List of Montclair High School (New Jersey) alumni

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  8. LaPointe, Joe. "In Person; At Home on the Ice", The New York Times , June 11, 1995. Accessed January 24, 2012. "The team's owner, John McMullen, is a local businessman and graduate of Montclair High School, but even he is exploring the possibility of carpetbagging the franchise to Nashville."
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  12. James, Grasshopper. "Reggae Guitar Player Al Anderson" Archived October 7, 2011, at the Wayback Machine , GuitarBites.com, June 7, 2010. Accessed July 15, 2011. "Anderson attended Montclair High School where he learned to play the trombone before getting expelled. He later attended the Berklee College of Music and took up bass guitar. He joined The Centurions, which brought him to the attention of Chris Wood of Traffic, who invited him to play on the band's next album."
  13. Mumford, Fred. "Musical Talent Reunited", The Montclair Times, March 8, 1984. Accessed July 2, 2024. "has been a while since Chuck Burgi was drumming for high school proms and church affairs back in 1970 as a senior at Montclair High School. However, the Montclair resident and drummer for the rock band Rainbow, who received a Grammy Nomination from the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences for its 26th Annual Awards held recently, has not forgotten his musical roots."
  14. Glaser, Brian. "Pinegrove's Montclair Roots Are Showing", Baristanet, March 16, 2016. Accessed March 29, 2022. "The band's breakthrough album Cardinal was recorded mostly in a Montclair bedroom, and singer-songwriter Evan Stephens Hall says that's a crucial part of Pinegrove's sound... Pinegrove formed when Evan and Zack Levine, who went to Glenfield Middle School and Montclair High School together, came back to NJ after graduating from college."
  15. Oguss, Elizabeth. "Still hanging out at the Amphitheater" Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine , copy of an article from The Montclair Times, June 4, 2009. Accessed January 1, 2012. "At first, Dan Karcher, a 1983 graduate of Montclair High School who now lives in Pattenburg, resisted joining Facebook, the social networking site middle-aged people have been flocking to."
  16. Jaeger, Barbara. "N.J. child actresses take their roles to heart: Musical benefits the AIDS fight", The Record , April 28, 1995. Accessed September 17, 2007. "Last year, Leach, a sophomore at Montclair High School, participated in "Kids Care," which she said helped raise approximately $25,000 for the AIDS battle."
  17. Porter, Mark S. "Lucky Number 13", The Montclair Times, April 21, 2011. Accessed January 28, 2012. "'Troop 13 gave me not only a lot of knowledge, but it gave me a lot of confidence,' noted Warren Littlefield, who rose to the rank of Eagle Scout in the Troop. In 1969, a year before he graduated from Montclair High School, Littlefield presented Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin, who also grew up in Montclair, with an honorary Boy Scout Aeronautics Merit Badge after Aldrin and Neil Armstrong returned to Earth after landing on the Moon."
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  19. New Jersey Entertainers, Famous New Jerseyans. Accessed January 1, 2012. "Christina Ricci – b. 1980, Montclair, NJ: Born in Santa Monica, California, the family moved to Montclair, where Christina attended elementary, middle, and high school."
  20. "Rosemary Rice, High School Senior In Play Cast Heading for Broadway", The Montclair Times, September 24, 1942. Accessed February 5, 2021, via Newspapers.com. "Miss Rosemary Rice, Montclair High School senior, and daughter of Lieutenant Commander and Mrs. Albert F. Rice of 119 Edgemont Road, Upper Montclair, has stepped into the footlight spotlight."
  21. Bruder, Jessica. "Idolatry, But In A Good Way", The New York Times , March 27, 2005. Accessed August 7, 2018. "Raised in Newark by his mother, Elaine Robinson, he began singing in third grade at the age of 8. He attended the Newark Boys Chorus School and, when the family moved in 1994, he transferred to Montclair High School as a sophomore."
  22. Rookwood, Dan. "Mr Ben Rosenfield", Mr. Porter (retailer), September 2, 2015. Accessed August 17, 2021. "Though he lives close to Columbia, Mr. Rosenfield never made it to university... 'I barely graduated from high school. I was an unhappy kid, I didn't go to class very often.' All of which made him a surprising choice to return to his alma mater, Montclair High School in New Jersey, as the commencement speaker at this year's graduation ceremony."
  23. Youngs, Stuart. "Great Scott!: Fountains of Wayne tap Montclair connection for album track", The Montclair Times, October 26, 2005. Accessed August 10, 2007. "That's very cool," the Montclair High School grad said with a relief that would make one wonder whether he has offended a family member or former girlfriend in the past.
