Cardinal Hayes High School
Encyclopedia
Cardinal Hayes High School is a Catholic high school
for boys in the Bronx, New York City
. The school serves the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York
. It is a member of the CHSAA
.
. The two schools' football teams have met annually, since 1942, on Thanksgiving day. Cardinal Hayes' also takes part in non-annual football rivalries with Cardinal Spellman High School
and Archbishop Stepinac High School
for the Fathers' Club Trophy and the Father John Dubois Memorial Trophy, respectively.
High school
High school is a term used in parts of the English speaking world to describe institutions which provide all or part of secondary education. The term is often incorporated into the name of such institutions....
for boys in the Bronx, New York City
New York City
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. The school serves the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York covers New York, Bronx, and Richmond counties in New York City , as well as Dutchess, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Sullivan, Ulster, and Westchester counties in New York state. There are 480 parishes...
. It is a member of the CHSAA
Catholic High School Athletic Association
The Catholic High School Athletic Association or CHSAA is a high school athletic association made up of Catholic High Schools based in New York City, Long Island, and Westchester...
.
History
Cardinal Hayes was dedicated on September 8, 1941 by Cardinal Spellman. Cardinal Hayes' current rival is Mount Saint Michael AcademyMount Saint Michael Academy
Mount Saint Michael Academy, also known as The Mount, is an all-boys Roman Catholic High School in the northeast part of the Bronx, New York, on the Mount Vernon city line, . The 22-acre campus is a non-boarding college preparatory school for some 1,100 boys grades 6 through 12...
. The two schools' football teams have met annually, since 1942, on Thanksgiving day. Cardinal Hayes' also takes part in non-annual football rivalries with Cardinal Spellman High School
Cardinal Spellman High School (New York City)
Cardinal Spellman High School is a Catholic diocesan high school located in the New York City borough of the Bronx. It is named after Cardinal Francis Spellman, the sixth archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York....
and Archbishop Stepinac High School
Archbishop Stepinac High School
Archbishop Stepinac High School is an all-boys Roman Catholic high school in White Plains, New York, that was operated by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York until the 2009-2010 school year when it became independent...
for the Fathers' Club Trophy and the Father John Dubois Memorial Trophy, respectively.
Fast Facts
- At $5,900 Hayes has the second lowest Catholic HS annual tuition in the city of New York, behind All Hallows High School, yet the actual cost to educate a student is $7,330 based on an enrollment of 1,000 students. (Rice High School is the lowest at $5,000)
- 99% of seniors graduate with their high school diploma.
- 96% of those seniors go on to a college or university.
- Hayes holds its annual commencement ceremony at St. Patrick's Cathedral (New York) in midtown Manhattan during the month of June.
- The Freshmen Basketball team is the 2010 "A" Division City Champion.
- Cardinal Hayes plays a football game against Mount Saint Michael every Thanksgiving Day in the Annual Turkey Bowl Game.
Notable alumni
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, American television personality - Martin ScorseseMartin ScorseseMartin Charles Scorsese is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, actor, and film historian. In 1990 he founded The Film Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to film preservation, and in 2007 he founded the World Cinema Foundation...
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radio and television program - Kery Davis, HBO vice president
- Don DeLilloDon DeLilloDon DeLillo is an American author, playwright, and occasional essayist whose work paints a detailed portrait of American life in the late 20th and early 21st centuries...
, American author and playwright - John SweeneyJohn Sweeney (labor leader)John Joseph Sweeney was the president of the AFL-CIO from 1995 to 2009.-Early years:Born in The Bronx, New York, Sweeney is the son of Joseph and Agnes , both Irish immigrants. The family moved to Yonkers in 1944, where Sweeney attended St. Barnabas Elementary School and graduated from Cardinal...
, President AFL-CIOAFL-CIOThe American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations, commonly AFL–CIO, is a national trade union center, the largest federation of unions in the United States, made up of 56 national and international unions, together representing more than 11 million workers...
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, American stand-up comedian (did not graduate) - Miguel Melendez, President, Overbrook EntertainmentOverbrook EntertainmentOverbrook Entertainment is an American entertainment company based in Beverly Hills, California, USA. The production company was started by Will Smith between 1997 and 1999, about the same time the production for Wild Wild West was underway....
- Zachary H. Thompson, Accomplished Graduate of Hampton University