Makin, Bob. "Levinson Axelrod celebrates 70 years of service", Home News Tribune, November 12, 2009. Accessed August 17, 2012. "His son is with CBS News as their Washington reporter. He's writing a book that is out soon about his relationship with his father. His name is Jim Axelrod. He's well known. They're Highland Park people. Jim went to Highland Park High School."
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Kolva, Jeanne; Pisciotta, Joanne. Highland Park: Borough of Homes, p. 119. Accessed April 4, 2022. Arcadia Publishing, 2005. ISBN9780738524726. "As larger numbers of Highland Park's high school age students traveled out of town to Metuchen or New Brunswick to continue their education as tuition students, demand for a local junior high school began.... The total expenditure was closer to $362,000. Opened in September 1926 for Highland Park's seventh through ninth graders with Alger Maynard as principal, a formal dedication ceremony took place later on October 14 that included placing a cannon donated by American Legion Post 88 on the new school's front yard. The name Franklin Junior High School was chosen one month after dedication day. From 1927 to 1935, the school served children only up to the tenth grade.... The 1936-1937 school year found eleventh graders in the hallways, and the twelfth grade was added the following year. On May 11, 1937, Franklin Junior High was officially renamed 'Highland Park High School.'"
Current Biography Yearbook, Volume 48, p. 219. H. W. Wilson Company, 1988. Accessed January 23, 2018. "At the end of his junior year he left Highland Park (New Jersey) High School to enter the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where his extracurricular activities included, as they had in high school, debating, track, and the mathematics club."
Freedman, Samuel G."How I Learned Shive", The Forward, November 29, 2015. Accessed June 27, 2019. "He exuded a kind of sullen charisma that I envied, and that marked us, at least superficially, as very different members of New Jersey’s Highland Park High School, class of 1973."
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"Interview with Former Poet Laureate of Missouri, David Clewell", Geosi Reads, October 16, 2016. Accessed February 7, 2020. "Shortly after the My Lai massacre in Vietnam, Bob Stephens read every word of Thoreau’s Civil Disobedience out loud to his 8 a.m. Freshman English class at Highland Park High because he honestly believed that words, used well, had the power to change lives. Small wonder, then, that he was the person to show me the first poems I actually cared about in mine."
"Soterios Johnson"Archived November 29, 2016, at the Wayback Machine, The Highland Park eNews, November 7, 2016. Accessed February 7, 2020. "For nearly two decades, listeners of WYNC would wake up to Soterios Johnson’s voice every day at 6am. Johnson was a radio journalist and local host of NPR’s Morning Edison on WNYC until August 2016. He got his start in radio at Highland Park High School, where he participated in the high school’s radio station after school."
Makin, Bob. "Makin Waves with Highland Park filmmaker John Hulme", Courier News, January 12, 2017. Accessed June 7, 2017. "Longtime borough resident, filmmaker and former basketball star John Hulme chronicles the intense feelings that accompanied the Owls' Rocky-like game against New Brunswick's Zebras in the 1987 Central Jersey Group I championship basketball game in his new documentary Blood, Sweat & Tears: A Basketball Exorcism.... At first, the local filmmaker focuses on the lifelong pain he has felt about New Brunswick freshman Cassius 'Money' Hargrove swishing the game-winning jump shot and snuffing victory from the underdogs as the ball cascaded just out of the reach of Hulme's long arms into the basket."
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Lerner, Gregg. "Highland Pk. prevails, 50-35", The Star-Ledger, March 6, 2007. Accessed August 2, 2007. "Last night, Wallace was indeed a factor, collecting 13 points and nine rebounds while Boyd and Zakiya Sailor netted 14 apiece to send Highland Park to a 50-35 victory over Dunellen in the NJSIAA/ShopRite Central Jersey, Group 1 final at West Windsor-Plainsboro North in Plainsboro."
Puccio, John. "Owls rout Dunellen", The Home News, December 4, 1977. Accessed March 15, 2021, via Newspapers.com. "With its 35-12 victory over Dunellen yesterday, Highland Park turned what was supposed to be a close, hard-fought game into a rout and won the NJSIAA Group I championship."
Howard, Roberta. "Hoots from the Owl", The Daily Home News, November 16, 1955. Accessed May 9, 2024, via Newspapers.com. "Nancy Dorian, also of the class of 1954, made the dean's list at Connecticut College for Women."
"Fundraiser features high school alumni", Home News Tribune, May 13, 2005. Accessed January 5, 2022, via Newspapers.com. "Highland Park high school graduates who have gone on to careers in the media and the performing arts will be the featured speakers at the Highland Park Educational Foundation's spring fundraiser tomorrow. The speakers are WNYC news anchor Soterios Johnson, CBS News correspondent Jim Axelrod and Willie (Paszamant) Garson, the actor from Sex and the City,NYPD Blue,Groundhog Day, and Something About Mary."
