James Madison High School (Brooklyn)
| James Madison High School | |
|---|---|
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| Address | |
| 3787 Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn, New York, 11229 USA | |
| Coordinates | 40°36′36″N 73°56′52″W / 40.61°N 73.9477°WCoordinates: 40°36′36″N 73°56′52″W / 40.61°N 73.9477°W |
| Information | |
| Type | Public high school |
| Established | 1925 |
| Principal | Jodie Cohen |
| Grades | 9 to 12 |
| Enrollment |
3,072 [1] |
| Number of students | 3,072 |
| Color(s) | Black and Gold |
| Mascot | Knight |
| Newspaper | The Moment |
| Website |
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James Madison High School is an American public high school located at 3787 Bedford Avenue, in Brooklyn, New York's Madison section with students in grades 9 through 12. It is part of Region 6 in the New York City Department of Education. The current principal is Jodie Cohen.
Established in 1925, James Madison has graduated four Nobel Prize winners, famous musicians, authors, sports players, and a United States Supreme Court Justice. Following the 2008 election there are two sitting U.S. Senators, Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Charles Schumer (D-NY), who are graduates of James Madison. Supreme Court Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is also a graduate, as is former Senator Norm Coleman (R-MN).
Academics
James Madison High School is organized in accordance with the house system. There are eight houses, each having a Teacher Coordinator, a Guidance Counselor, and an Assistant Principal assigned to supervise and assist students.
Special programs
Most students who apply to James Madison High School have the opportunity to apply to a specific "House". The most notable houses in Madison are:
- Law Institute: The Law Institute is designed for successful Social Studies students. In addition to being taught reasoning and communication skills, the students develop an understanding of American Legal institutions. Students in the Law House take classes/participate in activities such as Model U.N, Mock Trial, Moot Court, We The People, Legal Economics, Criminology Advanced Placement Economics. This is by far one of Madison's most popular programs.
- Bio-Medical Institute: The Bio-Medical Institute is generally referred to as simply, Bio-Med. In this honor program, students who are interested in the Sciences take such classes as Biology, AP Biology, Chemistry Honors, AP Chemistry, Physics Honors, Pathology,Laboratory Techniques, and Science Research. Students in this program are offered internships in health science facilities as well as the opportunity to participate in local and national science competitions.
- Math Academy: The Math Academy has students who are given the opportunity to study mathematics and computer science. Students in this House take some of the following classes: Advanced Placement Computer Science, Advanced Placement Calculus AB, and Advanced Placement Calculus BC.
- Music House: The music house features a staff of highly qualified teachers, who serve in affording students with the opportunity to participate in courses such as: Music Technology, Jazz Band, Marching Band, String Ensemble, Orchestra, Beginning Guitar, Jazz Guitar, Classical Guitar, Chorus, Musical Theater Workshop, Percussion and more. The music households a minimum of 6 annual concert performances at the Sonia Lerner auditorium within the high school. The music program also hosts concerts outside the school building and facilitates a variety of displays of student achievement within the community.
- The Humanities House: provides overall historical context to the program. This program offers an interdisciplinary approach to learning; it combines the best of both English literature and social studies.
- Information Technology House: One of the newer houses at Madison. Known informally as the I.T. House, it is one of the only programs in NYC high schools that offers students the chance to take the Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel certification exams for free.
- Academy of Finance
Some of the other houses include:
- The International House (for students of limited English proficiency)
- The Media Arts House
- Madison Academy of Community and Civil Service
Classes
- Special classes
- Microsoft Certification
- AP classes
There are many AP classes offered at James Madison High School. These classes include:
- Honor/elective classes
Along with these AP classes, Madison offers a wide number of honor/elective classes. Some of these include:
- Business Law
- Pre-Calculus
- European History Honors
- Physics Honors
- Biology Honors
- Chemistry Honors
- Algebra 2/Trignometry Honors
- World History Honors
Madison also offers a wide number of music/art electives, which students are allowed and encouraged to take.
Visions
James Madison High School will be a learning community that embodies Madison’s philosophy that, "Education is the true foundation of civil liberty." Through an instructional program that promotes high achievement and provides equal access through motivation, academic rigor, appreciation of the strength of diversity, inquiry, scholarship a celebration of originality and the development of nobility of character, we will nurture and support a community of lifelong learners.
Main campus
James Madison High School is a six-floor red brick building with many rooms.
- Subbasement: Boiler Room and storage areas.
- Basement: The cafeteria is located in the building's basement.
- 1st Floor: On the first-floor main offices such as guidance and programming are located. As is the main entrance to the theater. The Music Department is in the back on the 1st floor. The library and swimming pool are also located on this floor.
