Dwight Morrow High School

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Dwight Morrow High School
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Address
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274 Knickerbocker Road

Englewood
,
Bergen County
,
New Jersey
07631

United States
Coordinates40°54′29″N 73°58′50″W / 40.908126°N 73.980656°W / 40.908126; -73.980656Coordinates: 40°54′29″N 73°58′50″W / 40.908126°N 73.980656°W / 40.908126; -73.980656
Information
TypePublic high school
EstablishedJanuary 1933
School districtEnglewood Public School District
NCES School ID340474000388[1]
PrincipalBenjamin Suro
Faculty79.0 FTEs[1]
Enrollment1,049 (as of 2019–20)[1]
Student to teacher ratio13.3:1[1]
CampusSuburban
Color(s)  Maroon and
  white[2]
Athletics conferenceBig North Conference (general)
North Jersey Super Football Conference (football)
Team nameMaroon Raiders[2]
NewspaperMaroon Tribune
YearbookEngle Log
Websitewww.epsd.org/o/dmhs

Dwight Morrow High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school located in Englewood, in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States, operating as part of the Englewood Public School District. The school also serves students from Englewood Cliffs, who attend as part of a sending/receiving relationship.[3] Dwight Morrow high school shares its campus with the Academies at Englewood.

As of the 2019–20 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,049 students and 79.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 13.3:1. There were 519 students (49.5% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 90 (8.6% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.[1]

The Academies at Englewood is a four-year magnet high school sharing the campus that serves students in the ninth through twelfth grades from across Bergen County.[4] The program was started by Dr. John Grieco (founder of the Bergen County Academies) serving students in the ninth to twelfth grades in Bergen County. The school was initially created in an effort to diversify the Dwight Morrow High School campus by attracting elite students outside the Englewood community to an academically-challenging, high-performing school, and the program was modeled after his Bergen County Academies.[5] The school was additionally created to raise the standard of public education in Bergen County, and is now part of the Englewood Public Schools District (formerly part of the Bergen County Technical Schools District). Dr. John Grieco also served as the district superintendent during the school's inaugural years.[6] Established in 2002, the Academies at Englewood include five professional and academic divisions.

History[]

Located on a 37-acre (15 ha) park-like campus and constructed at a cost of $750,000 from a design by architect Lawrence C. Licht, the school was opened to students in January 1933 with a capacity of 1,200 students, helping to ease overcrowding at the existing high school and junior high facilities.[7]

The school is named after Dwight Morrow, a businessman, politician, and diplomat who lived in the city; Morrow was also the father-in-law of aviator Charles Lindbergh. The school shares its campus with the Academies@Englewood and Janis E. Dismus Middle School. Dwight Morrow and the Academies at Englewood are located east of Miller's Pond and share the same administration. Janis E. Dismus Middle School, formerly Englewood Middle School, is located south of Miller's Pond and operates independently.

The school had been accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools from 1928[8] until 2012, when the school's accreditation status was removed.[9]

Demographic issues[]

During the 1980s, changes in local demographics drastically altered the school's ethnic body resulting in an African American majority. The nearby district of Englewood Cliffs attempted to end its sending receiving relationship with Englewood due to the poor performance of the school. This led to a bitter court battle between Englewood and Englewood Cliffs beginning in 1985, a move characterized by Englewood as racist. By 1992, the school was 97% African American and Hispanic. "There were more violent incidents reported at DMHS (Dwight Morrow High School) than any other school in Bergen County in the 1991–92 school year, and test scores remained painfully low."[10] Court battles continued, in an attempt to desegregate the high school.

According to Assemblyman John E. Rooney, "white students from Englewood Cliffs, the district trying to end its obligation to send its students to Dwight Morrow, feared for their safety at the heavily minority institution." Most Englewood Cliffs parents have chosen private school over Dwight Morrow High School.[11]

In Fall 2002, a new magnet program was opened up in an attempt to attract non- African American students back to the school. The opening of the new academy led to more discrimination from the viewpoint of Englewood's African American community. The academy was given a portion of the campus to operate on, and the regular high school, Dwight Morrow, continued to operate on the remainder of the campus. The academy has a diverse population and is kept separate from Dwight Morrow while occupying the same campus. This has created two distinct schools on one campus. Dwight Morrow has recently had protests, overcrowded classrooms and an inferior education.

