Robert
Lopez Addresses Hunter College High School Graduates
One Quarter of the ‘05 Class Headed to Ivy League Colleges
Date:
June 23, 2005
Contact: Meredith Halpern (meredith.halpern@hunter.cuny.edu)
Phone: (212) 772-4068
Tony
Award-winning Avenue Q co-creator Robert Lopez will be the honored
alumnus at the graduation ceremony for Hunter College High School’s
Class of 2005 and will receive the Hunter College High School Distinguished
Graduate 2005 Award for his “artistic talents, dedication
to creativity and collaboration in the arts.” Lopez is the
high school’s first male graduate to receive this award.
Lopez, 1993 graduate of Hunter High School, is the co-writer and
co-creator of the Broadway musical Avenue Q, which won three Tony
awards – best musical, best original score and best book of
a musical.
The Wall Street Journal recently named Hunter College High School
as the top public school in the country, judged by the number of
students accepted into the Ivy League and other top colleges.
In addition to Lopez, New York City Council Member Eva Moskowitz
and Hunter College President Jennifer J. Raab will address the graduates.
This year’s class of 172 graduates features 53 National Merit
Finalists and 6 National Merit Semifinalists. One fourth of the
class will be attending Ivy League colleges. Of the class, 9 students
were admitted to Harvard, 4 admitted to Yale, 4 were admitted to
Cornell, 3 to University of Pennsylvania, 7 to Columbia, 4 to Princeton,
8 to Dartmouth and 7 to Brown. In addition, five were admitted to
MIT and four to Stanford.
About Hunter College High School
Hunter College High School, part of the Hunter College Campus Schools,
is a combination of junior and senior high school with an enrollment
of about 1,200 students. Each year approximately 2,000 sixth-grade
students from the five boroughs of New York City take the Hunter
College High School entrance exam, competing for roughly 200 spaces
in the entering class. The seventh grade is the only entry point.
The school is publicly funded (tuition-free), chartered by the Board
of Trustees of the City University of New York, and administered
by Hunter College.
For more information, contact: Meredith Halpern – 212.772.4068.
