America; Co-editor, The Spectator, at Stuyvesant
Tim Robbins '76 Actor, screenwriter, director, producer; academy award, Mystic River; other awards for Dead Man Walking, The Player, and Cradle Will Rock
Martin Saggese '76 Exec. Director, Society for Neuroscience; CFO, American International Health Alliance; VP, Long Island Rail Road; Co-editor, The Spectator & VP, Student Union, at Stuyvesant

The Wider World

Nov. 18, 1976, Spain's parliament approves a bill to establish a democracy after 37 years of dictatorship.

1976/1977

Stuyvesant and NYC Public Schools

Mr. Fabbricante relaxes his original publications ruling. He allows each department to have more than one publication, provided it has the approval of the department chairperson and is not more costly than any of the other publications.

'77 Notable Graduates

Thomas Calabro '77 Director, actor, Melrose Place
Lisa R. Hirschhorn, MD, MPH '77 Director, HIV Medical Care & Research, Dimock Community Health Center, Roxbury, MA; Clinical Professor, medicine, Harvard; Consultant, World Health Organization, United Nations, and Clinton Foundation
Loretha C. Jones, Esq '77 Independent film/TV producer/director, Fighting Temptations and The Parent 'Hood
Stacey Nelkin '77 Actress, Up the Academy; dated Woody Allen while at Stuyvesant HS - thought to be the inspiration for the character of Tracy in his movie, Manhattan
Eva Salzman '77 Poet, The English Earthquake; Owner, out-of-print book service, London, England

The Wider World

Nov. 1976, Jimmy Carter elected President.

1977/1978

Stuyvesant and NYC Public Schools

Stuyvesant finishes first in the number of National Merit Scholars Awards.
The Math Team finishes first in the nation.

'78 Notable Graduates

George Gee '78 Big band leader
Sidney E. Goodfriend '78 Managing Director, Credit Suisse First Boston
Veronica Ho '78 Investment banker
Roland O. Laird ’78 Founder, Chairman, Posro Comics; author, Still I Rise

The Wider World

Sep. 7, 1977, President Jimmy Carter signs treaty to turn control of Panama Canal over to Panama on Dec.31 1999.

1978/1979

Stuyvesant and NYC Public Schools

On Oct. 2, 1978, in protest of cuts made in sports programs throughout the city by the Board of Education, 80% of SHS students boycott class.
Several days later the dispute is settled and the athletic season begins.
1978, Some students cut class to attend the Yankees Parade down Broadway.

'79 Notable Graduates

Mordecai-Mark Mac Low, PhD '79 Astrophysicist; curator, American Museum of Natural History; professor, astronomy, Columbia University

The Wider World

Sep.17, 1978, Sadat and Begin sign Camp David Accord, ending 30-year conflict between Israel and Egypt.
Jan. 1, 1979, U.S. establishes diplomatic ties with mainland China for the first time since Communist takeover in 1949.
Jan. 7, 1979 Vietnam captures the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh, overthrowing the Khmer Rouge.
Mar. 28, 1979, Malfunction at Three Mile Island nuclear reactor in Pennsylvania causes near meltdown.

1979/1980

Stuyvesant and NYC Public Schools

In April, NYC subway and bus workers strike. The principal sleeps in school. Almost no one shows up.
Men’s tennis is PSAL Champs.
Pegleg athletes, led by the wrestling team, win several championships during the decade.

