List of Loomis Chaffee School alumni
The following is a list of notable alumni of Loomis Chaffee School. Also called LC or Loomis, the Loomis Chaffee School is a college preparatory school located in Windsor, Connecticut.
A
- John Ashmead 1934 – writer, educator, author of The Mountain and the Feather, writer for The Atlantic, book reviewer for The Philadelphia Bulletin
B
- Deborah Baker 1977 – biographer and essayist known for A Blue Hand: The Beats in India, a biography of Allen Ginsberg that focuses on his time in India.[1]
- Stephen R. Barnett – American legal scholar
- Peter Barton 1969 – British military historian, author and filmmaker specialising in trench warfare during World War I.[2]
- Jerome Beatty Jr. 1935 – twentieth-century American author of children's literature. He was also an accomplished feature writer for magazines.[3]
- Andrew Berenzweig 1995 – professional ice hockey player, Nashville Predators
- Gerald Warner Brace 1918 – writer, educator, sailor, and boat builder
- Peter C. Brinckerhoff 1970 – writer, educator of nonprofits
- Mark Brown 1977 – Major League Baseball pitcher for the Baltimore Orioles (1984) and Minnesota Twins (1985)
- Harry G. Broadman 1973 – foreign trade and investment negotiator, global business growth strategist, corporate director, private equity investor, economist, litigation dispute expert, author and journalist.[4]
- Frank Bruni 1982 – reporter, food critic, and columnist, The New York Times; author of Ambling into History: The Unlikely Odyssey of George W. Bush
- Miriam Butterworth 1936 – American educator, activist, and politician who fought for equal representation in the Connecticut General Assembly.
C
- Jesse Camp 1997 – video jockey, media personality
- David E. Cane 1962 – American biological chemist serving as the Vernon K. Krieble Professor of Chemistry Emeritus and Professor of Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, and Biochemistry Emeritus at Brown University.[5]
- Richard Adams Carey 1969 – American writer best known for Against the Tide: The Fate of the New England Fisherman.
- Jonathan Carroll 1967 – author of The Land of Laughs, Voice of Our Shadow, Bones of the Moon, A Child Across the Sky, Black Cocktail, Sleeping in Flame, Outside the Dog Museum, After Silence, From the Teeth of Angels
- John Chamberlain 1920 – was an American journalist, business and economic historian, syndicated columnist and literary critic.[6]
- Benjamin Cheever 1967 – author of The Plagiarist, The Partisan, Famous After Death
- Pauline Chen 1982 – surgeon, author, and The New York Times columnist
- Aaron Civale 2013 – American professional baseball pitcher for the Cleveland Indians of the MLB.[7][8]
- Chris Cillizza 1994 – political journalist at CNN and author
- Larry Collins 1947 – author of Is Paris Burning?
- Nancy W. Collins 1991 – Columbia University professor of European Studies, Editor of European Studies Forum
- Alfred V. Covello 1950 – Senior United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut, Former Connecticut Supreme Court Justice.[9]
- Alexander M. Cutler 1969 – former chairman and CEO of an American multinational power management company known as the Eaton Corporation.[10][11]
D
- Bianca D'Agostino 2007 – soccer player for the Boston Breakers
- Adam Davies 1990 – American author known for The Frog King.[12]
- Bob Davis – Major League Baseball pitcher
- Ruthie Davis 1980 – founder, designer, and president of luxury shoe brand Ruthie Davis
- Myron "Moe" W. Drabowsky 1953 – Major League Baseball player with the Baltimore Orioles and other teams[13]
- Guilford Dudley Jr. 1925 – United States Ambassador to Denmark
E
- David Edelstein 1977 – film critic for New York Magazine, NPR's Fresh Air, CBS Sunday Morning, Slate, the New York Post, the Village Voice, and the Boston Phoenix
- Warren William Eginton 1941 – Senior United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut[14]
- Alexander Eliot 1936 – American writer who served as art editor for Time Magazine. He was best known for his works on spirituality and myth.[15]
- James F. English Jr.
