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 NameClassNotabilityReferencesWillard F. Enteman II1955Bowdoin College presidentArthur Lehman Goodhart1908Oxford's University College master and legal scholarAlfred Whitney Griswold1924Yale University presidentBenjamin Woods Labaree1945Williams College deanLeonard Woods Labaree1915Yale history professorRoger Sherman Loomis1905Columbia English professorScotty McLennan1966Stanford dean for religious life, inspiration for Doonesbury character Reverend Scot SloanScott Meadow1973Kaplan McCormack Family Clinical Professor of Entrepreneurship at The University of Chicago Booth School of BusinessJerome J. Pollitt1953Yale art history professorWalter W. Taylor1931Conjunctive archaeology founder and professorNader Tehrani1981Dean of the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of the Cooper UnionDean of the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of the Cooper UnionChristopher Winship1968Harvard sociology professor
Art and architecture NameClassNotabilityReferencesPeter Arno1922The New Yorker cartoonistThomas Hoving1949Director of the Metropolitan Museum of ArtGerald Clery Murphy1907Artist, socialite, CEO of Mark CrossSamuel Wagstaff1940Art curator and museum directorEvans Woollen III1945Architect, principal and founder of Woollen, Molzan and Partners, Indianapolis
Business NameClassNotabilityReferencesJonathan Bush1949George H. W. Bush's brother and investment bankerWilliam H. T. Bush1956Investment bankerRoy D. Chapin Jr.1933American Motors CEOGranger K. Costikyan1925Armenian-American bankerEdsel Ford1958Ford Motor Company executiveHenry Ford II1936Ford Motor Company executiveWilliam Clay Ford Sr.1943Ford Motor Company executiveWilliam Clay Ford Jr.1975Ford Motor Company executiveBriton Hadden1915Time co-founderRobert Lehman1908Lehman Brothers executiveDavid McCord Lippincott1943McCann Erickson creative director and copywriterHenry Luce1916Time co-founderMark Mays1981Clear Channel Communications executiveRaymond McGuire1975Former head of Investment Banking at CitigroupForrest Mars Jr.1949Mars, Inc. executiveJohn Mars1953Mars, Inc. executivePhilip W. Pillsbury1920Pillsbury Company executiveJohn Shedd Reed1935Santa Fe Railway executiveHarold Stanley1904Morgan Stanley founderJohn L. Thornton1972Goldman Sachs executiveWilliam von Mueffling1986Cantillon Capital Management founder
Entertainment NameClassNotabilityReferencesJohn G. Avildsen1955Film director of Rocky and The Karate KidMax CarlishDocumentary filmmaker; recipient of a BAFTA and an International Emmy AwardElizabeth Chandler1982Screenwriter of The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants and What A Girl WantsJohn Crosby1944Founder and director of the Santa Fe Opera; recipient of National Medal of ArtsBradford Dillman1947Film actorPeter Duchin1954Leader and organizer Peter Duchin Orchestras and Duchin EntertainmentFrederick "Dennis" Greene1968Founder and lead singer of Sha Na Na and professor at the University of Dayton School of LawJohn H. Hammond1929Executive and producer at Columbia Records; discovered Bob Dylan, Bruce SpringsteenLeland Hayward1920Hollywood and Broadway agent and producerJohn HoytFilm and television actorPeter H. Hunt1957Theater and television director, recipient of a Tony Award for the musical 1776Allison Janney1977Oscar and Emmy Award-winning actressRichard JordanFilm and stage actorThunder Keck2017WWE wrestlerEsko Laine1980Double bass player with the Berlin Philharmonic OrchestraChris Meledandri1977Founder and CEO of Illumination Entertainment and 20th Century Fox AnimationDouglas Moore1911Pulitzer Prize-winning composerBen Mulroney1993Host of Canadian IdolScott Powell1966Member of the rock group Sha Na Na; orthopedic surgeonLily RabeFilm and television actressRoswell Rudd1954Grammy-nominated jazz trombonistBurr SteersFilmmaker and actorChris Wallace1963Broadcast journalistTom Werner1967Co-founder of Carsey-Werner Company, whose productions include That '70s Show, 3rd Rock from the Sun, The Cosby Show; chairman of Liverpool F.C. and the Boston Red Sox
Government and diplomacy NameClassNotabilityReferencesVictor Ashe1963United States Ambassador to PolandMalcolm Baldrige Jr.1940United States Secretary of CommerceDonald B. Easum1942United States Ambassador to Nigeria and United States Assistant Secretary of StateG. McMurtrie Godley1935United States Ambassador to Laos and co-founder of the Glimmerglass OperaHallett Johnson1904United States Ambassador to Costa RicaJohn Langeloth Loeb Jr.United States Ambassador to DenmarkWinston Lord1955United States Ambassador to ChinaLivingston T. Merchant1922United States Ambassador to Canada and Undersecretary of State for Political AffairsClark T. Randt Jr.1964United States Ambassador to ChinaStrobe Talbott1964Deputy Secretary of State, journalist, diplomat, president of Brookings InstitutionPaul WarnkeAssistant Secretary of Defense for International Security AffairsArthur K. Watson1938United States Ambassador to FranceCharles Yost1956United States Ambassador to the United Nations; Laos, Syria, and Morocco
