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1900s
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Winona Keith Algie

1900 Headmistress, Charles River School [1917-47]

Frederick L. Collins

1900 Publisher & editor, McClure's Magazine [1911-29]

Dwight T. Farnham

1900 Economist; specialist in applications of technology to industry & labor efficiency; author, "Scientific Industrial Efficiency" [1917], "Executive Statistical Control" [1920]

Joseph W. Holley

1900 Founder & president [1903-43], Albany [Georgia] Bible & Manual Training Institute, developer by Holley into a 4-year college; now Albany State University; 1st African-American elected to the Presbyterian Church National Board

Rose Anne Day Keep

1900 Co-principal, Miss Porter's School [1917-43]

Thomas D. Thatcher

1900 Federal district judge [1925-30]; US solicitor general [1930-33]; backer of NY Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia; lead commission that drafted a new NY 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 shortstop for Andover & Harvard, barred from Major League baseball because he was black; as an attorney, associated with Booker T. Washington & later Marcus Garvey; a Republican, Matthews served as a US Attorney [1913-] & 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]

William Anthony "Bill" Schick Jr.

1901 Sprinter at PA, Harvard; winner, 4 intercollegiate titles; US Olympic Team [1906]

Claude C. Washburn

1901 Writer; author, "Pages from the Book of Paris" [1910], "The Lonely Warrior" [1922]

Miriam Carpenter

1902 Dean of Wheaton College [-1944]

F. Abbot Goodhue

1902 President, International Acceptance Bank, New York [1921-31]; president, Bank of Manhattan [1931-48]; chairman, board of trustees, NYU-Bellevue Medical Center

John Nesmith Greely

1902 Brigadier General; member, Pershing general staff & commander, 1st Division, WWI; chief, military mission to Iran, WWII; attaché & diplomat, Geneva, Brazil; military analyst, author & 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 & inventory; joint inventor, dynamic cone loudspeaker [1925] & the magnetic pick-up for phonographs; 1st director, GE Advanced Technology Laboratory

C. Ward McLanahan

1902 US Olympic Team [1904], pole vault; coal mine owner & civic leader, Hollidaysburg, PA

Frank O'Brien

1902 4-year All-American shortstop, Yale [1903-07]

J. Frank Stimson

1902 Anthropologist & ethnographer, specialist in Polynesian cultures; author, "Songs & Tales of the Sea Kings: Interpretations of the Oral Literature of Polynesia" [1957], "A Dictionary of Tuamotuan Dialects" [1966]

Edwin J. Beinecke

1903 Chairman, Sperry & Hutchinson [1923-67]; German glass collection donated to Corning Museum of Glass [1958-]; with brothers Frederick & Walter, donor of Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale [1960] & Beinecke Foundation [1966]; bibliophile, creator of Robert Louis Stevenson collection donated to Yale [1963]

William H.H. Cranmer

1903 Prospector & geologist - "the grand old man of uranium" - pioneer of uranium mining industry; president, New Park Mining Company [1935-1962]

Edward T. Hall

1903 Founder & director, Universal School of Handicrafts, NYC [1936-53]

Harold Orville Mackenzie

1903 US ambassador to Thailand [1927-30]

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 & illustrator; famed practical joker; 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 [1928-30] & Rumania [1937-41]; president, American Institute for Iranian Art & Archeology [1930-37]

Julio Madero

1904 Mexican diplomat, served as Mexico's ambassador to Sweden, Italy, San Salvador & 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 [1932-34]

William Kay Wallace

1904 Member, US Peace Commission [1918]; political theorist & 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 [1953-66]; bibliophile specializing in Western Americana, specialist in Lewis & Clark material, collection donated to Yale; with brothers Frederick & Walter, donor, Yale's Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library [1960] & 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 5 founding members of Yale singing group, The Whiffenpoofs [1909]

Alfred Lee Loomis

1905 Physicist, investment banker & philanthropist; financier of electric utilities; inventor, Aberdeen Chronograph [1918]; founder & funder, Loomis Laboratory, Tuxedo Park [1926-40]; director of WWII 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 & books, "The Other Chateau Country" [1935]

Hamlin Andrus

1906 Yale All-American in football [1908, 1909]

Walter Beinecke

1906 With brothers Frederick & Walter, donor, Yale's Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library [1960] & Beinecke Foundation [1966]; world-ranked contract bridge player

Elizabeth Deeble

1906 Relief work volunteer & correspondent, Spanish Civil War [ca.1936-39]

Arthur Benson Gilbert

1906 Minnesota political activist [1917-48] in support of farmers; advocate for protective tariffs on agricultural imports

Robert Hallowell

1906 Editor & publisher, "The New Republic" [1914-25]; artist/watercolorist [ca.1925-39]

Sarah Hinks

1906 Headmistress, The Gordon School, Providence [ca.1937-]

Frank T. Leighton

1906 Rear Admiral; commander of Navy ships during WWI, served in the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, WWII

Robert B. Stearns

1906 Founder, Bear, Stearns & Company, investment bank & brokerage house [1923-]

Edward L. "Eddie" Farrell

1907 Member, US Olympic Track Team [1912]; coach, US Olympic Track Team [1924, -28, -32]

Meigs Frost

1907 Crusading New Orleans investigative reporter, helped bring down Huey Long & his machine [1930s]

John Reid Kilpatrick

1907 Yale football All-American [1909, '10] & captain, Yale track team; brigadier general, [1942-49] in charge of ports of embarkation; president, Madison Square Garden [1933-60]; president, NY Rangers hockey team [1933-59]

Paul Piel

1907 New York sculptor & designer; graphic artist for Piel Brothers Brewery

Bernard "Barney" Reilly

1907 Chicago White Sox 2nd baseman [1909]

Ethel Arens Tyng

1907 Missionary, Changsha, China [1913-49]; operator of sandal, soap & 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, '11]; coach, national championship Harvard football team [1919], Rose Bowl winner [1920]; Harvard football head coach [1919-25]; member, NCAA Football Hall of Fame

Robert A. Gardner

1908 Olympic gold medalist in pole vault [1912]; 1st to clear 13' in pole vault [1913]; US Amateur Golf Champion [1909 & 1915]; member, US Walker Cup team [1922, -23, -24, -26] & captain [1923, -24, -26]

Katherine Butler Hathaway

1908 Author of children's books, "Mr. Muffet's Cat..." [1934], "The Little Locksmith" [1943]

Vincent Lawrence

1908 Playwright & screenwriter [1920s-40s], primarily of comedies

Washington Platt

1908 Intelligence officer & secret agent; 2nd in command, G-2 spy network in France & Germany; later with CIA; author of treatises on military intelligence

Frederick Louis Riefkohl

1908 Rear Admiral, recognized for distinguished service, WWI & WWII

Elizabeth Watts

1908 Teacher / director / trustee, Hindman Settlement School, Kentucky [1909-93]; "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-40s]

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 & sculpture

Daniel Needham

1909 Brigadier general, commander, Massachusetts National Guard [1934-39]; Massachusetts director, civilian defense, WWII; head Massachusetts State Police

A. Wells Peck

1909 Retailing innovator; as president & later chairman of Peck & Peck stores [ca.1930-70], 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; Boston Red Sox catcher [1913]; botany professor & coach, Brown [1920-59]; authority on forest plants & diseases; author & illustrator, "The Boleti of Northeastern North America" [1970]

Herbert H. Vreeland Jr.

1909 Brigadier general; chief, US military intelligence, China [1944-45]

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1910s
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Benjamin F. Avery

1910 General manager & later president, KVP forest products company [1948-58]; president, Canadian Forestry Association [1958-59]; recipient, CFA Forest Conservation Award [1964]

James Phinney Baxter III

1910 Educator, historian, author; President, Williams College [1937-61]; deputy director, OSS, WWII; winner, Pulitzer Prize in history, "Scientists Against Time" [1947], an account of the War Department's Office of Scientific Research & Development

Lindsay Bradford

1910 President, City Bank Farmers Trust Company [1936-51], now Citibank; president, New York War Relief Fund during WWII

Charles T. Donworth

1910 Jurist; Washington State Supreme Court [1949-69], chief justice [1956-57]

Negley Farson

1910 Foreign correspondent in early Soviet Russia, pre-independence India, Nazi Germany, London during WWII; adventurer & 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 [1930-59]; dubbed "the fighting bishop," Hobson was a decorated veteran of World War I & the leader & spokesman for Fight for Freedom, Inc. [1939-41], a national organization advocating US entry into World War II; president, Phillips Academy Board of Trustees [1947-66]

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 1st hospital run by and for African-Americans

Robert N. Kastor

1910 Stockbroker & civil libertarian; Instrumental in publication of James Joyce's "Ulysses" in the United States

Lucy Porter Sutton

1910 Pediatrician & medical researcher; professor of pediatrics, NYU Medical School; specialist in heart disease & rheumatism; author, "Heart Disease in InfancyÉ" [1930]

Mira Bigelow Wilson

1910 Professor, religious work & social service, Smith College [1920-]; headmistress, Northfield School for Girls [1928-52]

Edwin Cohn

1911 Biochemist & medical researcher, specialist in chemistry of proteins & human blood fractionation; developer of practical cure for pernicious anemia [1928] based on research begun by George Whipple [PA1896]; 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]; 1st president, American University Presses Association [1939-]

Joseph Garland

1911 Pediatrician; editor, New England Journal of Medicine [1947-67], 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 [1943-45], an economic warfare agency; co-chair, with Harold MacMillan, North African Economics Board, Algiers; attorney for US airlines seeking international routes & chairman, Airlines Committee on United States Air Policy [1945-]

Alfred Hugo Schoellkopf

1911 Utilities owner/executive & public welfare leader during the Depression; President, Buffalo, Niagara & Eastern Power [1929-33] and Niagara Hudson Power [1933-42]; Chair, NY State Board of Social Welfare [1933-35]

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

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 [1926-69], created the nation's largest specialty chain

Edward "Eddie" Mahan

1912 All-American half-back at Harvard [1913, '14, '15] & 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 [1914-69], Rochester Democrat & Chronicle, chronicler of Rochester life

Edgar G. Crossman

1913 Attorney; legal aide to Henry Stimson, governor general of the Philippines [1928-29] & to General McArthur [1944-45], presidential envoy to the Philippines & co-chairman, Joint American-Philippine Finance Commission [1947]

Donald H. "Don" Dickerman

1913 Nightclub entrepreneur; creator of "atmospheric" nightspots in New York, Miami Beach, Washington & LA [ca.1918-48], including Hollywood's "Pirate's Den"

John D. Hamilton

1913 Speaker, Kansas House of Representatives [1927-29]; chairman, Republican National Committee [1936-40]

Frank "Kooch" Hogg

1913 Football All-American & captain, Princeton [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 WWI & WWII, 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, WWII; the Navy's salvage & port restoration expert, "the Commodore of Sunken Ships"

Philip D. Woodbridge

1913 Anesthesiologist & inventor of medical instruments; president, American Board of Anesthesiology [1945-46]

Knight Woolley

1913 Banker; authority on bankers' acceptances; managing partner, Harriman Brothers @ time of merger, creating Brown Brothers Harriman; general partner, Brown Brothers Harriman [1931-82]

