William Clarence Matthews
Class of 1901
- Outstanding shortstop for Andover & Harvard
- Barred from Major League baseball because he was black
- Attorney to Booker T. Washington, Marcus Garvey
- A Republican, Matthews served as a US Attorney [1913-] & was appointed to the Justice Department by Calvin Coolidge [1925-]
- Namesake, Ivy League Baseball Championship Trophy [2006]
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Alfred Lee Loomis
Class of 1905
- Investment banker, philanthropist & physicist; "father" of ultrasonics
- Inventor, Aberdeen Chronograph [1918], LORAN navigation [ca. 1942]
- Founder & funder, Loomis Physics Laboratory [1926-40]
- Director of radar development, World War II
- Described by Franklin Roosevelt as second only to Churchill as the civilian most responsible for Allied victory
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Elizabeth Watts
Class of 1908
- Teacher [later director and trustee], Hindman Settlement School, Kentucky [1909-93]
- Voted a "Kentucky Colonel" by state legislature
- Recipient, Fuess Award [1982]
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Edwin Cohn
Class of 1911
- Biochemist & medical researcher, specialist in chemistry of proteins & human blood fractionation
- Developer of practical cure for pernicious anemia [1928] based on research of George Whipple [PA 1896]
- Developer of systems for the utilization of all components of blood for medical transfusions, work critical during World War II
- Coauthor, "Proteins, Amino Acids and Peptides" [1943]
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Richard K. Sutherland
Class of 1911
- Lieutenant General, World War II
- Chief of staff to General Douglas MacArthur
- Presiding officer at Japan's surrender, ending the war [1945]
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Adam Gimbel
Class of 1912
- Retailer
- President, Saks Fifth Avenue [1926-69]
- Creator of the nation's largest specialty chain
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Winthrop H. Smith
Class of 1912
- Stockbroker
- Managing director, Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith [1940-61]
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Elisabeth Luce Moore
Class of 1919
- Leader in social service organizations, educational institutions & philanthropy [1930s-90s]
- Henry Luce Foundation Board of Trustees [1936-99]
- Chair, USO National Council, WWII
- 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]
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Humphrey Bogart
Class of 1920
- Actor best known for film roles in "Petrified Forest" [1936], "The Maltese Falcon" [1941], "Casablanca" [1943], "The Big Sleep" [1946], "Treasure of Sierra Madre" [1948], "The African Queen" [1951]
- Academy Award, Best Actor [1951]
- Per the American Film Institute, “Hollywood’s greatest male star”
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Joseph Cornell
Class of 1921
- Surrealist assemblagist & creator of shadow boxes [active 1930s-60s]
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Emilio Collado
Class of 1927
- Treasury & State Department economist [1934-44]
- Member, American negotiating team, Bretton Woods Conference [1944]
- First US executive director, World Bank [1947]
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Despina Plakias Messinesi
Class of 1929
- Editor, Vogue Magazine [1941-92]
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Donna Brace Ogilvie
Class of 1930
- Chair, National Board, Girls Inc. [1972-]
- Benefactor, Girls Inc., Stanford Hospital, Yale University, Abbot Academy & Phillips Academy
- Recipient, Fuess Award [1997]
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Arthur Murray Preston
Class of 1931
- Torpedo boat commander, World War II
- Recipient, Medal of Honor for gallantry [1944]
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Lyman Spitzer
Class of 1931
- Leader in plasma physics & space astronomy
- Chair, Princeton Astrophysical Sciences Dept. [1947-] & Plasma Physics Laboratory [1951-67]
- Designer, first telescope-bearing satellite
- Champion of what became the Hubble Space Telescope [1946-90]
- Recipient, National Medal of Science [1979]
- Namesake, Spitzer Space Telescope [2003]
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William S. Vickrey
Class of 1931
- Economist
- Recipient, Nobel Prize in Economics [1996] for economic theory of incentives under asymmetric information
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William Knowles
Class of 1935
- Chemist
- Nobel Prize in Chemistry [2002] for development of catalytic asymmetric synthesis
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Mary "Maria" Curtis-Verna
Class of 1939
- Dramatic soprano
- La Scala debut [1949], Metropolitan Opera debut [1957]
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George Bush
Class of 1942
- Texas 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]
- Recipient, Fuess Award [1981]
- Vice President [1981-89]
- 41st President of the United States [1989-93]
- Coauthor, "A World Transformed" [1998]
- Namesake, aircraft carrier USS George HW Bush [2009]
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Jack Lemmon
Class of 1943
- Movie actor, remembered especially for roles in "Mr. Roberts" [1955], "Some Like It Hot" [1959], "The Apartment" [1960], "Days of Wine & Roses" [1962], "The Odd Couple" [1968], "Save the Tiger" [1973], "Missing" [1982], "Grumpy Old Men" [1993]
- Academy Award [1955, -73]
- Cannes Film Festival, Best Actor Award [1979, -82]
- Golden Globe Award, Best Comedy Actor [1959, -60, -72]
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Julia Tavares de Alvarez
Class of 1944
- Ambassador of the Dominican Republic to the United Nations [1978-], known as "the Ambassador on Aging"
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Elihu Lauterpacht
Class of 1944
- British attorney, specialist in international law & inter-state litigation before the International Court of Justice
- Founder & 1st director, Research Centre for International Law [now Lauterpacht Centre], Cambridge University [1984-95]
- QC [1970], CBE [1989], knighted [1996]
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George "Fritz" Jewett
Class of 1945
- Chair, 5 America's Cup syndicates [1973-2000], winning with "Freedom" [1980] & "Stars & Stripes" [1987]
- Chair, San Francisco Asian Art Commission & Asian Art Museum [1967-]
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Clemency Chase Coggens
Class of 1951
