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ART
Charles Alston
1925
§H. Romare Bearden
1928
Robert Blackburn
1939
Sam Fink 
1933
 Michael Hafftka
1971
Alfred Leslie
1945
Frank Netter MD
1923
 Barnett Newman
1923
ART (PHOTOGRAPHY)
James Latimer Allen
1923
Robert Mark Altman
1961
Richard Avedon
1941
Eliot Elisofon
1929
Ralph Morse
1935
Arthur Rickerby
1937
Aaron Siskind
1921
ART / STORY (CARTOONS) 
Mel Casson
1938 (
 Redeye
)
Will Eisner 
1936 (
The Spirit 
Creator)
Vince Fago
1934 (Peter Rabbit)
Bill Finger 
1933 (
Green Lantern
Creator)
Sam Gross
1950 (
 New Yorker 
Magazine)
Irwin Hasen
1939 (
 Dondi
Creator)
Jay Irving
1917 (
 Pottsy
Creator)
Bob Kane
1934 (
 Batman
Creator)
Stan Lee
1939 (
Spiderman
,
 Hulk 
Creator)
Lou Myers
1933 (
 New Yorker 
Magazine)
Emanuel Raboy
1931 (
 Flash Gordon
)
Seymour Reit
1934 (
Casper 
Creator)
Alvin Schwartz
1934 (
Superman
,
 Batman
)
Ted Shearer 
1938 (
Quincy
Creator)
BUSINESS 
Sol W. Antoville
1918
Kent Armstrong
1971
Russell Berrie
1950 (RUSS Bears)
Alexander Eisemann
1904
Avery Fisher 
1924
Alan Gerry
1935
Jonah Gitlitz
1947
Reuben Gutoff 
1944
Ralph T. Heymsfeld
1923
Ralph Lauren
1957
Marvin Lefer 
1938
Walter Mack 
1913
 
Maurice Mitchell
1932
 Barry Schwartz
1959
 
BUSINESS (CONSTRUCTION)
S. Brian Baylinson
1915 (Architect)
Robert Borg
1940
Sydney Borg
1933
Peter Claman
1944 (Architect)
Louis G. Hecht
1935
Poy G. Lee
1917 (Architect)
William H. Mueser 
1918
I. Roy Psaty
1920
Edmund A. Prentis
1902Alfred Rheinstein ’06
BUSINESS (FINANCE)
Martin Abzug
1935
Bruce Berman
1969
Edward Bernstein
1922 (1st Dir. IMF)
Harvey Braun
1956
Archibald U. Braunfeld
1926
§B. Gerald Cantor 
1934
Henry Cornell
1972
Edward Z. Emmer 
1963
Lewis Glucksman
1941
Bernard Herold
1938
Christian A. Johnson
1922
Irving Kahn
1923
Charles F. Koehler 
1962
William Macaulay ’62Walter Mintz
1947
Roy Neuberger 
1921
Michael Schimmel
1913
Stanley Shopkorn
1960
Andrew J. Singer 
1963
Martin Whitman
1942
Joseph Zicherman
1962
BUSINESS (PR/MARKETING)
Jordan E. Anderson
1973
Jonathan B. Asher 
1975
Howard H. Bell
1944
Edward Bernays
1908
Martin Blackman
1954
Herbert H. Breslin
1941
John Caples
1916
Hal F. Davis
1935
Daniel J. Edelman
1936
David Finn
1938
Ralph Gardner 
1939
Ethan Geto 1961Marvin Levy
1945
William Ruder 
1938 (& Government)
BUSINESS (PUBLISHING)
Simon Michael Bessie
1932
Ellis E. Cousens
1970 (John Wiley)
Ben Feder 
1941 (& Vintner)
James Henle
1908 (Vanguard Press)
Stanley Holwitz
1948 (U of CA Press)
Kenneth S. Giniger 
1935
Edward Lewis
1958 (
 Essence
Founder)
George Macy
1917 (Limited Editions)
David Refkin
1975 (TIME, Inc)
M. Lincoln Schuster 
1913
BUSINESS (REALTY)
Martin S. Berger 
1948
 Norman Buchbinder 
1939
Peter Grimm
1907
 Norman Levy
1931
Barnet Liberman
1963
Paul Milstein
1940
Seymour Milstein
1937
David E. Namias
1935
Chester Rapkin
1935 (Coined “SoHo”)
Harold Riegelman
1910
Steven Roth
1958
Jack Rudin
1942
 
