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Stuyvesant High School Notables
  1911  1921  1931  1941  1951  1961  1971  1981  1991 2001

1904/5

1905/6

1906/7

Albert A. Alexander, DDS '07 Professor, Columbia College of Dental and Oral Surgery (now Columbia Dental School); SHS and U. of Penn, baseball and track star

1907/8

Angelo Lipari, PhD '08  Chairman/Professor, Italian, Yale; authority on Dante; author, The Dolce Stil Novo According to Lorenzo De Medici

1908/9

Manuel Komroff '09 Novelist, Coronet and 44 others; biographer, The One Story, Big City Little Boy, and for children, Beethoven, Jefferson, Caesar, Whitman; editor, The Travels of Marco Polo, War and Peace, Brothers Karamazov; Editor-in-chief, The Russian Daily News, Petrograd; Socialist, husband to Elinor Barnard (noted portraitist), good friend of Eugene O'Neill

Leo Roon Feb '09
Chief, chemical division, Squibb & Sons; Chemist, founder, Roxalin Flexible Finishes/Nuodex Products; Chairman, Industrial Section, NY Paint, Varnish and Lacquer Ass'n; Chairman, Board of Trustees, Columbia College of Pharmacy

1909/10

 1910/11

David Klein '11
Founder/President, U.S. Bronze Sign Co.

Jacob Lieberman '11
Teacher, chemistry, Stuyvesant HS, more than 50 years

1911/12

Felix E. Wormser '12
Mining engineer; US Ass't Secretary of the Interior; Director, Lead Industries Association; VP, St. Joseph Lead Company
 

William McKerer '12 VP, Chris-Craft Company

Lewis Mumford '12 Urban planner, architectural and social critic; Author, Sidewalk Critic;  lifelong opponent of large-scale public works; co-founder, Regional Planning Association of American; awarded National Medal for Literature, National Medal of Arts, U.S. Medal of Freedom and Knight of the Order of the British Empire

 
Guy B. Panero '12  Principal, Guy B. Panero Engineers & Panero-Weidlinger Salvadori,  Paris, Rome and Lausanne; project work for Rockefeller Center, Jefferson Memorial, and Royal Medical Center of Baghdad 

1912/13

William I. Hohauser '13 Architect, NYC theaters, luxury apartments; received "quite decent" appraisal from harsh critic and fellow Stuyvesant alum Lewis Mumford '12 for Manhattan low-rises

Philip Sporn '13
President, American Power Co.; electrical engineer; author, Technology, Engineering, and Economics; National Academy of Sciences; National Commission on Technology, Automation, and Economic Progress; John Fritz Medal (1956), joining former winners Bell, Edison, Goethals, Wright, and Marconi

Charles W. Taussig '13
Industrialist, American Molasses Company; Member, FDR's New Deal "Brain Trust"; Caribbean authority; Economic Advisor to UN Charter Commission; Author, Rum, Romance, and Rebellion; Chairman, National Advisory Committee, National Youth Adminstration

New Deal industrialist Charles W. Taussig, right, with Auguste Berle, after conference with President Roosevelt in Washington, DC, March 1933

1913/14

Leffert Holz, Esq '14
NYS Insurance Superintendent; real estate tax law authority

Herman Jessor '14 Architect, designed over 40,000 units of publicly subsidized co-operative housing; employed in the United Housing Federation

Saul Streit '14 NYS Supreme Court Justice; heard case of Alice De Rivera vs. NYC Board of Education re her right to take test for Stuyvesant HS, and ordered the City to show cause in Jan. 1969, paving the way for Alice to take the exam; ruled in 1951 college basketball betting scandal case

Herbert E. Vollmer '14  Olympic Bronze Medalist (1924), water polo; Set numerous swimming records at Stuyvesant HS and Columbia

1914/15

Joseph V. McMullan '15
Engineer; VP, Naylor Pipe Company;  designed hydraulic dredges, portable pipelines, shortening WWII North African campaign; world-famous Islamic rug collector; author, Don't Forget to Stop and Smell the Flowers Along the Way

Fred Schoenberg '15
Principal, Stuyvesant HS, 1943-1952; deputy, high school division, NYC Superintendent of Schools

Nathaniel Rose '15  Transportation executive

1915/16

1916/17

Ray Arcel '17
International Boxing Hall of Fame, Jewish Sports Hall of Fame; Trained 20 world boxing champions, the first in 1924 (Abe Goldstein), and the last in 1982 (Larry Holmes); five of his fighters won world titles in 1934!

