List of Hotchkiss School alumni
This is a list of notable alumni of the Hotchkiss School in Lakeville, Connecticut. Former pupils are known as Pythians (even entrance year) or Olympians (odd entrance year).
| The Hotchkiss School | |
|---|---|
| Location | |
| Information | |
| Type | Private, coeducational boarding |
| Motto | Moniti Meliora Sequamur (After instruction, let us move on to pursue higher things.) |
| Religious affiliation(s) | Nonsectarian[1] |
| Established | 1891[2] |
| Grades | 9–12, PG[2] |
| Enrollment | 598 (2014–15):[2] 93% boarding, 7% day;[2] 50% male, 50% female;[2] 43% diverse (21% international)[3] |
| Average class size | 12 students |
Academia
- Willard F. Enteman II (g. 1955)[4] – 11th Bowdoin College President
- Arthur Lehman Goodhart (g. 1908)[4] – Oxford’s University College Master (1951-1963) and legal scholar
- Alfred Whitney Griswold (g. 1925)[4] – Eli Whitney descendant and 16th Yale President
- David Hawkins (g. 1931)[4] – science philosopher and Manhattan Project’s official historian
- John Hersey (g. 1932)[4] – 1945 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner, Yale’s Pierson College Master (1965-1970)
- Charles Snead Houston (g. 1931)[4] – physician, mountaineer, and early high altitude pulmonary edema researcher
- Benjamin Woods Labaree (g. 1945)[4] – Williams College Dean (1963-1967)
- Leonard Woods Labaree (g. 1915)[4] – Yale history professor
- Roger Sherman Loomis (g. 1905)[4] – Columbia English professor
- Archibald MacLeish (g. 1911)[4] – winner of 1933 and 1953 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and 1959 Pulitzer Prize for Drama
- Dickinson W. Richards Jr. (g. 1913)[4] – Nobel Prize winner (Medicine)
- Strobe Talbott (g. 1964)[4] – President of Brookings Institution, Deputy Secretary of State, journalist, diplomat
- Walter W. Taylor (g. 1931)[4] – conjunctive archaeology founder
- Nader Tehrani (g. 1981)[4] – Dean of the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of the Cooper Union;[5] Founding Principal of NADAAA[6]
- Christopher Winship (g. 1968)[4] – Harvard sociology professor
Authors
- MacKenzie Bezos (g. 1988)[4] – Jeff Bezos' ex-wife and author
- Tom Dolby (g. 1994)[7] – author and Ray Dolby’s son
- Peter Matthiessen (g. 1945)[4] – 1979, 1980, and 2008 National Book Award winner
- Julia Quinn (g. 1987)[4] – romantic novelist
- Tom Reiss (g. 1982)[4] – 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Biography winner
Theology
- Margot Käßmann (g. 1976)[4] – bishop of Evangelical-Lutheran Church of Hanover Landesbischöfin, first chairwoman of Evangelical Church in Germany
- Scotty McLennan (g. 1966)[4] – Stanford Dean for Religious Life, inspiration for Doonesbury character Reverend Scot Sloan
- Henry Knox Sherrill (g. 1907)[4] – Bishop of Massachusetts (1930-1947) and 20th Presiding Bishop of Episcopal Church
Business
- Jonathan Bush – George H. W. Bush's brother and investment banker
- William H. T. Bush (g. 1956)[8] – George H. W. Bush's brother and investment banker
- Roy D. Chapin, Jr. (g. 1933)[4] — Roy D. Chapin, Sr.'s son and American Motors CEO
- Granger K. Costikyan (g. 1925) – Armenian-American banker
- Eli Whitney Debevoise (g. 1917)[4] — Eli Whitney descendant and Debevoise & Plimpton founder
- Edsel Ford – Henry Ford's son and Ford Motor Company executive
- Henry Ford II (g. 1936)[4] – Henry Ford's grandson and Ford Motor Company executive
- William Clay Ford, Sr. (g. 1943)[4] – Henry Ford's grandson and Ford Motor Company executive
- William Clay Ford, Jr. (g. 1975)[4] – Henry Ford's great-grandson and Ford Motor Company executive
- Briton Hadden (g. 1916)[4] – Time co-founder
- Robert Lehman (g. 1908)[4] – Philip Lehman's son and Lehman Brothers executive
- David McCord Lippincott (g. 1943)[4] – McCann Erickson creative director and copywriter
- Raymond McGuire (g. 1975), Wall Street's longest serving Head of Investment Banking at Citigroup, early African-American graduate, Trustee of Hotchkiss and NewYork–Presbyterian Hospital, 2021 mayoral candidate for New York City
- Henry Luce (g. 1916)[4] – Time co-founder
- Forrest Mars, Jr. (g. 1949)[4] – Franklin Clarence Mars' grandson and Mars, Inc. executive
- John Mars (g. 1953)[4] – Franklin Clarence Mars' grandson and Mars, Inc. executive
