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APRIL 2003

Stuyvesant Gets High Marks from Principals For A Day
by Pola Rosen, Ed.D.

Stuyvesant High School had a homecoming for three illustrious alumni returning as principals for a day. Each principal represented a different discipline: Erica Morgan-Irish, V.P., Black Entertainment Television; Gerry Golub, Sr. Managing Director, American Express; and Herman Rosen, M.D., Clinical Professor of Medicine, Weill Medical College of Cornell University. For these principals it was a chance to visit the Stuyvesant building, now in Battery Park City, they never attended. The new building is ten years old, but Stuyvesant has been in existence since 1904. Greeting the visitors was the dynamic Principal, Stanley Teitel. He reminded everyone of the recent accomplishments this premier math and science high school could boast of, such as having more finalists in the recent Intel Science competition than any other school in the nation. This was tempered by pointing out a plaque dedicated to the nine Stuyvesant alums who died in the World Trade Center attack on 9/11. The new 10-story school has laboratories, an 800-seat auditorium and an Olympic size swimming pool.

The schedule was planned to allow each principal to visit classes of interest to them. Erica Morgan-Irish visited a class on video journalism, among others. Gerry Golub visited classes on great books and mathematics. Dr. Herman Rosen visited a class on vertebrae dissection, which happened to be studying the excretory system of the lamprey. Dr. Rosen, a nephrologist, was able to discuss interesting features of the fish’s kidneys. Other classes visited included robotics, medical ethics, art and architecture. The gleaming new building retains a “museum” of the old school. One of the school’s architects, Peter Samton (classmate of Dr. Rosen), included a working classroom rebuilt with the original desks, inkwells and blackboards. Throughout the building, a sentimental note was struck with the glass-encased “time capsules” with mementos from each graduating class.

Each Principal for a Day made inspiring concluding remarks to the staff and student body.#

 

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