"The books are old and the classes are overcrowded,' said..., a junior. "In my history class at least five students have to stand up each day.".[12]

The academy has highly qualified teachers as well as better resources.

"Academies@Englewood; longer school day, rigorous and engaging core academic curriculum, technology, upgraded classroom materials and equipment not available to Dwight Morrow students, climate reflecting high expectations, inviting classrooms. Students are spirited and proud of their school and opportunities."

Many residents of Englewood feel that the City of Englewood has worked against the progress of the high school by opening up the Academies. About 50% of the students are from Englewood. Englewood's African American community feels the city and the board of education has put its minority residents second with this move.

"For the past three years they've been feeling like second-class citizens in their own town, sharing a campus with another high school touted as academically superior, and getting no respect...The message to kids and parents at that 97 percent African-American and Hispanic high school is that for so-called integration to happen on the campus, you must swallow the bitter pill that tastes like apartheid."[13]

Architecture[]

Dwight Morrow High School has two buildings. One building is called the North building and was the original structure of the school. Later on the Academies at Englewood, also known as the South building, was added to the campus in 2001. The High School's North building was built using Gothic architecture. The North building features a 100-foot (30 m) tower. Currently, the campus shares two buildings: the south building and the north building. The campus also shares the office of the board of education and the superintendent.

Millers Pond on the campus coupled with the Janis E. Dismus Middle School on the grounds lends a collegiate atmosphere to the school.

Athletics[]

The Dwight Morrow High School Maroon Raiders[2] compete in the Big North Conference, which is comprised of public and private high schools in Bergen and Passaic counties, and was established following a reorganization of sports leagues in Northern New Jersey by the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA).[14] The school had previously participated in the BCSL American athletic conference of the Bergen County Scholastic League.[15] With 816 students in grades 10–12, the school was classified by the NJSIAA for the 2019–20 school year as Group III for most athletic competition purposes, which included schools with an enrollment of 761 to 1,058 students in that grade range.[16] The football team competes in the Ivy White division of the North Jersey Super Football Conference, which includes 112 schools competing in 20 divisions, making it the nation's biggest football-only high school sports league.[17][18] The football team is one of the 12 programs assigned to the two Ivy divisions starting in 2020, which are intended to allow weaker programs ineligible for playoff participation to compete primarily against each other.[19] The school was classified by the NJSIAA as Group III North for football for 2018–2020.[20]

The boys basketball team won the Group III state championship in 1947 (against Springfield Regional—since renamed as Jonathan Dayton High School —in the finals), 1951 (vs. Woodrow Wilson High School), 1960 (vs. Moorestown High School) and 1961 (vs. Burlington Township High School), and won the Group II title in 1975 (vs. Pleasantville High School).[21] Led by 24 points from Sherman White, the 1947 team pulled away to defeat Springfield Regional by a score of 49–22 in the championship game at the Elizabeth Armory to win the Group III state title and run their record for the season to 25–0.[22] The 1951 team finished the season with a record of 23-1 after winning the Group III title with a 59–34 win against Woodrow Wilson in the championship game.[23] The 1975 team, led by future NBA player Bill Willoughby who was named to the all-tournament team, defeated defending champion Pleasantville by a score of 70–66 in the championship game to win the Group II title and finish the season with a mark of 27–2.[24] The team won the 2008 North I, Group II state sectional title, defeating Pascack Hills High School 72–65 in the tournament final.[25] The win marked the team's first sectional title since 2005, ending a two-year run by Pascack Hills.[26]

The boys track team won the spring track state championship in Group III in 1965 (as co-champion) and in Group II in 1992.[27]

The boys track team won the Group III indoor relay championships in 1970 and 1971.[28]

Administration[]

Benjamin Suro is the school's principal.[29]

Notable alumni[]

See also: Category:Dwight Morrow High School alumni

Popular culture[]

  • The High School's North building is featured as outside scenery for the show Sabrina, the Teenage Witch.
  • Dwight Morrow High School was used in the filming of the Sidney Lumet film Running on Empty starring River Phoenix, Judd Hirsch and Christine Lahti.[72]
  • Dwight Morrow was featured in the film Gracie.
  • The gymnasium at Dwight Morrow was featured in a deleted scene in the movie Swimfan.
  • The school's auditorium is named after famed jazz musician and long-time Englewood resident, Dizzy Gillespie.

