Abraham Lincoln High School is a public high school located at 2800 Ocean Parkway, in Brooklyn, New York, USA, under the jurisdiction of the New York City Department of Education. The school can be reached by public transportation, including the B, Q & F trains, B1, B36, B4 & B68 buses. The school was built in 1929, and since graduated three Nobel Prize laureates, as well as many doctors, scientists, engineers, politicians, musicians, artists, and other notable alumni. The current principal is Ari A. Hoogenboom.
It was built during the Great Depression, and in order to save money, one set of blueprints was used for Lincoln and other high schools in New York City, including Bayside High School, Samuel J. Tilden High School, John Adams High School, and Grover Cleveland High School.
The school features five gymnasiums, an outdoor football and track and field. a swimming pool, a photography studio, an animal science lab, an office classroom and an auditorium.
History
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The school was established in 1929, and named for former US president, Abraham Lincoln. From when the school opened its doors in September 1930 through the next 25 years, the school principal was Dr. Gabriel R. Mason. In 1983, Dr. Jack Pollock, the principal at the time, reported that 8 of 10 graduates went on to attend college and/or university.
However, by 2010, C.J. Hughes of The New York Times reported that Lincoln High School had "struggled" with student academic achievement. In 2009, the school only had a 58% graduation rating. The SAT averages for the school were 411 in reading, 432 in mathematics, and 401 in writing. The New York State averages during that year were 480 in reading, 500 in mathematics, and 470 in writing.
Programs and activities
Virtual Enterprise
The school has a virtual enterprise program where students create and manage their virtual businesses from product development, production and distribution to marketing, sales, human resources, accounting, finance and web design.
Veterinary science
The school has a veterinary science program where schools work with life animals.
Athletics
The school offers a variety of varsity and junior varsity sports. These sports include Basketball, Baseball, Football, Bowling, Cross Country, Handball, Track and field, Lacrosse, Soccer, Softball, Swimming, Tennis and Volleyball.
Lincoln varsity sports games were also televised on City Gridiron.
In 2013, borough president Marty Markowitz and councilman Domenic Recchia funded a new $2 million fitness center at the school.
Lincoln athletic director Renan Ebeid was recognized by All-Stars Teachers contest by Major League Baseball.
Photography
The school has a renowned professional photography program.
Extracurricular activities
The school offers many extracurricular activities, including Acting Studio, Animal Care Squad, Anime, Arista National Honor Society, Cheerleading, Chess, Chinese, Conflict Negotiation and Mediation, Debate Team, ELL Acting Studio, Gayâ€"Straight Alliance, Guitar, Hiking, History, Key Club, Landmark Yearbook, Library Squad, Lincoln Ambassadors, Lincoln Log Newspaper, Marine Lab Squad, South Asian club, Student Organization and Weightlifting.
Lincoln in the media
In November 2014, student Christina Thomas was suspended for 30 days after an altercation with a school librarian.
In September 2013, a teacher found a message scrawled on a second-floor windowsill that a bomb will explode at noon. Students were evacuated and waited on the bleachers while police searched the building. No explosives were found.
In January 2012, principal Ari A. Hoogenboom was in a documentary giving a testimony for HealthCorps.
Student demographics
As of the 2014-15 school year, the school had an enrollment of 2,325 students and 116.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a studentâ€"teacher ratio of 20.0:1. There were 1,506 students (64.8% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 85 (3.7% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.
The school's racial composition is very diverse. African American students made up 38.3% of the school's student population, a plurality of the student body. White students made up over one-quarter (26.3%), Hispanic and Latino (of any race) students made up over one-fifth (21.1%), Asian American students made up 14.0%, and Native Americans made up the remaining 0.3%.
Notable alumni
- Marv Albert (born Marvin Philip Aufrichtig, born 1941), class of 1959, television sportscaster.
- Ken Auletta (born 1942), class of 1960, author.
- Eddie Antar, former businessman/owner of Crazy Eddie.
- Richard Bellman (1920â€"1984), class of 1937, applied mathematician and control theorist who invented dynamic programming in 1953.
