1900s | ||
Name | Class | Areas of Note |
Winona Keith Algie | 1900 | Headmistress, Charles River School, 1917-1947 |
James R. Bloomer | 1900 | Yale All-American football tackle, 1900 |
Frederick L. Collins | 1900 | Publisher and editor, McClure’s Magazine, 1911-1929 |
Dwight T. Farnham | 1900 | Economist; specialist in applications of technology to industry and labor efficiency; author, Scientific Industrial Efficiency (1917), Executive Statistical Control (1920) |
Frances Howard Fobes | 1900 | Rhodes Scholar (1904); professor of classics, Union College, 1920-1948; author, Aristotle’s Meteorology (1919), Theophrastus’ Metaphysics (1929) |
Joseph W. Holley | 1900 | Founder and president, 1903-1943, Albany (Georgia) Bible and Manual Training Institute, developed by Holley into a four-year college; now Albany State University; first African American elected to the Presbyterian Church National Board |
Rose Anne Day Keep | 1900 | Co-principal, with her husband, Robert Porter Keep Jr., of Miss Porter’s School, 1917-1943 |
Charles D. Rafferty | 1900 | Yale football captain and All-American end, 1903 |
Thomas D. Thatcher | 1900 | Federal district judge, 1925-1930; US solicitor general, 1930-1933; backer of New York Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia; lead commission that drafted a new New York city charter (1938); NY Corporation Council (1943-) |
Alden Brooks | 1901 | Author, World War I short stories and memoirs: The Fighting Men (1917), As I Saw It (1929) |
William Clarence Matthews | 1901 | Outstanding baseball shortstop for Andover and Harvard, barred from Major League baseball because he was black; as an attorney, associated with Booker T. Washington and later Marcus Garvey; a Republican, Matthews served as a US Attorney (1913-) and was appointed to the Justice Department by Calvin Coolidge (1925); presented a list of demands for the “recognition of colored Republicans”; namesake, Ivy League Baseball Championship Trophy (2006) |
Carl Rust Parker | 1901 | Landscape architect; with Olmsted Brothers [1901-1910, 1919-1961; partner 1950-1961]; in independent practice [1911-1917]; major projects include Boca Grande Land Company, FL [1910-1915]; Maine Statehouse grounds [ca.1915]; George Washington Masonic Memorial, Alexandria, VA [1931]; Kohler Village, Wisconsin, 1940s-1950s |
William Anthony “Bill” Schick Jr. | 1901 | Sprinter at PA, Harvard; winner, four intercollegiate titles; US Olympic Team, 1906 |
Claude C. Washburn | 1901 | Writer; author, Pages from the Book of Paris (1910), The Lonely Warrior (1922] |
Alexander Bannwart, aka Al Winn | 1902 | Swiss-born baseball player/owner/manager Lowell Tigers, New England League [1906-1909]; played under the name Al Winn; secretary and prime mover behind the short-lived Federal League [1912-1915] |
Miriam Carpenter | 1902 | Dean of Wheaton College, -1944 |
F. Abbot Goodhue | 1902 | President, International Acceptance Bank, New York, 1921-1931; president, Bank of Manhattan, 1931-1948; chairman, board of trustees, NYU-Bellevue Medical Center |
John Nesmith Greely | 1902 | Brigadier General; member, Pershing general staff and commander, 1st Division, WWI; chief, military mission to Iran, World War II; attache and diplomat, Geneva, Brazil; military analyst, author and journalist; editor, Artillery Journal |
Rose Greely | 1902 | Landscape architect, ca.1920-; member, Colonial Williamsburg Advisory Committee; Fellow, American Society of Landscape Architects, 1936 |
Edward W. Kellogg | 1902 | Acoustical engineer aand inventor; joint inventor, dynamic cone loudspeaker (1925) and the magnetic pick-up for phonographs; first director, GE Advanced Technology Laboratory |
C. Ward McLanahan | 1902 | US Olympic Team, 1904, pole vault; coal mine owner and civic leader, Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania |
Wilder P. “Monty” Montgomery | 1902 | Educator; biology instructor, Dunbar High School, Washington, DC, 1906-1931; chairman, Board of Admissions, Washington, DC African American schools |
Frank O’Brien | 1902 | 4-year All-American baseball shortstop, Yale, 1903-1907 |
Howard Phipps | 1902 | Philanthropist and horticulturalist; president, Phipps Houses, 1919-1959, non-profit builder of model, middle-income housing and garden apartments in New York; hybridizer of rhododendrons |
J. Frank Stimson | 1902 | Anthropologist and ethnographer, specialist in Polynesian cultures; author, Songs and Tales of the Sea Kings: Interpretations of the Oral Literature of Polynesia (1957), A Dictionary of Tuamotuan Dialects (1966) |
William W. Thayer | 1902 | Rhodes Scholar, 1905-1907; attorney and banker; member, US Trade Board and Paris Peace Conference staff, 1918-1919 |
Edwin J. Beinecke | 1903 | Chairman, Sperry & Hutchinson [1923-1967]; German glass collection donated to Corning Museum of Glass [1958-]; with brothers Frederick and Walter, donor of Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale [1960] and Beinecke Foundation [1966]; bibliophile, creator of Robert Louis Stevenson collection donated to Yale [1963] |
John M. Cates | 1903 | Coach, US Naval Academy football team, 1905-1907; Yale athletic director, 1927-1932 |
William H.H. Cranmer | 1903 | Prospector and geologist (“the grand old man of uranium”) pioneer of uranium mining industry; president, New Park Mining Company, 1935-1962 |
Edward T. Hall | 1903 | Founder and director, Universal School of Handicrafts, New York City, 1936-1953 |
Harold Orville Mackenzie | 1903 | US ambassador to Thailand, 1927-1930 |
Samuel F.B. Morse | 1903 | Grandnephew of namesake, the telegraph inventor; real estate developer; founder, Del Monte Properties Company, developer of Pebble Beach, CA [1919-ca.1950]; owner, Hotel Del Monte, Monterey; “the Duke of Monterey” |
Waldo Peirce | 1903 | Painter and illustrator; friend of Ernest Hemingway, George Bellows et al |
John Gould Fletcher | 1904 | Poet, author; twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry [1939, 1946] |
Franklin Mott Gunther | 1904 | Diplomat; US ambassador to Egypt [1928-1930] and Romania [1937-1941]; president, American Institute for Iranian Art and Archaeology, 1930-1937 |
Julio Madero | 1904 | Mexican diplomat, served as Mexico’s ambassador to Sweden, Italy, San Salvador and Columbia; director, State Lottery of Mexico, 1938- |
Franz Schneider | 1904 | President/CEO/chairman, Newmont Mining [1930-53]; developer of the natural gas industry following WWII; director, Federal Reserve Bank of New York [1952-58] |
George H. Townsend | 1904 | Powerboat racer; winner, American Power Boat Association Gold Cup in “Greenwich Folly” 1926, 1927; president, APBA , 932-1934 |
Paul Veeder | 1904 | Yale football: quarterback and punter [1904-1906], All-American [1906]; in 1906 Veeder threw the first forward pass in a major football game, to beat Harvard 6-0 |
William Kay Wallace | 1904 | Member, US Peace Commission, 1918; political theorist and author; proponent of radically revising the US Constitution, 1932 |
Harold E. Webster | 1904 | President, Pratt & Lambert [1930-], chairman [1952-] |
Frederick W. Beinecke | 1905 | Chair, Executive Committee, Sperry & Hutchinson [1953-1966]; bibliophile specializing in Western Americana, specialist in Lewis and Clark material, collection donated to Yale; with brothers Frederick and Walter, donor, Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library [1960] and Beinecke Foundation [1966]; donor of teaching foundations, Phillips Academy |
Francis Hardon Burr | 1905 | Football All-American at Harvard [1905], captain, Harvard team [1909]; Francis Hardon Burr Award [1913] goes to an outstanding Harvard scholar-athlete |
Edward Dillon | 1905 | Princeton football player, All-American back, 1906 |
James M. Howard | 1905 | One of five founding members of Yale singing group, The Whiffenpoofs, 1909 |
Alfred Lee Loomis | 1905 | Physicist, investment banker, and philanthropist; financier of electric utilities; inventor, Aberdeen Chronograph [1918]; founder and funder, Loomis Laboratory, Tuxedo Park [1926-1940]; director of World War II radar development; “father” of ultrasonics; inventor of the LORAN navigation system; developer, ground-controlled approach technology for aircraft; Franklin Roosevelt described Loomis as second only to Churchill as the civilian most responsible for Allied victory in World War II; recipient, Presidential Medal of Merit, 1946 |
Elmer Thompson | 1905 | Cornell All-American, 1906; captain, Cornell football team |
Katherine Woods | 1905 | Translator of “The Little Prince,” author of mystery novels, travel articles and books, The Other Chateau Country (1935) |
Hamlin Andrus | 1906 | Yale All-American in football [1908, 1909] |
Walter Beinecke | 1906 | With brothers Frederick and Walter, donor, Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library [1960] and Beinecke Foundation [1966]; world-ranked contract bridge player |
Elizabeth Deeble | 1906 | Relief work volunteer and correspondent, Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939 |
Arthur Benson Gilbert | 1906 | Minnesota political activist [1917-1948] in support of farmers; advocate for protective tariffs on agricultural imports |
Robert Hallowell | 1906 | Editor and publisher, The New Republic (1914-1925); artist/watercolorist [ca.1925-1939] |
Sarah Hinks | 1906 | Head, The Gordon School, Providence [ca.1937-] |
Frank T. Leighton | 1906 | Rear Admiral; commander of Navy ships during World War I, served in the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, World War II |
Robert C. McKay | 1906 | Harvard football: All-American tackle, 1907 |
Robert B. Stearns | 1906 | Founder, Bear, Stearns & Company, investment bank and brokerage house, 1923- |
Edward L. “Eddie” Farrell | 1907 | Member, US Olympic Track Team [1912]; coach, US Olympic Track Team [1924, 1928, 1932] |
Meigs Frost | 1907 | Crusading New Orleans investigative reporter, helped bring down Huey Long and his machine, 1930s |
John Reed Kilpatrick | 1907 | Yale football All-American [1909, 1910] and captain, Yale track team; brigadier general, [1942-1949] in charge of ports of embarkation; president, Madison Square Garden [1933-1960]; president, NY Rangers hockey team [1933-1959]; member, Hockey Hall of Honor [1960] |
Paul Piel | 1907 | New York sculptor and designer; graphic artist for Piel Brothers Brewery |
Bernard Reilly | 1907 | Chicago White Sox 2nd baseman, 1909 |
Ethel Arens Tyng | 1907 | Missionary, Changsha, China [1913-1949]; operator of sandal, soap, and clothing factories to boost employment opportunities [1937-]; author, “Letters to My Grandchildren” [1963], “Gate of the Moon” [1967] |
Robert Fisher | 1908 | All-American football player, Harvard [1910, 1911]; coach, national championship Harvard football team [1919], Rose Bowl winner [1920]; Harvard football head coach [1919-1925]; member, NCAA Football Hall of Fame |
Robert A. Gardner | 1908 | US Amateur Golf Champion [1909, 1915]; member, US Walker Cup team [1922, 1923, 1924, 1926] and captain [1923, 1924, 1926]; national doubles champion in racquets [1926, 1929]; pole vaulter at Andover and Yale, briefly held world pole vault record at 13’ 1” set June 1, 1912 |
Katherine Butler Hathaway | 1908 | Author of children’s books, “Mr. Muffet’s Cat…” [1934], “The Little Locksmith” [1943] |
Vincent Lawrence | 1908 | Playwright and r, -1940s, primarily of comedies |
Washington Platt | 1908 | Intelligence officer and secret agent; 2nd in command, G-2 spy network in France and Germany; later with CIA; author of treatises on military intelligence |
Frederick Louis Riefkohl | 1908 | Rear Admiral, recognized for distinguished service, World War I and World War II |
Elizabeth Watts | 1908 | Teacher, director, trustee, Hindman Settlement School, Kentucky, 1909-1993; “Kentucky Colonel” by vote of state legislature; recipient, Fuess Award, 1982 |
Bartlett Beaman | 1909 | Air Force brigadier general, World War II; chief of intelligence division; chief of staff, 1st Air Division, European theater |
Madeleine Burrage | 1909 | Modernist jewelry designer, 1930s-1940s |
Alonzo “Zo” Elliott | 1909 | Songwriter; ’There’s a Long, Long Trail” [1914] an international hit during World War I |
Edward Woolsey Freeman | 1909 | Donor of the historic Wave Hill estate overlooking the Hudson to the New York City to become a park, 1960 |
Carl W. Hamilton | 1909 | A laborer’s son from Hollidaysburg, PA; organizer of Philippine Refining Company [copra]; collector of early Renaissance paintings and sculpture |
Daniel Needham | 1909 | Brigadier general, commander, Massachusetts National Guard [1934-1939]; Massachusetts director, civilian defense, World War II; head Massachusetts State Police |
A. Wells Peck | 1909 | Retailing innovator; as president and later chairman of Peck & Peck stores [ca.1930-1970], pioneered marketing of women’s sportswear & creation of upscale New York-based, nation-wide retailing in suburban locations, 1930s-1960s |
Walter “Wally” Snell | 1909 | All-American baseball player at Brown University; Boston Red Sox catcher [1913]; botany professor and coach, Brown [1920-1959]; authority on forest plants and diseases; author and illustrator, The Boleti of Northeastern North America (1970) |
Herbert H. Vreeland Jr. | 1909 | Brigadier general; chief, US military intelligence, China, 1944-1945 |
1910s | ||
Name | Class | Areas of Note |
Benjamin F. Avery | 1910 | General manager and later president, KVP forest products company, 1948-1958; president, Canadian Forestry Association, 1958-1959; recipient, CFA Forest Conservation Award [1964] |
James Phinney Baxter III | 1910 | Educator, historian, author; President, Williams College, 1937-1961; deputy director, OSS, World War II; winner, Pulitzer Prize in history, Scientists Against Time (1947), an account of the War Department’s Office of Scientific Research and Development |
Lindsay Bradford | 1910 | President, City Bank Farmers Trust Company, 1936-1951, now Citibank; president, New York War Relief Fund during World War II |
Charles T. Donworth | 1910 | Jurist; Washington State Supreme Court, 1949-1969, chief justice, 1956-1957 |
Negley Farson | 1910 | Foreign correspondent in early Soviet Russia, pre-independence India, Nazi Germany, London during World War II; adventurer and fisherman; author, “Sailing Across Europe” (1926), “The Way of a Transgressor” [1936], “Bomber’s Moon” [1941], “Going Fishing” [1946], “The Lost World of the Caucasus” [1958] |
Henry Wise Hobson | 1910 | Episcopal bishop, Southern Ohio, 1930-1959; dubbed “the fighting bishop,” Hobson was a decorated veteran of World War I and the leader and spokesman for Fight for Freedom, Inc., 1939-1941, a national organization advocating US entry into World War II; president, Phillips Academy Board of Trustees, 1947-1966 |
Alexander Lewis Jackson | 1910 | General manager, The Chicago Defender [1925-], the nation’s most influential black weekly; president, board of trustees, Provident Hospital, Chicago’s first hospital run by and for African Americans |
Robert N. Kastor | 1910 | Stockbroker and civil libertarian; Instrumental in publication of James Joyce’s Ulysses in the United States |
Scott H. Paradise | 1910 | Rhodes Scholar (1914); war relief volunteer in Belgium, 1915-1916; Phillips Academy English instructor [1924-1956 |
Lucy Porter Sutton | 1910 | Pediatrician and medical researcher; professor of pediatrics, NYU Medical School; specialist in heart disease & rheumatism; author, Heart Disease in Infancy (1930) |
Mira Bigelow Wilson | 1910 | Professor, religious work and social service, Smith College [1920-]; head, Northfield School for Girls, 1928-1952 |
Edwin Cohn | 1911 | Biochemist and medical researcher, specialist in chemistry of proteins and human blood fractionation; developer of practical cure for pernicious anemia [1928] based on research begun by George Whipple [PA 1896]; developer of systems for the utilization of all components of blood for medical transfusions, work of critical importance during World War II; coauthor: Proteins, Amino Acids and Peptides (1943) |
Charlotte Gowing Cooper | 1911 | WPA Art Ohio program [1930s]; chief, GI recreation facilities, Southwest Pacific, crafts section, ca.1945 |
Norman Donaldson | 1911 | Managing director, treasurer, president, chairman, Yale University Press, 1950-1964; first president, American University Presses Association, 1939- |
Joseph Garland | 1911 | Pediatrician; editor, New England Journal of Medicine, 1947-1967, transforming it into an international leader in medical journalism |
Elizabeth Hinks | 1911 | Psychologist; director, children’s study clinic, Detroit Juvenile Court |
Alexander Royce | 1911 | Director, United States Commercial Co., London, 1943-1945, an economic warfare agency; co-chair, with Harold MacMillan, North African Economics Board, Algiers; attorney for US airlines seeking international routes and chairman, Airlines Committee on United States Air Policy, 1945- |
Alfred Hugo Schoellkopf | 1911 | Utilities owner/executive and public welfare leader during the Depression; President, Buffalo, Niagara & Eastern Power, 1929-1933, and Niagara Hudson Power, 1933-1942; Chair, NY State Board of Social Welfare, 1933-1935 |
Harold Crawford Stearns | 1911 | Poet |
Richard Kerens Sutherland | 1911 | Lt General, World War II, Chief of Staff to General MacArthur; oversaw Japanese surrender, 1945 |
Norman L. Torrey | 1911 | Voltaire scholar, professor of French literature, Columbia University |
Daniel C. Elkin | 1912 | Pioneering cardiologist; Chief of Surgery, Emory School of Medicine; president, American College of Surgeons [1957]; recipient, Rudolph Matas Award in Vascular Surgery |
Adam Gimbel | 1912 | Retailer; as president of Saks Fifth Avenue, 1926-1969, created the nation’s largest specialty chain |
Edward Mahan | 1912 | All-American half-back (football) at Harvard [1913, 1914, 1915] and captain, Harvard football team |
Frances Sheldon | 1912 | Art collector, donor of the Mary Frances Sheldon Museum, University of Nebraska, 1950/1963 |
Winthrop H. Smith | 1912 | Stockbroker; managing director, Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, 1940-1961 |
Henry W. Clune | 1913 | Columnist, 1914-1969, Rochester Democrat & Chronicle, chronicler of Rochester life |
Edgar G. Crossman | 1913 | Attorney; legal aide to Henry Stimson, governor general of the Philippines (1928-1929) and to General McArthur [1944-1945], presidential envoy to the Philippines and co-chairman, Joint American-Philippine Finance Commission (1947) |
Donald H. Dickerman | 1913 | Nightclub entrepreneur; creator of “atmospheric” nightspots in New York, Miami Beach, Washington, DC, and Los Angeles[ca.1918-1948 including Hollywood’s “Pirate’s Den” |
John D. Hamilton | 1913 | Speaker, Kansas House of Representatives, 1927-1929; chairman, Republican National Committee, 1936-1940 |
Frank “Kooch” Hogg | 1913 | Football All-American and captain, Princeton University football team (1916) |
Dorothy Perkins Estabrook | 1913 | Namesake, the Dorothy Perkins rose (1901) |
Helen Danforth Prudden | 1913 | Organizer of relief work in Illinois during Great Depression |
Archibald Roosevelt | 1913 | Third son of Theodore Roosevelt; decorated officer in World War I and World War II, only serviceman classified as 100% disabled in both wars; founder, Roosevelt & Cross (1946), New York brokerage house specializing in municipal bonds |
William A. Sullivan | 1913 | US Navy Commodore, World War II; the Navy’s salvage and port restoration expert, “the Commodore of Sunken Ships” |
Philip D. Woodbridge | 1913 | Anesthesiologist & inventor of medical instruments; president, American Board of Anesthesiology, 1945-1946 |
Knight Woolley | 1913 | Banker; authority on bankers’ acceptances; managing partner, Harriman Brothers at time of merger, creating Brown Brothers Harriman; general partner, Brown Brothers Harriman, 1931-1982 |
Howard Malcolm Baldridge | 1914 | Intercollegiate heavyweight wrestling champion at Yale, ca.1918; Nebraska Republican congressman, 1931-1933 |
Harvey P. Hood | 1914 | Donor, Hood Museum, Dartmouth (1978; opened 1985) |
Woodland Kahler | 1914 | International Vegetarian Union leader, president, 1960-1971, and Marquis de St Innocent |
James Knowles Jr. | 1914 | World War I ace, US Army 95th Aero Squadron; recipient, Distinguished Service Cross |
Leo T. McMahon | 1914 | Brigadier general, World War II; North Africa campaign [1941-1942]; commander, 65th “Battle Axe” Division Artillery [1943]; Battle of the Bulge [1944-1945] |
Dudley Poore | 1914 | Poet; translator, interpreter, and anthologist of Latin American literature |
Winnifred Warren Porteus | 1914 | Fruit farmer, Okanagan Valley, British Columbia, 1930s- |
Kenneth A. Reid | 1914 | Conservationist; executive director, Izaak Walton League; crusader for federal water pollution controls |
Jerry R. Beach | 1915 | Veterinarian, medical researcher at UC Davis, 1915-1951, pioneered study of poultry pathology |
Russell H. Bennett | 1915 | Mining engineer, minerals prospector, and rancher; author, Quest for Ore (1963); recipient, William Lawrence Saunders Gold Medal, 1978 |
Bessie Gleason Bowen | 1915 | Owner, Comacrib Press, Shanghai, ca.1925- |
Robert T. Bushnell | 1915 | Attorney; crusader against censorship; attorney general of Massachusetts, 1941-1945 |
Frederick G. Crane II | 1915 | Conservationist, livestock, and tree farmer, 1925-1978; put 1900 acres of family land under conservation easement, the largest single tract of land protected in perpetuity in Massachusetts [1972]; Massachusetts “Outstanding Tree Farmer of the Year” [1976] |
Allan Vanderhoef Heely | 1915 | Headmaster, Lawrenceville School, 1934-1958 |
Esther “Ted” Kilton | 1915 | Architect; editor and director, “Home Builders Service Bureau,” House Beautiful Magazine, 1932- |
William Alexander Kirkland | 1915 | Houston banker and civic leader; First National Bank of Houston [1920-1963], as president and chairman; president, Texas Bankers Association [1947-1948]; chair, Harris County Board of Park Commissioners, credited with envisioning and implementing construction of the Astrodome [1965] |
Alice Frye Leach | 1915 | Painter |
George Peter Murdock | 1915 | Anthropologist and innovator in cross-cultural research; chair, Yale Anthropology Dept; chair, National Academy of Sciences, Behavioral Sciences National Research Council [1964-]; founder, Ethnology Journal; author, “Social Structure” [1949], “Ethnographic Atlas” [1967], “Atlas of World Cultures” [1981]; recipient, Viking Medal [1949], Huxley Medal [1971] |
J.P. Stevens Jr. | 1915 | President, J.P. Stevens Company [1942-]; President, Edison, NJ Board of Education, 1942-1959; leader in effort to make New Jersey’s Great Swamp a National Wildlife Refuge [1959-1960; a founder, Outward Bound USA (1961); president, Phillips Academy Board of Trustees, 1966-1968 |
Royal V. Thomas | 1915 | Aviator; set world solo endurance record,1928]; killed during test flight for Atlantic crossing |
Elliott Thorpe | 1915 | Brigadier general; attended signings of the treaties ending both World War I and World War II; chief of counterintelligence under Douglas MacArthur, WWII; December 1941, as military attache in Java, sent word of impending Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor; founder, Army Language School after World War II; author |
Muriel Baker Wood | 1915 | Corporal, Women’s Army Corps (WAC), 1944- |
Philip K. Wrigley | 1915 | President, Wrigley’s Chewing Gum, 1932-1961; owner, Chicago Cubs, 1932-1977; founder, All American Girls Softball League, 1943- |
Laurence Wellman Beilenson | 1916 | Attorney, Screen Actors Guild [1933-1960]; chief US liaison officer to Chinese Army, World War II; author of neo-conservative tracts including The Treaty Trap (1969), which substantially influenced the views of his friend Ronald Reagan |
John T. “Tim” Callahan | 1916 | Yale football captain and All-American guard, 1920 |
Ralph Hanes | 1916 | Historic preservationist; founder, Old Salem, Winston-Salem, NC [1940]; trustee, National Trust for Historic Preservation [1961-1971], vice chair [1962-1965] |
Walter Hochschild | 1916 | President and chairman AMAX (American Metals Climax), 1950-1980; active in Council on Foreign Relations & an advocate for understanding and analysis of international business issues |
Robert B. Williamson | 1916 | Jurist; justice, Maine Supreme Court [1949-1970], chief justice [1956-1970] |
C. Harvey Bradley | 1917 | Chairman, P.R. Mallory & Company [1964-1972] |
Harold R. Buckley | 1917 | World War I ace; captain, 95th Aero Squadron; recipient, Distinguished Service Cross; screenwriter, 1930s, including “Air Devils” [1938] |
Donald F. Carpenter | 1917 | DuPont engineer and executive; chairman, US Munitions Board, 1948-1949, championed stockpiling of strategic materials |
Frances Gere | 1917 | Author and illustrator, children’s books; Once Upon a Time in Egypt (1937) |
Powers Hapgood | 1917 | Labor organizer, United Mine Workers, CIO, etc., 1922-1935; socialist candidate for governor, Ohio, 1932 |
Tsing Lien Li | 1917 | Physician, Beijing, Shanghai, ca.1925- |
James Pickering | 1917 | Popularizer of astronomy as lecturer, author, and TV host; assistant astronomer, American Museum of Natural History, New York, ca.1951-1965 |
Raymond T. Rich | 1917 | General Secretary, World Peace Foundation, 1927- |
Reginald Smithwick | 1917 | Surgeon; pioneered treatments for vascular disease and hypertension; Harvard Medical School faculty [1928-1946]; chair, department of surgery, Boston University School of Medicine [1946-1965] |
Robert T Stevens | 1917 | Secretary of the Army (1953-1955), period of the Army-McCarthy Hearings; president and later chairman, JP Stevens & Company, 1929-1969 |
Jack Morris Wright | 1917 | World War I pilot and author, A Poet of the Air, a compelling portrayal of life in French and US Army, published posthumously in 1918 |
Lawrence Allen Abercrombie | 1918 | Much-decorated World War II Navy captain; commander, US Pacific Fleet destroyer Drayton, 1940-1943 |
Ned Bliss Allen | 1918 | Rhodes Scholar [-1923]; English professor and department chair, University of Delaware; author, The Sources of John Dryden’s Comedies [1935, 1967, 1973] |
Bromwell Ault | 1918 | President, Episcopal Church Foundation, 1961-1969; president, Board of Governors, St. John’s College, Annapolis, 1968-1970 |
John Porter Carleton | 1918 | Rhodes Scholar [1922-1923]; US ski jumping record holder [1922]; captain, first US Olympic Ski Team [1924] |
Norman Dodd | 1918 | Leading McCarthy-Era conspiracy theorist; as research direct, US House of Representatives Reece Committee (1953-1954), wrote and testified about “un-American activities” of major tax-exempt foundations and their alleged efforts to shape thought in America in favor of socialism, collectivization, internationalism |
Mitchell Gratwick | 1918 | Head, Horace Mann School, 1950-1968 |
Van Campen Heilner | 1918 | Sportsman, author, and filmmaker; authority on hunting and fishing; field representative, American Museum of Natural History; Salt Water Fishing (1937) a classic in its field |
Walter Higley | 1918 | Episcopal Bishop, Central New York [1960-19, |
Cargill MacMillan Sr. | 1918 | President, Cargill, Inc., 1957-1960 |
Singleton Moorehead | 1918 | Architect and architectural historian; researcher and designer for Colonial Williamsburg, 1928-1963; author, treatises on Virginia architecture; Fellow, American Institute of Architects |
Robert G. Page | 1918 | Attorney; first new York Regional Director, Securities and Exchange Commission, 1935-; president and later chairman, Phelps Dodge, 1947-1969; recipient, Charles F. Rand Gold Medal [1967] |
J. Hall Paxton | 1918 | Diplomat, representing the US in China, Iran, 1925-1952; evacuated from Nanking and survivor, the Panay Incident [1937]; recipient, State Department Superior Service Award for leading refugees on 2000-mile journey over Himalayas from China into India (1946) |
Emanuel J. Rosenberg | 1918 | Creator, producer of radio soap operas and serials, including “Sam Spade” and “The Fat Man” (1946-1951), and television series including “Texaco Playhouse” and “The People’s Choice” (1955-1958) |
Margaret Bailey Speer | 1918 | Dean of Women’s College, Yenching University, Beijing, 1925-1942; head, Shipley School, 1944-1965; early advocate for the A Better Chance (ABC) scholarship program, 1960s |
