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| Willis Abbot | editor, Christian Science Monitor | |||
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| Lawrence Abbott | editor of Outlook magazine and personal friend of TR | |||
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| George Agutter | WSTC pro, who could grip 14 tennis balls single-handedly | |||
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| Major General Alexander Anderson |
WWI Fighting Irish 69th Regiment | |||
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| Albert Armour | invented phone booth accordion door; built Granston Towers, 1925 | |||
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Grosvenor Atterbury | F.H.G. official architect, 1909 – 1941: Inn, CITG | ||
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| Hank Azaria | Forest Hills native, who became successful TV, stage and movie actor; films include "The Birdcage," "Godzilla"; various "Simpsons" voices; Hellacious Hank was hitched to Helen Hunt,1999 -- 2000, spanning centuries | |||
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Bert Bacharach, “Sr.” | writer; ex-B.Colt, able to punt a football all of Hawthorne Park | ||
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Burt Bacharach, “Jr.” | Oscar winning songwriter; OLQM, FHHS, Senior Class President | ||
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| Wilhelmina Bachus | notable early resident | |||
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| Frederick Bachus | F.H.oldest family;son of famed Ascan Bachus | |||
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| Bela Bartok (?) | accomplished 20th C. composer, residing in FH, c. 1940-1945 | |||
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| Mercer Beasley | tennis coach; cared for pet cat “Ace” | |||
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| William Beazell | editor, New York World | |||
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| Henry Benisch | monuments, operated a granite quarry in Maine | |||
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| Harold Bickford | treasurer of Bickford’s restaurant chain, son of founder | |||
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| Victor Borge | comedian-pianist, who once performed at WSTC stadium | |||
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Tommy Boys | USLTA tennis player; St. Paul’s School tennis & basketball | ||
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| Douglas Bradley | owner of Angostura Bitters; supporter of St. Luke’s church | |||
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Jimmy Breslin | syndicated journalist, street-smart author despite serenity of Deepdene den | ||
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| Bob Bruns | original member of CH Boys' Club, first Scott Kenny awardee, an early role model and leader; St. Paul's School and Colby College star athlete in basketball; following his father Fred's specialty, Bob had a distinguished career on Madison Avenue, culminating in his being named president of Ted Bates advertising agency | |||
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| Dan Buckley | basketball coach CH, LaSalle, Mer.Mar.Ac.; inducted in 6 h.o.f. | |||
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| Hank Bull | inventor of refrigerator magnet | |||
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| John Bull | Norwegian-born illustrator for New York Times, Life, New Yorker | |||
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| Wendel Burch | United Press International bureau chief in Hawaii and later foreign editor; solid CH supporter, where daughter, twin sons thrived; drove distinctive Burchmobile with enviable plates, UP-6, permitting parking with impunity | |||
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| Helen Burke | savvy Hoosier, widowed when CBS executive/husband Jim died young; as single parent, raised daughter Sheila (a poet, and parent of two sons), becoming dynamic NYC executive director of Planned Parenthood | |||
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| Michael Burstein | award winning science fiction writer; wrote "TeleAbsence," and "I Remember the Future" | |||
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| Sid Caesar | as per TV’s Biography, lived in F.H. while doing show in Manhattan | |||
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Dale Carnegie | residing in FH by secret steps but still able to win friends, 1928-1955 | ||
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David Caruso | TV, film actor; CH member; beaten up twice by friend, Phil Hof | ||
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| Guy Catlin | co-founder, The Kew Forest School | |||
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| Ronald Chalmers, M.D. | started outcomes research in clinical investigation | |||
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| Carol Channing | actress, out of Yonkers: “It’s a little lumpy but it rings!” | |||
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| Elliot Compton | litigious FH fixture, wearing two wrist watches ("in case one breaks") chez Cameo Bowling Alley | |||
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| Abe Coleman | wrestler, “The Jewish Tarzan,” using his kangaroo-like drop-kick | |||
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| Maurice Connelly | Queens Bor. Pres., 1911 – 1928; lost job due to sewer scandal | |||
