The following is a list of notable alumni of Baltimore City College , or BCC, the third oldest continuously public high school in the United States.
Since being established by an act of the Baltimore City Council in 1839, hundreds of influential civic, political, business, commercial, industrial, and cultural leaders have passed through its doors. Many graduates of City College have served as members of the United States Congress and the Maryland General Assembly, federal and circuit judges, award-winning journalists; leaders in business, commerce, the military, the sciences, and the arts. This list includes three former Governors of Maryland and recipients of the Nobel Prize, the Pulitzer Prize, and the Wolf Prize. Of the seven Maryland recipients of the Medal of Honor between World War I and World War II, three were graduates of the Baltimore City College. Numerous bridges, buildings, craters, highways, institutions, monuments, and professorships have been named for BCC alumni.
Alumni | Class | Reason for notability |
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Larry Adler | 1931 [1] | Musician [2] |
Russell Baker | 1943 [3] | Writer, reporter, columnist for The New York Times and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, who wrote about "City" and his youth in Baltimore in his memoir Growing Up (1982) |
Gary Bartz | 1958 | Jazz musician, Grammy Award winner |
Morris Louis Bernstein | 1928 [4] | Abstract expressionist painter |
Ciera Nicole Butts | 2008 [5] | Miss District of Columbia USA 2014; television personality, Last Squad Standing ; winner [6] |
Jack L. Chalker | 1962 | Author of over 50 science fiction/fantasy novels |
André DeShields | 1964 | Broadway actor, Tony Award nominee |
Peter G. Engelman | 1957 | Author, writer, publisher, speaker, certified public accountant |
Philip Glass | 1954* [7] | Avant garde composer [8] |
Jacob Glushakow | 1933 [9] | Painter; works are in permanent collections at the Baltimore Museum of Art, The Phillips Collection, and Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Al Goodman | 1918 [10] | Musician, conductor |
Edward Everett Horton | 1904 [4] | Character actor in film, television, and stage |
Millard Kaufman | 1933 [11] | Author, screenwriter; helped create the film/television cartoon character of Mr. Magoo |
Greg Kihn | 1967? [12] | Rock musician, radio host |
Gene Klavan | 1940 [4] | Radio talk show host in Washington, D.C. and New York |
Reuben Kramer | 1925 | Abstract sculptor [13] |
Rowan LeCompte | 1942 | Stained glass artist, National Cathedral [14] |
David Matthews | 1984 | Author [15] |
T. Garrison Morfit (Garry Moore) | 1933 | TV variety show host |
Royal Parker | 1946 | News anchor WBAL-TV, TV variety show host [16] |
Robert Pirosh | 1928 [4] | Writer, won Oscar and Golden Globe for screenplay of Battleground |
Fred Robbins | 1937 | Television and radio host |
Woody Rock | 1993 | Singer, member of Dru Hill |
Karl Shapiro | 1932 | Poet; literary critic; professor, Johns Hopkins University; Pulitzer Prize winner |
Eli Siegel | 1919 [17] | Poet and founder of Aesthetic Realism |
Michael Tucker | 1962 | Actor, appeared in L.A. Law and Diner |
Leon Uris | 1942* [18] [19] | Writer, author of Exodus and other literary classics |
Charles Marquis Warren | 1930 | Television and film writer, producer; director; credits include Gunsmoke, Rawhide and Playhouse 90. [20] |
Hugo Weisgall | 1929 [4] | Composer |
Charles Erskine Scott Wood | 1870* [21] | Author, civil libertarian, and attorney [22] |
Alumni | Class | Reason for notability |
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David T. Abercrombie | 1887 [23] | Founder of Abercrombie & Fitch |
David S. Cordish | 1956 [24] | President and chairman of the Cordish Company |
Robert C. Embry Jr. | 1955 [25] | President, Abell Foundation (named for the founder of the local Baltimore Sun ), Baltimore City Housing Commissioner (1968–1977) [26] |
