List of Hotchkiss School alumni

Hotchkiss School is a private, day and boarding school in Lakeville, Connecticut. Following are some of its notable alumni. Former pupils are known as Pythians (even entrance year) or Olympians (odd entrance year).

Academia

Name Class Notability References
Willard F. Enteman II 1955 Bowdoin College president [1]
Arthur Lehman Goodhart 1908 Oxford's University College master and legal scholar [1]
Alfred Whitney Griswold 1924 Yale University president [1]
Benjamin Woods Labaree 1945 Williams College dean [1]
Leonard Woods Labaree 1915 Yale history professor [1]
Roger Sherman Loomis 1905 Columbia English professor [1]
Scotty McLennan 1966 Stanford dean for religious life, inspiration for Doonesbury character Reverend Scot Sloan [1]
Jerome J. Pollitt 1953 Yale art history professor [1]
Walter W. Taylor 1931 Conjunctive archaeology founder and professor [1]
Nader Tehrani 1981 Dean of the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of the Cooper Union [1][2]
Christopher Winship 1968 Harvard sociology professor[1] [1]

Art and architecture

Name Class Notability References
Peter Arno 1922 The New Yorker cartoonist [1]
Thomas Hoving 1949 Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art [1]
Gerald Clery Murphy 1907 Artist, socialite, CEO of Mark Cross [1]
Samuel Wagstaff 1940 Art curator and museum director [1]
Evans Woollen III 1945 Architect, principal and founder of Woollen, Molzan and Partners, Indianapolis [1][3]

Business

Name Class Notability References
Jonathan Bush 1949 George H. W. Bush's brother and investment banker
William H. T. Bush 1956 Investment banker [4]
Roy D. Chapin Jr. 1933 American Motors CEO [1]
Granger K. Costikyan 1925 Armenian-American banker
Edsel Ford 1958 Ford Motor Company executive
Henry Ford II 1936 Ford Motor Company executive [1]
William Clay Ford Sr. 1943 Ford Motor Company executive [1]
William Clay Ford Jr. 1975 Ford Motor Company executive [1]
Briton Hadden 1915 Time co-founder [1]
Robert Lehman 1908 Lehman Brothers executive [1]
David McCord Lippincott 1943 McCann Erickson creative director and copywriter [1]
Henry Luce 1916 Time co-founder [1]
Mark Mays 1981 Clear Channel Communications executive [1]
Raymond McGuire 1975 Former head of Investment Banking at Citigroup
Forrest Mars Jr. 1949 Mars, Inc. executive [1]
John Mars 1953 Mars, Inc. executive [1]
Philip W. Pillsbury 1920 Pillsbury Company executive [1]
John Shedd Reed 1935 Santa Fe Railway executive [1]
Harold Stanley 1904 Morgan Stanley founder [1]
John L. Thornton 1972 Goldman Sachs executive [1]
William von Mueffling 1986 Cantillon Capital Management founder

Entertainment

Name Class Notability References
John G. Avildsen 1955 Film director of Rocky and The Karate Kid [1]
Max Carlish Documentary filmmaker; recipient of a BAFTA and an International Emmy Award
Elizabeth Chandler 1982 Screenwriter of The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants and What A Girl Wants [1]
John Crosby 1944 Founder and director of the Santa Fe Opera; recipient of National Medal of Arts [1]
Bradford Dillman 1947 Film actor [1]
Peter Duchin 1954 Leader and organizer Peter Duchin Orchestras and Duchin Entertainment [1]
Frederick "Dennis" Greene 1968 Founder and lead singer of Sha Na Na and professor at the University of Dayton School of Law [1]
John H. Hammond 1929 Executive and producer at Columbia Records; discovered Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen [1]
Leland Hayward 1920 Hollywood and Broadway agent and producer [1]
Peter H. Hunt 1957 Theater and television director, recipient of a Tony Award for the musical 1776 [1]
Allison Janney 1977 Oscar and Emmy Award-winning actress [1]
Esko Laine 1980 Double bass player with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra [1]
Chris Meledandri 1977 Founder and CEO of Illumination Entertainment and 20th Century Fox Animation [1]
Douglas Moore 1911 Pulitzer Prize-winning composer [1]
Ben Mulroney 1993 Host of Canadian Idol [1]
Scott Powell 1966 Member of the rock group Sha Na Na; orthopedic surgeon [1]
Roswell Rudd 1954 Grammy-nominated jazz trombonist [1]
Burr Steers Filmmaker and actor
Chris Wallace 1963 Broadcast journalist [1]
Tom Werner 1967 Co-founder of Carsey-Werner Company, whose productions include That '70s Show, 3rd Rock from the Sun, The Cosby Show [1]
Thunder Keck 2017 WWE wrestler [5]