References[]

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  3. ^ Dwight Morrow High School/Academies@Englewood 2015 Report Card Narrative, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed June 6, 2016. "Dwight Morrow High School is a community of learners and teachers consisting of approximately 1055 students and 125 faculty members. Our school serves Englewood and Englewood Cliffs, and our campus is the home of the largest Interdistrict Public School Choice program in New Jersey, the Academies@Englewood."
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  7. ^ Staff. "School Dedicated to Morrow Ready; $750,000 Englewood Building Will Open This Month in a 37-Acre Park. Will Accommodate 1,200 Students; Provided $1,300 Fund to Decorate Halls for Study of English and Latin.", The New York Times, January 1, 1933. Accessed December 22, 2016. "The new $750,000 Dwight Morrow High School here, named in memory of the late United States Senator from New Jersey, who with Mrs. Morrow established his home in Englewood, will be opened to classes in January."
  8. ^ Dwight Morrow High School Archived March 15, 2012, at the Wayback Machine, Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Elementary and Secondary Schools. Accessed June 12, 2011.
  9. ^ Spring 2012 Accreditation Actions, The Standard; A Newsletter from the Middle States Association Commissions on Elementary and Secondary Schools, Spring 2012. Accessed November 11, 2020. "Removal of Accreditation... Dwight Morrow High School, Englewood, NJ"
  10. ^ Tergeson, Anne E. "School denies it's a hotbed of danger", The Record, October 22, 1993, sec. B, p. 1.
  11. ^ Crouse, Douglass. "Englewood School Turns Heads -- Academy Concept May Stop Decline"[dead link], The Record, February 25, 2002. Accessed December 7, 2015.
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  17. ^ Cooper, Darren. "Here's what we know about the new Super Football Conference 2020 schedule", The Record, July 23, 2020. Accessed March 22, 2021. "The Super Football Conference (SFC) is a 112-team group, the largest high school football-only conference in America, and is comprised of teams from five different counties."
  18. ^ Cooper, Darren. "NJ football: Super Football Conference revised schedules for 2020 regular season", The Record, July 23, 2020. Accessed March 22, 2021. "The Super Football Conference has 112 teams that will play across 20 divisions."
  19. ^ Cooper, Darren. "Super Football Conference creating 'Ivy Division' for struggling programs", The Record, May 1, 2019. Accessed March 24, 2021. "Seeking to restore participation and enthusiasm to high school football programs that have struggled to compete consistently, the Super Football Conference announced plans to start a 12-team 'Ivy Division' in the 2020 season. Teams that compete in the 'Ivy Division' will play exclusively against each other and won't participate in the NJISAA football playoffs.... Twelve schools from Bergen, Hudson, Essex and Morris counties have applied to compete in the Ivy Division: Bergen Tech, Cliffside Park, Dickinson, Fair Lawn, Ferris, Memorial, Dover, Dwight-Morrow, Fort Lee, Glen Ridge, Marist and Tenafly."
  20. ^ NJSIAA Football Public School Classifications 2018–2020, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association, finalized August 2019. Accessed October 20, 2020.
  21. ^ NJSIAA Boys Basketball Championship History, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed November 20, 2020.
  22. ^ De La Ree, Gerry. "Fort Lee and Englewood Capture State Championships; White Scores 24 In Maroon Romp; Limited To Six Points In First Half, Big Center Runs Wild In Third Frame To Lead Englewood To 49-22 Win Over Springfield Regional", The Record, March 24, 1947. Accessed March 9, 2021, via Newspapers.com. "Single-handedly outscoring the opposition, big Sherman White led Englewood High School to its first State basketball championship with a 49 to 22 rout of Springfield Regional in the Group Three finals of the 29th Annual N. J. S. I. A. A. Tournament held Saturday night at the Elizabeth Armory before a near-capacity crowd of 4,500 fans. Leading by only three points early in the third period, Englewood came up with a rally that turned the game into a rout. It was the 25th victory for Coach Tom Morgan's unbeaten Maroon Maulers and marked the ninth straight year that the Group Three title has gone to a Bergen quintet."
