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Forest Hills High School (FHHS) is a public secondary school in Queens, New York City. Queens Borough in New York City, in yellow Queens is one of the five boroughs of New York City, USA. Geographically the largest borough in the city, Queens is home to many immigrants and two of New Yorks major airports. ...
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FHHS was dedicated in 1937[1]. It educates students in grades 9-12 and is operated by the New York City Department of Education. The School serves the middle-class to upper-middle class Forest Hills, Rego Park, and Kew Gardens sections of Queens. FHHS is located near Flushing Meadow Park, site of two World's Fairs. Image File history File linksMetadata ForestHillsHS.jpg‎ Front of Forest Hills High School in Queens, New York I, the creator of this work, hereby release it into the public domain. ...
Image File history File linksMetadata ForestHillsHS.jpg‎ Front of Forest Hills High School in Queens, New York I, the creator of this work, hereby release it into the public domain. ...
The New York City Department of Education is a department of the city of New York which runs almost all of the citys public schools. ...
Station Square, home to Forest Hills striking Long Island Rail Road station. ...
Rego Park is a neighborhood in the central portion of the New York City borough of Queens. ...
Kew Gardens is a neighborhood in central Queens bounded to the north by the Jackie Robinson Parkway (formerly The Interborough Parkway) and Queens Boulevard, to the east by Kew Gardens Road, to the south by Myrtle Avenue, and to the west by Forest Park. ...
The United States Open tennis championship has long been held nearby, first at the West Side Tennis Club in upscale Forest Hills Gardens and later at the USTA National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadow Park. The U.S. Open is the fourth and final event of the Grand Slam in tennis. ...
FHHS frequently has been extremely overcrowded throughout its history, sometimes running three overlapping sessions. In past years, administration has found that many prospective students often present false information regarding their permanent residence in order to fall within zoning boundaries and successfully gain admission into the school. Traditionally, a very large fraction of FHHS graduates have gone on to attend college[2]. Most recently, the valedictorians of the Classes of 2005 and 2006 have matriculated at Harvard University and Columbia University, respectively[citation needed]. Harvard redirects here. ...
Columbia University is a private research university whose main campus lies in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of the Borough of Manhattan in New York City. ...
FHHS was shown in the motion picture The Basketball Diaries (1995), starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Mark Wahlberg. The school's facade, boys gymnasium, and boys locker room, are used to portray[3] a private Catholic High School in the borough of Staten Island where the main characters go to play a rival basketball team. The scene showcasing the game used FHHS students as extras to portray the students watching from the bleachers. FHHS plans to start both a football team and a wrestling team for the 2007-2008 season. The Basketball Diaries is a 1978 book written by American author Jim Carroll, in which he chronicles the decline of a promising young, white basketball player in New York City in the 1960s. ...
Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio (born November 11, 1974[1]) is a three-time Academy Award-nominated and Golden Globe Award-winning American actor well known for his roles in blockbuster movies such as Titanic (1997), William Shakespeares Romeo + Juliet (1996), Catch Me If You Can (2002) Gangs of New York...
Mark Robert Michael Wahlberg (born June 5, 1971 in Dorchester, Boston, Massachusetts) is an Academy Award-nominated American entertainer, formerly known as a rapper, now active as an actor and television producer. ...
As of 2006, Stephen Frey is the principal administrator of the school.
Location
Forest Hills High School is in the Forest Hills neighborhood in Queens. The school is near Rego Park. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...
Queens Borough in New York City, in yellow Queens is one of the five boroughs of New York City, USA. Geographically the largest borough in the city, Queens is home to many immigrants and two of New Yorks major airports. ...
Rego Park is a neighborhood in central Queens, New York City, New York. ...
Feeder patterns There is zoning to high schools in New York City; but 8th graders may apply to schools of their choice.
Notable alumni Many of FHHS's most famous students have gained recognition in entertainment fields. These include childhood-TV veteran Captain Kangaroo (Bob Keeshan), perennial TV-serial star Michael Landon, TV freak-show host and one-time mayor of Cincinnati Jerry Springer, "easy listening" songwriter Burt Bacharach (Class of 1946), folk-rockers Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel, and punk-rock pioneers The Ramones. (The attitude expressed by the lyrics of The Ramones hit Rock and Roll High School is in stark contrast to the ethos long typical of FHHS students!). Graduates who went on to become entertainment producers include network-TV's Fred Silverman and Hollywood's Leslie Urdang[4]. Captain Kangaroo (Bob Keeshan) Captain Kangaroo was a childrens television series which aired weekday mornings on the American television network CBS from 1955 until 1984, then moved to the American Program Service (now American Public Television, Boston) to air syndicated reruns of past episodes in 1992. ...
Robert James Keeshan (June 27, 1927 – January 23, 2004) was an actor who was the original Clarabell the Clown on the Howdy Doody television program, but who is most famous as the star and title character of the childrens show Captain Kangaroo. ...
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Burt Bacharach, c. ...
Simon and Garfunkel are an American popular music duo comprising Paul Simon and Arthur Art Garfunkel. ...
The Ramones (L-R, Johnny, Tommy, Joey, Dee Dee) on the cover of their debut self-titled album (1976), cementing their place at the dawn of the punk movement. ...
Silverman, Time, 1977 Fred Silverman (born September 13, 1937 in New York City) is an American television executive and producer. ...
Court of Appeals judge Robert Katzmann is a member of the Class of 1970. Former NBA player and current Washington Wizard's GM Ernie Grunfeld also attended FHHS. Robert A. Katzmann is a United States Circuit Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. ...
Ernest (Ernie) Grunfeld (born April 24, 1955, in Satu Mare, Romania) is an American former professional basketball player. ...