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  26. Lezli Baskerville, The HistoryMakers. Accessed March 29, 2020. "After graduating from Montclair High School, Baskerville received her bachelor's degree from Douglass Residential College in New Jersey, and later earned her J.D. degree from Howard University School of Law in 1979."
  27. Manual of the Legislature of New Jersey, Volume 206, Part 1, p. 239. J.A. Fitzgerald., 1994. Accessed June 8, 2020. "Assemblyman Colburn was born in Orange on Oct. 2, 1925. He attended Montclair High School, and graduated from Princeton University in 1947."
  28. Fitzgerald's Legislative Manual, 1984, p. 271. Accessed August 13, 2019. "A. Joseph Fortunato, Dem., Glen Ridge - Mr. Fortunato was born in Orange on March 19, 1946. After graduation from Montclair High School, where he was selected for all-state high school honors in baseball, and both all-state and all-America in football, he attended Rider College."
  29. "Gill, Scantlebury Named To MCH Trustees Board", The Montclair Times, December 30, 1993. Accessed January 30, 2022, via Newspapers.com. "Montclair residents Nia H. Gill and Brian P. Scantlebury were recently appointed to the Montclair Community Hospital Board of Trustees, announced Terence J. Dean, board president... She is a graduate of Montclair High School, Upsala College, and Rutgers Newark Law School."
  30. "Meet Montclair's Class of 1956", Baristanet, September 28, 2006. Accessed March 7, 2022. "Attendees for the class of 1956 reunion are an impressive 200 and counting, out of a class of 317. Among those, a number are authors (Montclair hasn't changed that much after all) of unique books. Classmate, Syd Goldsmith, a former diplomat now living in China, is the author of Jade Phoenix."
  31. Nelson, William, ed. Nelson's Biographical Cyclopedia of New Jersey, Volume 2, p. 147. Eastern Historical Publishing Society, 1913. Accessed February 12, 2022. "The boyhood and early youth of Mr. Harrison were passed in Caldwell. He attended the local high school and Montclair High School, where he prepared for admission to the College of New Jersey, at Princeton, and he graduated from Princeton University in 1899. He attended the local high school and Montclair High School, where he prepared for admission to the College of New Jersey, at Princeton, and he graduated from Princeton University in 1899."
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  33. Romano, Jay. "Campaigning With Jim Wallwork", The New York Times , May 16, 1993. Accessed December 1, 2024. "James L. Wallwork, 62 years old, was born in Belleville, where he lived until he was 8 and his family moved to Montclair. He attended the Montclair public schools and graduated from Montclair High School in June 1948."
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  35. Stratton, Jean. "Princeton personality", Town Topics , April 16, 2008. Accessed November 6, 2019. "The second child of Dr. Harrison and Dorcas Wesson, Wendy (actually Winifred, named for her grandmother), she was born and brought up in Montclair, N.J... After graduating from Montclair High School in 1959, Wendy enjoyed a European trip with the family."
  36. "Dr. Virginia Lee Blocks Visiting Here", The Montclair Times, August 27, 1953. Accessed November 16, 2022, via Newspapers.com. "Dr. Virginia Lee Block of San Francisco, Calif., formerly of Montclair, is visiting her mother, Mrs. Frank Block of 14 Forest Street, and her brother, Dr. Max Block of 80 Bellevue Avenue, Upper Montclair...A graduate of Montclair High School and New Jersey College for Women, she received her PhD. from Stanford University in 1950."
  37. Biography of Dr. Allen Balcom DuMont, Baird Television. Accessed August 6, 2019. "In 1914, the family moved to Montclair, New Jersey, where there was an indoor year-round pool available at the local YMCA. He graduated from Montclair High School in 1919, and went to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY."
  38. "Achievement in Education", The Montclair Times, June 25, 2015. Accessed March 9, 2021, via Newspapers.com. "Jordan Harrod, a member of the Montclair High School Class of 2014, has been named to the dean's list at the Cornell University College of Engineering, Ithaca, N.Y, for the spring 2015 semester."
  39. "Kenney, John A., Jr." in Contemporary Black Biography, via Encyclopedia.com, Thomson Gale, 2005. Accessed March 22, 2018. "When the Ku Klux Klan threatened his life and burned a cross on the family's lawn: the Kenney family fled within 24 hours, moving north to Montclair, New Jersey... After graduating from Montclair High School, Kenney attended Bates College, a college founded in 1855 by Maine abolitionists."