Howard Malcolm Baldridge

1914 Intercollegiate heavyweight wrestling champion @ Yale [ca.1918]; Nebraska Republican congressman [1931-33]

Harvey P. Hood

1914 Donor, Hood Museum, Dartmouth [1978; opened 1985]

Woodland "Woody" Kahler

1914 International Vegetarian Union leader, president [1960-71] & 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, WWII; North Africa campaign [1941-42];commander, 65th "Battle Axe" Division Artillery [1943]; Battle of the Bulge [1944-45]

Dudley Poore

1914 Poet; translator, interpreter & 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 [1915-51], pioneered study of poultry pathology

Russell H. Bennett

1915 Mining engineer, minerals prospector & 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 [1941-45]

Frederick G. Crane II

1915 Conservationist, livestock & tree farmer [1925-78]; 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 [1934-58]

Esther "Ted" Kilton

1915 Architect; editor & director, "Home Builders Service Bureau," House Beautiful Magazine [1932-]

William Alexander Kirkland

1915 Houston banker & civic leader; 1st National Bank of Houston [1920-63], latterly as president and chairman; president, Texas Bankers Association [1947-48]; chair, Harris County Board of Park Commissioners, credited with envisioning & implementing construction of the Astrodome [1965]

Alice Frye Leach

1915 Painter

George Peter Murdock

1915 Anthropologist & 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 [1942-59]; leader in effort to make New Jersey's Great Swamp a National Wildlife Refuge [1959-60]; a founder, Outward Bound USA [1961]

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 WWI and WWII; chief of counter intelligence under Douglas MacArthur, WWII; December 1941, as military attache in Java, sent word of impending Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor; founder, Army Language School, post WWII; author

Muriel Baker Wood

1915 Corporal, Women's Army Corps [WACS][1944-]

Philip K. Wrigley

1915 President, Wrigley's Chewing Gum [1932-61]; owner, Chicago Cubs [1932-77]; founder, All American Girls Softball League [1943-]

Laurence Wellman Beilenson

1916 Attorney, Screen Actors Guild [1933-60]; chief US liaison officer to Chinese Army, WWII; author of neo-conservative tracts, including "The Treaty Trap" [1969], which substantially influenced the views of his friend Ronald Reagan

Ralph Hanes

1916 Historic preservationist; founder, Old Salem, Winston-Salem, NC [1940]; trustee, National Trust for Historic Preservation [1961-71], vice chair [1962-65]

Walter Hochschild

1916 President & chairman AMAX (American Metals Climax) [1950-80]; 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 [1949-70], chief justice [1956-70]

C. Harvey Bradley

1917 Chairman, P.R. Mallory & Company [1964-72]

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 & executive; chairman, US Munitions Board [1948-49], championed stockpiling of strategic materials

Frances Gere

1917 Author & illustrator, children's books; "Once Upon a Time in Egypt" [1937]

Powers Hapgood

1917 Labor organizer, United Mine Workers, CIO, etc. [1922-35]; socialist candidate for governor, Ohio [1932]

Tsing Lien Li

1917 Physician, Beijing, Shanghai [ca.1925-]

James Pickering

1917 Popularizer of astronomy as lecturer, author & TV host; assistant astronomer, American Museum of Natural History, NY [ca.1951-65]

Raymond T. Rich

1917 General Secretary, World Peace Foundation [1927-]

Reginald Smithwick

1917 Surgeon; pioneered treatments for vascular disease & hypertension; Harvard Medical School faculty [1928-46]; chair, department of surgery, Boston University School of Medicine [1946-65]

Robert T Stevens

1917 Secretary of the Army [1953-55], period of the Army-McCarthy Hearings; president & later chairman, JP Stevens & Company [1929-69]

Jack Morris Wright

1917 WWI pilot & author; "A Poet of the Air" -- a compelling portrayal of life in French & US Army -- published posthumously, 1918

Lawrence Allen Abercrombie

1918 Much-decorated WWII Navy captain; commander, US Pacific Fleet destroyer Drayton [1940-43]

Bromwell Ault

1918 President, Episcopal Church Foundation [1961-69]; president, Board of Governors, St. John's College, Annapolis [1968-70]

John Porter Carleton

1918 Rhodes Scholar [1922-23]; US ski jumping record holder [1922]; captain, 1st US Olympic Ski Team [1924]

Mitchell Gratwick

1918 Headmaster, Horace Mann School [1950-68]

Charles Carroll Griffin

1918 Latin Americanist; history professor; dean of faculty, Vassar [1934-67]; 1st exchange professor under the Buenos Aires Convention [1936]; author, "The United States & the Disruption of the Spanish Empire, 1810-1822" [1937], "Latin America: an Interpretation...of its History" [1944]; managing editor, Hispanic American Historical Review [1950-53]; general editor, "Latin America: A Guide to the Historical Literature" [1971]

Van Campen Heilner

1918 Sportsman, author & filmmaker; authority on hunting & 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 [1960-69]

Cargill MacMillan Sr.

1918 President, Cargill, Inc. [1957-60]

Singleton Moorehead

1918 Architect & architectural historian; researcher & designer for Colonial Williamsburg [1928-63]; author, treatises on Virginia architecture; Fellow, American Institute of Architects

Robert G. Page

1918 Attorney; 1st NY Regional Director, Securities & Exchange Commission [1935-]; president & later chairman, Phelps Dodge [1947-69]; recipient, Charles F. Rand Gold Medal [1967]

J. Hall Paxton

1918 Diplomat, representing the US in China, Iran [1925-52]; evacuated from Nanking & 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. "Mannie" Rosenberg

1918 Creator & producer, radio soap operas & serials, including "Sam Spade" & "The Fat Man" [1946-51], & television series including "Texaco Playhouse" and "The People's Choice" [1955-58]

Margaret Bailey Speer

1918 Dean of Women's College, Yenching University, Beijing [1925-42]; headmistress, Shipley School [1944-65]; early advocate for the ABC [A Better Chance] 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 & North Africa, WWII; president, Oberlin College [1946-59]; chair, National Fulbright Selection Committee; ambassador to the Philippines [1962-64]; head, Aspen Institute [1967-70]

George Clapp Vaillant

1918 Archeologist, museum administrator, teacher; specialist in Mexican archeology & pre-Columbian cultures; director, University Museum, University of Pennsylvania [1941-45]

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 & 1st 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, CO

Thomas W. "Tim" Durant

1919 Screen actor, including "Red Badge of Courage" [1951]; steeplechase champion, Del Monte Cup Race, Grand National [1966, -67, -68]

Doris Knights

1919 Lt. Col. United States Army Nurse Corps; chief nurse, 6th General Hospital, WWII

Elisabeth Luce Moore

1919 Leader in social service agencies, educational institutions & philanthropy [1930s-90s]; Henry Luce Foundation Board of Trustees [1936-99]; chair, USO National Council, WWII; 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 [1968-78]

Gordon Morris

1919 Author of popular fiction, playwright, screenwriter [1920s-30s]

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1920s
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Harold Homer Anderson

1920 Psychologist & researcher; specialist in child development & creativity; chair, Michigan State University Psychology Department [1946-]

Calvin Bartlett

1920 Defense attorney & civil libertarian; defender of alleged communists in trials proceeding from interrogations by Senator Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s

Humphrey Bogart

1920 Academy Award-winning movie actor, with leading roles in "Petrified Forest" [1936], "Casablanca" [1943], "The Big Sleep" [1946], "Treasure of Sierra Madre" [1948], "The African Queen" [1951]; ranked by the American Film Institute "Hollywood's greatest male film star" [1999]

Thurston Chase

1920 Headmaster, Eaglebrook School [1928-66]

Paul C. Daniels

1920 Diplomat; ambassador to Honduras [1947], ambassador to OAS [1948-50], ambassador to Ecuador [1951-53]; Department of State director of American Republic Affairs [1947-49]; as US special advisor on Antarctica [1957-59], negotiated the Antarctic Treaty [1959]; namesake, Daniels Range, Antarctica [1963]

Edward J. Hanley

1920 President/CEO/chair, Allegheny Ludlum Steel [1951-72], 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 & children trapped in the building

David W. Kendall

1920 Asst. Secretary of Treasury [1955-57]; special counsel to President Eisenhower [1958-60]

Jean Lyon

1920 Foreign correspondent covering the "fall of China" [ca.1945-50]; 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; 1st president, Mt Sinai School of Medicine; recipient, Yale Medal [1965]

George B. Wells

1920 President, American Optical Company [1936-46]; founder & part donor, Old Sturbridge Village [1936]

Henry Cutler Wolfe

1920 War correspondent, author & lecturer on foreign affairs, influential during the early years of WWII

Lloyd Brace

1921 President/CEO/chair, Bank of Boston [1947-66]; director, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston [1951-56]; chairman, Dartmouth Board of Trustees [1967-70]; Rockefeller Foundation Finance Committee chair; recipient, Harvard Business School Business Statesman Award [1968]

Carlton Coon

1921 Anthropologist, archeologist, spy and diplomat; author, especially on the anthropology of race; professor @ Harvard [1928-48], U Pennsylvania [1948-63]; OSS secret agent, North Africa [WWII]; US Ambassador to Nepal [1981]; panelist on Peabody-Award winning archeology quiz show "What in the World?" [1949-64]

Joseph Cornell

1921 Surrealist artist & filmmaker; noted especially as an assemblagist & creator of shadow boxes [active 1930s-60s]

Philip Eiseman

1921 Banker; president, Bay Banks [1948-66], chair, Bay State Corporation [1948-69]; leader in developing concept of bank holding companies

Walter J. Kohler Jr.

1921 Governor of Wisconsin [1950-54]; chairman, American Cancer Society [1953-56]

Alfred Lindley

1921 With PA classmates & Yale teammates Benjamin Spock & 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 [1935-50]; mountain climber

Donald Loker

1921 Boxer turned screen actor under the name "Don Terry" featured in movie serials of the late 1930s & early 40s; later executive with wife's family business, the French Sardine Company - Star-Kist; the Lokers became benefactors of USC, Harvard, etc.

Raymond Otis

1921 Regionalist novelist based in Santa Fe; "Fire in the Night" etc.

Irving E Rogers Jr.