  23. ^ "Westwood And Englewood Capture State Basketball Championships", The Record, March 19, 1951. Accessed December 15, 2020, via Newspapers.com. "Bergen County did itself proud In the N.J.S.I.A.A. basketball tournament at Elizabeth Saturday by walking off with two championships. Westwood wrapped up the Group II title by belting Ocean City 68-48, and Englewood walked off with the Group III crown by mauling Woodrow Wilson of Camden 59-34.... Englewood finished with a 23-1 record, while its junior varsity also lost only one game and its junior high school walked off with first place in the recent junior scholastic tournament."
  24. ^ via Associated Press. "NJSIAA Finals Produce No Clear Champ", The Daily Journal, March 24, 1975. Accessed March 22, 2021, via Newspapers.com. "Four clubs came to Brookdale vying for consecutive titles, but only two made it as Pleasantville was upset by Englewood and its superstar Bill Willoughby 70-66 Saturday. Willoughby dazzled the defending Group II champs with total show of domination scoring 27 points, pulling down 16 rebounds and blocking six shots. Willoughby was named to the all-tournament team along with Woodbridge's Mark DiDonna and Randy Adleman, Pleasantville's Reggie Miller and Lakewood's Kevin King. Willoughby paced his club (27-2) to its first state crown since 1961."
  25. ^ 2008 Boys Basketball – North I, Group II, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed March 9, 2008.
  26. ^ Stapleton, Art. "Stapleton: Englewood rallies for title" Archived April 9, 2008, at the Wayback Machine, The Record, March 4, 2008. Accessed March 9, 2008. "The Maroon Raiders (19–8), with their first sectional title since 2005 in their back pocket, now will travel to Vernon for Thursday's State Group 2 semifinal against Lincoln."
  27. ^ NJSIAA Spring Track Summary of Group Titles Boys, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed October 20, 2020.
  28. ^ History of the NJSIAA Indoor Relay Championships, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed October 20, 2020.
  29. ^ 2019-2020 Administrators, Dwight Morrow High School. Accessed October 7, 2019.
  30. ^ Spelling, Ian. "Playing the keys to success: Bernard Belle", (201) magazine, April 4, 2017. Accessed August 27, 2018. "Belle started playing in Reality, a band formed while he attended Englewood Junior High School. His sister, Regina – a Grammy Award-winning singer – joined the group. He continued to perform while at Dwight Morrow High School, and, in 1985, Regina paved the way for him to play in her new band, The Manhattans."
  31. ^ Beckerman, Jim. "For Regina Belle, time for a special payback", The Record, October 31, 2004. Accessed June 17, 2016. "It was at Englewood's Mount Calvary Baptist Church, and then Paterson's Friendship Baptist Church (presided over by Belle's uncle, the Rev. Fred Belle), that Regina Belle began attracting attention with her vocal abilities. She sang her first solo in church at age 8; by the time she graduated from Dwight Morrow High School at age 17, she was the church's star singer."
  32. ^ Darnell Carter, Virginia Cavaliers football. Accessed June 17, 2016. "Hometown: Englewood, N.J.; High School: Dwight Morrow"
  33. ^ Rohan, Virginia. "Blast Forward", The Record (North Jersey), March 26, 1999. "After graduating from Englewood's Dwight Morrow High School, he headed off to Harvard..."
  34. ^ "Lew Erber, coach, player, dies at 55", The Record, February 8, 1990. Accessed February 9, 2021, via Newspapers.com. "Clifton native and Montclair State graduate Lew Erber, who served as offensive backfield coach for the Super Bowl XI and Super Bowl XV champion Oakland Raiders, died Tuesday in El Cajon, Calif., after a long illness. He was 55. Erber was an outstanding soccer player for Englewood High School while growing up in Oradell, serving as captain of the Maroon Raiders team that reached the state championship in 1951."
