The Hotchkiss School - Alumni

Architecture

Bruce Arneill '53

Architect of more than 50 healthcare facilities; chairman, The S/L/A/M Collaborative, a 130-member firm that designs educational, health care, corporate, and criminal justice facilities
William R. L. Mead '56 *

Architect who conceived and coordinated the master plan for Adriaen’s Landing, an urban revitalization project in Hartford, CT
Evans Woollen III '45

Architect whose works include several projects at Hotchkiss; projects include Indianapolis Federal Building and Indiana University Music Center

Art

Peter Arno ’22 *

Cartoonist who, in his 43-year career at The New Yorker, perfected the single-speaker captioned cartoon
Fred Cray ’75

Artist; won a 2003 Guggenheim Fellowship for his work in photography
Rodney H.R. Downes ’58

Artist who paints landscapes and urban places
William Kienbusch ’32 *

Abstract expressionist artist whose work can be found in collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art
Gerald Murphy '07 *

Talented and versatile American artist and painter; influential figure in the arts in Paris and elsewhere in the 1920s
Anthony M. Vevers '44 *

Artist and central figure of the art world of Provincetown, MA, for five decades; 2006 retrospective at the Hollis Taggart Galleries in New York City entitled, “Sailing to Byzantium: The Art of Tony Vevers”; respected professor of art history; important chronicler of the Provincetown art community

Business

Education

Entertainment

John G. Avildsen ’55

Independent film director; recipient of the Academy Award and the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in a Feature Film for Rocky in 1976; films include Save the Tiger, 1973; The Karate Kid, 1984; The Karate Kid, Part II, 1986; The Karate Kid, Part III, 1989; Lean on Me, 1989; Rocky V, 1990; The Power of One, 1992; and 8 Seconds, 1994
Alan B. Curtiss ’69

Director of Dead Poets Society, Green Card, Consenting Adults, Joyride; executive producer, Master & Commander
Bradford Dillman ’47

Actor who appeared in A Certain Smile, Escape from the Planet of the Apes, The Way We Were, and other films
Peter H. Hunt ’57

Director of theater and television productions; recipient of a Tony Award for the musical 1776; NY Drama Critics Award, 1969; London Critics Award, 1970; Christopher Award, 1972; Edgar Award, 1982; and Ace Award, 1983
Allison Janney ’77

Emmy Award-winning actress, The West Wing; Broadway performer playing Liz in Present Laughter; Tony Award nominee for A View From the Bridge for best supporting actress
Tom Werner ’67

Partner, The Carsey-Werner Company whose productions include That ’70s Show, 3rd Rock from the Sun, The Cosby Show, Cybill, Davis Rules, A Different World, Grace Under Fire, Roseanne; chairman and co-managing partner, Boston Red Sox

Environment

Filmmaking

Fine Arts

William H. Forsyth ’24 *

Curator Emeritus of medieval art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art; director of the Cloisters
John H. Hauberg ’35 *

Art collector and benefactor; founded the Pilchuck Glass School; former president, the Seattle Art Museum
Thomas Hoving ’49

Silver Plate AwardFormer director, the Metropolitan Museum of Art; author, Making the Mummies Dance and False Impressions: The Hunt for Big-Time Art Fakes
Harry S. Parker III ’57

Former director, the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco
Marjorie Brush Priebe '77

Co-founder of Stepping Stones Children’s Museum in Norwalk, CT
Samuel Wagstaff ’40 *

Noted museum director (Wadsworth Atheneum, Detroit Institute of Arts) and photography collector; his photographs formed the basis of the Getty Museum’s collection, one of the finest in the world
Ian B. Wardropper '69

The Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Chairman of the Department of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts at The Metropolitan Museum of Art; heads this department of 11 curators who supervise 60 galleries and 60,000 objects from the Renaissance to the beginning of Modernism

Government

History

Robin Higham ’44

Professor Emeritus of History, Kansas State University; author and co-author of military history books, including 100 Years of Air Power and Aviation, The Military History of Tsarist Russia, The Military History of the Soviet Union, and A Military History of China
Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet ’85

Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania; author, Frontier Fictions: Shaping the Iranian Nation
Benjamin Woods Labaree ’45

Professor of History, Williams College; director of the Williams-Mystic Seaport Program in American Maritime Studies; Chairman of the board of editors, American Maritime Library; author whose works include Patriots and Partisans: The Merchants of Newburyport, 1764-1815, 1962; The Road to Independence, 1763-1776, 1963; and New England and the Sea, 1971
Richard M. Morse ’39 *

Founder, the Institute of Caribbean Studies; author, From Community to Metropolis: A Biography of São Paulo, Brazil
Richard C. Overton ’25 *

Professor of Business History, Northwestern University; academic specialist on railroad history, economics, and general business history
James T. Patterson III ’52

Professor Emeritus of History, Brown University; author, Grand Expectations: The United States, 1945-1974, 1996, for which he won the Bancroft Prize, and Restless Giant: the United States from Watergate to Bush v. Gore, 2005

