One of the first examples of turning schoolyards into playgrounds occurred in 1938 at Fort Hamilton High School in New York City, where visionary and legendary Parks Commissioner Robert Moses pioneered the first schoolyard to parks program.
Gebhardt retired as head of the English department at Fort Hamilton High School in Brooklyn after thirty-eight years in the New York City school system.
Pemberton graduated from Fort Hamilton High School, in Bay Ridge, studied economics at Harvard, and got a graduate degree from New York University’s Wagner School of Public Service.
Interns include: Virginia Li of Fort Hamilton High School who will intern with Victoria Kahn at Clarion Partners; Itzel Michan of The High School of Economics & Finance who will intern with Darcy Stacom at Cushman & Wakefield: Shirley Chu, of James Madison High School who will intern at Intertech Corp.
