List of Taft School alumni
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The following is a list of notable alumni of Taft School. The Taft School is a private, coeducational prep school located in Watertown, Connecticut, USA. The school was founded by Horace Dutton Taft, the brother of President William Howard Taft, in 1890.
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Academics
- Todd J. Albert
- T. H. Breen '60, Guggenheim fellow, history professor
- Stevan Dedijer '30, founder of the Research Policy Institute, pioneer of Business Intelligence
- Alfred G. Gilman '58, Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine
- Mason Gross '29, President of Rutgers University
- Samuel T. Orton 1897, pioneer in the study of dyslexia
Arts and entertainment
- Trey Anastasio '83, Phish lead guitarist
- Jeff Baxter '67, musician (Steely Dan, Doobie Brothers)
- Henry Beard '63, co-founder of National Lampoon, co-author of Bored of the Rings
- Peter Berg '80, actor/director of Friday Night Lights, Lone Survivor
- Mary Chapin Carpenter '76, five-time Grammy-award winner[1]
- Spencer Treat Clark '05, actor in Gladiator, Mystic River, Unbreakable, and The Last House on the Left
- Dominique Dunne, actress[2]
- Adam Duritz '82, lead singer of Counting Crows
- James Franciscus '53, actor in The Naked City, Longstreet
- Grant Goodeve, actor in Eight is Enough
- Geoffrey T. Hellman '24, longtime New Yorker columnist
- Deane G. Keller '17, painter and educator[3]
- Alan Klingenstein '72, film producer
- Ralph Lee '53, Guggenheim fellow and Obie Award winner
- Lorenzo Mariani '73, international opera director
- Mark Winslow Potter '48, painter
- Steve Sandvoss '98, actor
- Tom Santopietro '72, author and Broadway theater manager
- Fred Small '70, singer-songwriter
- Dudley Taft '84, member of Sweet Water guitars, vocals
- Karen L. Thorson '78, producer of The Wire, The Unusuals
Business
- Peter S. Kaufman '71, investment banker, president of the Gordian Group LLC
- Joseph Irwin Miller '27, industrialist, Cummins Engine Company
- John M. Schiff '21, investment banker, philanthropist, honorary chairman of Lehman Brothers[4]
- George Weyerhaeuser '44, Chairman and CEO, Weyerhaeuser Company[5]
Government officials
- Nathaniel Neiman Craley, Jr. '46, U.S. Congressman from Pennsylvania[6]
- Richard Funkhouser, U.S. Ambassador to Gabon
- Robert C. Hill '38, United States Ambassador to Costa Rica, El Salvador, Mexico, Spain and Argentina
- William S. Mailliard '35, U.S. Congressman, California[7]
- Manuel Rocha '69, United States Ambassador to Bolivia 2000-02
- Earl T. Smith '22, United States Ambassador to Cuba (1958–59)
- Michael P. W. Stone '42, U.S. Secretary of the Army
- Bob Taft '59, Governor of Ohio
- Robert A. Taft 1906, U.S. Senator from Ohio 1939-53, majority leader
- Robert Taft, Jr. '35, Republican Congressman 1963-65, 1967–71, Senator 1971-76
- William Howard Taft III '33, United States Ambassador to Ireland
- Robert F. Wagner Jr. '29, mayor of New York
- John S. Wold '34, U.S. Congressman, Wyoming[8]
Legal and judiciary
- Flemming L. Norcott, Jr. '61, Associate Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court[9]
- Robert W. Sweet '40, federal judge who heard New York Times v. Gonzales concerning the Judith Miller controversy[8]
- Ralph K. Winter Jr. '53, federal judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, nominated to the court in 1981 by President Ronald Reagan
Sports
- Darren Bragg '87, professional baseball player
- James Driscoll '96, professional golfer[10]
- Patrick Kerney '95, professional football player
- Allison Mleczko '93, gold medalist in first women's Olympic ice hockey game at Nagano; silver medalist in 2002[11]
- Max Pacioretty '07, professional hockey player for the Montreal Canadiens
- Barbara Potter '79, Hall of Fame professional tennis player
- James Stillman Rockefeller '20, Olympic gold medalist, 8-man rowing (Paris, France)
- Ryan Shannon '01, professional hockey player
- Tammy Lee Shewchuk '96, Olympic gold medalist in women's ice hockey, Salt Lake City
- Jaime Sifers '02, professional ice hockey player
- Katey Stone '84, head coach of 2014 Olympic Team USA women's ice hockey team, coach of Harvard Crimson women's ice hockey team
- John Welchli '46, Olympic silver medalist, Melbourne, 1956
Writing, journalism, and publishing
- Laurence Bergreen '67, historian and biographer
- Nelson Denis '72, journalist, screenwriter, former New York State Assemblyman
- Steven J. Erlanger ’70, London bureau chief (formerly Paris and Jerusalem bureau chief) for The New York Times
- Philip K. Howard '66, founder of Common Good, author of The Death of Common Sense: How Law is Suffocating America[12]
- Thomas Kuhn '40, author of Structure of Scientific Revolutions, coined the phrase "paradigm shift"
- John Merrow ’59, Peabody Award-winning journalist and producer
- Sumner Chilton Powell '42, Pulitzer Prize winner in history for Puritan Village: The Formation of a New England Town[13]
- Josh Quittner '75, author, editor of Business 2.0
- David Kenyon Webster '40, soldier, journalist, and author
References
- ↑ Schoemer, Karen. "No Hair Spray, No Spangles", The New York Times, August 1, 1993. Accessed December 3, 2007
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- ↑ Guide to the Deane Keller Papers : Finding Aid
- ↑ John Schiff, A Philanthropist And Investment Banker, Dies - New York Times
- ↑ Obituaries | Dilettante Oliver Hills Whitney, Dies At 75 | Seattle Times
- ↑ CRALEY, Nathaniel Neiman, Jr. - Biographical Information
- ↑ MAILLIARD, William Somers - Biographical Information
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Citation of Merit
- ↑ Justice Flemming L. Norcott, Jr
- ↑ Category
- ↑ Harvard University Gazette
- ↑ Common Good: Founder & Chair
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