'80 Notable Graduates

Tom Allon '80 Publisher/CEO, Manhattan Media
Mark F. Alpert ‘80 Editor, Scientific American
Daniel Bergstein '80 Secretary, Board of Directors, Port Authority of NY/NJ; died in 9/11 attacks at his WTC offices
Irene Chang, PhD '80 General Counsel, Lower Manhattan Development Corporation; Board Secretary, Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund; Advisory Committee, Daniel Bergstein/SHS80 Memorial Scholarship Fund; National Advisory Board, Campaign for Stuyvesant Alumni(ae) & Friends Endowment Fund, Inc.
Lee Alan Dugatkin, PhD '80 Professor, biology, University. of Louisville, KY; Animal behavior researcher; author, Principles of Animal Behavior, Cheating Monkeys, and Citizen Bees
Doug Grad '80 Editor, Penguin Group
Brian R. Greene, PhD '80 Professor, mathematics and physics, Columbia University; Author, The Elegant Universe; authority on superstring theory
Richard Herschlag '80 Author, Women Are from Manhattan, Men Are from Brooklyn; consulting engineer
Rosemary Knapp, PhD '80 Professor, zoology, University of Oklahoma at Norman; researcher, behavioral endocrinology.
Beth Knobel, PhD '80 Bureau Chief, Moscow, CBS
David H. Lippman '80 World War II historian; public information officer, Newark, NJ
Timothy McDarrah '80 Columnist, US Weekly
Lisa Randall, PhD '80 Professor, physics, Harvard; high energy physics theorist, super-symmetry, and extra dimensions
Helen Rochlitzer Reale '80 Professional beach volleyball player

The Wider World

Nov. 4, 1979, Iranian students storm U.S. embassy in Teheran and hold 66 people hostage until Nov 20.
Dec. 27, 1979, Soviet forces seize control of Afghanistan.
Apr. 25, 1980, U.S. mission to rescue hostages in Iran is aborted after a helicopter and cargo plane collide at the staging site in a remote part of Iran.

1980/1981

Stuyvesant and NYC Public Schools

The Wider World

Ronald Reagan is elected President.
Jan. 20, 1981, Iran releases the 52 Americans held hostage for 444 days, minutes after the presidency passes from Jimmy Carter to Ronald Reagan.
Mar. 30, 1981, President Reagan is shot in the chest by John Hinckley, Jr.
New York City faces a water shortage.

1981/1982

Stuyvesant and NYC Public Schools

Mr. Fabbricante retires.
Acting Principal Kenneth J. Tewel assumes leadership.
Tony’s, a popular hangout, closes.
Roald Hoffmann, PhD '55 wins Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1981.

The Wider World

Sep. 25, 1981, Sandra Day O'Connor is sworn in as the first woman Supreme Court Justice.
Dec. 28, 1981, Elizabeth Jordan Carr, the first American test-tube baby, is born in Norfolk, VA.

1982/1983

Stuyvesant and NYC Public Schools

Principal Abraham Baumel

Ronald Grabe, Astronaut on spaceshuttle Atlantis
Abraham Baumel, Principal at New Dorp, and former Chairman of the Physics Department at Stuyvesant, returns as the new Principal.
Oct. 3, 1982, Ronald Grabe '62 is on STS-51J, maiden voyage of spaceshuttle Atlantis.
The Stuyvesant Pretzel Man haunts the 16th Street Lobby.

'83 Notable Graduates

Matt Ruff '83 Author
Kate Schellbach '83 drummer for the Beastie Boys and Lucious Jackson

The Wider World

The Vietnam Memorial, Washington DC
Nov. 10, 1982, the newly finished Vietnam Veterans Memorial opens in Washington, D.C.

1983/1984

Stuyvesant and NYC Public Schools

SHS students have longer hair, and new lockers.
The Class of 1984 has had three principals.
Stuyvesant is featured in "Is Excellence Possible in Urban Public Schools?" in American Education (Nov. 1983).

The Wider World

Completion of the TCP/IP network switchover marks the creation of the global Internet.
Dec. 15, 1983 Wendy Wasserstein's D'39 "Isn't It Romantic," premieres in NYC.

1984/1985

Stuyvesant and NYC Public Schools

Nov. 18, 1984, 600 alumni(ae) come to celebrate the school's 80th anniversary.
Robert Pam '63 is elected President of a newly-formed Alumni Association. In 1986, Evelyn Krejci '76, the first woman President, is elected; she serves for 16 years, until 2002.

