Stuyvesant High School

Stuyvesant High School, view of the school looking northwest from Chambers St. and West St.

Stuyvesant High School, founded in 1904, is a math and science public secondary school in New York City, New York. Admission to Stuyvesant, which handles grades 9 through 12, is based solely on an entrance exam, and tuition is free. Stuyvesant is one of the most prestigious public high schools in the United States.

Overview

Admission to Stuyvesant High School is open to residents of New York City entering high school. Enrollment is based solely on performance on the Specialized Science High School Admission Test (SSHSAT), which determines eligibility for admission into Stuyvesant as well as into the Bronx High School of Science and the Brooklyn Technical High School, two other vaunted New York City schools. Of New York City's 90,000 eighth graders, about 16,000 sit for the test each year, while about 800 of the highest scoring applicants are admitted to their first choice school. Those who score in the second highest score bracket are offered admission to their second choice school, while those who score in the third highest bracket are offered admission to their third choice school. According to Article 12 of New York State education law,

“Admissions to the Bronx High School of Science, Stuyvesant High School, and Brooklyn Technical High School shall be solely and exclusively by taking a competitive, objective, and scholastic achievement examination, which shall be open to each and every child in the city of New York.” [1] (http://www.counsel.nysed.gov/Decisions/volume35/d13477.htm)

Known for its excellence in mathematics and science, “Stuy”, as it is often known, has produced several Nobel laureates and a host of accomplished alumni. It consistently leads the nation in number of National Merit Scholarships as well as Intel Science Talent Search (formerly Westinghouse) Semi-Finalists and Finalists. Stuyvesant sends nearly a hundred percent of its students off to four year universities and around 30 percent go on to the Ivy League. A 1958 study found that Stuyvesant graduates earned more Ph.Ds than those of any other high school in the nation, while its students earn an average SAT score of about 1400. Stuyvesant celebrated the graduation of its centennial class in 2004.

Academics

Stuyvesant students undergo a rigorous college preparation curriculum. Requirements include four years of English, history, and a lab-based science, three years of math (though most student opt to take four years) and foreign language, and a semester each of introductory art, music, health, computer science, and a lab-based technology course. As part of the 7 semesters of physical education required, Stuyvesant students must show proficiency in swimming for graduation, enacted to make full use of the pool.

Entrance from the TriBeCa Bridge

Stuyvesant offers students a broad selection of electives; some of the more unusual offerings include robotics, physics of music, astronomy, and the mathematics of financial markets. Most students take calculus, and the school offers math courses through differential equations and linear algebra. A year of drafting used to be required; in its first semester students learned to draft by hand and in the second drafting was done by computer (CAD). Now, students take a one-semester class called Technology Graphic Communications (equivalent to the former year of drafting), and a semester of introductory computer science, in order to introduce the mainly science-oriented students to computer programming early in their career.

A variety of Advanced Placement courses (55 are available) offer students the chance to earn college credits; a few students earn enough to start college as a sophomore. In 2004, after long resisting the change, Stuyvesant began complying with Department of Education regulations mandating that Advanced Placement courses be weighted by a factor of 1.1 in grade point averages.

Computer science enthusiasts can take two additional computer programming courses after the completion of advanced placement computer science: systems level programming and computer graphics. There is also a 2 year computer networking sequence which can earn students CCNA (Cisco Certified Network Associate) certification.

Stuyvesant's foreign language offerings include the basics like French and Spanish as well as German, Latin, Hebrew, Japanese, and Italian. In 2000, Mandarin Chinese and Korean for native speakers were introduced in response to Stuyvesant's burgeoning Asian American population. The Muslim student body has been pushing for Arabic to be taught, and although it was expected to be offered in 2004, it has been cut due to budgetary constraints.

Stuyvesant's Biology and Geo-science department offers courses in oceanography, meteorology, Molecular Genetics/Biology/Science, human physiology, medical ethics, medical and veterinary diagnosis, human disease, nutrition science, anthropology and sociobiology, vertebrate zoology, laboratory techniques, medical human genetics, botany, and psychology. The Chemistry and Physics department offers organic chemistry, physical chemistry, calculus-based physics, modern physics, astronomy, engineering mechanics, and electronics.