Andrew A. Farago '17
Chemist; VP, D'orsay Perfumes

Edward Kilinski '17
Geologist, explorer, writer; specialist in foreign oil discovery---in Venezuela, the Guianas, Mexico, Canada

Eugene R. Kulka '17
Founder/President, Kulka Electric Co.

Brig. Gen. Alfred Reuthershan '17 CO, 71st Regiment, NY National Guard 
 

James Cagney '17 
Actor/dancer; our "Most famous Stuyvesantian"; Oscar-winning Best Actor, Yankee Doodle Dandy; American Film Institute Life Achievement Award; president/founding member, Screen Actors Guild; 33¢ USA commemorative stamp, legends of Hollywood; Black Belt in Judo;14th Greatest Movie Star of all time,  Entertainment Weekly

1917/18

1918/19

Harry A. Charipper, PhD '19
Chairman/professor, Biology, NYU

Ted Husing '19
Sportscaster, largely responsible for the advent of play-by-lay broadcasting; most popular sportscaster in national poll; author, My Eyes are in my Heart
 
 

1919/20

Capt. Joseph R. Horn '20 U.S. Navy Dental Corps 

August Henry Nordhausen '20 Artist, portraits and nudes

1920/21

Capt. Charles Gartenlaub '21 Chief, Radiology, US Naval Hospital, St. Albans, Queens, NY

Marcus D. Kogel, MD  '21 NYC Hospital Commissioner; founding Dean and advisory council, Albert Einstein College of Medicine; Chairman, Epidemiology and Social Medicine
 

Dean Kogel, far right, showing a model of the new college. (l-r): Dr. Samuel Belkin, president,
Yeshiva University; Professor Einstein; Nathaniel L. Goldstein, New York State Attorney General.

Peter Sammartino, PhD '21
Co-founder/Chancellor, Fairleigh Dickinson University; Member, President's Commission on Higher Education
 
 

1921/22

George Bragalini '22
NYS Tax Commissioner; VP, Manufacturers Trust

Harry B. Frank '22 NYS Supreme Court Justice


Victor Keppler '22
Photographer; lecturer; author, Victor Keppler Man+Camera, photo-autobiography; Trustee, Photographic Hall of Fame; one of the most successful commercial photographers in the U.S.; First color photo cover of Saturday Evening Post

William M. Hitzig, MD '22 Surgeon, Mt. Sinai Hospital; Professor, Medicine, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University; "Hiroshima Maidens" physician and friend of Albert Schweitzer; president, Mt. Sinai Alumni Administration

Dr. Hitzig, flanked by Japanese doctors of the Atom Bomb Patients Treatment Council of Hiroshima, Japan, shown at Mt. Sinai Hospital as they examine one of the Hiroshima girls undergoing plastic surgery treatment.

Harold T. McLaughlin '22 NYS Supreme Court Justice

Philip Neufeld '22 Wall St. financial consultant; founding Member, SHS Alumni & Scholarship Association (1954)

Ernest W. Rovere '22 Bridge Life Master; Member, American Contract Bridge League; Author, Point Count Contract Bridge Complete 

Irving Saypol, Esq. '22
Prosecutor, Ethel & Julius Rosenberg and Morton Sobell '34 espionage case; then NYS Supreme Court Justice

Sidney Sugarman '22
US District Court Judge, Southern District of New York

John J. Theobald '22
Chancellor, NYC Board of Education; NYC Deputy Mayor
 

Herbert Zelenko, Esq. '22 US Congressman, Manhattan, west side; Assistant U.S. Attorney, NY southern district

1922/23

General Davidson, US military representative to the UN, with Ambassador Adlai E. Stevenson

Frederick Zimmerman '23 Double bassist, NY Philharmonic; author, Contemporary Concept of Bowing Technique for the Double Bass

1923/24

Thomas Chimera '24 NYS Supreme Court Justice

Frank Hussey '24
Olympic Gold Medal relay sprinter (1924)

Joseph L. Mankiewicz '24
Four-time Oscar-winning producer, writer, director; brother of Herman Mankiewicz who won Oscar for writing "Citizen Kane"; son of Stuyvesant teacher Frank Mankiewicz.