William Edwards Stevenson | 1918 | Rhodes Scholar [1922-]; Olympic Gold Medal, 1600 meter relay, setting world record [1924]; organizer, American Red Cross operations in the UK and North Africa durign World War ng; president, Oberlin College, 1946-1959; chair, National Fulbright Selection Committee; ambassador to the Philippines, 1962-1964; head, Aspen Institute, 1967-1970 |
George Clapp Vaillant | 1918 | Archeologist, museum administrator, teacher; specialist in Mexican archeology and pre-Columbian cultures; director, University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, 1941-1945 |
Franklin G. “Fritz” Clement | 1919 | Chicago investment banker; Senior Amateur Golf Championship winner [1957], member, US Senior Golf championship team [1964] |
Minot “Minnie” Dole | 1919 | Founder and first chairman, National Ski Patrol [1938-]; instigator of special training for mountain forces during World War II, later the 10th Mountain Division [1939-]; namesake, Minnie’s Mile ski run, Vail, Colorado |
Thomas W. “Tim” Durant | 1919 | Screen actor including in “Red Badge of Courage” [1951]; steeplechase champion, Del Monte Cup Race, Grand National (1966, 1967, 1968) |
Doris Knights | 1919 | Lt. Col. United States Army Nurse Corps; chief nurse, 6th General Hospital, World War II |
Elisabeth Luce Moore | 1919 | Leader in social service agencies, educational institutions, and philanthropy, 1930s-1990s; Henry Luce Foundation Board of Trustees, 1936-1999; chair, USO National Council, World War II; president, United Board for Christian Education in Asia; chair, US Institute of International Education; chair, YMCA foreign division; chair, Institute for International Education; chair, Board of Trustees, State University System of New York, 1968-1978; namesake, Elisabeth Luce Moore Library, Chung Chi College, Chinese University of Hong Kong [1971] |
Gordon Morris | 1919 | Author of popular fiction, playwright, screenwriter, 1920s-1930s |
1920s | ||
Name | Class | Areas of Note |
Harold Homer Anderson | 1920 | Psychologist and researcher; specialist in child development and creativity; chair, Michigan State University Psychology Department, 1946- |
Calvin Bartlett | 1920 | Defense attorney and civil libertarian; defender of alleged communists in trials proceeding from interrogations by Senator Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s |
Humphrey Bogart | 1920 | Actor best known for his film work, including “Petrified Forest” [1936], “Maltese Falcon” [1941], “Casablanca” [1943], “The Big Sleep” [1946], “Treasure of Sierra Madre” [1948], “The African Queen” [1951]; Best Actor Academy Award [1951]; per the American Film Institute “Hollywood’s greatest male film star” [1999] |
Thurston Chase | 1920 | Headmaster, Eaglebrook School, 1928-1966 |
Paul C. Daniels | 1920 | Diplomat; ambassador to Honduras [1947], ambassador to OAS [1948-1950], ambassador to Ecuador [1951-1953]; Department of State director of American Republic Affairs [1947-49]; as US special advisor on Antarctica [1957-1959], negotiated the Antarctic Treaty [1959]; namesake, Daniels Range, Antarctica [1963] |
Edward J. Hanley | 1920 | President/CEO/chair, Allegheny Ludlum Steel [1951-1972], then the world’s largest producer of stainless steel and titanium |
Allen Keith | 1920 | In 1922, as a Yale undergraduate, Keith was the hero of the Rialto Theatre Fire in New Haven; Keith died from the injuries he received rescuing women and children trapped in the building |
David W. Kendall | 1920 | Asst. Secretary of Treasury (1955-1957); special counsel to President Eisenhower [1958-60] |
Jean Lyon | 1920 | Foreign correspondent covering the “fall of China” (ca.1945-1950); author, “When the communists took China” Harper’s February 1950, “Chester Bowles, new-style diplomat” Harper’s November 1952; author “Just Half a World Away: My Search for the New India” [1954] |
Milton Steinbach | 1920 | Philanthropist; first president, Mount Sinai School of Medicine; recipient, Yale Medal, 1965 |
George B. Wells | 1920 | President, American Optical Company [1936-1946]; founder & part donor, Old Sturbridge Village [1936] |
Henry Cutler Wolfe | 1920 | War correspondent, author and lecturer on foreign affairs, influential during the early years of WWII; recipient, Order of the Southern Cross [Brazil, ca.1945] |
Lloyd Brace | 1921 | President/CEO/chair, Bank of Boston [1947-1966]; director, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston [1951-1956]; chairman, Dartmouth Board of Trustees [1967-1970]; Rockefeller Foundation Finance Committee chair; recipient, Harvard Business School Business Statesman Award [1968] |
Carlton Coon | 1921 | Physical anthropologist, archaeologist, spy, and diplomat; author, especially on the anthropology of race; president, American Association of Physical Anthropology; professor at Harvard [1928-48], U Pennsylvania [1948-1963]; OSS secret agent, North Africa [WWII]; panelist on Peabody-Award winning archaeology quiz show “What in the World?” [1949-1964]; author, “A North Africa Story: The Anthropologist as OSS Agent” [1980] |
Joseph Cornell | 1921 | Surrealist artist and filmmaker; noted especially as an assemblagist and creator of shadow boxes [active 1930s-1960s] |
Philip Eiseman | 1921 | Banker; president, Bay Banks [1948-1966], chair, Bay State Corporation [1948-1969]; leader in developing concept of bank holding companies |
Walter J. Kohler Jr. | 1921 | Governor of Wisconsin [1950-1954]; chairman, American Cancer Society [1953-56] |
Alfred Lindley | 1921 | With PA classmates and Yale teammates Benjamin Spock and Alfred Wilson, member of the Yale 8 that won Olympic Gold Medal in rowing [1924]; member, US Olympic Ski Team [1935]; leader in US competitive skiing [1935-1950]; mountain climber |
Donald Loker | 1921 | Boxer turned screen actor under the name “Don Terry” featured in movie serials of the late 1930s and early 1940s; later executive with wife’s family business, the French Sardine Company – Star-Kist; the Lokers became benefactors of USC, Harvard, etc. |
Raymond Otis | 1921 | Novelist based in Santa Fe; Fire in the Night etc. |
Irving E Rogers Jr. | 1921 | Publisher, Lawrence Eagle-Tribune (1982-1998); recipient, Pulitzer Prize for General Reporting [1988] |
Edward S. Skillin | 1921 | Editor and publisher, Commonweal, oldest Catholic journal of opinion in US, 1938-1998 |
Mom Luang Chiew Snitwongse | 1921 | First Thai student at Andover |
Benjamin Spock | 1921 | Pediatrician, influential author on child rearing, Baby and Child Care (1946); social activist; member of the all-Yale crew team that took gold at the 1924 Olympics; recipient, Fuess Award [1980] |
Arthur Walworth | 1921 | Pulitzer Prize winning biographer, “Woodrow Wilson, American Prophet” [1958] and other studies of Wilson & his era |
Alfred Wilson | 1921 | With PA classmates and Yale teammates Benjamin Spock and Alfred Lindley, member of the Yale 8 that won Olympic Gold Medal in rowing [1924] |
Robert Gray Allen | 1922 | New Deal Democrat; Pennsylvania congressman, 1937-1941 |
Peter Capra | 1922 | Italian immigrant who came to Andover as a World War I veteran; director, New York Boys Club [1939-1962], chairman, Yale University Enrollment and Scholarship Committee [ca.1950] |
Donald E. Carr | 1922 | Environmental activist and author, The Breath of Life [1965], Death of the Sweet Waters [1966] |
Charles A Clough | 1922 | Episcopal Bishop of Springfield, Massachusetts, 1948-1962 |
Ralph M. Crowley | 1922 | Psychoanalytic pioneer; president, William White Institute, New York; president, American Academy of Psychoanalysis; recipient, William V. Silverberg Award [1980] |
Benjamin C. Cutler | 1922 | Popular New York “society” band leader and singer [1920s-70s] |
Walker Evans | 1922 | Photographer and photo essayist; best known for “The Crime of Cuba” with Carlton Beal [1931], work with Farm Security Administration [1935-1938], “Let Us Now Praise Famous Men” [1939] with James Agee |
Robert R. Hannum | 1922 | Social worker and author; Children’s Village [1929-1940]; director, Osborne Association [1941-1967]; president, International Prisoners Aid Association |
Bartlett Hayes | 1922 | Museum curator and arts administrator; director, Addison Gallery of American Art [1940-1969]; secretary, College Art Association [1959-1964]; director, American Academy in Rome [1969-1973]; recipient, Fuess Award [1979] |
H. Mansfield “Jack” Horner | 1922 | President and later Chairman, United Aircraft, 1943-1968 |
John R. Kimberly | 1922 | Chairman and CEO, Kimberly-Clark [1953-1968], transforming it into a global manufacturer of consumer products |
Phillips Lord | 1922 | Creator of popular radio dramas, “Sunday at Seth Parker” [1929-1933], “Gang Busters” [1935-1957] |
Stanley Osborne | 1922 | President/CEO, Olin Mathieson Chemicals, 1957-1964 |
Joseph Verner Reed | 1922 | Theatre producer, real estate developer, and conservationist; developer of Florida’s Jupiter Island [1931-]; a founder and later president and chairman, American Shakespeare Festival [1955-1973]; Florida conservationist |
Robert P. Anderson | 1923 | Judge, Connecticut Superior Court [1953-1954]; US District Court Judge for CT [1954-1962], chief judge [1960-1964]; US Court of Appeals Judge, Second District [1964-1971] |
Gardner Cox | 1923 | Artist best known for portraits of government, business, and cultural leaders including Dylan Thomas, Earl Warren, Robert Kennedy, Henry Kissinger, and Robert Frost |
George Bapst Darling | 1923 | Public health authority; Yale professor of human ecology [1946-1974]; director, Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission, National Academy of Sciences [1957-1972]; recipient, Supreme Golden Orchid Award, Japan Medical Society [1967] |
Frederick Thayer Merrill | 1923 | Diplomat; expert on Eastern European affairs and narcotics trafficking; secretary, US Delegation, Paris Peace Conference [1945], director, East-West contacts, Dept. of State [1956-1960]; |
Charles B.G. Murphy | 1923 | Mental health philanthropist; major donor to medical education, psychiatric research and treatment, development of chemotherapy to combat depression [ca.1940-1977]; founder, Social Research Foundation [1949] |
Macauley Smith | 1923 | Athlete and conservationists; US Olympic Team distance runner [1928] donor, Blackacre Conservancy [1979], first nature preserve in Kentucky state system |
Benner C. Turner | 1923 | Law School Dean, North Carolina Colored Normal College [1940-]; President, South Carolina State College [1949-1968]; president, Conference of Land Grant Colleges |
Alan Barth | 1924 | Editorial writer, Washington Post [1943-1972]; as “the liberal conscience of Washington” advocated for civil rights and civil liberties; opponent of segregation and McCarthyism; author of “The Loyalty of Free Men” [1951], “Price of Liberty” [1961], & “The Rights of Free Men” [1984] |
Walter R. Bearsley | 1924 | President/CEO/chairman, Miles Laboratories [1947-1973], producer of multivitamins, Alka-Seltzer |
Philip D. Block, Jr. | 1924 | Chairman, Inland Steel [1967-1971]; philanthropist, Art Institute of Chicago |
Mark DeWolfe Howe | 1924 | Legal historian, authority on constitutional law; professor, Harvard Law School [1945-]; biographer, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. |
C. Terry Sedgwick Keep | 1924 | Rhodes Scholar [1928-]; president, Previews, Inc. |
“Prince” Serge Mdivani | 1924 | Polo player and socialite, one of the “Marrying Mdivanis” whose well-publicized marriages and divorces from film stars and heiresses titillated the public [1920s-1930s] |
Frell Owl | 1924 | Member, Eastern Band, Cherokee Indians; Bureau of Indian Affairs official [1928-1961]; superintendent, Crow Creek Sioux Agency, South Dakota; superintendent, Fort Hall Indian Reservation, Idaho; author, “Who and What is an American Indian” [1962]; namesake, Frell Owl Award |
Thomas L. Perkins | 1924 | President and chairman, American Cyanamid [1951-1960]; trustee, the Duke Endowment [1948-1973], chair [1960-1973] |
Roy “Red” Randall | 1924 | All-American football back at Brown University [1926, 1927]; leader, Brown’s “Iron Men Team” [1926] |
Ernesto Samper | 1924 | Columbian aviator cofounder, Columbian airline SACO [1933-], merged to form Avianca [1940] |
Charles H. Sawyer | 1924 | Arts administrator; museum director [1931-1941]; During World War II, with OSS, documented art looted by Nazis; dean, Yale Division of Arts [1947-1956]; director, University of Michigan Museum of Art [1957-1972] |
George F. Vanderschmidt | 1924 | Journalist; managing editor, Newsweek [1942-1946] and London correspondent [1946-1952]; author, What the English Think of Us [1948] |
Winslow Ames | 1925 | Art and architectural historian, connoisseur, museum director; authority on Old Master drawings and Victorian aesthetics; author, Prince Albert and Victorian Taste [1967] |
N. Philip Bastedo | 1925 | Attorney; president, board of trustees, Hospital for Special Surgery, New York [1958-], chair, United Hospital Fund [1978-1984], the nation’s oldest federated charity |
Charles Borah | 1925 | Champion sprinter; twice tied world record in the 100-yard dash [1926, ’27]; US Olympic Team [1928] Gold Medal, 4×100 relay |
Lilian Grosvenor Coville | 1925 | Traveler in Manchuria [1920s]; author, National Geographic articles on Manchuria [1930s] |
Cornelius Crane | 1925 | Explorer and archaeologist, funder, Field Museum Pacific Expedition [1928-1929]; Chicago philanthropist |
Douglas C. Fox | 1925 | Anthropologist and art historian, Forschunginstitut Fur Kulturmorphologie, Frankfurt; expert on cave paintings & African folk tales |
Theodate Johnson | 1925 | Classical singer; later, as Theodate Johnson Severns, owner of Musical America [ca.1960-] |
Ralph Delahaye Paine Jr. | 1925 | Publisher and managing editor, Fortune [1941-1967]; vice-president, TIME, Inc. [1953-]; publisher, Architectural Forum [1954-1963]; |
Robert Rylee | 1925 | Novelist, Deep Dark River [1935] |
James Ramsey Ullman | 1925 | New York theater producer/director; producer of “Haiti” with the Federal Theatre Project [1938]; author, The White Tower [novel 1945, film 1950] |
Frederick M. Alger Jr. | 1926 | Michigan Secretary of State [1947-1952]; Ambassador to Belgium [1957-1959] |
Charles A. Bovey | 1926 | Montana rancher and collector of Gold Rush-Era buildings and artifacts; founder, Montana Historic Landmarks Society [1944]; owner and restorer, 1860s boomtown Virginia City, declared a National Historic Landmark in 1961 |
Homer M. Byington II | 1926 | Diplomat; director, State Department Office of Western European Affairs [1950-1954]; first American ambassador to Malaysia [1957-1961] |
Duncan Emrich | 1926 | Folklorist and diplomat; chief, Library of Congress Folklore Collection [1945-1955]; US cultural attache to Togo, Greece, and India [ca.1955-1965]; folklorist with United States Information Agency [USIA] |
Suzanne Loizeaux | 1926 | Publisher and editor, Plymouth Record, New Hampshire; member, New Hampshire General Assembly [1952-] |
Beaumont Newhall | 1926 | Photography historian and curator; author, The History of Photography [1937]; founding curator, Department of Photography, Museum of Modern Art [1940-1948]; curator and later director, George Eastman House Museum of Photography [1948-1971]; recipient, Fuess Award [1979] |
Fletcher E. Nyce | 1926 | Swimmer; set interscholastic 100 yard record, breast stroke [1926]; president/CEO/chairman, Central Trust Company, Cincinnati, and Central Bancorporation [1964-1973] |
Gretchen Vanderschmidt | 1926 | President, Altrusa International [ca.1954] social service and grant-making organization |
L. Metcalfe Walling | 1926 | New Deal labor lawyer; administrator, Fair Labor Standards Act [1942-1947]; director, US aid mission, Cambodia [1957-1960] |
Frederic P. Bartlett | 1927 | Diplomat; first US ambassador to Madagascar, 1960-1962 |
John M. Bennett | 1927 | South Texas rancher, banker, civic, and political leader; World War II bomber pilot, commander, 100th Bomb Group [“The Bloody Hundredth”], leader, first daylight bombing raid over Berlin [8 March 1944]; Major General, Air Force Reserve |
Emilio Collado | 1927 | Economist, Treasury and State departments [1934-44]; member, American negotiating team, Bretton Woods Conference [1944]; 1st US executive director, World Bank [1947]; chairman, Americas Society, New York; chairman, Center for Inter-American Relations |
Richard Stanley Merrill Emrich | 1927 | Episcopal Bishop of Michigan [1948-1973]; civil rights activist; Bishop Emrich integrated all Michigan Episcopal parishes and institutions in 1948 |
Chester L. Harding | 1927 | Rear Admiral, US Coast Guard; commander, 3rd Coast Guard District [-1965] |
Marshall MacDuffie | 1927 | Chief, UN relief mission in Ukraine [1945-]; friend to Nikita Khrushchev; author of books and articles on the Soviet Union including The Red Carpet: 10,000 Miles through Russia [1955] |
Robert Maes | 1927 | Surgeon; president, American College of Surgeons; president, the Independence Foundation, Philadelphia [1959-1991] which supported education, especially private secondary education |
John B. Martin Jr. | 1927 | Rhodes Scholar [1930-1931]; attorney and Michigan Republican politician; Michigan Auditor General [1951-1954] |
Ruth Nash | 1927 | Composer; Department of Agriculture film scores [1940]; director, Music Education Program, WPA [1942] |
Charles C. Stelle | 1927 | Diplomat; member, “Dixie Mission” observing Communist Chinese forces and government operations, Yan-an [1944-]; US negotiating team, Atomic Test Ban Treaty [1963]; head, US delegation, US-Soviet Hotline Agreement [1963]; chief US delegate, Geneva Disarmament Conference [1964] |
W. Davis Taylor | 1927 | Publisher/chairman, The Boston Globe (1955-1981); recipient, Fuess Award, 1974 |
Sydna White | 1927 | Collector of folk music, Indian subcontinent; performer |
John W.M. Whiting | 1927 | Anthropologist; researcher on child development and learning in diverse societies; Harvard professor [1949-1978]; author, “Becoming a Kwoma: Teaching and Learning in a New Guinea Tribe” [1941], “Child Training and Personality” [1953], “Culture and Human Development” [1994] |
James Barr Ames | 1928 | Attorney and civic leader; vice president and later president, Massachusetts Historical Society (1967-1978); president, Boston Athenaeum (1968-1981); president, Greater Boston Hospital Planning Council |
Hubert C. Barton | 1928 | Economist; director, Office of Strategic Services Presentation Branch, [1942-1945], presenting wartime military information, organizing the San Francisco UN Conference [1944] and the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials [1945]; economic development planner for Puerto Rico’s Operation Bootstrap [ca.1948-1960] |
Sumner McKnight Crosby | 1928 | Art historian, authority on French medieval architecture; Yale professor [1941-1978], chair Yale Department of Art History [1947-1953, 1962-1965]; director, International Center of Romanesque Art [1956-]; president, International Center of Medieval Art [1966-]; author, “The Abbey of St. Denis” [1942], “The Royal Abbey of St. Denis” [1987] |
Philip Dey Eastman | 1928 | Cartoon writer and story boarder, Walt Disney [1935-1941], Warner Brothers [1941-1943]; with the Frank Capra Signal Corps Unit [1943-1945], writer for the “Private Snafu” training film series; with UPA Pictures, adapter/writer, Mr. Magoo cartoons and “Gerald McBoing-Boing” – winner Academy Award, Best Animated Short [1950]; during 1950s, on Hollywood Blacklist; author and illustrator, children’s books – “Sam & the Firefly” [1958], “The Best Nest” [1968] |
Gerhard Gesell | 1928 | Washington attorney and judge; chair, presidential Committee on Equal Opportunity in the Armed Services [1961-1967]; US district judge, Washington, DC [1967-1993]; presided in high-profile trials relating to publication of the Pentagon Papers [1971], the Watergate break-in [1972-73], the Iran-Contra scandal [1986]; recipient, Fuess Award [1973], Edward J. Devitt Distinguished Service to Justice Award [1989] |
Walter Gubelmann | 1928 | Yachtsman; winner, Southern Ocean Racing Championship [1950], Queen Elizabeth II Cup [1958, 1965, 1968]; America’s Cup challenge financier, Constellation Syndicate [1964]; president, Society of the Four Arts, Palm Beach [1966-1988]; US Croquet Hall of Fame [1987] |
Basil Duke Henning | 1928 | Historian; honored by British Parliament for his 3-volume history of Parliament in the 17th century; master, Saybrook College, Yale, 1946-1975 |
Franz J. “Inge” Ingelfinger | 1928 | Gastroenterologist, medical educator, and journalist; editor, New England Journal of Medicine [1967-1977]; creator of the “Ingelfinger Rule” [1970] regarding biomedical publishing; recipient, Fuess Award [1980] |
Daniel James | 1928 | Playwright, screenwriter, and novelist; communist [ca.1930s-1948]; “Winter Soldiers” published in “Best Plays” [1942-1943]; on Hollywood Blacklist [1950-]; social worker [ca.1948-1968]; wrote under pseudonyms [1950-1985]; as “Danny Santiago” won awards, then opprobrium for “Famous All Over Town” [1983] |
Donald McLean | 1928 | Chief assistant to John D. Rockefeller III; founder, International House, Japan; recipient, Fuess Award [1991] |
Thomas Mendenhall | 1928 | Rhodes Scholar [1932]; history professor, 1937-1959; President, Smith College, 1959-1975 |
James O. Moore Jr. | 1928 | Solicitor General, New York State [1955-1957]; Justice, New York Supreme Court |
Lois Dunn Morse | 1928 | Nurse, administrator, and educator, New York, Boston, and Hanover, NH; recipient, Fuess Award [1978] |
Roger F. Murray II | 1928 | Pension expert, banker, economist; professor, Columbia Graduate School of Business; originator, Individual Retirement Accounts [IRAs], approved by IRS 1974 |
Eliot Noyes | 1928 | Modernist architect and industrial designer; chief designer for IBM [1956-] including IBM’s revolutionary Selectric I typewriter [1961] |
Alfred Ogden | 1928 | New York attorney; chairman, board of trustees, Robert College, Istanbul [1955-1963] |
Norman Pearson | 1928 | Yale University English professor, author; authority on the work of Nathaniel Hawthorne; explorer, Viking ruins, Greenland |
Paul C. Reardon | 1928 | Jurist and judicial reformer; chief justice, Massachusetts Superior Court [1955-1962]; a founder and second president, National Conference of State Trial Judges [1957]; author, the “Reardon Report” on fair trials & free press [1964, 1968; recommendations adopted in all fifty states by 1973]; associate justice, Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court [1962-1976]; founder and first president, National Center for State Courts [1971]; recipient, Award of Merit, North American Judges Association [1972]; honored for work in court reform by the ABA [1975]; namesake, Reardon Award of the NCSC; chairman, Harvard Board of Overseers Executive Committee [1966-1968] |
Roland Burnett Sundown | 1928 | Seneca Indian, noted as a traditional chanter |
Horace G. Torbert Jr. | 1928 | Diplomat; US ambassador to Hungary [1961-1962], Somalia [1963-1965], Bulgaria [1970-1973] |
Willis Armstrong | 1929 | Diplomat and international trade expert; official, Lend-Lease Administration [1941-1945]; deputy director, Division of Commercial Policy [1952-1954]; assistant secretary of state for economic affairs [1972-1974] |
Johnny Broaca | 1929 | New York Yankees pitcher [1934-1937] |
Charles W. Buek | 1929 | Banker, with United States Trust Company [1933-76], ultimately as president, CEO and chairman |
Newton K. Chase | 1929 | Headmaster, Thatcher School, 1949-1963, 1968-1969 |
Sherman Chickering | 1929 | Attorney and conservationist; a founder, Sugar Bowl Ski Area, Norden, California [1939] and namesake, Sugar Bowl’s “Chick’s Challenge” ski run; president, California Fish and Game Commission; chair, California State Wildlife Conservation Commission; trustee, California Academy of Sciences [1972-1993]; donor and namesake, Chickering American River Reserve [1975] |
Richard Jackson | 1929 | Assistant Secretary of the Navy [1957-1961] |
Alfred Kidder II | 1929 | Archaeologist, author; panelist on the University of Pennsylvania-based-based archaeology quiz show, “What in the World?” [ca.1950-1965], winner Peabody Award |
John Lardner | 1929 | Sports writer, war correspondent; author Southwest Passage: the Yanks in the Pacific [1943] |
Thomas M. Lasater | 1929 | Rancher and cattle breeder, Texas and Colorado; developer of Beefmaster cattle [1931-], recognized as a distinct breed by the USDA [1954] |
Despina Plakias Messinesi | 1929 | Editor, Vogue magazine [1941-1992] |
J. Quigg Newton Jr. | 1929 | Activist mayor of Denver [1947-1955]; president, American Municipal Association [1949-1950]; president, University of Colorado [1956-1963]; president, The Commonwealth Fund, New York [1964-1975] with special interest in health-care delivery and creation of HMOs; Denver’s municipal auditorium named in honor of Quigg Newton [2003] |
Kennett Longley Rawson | 1929 | Explorer, author, editor, and publisher; as a PA student, participated in MacMillan Arctic Expeditions [1925-1929]; navigator, 2nd Byrd Antarctic Expedition [1933-35]; post-WWII, president, David McKay & Rawson, Wade [publishers]; author, “A Boys Eye View of the Arctic” [1926]; namesake, Rawson Plateau, Antarctica; recipient, Navy Cross [1935] |
Peregrine White | 1929 | Attorney for the Manhattan Project; worked on Fermi patent for first nuclear reactor [1942-1955]; post WWII, R&D general council, Dept. of Defense; research editor, National Academy of Sciences [1969-1977] |
Wingate Paine1932Commercial photographer, specialist in fashion and illustration work; author, “Mirror of Venus” [1967]19
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Name | Class | Areas of Note |
Jane Goodell | 1930 | Red Cross officer, WWII, in charge of GI recreation facilities, Iceland; author, “They Sent Me to Iceland” [1943] |
Donald B. Jones | 1930 | New Jersey conservationist, historic preservationist & philanthropist; president, NJ Conservation Foundation [1980-83]; namesake, annual NJCF Donald Jones Hike |
Edith Keller | 1930 | Private, Women’s Army Corps [WAC][1944-] |
John Usher Monro | 1930 | Director of Financial Aid, Harvard [1950-1957]; pioneered need-based financial aid and expanded educational opportunities for African-Americans; dean of Harvard College [1957-1967]; director of freshman studies, Miles College, Birmingham, Alabama [1967-1977]; recipient, Fuess Award [1982] |
John Newell | 1930 | President, Bath Iron Works shipyard [1950-1965]; in retirement, a nationally prominent opponent of nuclear power, proponent of solar power |
Donna Brace Ogilvie | 1930 | Chair, National Board, Girls Inc. [1972-]; benefactor, Girls Inc., Stanford Hospital, Yale University, Abbot Academy, and Phillips Academy; recipient, Fuess Award [1997] |
Richard H. O’Kane | 1930 | Outstanding World War II submarine commander in the Pacific theatre [1943-1944], sinking 24 enemy ships & rescuing dozens of downed pilots; prisoner of war [1944-1945]; recipient, Medal of Honor [1947]; Rear Admiral [1957]; namesake, USS O’Kane [1998] |
Helen Ripley | 1930 | Ensign, US Navy WAVES, Helped break the Japanese code [1944-] |
William L. Sachse | 1930 | Rhodes Scholar [1935-]; history professor, U Wisconsin; author, “The Colonial American in Great Britain” [1978] |
Roul Tunley | 1930 | Journalist and author focused on social policies issues; author, “Kids, Crime & Chaos” [1962], “The America’s Health Scandal” [1966], “To Be a Journalist” [2005] |
Keith Brown | 1931 | Pole vaulter at Phillips Academy and Yale; set world record [1935] |
John L. Cooper | 1931 | Chairman, Massachusetts Financial Services [-1978]; chair, Mount Holyoke College Board of Trustees [1971-1979] |
Augustus Heckscher II | 1931 | Cofounder, Yale Political Union [1934]; New York City art commissioner [1957-1962]; special consultant on the arts to President Kennedy [1962-1963]; director, 20th Century Fund [1957-1967] |
James Lardner | 1931 | Herald-Tribune Paris reporter covering Spanish Civil War; joined the Lincoln Brigade; killed in action [1938] |
Max Franklin Millikan | 1931 | Cofounder, Yale Political Union [1934]; professor of economics and director, Center for International Relations, MIT [1952-1969] |
