Abraham Lincoln High School (New York)
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| Motto | Catch the Lincoln Spirit |
|---|---|
| Established | 1929 |
| Type | Public high school |
| Principal | Ari Hoogenboom |
| Students | 2830 |
| Grades | 9 - 12 |
| Location | 2800 Ocean Parkway, Brooklyn, New York, |
| District | 21 |
| Colors | Navy blue, black, and grey |
| Yearbook | Landmark |
| Newspaper | The Lincoln Log |
| Team Name | Railsplitters |
| Website | http://schools.nyc.gov/SchoolPortals/21/K410 |
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. 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]
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[edit] Notable Alumni
- Marv Albert, class of 1959, television sportscaster
- Ken Auletta, class of 1957, author
- 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
- Neil Diamond, class of 1958, singer/songwriter
- Rachel Eljashev, class of 1983, ophthalmologist and writer; grand-niece of Ba'al Machshavot (Dr. Israel Isidor Elyashev, 1873-1924, a neurologist who was the first Yiddish- language literary critic, who was appointed by Theodor Herzl to translate Altneuland from German into Yiddish)
- Nelson Figueroa, class of 1992, professional baseball player.
- John Forsythe, class of 1934, actor
- Sam Goldaper, class of 1940, sportswriter for The New York Times
- Louis Gossett, class of 1954, actor
- Howard Greenfield, songwriter
- Joseph Heller, class of 1941, author of Catch-22
- 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
- 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
- Stephon Marbury, class of 1995, professional basketball player (NBA)
- Lee Mazzilli, class of 1973, former professional baseball player, manager and coach
- Hank Medress, singer in the group the Tokens, best known for "The Lion Sleeps Tonight"[2]
- Paula Michaels, class of 1983, academic, author and educator at the University of Iowa at Iowa City on Stalinism, Soviet medicine, and post-Soviet women (specializing in Kazakhstan; see [4])
- Arthur Miller, class of 1932, author and playwright, wrote, among many other works, Death of a Salesman and The Crucible
- Larry Namer, class of 1966, Founder of E! Entertainment TV network
- Buddy Rich, jazz drummer and bandleader
- Neil Sedaka, class of 1956, pop singer, pianist, and songwriter
- Alex Steinweiss, class of 1934, graphic designer
- Christopher Stryker, class of 1976, (then John Febbraro); stage, film and tv actor ("TV: Welcome Back, Kotter; Film:Hell High; B'Way: Torch Song Trilogy")
- 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
[edit] Fictional Alumni
- Monica Geller from the show Friends; at Lincoln, known as the fat kid who tagged along with Rachel; played in the band (with a specially made uniform); class of 1988
- Ross Geller from the show Friends; at Lincoln, Monica's geeky older brother; had a crush on underclassmen Rachel Green since keyboarding freshman year; class of 1987
- Rachel Green, also from the show Friends; at Lincoln, she was one of the popular kids and often dated a minor character named Chip Matthews; class of 1988
- Jesus Shuttlesworth, a talented basketball player in the 1998 Spike Lee movie, He Got Game.
[edit] References
- ^ "NYC Police To Randomly Scan Students For Weapons", WNBC, April 13, 2006. Accessed June 11, 2006.
- ^ Hank Medress obituary
[edit] External links
- Profile from NYC Department of Education
- Jackson, Nancy Beth. "If You're Thinking of Living In/Brighton Beach", The New York Times, July 7, 2002. Accessed June 11, 2006.