Joseph Haskins Jr. | 1967 [27] | President and C.E.O.of the Harbor Bank of Maryland [28] |
Robert D. Hormats | 1961 [29] | Under Secretary of State for Economic, Business, and Agricultural Affairs, Vice Chair of Goldman Sachs [30] |
Zanvyl Krieger | 1924 [31] | Lawyer, entrepreneur, philanthropist; co-founder of Baltimore Colts [32] |
Charles P. McCormick | 1916 [33] | Business tycoon, and president of McCormick & Company |
Morris A. Mechanic | 1915 [34] | Entrepreneur, builder of the Morris A. Mechanic Theatre |
Joseph Meyerhoff | 1915 [33] | Business tycoon, and former president of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra |
John E. Motz | 1930 [35] | President, Mercantile Bank & Trust Company, Baltimore |
Israel Myers | 1927 | Founder of London Fog, originator of the London Fog coat [36] |
Morton Rapoport | 1952 [4] | M.D., CEO, University of Maryland Medical System |
Martin Resnick | 1949 [4] | Founder, Martins West-Martins Caterers |
Carroll Rosenbloom | 1926 [37] | Former owner of Baltimore Colts and Los Angeles Rams (NFL) |
David Rubenstein | 1966 | Business tycoon and co-founder of The Carlyle Group [38] |
John Schuerholz | 1958 | President, Atlanta Braves (MLB) |
Henry L. Straus | 1913 [39] | Electrical engineer and business tycoon |
Calvin E. Tyler, Jr. | 1960 [4] | Philanthropist; Senior VP, United Parcel Service |
Alumni | Class | Reason for notability |
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Thomas Sewall Adams | 1897 | Economist, Yale University; President, American Economic Association (1927) |
Neil R. Bernstein | 1954 | Head of Advertising and Public Relations Drake University School of Journalism |
John Richard Bryant | 1961 [29] | Bishop, Fifth Episcopal District, African Methodist Episcopal Church |
Alan M. Chesney | 1905 [40] | Dean, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine |
Isaac M. Colbert | 1964 | Dean of Graduate Studies, MIT (1999–present) [41] |
John Henry Fischer | 1927 [37] | President, Teachers College, Columbia University; Superintendent, Baltimore City Public School System, enforced the desegregation of the school system [42] |
Henry Jones Ford | 1868 [43] | Political scientist, Johns Hopkins University, University of Pennsylvania, Princeton University; President, American Political Science Association |
Norman Hackerman | 1928 [4] | Chemist; president, Rice University and the University of Texas at Austin; National Medal of Science; Vannevar Bush Award (1993) |
William W. Howell | 1878 [44] | Dean, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (1899–1911) |
Arthur Hertzberg | 1928 [23] | Former President, American Jewish Congress |
John H. Latane | 1889 [23] | Dean of faculty, professor, Johns Hopkins University |
Leo Lemay | 1953 [44] | Biographer of Benjamin Franklin, du Pont Winterthur Professor of English at the University of Delaware |
Arthur Maass | 1935 [45] | Political scientist, Harvard University (1948–1984) |
William K. Morrill | 1921 [46] | Dean of Students, Mathematician, Johns Hopkins University; member, Lacrosse Museum and National Hall of Fame [47] |
Lindsay Rogers | 1908 [48] | Burgess Professor of Public Law, Columbia University (1920–1959); director, Social Science Research Council (1934–36), [48] and prolific writer[ citation needed ] |
Kurt Schmoke | 1967 [27] | President, University of Baltimore, former Dean, Howard University School of Law; 46th Mayor, City of Baltimore |
William R. Straughn | 1902 [40] | Founding President, Mansfield University of Pennsylvania [49] |
John B. Van Meter | Methodist minister, educator, and the co-founder of Goucher College [50] | |
Orris G. Walker, Jr. | 1960 | First African American Bishop of the Episcopal Church |
David E. Weglein | 1894 [1] | Longest serving superintendent, Baltimore City Public School System 1924–1945 [51] |
Henry Skinner West | 1888 [1] | President, Towson University; Superintendent, Baltimore City Public School System |