- Lord David Ennals (one-year student) – British Labour Party politician and campaigner for human rights who served as Secretary of State for Social Services from 1976 to 1979.
F
- Scott Fankhouser 1994 – former American ice hockey goaltender who used to be the Assistant Coach for the Cincinnati Cyclones. He is currently the assistant manager of Swonder Ice Arena in Evansville Indiana.[16]
- Diana Farrell 1983 – Founding President and CEO of the JPMorgan Chase Institute, member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and Deputy Assistant on Economic Policy to President Barack Obama[17][18][19][20]
G
- Betty Gilpin 2004 – Emmy-nominated American actress known for her performances in the Netflix comedy series GLOW and Nurse Jackie.[21]
- Pete Grannis 1960 - Former Commissioner of the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation and member of the New York State Assembly. [22]
- Ella T. Grasso 1936 – first woman elected Governor of Connecticut and the first woman elected governor of any US state without following her husband.
- Jack Gould (1914–1993) an influential television and radio critic and reporter for The New York Times from 1944 to 1972.[23]
H
- John A. Hall 1964 – Professor of Comparative Historical Sociology at McGill University
- Benjamin Hedges 1926 – Olympic track and field athlete (1928)
- Chris Hedges 1975 – Fellow at Nation Institute;[24] professor at Princeton University; author of War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning; former Middle East Bureau Chief for The New York Times; former correspondent, National Public Radio; member of team winning 2002 Pulitzer Prize for explanatory journalism; 2002 Amnesty International Global Award for Human Rights Journalism
- Liana Hinds 2011 – American-born Trinidadian footballer who plays as a defender for Swedish club Sundsvalls DFF and the Trinidad and Tobago women's national team.[25]
- Allan Hobson 1951 – American psychiatrist, dream researcher, and Professor of Psychiatry, Emeritus, at Harvard Medical School who is known for his research on rapid eye movement sleep.[26]
- Henry R. Horsey 1943 – Delaware Supreme Court justice
- Sirena Huang 2012 – Taiwanese American concert violinist
- Morris N. Hughes, Jr. 1963 – American Career Foreign Service Officer who served as the United States Ambassador to Burundi
I
- Robert Grant Irving 1958 – author of Indian Summer
K
- Charles Kaiser 1968 – American author, journalist, and Acting Director of the LGBTQ Public Policy Center at Hunter College.[27]
- David E. Kaiser 1965 – professor of history, Naval War College, Newport, Rhode Island; author of American Tragedy, Politics and War: European Conflict from Philip II to Hitler, and Epic Season: The 1948 American League Pennant Race
- Robert G. Kaiser 1960 – managing editor of and associate editor and senior correspondent for The Washington Post; author of "Russia from the Inside" and "Act of Congress: How America's Essential Institution Works, and How It Doesn't".[28][29]
- Ray Kidder 1941 - American physicist and nuclear weapons designer[30]
- Henry R. Kravis 1963 – billionaire, founding partner of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.
- Corby Kummer 1974 – restaurant critic for Boston magazine and editor at The Atlantic magazine
- Alexander Kuo 1957 – American teacher, poet, fiction writer, and essayist who served as Professor of English at Washington State University.[31]
- Joshua Kurlantzick 1994 – American Journalist and Fellow for Southeast Asia at the Council on Foreign Relations.[32]
L
- Pete Larson 1962 – former American football Running back for the Washington Redskins
- Neil Lebhar 1968 – American Anglican Bishop who served as the first bishop of the Gulf Atlantic Diocese
- Tom Lehrer 1943 – musical satirist, entertainer, and mathematician
- Nicholas M. Loeb – businessman and son of John Langeloth Loeb, Jr.