Lewis Rudin
1944
William Zeckendorf 
1921
BUSINESS (RETAIL)
Joseph Eckhouse
1924 (Gimbel’s)
Lewis Frankfort
1963 (Coach Bags)
Sam (Goody) Gutowitz
1922
Walter Hoving
1917 (Tiffany & Co.)
Raphael Malsin
1917 (Lane Bryant)
Monroe Milstein
1944 (Burlington)
 Nathan Ohrbach
1902
Marvin Traub
1942 (Bloomingdale’s)
BUSINESS (SERVICES)
Andrew Ackerman
1971
Charles A. Berns
1919 (“21” Restaurant)
Leonard Davis
1944 (AARP Founder)
Jose Figueroa
1968
Joseph Geist
1903 (Rockaway Playland)
Jay Haddock 
1969 (Capital Hotels, DC)
Robert Hecht
1950 (Lee Hecht Harrison)
Walter Kaye
1936
Peter Kriendler 
1923 (“21” Restaurant)
Daniel Quintero
1978
Irving Riese
1936 (Riese Restaurants)
 
NOTABLEALUMNI
 
OF
 
DEWITTCLINTONHIGHSCHOOL
Distinguished Alumnus/a Award
§
Presidential Medal / National Medal
Congressional Medal of Honor 
Oscar, Emmy, and/or Tony Award
Nobel Prize
Pulitzer Prize
Olympic Medal (G – S – B)Year = Graduation or Last Year Attended
 
COLLECTIVE BARGAINING
John T. Burnell
1934 (TWU)
Joseph Eisenberg
1945 (
 NY Times
)
Lawrence Fleisher 
1947 (NBPA)
 Norman Frank 
1942 (PBA)
George Gresham
1973 (UHCWE)
Tom Pappas
1950 (UFT)
EDUCATION (COLLEGE)
Mortimer Adler 
1917 (Chicago)
William Anthony Aery
1900 (Hampton)
Stephon Alexander 
1989 (Penn St.)
David Berliner 
1955 (Arizona)
Leonard Blackman
1945 (NYU)
Philip I. Blumberg
1935 (Conn)
W. Gabriel Carras
1946 (NYU)
Stan Diamond
1938 (New School NYC)
Daniel Federman
1945 (Harvard)
Marvin Feman
1935 (Orange Cnty CC)
Edward A. Fitzpatrick 
1900 (Mt. Mary)
Stephen K. Fox
1929 (Rutgers)
Lawrence H. Fuchs
1944 (Brandeis)
Victor R. Fuchs
1940 (Stanford)
Eli Ginzberg
1927 (Columbia)
Robert Girard
1921 (NYU)
Philip J. Greenberg
1959 (Chicago)
Bruce R. Hare
1964 (Syracuse)
Ira Harkavy
1966 (UPenn)
Paul A. Herbert
1917 (Mich. St.)
John J. Hewitt
1941 (Morehouse)
Eugene Kaplan
1941 (So. Carolina)
Sigmund Koch
1933 (Duke, B.U.)
David Levine
1937 (Georgia)
Jules L. Lobel
1968 (Pittsburgh)
Seymour Melman
1935 (Columbia)
Ernest Nagel
1919 (Columbia)
Leonard Nash
1935 (Harvard)
Robert F. Panara
1938 (RIT)
Leonard Reisman
1936 (John Jay)
Victor G. Rosenblum
1942 (Reed)
Walter J. Salmon
1948 (Harvard)
Herbert I. Schiller 
1936 (UCSD)
 Lionel Trilling
1921 (Columbia)
Sharon Vanwright
1990 (UNCP)
Charles Vevier 
1941 (Wisconsin)
Arthur J. Viseltear 
1955 (Yale)
Robert S. Wallerstein
1936 (UCSF)
Edward Zipser 
1954 (Utah)
EDUCATION (K-12)
Murry Bergtraum
1931 (NYC B/Ed)
Edwin Chin
1958 (State, Wisconsin)
Leonard DeLayo
1939 (State, NM)
Julius Hlavaty
1926
Irving Jones
1971 (Nat’l Prin. of the Year)
Sol Spencer-Spears
1938 (US DPT/ED)
ENTERTAINMENT (ACTORS)
Don Adams
1941
Stanley Adams
1932
Rick Aiello
1973
Allan Arbus
1933
 