Arthur Murray Preston | 1931 | World War II torpedo boat commander; recipient, Medal of Honor for gallantry in battle [1944] |
Russell B. Roth | 1931 | Physician and advocate on behalf of the medical profession; vice speaker, American Medical Association House of Delegates [1966-1968], speaker [1969-1972], AMA president [1973-1974] |
Lyman Spitzer | 1931 | Leader in space astronomy, plasma physics; chair, Princeton Astrophysical Sciences Department [1947-]; founder & director, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory [1951-1967]; designer, first telescope-bearing satellite; champion of what became the Hubble Space Telescope [1946-1990]; recipient, National Medal of Science [1979]; namesake, Spitzer Space Telescope [launched 2003] |
William S. Vickrey | 1931 | Economist; winner, Nobel Prize in Economics [1996] for economic theory of incentives under asymmetric information |
Stewart Wolf | 1931 | Physician and medical researcher; pioneer in study of stress & hypertension; supervisor of clinical research and head, Department of Medicine, University of Nebraska [1953-1967]; president, board of regents, National Medical Library [1967-1969] |
Isabel Arms | 1932 | Ensign, US Navy WAVES [1944-] |
John P. Austin | 1932 | Member, US Olympic Rowing Team [1936] |
William S. Beinecke | 1932 | President/CEO/ chairman, Sperry & Hutchinson [1960-1980]; chairman, Yale Development Board [1969]; founding chairman, Central Park Conservancy [1980-1985]; chairman/chairman emeritus, Hudson River Foundation [1980-] |
Norman Cahners | 1932 | Founder, president and chair, Cahners Publishing [1946-86], leading trade magazine publishers; a hammer-through champion at Harvard, Cahners refused to try out for the Berlin Olympics [1936]; philanthropist and trustee of many colleges, hospitals and civic agencies; president and then chair, Boston Museum of Science [1972-1986]; recipient, Harvard Business Statesman Award [1977], American Business Press Honor Scroll Award [1984], Annual Award, National Conference of Christians and Jews [1986] |
John M. Cates Jr. | 1932 | Diplomat; State Department expert on the United Nations and Latin America [1947-1970]; president, Center for Inter-American Relations [1971-1975] |
Robert H. Cory Jr. | 1932 | Founder and director, William Penn House [1966-], Washington, a Quaker center promoting peace and justice; recipient, Fuess Award [1978] |
Raymond Dennett | 1932 | Expert on treaty negotiations; director, World Peace Foundation [1946-54], president, American-Scandinavian Foundation; author “Negotiating with the Russians” [1951] |
Neison Harris | 1932 | Founder and president, Toni beauty products [1944-1962]; transformed Pittsburgh Railways into the diversified Pittway Company [1960s]; president/chair, Pittway [1962-] |
Gladwin Hill | 1932 | London-based AP war correspondent [1942-1945];first New York Times Los Angeles bureau chief [1946-1968]; author, “Dancing Bear: an Inside Look at California Politics” [1968]; first national environmental correspondent, New York Times [1969-1979] |
Miye Hirooka | 1932 | Translator, Tokyo [ca.1940-] |
Adrian C. “Ace” Israel | 1932 | Investment banker; president, Bache & Company [1965-1966], chairman, People’s Drug [1975-]; founder and CEO, ACLI International, commodities trading firm [-1981]; vice chair, Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette |
Oliver Jensen | 1932 | Cofounder, American Heritage Magazine [1954] and Horizon Magazine [1958]; editor, American Heritage [1959-1976] |
Ring Lardner Jr. | 1932 | Screenwriter and author; screenwriter, “Woman of the Year” – winner, Academy Award for best screenplay [1942], “Laura” [1944], “Brotherhood of Man” [1946], “Forever Amber” [1947]; a left-wing activist in the 1930s and 40s, Lardner was one of “The Hollywood Ten” blacklisted and fired by studios [1947]; moved to England, wrote under pseudonyms; comeback as screenwriter for the movie “M*A*S*H” – winner, Academy Award, best screenplay and Cannes Best Picture [1970] |
Richard A. Moore | 1932 | Attorney and diplomat; CEO, Western Broadcasting [1951-62]; special counsel to Richard Nixon [1971-73]; a founder, “The McLaughlin Group” political commentary TV show [1982-] ; Ambassador to Ireland [1989-1992] |
Lovett C. Peters | 1932 | Founder and chairman, Pioneer Institute for Public Policy Research [1988-]; recipient, Fuess Award [1978] |
Henry S. Robinson | 1932 | Archeologist; director, American School of Classical Studies, Athens [1959-1969] |
Dorothy Rockwell | 1932 | Journalist; Washington Bureau, Transradio Press Service [1942], Philadelphia Inquirer [1945-]; president, Newspaper Guild of Washington [1945-] |
Alexis Thompson | 1932 | Member, US Olympic Men’s Field Hockey Team [1936] and US Bobsled Team [1948]; owner, Philadelphia Eagles [1940-1949], winner NFL championship [1948 and 1949] |
William L. Veeck Jr. | 1932 | As owner of the Cleveland Indians [1946-1949], helped to integrate Major League Baseball; owner, St. Louis Browns [1951-1953] and Chicago White Sox [1959-1961, 1975-1981] |
John Horne Burns | 1933 | Novelist; author of “The Gallery” [1947] |
Louis J. Hector | 1933 | Rhodes Scholar [1938-1940]; OSS officer operating in China, World War II; attorney; outspoken chair, Civil Aeronautics Board [1956-1959]; instrumental in creation and, as chair, administering the Lucille P. Markey Charitable Trust supporting science research |
Robert Ingersoll | 1933 | CEO Borg Warner [1958-1972]; ambassador to Japan [1972-1973], Assistant Secretary of State, East Asian Affairs [1973-1974], Deputy Secretary of State [1974-1976]; recipient, Fuess Award [1991] |
Sargeant Kahanamoku | 1933 | Hawaiian swimmer and surfing legend [1930s-1940s] |
Robert H. Krieble | 1933 | Chemist and industrialist; cofounder and product developer, Loctite Corporation [1953-], president/CEO/chair [1964-1986]; vice chair, Heritage Foundation [1985-1996]; founder, Krieble Institute [1989], promoting democracy, economic freedom and education in the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe |
William Nute | 1933 | Medical missionary, Turkey [ca.1945-1965]; director, Christian Medical Council, National Council of Churches [1960s]; Regional Health Director, New York Public Health Service [1970s] |
Gerard Piel | 1933 | Publisher Scientific American [1947-1984], transforming magazine, widening its appeal inflanduence; president, American Association for Advancement of Science [1985-1986]; author, “Science in the Cause of Man” [1962], “The Age of Science” [2001] |
Herbert Scoville Jr. | 1933 | Nuclear physicist, Defense Department Special Weapons Project [1948-1955]; CIA deputy director, research & technology [1955-1963]; director for technology, Arms Control & Disarmament Agency [1963-1969]; a founder & president, Arms Control Association [1979-1985]; author, ’’Missile Madness’’ [1970] and ’’MX: Prescription for Disaster,’’ [1981]; recipient, Fuess Award [1977]; recipient, Rockefeller Public Service Award [1981]; namesake, Scoville Peace Internships Program [1987] |
Albert O. “Scoop” Vorse | 1933 | World War II flying ace; Rear Admiral; chair, US Navy capital ship committee [1950s] |
Abbot McConnell Washburn | 1933 | Deputy director, USIA [1953-1961]; responsible for American National Exhibition, Moscow, and Nixon visit to Russia [1959]; Federal Communications Commission (FCC) commissioner [1974-1982], advocate for cell phone communications and public television |
C. Francis “Foochow” Belcher | 1934 | Executive director, Appalachian Mountain Club [1956-1975] |
Harlan Cleveland | 1934 | Rhodes Scholar [1938-1939]; assistant secretary of state for international organizations [1961-1965]; US ambassador to NATO [1965-1969]; president, University of Hawaii [1969-1974]; director, Aspen Institute Program in International Affairs [1974-80]; founding dean, Hubert Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota [1980-1990]; recipient, Fuess Award [1968] |
Donald Redfield Griffin | 1934 | Zoologist; co-discoverer of echolocation in bats [1944]; founder of cognitive ethology [1978], the study of animal thought processes; professor of zoology successively at Cornell, Harvard, Rockefeller [1953-1986] |
Roderick S.G. “Steve” Hall | 1934 | OSS agent in the mountains of Italy, World War II; killed 1945; diary and letters recount life as a spy |
William H. Harding | 1934 | Intercollegiate pole vault champion [1936, 1937, 1938], qualifier for the cancelled 1940 Olympic Games; headmaster, the Pike School [1956-] |
Marion Harper Jr. | 1934 | Advertising leader, developer of advertising research and the competitive agency system; president/chair, McCann-Erickson [1948-1960]; founder, president and chairman, Interpublic Group [1961-1968], world’s largest public relations firm |
Gardner Middlebrook | 1934 | Medical researcher, Rockefeller Institute; co-developer, hemagglutination test for TB [1948]; recipient, Pasteur Medal [1954] |
Katherine Damon Reed | 1934 | Cofounder and business manager, Carroll Reed Ski Shops [1950-1969], pioneer in up-market catalogue sales |
Frank W. Rounds Jr. | 1934 | Journalist and diplomat, expert on Russia; author, “A Window on Red Square” [1953] |
Robert A. Uihlein Jr. | 1934 | President/chairman, Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company [1961-1976]; polo player and promoter in the US; namesake, Robert A. Uihlein Memorial Trophy, US Polo Association; part-owner, Milwaukee Brewers |
John M. Woolsey Jr. | 1934 | Attorney and conservationist; prosecutor, Nuremberg war crimes trials [1945-1949]; president, Trustees of Reservations [1977-1980]; recipient, Massachusetts Audubon Society Allen Morgan Prize for land conservation |
Alexander B. Adams | 1935 | Conservationist and author; president and later chairman, the Nature Conservancy [1960-1969]; author, “Thoreau’s Guide to Cape Cod” [1962], “The Disputed Lands” [1981] |
Newell Brown | 1935 | Assistant Secretary of Labor [1955-1961] |
James S. Copley | 1935 | Chairman, Copley Press and Copley News Service [1949-1973]; as editorial page editor, San Diego Union, an influential conservative; philanthropist, educational and cultural institutions; major collector of American historical documents |
Robert Cushman | 1935 | President, Norton Company [1971-], transformed Norton into world leader in manufacture of abrasives; advocate for corporate philanthropy |
Don Henry | 1935 | Yale All-American, lacrosse [1939]; Bronze Star and Purple Heart recipient for service as Lieutenant and PT boat commander, World War II; lawyer and bank chairman; avid mountain climber who was once the oldest person to ascend Mount Denali at age 71 [1988] |
Albert Kerr | 1935 | Headmaster, Berwick Academy [1957-1964], Peddie School [1964-1977] |
William Knowles | 1935 | Chemist; Nobel Prize, chemistry [2002] for development of catalytic asymmetric synthesis; PA Alumni Award of Distinction, 2012 |
Richard Lederer | 1935 | Historian and etymologist, author “Colonial American English” [1985] |
Charles Appleton Meyer | 1935 | Sears, Roebuck [1939-80], retiring as senior VP; Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs [1969-1973]; chair, Board of Trustees, Lake Forest College |
Henry Salomon | 1935 | NBC documentarian; conceived, wrote, and produced “Victory at Sea” [1952-1953], widely acclaimed battle-centered history of World War II, recipient, Peabody and Emmy awards [1954]; director of NBC special programming projects |
Robert W. Sarnoff | 1935 | Television executive [1948-1975]; president, RCA and NBC [1956-1975]; commissioned Gian Carlo Menotti television opera “Amahl and the Night Visitors” [1953], 1st color broadcast |
James W. Swihart | 1935 | Diplomat; first secretary, US Embassy, London [1956], director, Department of State Office of Eastern European Affairs [1989-1991], Ambassador to Lithuania [1994-1997] |
M.C. Chakrabandhu Pensiri Chakrabandhu | 1936 | Prince Chakrabandhu Pensiri Chakrabandhu, Minister of Agriculture and Cooperatives, Thai Government [1974-1975]; namesake, Chakrabandhu Pensiri Building, Kasetsart University, Bangkok |
Cleve Gray | 1936 | Painter, art critic, and author; known for large, abstract color-field canvases, including the 14-canvas “Threnody” series [1972-1973]; editor, writings of David Smith [1968], John Marin [1970] |
Cranston Edward Jones | 1936 | Journalist, magazine editor, and author focused on American architecture, “Architecture Today and Tomorrow” [1961], “Marcel Breuer” [1963]; recipient, awards for excellence in architectural journalism, American Institute of Architects [1956, 1958, 1959, 1960] |
Robert Huntington Knight | 1936 | Attorney, banker; advisor to Presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy administrations; deputy chairman/chairman, Federal Reserve Bank of New York [1976-1983] |
John J. McLaughry | 1936 | All-American full back, Brown [1938, 1939]; player, New York Football Giants [1940]; head football coach, Amherst College, Brown University [1950-66] |
Willis A. Trafton Jr. | 1936 | Speaker, Maine House of Representatives [1955-1956] |
Robert T. Bower | 1937 | Sociologist and opinion researcher; founder/director, Bureau of Social Science Research, Washington [1950-1981]; president, American Association of Public Opinion Research; author, “Television & the Public” [1973], “Ethics in Social Research” [1978] |
Vincent L. Broderick | 1937 | Attorney, judge, and police official; New York Police Commissioner [1965-1966]; judge, Federal District Court for the Southern District, New York [1976-1994]; chairman, criminal law committee, Judicial Conference of the United States [1990-1993] |
Bertram Davis | 1937 | English professor and authority on Thomas Percy and Samuel Johnson; leader, American Association of University Professors [ca.1960-2001], general secretary [1967-1974] |
L. Douglas Heck | 1937 | Diplomat; opened first US embassy in Nepal [1959] as charge d’affaires; deputy chief of mission, Tehran [1970-1974]; ambassador to Niger [1974-1976], Nepal [1977-1980] |
Henry Hornblower II | 1937 | Stockbroker, amateur archaeologist, founder, chief sponsor, president and board chair, Plimoth Plantation living history museum, Plymouth, MA [1947-1985] |
Joseph P. Lyford | 1937 | Pioneering journalist on urban affairs; author, “The Talk in Vandalia” [1964], “The Airtight Cage” [1966]; journalism professor, UC Berkeley [1966-1983] |
Torbert MacDonald | 1937 | Captain, Harvard football team and roommate of John F. Kennedy; member, National Labor Relations Board [1948-1952]; congressman from Massachusetts [1955-1976] specializing in campaign finance legislation, communications [cable television] and energy |
Howard A. Reed | 1937 | Professor of history and intercultural studies; authority on Islam, Middle Eastern history, Institute of Islamic Studies, McGill University |
Edward A. Robie | 1937 | CARE executive board member [1979-1996], chair [1986-1989] |
Reed Whittemore | 1937 | Poet and publisher; founder of poetry magazines Furioso [ca.1940] and Carleton Miscellany [ca.1960]; critic and biographer; English professor, Carlton College [1947-1966], U Maryland [1966-84]; Library of Congress Consultant in Poetry [1964-1965, 1984-1985]; author, “The Mother’s Breast and the Father’s House” [1974], “Six Literary Lives” [1993] |
L. Stanton Williams | 1937 | Chairman & CEO, PPG [1979-1984]; YMCA national board of trustees treasurer [1959-1964], chairman [1983-1985]; donor to medical, historical and educational institutions |
Orlando S. Barr III | 1938 | Theologian; chair, New Testament Studies, General Theological Seminary; author, “The Apostles Faith,” “The Christian New Morality” |
William Copley | 1938 | Surrealist painter, art dealer and collector; supporter of artists through the William and Noma Copley Foundation [1953-] |
Richard FitzHugh | 1938 | Biophysicist; research, National Institute of Neurological Disorders [1956-1985]; primary developer of the FitzHugh-Nagumo model fundamental to neuroscience |
George W. Goethals II | 1938 | Psychologist and educator focused on youth and schools; Sarah Lawrence College and later Harvard faculties [1952-1995]; author “The Role of Schools in Mental Health” [1962], “Experiencing Youth” [1986] |
Jules Gregory | 1938 | Architect and planner, best known for suburban modernist houses [1950s-1960s] |
John Leggett | 1938 | Novelist, biographer, and educator; director of Writers’ Workshop, University of Iowa [1969-1987] |
Donald Montgomery Reynolds | 1938 | Microbiologist and educator, UC Davis [1948-1974]; UNESCO volunteer in Africa; founder, Hammarskjold House, University of California Davis and Oversees Blind Foundation; author “The Teacher as Servant” |
John R. Stevenson | 1938 | Attorney, chairman, Sullivan & Cromwell [1979-]; president, American Society of International Law [1966-1968]; US member, Permanent Court of Arbitration, The Hague [1969-1979]; Assistant Secretary of State [1969-1972]; delegate, Law of the Sea Conference [1973-1975]; board president, National Gallery of Art [1978-1983] |
George C. Tooker | 1938 | Painter, active ca.1950- |
Jordan Whitelaw | 1938 | Pre-eminent producer of symphonic music on radio and television [1953-1981] for WGBH Boston and PBS |
John M. Blum | 1939 | Yale history professor, political biographer; author, “Woodrow Wilson and the Politics of Morality” [1956], “The National Experience: A History of the United States” [1977]; recipient, DeVane Medal for Distinguished Scholarship and Undergraduate Teaching |
Francis L. Broderick | 1939 | Peace Corps director in Ghana [1964]; history professor; 1st chancellor, University of Massachusetts, Boston [1968-1972] |
Harold Chase | 1939 | Major General, Marine Corps [ca.1975-]; deputy assistant secretary of defense [1977-1980]; professor of political science, U Minnesota; namesake, Marine Corps’ Major General Harold Chase Prize, honoring challenges to “conventional wisdom” in Corps policies |
Mary “Maria” Curtis-Verna | 1939 | Dramatic soprano; Milan debut [1949], US debut [1950], Metropolitan Opera debut [1957]; recipient, Hollins University Alumnae Medal [1968] |
David Cuthell | 1939 | Diplomat [1947-1975]; director, Office of Southwest Pacific Affairs [1962-1966]; charge d’affaires, US Embassy, Turkey; authority on Turkey and Islamic law; |
Henry Loeb III | 1939 | Mayor of Memphis [1960-1963, 1968-1971] during the Memphis Sanitation Strike [1968] and assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. |
George Parker Jr. | 1939 | Attorney and oil executive; director, Texaco [1961-1993]; founder, Western European Architecture Foundation and the Gabriel Prize for study of French architecture and landscape design [1991] |
Holt W. Webster | 1939 | Pioneer, commercial airfreight; founder, Pacific Air Freight [1951]; founder, president and later chairman, Airborne Freight Corp / Airborne Express [1968-1984] |
Thomas J. Whelan Jr. | 1939 | Major General and army surgeon; specialist in trauma surgery; chief of surgery, Walter Reed General Hospital [1959-1962, 1969-1973]; chief of surgery, Tripler Army Medical Center, Honolulu [1965-1969]; chairman of surgery, University of Hawaii Medical School [1973-] |
Walter C. Wicker Jr. | 1939 | As a volunteer in the Royal Canadian Air Force, Wicker was the first Andover graduate killed in action during World War II [April 1942] |
1940s | ||
Name | Class | Areas of Note |
Robert Anderson | 1940 | Diplomat [1946-1988]; ambassador to Dahomey [1972-1974], Morocco [1976-1978] and the Dominican Republic [1982-1985] |
John B. Arnold | 1940 | President, GTE International [-1978] |
Frank C. Carr | 1940 | Founder & director INROADS, an international, non-profit career-development program for minority students through corporate internships [1970-1983]; Roman Catholic parish priest [1986-1996] |
Walter J. P. Curley Jr. | 1940 | Ambassador to Ireland [1975-1977]; Ambassador to France [1989-1993] |
Marietta Meyer Ekberg | 1940 | Principal owner and chair, Meyer Broadcasting, television pioneer; owner KFYR-TV, Bismarck, North Dakota [1953-1998] and affiliated stations |
Robert Neville Ginsburgh | 1940 | Air Force major general; defense analyst & information officer, US Air Force [1944-191971]; director, Air Force information [1972-1974]; editor in chief, Strategic Review, Joint Chiefs of Staff [1975-1976] |
Frederick Goerner | 1940 | German exchange student at Andover 1938-1939; German U-boat commander, World War II |
Nicholas M. Greene | 1940 | A founder of modern anesthesiology, medical researcher; founder, Department of Anesthesiology, Yale Medical School [1955-1987]; editor-in-chief, Anesthesiology, and Anesthesia and Analgesia; recipient, American Society of Anesthesia Distinguished Service Award [1989] |
Nancy Harrison | 1940 | Head nurse, Jimmy Fund [ca.1950-] |
Townsend Hoopes | 1940 | Principal deputy secretary of defense, international security affairs [1965-67], under secretary of the Air Force [1967-1969]; co-chair, Americans for SALT; author, “Townsend Hoopes on Arms Control” [1987]; “The Life & Times of James Forrestal” [1992]; president, Association of American Publishers [1973-1986]; recipient, Bancroft Prize in History for “The Devil and John Foster Dulles” [1973] |
William B. Macomber, Jr. | 1940 | Asst. secretary of state [1957-1961, 1969-1973]; ambassador to Jordan [1961-1963]; ambassador to Turkey [1973-1977]; President Metropolitan Museum of Art [1978-1986]; recipient, Fuess Award [1972] |
Hugh Masters | 1940 | Yachtsman; winner, King Edward VII Gold Cup [1961] |
James J. McCaffrey | 1940 | cofounder and chair, McCaffrey & McCall [1962-1973] ad agency representing Rolls-Royce, Mercedes-Benz, Tiffany & Company |
Daniel Pinkham | 1940 | Organist, choral conductor and composer; named Composer of the Year, American Guild of Organists [1990]; recipient, Fuess Award and Alfred Nash Patterson Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award for contributions to the Choral Arts [both 1996] |
Mary Spaulding Powell | 1940 | Red Cross worker with American troops in the Southwest Pacific, World War II |
Robert K. Barron | 1941 | First Andover student to leave and join war effort during World War II; volunteered for the Royal Canadian Air Force March, 1941; killed in action February, 1944 |
Frederick G. Crane III | 1941 | Conservationist; cofounder [1967] and president, Berkshire Natural Resources Council |
Richard L. Gelb | 1941 | President/CEO/chairman, Bristol-Myers Squibb [1967-1995]; director and chairman, Federal Reserve Bank of New York; chair, Sloan-Kettering Board of Managers [1983-2004]; philanthropist; recipient, Yale George H.W. Bush Lifetime of Leadership Award [2003] |
Thomas B. Hartmann | 1941 | New Jersey public official and political advisor; media/journalism professor, Rutgers; recipient Rutgers Presidential Award for Distinguished Public Service [1992] |
Harvey Kelsey Jr. | 1941 | Princeton sprinter; intercollegiate champion, 100-yard and 220-yard dashes [1943] |
Robert C. Macauley | 1941 | Founder, AmeriCares [1982] international relief agency, which has provided more than $7 billion in aid; recipient, Fuess Award [1989]; recipient, US Government Jefferson Award for Public Service [1991] |
William S. Moorhead | 1941 | Democratic congressman from Pittsburgh [1959-1980]; key legislative backer for the establishment of the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities [1964]; also key to New York City fiscal bailout, freedom of information legislation and funding for development of synthetic fuels; recipient, Fuess Award [1968] |
Theodore H. Shepard II | 1941 | Pediatrician and authority on teratology, the study of abnormalities of physiological development; author “Catalogue of Teratogenic Agents” |
Arthur Upton | 1941 | Pathologist, director, National Cancer Institute [1977-1980]; director, Institute of Environmental Medicine, New York University [1980-1993]; recipient, Fuess Award [1980] |
H. Donald Wilson | 1941 | Peace Corps director, Ethiopia [1964-1966]; database pioneer and entrepreneur; as first president of Mead Data Central, made LexisNexis a successful technology [1970-]; involved in many other tech startups from the 1960s into the 21st century |
Jerome M. Ziegler | 1941 | Educator and public policy expert in education; Pennsylvania Commissioner of Higher Education [1972-1975]; dean, College of Human Ecology, Cornell [1977-1988]; founder, Cornell Leadership Institute for School Principals [1995] |
Thomas D. Barrow | 1942 | Oil geologist and wildcatter; president, Humble Oil [1970-1972]; senior Vice President, Exxon [1972-1978]; chairman and CEO, Kennecott Corp. [1978-1981]; president & chair, Houston Grand Opera; recipient, Heroy Award, American Geological Institute [2007] |
James J. Beggs | 1942 | Cox, US Olympic Crew Team [1952]; coach, gold medal winning US Olympic Crew pair [1956] |
George H. W. Bush | 1942 | World War II Navy torpedo bomber pilot, Pacific theatre, shot down and rescued [September 1944]; Texas Republican congressman [1967-1971]; United Nations ambassador [1971-1973]; chairman, Republican National Committee [1972-1974]; chief, US Liaison Office, People’s Republic of China [1974-1976]; CIA director [1976-1977]; vice president [1981-89]; 41st President of the United States [1989-1993]; recipient, Fuess Award [1981]; coauthor, “A World Transformed” [1998]; author, “All the Best” [1999]; namesake, aircraft carrier USS George HW Bush [commissioned 2009]; recipient, Medal of Freedom [2011]; PA Alumni Award of Distinction, 2012 |
James H.H. Carrington | 1942 | Six-time, three-sport Naval Academy All-American in football, swimming, and lacrosse [1946-1948] winner, World Masters Doubles title in squash |
David Chavchavadze | 1942 | US Army liaison officer, Soviet Union, World War II; CIA officer [1947-1974]; researcher and author on Russian nobility; author “The Grand Dukes” [1989], “Crowns and Trench coats: a Russian prince in the CIA” [1990] |
William Sloane Coffin Jr. | 1942 | Protestant minister, civil rights and peace activist; chaplain, Phillips Academy [1957-1958], Yale University [1958-1975], senior minister, Riverside Church, New York [1977-1987]; recipient, Fuess Award [2003]; author, “A Holy Impatience” [2004] |
Helen Craig | 1942 | PFC, Marine Corps [1944-] |
Gordon Elliot | 1942 | Initiator and organizer of magnet school programs, Boston; teacher, Boston English High School; recipient, Fuess Award [1978] |
Saul Horowitz Jr. | 1942 | Builder; president and later chairman, HRH Construction, New York [1965-, 1972-1975], builders of the Whitney Museum, United Nations Plaza, Columbia Presbyterian Hospital; president, Associated General Contractors of America [-1975] |
Rowland P. McKinley Jr. | 1942 | Headmaster, University School, Cleveland [1963-1988] |
Ivan Morris | 1942 | Linguist, specialist in Asian languages and cultures; Columbia Department of East Asian Languages faculty [1960-1973], chair [1966-1969]; translator, “The Temple of the Golden Pavilion” [1959]; author, “The Nobility of Failure: Tragic Heroes in the History of Japan” [1975]; a founder, American section, Amnesty International and chair [1973-1976] |
Godfrey Rockefeller | 1942 | A founder and first executive director, World Wildlife Fund [1972-1979]; chairman, Chesapeake Bay Foundation [1981-1991] |
Paul Schumacher | 1942 | Historic archaeologist, principally with the National Park Service; excavator and interpreter of Franklin Court, Philadelphia [1953-1955] |
Frank Strong | 1942 | Captain, Harvard Crew [1947] and member Harvard Eight which set world record at 2000 meters; national champions [1947] |
Manuel Enrique Tavares Espaillat | 1942 | Dominican Republic political leader and diplomat; triumvirate member [1963-1965]; foreign minister [1980s] |
David Ammen | 1943 | Race car driver [1962-]; president, Road Racing Drivers Club |
Clarence M. “Mort” Bishop Jr. | 1943 | President [1969-1989] and co-chair, Pendleton Woolen Mills [1969-2007] |
Robert Coulson | 1943 | Attorney and arbitrator; president, American Arbitration Association [ca1975-1995]; author “How to Stay Out of Court” [1968], “Fighting Fair” [1983] |
Dick “Dude” Duden | 1943 | All-American end and captain, Naval Academy football team [1945]; New York Football Giants team [1949]; a football coach for Navy [1951-1973]; member College Football Hall of Fame [2001] |