Alumni | Class | Reason for notability |
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William Samuel Booze | 1879 | U.S. Congressman, Maryland's 3rd congressional district (1897–1899) |
Benjamin L. Cardin | 1960 | U.S. Senator, Maryland (2007 – 2023); U.S. Congressman, Maryland's 3rd congressional district (1988–2007) |
Charles Pearce Coady | 1886 [52] | U.S. Congressman, Maryland's 3rd congressional district (1913–1921) |
Elijah Cummings | 1969 | U.S. Congressman, Maryland's 7th congressional district (1996 – 2019) |
Charles A. "Dutch" Ruppersberger | 1963 | U.S. Congressman, Maryland's 2nd congressional district (2003 – present) |
Harry Welles Rusk | 1866 | U.S. Congressman, Maryland's 3rd congressional district (1886–1897) |
William Stuart Symington, III | 1918 [10] | U.S. Senator, Missouri (1953–1976); 1st United States Secretary of the Air Force (1947–1950) [53] |
Alumni | Class | Reason for notability |
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Marvin Mandel | 1937 [54] | 56th Governor of Maryland [55] |
Harry Nice | 1898 [56] | 50th Governor of Maryland |
William Donald Schaefer | 1939 [57] | 60th Governor of Maryland; 44th Mayor of Baltimore; 32nd Comptroller of Maryland |
Alumni | Class | Reason for notability |
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Curt Anderson | 1967 [27] | Delegate, District 43, Baltimore City (1983–1995, 2003–2023); longest serving chairman of the Baltimore City Delegation (2006–2018) |
Charles B. Bosley | 1905 [58] | Delegate, Baltimore County, 1914 [58] |
Meyer Cardin | 1926 [4] | Delegate (1936–38); Judge, Baltimore City Supreme Bench [59] |
Anthony M. DiPietro, Jr. | 1953 [60] | Delegate, District 46, Baltimore City (1979–1994) [61] |
John D. C. Duncan Jr. | [62] | Delegate, Baltimore County (1920) and State Senator, Baltimore County (1935–1937) [62] |
Elizabeth Embry | 1994 | Delegate, District 43A Baltimore City (2023-present) |
Melvin L. Fine | 1921 [63] | Delegate, District 4, Baltimore City (1929–1933), Senate,District 4, Baltimore City (1935–1939) [64] |
Tony Fulton | 1968 | Delegate, District 40, Baltimore City (1987–2005) [65] |
Henry R. Hergenroeder, Jr. | 1961 [4] | Delegate, District 43, Baltimore County and Baltimore City (1967–1992) |
Lawrence A. LaMotte | 1966 | Delegate, District 5B, Baltimore County (1983–1994) |
Ervin "Ted" Levin | 1962 | Delegate, District 11, Baltimore County (1975–1994) [66] |
Pat McDonough | 1964 [67] | Delegate, District 7 Baltimore County (1979–1983, 2003–present) |
Charles "Bucky" Muth | 1955 | Delegate, District 43, Baltimore City (1983–1987) [68] |
Wendell F. Phillips | 1982 | Delegate, District 41, Baltimore City (1999–2003) [69] |
B. Daniel Riley | 1964 | Delegate, District 34, Harford County (1999–2003, 2007–present) |
Frank C. Robey, Jr. | 1954 | Delegate, District 44, Baltimore City (1971–1983) [70] |
Samuel I. Rosenberg | 1968 | Delegate, District 41, Baltimore City (1983–present) [71] |
Edgar P. Silver | 1940 | Delegate, District 5, Baltimore City (1955–1965) [72] |
Steven V. Sklar | 1960 | Delegate, District 41, Baltimore City (1969–82) [73] |
Allen B. Spector | 1952 | Delegate, District 5, Baltimore City (1966–1970); Councilman, Baltimore City Council (1971–1977) [74] |
William A. Stewart | 1843 [1] | Speaker of the Maryland House of Delegates (1868); Delegate (1852–1854) [75] |
J. Raymond Buffington | 1929 | State Senator (1959–1962); Delegate (1942–50) [76] |
George W. Della | 1928 [77] | President of the Maryland Senate (1951–1954), (1959–1962); State Senator (1941–1962) [78] |
Ralph M. Hughes | 1966 | State Senator, District 40, Baltimore City (1991–2007); Delegate (1983–1991) [79] |
Julian L. Lapides | 1949 | State Senator, District 44, Baltimore City (1967–1994) [80] |
Nathaniel J. McFadden | 1964 [67] | State Senator, District 45, Baltimore City (1995–present) |