Martin Balsam
1938
Pedro de Cordoba
1900
Hank Garrett
1950
Maxwell Glanville
1938
Robert Hershel Harris
1928
Darrin DeWitt Henson
1986
Judd Hirsch
1952
 Stubby Kaye
1936
Al Kelly
1916
Robert Klein
1958
 
Burt Lancaster 
1930
Steve Landisberg
1962
Len Lesser 
1938
Joe E. Lewis
1919
Robert Q. Lewis
1938
Eric Linden
1926
Jack Mercer 
1927 (Voice of Popeye)
Tracy Morgan
1987
Howard Morris
1936
Jan Murray
1934
Andrea Navedo
1988
 
John Randolph
1932
Larry Storch
1941
ENTERTAINMENT (CLASSICAL)
Elias Carmen
1935 (Bassoonist)Al Casey 1931 (Jazz Guitarist)
 
Meyer Davis
1904 (Society Band Leader)
Dean Dixon
1932 (NY Phil. Conductor)
George Duvivier 
1937 (Bass Player)
Ludwig Gluskin
1916 (CBS Music Dir.)
Gene Kardos
1917 (Jazz Band Leader)
Donald McKayle
1947 (Choreographer)
Jan Peerce
1922 (Met Opera Tenor)
Julian Rodescu
1970 (Opera Baritone)
Leonard Sharrow
1933 (Bassoonist)
Richard Sher 
1965 (Cellist)
ENTERTAINMENT (COMPOSERS)
William Axt
1905
Joe Bushkin
1935
Willie Colon
1966
Peter DeRose
1917
Al Goodhart
1928
Bernard Herrmann
1931
 Goerge Kleinsinger 
1930
 
Frank Loesser 
1926
Jerome Moross
1929
Herbie Nichols
1937
Earl “Bud” Powell
1941
Mel Powell
1937
 
 
Richard Rodgers
1919
Bobby Sharp
1942
Charles Strouse
1944
Thomas “Fats” Waller 
1918
ENTERTAINMENT (EXECUTIVES)
 Norman Adler 
1926 (CBS Record Club)
 
Julius Barnathan
1944 ( CC Pioneer)
David Begelman
1938
Mario Custodio
1976 (MobileVision)
Budd Friedman
1951 (IMPROV)
Robert L. Friedman
1948
Bill Graham
1949 (Fillmore Concerts)
Ron Herman
1959 (Universal CityWalk)
 
 Bernard Jacobs
1936 (Shubert Org.)
Al Kohn
1937
Herman Krawitz
1942 (Met Opera)
Jerry Moss
1953 (A&M Records)
Daniel Schecter 
1960
Gerald Schoenfeld
1941 (Shubert Org.)
Laurence A. Tisch
1939
Hyman Weiss
1941 (Old Town Records)
ENTERTAINMENT (HOSTS)
Gary Axelbank 
1971 (Bronxnet TV)
Philips Carlin
1912 (NBC Radio)
Milton Cross
1915 (Met Opera Radio)
DJ Red Alert
1974
Murray “the K” Kaufman
1938 (DJ)
Bert Knapp
1936 (WMCA Radio)
Don Lane
1952 (Australian TV)
Lee Leonard
1946 (First Voice on ESPN)
Jack Pearl
1906 (Early Radio Host)
Steve Post
1960 (National Public Radio)
Kenneth Roberts
1928 (Radio Announcer)
Phil Tonken
1937 (Voice of America)
Doug Tracht
1968 (WARW-FM Host)
Bill Wendell
1941 (David Letterman Show)
ENTERTAINMENT (LYRICISTS)
Stanley Adams
1923
Lew Brown
1909
Mort Dixon
1909
Fred Ebb
1944
Edward Eliscu
1917
Adolph Green
1932
Abel Meeropol
1921
Lew Pollack 
1907
ENTERTAINMENT (POP MUSIC)
Chuck Epstein
1962 (The Excellents)
 Norman Fox
1957
 
