Security Advisor (1987–1989) Sal Restivo 1965 – pioneer ethnographer of science; one of the founders of the sociology of mathematics; founding member and former president of the Society for Social Studies of Science Julius Rosenberg – infamous convicted spy during the Cold War Robert F. Wagner Sr. – United States Senator from New York, 1927-1949 Michele Wallace 1975 – major figure in African-American studies, feminist studies and cultural studies Stephen Samuel Wise 1891 – Reform rabbi, early Zionist and social justice activist Marilyn Zayas 1965 - Judge, Ohio's First District Court of Appeals The arts Maurice Ashley 1993 – first African-American International Chess Grandmaster Paddy Chayefsky – playwright and screenwriter; wrote Marty, Hospital and Altered States Carl Dreher 1917 – sound engineer, nominated for Sound Recording Academy Awards for the films The Gay Divorcee and I Dream Too Much Ira Gershwin 1918 – lyricist, collaborator with, and brother of George Gershwin Marv Goldberg 1964 – music historian in the field of rhythm & blues Hazelle Goodman 1986 – stage, screen and TV actress; first African-American to hold a leading role in a Woody Allen film, Deconstructing Harry Arthur Guiterman – humorous poet Luis Guzmán – actor E.Y. "Yip" Harburg 1918 – lyricist (The Wizard of Oz, Finian's Rainbow) Judd Hirsch 1960 – actor Alvin Hollingsworth - painter, co-organizer of African American artist contributors to 1963 March on Washington, and early comic book artist Ernest Lehman 1937 (BS) – screenwriter (North by Northwest, The Sound of Music, Sweet Smell of Success, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?) David Margulies – actor Jackie Mason – comedian and actor Sterling Morrison 1970 – musician, co-founder of The Velvet Underground Zero Mostel 1935 – actor Faith Ringgold 1959 – artist and children's book author and illustrator Edward G. Robinson 1914 – actor Richard Schiff 1983 – Emmy Award-winning actor; star of The West Wing (his character, Toby Ziegler, also attended CCNY) Ben Shahn – artist Gabourey Sidibe – actress Alfred Stieglitz 1884 – photographer Eli Wallach 1938 MA – actor Literature and journalism Alan Abelson 1942 – columnist, former editor, Barron's Morris Raphael Cohen – philosopher, lawyer, and legal scholar Dan Daniel 1910 – Dean of American Sportswriters Davidson Garrett 1988- American poet Gary Gruber 1962 – best selling author, educator, physicist Oscar Hijuelos 1975 – won the 1990 Pulitzer Prize for his novel The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love Jack Kroll 1937 –