  40. Hackett, Natalie Heard. "Montclair Native Josh Allen Drafted into NFL Top 10", TAP into Newark, April 29, 2019. Accessed July 15, 2019. "Born and raised in Montclair, Allen went to live with relatives in Alabama until his senior year of high school... When he returned to Montclair in his senior year, he became a powerhouse athlete on the Montclair High School football team."
  41. Araton, Harvey. "Sports Of The Times; When Dreams Come True", The New York Times , December 8, 2006. Accessed August 7, 2018. "It was time, finally, for Averbuch to win for her school and to better appreciate why her sister, Shira, who is also on the national-team track, recently finished her junior season for Montclair High School."
  42. Bloom, Marc. "Running; Teammates at the Meet, Strangers at Practice", The New York Times , July 11, 1998. Accessed January 24, 2012. "Melisa and Mikele Barber, 17-year-old twins and graduating seniors who are going on to the University of South Carolina, practice under the Montclair coaches Ray Spivey and Doris Ellis at the high school track."
  43. Hurte, Bob. "Dale Berra", Society for American Baseball Research. Accessed December 9, 2017. "Dale Berra was a three-sport star at Montclair High School. He earned 11 varsity letters in football, hockey, and baseball."
  44. Alvin Bowen, Iowa State Cyclones football. Accessed March 14, 2018. "Hometown: East Orange, N.J.; Highschool: Montclair"
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  47. Tober, Steve. "A leader and great teammate: Byrne was part of Montclair's rich history", The Montclair Times, July 15, 2021. Accessed December 20, 2021, via Newspapers.com. "It was the heyday of Montclair High School football... Lineman Bill Byrne was a big part of both the undefeated 1956 squad (9-0) – which is considered by some to be one of the two or three best teams in school history – and the once-beaten '57 edition, which battled back from late-season adversity to finish strong."
  48. Clary Anderson, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed December 20, 2023. "Clary graduated from Montclair High School (1930), Cook Academy (1931), and Colgate University (1935) where he was the quarterback of the famous 1932 unbeaten, untied, and unscored upon football team."
  49. McCullough, Andy. "Montclair's David Caldwell goes from homesick kid to William and Mary star safety", The Star-Ledger , December 4, 2009. Accessed March 14, 2018. "After graduating from Montclair High School in 2005, David Caldwell spent a year as a post-graduate student at the Lawrenceville School. He starred on the football field, but after the season ended, his mother drove him home each Friday for the weekend."
  50. Proctor, Owen. "Montclair civic leader, former Harlem Globetrotter Wally Choice dies", The Record , September 12, 2018. Accessed December 21, 2022. "Wallace 'Wally' Choice Jr., a college and professional basketball player who broke racial barriers in the game and later returned to his hometown of Montclair to start several businesses and a community organization, died Sunday. He was 85...After graduating from Montclair High School in 1952, Choice played basketball at Indiana University, where he was the second African-American to play in the Big Ten Conference, and the first African-American named captain among the conference teams, his son said."
  51. Staff. "Len Coleman: the National League's new president takes charge", Ebony , June 1994. Accessed September 1, 2016. "Coleman's route to the presidency took several turns, but he came with a wealth of experience and a strong athletic background. He grew up in Montclair; N.J., and excelled in baseball and football at Montclair High School. In his senior year, he was an All-American halfback, and the ring he still wears today is evidence that he was a part of New Jersey's All-State backfield that included Joe Theismann, Franco Harris, and Jack Tatum, all of whom went on to the NFL."
  52. "Gramlich-Covello at WPC once again", The Record , September 14, 1987. Accessed March 23, 2021, via Newspapers.com. "Kyle Copeland, a graduate of Montclair High School and Pepperdine University, has been named women's tennis coach at William Paterson College. Copeland spent four years on the women's professional tennis tour, competing in Wimbledon, the U.S. Open, and the French Open."
  53. Avery Ellis, Temple Owls football Accessed October 17, 2021. "Hometown: Montclair, N.J.; High School: Montclair"
  54. Schlager, Ken. "The Mule Who Could Run Like A Deer 80 years ago, a young outfielder from New Jersey helped Philadelphia win the World Series.", New Jersey Monthly , September 14, 2009. Accessed June 27, 2019. "Mule starred in baseball at Montclair High School and went on to play semi-pro baseball in Montclair for a team called the Clairmonts."
