Stuyvesant High School Timeline by Class Year
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Stuyvesant and the NYC Public Schools

1886

Oct. 28, 1886,
Statue of Liberty Dedicated

1891

Architect Charles B.J. Snyder is appointed Superintendent of School Buildings, Manhattan and annexed district of the Bronx; he designs dozens of new NYC schools, including Stuyvesant HS, and serves until 1923.

1893

The Manual Training High School is organized in Brooklyn (later to be Brooklyn Technical High School).

1897/98

Oct. 21, 1897, The Board of Superintendents plans to establish a manual training school in Manhattan and resolve to name it Stuyvesant High School.

Jan. 1, 1898,  Incorporation of the City of New York.

SteepleChase Opens

Marconi successfully transmits wireless code across the English Channel

1899

William H. Maxwell, first Superintendent of Schools, on the  creation of a manual training high school in Manhattan:

"It is now realized that the manual training high school in the teaching the use of tools, without aiming at making craftsmen, and teaching the practical application of science and art to industry, forms the best preparation for life in the case of those who have a mechanical turn of mind and who intend to devote themselves to any kind of manufacturing industry. Experience has also demonstrated that the keenness of observation, deftness of hand, and mental ingenuity developed by work of the manual training high school constitute the best possible preparation for entrance to a medical school or one of the great scientific schools."

William H. Maxwell, first NYC Superintendent of Schools,
1898-1918

1900, Kodak introduces and successfully mass markets $1 Brownie cameras and film processing services.

New York City is the world's second-largest (after London); the Lower East Side is the most densely inhabited place in the world.

1901/02

Sep. 6, 1901, President McKinley is mortally wounded.

Sep. 14, 1901, McKinley dies, Vice-president Theodore Roosevelt becomes president.

The keypunch appears and changes little for over 50 years

1902/03

Jan. 1, 1903, The NY Times reports that a manual training high school in Manhattan will be one of the next school construction projects.

July 23, 1903, First Ford Model A (aka Fordmobile) sold

1903/04

April 1904, Board of Education's Committee on Building approves plans for a school, to be named Stuyvesant High School, for a location between Livingston Place and First Avenue. Dewitt Clinton High School will be transferred out of the former Public School 47 building (1865), at 225 East 23rd Street, and the building remodeled for temporary use as Stuyvesant HS. 

Dec. 17, 1903, Wright Brothers first flight.

June 15, 1904 1,000 people die on an annual outing of an Evangelical German Lutheran Church when fire erupts aboard the steamboat General Slocum in the East River, the worst catastrophe in NYC until Sep. 11, 2004.

June 16, 1904, that day in James Joyce's Ulysses.

1904, John A. Fleming patents the diode vacuum tube.

1904 Number One Song: "Come Take a Trip on My Airship"

1904/5

On Sep.12 1904, Stuyvesant High School opens its doors to 155 male students and 12 male faculty at its temporary site, 225 E 23rd St.

Dr. Frank Rollins is the first principal. The school opens as a manual training school, offering students the opportunity to combine technical training with academic coursework. Soon, a literary society is founded. Football, Basketball, Rifle and Tennis Teams are instituted under the aegis of the Athletic Association. During the year the school almost doubles in enrollment and 9 teachers are added. The SHS Mathematical Society is founded. The first exhibition of shop work is held. The Glee Club and Dramatic Society are established.

The first Indicator, the annual yearbook, is published, for "both instruction and entertainment."

Oct. 27, 1904, New York City IRT subway opens, to a slogan, "From City Hall to Harlem in 15 Minutes!"

Theodore Roosevelt's Panama Canal Commission restructures the canal effort to solve political, engineering and human problems; work resumes.

Jan. 2, 1905, Russia surrenders to Japan, ending the Russo-Japanese War.

June 30, 1905, Einstein publishes his Special Theory of Relativity, including E=MC².

1905/6

On Sep.21 1905, the cornerstone of the new Stuyvesant High School at 345 East 15th Street is laid by Commissioner Richard Adams, Chairman of the Building Committee of the Board of Education. The cornerstone holds copies of NYC daily newspapers, Board of Education documents, a Bible, a list of the teachers and students at SHS, and a copy of the Indicator. When the East 23rd Street school becomes too crowded, an annex is added for Stuyvesant freshmen at the former DeWitt Clinton annex near Broadway between 108th and 109th Streets, the Robert Simon School, PS 165. The Lowell Literary Society is founded. The Orchestra is formed. There are 21 faculty members. The first issue of Caliper arrives January 2, 1906. Mr. Scholz writes the school song, “Stuyvesant, Dear Stuyvesant.” Colonel Bruce gives a speech on sub-target guns and presents one to the student body. The Rifle club is founded. SHS Technical Society is founded. The Crew Team started. French Society founded.