The Wider World

Nov. 1984, Ronald Reagan reelected President.
Dec. 3, 1984, an industrial accident at a pesticide plant in Bhopal, India leads to about 4,000 deaths in several days.

1985/1986

Stuyvesant and NYC Public Schools

The Stuyvesant Coalition is formed to insure input from the school community while planning for a new school.
Ideas for the new building are solicited, from alumni, students, parents and faculty.

'86 Notable Graduates

Lucy Liu '86 actress, Ally McBeal Show, Charlies Angels, Kill Bill

The Wider World

The explosion of the spaceshuttle Challenger
Jan. 10, 1986, Spaceshuttle Challenger explodes on launch.

1986/1987

Stuyvesant and NYC Public Schools

Boys Cross Country wins Manhattan Championship.
The Debating Team dominates the Lincoln-Douglas Debates and is crowned National Forensic Champions.
Actress Lucy Deakins '88 is featured for her accomplishments as an actress. (Deakins is best known for her starring role in the movie The Boy Who Could Fly.)
In the 46th Westinghouse Science Talent Search, Elizabeth Lee Wilmer wins Second Prize, a $15,000 scholarship, for her work on the three-color problem in mathematics.

The Wider World

Dec. 23, 1986 the experimental airplane Voyager, piloted by Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager, completes the first non-stop, around-the-world flight without refueling.

1987/1988

Stuyvesant and NYC Public Schools

(l-r) New York Governor Mario Cuomo, President of the Board of Education Robert F. Wagner Jr., and Mayor Ed Koch announce the new building

Construction of the new Stuyvesant building begins in May, with the move to Chambers Street scheduled for September, 1992.
Stuyvesant places a record 47 semifinalists--and the final first and second place winners!--in the 47th Annual Westinghouse Science Talent Search---Chetan Nayak wins 1st prize, a $20,000 scholarship, for his mathematical analysis of the interaction between electromagnetic and gravitational fields; and Janet Tseng wins 2nd for her study of cryptosporosis, an opportunistic infection that causes chronic diarrhea in AIDS patients.
The Spectator sends reporters undercover to take the SAT and Achievement Tests under assumed identities, exposing flaws and security weaknesses in the ETS system; the reporters are featured on the Today Show.
Senior Charlene Brown wins the 1988 All-American Girl Contest, co-sponsored by Teen Magazine; she gains early acceptance to MIT and is awarded the Future Biochemist's Award.
Student Daisy Tsui is featured in New York magazine on the 20 most important people in New York City.

'88 Notable Graduates

Lucy Deakins '88 Actress, The Boy who Could Fly

1988/1989

Stuyvesant and NYC Public Schools

Stuyvesant alumnus Ronald Grabe '62 rockets into space on May 4th aboard the Space Shuttle Atlantis, taking a 1932 Stuyvesant banner with him.
At least 90 seniors almost lose their chances in the Westinghouse Science Talent Search competition when their entries are received after the contest deadline, having been delayed by Federal Express. After much pressure from the Stuyvesant administration and parents, Westinghouse bends the rules and allows the late entries.
NYS Forensic League: Amanda Jacobs & Chris Bulger are Duo Interpretation Champions.

'89 Notable Graduates

Raymond Lau PhD '89 software author, Stuffit algorithm developed while at SHS, software researcher, and founder of iPhrase Technologies

The Wider World

Nov. 1988, George H. W. Bush is elected President.
Dec. 21, 1988, a Libya-sponsored bomb explodes aboard a Pan Am Boeing 747 over Lockerbie, Scotland.

1989/1990

Stuyvesant and NYC Public Schools

The new building is “topped off” in June.
The theater balcony is still a combination lunchroom and hangout, with the dire prediction that the hang-our area will someday fall on to the first floor.

The Wider World

Aug. 2, 1990, Iraqi troops invade Kuwait, leading to the Persian Gulf War.