  35. ^ Jump up to: a b Hu, Winnie. "Forced to Pick a Major in High School", The New York Times, August 16, 2007. Accessed August 27, 2018. "But starting this fall, freshmen at Dwight Morrow High School here in Bergen County must declare a major that will determine what electives they take for four years and be noted on their diplomas.... The comedians David Feldman and Rick Overton, alumni of the high school, are scheduled to conduct a comedy writing workshop in October."
  36. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e "Dwight Morrow to hold fundraiser", The Record (North Jersey), June 20, 2007. Accessed November 19, 2007. "The celebration will feature alumni acts including musician Ernie Isley of the Isley Brothers, actor Clarke Peters, and comedians Rick Overton, David Feldman and Michael Dermansky. Comedian Richard Lewis will appear on video."
  37. ^ Rondinaro, Gene. "Picturesque, Affluent West of Palisades", The New York Times, November 3, 1996. Accessed July 9, 2007. "A former football standout at Dwight Morrow High School in Englewood, Mr. Harper was interested in finding a small, diverse community to live and raise a family in away from the media hype of New York's sports world."
  38. ^ Leggate, Jim. "Englewood Native Chris Hewitt Headed to Super Bowl as Ravens Coach; Chris Hewitt is the Baltimore Ravens' assistant special teams coach.", Englewood Patch, February 1, 2013. Accessed August 27, 2018. "Englewood native Chris Hewitt is headed to the Super Bowl as an assistant special teams coach for the Baltimore Ravens, according to a report on NorthJersey.com. Hewitt, a Dwight Morrow graduate, spent three years as a defensive back for the New Orleans Saints before coaching at Notre Dame and Rutgers."
  39. ^ "Ex-Rocker turns 'He-Man" in Live Fantasy Show", The Star-Ledger, February 11, 1987. "....Howard grew up in Englewood and attended Dwight Morrow High School, though he regrets not graduating."
  40. ^ Mansour, Josh. "Happy Birthday To Englewood's Doug Howard", Englewood Daily Voice, May 3, 2016. Accessed August 27, 2018. "Happy birthday to Englewood native and noted musician Doug Howard.... Howard attended Dwight Morrow High School in Englewood, at which time he was introduced to Ernie Isley of the famed music group The Isley Brothers, who gave him his first bass lessons."
  41. ^ Wilner, Paul. "Isley Brothers: A Family Affair", The New York Times, March 13, 1977. Accessed August 27, 2018. "While their older brothers toured America, the younger Isley boys enrolled successively in Englewood Junior High and Dwight Morrow High School. 'We always had lots of instruments lying around the house—Stratocaster Fenders and jazz instruments—so naturally we were interested and decided to learn how to play,' Ernie Isley said."
  42. ^ Laing, Dave. "Marvin Isley obituary: Bassist for the Isley Brothers, he co-wrote many hits including Harvest for the World", The Guardian, June 9, 2010. Accessed June 12, 2011. "The family moved to New York, where he graduated from Dwight Morrow high school in Englewood, New Jersey, in 1972."
  43. ^ Hertzel, Bob. "Janet Murk a true pioneer for women's athletics", Clarksburg Exponent Telegram, July 9, 2015. Accessed May 28, 2020. "Janet Murk, in the 1940s, had actually played for the Dwight Morrow High School boys baseball team … briefly. She played four, maybe five games, before she was called into the principal’s office. 'They called me into the principal’s office and said it wasn’t the proper way for a young lady to conduct herself, playing ball,' she said on the phone from the assisted living facility in which she now resides."
  44. ^ Jackson, Herb. "Jackson: 'Jersey girl' stuck in limbo for Mexico ambassador post", The Record (North Jersey), December 7, 2015. Accessed December 7, 2015. "Jacobson, the former Roberta Steinfeld, grew up in Englewood Cliffs and graduated from Dwight Morrow High School."
