George W. Hewlett High School

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**George W. Hewlett High School** (commonly known as Hewlett High School, or HHS, and replacing Woodmere High School) is a four-year public high school in Hewlett, New York. Located in the Five Towns area of Long Island, it is the only high school in the Hewlett-Woodmere Public School District (District 14).

As of the 2018–19 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,039 students and 96.6 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 10.8:1. There were 212 students (20.4% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 37 (3.6% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.

## Academics

Hewlett is a National Academy of Music Arts and Sciences school and is one of three Nassau County Districts "that is certified as a CISCO CCNA Academy".

## Notable alumni

Many of Hewlett High School's more distinguished alumni have been recognized by plaques on the school's walls that name them as members of the school's Alumni Hall of Fame. The following are among the school's notable former students:

* Ross Bleckner (1967) – artist
* Brian Burns – Emmy Nominated Writer and Producer Entourage, Blue Bloods, and Daddy's Home (film)
* Edward Burns (1986) – actor, producer, writer, and director
* Howard Deutch – director of several hit movies, married to actress Lea Thompson
* Jimmy Diresta (1985) – television personality, *Dirty Money*
* John DiResta (1982) – comedian
* Meredith Eaton – actress known for such shows as Boston Legal and NCIS
* Gordon Edelstein (1972) – artistic director of the Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven, Connecticut
* Jane Friedman – President and CEO, HarperCollins; recently named on *Vanity Fair'*s list of 200 Women Legends, Leaders and Trailblazers
* Jeffrey M. Friedman (1971) – scientist
* Lisa Glasberg (AKA Lisa G.) (1974) – NYC radio DJ
* Barbara Gaines (1975) – *Late Night with David Letterman* Emmy Award–winning producer
* Jordan Gelber (1993) – film, TV and Broadway actor, all-around bon-vivant, and summer stock
* Rande Gerber (1980) – nightclub owner, married to Cindy Crawford
* Brent Glass (1965) – director of the Smithsonian National Museum of American History
* Louise Glück (1961) – poet, Nobel Prize in Literature in 2020, Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1993, United States Poet Laureate 2003-04
* Larry "Melrose Larry Green" Greenblatt
* Carolyn Gusoff (1980) – news anchor/reporter WNBC Channel 4, NYC
* David M. Israel (1980) – TV producer and writer
* Donna Karan (1966) – fashion designer
* Peter Keisler (1977) – Supreme Court law clerk and former acting Attorney General of the United States
* Tony Kornheiser (1965) – sportscaster/sportswriter, ESPN's *Pardon the Interruption*
* Gwen Marcus (1974) – Executive Vice President and General Counsel, Showtime (TV network)
* Bruce Murray (1981) – radio sportscaster
* Modi Rosenfeld (1988) – comedian, actor
* Seth Rudetsky – Emmy Award–winning writer at *The Rosie O'Donnell Show*, musician, radio personality
* Max Seibald (2005) – player for Long Island Lizards of Major League Lacrosse and Philadelphia Wings of National Lacrosse League
* Neal Simon (1986) – CEO of Bronfman Rothschild
* Dr. Joe Sobel (1963) – meteorologist, AccuWeather
* Jim Steinman (1965) – musical producer, known for collaboration with Meat Loaf and Bonnie Tyler
* Jonathan Tiomkin (1997) – Olympic athlete (fencing), member of gold-medal 2003 Pan Am Games team; silver medalist individually; 2003 and 1999 U.S. national champion
* Van Toffler (1976) – president of Viacom's Music & Logo Group, including MTV and VH1
* Stuart Weitzman (1958) – shoe designer
* Alan Zweibel (1968) – screenwriter and comedy writer, *Saturday Night Live*
* Debbie Drimmer – VP of Talent, Comedy Central
* Matthew Laurance – actor (Mel Silver on *Beverly Hills 90210*), sideline analyst on the "Duke Radio Network"
* Lisa Schwarzbaum – movie critic

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1. ↑ School data for George W Hewlett High School, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed September 4, 2020.
2. ↑ Outstanding Programs Template:Webarchive, accessed October 2, 2006
3. ↑ Hewlett-Woodmere Alumni Association Hall of Fame website Template:Webarchive, accessed May 2, 2008, and Hewlett-Woodmere Alumni Association Hall of Fame inductees, backed up by Internet Archive as of June 23, 2007, accessed April 23, 2007.
4. ↑ Harrison, Helen A. "LIVES IN ART: Building Up, Taking Apart; An Artist's Investigation Of Loss and Memory", *The New York Times*, January 2, 2005. Accessed March 31, 2008. "And although he found few kindred spirits among his classmates at George W. Hewlett High School, he had art teachers *who basically let me sit in art class whenever I wanted -- before school, during school and after school -- and play around.*"
"1966: Donna Karan Graduates from Hewlett High School", *Newsday*. Access\*ed June 11, 2007.
6. ↑ Van Gelder, Lawrence. "INTERVIEW; Her Winning Way With Fashion", *The New York Times*, October 16, 1977. Accessed September 15, 2008. "And suddenly, at the age of 29, Donna Karan, who grew up in Woodmere, Who lied about her age to begin selling women's clothes at 14 in Cedarhurst, and who now lives in Lawrence, was at the top of her fashion world."
7. ↑ Archived copy.
8. ↑ Joe Sobel
9. ↑ Jon Tiomkin
10. ↑ http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0491005/