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The Norman Thomas High School for Business and Commercial Education is a public high school in the Murray Hill neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City under the New York City Department of Education. Formerly known as Central Commercial High School, and before that, the Central School of Business and Arts, its former location was on 42nd Street in a structure constructed with a 20-story office building in the air rights above it. It was renamed after Presbyterian minister and Socialist activist Norman Thomas and moved to occupy the first nine floors of 3 Park Avenue, a 42-story skyscraper on East 33rd Street at Park Avenue in 1975. The high school was originally designed to train students for secretarial and commercial occupations such as accounting, bookkeeping, merchandising and salesmanship, clerical skills, stenography and typing. As of 1940, every senior at Central Commercial High School was required to complete four weeks of work in an office during the last semester.〔Pennsylvania Association of School and College Placement. ''School and college placement'' Philadelphia: Pennsylvania Association of School and College Placement, 1940; Vol. 1, p. 64〕 In later years, this has expanded to include such topics as data processing〔Johnson, Bob. "Data Processing Finding Place in NYC Schools" ''Computerworld'' July 6, 1981; p. 18〕 and physical distribution〔''Handling & Shipping Management'' Cleveland: Penton/IPC, 1983. Volume 24, pp. 35, 89〕 == Notable alumni == *Luis Flores, professional basketball player *Aurelia Greene, Assemblywoman and deputy Bronx borough president *Armelia McQueen, actress *Special K, rapper *Kool Moe Dee, rapper *Tito Puente, Latin jazz and salsa musician and composer〔Loza, Steven Joseph. ''Tito Puente and the Making of Latin Music'' Champaign, Illinois: University of Illinois Press, 1999; p. 1〕 *Barbara Alston, Mary Thomas, and Myrna Girard, three of the original members of The Crystals; recorded their first single, "There's No Other" while wearing their prom dresses, as they had come to the recording studio straight from the CCHS prom〔Warner, Jay. ''American Singing Groups: A History from 1940 to Today'' Milwaukee: Hal Leonard Corporation, 2006; p. 351〕 *John Kerwin, talk show host 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Norman Thomas High School」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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