submitted by Jerry Morse 1/16/2026

Classical High Graduates of note who were not members of the Class of 1965

Information will be posted here as it becomes available.

Francis Perkins – U.S. Secretary of Labor – first woman in U.S. cabinet

William Howland – composer, conductor and university administrator

·       Irving Peskin – Musician, Orchestra Leader and Composer, Prominent Individual Early in the Jazz Era

·       Stanley Kunitz – 10^th Poet Laureate of the United States; During his lifetime most prolific and well – regarded poet in the United States

·       Milton Meltzer – America’s leading nonfiction writer for children and young adults

·       Noah Gordon – New York Times Best Selling Author of Fiction

·       Jennie Clough and Sarah Wilson – Women of Color who made significant contributions to education in the city of Worcester at a time when the population of African Americans in Worcester numbered only about a thousand