Law NameClassNotabilityReferencesSamuel H. BlackmerAssociate Justice of the Vermont Supreme CourtRobert BorkUnited States Solicitor General, Conservative legal scholar, judgeLisa Brown1978General Counsel of the United States Department of Education, staff secretary to President Barack ObamaEli Whitney Debevoise1917Attorney and founder of Debevoise & PlimptonPeter Hall1966Judge of the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and former U.S. Attorney for the District of VermontJon Ormond Newman1949Judge of the United States court of appealsPotter Stewart1933Justice of the US Supreme Court
Literature and journalism NameClassNotabilityReferencesC. D. B. BryanJournalistJosé Camprubí1897La Prensa ownerEdwin Denby1919Poet and dance criticTom Dolby1994AuthorVarian Fry1926Journalist and "the American Schindler"John Hersey1932Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 1945 winner and Yale's Pierson College masterLewis H. Lapham1952Editor of Harper's Magazine and Lapham's QuarterlyWilliam Loeb1923Publisher of the Manchester Union Leader newspaperPeter Matthiessen1945National Book Award winner 1979, 1980, and 2008Archibald MacLeish1911Winner of 1933 and 1953 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and 1959 Pulitzer Prize for DramaJulia Quinn1987Romantic novelistTom Reiss1982Winner of the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for BiographyMacKenzie Scott1988Novelist
Medicine and science NameClassNotabilityReferencesAlexandra Golby1985Neurosurgeon and professor of neurosurgery and radiology at Harvard Medical SchoolDavid Hawkins1931Science philosopher and Manhattan Project's official historianCharles Snead Houston1931Physician and early high altitude pulmonary edema researcherJohn Christopher Muran1980Clinical psychologist, psychotherapy researcher, and academic deanDickinson W. Richards Jr.1913Nobel Prize laureate
Military NameClassNotabilityReferencesThaddeus Beal1935Under Secretary of the ArmyDouglas Campbell1913First aviator in an American unit to achieve the status of flying aceArtemus Gates1911World War I hero and Under Secretary of the NavyRoswell Gilpatric1924Assistant Secretary of the Air Force and Deputy Secretary of DefenseFrank O'Driscoll Hunter1913Chief of the First Air Force in World War IIPaul Nitze1924Secretary of the NavyElliott B. Strauss1921Rear Admiral and key Allied staff officer for the Invasion of Normandy
Ministry NameClassNotabilityReferencesMargot Käßmann1975Bishop of Evangelical-Lutheran Church of Hanover Landesbischöfin, first chairwoman of Evangelical Church in GermanyHenry Knox Sherrill1907Bishop of Massachusetts and Presiding Bishop of Episcopal Church
Politics NameClassNotabilityReferencesR. Lawrence Coughlin1946United States House of RepresentativesCharles Edison1909Governor of New JerseyFrederick Vanderbilt Field1923Political activist, staff member of Institute of Pacific RelationsPhilip Goodhart1944British politicianPorter J. Goss1956United States House of Representatives and Director of the CIAErnest Gruening1903Governor of Alaska and United States SenateWilliam Kirk KaynorUnited States House of RepresentativesLawrence M. Judd1906Governor of HawaiiRobert D. Orr1936Governor of Indiana and United States Ambassador to SingaporeWilliam Warren Scranton1935Governor of Pennsylvania and United States Ambassador to the United NationsJerry Voorhis1919United States House of Representatives
Sports NameClassNotabilityReferencesEdwin F. Blair1920All-American lineman for the undefeated Yale's 1923 football teamCaitlin Cahow2003Olympic bronze and silver medalist in hockeyLuke GlendeningNHL forwardWallace, William N. "COLLEGES HOCKEY: NOTEBOOK -- DIVISION III; Middlebury Makes It Four Straight Titles", The New York Times, March 25, 1998. Retrieved December 18, 2007. "Herr, the captain from the Hotchkiss School and Alpine, N.J., was held back by injuries earlier, but is fit now."Stephen Greenberg19662nd Deputy Commissioner of BaseballMatt HerrNHL forwardFred Kammer1930Olympic bronze medalist in hockeyHank Ketcham1910All-American lineman for Yale (1911–1913), inductee to the College Football Hall of FameGina Kingsbury2000Olympic gold medalist in hockey for CanadaRichmond LandonGold medal-winning high jumper at the 1920 Summer OlympicsTorrey Mitchell2004NHL forwardMarshall Rifai2017NHL defenceman with the Toronto Maple LeafsRaymond W. "Ducky" Pond1921Yale University football player and coachPeter RevsonFormula One race car driver.Shavar ThomasMajor League Soccer player for the Jamaica National Football TeamFay Vincent19588th MLB Baseball Commissioner
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