- 2nd Floor: English Department, Access to Gym 1. Back of Gym 1 is the Athletic Wing staircase leading upstairs to gym 2/3 or down to the Pool
- 3rd Floor: Science Department, IT House, Language Department, Teachers Cafeteria access to Gym 2. Gym 2 shares a room with Gym 3 and has a staircase in the back leading up to Gym 4 or down to Gym 1
- 4th Floor: Science Department, Math Department, Social Studies Department, Law Department. Houses Gym4 or otherwise known as the Health room which can only be accessed by either of the 3 gyms
- 5th Floor: Science Department, Computer Repair Room, Art classes, Social Studies Department.
- 6th Floor: Offices and Photography.
- Athletic fields: Football Field, Soccer Field, Baseball Field, Tennis Courts, Track, Lacrosse Field, Roller Blading, and several more athletic facilities.
Clubs
James Madison High School has a number of clubs which are listed here in alphabetical order:
- African Heritage Club
- Anime Club
- Attendance Committee
- Art Journal
- Art Squad
- Attendance Committee
- Asian Student Union
- Baseball Club
- Business Journal
- Cheering Squads: Twirlers Cheerleaders Boosters
- Chess Club
- Christian Culture Club
- Chinese Cultural Services
- Club Hispanic
- Consultative Council
- Crochet club
- Drama Club
- Environmental Club
- Executive Internship
- Fidelitas
- Flag Squad
- Gay Straight Alliance
- Hands on Money: Financial Literacy Club
- Hellenic Culture Club
- Key Club
- Islamic Culture Club/ MSA
- Ladies of Substance: Women Empowerment Club
- Law Journal
- Leadership
- Library Pagemasters
- Lighting Squad
- Marching Band
- Math Team
- Mock Trial
- Moot Court
- Peer Mediation
- Peer Tutoring
- Performing Arts Club
- Photography Club
- Project Gap
- Project REACH
- Recycling Club
- FIRST Robotics
- S.A.F.E.
- S.E.L.F.
- Senior Council
- Softball Club
- Stepping Club
- The Moment (Newspaper)
- Science Research Club
- S.A.V.E. Leaders Corps
- Sing
- Spring Musical
- Student Government
- NYS Science Honor Society
The End Hate Project
The End Hate Project is a campaign made up of high school and college students encouraging the reduction of bullying and discrimination within schools. Inspired by the 2010 Gay Teen Suicide Epidemic, The End Hate Project's mission is to provide a safe and welcoming environment where everyone is accepted. Whether it be race, religion, color, ethnicity, national origin, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, disability, dress, body type (etc.), this club dedicates itself to raise awareness and provide resources for students bullied and undergoing hate activity.
Mock Trial
In May 2010, The James Madison High School Mock Trial team, became the New York State Champions, while representing their region of New York City in Albany. The team beat out about 600 schools, also competing for first place. It was Madison's second time appearing in Albany after 5 years, and their first time, actually winning. It was also the first time any New York City school, had ever won for the State. The team accomplished their victory with the help of attorneys from Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP, who always had a long-standing solid relationship with James Madison.
Sports
Madison also offers a wide range of Boys And Girls PSAL Varsity and Junior Varsity Sports Football, Soccer, Basketball, Track and field, Wrestling, Baseball, Softball, Tennis, Volleyball, Swimming, Cross Country, Handball, and Lacrosse.
The James Madison Baseball Team is among the most successful in the school ranked fourth in the New York City PSAL and sixth including Catholic High Schools. They have been in the final four three years in a row. In 2008, the team made it to the finals but fell short. The program has put a lot of their players into college baseball and three professional players Frank Torre, Cal Abrams, Harry Eisenstat.Went undefeated in 1954 capturing the PSAL city championship team leaders (Mike Weltman) and Jackie Kahn) who went on to become a highly decorated Homicide Detective with the Miami-Dade PD
Another very successful team is the Madison Wrestling Team. (http://madisongoldenknightswrestling.com/) In addition to having many NYC Mayors Cup and City Champions, the team has posted a winning record and made the playoffs 10 out of the last 12 seasons, with an eight-year streak of making it past the first round of the PSAL Team Championships. The team was ranked #8 overall (public, Catholic and private schools combined) by MSG Varsity this past season.
James Madison High School is home to a very successful Swim Team. It has won countless competitions. It is currently coached by Mr.Davis who is retired but continues to train the swim team for each winter swimming season. He was retired in 2009. Mr.Tigre is the current swimming teacher at James Madison High School and has been for 2 years now. This is one of Madison's most prosperous teams.