Humanitarian

Charles B. Beaumont ’60

Retired orthopedic surgeon, ran volunteer surgical clinics locally and then travelled to several foreign countries to provide his surgical skills at no cost to the people needing surgical care with little or no access to it
Elizabeth R. Bernstein '81

Founder, Coalition for Peace and Reconciliation, an organization that seeks to raise awareness of the ongoing bloodshed and unrest in Cambodia; formerly with the International Committee to Ban Land Mines; Hotchkiss Community Service Award winner recipient
Varian M. Fry ’26 *

Humanitarian credited with helping thousands of refugees escape from Vichy, France following Germany’s invasion and partition of France in June 1940. In Marseilles he established The Centre Americain de Secours, through which he helped many well-known artists, scientists, and academics to flee, including Max Ernst, Marc Chagall, Hannah Arendt, Marcel Duchamp, and Jacques Lipchitz.
Alissa C. Keny-Guyer ’77

Director, the Hanna Andersson Children’s Foundation; former executive director of Volunteers In Asia
Eugene C. Latham ’51

President, Nuestros Pequenos Hermanos A.C., an orphanage providing a home to more than 2,000 orphaned children in Mexico, Honduras, Haiti, and Nicaragua
George B. Longstreth III ’57

Former chief of surgery at Kaiser-Permanente of Washington D.C.; retired from general surgery and is doing volunteer surgery in developing countries

Law

Media

Medicine

Military

Thaddeus R. Beal ’35 *

Under Secretary of the Army; President and Chief Executive Officer, Harvard Trust Company of Cambridge, MA
Willard W. Brown ’34 *

World War II prisoner of war who directed construction of escape tunnels, an act that was the inspiration for the movie, The Great Escape
Douglas Campbell ’13 *

American aviator and World War I flying ace; the first American aviator flying in an American unit to achieve the status of ace
Pierre N. Charbonnet Jr. '37 *

Vice Admiral, U.S. Navy; Chief of Naval Reserve; Rear Admiral; recipient of seven Air Medals, three Distinguished Flying Crosses, and four times, Legion of Merit
Artemus L. Gates ’14 *

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Silver Plate AwardAssistant Secretary of the Navy for Air; Under Secretary of the Navy; President, New York Trust
Roswell L. Gilpatric ’24 *

Assistant Secretary of the Air Force; Undersecretary of the Air Force; Deputy Secretary of Defense; member of the Council of Foreign Relations
William P. Heilman ’69

Brigadier General, promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel in 1990; took command of an artillery battalion at Ft. Carson, CO; by 1994 he was commanding the 30th Field Artillery Regiment and was Chief of Staff at the U.S. Army Field Artillery School; currently a consultant/business developer at Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC)
Nicholas Lezama ’75

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M.D., MPH Colonel; U.S. Air Force Chief, Medical Plans and Policy; U.S. Transportation Command, Scott Air Force Base, IL
Elliott B. Strauss ’21 *

Rear Admiral; executive officer, commander, and navigator on several naval ships and destroyers; staff member, Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten, Chief of Combined Operations; staff member, Allied Naval Commander in Chief, invasion of Normandy; naval adviser, Security Council of the First General Assembly of the United Nations after World War II; Staff Assistant Secretary of Defense, international security affairs with the U.S. Mission to NATO

Music

John O. Crosby ’44 *

Silver Plate AwardFounder, the Santa Fe Opera; general director until 2000; recipient, National Medal of Arts and Officer’s Cross of the Federal German Order of Merit; President, Manhattan School of Music and of Opera America; longest serving general director of any American opera company
Peter Duchin ’54

Orchestra leader; generator of more than 26 recordings; organizer, Peter Duchin Orchestras and Duchin Entertainment; author, Ghost of a Chance: A Memoir
F. Dennis Greene ’68

Founder and lead singer, Sha Na Na; professor of law, University of Dayton School of Law
John Hammond ’29 *

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<span>Silver Plate Award</span>Executive at Columbia Records who discovered musical talent Bob Dylan; other discoveries include Bruce Springsteen, Billie Holiday, and Aretha Franklin; supporter of black music in the 1940s and honored for his civil rights activism
Esko Laine ’80

Double bass player, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Yin Miao ’04

Pianist and musician who has performed at the Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall and the Kennedy Center; a successful recording artist whose CD of a performance with the Czech National Symphony Orchestra sold more than 200,000 copies
Douglas S. Moore ’11 *

Silver Plate AwardPulitzer Prize-winning composer and one of few American opera composers; member of the music faculty of Columbia University; works include Pageant of P. T. Barnum, 1924, and Moby Dick, 1929, for orchestra; operas The Headless Horseman, 1937; The Emperor’s New Clothes, 1949; The Devil and Daniel Webster, 1939; Giants in the Earth (Pulitzer Prize), 1951; The Ballad of Baby Doe, 1956; The Wings of the Dove, 1961; and Carrie Nation, 1966
Scott E. Powell ’66

