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<html> <head> <title>DeWitt Clinton High School, Bronx, NY</title> <meta name="googlebot" content="noodp"> <meta name="robots" content="noodp"> <link rel="apple-touch-icon-precomposed" href="/silly-nndb-icon.png" /><style type="text/css">  </style><script type="text/javascript" src="/sortable.js"></script> <link rel="stylesheet" href="/style.css" /> </head> <body bgcolor=#ffffff> <center> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr><td valign=top><table width=550 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0> <tr><td bgcolor=white><table width="100%" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" background="/nndb.gif"> <tr> <td rowspan="2" align="left" valign="top"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/"><img src="/title.gif" width="260" height="50" border=0 alt="NNDB"></a></td> <td><table width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="6"> <tr align="center"> <td width="25%" nowrap>This is a beta version of NNDB</td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="middle"> <form action="http://search.nndb.com/search/nndb.cgi" method="get"> <input type="hidden" name="nndb" value="1"></input> Search: <select name="omenu"> <option value="unspecified" selected>All Names</option> <option value="living">Living people</option> <option value="dead">Dead people</option> <option value="bands">Band Names</option> <option value="books">Book Titles</option> <option value="movies">Movie Titles</option> <option value="fulltext">Full Text</option> </select> for <input name="query" value="" size=24 maxlength=96> <input type=submit value="Search"> </form></td> </tr> </table>        </td></tr> <tr><td bgcolor=red height=2></td></tr> <tr bgcolor=F0F0F0><td bgcolor=F0F0F0 style="padding: 15px 15px 15px 15px;"><table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 width=100%><tr><td bgcolor=F0F0F0> DeWitt Clinton High School, Bronx, NY EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION Location: <a href="/geo/434/000069227/" class=proflink>Bronx, NY</a> Founding Date: 1897Mascot: GovernorsEnrollment: 4100STUDENTS <table border=1 class="sortable bordered" id="sort_student"> <tr><th>Name</th><th>Occupation</th><th>Birth</th><th>Death</th><th>Known for</th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/171/000023102/">Don Adams</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>13-Apr-1926</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>25-Sep-2005</tt></td> <td>Maxwell Smart on Get Smart</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/728/000055563/">Allan Arbus</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Feb-1918</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Apr-2013</tt></td> <td>Dr. Sidney on M*A*S*H</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/843/000166345/">Nate Archibald</a></td> <td><center>Basketball</center></td> <td align=right><tt>2-Sep-1948</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>NBA Hall of Famer</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/953/000022887/">Richard Avedon</a></td> <td><center>Photographer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>13-May-1923</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>1-Oct-2004</tt></td> <td>Photographer of the human predicament</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/969/000047828/">James Baldwin</a></td> <td><center>Novelist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>2-Aug-1924</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>30-Nov-1987</tt></td> <td>Go Tell It on the Mountain</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/111/000063919/">Martin Balsam</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>4-Nov-1919</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>13-Feb-1996</tt></td> <td>A Thousand Clowns</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/700/000171187/">Matthew A. Berdon</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>31-Jul-1919</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>27-Mar-2010</tt></td> <td>Senior Partner, F. B. & Co.</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/527/000205909/">Lew Brown</a></td> <td><center>Songwriter</center></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Dec-1893</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>5-Feb-1958</tt></td> <td>Beer Barrel Polka</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/849/000054687/">Richard H. Carmona</a></td> <td><center>Doctor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>22-Nov-1949</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>US Surgeon General, 2002-06</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/792/000253033/">Gilbert Cates</a></td> <td><center>Film Director</center></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Jun-1934</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>1-Nov-2011</tt></td> <td>I Never Sang for My Father</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/144/000112805/">Paddy Chayefsky</a></td> <td><center>Playwright</center></td> <td align=right><tt>29-Jan-1923</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>1-Aug-1981</tt></td> <td>Network</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/339/000113000/">Countee Cullen</a></td> <td><center>Poet</center></td> <td align=right><tt>30-May-1903</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Jan-1946</tt></td> <td>Harlem Renaissance poet</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/837/000085582/">Will Eisner</a></td> <td><center>Cartoonist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Mar-1917</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>3-Jan-2005</tt></td> <td>Turned comic book authors into Sequential Artists</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/153/000023084/">Ace Frehley</a></td> <td><center>Guitarist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>27-Apr-1951</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Lead guitarist, KISS</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/589/000023520/">Judd Hirsch</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Mar-1935</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Taxi</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/318/000072102/">Robert Hofstadter</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>5-Feb-1915</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>17-Nov-1990</tt></td> <td>Size, shape, and structure of neutrons and protons</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/524/000022458/">Bob Kane</a></td> <td><center>Cartoonist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>24-Oct-1915</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>3-Nov-1998</tt></td> <td>Co-creator of the original Batman comic</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/142/000179602/">Stanley Kauffmann</a></td> <td><center>Critic</center></td> <td align=right><tt>24-Apr-1916</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Oct-2013</tt></td> <td>Film critic for The New Republic</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/761/000095476/">Kool Keith</a></td> <td><center>Rapper</center></td> <td align=right><tt>c. 1965</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Ultramagnetic MCs, Dr. Octagon</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/384/000024312/">Robert Klein</a></td> <td><center>Comic</center></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Feb-1942</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Unable to stop his leg</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/938/000031845/">Burt Lancaster</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>2-Nov-1913</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>20-Oct-1994</tt></td> <td>Elmer