Abraham Lincoln High School (Brooklyn, New York)
Abraham Lincoln High School is a public high school located at 2800 Ocean Parkway, Coney Island, 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 nine through twelve.
Built in 1929, Lincoln has graduated several Nobel Prize winners and famous doctors, scientists, engineers, politicians, and other celebrities. In 1955, several ALHS students formed the doo-wop group The Tokens, best known for their #1 Pop Chart Hit The Lion Sleeps Tonight.
Abraham Lincoln High School, Bayside High School, Samuel J. Tilden High School, John Adams High School, and Grover Cleveland High School were all built during the Great Depression from one set of blueprints, in order to save money.
Student demographics
In 2007, there were 2,688 students enrolled in Abraham Lincoln High School. The School's Student Government president is Shawn Bernstein.
The school's racial composition is very diverse. African American students made up 38.3% of the school's student population, forming a plurality of the student body. White students made up over one-quarter (26.3%) of the student population, while Hispanic and Latino students made up over one-fifth (21.1%) of the student body. Asian American students made up 14.0% of the student populace, and Native Americans made up the remaining 0.3%.[1]
Notable alumni
- Marv Albert (born Marvin Philip Aufrichtig in 1941), class of 1959, television sportscaster.[2]
- Ken Auletta (born 1942), class of 1960, author.[3][4]
- Eddie Antar, former businessman/owner of Crazy Eddie.[5]
- Paul Berg (born 1926), class of 1943, won 1980 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.[6]
- Bernard Cornfeld (1927–1995), businessman and international financier.[7]
- Millie Deegan (1919–2002), professional baseball player in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.[8]
- Neil Diamond (born 1941), class of 1958, singer/performer ("The Jewish Elvis").[3]
- Nelson Figueroa (born 1974), class of 1992, major league pitcher, MLB, Houston Astros [9]
- John Forsythe (born Jacob Lincoln Freund; 1918–2010), class of 1934, film and television actor.[10]
- Louis Gossett, Jr. (born 1936), class of 1954, basketball player; Academy Award winning actor.[11]
- Howard Greenfield (1936–1986) songwriter.[12][13]
- Joseph Heller (1923–1999), class of 1942, author of Catch-22.[3]
- Leona Helmsley (1920–2007), real-estate businesswoman, noted hotelier and "Queen of Mean".[14]
- Raul Hilberg, class of 1942, historian of genocide [15][16]
- Elizabeth Holtzman, class of 1958, Democratic congresswoman; the youngest woman elected to serve in the United States House of Representatives[3][17]
- Jerome Karle (born Jerome Karfunkel in 1918), class of 1933, won Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1985.[6]
- Harvey Keitel, American film/TV actor
- Arthur Kornberg (1918–2007), class of 1933, won Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1959.[6]
- Herbie Mann aka Herbert Jay Solomon, jazz flautist
- Wallace Markfield, class of 1943, comic novelist
- Stephon Marbury (born 1977), class of 1995, professional basketball player (NBA).[2]
- Lee Mazzilli, class of 1973, 1986 World Champion major league baseball player (New York Mets, New York Yankees), manager and coach[18]
- Hank Medress, singer in the group The Tokens, best known for The Lion Sleeps Tonight[19]
- Arthur Miller (1915–2005), class of 1932, author and playwright of such works as Death of a Salesman, All My Sons, The Crucible.[3]
- Larry Namer, class of 1966, Founder of E! TV network[20]
- Ronald Ribman, class of 1950, author, poet, and playwright
- Buddy Rich, jazz drummer and bandleader
- Saul Rogovin, major league pitcher[18]
- Neil Sedaka (born 1939), class of 1956, pop singer, pianist and songwriter.[3][21][13]
- Seymour Shapiro, (born 1916), Class of 1931, Organic Chemist, developed phenformin
- Mort Shuman, singer, pianist, and songwriter [13]
- Alex Steinweiss, class of 1934, graphic designer and inventor of the album cover [22]
- Lance Stephenson, class of 2009, Indiana Pacers, professional basketball player (NBA)[23]
- Sebastian Telfair, class of 2004, Phoenix Suns, professional basketball player (NBA)
- The Tokens, circa 1955, pop group, famous for their #1 Song Hit The Lion Sleeps Tonight[24][13]
- Arthur Tress, class of 1958, surrealist photographer [25]
- Jack B. Weinstein, class of 1939, renowned federal district court judge in Brooklyn
- Dallas Williams, major league baseball player and coach[18]
- Stephen Yagman, civil rights lawyer [26]
- Phil Shpilberg, class of 1993, author Here My Home Once Stood (book) [27]
See also
References
- ^ "Abraham Lincoln High School - Brooklyn, New York Schools". Schoolmatters.com. October 1, 2009. http://www.schoolmatters.com/schools.aspx/q/page=sp/sid=5680106. Retrieved February 13, 2011.
- ^ a b Corcoran, Tully. "KU attracts sklyn star", The Topeka Capital-Journal, October 26, 2007. Accessed September 17, 2009. "Lincoln High School in Brooklyn, N.Y., is to high school basketball what Odessa Permian High School, in Texas, is to high school football. Basketball rules there. Stephon Marbury starred there. Marv Albert went there. Even Jesus Shuttlesworth, the fictional baller played by Ray Allen in He's Got Game went there. Kansas coach Bill Self may be spending a bit of time there in the next year, too. Lance Stephenson, a 6-5, 195-pound junior guard from Lincoln who is the No. 4 overall player in the class of 2009 recently contacted Self about his interest in Kansas."