1906/7

On Jan.16, 1907, a fire seriously damages the 23rd Street building, and classes are moved to the annex for one week while repairs are made.  Only one day of school is lost. On East 15th Street, at a cost of $1.25 million, city builders construct a permanent home for SHS. The building comprises 4 acres of floor space, numerous shops and other necessities for a technical high school education. Seniors have the option of enrolling in advanced physics. The annex, with 10 classrooms and two shops, continues to serve students, and in keeping with SHS spirit, maintains its own Annex Literary Society. SHS has 34 teachers, and student registration had doubled. A 25 page Student Guide is created. SHS crew participates in the Decoration Day Regatta on the Harlem River.

Christmas Eve 1906, the first commercial radio broadcast, Silent Night, is unexpectedly heard by wireless telegraph operators listening for Morse code.

July 28, 1907 The first SteepleChase Park burns to the ground.

Bakelite, first structural plastic, invented

1907/8

Sept. 9, 1907, the new Stuyvesant building opens. Dr. Rollins leaves Stuyvesant to become the Assistant State Commissioner of Education in Albany,

Dr. Ernest Von Nardroff, the eminent physicist, becomes principal.  He will remain principal for 26 years. June 12, 1908, the new building is formally dedicated.  A Camera Club is founded. The Crew Team wins third place in the Harlem Regatta. The Basketball Team takes second place in the PSAL Championship. The Stuyvesant Evening Trade School is started and soon has a waiting list. Dec. 23, the first alumni reunion is held and sets a precedent for holding reunions the week before Christmas. SHS holds its first public speaking contest.

May 17, 1908 SteepleChase, rebuilt, reopens

1908/9

The Basketball Team defeats Central High School, Philadelphia and becomes the Champions of the Eastern Region. The team goes on to beat freshmen teams from Columbia, Yale, and CCNY.  ARISTA is created as an honor society; ARISTA requires students to have an average of 75 % or better for admission and candidates must to be approved by the Senate, (a body comprised of the faculty and other ARISTA members). A SHS Indoor Track Meet occurrs at the 71st Regiment Armory.  The Irving Dramatic Society is founded. Dramatic groups present “She Stoops to Conquer” and “Dr. Bilby’s Aeroplane.” Basketball wins third in PSAL Champs, so does the Rifle Team. The Swimming Team is formed. The Drum Corps organize.

'09 Notables: Leo Roon, chemist, founder of Nuodex Products

Sep. 9, 1908, Orville Wright makes 1st 1-hr airplane flight, Fort Myer, VA.

1909/10

The Stuyvesant Basketball Team is named “Champions of the East.” Hockey and Boxing Teams form. The Indicator enhances its athletic highlights with action pictures. Golf Club, Aeronautical Society, Chemistry Club, Sketch Club, Senior Debating Society, Societas Latina Stuyvesantensis, Civics Club, are all organized. The Radio Club starts and builds its first crystal set.

 1910/11

The Baseball Team takes second in Greater New York, and first in Manhattan. Stuyvesant's tennis team participates in its first match. In November, the Gymnastics Team organizes. The Fencing Club forms. The Bunsen Chemical Society and the Short Story Club are organized.

'11 Notables:Jacob Lieberman, returned to SHS to teach chemistry in 1916 for over 50 years.

Pennsylvania Station is built.

1911/12

Track wins a PSAL Championship and takes first in Greater New York. The Chess Team is second in the city. The Architectural, Engineering, and Philatelic Societies form. In April, the Freshman Class presents a play, “The Lost Purse.”

'12 Notables: Lewis Mumford, urban planner, historian, political and social critic.

April 15, 1912 The British luxury liner Titanic sinks in the North Atlantic off Newfoundland, less than three hours after striking an iceberg; 1,500 die.

1912/13

SHS Riflemen are City Champions. Students form The Forge Club to advance the arts of forging, tool-making, hammered-metal and art and metal work. The Rifle Team wins the championships for 75-foot ranges. A Washington Irving issue of Caliper, is published, combining photos of their high school with its chief features and history.

