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Samuel Gompers Career and Technical Education High School was a public vocational school for grades 9–12 located in East Morrisania, Bronx, New York, named for American Federation of Labor founder Samuel Gompers. The school was founded in 1930 as Samuel Gompers Industrial High School for Boys. [1] It was closed in 2012. [2]
The school board decided to rename an elementary school that had a non-person name. The Philadelphia Inquirer stated that it was likely the first school in the United States to be named after Frank, and the first school in the city with a teenager as its namesake. [2] Gideon, Edward School; Girard, Stephen School; Gompers, Samuel School
Wynnefield is served by the School District of Philadelphia. Elementary schools: Samuel Gompers Elementary School (K-8) William B. Mann Elementary School. However, this school is now a Mastery Charter School. High schools: The neighborhood feeder school for Wynnefield is Overbrook High School.
Malzone was born on February 28, 1930, in the Bronx, New York.He was the son of an Italian immigrant, Francis Malzone, and Pauline (Dazago) Malzone. [1] [2] He was signed as a free agent out of Samuel Gompers High School by the Boston Red Sox in 1947, and was the first Gompers graduate to reach the major leagues.
Samuel Gompers (né Gumpertz; January 27, 1850 – December 11, 1924) [1] [2] was a British-born American cigar maker, labor union leader and a key figure in American labor history.
The School District of Philadelphia (SDP) is the school district that includes all school district-operated public schools in Philadelphia. [9] Established in 1818, it is the largest school district in Pennsylvania and the eighth-largest school district in the nation, serving over 197,000 students as of 2022. [10]
Gompers School, also known as Eastern High School and Samuel Gompers General Vocational School, is a historic high school located at Baltimore, Maryland, United States.It was designed and built during a period from 1904 to 1906 as a public high school and remained as an educational facility until its closing in 1981.
Samuel Gompers, perennial President of the American Federation of Labor for more than three decades, was an important leader of the Cigar Makers' International Union. The first local Cigar Makers' Union was founded in Baltimore, Maryland in 1851 by craftsmen who were opposed to the importation of low-cost laborers from Germany. [1]