  55. Alen Hadzic, Columbia Lions. Accessed July 9, 2023. "Hometown: Montclair, N.J.; Previous School: Montclair"
  56. Garda, Andrew. "Basketball: Ex-Mountie Star Hines-Allen Drafted By WNBA's Mystics", Montclair Local, April 18, 2018. Accessed September 5, 2018. "Former Montclair High School basketball star Myisha Hines-Allen's collegiate career may be done, but her journey looks like it is just beginning."
  57. Goldstein, Richard. "Aubrey Lewis, 66, Athlete Who Was an F.B.I. Pioneer", The New York Times , December 13, 2001. Accessed January 28, 2012. "A native of Glen Ridge, N.J., Lewis was an all-American halfback at Montclair High School in the early 1950s, running for 49 touchdowns and close to 4,500 yards (4,100 m) in leading the school to two state championships. He set state records in the 100-yard (91 m) dash, the 220, and the discus, and he played on undefeated basketball teams."
  58. Andrew Lombard, Northeastern Huskies men's soccer. Accessed December 5, 2017. "Hometown: Montclair, N.J.; High School: Montclair"
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  66. Castillo, Jorge. "Former Braves catcher Earl Williams, a New Jersey native, dies at 64", The Star-Ledger , January 31, 2013. Accessed December 3, 2017. "Born in Newark, Williams later moved to Montclair and starred on the baseball and basketball teams at Montclair High School. "He used to hit the ball so far," said Len Coleman, the former National League president and a lifelong friend who went to high school with Williams."
  67. 1 2 Staff. "Lillian Gilbreth Engaged To Marry; Montclair Girl's Betrothal To Donald D. Johnson Of That City Is Made Public. She Is Smith Graduate Prospective Bridegroom Headed Princeton Track Team and Was in 1933 Class.", The New York Times , October 19, 1934. Accessed April 10, 2011.
  68. O'Donnell, Chuck. "Montclair man's life as colorful as the comics he draws", The Montclair Times, December 22, 2011, backed up by the Internet Archive as of March 7, 2016. Accessed August 7, 2018. "Russ Heath spent most of his childhood sprawled on the floor in his room in Montclair, filling sketchbooks with images of gun-slinging cowboys and ground-shaking tanks, honing a rare talent to realistically render action heroes that would open doors his whole life... Heath, Class of '45, recalls a Montclair as idyllic as Mayberry, where his dad would take him down to the theater on Saturday afternoons to see the serials. Westerns were their favorites."
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  71. Anne's Biography, The Worlds of Anne McCaffrey. Accessed February 6, 2012. "Anne was educated at Stuart Hall, Staunton Virginia, Montclair High School, Montclair, New Jersey, and graduated cum laude from Radcliffe College, majoring in Slavonic Languages and Literatures."
  72. Sherman, Ted. "Fantasy writer, former N.J. resident Anne McCaffrey dead at 85", The Star-Ledger , November 23, 2011. Accessed February 6, 2012. "Born in Cambridge, Mass., McCaffrey was raised in New Jersey, where she graduated from Montclair High School."
  73. Kiesewetter, John. "Miller is reluctant co-anchor on '20-20'", The Cincinnati Enquirer , January 6, 2002. Accessed March 22, 2018. "As a ninth-grader in Montclair, N.J., in 1973, he would listen to the police scanner and ride his bike to crime stories. He'd take photographs and sell them to New York newspapers."
  74. Staff. "Former Montclair resident John Miller to be special guest at 200 Club", The Record , April 28, 2016. Accessed March 22, 2018. "Miller, a former broadcast journalist, got his journalistic start as a student in Montclair High School when he would cut class to attend press briefings in Newark, according to Essex County Sheriff's Office representative Kevin Lynch."
  75. "Culture In Brief: Montclair'S Julia Phillips On NYT's 10 Best In 2019", Montclair Local, December 29, 2019. Accessed February 18, 2020. "Julia Phillips, a 2006 Montclair High School graduate and the author of Disappearing Earth, has made several important lists."
  76. Richard (Purdy) Wilbur, from the Dictionary of Literary Biography . Accessed January 1, 2012. "Wilbur showed an early interest in writing, which he has attributed to his mother's family because her father was an editor of the Baltimore Sun and her grandfather was an editor and a publisher of small papers aligned with the Democratic party. At Montclair High School, from which he graduated in 1938, Wilbur wrote editorials for the school newspaper."