Craig Gilbert | 1943 | Television writer, director, and producer; conceived, produced and directed 12-part PBS documentary “Am American Family” [1973] |
Thomas J. Hudner Jr. | 1943 | Navy aviator; recipient, Medal of Honor for extraordinary bravery, Korean Conflict [1950]; commissioner, Massachusetts Dept. of Veterans Services [1991-1999]; namesake, Arleigh Burke-class destroyer Thomas Hudner |
Jack Lemmon | 1943 | Movie actor, comedian best known for roles in “Mr. Roberts” [1955], “Some Like It Hot” [1959], “The Apartment” [1960] and “Save the Tiger” [1973]; Academy Award, Best Supporting Actor [1955], Best Actor in a Leading Roll [1973]; Cannes Film Festival, Best Actor Award [1979, 1982]; Golden Globe Award, Best Comedy Actor [1959, 1960, 1972] |
Roger H.V.C. Morgan | 1943 | Librarian, House of Lords [1977-1991]; appointed Commander of the British Empire [1991] |
Stuart Johnston Northrop | 1943 | Chairman and CEO, Huffy Corporation [-1984], in the 1960s and 1970s, world’s largest manufacturer of bicycles |
Pierre Birel Rosset-Cournand | 1943 | French parachutist, World War II; killed behind enemy lines [1944]; recipient, Legion d’honneur |
Julio Mario Santo Domingo | 1943 | Columbian industrialist and financier; Columbian ambassador to China, Australia, New Zealand |
Thomas Sarnoff | 1943 | Television executive, producer; head, NBC West Coast and president, NBC Entertainment [ca.1965-1975]; chairman, Sarnoff Entertainment [1981-]; chair, board of trustees, Academy of Television Arts & Sciences [1973-1974]; recipient, ATAS Syd Cassyd Award [1997] |
Bardwell Smith | 1943 | Professor of religion and Asian studies; dean, Carlton College [1967-1972]; author, “Narratives of Sorrow and Dignity: Japanese Women, Pregnancy Loss, and Modern Rituals of Grieving” [2013] |
Dwight Stuart | 1943 | President/CEO, Carnation Company [1973-1983]; founder and funder, Dwight Stuart Foundation for Youth [2001] |
Samuel P. Arnold | 1944 | Chef, founder, and operator, The Fort [1963-], an “Old West” themed restaurant outside Denver, a freely adapted invocation of Colorado’s 1st fir trading post, Bent’s Fort [1834] |
William W. Boeschenstein | 1944 | President/CEO/chairman, Owens-Corning Fiberglas [1971-1990] |
Carleton S. Coon Jr. | 1944 | Diplomat; ambassador to Nepal [1981-1984] |
William A. Graham | 1944 | Television and film director; recipient, Emmy Award “Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic” [1960]; feature film director including “Change of Habit” [1969] starring Elvis Presley and Mary Tyler Moore |
Frederick D. Greene II | 1944 | Chemistry professor, MIT; editor, Journal of Organic Chemistry [1962-1988]; Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science [2000] |
Heyward Isham | 1944 | Authority on the Soviet Union and Vietnam; US-North Vietnam peace negotiator [c.1969-1971]; US Ambassador to Haiti [1974-1977]; director, State Department Office Combating Terrorism [1978-]; author, “Remaking Russia” [1995] |
Victor Kiam | 1944 | Entrepreneur; part owner, and CEO, Benrus Watch Corporation [1968-]; owner, CEO &and TV promoter, Remington Electric Razor [1979-2001]; owner, New England Patriots Football Team [1988-1992] |
Elihu Lauterpacht | 1944 | Founder and first director, Research Centre for International Law (now the Lauterpacht Centre), Cambridge University [1984-1995]; specialist in inter-state litigation before the International Court of Justice; QC [1970], Commander of the British Empire [1989], knighted [1996] |
Mason Lord | 1944 | Pioneer in geriatric medicine, laying foundations for long-term geriatric care at Johns Hopkins and Baltimore City Hospitals [1963-]; namesake, Mason Lord Building, Johns Hopkins Bayview Campus and Mason Lord Professorship, Johns Hopkins |
Thomas R. Morse Jr. | 1944 | Judicial administrator and reformer; associate justice, Massachusetts Superior Court [1974-1983], chief justice [1983-1988] |
J. Gilvert “Gib” Reese | 1944 | Licking County, Ohio philanthropist; backer of Newark, Ohio campus of Ohio State and Central Ohio Technical College |
William Kelly Simpson | 1944 | Egyptologist, Yale University [1965-2003]; author and editor, “The Terrace of the Great God at Abydosa” [1978] |
Whitney Stevens | 1944 | President/Chairman, J.P. Stevens Company [1969-1989] |
Julia Tavares de Alvarez | 1944 | Ambassador and Alternate Permanent Representative of the Dominican Republic to the United Nations [1978-2001], known as “the Ambassador on Aging;” recipient, Duarte Medal, the highest honor bestowed by the Dominican Republic |
Wheelock Whitney | 1944 | Investment banker, philanthropist, and politician; a founder, Johnson Institute, combating chemical dependency [1966]; Republican candidate for US senator from Minnesota [1964] and governor [1982]; “Investment Banker of the Year” [1971] |
William Scovill Anderson | 1945 | Classicist specializing in Latin poetry; professor, UC Berkeley [1960-1995]; president, American Philological Association [1970-1973, 1977-]; author, “Essays on Roman Satire” [1982], “Ovid’s Metamorphoses” [1998] |
Meridan Bennett | 1945 | Peace Corps staffer and evaluator; Peace Corps program director, Cyprus; coauthor, “Agents of Change: A Close Look at the Peace Corps” [1968] |
Broughton H. Bishop | 1945 | Chairman, Pendleton Woolen Mills [1969-] |
Robert Skinner Boyd | 1945 | Journalist; Knight-Ridder Washington bureau chief [1967-1986] and chief correspondent [1995-]; science and technology editor, McClatchy Newspapers [ca.200-]; recipient, Pulitzer Prize [1973] for Thomas Eagleton investigation |
Hilary Paterson Cleveland | 1945 | Professor of political science, Colby-Sawyer College [1955-1990]; president, New Hampshire Historical Society; in the 1990s, US representative, International Joint Commission, United States/Canada [1989-] |
Robert C. Dean Jr. | 1945 | Engineer, inventor, and entrepreneur; engineering professor, Dartmouth [1961-1984]; expertise in fluid mechanics, plasma-arcs, biomechanics; founder, Synergy Innovations and other technology firms |
Donald Dunbar | 1945 | All-American in soccer at Amherst College [1949] |
Bruce Gelb | 1945 | Chairman, Choate Rosemary Hall board of trustees [1982-1985]; director, USIA [1989-1991]; ambassador to Belgium [1991-1993]; president, American Council of Ambassadors [ca.2004-] |
George D. Gould | 1945 | Chairman, Donaldson Lufkin & Jenrette Securities [1974-]; president, Madison Fund [1976-]; chairman, New York Municipal Assistance Corporation [1979-]; as Under Secretary of Treasury for Finance [1985-1989], a proponent of deregulation of financial industry |
Peter M. Grosz | 1945 | Aviation historian, authority on World War I aircraft; executor and authority on the work of his father, Expressionist artist George Grosz; recipient, Germany’s Commander’s Cross of Merit |
George F. “Fritz” Jewett | 1945 | Chair, 5 America’s Cup syndicates [1973-2000], winning with “Freedom” [1980] and “Stars and Stripes” [1987]; Chair, San Francisco Asian Art Commission [1967-] San Francisco Asian Art Museum |
R. Crosby Kemper Jr. | 1945 | President and later chairman, UMB Bank of Kansas City [1959-2004]; founder, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City [1994] |
Harry Koepke | 1945 | Interior designer responsible for more than 800 Florsheim shoe stores in the US, Canada, Mexico, and Australia [1952-1991] |
Lawrence Kohlberg | 1945 | Psychologist and theorist on moral development; creator, “Kohlberg’s Stages of Moral Development” [1958]; professor, University of Chicago, Harvard [1961-1987]; namesake, Kohlberg Memorial Lecture [1988] |
James Lebenthal | 1945 | Chairman, Lebenthal & Company; through creative advertising, creator of the Lebenthal “brand” in municipal bonds [1960s-1990s] |
Edward Madeira Jr. | 1945 | Attorney and a national leader in promotion of judicial independence; chair, Standing Committee on Federal Judicial Improvements, member, Presidential Commission on the Separation of Powers; recipient, American Bar Association John Marshall Award [2009] |
Richard H. Masters | 1945 | Member, Bermuda Olympic Sailing Team [1960] |
Harold A. B. McInnes | 1945 | President/CEO/chairman Amp, Inc. [1981-1993]; first recipient, Spirit of Philanthropy Award, Foundation for Enhancing Communities [2008] |
Marvin Minsky | 1945 | Authority on artificial intelligence, computers, robotics; MIT faculty [1958-] and co-founder, MIT Artificial Intelligence laboratory; inventor, confocal scanning microscope [1961]; author, “The Emotion Machine” [2006]; recipient, Turing Award [1969], Joseph Priestly Award [1995], Frontiers of Knowledge Award [2014] |
G. David Schine | 1945 | Anti-communist associated with Roy Cohn in the Army-McCarthy Hearings [1954]; entertainment industry entrepreneur; music publisher, movie producer [including Academy Award winning “The French Connection,” 1971], promoter of high-definition television |
Anthony Towne | 1945 | Poet; with the Berrigan brothers and partner William Stringfellow, anti-war activist during the Vietnam era |
Sam Bass Warner | 1945 | Urban historian; president, Urban History Association [1990-]; Guggenheim Fellow [1976]; author, “The Exploding Metropolis” [1958], “Streetcar Suburbs” [1962], “The Urban Wilderness” [1972] |
William H. Wilbur Jr. | 1945 | First of 8 Phillips Academy alumni killed in the Korean Conflict [1950] |
Edward C. Wilson | 1945 | Chairman, Chicago Board of Trade [1970-1971] |
Louis B. “By” Barnes | 1946 | Professor of organizational behavior, Harvard Business School [1968-ca.2008]; pedagogue; authority on the dynamics of family-owned businesses and the case method of teaching; president, Iran Center for Management Studies, Tehran [1975-1977] |
Jeffrey D. Bush | 1946 | Rhodes Scholar, 1950- |
Dick Carter | 1946 | Designer and owner of racing yachts; winner Fastnet Race [1965, 1969]; designer, North American 40 [1977] |
Otis Chandler | 1946 | Publisher, Los Angeles Times, 1960-1980; winner, Pulitzer public service prizes [1966, 1969, 1971, 1976, 1978]; called “the last great 20th-century newspaper publisher” |
Marian “Mickey” Friedman | 1946 | Gerontologist; contributing author, Our Bodies Ourselves (1984, 2005) |
John D. Macomber | 1946 | Senior partner, McKinsey & Co. [1954-1973]; CEO/chairman, Celanese Corporation [1973-1986]; chairman, US Export-Import Bank [1989-1992]; chairman, Council for Excellence in Government [1993-] |
Richard J. Phelps | 1946 | Founder, Superior Brands/Phelps Industries [1966-]; philanthropist in support of educational institutions and educational opportunity through financial aid |
Henry A. Rentschler | 1946 | Member, Princeton national champion lightweight crew [1948], Henley Thames Challenge Cup winners [1948, 1949] |
Jonathan W. Rogers | 1946 | Chair/CEO, Mortgage Investment Company of El Paso [1963-1984]; mayor of El Paso [1981-1989] |
Philip W.K. Sweet | 1946 | Chair/CEO, Northern Trust, Chicago, 1980s; chair, Chicago Zoological Society, 1990s |
Gustavo Arturo Tavares | 1946 | Chair, Tavares Industrial, Dominican Republic [1950-1995], Maritima Dominicana [1971-1995]; founder and president, Accion Para La Educacion Basica |
David Thaw | 1946 | Opera singer, tenor; member, Bavarian State Opera [1963-2006] |
William M. Van Cleve | 1946 | Attorney; managing partner/chairman, Bryan Cave LLP [1973-1994]; chairman, board of trustees, Washington University, St. Louis [1993-1995] |
D. Michael Winton | 1946 | Minnesota investor, civic leader, and architectural patron; Winton Guest House [1983-1987] designed by Frank Gehry became an international sensation; Northwest Center designed by Cesar Pelli [1989] |
John B. Addison | 1947 | Chairman, University of California Berkeley Department of Mathematics [1973-]; specialist in Tarski’s Undefinability Theorem |
Alexander Blackburn | 1947 | Author and editor; founder and editor, Writers’ Forum magazine [1974-1995] showcasing writers of the western US |
Donald L.M. Blackmer | 1947 | Political scientist, MIT, specialist in comparative politics, focus on communist regimes; author, Unity in Diversity: Italian Communism [1968]; chair, Council for European Studies |
Carol Bly | 1947 | Short-story writer and writing instructor; author, My Lord Bag of Rice: New and Selected Stories (2000) |
Warren “Archie” Brown | 1947 | Yachtsman; competitor in Fastnet and 18 Bermuda races; recipient, Cruising Club of America Blue Water Medal |
Edward C. Carter II | 1947 | Librarian, American Philosophical Society; editor-in-chief, The Papers of Benjamin Henry Latrobe (1995); director, National Lewis and Clark Bicentennial [2003-2006] |
Edward H. Carus Jr. | 1947 | Owner/commander, research vessel Aeolus, taking botanical expeditions in search of new plant species, Marquesas Islands for Bishop Museum, Smithsonian Institution, etc. [1988, 1997] |
Joseph Champlin | 1947 | Catholic priest, authority on Catholic liturgy and pastoral subjects, syndicated columnist and radio commentator; author, What it Means to be Catholic (1986) |
Martha Abbot Comstock | 1947 | Lay leader, Episcopal Church; assistant presiding officer, Triennial Meeting |
Harry M. Cornell Jr. | 1947 | President/CEO/Chairman, Leggett & Platt [1960-2002] |
Peter E. Fleming Jr. | 1947 | Defense attorney representing high-profile clients including Attorney General John Mitchell, fugitive financier Robert Vesco, attorney Anita Hill and fight (boxing) promoter Don King |
Mary Lee Peck Garfield | 1947 | Attorney, domestic policy advisor, Reagan Administration, 1981-; breeder of champion Weimaraners |
Frederick “Fritz” Ingram | 1947 | Chair, Ingram Industries [1963-1989]; chair, board of visitors, Tulane University, 1972-1979 |
Warren Kiefer | 1947 | Screenwriter and novelist; author, The Lingala Code (1972), recipient, Edgar Award |
David Nathan | 1947 | Medical researcher specializing in bone marrow disorders, medical administrator; president, Dana Farber Cancer Institute [1995-2000]; recipient, National Medal of Science [1990], American Pediatric Association John Howland Medal [2003], Kober Medal, Association of American Physicians [2006] |
David T. Owsley | 1947 | Arts curator, collector, and donor to museums at Ball State and Dallas |
J. Mark Rudkin | 1947 | Artist, landscape architect, philanthropist; designer, gardens at the Palais-Royal, Paris, American Museum, Giverny; philanthropist in support of Egyptian antiquities and 20th-century American art; Chevalier, Legion d’honneur [2005] |
Marion White Singleton | 1947 | Renaissance poetry authority; English professor, Dartmouth College; author, God’s Courtier (1988) |
James Marshall Tory | 1947 | Canadian lawyer and QC; specialist in corporate law; recipient, University of Toronto Law School Gold Medal [1952]; namesake, Tory Chair, Dean of Toronto Law School [2000] |
Alexander B. Trowbridge | 1947 | Secretary of Commerce [1967-1968]; President, the Conference Board [1970-1976]; president, National Association of Manufacturers [1979-1989] and namesake, Sandy Trowbridge Award for Community Service |
Victor M. Tyler II | 1947 | Founder/CEO, Concord EFS, computer software and financial services company [1970-1989] |
Peter J. Urnes | 1947 | Rhodes Scholar [1951-] |
Frank Wille | 1947 | Banker, attorney; chair and CEO, New York Savings Bank; superintendent of banks, State of New York [1964-1970]; chairman, FDIC [1970-1976] |
Thomas Wyman | 1947 | CEO, CBS [1980-1986]; chairman, S. G. Warburg & Company [1992-1995]; chairman, Amherst College Board of Trustees [1986-1992] |
Merrill Orne “Bink” Young | 1947 | Episcopal priest; Freedom Rider jailed in Jackson, Mississippi [1961]; professor of church history, St. Lawrence University [1970-1995] |
Russell T. Barnhart | 1948 | Gambling expert; author, “Beat the Dealer” [1962], “Casino Gambling” [1978], “Beating the Wheel” [1992] |
Charles Rowan Beye | 1948 | Classicist; author, “Ancient Greek Literature and Society” [1987], “Ancient Epic Poetry” [1993], Odysseus: a Life” [2004] |
Piya Chakkaphak | 1948 | Free Thai commando and OSS radio operator, World War II; director, National Security Agency of Thailand [1980-1987] |
Floyd Downs | 1948 | Arizona math instructor and coauthor, influential “new math” high-school textbook “Geometry” [1964]; namesake, Floyd L. Downs Teaching of Mathematics Fellowship, Arizona State University [2008] |
Glen S. Foster | 1948 | Yachtsman; bronze medalist, Tempest Class, 1972 Olympics; winner, 5.5 worlds [1995]; holder, Scandinavian Gold Cup; member, US Olympic Yachting Committee; collector of marine art |
John Geyman | 1948 | Physician, professor of Family Medicine, University of Washington; founding editor, Journal of Family Practice [1973-1990]; national health insurance advocate; author and blogger |
Steve Gilbert | 1948 | Medical illustrator, tattoo artist; author, “Pictorial Anatomy of the Cat” [1987], “Pictorial Human Embryology” [1989], “Tattoo History Source Book” [2001] |
Andrew P. Ireland | 1948 | Banker; Florida congressman [1977-1993]; initially a Democrat, became a Republican [1984] |
Sidney R Knafel | 1948 | Venture capitalist; founder/chairman, Vision Cable [1971-1981]; chair, Insight Communications; philanthropist; chair, Harvard College Visiting Committee [1987-1992]; founder, Center for Government and International Studies, Harvard [1996]; chair, board of governors, Addison Gallery of American Art [2004-]; recipient, Harvard Medal [2006] |
Paul McHugh | 1948 | Psychiatrist/Behavioral Scientist; psychiatrist in chief, Johns Hopkins Hospital [1975-2001]; a founding member, President’s Council on Bioethics [2002-] |
Michael MacDonald Mooney | 1948 | Member, US 6-meter sailing team, gold medal winners, 1948 Olympics; cultural historian; author, “George Catlin” [1975], “Evelyn Nesbitt and Stanford White” [1975], “The Ministry of Culture” [1980] |
Preston H. Saunders | 1948 | President, Appalachian Mountain Club [1965-1966, 1991-1993]; chairman, Trustees of Reservations |
Alan G. Schwartz | 1948 | Tennis entrepreneur; member, International Tennis Federation, Davis Cup Committee; president, US Tennis Association [2003-2004] |
John M. Steadman | 1948 | Dean, Georgetown Law School [1979-1989]; associate justice, DC Court of Appeals [1985-] |
John P.B.C. Watts | 1948 | Lieutenant-General; British special forces commander [1970-1979]; Chief of Defense Staff, Oman Land Forces [1984-1987]; knighted [1987] |
Genevieve Young | 1948 | Editor; managing editor, Harper Brothers [-1970], vice president and executive editor, J.B. Lippincott [1970-]; Independent Editors Group; president, Women’s Media Group [1981-1982]; president, Youth Counseling League [1989-1996]; with her mother and sisters, a refuge from war-torn China in the late 1940s |
Paul Brodeur | 1949 | New Yorker staff writer, investigative reporter focused on environmental hazards; author, Outrageous Misconduct: The Asbestos Industry on Trial (1985), winner, American Bar Association Silver Gavel Award; recipient, American Association for the Advancement of Science Journalism Award |
Dana Ripley Bullen II | 1949 | Journalist; Washington Star Supreme Court reporter and later foreign editor and syndicated columnist [1960-1981]; executive director, World Press Freedom Committee [1981-1996] |
William Byler | 1949 | Executive Director, Association on American Indian Affairs [1962-1980] |
Prabhas Chakkaphak | 1949 | OSS-trained Thai resistance fighter, World War II; economist; Thai transportation official; chairman, Union Bank of Bangkok |
Paul Matthew Cleveland | 1949 | Diplomat; US ambassador to New Zealand [1986-1989], Malaysia [1989-1992] |
Justin Dart | 1949 | Americans with Disabilities Act and civil rights activist, recipient, Presidential Medal of Freedom [1998] |
Peter C. Dorsey | 1949 | US district judge, Connecticut [1983-], chief judge [1994-1998], senior judge [1998-] |
Malcolm W. Gambill | 1949 | President/CEO/chair, HARSCO Corporation [1985-1994] |
Patricia Bleecker Jones | 1949 | Executive director, St. Nicholas Society of New York; president general, Colonial Dames of America [1988-1991] |
Winthrop D. Jordan | 1949 | Historian and professor of history; author, White Over Black: American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550-1812 (1968), winner Parkman Prize, Bancroft Prize, Emerson Award and National Book Award for History [1969], Jules and Frances Landry Prize [1992] |
Louis Kane | 1949 | Cofounder Au Bon Pain, Inc. [1981]; Boston civic leader and philanthropist |
John W. Kimball | 1949 | Educator; leading author of biology textbooks, print and online, since 1965 |
Masaaki Kubo | 1949 | Classicist, University of Tokyo [1969-1991]; founder and president, Tohoku University of Art and Design [1991-]; president, The Japan Academy [2007-] |
James McLane | 1949 | Olympic swimmer; winner, gold medals, 1500 freestyle and 4×200 [1948] and 4×200 again [1952] |
Edward Packard | 1949 | Author of children’s books and pioneer of the second-person fiction style in “The Adventures of You on Sugarcane Island” [1969, published 1976] and made famous by his “Choose Your Own Adventure” series [1979-] |
George Preble Pierce | 1949 | Episcopal canon; missionary, Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, Namibia, Nepal; negotiator, Wounded Knee Standoff [1973]; chairman, Episcopal World Mission [1980s]; national director, Episcopal Church Army [1985-]; author, Ritual and Crisis: Lakota Religious Response to Two Crises [1992] |
Alan C. Purves | 1949 | Educator, specialist in literacy education; head, University of Illinois Laboratory School [1970-1986]; professor of education, University of New York at Albany [1986-1996] and founder, UNY Center on Writing and Teaching Literature; president, National Council of Teachers of English; chairman, International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement; editor, Research in the Teaching of English; author, “Literature and the Reader” [1972], “How Porcupines Make Love” [1995], “Portfolios for the English Classroom” [1997]; namesake, Alan C. Purves Award |
Anthony Robinson | 1949 | Novelist and short-story writer; creative writing professor, SUNY New Paltz [1964-2000]; author, “A Departure from the Rules” [1960], “Home Again, Home Again” [1969], “The Member-Guest” [1991] |
Neil Rolde | 1949 | Historian, specialist in Maine history; chair, Maine Public Broadcasting; author, “Sir William Pepperrell” [1982], “The Interrupted Forest: A History of Maine’s Wildlands” [2001], “Continental Liar from the State of Maine: James G. Blaine” [2007] |
John Spencer | 1949 | Professor, African Studies, Middlebury College,1974-1998]; author The Kenyan African Union (1985); namesake, John Spencer Chair in African Studies, Middlebury College |
Elizabeth Marshall Thomas | 1949 | Anthropologist specializing in African tribal societies and author on diverse subjects including “The Harmless People” [1959], “The Old Way: A Story of the First People” [2006], “The Hidden Life of Dogs” [1993] |
James Floyd White | 1949 | Authority on Protestant liturgy, the sacraments and church architecture; professor of theology, Notre Dame [1983-1999]; president, North American Academy of Liturgy; recipient, NAAL Berakah Award [1983] |
C. Dickie Williamson | 1949 | Chairman and CEO, Williamson-Dickie Corporation, apparel manufacturer [1972-1990]; director, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas [1989-1990] |
Harvey Zarem | 1949 | Cosmetic plastic surgeon; professor and head, Plastic Surgery Division, University of Chicago Medical School [1966-1973]; professor and head of Plastic Surgery Division, UCLA Medical School [1973-1987]; featured practitioner, “Extreme Makeover” ABC Television series [ca.2004] |
1950s | ||
Name | Class | Areas of Note |
George S. Abrams | 1950 | Collector of 17th-century Dutch drawings; donated to the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard [1999] |
Lloyd Aiello | 1950 | Ophthalmologist; co-developer, laser treatment of diabetic retinopathy; director, Beetham Eye Institute; recipient, David Rumbough Scientific Award, Juvenile Diabetes Foundation, Outstanding Physician Clinical Award, American Diabetes Association |
Anthony C. Beilenson | 1950 | Democratic Party politician; member, California Assembly [1963-1967] and Senate [1967-1976]; congressman [1977-1997]; member, House Rules and Budget Committees; congressional environmental activist; leader, campaign finance reform |
James Brodhead | 1950 | Character actor, journalist, and atheist activist |
Gordon Chase | 1950 | National Security Council White House staff; special assistant to the president for national security affairs specializing in Cuba and Latin America [1962-1966] |
Ivan Chermayeff | 1950 | Graphic designer, illustrator, and artist; cofounder, Chermayeff and Geismar [1957-]; recipient, Fuess Award [1979], Yale University Arts Medal, AIA Industrial Arts Medal, American Institute of Graphic Arts Medal [1979] |
Constance Corey | 1950 | Psychotherapist; recipient, Fuess Award [1980] |
William Crozier | 1950 | CEO and chairman, BayBanks-BankBoston [1974-1999] |
Richard Gray Eder | 1950 | Literary critic, Los Angeles Times [1984-2000]; recipient, Pulitzer Prize for criticism [1987] |
Pardee Erdman | 1950 | Rancher and vintner; owner Ulupalakua Ranch, Maui [1963-] and Tedeschi/Maui Winery [1977-], producer of pineapple and grape wines |
Dorothy Lambert Feigenbaum | 1950 | President, Lady Finelle Cosmetics |
Barry Campbell Good | 1950 | Securities analyst [1953-1988], named top oil stocks analyst by Institutional Investor |
Byron S. Harvey III | 1950 | Anthropologist; collector/scholar, Native American art and artifacts; donor to major museums including the Heard Museum, Phoenix; author, Ritual in Pueblo Art: Hopi Life in Hopi Painting [1970] |
Eddie Higgins | 1950 | Jazz pianist and recording artist [1956-] |
Elizabeth Bradley Hubbard | 1950 | President, League of Women Voters of New York; executive director, Fund for Modern Courts; member New York State Commission on Judicial Conduct [2008-] |
Howard B. Johnson | 1950 | President/CEO/chairman, Howard Johnson restaurant and motor lodge chain [ca.1961-1985] |
Nora Johnson | 1950 | Author, “The World of Henry Orient” [1958], “Coast to Coast” [2004] |
Stephen Joyce | 1950 | Executor of the literary estate of his grandfather, James Joyce |
Carl Knight | 1950 | Sailboat racer; Sunfish North American Champion [1969, 1973, 1974] |
Norman S. Matthews | 1950 | Retailer, Federated Department Stores [1978-1988], vice chair/president [1984-1988] |
J. Kenneth McDonald | 1950 | Chair, Strategy Department, Naval War College [1970s]; CIA chief historian [1981-1995], general editor, CIA Cold War Records |
James Clare Miller II | 1950 | Sailboat racer; national champion, Thistle Class [1969] |
Harry A. Miskimin | 1950 | Economic history professor, Yale University [1960-1995]; author, “The Economy of Early Renaissance Europe” [1975], “The Economy of Late Renaissance Europe” [1975], “Credit and Crisis in Europe, 1300-1600” [1989] |
John Ottenheimer | 1950 | Architect and inventor; Frank Lloyd Wright apprentice [1953-1959], collaborator on Wright’s late work [1953-1970]; designer of 100% solar-heated houses; inventor, Crossflow Wind Turbine |
David Pingree | 1950 | Chair, Brown University Department, History of Mathematics [1986-2005]; authority on the exact sciences in antiquity, especially ancient India; recipient, Guggenheim Fellowship [1975], MacArthur Award [1981-1986]; author, “Census of the Exact Sciences in Sanskrit” [1970-], “Babylonian Planetary Omens” [2005] |
Charles A. Platt | 1950 | Architect [1963-]; president, Augustus St. Gaudens Memorial National Historic Site [1979-1984]; commissioner, New York Landmarks Preservation Commission [1979-1984]; chair, New York Municipal Arts Society Historic Preservation Committee [1985-]; recipient, American Institute of Architects National Honor Award for Excellence in Architectural Design [1969] |
John Clark Pratt | 1950 | Author, “The Laotian Fragments” [1974], “Reading the Wind: Literature of the Vietnam War” [1987]; “Vietnam Voices” [1999] |
Malcolm J. Rohrbough | 1950 | Historian, University of Iowa; authority on the American West; author, “The Trans-Appalachian Frontier: 1775-1850” [1978], “Days of Gold: the California Gold Rush and the American Nation” [1997] |