Although primarily known for its strength in math and sciences, Stuyvesant is also home to a robust music program and offers students eight music groups, ranging from a symphonic orchestra and jazz ensemble to a chamber choir. Comprehensive programs in the humanities offer students courses in early British and classical literature, philosophy, existentialism, debate, acting, journalism, and a host of creative writing and poetry classes. The history core requires a year of ancient, European and American history, as well as a semester of economics and government. Humanities electives include American foreign policy, civil and criminal Law, Jewish history, "prejudice and persecution", "race, ethnicity and gender issues", small business management, and Wall Street.

Stuyvesant has recently entered into an agreement with City College of New York, in which the college funds advanced after-school courses that are taken for college credit yet are taught by Stuyvesant teachers. Some of these courses include physical chemistry, linear algebra, advanced Euclidean geometry, and women's history.

Grade point averages at Stuyvesant are famously (or notoriously) calculated to two decimal places; some argue that the distinction is overly fine and encourages excessive grade competition, while others use the theory of significant digits to argue that they are irrelevant. Nevertheless, the practice continues. The practice is not entirely unprecedented; in calculations for honors and other designations, the University of Chicago calculates grade point averages to four decimal places.

Extracurricular activities

Stuyvesant offers a diverse array of clubs, publications, teams and other opportunities with a system similar to that of many colleges. It hosts over 100 clubs and 30 publications ranging from PottyRings, a club dedicated to Harry Potter and the Lord of the Rings, to the Key club, dedicated to community service. (List of Clubs and Pubs (http://www.stuysu.org/cp/)). There is also a very successful theater program at Stuyvesant putting on 3 student-run productions a year (website (http://www.stuysu.org/stc/)). An annual theater competition known as SING! pits seniors, juniors and "soph-frosh" against each other in a battle for the finest student-written, run, and funded performance.

Stuyvesant fields 26 varsity teams, including a well-decorated swimming team, as well as golf, bowling, volleyball, soccer, basketball, gymnastics, wrestling, fencing, baseball/softball, handball, tennis, track/cross country, and football teams. Unofficial club teams include men's and women's ultimate frisbee teams. (website (http://physed.stuy.edu/sportsteam.html))

Its academic teams include speech and debate, chess, and math, which often compete successfully at major regional and national tournaments. Stuyvesant also has a Model United Nations and a Model Congress team which compete at regional colleges.

History

Stuyvesant High School is named after Peter Stuyvesant, the last Dutch governor of New Netherland before the colony was taken over by England in 1664

The school was established in 1904 as a manual training school for boys, hosting 155 students and 12 faculty. In 1907 it moved from its original location at 225 East 23rd Street to 345 East 15th Street, where it remained for the following 85 years. Its reputation for excellence in math and science continued to grow, and the school had to be put on a double session in the early 1920s to accommodate the rising number of students. In the 1930s, admission tests were implemented, making it even more competitive. During the 1950s, a $2 million renovation was done on the building to update its classrooms, shops, libraries and cafeterias. In 1969, 14 girls enrolled, marking the first co-educational year. Now, approximately 43 percent of students are female.

Teacher Alfred Bender with the cyclotron

In 1957, a team of 50 students began construction of a cyclotron, with the project sponsored by the physics department. By 1962, a low-power test of the device succeeded, while by account of Matt Deming '62, a later attempt at full-power operation “tanked the electrical system for the building and surrounding area”.[2] (http://www.ourstrongband.org/extracurriculars.htm#cyclotron) [3] (http://www.stuy100.org/stuy-timeline.html) According to Abraham Baumel, Stuyvesant principal from 1983–1994,

“... I can tell you with certainty that [the cyclotron] never worked at Stuyvesant any more than it did for Ernest Orlando Lawrence, and he was awarded a Nobel Prize for his invention of the cyclotron. The Russians never succeeded in getting one to work, either.”

After some deterioration and overcrowding of the old building, Stuyvesant secured an agreement with Battery Park City for a new building.