- Tony Lupien 1935 – American first baseman in Major League Baseball. He was a left-handed batter who played for the Boston Red Sox, Philadelphia Phillies, and Chicago White Sox, grandfather of John Cena.[33]
M
- David Margolick 1970 – Contributing Editor, Vanity Fair; National Legal Affairs Correspondent, The New York Times; author of At the Bar, Undue Influence: The Epic Battle for the Johnson & Johnson Fortune, Strange Fruit: The Biography of a Song, Beyond Glory: Joe Louis vs. Max Schmeling and a World on the Brink
- Andrea McCarren 1981 – television journalist and educator
- Taylor Mead 1942 – American writer, actor, and performer known for his appearances in Andy Warhol's underground films.
- Terry Melcher – musician, songwriter ("Kokomo") and producer, The Beach Boys and The Byrds; son of Doris Day
- Geoff Muldaur 1961 – American singer, songwriter, solo guitarist and a founding member of the Jim Kweskin Jug Band.[34][35][36]
- Matthew M. Murray 1989 – Major League Baseball pitcher, Boston Red Sox (1995)
- John Garvan Murtha 1959 – Senior United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Vermont.[37]
N
- John Nichols 1958 – American Novelist known for the New Mexico trilogy[38]
- Charles Hollister Noble – American historical novelist and screenwriter[39]
O
- John Peter Oleson 1964 - Canadian classical archaeologist and historian of ancient technology[40]
- Richard Ottinger 1946 – American legal educator and politician from New York who served in the United States House of Representatives for eight terms.[41]
P
- David Park – American painter and a pioneer of the Bay Area Figurative Movement in painting during the 1950s.
- Richard Plepler 1977 – former chairman and CEO of HBO.[42][43]
R
- David M. Raup 1950 – University of Chicago Paleontologist.[44]
- Betsy Reed 1986 – journalist and editor-in-chief of The Intercept and editor of The Nation.[45]
- Howie Richmond 1935 – American music publisher and music industry executive.
- Richard Rifkind 1948 – American Cancer Researcher who served as chairman and Chief Scientific Officer of the Sloan Kettering Institute.
- Thomas D. Ritter 1970 – lawyer, lobbyist, and retired politician from Connecticut who was the Speaker of the Connecticut House of Representatives[46]
- Selden Rodman 1927 – prolific U.S. writer of poetry, plays and prose, political commentary, art criticism, Latin American and Caribbean history, biography and travel writing.[47]
- Adam Rome 1976 – American environmental historian who teaches environmental history and environmental non-fiction at the University at Buffalo.[48]
- John D. Rockefeller III 1925 – philanthropist
- Winthrop Rockefeller 1931 – first Republican Governor of Arkansas
S
- Keith Scribner 1980 – American novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter, essayist, and educator.[49]
- Richard Scudder 1931 – American newspaper pioneer, newspaper publisher, journalist, and co-founder of the MediaNews Group.[50]
- Edward H. Shortliffe 1965 – biomedical informatician, physician, and computer scientist who pioneered the use of artificial intelligence in medicine.[51]
- George P. Shultz 1938 – former United States Secretary of State
- George Selden 1947 – author of The Cricket in Times Square and other children's classics
- Joyce Sidman 1974 – American children's writer
- R. Peter Straus 1940 – American media Proprietor who served as president of WMCA and chairman of Strauss News, member of the Sulzberger Family.[52]
- Steven Strogatz 1976 – Professor of Applied Mathematics, Cornell University, recipient of Presidential Young Investigator Award, author of SYNC: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order, math blogger for The New York Times (2010)
- John Chabot Smith 1932 – American journalist with the Washington Post, White House correspondent, and author of Alger Hiss: The True Story, an account sympathetic to Hiss.[53]
- Arthur Ochs Sulzberger 1945 – Chairman and publisher of The New York Times
T
- John Terry 1968 – film and television actor, Against the Grain, A Dangerous Woman, Iron Will, Lost
- Jeremiah Tower 1961 – celebrity chef credited with pioneering the culinary style known as California cuisine.