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| Lou Costello | comedian; actor, “Who’s on first?”; Patterson, N.J. transplant | |||
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| Arthur Cunningham | NYC Comptroller after whom Cunningham Park named | |||
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Raymond Damadian, MD | PS101; FHHS; inventor of MRI; Franklin Inst. award ’04 | ||
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| S. Ellisworth Davenport | Junior Davis Cup tennis manager, 1952-1953 | |||
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| Harry Day | artist; prof. photographer; would give you the shirt off his back | |||
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| Douglas Decker | PS101, Kew Forest School, Denver University (where he garnered an electrical engineering degree); from early days in a Beechknoll Road garage, tinkering with motors as a youngster with big brother Ronnie, Doug has stayed true to his mechanical interest, distinguishing himself in a noteworthy career with Johnson Controls, and being a founder of the Energy Efficiency Forum, In retirement, Doug has remained kinetic, flying his own plane, cruising the Seven Seas with wife Judy; in 2009 Doug was honored as an Energy Efficiency H.o.F. inductee, one of twenty-two, who have dedicated their careers to reducing energy wastage and preventing adverse climate change | |||
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| John Demarest | F.H.G. Corp. g.m.1911 on; president, Russell Sage Foundation | |||
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| Robert Downey, Sr. | FHHS baseball star; created “Putney Swope” & RD, Jr. | |||
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| John Drucker, M.D. | pediatrician; OLQM first graduating class, 1922 | |||
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| Eddy Duchin (?) | pianist; band leader | |||
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| Stephen Dunn | Hofstra hardwood hot-shot; Pulitzer poet, 2001; part of poetry's “NJ School” | |||
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| Ian Eagle | Syracuse University graduate; erudite TV play-by-play announcer for basketball and football games; affectionately known as "Bird Man"; used to hang out chez Homestead Deli, AJ Pizza, Peter Pan Bakery | |||
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| Jack Eagle | rolly-poly comedian who began in Catskills borscht circuit ; also big-band era trumpeter; actor who appeared in copious commercials, notably as Brother Dominic; father of sportscaster Ian "Birdman" Eagle | |||
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| Guyon Earle | inventor, promoting sunken living rooms, stained glass, rec rooms | |||
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| High-Pitch Eric | member of Howard Stern's Wack Pack; with his falsetto voice, bad manners, horrible hygiene, obese Erik Bleaman has transgressed most everything Miss Ehler's white-gloved boys were exhorted not to do | |||
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Frank Ericson | LaGuardia mob foe; his driver packed; still won FH xmas awards | ||
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| Peter Falk | actor, lauded as TV's Lieutenant Columbo, who always had "just one more question"; played in "Prisoner of Second Avenue"; at three, had malignant tumor removed, with glass right eye inserted | |||
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| Thomas Farrell | OLQM, Molloy H S; Olympics gold medallist 1600 meter relay | |||
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| Alan Feinstein | character actor, TV and movies | |||
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Geraldine Ferraro | U.S. congresswoman; 1984 candidate for V.P. | ||
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| Totie Fields (?) | rotund comic who lived only 48 years; plagued by health challenges, Totie Fields had left leg amputated in 1976, prompting her quip from wheelchair, "I weigh less than Elizabeth Taylor!" | |||
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| Ella Fitzgerald (?) | singer | |||
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R. Buckminister Fuller | futurist; inventor of geodesic dome; played bridge with the Pecks | ||
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| Tony Fuller | Newsweek editor; wrote "What Vietnam Did to Us" | |||
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| Art Garfunkle | singer; actor; FHHS | |||
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| Ted Seuss Geisel (?) | Dartmouth grad; Dr. Seuss: “Oh, the places you'll go!” | |||
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| Judge George Boyce | F.H.G. Corp. Pres.1939-1948; CH B.of Dir. Pres.c.1929 | |||
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| Frank Gifford | N.Y. Giants football player; USC star and all-American boy | |||
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| Don Gillis, Sr. | composer; NBC symphony; Toscanini conducted his “Alamo” | |||
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| Mortimer Gold | philanthropist; Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Children | |||
