Mc Lean High School - Notable Alumni

Notable Alumni

Notable McLean High School alumni include:

• Ann Sommovigo Moore (1968), CEO, Time, Inc.

• Kyra Grossman (1981), Real Estate Director for the Pittsburgh Urban Redevelopment Authority.

• Brendan Heavey (1998), Professional Chef. Contestant on Season 9 of Fox reality TV cooking show Hell's Kitchen.

• Sharyn Alfonsi (1990), Correspondent for ABC News. Reports and appears on World News with Charles Gibson, Good Morning America and Nightline.

• Aldrich Ames (1959), CIA officer. He was convicted in 1994 for spying for the Soviet Union. Ames' story is widely told in novels and movies, and was also featured on the March 7, 1994 cover of Time.

• Rose Arce (1982), CNN producer

• Peter Badawy (2001), collegiate and professional golfer. Named "All Louisiana" by the Louisiana Sports Writers Association, Badawy started his athletic career as a downhill skier.

• Elizabeth Cheney (1984), former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs. She is also the daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney.

• Mary Cheney (1987), daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney.

• Eric Dorsey, (1982), led McLean to a 10-1 season in 1981. Went to Notre Dame on a football scholarship and then got drafted 19th in the NFL draft by the New York Giants. Dorsey went on to start in Super Bowl XXV for the New York Giants.

• Don Drakulich (1979), sculptor, videographer, and artistic talent behind the stage design for the alternative rock group GWAR. Don plays the character of Sleazy P. Martini as well as others. Don also designed the fish for the Richmond Virginia's 2001 Go Fish project.

• Philip A. Dur (1961), Admiral, and one-time Captain of the USS Yorktown.

• Merve Kading Feldmann (1961), retired, from being a Judge in Germany.

• Duff Goldman (1992), baker, cake designer. He opened a bakery in Baltimore, Maryland and became the star of his own Food Network show, Ace of Cakes. He considers his McLean art teacher, Jeffrey Meizlik, his biggest inspiration.

• Seth Greisinger (1993), baseball player, played in 1996 Olympics (bronze medal), with Yomiuri Giants in 2009.

• Milton George Heflin (1961), owner of Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream, Waterbury, VT (died 2006).

• Marvin David Kelley (1961), retired, Vice President, IBM Global Services, Vero Beach, FL.

• Luke Kruytbosch, race track announcer at Churchill Downs.

• Giuseppe Lanzone (2001), member of the US Olympic rowing team at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China. Lanzone sat 3 seat of the Men's Four w/o.

• Jared Leto, lead singer of band 30 Seconds To Mars, actor and director attended for two years

• Ansel Frank Luxford, Jr. (1961), a leading breeders of Suffolk Sheep, Luxford Ranch, Wilsall, Montana.

• S. John Massoud (1982), politician, civic activist, anti-tax advocate, columnist, business executive.

• John Nagy (1961), Physicist, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY.

• Anthony Carter Platt (1961), Principal, Finegold Alexander & Associates Inc., Architects (died 1998), (Source: Class Correspondent, 2010 letter from Tony's widow, Nancy Goodwin, AIA, LEED AP)

• Phillip Poole (1961), one of the designers of, and then became Head of, the Coast Guard's Solar Navigational System.

• William F. Readdy (1970), astronaut. He has flown three missions during his career.

• Sam Stitt (2000), member of the US Olympic rowing team at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China. Stitt sat 2 seat of the Men's Quadruple Sculls.

• Tom Udall (1966), Junior United States Senator from New Mexico.

• Murray Henderson Woods (1961), retired, long-time Manager of Technology Development, Intel Corp., Santa Clara, CA.

• Vern Yip (1986), interior designer who has appeared on design show Trading Spaces. He currently hosts the HGTV show Deserving Design.

• Dino Patti Djalal, ambassador of Indonesia to the United States.

• Alex "B.Dolla" Ben-Abdallah (2008), music producer, remixer and performer known for his remixes of popular songs from the past and present.