Abraham Lincoln High School (New York)

Infobox Secondary school
name = Abraham Lincoln High School
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motto = Catch the Lincoln Spirit
established = 1929
city =Brooklyn
state =New York, 11235
country = USA
type = Public high school
S.O. president = Shawn Bernstein
principal = Ari Hoogenboom
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enrollment = 2830
grades = 9 - 12
address = 2800 Ocean Parkway
district = 21
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colors = Navy blue, black, and grey
newspaper = The Lincoln Log
yearbook = Landmark
free_label_1 = Team Name
free_1 = Railsplitters
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website = http://schools.nyc.gov/SchoolPortals/21/K410
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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. [ [http://www.wnbc.com/news/8672300/detail.html "NYC Police To Randomly Scan Students For Weapons"] , WNBC, April 13, 2006. Accessed June 11 2006.]

Notable alumni

*Marv Albert, class of 1959, television sportscaster
*Ken Auletta, class of 1957, author [http://www.kenauletta.com/]
*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 ( [http://www.psc-cuny.org/spring03election.doc] ) and wife of British actor Nicholas Barnes aka "Nick Barnes Berg" ( [http://www.nickbarnes.co.uk/] , [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0055715/] )
*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 [http://www.neildiamond.com/]
*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
*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 [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/elizabeth-holtzman/#blogger_bio]
*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
*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" [ [http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/Music/06/25/obit.medress.ap/index.html Hank Medress obituary] ]
*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 [http://www.cancerdecisions.com/about.html]
*Larry Namer, class of 1966, Founder of E! Entertainment TV network
*Victor Niederhoffer, class of 1960, hedge fund manager, champion squash player and statistician [http://www.dailyspeculations.com/wordpress/]
*Ronald Ribman, class of 1950, author, poet, and playwright
*Buddy Rich, jazz drummer and bandleader
*Saul Rogovin, major league pitcher
*Neil Sedaka, class of 1956, pop singer, pianist and songwriter [http://www.neilsedaka.com/]
*Mort Shuman, singer, pianist, and songwriter
*David Sidikman, lawyer and legislator
*Alex Steinweiss, class of 1934, graphic designer and inventor of the album cover [http://www.undependent.com/blog/2008/01/13/the-worlds-first-album-cover-alex-steinweiss-greatest-hit/]
*Edward Stiefel, class of 1958, bio-inorganic chemist [http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S15/78/28M55/index.xml?section=topstories]
*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" [http://www.thetokens.com/]
*Arthur Tress, class of 1958, surrealist photographer [http://www.arthurtress.com/]
*Jack B. Weinstein, class of 1935, renowned federal district court judge in Brooklyn
*Stephen Yagman, civil rights lawyer

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".

ee Also

*City of Palms Classic, basketball tournament, 1989 and 2008
*Nobel Prize laureates by secondary school affiliation
*"SING!", annual student musical production
*"The Last Shot", a book by Darcy Frey, about Stephon Marbury’s career at Lincoln
*"Through the Fire", a documentary film directed by Jonathan Hock, about Sebastian Telfair’s senior year at Lincoln

References

External links

* [http://schools.nyc.gov/SchoolPortals/21/K410/default.htm Profile from NYC Department of Education]
*Jackson, Nancy Beth. [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B07E4DB1531F934A35754C0A9649C8B63&sec=&pagewanted=2 "If You're Thinking of Living In/Brighton Beach"] , "The New York Times", July 7, 2002. Accessed June 11 2006.
*Reviewed on [http://insideschools.org/index12.php?fs=900&str=Lincoln&formtype=name&all=y InsideSchools.org]