(The Rob Roys)
Hank Jackson
1975
 
(Sugarhill Gang)
B.J. Jones
1960 (The Dubs)
Manny Lehman
1978 (DJ, Mixer)
“Kool Keith” Thornton
1981
 
 
FILM / TV / STAGE (DIRECTORS)
Gilbert Cates
1951 (& Producer)
Frank Corsaro
1942
George Cukor 
1917
Stanley Kramer 
1930 (& Producer)
Garry Marshall
1952 (& Producer)
Martin Ritt
1932
FILM/TV/STAGE (PRODUCERS)
Pandro S. Berman
1923
Don Devlin
1946
Edward S. Feldman
1944
Rod Geiger 
1933
Ken Harper 
1957
Michael Hertzberg
1955
Philip S. Hobel
1938
Arthur Hornblow Jr.
1911
Julius Irving
1942
Stan Margulies
1936
Walter M. Mirisch
1938
Julian Schlossberg
1959
George Shapiro
1949
Lloyd A. Silverman
1971
Pete Smith
1909
Jeff Wald
1960 (& Publicist)
Howard West
1949
FILM / TV / STAGE (WRITERS)
Ira Steven Behr 
1970 (& Producer)
 
 
Sydney “Paddy” Chayefsky
1939
Herbert Fields
1916
Joseph Fields
1913
Bruce J. Friedman
1947
Frank Gilroy
1943 (& Director)
Norman Krasna
1927 (& Producer)
Loften Mitchell
1937
John Murray
1924 (& Lyricist)
Abraham Polonsky
1928 (& Producer)
Michael Preminger 
1959
James W. D. Seymour 
(1913)
 
Sherwood Schwartz
1934 (& Producer)
John H. Shaner 
1949 (& Producer)
 
 
Neil Simon
1944 (& Producer)
Leonard Stern
1940 (& Producer)
Steven Sunshine
1961 (& Producer)
Alan Uger 
1957 (& Producer)
FILM / TV / STAGE (VARIOUS)
George Dunkel
1936 (Scenic Artist)
Dennis Fierman
1960 (Sound Editor)
Isaac Kleinerman
1934 (Film Editor)
Marvin A. Krauss
1942 (Play Manager)
Sam Leve
1928 (Scenic Designer)
Richard Marks
1960 (Film Editor)
Harold Michelson
1937 (Art Director)
Karl Struss
1903 (Cinematographer)
GOVERNMENT (INTER – NATIONAL)
Michael Battle
1973 (Dir. US Attorneys)
Larry Benna
1968 (DpDO, B/Land Mgt)
 
Richard Carmona
1967 (US Surg. Gen.)
Merril Eisenbud
1932 (Safety Chief, AEC)
I. R. Eisenmann
1928 (Fin. Min., Panama)
Robert Frosch
1944 (NASA Administrator)
Ernest Gross
1922 (US Rep, UN)
Vito Marcantonio
1921 (Congressman)
Howard Newman
1952 (Medicaid Dir.)
Charles Rangel
1947 (Congressman)
Sol Schildhause
1933 (FCC CATV Chief)
G. I. Zsatkovitch
1904 (Pres., Rusinia)
GOVERNMENT (STATE)
Peter A. Abeles
1901 (NY Legislator)
Meyer Alterman
1910 (NY Legislator)
Benjamin Antin
1903 (NY Legislator)
Frank Aranow
1904 (NY Legislator)
Lawrence Barth
1964 (PA D. Atty. Gen.)
Abraham Bernstein
1925 (NY Legisl’r)
A. Eugene Crump
1960 (NE D. Att. Gen.)
A. Spencer Feld
1908 (NY Legislator)
Herbert Feuer 
1941 (NY Legislator)
Leon A. Fischel
1920 (NY Legislator)
Mitchell Friend
1901 (NY Legislator)
Julius A. Gans
1915 (NY Legislator)
Vincent Gilroy
1906 (NY Legislator)
Burton Hect
1945 (NY Legislator)
Chanles Johnson 1967
(NY Legislator)
Henry O. Kahan
1913
 
