Theodore Roosevelt High School (Chicago)

Theodore Roosevelt High School (TRHS or RHS) 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.[5][6]

Roosevelt High School
Address
3436 W. Wilson Avenue Chicago , Illinois 60625 United States
Coordinates	41.9650°N 87.7146°W / 41.9650; -87.7146
Information
School type	Public Secondary
Opened	1922
School district	Chicago Public Schools
CEEB code	141105[1]
Principal	Daniel Kramer
Grades	7–12
Gender	Coed
Enrollment	1,181 (2015–16)[2]
Campus type	Urban
Color(s)	Blue      Gold[3]
Athletics conference	Chicago Public League[3]
Team name	Rough Riders[3]
Accreditation	North Central Association of Colleges and Schools[4]
Yearbook	The Roosevelt Log
Website	rhsroughriders.org

Athletics

Roosevelt competes in the Chicago Public League (CPL) and is a member of the Illinois High School Association (IHSA).[7] 1952 was a banner year in basketball with the city championship over Tilden Tech, while the tennis team defeated Senn High School for its championship, Donald "Tootsie" Kerbis being the captain of the Roosevelt Netmen. 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).[8][9]
• George Baker, cartoonist[10]
• Russell A. Berg, U.S. Air Force Brigadier General[11]
• Jerry Bresler (1932), musician, composer, and orchestra conductor. Wrote the school song Go Rough Riders Go in 1931 at the age of 17[12][9]
• Max Demián (2005), performance artist
• Nancy Faust, stadium organist for 40 years for the Chicago White Sox[13][9]
• Carl Foreman, Academy Award–winning screenwriter and film director (High Noon, The Bridge on the River Kwai, The Guns of Navarone).[5][9]
• George Gobel, comedian and actor (The George Gobel Show)[5][9][8][14][15]
• Irean Gordon, painter (1929)[16]
• Cecil Heftel, member of the United States House of Representatives from Hawaii's 1st congressional district (1977-1986).[17]
• Milt Holland, session drummer and percussionist based in Los Angeles[9]
• Adolph Kiefer, Olympic swimming champion (1936), Navy vet, inventor and businessman[18][9]
• 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[8][9][19]
• George Schmidt, former NFL defensive end (Green Bay Packers, Chicago Cardinals)[20]
• Shel Silverstein, poet (Where the Sidewalk Ends, A Light in the Attic, The Giving Tree) and Grammy Award–winning songwriter ("A Boy Named Sue")[8][21][22]
• Ed Short, radio executive, Chicago White Sox general manager 1961–70[23]
• Seymour Simon, politician and judge who served as an Associate Justice of the Illinois Supreme Court (1980–88)[8][24]
• Bob Sirott, Chicago television and radio personality[5][9][8]
• Alvin Weinberg, nuclear physicist, pioneer of the molten salt reactor, and administrator at Oak Ridge National Laboratory[25]

References

1. "High School Code Search". College Board. Retrieved 3 November 2009.
2. Chicago Public Schools: Roosevelt
3. "Chicago (Roosevelt)". Illinois High School Association (IHSA). 19 January 2010. Retrieved 24 January 2010.
4. "Institution Summary for Roosevelt High School". AdvancED profile. North Central Association Commission on Accreditation and School Improvement. Retrieved 24 January 2010.
5. "Roosevelt at a glance". Chicago Sun-Times. June 15, 1994. 95.
6. Cleary, Michael (20 May 1977). "School History". Chicago Public Schools. Retrieved 24 January 2010.
7. IHSA Chicago (Roosevelt)
8. "All Honor Rolls". Chicago Public Schools. Retrieved 24 January 2010.
9. Chwedyk, Richard. The Melody is Always There: The Song of Marty Nye (PDF). Bill Fawcett and Associates. p. 39. Retrieved 9 November 2016.
10. Harvey, R.C. (20 December 2013). "George Baker and the Sad Sack". The Comics Journal. Retrieved 9 November 2016.
11. "BRIGADIER GENERAL RUSSELL A. BERG". United States Air Force. Retrieved 24 June 2018.
12. "Roosevelt High: Why does Arnie Kamen keep coming back?". Chicago Reader. Retrieved January 1, 2014.
13. Vickery, Hal. "Flashing Back...with Nancy Faust", White Sox Interactive.
14. Wainwright, Loudon S. (27 December 1954). "Believe Thee George!". Life Magazine. Time, Inc. 37 (26): 69–71. Retrieved 24 January 2010. At 16, now a fledgling baritone and the owner of a new Ford sedan, Gobel met Alice Humecke, a pretty, dark-haired girl in his class at Roosevelt High School.
15. Johnson, Erskine (14 March 1955), "This Here Unscrambles Real George Gobel", Pittsburgh Press, p. 17, retrieved 24 January 2010, The real George and Alice Gobel met at Roosevelt High School in Chicago ...
16. "Irean E. Gordon - Artists - Modernism in the New City: Chicago Artists, 1920-1950". Retrieved 26 February 2017.
17. "NOMINATE STAR NORTHWEST SENIORS". Chicago Daily Tribune. January 3, 1943. p. 2 – via ProQuest.
18. Brotman, Barbara (23 June 2014). "Adolph Kiefer won gold in 1936, still swims at 95". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 9 November 2016.
19. "Honorary Degree 1999: Leo Melamed". biographic sketch. University of Illinois Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics (ACE) – Office of Future and Options Research (OFOR). Retrieved 24 January 2010. Melamed was born in Poland, from where he and his parents escaped and emigrated to United States in 1941. Melamed graduated from Roosevelt high school in Chicago, attended the University of Illinois at Navy Pier, and has a law degree from John Marshall Law School in Chicago.
20. "GeorgeSchmidt". databaseFootball.com. Archived from the original on January 3, 2014. Retrieved January 1, 2014.
21. Alessio, Carolyn (11 May 1999), "A poet with heart and edge", Chicago Tribune, p. 1
22. "Shel Silverstein". biographic sketch. Office of the Clerk of Cook County. Archived from the original on 2010-02-23. Retrieved 24 January 2010. High School: Roosevelt High School, Chicago
23. "Ex-Sox GM Ed Short dies at 64". Chicago Tribune. 16 July 1984. Retrieved 9 November 2016.
24. Jensen, Trevor; Sjostrom, Joseph (27 September 2006), "Seymour Simon: 1915 - 2006: An independent political mind Chicagoan was true to his beliefs in a career in politics and law that spanned nearly 70 years", Chicago Tribune, retrieved 24 January 2010, Simon, who was born on Aug. 10, 1915, grew up in Albany Park, the son of a lawyer. He was a graduate of Roosevelt High School and Northwestern University, where he attended law school and graduated first in his class in1938.
25. Angie Cannon (March 25, 2001). "A Nation of New Cities". US News and World Report. Archived from the original on January 3, 2014. Retrieved June 1, 2013.

External links

• Official website