Extracurricular activities
SING!, a musical competition between the grades, has been a Madison tradition for over 50 years. On November 15, 2008, the Senior/Sophomore team lost to the Junior/Freshman team for the first time in 6 years, on the 60th anniversary of SING!. The SING! theme that year was "It's Never Too Late to Change." It is one of Madison's Most popular clubs. There is a new tradition called Brooklyn SINGS, also known as "InterSING", started in 2014. InterSING is a competition between Madison, Midwood, & Murrow High Schools to see who has the best SING performance. The winning team at Madison, Midwood, & Murrow will advance on to InterSING. In 2014-2015, InterSING took place in the Joseph Anzalone Theater in Edward R. Murrow High School in Midwood, Brooklyn. InterSING is a fundraiser for the American Cancer Society.
Alumni
Distinguished alumni of James Madison High School include:[2]
- Cal Abrams (1924-1997, class of 1942), Major-league baseball player.[3][4]
- Maury Allen (1932-2010, class of 1949), sportswriter.[4]
- Gary Becker (1930-2014, class of 1948), Nobel Prize winner, economics.[5]
- Mimi Benzell (1918-1970), opera singer.[6]
- Harry Boatswain (born 1969, class of 1987), former professional football player.[7]
- Walter Block (born 1941, class of 1959[8]), Austrian School economist, anarcho-capitalist theoretician, professor of economics
- Andrew Dice Clay (born 1957 as Andrew Clay Silverstein), comedian.[9]
- Stanley Cohen (born 1922, class of 1939), Nobel Prize winner, medicine.[6][10]
- Norm Coleman (born 1949, class of 1966), former U.S. Senator (Republican of Minnesota).[11]
- Robert Dallek (born 1934, class of 1952), historian.[4]
- Roy DeMeo (1942-1983, class of 1959), mobster.[12]
- Harry Eisenstat (1915-2003, class of 1935), Major League Baseball player[3]
- Devale Ellis (born 1984), professional football player.[13]
- Sandra Feldman (1939-2005, class of 1956), president of the American Federation of Teachers.[4]
- Norman Finkelstein (born 1953) political scientist, activist, professor, author.
- Sonny Fox (born 1925), TV personality.[14]
- Leonard Frey (1938-1988, class of 1956), actor.[15]
- David Frye (1933-2011; born David Shapiro), comedian.[16]
- Sid Ganis (born 1940, class of 1957), motion picture executive.[4]
- William Gaines (1922-1992, class of 1939), founding publisher of Mad magazine.[17]
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg (born 1933, class of 1950), Associate Justice, U.S. Supreme Court.[6]
- Marty Glickman (1917-2001, class of 1935), Olympian and broadcaster.[6][18]
- Ron Haigler, basketball player.[19]
- Stanley Myron Handleman (1929-2007, class of 1947), comedian.[14]
- Garson Kanin (1912-1999, class of 1927), writer and director of plays and films.[6]
- Stanley Kaplan (1919-2009, class of 1935), test preparation entrepreneur.[18]
- Buddy Kaye (1918-2002), songwriter, musician, producer, author and publisher.[14]
- Carole King (born 1942 as Carole Klein, class of 1958), singer and songwriter.[20][21]
- Paul L. Krinsky (born 1928, class of 1946), U.S. Navy rear admiral.[4]
- Martin Landau (born 1928), Academy Award-winning actor.[6][14]
- Rudy LaRusso, five-time All-Star NBA basketball player.[18]
- Mell Lazarus (born 1922), cartoonist.[14]
- Andrew Levane (1920-2012, class of 1940), professional basketball player.[22]
- Elaine Malbin (born 1932, class of 1948), opera singer.[4]
- Barry B. Mittag Mathematician
- Bruce Morrow (born 1935, class of 1953), radio personality.[4]
- Herbert S. Okun (1930-2011, class of 1947), diplomat.[4]
- Martin Lewis Perl (born 1927, class of 1942), Nobel Prize winner, physics.[23]
- Sylvia Porter (1913-1991, class of 1930), economist and journalist.[18]
- Deborah Poritz (born 1936, class of 1954), N.J. Attorney General then Chief Justice, N.J. Supreme Court.[4]
- Chris Rock (born 1965), comedian and actor who withdrew before graduation.[24]
- Norman Rosten (1913-1995), poet, playwright and novelist.[6][18]
- Abdel Russell (born 1977, class of 1995), Author, Record Label Executive, Philanthropist, Entrepreneur.[25]
- Dmitry Salita, professional boxer.[26]
- Murray Saltzman (1929–2010, class of 1947), Reform Jewish Rabbi.
