Theodore Roosevelt High School across the street from the Rose Hill campus.
Theodore Roosevelt High School across the street from the Fordham Rose Hill campus. I was there once to get a college financial aid form that Fordham had not received from my old high school. So, it was either go over there or hope to get back home before Mahopac High School closed on a Friday afternoon. Actually, my first trip was to Fordham Prep. They knew of the form but were out of them. So I then went across to Roosevelt. For a guy from the Putnam County suburbs it was my first attempt to see such various "other" kinds of schools: Fordham Prep, as I recall, was the most expensive Catholic High School in NYC. In part because of the nearby Metro North stops out of places like Scarsdale and Greenwich, that made sense. I saw carpeted halls and all those boys wore jackets and ties. Yep, the ones that needed to be dry-cleaned. By contrast, Theodore Roosevelt was the first high school I ever entered with a metal detector (late 1970s). As I went to their guidance counseling of...