Clinton co-ed facts wrong

To the editor:

(re: “Clinton’s long history outshined only by alumni like Stan Lee, Ralph Lauren,” Aug. 22)

While it was great reading about my alma mater in the Back to School section, the report that the school was all boys until 1939 was misleading.

It may have admitted girls during World War II, as the date may indicate, but when I moved into the Kingsbridge neighborhood in 1943, it was an all-boys school, and was still an all-boys school during the years I attended from 1946 to 1949, the year I graduated.

And it stayed all-male for many years after.

Furthermore, the school population — all male — during my years at the affectionately known “Castle in the Parkway” was 3,000.

All boys.

Avrum Hyman

EDITOR’S NOTE: Our report about when DeWitt Clinton High School went co-ed was in error, and is corrected in this week’s edition.

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