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Curtis High School is named after nationally prominent Republican writer and orator George W. Curtis, who lived nearby. The school was the first public building built following the consolidation of Greater New York. It was part of a plan to erect a major high school in each of the outlying boroughs, with Erasmus Hall High School in Brooklyn ...
The school's namesake comes from the former UPSD Superintendent George R. Curtis. The school opened in 1957 as a joint junior-senior high school at the corner of 40th and Grandview. In 1962, a high school facility was built about 500 yards east of the junior high that then extended up 40th Street.
Tuition was five hundred dollars, and the school opened with 357 students. Mary Bok became the conservatory’s first president, a position she would hold until 1969. Johann Grolle served as the first school director for one year, William E. Walter became director in 1925 and Josef Hofmann, head of the piano department, became director in 1927 ...
In the late 1940s, Lamberti attended Curtis High School and played football under Coach Andrew Barberi, who is considered one of the greatest football coaches in Staten Island history. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Lamberti also attended Wagner College and the College of Staten Island .
George William Curtis (1824–1892) – author, orator, reformer; namesake of Curtis High School Donald Davidson (1917–2003) – influential philosopher and professor William Main Doerflinger (1910–2000) – author and editor, including a major collection of folksongs ( sea shanties )
In Staten Island, she attended Curtis High School, graduating in 1959. She graduated from Bennington College, having studied art, modern dance, and literature with Howard Nemerov and Bernard Malamud. She made her debut at the Phoenix Theatre in 1954 in Sandhog, a folk-opera by Waldo Salt and Earl Robinson.
Pages in category "Curtis High School alumni" The following 37 pages are in this category, out of 37 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Isaiah Edward Robinson Jr. (February 17, 1924 – April 14, 2011) was the first African-American president of the New York City Board of Education. [1] He chaired the Board's Decentralization Committee from May, 1969 to April, 1970.