Benjamin F. Schemmer | 1950 | Military analyst; owner and editor, Armed Forces Journal International [1968-1992]; editor in chief, Strategic Review [-2001] |
Thomas E. Springer | 1950 | Physicist, Los Alamos National Laboratory [1960-1996]; specialist in electrochemical systems, polymer electrolyte an methanol fuel cells for mass transit |
Allan Stone | 1950 | Art dealer and collector, expert on Abstract Expressionism emerging artists, tribal and primitive art [1960-2006] |
Edward Durrell Stone Jr. | 1950 | Landscape architect and planner; founder/chair, EDSA, specialists in corporate headquarters landscaping and resort and leisure facility planning, including the PepsiCo world headquarters, Purchase, New York, recipient of the American Society of Landscape Architects/National Trust Landmark Award; member, US Commission of Fine Arts [1971-1983]; recipient, American Society of Landscape Architects Medal [1994] |
Edward B. Thornton | 1950 | Chair, National Parks Centennial Commission [1972-], Illinois and Michigan National Heritage Corridor Commission [2000-] |
Chris Weatherley-White | 1950 | Plastic surgeon, Operation Smile volunteer performing reconstructive surgery in Third World nations [1990-]; recipient, Operation Smile Lifetime Volunteer Achievement Award [2009] |
Bill Wright | 1950 | Nevada cattle rancher; world-record hay stacker [1971] |
E. Everett Anderson | 1951 | Duke University lacrosse All-American [1954] |
Timothy Anderson | 1951 | Architect; cofounder, Anderson Notter [later Anderson Notter Finegold]; noted for adaptive reuse of historic buildings; Fellow, American Institute of Architects [1985]; namesake, National Housing and Rehabilitation Association Anderson Award [2002] for historic rehabilitation |
Ronald M. Ansin | 1951 | Philanthropist; recipient, National United Way Alexis de Tocqueville Award [1999] |
E. Osborne “Ozzie” Ayscue Jr. | 1951 | Attorney; president, American College of Trial Lawyers [1998-1999], member, ABA Standing Committee on Federal Judiciary [2001-2004] |
Stephen Booth | 1951 | Professor of English literature, University of California Berkeley; specialist in Shakespeare; author, “On the Value of Hamlet,” in “Reinterpretations of Elizabethan Drama” [1969], “Shakespeare’s Sonnets” [1977]; “King Lear, Macbeth, Indefinition, and Tragedy” [1983]; recipient, Berkeley Distinguished Teacher Award [1982] |
Frederick P. Brandauer | 1951 | Specialist in traditional Chinese vernacular fiction and modern Chinese literature, University of Washington; author Imperial Rulership and Cultural Change in Traditional China [1994] |
Clemency Chase Coggins | 1951 | Archeologist, specialist in Ancient Mesoamerica; professor, Boston University; advocate for archeological preservation; coauthor, Cenote of Sacrifice: Maya Treasures from the Sacred Well of Chichen Itza [1984] |
Alexander deLahunta | 1951 | Neuroanatomist, clinical neurologist, neuropathologist; author; James Law Professor of Anatomy, Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine [1992-] |
Robert W. Doran | 1951 | Chair/managing partner/CEO, Wellington Management [-1999] |
Anthony Averell duPont | 1951 | Aircraft engineer; owner/president/CEO, DuPont Aerospace, developer of vertical-lift aircraft |
Walter Goffart | 1951 | Historian, specialist in Late Roman/Early Medieval history; author “Barbarians and Romans, AD 418-584” [1980]; “Barbarian Tides” [2006]; subject of a festschrift, “After Rome’s Fall” [1999] |
Frederick M. Kimball | 1951 | Actor, director, playwright; cofounder, Theatre Company of Boston [1964-]; co-screenwriter, with Al Pacino, “Looking for Richard” [1996] |
William Ming-Sing Lee | 1951 | Founder, The 1990 Institute (devoted to economic and social development in China) |
Rosamond Peck | 1951 | Crusader for strip mining environmental reform [1970s]; president, Countryside Conservancy, Pennsylvania |
Anthony Quainton | 1951 | Diplomat [1959-1997]; ambassador, Central African Empire [1976-1978], Nicaragua [1982-1984], Kuwait [1984-1987] and Peru [1989-1992]; director general, US Foreign Service; head, State Department Office of Counter-Terrorism; author, “Moral and Ethical Considerations in Defining a Counter Terrorist Policy” [1982]; diplomat in residence, American University [2003-] |
Klaus Francisco Sengelmann | 1951 | Minister of Agriculture, Nicaragua [1975-1979]; rice farmer |
Robert Farris Thompson | 1951 | Yale art history professor [1969-], specialist in African art and dance; master, Timothy Dwight College [1978-]; author “Black Gods & Kings” [1971], “Flash of the Spirit” [1983], “Face of the Gods” [1993], “Tango: the Art History of Love” [2005] |
Richard Ullman | 1951 | Rhodes Scholar [1955-1957]; professor of international affairs, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton [1965-]; director of studies, Council on Foreign Relations [1973-1977]; chairman, World Peace Foundation [1995-2004]; author, “Intervention and War” [1961], “Securing Europe” [1991]; honoree, “The Real and the Ideal, Essays in Honor of Richard Ullman” [2001] |
David A. West | 1951 | Zoologist, Virginia Tech [1962-]; specialist in butterflies; biographer of 19th-century naturalist Fritz Maller |
Frank Yatsu | 1951 | Chairman emeritus, Department of Neurology, University of Texas Medical School; specialist in stroke, Parkinson’s Disease and dementia; recipient, Distinguished Alumnus Award, Case Western Reserve Medical School [2002] |
Shirley Young | 1951 | Advertising Woman of the Year [1988]; head, GM joint venture development, Shanghai [1988-1999]; founding chairman, Committee of 100 [1990, Chinese-American leadership organization]; with her mother and sisters, a refugee from war-torn China in the late 1940s |
Robert Anderson | 1952 | Attorney, QC [1977]; general counsel, Proctor & Gamble Canada [1963-1996]; member, Competition Bureau Canada |
James E. Baker | 1952 | Diplomat; US Foreign Service [1960-1980]; first African-American diplomat posted to South Africa [1973-1975]; supporter of black South African artists during apartheid; director, United Nations emergency relief programs [1980-1995] |
Henry S. F. Cooper | 1952 | New Yorker features writer [1958-1993], specialist on space programs; author, “A House in Space” [1976], “Before Liftoff…” [1987], “Thirteen: the Apollo Flight…” [1995] |
Steven I. Davis | 1952 | Investment banker and London-based banking consultant; author, “Investment Banking” 2002] |
Helen Neisser de Modenesi | 1952 | President, Junta de Obras Sociales de Chaclacayo, Lima, Peru [1969-] |
James W. Dow | 1952 | Anthropologist; specialist in Otomi Indians of Mexico and the spread of evangelical Protestantism among indigenous populations in Latin America; co-editor, “Holy Saints and Fiery Preachers…” [2001] |
Edward E. Elson | 1952 | Chairman, Georgia Advisory Committee, US Commission on Civil Rights [ca.1975]; first chairman, National Public Radio [1977-1980]; Rector, University of Virginia [1990-1992]; ambassador to Denmark [1993-1998]; recipient and namesake, National Public Radio (NPR) Distinguished Service Award [1979]; recipient, Denmark’s Grand Cross of the Order of Dannebrog [1998] |
Ruben F. “Ben” Gittes | 1952 | Urologist; innovator in surgical techniques; chair, urology, UC San Diego [1969-1975], Harvard University [1975-1987]; chair, Dept. of Surgery, Scripps Clinic [1987-1998] |
Donald A. Gordon | 1952 | Principal, Abbot Academy, 1968-1973 |
Charles R. Greene | 1952 | Acoustician; specialist in underwater sound measurement and sound impacts on marine life; Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station [1958-1959]; namesake, Green Ridge, Antarctica |
James A. Kern | 1952 | Founder, Florida Trail Association [1964-] the 1300 mile Florida Trail; founder, American Hiking Association [1978]; inner-city youth Big City Mountaineers [1989] |
Donald Langmuir | 1952 | Geochemistry professor, Colorado School of Mines [1978-]; author, “Aqueous Environmental Geochemistry” [1997]; presidential appointee, United States Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board [1989-1997] |
Gordon Lish | 1952 | Founder of literary magazines; fiction editor, Esquire Magazine [1969-1976], Knopf [1976-1995]; author, “Krupp’s Lulu” [2000] |
William J. Poorvu | 1952 | Real Estate investor and expert; adjunct professor of entrepreneurship, Harvard Business School, teaching real estate; author, “Real Estate Challenge” [1995], “Creating and Growing Real Estate Wealth…” [2008] |
Anthony Potter | 1952 | Television documentarian; executive producer, “NBC News White Paper” series including “The Man Who Shot the Pope” [1982] and “Vietnam: Lessons of a Lost War” [1985]; “Between the Wars” series; recipient, screenwriters’ Humanitas Prize [1985] |
Fredrick J. Seil | 1952 | Professor Emeritus of Neurology, Oregon Health and Science University; founder, biennial symposium on neural regeneration [1985-]; editor, 10 books from “Nerve, Organ and Tissue Regeneration” [1983] to “Neural Plasticity and Regeneration” [2000]; author, multiple research articles and reviews. |
Edward I. Selig | 1952 | Rhodes Scholar [1956-]; attorney specializing in mediation of commercial and environmental disputes; adjunct professor of city planning, Boston University |
Frederic A. Sharf | 1952 | Art collector, researcher; author “Future Retro” [2006], “Art of Collecting” [2008] |
David Slavitt | 1952 | Poet; translator, Latin and Greek classics; author and critic; “Falling from Silence: Poems” [2001];“Re Verse” [2005] |
John P. Wright | 1952 | Cattle rancher, Marys River Ranch, Nevada; aircraft racer |
Paul K. Alkon | 1953 | English professor, authority on Samuel Johnson and his times; author, “Samuel Johnson and Moral Discipline” [191967], “Science Fiction before 1900” [1994] |
Carl Andre | 1953 | Minimalist sculptor [ca.1960-], first major one-man exhibition at Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum [1970]; recipient, Fuess Award [1979] |
Edmund N. Ansin | 1953 | South Florida media and real estate entrepreneur; president and owner, Sunbeam Television Corporation [1971-] |
Martha Gross Boesing | 1953 | Playwright and director; artistic director, At the Foot of the Mountain Women’s Theatre Company, Minneapolis [1974-1984]; author of 40 plays, including “River Journal” [1975], “The Web” [1982], “After Long Silence” [1999] |
Michael Chapman | 1953 | Cinematographer and film director; cinematographer, “Jaws” [1975], “Taxi Driver” [1976], “Raging Bull” [1980]; director, “All the Right Moves” [1983] |
Peter Chermayeff | 1953 | Architect, most notably of the world’s most famous aquariums of the late 20th century, beginning with the New England Aquarium Boston [1962-1969]; National Aquarium, Baltimore [1975-81]; Osaka Aquarium [1987-1990]; Genoa Aquarium [1989-1992]Lisbon Oceanarium [1994-191998]; filmmaker; recipient, Fuess Award [1979] |
Pierre Clavel | 1953 | Professor of city and regional planning, Cornell; author “Opposition Planning in Wales and Appalachia” [1982], “The Progressive City” [1986] |
Herbert M. Cole | 1953 | Art history professor, UC Santa Barbara, specialist in African art; author “Igbo Arts: Community & Cosmos” [1984] “Ideals and Power in the Art of Africa” [1989] |
Roger Donald | 1953 | Editor-in-chief, Little Brown & Co. [1970s-1991] |
Patricia Earhart | 1953 | Leader of treks in Nepal; activist on behalf of Tibetan refugees |
Ruth Fleischmann-Colgan | 1953 | Executive director, Marie C. & Joseph C. Wilson Foundation [1982-2006]; recipient, Lena Gantt Distinguished Community Service Award, Girl Scouts Career Achievement Award |
Peter C. Harpel | 1953 | Harvard All-American, hammer-throw [1957]; medical researcher specializing in hematology; chairman of medicine, Weill Medical College, Cornell University |
Alden D. “Denny” Hatch | 1953 | Direct-mail advertising expert and newsletter publisher; author, “Million Dollar Mailings” [1993], “Direct Marketing Success” [1999] |
Carol Hardin Kimball | 1953 | Connecticut environmental & land conservation activist [ca.1960-2000] |
Florentius Willem Kist | 1953 | Grand Master, Netherlands Royal Household [ca.2000] |
Raymond A. Lamontagne | 1953 | Chair, City Center for the Performing Arts, New York [1999-]; chair, Association of Hole in the Wall Camps [2001-] |
Antonio Lopez | 1953 | Associate director, FEMA [1989-1992]; commissioner, American Battle Monuments Commission [2001-2005]; recipient, Fuess Award [1978] |
DeForest Mellon | 1953 | Zoologist, professor of biology, University of Virginia; specialist in sense organ brain processing of crayfish |
Richard L. Morse | 1953 | Physicist, Los Alamos weapons laboratory [-1976] |
Raymond Oliver | 1953 | English professor, UC Berkeley; specialist in medieval literary history; poet; coauthor, “Beowulf, A Likeness” [1990]; author, “Raymond Oliver: His Book of Hours” [2009] |
C. Carson Parks | 1953 | Singer and songwriter including “Something Stupid” [1967], Frank Sinatra’s 1st gold single |
Robert H. Pelletreau Jr. | 1953 | Ambassador to Bahrain [1979-1980], Tunisia [1987-91], Egypt [1991-1993]; assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern Affairs [1994-1997] |
John Poppy | 1953 | World War II refugee; senior editor, Look magazine [1962-1970]; free-lance journalist; coiner of term “The Generation Gap” [Look, 1967] |
John Ratté | 1953 | Headmaster, Loomis-Chaffee School [1976-1996] |
Haze Richardson | 1953 | Founder, builder & later owner, Petit St. Vincent Resort, St. Vincent & the Grenadines [1962-2008] |
Henry E. Riggs | 1953 | Professor of engineering, Stanford; founder, Stanford Institute for Management of High-Technology Companies [1975-1983]; president, Harvey Mudd College [1988-97]; founding president, Keck Graduate Institute of Applied Life Sciences [1997-2003] |
G. Kendall Sharp | 1953 | Judge, US District Court, Middle District, Florida [1983-] |
Joseph W. Shaw | 1953 | Classical archeologist, University of Toronto, excavating & publishing prehistoric Minoan site at Kommos, Crete [1976-]; coauthor “Kommos” volumes I-V [1996-]; author “Kommos: A Minoan Harbor Town¦” [2006] |
Shelby Tucker | 1953 | Travel writer, political commentator; author “Among Insurgents: Walking through Burma” [2000] |
Fred Wardenburg | 1953 | Filmmaker; civil rights [“The Streets of Greenwood”, 1964], Sesame Street film segments [“Milk”, 1975]; namesake, Wardenburg Scholarship, Earshot Jazz, Seattle |
A. Bernard Ackerman | 1954 | Dermatopathologist & educator; director, dermatopathology, U Miami, NYU, Jefferson Medical College [1969-199]; founder & anddirector, Ackerman Academy of Dermatopathology [1999-2008] |
Les Blank | 1954 | Documentary filmmaker, especially known for films documenting American Roots music; Museum of Modern Art retrospectives [1979, 2011]; recipient, Robert Flaherty Award & British Academy Award for “Burden of Dreams” [1982] |
John A. Bloom | 1954 | 27th Headmaster, Worcester Academy [1974-1985] |
William W. Blunt Jr. | 1954 | Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Economic Development [1969-1974] |
William F. Dove | 1954 | Medical researcher, professor of Oncology & medical genetics, University of Wisconsin [1977-]; director, Dove Lab studying familial colon cancer in mice and rats |
Mortimer L. Downey | 1954 | Executive director, New York Metro Transportation Authority [1986-1993]; deputy secretary, US Department of Transportation [1993-2001] |
Louis J. Elsas II | 1954 | Director, Division of Medical Genetics, Emory University School of Medicine; president, Association of Professors of Human and Medical Genetics; chief, gender verification, Atlanta Olympics [1996]; recipient, Fuess Award [2000] |
Jonathan L. Foote | 1954 | Montana restoration architect; recipient, Montana State University honorary doctorate [2006] for contributions to Montana art and architecture |
Hollis W. Frampton | 1954 | Experimental filmmaker; leading exponent of abstract expressionism in film [1962-1976]; author and critic |
Joseph W. Goodman | 1954 | Electrical engineering professor, Stanford [1967-1999], department chair [1989-1996]; specialist in optics; author, “Introduction to Fourier Optics” [1st edition 1968]; “Speckle Phenomena in Optics” [2006]; advisor to high-tech, start-up companies; recipient, Society of Optical Engineers Gold Medal [2007] |
Thomas H. “Mike” Harvey Jr. | 1954 | Major general [-1991] |
Lucy Lippard | 1954 | Art critic; author, “The Lure of the Local” [1998], “Mixed Blessings: New Art in a Multicultural America” [2000] ; recipient, Fuess Award [1979] |
Joseph A McPhillips III | 1954 | A fixture in the Moroccan expatriate literary and artistic community [1960s-2007]; headmaster, American School of Tangiers [1973-2007] |
Robert J. Neviaser | 1954 | Orthopedic surgeon, specialist in shoulder & elbow surgery; chair, Department of Orthopedic Surgery, George Washington University Medical School [1987-]; editor-in-chief, Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery; recipient, Distinguished Alumnus Award, New York Orthopedic Hospital, Columbia/Presbyterian Medical Center |
Frederick E. Pearson | 1954 | British tourism executive; president and owner, Take-a-Guide Ltd; creator, “Three British Gentlemen” ad campaigns [1980, 1981]; recipient, British Tourist Authority Golden Jubilee Award [1979]; chairman, Worshipful Company of Saddlers [1995-2007] |
Kenneth B. Pyle | 1954 | Professor of History and Asian Studies; founder and editor, Journal of Japanese Studies [1974-1986]; director, Henry Jackson School of International Studies, U Washington [1978-88]; founding president, National Bureau of Asian Research [1989-]; chair, Japan-US Friendship Commission [1992-1995]; author, “The New Generation in Meiji Japan” [1969], “The Making of Modern Japan” [1996], “Japan Rising: The Resurgence of Japanese Power & Purpose” [2006]; recipient, The Order of the Rising Sun [1999] |
Frederic A. Rzewski | 1954 | Pianist and composer, cofounder, Musica Electronica Viva [1966] |
Larry Sears | 1954 | National, 65-and-over tennis champion [2002] |
Robert B. Semple, Jr. | 1954 | Journalist; New York Times London bureau chief [1975-1977], foreign editor [1977-82], editorial page editor/associate editor [1982-]; recipient, Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing [1996] |
Samuel Wood Smith | 1954 | Organic farmer, mentor, teacher, Caretaker Farm, Williamstown, Massachusetts [1969-], community supported farm [1991-] |
Frank Stella | 1954 | Painter, printmaker & sculptor [1950s-]; recipient, Fuess Award [1979], National Medal of the Arts [2010]; PA Alumni Award of Distinction, 2013 |
Audrey Synnott | 1954 | Sister of Mercy [1960-], high-school English teacher; coordinator, Sisters of Mercy Associates Program |
David M. Underwood | 1954 | Director, and past president of the board, Methodist Hospital, Houston; president, Texas Medical Center [2002-]; trustee and board president, Phillips Academy [1983-2004]; benefactor, educational and medical institutions; recipient, Fuess Award [2003] |
Mary Woolverton | 1954 | Medical social worker; Denver General Hospital [1963-1967], Fitzsimmons Army Medical Center [1967-1991]; pioneer of therapeutic techniques using animals with patients; president, North American Riding for the Handicapped Association; recipient, Fuess Award [1980] |
Robert M. “Bobby” Zarem | 1954 | Inveterate show business publicist [1960s-] |
William C. Agee | 1955 | Museum curator and director, art historian; curator, director, Pasadena Art Museum [1970-1974], Museum of Fine Arts, Houston [1974-1982]; coauthor, “Coming of Age: American Art: 1850s-1950s” [2008] |
David Batchelder | 1955 | Physicist; grower, world’s first Argon crystal; professor of physics, University of Leeds [1990-2008]; co-developer, Raman microscope, Renishaw plc [1992]; Prince of Wales Award for Innovation [1993], Annual Achievement Award, Worshipful Company of Instrument Makers [1994] |
Peter Briggs | 1955 | Headmaster, Greenwich Country Day School [1976-92], Greenhill School, Dallas [1992-2000] |
Thomas R. Burns | 1955 | Sociologist; specialist in the sociology of power, rules & institutions, social structure; professor, Uppsala University, Sweden [ca.1980-2004]; founder, Uppsala Theory Circle & the actor-system dynamics [ASD] social systems theory; visiting scholar, Stanford University [2004-08]; author, “Man, Decisions, Society” [1985], “Societal Decision-Making: Democratic Challenges to State Technocracy” [1992] |
W. Dilworth Cannon | 1955 | Orthopedic surgeon, sports medicine, specialist in knee & ACL surgery; president, Arthroscopy Association of America [1993-94]; co-editor, Sports Medicine & Arthroscopy Review |
Raymond Clevenger III | 1955 | Judge, US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit [1990-2006] |
Frederick A. “Fritz” Cooper | 1955 | Art history professor, U Minnesota [1970-], specialist in Greek & Roman art & architecture; editor & contributor, “The Temple of Apollo Bassitas” vols. I-V [1992-2002; recipient, Distinguished Teacher Award [1972, 1990] Archeological Institute of America Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award [1996] |
Chester Danehower | 1955 | Dermatologist & advocate for free-market medicine; president & spokesman, Association of American Physicians & Surgeons [2003-] |
David Gunn | 1955 | President, New York City Transit Authority [1984-90]; general manager, Washington METRO [1990-94], president, AMTRAK [2002-05] |
Thomas Hale Jr | 1955 | Medical missionary in Nepal [1970-]; author, “Living Stones of the Himalayas” [1993], “On Being a Missionary” [1995], “On the Far Side of Liglig Mountain” [2000]; recipient, Fuess Award [1980] |
William P. Houley | 1955 | Submarine commander, rear admiral; commandant, US Submarine School; US sea power advocate [ca.2009] |
Eli Jacobs | 1955 | Owner, Baltimore Orioles [1989-93] |
Gerard E. “Gerry” Jones | 1955 | Yale All-American hockey goalie [1958-59] |
Maitland Jones Jr. | 1955 | Experimental chemist, Princeton [1964-2007]; specialist in reactive intermediates; author, “Organic Chemistry” [1997]; recipient, Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Prize, Princeton [2004] |
Robert A Nordhaus | 1955 | Attorney specializing in energy law; member, Energy Policy & Planning Office, Carter White House; assistant administrator, Federal Energy Administration [1975-76]; author “Designing a Mandatory Greenhouse Gas Reduction Program for the US” Pew Center for Global Climate Change Report [2003] |
Jay A. Precourt | 1955 | CEO/president/vice chair, Tejas Gas Corporation [1986-99]; chair, Hermes Consolidated [1999-]; donor, Precourt Institute for Energy Efficiency, Stanford [2006] |
George Bundy Smith | 1955 | Jurist; associate justice, New York Supreme Court [1980-86], associate justice, New York Court of Appeals [1992-2006]; author, Appeals Court decision in “People v. LaValle” [2004] which terminated the death penalty in New York State; recipient, Fuess Award [1985] |
David W. Steadman | 1955 | Art historian & museum administrator; director, Toledo Museum of Art [1989-99]; author, “The Graphic Art of Francisco Goya” [1975], “Abraham Van Diepenbeek” [1982] |
David J. Steinberg | 1955 | Historian & academic; author, “Philippine Collaboration During World War II” [1969], “The Philippines: A Singular & Plural Place” [1982]; vice president & university secretary, Brandeis [1977-]; president, Long Island University [1985-]; recipient, University Press Award [1969] |
Bardyl R. Tirana | 1955 | Director, Defense Civil Preparedness Agency [1977-]; president, China/USA Education Fund; recipient, Fuess Award [1991] |
Wallace E. Tobin III | 1955 | Yachtsman; navigator aboard America’s Cup challengers [1958, 1967, 1970] |
Beth Chandler Warren | 1955 | Abbot Academy’s 1st African-American graduate; Assistant Commissioner of Social Services for Massachusetts [1975-] |
Jonathan Weisbuch | 1955 | Physician & public health official; director, Massachusetts Correctional Health Services [1974-76]; director, Wyoming Department of Health & Social Services [1987-89]; medical director, Los Angeles County Department of Health [1989-95]; chief health officer & director, Maricopa County [Phoenix] Public Health Department [1997-2004]; recipient, Andrew Nichols Award for Public Health [2003] |
Charles G. “Terry” Zug | 1955 | Professor of folklore, UNC Chapel Hill [1969-]; author “Turners & Burners: the Folk Potters of North Carolina” [1986] |
Thomas C. Bagnoli | 1956 | Harvard soccer All-American goalie [1959] |
James B. Benedict | 1956 | Geologist & archeologist; specialist in tundra environments; head, Center for Mountain Archeology |
Robert Berlind | 1956 | Painter & art critic |
Edwin H. “Toby” Clark II | 1956 | Secretary, Delaware Department of Environmental Control [ca.1990]; member, President’s Council on Environmental Quality; senior fellow, Earth Policy Institute |
Frank Converse | 1956 | Actor, in television series “Coronet Blue” [1967], “NYPD” [1967-69], “Movin’ On” [1974], & on stage “The House of Blue Leaves” [1971] & in revivals of “Philadelphia Story” [1980], “A Streetcar Named Desire” [1988] |
John Francis Curley Jr. | 1956 | President, Paine Webber [1977-80] |
Charles H.P. Duell | 1956 | Historic preservationist; as owner of Middleton Place, a National Historic Landmark, creator & president of the Middleton Place Foundation [1974-] |
Jim Fisher | 1956 | Report & columnist, Kansas City Star [1960-2001], essayist & commentator, MacNeil Lehrer NewsHour, PBS [1984-2001] |
A. Bartlett Giamatti | 1956 | English & Italian Renaissance poetry scholar; president, Yale University [1977-86]; president, National League [1986-89], commissioner, Major League Baseball [1989]; recipient, Fuess Award [1987] |
Trevor Grimm | 1956 | Principal legal advisor to and attorney for Howard Jarvis in fight to pass California “Proposition 13” [1978], the spearhead of a nation-wide taxpayer revolt culminating in “Reaganomics” in the 1980s |
G. Robert Hanke | 1956 | President & CEO, Polaris Arts, London-based film & theatre production company; executive director, New York Repertory Theatre; co-producer, “Orlando” [1992] |
Henry T.J. Irwin | 1956 | Archeologist, specialist in Paleolithic sites, especially in the American West; co-director, Hell Gap site excavations, Wyoming [1961-68] |
Langley C. Keyes Jr. | 1956 | All-American, Harvard soccer [1959]; Rhodes Scholar [1959-60]; professor of city & regional planning, MIT; specialist in affordable housing |
Douglas “Bunker” Kitchel | 1956 | Vermont dairy farmer [ca.1960-1987] & state senator [1965-72] |
James F. Knupp | 1956 | Cofounder, Ennis Knupp & Associates [1981-], investment consulting firm |
Mollie Lupe Lasater | 1956 | Vice president & then president, Forth Worth School Board [1978-88]; organizer & chair, I Have a Dream Foundation, Fort Worth [1988-] |
John P. McBride | 1956 | Member, US National Hockey Team [1961] |
Marsh McCall | 1956 | Stanford Classics professor; recipient, Dinkelspiel Award [1991], Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Award [2000], Lyman Award [2006] |
Tim Meyer | 1956 | Race car driver; Sports Car Club of America National Champion [1961], winner, Kimberly Cup [1962], Cooper-Climax Formula One Grand Prix Team [1964] |
David S. Paresky | 1956 | Travel-industry innovator; cofounder, Crimson Travel [1965-]; owner, Thomas Cook Travel; philanthropist |
Elizabeth Parker Powell | 1956 | Cofounder, treasurer & chair, Diamond Machine Technology [DMT] |
Charles Ruff | 1956 | Attorney; special prosecutor, Watergate Scandal [1973-]; White House Counsel, Clinton Administration, defending president during impeachment proceedings [1999] |
Myong-Hyon Sohn | 1956 | Korean foreign service officer, ambassador to Singapore [1993-96], ambassador to Sweden & Latvia [1998-2001] |
Brooks Stoddard | 1956 | Historic archeologist; leader of excavations at the Carolingian Abbey of Psalmodi [c.1200-], Languedoc, France [1970-] |
Oscar Tang | 1956 | Founder & head, Reich & Tang, investment managers [1970-93]; philanthropist; chair, China Institute in America; president, Phillips Academy Board of Trustees [2004-]; benefactor of cultural and educational institutions; recipient, Fuess Award [1991]; refugee from war-torn China in 1949 |
Edward C. Tarlov | 1956 | Neurological Surgeon, Lahey Clinic [1977-], specializing in acoustic neuroma, tic douloureux & spine surgery; president, Neurological Society of America [2005] |
