teams. Current schools As of 2010, four schools, each with a separate faculty and admissions procedures, share the Jamaica Educational Campus. They are: Achievements From 1982 until 1988, Jamaica High School had the only post-WWII high school lacrosse team among Public Schools Athletic League (PSAL) schools. Jamaica High School also held an annual boat race in their pool, where students demonstrated their knowledge of laws of physics and art skills. Following the renovation of its athletic field around 2003, Jamaica High School fielded a football team for the first time in around 50 years. Principals for a Day included actors Ed Lover and Steve Harvey, and Gold medal Olympic winner and graduate of Jamaica High School, Bob Beamon. New York City Schools Chancellor Frank Macchiarola also served as an interim principal in late 1981. Notable alumni Marilyn Aschner (born 1948), professional tennis player Obba Babatundé , (1951–), motion picture actor, television actor Dawson's Creek, appeared on Broadway in Dreamgirls Bob Beamon , Olympic athlete and world record holder in the long jump for 23 years Laurie Bird , film actress and photographer Anna Blackburne-Rigsby (1961-), Chief Judge of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals Marcie Blane , (1944–), pop singer Ato Boldon (transferred out), Olympic athlete Paul Bowles , (1910–1999), author and composer Art Buchwald , Pulitzer Prize-winning humorist and cartoonist John Carisi , (1922–1992), jazz trumpeter, composer and arranger Bill Chadwick, (1915–2009) National Hockey League referee and Hall of Famer The Cleftones: Charlie James (McGhee) ; William McClane ; Herb Cox ; Berman Patterson ; and Warren Corbin (deceased) William Jelani Cobb , author Eileen Cole , International award-winning artist Francis Ford Coppola, (1939–), film director Whitfield Diffie , cryptographer and one of the pioneers of public-key cryptography Julie Dash , film director Ann Druyan , Emmy Award-winning and Peabody Award-winning television writer and producer, Creative Director of NASA's Voyager Interstellar Message Project Alan Dugan , (1923–2003), Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Gertrude B. Elion , (1918–1999). Nobel Prize winner, 1988 Physiology/Medicine. Ashrita Furman, (1954–) set more than 160 official Guinness World Records Douglas Gerstein , Clinical professor of ophthalmology at UC San Francisco Stephen Jay Gould , (1941–2002), paleontologist, geologist, historian of science Laura Z. Hobson , (1900–1986), author Young Kwok "Corky" Lee , (1947-2021), Journalistic Photographer Sheila Jackson-Lee , (1950–) represents Samuel Leibowitz , (1893–1978) attorney for the Scottsboro Boys Gerald S. Lesser (1926–2010), psychologist who played a