First Girls Admitted to Stuyvesant 1969
Scenes from Stuyvesant High School celebrating the 50th anniversary of the first class to allow female students admission in 1969.
Alice de Rivera brought a law suit against the NYC Board of Education charging discrimination on the basis of gender. Alice won and the first class of 11 female students was admitted in 1969.
Class of 1972 alumni Eve Berman, Evelyn Horn, Laren Herman Lynn, Abigail Scheck, and Suzanne Rose Shapiro attended the celebration. Alice Haines, MD (nee de Rivera) also attended.
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