of 1921) Garry Marshall, director, producer, actor (class of 1952) Donald McKayle, stage and film choreographer (class of 1947) Abel Meeropol, teacher at DWC; lyricist, "Strange Fruit", "The House I Live In" (class of 1921) The Kid Mero, media personality, Viceland (class of 2001) Hal Miller, actor, Sesame Street, Law & Order; singer; lyricist; poet; painter Paul Milstein, real estate developer, philanthropist Walter Mirisch, film producer (class of 1938) Tracy Morgan comedian, also attended Clinton and with the approval of the New York City Department of Education, Morgan was awarded an honorary diploma in 2003. Jerome Moross, film composer, The Big Country (class of 1929) Howard Morris, actor (class of 1936) Ralph Morse, photographer, developed the camera that went to the moon in 1969 (class of 1935) Jerry Moss, co-founder of A & M Records (class of 1953) Johnny Most, radio play-by-play announcer for the Boston Celtics basketball team (class of 1940) Jan Murray, actor, television host (class of 1934) Lou Myers, cartoonist, writer for The New Yorker (class of 1933) Andrea Navedo, actress and singer (class of 1988) Frank H. Netter M.D., anatomy artist (class of 1923) Roy Neuberger, financier (class of 1921) Barnett Newman, artist (class of 1923) Herbie Nichols, pianist, songwriter, "Lady Sings the Blues"; left at age 15 to attend City College of New York Barnet Nover, longtime Washington bureau chief for the Denver Post Herbert Parmet (1929-2017) (class of 1948), historian and biographer Basil Paterson, labor lawyer, political leader in New York (class of 1942) Jan Peerce, Metropolitan Opera tenor (class of 1922) Abraham Polonsky (1910–1991), blacklisted screenwriter Bud Powell, jazz pianist and composer; dropped out at age 15 Mel Powell, Pulitzer Prize-winning jazz composer (class of 1937) Robert Poydasheff, former mayor of Columbus, Georgia Henry F. Pringle, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography for his 1931 biography of Theodore Roosevelt (class of 1915) Mario Procaccino, New York City Comptroller and politician (class of 1931) DeWitt Clinton Ramsey, admiral, US Navy (class of 1908) John Randolph, actor (class of 1932) Charles Rangel, United States congressman Maurice M. Rapport, biochemist who identified the neurotransmitter serotonin (class of 1936) Tubby Raskin (1902–1981), basketball player and coach Seymour Reit, co-creator, Casper, the Friendly Ghost (class of 1934) Sugar Ray Robinson, champion prizefighter (class of 1938) Richard Rodgers, Emmy Award, Grammy Award, Academy Award, and Tony Award winner (class of 1919) A.M. Rosenthal, The New York