Gloucester Alumni

Mike Jensen, the Emmy award-winning former Chief Financial Correspondent for NBC News, was named by TV Guide as the best economics/business correspondent in America.

In his 40 years as a journalist for NBC Nightly News, the Today Show and The New York Times, he has covered every major economic event of our times, reporting from the oil fields of the Persian Gulf, the trading rooms of Wall Street, and Alan Greenspan’s inner-sanctum at the Federal Reserve in Washington, DC.

Jensen was in Germany when the Berlin Wall came down, in China after Tiananmen Square exploded in violence, and in Russia and Poland when Communism fell. In the U.S., he reported on the energy crisis of the ‘70s, the stock market boom and crash of the ‘80s, corporate downsizing in the ‘90s, and the Internet revolution in the new millennium.   Read more »

His professional achievements alone were enough to assure the deep, wide maw created in the advertising world when Gloucester-raised Ray Welch left it and the rest of the world two weeks ago.

He was silenced in his 69th year for the first and only time, by cancer.   Read more »

CLASS of 1964

First Fishermen ever to record 100 career points. His 109 points rank seventh all-time in Gloucester Hockey. Played collegiate hockey at Harvard.   Read more »

President of the GHS Class of 1957

Tom, as he was known by his classmates, was born in Gloucester in 1939. He studied piano with Florence Reynolds and Don Oaks, and saxophone and clarinet with Antonio “Tony” Gentile and Andy Jacobson while playing in the GHS ROTC marching band. While at GHS he also played saxophone in the “Modernaires,” a local dance band in which his brother Peter (GHS 1955) played piano. Tom subsequently formed his own big band, made up of GHS musicians, and he led smaller groups that played at local dances and weddings.   Read more »

Class of 1973 Assistant Professor

 
University of Missouri-Columbia
Columbia, MO  Dr. Williams joined the School of Nursing faculty in 1999. She has an undergraduate degree in education from the University of Maine at Orono, and a Master's Degree in animal physiology from the University of Arizona and a PhD in physiology from Pennsylvania State University.   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 »