A Different Kind of Buffalo Celebrity

Dr. Harvey Tananbaum, for many years the Director of NASA’s Chandra X-Ray Observatory, was also a graduate of Bennett High School.

Dr. Tananbaum also has the distinction of having been photographed studying at the Grosvenor Library in April of 1960.

Read more about Dr. Tananbaum’s career with NASA in this interview where he also discusses briefly his life in Buffalo, here: http://www.aip.org/history/ohilist/25491_1.html

Buffalo Beauty

Our latest blog entry features another Bennett High School alum: actress, model and businesswoman Beverly Johnson, shown here in her yearbook photo from the Bennett Beacon, 1969.  The former champion swimmer became, among other notable things, the first African-American model to grace the cover of the US edition of Vogue in 1974.