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| Michael Goldsmith | an ex-law professor, who grew up in Forest Hills, Michael was diagnosed in 2006 with ALS; rather than being paralyzed by his condition, he proactively encouraged Major League Baseball to become involved in the medical community's so far unsuccessful struggle to find a cure for Lou Gehrig's disease; on July 4, 2009, exactly seventy years after the Iron Man's "Luckiest Man" speech, Michael was honored at an ALS Awareness (mlb4als.mlblogs.com) pre-game ceremony at the new Yankee Stadium; reporting in the New York Times, George Vecsey stated that "His underhand pitch [throwing out the first ball] was short, but the fans understood and cheered. Michael Goldsmith hit his own grand slam" | |||
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| Benny Goodman (?) | clarinetist | |||
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Frederic Goudy | 1920s type designer, 124 Goudy fonts; shhh! - maintained shop on Deepdene | ||
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Edward Graham, “Jr.” | “Mr. Swell Guy”; creator of Bert & Harry Piel, Linus | ||
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Edward Graham,“Sr.” | cartoonist, The New Yorker; created the term “Loose lips sink ships” | ||
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| Agnes Kendrick Gray | poet; wrote “River Dusk” and other poems | |||
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| Rocky Graziano | middleweight; aka Rocco Barbella, married to Norma Cohen | |||
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| Fred Gretsch, Sr. and four generation family | musical instruments: drum, guitar | |||
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| Ernie Grunfeld | FHHS; N.Y. Knicks forward; GM for Knicks, Bucks, Wizards | |||
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| Walter Guevara-Arce | ambassador to U.N. &, briefly, president of Bolivia, 1980 | |||
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| Buddy Hacket | comedian; actor, e.g., “The Music Man” | |||
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| James Hal Kemp | radio orchestra leader | |||
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| Learned Hand | federal judge1909–1961, handing down 3,000 learned opinions | |||
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Robert Harriss | Leslie owner; “Democrats for Wilkie” backer; donated sailing ship mast for Flagpole Green flagpole | ||
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| Hardart family | of Horn & Hardart Cafeterias: The Automat! | |||
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| Jeff Hart | Dartmouth English prof; writer on American conservatism | |||
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| Thomas Hart | realtor and prominent local Democrat | |||
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| Malthe Hasselrïis | miniture portraitist, illustrator of magazines and books by Pearl Buck, et al. | |||
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Cliff Heather | jazz trombonist; CBS orchestra “Hit Parade”; toured abroad | ||
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| Henry Hemmerdinger | Atlas Terminal owner; 1925 early F.H.G. Jewish resident | |||
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| Stephen Hero | child prodigy violinist; married to José Iturbe’s daughter | |||
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Alan Hevesi | maj. leader, N.Y. State Assem.; NYS Comptroller; poly sci. prof. | ||
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| Dennis Hevesi | journalist; Pulitzer prize winner | |||
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| Henry Hof, Sr. | Manhattan realtor: “Mr. Third Avenue”; CITG/CH supporter | |||
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Henry Hof 3rd | posed for Weinman statue on DC federal building frieze; captained college freshman basketball team; served as Peace Corps community developer, Colombia; worked for United Nations Secretariat as technical cooperation officer | ||
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John Hogan | FM Radio Inventor, e.g., single dial; founded WZXR, now WQXR | ||
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John Hylan | NYC Mayor 1918 - 1925 | ||
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| Marty Ingalls | aka Martin Ingerman; comedian, SNL; married to Shirley Jones | |||
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John Iskyan | oriental rug importer, defense manufacturer WWII; awarded military “E” | ||
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| José Iturbe (?) | renowned pianist, conductor; Spanish born | |||
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| Hirsh Jacobs | race horse owner and breeder | |||
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| John Jeffers | Harvard-honed grade A student (with Type-A temperament). U.S. Marine Captain, served in Asia. Ohio lawyer. Hudson City Councilman. In college, dated one of "People's" 50 Most Beautiful Persons: Ali McGraw | |||
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| Charlie Jensen | Navy Cross awardee; hosted lively, fun parties near WSTC during tennis tourneys; became a professional party planner, uniting vocation and avocation | |||
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| Maggie Johnson | TV entertainer, singer, pianist; CITG Sunday School teacher | |||
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| Thomas Johnson, M.D. | eye surgeon; operated for cataracts on King of Siam | |||
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| Al Jolson | born Asa Yoelson; actor, singer, popularizing “Swanee” | |||
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| W. Walton Jones | president, City Service; died in plane crash, $500,000 in hand | |||
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