1921 Publisher, Lawrence Eagle-Tribune [1982-98]; recipient, Pulitzer Prize for General Reporting [1988]

Edward S. Skillin

1921 Editor & publisher, Commonweal, oldest Catholic journal of opinion in US [1938-98]

Mom Luang Chiew Snitwongse

1921 First Thai student at Andover

Benjamin Spock

1921 Pediatrician, influential author and authority on child rearing, "Baby & Child Care" [1946 et seq.]; 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] & other studies of Wilson & his era

Alfred Wilson

1921 With PA classmates & Yale teammates Benjamin Spock & Alfred Lindley, member of the Yale 8 that won Olympic Gold Medal in rowing [1924]

Robert Gray Allen

1922 New Deal Democrat; Pennsylvania congressman [1937-41]

Peter Capra

1922 Italian immigrant who came to Andover as a World War I veteran; director, New York Boys Club [1939-62], chairman, Yale University Enrollment & Scholarship Committee [ca.1950]

Donald E. Carr

1922 Environmental activist & author, "The Breath of Life" [1965], "Death of the Sweet Waters" [1966]

Charles A Clough

1922 Episcopal Bishop of Springfield [1948-62]

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 & singer [1920s-70s]

Walker Evans

1922 Photographer & photo essayist; best known for "The Crime of Cuba" with Carlton Beal [1931], work with Farm Security Administration [1935-38], "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men" [1939] with William Agee

Robert R. Hannum

1922 Social worker & author; Children's Village [1929-40]; director, Osborne Association [1941-67]; president, International Prisoners Aid Association

Bartlett Hayes

1922 Museum curator & arts administrator; director, Addison Gallery of American Art [1940-69]; secretary, College Art Association [1959-64]; director, American Academy in Rome [1969-73]; recipient, Fuess Award [1979]

H. Mansfield "Jack" Horner

1922 President & later Chairman, United Aircraft [1943-68]

John R. Kimberly

1922 Chairman & CEO, Kimberly-Clark [1953-68], transforming it into a global manufacturer of consumer products

Phillips Lord

1922 Creator of popular radio dramas, "Sunday at Seth Parker" [1929-33], "Gang Busters" [1935-57]

Stanley Osborne

1922 President/CEO, Olin Mathieson Chemicals [1957-64]

Joseph Verner Reed

1922 Theatre producer, real estate developer & conservationist; developer of Florida's Jupiter Island [1931-]; a founder & later president & chairman, American Shakespeare Festival [1955-73]; Florida conservationist

Robert P. Anderson

1923 Judge, Connecticut Superior Court [1953-54]; US District Court Judge for CT [1954-62], chief judge [1960-64]; US Court of Appeals Judge, Second District [1964-71]

Gardner Cox

1923 Artist best known for portraits of government, business and cultural leaders, including Dylan Thomas, Earl Warren, Robert Kennedy, Henry Kissinger & Robert Frost

George Bapst Darling

1923 Public health authority; Yale professor of human ecology [1946-74]; director, Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission, National Academy of Sciences [1957-72]; recipient, Supreme Golden Orchid Award, Japan Medical Society [1967]

Frederick Thayer Merrill

1923 Diplomat; expert on Eastern European affairs & narcotics trafficking; secretary, US Delegation, Paris Peace Conference [1945], director, East-West contacts, Dept. of State [1956-60];

Charles B.G. Murphy

1923 Mental health philanthropist; major donor to medical education, psychiatric research & treatment, development of chemotherapy to combat depression [ca.1940-1977]; founder, Social Research Foundation [1949]

Macauley Smith

1923 Athlete & conservationists; US Olympic Team distance runner [1928] donor, Blackacre Conservancy [1979], 1st nature preserve in Kentucky state system

Benner C. Turner

1923 Law School Dean, North Carolina Colored Normal College [1940-]; President, South Carolina State College [1949-68]; president, Conference of Land Grant Colleges

Alan Barth

1924 Editorial writer, Washington Post [1943-72]; as "the liberal conscience of Washington" advocated for civil rights & 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 [1947-73], producer of multivitamins, Alka-Seltzer

Philip D. Block, Jr.

1924 Chairman, Inland Steel [1967-71]; 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.

"Prince" Serge Mdivani

1924 Polo player & socialite, one of the "Marrying Mdivanis" whose well-publicized marriages & divorces from film stars and heiresses titillated the public [1920s-30s]

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 & chairman, American Cyanamid [1951-60]; trustee, the Duke Endowment [1948-73], chair [1960-73]

Roy "Red" Randall

1924 All-American football back at Brown [1926, '27]; leader, Brown's "Iron Men Team" [1926]

Ernesto Samper

1924 Columbian aviator - "The Lindbergh of Columbia" - co-founder, Columbian airline SACO [1933-], merged to form AVIANCA [1940]

Charles H. Sawyer

1924 Arts administrator; museum director [1931-41]; during WWII, with OSS, documenting art looted by Nazis; dean, Yale Division of Arts [1947-56]; director, U Michigan Museum of Art [1957-72]

George F. Vanderschmidt

1924 Journalist; managing editor, Newsweek [1942-46] & London correspondent [1946-52]; author, "What the English Think of Us" [1948]

Winslow Ames

1925 Art & architectural historian, connoisseur, museum director; authority on Old Master drawings & Victorian aesthetics; author, "Prince Albert & Victorian Taste" [1967]

N. Philip Bastedo

1925 Attorney; president, board of trustees, Hospital for Special Surgery, New York [1958-], chair, United Hospital Fund [1978-84], 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, 4x100 relay

Lilian Grosvenor Coville

1925 Traveler in Manchuria [1920s]; author, National Geographic articles in Manchuria [1930s]

Cornelius Crane

1925 Explorer & archeologist, funder, Field Museum Pacific Expedition [1928-29]; Chicago philanthropist

Douglas C. Fox

1925 Anthropologist & art historian, Forschung Institut Fur Kulturmorphologie, Frankfurt; expert on cave paintings & African folk tales

Theodate Johson

1925 Classical singer; later, as Theodate Johns Severns, owner of Musical America [ca.1960-]

Ralph Delahaye Paine Jr.

1925 Publisher & managing editor, Fortune [1941-67]; vice-president, TIME, Inc. [1953-]; publisher, Architectural Forum [1954-63];

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 [1947-52]; Ambassador to Belgium [1957-59]

Charles A. Bovey

1926 Montana rancher & collector of Gold Rush-Era buildings & artifacts; founder, Montana Historic Landmarks Society [1944]; owner & 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 [1950-54]; 1st American ambassador to Malaysia [1957-61]

Duncan Emrich

1926 Folklorist & diplomat; chief, Library of Congress Folklore Collection [1945-55]; US cultural attaché to Togo, Greece & India [ca.1955-65]; folklorist with USIA

Suzanne Loizeaux

1926 Publisher & editor, Plymouth Record, New Hampshire; member, New Hampshire General Assembly [1952-]

Beaumont Newhall

1926 Photography historian & curator; author, "The History of Photography" [1937]; founding curator, Department of Photography, Museum of Modern Art [1940-48]; curator & later director, George Eastman House Museum of Photography [1948-71]; recipient, Fuess Award [1979]

Fletcher E. Nyce

1926 Swimmer; set interscholastic 100 yard record, breast stroke [1926]; president/CEO/chairman, Central Trust Company, Cincinnati, & Central Bancorporation [1964-73]

Gretchen Vanderschmidt

1926 President, Altrusa International [ca.1954] social service & grant-making organization

L. Metcalfe Walling

1926 New Deal labor lawyer; administrator, Fair Labor Standards Act [1942-47]; director, US aid mission, Cambodia [1957-60]

Frederic P. Bartlett

1927 Diplomat; 1st US ambassador to Madagascar [1960-62]

John M. Bennett

1927 South Texas rancher, banker, civic & political leader; WWII bomber pilot, commander, 100th Bomb Group ["The Bloody Hundredth"], leader, 1st daylight bombing raid over Berlin [8 March 1944]; Major General, Air Force Reserve

Emilio Collado

1927 Economist, Treasury & 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 [1948-73]; 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 the Ukraine [1945-]; friend to Nikita Khrushchev; author of books & 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 [1959-91] which supported education, especially private secondary education

Ruth Nash

1927 Composer; Department of Agriculture film scores [1940]; director, Music Education Program, WPA [1942]

Charles C. Steele

1927 Diplomat; member, 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 [1955-81]; recipient, Fuess Award [1974]

Sydna White

1927 Collector of folk music, Indian subcontinent; performer

John W. M. Whiting

1927 Anthropologist; researcher on child development & learning in diverse societies; Harvard professor [1949-78]; author, "Becoming a Kwoma: Teaching & Learning in a New Guinea Tribe" [1941], "Child Training & Personality" [1953], "Culture & Human Development" [1994]

James Barr Ames

1928 Attorney & civic leader; vice president and later president, Massachusetts Historical Society [1967-78]; president, Boston Athenaeum [1968-81]; president, Greater Boston Hospital Planning Council

Hubert C. Barton

1928 Economist; director, Office of Strategic Services Presentation Branch, [1942-45], presenting wartime military information, organizing the San Francisco UN Conference [1944] & the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials [1945]; economic development planner for Puerto Rico's Operation Bootstrap [ca.1948-60]

Sumner McKnight Crosby

1928 Art historian, authority on French medieval architecture; Yale professor [1941-78], chair Yale Department of Art History [1947-53, 1962-65]; director, International Center of Romanesque Art [1956-]; president, International Center of Medieval Art [1966-]; author, "The Abbey of St. DenisÉ" [1942], "The Royal Abbey of St. Denis" [1987]

Philip Dey "P.D." Eastman

1928 Cartoon writer & story boarder, Walt Disney [1935-41], Warner Brothers [1941-43]; with the Frank Capra Signal Corps Unit [1943-45], writer for the "Private Snafu" training film series; with UPA Pictures, adapter/writer, Mr. Magoo cartoons & "Gerald McBoing-Boing" - winner Academy Award, Best Animated Short [1950]; during 1950s, on Hollywood Blacklist; author & illustrator, children's books - "Sam & the Firefly" [1958], "The Best Nest" [1968]

Gerhard Gesell

1928 Washington attorney & judge; chair, presidential Committee on Equal Opportunity in the Armed Services [1961-67]; US district judge, Washington, DC [1967-93]; 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, -65, -68]; America's Cup challenge financier, Constellation Syndicate [1964]; president, Society of the Four Arts, Palm Beach [1966-88]; 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 [1946-75]

Franz J. "Inge" Ingelfinger

1928 Gastroenterologist, medical educator and journalist; editor, New England Journal of Medicine [1967-77]; creator of the "Ingelfinger Rule" [1970] regarding biomedical publishing; recipient, Fuess Award [1980]

Daniel James

1928 Playwright, screenwriter & novelist; communist [ca.1930s-1948]; "Winter Soldiers" published in "Best Plays" [1942-43]; on Hollywood Blacklist [1950-]; social worker [ca.1948-68]; wrote under pseudonyms [1950-85]; 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 [1937-59]; President, Smith College [1959-75]

James O. Moore Jr.

1928 Solicitor General, New York State [1955-57]; Justice, New York Supreme Court

Lois Dunn Morse

1928 Nurse, administrator & educator, New York, Boston & 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 & 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 [1955-63]

Norman Pearson

1928 Yale English professor, author; authority on the work of Nathaniel Hawthorne; explorer, Viking ruins, Greenland

Paul C. Reardon

1928 Jurist & judicial reformer; chief justice, Massachusetts Superior Court [1955-62]; a founder & 2nd president, National Conference of State Trial Judges [1957]; author, the "Reardon Report" on fair trials & free press [1964, 1968; recommendations adopted in all 50 states by 1973]; associate justice, Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court [1962-76]; founder & 1st 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 [1966-68]

Roland Burnett Sundown

1928 Seneca Indian, noted as a traditional chanter

Horace G. Torbert Jr.

