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Townsend Harris High School (often shortened to Townsend Harris or simply Townsend, and often abbreviated as THHS) is a public high school for the humanities in the New York City borough of Queens. [5] It is located on the campus of Queens College, [6] a public college part of the City University of New York system. [7]
The original, James Renwick Jr.-designed Free Academy building on 23rd Street housed the Sub-Freshman school. The school was named for Townsend Harris who, besides his many diplomatic accomplishments, had helped found the Free Academy of the City of New York, [2] later to become the City College of New York, and who was a strong proponent of free education.
Townsend Harris (October 4, 1804 – February 25, 1878) was an American merchant and politician who served as the first United States Consul General to Japan. He negotiated the Harris Treaty between the US and Japan and is credited as the diplomat who first opened Shogunate Japan to foreign trade and culture in the Edo period .
The Post previously reported on many cases of predatory educators, including Townsend Harris HS coach and teacher Joseph Canzoneri, who SCI found exchanged flirty messages with female students and ...
Harris Hall, named in the original architectural plans as the Sub-Freshman Building, housed City College's preparatory high school, Townsend Harris High School, from 1906 until it moved in 1930 downtown to the School of Business. [83] Wingate Hall was named for George Wood Wingate (Class of 1858), an attorney and promoter of physical fitness.
The Classic is the student-run high school newspaper of Townsend Harris High School in Queens, New York.Frequently named [1] the best high school newspaper [2] in New York City [3] by Baruch College's NYC public school journalism awards, [4] the paper has run free of censorship and administrative review since its founding in the fall of 1984.
Symone Sanders-Townsend, who hosts MSNBC's The Weekend, worked as Harris' chief spokesperson and senior adviser during the vice president's first year in office, and served as a senior adviser to ...
Townsend Harris Hall houses the CUNY School of Medicine. Designed by famed New York architect George B. Post and completed in 1908, the Collegiate Gothic-style building is named for Townsend Harris, the founder of City College, and was dedicated in a ceremony at which Mark Twain was the featured speaker.