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<html> <head> <title>Pratt Institute</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> Pratt Institute EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION Location: <a href="/geo/631/000069424/" class=proflink>New York City</a> Founding Date: 1886Official Website: <a href="http://www.pratt.edu/">http://www.pratt.edu/</a>STUDENTS <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/639/000022573/">Joseph Barbera</a></td> <td><center>Cartoonist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>24-Mar-1911</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>18-Dec-2006</tt></td> <td>Hanna-Barbera cartoons</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/103/000103791/">Djuna Barnes</a></td> <td><center>Novelist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>12-Jun-1892</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>18-Jun-1982</tt></td> <td>Modernist poet, Nightwood</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/530/000032434/">Harold Becker</a></td> <td><center>Film Director</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1950</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>City Hall and Sea of Love</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/338/000112999/">Gwendolyn Bennett</a></td> <td><center>Author</center></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Jul-1902</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>30-May-1981</tt></td> <td>Harlem Renaissance writer</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/026/000170513/">Barry H. Beracha</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>c. 1941</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>CEO of Earthgrains Company, 1993-2001</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/321/000026243/">Daniel Clowes</a></td> <td><center>Cartoonist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>14-Apr-1961</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Eightball, Ghost World, David Boring</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/517/000022451/">Jules Feiffer</a></td> <td><center>Cartoonist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>26-Jan-1929</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Can't draw but writes like a master</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/378/000025303/">Harvey Fierstein</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Jun-1952</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Torch Song Trilogy</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/238/000030148/">John Flansburgh</a></td> <td><center>Musician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>6-May-1960</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>They Might Be Giants</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/979/000163490/">Leo Frank</a></td> <td><center>Victim</center></td> <td align=right><tt>17-Apr-1884</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>17-Aug-1915</tt></td> <td>Innocent man, lynched by mob</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/644/000024572/">Allen Funt</a></td> <td><center>Film/TV Producer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>16-Sep-1914</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>5-Sep-1999</tt></td> <td>Producer and host of Candid Camera</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/354/000025279/">Bill Griffith</a></td> <td><center>Cartoonist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>20-Jan-1944</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Personal friend of Zippy The Pinhead</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/293/000024221/">Pete Hamill</a></td> <td><center>Journalist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>24-Jun-1935</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>The New York Post</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/013/000108686/">Terrence Howard</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>11-Mar-1969</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Hustle & Flow</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/140/000206519/">Ellsworth Kelly</a></td> <td><center>Painter</center></td> <td align=right><tt>31-May-1923</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>27-Dec-2015</tt></td> <td>Hard-Edge Painting</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/184/000092905/">Jack Kirby</a></td> <td><center>Cartoonist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Aug-1917</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Feb-1994</tt></td> <td>Captain America</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/171/000179631/">David Levine</a></td> <td><center>Cartoonist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>20-Dec-1926</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>29-Dec-2009</tt></td> <td>Caricaturist, New York Review of Books</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/980/000024908/">Robert Mapplethorpe</a></td> <td><center>Photographer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>4-Nov-1946</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Mar-1989</tt></td> <td>Erotic photographer</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/415/000136007/">Jeff Morrow</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>13-Jan-1907</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>26-Dec-1993</tt></td> <td>This Island Earth</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/795/000022729/">Robert Redford</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>18-Aug-1936</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>The Sundance Kid</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/043/000113701/">George Rockwell</a></td> <td><center>Activist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Mar-1918</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>25-Aug-1967</tt></td> <td>Founded American Nazi Party</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/312/000055147/">James Sanborn</a></td> <td><center>Sculptor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1945</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Kryptos sculpture at CIA Headquarters</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/854/000031761/">David Sarnoff</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>27-Feb-1891</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>12-Dec-1971</tt></td> <td>CEO of RCA, founder of NBC</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/359/000219699/">John Schoenherr</a></td> <td><center>Artist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>5-Jul-1935</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Apr-2010</tt></td> <td>Owl Moon</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/381/000095096/">Robert Wilson</a></td> <td><center>Theater Director</center></td> <td align=right><tt>4-Oct-1941</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Experimental theater director, designer</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/148/000163656/">Lyn Z</a></td> <td><center>Bassist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>22-May-1976</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Bassist for Mindless Self Indulgence</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/185/000030095/">Rob Zombie</a></td> <td><center>Singer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>12-Jan-1965</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Gravel-voiced White Zombie singer</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/475/000131082/">Borzou Daragahi</a></td> <td><center>Journalist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>c. 1966</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Los Angeles Times reporter</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/867/000124495/">Bathsheba Grossman</a></td> <td><center>Sculptor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1966</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Mathematical sculptor</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/869/000126491/">Daniel R. Raichel</a></td> <td><center>Scientist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1935</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>22-Dec-2006</tt></td> <td>Acoustics expert</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> </table> ADMINISTRATORS AND TRUSTEES <table border=1 class="sortable bordered" id="sort_administrator"> <tr><th>Name</th><th>Occupation</th><th>Birth</th><th>Death</th><th>Known for</th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/910/000170400/">Eleanor Baum</a></td> <td><center>Educator</center></td> <td align=right><tt>c. 1939</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Dean of Engineering, Cooper Union</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/992/000398795/">Richard H. 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