Robert M. Weitman '24 Producer, Paramount, ABC, CBS, MGM, Columbia, and independent productions; started career as a doorman at the Times Square Paramount

1924/25

 


Charles Belous, Esq. '25 "Mr. Stuyvesant";
Student leader; NYC Councilman and elected political leader in NYS and NYC

Philip Birnbaum '25 Architect, Parker Meridien and Trump Plaza

Samuel DiFalco '25
NYC Councilman; NYS Supreme Court Justice and Surrogate; NY Italian-American community and Democratic Party leader 

Sheldon Leonard (Bershad) '25
Emmy-winning director, actor (Dick Van Dyke Show, I love Lucy, It's a Wonderful Life), and producer; author, And The Show Goes On

1925/26

Milton Gabler '26 Recording industry mogul; Jazz & Rock ‘n Roll pioneer; independent music producer & distributor; member, Rock ‘n Roll Hall of Fame; founder, Commodore Music Shop, Commodore record label, & first mail-order record label, United Hot Clubs of America (UCHA); originated business of reissuing surplus records; produced Billie Holiday’s Strange Fruit, Ella Fitzgerald/Louis Armstrong duets, & the seminal Bill Haley’s Rock Around the Clock; vice president, Decca Records; Uncle to actor/entertainer Billie Crystal; National Academy of Recording Artists’ Trustees Award for lifetime achievement; career began at SHS after-school job at Commodore Radio Store.

Milton Gabler, in the Decca truck,
with the Comets' Bill Haley;
recorded the seminal Rock Around the Clock

Abraham M. Lindenbaum, Esq. '26 Brooklyn lawyer, lobbyist, fundraiser; represented developers Zeckendorff and Trump; President, Brooklyn Law School; NYC Planning Commissioner; Trustee, Federation of Jewish Philanthropies

Irving A. Sarot, MD '26 Professor, Cardiac & Thoracic Surgery, NY Medical College;  WWII Army Major, field hospital head; Normandy invasion; liberation of Buchenwald concentration camp

1926/27

1927/28

Col. Adam J. Rapalski '28 Army Surgeon General's Staff

John Ashley Wells, Esq. '28 Rogers and Wells; NY Republican advisor to Thomas Dewey, Nelson Rockefeller, and Jacob Javits

1928/29

1929/30

1930/31

Bernard "Red" Sarachek '31
Basketball Coach & Athletic Director, Yeshiva  University; Coach, American Basketball League (Scranton, League Championship, 1949-51); NYC Basketball Hall of Fame; Jewish Sports Hall of Fame 

Sol Schoenbach '31
Principal bassoonist, Philadelphia Orchestra; composer/arranger; Director, Settlement Music School; National Service Award, Chamber Music America

Philip H. Sechzer, MD '31 Director, Pain Medical Center, Maimonides, Brooklyn, NY and Fordham, Bronx, NY; Inventor/co-developer, Pain-Controlled Analgesia system for patient self-medication; professor, anesthesiology, U. of Penn, Baylor School of Medicine, SUNY Health Science Center

1931/32

Irving V. Glick, MD ‘32
Sports medicine & orthopedic surgeon; Women's Tennis Association & US Tennis Open physician; worked with NJ Nets and St. John's University teams; Co-founder, North Shore Community Hospital; member, International Tennis Hall of Fame

John T. McLoughlin '32
President, Vick Chemical Company

John F. McManus '32
Assistant Dean, Engineering, Cornell University

David Randolph '32
Music Director, St. Cecilia Chorus and Orchestra; Founder, conductor, Masterwork Chorus, NJ; Music Specialist, US Office of War Information; four time Ohio State award winner for best radio programs of music and commentary in the nation 

Vito L. Salerno '32 Dean, Engineering, Fairleigh Dickinson University

1932/33

James B. Herbert '33 Track and Field Hall of Fame; won more races than any other runner at Madison Square Garden; twice National AAU indoor champion; Recreation Director, NYC Dept. of Parks; Senior court officer, NYS Supreme Court; Delegate, Democratic National Convention

Edward V. Kolman '33
NFL player (Chicago Bears), coach (NY Giants); came to play violin in the orchestra at SHS but converted to football; honor roll for NFL players who served in WWII

1933/34

Matthew M. Cammen '34 Engineer, Air Compressor Division, Ingersoll-Rand

David J. Cavell '34 Actuary, pension plans for labor unions, businesses, and the IRS; violinist, Suburban Symphony Orchestra, Cleveland OH

Jerome Gross, MD '34 Biologist, Massachusetts General Hospital; Professor of Medicine and Dermatology, emeritus, Harvard Medical School.