Stuyvesant High School moved downtown to 345 Chambers Street in Battery Park City, TriBeCa in 1992. The new ten-floor, $148 million building has 65 classrooms (with a 26" color RCA television in almost every room), 22 with enhanced provisions for computer instruction, over 450 computers on 13 networks, 12 laboratories (including a molecular biology lab and an analytical chemistry lab), special shops for instruction in ceramics, photography, wood, plastics, metal work, robotics, and energy studies, spaces for instruction in mechanical drafting, CADD, word processing, languages, music, theater and media, two full size gyms (60’ x 90’), gymnastics, wrestling, dance and fitness gyms and a six-lane, 25-yard PSAL competition swimming pool, a state-of-the-art theater with acoustics and lighting to accommodate concert, musical, and dramatic productions, seating 866, including two 130 seat lecture halls with movable partitions, a large cafeteria with a skylight, overlooking the Hudson River for 650 students and 60 faculty per sitting.

Its library features a capacity of 40,000 volumes, and large glass windows overlooking Battery Park City, although they are often shuttered to prevent the sun from overheating the library.

The new building also houses P.S. 811, a school for disabled students, and wheelchair-bound students can sometimes be seen throughout the building. Some teachers remark on the unusual juxtaposition of the gifted with the disabled.

Between classes, skip-story escalators ferry students up and down the 10-story building, and although four elevators exist, they are off-limits to students. Passes can be given for injured students to ride the elevators, although being caught in the elevator without a pass guarantees one a trip to the dean.

A common student gripe is the alleged frequency of escalator breakdowns; a parody of Stuyvesant's newspaper The Spectator was titled The Broken Escalator. When the escalators do break down, groans can be heard as Stuyvesant students grudgingly clamber up the steps. In the summer of 2004 the school finally took close to a million dollars from a special Department of Education fund for school repair in order to overhaul the ailing escalators. They work much better now.

Glass boxes set into various places in the building's wall hold mementos from the year of each graduating class, with some boxes left open for future classes. Curiosities in the boxes include water from most large rivers, mud from the Dead Sea, a Revolutionary War button, pieces of the old Stuyvesant building and of monuments around the world, and various chemical compounds. In 1997 the mathematics wing was dedicated to Dr. Richard Rothenberg, the math department chairman before his sudden heart attack and death in 1997. The Rothenberg memorial, commissioned in his honor, is a wall made up of 50 of these boxes, each featuring a concept in mathematics.

One room in the Stuyvesant building, called the "Museum Room", is a replica of one of the rooms in the old Stuyvesant building, with desks, chairs, a table and blackboard from the old building, as well as period style paint and flooring. The room is dedicated to Dr. A. Edward Stefanacs, who died in 1993.

The building's halls are usually aseptically clean, and anything dropped on the floor is almost invariably swept up in a matter of hours. Deliberate attempts to spill things on the floor and mess up the building – to test how dedicated administrators are at keeping the building clean – almost always fail.

When inside the building, students study in a virtually crime-free oasis, and find that they can leave their bags lying in the hallway, wander around the building, and then return a while later to pick them up.

Shortly after the new building was completed, the $10 million TriBeCa Bridge was built to allow students to enter the building without having to cross the extremely busy and dangerous West Street. The bridge is now the primary method by which students enter the building, and many Stuyvesant students will have memories of crossing it twice a day.

In the early 2000s, Gary He '02 started the now-defunct stuynet.com (http://www.stuynet.com), a website where students could rate their teachers, although he later shut down the evaluation section after math teacher Bruce Winokur threatened a libel suit. Words left on the website read "Teacher Evaluations is currently down but will soon be back better than ever. The vox populi must be heard." [4] (http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:www.loper.org/~george/trends/2001/Jun/52.html)

Moviegoers may be able to recognize the school from several scenes in the movie Hackers, filmed in November, 1994 using upperclassmen as extras.

See also: Stuyvesant 100 Year Timeline (http://www.stuy100.org/stuy-timeline.html)

Centennial celebration

Stuyvesant centennial logo

Stuyvesant celebrates the 100th anniversary of its founding in 2004. Events began on October 19, 2003 with "The Stuy Strut" (http://www.stuy100.org/strut.html) — a walk from the old Stuyvesant building to the new one, symbolizing the transition. During March of 2004, Stuyvesant and City College hosted the NCSSSMST, while June 6th was the all-class reunion. Celebrations were concluded with the centennial homecoming on October 10th, and the centennial gala dinner (http://www.shsaa.org/docs/gala.pdf) on the 28th, featuring speakers Frank McCourt, Tim Robbins, and Richard Axel.