1990/1991

Stuyvesant and NYC Public Schools

In June, the city approves the proposed pedestrian bridge which will span West Street and include glass elevators. Construction starts in September.
Yves Jeanty and Petal Haynes are among the top ten winners in the 50th annual Westinghouse Science Talent Search.
Won So, an 18-year-old who emigrated from South Korea in 1982, is elected president of the Student Union.

The Wider World

Jan. 16, 1991 President Bush announces the start of Operation Desert Storm to drive Iraq's Saddam Hussein out of Kuwait.
Top languages spoken by public school students in NYC are: Spanish, Chinese, Haitian-Creole, Russian, and Korean.

1991/1992

Stuyvesant and NYC Public Schools

Four SHS students win prizes in the Westinghouse Science Talent Search competition.
SHS is NYS Forensic League Speech Sweepstakes Champions.
Hundreds of Alumni return to the old building to "say good-bye to Old Stuy."
Joseph V. Hollweg '60 is awarded the 1992 James Arthur Prize for Solar Physics by the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.

The Wider World

Feb. 1, 1992, Following the breakup of the Soviet Union in Dec. 1991, President Bush and Russian President Boris Yeltsin meet at Camp David and formally declare an end to the "Cold War".
April 29, 1992, Deadly rioting that claimed 54 lives and caused $1 billion in damage erupted in Los Angeles after a jury in Simi Valley acquitted four Los Angeles police officers of almost all state charges in the videotaped beating of Rodney King.

1992/1993

Stuyvesant and NYC Public Schools

Plans for the construction of the new Stuyvesant High School
Stuyvesant HS opens in September at 345 Chambers Street in new 10-story building in Battery Park City; there are 2,700 students and 103 faculty members.
The new building is designed by Alexander Cooper, Robertson & Partners, in association with Gruzen Samton Steinglass; Peter Samton is Class of '52.
The design of the school is the result of an unusual collaboration between the architects and the Stuyvesant Coalition, led by Renee Levine P'84 & '86 and Peggy Harvey P'86. The Coalition is a volunteer group that includes students, teachers, parents and administrators. HRH is the construction manager.
The SHS pool opens.
The first World Trade Center terrorist bombing occurrs.
Girls’ Swimming wins the NYC PSAL, City, and Opens.
In January, daily homeroom is cancelled, and homeroom is only held on Wednesdays.
Students are allowed to go out to lunch for the first time since Old SHS.
Governor Cuomo speaks at the cornerstone unveiling ceremony.
NYS Forensic League: Greg Epstein is Declamation Champion

'93 Notable Graduates

Bram Cohen '93 information systems architect, creator of "Bitorrent"

The Wider World

Nov. 1992, Clinton & Al Gore defeat George Bush & Dan Quayle for Pres/VP
Feb. 26, 1993, a bomb explodes in the garage of NYC's World Trade Center, killing six people and injuring more than 1,000

1993/1994

Stuyvesant and NYC Public Schools

The Tribeca Bridge across West Street is completed.
Stuyvesant leads the nation in number of semi-finalists in the Westinghouse Science Talent Search.
The theater (later named for Murray Kahn) has its first performance, the Winter Concert.
Hackers is filmed at SHS, with juniors and seniors waiting on line to be extras.
The school store opens.
Juniors win SING!
A new TV studio is opened.
Data from space satellites is downloaded from antennae on the roof to computers.
SU holds Homecoming Pep Rally, a Clubs and Pubs Fair, the Faculty-Student Volleyball game, and the first Thanksgiving Luncheon.
SU also holds a Faculty-Student Basketball game, Pep Week, Dress-Up Day, Favorite Stuffed Animal Day, Tie Day, and SHS Colors Day, AIDS Awareness Day, and school dances.
In the NYS Forensic League, Anita Konka is Declamation Champion.
Fencing wins City Championships.
Boys Gymnastics wins City.
Girls Swimming wins Team and Individuals.
Bowling wins Borough.
A bachelor/bachelorette auction is held for the winter dance.
Aleksandr L. Khazanov is a member of the U.S.'s perfect-scoring team in the International Mathematical Olympiad in Hong Kong.
Principal Baumel and AP Hal Lehrman retire in June.
Denny Chin '71 is named for federal judgeship in NY's Southern District, and becomes the first Asian-American judge on the East Coast.
Robert Fogel, PhD '44 is Nobel Laureate in Economics, 1993.