(NY Legislator)
Victor Kaufman
1913
 
(NY Legislator)
 Nathan Lashin
1927 (NY Legislator)
Charles M. Lee
1932 (NY Asst. Atty. Gen.)
William Lyman
1908 (NY Legislator)
Carl Madonick 
1936(NY Trans. Comm’r)
Joseph Marine
1924 (NY Legislator)
Maurice Nadjari
1942 (NY Sp. Prosecutor)
Carl Pack 
1915 (NY Legislator)
Basil Paterson
1942 (NY Sec’y/State)
Seymour Posner 
1942 (NY Legislator)
Leonard Probst
1918 (NY Probation Cmr.)
Carl Rufno
1932 (NY Waterfront Comm.)
 Nelson Ruttenberg
1910 (NY Legislator)
John Satriale
1937 (NY Legislator)
Louis Schoffel
(NY Legislator)
Seymour Thaler 
1936 (NY Legislator)
GOVERNMENT (LOCAL)
Desmond Barry
1922 (Mayor, Hastings)
Samuel Darby
1910 (Mayor, Scarsdale)
Robert Esnard
1956 (Dpty. Mayor, NYC)
Jack Goldberg
1941 (D/Welfare, NYC)
George Gregory Jr.
1927
Peter Korn
1957 (City Mgr., New Rochelle)
 
Robert Lowery
1934 (Comm’r, NYFD)
Dudley Malone
1900 (Cust. Collector, NYC)
Ricardo Montano
1968 (Suffolk Legisl’r)
Vincent A. O’Connor 
1930 (DA, NYC)
R. Poydasheff 
1948 (Mayor, Columbus GA)
 
Stanley Simon
1946 (Bronx Boro Pres.)
Philip Soskin
1951 (Rockland Legislator)
Lawrence Warden
1961 (NYC Council)
Daniel S. Weiss
1933 (NYC Council)
Grover Whalen
1906 (NYC Off. Greeter)
INVENTIONS
Herbert Adler 
1922 (Elevator Shoes)
Gene Ballin
1934 (Tyz-All Plastics)
Leonard Bocour 
1927 (Acrylic Paint)
 Henry Cohen
1903 (Clamp Tourniquet)
John DuBerg
1934 (Particle Accelerator)
William Dubilier 
1906 (Mica Condenser)
Eugene Gareld
1944 (Index Chemicus)
Tibor Greenwalt
1931 (Blood Storage)
Walter Jacobs
1921
(Boxing Mouthpiece)
§Amos Joel
1936 (Cell Phone Transmission)
 
 
Adrian Kantrowitz
1937 (CardioVad)
Arthur Kantrowitz
1930 (Variometer)
Theodore M. Klein
1970 (Gene Gun)
Leonard Ornstein
1943 (CryoJane)
Michael Schiller 
1951 (Fingerprint Imaging)
Barry Shipp
1954 (Jovan Musk)
Israel Wachs
1968 (Pollution Treatment)
Gene Weinshenker 
1942 (2 Layer Absorption)
Joseph Whelton
1932 (Missile Defense)
JOURNALISM (ALL MEDIA)
Laurence Barrett
1953 (
Time
)
Ira J. Bilowit
1942 (
 Back Stage
)
Stan Brooks
1943 (WINS All-News)
 Ned Calmer 
1925 (CBS News)
Thomas F. Conroy
1915 (
 NY Times
)
Michael Frome
1936 (Environ. Journalist)
Irving Gitlin
1935 (NBC White Paper)
Walter Goodman
1946 (
 NY Times
)
Larry Gore
1940 (
 Newsday
)
Sterling Graham
1911 (
 Plain Dealer 
)
Daniel Greenberg
1949 (Sci & Govt Rpt)
Al Harvin
1955 (
 NY Post 
,
 NY Times
)
Richard D. Heffner 
1942 (
Open Mind 
TV)
Harry Jupiter 
1949 (
SF Examiner 
)
Bernard Kalb
1938 (CBS, CNN)
Stanley Kauffmann
1931 (
 New Republic
)
Ted Kavanau
1950 (CNN Headline News)
Bernard Kirsch
1956 (
 NY Times
)
Richard Lauterbach
1931 (
Time
)
Berny Morson
1964 (
 Rocky M’t’n News
)
Gil Noble
1950 (
 Like It Is
TV)
Bert Rosenthal
1954 (Associated Press)
 Nicholas Samstag
1921 (
Time
)
Daniel Schorr 
1933 (CBS, NPR)

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