- Bernie Sanders (born 1941, class of 1959), U.S. Senator, (Independent of Vermont) and 2016 U.S. Presidential candidate.[27]
- Larry Sanders, British politician and brother of Bernie Sanders.[28]
- Babe Scheuer (1913–1997), American football player
- Harvey Schlesinger (born 1940, class of 1958), United States District Judge for the Middle District of Florida
- Ted Schreiber (born 1938), Major League Baseball player.[3]
- Chuck Schumer (born 1950, class of 1967), U.S. Senator (New York)[11]
- Irwin Shaw (1913-1984, class of 1929), playwright, screenwriter and novelist.[6]
- Judith Sheindlin (born 1942, class of 1961), television personality (Judge Judy).[4]
- Barry Simon (born 1946, class of 1962), IBM Professor of Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at Caltech.
- Neal Singer (born 1941, class of 1958), Science writer, Sandia National Laboratories; author.
- Robert Solow (born 1922, class of 1940), Nobel Prize winner, economics.[5][29]
- Irving Terjesen (1915–1990, class of 1934), All-American college basketball player for NYU and early professional.[30]
- Frank Torre (1921-2014, class of 1950), professional baseball player.[3]
- Sidney Verba (born 1932), political scientist.[31]
- David Wohl (born 1954, class of 1971) Television and film character actor.
- Joel Zwick (born 1942, class of 1958), film, television and theater director.[4]
References
- ↑ "Welcome – James Madison High School – K425 – New York City Department of Education". Schools.nyc.gov. Retrieved May 5, 2011.
- ↑ The Wall of Distinction, James Madison High School Alumni Association. Accessed June 11, 2013.
- 1 2 3 4 "Madison (Brooklyn, NY) Baseball". The Baseball Cube. Retrieved February 13, 2011.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Abruzzo, Shavana. "Judge Judy inducted with elite alums on Madison's wall of fame", New York Post, June 1, 2010; accessed June 11, 2013. "Joining Judge Judy on the 2010 roster are late Brooklyn Dodger Cal Abrams ('42), former US ambassador to the United Nations Herbert Okun ('47), sportswriter Maury Allen ('49), University of Maryland Dental School professor and pain research pioneer Dr. Ronald Dubner ('51), historian and "dean" of presidential experts Dr. Robert Dallek ('52), retired Chief Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court Deborah Tobias Poritz (‘54) and director Joel Zwick (‘58), whose screen and credits include My Fat Greek Wedding, Laverne & Shirley and Broadway's Oklahoma!.... No small wonder when the school’s august alums include educator Stanley H. Kaplan (‘35), former American Federation of Teachers President Sandra Feldman (‘56), radio personality Bruce "Cousin Brucie" Morrow (‘48), opera star Elaine Malbin (‘48), Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ President Sidney Ganis (‘57) and Paul L. Krinsky (‘46), who served as the superintendent of the United States Merchant Marine Academy from 1987 to 1993, attaining the rank of rear admiral."
- 1 2 Fuchs, Victor R. "Nobel Laureate - Gary S. Becker: Ideas About Facts", Journal of Economic Perspectives, Volume 8, number 2 - Spring 1994, pp. 183-192. Accessed June 11, 2013.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Behrens, David. "The Reunion/The Class of '35", Newsday, November 23, 1995; accessed June 11, 2013.
- ↑ Eskenazi, Gerald. "Keeping Offense in Protective Custody, Jets Lose to Oilers", The New York Times, August 4, 1996. Accessed June 11, 2013. "'I never left Brooklyn,' said Boatswain, who grew up there and starred at James Madison High School. Brooklyn still called to him when he joined the 49ers in 1991 and spent four seasons there, before moving on to the Eagles last year."
- ↑ Walter E. Block, Senator Bernie Sanders, President?
- ↑ Daly, Sean. "The return of Andrew Dice Clay", New York Post, August 21, 2011. Accessed June 11, 2013. "The only performer to be banned for life from MTV, Andrew Clay Silverstein was raised in Brownsville and attended James Madison High School before moving to LA in 1980."
- ↑ Gleick, James. "MAN IN THE NEWS; HOLDOUT ON BIG SCIENCE: STANLEY COHEN", The New York Times, October 14, 1986; accessed June 11, 2013. "Stanley Cohen was born Nov. 17, 1922, in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn.... He attended James Madison High School and Brooklyn College, eventually getting his doctorate in biochemistry from the University of Michigan in 1948."
- 1 2 O'Shea, Jennifer L. "10 Things You Didn't Know About Norm Coleman", U.S. News & World Report, January 7, 2009. Accessed June 11, 2013. "Coleman graduated from James Madison High School in Brooklyn in 1966. Another future senator was there at the same time: New York's Chuck Schumer, who graduated one year later."
