- For other schools of the same name, see: Abraham Lincoln High School.
Abraham Lincoln High School is a public high school located at 2800 Ocean Parkway, Coney Island, 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 nine through twelve. Built in 1929, Lincoln has graduated several Nobel Prize winners and famous MDs, scientists, engineers, politicians, and other celebrities. As of 2007, only two high schools in the world have more Nobel laureates than ALHS.[citation needed] In 1955, several ALHS students formed the doo-wop group The Tokens, best known for their #1 Pop Chart Hit The Lion Sleeps Tonight. Abraham Lincoln High School, Bayside High School, Samuel J. Tilden High School, John Adams High School, and Grover Cleveland High School were all built during the Great Depression from one set of blueprints, in order to save money. Over many decades the school has hosted presentations and performances for its students from a variety of celebrities, including Helen Keller, Jerry Vale, etc. 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] [edit] Student Demographics There are 2,795 students in Abraham Lincoln High School. The demographics are 36.46% Black or African American, 27.23% White, 20.0% Hispanic or Latino, 12.17% Asian and 0.3% Native American. The school serves Geographic District 21. The student/teacher ratio is 22.0. [edit] Notable alumni  Abraham Lincoln High School - Marv Albert (born 1941), class of 1959, television sportscaster.[2]
- Ken Auletta (born 1942), class of 1957, author.[3][4]
- Eddie Antar, former businessman/owner of Crazy Eddie.[5]
- Paul Berg (born 1926), class of 1943, won 1980 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.[6]
- Mel Brooks (born 1926), actor, writer, director, and comedy producer.[3]
- Bernard Cornfeld (1927-1995), businessman and international financier.[7]
- Millie Deegan (1919-2002), professional baseball player in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.[8]
- Neil Diamond (born 1941), class of 1958, singer/performer ("The Jewish Elvis").[3]
- Rachel Eljashev, MD (born 1965), class of 1983, ophthalmologist, writer, grand-neice of Israel Isidor Elyashev, MD pen-name- Ba'al Machshavot Hebrew for The Thinker- (בעל מחשבות) physician writer -pioneer of Hebrew and Yiddish literature; known as the first Yiddish literary critic, publisher, translator (translated Theodor Herzl's Altneuland from German into Yiddish) and fore-runner of the Zionist Movement
- Jerry Ferrara (born 1979), actor, best known for his role as "Turtle" in the HBO series Entourage.[9]
- Nelson Figueroa (born 1974), class of 1992, major league pitcher.[10]
- John Forsythe (born 1918), class of 1934, film and television actor.[11]
- Louis Gossett, Jr. (born 1936), class of 1954, basketball player; Academy Award winning actor.[12]
- Howard Greenfield (1936-1986) songwriter.[13]
- Joseph Heller (1923-1999), class of 1941, author of Catch-22.[3]
- Leona Helmsley (1920-2007), real-estate businesswoman, noted hotelier and "Queen of Mean".[14]
- Raul Hilberg, class of 1942, historian of genocide[citation needed]
- Elizabeth Holtzman, class of 1958, Democratic congresswoman; the youngest woman elected to serve in the United States House of Representatives[3][15]
- Jerome Karle (born 1918), class of 1933, won Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1985.[6]
- Harvey Keitel, American film/TV actor[citation needed]
- Arthur Kornberg (1918-2007), class of 1933, won Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1959.[6]
- R. Jordan Kreindler class of 1958, Early Object-Technology evangelist, Vice-President IBM Consulting Group.[citation needed]
- Herbie Mann aka Herbert Jay Solomon, jazz flautist[citation needed]
- Wallace Markfield, class of 1943, comic novelist[citation needed]
- Stephon Marbury (born 1977), class of 1995, professional basketball player (NBA).[2]
- Lee Mazzilli, class of 1973, 1986 World Champion major league baseball player (New York Mets, New York Yankees), manager and coach[citation needed]
- Hank Medress, singer in the group the Tokens, best known for The Lion Sleeps Tonight[16]
- Arthur Miller (1915-2005), class of 1932, author and playwright of such works as Death of a Salesman, All My Sons, The Crucible.[3]
- Larry Namer, class of 1966, Founder of E! TV network[citation needed]
- Victor Niederhoffer, class of 1960, hedge fund manager, champion squash player and statistician[17]
- Ronald Ribman, class of 1950, author, poet, and playwright[citation needed]
- Buddy Rich, jazz drummer and bandleader[citation needed]
- Saul Rogovin, major league pitcher[citation needed]
- Neil Sedaka (born 1939), class of 1956, pop singer, pianist and songwriter.[3][18]
- Mort Shuman, singer, pianist, and songwriter[citation needed]
- David Sidikman, lawyer; New York State Assemblyman[citation needed]
- Alex Steinweiss, class of 1934, graphic designer and inventor of the album cover [19]
- Lance Stephenson (born 1990), currently enrolled as a senior, 2009 McDonald's All-American Game member.[2]
- 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[20]
- Arthur Tress, class of 1958, surrealist photographer [21]
- Jack B. Weinstein, class of 1935, renowned federal district court judge in Brooklyn[citation needed]
- Stephen Yagman, civil rights lawyer [22]
[edit] Fictional alumni [edit] See also [edit] References - ^ "NYC Police To Randomly Scan Students For Weapons", WNBC, April 13, 2006. Accessed June 11, 2006.
