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{{infobox school | name	Lakeside School | Logo lakeside_school.gif | established 1914 | type Private | head_name Head of School | head Bernie Noe | endowment $163 million | free_label Religious Affiliation | free None | city Seattle | state Washington | locale Suburban | country USA | students 776 | faculty 111 | grades 5-12 | mascot Lion | school_colors Maroon, Gold | website www.lakesideschool.org }}

Lakeside School is an elite private school located in the Haller Lake neighborhood at the north city limits of Seattle, Washington, USA, for grades 5–12.

Lakeside regularly sends approximately 25% of its graduating class to Ivy League schools, and 99% to college. Its most famous alumni are Bill Gates and Paul Allen, founders of Microsoft, who got their start programming tic-tac-toe on a time-shared computer provided by the Lakeside Mothers' Association and the Lakeside Mathematics Department. Other famous alumni include the McCaw brothers, who built a family business into the McCaw Cellular telephone empire which they eventually sold to AT&T; Wireless; actor Adam West; bestselling author Po Bronson; and former Washington State Governor Booth Gardner. Lakeside is commonly regarded as one of the top preparatory high schools in the North West.

History

It was founded in 1914 by Frank Moran as the Moran School on Bainbridge Island. In 1919, it moved to the waterfront Denny-Blaine neighborhood of Seattle and became the Moran-Lakeside School. In 1923 it moved to the present site of The Bush School in Washington Park and changed its name to the Lakeside Day School for Younger Boys soon thereafter. A few years later, Lakeside moved to its present location. It became coeducational upon merger with St. Nicholas, a Capitol Hill girls' school, in 1971.

Global Service Learning

Established in the summer of 2005, the school's Global Service Learning Program aims at helping students gain a broader view of the world while helping the underprivileged around the world. In 2005, students visited India, Peru, and China; in the summer of 2006 students travelled to Peru, China, Morocco, and the Dominican Republic. In the summer of 2007, 86 Upper School students traveled to Peru, China, Morocco, India, and the Dominican Republic. This list grew to include Senegal as an option for the 2009 summer trips. The Middle School opened its first Global Service Learning Program for seventh graders with trips to the Makah Indian Reservation on Neah Bay in the summer of 2006, and has sent an eighth grade trip to Costa Rica every summer since 2007.

The Global Service Learning Program is one piece of a broad change in curriculum and administrative policies aimed at increasing diversity . The school has focused on, in recent years, its role as an elite prep school and its desire for diverse viewpoints and backgrounds of its curriculum, faculty, and students.

Lakeside students have the opportunity to study abroad during their junior year of high school through schools called School Year Abroad, the Mountain School, the Rocky Mountain Semester, the Maine Coast Semester, and CityTerm. Students may apply in the winter of their sophomore year to spend part of their junior year at one of these schools.

Lakeside has a long tradition in engaging students in global affairs. In 1984, Lakeside students competed against students at Moscow School #20 in a chess match relayed by Telex. The event was one of the first of its kind. A yearly exchange program with Moscow School #20 was begun in 1986, the first such regular American-Soviet school exchange in the country. Since 1984, the schools have been sister schools.

Student Clubs and Programs

Lakeside has many different student clubs and programs including:

AcaFellas (all-male a cappella group)

Amnesty International

BELLAS (all-female a cappella group)

Blue Suede Shoes (Swing dancing)

BSU (Black Student Union)

Chess Team

Diacritical Political

Fencing

GLOW (Gay, Lesbian, or Whatever)

Imago

Information Technology Assistants

Knowledge Bowl

LAPS (Lakeside Asian Pacific Students)

Lakeside Outside

Lakeside Sentinel

Meditation

MIXED (Multicultural Initiators eXperiencing and Encouraging Diversity)

Model United Nations (MUN)

Philosophy

SSASF

Science Olympiad

Student Government

Squash

Student Newspaper: "Tatler"

Youth in Government

Facts and figures

Facts and figures (as of September 2010):

Enrollment: 776 (399 boys, 377 girls)

Faculty: 111 (50 men, 61 women)

Faculty with advanced degrees: 79%

Student/Teacher Ratio: 9:1

Average Class Size: 16

Faculty of color: 20.5%

Students of Color: 45%

Percentage of College-Bound Graduates: 100%

Tuition: $25,250

Library Volumes: 37,500

Laptops required: grades 7-12

Endowment: approx. $163,000,000

Percentage of students under the financial aid program: 30%

National Merit

National Merit winners: 12 (from a class of 148 in 2011)

National Merit semifinalists: 36

National Merit commended: 42

National Achievement Scholar Award winners: 8

National Hispanic Recognition Award winners: 2

63% of senior class recognized

Advanced Placement

330 total tests taken

28 different subject areas (out of 37 possible subjects)

85% got a four or better (out of five)

Lakeside plays in AAA classification for most sports. Teams have earned 133 league titles and 70 championships.