William R. “Tim” Timken | 1956 | Chairman, The Timken Company [1975-2003]; ambassador to Germany [2006-09] |
Susan W Wagg | 1956 | Architectural historian; author “Percy Erskine Nobbs: Architect…” [1982], “Money Matters: A Critical Look at Bank Architecture” [1990] |
Lewis M. Walling Jr. | 1956 | First of 8 alumni killed in Vietnam [February 1962] |
Thomas Bullene Woodward | 1956 | Episcopal priest, peace & migrant worker activist; secretary, Episcopal Executive Council Committee on the Status of Women; author “To Celebrate…” [1973], “Turning Things Upside-Down…” [1975] |
Roswell Angier | 1957 | Documentary photographer; author, “A Kind of Life: Conversations in the Combat Zone” [1976], “Train Your Gaze…” [2006] |
John H.M. Austin | 1957 | Radiologist; professor of radiology, Columbia [1973-]; expert on lung diseases |
William Babcock | 1957 | Professor of church history, Southern Methodist University [1971-]; director, Graduate Program in Religious Studies [1990-]; recipient, SMU Distinguished Teaching Award [2001] |
James Blackmon | 1957 | Engineer & inventor; director of technology development, McDonnell Douglas, Boeing; developer of solar & other innovative power generation technologies |
Robert C Darnton | 1957 | Rhodes Scholar [1959-60]; cultural historian, Princeton [1968-2007], specializing in the history of books & Enlightenment France; author, “The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-Revolutionary France” [1996], winner, National Book Critics Circle Award; president, American Historical Foundation [1999]; director, Harvard University Library [2007-]; recipient, MacArthur Fellowship [1982-]; Chevalier, Légion d’honneur [1999]; founding member, Steering Committee, Digital Public Library of America [2010-]; recipient, Fuess Award [2013] |
John Douglas | 1957 | Filmmaker & photographer; with NEWSREEL, films documenting civil rights, anti-war movement, radical politics [1960s]; co-director with Robert Kramer, “Milestones” [1975] |
Elizabeth Enders | 1957 | Painter |
Theodore Forstmann | 1957 | Senior founding partner, Forstmann, Little & Company [1978-], private equity firm specializing in leveraged buyouts; chairman, Washington Scholarship Fund [1997-]; cofounder & chairman, the Children’s Scholarship Fund [1998-]; CEO Parents in Charge, etc. |
Elon Gilbert | 1957 | Agricultural economist, Africa & Southeast Asia; advisor, Ghanaian Ministry of Agriculture [1960s]; head, West Africa Agricultural Development Program, Ford Foundation [1970-77]; land conservation activist, Maui, Montana [ca.2000-] |
Charles Grigsby | 1957 | Member/chairman, Massachusetts State Board of Education [1973-82 / 1977-80] |
Frank Incropera | 1957 | Mechanical engineer & researcher; specialist in energy conversion; professor, Purdue [1966-98] & dean of mechanical engineering [1989-98]; mechanical engineering dean, Notre Dame [1998-2006]; author “Fundamentals of Heat & Mass Transfer” [multiple editions], “Liquid Cooling of Electronic Devices” [1999]; recipient, ASEE Roe Award for Excellence in Teaching [1983], Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Senior Scientist Award [1988]; elected to National Academy of Engineering [1996]; named one of the 100 most frequently cited engineering researchers globally [2001] |
Gerrit M. Keator | 1957 | Headmaster, Chestnut Hill Academy [1972-79], Pomfret School [1979-89]; president, International College, Beirut [1989-2000] |
W. Jay Kingwill | 1957 | Theatrical manager, Broadway shows & touring companies, including “Hello, Dolly,” [1964-], “Best Little Whorehouse in Texas,” [1978-], “Sugar Babies” [1979-] |
Roland Kuchel | 1957 | Diplomat; US ambassador to Zambia [1993-96] |
Rudolph Loeser | 1957 | Computer programmer, Harvard-Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory [ca.1965-2005]; developer of “Pandora,” a general-purpose, non-LTE program for calculating stellar atmosphere models and spectra, developed for Eugene Avrett for study of the solar atmosphere |
Cecile Erickson Mactaggart | 1957 | Collector, Chinese paintings & textiles; “Brilliant Strokes: Chinese Paintings from the Mactaggart Art Collection,” Royal Ontario Museum [2009]; recipient, honorary degree, University of Alberta [2006] |
Sidney Magee | 1957 | Architect, architectural theorist; author, “Simple Building” & “The Open System” [2009] |
Michael S. Mahoney | 1957 | Professor of the history of science, Princeton [ca.1967-2008]; specialist in the history of mathematics & the development of computing; author of monographs on Rene Descartes, Pierre de Fermat, Isaac Newton, et al; chair, National Faculty of Humanities Arts & Sciences [1994-2001] |
Peter Mattern | 1957 | Physicist, Brookhaven National Laboratory [1965-71]; scientist-director, Combustion Research Facility, Sandia National Laboratories [1971-96] |
Richard Nordhaus | 1957 | Architect & architecture professor, University of New Mexico, & director UNM Design & Planning Assistance Center [1969-2001] |
Lance Odden | 1957 | Headmaster, Taft School [1972-2001] |
Hope Hamilton Pettegrew | 1957 | Cofounder & publisher, Cobblestone Magazine [1979-85], history & social science periodical for schools |
Valerie Ogden Phillips | 1957 | Television actress [1974-99] |
Rostislav Rostislavovich Romanov | 1957 | Great-grandson of Tsar Alexander III, Prince Rostislav Romanov was a London banker |
Roland Scott | 1957 | Member, Virgin Islands Olympic Pistol Shooting Team [1984] |
Fred Shuman | 1957 | Founder, Archstone Partnerships [1991-], a fund of hedge funds |
Harold Sox | 1957 | Internist, professor of medicine, author & editor; chair, Department of Medicine, Dartmouth [1988-2001]; editor Annals of Internal Medicine [2001-2009]; author “Medical Decision Making” [1989]; chair, American College of Physicians Institute of Medicine Committee on Comparative Effectiveness Research Priorities [2009-] |
Peter Sprague | 1957 | Photojournalist, Hungary, Russia, Iran, Afghanistan [1956-65]; chairman, National Semiconductor [1965-95]; chair, Advent, Aston Martin Lagonda Ltd, Wave Systems Corp. [1988-2003] |
Edward D. Spurgeon | 1957 | Dean, U. Utah Law School [1983-90], U. Georgia Law School [1993-98]; executive director, Borchard Foundation Center on Law & Aging [1998-] |
William W. Sterling | 1957 | Rhodes Scholar [1961-] |
Leo Ullman | 1957 | Attorney & real estate entrepreneur; chairman/CEO/’president, Cedar Shopping Centers [1998-] |
Daniel Wexler, aka “Daniel Heydon” | 1957 | Astrologer & numerologist; columnist; author “Numerology” [1978/86], “The Little Giant Encyclopedia of Numerology” [2005] |
George M. Whitesides | 1957 | Chemist & nanotechnology pioneer; Harvard professor & researcher in biochemistry, materials science, catalysis & organic chemistry; involved in founding biotech firms; recipient, National Medal of Science [1998], Kyoto Prize for Advanced Technology [2003], Priestly Medal [2007], Dreyfus Prize & Benjamin Franklin Medal [2009], Fuess Award [2013] |
Gregory Wierzynski | 1957 | Journalist with Fortune, TIME; director, Radio Free Europe [1986-] |
Joyce Finger Beckwith | 1958 | Director, Foreign Languages, Wilmington, MA Schools; president, American Association of Teachers of French [2005-07] |
A. Lawrence Chickering | 1958 | Research fellow, Hoover Institution; author; founder of policy institutes; founder & president, Educate Girls Globally [2000] centered in Rajasthan |
Marshall P. Cloyd | 1958 | Founder & chairman, InterMarine, Inc. [1982-], Houston-based specialty cargo shippers; philanthropist supporting many institutions and causes |
Carol Donnelly | 1958 | Environmental activist; founder & chair, York Rivers Association; recipient, Tom’s of Maine First Annual Prize for River Stewardship [2002] |
Paul E.M. Fine | 1958 | Professor, epidemiology & communicable diseases, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine [1976-]; director, epidemiological research, Malawi [1978-2006] |
Alfred J. Griggs | 1958 | Chair, Economic Development Council of Western Massachusetts [1997-]; chair, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center [2002-]; recipient, New England Healthcare Assembly Trustee Leadership Award [2006] |
William Hamilton | 1958 | New Yorker cartoonist [1965-], satirist of the American upper classes; recipient, Fuess Award [1979] |
Jon B. Higgins | 1958 | Ethnomusicologist & 1st Western singer to master South Indian classical Karnataka music; professor of music & director, Center for the Arts, Wesleyan University [1978-84] |
John Huntington | 1958 | English professor, University of Illinois, Chicago; expert on Renaissance poetry & science fiction; author “Rationalizing Genius: Ideological Strategies in American Science Fiction” [1989], “Ambition, Rank & Poetry in 1590s England” [2001] |
Emmett B. Keeler | 1958 | Mathematician & health sciences professor, RAND Graduate School [1968-], UCLA School of Public Health; specialist in health services research; member Institute of Medicine, National Academies [2006] |
Charles W. Kellogg II | 1958 | US Olympic Ski Team [1968]; member, US Ski Team [1968-73] |
Paul Kelly | 1958 | Houston attorney, specialist in oil & gas government relations; chair, Dept. of Interior Outer Continental Shelf Policy Committee [1994-96]; member, US Commission on Ocean Policy [2001-], Joint Ocean Initiative [2005-]; president, Gulf of Mexico Foundation |
David Kleinberg-Levin | 1958 | Philosopher, educator & author in the field of phenomenology; philosophy professor, Northwestern University [1972-2005]; author “The Body’s Recollection of Being” [1985], “The Philosopher’s Gaze” [1999], “Gestures of Ethical Life” [2005] |
John O. Ledyard | 1958 | Economist; chair, Caltech Division of Humanities & Social Science [1992-2002]; president, Public Choice Society [1980-82]; fellow, National Academy of Arts & Sciences |
John P. Leonard | 1958 | Diplomat [1965-99]; US chargé d’affaires, Nicaragua [1988-90], ambassador to Surinam [1991-93]; recipient, Department of State Distinguished Service Award & Career Achievement Award [1999] |
Bayard U. Livingston IV | 1958 | President, Heifer International [2003-] |
Nicholas J. Nicholas Jr. | 1958 | President, Time, Inc. / Time-Warner [1986-92]; chairman, Environmental Defense Fund [2002-09] |
Anne Nielsen | 1958 | Photographer; photographer/curator “Catching Shadows: a Tintype Portfolio of Native Americans…in the 21st Century” [2009] |
David L. Page | 1958 | Professor of Pathology, Vanderbilt School of Medicine [1972-], specialist in breast cancer diagnostic criteria |
John Rockwell | 1958 | Critic, classical, pop music & dance; director, Lincoln Center Festival [1994-98]; editor, Arts and Leisure Section, New York Times [1998-2004]; author, “Outsider: John Rockwell on the Arts” [2006] |
Ann DiClemente Ross | 1958 | Founder & co-owner, Leggiadro International, clothing & accessories producer & stores [1985-] |
Daniel B. Rowland | 1958 | Captain of Boats, Shrewsbury School, England [1959-60], winner, Princess Elizabeth Cup, Henley [1960]; Russian history professor, U. Kentucky [1974-], director, U Kentucky Gaines Center for the Humanities [1996-2008] |
Malcolm S. Salter | 1958 | Professor, business administration, Harvard Business School [1967-2006]; president, Mars & Company; author, “Innovation Corrupted” [2008] |
Michael Slote | 1958 | Philosopher, educator & author in the field of virtue ethics; professor of ethics, University of Maryland [1985-2001], University of Miami [2002-]; author, “From Morality to Virtue” [1992], “Ethics of Care & Empathy” [2007] |
Dane F. Smith Jr. | 1958 | Ambassador to Guinea [1990-93], ambassador to Senegal [1996-99]; president, National Peace Corps Association [1999-] |
David Stare | 1958 | Founder, Dry Creek Vineyard [1972-] & leader in development of Sonoma wine industry; initiator, appellation status for Dry Creek Valley [1983] |
Larry Stine | 1958 | Senior Principal Engineer, MITRE Corporation [1963-2000] working on NASA Gemini & Apollo programs, development of the ARPANET, precursor to the Internet |
Dickran Tashjian | 1958 | Art historian & author; “The Art of Early New England Stonecarving” [1974], “American Dada” [1975], “Surrealism & the American Avant-Garde” [1995] |
Christopher Wadsworth | 1958 | Headmaster, Nichols School [1969-79], Belmont Hill [1979-93], Robert College, Istanbul [1993-2001] |
Manch Wheeler | 1958 | Outstanding College Player [1961], National Football Hall of Fame; quarterback, NFL Buffalo Bills [1962-64] |
W. Philip Woodward | 1958 | Co-owner, Chalone Vineyard [1972-], cofounder & CEO, Chalone Wine Group [1984-2001], instrumental in creating an international reputation for California wines; chair, American Vintners Association [2001-] |
Nathalie Taft Andrews | 1959 | Executive director, Portland Community Museum, Louisville [1978-]; recipient, Preserve America grant [2006] |
Judith Agor Aydelott | 1959 | Defense attorney specializing in medical malpractice; Westchester Democratic candidate for Congress [2006]; Obama campaign [2008] |
Keith Barbour | 1959 | Folksinger; member, New Christy Minstrels [1967-69], solo act [1969-] with Top 40 hit “Echo Park” & album [1969]; member, Beaujolais [1993-] |
L. Paul “Jerry” Bremer III | 1959 | Diplomat; assistant to Henry Kissinger [1972-76]; deputy executive secretary, Department of State [1979-81]; executive secretary to Alexander Haig [1981-83]; ambassador to the Netherlands [1983-86]; ambassador-at-large for counterterrorism [1986-89]; chairman, National Commission on Terrorism [1999-2001]; US administrator of Iraq [2003-04]; recipient, Presidential Medal of Freedom [2004] |
Constance Brinckerhoff | 1959 | Molecular biologist specializing in matrix metalloproteinases; professor, Dartmouth Medical School & associate dean of science [1991-]; recipient, National Institute of Health Merit Award; master, American College of Rheumatology [2008] |
Arthur Burnham | 1959 | British perfumer, founder, Burnham + Partners; creator of fragrances including Inis, Paul Smith Men, and Parfum V1, the world’s most expensive perfume @ $84,000/bottle; rower at Andover and beyond, member Cambridge 8 that won “The Boat Race” vs. Oxford [1965] |
William A. Butler | 1959 | Attorney, specialist in environmental law; general counsel, Environmental Defense Fund, vice president & general counsel, National Audubon Society |
Christopher Costanzo | 1959 | CIA clandestine service [ca.1965-1991] |
Basil Cox | 1959 | Vice president & general manager, Family Communications, producer of “Mr. Rogers Neighborhood” [ca.1971-] |
Chester A. Crocker | 1959 | Educator & diplomat; director, Georgetown University Foreign Service School [1972-81]; assistant secretary of state for African affairs [1981-89], architect, policy of “constructive engagement” with South Africa, credited with settling terms of Namibian independence [1988]; chair, United States Institute for Peace [1992-2004]; author “High Noon in South Africa…” [1993], coauthor “Taming Intractable Conflicts…” [2004] |
Carlos de la Cruz | 1959 | Chairman, CC1 Companies; chair & senior trustee, University of Miami [1999-2001]; recipient, United Way Alexis de Tocqueville Award, Silver Medallion, National Conference of Christians & Jews, Simon Wiesenthal Foundation Award, Humanitarian Award, American Red Cross |
Wade Ellis | 1959 | Mathematician & educator, expert on use of technology in teaching math; math instructor, West Valley College [1975-84], president, Faculty Senate [1979-80]; coauthor, “Mathematica, A Tutorial” ], “Maple V Flight Manual” [1992]; recipient, Distinguished Teacher Award [1980], Hayward Award for Excellence in Education [1990] |
Laurie S. Fusco | 1959 | Art Historian; director, Getty Museum Photo Archives & Guest Scholars Program; coauthor, “Lorenzo de ’Medici, Collector & Antiquarian” [2006] |
Mitchell H. Gail | 1959 | Medical statistician; senior investigator, National Cancer Center Institute, Division of Cancer Epidemiology & Genetics, director, Biostatistics Branch [1995-2007]; developer of AIDS epidemic tracking methods & the Gail Model, the standard risk assessment tool for breast cancer; recipient, Spiegelman Gold Medal for Health Statistics, Snedecor Award for applied statistics, Public Health Service Distinguished Service Medal |
Dearing W. Johns | 1959 | Cardiologist, UVA School of Medicine, researcher on kidney control of blood pressure; chief, Preventive Cardiology Clinic |
Kirby Jones | 1959 | Political organizer & Democratic Party activist; advisor, Kennedy & Lowenstein presidential campaigns [1968], press secretary, McGovern presidential campaign [1972]; named on the Nixon “enemies list” [1972]; founder & director, US-Cuba Trade Association [1975-82]; as PBS journalist, interviewed Fidel Castro [1986] |
Jay Nelson | 1959 | National seniors squash titlist [1984-96]; recipient, Standing Award for Sportsmanship in squash [1978], Bigelow Award for Excellence in Competition [1977 & 1992] |
William D. Nordhaus | 1959 | Economist & Yale professor [1973-]; member of Council of Economic Advisors, Carter Administration [1977-79]; author, “Managing the Global Commons: the Economics of Global Climate Change” [1994], winner, Publication of Enduring Quality Award, American Association of Environmental & Resource Economists [2006] |
Lex Rieffel | 1959 | Economist; USAID, Indonesia [1971-73], Treasury Dept. International Staff [1975-92], Institute for International Finance [1994-2001], Brookings Institution Senior Fellow [2002-], expert on emerging markets & sovereign debt; author, “Sovereign Debt Restructuring” [2003], “…The Challenge of Military Financing in Indonesia” [2007] |
Peter E. Rubin | 1959 | Physician & acupuncturist [1973-], full-time acupuncturist [1980-] |
Sandy Ruby | 1959 | Mathematician & entrepreneur; founder, Tech HiFi [1964-], Computer City [1979-] |
Gerald D. Secundy | 1959 | Attorney & environmental activist; executive director, Audubon California; president, California Council for Environmental & Economic Balance [2006-]; chair, California State Water Resources Board [2008-] |
Susan Goodwillie Stedman | 1959 | National Council of Negro Women, Mississippi [1964]; UN & Ford Foundation [1966-75]; founder & president, The Goodwillie Group [1979-], consultants; executive director, Refugees International [1980s]; author, “Voices for the Future⦔ [1993] |
W. Scott Thompson | 1959 | Rhodes Scholar [1962-]; White House Fellow [1975-77]; board of directors, US Institute of Peace [1985-2000]; adjunct professor, International Politics, Fletcher School, Tufts, Georgetown |
Lee Webb | 1959 | Public policy analyst; founder & first president, Center for Policy Alternatives [1976], “of, by and for state legislators”; senior policy fellow, Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center, U Maine |
G. Edward White | 1959 | Legal historian, professor, U Virginia School of Law; author, “The American Judicial Tradition” [1978], “Earl Warren⦔ [1986], “The Marshall Court⦔ [1988] |
Jesse Colin Young | 1959 | Singer/songwriter; early 60s Greenwich Village folksinger; lead singer of the classic folk/rock band, The Youngbloods [1965-72]; “Get Together” a top-ten hit [1969]; solo artist [1972-]; environmental & peace activist [1970s-] |
1960s | ||
Name | Class | Areas of Note |
Robert S. Beale | 1960 | Physician, specialist in weight reduction [1970s-2004]; author “The Black Diet Doctor’s Solution for Black Women” [2004] |
John Bissell | 1960 | Member, Shrewsbury School Eight [1961], winner of the Princess Elizabeth Cup, Henley; professor of neurology, UC Davis; chief of neurology, Kaiser Permanente South Sacramento; recipient, Cecil Cutting Award [2010] |
Michael A. Burlingame | 1960 | History professor, Connecticut College, Lincoln authority; author, “The Inner World of Abraham Lincoln” [1994], “Abraham Lincoln: A Life” [2008] |
Robert M. Cahners | 1960 | Ranked #1 in US Masters Track & Field weight & super weight championships [2007, 2008] |
Moncrieff Cochran III | 1960 | Psychologist; professor of human development & family studies & director, Cornell Early Childhood Program, College of Human Ecology [-2008]; researcher on child rearing, early childhood education programs |
Ruth C. Crocker | 1960 | President, World Association of Flower Arrangers [2009-] |
John Darnton | 1960 | Journalist & novelist; Pulitzer Prize winning foreign correspondent [1982], New York Times, London bureau chief [1993-96], cultural editor [1993-2002]; author, “Neanderthal” [1997], “Black & White & Dead All Over” [2008], “Almost a Family” [2011] |
Jane English | 1960 | Photographer, book designer, founder/owner Earth Heart, Inc.; hot-air balloon pilot |
Edward Parker “Ned” Evans | 1960 | Thoroughbred breeder & owner, ranked among top 10 breeders in the United States; owner Spring Hill Farm, Virginia [1969-2010]; major donor to Yale School of Management; namesake, Edward P. Evans Hall housing the School of Management[2014] |
Mary Alice Feldblum | 1960 | Sociologist; director, Hofstra University Institute of Applied Social Science [1970s-80s] |
Duncan Kennedy | 1960 | Legal theorist; professor; Harvard Law School [1976-]; critic of American legal education; author, “A Critique of Adjudication⦔ [1997] |
Sheldon Leader | 1960 | Attorney, legal theorist & civil rights activist; professor, School of Law, University of Essex, UK & Essex Centre for Human Rights; chairman, Pallas Consortium of Universities for European Law; legal advisor, Amnesty International UK |
Richard H. Masland | 1960 | Medical researcher; professor of neuroscience & ophthalmology, Harvard; specialist in neurome of the retina; director, Howe Laboratory, Mass. Eye & Ear Infirmary [2009-]; recipient, Hoopes & London awards in teaching, Brian Boycott Prize, research, Proctor Medal [2010] |
Barry McCaffrey | 1960 | General & military analyst; division commander, Gulf War [1990-91]; commander, US Southern Command [1994-96]; director, Office of National Drug Control Policy [1996-2001]; professor of international security studies, West Point [2001-05]; named to US Army Ranger Hall of Fame [2007] |
Christopher F. McKee | 1960 | Physicist, specialist in interstellar gases; professor of physics & astronomy, UC Berkeley [1974-], director, Space Sciences Laboratory [1985-98]; member, National Academy of Sciences |
Henry “Tom” Mudd | 1960 | Founder, Cinnabar Vineyards & Winery, Santa Cruz Mountain appellation [1983] |
John W. Nields Jr. | 1960 | Attorney; chief counsel, House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct, Korea influence peddling investigation [1977-79]; House Select Committee, Iran-Contra Hearings [1987] |
Margaret W. Noel | 1960 | President, Oregon League of Women Voters [2003-07] |
Paulette Dufault Peden | 1960 | Fashion leader; advertising & promotion VP, Elizabeth Arden [ca.1980s-90s] |
Joseph M. Prahl | 1960 | Engineering professor, Case Western Reserve, Department of Fluid, Thermal & Aerospace Sciences [1968-], chair [1992-2007]; co-director, NASA Summer Faculty Fellowship Program [1970-2003]; NASA Backup Payload Specialist, Microgravity Laboratory [1992]; recipient, Carl Wittke & Tau Beta Pi awards for excellence in teaching [1972, 1989-90], Zarem Education Award [2006] |
William Bradford Reynolds | 1960 | Attorney; assistant solicitor general & assistant attorney general for civil rights, Reagan Administration [1981-88]; represented government before the Supreme Court in the Bob Jones University civil rights case [1982] |
Michael Scharf | 1960 | Scholar & collector, early 20th century American modernist abstract painting |
Phyllis Ross Schless | 1960 | President, Girls Clubs of America [1984-86], chair, National Child Labor Committee [1992-95] |
William F. Seifert | 1960 | Journalist; as a member of the Longview Washington Daily News staff, Pulitzer Prize recipient for coverage of the Mount St. Helen’s disaster [1980-81] |
William D. Sherman | 1960 | Attorney, specialist in corporate securities & stock offerings; voted one of “best lawyers in America” [1982-2009] |
Nicholas C. Spitzer | 1960 | Neurobiologist; specialist in early neuronal development in the brain; distinguished professor & vice chair, Section of Neurobiology, UC San Diego [1972-]; coauthor, “Fundamental Neuroscience” [1982, 2002] |
Handley M. G. Stevens | 1960 | British diplomat & government official, Under Secretary for Transportation [1980s]; coauthor, “Brussels Bureaucrats: the Administration of the European Union” [2000] & “Transportation Policy in the European Union” [2003] |
Dorothy Tod | 1960 | Filmmaker; associate producer & film supervisor, Sesame Street [ca.1970]; producer/director, “What if You Couldn’t Read” [1980], recipient, DuPont-Columbia Citation in Broadcast Journalism; “Warriors’ Women” [1981], recipient, Grand Prize, New England Film Festival |
Allen Mason Ward | 1960 | Classicist, professor of classicist, University of Connecticut; author, “Marcus Crassus & the Late Roman Republic [1977], “A History of the Roman People” [5th Edition, 2004] |
Woodward A. “Woody” Wickham | 1960 | Vice president, John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, specializing in grant making to human rights groups, independent filmmakers & PBS series [1990-2003] |
Ward W. Woods | 1960 | CEO/president, Bessemer Securities [1989-1999]; chair, Stanford Management Company [2006-08]; donor, Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford [2006]; chair, executive committee, Wildlife Conservation Society |
Karl A. Ziegler | 1960 | London-based banker & founding member, Transparency International [1994] focused on auditing debt relief provided to 3rd-world nations; cofounder & CEO, Kinnerton Research Centre focused on corporate best practices in difficult business environments prone to corruption |
Sid R. Bass | 1961 | Investor, philanthropist; vice chair, Museum of Modern Art |
Eileen Christelow | 1961 | Children’s’ book author-illustrator, including “Henry & the Red Stripes” [1982], the “Five Little Monkeys⦔ series [1990-], “Letters from a Desperate Dog” [2006] |
A. Bruce Cleveland | 1961 | Banker; founder, chairman, president & CEO, Presidential Bank [1985-] & Presidential Online Bank [1995], the nation’s first |
Fulton Collins | 1961 | Tulsa businessman, leader & benefactor, Tulsa University; chair/CEO, Liberty Glass [1980-94], CEO Collins Investments [1994-2008]; chair, Tulsa University board of trustees [1997-2008]; donor, Collins Hall, namesake, Collins College of Business Administration, Tulsa U |
William A. “Bill” Drayton | 1961 | Social entrepreneur; as EPA assistant administrator [1977-81], launched emissions trading; founder/president/CEO/chairman, Ashoka: Innovators for the Public [1980-]; chairman, American Environmental Safety Council [1981-85]; recipient, MacArthur Fellowship [1984-89]; Public Service Achievement Award, Common Cause [1999]; Fuess Award [2009]; Prince of Asturias Award in International Cooperation [2011] |
Dick Durrance | 1961 | Photographer; Army Photographic Office [1967-68] working in Vietnam, National Geographic staff photographer [1969-76], advertising photographer [1976-]; voted Advertising Photographer of the Year [1987] |
David H. Evans | 1961 | Ethnomusicologist; professor of music, University of Memphis; blues guitarist & singer [1962-]; recipient, Grammy Award, best album notes, “Screamin’ & Hollerin’ the Blues: the Worlds of Charley Patton” [2003]; recipient, University of Memphis Willard R. Sparks Eminent Faculty Award [2007] |
Frederick Pollard Goff | 1961 | Director, North American Congress on Latin America [NACLA]; publisher, “Report on the Americas” [1966-2011]; cofounder & president, DataCenter; board president, Community Financial Resources |
King W.W. Harris | 1961 | CEO, Pittway Corporation [1987-2000]; chairman, Harris School Visiting Committee, U Chicago; chairman, Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago [2001-2006] |
Judith V. Jordan | 1961 | Psychologist & co-developer, the relational-cultural model of women’s development; director, Jean Baker Miller Training Institute, Wellesley Centers for Women; coauthor, “Women’s Growth in Connection” [1991], etc. |
Edward Gibson Lanpher | 1961 | Career diplomat [1967-99]; US ambassador to Zimbabwe [1991-95] |
Karyl Charna Lynn | 1961 | Critic, authority on opera & opera houses; US correspondent, Opera Now; author, “National Trust Guide to Grand Opera & Opera Houses” [1996], “Italian Opera Houses & Festivals” [2005] |