- Archeologist, specialist in Ancient Mesoamerica
- Coauthor, "Cenote of Sacrifice: Maya Treasures from the Sacred Well of Chechen Itza" [1984]
- Advocate for archeological preservation
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Peter Chermayeff
Class of 1953
- Architect & filmmaker
- Creator of the modern-day landmark aquarium, beginning with the New England Aquarium [1962-69]; National Aquarium, Baltimore [1975-81]; Osaka Aquarium [1987-90]; Lisbon Oceanarium [1994-98]
- Recipient, Fuess Award [1979]
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George Bundy Smith
Class of 1955
- Jurist
- Associate justice, New York Supreme Court [1980-86]
- Associate justice, New York Court of Appeals [1992-2006]; author, decision in "People v. LaValle" terminating the death penalty in New York State [2004]
- Recipient, Fuess Award [1985]
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Cecile Erickson Mactaggart
Class of 1957
- Collector & philanthropist
- "Brilliant Strokes: Chinese Paintings from the Mactaggart Art Collection" [2009], Royal Ontario Museum
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Jesse Colin Young
Class of 1959
- Singer/songwriter
- Lead singer, The Youngbloods [1965-72]
- "Get Together" a top-ten hit [1969]
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Christopher McKee
Class of 1960
- Physicist; specialist in intrastellar gases
- Professor of physics & astronomy, UC Berkeley [1974-]
- Director, UC Berkeley Space Sciences Laboratory [1985-98]
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Edward Bass
Class of 1963
- Philanthropist
- Lead donor, Biosphere II [1985-], Yale Institute of Biospheric Studies [1991-], Bass Performance Hall, Fort Worth [1998-]
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Tachi Yamada
Class of 1963
- Physician, pharmaceutical executive, global healthcare funder
- Gastroenterologist; chair, Department of Internal Medicine, Michigan Medical School, [-1996]
- GlaxoSmithKline R&D chairman [1999-2005]
- President, Gates Foundation Global Health Programs [2006]
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George W. Bush
Class of 1964
- Managing general partner, Texas Rangers baseball team [1989-94]
- Governor of Texas [1995-2000]
- President of the United States [2001-2009]
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Mary Wilkes Eubanks
Class of 1965
- Anthropologist & botanist
- Senior research scientist, Duke, studying the origin, evolution & improvement of maize
- President, Sun Dance Genetics [2002-]
- Recipient, Fuess Award [2000]
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Julia Alvarez
Class of 1967
- Novelist, poet & essayist
- Author, "How the Garcia Girls Lost their Accents" [1991], "In a Time of Butterflies" [1994], "Once Upon a Quinceanera" [2007]
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James B. Steinberg
Class of 1970
- Foreign policy analyst
- Director, State Department planning staff [1994-96]
- Deputy national security advisor [1996-2000]
- Director, foreign policy studies, Brookings Institution [2001-05]
- Dean, Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Policy [2005-08]
- Deputy secretary of state [2009-]
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H.G. "Buzz" Bissinger
Class of 1972
- Journalist
- Recipient, Pulitzer Prize, Investigative Reporting [1987]
- Author, "Friday Night Lights" [1988], "A Prayer for the City" [1998], "Three Nights in August" [2005]
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Maud Lavin
Class of 1972
- Art & cultural historian
- Author, "The Weimar Photomontages of Hannah Hoch" [1993], "Clear New World: Culture, Politics & Graphic Design" [2001]
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Guy Nordenson
Class of 1973
- Structural engineer
- Professor, Princeton School of Architecture [1995-]
- Author, "Tall Buildings" [2003], "Emergency Building Damage Assessment" [2004]
- Recipient, American Academy of Arts & Letters Award in Architecture [2003]
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William F. Owen Jr.
Class of 1973
- Physician; specialist in kidney disease & transplantation
- President, University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey [2007-]
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Rob Long
Class of 1983
- Television writer & producer: "Cheers," "George & Leo"
- NPR commentator & host, "Martini Shot"
- Contributor to SLATE, National Review
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Chas Fagan
Class of 1984
- Painter & sculptor, presidential portrait artist
- California's Fagan statue of Ronald Reagan installed in Statuary Hall, US Capital Building [2009]
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Rosanne Adderley
Class of 1985
- Historian, specialist in the African Diaspora
- Author, "'New Negroes from Africa' - Slave Trade Abolition & Free African Settlement in the...Caribbean" [2006]
- Recipient, Wesley-Logan Prize, American Historical Association [2007]
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Juan Mario Laserna Jaramillo
Class of 1986
- Economist
- General director of Public Credit, Colombia (1999-2002)
- Director, Central Bank of Colombia [2005-]
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Ed Ronan
Class of 1987
- National Hockey League [1991-98]
- Team member, Stanley Cup-winning Montreal Canadiens [1993]
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Rahim Aga Khan
Class of 1990
- Executive director, Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development, the world's second largest private, nonprofit economic development foundation
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Hafsat Abiola
Class of 1992
- Nigerian human-rights activist
- Executive director, Kudirat Initiative for Democracy
- Global Leaders of Tomorrow Award, Davos Economic Forum [2000]
- Fellow, Ashoka Innovators for the Public [2003]
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Katherine Hays
Class of 1994
- Software innovator & entrepreneur
- Cofounder & COO/CFO, Massive, Inc. [2002-06]
- CEO, GenArts [2008-]
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Seth Moulton
Class of 1997
- Marine Corps officer, multiple tours in Iraq [2003-]
- Commentator of the Iraq War [2006-]
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Charles Forelle
Class of 1998
- Journalist
- Winner, Pulitzer Prize for Public Service [2007], Wall Street Journal coverage of corporate backdating of stock options
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