- Far Rockaway High School
Far Rockaway High School, a
public high school in thepublic school system ofNew York City , is located on Bay 25 Street in Far Rockaway in the borough ofQueens , as part of theNew York City Department of Education . The school was founded in 1897, with Sanford J. Ellsworth as principal for over 40 years.Notable alumni
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Baruch Samuel Blumberg , winner of the 1976Nobel Prize in Medicine . [Shamo, Marc A.; Kyle, Robert A. [http://www.mayoclinicproceedings.com/inside.asp?AID=419&UID= "Baruch Blumberg—Work on Hepatitis B Virus"] , "Mayo Clinic Proceedings", 2003. AccessedJune 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 Brooklynsic in 1943, he joined the US Navy."]
*Joyce Brothers (1928-), psychologist and advice columnist; graduated in 1943. [Weinberg, Sydney Stahl. [http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/Brothers.html Joyce Brothers] ,Jewish Virtual Library . AccessedAugust 20 ,2007 . "After graduating from Far Rockaway High School in 1943, she entered Cornell University, majoring in psychology."]
*William F. Brunner . Congressman. [ [http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000981 William Frank Brunner biography] ,United States Congress . AccessedJune 22 ,2007 .]
*Richard Cohen, columnist for "The Washington Post "
*Nancy Lieberman , basketball pioneer. [ [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A0DE0D81F3CF934A35755C0A960948260 "Lieberman Makes Debut"] , "The New York Times ",June 7 ,1986 . AccessedJune 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."]
*Richard Feynman , winner of theNobel Prize in Physics in 1965 for his work onquantum electrodynamics . [Gleick, James.. [http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/09/21/reviews/feynman-obit.html?_r=1&oref=slogin "Richard Feynman Dead at 69; Leading Theoretical Physicist"] , "The New York Times ",February 17 ,1988 . AccessedJune 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."]
*Kenneth Alan Ribet , mathematician. [Chapey, Dr. Geraldine. [http://www.rockawave.com/news/2005/1021/Columnists/010.html "Chatting with Chapey: Weber and Ribet Honored"] , "The Wave",October 21 ,2005 . AccessedJune 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."]
*Burton Richter , winner of the 1976Nobel Prize in Physics .
*MC Serch (as Michael Berrin, 1967-), hip hop MC and former member of3rd Bass . [Schwach, Howard. [http://www.rockawave.com/news/2007/0126/Community/007.html "Rockaway Rapper Hosts MTV's 'The White Rapper Show' "] , "Wave of Long Island ",January 26 ,2007 .]
*Raymond Smullyan , noted mathematician/logician with expertise inGödel's incompleteness theorems .
*John Warren, former member of theNew York Knicks . [Velez, Elio. [http://www.rockawave.com/news/2006/0203/Sports/086.html "Nash Leads Woodmere To Victory at Crotty Classic"] , "The Wave",February 3 ,2006 . AccessedJune 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."]References
External links
* [http://www.farrockclassof81.com Alumni]
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