In our May, 2010 Newsletter we issued the challenge to identify and find three FRHS alumni whose graduation photos appear in our alumni photo archives. One is a noted psychologist. Another is a world famous violinist. And the third is a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist.

Practically everyone who took up this challenge was able to identify the psychologist as Dr. Joyce Brothers. However, had they not done a little research beforehand to discover that Dr. Brothers' maiden name is Bauer, they would not have been able to find her photo among the graduates from her class of January, 1944.

Joyce (Bauer) Brothers
On the left is Joyce (Bauer) Brothers' graduation photo from FRHS in January, 1944. In the yearbook she listed her desire to become a psychologist. On the right she is on stage in 1955 with Hal March, the emcee of the $64,000 Question. She won the entire prize in the category of boxing and was untainted by the rigging scandals that destroyed the TV quiz shows of that era along with some of their contestants.

As far as the famous violinist is concerned, only one person speculated in this category but then dismissed the notion that Samuel Rhodes, the violist for the Julliard String Quartet could have been the one. Rhodes never attended FRHS. And, his claim to fame is with the viola. Although, he might have grown up in nearby Laurelton.

As it turns out there are now actually two famous FRHS violinists that fit in this category. However, at the time when this challenge was first issued, we did not have the photo of Murray Klein (class of June, 1946) on the website. Klein changed his name to Korda and later became famous as a violinist and orchestra leader who performed for eight U.S. presidents and 37 heads of other countries. Murray Korda died tragically in 1998 in a traffic accident near his home in Vermont.

Stuart Canin
On the left is Stuart Canin's graduation photo from FRHS in June of 1943. Canin's initial claim to fame came in 1959 when he won First Prize at the Paganini International Violin Competition in Genoa, Italy. As concertmaster of the San Francisco Symphony from 1970 to 1980, Mr. Canin was frequently featured as soloist in concerts including in Moscow, Leningrad, Berlin, and Tokyo. On the right he appears in a publicity photo for his current position as the concertmaster of the LA Opera Orchestra.

A few people surmised that the Pulitzer Prize winning journalist was Richard Cohen (FRHS, 1958). This was a good guess considering that Cohen is a famous journalist for the Washington Post. He was a finalist four times for the Pulitzer Prize in the commentary category, but never won the award.

Alan Kriegsman
On the left is Alan Kriegsman's graduation photo from FRHS in June of 1945. Kriegsman has had an illustrious career as a musican, as an academic and as as a journalist. In 1976, while working for the Washington Post as the paper's perfoming arts critic, he won the Pulitzer Prize for his critical writing about "Dance". On the right is a photo of Mr. Kriegsman attending a social gathering in New York City in 2006.