War-time dropout[5] Art Buchwald, Class of 1943, won the Pulitzer Prize twice. Key organizer and executive of NASA, George Low, Class of 1943, served as chief of manned space flight. After retiring from NASA, he served as president of RPI until his demise in 1984. The first space tourist, ex-NASA engineer and millionaire investment fund manager Dennis Tito, graduated FHHS in 1958. Art Buchwald Arthur Buchwald (October 20, 1925 – January 18, 2007) was an American humorist best known for his long-running column that he wrote in The Washington Post newspaper, which in turn was carried as a syndicated column in many other newspapers. ...
The gold medal awarded for Public Service in Journalism The Pulitzer Prize is an American award regarded as the highest national honor in print journalism, literary achievements, and musical compositions. ...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an agency of the United States Government, responsible for that nations public space program. ...
In June 1998, US President Bill Clinton cited FHHS's "academic and extra-curricular excellence" - and it became one of only 124 "Blue Ribbon" schools nationwide.[6] In 2000, US First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton delivered the commencement address.. Jacob J. ("Jack") Lew, a 1972 graduate of FHHS, was then the Clinton administration's Director of the Office of Management and Budget, having been elevated to the post two years earlier. William Jefferson Bill Clinton (born William Jefferson Blythe III[1] on August 19, 1946) was the 42nd President of the United States, serving from 1993 to 2001. ...
Hillary Rodham Clinton (born Hillary Diane Rodham on October 26, 1947) is the Biggest loser/retard these united states have seen from New York. ...
Jacob Jack J. Lew (born August 29, 1955 in New York, New York) was Director of the United States Office of Management and Budget (or OMB) from 1998 to 2001 and a principal architect of fiscal policy under the administration of President Bill Clinton. ...
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is a body within the Executive Office of the President of the United States which is tasked with coordinating United States Federal agencies. ...
An elusive billionaire whose 'Cinderella-midnight' pardon by outgoing President Clinton caused a furor, commodity trader Marc Rich, attended FHHS for a while in the 1950s, until he was enrolled in an exclusive prep academy, the Rhodes School. The crimes for which Rich was forgiven by Clinton include the largest tax-evasion case ($48 million) in history. Marc Rich (born Marc David Reich on December 18, 1934) is a billionaire international commodities trader who fled the United States in 1983 to live in Switzerland in order to avoid prosecution on charges of tax evasion and illegally making oil deals with Iran during the hostage crisis. ...
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Unsubstantiated notable alumni Another important political figure, the brilliant and abrasive John Henry Sununu is an alleged attendee of FHHS. Cuban-born Sununu's family did live in Forest Hills during part of his minority; but, given his birth in 1939, surely the claim[7] he is Class of 1953 is untrue. In any event, he would graduate[8] now-closed La Salle Military Academy in 1957. Sununu served as Governor of New Hampshire from 1983-1989 and White House Chief of Staff for US President George H.W. Bush between 1989 and 1991, co-hosting CNN's "Crossfire" through much of the 1990's. John Henry Sununu (born July 2, 1939) is a former Governor of New Hampshire (1983-89) and former White House Chief of Staff under President George H. W. Bush. ...
See also New Hampshire Province of New Hampshire List of Colonial Governors of New Hampshire I am a doodlebug Categories: Lists of United States governors | Governors of New Hampshire ...
Joshua B. Bolten, the current White House Chief of Staff. ...
For the pop band, see Presidents of the United States of America. ...
Order: 41st President Vice President: Dan Quayle Term of office: January 20, 1989 – January 20, 1993 Preceded by: Ronald Reagan Succeeded by: Bill Clinton Date of birth: June 12, 1924 Place of birth: Milton, Massachusetts First Lady: Barbara Pierce Bush Political party: Republican George Herbert Walker Bush, KBE (born...
The Cable News Network, commonly known as CNN, is a major cable television network founded in 1980 by Ted Turner. ...
December 6, 2004 edition of Crossfire. ...
His Crossfire adversary, another Forest Hills resident, and the first woman nominated for US Vice President by a major party, Geraldine Ferraro, is another person alleged to be a FHHS attendee, supposedly Class of 1953. In any event, she graduated[9] Marymount High School in Manhattan in 1952. Ferraro spoke at FHHS on June 23, 1992[10] (presumably a commencement address). Geraldine Ferraro Geraldine Anne Ferraro (born August 26, 1935) is a politician from New York who, while serving in the United States House of Representatives, received the nomination of the Democratic Party to run for Vice President of the United States in 1984. ...
SING! The annual theater competition known as SING! pits seniors, juniors, and "sophmen" (freshmen and sophomores working together) against each other in a race to put on the best performance. Started in 1947 at Midwood High School in Brooklyn, SING! is a tradition at many New York City high schools. At Forest Hills, SING! was well-established by the end of the 1960s: The aforementioned Leslie Urdang was Chairman (sic.) of Senior Sing 1972, which class had participated in Sing since "entering" in fall 1969. (In those times, nearly all students entered as sophomores, 9th grade graduates of "junior high schools".) It is now a huge school-wide event — in 2005, nearly 500 students participated. The entire production is written, produced, directed and funded by students. Their involvement ranges from being members of the production's casts, choruses, or tech crews to Irish Jig, Step, Russian, Bollywood, or Latin dance groups. SING! begins in late September and culminates in final performances on three nights in February. Image File history File links Information_icon. ...
External links - Official FHHS Web site
- Current profile, NYC Department of Education
- Current statistics, NYC Department of Education
- 2004-2005 annual report, NYC Department of Education
- 2003-2004 annual report, NYC Department of Education
- 2002-2003 annual report, NYC Department of Education
- An older (2002) FHHS Web site
- Yahoo Groups page for FHHS Class of 1993
- Yahoo Groups page for FHHS Class of 1989
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