'13 Notables:Charles W. Taussig, a member of FDR's original Brain Trust, New Deal luminary,  Caribbean authority, industrialist (molasses), and economic advisor to the UN charter commission. 

Grand Central Terminal is built.

Cellophane invented

1913/14

A two-session system is introduced due to large increases in enrollment. Caliper, containing 56 double column pages of cartoons, stories, jokes, and school news, is named best high school monthly in the country. The Track Team wins the coveted Princeton Meet. The swimming team becomes PSAL Champs.

Henry Ford of the Ford Motor Company builds the first moving assembly line, and introduces a minimum wage scale of $5 per day.

By 1914, unemployment and economic problems in Greece lead to migrations (almost entirely to US) of 350,000, one-fifth the total population

June 28, 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria is shot, leading to outbreak of World War I.

Aug. 15, 1914, Panama Canal, major engineering feat of the twentieth century, opens.

1914/15

In February, the first issue of The Spectator appears; the newspaper calls itself the ‘pulse of the student body’. Rifle Team members organize the Stuyvesant Training Corps, the nation’s first volunteer unit, in response to conditions abroad. 300 men train, and a battalion is formed. The Corps engages in “drill-down” competition against Clinton and participates in Decoration Day Parades. Rifles are supplied by the War Dept while uniforms are purchased with funds raised at a Review and Formal Ball at the 71st Regiment Armory. Hikes and "battles" are staged in Van Cortlandt Park, Spring Valley and Dunwoodie, NY, with weekly drills at the Armory. A symphony orchestra is formed. Track wins the PSAL Championship.

'15 Notables: Fred Schoenberg, Principal, Stuyvesant HS, 1943-1952, and then Deputy Superintendent of Schools.

1915/16

Footballers beat Clinton at the Polo Grounds 43-0, with a record attendance of 6,000. Faculty baseball team defeats the seniors. “Bibliophiles” discussed literature. Cross-Country track wins Manhattan Championship. The Stuyvesant Training Corps is organized; Captain Henry F. Davidson, father of Garrison H. Davidson '23 (who was the mascot of the STC), is the Drill Instructor.

April 24, 1916, Irish Easter Revolt.

1916/17

1917/18

Barnes & Noble opens the largest bookstore in the world at 122 Fifth Avenue.

1918/19

The Corps becomes inactive. Stuyvesant has 50 organizations. A Club Council is formed, with 2 representatives from each club, to ensure cooperation among clubs. SHS contributes $436.96 to French orphans, and $4,219.15 to the “Victory Boy” Movement.

Nov. 11, 1918, Armistice ending World War I is signed.

Jan. 6, 1919, Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th president when SHS opened in Sept. 1904, dies in Oyster Bay, N.Y. at age 60.

1919/20

Admission to Stuyvesant HS is restricted, based on elementary school academic achievement. Mathematics, advanced chemistry and physics courses strengthen the curriculum as Stuyvesant transforms to a "science high school", the first in the City. Shop classes in carpentry, pattern-making, blacksmithing, and ship design are offered. Students practice surveying in Stuyvesant Park. Increased enrollment leads to two sessions, each consisting of six periods: morning classes run from 8:00am to 12:35pm, while the afternoon session is from 12:40pm to 5:20pm. The Journalism Club is founded. "A Pageant of Democracy" is staged. The freshman swimmers win in the PSAL (Public School Athletic League).

Aug. 26, 1920, the 19th Amendment to the Constitution is ratified, guaranteeing American women who are citizens the right to vote.

CUNY opens the largest business college in the US, it will be named for Bernard Baruch in 1953.

1920/21

Students stage the pageant spectacle “America’s Making.” Soccer claims the title of Eastern State Champs. Cross-Country becomes second in the city

'21 Notables: Peter Sammartino, Chancellor Fairleigh Dickinson University.

New York City is unique in world history: the majority of the population lives in apartments and are renters.