Member of the rock group, Sha Na Na; orthopedic surgeon
Roswell H. Rudd Jr. ’54

Silver Plate AwardWorld renowned jazz trombonist

Public Advocacy

Jennifer G. Daly ’80

Founder of a school for at-risk children in Boston at the Epiphany Middle School
Patrick Reynolds ’67

Founder and advocate, the Foundation for A Smokefree America
Franklin C. Salisbury ’28 *

President and founder, the National Foundation for Cancer Research; founding Director, the International School of Law in VA, now George Mason Law School
Nelson T. Shields III ’43 *

Founder of the advocacy group, the Center to Prevent Handgun Violence

Religion

Peter Lee ’66

Silver Plate AwardBishop of the Diocese of Christ the King in South Africa
Henry K. Sherrill ’07 *

Silver Plate AwardBishop of Massachusetts; 20th presiding Bishop of Protestant Episcopal Church; President, the National Council of Churches of Christ in America

Science

Sports

Caitlin K. Cahow ’03

Caitlin Cahow '03 and Robin Chandler after the Bronze medal game

Member, Hockey Team USA, 2006 Olympic Games in Torino, Italy
Louise Van Voorhis Gleason ’87

Member, Olympic Sailing Team in 1992
Stephen D. Greenberg ’66

Former Deputy Commissioner, Major League Baseball; co-founder and president, Classic Sports Network
Alden W. “Will” James ’94

Kite boarder, one of the world’s best-known
August F. Kammer Jr. ’30 *

Member, the U.S. Olympic hockey team and Walker Cup golf team; winner of an Olympic bronze medal in 1936 as a member of the U.S. hockey team at Garmisch-Partenkirchen
Gina M.A. Kingsbury ’00

Gina Kingsbury '00 -- Olympic Gold Medal Winner!

Member, Hockey Team Canada, 2006 Olympic Games in Torino, Italy
Raymond W. Pond ’21 *

Renowned Yale University football player known as “Ducky”; coach of football at Yale in the early 1930s
Peter Revson ’56 *

Race car driver - Formula 1
Edward M. Swift ’69

Senior writer, Sports Illustrated
Francis T. Vincent Jr. '56

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Former President and CEO, Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc.; eighth commissioner, Major League Baseball; author, The Last Commissioner; former president of the Hotchkiss Board of Trustees

Writing

Clark T. Randt '64
Ambassador to China

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Architecture

Bruce Arneill '53

William R. L. Mead '56 *

Evans Woollen III '45

Art

Peter Arno ’22 *

Fred Cray ’75

Rodney H.R. Downes ’58

William Kienbusch ’32 *

Gerald Murphy '07 *

Anthony M. Vevers '44 *

Business

Kenneth B. Beattie ’43 *

Charles H. Bell ’28 *

Howard C. Bissell ’55

Shelby Bonnie ’82

Alexander Bryan ’31 *

Roy D. Chapin Jr. ’33 *

Bernice Chen ’96

Lansing Crane ’63

Edgar Cullman ’36

Joseph F. Cullman III ’31 *

Lewis B. Cullman ’37

Felipe A. Custer ’72

Katha Diddel-Warren ’75

Gaylord Donnelley ’27 *

Thomas J. Edelman ’69

William Elfers ’37 *

Lawrence Flinn ’53

Henry Ford II ’36 *

William C. Ford Jr. '75

William C. Ford ’43

Susan F. Fortgang '77

Frederick Frank ’50

James G. Gidwitz ’64

Peter Grauer ’64

Stephen D. Greenberg ’66

James B. Hamann '85

Thomas J. “Tim” Litle IV ’58

Jon B. Lovelace Jr. ’44

Dan W. Lufkin ’49

David L. Luke III ’41

John Luke ’67

John A. Luke '44 *

Cristina Mariani-May ’89

Forrest Mars ’49

John Mars ’53

Mark P. Mays ’81

Randall T. Mays '83

Raymond J. McGuire ’75

Jodie Watt McLean '86

George W. Mead II ’46

C.S. Harding Mott ’25 *

John S. Reed ’35 *

Frank A. Sprole ’38

Charles H. Stapper ’52 *

Jere W. Thompson ’50

John P. Thompson ’43 *

John L. Thornton '72

Burton Tremaine ’40 *

Francis T. Vincent Jr. '56

Arthur K. Watson ’38 *

Education

John E. “Jack” Bierwirth ’65

Everett N. Case ’18 *

John R. Chandler Jr. ’53

Thomas H. Chappell ’24

Ian R. Desai '00

Willard F. Enteman II ’55

Arthur L. Goodhart ’08 *

Alfred W. Griswold ’25 *

A. Arthur Howe '08 *

Arthur Howe Jr. ’38

Atholl McBean ’00 *

William K. Muir Jr. ’49

A. William Olsen Jr. ’39 *

George van Santvoord ’08 *

Walter Sinnott-Armstrong ’73

Zeph Stewart ’39 *

John L. Thornton '72