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Townsend Harris High School (often shortened to Townsend Harris or simply Townsend, and often abbreviated as THHS) is a public high school for the humanities in the New York City borough of Queens. [5] It is located on the campus of Queens College, [6] a public college part of the City University of New York system. [7]
The Classic is the student-run high school newspaper of Townsend Harris High School in Queens, New York.Frequently named [1] the best high school newspaper [2] in New York City [3] by Baruch College's NYC public school journalism awards, [4] the paper has run free of censorship and administrative review since its founding in the fall of 1984.
The original, James Renwick Jr.-designed Free Academy building on 23rd Street housed the Sub-Freshman school. The school was named for Townsend Harris who, besides his many diplomatic accomplishments, had helped found the Free Academy of the City of New York, [2] later to become the City College of New York, and who was a strong proponent of free education.
A city high school bearing Harris's name, Townsend Harris High School, soon emerged as a separate entity out of the Free Academy's secondary-level curriculum; the school survived until 1942 when Mayor Fiorello La Guardia closed it because of budget constraints. Townsend Harris High School was re-created in 1984 as a public magnet school for the ...
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Jastrow attended Townsend Harris High School. He also attended the summer program at Camp Rising Sun . He entered Columbia University for his undergraduate and graduate college, where he earned the BA , MA (1945), and PhD (1948) degrees in physics .
Hellinger was born into the Orthodox Jewish family of Mildred "Millie" (nee Fitch) and Pol Hellinger in New York City, but in later life he became a non-practicing Jew. When he was 15, he organized a student strike at Townsend Harris High School and was expelled for his actions. This proved to be the end of his formal education.
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