1921/22

Track Team wins PSAL and a National Championship! Football Team almost wins first City Championship.  Principal von Nardroff and Dr. Tennent prepare the Student Guide. Radio Club has up-to-date equipment made in Stuy’s shop. Seniors’ graduation and dance is at the Hotel Pennsylvania. Broadway play, “It Pays to Advertise,” is first 3-act play attempted by  Dramatic Society. ARISTA institutes The Stuyvesant Club, to develop a high standard of character in the student body and promote a greater spirit of sociability among students.  Bicycle Club tries to establish HS Bicycle League and gain PSAL status.  They organize Sunday trips to Coney Island, Sing Sing, Pelham, Rockaway and Rye beaches, some trips include camping. Bibliophiles meet, Biology Club practices "the gentle art of vivisection, and it is done with the gust of true biologists.” Camera Club organizes the HS Camera Club League.

'22 Notables: John Theobold, Chancellor of the NYC Board of Education; Irving Saypol, prosecutor in Ethel & Julius Rosenberg case, later NYS Supreme Court Justice; William M. Hitzig, MD, surgeon, Mt Sinai Hospital, and Professor of Medicine at College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University.

1922/23

Students flock to Stuy from all boroughs and school goes to triple-sessions for this year only. Francis ("Frank") Hussey ties the world record in the hundred-meter. Baseball wins City Title. Track Team wins Princeton Meet and is named "Best team in City". Football Team wins City Championship; beats Clinton, 14-0..

'23 Notables:Lt. Gen. Garrison H. Davidson, played on SHS’s only undefeated Championship football team, 1923, Army football player, Head Coach Army Football 1933-1937, Patton’s Engineer WWII, Korean War Division Commander, Commanding General Army’s Command and General Staff College, Superintendent of U.S. Military Academy, Commanding General U.S. Seventh Army (Germany) and First Army (New York), U.S. Military Representative to the United Nations; Herbert Zelenko, US Congressman  

1923/24

Francis Hussey, the track captain, is a member of the record-breaking Olympic Gold Medal Relay Team. SHS wins The World’s Biggest News Contest.

'24 Notables: Joseph L. Mankiewicz,  winner of four academy awards; Frank Hussey, Olympic gold medal sprinter

Dec. 6, 1923, a presidential address is broadcast on radio for the first time as President Calvin Coolidge speaks to a joint session of Congress.

1924/25

Swimming team takes 1st place. Francis (Frank) Hussey leaves Stuy; he was Track Captain, 100 yd PSAL Champion, and a member of the USA Olympic record-breaking relay team. Footballers beat Clinton 25-0, Morris and Erasmus, and are City Champs. Principal Ernest R. von Nardroff, EE, Columbia and DSci, St Lawrence leads a faculty with degrees from these schools, colleges and universities:

Columbia; Williams; Bowdoin; Amherst; Wellesley; Hunter; CCNY; Teachers College; NYU; Smith; Brown; Bristol (England); Barnard; Yale; Temple; Harvard; Purdue; Hamilton; Cornell; Middleburg; Dartmouth; Laval University; the Universities of Paris, Heidelberg, Berlin and Madrid; Haverford; Escuela Normal (Vera Cruz, Mexico); Ohio Wesleyan; University of Pennsylvania; Swarthmore; Rochester; Rutgers; Alfred; Springfield, Syracuse; the Pratt and Brooklyn Polytechnic Institutes; the Universities of Indiana, Michigan and Vermont; Mt. Holyoke; Cooper Union; Boston; Tufts Medical College;...and the librarian graduated Vassar.

'25 Notables: "All-Stuy" Charles Belous, Esq., NY elected official/political leader; Emmy award winning director Sheldon Leonard, actor, producer, writer, and director.

1925/26

Symphony orchestra wins first place in Inter-Scholastic Orchestra Meet, and goes on to win for the next six years. Dr. Law returns from a trip to Africa, and tells students that the new Africa “will undoubtedly be the result of the well-managed villages of the continent.” Dr. Von Nardroff presents one of his famous lectures, “Acoustics of the Flute.”

1926/27

The Debate Team claims the title of NYC Debating Champs. Baseball wins championship, beating Clinton 1-0.

May 21, 1927, Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane, "The Spirit of St. Louis."

1927/28

The Baseball Team wins its first PSAL championship, shutting out Clinton 1-0 [SEE LAST YEAR?]. Jawetz, Muslin, and Weekes, Track Team members during ’28 and ’29, set 4 high jump records. A record number of students, over 5,000, are registered at SHS. SHS comes in second in NYC Debating.

May 11, 1928, The first regular schedule of TV programming is begun by General Electric in Schenectady.

