Richmond Hill High School (Queens, New York)

Infobox school
name = Richmond Hill High School
colors= Maroon
location = 89-30 114th Street
Richmond Hill, NY 11418
origin = New York, Queens, New York City Flagicon|USA

Richmond Hill High School is a four-year public high school located in Richmond Hill, Queens, as part of the New York City Department of Education.

History

Richmond Hill High School was founded in 1897 in the then-bucolic setting of Richmond Hill. The high school shared its facility with a local elementary school on Johnson Avenue. In 1899 the first students were admitted to the Johnson Avenue site, and in 1919 the current site was opened on 114th street.

The school, built to accommodate 1,800 students, has reached an enrollment of 3,600 for the 2007-08 school year, severely straining the school's ability to serve its students. Lunch periods begin before 9:00 AM and most freshmen attend classes in trailers moved to the site. [Freedman, Samuel G. [http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/16/education/16education.html?scp=1&sq=%22richmond+hill%22+overcrowded "A Queens High School With 3,600 Students, and Room for Just 1,800"] , "The New York Times", January 16, 2008. January 16] , 2008.]

Awards

*Rudolph Giuliani, Mayor of New York, proclaimed September 24, 1997, as "Richmond Hill High School Day".

Notable alumni

*Anthony Joseph Cardinal Bevilacqua (1923-), He was the Bishop of Pittsburgh from 1983 to 1987 and Archbishop of Philadelphia from 1987 to 2003, and was raised to the cardinalate in 1991.
*Rodney Dangerfield, comedian, graduated in 1939.
*Seymour Halpern (1913-1997), represented New York in Congress from 1959 to 1973. [ [http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H000085 Seymour Halpern] , Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Accessed August 14, 2007.]
*Phil Rizzuto (1917-2007), Baseball Hall of Famer and longtime shortstop and broadcaster for the New York Yankees is an alumnus. [Bodley, Hal. [http://www.usatoday.com/sports/baseball/2007-08-14-rizzuto-obit_N.htm "N.Y. Yankees Hall of Famer Phil Rizzuto dies"] , "USA Today", August 14, 2007. Accessed August 14, 2007. "Rizzuto was still in Richmond Hill High School in 1935 when he said in a New York Times interview he was driven to Ebbets Field in 'Uncle Mike's car — one of those old cars, with the balloon tires' — for a tryout with his beloved Brooklyn Dodgers."]

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