See also: Calendar (http://www.stuy100.org/calendar.html)

Demographics

Although heavily Jewish in its formative years, the student body as of 2004 was approximately 52 percent Asian and 39 percent Caucasian, with Blacks and Hispanics in severe underrepresentation, each constituting roughly three percent of the population. Russian and Indian students are well-represented, and Jews continue to maintain a strong presence. About 30% of the incoming freshman class are immigrants to the United States, while 20% are first-generation Americans. As of 2003, the most common countries of origin of immigrant students were China, Russia, and India. [5] (http://www.nycenet.edu/daa/SchoolReports/03asr/171475.pdf)

According to one teacher, "Stuyvesant used to be all Jews. Now it's all Asians", while Yun Hee Kim '01 called it an "Asian-dominated" school. When asked at a college information session whether Asians could claim minority status on college applications, college advisor Carol Katz answered, "Look to your right, look to your left. Asians are not a minority."

The school's off-center demographic profile and relative paucity of Black and Hispanic students have often been a source of consternation for city administrators. John Lindsay, mayor of New York City from 1966-1973, argued that the test was culturally biased against Black and Hispanic students and sought to implement an affirmative action program. At the protest of parents, however, the plan was scrapped and led to the passage of Article 12, stating that admissions would continue to be by standardized exam only. Despite this, however, a small number of students determined to be economically disadvantaged and who come within a few points of the cut-off score may be given an extra chance to pass the test. [6] (http://www.educationnext.org/20033/20.html)

In 1996 community activist group ACORN published a report called "Secret Apartheid", calling the SSHSAT "permanently suspect" and a "product of an institutional racism", claiming that Black and Hispanic students did not have access to proper test preparation materials. [7] (http://www.acorn.org/index.php?id=539). Along with Schools Chancellor Rudy Crew, they began an initiative for more diversity in NY's gifted and specialized schools, in particular demanding that since only a few districts send the majority of Stuyvesant's and Bronx Sciences's students, that the SSHSAT be suspended altogether "until the Board of Education can show that the students of each middle school in the system have had access to curricula and instruction that would prepare them for this test regardless of their color or economic status". Jesse Shapiro, Stuyvesant valedictorian, and Micah C. Lasher, then a sophomore, published several editorials in response, and the outcome was averted. [8] (http://www.stuy100.org/stuy-timeline.html) [9] (http://www.dartreview.com/archives/1997/05/28/destroying_excellence.php)

In the early 2000s, Lingwu Kong '01 published several articles in The Spectator, bemoaning an apparent lack of interaction between the different ethnic groups at Stuyvesant, while a junior echoed his claim, saying "Each group owns a location. On the 6th floor is the Asian clique. The 5th floor is Blacks and Hispanics. Whites hang out on the 2nd and 4th floors and outside at the wall." [10] (http://www.abacusguide.com/stuyvesant_high_school.htm) Most students prefer to socialize within their own ethnic groups, and Stuyvesant has developed into a miniature of New York City's "salad bowl" — with different sections of the Stuyvesant building being implicitly reserved for members of particular ethnic groups.

Some students don't mind the geographic racial breakup of the school, according to stuycom.net (http://www.stuycom.net). The site, which offers a student's point of view of the school, says there is significant racial interaction despite the location of the groups' lockers. The site insists all of the aforementioned areas have multiple individuals of different races residing in those areas that discredit the seemingly territorial connotations the "designations" imply.

Although poor students abound at Stuy, the dominant social group is upper-middle class, split largely between the White Manhattanites, the Brooklynite Jews, and Asians from Queens. Stuyvesant is like most high schools in that many pay attention to fashion; perennial favorites for girls include flares, either denim or nylon, while the "guys'" preferences are as fickle as New York City's transit system, ranging from JnCos during the mid-1990s to smaller jeans and North Face jackets in the later 1990s. Beat up sneakers à la Moby and brightly colored clothing are popular among Stuy's Manhattan "raver" contingent, while a few clad themselves in destitutely black gothic apparel. Blatantly lascivious clothing such as fishnet stockings and thigh-high boots are not uncommon. Stuyvesant has no dress code, although one administrator remarks, the only requirement is that "you keep your private parts private". Nevertheless, Stuy's hordes of calculator geeks and more serious students tend to pay less attention to fashion.