John Marks | 1961 | Founder & president, Search for Common Ground [1982-], an international conflict prevention organization, initially focused on US-Soviet cooperation; Search for Common Ground awarded the first US State Department Benjamin Franklin Ward for Public Diplomacy [2008] |
W. Gage McAfee | 1961 | Attorney; member, Advisory Consultative Commission for the Basic Law of Hong Kong [1985-89] |
George Pieczenik | 1961 | Biochemist in genetic research; associate professor, Rutgers; member, patent bar; recipient, Fuess Award [1980] |
Thomas E. Pollock III | 1961 | US Olympic Rowing Team [1964] |
Tony Robbin | 1961 | Theoretician, artist & author; developer of computer visualizations of four-dimensional geometry; painter & sculptor [1974-]; author, “Engineering a new Architecture” [1996], “Shadows of Reality: the Fourth Dimension in Relativity, Cubism & Modern Thought” [2006] |
James H. Rubin | 1961 | Art historian, specialist in 19th century European painting; author, “Courbet” [1997], “Impressionism & the Modern Landscape” [2008] |
Daniel H. Saks | 1961 | Economist, expert on unemployment & the economics of education; Council of Economic Advisers, Carter Administration [1977-80]; director, National Commission on Unemployment Policy [1980-82]; professor, Vanderbilt [1982-] |
Alan M. Tartakoff | 1961 | Medical researcher, cell biologist & pathologist; author, “Vectoral Transport of Proteins into & across Membranes” [1991]; professor, Case Western Reserve Department of Pathology [1994-] |
William R. Torbert | 1961 | Professor & dean, Carroll School of Management, Boston University [1978-2008]; author, “Managing the Corporate Dream” [1987], “The Secret of Timely & Transforming Leadership” [2004]; recipient, David L. Bradford Distinguished Educator Award [2008] |
Robert L. Trivers | 1961 | Evolutionary biologist & sociobiologist; professor, Harvard, UC Santa Cruz, Rutgers [1973-]; widely influential developer of theories of reciprocal altruism [1971], parental investment [1972]; author, “Social Evolution” [1985], coauthor, “Genes in Conflict: the Biology of Selfish Genetic Elements” [2006]; recipient, Crafoord Prize [2007] in bioscience |
David R. Weaver | 1961 | Member, Eliot House Crew [Harvard], winner Thames Challenge Cup [1964] |
Craig R. Whitney | 1961 | Journalist & organist; New York Times reporter, foreign correspondent, bureau chief & assistant managing editor, [1965-2009]; organist & historian; author, “All the Stops: the Glorious Pipe Organ” [2003], “The WMD Mirage: Iraq’s Decade of Deception…” [2005]; recipient, American Guild of Organists President’s Award [2004] |
Stuart Wrede | 1961 | Director, Dept. of Architecture & Design, Museum of Modern Art [1987-92]; creator of environmental sculpture & landscape design [1992-] |
John Zeisel | 1961 | Sociologist specializing in social research & design, especially for special-needs building occupants; founder, Hearthstone Alzheimer’s Family Foundation & Hearthstone Alzheimer’s Care; author, “Inquiry by Design: Environment / Behavior / Neuroscience in Architecture, Interiors, Landscape & Planning” [1984/2006] |
Charles S. Abbot | 1962 | Admiral; Rhodes Scholar [1966-]; commander, aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt; commander 6th Fleet [1996-98]; deputy chief, US European Command [1999-2000]; deputy Homeland Security Advisor to the president [2001-2003] |
Allen Andersson | 1962 | Entrepreneur & philanthropist; founder and funder, the Riecken Foundation [2000], creator of free public libraries in Central America |
Jonathan Baron | 1962 | Professor of psychology, U. Pennsylvania, specializing in the decision-making process for moral and public policy questions; author, “Rationality and Intelligence” [1985], “Morality & Rational Choice” [18993], “Thinking & Deciding” [1988, 2008] |
Charles J. Beard II | 1962 | Attorney & civic leader; authority on cable television law & regulation; chairman, Emerson College Board of Trustees [1999-2001]; chairman, Board of Trustees, WGBH Education Foundation [-2004] |
Kenneth P. Bergquist | 1962 | Army officer & Pentagon official; brigadier general, specialist in counterterrorism; first president, Joint Special Operations University; US Central Command Special Operations Staff Director [-2002] |
Fitzgerald B. Bramwell | 1962 | Professor of chemistry and biochemistry, City University [1988-95]; vice president for research and graduate studies, University of Kentucky [1995-]; recipient, Fuess Award [2000] |
Keith H. Chiappa | 1962 | Rhodes Scholar [1964-65]; neurologist & professor of neurology, Harvard Medical School; director, EEG/EP Lab, Mass. General Hospital; editor, Journal of Contemporary Neurology; author, “Evoked Potentials in Clinical Medicine” [1983, 1989] |
Edward Grew | 1962 | Geologist, professor, University of Maine Dept. of Earth & Climate Sciences; specialist in boron and beryllium; discover of several minerals; namesake of newly discovered minerals Edgrewite and hydroxledgrewite [2011] |
Sally Mandel | 1962 | Author, best-selling romance novels; “Change of Heart” [1979], “Portrait of a Married Woman” [1986], “Out of the Blue” [2002] |
David J. Smith | 1962 | Geography & social studies teacher, creator of geography curricula, education consultant; creator, “Mapping the World by Heart” [1991], “If the World Were a Village” [2002]; recipient, US Dept. of Education “Breaking the Mold” Award [1992] |
Charles C. “Charlie” Stuart | 1962 | Writer, producer, director of television news stories & documentaries; senior producer, ABC News; recipient, five Emmy Awards, 2 DuPont Awards |
Cathy Wilkerson | 1962 | Member, the Weathermen Underground [ca.1970]; author, “Flying Close to the Sun: My Life & Times as a Weatherman” [2007] |
Edward Bass | 1963 | Philanthropist; lead donor, Biosphere II [1985-], Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies [1991] & Bass Performance Hall [1998] |
Edward W. “Tad” Campion | 1963 | Rhodes Scholar [1967-]; senior deputy editor & online editor, New England Journal of Medicine [2001-] |
Felicity “Flick” Colby | 1963 | Choreographer and dancer; founder & leader of the London-based, go-go girl dance group Pan’s People, a British television pop-culture phenomenon [1966-76], and later groups |
William Damon | 1963 | Developmental psychologist & author; professor of education & director, Stanford Center on Adolescence [1997-], senior fellow, Hoover Institution [1999-]; author, “The Moral Child” [1990], “Greater Expectations: Overcoming the Culture of Indulgence⦔ [1995], “The Path to Purpose” [2008], “Failing Liberty 101⦔ [2011] |
Deborah Fitts | 1963 | Journalist & preservationist; proponent of safeguarding Civil War battlefields; reporter, Civil War News [1989-92], director of communications, Civil War Preservation Trust [1992-94] |
John Burt Foster Jr. | 1963 | Professor, comparative literature and modern fiction, George Mason; author, “A Nietzschean Current in Literary Modernism” [1981, “Nabokov’s Art Memory and European Modernism” [1993], “Transnational Tolstoy: Between the West & the World” [2013 |
Richard Nash Gould | 1963 | Architect; one of six New York designers and artists credited with the “Tribute in Light” — twin beams of light illuminated annually to commemorate those lost in the September 11, 2001 World Trade Center terrorist attacks. |
Paul Hoffman | 1963 | Cox, US Olympic 8+ rowing team [1968, ’72], silver medalist [1972] |
Tracy Kidder | 1963 | Author; “Soul of the new Machine” [1981], winner, Pulitzer Prize & American Book Award [1982]; “Home Town” [1999]; “Mountains Beyond Mountains: One Doctor’s Quest to Heal the World” [2003] |
Paul Monette | 1963 | Writer; poet; AIDS activist; author, “Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story” [2004], winner, National Book Award |
John L. Morrison | 1963 | US Olympic Hockey Team [1968] |
Richard S. Pechter | 1963 | Investment banker, Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette [1969-99]; Tony-award winning producer, “Titanic: the Musical” [1997] |
Nicholas Prahl | 1963 | National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration Commissioned Corps [1970-2004], Rear Admiral & director, NOAA Atlantic & Pacific Marine Centers [1999-2004] |
Henry Richardson | 1963 | City & regional planner & architect; professor of architecture & chair, department of architecture, Cornell; developer of plans for new cities in Africa, including Nasco Town, Lagos, Nigeria, Bui, Ghana; recipient, Faculty Innovation in Teaching Award, Cornell [2001] |
Nicholas Z. “Nick” Scoville | 1963 | Professor of astronomy, Caltech [1986-]; director, Owens Valley Radio Observatory [[1986-96]; research focused on assembly & evolution of galaxies in the early universe |
Jon Turk | 1963 | Sea kayak adventurer & author focused on spiritual quests; author, “Cold Oceans” [1998], “In the Wake of Jomon” [2005], “The Raven’s Gift” [2010] |
Louis Wiley Jr. | 1963 | Television documentarian [1970-]; series editor, WGBH documentary series “World” [1977-83], executive editor, WGBH “Frontline” series [1983-92, 1999-2009], recipient of multiple Emmy, DuPont-Columbia, Pulitzer and other awards |
Tadataka “Tachi” Yamada | 1963 | Physician, pharmaceutical executive, global healthcare funder; gastroenterologist; chair, Department of Internal Medicine, Michigan Medical School, & physician-in-chief, Michigan Medical Center [-1996]; president, American Gastroenterological Association; GlaxoSmithKline R&D chairman [1999-2005]; president, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Global Health Programs [2006-11]; chief medical and scientific officer & later president, Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. [2011-]; coauthor, “The Textbook of Gastroenterology” [1991 et seq.]; recipient, Friedenwald Medal [2003], KBE [2007] |
Mohamed Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke | 1964 | Chair, Somali Committee for Popular Democracy [2001-]; president, United Somali Democratic Union |
Susan Almy | 1964 | Anthropologist & politician; specialist in social structures & nutrition in the developing world; Democratic member, New Hampshire House of Representatives [1996-], chair, House Ways & Means Committee |
Richard H. Brodhead | 1964 | Chair, Yale English Department [1985-93], dean, Yale College [1993-2004]; President, Duke University [2004-] |
Stephen B. Burbank | 1964 | Professor, University of Pennsylvania Law School [1979-]; expert on federal court rulemaking, interjurisdictional preclusion, judicial independence & accountability; chair, American Academy of Political & Social Science [2004-07]; chair, American Judicature Society Editorial Committee [2000-08]; coauthor, “Judicial Independence at the Crossroads…” [2002] |
George W. Bush | 1964 | Managing general partner, Texas Rangers baseball team [1989-94]; Governor of Texas [1995-2000]; 43rd President of the United States [2001-2009] |
Robert J. Dieter | 1964 | Law professor, University of Colorado [1979-2005], director, Legal Aid Clinic; author, “Colorado Criminal Practice & Procedure” [1996]; ambassador to Belize [2005-09] |
Jeffrey Garten | 1964 | Managing director, Lehman Brothers [1984-87], the Blackstone Group [1992-93]; under secretary of commerce for international trade [1993-95]; dean, Yale School of Management [1995-2005]; columnist, Business Week [1997-2005]; author, “A Cold Peace: America, Japan, Germany and the Struggle for Supremacy” [1992], “The Politics of Fortune” [2002] |
José Gonzalez-Inclan | 1964 | Squash National Jr. Singles Champion [1965]; Harvard All-American in squash [1966, -67, -68] |
Clay Johnson III | 1964 | Appointments secretary/chief of staff to Texas Governor George W. Bush [1995-2000]; assistant to the president for personnel [2000-2003]; deputy director, U.S. Office of Management & Budget [2003-09] |
James B. Lockhart III | 1964 | Deputy director & CEO, Social Security Administration [2002-2006]; director, Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight [2006-2009]; director, Federal Housing Finance Agency [2008-09] |
Seth Mydans | 1964 | Foreign correspondent; New York Times Southeast Asia correspondent & the International Herald Tribune [1996-]; recipient, Shorenstein Journalism Award [2009] |
Peter Smith | 1964 | Lt. Governor of Vermont [1983-86], Republican congressman [1988-90]; founding president, Community College of Vermont [1970-]; founding president, University of California, Monterey Bay [1995-2005]; assistant director general for education, UNESCO [2005-07] |
Laura Stevenson | 1964 | Cultural historian & writer of fiction; author “Praise & Paradox: Merchants & Craftsmen in Elizabethan Popular Literature⦔ [1974], “Happily After All” [1993], “Castle in the Wind” [2003], “Return in Kind” [2010] |
Gwyneth Walker | 1964 | Composer for orchestra, chorus & chamber ensemble; faculty, Oberlin College Conservatory [1976-79]; recipient, Vermont Arts Council Lifetime Achievement Award [2000] |
Dick Wolf | 1964 | Emmy Award-winning creator, producer & writer, “Miami Vice” [1984-89], “Law and Order” [1990-2010], television’s 2nd longest-running drama series; producer, “Chicago P.D.” [2013], Academy Award-winning documentary “Twin Towers” [2003] |
W. Benjamin Barker | 1965 | Hardware engineer & team member for development of ARPANET [1969], precursor to the Internet |
Mary Wilkes Eubanks | 1965 | Anthropologist & botanist; senior research scientist, Duke University; researcher on maize origin, evolution & improvement; author, “Corn in Clay: Paleoethnobotany in Pre-Columbian Art” [1999]; president, Sun Dance Genetics [2002-]; recipient, Fuess Award [2000] |
Eugen Indjic | 1965 | Concert pianist; 2nd prize, International Arthur Rubenstein Competition [1974]; artist-in-residence, Prague Symphony [2013] |
Jeffrey K. MacNelly | 1965 | Cartoonist; creator of the comic strip “Shoe” [1977]; recipient Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartoons [1972, -78 & -85], Fuess Award [1979], Overseas Press Club Thomas Nast Award [1985] for cartoons on international affairs |
Mark H. Moore | 1965 | Professor, criminal justice policy, Kennedy School, Harvard [1979-2004]; professor & former chair, Hauser Center for Non-profits, Kennedy School [2004-] |
Kevin Rafferty | 1965 | Documentary filmmaker; producer/director, The Atomic Café” [1982]; cinematographer, “Roger & Me” [1989], “The War Room” [1993], “Harvard Beats Yale 29:29” [2008] |
John M. “Jock” Reynolds | 1965 | Artist & museum director; director, Addison Gallery of American Art [1989-98], Yale University Art Gallery [1998-] |
David Roe | 1965 | Rhodes Scholar [1969-70]; attorney specializing in environmental law & advocacy; West Coast attorney, Environmental Defense Fund [ca.1980s]; primary author, California Proposition 65 [1985-88] re product safety and labeling; author, “Dynamos & Virgins” [1984] |
Alexander Sanger | 1965 | President, Planned Parenthood of New York [1991-2000]; chair, International Planned Parenthood Council [2000-]; author, Beyond Choice: Reproductive Freedom in the 21st Century [2004] |
Donald Shepard | 1965 | Health economist; professor, Schneider Institutes for Health Policy, Heller School, Brandeis; researcher on substance abuse treatment, the economic impacts of hunger; disease control in developing countries, etc. |
Peter Vanderwarker | 1965 | Architectural & editorial photographer; recipient, Institute Honors, American Institute of Architects [1992] |
Douglas P. Woodlock | 1965 | US District Court judge, District of Massachusetts [1986-]; authority on federal courthouse design; author, “The Peculiar Embarrassment: an Architectural History of Federal Courts in Massachusetts” [1989] |
Michael M. Wood | 1965 | US Ambassador to Sweden [2006-09] |
Blakeman Hazzard “Blake” Allen | 1966 | Director, Pakistani Educational Leadership Project [2006-]; coordinator, College of Graduate Studies, Plymouth State University |
Daniel R. Bowler | 1966 | Rear admiral; surface warfare officer; commandant, National War College [1999-2000] |
Peter V.R. Franchot | 1966 | Staff director, Representative Edward J. Markey [1980-86]; Democratic member, Maryland House of Delegates [1987-2007]; Comptroller of Maryland [2007-]; recipient, Association of Government Accountants, Distinguished Leadership Award [2008] |
David S. Goldstein | 1966 | Medical researcher; senior investigator, NIH; founding director, Clinical Neurocardiology Section, NIH [1990-]; author, “The Autonomic Nervous System” [2001], “Sources & Significance of Plasma Levels of Catecholsâ¦in Humans” [2003], “Adrenaline & the Inner World⦔ [2006]; recipient, Yale’s Angier Prize, NIH Distinguished Clinical Teacher Award |
John Hilley | 1966 | Economist; staff director, US Senate Budget Committee [1985-91]; chief of staff, Senate Majority Leader [1991-95]; White House director of legislative affairs [1997-]; chairman/CEO, NASDAQ-AMEX International [1999-]; author, “The Challenge of Legislation: Bipartisanship in a Partisan World” [2007] |
William E. “Bill” Littlefield Jr. | 1966 | Journalist, sports commentator; host, NPR “Only a Game” [1993-] |
David Ludden | 1966 | Historian, specialist South Asian development & globalization; professor & chair, Department of History, NYU [2007-]; author, “Peasant History in South India” [1985], “An Agrarian History of South Asia” [1999], “India & South Asia: A Short History” [2002, -12]; recipient, Fulbright Fellowship [2009] |
Peter Purdue | 1966 | Historian, specialist in modern Chinese history; professor, MIT [1994-]; author, “China Marches West: The Qing Conquest of Central Eurasia” [2005]; recipient, MIT’s Levitan Prize [1992] |
Eric Redman | 1966 | Rhodes Scholar [1970-71]; staffer, US Senator Warren Magnuson [ca.1971]; author, “The Dance of Legislation” [1973, 2000] |
Lucy Thomson | 1966 | Attorney & information technology security expert; editor, American Bar Association “Data Breach & Encryption Handbook” [2011]; chair, ABA Section for Science & Technology Law [2012]; winner, National Women’s Intercollegiate Sailing Championship [1967] |
Anthony Alofsin | 1967 | Architect & architectural historian; architecture professor, U Texas; author, “Frank Lloyd Wright: the Lost Years” [2006][AIA monograph award winner], “When Buildings Speak: Architecture as Language in the Habsburg Empire and its Aftermath” [2007] |
Julia Alvarez | 1967 | Prolific novelist, poet & essayist, including: “How the Garcia Girls Lost their Accents” [1991], “In a Time of Butterflies” [1994], “Once Upon A Quinceaâera” [2007] |
Richard J. Balfour | 1967 | Rhodes Scholar [1971-74]; Toronto attorney, specialist in corporate law, IPOs |
Joseph V. Canavagh Jr. | 1967 | All-American hockey player, Harvard [1969, -70 & -71]; US Ice Hockey Hall of Fame [1994] |
Andre Maurice Davis | 1967 | Judge, Maryland District Court & Circuit Court [1987-95]; US District Court for Maryland [1995-09], US 4th Circuit Court of Appeals judge [2009-]; recipient, Benjamin A Cardin Public Service Award [2008] |
Carroll Dunham | 1967 | Painter & printmaker |
Ford M. Fraker | 1967 | Investment banker & diplomat; US Ambassador to Saudi Arabia [2007-09]; president, Middle East Policy Council [2013-] |
Anthony Grafton | 1967 | Historian & essayist; history professor, Princeton [1975-]; chair, Council of the Humanities, Princeton [2002-2006]; author, “Defenders of the Text: The Traditions of Scholarship in the Age of Science” [1991], “What Was History…” [2007]; recipient, Balzan Prize [2002], Mellon Foundation Distinguished Achievement Award [2004] |
Alex Harris | 1967 | Photographer; author, “The Old Ones of New Mexico” [1973], “Red White Blue & God Bless You” [1992]; founder, Duke University Center for Documentary Studies [1989-], coauthor “Why We Are Here: Mobile & the Spirit of a Southern City” [2012] |
Ann McKeever Hatch | 1967 | Founder & director, Capp Street art installations project, San Francisco [1983-]; founder & board chair, Oxbow School, Napa, CA, high-school arts immersion program [1997-2005]; chair, Board of Trustees, California College of the Art [2005-09] |
Mel Kendrick | 1967 | Sculptor |
Wade Saunders | 1967 | Sculptor & art critique |
Thomas Schiavoni | 1967 | Founder & director, Children’s Law Center of Massachusetts [1977-]; recipient, Fuess Award [1978] |
Kenny Blake | 1968 | Jazz saxophone player, leader, 1990s Pittsburgh “Steel Town” fusion sound |
Dorothy L. Cheney | 1968 | Primate researcher, baboon social behavior & language; biology professor, U Pennsylvania; coauthor, “Baboon Metaphysics” [2007] |
Martin W. Daly | 1968 | Historian, especially Egypt & the Sudan; editor, “The Cambridge History of Egypt…1517-2000” [1999]; author, “Darfur’s Sorrow: A History” [2007], “Imperial Executor: Sir William Luce & the British Empire in the Middle East” [2014] |
Peter Evans | 1968 | Actor, known for award-winning performances in plays by David Mamet, Tom Stoppard, Arthur Miller [ca.1975-85] |
Philip F. Gura | 1968 | Historian, literary critic & musicologist; professor, American History & Culture, UNC Chapel Hill; author, “Theology, Literature & the New England Renaissance” [1981], “A Glimpse of Sion’s Glory: Puritan Radicalism in New England⦔ [1984], “America’s Instrument: The Banjo in the 19th Century” [1999], “Transcendentalism: A History” [2007]; Distinguished Scholar Award, Modern Language Association [2008] |
Thomas H. Jackson | 1968 | Attorney, expert on bankruptcy law; dean, University of Virginia School of Law [1988-91]; president, University of Rochester [1994-2005] |
David Ensor | 1969 | Broadcast journalist, NPR [1975-80]; ABC diplomatic correspondent [1980-98]; CNN national security correspondent [1998-]; appointed director, Voice of America [2011-] |
Wendy Ewald | 1969 | Photographer; pioneer in photography collaborations with children around the world; founder, Literacy through Photography Program [1990]; Fellow, Duke Center for Documentary Studies; recipient, Lyndhurst Prize [1986], MacArthur Fellowship [1992]; “Wendy Ewald: Secret Games, Collaborative Works with Children 1969â1999” [2000]; PA Alumni Award of Distinction, 2012 |
Thomas Mesereau | 1969 | Criminal defense attorney, best known for defense of Michael Jackson [2005] |
James Shannon | 1969 | Democratic congressman from Massachusetts [1979-85]; Massachusetts Attorney General [1987-91]; recipient, Fuess Award [1983] |
Mark Stevens | 1969 | Art critic; coauthor, “de Kooning: An American Master” winner, Pulitzer Prize for biography [2005] |
Evan W. Thomas III | 1969 | Journalist & biographer; assistant managing editor, Newsweek [1991-]; author, “The Man to See: The Life of Edward Bennett Williams” [1991], “Robert Kennedy” [2000], “John Paul Jones” [2003], “Ike’s Bluff: President Eisenhower’s Secret Battle to Save the World” [2012]; recipient, National Magazine Award [1998] |
1970s | ||
Name | Class | Areas of Note |
Alex Donner | 1970 | New York band leader & cabaret singer |
E. Grant Gibbons | 1970 | Rhodes Scholar [1974-76]; member, Bermuda Parliament [1994-]; Minister of Finance [1995-98], then shadow Minister of Finance; chairman, Public Accounts Committee [1998-2006]; Leader, United Bermuda Party [2001-06]; Minister of Education & Economic Development [2012-] |
James B. Steinberg | 1970 | Foreign policy analyst & political advisor; director, State Dept. policy planning staff [1994-96]; deputy national security advisor [1997-2001]; director, foreign policy studies, Brookings Institution [2001-2005]; dean, Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs [2005-08]; foreign policy advisor to presidential candidate Barack Obama [2008]; deputy secretary of state [2009-11]; dean, Maxwell School of Citizenship & Public Affairs, Syracuse University [2011-] |
Theodore B. Thorndike | 1970 | Member, US National & Olympic hockey teams [1975-76] |
Sandra “Sandy” Urie | 1970 | Chairman & CEO, Cambridge Associates [2001-], investment advisors to foundations & endowments; recipient, Women Who Make A Difference Award; [2005], National Council for Research on Women, 100 Women in Hedge Funds [2010] |
William L. Ury | 1970 | Anthropologist, peace negotiator; coauthor “Getting to Yes⦔ [1981]; cofounder, Harvard Negotiation Project, Harvard Law School |
Charles van der Horst | 1970 | AIDS researcher & activist; professor of medicine, UNC Chapel Hill; director, AIDS Clinical Trials Unit, Chapel Hill Hospital [1989-] |
Ernie Adams | 1971 | National Football League coach [1975-]; as research director, New England Patriots [2000-], instrumental in Super Bowl wins in 2001, 2003, 2004, & the Patriot’s 16-0 2007 season |
Bill Belichick | 1971 | National Football League coach [1975-]; head coach, Cleveland Browns [1985-90], head coach, New England Patriots [2000-], with a perfect 16-0 season in 2007 & Super Bowl wins in 2001, 2003, 2004, 2014, and 2016; named NFL Coach of the Year 2003, 2007, 2010 |
John E. “Jeb” Bush | 1971 | Governor of Florida [1999-2007] |
Richard M. Cashin Jr. | 1971 | Member, Harvard 8+ crew, winner, Thames Challenge Cup, Henley [1972] & national championship [1974]; member, US Men’s Olympic Crew Team [1976, 1980]; member, Charles River Rowling Association 8+, winner Grand Challenge Cup, Henley [1980] |
Lincoln Chafee | 1971 | Mayor of Warwick, Rhode Island [1992-99]; Republican US senator [1999-2007]; independent RI Governor [2011-] |
David Cuthell Jr. | 1971 | Executive director, Institute for Turkish Studies, School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University [2005-11] |
Frank duPont | 1971 | Documentary filmmaker; cofounder, Winton/duPont Films [1988-]; specialist in video narratives portraying institutions and individuals; executive producer & director, Medal of Honor “Portraits of Valor” [2009] |
Paul J. Finnegan | 1971 | Private equity investor; cofounder & co-CEO, Madison Dearborn Partners, Chicago [1992-] |
Thomas C. Foley | 1971 | Ambassador to Ireland [2006-09] |
Jameson French | 1971 | President/CEO, Northland Forest Products, specialty hardwoods producer; chair, Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests [1995-98]; chair, Hardwood Trade Federation [-2013]; chair, Forest Stewardship Council |
Peter R. Halley | 1971 | Painter of geometric abstractions; art critic; cofounder, Index Magazine [1996-]; director, graduate studies in painting & printmaking, Yale School of Art [2001-] |
Susan McCouch | 1971 | Plant geneticist specializing in increasing rice yields; International Rice Research Institute [1990-95]; professor, plant breeding & genetics, Cornell [1995-]; recipient, Thai Golden Sickle Award [2007] |
Rick Prelinger | 1971 | Film archivist, filmmaker, cultural historian & advocate for open access to historical materials; founder, Prelinger Archives [1983], partially acquired by the Library of Congress [2002] |
Pierce Rafferty | 1971 | Film archivist & documentary filmmaker; cofounder, Petrified Films, Inc. [1984]; producer/director “The Atomic Café” [1982] |
David Winton | 1971 | Documentary filmmaker; cofounder, Winton/duPont Films [1988]; producer/director, “Code Rush” [2000] |
H. G. “Buzz” Bissinger | 1972 | Journalist, sportswriter, author; recipient, Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting [1987]; author, “Friday Night Lights” [1988], “A Prayer for the City” [1998], “Three Nights in August” [2005] |
Daniel G. Bolduc | 1972 | Member, US National & Olympic hockey teams [1975-76]; NHL player, Detroit Red Wings, Calgary Flames [1978-84] |
Marna Parke Borgstrom | 1972 | President/CEO, Yale New Haven Hospital & YNH Health System [2007-]; lecturer, Yale School of Public Health |
George Church | 1972 | Molecular geneticist; co-developer, genomic sequencing & the Human Genome Project [1984]; inventor, molecular multiplexing and tags, DNA array synthesizers; initiator, Personal Genome Project & synthetic biology; director, US Dept. of Energy Center on Bioenergy & NIH Center of Excellence in Genomic Science; PA Alumni Award of Distinction, 2013 |
Nicholas J. Hadley | 1972 | Physicist; professor of high-energy physics, University of Maryland; member, Zero Experiment team that discovered the top quark, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory [2007] |
John Hess | 1972 | Oil industry executive; CEO, Hess Corporation [1995-], chairman [1995-2013] |