Notable alumni

Wilber B. Huston '29, winner of the 1929 Edison scholarship contest and NASA mission director

Charles Pigott '47, Chairman and CEO of PACCAR 1967-1996

Booth Gardner '54, Governor of Washington 1985-1993, ambassador to GATT

Craig McCaw '68, cellular phone pioneer

Paul Allen '71, co-founder of Microsoft, owner of the Seattle Seahawks

Bill Gates '73, co-founder of Microsoft and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Jabe Blumenthal '78, designer of Microsoft Excel

Ned Skinner, '38, an original owner of the Space Needle and Seattle Seahawks

Adam West, TV's Batman, voice of Mayor Adam West on ''Family Guy''

Po Bronson, author

Doug Merlino, author

Annie Leonard, activist, filmmaker

Freddie Wong '04, Guitar Hero 2 World Series Winner

Tor Seidler, author of "A Rat's Tale", "Mean Margaret" and "Gully's Travels" Ben Bishop, winner of $115,800 over five days of competition on Jeopardy!, the most of any contestant in 2008

Howard Phillips (Nintendo), Various game designer positions at Nintendo, Lucasfilm, and Microsoft

E Lockhart, author

References

External links

Lakeside School website

Lakeside School wiki

Lakeside Archives

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birth name	Solomon Krakovsky
birth date	February 24, 1922
birth place	Seattle, Washington, U.S.
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Steven Hill (born February 24, 1922) is an American film and television actor. His two better-known roles are District Attorney Adam Schiff on the NBC TV drama series ''Law & Order'', whom he portrayed for ten seasons (1990–2000), and Dan Briggs, the original team leader of the Impossible Missions Force on CBS's television series ''Mission: Impossible'', whom he portrayed only in the initial season of the show (1966–1967).

Early life and career

Hill was born Solomon Krakovsky in Seattle, Washington. After serving four years in the Naval Reserve, Hill made his first New York stage appearance in Ben Hecht's ''A Flag Is Born'' in 1946, which also featured a young Marlon Brando. Hill says his big break came when he landed a small part in the hit Broadway show ''Mister Roberts''. "The director, Joshua Logan, thought I had some ability, and he let me create one of the scenes," says Hill. "So, I improvised dialog and it went in the show. That was my first endorsement. It gave me tremendous encouragement to stay in the business." Hill said this was a thrilling time in his life when, fresh out of the service, he played the hapless sailor Stefanowski. "You could almost smell it from the very first reading that took place; this is going to be an overwhelming hit," said Hill. "We all felt it and experienced it and were convinced of it, and we were riding the crest of a wave from the very first day of rehearsals."

In 1947, Hill became a founding member of Lee Strasberg's Actors Studio alongside such other actors as Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, and Julie Harris.

Hill made his film debut in 1950 in ''Lady Without a Passport''. He then re-enlisted in the Navy in 1952 for two years and, when he completed his service, resumed his acting in earnest. Strasberg later said, "Steven Hill is considered one of the finest actors America has ever produced". When he was starting out as an actor, Hill sought out roles that had a social purpose. "Later, I learned that show business is about entertaining," he says. "So, I've had to reconcile my idealistic feelings with reality".

Hill was particularly busy in the so-called "Golden Age" of live TV drama, appearing in such prestigious video offerings as ''The Trial of Sacco and Vanzetti'' in 1960 earning him an Emmy nomination for his portrayal of Bartolomeo Vanzetti. "When I first became an actor, there were two young actors in New York: Marlon Brando and Steven Hill," said Martin Landau. "A lot of people said that Steven would have been the one, not Marlon. He was legendary. Nuts, volatile, mad, and his work was exciting".

In 1961, Hill had an unusual experience when he appeared as Sigmund Freud on Broadway in Henry Denker's ''A Far Country'', portraying Freud at the age of 35. On April 12, 1961, Hill was stricken with a virus the night of a sold-out performance for the Masters Children's Center of Dobbs Ferry. As a result, the producers decided to cancel the performance just as the curtain was about to go up. Among the notables in the audience were Joseph P. Kennedy, Jack Benny, and Richard Rodgers. The audience was invited to exchange its ticket stubs for other performances. The understudy was not ready to replace Hill, so Alfred Ryder, the play's director, stepped into the role of Freud for one performance. 1966 The Fugitive

Hill's early screen credits include ''The Goddess'' and ''A Child Is Waiting''.