1994/1995

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Principal Murray Kahn
Murray Kahn is Principal.
LIFE magazine, October 1, 1994, runs a feature on Stuyvesant: "Is This the Best High School in America?" LIFE discusses Stuyvesant’s specialization in mathematics and science, the sophisticated curricula, test scores on entrance examinations as the sole criterion for admission, representation of every ethnicity and income level, grade point averages, the great success of the debate team, pressures faced by students, and presents selected student profiles.
SHS teams are named 1994-5 PSAL NYC Champs in Boys’ Gymnastics, Fencing and Boys’ Swimming.
Students protest against State and City cuts on educational spending.
In June, Junior Bash takes place.
In July, AP Murray Kahn retires.
A new bell schedule is instituted, along with a new classroom attendance policy.
The Intersession is saved after the principal sided with the students, breaking a tie in the school-based management vote.
Girls’ Swimming is City, Division and Open Champs.
Girls’ Gymnastics are Team Division Champs.
Fencing (the Untouchables) win City Champs, City Individuals, Iron Horse, and second place in the PSAL Novice Tournament.
Wrestling takes third place in the Team Championships.
Heckling is allowed during SING! for the last time. In the fall, bachelor auctions are held for the last time.
SHS is NYS Forensic League Speech Sweepstakes Champions.

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Aftermath of the Oklahoma City bombing
April 19, 1995, A truck bomb destroyed the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people and injuring 500; Timothy McVeigh was convicted of the bombing and executed.

1995/1996

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Jinx Cozzi-Perullo
Jinx Cozzi-Perullo becomes Principal.
Murray Kahn dies on Mar. 31, 1996.
The SHS theater is named in his honor.
Two students, Ting Luo, & Bruce Mizhari Haggerty, win second, and fifth places, respectively, in the Westinghouse Contest.
Governor Mario Cuomo speaks at SHS on March 12, 1996.
Bowling is Borough Champs.
Boys’ Swimming, Boys’ Gymnastics, Fencing and Girls’ Swimming win City Champs.
Girls’ Volleyball is first in its division.
Football team goes 10-0, a perfect season, except for a loss in Division Champs.
Junior SING! members wear black and white polka dot ribbons to protest the censorship of one of their scenes.
Students receive new computerized ID cards.

1996/1997

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Dr. Richard Rothenberg, Mathematics Assistant Principal, dies on May 15, 1997. The Mathematics wing is named in his honor.
Boys’ Gymnastics are City Champs.
Men’s swimming is City Champs.
The mayor and governor visit to the school.
The North residential section of Battery Park City development begins.
Women’s Gymnastics are Division Champs.
NYS Forensic League: Jaime Palumbo & Lynn Kowalchuk are Duo Interpretation Champions.
April 1997, Frank McCourt, former English teacher, wins Pulitzer Prize in Biography for his book, Angela's Ashes.

1997/1998

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The Spectator is shut down by Ms. Perullo.
Varsity Football is promoted to the A-division.
Men’s Gymnastics are City Champs.
Men’s Swimming are City Champs.
A new NYC Ultimate League is created.
Women’s Volleyball is Division Champs.
Bowling is Division Champs.
Women’s Gymnastics is Division Champs.
Pile drivers send trembles; the library develops a crack.
P.S. 89 opens across the street.
SHS begins an E-schedule.
Women’s Swimming is City Champs.
Kenneth Starr, the lead prosecutor in President Clinton’s impeachment trial, speaks at Stuyvesant.
Stuyvesant has one finalist and 12 semi-finalists in this year's Westinghouse Science Talent Search.