1928 Diplomat; US ambassador to Hungary [1961-62], Somalia [1963-65], Bulgaria [1970-73]

Willis Armstrong

1929 Diplomat & international trade expert; official, Lend-Lease Administration [1941-45]; deputy director, Division of Commercial Policy [1952-54]; assistant secretary of state for economic affairs [1972-74]

Johnny Broaca

1929 NY Yankees pitcher [1934-37]

Charles W. Buek

1929 Banker, with United States Trust Company [1933-76], ultimately as president, CEO & chairman

Newton K. Chase

1929 Headmaster, Thatcher School [1949-63, 1968-69]

Sherman Chickering

1929 Attorney & conservationist; a founder, Sugar Bowl Ski Area, Norden, CA [1939] & namesake, Sugar Bowl's "Chick's Challenge" ski run; president, California Fish & Game Commission; chair, California State Wildlife Conservation Commission; trustee, California Academy of Sciences [1972-93]; donor & namesake, Chickering American River Reserve [1975]

Richard Jackson

1929 Assistant Secretary of the Navy [1957-61]

Alfred Kidder II

1929 Archeologist, author; panelist on the UPenn-based archeology quiz show, "What in the World?" [ca.1950-65], winner Peabody Award

John Lardner

1929 Sports writer, war correspondent; author "Southwest Passage: the Yanks in the Pacific" [1943]

Thomas M. Lasater

1929 Rancher & cattle breeder, Texas & Colorado; developer of Beefmaster cattle [1931-], recognized as a distinct breed by the USDA [1954]

Despina Plakias Messinesi

1929 Editor, Vogue magazine [1941-92]

J. Quigg Newton Jr.

1929 Activist mayor of Denver [1947-55]; president, American Municipal Association [1949-50]; president, University of Colorado [1956-63]; president, The Commonwealth Fund, New York [1964-75] 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 Arctic explorer, author & publisher; as a PA student, participated in MacMillan Arctic Expeditions [1925-29]; navigator, Byrd Arctic Expeditions [1928-30, 1933-35]; post-WWII, president, David McKay & Rawson, Wade [publishers]; author, "A Boys Eye View of the Arctic" [1926]; namesake, Rawson Plateau

Peregrine White

1929 Attorney for the Manhattan Project; worked on Fermi patent for first nuclear reactor [1942-55]; post WWII, R&D general council, Dept. of Defense; research editor, National Academy of Sciences [1969-77]

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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 [WACS][1944-]

John Usher Monro

1930 Director of Financial Aid, Harvard [1950-57]; pioneered need-based financial aid and expanded educational opportunities for African-Americans; dean of Harvard College [1957-67]; director of freshman studies, Miles College, Birmingham, Alabama [1967-77]; recipient, Fuess Award [1982]

John Newell

1930 President, Bath Iron Works shipyard [1950-65]; 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 & Phillips Academy; recipient, Fuess Award [1997]

Richard H. O'Kane

1930 Outstanding WWII submarine commander in the Pacific theatre [1943-44], sinking 24 enemy ships & rescuing dozens of downed pilots; prisoner of war [1944-45]; recipient, Congressional Medal of Honor [1947]; Rear Admiral [1957]; namesake, USS O'Kane [1998]

Helen Ripley

1930 Ensign, US Navy WAVES [1944-]

William L. Sachse

1930 Rhodes Scholar [1935-]; history professor, U Wisconsin; author, "The Colonial American in Great Britain" [1978]

Roul Tunley

1930 Journalist & 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, Andover & Yale; set world record [1935]

John L. Cooper

1931 Chairman, Massachusetts Financial Services [-1978]; chair, Mount Holyoke College Board of Trustees [1971-79]

Augustus Hecksher II

1931 Co-founder, Yale Political Union [1934]; New York City art commissioner [1957-62]; special consultant on the arts to President Kennedy [1962-63]; director, 20th Century Fund [1957-67]

James Lardner

1931 Herald-Tribune Paris reporter covering Spanish Civil War; joined the Lincoln Brigade; killed in action [1938]

Max Franklin Millikan

1931 Co-founder, Yale Political Union [1934]; professor of economics & director, Center for International Relations, MIT [1952-69]

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 [1966-68], speaker [1969-72], AMA president [1973-74]

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 & medical researcher; pioneer in study of stress & hypertension; supervisor of clinical research & head, Department of Medicine, University of Nebraska [1953-67]; president, board of regents, National Medical Library [1967-69]

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 [1960-80]; chairman, Yale Development Board [1969]; founding chairman, Central Park Conservancy [1980-85]; chairman/chairman emeritus, Hudson River Foundation [1980-]

Norman Cahners

1932 Founder, president & 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 & trustee of many colleges, hospitals & civic agencies; president & then chair, Boston Museum of Science [1972-86]; recipient, Harvard Business Statesman Award [1977], American Business Press Honor Scroll Award [1984], Annual Award, National Conference of Christians & Jews [1986]

John M. Cates Jr.

1932 Diplomat; State Department expert on the UN & Latin America [1947-70]; president, Center for Inter-American Relations [1971-75]

Robert H. Cory Jr.

1932 Founder & director, William Penn House [1966-], Washington, a Quaker center promoting peace & 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 & president, Toni beauty products [1944-62]; transformed Pittsburgh Railways into the diversified Pittway Company [1960s]; president/chair, Pittway [1962-]

Gladwin Hill

1932 London-based AP war correspondent [1942-45]; 1st NY Times LA bureau chief [1946-68]; author, "Dancing Bear: an Inside Look at California Politics" [1968]; first national environmental correspondent, NY Times [1969-79]

Miye Hirooka

1932 Translator, Tokyo [ca.1940-]

Adrian C. "Ace" Israel

1932 Investment banker; president, Bache & Company [1965-66], chairman, People's Drug [1975-]; founder & CEO, ACLI International, commodities trading firm [-1981]; vice chair, Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette

Oliver Jensen

1932 Cofounder, American Heritage Magazine [1954] & Horizon Magazine [1958]; editor, American Heritage [1959-76]

Ring Lardner Jr.

1932 Screenwriter & 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 & fired by studios [1947]; moved to England, wrote under pseudonyms; comeback as screenwriter for "M.A.S.H." - winner, Academy Award, best screenplay & Cannes Best Picture [1970]

Richard A. Moore

1932 Attorney & 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 [1989-92]

Wingate Paine

1932 Commercial photographer, specialist in fashion & illustration work; author, "Mirror of Venus" [1967]

Lovett C. Peters

1932 Founder & chairman, Pioneer Institute for Public Policy Research [1988-]; recipient, Fuess Award [1978]

Henry S. Robinson

1932 Archeologist; director, American School of Classical Studies, Athens [1959-69]

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] & US Bobsled Team [1948]; owner, Philadelphia Eagles [1940-49], winner NFL championship [1948 & '49]

William L. Veeck Jr.

1932 As owner of the Cleveland Indians [1946-49], helped to integrate Major League Baseball; owner, St. Louis Browns [1951-53] & Chicago White Sox [1959-61, 1975-81]

John Horne Burns

1933 Novelist; author of "The Gallery" [1947]

Louis J. Hector

1933 Rhodes Scholar [1938-40]; OSS officer operating in China, WWII; attorney; outspoken chair, Civil Aeronautics Board [1956-59]; instrumental in creation and, as chair, administering the Lucille Makey Charitable Trust supporting science research

Robert Ingersoll

1933 CEO Borg Warner [1958-72]; ambassador to Japan [1972-73], Assistant Secretary of State, East Asian Affairs [1973-74], Deputy Secretary of State [1974-76]; recipient, Fuess Award [1991]

Sargeant Kahanamoku

1933 Hawaiian swimmer & surfing legend [1930s-40s]

Robert H. Krieble

1933 Chemist & industrialist; co-founder & product developer, Loctite Corporation [1953-], president/CEO/chair [1964-86]; vice chair, Heritage Foundation [1985-96]; founder, Krieble Institute [1989], promoting democracy, economic freedom & education in the former Soviet Union & Eastern Europe

William Nute

1933 Medical missionary, Turkey [ca.1945-65]; director, Christian Medical Council, National Council of Churches [1960s]; Regional Health Director, New York Public Health Service [1970s]

Gerard Piel

1933 Publisher Scientific American [1947-84], transforming magazine, widening its appeal & influence; president, American Association for Advancement of Science [1985-86]; author, "Science in the Cause of Man" [1962], "The Age of Science" [2001]

Herbert Scoville Jr.

1933 Nuclear physicist, Defense Department Special Weapons Project [1948-55]; CIA deputy director, research & technology [1955-63]; director for technology, Arms Control & Disarmament Agency [1963-69]; a founder & president, Arms Control Association [1979-85]; author, ''Missile Madness'' [1970] & ''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 [1953-61]; responsible for American National Exhibition, Moscow, & Nixon visit to Russia [1959]; FCC commissioner [1974-82], advocate for cell phone communications & public television

C. Francis "Foochow" Belcher

1934 Executive director, Appalachian Mountain Club [1956-75]

Harlan Cleveland

1934 Rhodes Scholar [1938-39]; assistant secretary of state for international organizations [1961-65]; US ambassador to NATO [1965-69]; president, University of Hawaii [1969-74]; director, Aspen Institute Program in International Affairs [1974-80]; founding dean, Hubert Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota [1980-90]; 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 @ Cornell, Harvard, Rockefeller [1953-86]

Roderick S.G. Hall

1934 OSS agent in the mountains of Italy, WWII; killed 1945; diary & letters recount life as a spy

William H. Harding

1934 Intercollegiate pole vault champion [1936, -37 & -38], qualifier for the cancelled 1940 Olympic Games; headmaster, the Pike School [1956-]

Marion Harper Jr.

1934 Advertising leader, developer of advertising research & the competitive agency system; president/chair, McCann-Erickson [1948-60]; founder, president & chairman, Interpublic Group [1961-68], world's largest P.R. firm

Gardner Middlebrook

1934 Medical researcher, Rockefeller Institute; co-developer, hemagglutination test for TB [1948]; recipient, Pasteur Medal [1954]

Katherine Damon Reed

1934 Co-founder & business manager, Carroll Reed Ski Shops [1950-69], pioneer in up-market catalogue sales

Robert A. Uihlein Jr.

1934 President/chairman, Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company [1961-76]; polo player & promoter in the US; namesake, Robert A. Uihlein Memorial Trophy, US Polo Association; part-owner, Milwaukee Brewers

John M. Woolsey Jr.

1934 Attorney & conservationist; prosecutor, Nuremberg war crimes trials [1945-49]; president, Trustees of Reservations [1977-80]; recipient, Massachusetts Audubon Society Allen Morgan Prize for land conservation

Alexander B. Adams

1935 Conservationist & author; president & later chairman, the Nature Conservancy [1960-69]; author, "Thoreau's Guide to Cape Cod" [1962], "The Disputed Lands" [1981]

Newell Brown

1935 Assistant Secretary of Labor [1955-61]

James S. Copley

1935 Chairman, Copley Press & Copley News Service [1949-73]; as editorial page editor, San Diego Union, an influential conservative; philanthropist, educational & cultural institutions

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]; mountain climber; at 71, the oldest person to ascend 20,000' Denali/Mt. McKinley [1988]

Albert Kerr

1935 Headmaster, Berwick Academy [1957-64], Peddie School [1964-77]

William Knowles

1935 Chemist; Nobel Prize, chemistry [2002] for development of catalytic asymmetric synthesis

Richard Lederer

1935 Historian & 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 [1969-73]; chair, Board of Trustees, Lake Forest College

Henry Salomon

1935 NBC documentarian; conceived, wrote & produced "Victory at Sea" [1952-53], widely acclaimed battle-centered history of World War II, recipient, Peabody & Emmy awards [1954]; director of NBC special programming projects

Robert W. Sarnoff

1935 Television executive [1948-75]; commissioned Gian Carlo Menotti television opera "Amalh & the Night Visitors" [1953], 1st color broadcast; president, RCA & NBC [1956-75]

James W. Swihart

1935 Diplomat; 1st secretary, US Embassy, London [1956], director, Department of State Office of Eastern European Affairs [1989-91], Ambassador to Lithuania [1994-97]

M.C. Chakrabandhu Pensiri Chakrabandhu

1936 Prince Chakrabandhu Pensiri Chakrabandhu, Minister of Agriculture & Cooperatives, Thai Government [1974-75]; namesake, Chakrabandhu Pensiri Building, Kasetsart University, Bangkok

Cleve Gray

1936 Painter, art critic & author; known for large, abstract color-field canvases, including the 14-canvas "Threnody" series [1972-73]; editor, writings of David Smith [1968], John Marin [1970]

Cranston Edward Jones

1936 Journalist & magazine editor & author focused on American architecture, "Architecture Today & Tomorrow" [1961], "Marcel Breuer" [1963]; recipient, awards for excellence in architectural journalism, American Institute of Architects [1956, '58, '59, '60]

Robert Huntington Knight

1936 Attorney, banker; advisor to Eisenhower & Kennedy administrations; deputy chairman/chairman, Federal Reserve Bank of New York [1976-83]

John J. McLaughry

1936 All-American full back, Brown [1938, '39]; player, New York Football Giants [1940]; head football coach, Amherst, Brown [1950-66]

Willis A. Trafton Jr.