First Academy Award for Best Picture: WINGS 

1928/29

The Debate Team wins NYC Debating Championship. The Soccer Team ties for the championship with the Monroe team. The library grows through many book donations. SHS students win 15 state scholarships. Swimming wins the relay championship. In order to join the Bunsen Chemical Society, one needs to pass a test with at least 75%; the club is the only high school club allowed to visit the Loft Candy Company’s plant.

1929/30

With the roster continuing to swell, a system of entrance exams are inaugurated. Indicator resumes publishing after 5-year hiatus. SHS is named City Champs in Swimming (breaking the school relay record) and Debating. The Radio Club holds its own class, which replaces a requirement. Students in this class are exempted from a Regents examination, provided that they take a licensing exam, the contents of which are taught as the class’ curriculum. The Philharmonic Society awards 20 prizes to orchestra members. An Astronomical Society forms.  The “Silver Jubilee” is organized to celebrate the Track Team’s 25 years and holds the largest Stuyvesant track meet to date.

'30 Notables: Robert Alda, actor in over 40 films from the 1940s through the 1980s

Population of NYC is almost 7 million. New York is the largest city in the world.

Oct. 29, 1929, the stock market crashes.

1930/31

The Soccer Team is named City Champs. The Debate Team wins the City Championship. The Symphony Orchestra is the only financially independent high school orchestra in the nation . Basketball wins the Tri-Boro championship. The Spectator and Caliper win second place in the Columbia Press Competition. A Physics Club is organized.

1931/32

Caliper is named the best magazine in a nationwide competition. The Basketball Team sets a PSAL scoring record. Fencing Team takes 5 titles and six trophies in 13 years in PSAL. From 1932-45, it wins 5 city championships and 6 trophies, 2 second place awards. Between 1940 and 1942, the Fencing team wins 19 consecutive matches.

1931, Reynold B. Johnson, a high school teacher in Michigan, devises a way to score multiple-choice tests by sensing conductive pencil marks on answer sheets.

1932/33

The Soccer Team earns the title of Manhattan Borough Champs

Franklin Delano Roosevelt is elected President

Saran and Polyethylene invented

1933/34

School is on two sessions, with graduating Classes in January and June. The highest average in the graduating class is 91.13 (2nd is 89.9). The Senior Prom is held at the New Yorker hotel. Extracurricular activities now include: ARISTA; German Club; Rifle Club and Team; Basketball; Cheering Squad; French Club; Bunsen Chemical Society; Glee Club; Architectural Society; Astronomical Society; Historical Society; Trigonometry Scholarship Class; Debating; First Aid; Chemistry Service Squad; Aero Club; Health & Hygiene; Latin; Library Squad; Radio Club; Chess Club; Caliper; Indicator; Literary Society; The Spectator; Business Board; Short Story Club; Orchestra; State Scholarship Class; Soccer Team (Manhattan Champions); Football; Cross Country; Track; Swimming; Math Society & Team; G.O. Council; Camera Club; Stuyvesant Club; Fencing; Electrical Society; Forge Club; Biology; Medical Society; Mineralogy Club; Physics; Spanish; Engineering; and the Stamp Club.

Principal Ernest von Nardroff retires after 26 years.

'34 Notables: Thelonius Monk, jazz musician/composer (but did not graduate with his Class; left school after sophomore year to work, playing his music).

Nov. 16, 1933, the United States and the Soviet Union establish diplomatic relations. President Roosevelt sends a telegram to Soviet leader Maxim Litvinov, expressing hope that United States-Soviet relations will "forever remain normal and friendly."

Dec. 5 1933, national Prohibition comes to an end as Utah became the 36th state to ratify the 21st Amendment to the Constitution, repealing the 18th Amendment.

1934/35

Sinclair J. Wilson is Principal.

New courses in mathematics, science, and the humanities are offered and admission is based on the standardized entrance exam. ARISTA has joint session ARISTA of Julia Richman, to provide social activities for students who have proven themselves to be of "ARISTA quality". The “S” Club of athletes cooperates with ARISTA for its few social events, and ensures that no one unauthorized wears the “S.”

'34 Notables: Bernard Meltzer, radio talk show host

1935/36

The Chess Team leads the Bronx-Manhattan Division. Chemistry Chair Robert W. Fuller leaves Stuyvesant after 32 years.

1936/37

The Football Team is named Manhattan Champs. Soccer attains The Manhattan Championship Crown. Cross Country comes in 3rd in the city and is declared Manhattan Champs. A new system of fire exits is installed.