- ^ a b c d e f Hechinger, Fred M. "ABOUT EDUCATION; Personal Touch Helps", The New York Times, January 1, 1980. Accessed September 20, 2009.
- ^ "Official Site". Ken Auletta. http://www.kenauletta.com/. Retrieved February 13, 2011.
- ^ Staff. "The Antar Complex:Eddie Antar", Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, p. 219. Accessed September 20, 2009. "As soon as he turned 16, Eddie left Abraham Lincoln High School altogether."
- ^ a b c Hargittai, István. "The road to Stockholm: Nobel Prizes, science, and scientists", p. 121. Oxford University Press, 2002. ISBN 0-19-850912-X. Accessed September 20, 2009. "Arthur Kornberg (M59), Jerome Karle (C85), and Paul Berg (C80) all went to the Abraham Lincoln High School in Brooklyn."
- ^ Henriques, Diana B. "Bernard Cornfeld, 67, Dies; Led Flamboyant Mutual Fund", The New York Times, March 2, 1995. Accessed September 22, 2009. "He graduated from Abraham Lincoln High School in Brooklyn and Brooklyn College."
- ^ Martin, Douglas. "Millie Deegan, 82, Pioneer In Women's Baseball League", The New York Times, July 28, 2002. Accessed September 22, 2009. "Mildred Eleanor Deegan was born on Dec. 11, 1919, in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Bensonhurst.... She excelled in track and field at Lincoln High School, and after graduation played amateur softball with a team called the Americanettes."
- ^ Crouse. Karen. "Seeking a Spot, a Mets Pitcher Has to Be Creative ", The New York Times, March 4, 2008. Accessed September 22, 2009. "Figueroa, a Brooklyn native, went to Abraham Lincoln High School, as did the former Met Lee Mazzilli."
- ^ Staff. "Biography for John Forsythe", Turner Classic Movies. Accessed September 23, 2009. "Attending Brooklyn's Abraham Lincoln High School, he came of age, like countless Brooklyn youngsters, a fan of the Brooklyn Dodgers and devoted his extracurricular activities to sports."
- ^ Pfefferman, Naomi. "Louis Gossett Jr. to Give Shul Inaugural Ball Toast", The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles, January 15, 2009. Accessed September 23, 2009. "Gossett suspects that his English teacher at Abraham Lincoln High School, Gustave Blum, identified with African Americans because he had experienced anti-Semitism as a result of the blacklists."
- ^ Staff. "HOWARD GREENFIELD", The New York Times, March 14, 1986. Accessed September 23, 2009. "Mr. Greenfield was born in New York City on March 15, 1936, and began his songwriting career with Neil Sedaka, a classmate at Lincoln High School in Brooklyn."
- ^ a b c d "Sh-Boom!: The Explosion of Rock 'n' Roll (1953-1968) By Clay Cole, David Hinckley". October 1, 2009. http://books.google.com/books?id=WproIMOyNhQC&pg=PA256&lpg=PA256&dq=Mort+Shuman+Lincoln+High+School&source=bl&ots=Yzvw3i6jbl&sig=zPRtMKwxpM_sqI0abAn807mjm5g&hl=en&ei=llNcTqCnIInpgAfunPyKAg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=8&ved=0CEcQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=Mort%20Shuman%20Lincoln%20High%20School&f=false.
- ^ Nemy Enid. "Leona Helmsley, Hotel Queen, Dies at 87", The New York Times, August 20, 2007. Accessed September 23, 2009.
- ^ "Raul Hilberg, 81, Historian Who Wrote of the Holocaust as a Bureaucracy, Dies". New York Times. August 7, 2007. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/07/us/07hilberg.html.
- ^ "Review of Raul Hilberg. The Politics of Memory: The Journey of a Holocaust Historian". Focal Point Publications. January 1997. http://www.fpp.co.uk/Auschwitz/Hilberg/Meieron.html.
- ^ "Huffington Post site". Huffingtonpost.com. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/elizabeth-holtzman/#blogger_bio. Retrieved February 13, 2011.
- ^ a b c "Lincoln (Brooklyn,NY) Baseball". The Baseball Cube. http://www.thebaseballcube.com/extra/hs/alumni.asp?H=686. Retrieved September 21, 2011.
- ^ Hank Medress obituary
- ^ "OVGuide, Larry Namer". OVGuide. August 30, 2011. http://www.ovguide.com/larry-namer-9202a8c04000641f80000000057d0e9c. Retrieved August 30, 2011.
- ^ "Neil Sedaka website". Neilsedaka.com. http://www.neilsedaka.com/. Retrieved February 13, 2011.
- ^ Undependent.com website
- ^ Armstrong, Kevin (March 30, 2009). "What's next for Lance Stephenson? The world will find out soon". Sports Illustrated. http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/writers/the_bonus/03/27/lance.stephenson/index.html.
- ^ Ari (May 7, 2010). "The Tokens website". Thetokens.com. http://www.thetokens.com/. Retrieved February 13, 2011.
- ^ "Arthur Tress' website". Arthurtress.com. http://www.arthurtress.com/. Retrieved February 13, 2011.
- ^ Wikipedia article
- ^ http://www.amazon.com/Here-My-Home-Once-Stood/dp/0615217036/
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