1936 Speaker, Maine House of Representatives [1955-56]

Robert T. Bower

1937 Sociologist & opinion researcher; founder/director, Bureau of Social Science Research, Washington [1950-81]; president, American Association of Public Opinion Research; author, "Television & the Public" [1973], "Ethics in Social Research" [1978]

Vincent L. Broderick

1937 Attorney, judge & police official; New York Police Commissioner [1965-66]; judge, Federal District Court for the Southern District, New York [1976-94]; chairman, criminal law committee, Judicial Conference of the United States [1990-93]

Bertram Davis

1937 English professor & authority on Thomas Percy; leader, American Association of University Professors [ca.1960-2001], general secretary [1967-74]

Bertram H. Davis

1937 English professor; authority on Samuel Johnson & his times; general secretary, American Association of University Professors [1967-74]

L. Douglas Heck

1937 Diplomat; opened 1st US embassy in Nepal [1959] as chargŽ d'affaires; deputy chief of mission, Tehran [1970-74]; ambassador to Niger [1974-76], Nepal [1977-80]

Henry Hornblower II

1937 Stockbroker, amateur archeologist, founder, chief sponsor & president & board chair, Plimoth Plantation living history museum [1947-85]

Joseph P. Lyford

1937 Pioneering journalist on urban affairs; author, "The Talk in Vandalia" [1964], "The Airtight Cage" [1966]; journalism professor, UC Berkeley [1966-83]

Torbert MacDonald

1937 Captain, Harvard football team & roommate to John F. Kennedy; member, National Labor Relations Board [1948-52]; congressman from Massachusetts [1955-76] specializing in campaign finance legislation, communications [cable television] & energy

Howard A. Reed

1937 Professor of history & intercultural studies; authority on Islam, Middle Eastern history, Institute of Islamic Studies, McGill

Edward A. Robie

1937 CARE executive board member [1979-96], chair [1986-89]

Reed Whittemore

1937 Poet & publisher; founder of poetry magazines Furioso [ca.1940] & Carleton Miscellany [ca.1960]; critic & biographer; English professor, Carlton College [1947-66], U Maryland [1966-84]; Library of Congress Consultant in Poetry [1964-65, 1984-85]; author, "The Mother's Breast & the Father's House" [1974], "Six Literary Lives" [1993]

L. Stanton Williams

1937 Chairman & CEO, PPG [1979-84]; YMCA national board of trustees treasurer [1959-64], chairman [1983-85]; donor to medical, historical & educational institutions

John Leggett

1938 Author, editor & educator; director Writers' Workshop, University of Iowa [1969-87]

Frank W. Rounds Jr.

1938 Journalist & diplomat, expert on Russia; author, "A Window on Red Square" [1953]

John R. Stevenson

1938 Attorney, chairman, Sullivan & Cromwell; Assistant Secretary of State [1969-72]; delegate, Law of the Sea Conference [1973-75]; board president, National Gallery of Art [1978-83]

George C. Tooker

1938 Painter, active ca.1950-

John M. Blum

1939 Yale history professor emeritus, political biographer; author, "Woodrow Wilson & the Politics of Morality" [1956], "The National Experience: A History of the United States" [1977]

Francis L. Broderick

1939 Peace Corps director in Ghana [1964]; history professor; 1st chancellor, University of Massachusetts, Boston [1968-72]

Harold Chase

1939 Major General, Marine Corps [ca.1975-]; deputy assistant secretary of defense [1977-80]; professor of political science, U Minnesota; namesake, Marine Corps' Major General Harold Chase Prize, honoring challenges to "conventional wisdom" in Corps policies

David Cuthell

1939 Diplomat [1947-75]; director, Office of Southwest Pacific Affairs [1962-66]; chargŽ d'affaires, US Embassy, Turkey; authority on Turkey & Islamic law;

Henry Loeb III

1939 Mayor of Memphis [1960-63, 1968-71] during the Memphis Sanitation Strike [1968] & assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr

George Parker Jr.

1939 Attorney & oil executive; director, Texaco [1961-93]; founder, Western European Architecture Foundation & the Gabriel Prize for study of French architecture & landscape design [1991]

Mary "Maria" Curtis-Verna

1939 Dramatic soprano; Milan debut [1949], US debut [1950], Metropolitan Opera debut [1957]; recipient, Hollins Medal [1968]

Holt W. Webster

1939 Pioneer, commercial airfreight; founder, Pacific Air Freight [1947]; founder, president & later chairman, Airborne Freight Corp / Airborne Express [1968-1984]

Thomas J. Whelan Jr.

1939 Major General & army surgeon; specialist in trauma surgery; chief of surgery, Walter Reed General Hospital [1959-62]; chief of surgery, Tripler Army Medical Center, Honolulu [1965-69]

Walter C. Wicker Jr.

1939 As a volunteer in the Royal Canadian Air Force, Wicker was the 1st Andover graduate killed in action during World War II [April, 1942]

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1940s
Name Class Areas of Note

Walter J. P. Curley Jr.

1940 Ambassador to Ireland [1975-77]; Ambassador to France [1989-93]

Robert Neville Ginsburgh

1940 Air Force major general; defense analyst & information officer, US Air Force [1944-71]; director, Air Force information [1972-74]; editor in chief, Strategic Review, Joint Chiefs of Staff [1975-76]

Nicholas M. Greene

1940 A founder of modern anesthesiology, medical researcher; founder, Department of Anesthesiology, Yale Medical School [1955-87]; editor-in-chief, Anesthesiology, and Anesthesia & 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 [1967-69]; co-chair, Americans for SALT; author, "Townsend Hoopes on Arms Control" [1987]; "The Life & Times of James Forrestal" [1992]; president, Association of American Publishers [1973-86]; recipient, Bancroft Prize in History for "The Devil & John Foster Dulles" [1973]

William B. Macomber, Jr.

1940 Asst. secretary of state [1957-61, 1969-73]; ambassador to Jordan [1961-63]; ambassador to Turkey [1973-77]; President Metropolitan Museum of Art [1978-86]; recipient, Fuess Award [1972]

James J. McCaffrey

1940 Co-founder & chair, McCaffrey & McCall [1962-73] ad agency representing Rolls-Royce, Mercedes-Benz, Tiffany & Company

Daniel Pinkham

1940 Organist, choral conductor & composer; named Composer of the Year, American Guild of Organists [1990]; recipient, Fuess Award & Alfred Nash Patterson Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award for contributions to the Choral Arts [both1996]

Robert K. Barron

1941 First Andover student to leave & 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; co-founder [1967] & president, Berkshire Natural Resources Council

Richard L. Gelb

1941 President/CEO/chairman, Bristol-Myers Squibb [1967-95]; director & chairman, Federal Reserve Bank of New York; chair, Sloan-Kettering Board of Managers [1983-2004]; philanthropist; recipient, Yale GHW Bush Lifetime of Leadership Award [2003]

Harvey Kelsey Jr.

1941 Princeton sprinter; intercollegiate champion, 100-yard & 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 [1959-80]; key legislative backer for the establishment of the National Endowment for the Arts & the National Endowment for the Humanities [1964]; also key to NYC fiscal bailout, freedom of information legislation and funding for development of synthetic fuels; recipient, Fuess Award [1968]

Arthur Upton

1941 Pathologist, director, National Cancer Institute [1977-80]; director, Institute of Environmental Medicine, NYU [1980-93]; recipient, Fuess Award [1980]

H. Donald Wilson

1941 Peace Corps director, Ethiopia [1964-66]; database pioneer & entrepreneur; as 1st president of Mead Data Central, made LexisNexis a successful technology [1970-]; involved in many other tech startups from the 1960s into the 21st century

James J. Beggs

1942 Cox, US Olympic Crew Team [1952]; coach, gold medal winning 2+ US Olympic Crew Team [1956]

George H. W. Bush

1942 Texas Republican congressman [1967-71]; United Nations ambassador [1971-73]; chairman, Republican National Committee [1972-74]; chief, US Liaison Office, People's Republic of China [1974-76]; CIA director [1976-77]; vice president [1981-89]; 41st President of the United States [1989-93]; recipient, Fuess Award [1981]; coauthor, "A World Transformed" [1998]; author, "All the Best" [1999]; namesake, aircraft carrier USS George HW Bush [commissioned 2009]

William Sloane Coffin Jr.

1942 Protestant minister, civil rights & peace activist; chaplain, Phillips Academy [1957-58], Yale [1958-75], senior minister, Riverside Church, New York [1977-87]; recipient, Fuess Award [2003]; author, "A Holy Impatience" [2004]

Helen Craig

1942 PFC, Marine Corps [1944-]

Gordon Elliot

1942 Initiator & 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-, 1972-75], 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 [1963-88]

Dick "Dude" Duden

1943 All-American end & captain, Naval Academy football team [1945]; New York Football Giants team [1949]; member College Football Hall of Fame [2001]

Thomas J. Hudner Jr.

1943 Navy aviator; recipient, Medal of Honor for action in the Korean War [1950]; commissioner, Massachusetts Dept. of Veterans Services [1991-99]

Jack Lemmon

1943 Movie actor, comedian best known for roles in "Mr. Roberts" [1955], "Some Like It Hot" [1959], "The Apartment" [1960] & "Save the Tiger" [1973]; Academy Award, Best Supporting Actor [1955], Best Actor in a Leading Roll [1973]; Cannes Film Festival, Best Actor Award [1979, -82]; Golden Globe Award, Best Comedy Actor [1959, -60, -72]

Roger Morgan

1943 Librarian, House of Lords [1977-]

Pierre Birel Rosset-Cournand

1943 French parachutist, WWII; killed behind enemy lines [1944]; recipient, Legion d'honneur

Thomas Sarnoff

1943 Television executive, producer; head, NBC West Coast & president, NBC Entertainment [ca.1965-1975]; chairman, Sarnoff Entertainment [1981-]; chair, board of trustees, Academy of Television Arts & Sciences [1973-74]; recipient, ATAS Syd Cassyd Award [1997]

Bardwell Smith

1943 Professor of religion & Asian studies; dean, Carlton College [1967-72]

Dwight Stuart

1943 President/CEO, Carnation Company [1973-83]; founder & funder, Dwight Stuart Foundation for Youth [2001]

Julia Tavares de Alvarez

1944 Ambassador & Alternate Permanent Representative of the Dominican Republic to the United Nations [1978-], known as "the Ambassador on Aging"

William W. Boeschenstein

1944 President/CEO/chairman, Owens-Corning Fiberglas [1971-90]

Heyward Isham

1944 Authority on the Soviet Union; US Ambassador to Haiti [1974-77]; author, "Remaking Russia" [1995]

Victor Kiam

1944 Entrepreneur; part owner & CEO, Benrus Watch Corporation [1968-]; owner, CEO & TV promoter, Remington Electric Razor [1979-2001]; owner, New England Patriots Football Team [1988-92]

Thomas R. Morse Jr.

