Overbrook High School (Philadelphia)
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| Overbrook High School | |
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| U.S. National Register of Historic Places | |
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| Location: | Fifty-ninth and Lancaster Ave., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| Coordinates: | Coordinates: |
| Built/Founded: | 1924 |
| Architect: | Irwin T. Catharine |
| Architectural style(s): | Late Gothic Revival |
| Added to NRHP: | December 04, 1986 |
| NRHP Reference#: | 86003313[1] |
| MPS: | Philadelphia Public Schools TR |
| Governing body: | Local |
- This article pertains to the Overbrook High School in Philadelphia. For the Southern New Jersey high school, please see Overbrook High School (Pine Hill, New Jersey).
Overbrook High School is a public, four-year secondary school located in the West Philadelphia section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. An inner-city school, it is perhaps most well-known because of its famous alumni (listed below).
Overbrook High School is officially designated by the School District of Philadelphia as Location #402, in the West Region. As of 2005, the school principal of Overbrook is Ethelyn Payne Young.
Although the school's population fluctuates, enrollment for 2004-2005 was 2,075 students (grades 9-12). Although some students are White, Asian, or Latino, 99% of the student population is African American [1].
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[edit] School uniforms
Overbrook requires students to wear school uniforms [2].
Shirts may be white or black. Bottoms may be khaki or black.
[edit] Notable alumni
Notable alumni of Overbrook High School include:
- Len Barry, lead singer/songwriter, The Dovells
- John Blake, jazz violinist
- Jerry Blavat, disc jockey
- Guion S. Bluford, Jr., space-shuttle astronaut; first African-American in space
- Solomon Burke, soul music legend
- Bill Cash, Negro League star, Baseball Hall of Famer
- Wilt "The Stilt" Chamberlain, NBA legend*
- Richard M. Cooper, former chief counsel, Food and Drug Administration
- Joan Daniels, attorney, family and child abuse law expert
- Ira Davis, track & field Olympian
- Chaka Fattah, U.S. Congressman (D-PA)
- Mike Gale, NBA/ABA basketball player
- Jamal “The Last Emperor” Gray, rapper
- Walt Hazzard (Mahdi Abdul-Rahmad), former NBA guard; UCLA All-American player and coach
- Rosetta Hightower, lead singer, The Orlons
- Calvin Jackson, Hollywood composer, jazz musician
- Wali Jones, former NBA player; Miami Heat executive
- Sol Kaplan, Hollywood composer
- Jacob Landau, nationally recognized artist,teacher
- Acel Moore, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Philadelphia Inquirer
- Frank Piasecki, helicopter inventor; National Medal of Technology winner
- Malik Rose, NBA player
- Arthur W. Rovine, international law expert
- Dee Dee Sharp, singer
- Jerome J. Shestack, former President, American Bar Assn.
- Will Smith, Oscar-nominated actor, singer; owner Overbrook Entertainment
- Kendall "KAT" Turner, rapper
- Stanley Tuttleman, class of 1936, philanthropist
- Willie L. Williams, former police commissioner, Phila. and Los Angeles
- Herman Wrice, renowned social worker/community organizer, Mantua Against Drugs (MAD)
- *Other Overbrook grads who played in NBA: Tony Costner, Wayne Hightower, Rich Laurel, Hal Lear, Lewis Lloyd, Andre McCarter, Jackie Moore
[edit] References
- ^ National Register Information System. National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service (2007-01-23).
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