Fosdick Mountains North Side
Fosdick can stand for: Places * Fosdick-Masten Park High School, an historic public high school building in Buffalo, New York * Fosdick Mountains, a mountain range in Antarctica People * Harry Castlemon (1842–1915), nom de plume of American author Charles Austin Fosdick * Dorothy Fosdick (1913–1997), American foreign policy expert * Harry Emerson Fosdick (1878–1969), American clergyman * Nicoll Fosdick (1785–1868), American merchant and politician * W. W. Fosdick (1825–1862), American lawyer, poet, writer and song lyricist Other uses * Fearless Fosdick ''Fearless Fosdick'' is a long-running parody of Chester Gould's ''Dick Tracy''. It appeared intermittently as a strip-within-a-strip, in Al Capp's satirical hillbilly comic strip, ''Li'l Abner'' (1934–1977). Li'l Abner's "ideel" Fearless Fosd ...

Fosdick-Masten Park High School
Fosdick-Masten Park High School, now known as City Honors School, is a historic public high school building located at Buffalo in Erie County, New York. The school is located on a site. It was designed by architects Esenwein & Johnson and is a -story H-shaped brick structure constructed in 1912–1914 and sheathed in white glazed terra cotta tile. ''Note:'' This includes an''Accompanying nine photographs''/ref> It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. Notable alumni *Frankie Pytlak, former Major League Baseball catcher * John Wyatt, former Major League Baseball pitcher *Lucille Clifton, African American writer and poet In Popular Culture A cartoon sketch of (then) Masten Park High School appears on the 1938 Goudey baseball card #269 of alumnus Frankie Pytlak Frank Anthony Pytlak (July 30, 1908 – May 8, 1977) was an American professional baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball as a catcher for the Cleveland Indians (1932–40) and Boston ...
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Fosdick Mountains
The Fosdick Mountains () are an east–west trending mountain range with marked serrate outlines, standing along the south side of Balchen Glacier at the head of Block Bay, in the Ford Ranges of Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica. They were discovered by the Byrd Antarctic Expedition in 1929, and named by Richard E. Byrd for Raymond B. Fosdick, who became president of the Rockefeller Foundation. Glaciers and peaks * Balchen Glacier * Ochs Glacier * Crevasse Valley Glacier *Demas Bluff *Mount Avers * Mount Bitgood * Mount Colombo * Mount Ferranto *Mount Getz * Mount Iphigene * Mount Lockhart * Mount Luyendyk * Mount Richardson * Maigetter Peak * Mount Perkins Geology and geography The dominant topography is tall, steep-sided ridges, trending north-south, with peak elevations spanning 1000 to 1200 m.Wade, F. A., C. A. Cathey, and J. B. Oldham (1977), Reconnaissance geologic map of the Guest Peninsula quadrangle, Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica, Map A-7, U. S. Antarctic Research Progra ...
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Harry Castlemon
Charles Austin Fosdick (September 6, 1842 – August 22, 1915), better known by his ''nom de plume'' Harry Castlemon, was a prolific writer of juvenile stories and novels, intended mainly for boys. He was born in Randolph (town), New York, Randolph, New York, and received a high school diploma from Central High School in Buffalo, New York. He served in the Union Navy from 1862 to 1865, during the American Civil War, acting as the receiver and superintendent of coal for the Mississippi River Squadron. Fosdick had begun to write as a teenager, and drew on his experiences serving in the Navy in such early novels as ''Frank on a Gunboat'' (1864) and ''Frank on the Lower Mississippi'' (1867). He soon became the most-read author for boys in the post-Civil War era, the golden age of children's literature. Fosdick once remarked that: "Boys don't like fine literature. What they want is adventure, and the more of it you can get in two-hundred-fifty pages of manuscript, the better fellow yo ...
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Dorothy Fosdick
Dorothy Fosdick (April 17, 1913 – February 5, 1997) was an American foreign policy expert. Early life and education She was the daughter of Harry Emerson Fosdick, who was the first pastor of the Riverside Church in New York City. She graduated from Smith College in 1934 and received a Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1939, subsequently returning to Smith College to teach for four years. Career In 1942 Dr. Fosdick joined the United States Department of State, taking a membership position on the Policy Planning Staff of the US Department of State, Department of State from 1948 to 1953, and becoming the first woman to hold a prominent policy position in the State Department. Fosdick had also been a speech writer for Adlai Stevenson II, Adlai Stevenson, with whom she had a brief romantic relationship.Ware, Susan and Stacy Lorraine Braukman. ''Notable American Women: A Biographical Dictionary Completing the Twentieth Century.'' Harvard University Press, 2004, p. 219. Dr. Fosdick ser ...
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Harry Emerson Fosdick
Harry Emerson Fosdick (May 24, 1878 – October 5, 1969) was an American pastor. Fosdick became a central figure in the Fundamentalist–Modernist controversy within American Protestantism in the 1920s and 1930s and was one of the most prominent liberal ministers of the early 20th century. Although a Baptist, he was called to serve as pastor, in New York City, at First Presbyterian Church in Manhattan's West Village, and then at the historic, inter-denominational Riverside Church in Morningside Heights, Manhattan. Career Born in Buffalo, New York, Fosdick graduated from Colgate University in 1900 and from Union Theological Seminary in 1904. While attending Colgate University he joined the Delta Upsilon fraternity. He was ordained a Baptist minister in 1903 at Madison Avenue Baptist Church at 31st Street, Manhattan. He was called as minister to First Baptist Church, Montclair, New Jersey, in 1904, serving until 1915. He supported US participation in the First World War (later ...
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Nicoll Fosdick
Nicoll Fosdick (November 9, 1785 in New London, New London County, Connecticut – May 7, 1868 in New London, Connecticut) was an American merchant and politician from New York. Life He was the son of Nicoll Fosdick (1750–1821) and Abigail (Eldredge) Fosdick (1761–1809). He completed preparatory studies. He removed to Norway, New York and engaged in mercantile pursuits. He was a presidential elector in 1816 and voted for James Monroe and Daniel D. Tompkins. He was a member of the New York State Assembly in 1818 and 1819. Fosdick was elected as an Adams man to the 19th United States Congress The 19th United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, consisting of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. It met in Washington, D.C. from March 4, 1825, ..., holding office from March 4, 1825, to March 3, 1827. He returned to New London in 1843. He was Collector of Customs at the Port of New ...
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