September 11 and Stuyvesant

Stuyvesant is a quarter-mile from the former site of the World Trade Center, which was destroyed on September 11, 2001 attacks. The school was evacuated during the ordeal and the students were temporarily relocated to Brooklyn Tech starting September 21 while the Stuyvesant building was used as one of several bases of operations by rescue and recovery workers. Normal classes resumed three weeks later on October 9. The following is a list of the Stuyvesant alumni who were killed during the September 11 attack on the World Trade Center:

• Daniel D. Bergstein '80 (tribute (http://www.september11victims.com/september11victims/VictimInfo.asp?ID=519))
• Alan Wayne Friedlander '67 (tribute (http://www.september11victims.com/september11victims/VictimInfo.asp?ID=1113))
• Marina R. Gertsberg '93 (tribute (http://www.september11victims.com/september11victims/VictimInfo.asp?ID=1173))
• Aaron J. Horwitz '94 (tribute (http://www.september11victims.com/september11victims/VictimInfo.asp?ID=1383))
• David S. Lee '82 (tribute (http://www.september11victims.com/september11victims/VictimInfo.asp?ID=3515))
• Arnold A. Lim '90 (tribute (http://www.september11victims.com/september11victims/VictimInfo.asp?ID=1650))
• Gregory D. Richards '88 (tribute (http://www.september11victims.com/september11victims/VictimInfo.asp?ID=2275))
• Maurita Tam '97 (tribute (http://www.september11victims.com/september11victims/VictimInfo.asp?ID=2602))
• Michael Warchola '68 (tribute (http://www.september11victims.com/september11victims/VictimInfo.asp?ID=2747))

Richard Ben-Veniste '60 was on the 9/11 Commission.

In the months after 9/11, Annie Thoms, an English teacher at Stuyvesant, a '93 alum, and the theater adviser at the time, suggested that the students take accounts of staff and students' reactions during and after 9/11 and turn them into a series of monologues. Thoms then published these monologues as With Their Eyes: September 11th – The View from a High School at Ground Zero.

Notable alumni

Scientists/mathematicians

• Richard Axel '63 — scientist, winner of 2004 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• Steven Bellovin '68 — AT&T Bell Labs, Internet security authority
• Bram Cohen '93 — author of Bittorrent
• Paul Cohen '50 — mathematician, shared the 1966 Fields Medal, won National Medal of Science in 1968
• Noam D. Elkies '82 — mathematician and musician
• Joseph File '40 — winner, Enrico Fermi Award
• Bob Frankston '66 — co-creator of Visicalc, Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery
• Robert Fogel '44 — economist, winner of 1993 Nobel Prize in economics
• Ronald J. Grabe '62 — astronaut
• Brian Greene '80 — mathematician, physicist, String theorist, author of The Elegant Universe
• Roald Hoffmann '55 — chemist, winner of 1981 Nobel Prize in chemistry
• Edward M. Kosower '45 — 1996 Rothschild Prize in Chemistry (one of Israel's highest prizes in science)
• Eric Lander '74 — head of the Human Genome Project, MacArthur Fellow
• Raymond Lau '89 — software programmer (Stuffit), research scientist
• Joshua Lederberg '41 — geneticist, winner of 1958 Nobel Prize in medicine, Medal of Science (1989)
• Marshall Rosenbluth '41 — Nuclear scientist, Albert Einstein Award, Enrico Fermi Award, and National Medal of Science
• Steve Rothman '65 — One of the inventors of the VAX computer family, Digital Equipment
• Nicholas P. Samios, PhD '49 — physicist; Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award
• Michael Silverstein '62 — MacArthur Fellow
• Thomas Sowell '48 — economist
• Elias Stein '49 — mathematician, winner of 1999 Wolf Prize in Mathematics

Politicians

• Richard Ben-Veniste '60 — lawyer, assistant prosecutor on the Watergate Task Force
• Stanley Friedman '53 — former Bronx Borough President
• Howard Golden '45 — previous Brooklyn Borough President
• Eric Holder '69 — former Deputy Attorney General of the United States
• Roy Innis '52 — national chairman of the Congress of Racial Equality
• Dick Morris '64 — politician
• Robert Moses '52 — organizer of 1964 Freedom Summer
• Jerrold Nadler '65 — U.S. Congressman
• Bernard W. Nussbaum '54 Esq — House Judiciary Committee, during "Watergate" impeachment inquiry; Counsel to the President of the United States, Clinton
• Benjamin Rosenthal '40 — U.S. Congressman
• Herbert Tenzer '23 — U.S. Congressman 1964-68, founder of Albert Einstein College of Medicine, founder of Benjamin Cardozo School of Law
• Herbert Zelenko '22 — U.S. Congressman

