Richmond Hill High School
89-30 114th Street | also 113-02 89th Avenue | Richmond Hill | built 1931
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- 1919
Richmond Hill High School moves to its new site on 114th Street
Founded in 1899, a year after Queens joined New York City, the high school first shared a building with an elementary school on what was then Johnson Avenue. Its present site on 114th Street opened in 1919. Its first principal, Isaac Newton Failor, wrote the textbook Inventional Geometry.
“In 1899, the first students were admitted to the Johnson Avenue site, and in 1919 the current site was opened on 114th street.”
Source: Wikipedia
- 1927
Future civil rights pioneer Pauli Murray graduates from Richmond Hill High School
Pauli Murray, who later became a pioneer of civil and women's rights, finished at Richmond Hill High School with the class of 1927. Murray's work is credited with inspiring Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Thurgood Marshall. The school's alumni list also includes real estate developer Fred Trump and his brother John G. Trump, an MIT electrical engineer.
“Pauli Murray (1910–1985) class of 1927, pioneer in Civil & Women's Rights.”
Source: Wikipedia
- 1939
Comedian Rodney Dangerfield graduates from Richmond Hill High School
Rodney Dangerfield, the future comedian, graduated from the school in 1939. Two years later Frank Kameny, who became an LGBT rights activist, finished with the class of 1941. Baseball player and commentator Phil Rizzuto is also among its alumni, and singer Cyndi Lauper was expelled.
Source: Wikipedia
- 1997
Mayor Rudolph Giuliani proclaims Richmond Hill High School Day
Mayor Rudolph Giuliani declared September 24, 1997, Richmond Hill High School Day. A decade later the building, designed for 1,800 students, held 3,600 in the 2007-08 school year, badly straining the school. In 2012 it was among more than two dozen schools slated for closure over low performance.
“Rudolph Giuliani, Mayor of New York, proclaimed September 24, 1997, as "Richmond Hill High School Day".”
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- Richmond Hill High School (Queens)Wikipedia
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