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DeWitt Clinton High School opened in 1897. All boys at first, it became co-ed in 1983. From its original building on West 13th Street in Manhattan to its second home on 59th Street and Tenth Avenue (now John J. College) to its present "castle" on Mosholu Parkway in the Bronx, DeWitt Clinton has influenced American life in extraordinary ways. |  |
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Original School West 13th St. Manhattan 1897-1906 |
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Governor DeWitt Clinton (1769 - 1828) |
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- Largely an immigrant population - Enrollment of 12,000 in 1930s, largest in the world - Never a specialized school with an entrance examination - Home of the first city-wide high school newspaper and the Delaney Card - Played host to Douglas Fairbanks Sr., Andrew Carnegie, Theodore Roosevelt, Samuel Gompers, the New York Philharmonic, Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Mickey Mantle, Jackie Robinson, Jim Brown, Sgt. Slaughter, Caroline Kennedy, Wendy Wasserstein, Wynton Marsalis, Henry Louis Gates Jr., and DeWitt Clinton VI - Only New York City public high school visited in the PBS series "A Walk through..." with David Hartman and Barry Lewis |
Some Notable Alumni |
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Tenth Avenue, 58th to 59th Streets 1906-1929 |
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DeWitt Clinton High School's story has come to light in this handsome, beautifully illustrated, often witty, poignant and proud biography of an unforgettable and venerated institution. This is a remarkable chronicle of one of New Yorks City public high school - from its origins in the twilight of the gas and buggy age through our own times - that has produced a record second to none in the distinction of its students and their contributions to all walks of American life far beyond the city's borders. Mssrs. Pelisson and Garvey are well qualified to write this definitive story, having taught at the school for many years, having prodigiously researched and gathered the individual stories from dusty, fading school records and photographs, from interviews, newspapers and school magazines eagerly contributed by alumni anxious for this story to be told. It may be encyclopedic in scale, but it never loses the human spirit that is part of the American Dream. Dr. David W. Fuchs, principal of DeWitt Clinton High School (1976-1990) |
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Mosholu Parkway Campus in the Bronx 1929 - Present |
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| ©2009 The Hutch Press | Keywords : Dewitt Clinton High School, The Bronx, Gerard J. Pelisson, James A. Garvey, The Castle on Parkway, Stan Lee, Marvel Comics, Will Eisner, Bob Kane, Batman, D.C. Comics, Bill Graham,The Castle On The Parkway | ||||||||||||||||||||||||