William I. Norris | 1929 [4] | President of the Maryland Senate (1920–1922); State Senator, District 1, Baltimore City (1916–1922); Delegate, District 1, Baltimore City (1904) [81] |
Melvin Steinberg | 1950 [4] | Lieutenant Governor (1986–1994); President of Maryland State Senate (1983–1986); State Senator (1967–1986) [82] |
Norman R. Stone, Jr. | 1953 | State Senator, District 45, Baltimore County (1966–present) |
Alumni | Class | Reason for notability |
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Paul E. Alpert | 1953 [83] | Maryland Court of Special Appeals, Judge (1982–1995); Baltimore County Circuit Court, Judge (1977–82); District Court (1972–77); Maryland House of Delegates, Delegate, Baltimore County (1967–73) [84] |
Arthur A. Anderson | 1932 | Circuit Court, Anne Arundel County, Judge |
Carl W. Bacharach | 1938 [85] | District Court, Baltimore City, Judge (1971–1992); Maryland House of Delegates, Delegate, District 5, Baltimore City (1951–1962) [86] |
Thomas S. Baer | 1858 [87] | Supreme Bench of Baltimore City, Judge (1903–1906) [88] |
John R. Bartels | 1915 | United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, Judge (1959–1997) |
H. Gary Bass | 1960 | District Court, Baltimore City, Judge (1983–present) [89] |
Raymond A. Beck | 1956 | Circuit Court, Carroll County, Judge (1990–2005); State Senator, Carroll County (1982–1990); Maryland House of Delegates, Delegate, Carroll County (1972–1982) [90] |
Austin W. Brizendine | 1956 | Circuit Court, Baltimore County, Judge (1978–1985) [91] |
Emanuel Brown | 1971 [92] | District Court, Baltimore City, Judge (1998–present) [93] |
Albert H. Blum | 1917 | Municipal Court, Baltimore City, Judge (1970s) [94] |
Joseph A. Ciotola | 1938 | District Court, Baltimore City, Administrative Judge (1980s–1990s) [95] |
James K. Cullen | 1917 | Supreme Bench of Baltimore City, Judge (1952–1970) [96] |
Webster C. Dove | 1941 | Baltimore County, trial magistrate [97] |
Robert N. Dugan | 1960 [4] | Circuit Court, Baltimore County, Judge (2000–present) [98] |
Darryl G. Fletcher | 1965 [4] | District Court, Baltimore County, Judge (1994–present) [99] |
Ralph H. France, II | 1958 | District Court, Washington County, Judge (1995–present) [100] |
Sol J. Friedman | 1936 [1] | District Court, Baltimore City, Judge (1973–1991) [101] |
Askew Gatewood | 1968 | District Court, Baltimore City, Judge (1984–present) [102] |
Robert I. H. Hammerman | 1946 | Circuit Court, Baltimore City, Chief Judge (1984–1998), Judge (1967–1998) |
Francis Hall Hammond | 1919 | Maryland Court of Appeals, Chief Judge (1966–1971), Judge (1952–1966) |
Charles D. Harris | 1924 [103] | Chief Judge, Supreme Bench of Baltimore City (1962–1976) |
J. William Hinkel | 1950 [104] | Circuit Court Baltimore County (1981–2002), District Court, Baltimore County (1971–1981) [105] |
Thomas D. Horne | 1961 | Circuit Court of Loudoun County, Virginia (1982– ) [106] |
Neal M. Janey | 1966 [107] | District Court, Baltimore City, Judge (1980–1985) [108] |
Martin A. Kircher | 1948 | District Court, Baltimore City, Judge (1973–2000), Delegate, Baltimore City (1963–1973) [109] |
I. Sewell Lamdin | 1936 | Municipal Court, Baltimore City, Judge (1968–1988) [110] |
Bruce S. Lamdin | 1965 | District Court, Baltimore County, Judge (2002–present) [111] |
Marvin J. Land | 1936 [1] | Circuit Court, Baltimore County, Judge (1971–1980) [112] |
Marshal A. Levin | 1947 [113] | Circuit Court Baltimore City (1971–2004) [113] |
Dana M. Levitz | 1966 | Circuit Court Baltimore County (1981–2002) [114] |
Ogle Marbury | 1899 [23] | Maryland Court of Appeals, Chief Judge (1944–1952), Judge (1941–1944) |
William Albert Menchine . | 1925 [4] | Maryland Court of Special Appeals, Judge (1972–1977) [115] |
Herman M. Moser | 1917 [116] | Circuit Court, Baltimore, Judge (1944–1956) |
Charles E. Moylan, Jr. | 1949 [4] | Maryland Court of Special Appeals, Judge (1970–2000) [117] |
Francis D. Murnaghan, Jr. | 1937 [54] | United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, Circuit Judge (1979–2000) [118] |