- James B. Twitchell 1962 – author and former professor of English at University of Florida[54]
U
- Gretchen Ulion 1990 – Olympic gold medalist, U.S. Women's Olympic Hockey Team, Nagano, Japan 1998
W
- Katherine Waterston 1998 – actor Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
- Geoffrey Wawro 1978 – Professor of Military History at the University of North Texas
- Nancy Weber 1959 – American writer known primarily for The Life Swap[55]
- Benjamin C. Wedeman 1979 – American journalist and war correspondent
- William Wemple 1930 – American lawyer who served in the United States Navy Reserve as a Lieutenant Commander and as General Counsel of the Navy
- Mike Whalen 1979 – athlete and coach for Williams College and Wesleyan University
- A.B.C. Whipple 1936 – journalist for Life magazine, author, and historian
- James Widdoes 1972 – film and television actor, director, and producer: Animal House (actor), Charles in Charge (actor), Night Court (actor), Dave's World (director/actor), My Wife and Kids (director/actor), 8 Simple Rules... For Dating My Teenage Daughter (director/producer), Two and a Half Men (director)
- David Wild 1980 – Senior Editor, Rolling Stone; host of Musicians (Bravo television)
- Robert Winters 1949 – President and CEO of The Prudential Insurance Company of America
- Jason Wu 2001 – fashion designer (designed First Lady Michelle Obama's inaugural ball gown and other pieces)
Z
- Drew Zingg 1973 – American rock, blues, soul and jazz guitarist, best known for his performing with Steely Dan and Boz Scaggs[56]
Faculty
- Eric Wollencott Barnes— American educator, diplomat, actor, and author.
- Kalena Bovell— American conductor who currently serves as assistant conductor of the Memphis Symphony Orchestra.
- John Horne Burns— American writer who was best known for his novel The Gallery (1947).
- Miriam Butterworth 1936 – American educator, activist, and politician who taught at Loomis Chaffee.
- Germaine Cheruy — French costume designer, artist, and intellectual. Madame Cheruy taught art programs at Loomis Chaffee.
- René Cheruy — French soldier, educator, and artist. He served as a French professor and French Department Head at Loomis Chaffee. During his time as a soldier he received the Legion of Honor.
- John W. Howe — American bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Central Florida. He served as the Loomis School's chaplain.
- Evelyn Beatrice Longman – American sculptor who married Headmaster Nathaniel Horton Batchelder and taught sculpting classes at the Loomis School.
- Vincent Schaefer— American chemist and meteorologist who developed cloud seeding. He was director of the Atmospheric Science Center at the Loomis School in Connecticut.
References
- Loomis Chaffee Alumni Authors
- Borges, Dave (2 September 2017). "Minor league notebook: East Windsor's Civale tops state prospect list". New Haven Register. New Haven, Connecticut: Hearst Communications. Retrieved 9 August 2018.
- Abraham, Peter (4 March 2015). "Northeastern's Aaron Civale impresses Red Sox". Boston Globe. Boston: Boston Globe Media Partners, LLC. Retrieved 9 August 2018.
- https://www.loomischaffee.org/cf_news/view.cfm?newsid=5084
- "Baseball Digest". Retrieved 16 June 2011. Cite journal requires
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- http://thelclog.org/2016/01/29/after-the-island-alumni-interviews-diana-farrell-83/
- https://dailyvoice.com/connecticut/stamford/schools/stamford-student-honored-at-loomis-chaffee-schools-graduation/469729/
- https://www.nytimes.com/1993/05/25/obituaries/jack-gould-critic-is-dead-at-79-covered-television-for-the-times.html
- The Nation Institute
- Loomiscellany. Windsor. 1916. pp. 28–29.
- Biographical Directory of The United States Congress (Ottinger, Richard Lawrence)
- Daily Bulletin Loomis Chaffee Richard Plepler convocation
- https://www.loomischaffee.org/uploaded/Centennial/Centennial_Essay-Wawro.pdf
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