  45. ^ Goldaper, Sam. "Jones, Jets' 220-Pound Rookie, Getting Gastronomical Build-Up; Defensive End Has Gained Yardage at Dinner Table but Still Is Too Light", The New York Times, September 3, 1969. Accessed August 27, 2018. "When the New York Jet players line up in the Hofstra University dining room, the waiters give a larger helping of food to Jimmie Jones than to most of the other players.... The same applies when the 22-year-old Jones is fed at his home in Englewood, N. J.... The 6-foot-4-inch Jones was an all-state end at Dwight Morrow High School before becoming one of the outstanding defensive players at Wichita State."
  46. ^ Diduch, Mary. "FTC chairman returns home to Bergen", The Record (North Jersey), June 20, 2012. Accessed June 21, 2012. "When Jon Leibowitz was growing up in Englewood, his friends and classmates at Dwight Morrow High School knew him as smart kid who didn't flaunt his intelligence, and who was friends with everyone. Few could have imagined he would end up running the Federal Trade Commission, a powerful federal agency with more than 1,000 employees."
  47. ^ Levithan, Robert. "MLK, Selma, Marriage Equality, You and Me", Huffington Post, January 20, 2015. Accessed August 27, 2018. "Dr. Martin Luther King was only 39 when he was murdered in 1968. I remember that day clearly. I was a Junior at Dwight Morrow High School in Englewood, New Jersey and I was amongst about ten students who were summoned to the vice principal’s office to discuss how to ‘not have an eruption of violence’ in our school."
  48. ^ Condran, Ed. "Richard Lewis: All Grown Up; Veteran comedian Richard Lewis insists he wasn't raised in New Jersey, he was, 'lowered in New Jersey.'", New Jersey Monthly, October 20, 2015. Accessed August 27, 2018. "Richard Lewis came of age in Englewood, but the veteran comic insists he wasn’t raised in New Jersey. Rather, he quips, 'I was lowered in New Jersey.' Still, the 68-year-old actor/comedian, a 1965 graduate of Dwight Morrow High School, has a soft spot for the town of his youth."
  49. ^ Klein, Alvin. "Actress, 18, Has Some Regrets", The New York Times, October 30, 1983. Accessed December 27, 2007. "Before attending Hollywood High School, she was a student at Dwight Morrow High School in Englewood."
  50. ^ Staff. "Freddie Perren", Contemporary Black Biography:Profiles from the International Black Community, p. 122. Gale (publisher), 2007. ISBN 0-7876-7932-1. Accessed August 27, 2018. "At Dwight Morrow High School, Perren was a member of the marching band, the orchestra, and sang in the chorus."
  51. ^ Apter, Kelly. "The Wire's Clarke Peters in Fringe run of Five Guys Named Moe", The List (magazine), August 3, 2010. Accessed August 27, 2018. "Clarke Peters CV... 1970: Graduates from Dwight Morrow High School in New Jersey."
  52. ^ Chriastiansen, Richard. "Red-Hot Reddin Actor-Author Reaching For 'Highest Standard'", Chicago Tribune, September 14, 1986. Accessed June 12, 2011. "The new comedy, in fact, had its origins in Reddin's own experience in Russia, when he visited Moscow shortly after his graduation from Dwight Morrow High School ('John Travolta's alma mater') in Englewood, N.J., in 1973."
  53. ^ Ledesma, Ann. "Former 'wallflower' blossoms into radiant model", Home News, January 16, 1979. Accessed February 9, 2021, via Newspapers.com. "Looking at gorgeous Tracey Ross, 20, no one would ever suspect that she grew up feeling like 'a misfit, a wallflower, shy'.... Miss Ross, a Brooklyn native who graduated from Dwight Morrow High School in Englewood, had been a dance and theater major at Douglass."
  54. ^ Horvitz, Peter S.; and Horvitz, Joachim. "The Big Book of Jewish Baseball: An Illustrated Encyclopedia & Anecdotal History", p. 165. SP Books, 2001. ISBN 1-56171-973-0. Accessed January 22, 2011.
  55. ^ Staff. "High-Flying Sportsman; Walter Marty Schirra Jr.", The New York Times, October 4, 1962. Accessed June 12, 2011. "He attended public schools in Oradell and graduated from Dwight Morrow High School in Englewood in 1940."
