University Settlement Society of New York - Notable Alumni and Staff

Notable Alumni and Staff

  • Howard Brubaker – former columnist, The New Yorker
  • Nicholas Murray Butler – Nobel Peace Prize recipient
  • Andrew Carnegie – industrialist and businessman
  • George Gershwin – musician
  • Ira Gershwin – musician
  • Joseph Benson Gilder – former editor, The New York Times Review of Books
  • Samuel Halpert – artist
  • Hamilton Holt – journalist
  • Henry Holt – publisher
  • Seth Low – former Mayor of New York City
  • Gifford Pinchot – former Governor of Pennsylvania
  • Ernest Poole – Pulitzer Prize winner
  • Peter Riegert – actor
  • Elihu Root – Nobel Peace Prize recipient
  • Carl Schurz – former US Senator and Cabinet member
  • Jacob Schiff – banker and philanthropist
  • Barney Sedran – Basketball Hall of Famer
  • Charles Bunstein Stover – former New York City Parks Commissioner
  • William English Walling – founder, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
  • Walter Weyl – author; founding editor, The New Republic

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