SHS has a very active Jewish culture society.

Golden Gate Bridge opens in San Francisco; longest suspension bridge until 1964.

Dec. 10,1936, King Edward abdicates the British throne.

Jan. 19, 1937, Millionaire Howard Hughes sets a transcontinental air record by flying his monoplane from Los Angeles to Newark, N.J., in 7 hours, 30 minutes.

1937/38

The second specialized science high school in the city, Bronx Science, is founded; Bronx Science draws one-quarter of its faculty from Stuyvesant. Cross Country wins Manhattan. Soccer is 3rd in the City Championships. Fencing and Track are City Champs.

'38 Notables:Albert Axelrod is one of the greatest American fencers in history and was a member of five consecutive U.S. Olympic foil teams (a 20-year span!).

1938/39

The Swim Team has one of the most successful seasons in years. The Tennis Team is reinstated. Indoor Track Team wins first place in the Dickenson Meet and places third at the National Championships held in Madison Square Garden. The Fencing Team remains undefeated in the city. The Soccer Team misses the city championships by one game.

Fall 1938, The Bronx HS of Science opens as an "exam" school; girls are admitted in 1946.

Oct. 30, 1938, Orson Welles and the Mercury Theatre radio broadcast an adaptation of H.G. Wells’ “War of the Worlds.” Many listeners panic, mistaking the play--which simulates a news report on Martians landing in New Jersey--for reality.

1939/40

Chess is undefeated in the City. The favorite motion picture of the senior class is "Gone with the Wind.” Track wins Indoor City Championships. Fencing Team is undefeated and wins 19 consecutive matches, 1940-42. Chess is second in Division.

'40 Notables:  Colonel Joseph File, Enrico Fermi Award laureate in Physics, Princeton Nuclear Engineer, Chairman Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation; Kai Winding, composer and trombonist

Dec.15, 1939, "Gone With the Wind" premieres in Atlanta

1940/41

The Stuyvesant HS Training Corps is reorganized; during WWII, more than 250 members participate in air raid drills and reviews. More NY Philharmonic Scholarships are awarded to Stuy students than to any other school. Cheering Squad has a great season! Track Team is Cross-Country Champions in Manhattan.

'41 Notables: Joshua Lederberg, Nobel Prize Laureate in Medicine (1958); George Segal, Sculptor

Sep. 7, 1940, Germans begin the Blitz of London.

Dec.29/30, 1940, Incendiary devices cause massive fires in and around St. Paul's cathedral.

May 10, 1941, The last night and worst night of the Blitz - as many as 3,000 Londoners were killed. Germany fails to break the British spirit.

1941/42

SHS is designated as an Air Raid Shelter. ARISTA puts gummed tape over all  windows facing the inside corridors of the School. In cooperation with the Aeronautical Society, students collect model airplanes for use in the civil defense plane-identification program. W2CLE, the “ham” radio station, the first in any high school, is ordered off the air by the FCC to better track down enemy broadcasts originating in the US. Handball Team wins first place in PSAL. Math ranked number one. Chess Team wins Division.

The "most famous Stuyvesantian," James Cagney '18, wins Oscar for Best Actor in "Yankee Doodle Dandy".

Dec. 7, 1941,  Japanese planes attack the American Military base at Pearl Harbor.

Dec. 8, 1941, the United States entered World War II as Congress declared war against Japan one day after the attack on Pearl Harbor.

The Science Talent Search competition for US high school students begins; Westinghouse is the sponsor until 1998.

1942/43

Principal Sinclair J. Wilson (1892-1943) dies after serving nine years. John P. Clark is the Acting Principal this year. Soccer Team wins Manhattan Championship. Science clubs join to form the Science Association. Chess and Math Teams win City Championship.

'43 Notables: Art Baer, Television writer and producer.

Nov.12, 1942, the World War II naval Battle of Guadalcanal begins. This will be a major American victory over the Japanese.

Aug. 19 to Feb. 2, 1943, Soviet Union engages in desperate fight with Nazis in the decisive Battle of Stalingrad.

May 31, 1943, construction begins on the ENIAC at the Moore School of Electrical Engineering in Philadelphia.

1943/44

Fred Schoenberg, '15 and former Mathematics Chairman, is Principal and serves for 10 years. He  plans for the modernization of the building and a return to single session.&