  56. ^ Wells, Amy Stuart. Both sides now: the story of school desegregation's graduates, p. 56. University of California Press, 2009. ISBN 0-520-25677-8. "In fact, Dwight Morrow's 'artsy' reputation was buttressed by its many famous alums, including John Travolta, Sister Souljah, and Sarah Jessica Parker, to name a few."
  57. ^ Stewart, Slam (Leroy Elliot) Archived August 31, 2012, at the Wayback Machine, Encyclopedia of Jazz Musicians. Accessed February 4, 2013. "Leroy Elliot Slam Stewart was born on September 21st, 1914 in Englewood, New Jersey. Stewart started his musical journey at age six playing the violin. Claiming he didn't care for the timbre of the violin, Stewart switched to the string bass while attending Dwight Morrow High School."
  58. ^ Moss, Irv. "Education continues to stoke former Steeler", The Denver Post, January 22, 2008. Accessed January 1, 2015. "The experience took Tepe back to his roots in Englewood, N.J., and to a time when he needed the incentive of playing football to keep him in school.... Born: June 18, 1930, North Bergen, N.J. High school: Dwight Morrow, Englewood, N.J., 1946–48"
  59. ^ "Tolbert Wins First Trip To Honolulu", The Record (North Jersey), December 13, 1996. Accessed July 4, 2008.
  60. ^ David Townsend, WBSS Media. Accessed November 19, 2020. "While in New York, his godfather said Jackson should contact his nephew David Townsend who had been a guitarist with The Isley Brothers. The Isleys produced their band Sunrize with David and drummer / writer Everett Collins and long-time friend Tony Herbert (bass) from David's high school, Dwight Morrow High School in Englewood, N.J."
  61. ^ via United Press International. "Joey Travolta: you-know-who's brother", Eugene Register-Guard, June 7, 1979. Accessed August 27, 2018. "Joey's first appearance was on stage at Dwight Morrow (N.J.) high school, where his late mother directed school plays and musicals."
  62. ^ Reeves, Michael. "Travolta recalls lonely high schooldays", The StarPhoenix, September 28, 1978. Accessed June 12, 2011. "As far as academics were concerned, John was not the best student at Dwight Morrow High School. He confesses that 'I was only an average student.'"
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  64. ^ Modern Gymnast, November 1964. Accessed November 16, 2017. "Greg Weiss: Height , 5-6; Weight, 138; Age, 23; Ridgefield, New Jersey.... Attended high school at Dwight Morrow, Englewood, New Jersey."
  65. ^ Goldstein, Richard. "Sherman White, Star Caught in a Scandal, Dies at 82", The New York Times, August 11, 2011. Accessed August 27, 2018. "Sherman White was born on Dec. 16, 1928, in Philadelphia but grew up in Englewood, N.J., where he starred for an unbeaten Dwight Morrow High School team in 1947."
  66. ^ Attrino, Anthony G. "Former Nets player Bill Willoughby arrested after alleged fight with cops", NJ Advance Media for NJ.com, March 4, 2016. Accessed June 17, 2016. "The 6-foot, 8-inch Willoughby was born in Englewood and graduated from Dwight Morrow High School."
  67. ^ Levin, Jay. "John Winkin, Maine baseball coach who got his start in Englewood, dead at 94 ", The Record (North Jersey), July 22, 2014. Accessed July 23, 2014. "At the invitation of Englewood's schools superintendent, Mr. Winkin joined the faculty at his alma mater, Dwight Morrow High School. He taught history and coached baseball."
  68. ^ Staff. "Georgia, Jersey Gets Negro 'Firsts' In Elections", Jet (magazine), November 20, 1952. Accessed June 17, 2016. "In Englewood, N. J., John T. Wright, owner of a taxi-cab company, was elected the city's first Negro councilman."
  69. ^ Peters, Ida. "What's Happening: Backstage at Center Stage", Afro-American (newspaper), June 2, 1984. Accessed June 12, 2011. "Tom Wright has the role of Gerald. He's 31, six feet and weighs 170 pounds. He's the son of Harold and Winifred Wright of Englewood, N.J. He graduated from Dwight Morrow High School and West Chester State College."
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