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Mar. 27, 1998, Intel Corporation assumes sponsorship of the Westinghouse Science Talent Search for high school students nationwide

1998/1999

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Penguins win City Champs.
Women’s Gymnastics are Division Champs.
Stuyvesant is the highest scoring team in New York State in the 1998 American High School Mathematics Exam.
Princeton University Mathematician Elias Stein '49 shares the 1999 Wolf Prize, one of the highest honors in the field.
First Campaign for Stuyvesant Reception May 14, 1999 at the new school is attended by over 125 alumni(ae). Founded by Principal Perullo with support from Jack Nash '46, Bernard Nussbaum, Esq. '54, Gerry Golub, CPA '57, Ian Bruce Eichner, Esq. '62, and Danny Glasser '81. Michael Brotchner and Andrea Zepler '89 are the first Executive Directors; Neal Hurwitz '62, is Campaign Advisor.
Perullo, Paul M. Weichsel, PhD '49 and Alexander Byron Miller '61 are the first three members of the Board of Directors for The Campaign for Stuyvesant.
Paul Weichsel '49 keynotes commencement ceremony at Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center.

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Dec. 18, 1998, The House of Representatives votes to impeach President Clinton on two articles, charging him with lying under oath to a federal grand jury and obstructing justice.
Jan. 7, 1999, Chief Justice William Rehnquist, who presides over the impeachment trial, is officially sworn in along with the 100 senators who act as jurors.
Feb. 12, 1999, Senate votes to acquit Clinton on Articles of Impeachment.

1999/2000

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Stanley Teitel
Stanley Teitel, Assistant Principal for Physics & Chemistry, becomes Principal.
Sam Jacobson, of Boys’ Cross Country, breaks a 25-year old school record by 16 seconds.
Boys’ Swimming (Penguins) wins the PSAL Open Swimming Championships by over 100 points and also wins the team championships.
Boys’ Gymnastics earns the title of PSAL Champs.
Girls’ Swimming wins PSAL, Opens and Team Championship Finals.
Girls’ Cross Country wins the Borough Championship.
Girls’ Gymnastics wins Division Champs.
Girls’ Softball team is top in the division.
Boys’ Handball places 1st in division.
Juniors, the Class of '01, win SING!
NYS Forensic League: Jack Fan is Congress Champion. Yousaf Khalid is Declamation Champion.
Shared decision making at Stuyvesant HS is newly energized through development of the School Leadership Team. It is composed of equal numbers of parents and school staff, and includes student representatives as full voting members. The first fully collaborative Comprehensive Education Plan for the school is developed.
The Campaign for Stuyvesant/SHS Alumni(ae) & Friends Endowment Fund incorporates in New York State, December 31, 1999. Founder & Principal-Emeritus Jinx Cozzi Perullo, Paul M. Weichsel, PhD '49, and Alexander Byron Miller '61 are the first Directors.

2000/2001

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SHS is NYS Forensic League Speech Sweepstakes Champions.
The Class of '01 as Seniors win SING! again.
Commencement Speaker is Eric Holder '69, US Deputy Attorney General.

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Nov. 2000, The presidential election is too close to call. A electoral and legal battle for the presidency unfolds.
Dec. 12, 2000, a U.S. Supreme Court 5-4 decision halted the presidential recount in Florida, effectively making Republican George W. Bush the winner.

