Bronx High School of Science
75 West 205th Street | also 100 West Mosholu Parkway South | Bedford Park | built 1927
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- 1959
Bronx Science moves into its new 205th Street building, with students hauling the library
After two decades in an old building at Creston Avenue and 184th Street, the school occupied its new $8 million home, designed by Emery Roth and Sons, on March 3, 1959, under Principal Alexander Taffel. To move the library, each student took five books home from the old building on a Friday and brought them to the new one the following Monday.
“…enlisting the students to each take home five library books from the old building on Friday, and return them to the new building on Monday.”
Source: Wikipedia
- 1959
Frank J. Reilly's 63-foot glass mosaic of great scientists hangs over the new lobby
Overhead in the new building's main lobby entrance is a 63-foot Venetian glass mosaic by Frank J. Reilly, titled Humanities Protecting Biology, Physics, Chemistry, showing figures such as Marie Curie and Charles Darwin beneath a figure representing knowledge, with a John Dewey quotation. Generations of students, lamenting the lack of a pool, have called it "the Science swimming pool," though the story that it was paid for instead of one is untrue.
Source: Wikipedia
- 1959
DeWitt Clinton boys rush the fence when Science girls first take the gym field
In the school's first spring on 205th Street, the first appearance of Bronx Science girls in gym clothes on the outdoor field drew students from the neighboring all-boys DeWitt Clinton High School, who charged the dividing fence. The fence held, but the girls did their physical education indoors for the rest of that year. Rumors that street gangs such as the Fordham Baldies would come to the school that same spring never came true.
Source: Wikipedia
- 1963
President John F. Kennedy praises Bronx Science on its 25th anniversary
When the school marked its silver anniversary in June 1963, President Kennedy called it a pathfinding example of a program for students gifted in science and mathematics. He had recently named Harold Brown, a 1943 graduate, Director of Defense Research and Engineering; Brown later became Secretary of Defense under President Jimmy Carter.
“President John F. Kennedy hailed it as "a significant and pathfinding example of a special program devoted to the development of the student gifted in science and mathematics.”
Source: Wikipedia
- 2010
The American Physical Society names Bronx Science a Historic Physics Site
Nine Bronx Science alumni have received Nobel Prizes, a total no other secondary school has matched, and seven of those prizes were in physics. That record led the American Physical Society to designate the school a Historic Physics Site in 2010. The school also counts 132 Science Talent Search finalists (the contest is now sponsored by Regeneron, formerly Intel), the most of any high school.
“…seven of them are in physics, which earned Bronx Science a designation by the American Physical Society as a "Historic Physics Site" in 2010.”
Source: Wikipedia
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