FRANKFORD ALUMNI
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FRANKFORD'S SPRING PLAY
SISTER ACT - 4/3-4/5
ALUMNI: Our Students Need Your Support
Help Frankford High Students Take the Stage
via GoFundMe Page
This year, Frankford High School students (Title One) are on the verge of losing something truly special—the chance to perform their annual musical. Due to an asbestos issue, most of our school, including our school’s auditorium is unusable. We now face the daunting reality of needing to rent a performance space, along with essential sound equipment. Without your support, the show may not happen.
The arts are a lifeline for our students, offering them a chance to build confidence, express creativity, and experience the power of teamwork.
Your donation will go directly to ensuring our students can take the stage and share their hard work with the community.
THE BUZZARD BAND WILL PERFORM AT FHS CLASS OF 1975 50TH REUNION, 10-25-2025, 1 p.m.-5 p.m. Brookside Manor
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The BuzzerBand is proud to announce that we will be performing for Frankford High School Class of 1975 50 year reunion…Band members and parents of band members are Alumni so it’s realy cool to be able to do this…It’s going to be a great event. Keep track of info. on Class of 1975 50th Reunion FB page
Philly’s Top Dance Party Show Band Classic Rock, Disco, Pop, and CountryFun for All Ages!
CONGRATULATIONS PHILADELPHIA EAGLES
SUPER BOWL LIX CHAMPS
CONGRATS, NFC CHAMPIONS
PHILADELPHIA EAGLES!
AND NFL FHS COACH OF THE YEAR
DAMON BROCKINGTON
"Frankford is a homegrown name. It's been around, always going to be around. I'm just trying to keep the legacy alive and continue to keep the legacy alive. Everybody already knows that once a Pioneer, always a Pioneer." Brockington
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FRANKFORD ALUMNI CAREER DAY
WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH
MARCH 1,- MARCH 31, 2025
FIRST WOMEN PHARMACISTS
ELIZABETH GOOKING
GREENLEAF
AMANDA VICTORIA
BROWN
(1681-1762) is widely recognized as the first female pharmacist in the United States.
In 1727, she opened her own apothecary in Boston. She also published a book on herbal remedies. She also had 12 children.
Amanda Gray Hyler (March 24, 1870-June 29, 1957) was an entrepreneur, pharmacist, civic worker and Civil Rights Activist.
She was born in Atchison, Kansas, attended public schools in Kansas and married at age 23 in 1897 to Pharmacist Arthur S. Gray (1869-1917).
The couple moved to Washington, D.C. where she attended Howard University. She obtained her graduate pharmaceutical degree in 1903.
ANA LOUISE
JAMES
Anna Louise James behind the soda fountain in the James' pharmacy, ca. 1909-1911 - Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University
Anna Louise James was born on January 19, 1886, in Hartford. The daughter of a Virginia plantation slave who escaped to Connecticut, she grew up in Old Saybrook.
Dedicating her early life to education, Anna became, in 1908, the first African American woman to graduate from the Brooklyn College of Pharmacy in New York.
She operated a drugstore in Hartford until 1911, when she went to work for her brother-in-law at his pharmacy, making her the first female African American pharmacist in the state.
In the 1990s, AT&T featured the James Pharmacy building in one of its television commercials. The building also received recognition as part of a documentary on local resident Katharine Hepburn. In 1994, the James Pharmacy received a listing on the National Register of Historic Places.
The pharmacy where James worked started out as a general store for the Humphrey Pratt Tavern in 1790. The store moved to its current location at the corner of Pennywise Lane in 1877, where it became Lane Pharmacy. Peter Lane, one of only two black pharmacists in early Connecticut, added a soda fountain to his establishment in 1896.
When Peter got called away to fight in World War I, he left the pharmacy in the care of his sister-in-law, Anna Louise James. In 1917, Anna took over the operations and renamed her business James Pharmacy. Anna, known to local residents as “Miss James,” operated the business until 1967.
Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi (née Putnam; August 31, 1842 – June 10, 1906) was an English-American physician, teacher, scientist, writer, and suffragist.[1]
She was the first woman admitted to study medicine at the University of Paris and the first woman to graduate from a pharmacy college in the United States.
Mary Putnam was the daughter of George Palmer Putnam, founder of the publishing firm of G.P. Putnam’s Sons, and was an elder sister of Herbert Putnam, later librarian of Congress. The family returned from England in 1848, and Mary grew up in Staten Island, Yonkers, and Morrisania, New York.
Her scientific bent determined her on a medical career, but in 1860, before she was 18, she had a story published in The Atlantic Monthly. She graduated from the New York College of Pharmacy in 1863 and from the Female (later Woman’s) Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1864.
Putnam decided in 1866 to seek further training in Paris at the École de Médecine.
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BLACK HISTORY MOMENT...
Vivien Thomas, Heart Surgery Revolutionary
Here's an amazing story of Vivien Thomas, a former slave, who helped invent heart surgery.
With only a high school education and no formal medical training, Vivien Thomas developed surgical techniques that revolutionized heart surgery.
Thomas was the first African American without a doctorate degree and only a high school diploma, to perform open heart surgery. The patient was a white patient.
With no college education, Thomas began his career in medicine in 1930 in the laboratory of Dr. Alfred Blalock of Vanderbilt University, where Blalock trained him as his surgical assistant.
Due to the racism of the time, Thomas was ineligible to be a student or faculty member at Vanderbilt in the 1930s. Although, he did the job of a laboratory assistant, Thomas was classified and paid as a janitor.
Thomas' intelligence and outstanding ability as a researcher and surgical assistant was so impressive that Dr. Blalock requested that Thomas follow him to John Hopkins University in 1941.
AUTHOR ALEXANDER DUMAS
Author of The Three Musketeers, Dumas was born in
Villes-Cotterets. His father was a French nobleman who settled in Santo Domingo, now part of Haiti. His paternal grandmother, Marie-Cessette, was an Afro-Carribbean who had been a Black slave in the French colony (now part of Haiti).
Dumas did not generally define himself as a Black man, and there's not much evidence he experienced overt racism during his life. However,
his works were popular among the 19th Century African Americans, partly because in the Count of Monte Cristo, the falsely imprisoned Edmond Dantes, may be read as a parable of emancipation.
Oliver Lewis, First Jockey to
Win the Kentucky Derby in 1875.
FRANKFORD-ALUMNI
LIFE
1987
JINGLE & MINGLE 2023
Healthy Juicing
Class of 1974
2025 Eagles Celebratory Lunch
The Lunch Bunch - Classes 1942-1970
They meet for lunch once a month
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GOODBYE 2024
WE JINGLED AND MINGLED TILL ALL HAD A GOOD NIGHT! 12/24
Alumni Association Board Members.
Busting Line Dance Movies.
HOLIDAY PARTY OVER HERE!
Alumni Association Board Members.