2001/2002

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Within hours of the World Trade Center attack, the Stuyvesant building is evacuated and designated as a Temporary Operations Center for Rescue and Recovery. Classes are held in afternoon sessions at Brooklyn Technical High School until October 9th.
The New York Times inserts The Spectator’s special 9/11 issue in its pages.
There is a senior grade trip to Cancun.
Freshmen have the option of taking physics.
Girls’ Gymnastics wins Division Champs.
Working with SHS Parents' Association, Richard Ben-Veniste, Esq. '60 helps the school gain a full-school $1 million "clean-up" by Board of Education after the 9/11 disaster, during the summer of '02; Ben-Veniste is later appointed by Congress to the US Commission on Terrorism.
In 2002, Karen Van Damm '73 and Joe Hollweg '60 are both elected Fellows of the American Geophysical Union - a rare occurrence for two people from the same institution.
Paul Weichsel
April 2002: Paul M. Weichsel, PhD '49, Associate Chairman of the Dept of Mathematics at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, elected as first Chairman of The Campaign for Stuyvesant/Alumni(ae) & Friends Endowment Fund, Inc.
Former Pres. Clinton (invited by the Senior Class) and NY Sen. Charles E. Schumer, parent of Jessica '02, speak at the graduation ceremony at Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center.

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Sep. 11, 2001, World Trade Center attacked by Al Qaeda terrorists. Over 2600 die.
Oct. 7, 2001, U.S. and Britain launch air attacks against targets in Afghanistan after the Taliban government fails to hand over Saudi terrorist Osama bin Laden, the suspected mastermind behind the Sep.11 attacks.
The Twin Towers before the bombing
Dec. 9, 2001, Following air campaign and ground assault by Afghani opposition troops, the Taliban regime topples However, the hunt for bin Laden and other members of al-Qaeda terrorist organization continues.
Jan. 29, 2002 ,President Bush labels Iran, Iraq, and North Korea an “axis of evil” and declares that U.S. will wage war against states that develop weapons of mass destruction.

2002/2003

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The Chorus sings at Yankee Stadium and for the Congress’ special NY session.
A new bell schedule is implemented.
It is decided that students may opt out of CAD to take introduction to computer science or computer programming.
Elle Girl, a teen magazine, sponsors a fashion show at SHS, with MTV coverage.
The Soph-Frosh team beats the Juniors in SING!
NYS Forensic League: Sheridan Johnson is Varsity Oral Interpretation Champion (first time ever for SHS in this category).
Sari Halper-Dickson '86 elected President of the Stuyvesant HS Alumni Association; Tara Regist is Executive Director.
September 2002, Dr. Weichsel is named Co-Chairman of The Stuyvesant HS Centennial Committee by Principal Stanley Teitel.
Feb. 12, 2003, Darwin Day is celebrated at Stuyvesant - John Galbraith Simmons P'03 and noted Darwin authority is guest speaker.

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Jan. 2003 - The New York City Department of Education is formed, replacing the independent Board of Education.
Feb. 1, 2003,Space shuttle Columbia explodes on re-entry.
Mar. 29, 2003, Second Iraq war begins with Saddam Husssein assassination attempts and "Shock and Awe" air strikes.
May 1, 2003, President declares victory in Iraq.
Aug. 14, 2003, Blackout in 8 states and Canada.

2003/2004

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The "Stuyvesant Strut"--from the 'old school' at 345 East 15th Street, to the 'new school' at 345 Chambers Street--launches celebration of SHS Centennial, 1904-2004.
Yin Li '04 wins the Siemens Westinghouse Competition in Math, Science and Technology.
Nineteen students are Intel (formerly Westinghouse) Science Talent Search Semi-Finalists, the most in the country.
The Campaign for Stuyvesant/Endowment Fund, Inc. publishes Stuyvesant High School: The First 100 Years, 225-page history of the school, and new website: ourstrongband.org
Tim Robbins, '76, wins Academy Award for 'Best Supporting Actor' in Mystic River.
UN Secretary General Kofi Annan is the keynote speaker at the graduation ceremony.

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Arnold Schwarzenegger elected Governor of California.
Oct. 24, 2003, Last flight of the Concorde.
Dec. 13, 2003, Saddam Hussein captured alive in raid by US troops near Tikrit, Iraq.
Jan. 4, 2004, Robotic rover Spirit lands in Gusev Crater on Mars.
Jan. 24, 2004, Robotic rover Opportunity lands in the Meridiana Planum on Mars.

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