Maud Lavin | 1972 | Art & cultural historian; author, “The Weimar Photomontages of Hannah Hoch” [1993], “Clear New World: Culture, Politics & Graphic Design” [2001], “Push Comes to Shove: New Images of Aggressive Women” [2010] |
Toby Lineaweaver | 1972 | Executive director, Penikese Island School, Cape Cod, Mass., for at-risk boys and juvenile felons [1996-2011] |
S. Neil MacFarlane | 1972 | Rhodes Scholar [1976-77]; professor of government / international relations, U Virginia, Queen’s College, Canada, Oxford [1984-]; head, Department of Politics & International relations, Oxford [2005-10]; expert on international security, humanitarian aid & peacekeeping; coauthor, “Human Security & the UN” [2006] |
Bruce Poliquin | 1972 | State Treasurer, Maine [2011-2013]; U.S. Representative, Maine 2nd district [2015] |
Alexandra “Sandy” Reynolds-Wasco | 1972 | Set-decorator working with film directors Quentin Tarantino, Wes Anderson et al; “Pulp Fiction” [1994], “The Royal Tenenbaums” [2001], “Inglourious Basterds” [2009] |
Doug Suisman | 1972 | Architect & urban planner, specializing in regional & transportation planning; author, “The Arc: A formal Structure for a Palestinian State” [2005] |
Jonathan B. Tucker | 1972 | Specialist in chemical & biological weapons issues; senior fellow, James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Monterey Institute of International Studies [1996-2011]; author, “Biosecurity: Limiting Terrorist Access to Deadly Pathogens” [2003] & “War of Nerves: Chemical Warfare from World War I to Al-Qaeda” [2006] |
Michael Beschloss | 1973 | Historian, specialist in the American presidency; author, “Eisenhower: A Centennial Life [1990], “The Conquerors: Roosevelt & Truman” [2002], “Presidential Courage: Brave Leaders and How they Changed America” [2007]; television analyst; recipient, Emmy Award [2005] for “Decisions that Shook the World” |
Kenneth J. Cooper | 1973 | Journalist; recipient, Pulitzer Prize [1984] as a Boston Globe reporter; Washington Post Southeast Asia correspondent; Boston Globe National Editor [2001-2005] |
Christopher Kimball | 1973 | President, California Lutheran University [2008-] |
Guy Nordenson | 1973 | Structural engineer; professor, Princeton School of Architecture [1995-]; NYC Public Design Commission [2006-2015]; author, “Tall Buildings” [2003], “WTC Emergency Building Damage Assessment” [2004]; “Seven Structural Engineers” (2008) “On the Water: Palisade Bay” [2010]; “Patterns and Structures” [2010] “Reading Structures” (2016) |
William F. Owen Jr. | 1973 | Physician; specialist in kidney disease & transplantation; chancellor, University of Tennessee Health Science Center [2005-07]; president, University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey [2007-12]; CEO, Sidra Medical Research Center, Qatar [2012-] |
Elisabeth Robert | 1973 | President/CEO, Vermont Teddy Bear Company [1996-2007], CEO, Terry Precision Cycling [2009-] |
Cathy von Klemperer Utzschneider | 1973 | 7-time US National Masters Cross Country champion; owner, MOVE [1993-], coaching for women |
Christopher Willett | 1973 | Oncologist; specialist in gastrointestinal cancers; chair, Department of Radiation Oncology, Duke University Medical Center |
Christopher Agee | 1974 | Poet & editor based in Northern Ireland; author of “New Hampshire Woods” [1992], “First Light” [2003]; founder & editor, “Irish Pages” biannual literary journal [2002-] |
Bill Berkeley | 1974 | Foreign correspondent; author, “The Graves Are Not Yet Full: Race, Tribe & Power in the Heart of Africa” [2002]; adjunct professor, Columbia School of International & Public Affairs [2000-] |
Bill Cunliffe | 1974 | Jazz pianist, band leader, arranger & composer; winner, Thelonious Monk Jazz Competition [1989], Grammy Award [2010] |
Dana Delany | 1974 | Movie & television actress, including “China Beach” [1988-91], “Kidnapped” [2006-07], “Desperate Housewives” [2007-12]; “Body of Proof” [2011-13]; recipient, Emmy Award [1989, 1992], Prism Award [2009] |
Karl Kirchwey | 1974 | Writer; director of Creative Writing, Bryn Mawr [2000-10]; director, American Academy in Rome [2010-13]; author, “The Engrafted Word” [1998], “The Happiness of this World” [2007] |
Gary Lee | 1974 | Foreign correspondent, travel writer, Washington Post; recipient, Lowell Thomas Award [2002] |
William M. Lewis Jr. | 1974 | Managing director & co-chair, investment banking, Lazard Ltd [2004-]; treasurer, National Urban League; national chairman, A Better Chance [1991-95]; chair, NAACP Legal Defense Fund; recipient, NAACP National Equal Justice Award |
Jonathan Meath | 1974 | Children’s television producer, “Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?” [1991-96], recipient, Peabody Award for Excellence [1993], Emmy Award [1995]; “ZOOM” [1999-2005]; “The Dot”
, recipient, George Foster Peabody Award [1993], Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Children’s Video [2005] |
Sara Nelson | 1974 | Publishing industry executive, book reviewer & commentator; editor-in-chief, Publishers Weekly [2005-09]; editorial director, Amazon Books [2012-]; author, “So Many Books, So Little Time” [2003] |
Alexander Stille | 1974 | Journalist; author, “Five Italian Jewish Families Under Fascism” [1992], “Excellent Cadavers: the Mafia⦔ [1995], “The Future of the Past” [2003] |
Jonathan Alter | 1975 | Journalist with Newsweek [1983-2011], senior editor & columnist [1991-]; television political commentator; author, “The Defining Moment: FDR’s Hundred Days” [2006], “The Promise” President Obama, Year One [2010] |
Ian Baker | 1975 | Himalayan explorer; scholar of Buddhism, photographer; author, “The Heart of the World: A Journey to Tibet’s Lost Paradise” [2006] |
Tom Chapin | 1975 | Jazz sax player, band leader, composer [ca.1975-98] |
Bill Kavanagh | 1975 | Documentary filmmaker & television producer; producer, “World in Focus,” “Manhattan Connection” & “Story Café” TV series; producer/director, “Brick by Brick: A Civil Rights Story” [2007] |
Frank Lavin | 1975 | Ambassador to Singapore [2001-2005]; Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade [2005-2007] |
Dana Mackenzie | 1975 | Mathematician & writer on science and math; author, “The Universe of Zero Words” [2012], winner, Joint Policy Board for Mathematics Communications Award [2012] |
Peter Sellars | 1975 | Opera & stage director; recipient, MacArthur Award [1983], Lillian Gish Award [2005]; PA Alumni Award of Distinction, 2012 |
Hope Barnes | 1976 | Captain, U Pennsylvania US Championship Women’s Rowing Team [1980]; member, US Women’s Olympic Rowing Team [1980, 1984]; namesake, Hope Barnes Memorial Fellowship in Medicinal Chemistry, U Washington, & Hope Barnes Award, Penn [1991] |
Susan Chira | 1976 | Journalist, New York Times: chief, Tokyo bureau [1983-89], foreign editor [2004-11], assistant managing editor [2011-] |
Christian Clemenson | 1976 | Actor; winner, Emmy Award, “Boston Legal” [2006] |
Tim Draper | 1976 | Venture capitalist, founder and managing direct, Draper Fisher Jurvetson; founder, BizWorld Foundation, Draper University of Heroes |
Sarah Mleczko Kasten | 1976 | Standout in field hockey, basketball, squash & lacrosse; 1st woman inducted into Harvard’s Varsity Club Hall of Fame [1996] |
Dave Silk | 1976 | All-New England hockey player, Boston University; NCAA Championship [1978]; member, “Miracle on Ice” US Olympic Hockey Team, Gold Medal winners [1980]; NHL player [1980-86] |
Peggy Stern | 1976 | Film producer & director; recipient, Academy Award, best animated short, “The Moon & the Son: an Imagined Conversation” [2006] |
Heather White | 1976 | Founder & former executive director, Verité [1995-2005], NGO monitoring factory conditions & child labor |
Francesca Woodman | 1976 | Photographer, active late 1970s, critically acclaimed since |
William D. Cohan | 1977 | Journalist specializing in financial affairs; author “The Last Tycoons” [2007], named Financial Times Business Book of the Year, “House of Cards” [2009] |
Charles M. Elson | 1977 | Professor & director, Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance, University of Delaware [2001-]; vice chairman, ABA Business Law Section, Committee on Corporate Governance |
Juan Enriquez | 1977 | CEO, Urban Development Corporation, Mexico City [1988-93]; Chiapas cease-fire negotiator [1994]; senior research fellow, then founding director, Harvard Business School Life Science Project [1996-]; chair/CEO, Biotechonomy [2003-]; author, “As the Future Catches You…” [2001], “The US: Polarization…and Our Future” [2005] |
Robert T. “Bobby” Farrelly | 1977 | Of Farrelly Brothers, screenwriters & directors of comedies including “There’s Something About Mary” [1998], “The Heartbreak Kid” [2007] |
Mimi Polk Gitlin | 1977 | Feature film producer, including “Thelma & Louise” [1991], “The Brown Version” [1994], “Amazing Grace” [2000] |
Susanna A. Jones | 1977 | Head, Ethel Walker School [1999-2007], Head, Holton-Arms School [2007-] |
John Barres | 1978 | Chancellor, Catholic Diocese of Wilmington [2000-2009], Bishop of Allentown [2009-] |
Lucy Schulte Danziger | 1978 | Journalist; founding managing editor, 7 Days weekly [1990-]; founding editor, Condé Nast Sports & Fitness for Women [1998-]; editor-in-chief, Self magazine [2003-]; president, American Society of Magazine Editors [2013-] |
Martha Hill Gaskill | 1978 | Paralympics Giant Slalom bronze medalist [1988] |
Byung-Kook Kim | 1978 | Political scientist & governmental advisor; professor of political science, Korea University; founder, Korea’s East Asia Institute [2002-]; member, Presidential Commission on Policy Planning; national security advisor [2008-]; author, “The Dynamics of National Division & Revolution: the political economy of Korea & Mexico” [1994], “Consolidating Democracy in South Korea” [2000], “Power & Security in Northeast Asia” [2007] |
Christopher J.W.B. Leggett | 1978 | Interventional cardiologist, specializing in treatment of coronary & vascular diseases [1993-] |
Seth Lloyd | 1978 | Marshall Scholar [1983-84; mechanical engineering professor, MIT [1994-]; specialist in design of quantum computers, quantum communication systems; director, Center for Extreme Quantum Information Theory; author, “Programming the Universe” [2006] |
Matthew Salinger | 1978 | Actor, “Revenge of the Nerds” [1984], “Captain America” [1992], “What Dreams May Come” [1998]; stage producer, “The Syringa Tree” [2000], winner, Drama Desk Award [2001] |
Stacy Schiff | 1978 | Biographer; “Vera⦔ [1999], winner, Pulitzer Prize [2000]; “A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America” [2005], winner, George Washington Book Prize [2006]; PA Alumni Award of Distinction, 2012 |
Robert Smythe | 1978 | Founder & artistic director, Mum Puppettheatre [1998-2008]; recipient, Guggenheim Fellowship [1997-] |
James Spader | 1978 | Screen & television actor; winner, Best Actor Award, Cannes Film Festival [1989] for “Sex, Lies & Videotape”; Emmy Award, “Boston Legal” [2005, 2007] |
Jeffrey Swartz | 1978 | COO, Timberland [1991-98], President & CEO [1998-2011]; exemplar & advocate for corporate social responsibility |
Carroll Bogert | 1979 | Southeast Asia correspondent, Newsweek [1986-88], Moscow correspondent [1988-93], editor & international correspondent [1993-]; deputy executive director, Human Rights Watch [2003-] |
Helen Epstein | 1979 | Biologist, AIDS researcher, public health journalist; author, “The Invisible Cure: Why We Are Losing the Fight Against AIDS in Africa” [2008] |
Ruth Harlow | 1979 | Attorney; civil rights advocate, lead attorney before the Supreme Court in Lawrence v. Texas [2003]; National Law Journal, Lawyer of the Year [2003] |
Rachael Horovitz | 1979 | Film producer, executive producer, “Grey Gardens” [2009], recipient, multiple Emmy Awards [2009] |
John F. Kennedy Jr. | 1979 | Founder & editor-in-chief, George magazine [1995-99] |
Brian Linse | 1979 | Movie producer & liberal blogger; producer/executive producer “Den of Lions” [2003], “Callback” [2005], “Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead” [2007], voted one of 10 best American films of 2007 |
Ranie Crowley Pearce | 1979 | Marathon swimmer, Straights of Gibraltar [2010], English Channel [2011], Catalina Channel [2013] |
Neil Sheehy | 1979 | NHL hockey defenseman, Calgary Flames, Washington Capitals, et al [1983-92]; players’ agent |
Dan Zanes | 1979 | Recording artist; founding member, Del Fuegos band [1981-89]; “Catch That Train!” Grammy Award winner, best musical album for children [2007] |
1980s | ||
Name | Class | Areas of Note |
Jonathan S. Adelstein | 1980 | Commissioner, Federal Communications Commission [2002-2009]; rural utilities commissioner, US Department of Agriculture [2009-12] |
Michael Ain | 1980 | Johns Hopkins orthopedic surgeon specializing in skeletal dysplasia, especially achondroplasia [dwarfism] |
Ian Bond | 1980 | Diplomat; deputy head of mission, UK Delegation to the Organization for Security & Co-operation in Europe [2000-2004]; UK ambassador to Latvia [2005-07]; counselor, foreign security & policy group, British Embassy, Washington [2007-12] |
Sarah Chayes | 1980 | Foreign correspondent, National Public Radio [1996-2002]; founder, Arghand, a market-based production cooperative in Afghanistan [2005]; author, “The Punishment of Virtue: Inside Afghanistan After the Taliban” [2006]; senior associate, SE Asia Program, Carnegie Endowment for World Peace; recipient, Fuess Award [2006] |
Maro Chermayeff | 1980 | Documentary filmmaker & producer; “The Kindness of Strangers” [1998], “Julliard” [2003], producer & director, PBS documentaries “Carrier” [2008] & “Circus” [2010]; founder & chair, MFA Program in Social Documentary Film, School of Visual Arts; recipient, Emmy Award [2008] |
Justin Cronin | 1980 | Novelist; recipient, PEN/Hemingway Award, Best Debut Fiction, for “Mary & O’Neil” [2002]; “The Passage” [2010], “The Twelve” [2012] |
William “Trey” Ellis | 1980 | Novelist, playwright, screenwriter & critic; “The New Black Aesthetic” [1989], “Tuskegee Airmen” [1996, 2007], “Right Here, Right Now” [1998] |
Jane Pratt | 1980 | Magazine editor & talk-show host; founding editor-in chief, Sassy & Jane magazines [ca.1985-2005] |
Sally Van Doren | 1980 | Poet; recipient, American Academy of Poets’ Walt Whitman Award for “Sex at Noon Taxes” [2007] |
Willow Bay | 1981 | Journalist; co-anchor, “NBA Inside Stuff” [1991-98], “Good Morning America Sunday” [1994-99] CNN anchor [-2000]; senior editor, Huffington Post [2007-] |
Jim Herberich | 1981 | Driver, US Olympic Bobsled Team [1988, -94, -98]; secretary, US Bobsled & Skeleton Federation [2002-05] |
Adam Namm | 1981 | Diplomat, US Foreign Service [1987-], ambassador to Ecuador [2012-] |
Christina Fink | 1982 | Anthropologist & activist on behalf of human rights in Burma; author “Living Silence: Burma Under Military Rule” [2001]; professor, Elliott School of International Affairs, GW University [2011-] |
Gordon Goldstein | 1982 | Director of Security Council and Nonproliferation Affairs, UN Association; author, “Lessons in Disaster: McGeorge Bundy & the Path to War in Vietnam” [2008] |
Brian Henson | 1982 | Puppeteer; chairman, director & producer, Jim Henson Company; recipient, Emmy Award [1991, ’92, ’98] |
Devin Mahony | 1982 | Cox, Harvard Men’s Varsity Heavyweight Crew [1984-86], 1985 National Intercollegiate Champions & winner, Henley Grand Challenge Cup |
Ming Tsai | 1982 | Chef/Owner, Blue Ginger Restaurant [1998-]; television chef & host; cookbook author |
Yalda Tehranian-Uhls | 1982 | Movie producer; “The Arrival” [1996], “Tree’s Lounge” [1996], “Critical Care” [1997], “Permanent Midnight” [1998] |
Randolph B. “Randy” Wood | 1982 | Hockey player; All-American, Yale [1986]; NHL player, NY Islanders, et al [1986-97] |
Macky Alston | 1983 | Documentary filmmaker; “Family Name” [1997], “Questioning Faith: Confessions of a Seminarian” [2002], “The Killer Within” [2006], “Love Free or Die” [2012] |
David Keaton | 1983 | Mountain climber; youngest person to complete “Seven Summits” & “Fifty US Highpoints” [1995] |
Robert C. B. Long | 1983 | Screen & television writer, producer; “Cheers,” [1990-93], “George & Leo,” [1997-98] “Sullivan & Son” [2012-]; host, “Martini Shot” KCRW Los Angeles; contributor, SLATE, National Review |
Angela Lorenz | 1983 | Artist & author; creator of limited-edition artist’s books [1989-] |
Philip F. Messina | 1983 | Production designer, “Erin Brockovich” [2000], “Oceans Eleven”â¦Twelveâ¦Thirteen [2001, -04, -07], “The Hunger Games” [2012, -13] |
Roslyn “Bunny” Rea | 1983 | Sailor; international 470, double-handed racing dingy specialist; All-American in sailing at Northwestern; winner, North American Women’s Sailing Championships [1987] |
Warren Zanes | 1983 | Singer/songwriter; member, Del Fuegos band [1980s]; former vice president for education, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame; solo CDs “Memory Girls” [2003], “People that I’m Wrong For” [2006] |
Charles A. “Chas” Fagan | 1984 | Painter & sculptor, presidential portraitist; creator of Houston’s statue of George H. W. Bush [2004] & California’s statue of Ronald Reagan erected in the US Capital Statuary Hall [2009] |
Jody Greene | 1984 | Rhodes Scholar [1989-]; professor of literature & women’s studies, UC Santa Cruz; author, “The Trouble with Ownership: Literary Property & Authorial Liability⦔ [2005]; recipient, John Dizikes Teaching Award [2008] |
Katie McBride Puckett | 1984 | Skier; World Pro Tour [1990s], 6-time “24 Hours of Aspen” endurance event champion [1992-98] |
Rosanne Adderley | 1985 | Historian, specialist in the African Diaspora; associate professor, Tulane [2002-07], Vanderbilt [2007-]; author, “’New Negroes from Africa’: Slave Trade Abolition & Free African Settlement in the 19th Century Caribbean” [2006], recipient, Wesley-Logan Prize, American Historical Association [2007] |
Viva Ona Bartkus | 1985 | Rhodes Scholar [1989-]; management consultant, McKinsey & Co. [1993-03]; associate professor of management, Notre Dame [2003-]; author, “The Dynamic of Secession” [1999], coauthor, “Social Capital⦔ [2008] |
Julia Trotman Brady | 1985 | Captain, Harvard Sailing Team; voted Outstanding Woman Collegiate Sailor [1988]; member, US Olympic Sailing Team & winner, bronze medal, Euro Dingy Class [1992] |
Christopher A. Wray | 1985 | Attorney; assistant attorney general & chief, Department of Justice Criminal Division [2003-05] |
Amy Zegart | 1985 | Professor of public policy, expert on intelligence analysis and national security; co-director, Stanford’s Center for International Security And Cooperation [2011-], senior fellow associate director of academic affairs, Hoover Institution; author, “Flawed by Design” [1999], ”Spying Blind” [2007] |
Randall Batinkoff | 1986 | Film & television actor; “For Keeps” [1988], “School Ties” [1992] |
Jon Bernstein | 1986 | Member, Harvard national champion 8-man crew team [1989]; stroke & captain, Harvard heavyweight crew, winner Henley Ladies Challenge Plate [1990] |
Patrick Kennedy | 1986 | Democratic Rhode Island congressman [1995-2011]; health-care advocate; recipient, Society for Neuroscience, Public Service Award (2002), Leukemia and Lymphoma Foundation Congressional Honors Award |
Juan Mario Laserna | 1986 | Economist; general director of Public Credit, Colombia (1999 – 2002); director, Central Bank of Colombia [2005-09], member, Colombian Senate & chair, Human Rights Committee [2010-] |
Matt Mochary | 1986 | Documentary filmmaker; co-director, “Favela Rising” [2005], winner, best feature, International Documentary Association Awards [2005]; “The Gloves” [2008] |
Richard Chin | 1987 | Member, US National Squash Team [2006, 2007]; Olympic Committee Athlete Representative, US Squash Board of Directors [2004-12] |
Jason Fry | 1987 | Journalist and writer; editor & columnist, WSJ.com [1995-2008]; baseball blogger [2005-]; author, young readers series, “The Jupiter Pirates” [2013-] |
Janet McIntosh | 1987 | Marshall Scholar, Oxford [1991-93]; cultural anthropologist specializing in linguistic anthropology, focused on Africa; recipient, Walzer & Perlmutter Awards for Excellence in Teaching, Brandeis [2005, -06] |
Travis Metz | 1987 | Cox, Harvard Heavyweight Crew [1989-91], winners, Eastern Sprints [1990], Henley Ladies Plate Challenge Cup [1990], San Diego Crew Classic [1990, -91] |
Ed Ronan | 1987 | National Hockey League [1991-98]; with Stanley Cup-winning Montreal Canadiens [1993] |
Jamie Rosenberg | 1987 | Founder & president, Adopt-A-Classroom [1999], providing direct assistance to public school teachers and students |
Nicholas Beim | 1988 | Marshall Scholar, Oxford [1993-94] |
Chris Bischof | 1988 | Founder & principal, Eastside College Preparatory School, East Palo Alto, CA [1996-] |
David Goetsch | 1988 | Television writer/producer; “3rd Rock from the Sun” [1998-2000], “Game Day” [2004], “Big Bang Theory” [2007-14] |
Duncan Sheik | 1988 | Singer-songwriter, composer; “Barely Breathing” [1996]; composer, Broadway musical “Spring Awakening,” winner Tony Award for Best Score [2007] |
Scott Straus | 1988 | Professor of political science, University of Wisconsin; author, “The Order of Genocide: Power & War in Rwanda” [2006]; recipient, Distinguished Teaching Award [2009] |
Keith Flaherty | 1989 | Medical researcher focused on molecularly targeted therapies for cancer, especially melanoma; director, Developmental Therapeutics, Cancer Center, Massachusetts General Hospital |
Atticus Lish | 1989 | Novelist; recipient, PEN/Faulkner Award for “Preparation for the Next Life” [2014] |
Alexander Y. Walley | 1989 | Internist; assistant professor, BU School of Medicine; researcher on medical complications of drug use and addiction treatment |
1990s | ||
Name | Class | Areas of Note |
Jake Barton | 1990 | Founder and principal, Local Projects media design firm specializing in exhibitions & public spaces; designer, 9/11 Memorial Museum; firm recipient, Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award for interactive design [2013] |
John Berman | 1990 | ABC News reporter, writer & commentator [2001-12]; co-anchor, CNN Early Start [2012-]; recipient, with ABC colleagues, Edward R. Murrow Award [2004] |
Robin Hessman | 1990 | Television producer & documentary filmmaker; executive producer “Ulitsa Sezam” [Russian Sesame Street, 1995-99]; winner, Academy Award, Student Films [2004] for “Portrait of Boy; with Dog”; co-producer, PBS American Experience, “Tupperware!” & American Masters Series “Julia! America’s Favorite Chef” [2004]; producer, cinematographer & director, Peabody Award winning documentary “My Perestroika” [2010] |
Rahim Aga Khan | 1990 | Executive director, Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development, the world’s 2nd largest private, non-profit economic development foundation |
James Longley | 1990 | Documentary filmmaker; “Gaza Strip” [2002]; “Iraq in Fragments” [2006] nominated as best documentary, Cannes Film Festival; “Sari’s Mother” [2006], winner, Golden Gate Award, San Francisco Film Festival; MacArthur Fellowship [2009-14] |
Tony Pittman | 1990 | All-American Penn State cornerback [1994]; co-host, Penn State Football podcasts [2004-] |
Andy Frankenberger | 1991 | Professional poker player; winner, World Series of Poker [2011, 2012] |
Erik S. Kristensen | 1991 | Navy SEAL; killed in action, Operation Red Wings, Afghanistan [2005] |
Henry-Alex Rubin | 1991 | Documentary filmmaker; director, “Who is Henry Jaglom” [1997]; co-director & cinematographer, “Murderball” [2005], recipient, Audience Award, Sundance Film Festival |
Hafsat Abiola | 1992 | Nigerian human rights activist; executive director, Kudirat Initiative for Democracy; recipient, Global Leaders of Tomorrow Award, Davos Economic Forum [2000]; Ashoka Innovators for the Public Fellow [2003]; PA Alumni Award of Distinction, 2013 |
Sam Endicott | 1992 | Singer-songwriter & instrumentalist; a founder & lead vocalist for The Bravery; record and music video director & producer |
Ai-jen Poo | 1992 | Lead organizer, founder & director, Domestic Workers Union, New York [2000-] & National Domestic Workers Alliance [2010-]; named among the TIME Magazine 100 [2012]; founder of the Caring Across Generations campaign [2014]; recipient, MacArthur Fellowship [2014] |
Samantha Appleton | 1993 | Photojournalist, working in Iraq, Africa [2000-], in New York following the 9/11 attacks [2001], Obama campaign [2008]; official White House photographer [2009-12] |
Jon Coleman | 1993 | All-American ice hockey player, BU [1996, -97] |
Jennifer Dowling | 1993 | Member, national championship Andover Girl’s Crew Team [1993]; member, Brown Crew, winner “the triple crown” of women’s crew, including national championship [1996] |
Douglas W. “Doug” Friman | 1993 | Triathlete [-2008]; member, US National Triathlon Team; Triathlon Continental Cup [2003, -05, -06, -07], bronze medalist, Triathlon World Cup [2003] |
Stephanie Johnes | 1993 | Documentary filmmaker; producer/director/cinematographer, “Doubletime” [2007] |
Akash Kapur | 1993 | Rhodes Scholar [1999-2000]; expert on internet governance; author, “India Becoming: A Portrait of Life in Modern India” [2012] |
Carter Marsh | 1993 | All-American lacrosse player, Princeton [1995, ’96, ’97]; Ivy League Player of the Year [1997] |
Rebecca “Becky” Dowling Carter | 1994 | All-American, Naval Academy Women’s Basketball Team [1997, ’98], jersey number “32” retired [2013]; 1st female Top Gun fighter pilot [2004-13] |
Katherine Hays | 1994 | Software innovator & executive; cofounder & COO/CFO Massive, Inc. [2002-06]; CEO GenArts [2008-]; recipient, Stevie Award for Women in Business [2011] |
Jonathan Levine | 1994 | Film director & screenwriter; director, “Love Bytes” [2005], “All the Boys Love Many Lane” [2006], “The Wackness” [2008], “Warm Bodies” [2013] |
Cyrus Massoumi | 1994 | Co-founder & CEO, ZocDoc [2007-], a free online service for patients seeking medical and dental appointments; listed among Fortune’s 2013 “40 under 40” rising entrepreneurs |
Stacey Sanders | 1994 | Member, national championship Andover Girl’s Crew Team [1993]; killed in the World Trade Center terrorist attacks [11 September 2001] |
Vanessa Kerry | 1995 | Physician; director, Global Public Policy & Social Change Program, Harvard Medical School; founder & CEO, Seed Global Health Services [2012], in partnership with the Peace Corps, bringing US health-care professionals to provide medical training in resource-deprived countries. |
Darren Dinneen | 1996 | Middle-distance runner; Irish Jr. Champion, 800 meters [1995]; All-American runner & Harvard [1999, 2000], 800-meters & track team captain |
Marco Gualtieri | 1996 | International Whistling Under-20 Grand Champion [1996]; judge, International Physics Olympiad [1997]; Canadian Rhodes Scholar [1998-99]; assistant professor of mathematics, University of Toronto [2006-]; author, “Generalized Köhler Geometry” |
Miles Lasater | 1996 | Founder, Yale Entrepreneurial Society [1999] & the Yale Entrepreneurship Competition; founder, president & chairman, Higher One [2000-], banking services provider to college students |
Sera Coppolino | 1997 | Member, University of Michigan NCAA national champion 8+ boat [2001]; crew coach, West Virginia, Bucknell |
Ian Klaus | 1997 | Captain, Washington University soccer team & academic All American [1999]; Rhodes Scholar [2000-02]; author, “Elvis is Titanic: Classroom Tales from Iraqi Kurdistan” [2007]; member, policy planning staff, Department of State [2011-] |
Seth Moulton | 1997 | Marine Corps officer serving in Iraq [2003-08]; op-ed commentator on the Iraq War [2006]; U.S. Representative, 5th District Massachusetts [2014] |
Richard M. Powell | 1997 | Cofounder, managing partner, AP Capital Partners [2003-]; named Young Global Leader, Jamaica [2009] |
Charles Forelle | 1998 | Journalist, Wall Street Journal; recipient, George Polk Award for Business Reporting [2006], Pulitzer Prize for Public Service [2007] |
Jigme Khesar Namgyal Wangchuck | 1998 | King of Bhutan [2006, coronation 2008-]; continued transformation from absolute monarchy to democracy, including institution a constitution [2008] by Bhutan’s first elected parliament |
Ben Goldhirsh | 1999 | Founder & publisher, Good magazine [2006-]; movie producer, including “Son of Rambow” [2007], “The Messenger” [2009], “By the People: the Election of Barack Obama” [2009] |