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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 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.
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 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.
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 ...
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Fox News anchor Bret Baier recounted the awkward moment that cut his interview with Kamala Harris short Wednesday night, when the vice president’s staff gave him a “hard wrap” despite her ...
Weissman was born in the Bronx on July 12, 1919. After graduating from Townsend Harris High School, he studied business at the City College of New York (whose business school became Baruch College), edited a small weekly newspaper in New Jersey and then became a reporter for The Star-Ledger of Newark, New Jersey.