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Roosevelt High School (Chicago, Illinois)

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School type
  
Public Secondary

School district
  
Chicago Public Schools

Grades
  
7–12

Number of students
  
1,181

Colors
  
Blue, Gold

Opened
  
1922

CEEB code
  
141105

Phone
  
+1 773-534-5000

District
  
Chicago Public Schools

Roosevelt High School (Chicago, Illinois)

Principal
  
Carolyn Rownd- Jourdan (Interim)

Address
  
3436 W Wilson Ave, Chicago, IL 60625, USA

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Roosevelt High School is a public 4–year high school in the Albany Park neighborhood on the northwest side of Chicago, United States. The school is operated by the Chicago Public Schools district. Roosevelt opened and began existence in 1922 as William G. Hibbard High School, but was moved into a new building and renamed in honor of the 26th president of the United States in 1927.

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Athletics

Roosevelt competes in the Chicago Public League (CPL) and is a member of the Illinois High School Association (IHSA). The boys' football team were public league champions in 1960–61 under the leadership of coach Al Klein. 1976 Section Champions 7-1 Captains Rick Stinson and Joe Fiorentino.

Notable alumni

  • Nelson Algren, author (The Man with the Golden Arm, Chicago: City on the Make, A Walk on the Wild Side).
  • George Baker, cartoonist
  • Jerry Bresler (1932), musician, composer, and orchestra conductor. Wrote the school song Go Rough Riders Go in 1931 at the age of 17
  • Max Demián (2005), performance artist
  • Nancy Faust, stadium organist for 40 years for the Chicago White Sox
  • Joe Fiorentino,United States Martial Arts Hall of Fame , Presidents Award from President Obama , 2013 Ellis Island Medal of Honor
  • Carl Foreman, Academy Award–winning screenwriter and film director (High Noon, The Bridge on the River Kwai, The Guns of Navarone).
  • Milt Holland, session drummer and percussionist based in Los Angeles
  • George Gobel, comedian and actor (The George Gobel Show)
  • Irean Gordon, painter (1929)
  • Adolph Kiefer, Olympic swimming champion (1936), Navy vet, inventor and businessman
  • Leo Melamed, former chairman of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and creator of the International Monetary Market. He is a pioneer in the field of currency futures
  • George Schmidt, former NFL defensive end (Green Bay Packers, Chicago Cardinals)
  • Anita Pankratz - Miss Ilinois of 1971.
  • Shel Silverstein, poet (Where the Sidewalk Ends, A Light in the Attic, The Giving Tree) and Grammy Award–winning songwriter ("A Boy Named Sue")
  • Ed Short, radio executive, Chicago White Sox general manager 1961–70
  • Seymour Simon, politician and judge who served as an Associate Justice on the Illinois Supreme Court (1980–88)
  • Bob Sirott, Chicago television and radio personality
  • Alvin Weinberg, nuclear physicist, pioneer of the molten salt reactor, and administrator at Oak Ridge National Laboratory

    • References

    Roosevelt High School (Chicago, Illinois) Wikipedia
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