Gantry</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/121/000024049/">Ralph Lauren</a></td> <td><center>Fashion Designer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>14-Oct-1939</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Founder, Polo Ralph Lauren</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/327/000022261/">Stan Lee</a></td> <td><center>Cartoonist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Dec-1922</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Created Spider-Man and The Hulk</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/387/000162898/">Edward Lewis</a></td> <td><center>Publisher</center></td> <td align=right><tt>15-May-1940</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Founder of Essence magazine</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/376/000205758/">Frank Loesser</a></td> <td><center>Composer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>29-Jun-1910</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Jul-1969</tt></td> <td>Guys and Dolls</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/322/000162833/">Paul Milstein</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>12-May-1922</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Aug-2010</tt></td> <td>Manhattan real estate developer</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/556/000110226/">Tracy Morgan</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Nov-1968</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Saturday Night Live</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/712/000206094/">Jan Peerce</a></td> <td><center>Singer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>3-Jun-1904</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Dec-1984</tt></td> <td>Operatic tenor, NY Metropolitan Opera</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/382/000042256/">Martin Ritt</a></td> <td><center>Film Director</center></td> <td align=right><tt>2-Mar-1914</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Dec-1990</tt></td> <td>The Long Hot Summer</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/387/000094105/">Richard Rodgers</a></td> <td><center>Composer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Jun-1902</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>30-Dec-1979</tt></td> <td>Rodgers and Hammerstein</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/854/000116506/">Abe Rosenthal</a></td> <td><center>Journalist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>2-May-1922</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>10-May-2006</tt></td> <td>NY Times Executive Editor, 1977-86</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/843/000048699/">Henry Roth</a></td> <td><center>Author</center></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Feb-1906</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>13-Oct-1995</tt></td> <td>Call It Sleep</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/423/000162934/">Steven Roth</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>c. 1941</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>CEO of Vornado Realty Trust</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/868/000166370/">Dolph Schayes</a></td> <td><center>Basketball</center></td> <td align=right><tt>19-May-1928</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Dec-2015</tt></td> <td>NBA Hall of Famer, coach</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/372/000179832/">Herbert I. Schiller</a></td> <td><center>Author</center></td> <td align=right><tt>5-Nov-1919</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>29-Jan-2000</tt></td> <td>Mass Communications and American Empire</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/610/000022544/">Daniel Schorr</a></td> <td><center>Journalist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>31-Aug-1916</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Jul-2010</tt></td> <td>Veteran journalist, Nixon enemy</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/455/000026377/">Sherwood Schwartz</a></td> <td><center>Film/TV Producer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>14-Nov-1916</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>12-Jul-2011</tt></td> <td>Gilligan's Island, The Brady Bunch</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/570/000119213/">Gil Scott-Heron</a></td> <td><center>Poet</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1-Apr-1949</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>27-May-2011</tt></td> <td>The Revolution Will Not Be Televised</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/202/000208575/">Stanley K. Sheinbaum</a></td> <td><center>Activist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>12-Jun-1920</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>12-Sep-2016</tt></td> <td>Publisher, New Perspectives Quarterly</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/210/000023141/">Neil Simon</a></td> <td><center>Playwright</center></td> <td align=right><tt>4-Jul-1927</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>The Odd Couple</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/434/000205816/">Charles Strouse</a></td> <td><center>Composer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>7-Jun-1928</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Bye Bye Birdie</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/802/000085547/">Bob Tisch</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>29-Apr-1926</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Nov-2005</tt></td> <td>CEO of Loews, Owner NY Giants</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/875/000047734/">Fats Waller</a></td> <td><center>Jazz Musician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>21-May-1904</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Dec-1943</tt></td> <td>Influential jazz pianist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/814/000044682/">Allen Weinstein</a></td> <td><center>Historian</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1-Sep-1937</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>18-Jun-2015</tt></td> <td>US National Archivist, 2005-08</td> </tr> </table> TEACHERS AND PROFESSORS <table border=1 class="sortable bordered" id="sort_teacher"> <tr><th>Name</th><th>Occupation</th><th>Birth</th><th>Death</th><th>Known for</th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/192/000114847/">Jessie Redmon Fauset</a></td> <td><center>Novelist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>27-Apr-1882</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>30-Apr-1961</tt></td> <td>Comedy: American Style</td> </tr> </table> Do you know something we don't? <a href="http://commentary.nndb.com/submit/feedback/?id=95503" rel="nofollow">Submit a correction or make a comment about this profile</a> Copyright ©2016 Soylent Communications </td></tr></table> </td></tr> </table> </td> <td width=180 align="center" valign="top" style="padding: 0px 0px 8px 25px;"><div class="contentf"><center><a href="http://mapper.nndb.com/" class="fotmlink" style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; color: #dd0000;">NNDB MAPPER</a> <a style="color: #0000ff" href="http://mapper.nndb.com/maps/374/000003365/"><img src="http://mapper.nndb.com/t/374/3365/s3365.jpg" width=128> Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation</a> Requires Flash 7+ and Javascript.</center></div> <div class="contentf"><center>BibliographiesNNDB has added thousands of bibliographies for people, organizations, schools, and general topics, listing more than 50,000 books and 120,000 other kinds of references. 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