Haaren High School
{{Short description|Former public school in New York City}}
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Haaren High School was a high school located in Midtown Manhattan, New York, United States. The school was noted for its vocational program including classes focusing on internal combustion engines.{{cite book| title=One Nation, One Standard: An Ex-Liberal on How Hispanics Can Succeed Just Like Other Immigrant Groups| last=Badillo| first=Herman| date=2006| publisher=Penguin Publishing Group| isbn=978-1440622700| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hmDy1iaQ69YC&pg=PT52| access-date=June 24, 2015|url-access=subscription | location=New York City}} The facility was constructed in 1903 to house DeWitt Clinton High School. When that school relocated in 1927, it became home to Haaren High School (named for educator John Henry Haaren) until that school closed in the late 1970s.{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/1985/05/19/realestate/new-uses-for-an-old-high-school.html| work=The New York Times| first=Gene| last=Rondinaro| title=New Uses for an Old High School| date=May 19, 1985}} After developers announced plans to renovate the building to house offices, production studios and retail, John Jay College purchased the structure in 1988 and remodeled it to house offices, a library, classrooms and other facilities.{{cite news| title=With $600 Million Building, John Jay College Gains a Whole Campus| url=http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/02/with-600-million-building-john-jay-college-gains-a-whole-campus/| work=The New York Times| first=David W.| last=Dunlap| date=November 2, 2011}}{{cite web| title=The Harlem Renaissance in Haaren Hall| url=https://www.lib.jjay.cuny.edu/blog/harlem-renaissance-haaren-hall| access-date=February 8, 2017}}
Notable alumni
- Herman Badillo (1929–2014), first Puerto Rican-American U.S. congressman{{cite news| title=One On 1: Politician, Educator Herman Badillo Asks What If| url=http://www.ny1.com/archives/nyc/all-boroughs/2008/11/03/one-on-1--politician--educator-herman-badillo-asks-what-if-NYC_88324.old.html| last=Mishkin| first=Budd| date=November 3, 2008| work=NY1| access-date=February 8, 2017| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170211080624/http://www.ny1.com/archives/nyc/all-boroughs/2008/11/03/one-on-1--politician--educator-herman-badillo-asks-what-if-NYC_88324.old.html| archive-date=February 11, 2017| url-status=dead}}
- Mario Biaggi (1917–2015), decorated policeman and US Congressman
- Edd Byrnes, actor
- Ron Carey (1936–2008), president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters
- Ed Feingersh, 1950s photojournalist
- Padraic Fiacc, Irish poet
- Robert García, New York Assemblyman and congressman
- David Greenglass, 1950s Soviet spy{{cite news| title=David Greenglass, Spy Who Helped Seal the Rosenbergs' Doom, Dies at 92| work=The New York Times| date=October 14, 2014| author-link=Robert D. McFadden| first=Robert D.| last=McFadden| quote=David graduated from Haaren High School in 1940 with only fair grades. He attended Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute, but flunked out.| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/15/us/david-greenglass-spy-who-helped-seal-the-rosenbergs-doom-dies-at-92.html}}
- Joe Hayes, Taekwondo fighter and champion{{cite journal| title=Blak Belt Yearbook| date=October 1972| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TdgDAAAAMBAJ&q=Joe+Hayes+taekwondo&pg=PA24| pages=24–25| volume=X| number=10| access-date=February 8, 2017}}
- Lynbert Johnson, NBA player
- Robert Mitchum (1917–1997), actor
- Pedro Pietri, Nuyorican poet
- Paul Rand, graphic designer and illustrator
- Albert Salmi, actor{{cite news| agency=Associated Press| title=Albert Salmi, Actor, 62, Is Found Shot to Death in Home With Wife| newspaper=The New York Times| date=April 25, 1990| quote=A New Yorker of Finnish descent, Mr. Salmi grew up in the Bay Ridge section of Brooklyn and attended Haaren High School in Manhattan, where he studied aviation mechanics. |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CE6D9163DF936A15757C0A966958260| access-date=February 8, 2017}}
- Ray Santos (1928–2019), Grammy Award-winning Latin musician.Slotnik, Daniel E. [https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/23/arts/music/ray-santos-dead.html "Ray Santos, a Pillar of Latin Jazz, Is Dead at 90"], The New York Times, October 23, 2019. Accessed October 23, 2019. "He began studying the saxophone as a teenager and graduated from Haaren High School in Manhattan before studying classical music at the Juilliard School, where his contemporaries included the saxophonist Teo Macero, who would later become an acclaimed record producer, and the soprano Leontyne Price."
- George Stade, novelist and Columbia literature professor.{{cite news |last1=Seelye |first1=Katherine |title=George Stade, Scholar-Novelist Partial to the Popular, Dies at 85 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/08/obituaries/george-stade-dead.html |access-date=13 March 2019 |newspaper=New York Times |date=8 March 2009}}
- James Victor, actor{{cite news| first=Mike| last=Barnes| title=James Victor, Cassavetes Protege and 'Zorro' Actor, Dies at 76 |url=http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/james-victor-dead-zorro-actor-908070| work=The Hollywood Reporter |date=July 2, 2016 |access-date=2016-07-10}}
- John Worth, President and executive director of the Academy of Model Aeronautics{{cite web| title=Autobiography of John Worth| url=https://www.modelaircraft.org/files/WorthJohn.pdf| publisher=Academy of Model Aeronautics| date=February 2012| access-date=February 8, 2017}}
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