Media

• Robert Alda '30 — actor, father of Alan
• Art Baer '43 — TV writer, Emmy winner
• Walter Becker '67 — guitarist and songwriter, Jay and the Americans and Steely Dan
• Len Berman '64 — Emmy Award-winning NBC sportscaster
• Martin Brest '69 — actor, director, producer, writer
• Bernie Brillstein '48 — producer and manager, Emmy
• James Cagney '18 — actor/dancer
• Thomas Calabro '77 — actor and director
• Eagle-Eye Cherry — singer, best known for his song "Save Tonight"
• Bobby Colomby '62 — musician and producer, Blood Sweat and Tears
• Lucy Deakins '88 — actress
• Tom Dowd '42 — Pioneer recording engineer, Grammy Award Winner (1992)
• Ben Gazzara '46 — Award winning actor; Emmy
• William Greaves '44 — Independent filmmaker, Emmy Award
• Alan Heim '54 — TV/Film editor, Academy Award (All That Jazz); Emmy Award
• Ted Husing '19 — Sportscaster
• Sheldon Leonard '25 — Emmy-winning actor, producer, director
• Lucy Liu '86 — actress
• Eric Von Lustbader '64 — author The Bourne Legacy and Ninja
• Joseph L. Mankiewicz '24 — Four-time Oscar-winning producer
• Bernard Meltzer '34 — radio personality
• Jan Merlin (Wasylewski) '42 — Movie/Television/Broadway actor, Emmy Award (1975)
• Thelonious Monk '35 — jazz musician (did not graduate)
• Stacey Nelkin '77 — actress
• Mace (Morris) Neufeld '45 — Film & Television producer, The Hunt for Red October, Patriot Games, & Clear and Present Danger; Emmy award
• Michael Oreskes '71 — Ass't Managing Editor, The New York Times; 3 Pulitzer Prizes
• Alvin F. Poussaint '52 — received New England Emmy
• Vladimir Pozner '48 — Soviet television personality
• George Raft — actor
• Paul Reiser '73 — actor and producer
• Tim Robbins '76 — Actor, screenwriter, director, producer; Academy Award (Mystic River)
• Matt Ruff '83 — writer
• Kate Schellenbach '83 — musician with the Beastie Boys and Luscious Jackson
• George Segal '41 — sculptor
• Robert Siegel '64 — radio journalist
• Ron Silver '63 — actor, director
• Kai Winding '40 — composer, musician

Educators

• Neil Grabois '53 — former president of Colgate University
• Steven Koonin '68 — former Vice President and Provost of California Institute of Technology
• Hans Mark '47 — former Chancellor of the University of Texas system, former Deputy Administrator of NASA, former Secretary of the U.S. Air Force, Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
• Lewis Mumford '12 — historian of technology and science
• Peter Sammartino '21 — former Chancellor of Fairleigh Dickinson University
• Albert Shanker '46 — former President of the American Federation of Teachers, awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom
• Joseph Shenker '57 — former Provost of C.W. Post College
• John Theobald '22 — former Chancellor of New York City Board of Education
• Robert J. Zimmer '64 — Provost, Brown University; Professor, mathematics, University of Chicago

Entrepreneurs

• Arthur Blank '60 — founder of Home Depot, owner of the Atlanta Falcons
• Jack Kreindler '16 — Restaurateur, founder of 21 Club
• Jack Nash '46 — former Chairman of Oppenheimer & Company

Athletes

• Ray Arcel '17 — International Boxing Hall of Fame
• Norman C. Armitage (Cohn) '23 — Six Olympic fencing teams, bronze medal winner (1948)
• Albert Axelrod '38 — 1960 Olympic Bronze Medalist, Fencing
• Leroy Brown '23 — 1924 Olympic Silver Medalist, High Jump
• Frank Hussey '24 — 1924 Olympic Gold Medalist, sprinter
• Charles Scott '66 — NBA Basketball guard, North Carolina, Phoenix Suns, Boston Celtics, and LA Lakers; Olympic Gold Medal Team (1968)Renee
• Herbert Vollmer '14 — 1924 Olympic Bronze Medalist, Water Polo