- Mark Mays (g. 1981)[4] – Lowry Mays' son and Clear Channel Communications executive
- Philip W. Pillsbury (g. 1920)[4] – Charles Alfred Pillsbury's grandson and Pillsbury Company executive
- John Shedd Reed (g. 1935)[4] – John G. Shedd's grandson and Santa Fe Railway executive
- Harold Stanley (g. 1904)[4] – Morgan Stanley founder
- John L. Thornton (g. 1972)[4] – Goldman Sachs executive
- Fay Vincent (g. 1956)[4] – Columbia Pictures executive and 8th MLB Baseball Commissioner
- Tom Werner (g. 1967)[4] – Boston Red Sox chairman and The Carsey-Werner Company co-founder
- Evans Woollen III – architect, principal and founder of Woollen, Molzan and Partners, Indianapolis[9]
Entertainment
- Peter Arno – The New Yorker cartoonist, (coined the phrase "back to the drawing board")
- John G. Avildsen – film director (Rocky, The Karate Kid)
- José Camprubí (g. 1897)[10] – La Prensa owner
- Max Carlish – British documentary filmmaker; recipient of a BAFTA and an International Emmy Award for Best Arts Documentary for a series about the Royal Opera House in London and a groundbreaking series about British science fiction
- Elizabeth Chandler – screenwriter
- Bradford Dillman – actor; A Certain Smile, Escape from the Planet of the Apes, The Way We Were
- Varian Fry – journalist and "the American Schindler"
- John H. Hammond – executive at Columbia Records, record producer (discovered Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen)
- Leland Hayward – Hollywood and Broadway agent and producer
- Peter H. Hunt – director of theater and television productions; recipient of a Tony Award for the musical 1776; NY Drama Critics Award, 1969; London Critics Award, 1970; Christopher Award, 1972; Edgar Award, 1982; and Ace Award, 1983
- Allison Janney – Oscar and Emmy Award-winning actress
- Lewis H. Lapham – former editor of Harper's Magazine and editor of Lapham's Quarterly
- William Loeb – conservative newspaper proprietor; publisher of the Union Leader newspaper
- Chris Meledandri – founder and CEO of Illumination Entertainment and founding president of 20th Century Fox Animation
- Ben Mulroney – host of Canadian Idol, son of Canadian Prime Minister
- Burr Steers – filmmaker and actor
- Chris Wallace – son of Mike Wallace, prominent broadcast journalist
- Tom Werner – co-founder of the Carsey-Werner Company, whose productions include That '70s Show, 3rd Rock from the Sun, The Cosby Show, Cybill, Davis Rules, A Different World, Grace Under Fire, and Roseanne; chairman and co-managing partner, Boston Red Sox
Art and music
- John Crosby – founder of the Santa Fe Opera; general director until 2000; recipient of National Medal of Arts and Officer’s Cross of the Federal German Order of Merit; President of Manhattan School of Music and Opera America; longest serving general director of any American opera company
- Edwin Denby – poet and dance critic
- Peter Duchin – orchestra leader; organizer, Peter Duchin Orchestras and Duchin Entertainment
- Frederick "Dennis" Greene – founder and lead singer of Sha Na Na; professor of law, University of Dayton School of Law
- Thomas Hoving – Director of Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Esko Laine – double bass player, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
- Douglas Moore – Pulitzer Prize-winning composer and one of few American opera composers; member of the music faculty of Columbia University
- Gerald Murphy – precisionist artist
- Scott Powell – member of the rock group Sha Na Na; orthopedic surgeon
- Roswell Rudd – Grammy-nominated trombonist
- Samuel Wagstaff – art curator who helped significantly to establish fine arts photography
Athletes
- Caitlin Cahow – member of hockey Team USA, 2006 and 2010 Olympic Games, bronze and silver medalist.
- Luke Glendening – NHL forward.
- Matt Herr – forward who played for part of four NHL seasons[11]
- Fred Kammer – Winner of an Olympic bronze medal in 1936 for USA in Hockey.
- Gina Kingsbury – Two time gold medalist in Olympic Hockey for Canada at the 2006 Winter Olympics#Ice hockey and Canada at the 2010 Winter Olympics#Ice hockey.
- Torrey Mitchell – NHL forward.
- Raymond W. "Ducky" Pond – Yale football player and coach
- Peter Revson – billionaire, Formula One race car driver.
- Shavar Thomas – Major League Soccer player for the Jamaica National Football Team.
