List of Taft School alumni
The following is a list of notable alumni of prep school located in Watertown, Connecticut, United States. The school was founded by Horace Dutton Taft, the brother of President William Howard Taft, in 1890.
Academics
- Guggenheim fellow, history professor
- Business Intelligence
- Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine[1]
- Mason Gross'29, President of Rutgers University
- Thomas Kuhn '40, philosopher of science, author
- Samuel T. Orton 1897, pioneer in the study of dyslexia
- Rollin G. Osterweis '26, Professor of history at Yale University
Arts and entertainment
- Trey Anastasio '83, Phish lead guitarist
- 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
- Jason Blum '87, producer of "Get Out" and "Paranormal Activity", founder of Blumhouse Productions
- Mia Borders, '05, singer-songwriter
- Mary Chapin Carpenter '76, five-time Grammy Award winner[2]
- Spencer Treat Clark '05, actor in Gladiator, Mystic River, Unbreakable, and The Last House on the Left
- Barnaby Conrad '40, author, artist, bullfighter
- Barnaby Conrad III '71, author and artist
- Dominique Dunne, actress[3]
- Adam Duritz '82, lead singer of Counting Crows
- James Franciscus '53, actor in The Naked City, Longstreet
- Eight is Enough
- Geoffrey T. Hellman '24, longtime New Yorker columnist
- Deane G. Keller '17, painter and educator[4]
- Alan Klingenstein '72, film producer
- Ralph Lee '53, Guggenheim fellow and Obie Award winner
- Lorenzo Mariani '73, international opera director
- 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
- Becton Dickinson and Company
- Cash Management Account
- 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[5]
- John G. Taft '68, financier and writer
- George Weyerhaeuser '44, chairman and CEO, Weyerhaeuser Company[6]
Government officials
- William D. Brewer, U.S. Ambassador
- Nathaniel Neiman Craley, Jr. '46, U.S. Congressman from Pennsylvania[7]
- Richard Funkhouser, U.S. Ambassador to Gabon
- Argentina
- William S. Mailliard '35, U.S. Congressman, California[8]
- United States Ambassador to Bolivia2000-02
- United States Ambassador to Cuba(1958–59)
- Michael P. W. Stone '42, U.S. Secretary of the Army
- 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
- United States Ambassador to Ireland
- Robert F. Wagner Jr. '29, Mayor of New York
- John S. Wold '34, U.S. Congressman, Wyoming[9]
Legal and judiciary
- Flemming L. Norcott, Jr. '61, Associate Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court[10]
- Judith Miller controversy[9]
- 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
- Wesley S. Williams Jr., first African-American to serve both as legal counsel to the United States Senate and president of the Harvard Law School Association
Sports
- Darren Bragg '87, professional baseball player
- James Driscoll '96, professional golfer[11]
- 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[12]
- Max Pacioretty '07, professional hockey player for the Carolina Hurricanes
- Barbara Potter '79, Hall of Fame professional tennis player
- James Stillman Rockefeller 1920, 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
- 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[13]
- Structure of Scientific Revolutions, coined the phrase "paradigm shift"
- Peabody Award-winning journalist and producer
- Puritan Village: The Formation of a New England Town[14]
- Josh Quittner '75, author, editor of Business 2.0
- David Kenyon Webster '40, soldier, journalist, and author
References
- ^ "Alfred G. Gilman - Biographical". www.nobelprize.org. Retrieved 2017-04-05.
- ^ Schoemer, Karen. "No Hair Spray, No Spangles", The New York Times, August 1, 1993. Accessed December 3, 2007
- ^ Dunne, Dominick (March 1984). "Justice: A Father's Account Of the Trial Of His Daughter's Killer". vanityfair.com. Retrieved January 24, 2013.
- ^ 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
- ^ a b "Citation of Merit". Archived from the original on 2015-05-11. Retrieved 2015-05-09.
- ^ Justice Flemming L. Norcott, Jr
- ^ Category[permanent dead link]
- ^ Harvard University Gazette
- ^ Common Good: Founder & Chair
- ^ "The Pulitzer Prizes - Awards - 1964 Winners".