Far Rockaway High School

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Far Rockaway High School, a public high school in the public school system of New York City, is located on Bay 25 Street in Far Rockaway in the borough of Queens, as part of the New York City Department of Education. The school was founded in 1897, with Sanford J. Ellsworth as principal for over 40 years.

[edit] Notable alumni

Baruch Samuel Blumberg, winner of the 1976 Nobel Prize in Medicine.^[1]
Joyce Brothers (1928-), psychologist and advice columnist; graduated in 1943.^[2]
William F. Brunner. Congressman.^[3]
Richard Cohen, columnist for The Washington Post
Nancy Lieberman, basketball pioneer.^[4]
Richard Feynman, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965 for his work on quantum electrodynamics.^[5]
Kenneth Alan Ribet, mathematician.^[6]
Burton Richter, winner of the 1976 Nobel Prize in Physics.
MC Serch (as Michael Berrin, 1967-), hip hop MC and former member of 3rd Bass.^[7]
Raymond Smullyan, noted mathematician/logician with expertise in Gödel's incompleteness theorems.
John Warren, former member of the New York Knicks.^[8]

[edit] References

^ Shamo, Marc A.; Kyle, Robert A. "Baruch Blumberg—Work on Hepatitis B Virus", Mayo Clinic Proceedings, 2003. Accessed June 22, 2007. "Blumberg, whose father was a lawyer, was born on July 28, 1925, in Brooklyn, NY, the second of 3 children. After graduating from Far Rockaway High School in Brooklyn^[sic] in 1943, he joined the US Navy."
^ Weinberg, Sydney Stahl. Joyce Brothers, Jewish Virtual Library. Accessed August 20, 2007. "After graduating from Far Rockaway High School in 1943, she entered Cornell University, majoring in psychology."
^ William Frank Brunner biography, United States Congress. Accessed June 22, 2007.
^ "Lieberman Makes Debut", The New York Times, June 7, 1986. Accessed June 22, 2007. "Miss Lieberman, who announced last week she had signed with the two-year-old summer league, also had two assists. The 5-foot-10-inch Miss Lieberman, who is 27 years old, starred at Far Rockaway High School in Queens and played for the United States in the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal."
^ Gleick, James.. "Richard Feynman Dead at 69; Leading Theoretical Physicist", The New York Times, February 17, 1988. Accessed June 22, 2007. "After graduating from Far Rockaway High School in 1935, he went on to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and then to Princeton University, where he received his doctorate in 1942."
^ Chapey, Dr. Geraldine. "Chatting with Chapey: Weber and Ribet Honored", The Wave, October 21, 2005. Accessed June 22, 2007. "Speaking of successful professionals, Kenneth Ribet is a world renowned scholar.... He is a proud graduate of P.S. 114, J.H.S. 210 and Far Rockaway High School."
^ Schwach, Howard. "Rockaway Rapper Hosts MTV's 'The White Rapper Show' ", Wave of Long Island, January 26, 2007.
^ Velez, Elio. "Nash Leads Woodmere To Victory at Crotty Classic", The Wave, February 3, 2006. Accessed June 22, 2007. "Far Rockaway High School alumni Mel Utley and John Warren, who was a member of the 1973 Knicks’ NBA championship team and recently Chris Mullin, Mark Jackson and Ron Artest are just a few of the names to play in the Big East court."