Reuben Oppenheimer | 1917 [119] | Maryland Court of Appeals, Judge (1964–1967) [119] |
Theodore Oshrine | 1966 | District Court, Baltimore City, Judge (1985–present) [120] |
Joseph I. Pines | 1939 [121] | Circuit Court, Baltimore City, Judge (1980–1992) |
John N. Prevas | 1964 [4] | Circuit Court, Baltimore City, Chief Judge (2006–2010), Judge (1986–2010) [122] |
William D. Quarles Jr. | 1965 | United States District Court for the District of Maryland, Judge (2003–present) [123] |
Alan Resnick (judge) | 1946 [4] | District Court, Baltimore City, Judge (1974–1998) |
John Carter Rose | 1877 (left to attend University of Maryland) | United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, Circuit Judge (1922–1927) United States District Court for the District of Maryland, Judge (1910–1922); U.S. Attorney for the District of Maryland (1898–1910) |
I. Marshall Seidler | 1953 | District Court, Baltimore County, Judge (1998–2004) [124] |
C. James Sfekas | 1970 [4] | District Court, Howard County, Judge (1998–2002) |
James S. Sfekas | 1934 [125] | Circuit Court, Baltimore County, Judge (1980–1988) |
Stephen J. Sfekas | 1964 [126] | Circuit Court, Baltimore, Judge (2010–) |
Albert L. Sklar | 1929 [127] | Supreme Bench of Baltimore City, Judge (1964–1981); Maryland House of Delegates, Delegate, District 4, Baltimore City (1939–1954) [128] |
Frederick J. Singley | 1930 | United States District Court for the District of Maryland, Judge, Maryland Court of Appeals 1967–1977 [129] |
A. Cecil Snyder | 1936 [4] | Supreme Court of Puerto Rico, Chief Justice (1953–1957), Associate Justice (1942–1953) |
Simon Sobeloff | 1909 | United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, Chief Judge (1958–1964), Circuit Judge (1956–1958); United States Solicitor General (1954–1956) [130] |
Anselm Sodaro | 1927 [131] | Supreme Bench of Baltimore City, Judge (1956–1980), Chief Judge (1975–1980), Baltimore City State's Attorney (1950–1956) [131] |
Morris Ames Soper | 1890 [23] | United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, Circuit Judge (1931–1963) |
Charles Francis Stein, Sr. | 1925 [4] | Supreme Bench of Baltimore City, Judge (1921–1936) |
Marvin Steinberg | 1947 [132] | Circuit Court, Baltimore City, Judge (1985–1996) |
William A. Stewart (judge) | 1843 [1] | Supreme Bench of Baltimore City, Judge (1882–1893) |
Edward O. "Ned" Thomas | 1936 [133] | District and Circuit, Worcester County, Judge |
Robert Dorsey Watkins | 1918 [1] | United States District Court for the District of Maryland, Judge (1955–1986) |
Alan M. Wilner | 1954 | Maryland Court of Appeals, Judge (1996–2007); Maryland Court of Special Appeals, Chief Judge (1990–1996), Judge (1977–1990) |
Alexander Wright, Jr. | 1967 [27] | Judge, Maryland Court of Special Appeals (2008– ), Baltimore County Circuit Court, 3rd Judicial Circuit (1998–2000 and 2001–2002) [134] |
Alumni | Class | Reason for notability |
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Hugh S. Cumming | 1886 [1] | Surgeon General of the United States (1920–1936) |
Alger Hiss | 1921 [46] | U.S. State Department, alleged Soviet spy |
Alvin "Buzzy" Krongard | 1954 | Former deputy director of the CIA; former vice-chairman of Bankers Trust; former chairman of Alex. Brown & Sons; member of National Lacrosse Hall of Fame [135] |
Howard J. Krongard | 1957 [136] | Inspector general of the Department of State (2005–present) |
Alfred H. Moses | 1947 [1] | U.S. Ambassador, Romania |
Leon H. A. Pierson | 1920 | U.S. Attorney for the District of Maryland (1957–1961) |
Philip B. Perlman | 1908 [137] | U.S. Solicitor General (1947–1952) |
Alumni | Class | Reason for notability |
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John W. Anderson | 1964 | Sheriff, Baltimore City (1989–present) [138] |
Thomas N. Biddison | 1924 [139] | Baltimore City Solicitor 1947–58; member, National Lacrosse Hall of Fame [140] |
