Sullivan High School Alumni Association, Inc.

Barry L. Beckers e-Book will be available for FREE next Wednesday & Thursday, March 13 & 14 on Amazon.com. If any Sullivan Alumni enjoy reading CIA suspense thrillers they might like my novel. The main character in my story is Mark Ericksen, a SEAL Team 6 lieutenant who resigns his commission in 2002. Over the next seven years, he works for three defense contractors maintaining his top-secret security clearance while concealing his PTSD. In 2009, the CIA tasks him to sabotage a terrorist mastermind aided by Russian arms dealers to attack American cities with nuclear weapons.

Honoring prominent alum Harold H. Harrison M.D., PH.D. class of 1968, National Merit Scholar, researcher and teacher in the area of medical genetics, Medical Director at the University of Arizona College of Medicine, Ph.D. in molecular genetics.

Honoring prominent alum Dr. Leonard "Len" Graivier M.D. class of 1945. Dr. Graivier received his M.D. from the Chicago Medical School, served as an Air Force Physician, was a resident at Cook County Hospital, followed by a Pediatric Surgery Fellowship at The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and Children's Hospital. He was part of a team that separated conjoined (Siamese) twins in Pittsburgh, he again separated conjoined twins in Dallas in 1979. His list of accomplishments is quite impressive.

Honoring Coach Ralph Margolis. He instilled pride and school spirit for those he coached and those who knew him. Any memories of Coach Margolis? Please share them on the feed below.

Sullivan High School Class of January '59 Reunion held on October 6th, 2018.

Honoring Grant Golden Class of '46.

Grant Golden was ranked in the U.S. top 10 in singles in 1953, 1956, and 1957, and was ranked # 2 in the U.S. in doubles in 1953.
Golden played collegiate tennis from 1948 to 1951 at Northwestern University, where he was Big Ten Conference singles and doubles champion in 1950, and named an All American. He earned his doubles title with Bill Landin. He won the Illinois State Singles Championship 13 times, and the Western Indoor Singles Championship 10 consecutive times.
Golden won the United States National Indoor Doubles championship in 1957 and 1958, and the United States National Clay Court Doubles championship in 1952, 1953, and 1959.
At the Cincinnati Masters, Golden won three consecutive doubles titles: in 1956 (with Bernard Bartzen), in 1957 (with Bill Quillian), and in 1958 (with Bartzen). He also reached the doubles final in 1951 (with Hugh Stewart) and in 1959 (with Whitney Reed).
In singles in Cincinnati, he was a finalist in 1957 (losing to Bartzen); a semifinalist in 1951 (losing to future International Tennis Hall of Fame enshrinee Tony Trabert), 1952, and 1956; and a quarterfinalist in 1949. He also reached the Round of 16 in 1950 (losing 8–10 in the final set to Ham Richardson), and in 1958
Golden was 2–1 in Davis Cup play in 1957.
He competed in the 1953 Maccabiah Games, winning gold medals in men's singles, (over South African Sid Levy), men's doubles with partner Pablo Eisenberg, and mixed doubles with partner Anita Kanter.
Grant was inducted into the Sullivan High School Hall of Fame
Golden was inducted into the Northwestern University Athletic Hall of Fame in 1998.
Grant was also inducted into the USTA Midwest Section Hall of Fame.
He was inducted in 2014 into the Chicago Tennis Hall of Fame.

Photos from the Sullivan Tigers City Football Championship 40th Year Reunion.

Honoring prominent alum Fred Bondy class of 1949, A veteran of the Korean War, with his brother began a successful pharmaceutical company and worked there until 2009. He was a long-time proponent of peace, marching with Dr. Martin Luther King in 1968 and recognized for his steadfast efforts to preserve Jewish heritage domestically and abroad, as well as working to address fundamental issues of human dignity and sustenance. Mr. Bondy died in 2010.

Honoring prominent alumni Phillip Bloomfield

Class of 1952, Studied at the University of Chicago, earning a B.A., M.S. and PhD in physics. As a research professor in biomedical engineering at Drexel University in Philadelphia, he holds 8 U.S. patents and has authored over 70 publications.