Terrace Club - Notable Alumni

Notable Alumni

  • Harold Medina 1909 - Lawyer and Judge notable for hearing landmark cases of conspiracy and treason
  • William H. Scheide '36 - Musician, philanthropist, and humanitarian. Relocated the Scheide Library, "probably the finest private library in existence in the world," to Princeton's Firestone Library. A primary funder of Brown vs. Board of Education.
  • Mel Ferrer '39 - Actor, Film Director and Producer
  • Russell E. Train '41 - President of World Wildlife Fund, 1978-1985
  • Galway Kinnell '48 - Poet, translator, and author
  • Madison Smartt Bell '79 - Novelist
  • Stanley Jordan '81 - jazz guitarist
  • Walter Kirn '83 - Novelist and Literary Critic
  • Jonathan Ames '86/'87 - writer, raconteur & performance artist, creator of HBO's Bored to Death
  • Todd Wider '86 - Todd Wider is an American plastic surgeon and Emmy Award winning film producer based in New York, who is active in documentary filmmaking.
  • Theodore Zoli '88 - American structural engineer, and a leading designer of cable-stayed bridges. 2009 MacArthur Fellows Program
  • E. Randol Schoenberg '88 - a U.S. attorney, based in Los Angeles, California. Successful case in Supreme Court of the United States Republic of Austria v. Altmann in 2004. President of the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust.
  • Clifford J. Levy '89 - Winner of a Pulitzer Prize in 2003 for the New York Times
  • Mohsin Hamid '93 - Author
  • Peter Moskos '94 - Author of 'Cop in the Hood'
  • Timothy Ferriss '00 - Entrepreneur, Investor & Author of 'The 4-Hour Workweek'
  • Jonathan Safran Foer '00 - author

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