- ↑ Dickson, Michael M. "Roy Albert DeMeo – Leader of the Gambino Family Murder for Hire", American Mafia History, October 18, 2012. Accessed June 11, 2013. "Roy Albert DeMeo was born on September 7, 1942 in Bath Beach Brooklyn to working class Italian immigrants. In 1959 DeMeo graduated from James Madison High School with an accomplished loan shark business bringing in hundreds of dollars each week."
- ↑ Rock, Tom. "JETS, Ellis spreading Pride in NFL", Newsday, October 21, 2006. Accessed June 11, 2013. "He was a basketball player - small for that sport, too - when Jeffrey Ishmael, the football coach at James Madison High School in Brooklyn, saw [Devale Ellis] grab a defensive rebound, dribble the length of the court and make an acrobatic layup."
- 1 2 3 4 5 Brantley, Robin. "Beverly Hills Brooklynites; A Brooklyn Evening in Beverly Hills", The New York Times, October 1, 1980; accessed June 11, 2013.
- ↑ Gussow, Mel. "Leonard Frey, Actor, Dies at 49", The New York Times, August 25, 1988. "Mr. Frey was born in Brooklyn and attended James Madison High School."
- ↑ Grimes, William. "David Frye, Perfectly Clear Nixon Parodist, Dies at 77", The New York Times, January 29, 2011; accessed June 11, 2013. "David Shapiro was born in Brooklyn and attended James Madison High School there."
- ↑ Tebbel, John Robert. " What, Me Gone?", Instant Classics, June 5, 1992; accessed June 11, 2013. "I spoke earlier about the influence he had, and I just thought of one incident. Bill and I both, as I said, went to James Madison High School in Brooklyn."
- 1 2 3 4 5 Campbell, Loriann. "Mad About Madsion 1,000 Alumni Of A Brooklyn High School, From 1927 Through 1970, Plan A South Florida Reunion.", Sun Sentinel, December 18, 1988; accessed June 11, 2013.
- ↑ Missanelli, M. G. "Temple Adds Two Top Scholastic Talents from alabama", The Philadelphia Inquirer, April 25, 1992; accessed June 11, 2013. "Laster is a 6-5 swingman from Clayton High in suburban St. Louis, Mo., and Piskun is a 6-6 forward from James Madison High in New York City, the same school that produced former Penn star Ron Haigler."
- ↑ "Carole King Biography". biography.com. Retrieved March 17, 2013.
- ↑ James E. Perone (2006). The Words and Music of Carole King. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 3. ISBN 9780275990275. Retrieved October 29, 2014.
- ↑ Berkow, Ira. "Sports of The Times; He Made Music of His Own", The New York Times, March 4, 1999. Accessed June 11, 2013. "In 1939, as the star center of the undefeated city championship James Madison High School team, Fuzzy was named the outstanding schoolboy player in New York City."
- ↑ Autobiography of Martin L. Perl, Nobel Prize; accessed June 11, 2013. "I was sixteen when I graduated from James Madison High School in Brooklyn in 1942. My sister, who is now a well known writer in the United States, moved through school even faster - she graduated at fifteen and one-half."
- ↑ via New York Post. "Chris Rock Gets Show Based on Childhood", Fox News, June 18, 2005. Accessed June 11, 2013. "Finally, after years of bullying, Rock's parents pulled him out of James Madison HS at 17. 'If we didn't, he was going to get killed,' said his mother, Rose Rock."
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- ↑ Farrell, Bill. "A NIGHT OF CHAMPIONS The 73rd Daily News Golden Gloves", Daily News (New York), April 28, 2000; accessed June 11, 2013. "Dmitry Salita, 17 Starrett City BC: A two-time Metro champion, this senior at Brooklyn's James Madison H.S. is boxing in his first Golden Gloves."
- ↑ About Bernie, Bernie Sanders. Accessed June 11, 2013. "Education: James Madison High School, Brooklyn NY; University of Chicago, B.A. 1964"
- ↑ Stein, Ellin.Growing Up With The Bern, Slate, February 4, 2016. Accessed February 11, 2016.
- ↑ Zahka, William J. The Nobel Prize Economics Lectures: A Cross Section of current Thinking, p. 47. Avebury, 1992. ISBN 1856280861. "At the suggestion of one of his teachers at James Madison High School, Solow began his studies at Harvard College in 1940 on a scholarship."
- ↑ "Six Boro Men get Violet Letters". Brooklyn Eagle. 7 December 1936. p. 19. Retrieved February 22, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.
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