- ^ a b c d Corcoran, Tully. "KU attracts Brooklyn star", The Topeka Capital-Journal, October 26, 2007. Accessed September 17, 2009. "Lincoln High School in Brooklyn, N.Y., is to high school basketball what Odessa Permian High School, in Texas, is to high school football. Basketball rules there. Stephon Marbury starred there. Marv Albert went there. Even Jesus Shuttlesworth, the fictional baller played by Ray Allen in He's Got Game went there. Kansas coach Bill Self may be spending a bit of time there in the next year, too. Lance Stephenson, a 6-5, 195-pound junior guard from Lincoln who is the No. 4 overall player in the class of 2009 recently contacted Self about his interest in Kansas."
- ^ a b c d e f g Hechinger, Fred M. "ABOUT EDUCATION; Personal Touch Helps", The New York Times, January 1, 1980. Accessed September 20, 2009. "Lincoln, an ordinary, unselective New York City high school, is proud of a galaxy of prominent alumni, who include the playwright Arthur Miller, Representative Elizabeth Holtzman, the authors Joseph Heller and Ken Auletta, the producer Mel Brooks, the singer Neil Diamond and the songwriter Neil Sedaka."
- ^ http://www.kenauletta.com/
- ^ Staff. "The Antar Complex:Eddie Antar", Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, p. 219. Accessed September 20, 2009. "As soon as he turned 16, Eddie left Abraham Lincoln High School altogether."
- ^ a b c Hargittai, István. "The road to Stockholm: Nobel Prizes, science, and scientists", p. 121. Oxford University Press, 2002. ISBN 019850912X. Accessed September 20, 2009. "Arthur Kornberg (M59), Jerome Karle (C85), and Paul Berg (C80) all went to the Abraham Lincoln High School in Brooklyn."
- ^ Henriques, Diana B. "Bernard Cornfeld, 67, Dies; Led Flamboyant Mutual Fund", The New York Times, March 2, 1995. Accessed September 22, 2009. "He graduated from Abraham Lincoln High School in Brooklyn and Brooklyn College."
- ^ Martin, Douglas. "Millie Deegan, 82, Pioneer In Women's Baseball League", The New York Times, July 28, 2002. Accessed September 22, 2009. "Mildred Eleanor Deegan was born on Dec. 11, 1919, in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Bensonhurst.... She excelled in track and field at Lincoln High School, and after graduation played amateur softball with a team called the Americanettes."
- ^ Jerry Ferrara, Mahalo.com. Accessed September 22, 2009.
- ^ Crouse. Karen. "Seeking a Spot, a Mets Pitcher Has to Be Creative ", The New York Times, March 4, 2008. Accessed September 22, 2009. "Figueroa, a Brooklyn native, went to Abraham Lincoln High School, as did the former Met Lee Mazzilli."
- ^ Staff. "Biography for John Forsythe", Turner Classic Movies. Accessed September 23, 2009. "Attending Brooklyn's Abraham Lincoln High School, he came of age, like countless Brooklyn youngsters, a fan of the Brooklyn Dodgers and devoted his extracurricular activities to sports."
- ^ Pfefferman, Naomi. "Louis Gossett Jr. to Give Shul Inaugural Ball Toast", The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles, January 15, 2009. Accessed September 23, 2009. "Gossett suspects that his English teacher at Abraham Lincoln High School, Gustave Blum, identified with African Americans because he had experienced anti-Semitism as a result of the blacklists."
- ^ Staff. "HOWARD GREENFIELD", The New York Times, March 14, 1986. Accessed September 23, 2009. "Mr. Greenfield was born in New York City on March 15, 1936, and began his songwriting career with Neil Sedaka, a classmate at Lincoln High School in Brooklyn."
- ^ Nemy Enid. "Leona Helmsley, Hotel Queen, Dies at 87", The New York Times, August 20, 2007. Accessed September 23, 2009.
- ^ Huffington Post site
- ^ Hank Medress obituary
- ^ Daily Speculations.com
- ^ Neil Sedaka website
- ^ Undependent.com website
- ^ The Tokens website
- ^ Arthur Tress' website
- ^ Wikipedia article
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