Government
- Victor Ashe – United States Ambassador to Poland
- Malcolm Baldrige, Jr. – United States Secretary of Commerce
- Samuel H. Blackmer, Associate Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court[12]
- Robert Bork – United States Solicitor General, Conservative legal scholar, Supreme Court nominee; Distinguished Fellow, the Hudson Institute
- Lisa Brown – Staff Secretary to President Barack Obama
- R. Lawrence Coughlin – Representative, United States House of Representatives
- Donald B. Easum – former United States Assistant Secretary of State; United States Ambassador to Nigeria
- Charles Edison (g. 1909)[4] – Thomas Edison's son and 42nd Governor of New Jersey
- Frederick Vanderbilt Field (g. 1923)[13] – Cornelius Vanderbilt's great-great-grandson, Samuel Osgood and Cyrus Field's descendant, and political activist
- Artemus Gates – banker, World War I hero, Under Secretary of the Navy
- G. McMurtrie Godley – United States Ambassador to Laos and co-founder and first president of the Glimmerglass Opera
- Sir Philip Goodhart (g. 1944) – British politician
- Porter J. Goss – former Director of the CIA, Representative of Florida, United States House of Representatives
- Ernest Gruening – Governor of Alaska, US Senator
- Peter Hall – Judge, US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit; former U.S. Attorney, District of Vermont
- Lawrence M. Judd – Governor of Hawaii
- Winston Lord – United States Ambassador to China
- Livingston T. Merchant – United States Ambassador to Canada and Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs
- Jon Ormond Newman – Judge, United States court of appeals
- Paul Nitze – Secretary of the Navy, architect of US policy towards the Soviet Union, Co-founder of the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies
- Robert D. Orr – Governor of Indiana
- Clark T. Randt, Jr. – United States Ambassador to China 2001–2009
- William Warren Scranton – Governor of Pennsylvania, United States Ambassador to the United Nations
- Potter Stewart – Justice of the US Supreme Court
- Strobe Talbott – Deputy Secretary of State, Journalist, diplomat, President of Brookings Institution
- Jerry Voorhis – Representative, United States House of Representatives (D-CA)
- Paul Warnke – Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs
- Arthur K. Watson – United States Ambassador to France and president of the International Chamber of Commerce
- Charles Yost – United States Ambassador to the United Nations; United States Ambassador to Laos, Syria, and Morocco; United States Representative to the United Nations
Medicine
- Alexandra Golby (g. 1985) – Neurosurgeon and Professor of Neurosurgery and Radiology at Harvard Medical School.
- Charles Snead Houston (g. 1931)[4] – physician and early high altitude pulmonary edema researcher.
- Dickinson W. Richards Jr. (g. 1913)[4] – Nobel Prize laureate (Medicine).
Military
- Thaddeus Beal – Under Secretary of the Army 1969-1971.
- Douglas Campbell – aviator; the first American aviator in an American unit to achieve the status of flying ace.
- Artemus Gates – Under Secretary of the Navy.
- Roswell Gilpatric – Assistant Secretary of the Air Force; Deputy Secretary of Defense.
- Frank O'Driscoll Hunter – Chief of the First Air Force in World War II.
- Elliott B. Strauss – rear admiral, key Allied staff officer for the Invasion of Normandy.
References
- "PSS Private School Universe Survey". U.S. Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics. 2012. Retrieved November 19, 2014.
- "About Hotchkiss: Who We Are". The Hotchkiss School. 2014. Archived from the original on January 1, 2015. Retrieved November 19, 2014.
- "About Hotchkiss: History & Traditions". Hotchkiss School. 2014. Archived from the original on November 20, 2014. Retrieved November 19, 2014.>
- "Alumni Accomplishments". The Hotchkiss School. 2004. Archived from the original on March 10, 2015. Retrieved March 8, 2015.
- Dean of the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of the Cooper Union
- NADAAA
- "Media makers: The Sixth Form" (PDF). Hotchkiss Magazine. Winter 2008. Archived from the original (PDF) on April 18, 2015. Retrieved April 18, 2015.
- Cruice, Valerie (June 23, 1991). "Franklin's Greatest Hits At Early Music Festival". New York Times. Retrieved March 8, 2015.
- Kevin A. Drawbaugh (16 February 1988). "Woollen's Mark Seen on Major Indiana Buildings". Indianapolis News. Indianapolis: C3.
- Fernández, J.D. (2010). "The Discovery of Spain in New York, circa 1930". In Sullivan, Edward J. (ed.). Nueva York: 1613 – 1945. Scala, New York Historical Society.
- Wallace, William N. "COLLEGES HOCKEY: NOTEBOOK -- DIVISION III; Middlebury Makes It Four Straight Titles", The New York Times, March 25, 1998. Accessed December 18, 2007. "Herr, the captain from the Hotchkiss School and Alpine, N.J., was held back by injuries earlier, but is fit now."
- Stone, Arthur F. (1929). The Vermont of Today, with its Historic Background, Attractions and People. III. New York, NY: Lewis Historical Publishing Company. p. 71.
- Nemy, Enid (February 7, 2000). "Frederick Vanderbilt Field, Wealthy Leftist, Dies at 94". New York Times. Retrieved March 8, 2015.
- a"After graduating from the Hotchkiss School in 1923, Mr. Field entered Harvard..." — ¶ 16
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