Abraham Lincoln High School (New York)
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- See also: Lincoln High School for schools of the same name.
Abraham Lincoln High School is a public high school located at 2800 Ocean Parkway, Brooklyn, New York, and is part of Region 7 in the New York City Department of Education. The principal is Ari Hoogenboom, and the school has 2581 students in grades 9 through 12.
Built in 1929, Lincoln has graduated several Nobel Prize winners and famous musicians, authors, and sports players. (As of 2007, only two high schools in the world have more Nobel laureates than ALHS.) In 1955, Lincoln students formed the doo-wop group The Tokens, best known for their #1 Pop Chart Hit The Lion Sleeps Tonight.
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg held a press conference at Lincoln on April 13, 2006, to announce that NYPD officers would begin random searches for weapons on the school campus with portable scanning devices.[1]
Notable alumni
Abraham Lincoln High School
- Marv Albert, class of 1959, television sportscaster
- Ken Auletta, class of 1957, author[2]
- Eddie Antar, businessman, owner of Crazy Eddie
- Aegina Berg Barnes, class of 1982, CUNY educator; schoolteacher; American Arbitration Association's alternate delegate to the NYS United Teachers & AFT Convention ([1]) and wife of British actor Nicholas Barnes aka "Nick Barnes Berg" ([2], [3])
- Paul Berg, class of 1943, won Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1980
- Mel Brooks, actor, writer, director, and comedy producer
- Bernard Cornfeld, businessman and international financier
- Millie Deegan, female professional baseball player
- Neil Diamond, class of 1958, singer[3]
- Rachel Eljashev, MD, class of 1983, ophthalmologist, writer, author, poet; grand-niece of the 1st Yiddish literary critic, Israel Isidor Elyashev, MD
- Jerry Ferrara, actor, "Entourage"
- Nelson Figueroa, class of 1992, major league pitcher
- John Forsythe, class of 1934, actor
- Paula Gallo, living mannequin for Abraham & Straus
- Steven Goldfeld, class of 1956, member of the US Council of Economic Advisors, and Provost of Princeton University[4]
- Louis Gossett, Jr., class of 1954, basketball player and actor
- Howard Greenfield, songwriter
- Joseph Heller, class of 1941, author of Catch-22
- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner, “Queen of Mean”
- Raul Hilberg, class of 1942, historian of genocide
- Elizabeth Holtzman, class of 1958, Democratic congresswoman; the youngest woman elected to serve in the United States House of Representatives[5]
- Alan Jay Kahm, living mannequin for Abraham & Straus
- Jerome Karle, class of 1933, won Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1985
- Harvey Keitel, film actor
- Arthur Kornberg, class of 1933, won Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1959
- Scott Mandel, class of 1972, Sports Journalist
- Wallace Markfield, class of 1943, comic novelist
- Stephon Marbury, class of 1995, professional basketball player (NBA)
- Lee Mazzilli, class of 1973, major league baseball player, manager and coach
- Hank Medress, singer in the group the Tokens, best known for The Lion Sleeps Tonight[6]
- Paula Michaels, class of 1983, academic, author and educator
- Arthur Miller, class of 1932, author and playwright, wrote, among many other works, Death of a Salesman and The Crucible
- Ralph W. Moss, class of 1960, author of books and films on cancer research and treatment[7]
- Larry Namer, class of 1966, Founder of E! Entertainment TV network
- Victor Niederhoffer, class of 1960, hedge fund manager, champion squash player and statistician[8]
- Ronald Ribman, class of 1950, author, poet, and playwright
- Buddy Rich, jazz drummer and bandleader
- Ira Steven Richards, Ph.D., FACFE, class of 1966, toxicologist, scientist, forensic expert
- Saul Rogovin, major league pitcher
- Neil Sedaka, class of 1956, pop singer, pianist and songwriter[9]
- Phil Shpilberg, class of 1993, author[10]
- Mort Shuman, singer, pianist, and songwriter
- David Sidikman, lawyer and legislator
- Alex Steinweiss, class of 1934, graphic designer and inventor of the album cover[11]
- Edward Stiefel, class of 1958, bio-inorganic chemist[12]
- Sebastian Telfair, class of 2004, professional basketball player (NBA)
- The Tokens, circa 1955, pop group, famous for their #1 Song Hit The Lion Sleeps Tonight[13]
- Arthur Tress, class of 1958, surrealist photographer[14]
- Jack B. Weinstein, class of 1935, renowned federal district court judge in Brooklyn
- Stephen Yagman, civil rights lawyer
- David Sidikman, six term New York State assemblyman
- Christopher Robinson, class of 2007. actor , semipro basketball player
Fictional alumni
- Jesus Shuttlesworth, a talented basketball player in the 1998 Spike Lee movie, He Got Game.
- Dana Williams, Class of 1987
See also
References
- ^ "NYC Police To Randomly Scan Students For Weapons", WNBC, April 13, 2006. Accessed June 11, 2006.
- ^ http://www.kenauletta.com/
- ^ http://www.neildiamond.com/
- ^ http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=990CE6D7143EF93AA1575BC0A963958260&sec=&spon=
- ^ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/elizabeth-holtzman/#blogger_bio
- ^ Hank Medress obituary
- ^ http://www.cancerdecisions.com/about.html
- ^ http://www.dailyspeculations.com/wordpress/
- ^ http://www.neilsedaka.com/
- ^ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Here_My_Home_Once_Stood_(book)
- ^ http://www.undependent.com/blog/2008/01/13/the-worlds-first-album-cover-alex-steinweiss-greatest-hit/
- ^ http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S15/78/28M55/index.xml?section=topstories
- ^ http://www.thetokens.com/
- ^ http://www.arthurtress.com/
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