1944 Judicial administrator & reformer; associate justice, Massachusetts Superior Court [1974-83], chief justice [1983-88]

William Kelly Simpson

1944 Egyptologist, Yale [1965-2003]; author & editor, "The Terrace of the Great God at AbydosÉ" [1978]

Whitney Stevens

1944 President/Chairman, J.P. Stevens Company [1969-89]

Wheelock Whitney

1944 Investment banker, philanthropist & politician; a founder, Johnson Institute, combating chemical dependency [1966]; Republican candidate for US senator from Minnesota [1964] & governor [1982]; "Investment Banker of the Year" [1971]

Meridan "Med" Bennett

1945 Peace Corps staffer & evaluator; Peace Corps program director, Cyprus; coauthor, "Agents of Change: A Close Look at the Peace Corps" [1968]

Hilary Paterson Cleveland

1945 Professor of political science, Colby-Sawyer College [1955-90]; president, New Hampshire Historical Society; in the 1990s, US representative, International Joint Commission, United States/Canada [1989-]

Robert C. Dean Jr.

1945 Engineer, inventor & entrepreneur; engineering professor, Dartmouth [1961-84]; expertise in fluid mechanics, plasma-arcs, biomechanics; founder, Synergy Innovations & other high tech firms

Bruce Gelb

1945 Chairman, Choate Rosemary Hall board of trustees [1982-85]; director, USIA [1989-91]; ambassador to Belgium [1991-93]; president, American Council of Ambassadors [ca.2004-]

George D. Gould

1945 Chairman, Donaldson Lufkin & Jenrette Securities [1974-]; president, Madison Fund [1976-]; chairman, NY Municipal Assistance Corporation [1979-]; as Under Secretary of Treasury for Finance [1985-89], a proponent of deregulation of financial industry

Peter M. Grosz

1945 Aviation historian, authority on WWI aircraft; executor and authority on the work of his father, Expressionist artist George Grosz; recipient, Germany's Commander's Cross of Merit

R. Crosby Kemper Jr.

1945 President & later chairman, UMB Bank of Kansas City [1959-2004]; founder, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City [1994]

Lawrence Kohlberg

1945 Psychologist & theorist on moral development; creator, "Kohlberg's Stages of Moral Development" [1958]; professor, U Chicago, Harvard [1961-87]; namesake, Kohlberg Memorial Lecture [1988]

James Lebenthal

1945 Chairman, Lebenthal & Company; through creative advertising, creator of the Lebenthal "brand" in municipal bonds [1960s-90s]

Harold A. B. McInnes

1945 President/CEO/chairman Amp, Inc. [1981-99]; first recipient, Spirit of Philanthropy Award, Foundation for Enhancing Communities [2008]

Marvin Minsky

1945 Authority on artificial intelligence, computers, robotics; MIT faculty [1958-]; inventor, confocal scanning microscope [1961]; recipient, Joseph Priestly Award [1995]

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

William H. Wilbur Jr.

1945 First of 8 PA alumni killed in the Korean Conflict [1950]

Edward C. Wilson

1945 Chairman, Chicago Board of Trade [1970-71]

Louis B. "By" Barnes

1946 Professor of organizational behavior, Harvard Business School [1958-]; pedagogue; authority on the dynamics of family-owned businesses & the case method of teaching

Otis Chandler

1946 Publisher, Los Angeles Times [1960-80], winner, Pulitzer public service prizes [1966, '69, '71, '76, '78]; 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. [1954-73]; CEO/chairman, Celanese Corporation [1973-86]; chairman, US Export-Import Bank [1989-92]; chairman, Council for Excellence in Government [1993-]

Richard J. Phelps

1946 Founder, Superior Brands/Phelps Industries [1966-]; philanthropist in support of educational institutions & educational opportunity through financial aid

David Thaw

1946 Opera singer, tenor; member, Bavarian State Opera [1963-2006]

William M. Van Cleve

1946 Attorney; managing partner/chairman, Bryan Cave LLP [1973-94]; chairman, board of trustees, Washington University, St. Louis [1993-95]

John B. Addison

1947 Chairman, UC Berkeley Department of Mathematics [1973-]; specialist in Tarski's Undefinability Theorem

Alexander Blackburn

1947 Author & editor; founder & editor, Writers' Forum magazine [1974-1995] showcasing writers of the western US

Joseph Champlin

1947 Catholic priest, authority on Catholic liturgy & pastoral subjects, syndicated columnist & radio commentator; author, including "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, investor John Vesco, attorney Anita Hill & fight promoter Don King

Mary Lee Peck Garfield

1947 Attorney, domestic policy advisor, Reagan Administration [1981-]; breeder of champion Weimaraners

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]

David T. Owsley

1947 Arts curator, collector and donor to museums at Ball State & Dallas

J. Mark Rudkin

1947 Artist, landscape architect, philanthropist; designer, gardens at Petite Palais, Paris, American Museum, Giverny; philanthropist in support of Egyptian antiquities & 20th-century American art; Chevalier, Légion d'honneur [2005]

Marion White Singleton

1947 Renaissance poetry authority; English professor, Dartmouth; author, "God's Courtier" [1988]

Alexander B. Trowbridge

1947 Secretary of Commerce [1967-68]; President, the Conference Board [1970-76]; president, National Association of Manufacturers [1979-89] & namesake, Sandy Trowbridge Award for Community Service

Frank Wille

1947 Banker, attorney; chair & CEO, New York Savings Bank; superintendent of banks, State of New York [1964-70]; chairman, FDIC [1970-76]

Thomas Wyman

1947 CEO, CBS [1980-86]; chairman, S. G. Warburg & Company [1992-95]; chairman, Amherst College Board of Trustees [1986-92]

Andrew P. "Andy" Ireland

1948 Banker; Florida congressman [1977-93]; initially a Democrat, became a Republican [1984]

Sidney R Knafel

1948 Venture capitalist; founder/chairman, Vision Cable [1971-81]; chair, Insight Communications; philanthropist; chair, Harvard College Visiting Committee [1987-92]; founder, Center for Government & 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-]

Preston H. Saunders

1948 President, Appalachian Mountain Club [1965-66, 1991-93]; chairman, Massachusetts Trustees of Reservations

Alan G. Schwartz

1948 Tennis entrepreneur; member, International Tennis Federation, Davis Cup Committee; president, US Tennis Association [2003-04]

John M. Steadman

1948 Dean, Georgetown Law School [1979-89]; associate justice, DC Court of Appeals [1985-]

Sir John P.B.C. Watts

1948 Lieutenant-General; British special forces commander [1970-79]; Chief of Defense Staff, Oman Land Forces [1984-87]

Genevieve Young

1948 Editor; managing editor, Harper Brothers [-1970], vice president & executive editor, J.B. Lippincott [1970-]; Independent Editors Group; president, Women's Media Group [1981-82]; president, Youth Counseling League [1989-96]; with her mother & 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 & later foreign editor & syndicated columnist [1960-81]; executive director, World Press Freedom Committee [1981-96]

Prabhas Chakkaphak

1949 OSS-trained Thai resistance fighter, World War II; economist; Thai transportation official; chairman, Union Bank of Bangkok

Justin Dart

1949 ADA & civil rights activist, recipient, Presidential Medal of Freedom [1998]

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 & Frances Landry Prize [1992]

Louis Kane

1949 Co-founder Au Bon Pain, Inc. [1981]; Boston civic leader & philanthropist

John W. Kimball

1949 Educator; leading author of biology textbooks, print & online, since 1965

James "Jimmy" McLane

1949 Olympic swimmer; winner, gold medals, 1500 free & 4x200 [1948] & 4x200 again [1952]

Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

1949 Anthropologist specializing in African tribal societies & 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 & church architecture; professor of theology, Notre Dame [1983-99]; president, North American Academy of Liturgy; recipient, NAAL Berakah Award [1983]

C. Dickie Williamson

1949 Chairman & CEO, Williamson-Dickie Corporation, apparel manufacturer [1972-90]; director, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas [1989-90]

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1950s
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Anthony C. Beilenson

1950 Democratic politician; member, California Assembly [1963-67] & Senate [1967-76]; congressman [1977-97]; member, House Rules & Budget Committees; congressional environmental activist; leader, campaign finance reform

Ivan Chermayeff

1950 Graphic designer, illustrator & artist; co-founder, Chermayeff & Geismar [1957-]; recipient, Fuess Award [1979], Yale 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 & chairman, BayBanks-BankBoston [1974-99]

Dorothy Lambert Feigenbaum

1950 President, Lady Finelle Cosmetics

Byron S. Harvey III

1950 Anthropologist; collector/scholar, Native American art & 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 & recording artist [1956-]

Elizabeth Bradley Hubbard

1950 President, League of Women Voters of New York; executive director, Fund for Modern Courts; member NY State Commission on Judicial Conduct [2008-]

Howard B. Johnson

1950 President/CEO/chairman, Howard Johnson restaurant & motor lodge chain [ca.1961-85]

Norma 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

David Pingree

1950 Chair, Brown Department, History of Mathematics [1986-2005]; authority on the exact sciences in antiquity, especially ancient India; recipient, Guggenheim Fellowship [1975], MacArthur Award [1981-86]; 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 [1979-84]; commissioner, New York Landmarks Preservation Commission [1979-84]; 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 & the American Nation" [1997]

Benjamin F. Schemmer

1950 Military analyst; owner & editor, Armed Forces Journal International [1968-92]; editor in chief, Strategic Review [-2001]

Allan Stone

1950 Art dealer & collector, expert on Abstract Expressionism emerging artists, tribal & primitive art [1960-2006]

Chris Weatherley-White

1950 Plastic surgeon, Operation Smile volunteer performing reconstructive surgery in Third World nations [1990-]

Timothy Anderson

1951 Architect; co-founder, Anderson Notter [later Anderson Notter Finegold]; noted for adaptive reuse of historic buildings; Fellow, American Institute of Architects [1985]; namesake, National Housing & Rehabilitation Association Anderson Award [2002] for historic rehabilitation

E. Osborne "Ozzie" Ayscue Jr.

1951 Attorney; president, American College of Trial Lawyers [1998-99], member, ABA Standing Committee on Federal Judiciary [2001-04]

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 de Lahunta

1951 Neuroanotomist, clinical neurologist, neuropathologist; author; James Law Professor of Anatomy, Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine [1992-]

Rosamond Snyder Peck

1951 Crusader for strip mining environmental reform [1970s]; president, Countryside Conservancy, Pennsylvania

Anthony Quainton

1951 Diplomat [1959-97]; ambassador, Central African Empire [1976-78], Nicaragua, Kuwait & Peru; 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-]

Richard Ullman

1951 Rhodes Scholar [1955-57]; professor of international affairs, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton [1965-]; director of studies, Council on Foreign Relations [1973-77]; chairman, World Peace Foundation [1995-2004]; author, "Intervention & War" [1961], "Securing Europe" [1991]; honoree, "The Real & the Ideal, Essays in Honor of Richard Ullman" [2001]