- Paul Berg (born 1926), class of 1943, recipient of the 1980 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
- Herbert Cohen (born 1940), Olympic fencer
- Bernard Cornfeld (1927â€"1995), businessman and international financier.
- Millie Deegan (1919â€"2002), professional baseball player in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.
- Neil Diamond (born 1941), class of 1958, singer/performer
- Pete Emelianchik (born 1943), class of 1960, football player, NFL, Philadelphia Eagles
- Nelson Figueroa (born 1974), class of 1992, major league pitcher, MLB, Houston Astros
- John Forsythe (né Jacob Lincoln Freund, 1918â€"2010), class of 1934, film and television actor.
- Shirley Gorelick (1924-2000), figurative painter, sculptor, and printmaker
- Louis Gossett, Jr. (born 1936), class of 1954, basketball player, Academy Award-winning actor.
- Howard Greenfield (1936â€"1986) songwriter.
- David S. Guzick (born 1952), class of 1969. Dean of the University of Rochester School of Medicine, President of the University of Florida Health System, Member of the Institute of Medicine
- Joseph Heller (1923â€"1999), class of 1942, author of Catch-22.
- Leona Helmsley (1920â€"2007), real-estate businesswoman, noted hotelier and "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
- Jerome Karle (1918â€"2013; born Jerome Karfunkel), class of 1933, recipient of the 1985 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
- Harvey Keitel (born 1939), stage, film and television actor.
- Arthur Kornberg (1918â€"2007), class of 1933, recipient of the 1959 Nobel Prize in Medicine.
- Herbie Mann (né Herbert Jay Solomon, 1930â€"2003), jazz flautist.
- Wallace Markfield (1926â€"2002), class of 1943, comic novelist.
- Stephon Marbury (born 1977), class of 1995, professional basketball player (NBA).
- Lee Mazzilli (born 1955), class of 1973, 1986 World Champion major league baseball player (New York Mets, New York Yankees), manager and coach
- Hank Medress (1938â€"2007), singer in the group The Tokens, best known for The Lion Sleeps Tonight
- Arthur Miller (1915â€"2005), class of 1932, author, playwright and screenwriter (Death of a Salesman, All My Sons, The Crucible, The Misfits); Marilyn Monroe's third husband.
- Larry Namer, class of 1966, Founder of E! TV network
- Ronald Ribman, class of 1950, author, poet, and playwright
- Buddy Rich, jazz drummer and bandleader
- Saul Rogovin, major league pitcher
- Neil Sedaka (born 1939), class of 1956, pop singer, pianist and songwriter.
- Mort Shuman, singer, pianist, and songwriter
- Alex Steinweiss, class of 1934, graphic designer and inventor of the album cover
- Lance Stephenson, class of 2009, professional basketball player (NBA)
- Michael Greif, class of 1978; 4-time tony nominated theatrical director (Rent, Grey Gardens, Next to Normal, Dear Evan Hansen)
- Louis Stettner, (born 1922), class of 1939; photographer noted for his pictures of "everyday people doing ordinary things" in both New York City and Paris.
- Frank Tarloff (1916â€"1999), class of 1932, Academy Award-winning screenwriter (Father Goose).
- Sebastian Telfair, class of 2004, professional basketball player (NBA).
- Arthur Tress, class of 1958, surrealist photographer.
- Sherry Turkle, class of 1965, Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology at MIT.
- Meryl Vladimer, class of 1969, noted theatrical producer (David and Amy Sedaris, Blue Man Group).
- Jack B. Weinstein, class of 1939, Brooklyn federal district court judge.
- Dallas Williams, MLB player and coach.
- Isaiah Whitehead, class of 2014, professional basketball player currently playing for the Brooklyn Nets (NBA)
- Stephen Yagman, civil rights lawyer.
- Peter Zimroth, American attorney and court-appointed monitor of the NYPD’s policies and practices regarding stop-and-frisk.
Fictional alumni
- Jesus Shuttlesworth, from the Spike Lee film He Got Game was the #1 high school basketball recruit playing for Lincoln HS.
- Francis Ethelbert Sharkey, a character from the Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea television series said to have received an "A" in Home Economics from Abraham Lincoln High School.
References
External links
- Official website
- Profile from NYC Department of Education