Loomis Chaffee - Distinguished Alumni

Distinguished Alumni

• Gerald Warner Brace 1918 (1901–1978) was an American writer, educator, sailor and boat builder.
• Mark Brown 1977 – Major League Baseball pitcher, Baltimore Orioles (1984) and Minnesota Twins (1985)
• Frank Bruni 1982 – Reporter and food critic, The New York Times; author of Ambling into History: The Unlikely Odyssey of George W. Bush
• 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
• Benjamin Cheever 1967 – Author of The Plagiarist, The Partisan, Famous After Death
• Chris Cillizza 1994 - Political journalist for the Washington Post 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
• Myron “Moe” W. Drabowsky 1953 – Major League Baseball player with the Baltimore Orioles
• Guilford Dudley Jr. 1925 – United States Ambassador to Denmark
• David Edelstein 1977 – Film Critic, New York Magazine, NPR's Fresh Air, CBS Sunday Morning, Slate, the New York Post, the Village Voice, and the Boston Phoenix.
• Ella Grasso 1936 – former Governor of Connecticut
• Benjamin Hedges 1926 – Olympic track and field athlete (1928)
• Chris Hedges 1975 – Fellow at The Nation Institute; 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
• Robert Grant Irving 1958 – Author of Indian Summer
• David E. Kaiser 1965, professor of history, Naval War College, Newport, R.I., author of American Tragedy, Politics and War: European Conflict from Philip II to Hitler, Epic Season: The 1948 American League Pennant Race, and others.
• Henry R. Kravis 1963 – Founding partner, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.
• Tom Lehrer 1943 – musical satirist, entertainer, and mathematician
• Peter A. LeWitt 1968- World renowned neurologist in the field of Parkinson's disease research
• Alan Loewy 1995 - Founder, Managing Partner and Portfolio Manager of Chicago-based Avocet Capital Management
• 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
• Matthew M. Murray 1989 – Major League Baseball pitcher, Boston Red Sox (1995)
• John D. Rockefeller III 1925 – successful businessman and philanthropist
• Winthrop Rockefeller 1931 – Governor of Arkansas
• George P. Shultz 1938 – former United States Secretary of State
• 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).
• Arthur Ochs Sulzberger 1945 – Chairman and Publisher of The New York Times
• John Terry 1968 – Film and television actor, Against the Grain, A Dangerous Woman, Iron Will, Lost
• George Selden Thompson 1947 – author of The Cricket in Times Square and other children's classics
• Gretchen Ulion 1990 – Olympic gold medalist, U.S. Women's Olympic Hockey Team, Nagano, Japan 1998 (see Ice hockey at the 1998 Winter Olympics and list of athletes on Wheaties boxes)
• 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)
• Terry Walters 1984 - sustainable food and health advocate and author of Clean Food and Clean Start
• Robert Winters 1949 – President and CEO, The Prudential Insurance Company of America
• Jason Wu 2001 – Fashion Designer (designed First Lady Michelle Obama's inaugural ball gown and other pieces for the first lady).