Devon Brown | 1967 [141] | Director, Washington, D.C. Department of Corrections (2006–present), Commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Corrections (2002–2006) [142] |
Francis B. Burch | 1937 [54] | Attorney General of Maryland (1966–1974); City Solicitor, Baltimore (1961–1963) [143] |
Dennis Callahan | 1958 | Mayor of Annapolis (1985–1989) |
John L. Cain | 1958 | Baltimore City Council, 1st District (1991–2004) [144] |
Reubin Caplan | 1924 | Baltimore City Council, 1st District (1963–1979) |
Michael E. Cryor | 1964 [67] | chairman, Maryland Democratic Party [145] |
Martin "Mike" Curran | 1955 | Baltimore City Council, 3rd District (1977–1995) [146] |
Wilbur "Bill" Cunningham | 1967 [27] | Baltimore City Council, 3rd District (1988–1996) |
Ronald L. Daniel | 1967 [147] | Police Commissioner, Baltimore City (1999–2000) [148] |
Stanley S. Fine | 1961 | Director, Maryland Lottery (1973–1978) [149] |
Philip H. Goodman | 1931 | 42nd Mayor of Baltimore (1962–1963) |
Leonard Hamm | 1967 [150] | Police Commissioner, Baltimore City (2005–2007) [151] |
Hyman A. Pressman | 1930 [152] | Baltimore City Comptroller (1975–1995) [153] |
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Alumni | Class | Reason for notability |
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George Bauman | 1945 [4] | Reporter, WJZ-TV |
Joe Day | 1951 [4] | Reporter, WCVB-TV |
Alan Z. Forman | 1957 | Managing editor, content director, Voice of Baltimore; [154] former reporter/copy editor, Baltimore Sun |
Brent Gunts | 1935 [4] | Former VP and General Manager, WBAL-TV |
H. Corbin Gwaltney | 1939 [155] | Founding publisher, The Chronicle of Higher Education and The Chronicle of Philanthropy [156] |
Gregory Kane | 1969 | Columnist, Baltimore Sun |
Ron Matz | 1964 | Reporter, WJZ-TV [157] |
Michael Olesker | 1963 | Former columnist, Baltimore Sun ; columnist, The Examiner, author |
Hamilton Owens | 1905 [4] | Editor-in-chief, Evening Sun , [158] coined Maryland nickname of "the Free State" [159] |
John Jacob Oliver, Jr. | 1963 | CEO and publisher, Afro-American Newspaper [160] |
Gilbert Sandler | 1941 | Author, writer for the Baltimore Sun , Baltimore Magazine, and Jewish Times |
John Steadman | 1945 | Sports editor, Baltimore Evening Sun [161] |
Alumni | Class | Reason for notability | |
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Jacob Beser | 1938 [85] | Lt., Army Air Corps, World War II; crew member on the Enola Gay ; [162] awarded Silver Star and Distinguished Flying Cross [163] | |
Frederick C. Billard | 1892 [23] | Admiral, Commandant of the Coast Guard | |
Henry Gilbert Costin | 1916 [164] | Pfc., US Army, World War I; Medal of Honor [165] | |
Isadore S. Jachman | 1939 | Sgt., US Army, World War II; Medal of Honor, Distinguished Service Cross, Purple Heart, Croix de Guerre | |
J. William Kime | 1951 | Admiral, Commandant of the Coast Guard [166] | |
Walter B. Massenburg | 1965 | Admiral, Commandant, Naval Air Station Patuxent River [4] | |
Milton Ernest Ricketts | 1930 [152] | Lt., US Navy, World War II; Medal of Honor | |
Louis Waters, Jr. | 1987 | Lieutenant Colonel (LTC), Maryland Army National Guard, Operation Enduring Freedom, awarded Bronze Star |
Alumni | Class | Reason for notability |
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Balamurali Ambati | 1989 | Youngest person to become a doctor [167] |
Richard Askey | 1951 [168] | Mathematician; Askey-Wilson polynomials |
Eric Baer | 1949 [4] | Polymer and plastics researcher |
Edgar Berman | 1932 [169] | Surgeon, first to do heart transplant; physician to Hubert Humphrey [170] |
William Bloom | 1916 [34] | Pathologist |
Louis R. Caplan | 1954 [171] | Neurologist |
Hugh Latimer Dryden | 1913 [39] | National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, NASA |
Wendell E. Dunn, Jr. | 1938 | Chemical engineer, metallurgist |
Solomon W. Golomb | 1949 | Mathematician, engineer, inventor of polyominoes |