See also: List of Notables (http://www.ourstrongband.org/notables.htm)

Returning alumni

Alumni who have returned to teach at Stuyvesant:

• Boris Granovskiy '97 — teacher, math & computer science
• Jacob Lieberman '11 — Teacher, chemistry
• Dr. Richard Rothenberg `63, — former chairman of the Mathematics Department, died on May 15, 1997
• Fred Schoenberg `15 — former Principal
• Annie Thoms '93 — Editor, With Their Eyes: September 11th – The View from a High School at Ground Zero; teacher, English
• Michael Zamansky '84 — Computer Science coordinator, network administrator

Faculty scholarship

Frank McCourt, a Pulitzer Prize winner, taught English at Stuyvesant before the publication of his novels Angela's Ashes and 'Tis. Other faculty publications include physics teacher Eugene Majewski's Earthquake Thermodynamics & Phase Transformation in the Earth's Interior, and chemistry teacher Sasha Alcott's Roadmap to the Regents: Physical Setting.

See also

• Hunter College High School
• Bronx High School of Science
• Brooklyn Technical High School
• Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology
• National Consortium for Specialized Secondary Schools of Mathematics, Science and Technology (NCSSSMST)
• Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts
• Townsend Harris High School

External links

Wikiquote has a collection of quotations by or about Stuyvesant High School.

• Stuyvesant HS official website (http://www.stuy.edu)
  • Virtual tour (http://tour.stuy.edu/)
  • Course Catalog (http://register.stuy.edu/program_office/course_descriptions.html)
  • Stuyvesant Computer science wiki (http://cs.stuy.edu/cswiki)
  • The Spectator (http://spectator.stuy.edu/)
• Stuyvesant student union (http://www.stuysu.org/)
• Speech and debate team website (http://www.stuyspeechanddebate.com/)
• Stuyvesant HS online store (http://www.stuystore.com/)
• Stuyvesant HS Parents' Association (http://www.stuypa.org)
• The Campaign for Stuyvesant/Alumni(ae) & Friends Endowment Fund, Inc. (http://www.ourstrongband.org)
• Stuyvesant Centennial Celebration (http://www.stuy100.org)
• Stuyvesant Student-run site and personal blog (http://www.stuycom.net/)
• Abacus Guide to Stuyvesant High School, by Emily Glickman (http://www.abacusguide.com/stuyvesant_high_school.htm)
• Statistics and general information from the New York City Department of Education (http://nycps.schools.net/modperl/browse_school/ny/2796/)

Alumni sites

• Stuyvesant HS Alumni Association (http://www.shsaa.org)
• Math Team alumni website (http://www.mojo-working.com/MathTeam.html)
• Policy Debate Team alumni website (http://www.drownout.com/debate/)
• South Florida Alumni Association of Stuyvesant High School (http://www.geocities.com/StuyFla/)
• Class of: '62 (http://www.stuyvesant62.org/) | '94 (http://www.stuy94.com) | '96 (http://www.stuy96.com) | '98 (http://www.stuy98.com) | '99 (http://www.stuy99.com) | '00 (http://www.stuy2000.com/) | '05 (http://www.stuy05.com) | '06 (http://www.stuy06.com)

Articles

• "Façade of Excellence", by Sol Stern (http://www.educationnext.org/20033/20.html), on the teachers' contract
• "Destroying Excellence" by Jeffrey Hart (http://www.dartreview.com/archives/1997/05/28/destroying_excellence.php), Dartmouth Review, on attempts to suspend the SSHSAT
• "Freedom of Expression: Student Criticism and Teacher Evaluations", by Yilu Zhao (http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:www.loper.org/~george/trends/2001/Jun/52.html), New York Times, on Gary He and teacher reviews
• The Case for Stuyvesant H.S. (http://www.stuy100.org/stuy-images/case.pdf)
• Campaign for Stuyvesant Video (http://www.ourstrongband.org/Videos/CampaignForStuyvesant_Broadband.wmv)