Shirley Young

1951 Advertising Woman of the Year [1988]; head, GM joint venture development, Shanghai [1988-99]; founding chairman, Committee of 100 [1990, Chinese-American leadership organization]; with her mother & sisters, a refuge from war-torn China in the late 1940s

James E. Baker

1952 Diplomat; US Foreign Service [1960-80]; 1st African-American diplomat posted to South Africa [1973-75]; supporter of black South African artists during apartheid; director, UN emergency relief programs [1980-95]

Edward E. Elson

1952 Chairman, Georgia Advisory Committee, US Commission on Civil Rights [ca.1975]; 1st chairman, National Public Radio [1977-80]; Rector, University of Virginia [1990-92]; ambassador to Denmark [1993-98]; recipient & namesake, 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 [1969-75], Harvard [1975-87]; chair, Dept. of Surgery, Scripps Clinic [1987-98]

Gordon Lish

1952 Founder of literary magazines; fiction editor, Esquire Magazine [1969-76], Knopf [1976-95]; author, "Krupp's Lulu" [2000]

Maria Loukoulou

1952 International student from Athens

David Slavitt

1952 Poet; translator, Latin & Greek classics; author & critic; "Falling from Silence: Poems" [2001];"Re Verse" [2005]

Paul K. Alkon

1953 English professor, authority on Samuel Johnson & his times; author, "Samuel Johnson & Moral Discipline" [1967], "Science Fiction before 1900" [1994]

Carl Andre

1953 Minimalist sculptor [ca.1960-], 1st major one-man show @ Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum [1970]; recipient, Fuess Award [1979]

Edmund N. Ansin

1953 President/owner, Sunbeam Television Corporation [1971-]

Martha Gross Boesing

1953 Playwright & director; artistic director, At the Foot of the Mountain Women's Theatre Company, Minneapolis [1974-84]; author of 40 plays, including "River Journal" [1975], "The Web" [1982], "After Long Silence" [1999]

Michael Chapman

1953 Cinematographer & 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 [1969]; filmmaker; recipient, Fuess Award [1979]

Peter C. Harpel

1953 Harvard All-American, hammer-throw [1957]; medical researcher specializing in hematology; chairman of medicine, Weill Medical College, Cornell University

Carol Hardin Kimball

1953 Connecticut environmental & land conservation activist [ca.1960-200]

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 [1989-92]; commissioner, American Battle Monuments Commission [2001-2005]; recipient, Fuess Award [1978]

Richard L. Morse

1953 Physicist, Los Alamos weapons laboratory [-1976]

C. Carson Parks

1953 Singer & songwriter, including "Something Stupid" [1967], Frank Sinatra's 1st gold single

Robert H. Pelletreau Jr.

1953 Ambassador to Bahrain [1979-80], Tunisia [1987-91], Egypt [1991-93]; assistant secretary of state for Near East affairs [1994-97]

John Ratté

1953 Headmaster, Loomis-Chaffee School [1976-96]

Henry E. Riggs

1953 Professor of engineering, Stanford; founder, Stanford Institute for Management of High-Technology Companies [1975-83]; president, Harvey Mudd College [1988-97]; founding president, Keck Graduate Institute of Applied Life Sciences [1997-2003]

A. Bernard Ackerman

1954 Dermatopathologist & educator; director, dermatopathology, U Miami, NYU, Jefferson Medical College [1969-99]; founder & director, Ackerman Academy of Dermatopathology [1999-2008]

Les Blank

1954 Documentary filmmaker, especially known for films documenting American Roots music; Museum of Modern Art retrospective [1979]; recipient, Robert Flaherty Award for "Burden of Dreams" [1982]

Mortimer L. Downey

1954 Executive director, New York Metro Transportation Authority [1986-93]; deputy secretary & CEO, 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 [1962-76]; author & critic

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 [1960s2007]; headmaster, American School of Tangiers [1973-2007]

Jacqueline Wei Mintz

1954 Attorney; assistant attorney general, Maryland

Kenneth B. Pyle

1954 Professor of History & Asian Studies; founder & editor, Journal of Japanese Studies [1974-86]; director, Henry Jackson School of International Studies, U Washington [1978-88]; founding president, National Bureau of Asian Research [1989-]; chair, Japan-US Friendship Commission [1992-95]; 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 & composer, co-founder, Musica Electronica Viva [1966]

Robert B. Semple, Jr.

1954 Journalist; New York Times London bureau chief [1975-77], foreign editor [1977-82], editorial page editor/associate editor [1982-88, 1988-]; recipient, Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing [1996]

Frank Stella

1954 Painter, printmaker & sculptor [1950s-]; recipient, Fuess Award [1979]

David M. Underwood

1954 Director, & past president of the board, Methodist Hospital, Houston; president, Texas Medical Center [2002-]; trustee & board president, Phillips Academy [1983-2004]; benefactor, educational & medical institutions; recipient, Fuess Award [2003]

Mary Woolverton

1954 Medical social worker; Denver General Hospital [1963-67], Fitzsimmons Army Medical Center [1967-91]; 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-]

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]

Raymond Clevenger III

1955 Judge, US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit [1990-2006]

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]

Eli Jacobs

1955 Owner, Baltimore Orioles [1989-93]

Gerard E. "Gerry" Jones

1955 Yale All-American hockey goalie [1958-59]

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]

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 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-]

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-]

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]

Langley C. Keyes Jr.

1956 Rhodes Scholar [1959-60]; professor of city & regional planning, MIT; specialist in affordable housing

Mollie Lupe Lasater

1956 Vice president & then president, Forth Worth School Board [1978-88]; organizer & chair, I Have a Dream Foundation, Fort Worth [1988-]

David S. Paresky

1956 Travel-industry innovator; co-founder, 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]

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

William R. Timken

1956 Chairman, The Timken Company [1975-2003]; ambassador to Germany [2006-]

Lewis M. Walling Jr.

1956 First of 8 alumni killed in Vietnam [February 1962]

Roswell Angier

1957 Documentary photographer; author, "A Kind of Life: Conversations in the Combat Zone" [1976]

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, LŽgion d'honneur [1999]

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-]; co-founder & chairman, the Children's Scholarship Fund [1998-]; CEO Parents in Charge, etc.

Charles Grigsby

1957 Member / chairman, Massachusetts State Board of Education [1973-82 / 1977-80]

Gerrit M. Keator

1957 Headmaster, Promfret School [1979-89]; president, International College, Beirut [1989-2000]

Roland Kuchel

1957 Diplomat; US ambassador to Zambia [1993-96]

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]

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]

Hope Hamilton Pettegrew

1957 Cofounder & publisher, Cobblestone Magazine [1979-85], history & social science periodical for schools

Valerie Ogden Phillips

1957 Television actress [1974-99]

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]

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, including Educate Girls Globally [2000]

Marshall P. Cloyd

1958 Chairman, InterMarine, Inc., Houston-based specialty cargo shippers

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]

Charles W. Kellogg II

1958 US Olympic Ski Team [1968]; member, US Ski Team [1968-73]

John P. Leonard

1958 Diplomat [1965-99]; US chargŽ 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]

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 [1885-]

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-]

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]

Dickran Tashjian

1958 Art historian & author; "The Art of Early New England Stonecarving" [1974], "American Dada" [1975], "Surrealism & the American Avant-Garde" [1995]

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]

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]

Chester Crocker

1959 Foreign policy specialist, diplomat & educator; director, MS in Foreign Service program, Georgetown [1972-81]; as assistant secretary of state for African Affairs [1981-89], architect of Reagan Administration policy of "constructive engagement" with South Africa; chief US negotiator, Namibian independence efforts [1988]; Schlesinger Professor of Strategic Studies, Georgetown [1989-]; chairman, US Institute for Peace [1992-2004]; coauthor, "Taming Intractable Conflicts: Mediation in the Hardest Cases" [2004], "America's Role in the World: Foreign Policy Choices for the Next Administration" [2008]

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, PHS Distinguished Service Medal

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]

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 WarrenÉ" [1986], "The Marshall CourtÉ" [1988]

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1960s
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Michael A. Burlingame

1960 History professor, Connecticut College, Lincoln authority; author, "The Inner World of Abraham Lincoln" [1994]

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

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]

Edward Parker "Ned" Evans

1960 Thoroughbred breeder & owner, ranked among top 10 breeders in the United States; owner Spring Hill Farm, Virginia [1969-]

Duncan Kennedy

1960 Legal theorist; professor; Harvard Law School [1976-]; critic of American legal education; author, "A Critique of AdjudicationÉ" [1997]

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]

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]

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]

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

Ward Woods Jr.

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

Sid R. Bass

1961 Investor, philanthropist; vice chair, Museum of Modern Art

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]

King W.W. Harris

1961 CEO, Pittway Corporation [1987-]; 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.

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]

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]

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-]

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]

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]

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]

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]

Sally Mandel

1962 Author, best-selling romance novels; "Change of Heart" [1979], "Portrait of a Married Woman" [1986], "Out of the Blue" [2002]

W. Gage McAfee

1962 Attorney; member, Advisory Consultative Commission for the Basic Law of Hong Kong [1985-89]

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-]

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]; "The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer" [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]

Susan Almy

1964 Anthropologist & politician; specialist in social structures & nutrition in the developing world; Democratic member, New Hampshire House of Representatives, chair, 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]

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-]

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]

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-]

James B. Lockhart III

1964 Deputy director & CEO, Social Security Administration [2002-2006]; director, Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight [OFHEO, 2006-2009]; director, Federal Housing Finance Agency [2008-]

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]

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, "Law and Order" [1990-], television's 2nd longest-running drama series; producer, Academy Award-winning documentary "Twin Towers" [2003]

Mohamed Abdirashid Ali-Sharmarke

1965 Chair, Somali Committee for Popular Democracy [2001-]

Mary Wilkes Eubanks

1965 Anthropologist & botanist; senior research scientist, Duke University; researcher on maize origin, evolution & improvement; president, Sun Dance Genetics [2002-]; recipient, Fuess Award [2000]

Eugen Indjic

1965 Concert pianist; 2nd prize, International Arthur Rubenstein Competition [1974]

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]; chair, Hauser Center for Non-profits, Kennedy School [2004-]

Kevin Rafferty

1965 Documentary filmmaker; producer/director, The Atomic CafŽ" [1982]; cinematographer, "Roger & Me" [1989], "The War Room" [1993]

John M. "Jock" Reynolds

1965 Artist & museum director; director, Addison Gallery of American Art [1989-98], Yale Art Gallery [1998-]

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.

Michael M. Wood

1965 US Ambassador to Sweden [2006-]

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-]

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 CatecholsÉin Humans" [2003], "Adrenaline & the Inner WorldÉ" [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-]

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 Novelist, poet & essayist; author, "How the Garcia Girls Lost their Accents" [1991], "In a Time of Butterflies" [1994], "Once Upon a Quinceanera" [2007]

Joseph V. Canavagh Jr.