Norman L. Hackerman | 1928 [152] | Chemist, former president, University of Texas, Rice University [172] |
William Henry Howell | 1878 | Physiologist; pioneer of the use of heparin as a blood anticoagulant; dean, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine [173] |
Nicholas Katz | 1960 [168] | Mathematician; Grothendieck-Katz p-curvature conjecture |
Lee Kinsey | 1920 [17] | Physicist; astronomer; chairman, department of physics, University of California at Los Angeles [174] |
Morton Kramer | 1931 [152] | Bio-statistician, created international standards in mental health diagnostics |
Simon A. Levin | 1957 | Ecologist, Princeton University |
Charles C. Plitt | 1866 | Botanist |
Robert Resnick | 1939 | Physicist; professor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Oersted Medal (1974) |
Martin Rodbell | 1943 [175] | Biochemist, molecular endocrinologist; Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1994 |
Tracy M. Sonneborn | 1922 [46] | Biologist, geneticist |
Victor Strasburger | 1967 | Pediatrician; medical expert on adolescents |
John Archibald Wheeler | 1927 [77] | Theoretical physicist; Wolf Prize in Physics [176] |
Abel Wolman | 1909 [177] | Sanitary engineer; inventor of modern water treatment techniques |
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Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School (B-CC) is a public high school in Montgomery County, Maryland. It is named for two of the towns it serves; it also serves Kensington and Silver Spring. It is located at 4301 East-West Highway, in Bethesda. In 2023, U.S. News and World Report ranked Bethesda-Chevy Chase as #12 in the state of Maryland, and #574 in the nation.
The University of Baltimore School of Law, or the UB School of Law, is one of the four colleges that make up the University of Baltimore, which is part of the University System of Maryland. The UBalt School of Law is one of only two law schools in the state of Maryland. The University of Baltimore School of Law is housed in the John and Frances Angelos Law Center, at the northeast corner of West Mount Royal Avenue and North Charles Street on the University of Baltimore campus in the city's Mt. Vernon cultural district. The 12-story building, designed by German architect Stefan Behnisch, opened in April 2013 and was rated LEED-Platinum by the U.S. Green Building Council.
Curtis Stovall Anderson is an American politician, lawyer and former broadcast journalist. He was first elected to the Maryland House of Delegates in 1983, was the chairman of the Baltimore City Delegation, and past chairman of the Legislative Black Caucus of Maryland. After serving 12 years, he was elected again in 2002, and served until his retirement in 2023. He was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1992 (Clinton) and 2008 (Obama).
The Bancroft Literary Association and the Carrollton-Wight Literary Society are two competitive forensic societies at the Baltimore City College and are the formal names for the school's speech and debates teams. Founded in 1876 and 1878 respectively, the Bancroft and Carrollton-Wight Societies are the oldest literary societies at a public high school in the United States. Historically, the two societies competed mainly between themselves. The rivalry culminated each year with an annual debate. In the 20th century, the societies began to compete with other secondary schools and some universities. At the time, the teams' most notable rival was Baltimore Polytechnic Institute, City College's chief rival in sports and academics. The Bancroft and Carrollton-Wight Societies disbanded for a time in the 1980s and early-1990s, but were revived in the late-1990s. Baltimore City College is a charter member of the Chesapeake Region of the National Forensics League and the National Catholic Forensic League, and is founding member of the Baltimore Catholic Forensic League and the Baltimore Urban Debate League.
