Gloucester Alumni

A Sophomore at Harvard, Julia is studying Applied Mathematics. She interned last summer at The Schepens Eye Research Institute supporting stem cell research. She is a sports writer for the Harvard   Read more »

A Junior at UMass Amherst, Jamie is majoring in Hospitality and Tourism. She interned last summer as a Manager at Skipjack’s in Copley Square, Boston. Jamie plans a career in the restaurant busines   Read more »

Steve Maniaci
Gloucester Daily Times

DANVERS - Dave Linquata took off his helmet, looked to the sky and smiled.

The Gloucester tri-captain then walked over to teammate Andrew Fulford and gave him a high-five and pat on the back. They were then greeted by senior Anthony Enderle, who placed his arms on each of their shoulders and said, "We did it. We did it."   Read more »

By Dom Nicastro , Staff writer
Gloucester Daily Times

Gloucester High School has built a strong reputation for its cheerleading the past two decades. So it should be no surprise the Fishermen's co-ed squad beat six other teams for the top spot in Sunday's Massachusetts Secondary School Administrators Association fall cheerleading championship in Newton. The team also qualified for a national competition.   Read more »

Class of 1934

Benjamin Atwood Smith II (March 16, 1916 – September 6, 1991) was a United States Senator from the U.S. State of Massachusetts.

Smith was born in Gloucester, Massachusetts and he graduated from Harvard University where he was a roommate of John F. Kennedy. He served as a lieutenant in the United States Navy in the Pacific during World War II.
He served as Mayor of Gloucester from 1954 to 1955.   Read more »

Class of 1945

James R. Mellow (1926-1997) won the National Book Award in 1983 for his biography of Nathaniel Hawthorne. He was the author of a trilogy of biographies on writers of the Lost Generation, including Hemingway: A Life Without Consequences. In his forty-year career as a writer, art critic, and biographer, Mellow wrote for the New York Times, Architectural Digest, the Washington Post, Gourmet, and Arts magazine.

Class of 1947

Hilton Kramer is the editor and publisher of The New Criterion, a monthly review of the arts, which he founded with the late Samuel Lipman in 1982. Since 1987, he has also been the art critic for the weekly New York Observer, and for many years has written the "Critic’s Notebook" column in Art & Antiques magazine. His "Media Watch" column was published weekly in The New York Post from 1993 to November 1997.

Mr. Kramer was born in Gloucester, Massachusetts, in 1928. He studied at Syracuse University (B.A., 1950), and in the graduate schools of Columbia University, Harvard University, Indiana University (School of Letters), and the New School for Social Research. He has served on the faculties of Indiana University, Bennington College, the University of Colorado, and Yale University. He has lectured widely at museums and universities in this country and abroad.   Read more »

Class of 1937

Gloucester born J.J. COYLE (1928 – 1999) was a successful playwright whose plays were produced on and off Broadway.

He won the Sunset National Playwrighting Award in 1982 for “Wintertime.” Cape Ann and Beyond, his first book of poems, includes “Man At The Wheel,” about the Fishermen’s Memorial. “Pathways (Dogtown)” tells what the playwright learned walking the paths of Dogtown.

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Class of 1959

As president and CEO of CARE, one of the world's largest international relief and development organizations, Bell was responsible for overall policy, administration and fund raising, as well as for CARE's programs in more than 60 developing countries.   Read more »

First-ever Pride Night nets nearly $70,000 for Gloucester High athletics
By Nesli Orhon , Correspondent
Gloucester Daily Times

In a night of music, food and reunions, the Gloucester Fishermen Athletic Association's first Pride Night raised nearly $70,000 Saturday for Gloucester High School athletics.   Read more »

By Douglas A. Moser , Staff writer
Gloucester Daily Times

School officials honored the top students at Gloucester High School last night with the Sawyer Medal, a traditional Gloucester award.

School Committee Chairman Jonathan Pope, Superintendent Christopher Farmer and Principal Joseph Sullivan presented the awards to 14 students in the high school lecture hall.   Read more »

By Douglas A. Moser , Staff writer
Gloucester Daily Times

The Gloucester High School drama club is warming up for its fall production, set to open tomorrow at 7 p.m. and run through the weekend.

Club members chose "Alice in Wonderland," Lewis Carroll's tale of a 7-year-old girl who leaves home to find herself in a strange land with stranger people.   Read more »