Abraham Lincoln High School (New York)

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. 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. 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]

Notable Alumni

Abraham Lincoln High School

• Marv Albert, class of 1959, television sportscaster
• Ken Auletta, class of 1957, author
• Aegina Berg Barnes, class of 1982, CUNY educator; schoolteacher; American Arbitration Association's alternate delegate to the NYS United Teachers & AFT Convention ([1]) and wife of British actor Nicholas Barnes aka "Nick Barnes Berg" ([2], [3])
• 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)
• 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 [4])
• 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

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.

References

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

External links

• 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.