The history of The Baltimore City College began in March 1839, when the City Council of Baltimore, Maryland, United States, passed a resolution mandating the creation of a male high school with a focus on the study of English and classical literature. "The High School" was opened later in the same year on October 20, with 46 pupils under the direction of Professor Nathan C. Brooks,(1809-1898), a local noted classical educator and poet, who became the first principal of a new type of higher institution in the developing public education system in the city begun in 1829. It is now considered to be the third oldest public high school / secondary school in the nation. In 1850, the Baltimore City Council granted the school, then known as the "Central High School of Baltimore", the authority to present its graduates with certificates of completion. An effort to expand that academic power and allow the then named "Central High School of Baltimore" to confer Bachelor of Arts degrees began following the Civil War in 1865, and continued the following year with the renaming of the institution as "The Baltimore City College", which it still holds to this day, with also the retitling of its chief academic officer from "principal" to "president", along with an increase in the number of years of its course of study and the expansion of its courses. However, despite this early elevation effort, it ended at that brief period unsuccessfully in 1869, although the B.C.C. continued for a number of years as a hybrid public high school and early form of junior college which did not fully appear in America in different form until the beginning of the 20th century. Very often the elaborate decorative fancy engraved graduation diploma from the B.C.C. in the late 19th and early 20th centuries was accepted by many other colleges and universities entitling City graduates to enter upper-division schools at the sophomore year,.
The Baltimore City College football team, known as the "Black Knights", or formerly "Castlemen", and "Alamedans", has represented Baltimore City College, popularly referred to as "City", the flagship public college preparatory school in Baltimore, Maryland, United States, for nearly 150 years in the sport of gridiron football. Until 1953, the school's athletic teams were primarily referred to as the "Collegians", a moniker that is still used alternatively today. The team is the oldest high school football program in Maryland and is among the oldest high school football programs in the United States. The program was among the nation's best in the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, finishing ranked in national high school football polls on multiple occasions.
The City–Poly football rivalry, also referred to as the "City-Poly Game" is an American football rivalry between the Baltimore City College Black Knights (City) and the Baltimore Polytechnic Institute Engineers (Poly). This matchup is the oldest football rivalry in Maryland. The rivalry is believed to be the second-oldest high school football rivalry in the United States between public high schools, predated only by the English High School of Boston-Boston Latin School football rivalry, which started two years earlier in 1887. The rivalry began in 1889 and the teams have met 134 times in history. City College leads the series 66-62-6.
Joseph Clemens Howard Sr. was the first African American to win an election as judge for the Baltimore City Supreme Bench and was later appointed by President Jimmy Carter to be a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Maryland, becoming the first African American to serve on that bench as well.
The 1892 Maryland Aggies football team represented the Maryland Agricultural College in the 1892 college football season. It was the first football team to officially represent the school. Maryland played three games, all of which it lost, and failed to score any points. Halfback Pearse "Shorty" Prough gained the only positive yardage for the team against Episcopal High School. He netted 35 yards from scrimmage after first running 30 yards in the wrong direction. It remained the only winless Maryland team until matched by the 1967 squad coached by Bob Ward.
The 1893 Maryland Aggies football team represented the Maryland Agricultural College in the 1893 college football season. After losing all three of its games the previous season without scoring a point, Maryland showed considerable improvement in 1893. The Aggies defeated all six opponents and were named the District of Columbia and Maryland state champions.
Interscholastic athletics at Baltimore City College date back over 120 years. Though varsity sports were not formally organized until 1895, interscholastic athletics became a fixture at the school earlier in the 19th century. In the late-1890s, City competed in the Maryland Intercollegiate Football Association (MIFA), a nine-member league consisting of colleges in Washington, D.C., and Maryland. City College was the lone secondary school among MIFA membership. The 1895 football schedule included St. John's College, Swarthmore College, the United States Naval Academy, University of Maryland, and Washington College. Between 1894 and 1920, City College regularly faced off against the Johns Hopkins Blue Jays and the Navy Midshipmen in lacrosse.
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