''Mission: Impossible''

Hill was the original leader of the Impossible Missions Force, Dan Briggs in the series ''Mission: Impossible'' beginning in 1966. The phrase "Good morning, Mr. Briggs..." was a fixture early in each episode as it began a tape recording he retrieved which detailed the task he must accomplish, however he left the show in 1967 after the end of the first season. As one of the few Orthodox Jewish actors working in Hollywood, he made it clear in advance of production that he was not able to work on the Sabbath (i.e., sundown Friday to dusk Saturday), and that he would be leaving the set every Friday before sundown. However, despite Hill's advance warnings, the show's producers were unprepared for his rigid adherence to the Sabbath, and on at least one occasion Hill left the set while an episode was still in the midst of filming.

According to Desilu executive Herb Solow, once William Shatner burst into his office, claiming "Steve asked me how many Jews worked on ''Star Trek''. He was recruiting a prayer group of ten guys to worship together on top of the studio's highest building and only had six Jews as far from ''Mission''. He asked if I would come and bring Nimoy and Justman and you."

Hill was briefly suspended from the show near the end of the season, during the production of episode no. 23 (entitled ''Action!''). The suspension was imposed after he refused to climb the rafters via a soundstage staircase, as was called for in the script. (This incident was unrelated to any religious observances of Hill's.) Consequently, Hill was written out of that episode, and when he returned to ''Mission: Impossible'' for the five remaining episodes of the season, his role was severely reduced. Hill was not asked to return for season 2, and was replaced as the show's star by Peter Graves.

Hiatus and return to acting

After appearing in ''Mission: Impossible,'' Hill did no acting work for the following ten years. Hill had what he calls "tremendous periods of unemployment" in his career. "What we have here is a story of profound instability and impermanence," he said of his own career. "This is what you learn at the beginning in show business; then it gets planted in you forever". Hill left acting in 1967 and moved to a Jewish community in Rockland County, New York where he worked in writing and real estate. Patrick J. White, in ''The Complete "Mission: Impossible" Dossier,'' quoted Hill as having said later, "I don't think an actor should act every single day. I don't think it's good for the so-called creative process. You must have periods when you leave the land fallow, let it revitalize itself." After ten years, he was ready to begin acting again. "They say you can't quit show business," he said in 1977. "It took ten years, but I couldn't get it out of my system. So I called an agent and put him to work."

Hill returned to work in the 1980s and 1990s, playing parental and authority-figure roles in such films as ''Yentl'' (1983), ''Garbo Talks'' (1984), Neil Simon's ''Brighton Beach Memoirs'', ''Heartburn'' (1986), and ''Billy Bathgate'' (1991). Hill also appeared as a mob kingpin in ''Raw Deal'' (1986), an action vehicle for Arnold Schwarzenegger.

''Law & Order''

Hill is best known as Adam Schiff in the NBC TV drama series ''Law & Order'', a part that he played for ten seasons (1990–2000). Hill's character is loosely modeled after the real former district attorney of New York, Robert Morgenthau and it is reported that Morgenthau was a fan of the character. Hill says playing Adam Schiff is the hardest role he's ever had because of all the legal jargon he has to learn. "It's like acting in a second language," says Hill. Hill adds that he agrees with the show's philosophy. "There's a certain positive statement in this show," Hill says. "So much is negative today. The positive must be stated to rescue us from pandemonium. To me it lies in that principle: law and order." Hill earned another Emmy nomination for Best Supporting Actor In a Dramatic Series in 1997. At the time of his departure, Hill was the longest-serving cast member. Along with ''Law & Order'' castmate Sam Waterston, Hill has also appeared in commercials for T.D. Waterhouse, an investment brokerage.

Personal life

Hill and his first wife, Selma Stern, were married in 1951 and had four children before divorcing in 1964. Hill married his second wife, Rachel, in 1967 and they have five children.

His Orthodox Judaism

Appearing in the play ''A Far Country'' in 1961 had a profound effect on Hill's later life. In one scene, a patient screams at Freud, "You are a Jew!" This caused Hill to think about his religion. "In the pause that followed I would think, 'What about this?' I slowly became aware that there was something more profound going on in the world than just plays and movies and TV shows. I was provoked to explore my religion." He was inspired by Rabbi Yakov Yosef Twersky (1900–1968), the late Skverrer Rebbe, to adhere to strict Orthodox Judaism, observing a kosher diet, praying three times a day, wearing a four-cornered fringed garment beneath his clothes, and strictly observing Shabbat. This made Hill unavailable for Friday night or Saturday matinee performances, effectively ending his stage career and closing many roles to him in the movies, most notably ''The Sand Pebbles.''

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