Abraham Lincoln High School is a public high school located at 2800 Ocean Parkway, 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 9 through 12. For other uses, see Motto (disambiguation). ... Year 1929 (MCMXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Educational institutions are often categorised along several dimensions. ... A public high school is a secondary school that is financed by tax revenues and other government-collected revenues, and administered exclusively by, and at the discretion of, state and local officials. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... This article is about the borough of New York City. ... This article is about the state. ... School colors are the colors chosen by a school to represent it on uniforms and other items of identification. ... Navy blue is an especially dark shade of the color blue. ... This article is about the color. ... Achromatic redirects here. ... For other uses, see Yearbook (disambiguation). ... A website (alternatively, Web site or web site) is a collection of Web pages, images, videos and other digital assets that is hosted on one or several Web server(s), usually accessible via the Internet, cell phone or a LAN. A Web page is a document, typically written in HTML... A public high school is a secondary school that is financed by tax revenues and other government-collected revenues, and administered exclusively by, and at the discretion of, state and local officials. ... For other meanings, see Brooklyn (disambiguation). ... The Official Seal of the City of New York The New York City Department of Education is the branch of municipal government in New York City that manages the citys public school system. ...

Built in 1929, Lincoln has graduated several Nobel Prize winners and famous musicians, authors, and sports players. In 1955, Lincoln students formed the doo-wop group The Tokens, best known for their #1 Pop Chart Hit The Lion Sleeps Tonight. The Nobel Prizes (Swedish: ), as designated in Alfred Nobels will in 1895, are awarded for physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature, and peace. ... Year 1955 (MCMLV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1955 Gregorian calendar). ... Doo-wop is a style of vocal-based rhythm and blues music popular in the mid-1950s to the early 1960s in America. ... The Tokens are an American male doo-wop vocal group from Brooklyn, New York. ... The Lion Sleeps Tonight began as a 1939 African popular music hit Mbube that, in modified versions, also became a hit in the US and UK. Mbube (Zulu for lion) was first recorded by its writer, Solomon Linda, and his group, The Evening Birds, in 1939. ...

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] New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ... Michael Rubens Bloomberg (born 14 February 1942) is an American businessman, philanthropist, and the founder of Bloomberg L.P., currently serving as the Mayor of New York City. ... is the 103rd day of the year (104th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The New York City Police Department (NYPD) was created in 1845 and currently is the largest municipal police force in the world with primary responsibilities in law enforcement and investigation within the five boroughs of New York City. ...

Notable Alumni

Abraham Lincoln High School

• Irina Kogan, class of 2003, known for her theory of "relative receivity"
• Marv Albert, class of 1959, television sportscaster
• Ken Auletta, class of 1957, author
• Paul Berg, class of 1943, won Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1980
• Mel Brooks, actor, writer, director, and comedy producer
• Neil Diamond, class of 1958, singer/songwriter
• Rachel Eljashev, class of 1983, ophthalmologist and writer; grand-niece of Ba'al Machshavot (Dr. Israel Isidor Elyashev, 1873-1924, a neurologist who was the first Yiddish- language literary critic, who was appointed by Theodor Herzl to translate Altneuland from German into Yiddish)
• Jerry Ferrara, actor on Entourage.
• Nelson Figueroa, class of 1992, professional baseball player.
• John Forsythe, class of 1934, actor
• Sam Goldaper, class of 1940, sportswriter for The New York Times
• Louis Gossett, class of 1954, actor
• Howard Greenfield, songwriter
• Joseph Heller, class of 1941, author of Catch-22
• 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, class of 1933, won Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1985
• Harvey Keitel, film actor
• Arthur Kornberg, class of 1933, won Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1959
• Shelly Manne, jazz drummer
• Stephon Marbury, class of 1995, professional basketball player (NBA)
• Lee Mazzilli, class of 1973, former professional baseball player, manager and coach
• Hank Medress, singer in the group the Tokens, best known for "The Lion Sleeps Tonight"^[2]
• Paula Michaels, class of 1983, academic, author and educator at the University of Iowa at Iowa City on Stalinism, Soviet medicine, and post-Soviet women (specializing in Kazakhstan; see [1])
• Arthur Miller, class of 1932, author and playwright, wrote, among many other works, Death of a Salesman and The Crucible
• Larry Namer, class of 1966, Founder of E! Entertainment TV network
• Buddy Rich, jazz drummer and bandleader
• Neil Sedaka, class of 1956, pop singer, pianist, and songwriter
• Alex Steinweiss, class of 1934, graphic designer
• 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

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Hank Medress (19 November 1938 - 19 June 2007) was a record producer who co-produced (with Dave Appell) many of Tony Orlando and Dawns hits as well as Melissa Manchesters LP. He started as one of The Tokens. ... The Tokens are an American male doo-wop vocal group from Brooklyn, New York. ... The Lion Sleeps Tonight began as a 1939 African popular music hit Mbube that, in modified versions, also became a hit in the US and UK. Mbube (Zulu for lion) was first recorded by its writer, Solomon Linda, and his group, The Evening Birds, in 1939. ... Not to be confused with Iowa State University. ... Arthur Bob Miller (October 17, 1915 – February 10, 2005) was an American playwright and essayist. ... Cover to the Penguin Group edition. ... For other uses, see Crucible (disambiguation). ... Larry Namer is an entertainment and media entrepreneur. ... Bernard Buddy Rich (September 30, 1917 Brooklyn, New York – April 2, 1987) was an American jazz drummer and bandleader. ... 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Fictional Alumni

• Monica Geller from the show Friends; at Lincoln, known as the fat kid who tagged along with Rachel; played in the band (with a specially made uniform); class of 1988
• Ross Geller from the show Friends; at Lincoln, Monica's geeky older brother; had a crush on underclassmen Rachel Greene since keyboarding freshman year; class of 1987
• Rachel Green, also from the show Friends; at Lincoln, she was one of the popular kids and often dated a minor character named Chip Matthews; class of 1988
• Jesus Shuttlesworth, a talented basketball player in the 1998 Spike Lee movie, He Got Game.

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Notes

1. ^ "NYC Police To Randomly Scan Students For Weapons", WNBC, April 13, 2006. Accessed June 11, 2006.
2. ^ Hank Medress obituary

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References

• Official Site
• Profile from NYC Department of Education
• Jackson, Nancy Beth. "If You're Thinking of Living In/Brighton Beach", The New York Times, July 7, 2002. Accessed June 11, 2006.