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|principal= Dr. Arthur Tarvardian |
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|motto= Teaching Academics For Tomorrow |
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Revision as of 23:53, 4 December 2007
William Howard Taft High School is a high school located at 6530 West Bryn Mawr Avenue in Chicago, Illinois. It is run by the Chicago Public Schools (CPS). It is perhaps most famous as being the high school attended by the writer of Grease (musical), which he used as inspiration in writing the musical.Taft offers a gifted program from 7-12 grade in which International Bacculaureate is offered in High School[citation needed]
Famous alumni
- Jim Grabowski - college and professional football player
- Robert Hanssen - former FBI agent convicted of spying for the Soviet Union
- Jim Jacobs - co-writer of the musical Grease
- Jerry Krause - former Chicago Bulls general manager
- Donna Mills - actress whose best known role was as Abby on the "Knots Landing" tv series
- Lynn Morley Martin - legislator in Illinois and U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Secretary of Labor from 1991-1993
- Robert Peroni - Distinguished Law Professor at the University of Texas at Austin, Tulane University and Northwestern Law School
Terry Kath[1] - late musician and founding member/lead guitarist of the band "Chicago"
External links
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