H. Sherwood Lawrence, MD '34
Professor, immunology, NYU Medical School;  pioneer, lymphocyte biology; co-director of medical services, Bellevue and NYU Hospitals; Medical officer, Navy, WWII; Normandy invasion, Omaha Beach; founding editor, Journal Cellular Immunology

"Dr." Bernard Meltzer '34 Call-in radio show host, What's Your Problem (advised on mortgages, leaky basements, Medicaid, feuding neighbors, retirement plans, recalcitrant children and philandering husbands); Chairman, Philadephia Planning Commission; Professor, U. of Penn.

Morton Sobell '34
Co-defendant, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg "A-Bomb Spy Case"; sentenced to thirty years; served 16 years including 5 in Alcatraz; maintains innocence; Author, Serving Time

1934/35

1935/36

Leopold Oberst '36 Director of operations for New York City under Mayors Edward I. Koch and Abraham Beame; VP, New York Telephone Co.; Earned the nickname "Mr. Fixit" for his handling of a major New York telephone service outage. 

Stanley L. Wallenstein '36 Psychologist; Sloan-Kettering, College on Problems of Drug Dependence; Lyceum Club of the New York Academy of Sciences; founding member, Eastern Pain Ass'n, American Pain Society and Int'l  Ass'n for Study of Pain.

Cornelius Zittere '36 Cooper Union, BME '50; University of Delaware, MME '53; Senior consultant, Dupont Co.
 

Nathaniel K. Zelazo ‘36 Founder/CEO, Astronautics Corp. of America; Chairman, Kearfott Guidance & Navigation Corp.; Chairman, Astronautics C. A. Ltd. (Israel); Director, AKE Joint venture, St. Petersburg, Russia;

1936/37

Bernie Silverman '37 President, NY Metropolitan Conference, North American Federation of Temple Brotherhoods 

 

Phil Stern '37 Photojournalist; Jazz and Hollywood celebrity photographer; author, Phil Stern: A Life's Work & Phil Stern's Hollywood 

 

 

Col. Leonard R. Sugerman '37 USAF (Ret.) PhD Director, Physical Science Laboratory, New Mexico State University (NMSU); numerous contributions to the arts and sciences of navigation; 33 years in the Air Force working on aircraft, missile, satellite and re-entry systems, including two wartime overseas tours; studied at MIT, University of Chicago and NMSU; fellow of the Institute of Navigation and honorary Doctor of Laws from NMSU

1937/38

1938/39

1939/40

Mortimer Bader, MD '40 Professor, clinical medicine, Mt. Sinai School of Medicine; with twin Richard, 1940 SHS Valedictorian and namesake of Mt. Sinai's "Drs. Richard and Mortimer Bader Professor of Medicine"

Richard Bader, MD '40 Professor, internal medicine, Mt. Sinai; Board, Life Sciences Foundation; with twin Mortimer, 1940 SHS Valedictorian and namesake of the Mt. Sinai "Drs. Richard and Mortimer Bader Professor of Medicine"

David Becker, MD '40 Professor, Radiology/Medicine, Weill-Cornell Medical College; Chair, Chernobyl Fallout Joint Study Group; President, American Thyroid Association

Col. Joseph File '40
Princeton Nuclear Engineer; Chairman, Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation; Marine in WWII and Korean War; original experiment leading to MRI; awarded highest medal and rank of Commandatori by his native Italy

Norman Kretchmer, PhD, MD '40 Pediatrician, Stanford University and National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Bethesda, MD; studied "gray baby" syndrome & responsible for present-day cautions about taking drugs during pregnancy 

Nat Militzok, Esq. '40 NBA basketball player. NY Knicks; Honored, Jewish Sports Hall of Fame; first assist, first game in NBA history  

 

Benjamin Stanley Rosenthal '40
US Congressman from NY for over 20 years; chairman, European subcommittee, House Foreign Affairs; introduced Oct. 1973 resolution calling for Nixon impeachment