1967 All-American hockey player, Harvard [1969, -70 & -71]; US Ice Hockey Hall of Fame [1994]

Andre Davis

1967 Judge, Maryland District Court & Circuit Court [1987-95]; US District Court for Maryland [1995-]; 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-]

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, 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-]

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 Art [2005-]

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 "Steeltown" 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]

Peter Evans

1968 Actor, known for award-winning performances in plays by David Mamet, Tom Stoppard, Arthur Miller [ca.1975-85]

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-]

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 1969–1999" published 2000

Thomas Mesereau

1969 Trial 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]; recipient, National Magazine Award [1998]

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1970s
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Alex Donner

1970 New York band leader & cabaret singer

James B. Steinberg

1970 Foreign policy analyst, political advisor & diplomat; director, State Dept. policy planning staff [1994-96]; deputy national security advisor to President Clinton [1996-2000]; director, foreign policies 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-]

Theodore B. Thorndike

1970 Member, US National & Olympic hockey teams [1975-76]

Sandra "Sandy" Urie

1970 President & CEO, Cambridge Associates [2001-], a leading investment advisor to foundations & endowments; recipient, Women Who Make A Difference Award [2005], National Council for Research on Women

William L. Ury

1970 Anthropologist, peace negotiator; coauthor "Getting to YesÉ" [1981]; director 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-]

Andrew Wexler

1970 Plastic surgeon; reconstructive surgery volunteer, Operation Smile

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 2007 & Super Bowl wins in 2001, 2003 & 2004; named NFL Coach of the Year 2003, 2007

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, RI; Republican US senator [1999-2007]

David Cuthell Jr.

1971 Executive director, Institute for Turkish Studies, School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University

Frank duPont

1971 Documentary filmmaker; cofounder, Winton/duPont Films [1988]

Paul J. Finnegan

1971 Private equity investor; Co-founder & co-CEO, Madison Dearborn Partners, Chicago [1992-]

Thomas Foley

1971 Ambassador to Ireland [2006-]

Jameson French

1971 President/CEO, Northland Forest Products, specialty hardwoods producer; chair, hardwood trade federation; chair, Forest Stewardship Council; chair, Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests

Peter R. Halley

1971 Painter of geometric abstractions; art critic; cofounder, Index Magazine [1996-]; director, graduate studies in painting, 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 Film 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 CafŽ" [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]

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 Chairman/CEO, Amerada Hess [1995-]

Maud Lavin

1972 Art & cultural historian; author, "The Weimar Photomontages of Hannah Hoch" [1993], "Clear New World: Culture, Politics & Graphic Design" [2001]

Toby Lineaweaver

1972 Executive director, Penikese Island School, Cape Cod, Mass., for at-risk boys and juvenile felons [1996-]

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 [1997-]; expert on international security issues, humanitarian aid & peacekeeping; coauthor, "Human Security & the UN" [2006]

Doug Suisman

1972 Architect & urban planner, specializing in regional & transportation planning; author, "The Arc: A formal Structure for a Palestinian State" [2005]

Jonathan Tucker

1972 Specialist in chemical & biological weapons issues; senior fellow, James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Monterey Institute of International Studies [1996-]

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

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]

Guy Nordenson

1973 Structural engineer; professor, Princeton School of Architecture [1995-]; Commissioner, NYC Art Commission [2006-]; recipient, 1st American Academy of Arts & Letters Award in Architecture [2003]; author, "Tall Buildings" [2003], "Emergency Building Damage Assessment" [2004]

Elisabeth Robert

1973 President/CEO, Vermont Teddy Bear Company [1996-]

Cathy von Klemperer Utzschneider

1973 5-time US National Masters Cross Country champion; owner, MOVE [1993-], coaching for women

Christopher Agee

1974 Poet & editor based in Northern Ireland; author of "New Hampshire Woods" [1992], "First Light" [2003]

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-]

Dana Delany

1974 Movie & television actress; recipient, Emmy Award, "China Beach" [1989]; "Desperate Housewives" [2007-]

Karl Kirchwey

1974 Director of Creative Writing, Bryn Mawr; author, "The Engrafted Word" [1998]

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]

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" [video], recipient, Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Children's Video [2005]

Alexander Stille

1974 Journalist; author, "Five Italian Jewish Families Under Fascism" [1992], "Excellent Cadavers: the MafiaÉ" [1995], "The Future of the Past" [2003]

Jonathan Alter

1975 Journalist with Newsweek [1983-], senior editor & columnist [1991-]; television political commentator; author, "The Defining Moment: FDR's Hundred Days" [2006]

Ian Baker

1975 Himalayan explorer; Buddhist scholar, 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 Cunliffe

1975 Jazz pianist, band leader, arranger & composer; winner, Thelonious Monk Jazz Competition [1989]

Bill Kavanagh

1975 Documentary filmmaker & television producer; producer, "World in Focus," "Manhattan Connection" & "Story CafŽ" TV series; producer/director, "Brick by Brick: A Civil Rights Story" [2007]

Franklin Lavin

1975 Ambassador to Singapore [2000-2005]; Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade [2005-2007]

Peter Sellars

1975 Opera & stage director; recipient, MacArthur Award [1983], Lillian Gish Award [2005]

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; chief, Tokyo Bureau, The New York Times, [1983-89], Times foreign editor [2004-]

Christian Clemenson

1976 Actor; winner, Emmy Award, best guest actor in a drama series [2006]

Sarah Mleczko

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]

Heather White

1976 Founder & director, VeritŽ [1995-], NGO monitoring factory conditions & child labor

Francesca Woodman

1976 Photographer, active late 1970s, critically acclaimed since

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

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-]

Lucy Schulte Danziger

1978 Journalist; founding managing editor, 7 Days weekly [1990]; founding editor, CondŽ Nast Sports & Fitness for Women [1998]; editor-in-chief, Self magazine [2003-]

Martha Hill Gaskill

1978 Paralympics Giant Slalom bronze medalist [1988]

Christopher J.W.B. Leggett

1978 Interventional cardiologist, specializing in treatment of coronary & vascular diseases [1993-]

Seth Lloyd

1978 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; "VeraÉ" [1999], winner, Pulitzer Prize [2000]; "A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America" [2005], winner, George Washington Book Prize [2006]

Robert Smythe

1978 Founder & artistic director, Mum Puppettheatre [1998-]; recipient, Guggenheim Fellowship [1998]

James Spader

1978 Screen & television actor; winner, Best Actor Award, Cannes Film Festival [1989] for "Sex, Lies & Videotape"; Emmy Award for "Boston Legal" [2005]

Jeffrey Swartz

1978 COO, Timberland [1991-98], President & CEO [1998-]; exemplar & advocate for corporate social responsibility

Carroll Bogert

1979 Southeast Asia correspondent, Newsweek [1986-88], Moscow correspondent [1988-93], editor & international correspondent [1993-]; Human Rights Watch associate director [2003-]

Ruth Harlow

1979 Civil rights advocate; lead attorney before the Supreme Court in Lawrence v. Texas [2003]

John F. Kennedy Jr.

1979 Founder & editor-in-chief, George magazine [1995-99]

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]

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1980s
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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-]

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]; recipient, Fuess Award [2006]

Maro Chermayeff

1980 Documentary filmmaker & producer; "The Kindness of Strangers" [1998], "Julliard" [2003], producer & director, 10-hour PBS documentary "Carrier" [2008], recipient, Emmy Award for Outstanding Cinematography [2008]

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]

Willow Bay

1981 Journalist; co-anchor, "NBA Inside Stuff" [1991-98], "Good Morning America Sunday" [1994-99] CNN anchor [-2000]; editor-at-large, Huffington Post [2007-]

Jim Herberich

1981 Driver, US Olympic Bobsled Team [1988, -94, -98]; secretary, US Bobsled & Skeleton Federation [2002-]

Christina Fink

1982 Anthropologist & activist on behalf of human rights in Burma; author "Living Silence: Burma Under Military Rule" [2001]

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, writer, director, producer; co-CEO, 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

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], "Hard Road Home" [2007]

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," "George & Leo" etc.; host, "Martini Shot" KCRW Los Angles; contributor, SLATE, National Review

Angela Lorenz

1983 Artist & author; creator of limited-edition artist's books [1989-]

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

Katie McBride Puckett

1984 Skier; World Pro Tour [1990s], 6-time "24 Hours of Aspen" endurance event champion [1992-98]

Rosanne Marion 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]

Julia Trotman

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]

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-]; health-care advocate; recipient, Society for Neuroscience, Public Service Award (2002), Leukemia and Lymphoma Foundation Congressional Honors Award

Juan Mario Laserna Jaramillo

1986 Economist; general director of Public Credit, Colombia (1999 - 2002); director, Central Bank of Columbia [2005-]

Matt Mochary

1986 Documentary filmmaker, co-director, "Favela Rising" [2005], winner, Best Feature Film, International Documentary Association Awards [2005]

Richard Chin

1987 Member, US National Squash Team [2006, 2007]; US Olympic Committee Athlete Representative, US Squash Board of Directors

Jason Fry

1987 Assistant managing editor & columnist, WSJ.com [1995-]

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]

Nicholas Beim

1988 Marshall Scholar, Oxford [1993-94]

Chris Bischof

1988 Founder & principal, East Side 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], etc.

Duncan Sheik

1988 Singer-songwriter, composer; "Barely Breathing" [1996]; composer, Broadway musical "Spring Awakening," winner Tony Award for Best Score [2007]

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1990s
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Jane Gray

1990 Documentary filmmaker; producer/director, "Playing House" [2003]

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]

Todd Isaac

1990 Killed in the World Trade Center terrorist attacks, September 11, 2001

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

Tony Pittman

1990 All-American Penn State cornerback [1994]; co-host, Penn State Football podcasts [2004-]

Erik S. Kristensen

1991 Navy SEAL; killed in action, 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]

Samantha Appleton

1993 Photojournalist, best known for work in Iraq, Africa [2000-]

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 Tri-athlete; bronze medalist, Triathlon World Cup [2003]; member, US National Triathlon Team

Stephanie Johnes

1993 Documentary filmmaker; producer/director/cinematographer, "Doubletime" [2007]

Akash Kapur

1993 Rhodes Scholar [1999-2000]; expert on Internet governance & access; journalist

Carter Marsh

1993 All-American lacrosse player, Princeton [1995, '96, '97]; Ivy League Player of the Year [1997]

Rebecca Dowling Adams

1994 All-American, Naval Academy Women's Basketball Team [1997, '98]; Top Gun fighter pilot

Stacey Sanders

1994 Member, national championship Andover Girl's Crew Team [1993]; killed in the World Trade Center terrorist attacks [11 September 2001]

Darren Dinneen

1996 All-American runner, Harvard [1999, 2000], 800-meters

Miles Lasater

1996 Founder, Yale Entrepreneurial Society [1999] & the Yale Entrepreneurship Competition; founder & COO, 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 All-American soccer player, Washington University [2000]; Rhodes Scholar [2001-03]; author, "Elvis is Titanic" [2007]

Seth Moulton

1997 Marine Corps officer in Iraq [2003-]; op-ed commentator on the Iraq War [2006]

Kieran Fitzgerald

1998 Documentary filmmaker; writer/director/cinematographer, "The Ballad of Esequiel Hern‡ndez" [2007]

Charles Forelle

1998 Journalist; winner, Pulitzer Prize for Public Service [2007], Wall Street Journal coverage of corporate backdating of stock options

Sally Van Doren

1998 Poet; recipient, American Academy of Poets' Walt Whitman Award [2007] for "Sex at Noon Taxes"

Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck

1998 King of Bhutan [2006-]; ended absolute monarchy & instituted parliamentary elections [2008]

Ben Goldhirsh

1999 Founder & publisher, Good magazine [2006-]

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