"The Highland Park H.S. Class of '96 makes exit", Home News Tribune, June 28, 1996. Accessed January 5, 2022, via Newspapers.com. "Highland Park High School said farewell to its Class of 1996 last night during commencement in the Maude R. Stockman Gymnasium. The valedictorian, Amy Herzog, will attend Yale University."
"Communion Action", The Daily Home News, December 8, 1960. Accessed January 26, 2023, via Newspapers.com. "Stavro E. Prodromou, 17, center, recipient of the Highland Park Fire Department scholarship at Rutgers University, looks on as Louis Figle, fire chief, presents $400 check to Dr. Mason W. Cross, president of the university.... Prodromou, son of Mr. and Mrs. Evangelo Prodromou of 218 Magnolia St., Highland Park, was graduated from Highland Park High School in June."
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Kinney, Mike. "Big Central revises 2020 football schedule for its shortened inaugural season", NJ Advance Media for NJ.com, August 12, 2020. Accessed April 18, 2021. "The newly formed Big Central Football Conference has released a revised 2020 schedule for its inaugural season.... the BCFC is comprised of schools from Middlesex, Union, Somerset, Hunterdon and Warren counties."
"Boys Tennis: Highland Park seniors fuel first Group 1 championship in eight years", NJ Advance Media for NJ.com, May 22, 2019, updated August 22, 2019. Accessed January 23, 2021. "Over the years, Highland Park has been one of the top teams in Group 1, but its had nothing to show for it so to speak. The Owls have won countless Central Jersey sectional titles but have come up short in the Group semifinals and finals. But on Wednesday, Highland Park won the first Group 1 championship since 2011 by topping New Providence, the North Jersey, Section 2 winner, 3-2, at Mercer County Park in West Windsor.... In the semifinals, the Owls defeated Middle Township, 4-1, and the Pioneers won 3-2 against Mountain Lakes."
Borders, Andrew. "Boys cross-country sectionals: Central Jersey featured coverage", NJ Advance Media for NJ.com, November 15, 2020. Accessed March 28, 2023. "While the races for the Central section teams at Thompson Park won’t be a springboard to the NJSIAA state group meet or Meet of Champions, it gives the state’s runners the chance to win at least one title in a pandemic-constrained season.... With Ben Godish leading the way in 16:25.30, Highland Park took the top four spots to sweep Group 1, 28-42 over New Providence with Shore third at 73."
Sullivan, Joseph F. "Popular Jersey Principal Is Stabbed to Death", The New York Times, May 10, 1987. Accessed June 27, 2019. "The killing of the principal, William H. Donahue, shocked the suburban Middlesex County community and brought hundreds of students and parents to Highland Park High School on North Fifth Street [...]."
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L.J. Smith profileArchived January 3, 2007, at the Wayback Machine, Philadelphia Eagles. Accessed June 9, 2007. "Growing up in the small town of Highland Park, NJ (2 square miles, population 14,500), Smith graduated from the local high school as part of a 115-person class.... Attended Highland Park (NJ) HS where he caught 10 TDs and had 143 tackles, 11 sacks and 5 INTs at LB as a senior.
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Anderson, Sue Pitt (Part One), Rutgers University Oral History Archives, August 29, 2022. Accessed December 3, 2024. "KR: You grew up in Highland Park. Is that correct? SA: In Highland Park, yes.... I got an alumni award from Highland Park High School a few years ago. I had to speak at the school assembly, and I was telling, especially the girls but for everybody, that when I was in high school, I really lived a double life because there were [no] female athletes in Highland Park High School, any high school, in the 1960s, '50s-'60s."
Ted Kubiak, Society for American Baseball Research. Accessed June 26, 2019. "As a shortstop at Highland Park High, I didn’t think I was anything special, just one of the guys, trying to do the best I could."
Biography, Biography Channel, backed up by the Internet Archive as of March 24, 2012. Accessed February 7, 2020. "Garson attended Highland Park High School, and after graduating in 1982 he continued on to Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut—the alma mater of such fellow actors as Dana Delany, Frank Wood and Jordan Belfi."
"Soterios Johnson"Archived November 29, 2016, at the Wayback Machine, The Highland Park eNews, November 7, 2016. Accessed February 7, 2020. "For nearly two decades, listeners of WYNC would wake up to Soterios Johnson’s voice every day at 6am. Johnson was a radio journalist and local host of NPR’s Morning Edison on WNYC until August 2016. He got his start in radio at Highland Park High School, where he participated in the high school’s radio station after school."
L.J. Smith profileArchived January 3, 2007, at the Wayback Machine, Philadelphia Eagles. Accessed June 9, 2007. "Growing up in the small town of Highland Park, NJ (2 square miles, population 14,500), Smith graduated from the local high school as part of a 115-person class.... Attended Highland Park (NJ) HS where he caught 10 TDs and had 143 tackles, 11 sacks and 5 INTs at LB as a senior.