Government and diplomacy

Name Class Notability References
Victor Ashe 1963 United States Ambassador to Poland [1]
Malcolm Baldrige Jr. 1940 United States Secretary of Commerce [1]
Donald B. Easum 1942 United States Ambassador to Nigeria and United States Assistant Secretary of State [1]
G. McMurtrie Godley 1935 United States Ambassador to Laos and co-founder of the Glimmerglass Opera [1]
Hallett Johnson 1904 United States Ambassador to Costa Rica [1]
Winston Lord 1955 United States Ambassador to China [1]
Livingston T. Merchant 1922 United States Ambassador to Canada and Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs [1]
Clark T. Randt Jr. 1964 United States Ambassador to China [1]
Strobe Talbott 1964 Deputy Secretary of State, journalist, diplomat, president of Brookings Institution [1]
Paul Warnke Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs
Arthur K. Watson 1938 United States Ambassador to France [1]
Charles Yost 1956 United States Ambassador to the United Nations; Laos, Syria, and Morocco [1]

Law

Name Class Notability References
Samuel H. Blackmer Associate Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court [6]
Robert Bork United States Solicitor General, Conservative legal scholar, judge [1]
Lisa Brown 1978 General Counsel of the United States Department of Education, staff secretary to President Barack Obama [1]
Eli Whitney Debevoise 1917 Attorney and founder of Debevoise & Plimpton [1]
Peter Hall 1966 Judge of the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and former U.S. Attorney for the District of Vermont [1]
Jon Ormond Newman 1949 Judge of the United States court of appeals [1]
Potter Stewart 1933 Justice of the US Supreme Court [1]

Literature and journalism

Name Class Notability References
José Camprubí 1897 La Prensa owner [7]
Edwin Denby 1919 Poet and dance critic [1]
Tom Dolby 1994 Author [8]
Varian Fry 1926 Journalist and "the American Schindler" [1]
John Hersey 1932 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 1945 winner and Yale's Pierson College master [1]
Lewis H. Lapham 1952 Editor of Harper's Magazine and Lapham's Quarterly [1]
William Loeb 1923 Publisher of the Union Leader newspaper [1]
Peter Matthiessen 1945 National Book Award winner 1979, 1980, and 2008 [1]
Archibald MacLeish 1911 Winner of 1933 and 1953 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and 1959 Pulitzer Prize for Drama [1]
Julia Quinn 1987 Romantic novelist [1]
Tom Reiss 1982 Winner of the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Biography [1]
MacKenzie Scott 1988 Novelist [1]

Medicine and science

Name Class Notability References
Alexandra Golby 1985 Neurosurgeon and professor of neurosurgery and radiology at Harvard Medical School [1]
David Hawkins 1931 Science philosopher and Manhattan Project's official historian
Charles Snead Houston 1931 Physician and early high altitude pulmonary edema researcher [1]
Dickinson W. Richards Jr. 1913 Nobel Prize laureate [1]

Military

Name Class Notability References
Thaddeus Beal 1935 Under Secretary of the Army [1]
Douglas Campbell 1913 First aviator in an American unit to achieve the status of flying ace [1]
Artemus Gates 1911 World War I hero and Under Secretary of the Navy [1]
Roswell Gilpatric 1924 Assistant Secretary of the Air Force and Deputy Secretary of Defense [1]
Frank O'Driscoll Hunter 1913 Chief of the First Air Force in World War II [1]
Paul Nitze 1924 Secretary of the Navy [1]
Elliott B. Strauss 1921 Rear Admiral and key Allied staff officer for the Invasion of Normandy [1]

Ministry

Name Class Notability References
Margot Käßmann 1975 Bishop of Evangelical-Lutheran Church of Hanover Landesbischöfin, first chairwoman of Evangelical Church in Germany [1]
Henry Knox Sherrill 1907 Bishop of Massachusetts and Presiding Bishop of Episcopal Church [1]

Politics

Name Class Notability References
R. Lawrence Coughlin 1946 United States House of Representatives [1]
Charles Edison 1909 Governor of New Jersey [1]
Frederick Vanderbilt Field 1923 Political activist, staff member of Institute of Pacific Relations [9]
Philip Goodhart 1944 British politician [1]
Porter J. Goss 1956 United States House of Representatives and Director of the CIA [1]
Ernest Gruening 1903 Governor of Alaska and United States Senate [1]
William Kirk Kaynor United States House of Representatives
Lawrence M. Judd 1906 Governor of Hawaii [1]
Robert D. Orr 1936 Governor of Indiana [1]
William Warren Scranton 1935 Governor of Pennsylvania and United States Ambassador to the United Nations [1]
Jerry Voorhis 1919 United States House of Representatives [1]

Sports

Name Class Notability References
Edwin F. Blair 1920 All-American lineman for the undefeated Yale's 1923 football team [1]
Caitlin Cahow 2003 Olympic bronze and silver medalist in hockey [1]
Luke Glendening NHL forward [10]
Stephen Greenberg 1966 2nd Deputy Commissioner of Baseball [11]
Matt Herr NHL forward
Fred Kammer 1930 Olympic bronze medalist in hockey [1]
Hank Ketcham 1910 All-American lineman for Yale (1911–1913), inductee to the College Football Hall of Fame [12]
Gina Kingsbury 2000 Olympic gold medalist in hockey for Canada [1]
Torrey Mitchell 2004 NHL forward [1]
Marshall Rifai 2016 NHL defenceman with the Toronto Maple Leafs
Raymond W. "Ducky" Pond 1921 Yale University football player and coach [1]
Peter Revson Formula One race car driver.
Shavar Thomas Major League Soccer player for the Jamaica National Football Team
Fay Vincent 1958 8th MLB Baseball Commissioner [1]

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