Saturday, April 26, 2008

KV Synchronicity 3


The scene: Washington Irving High School
A teacher: I like to a project on the history of the school.
Me: There's great material on that. I happen to know the son of someone of note from my childhood home, Knickerbocker Village, who once taught here.
from wikipedia:
Several famous women attended Washington Irving. Researching an article for the 1960 year book brought up the names Claudette Colbert (Movie star of the 1930s and 40s, notably It Happened One Night), Gertrude Berg (Molly Goldberg star of The Goldbergs on 1940s and 1950s radio and TV), and Bella Spewak, author and librettist with her husband Sam of Broadway plays and movies, including "Kiss Me Kate" (composed by Cole Porter). Also there has been several famous men to attend Washington Irving such as the legendary duo of Damian Rodriguez & Maximo Perez.The author of the book The Courtship of Eddie's Father (later a movie and TV series), Mark Toby taught there in the 1950s.

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