Loomis Chaffee
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The Loomis Chaffee School (LC or Loomis) is a premier coeducation
Coeducation
Mixed-sex education, also known as coeducation or co-education, is the integrated education of male and female persons in the same institution. It is the opposite of single-sex education...

al boarding school
Boarding school
A boarding school is a school where some or all pupils study and live during the school year with their fellow students and possibly teachers and/or administrators. The word 'boarding' is used in the sense of "bed and board," i.e., lodging and meals...

 for grades 9–12 and postgraduates located on a 300-plus acre campus in the Connecticut River Valley in Windsor, Connecticut
Windsor, Connecticut
Windsor is a town in Hartford County, Connecticut, United States, and was the first English settlement in the state. It lies on the northern border of Connecticut's capital, Hartford. The population was estimated at 28,778 in 2005....

, six miles (10 km) north of Hartford
Hartford, Connecticut
Hartford is the capital of the U.S. state of Connecticut. The seat of Hartford County until Connecticut disbanded county government in 1960, it is the second most populous city on New England's largest river, the Connecticut River. As of the 2010 Census, Hartford's population was 124,775, making...

. Loomis is a member of the Ten Schools Admissions Organization.

Foundation

The school was chartered in 1874 by five siblings who had lost all their children and determined to found a school as a gift to the children of others. Six million dollars in need-based financial aid is awarded to more than 30 percent of the student body. In 2009, the school had 82 Advanced Placement Scholars, including two National Scholars. The school has had 24 National Merit Finalists in the last three years. Seven members of the Class of 2009 were identified as potential U.S. Presidential Scholars by the U.S. Presidential Scholar Commission.

Alumni

Notable alumni include former Secretary of State
United States Secretary of State
The United States Secretary of State is the head of the United States Department of State, concerned with foreign affairs. The Secretary is a member of the Cabinet and the highest-ranking cabinet secretary both in line of succession and order of precedence...

 George Schultz 1938, former governor of Connecticut Ella T. Grasso
Ella T. Grasso
Ella Grasso , born Ella Giovanna Oliva Tambussi, was an American politician, and first woman elected governor of Connecticut.-Biography:...

 1936, satirist Tom Lehrer
Tom Lehrer
Thomas Andrew "Tom" Lehrer is an American singer-songwriter, satirist, pianist, mathematician and polymath. He has lectured on mathematics and musical theater...

 1943, New York Times chairman Arthur Ochs Sulzberger
Arthur Ochs Sulzberger
Arthur Ochs "Punch" Sulzberger, Sr. to a prominent media and publishing family, is himself an American publisher and businessman. He succeeded his father, Arthur Hays Sulzberger, and maternal grandfather as publisher and chairman of the New York Times in 1963, passing the positions to his son...

 1945, financier Henry R. Kravis 1963, actor, writer and producer James Widdoes
James Widdoes
James "Jamie" Widdoes is an American actor and film and television director, sometimes credited as Jamie Widdoes.-Career:...

 1972, 1998 Winter Olympic Games United States women's ice hockey Olympic gold medalist Gretchen Ulion
Gretchen Ulion
Gretchen Ulion is an American ice hockey player. She won a gold medal at the 1998 Winter Olympics. She is the Dartmouth Big Green women's ice hockey program's all-time leading scorer with 189 goals and 312 points...

 1990 and Taiwanese fashion designer Jason Wu
Jason Wu
Jason Wu is a Manhattan-based Taiwanese American fashion designer.-Biography:Born in Taiwan, Wu moved to Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada at age nine and attended Eaglebrook School in Deerfield, Massachusetts and Loomis Chaffee, in Windsor ,Connecticut. He learned how to sew by designing and...

 graduated in 2001. Wu is known for designing various dresses for First Lady Michelle Obama (notably her inaugural gown).

History

The roots of Loomis Chaffee run as far back as 1639, when Joseph Loomis and his family first settled at the confluence of the Farmington
Farmington River
The Farmington River is a river located in northwest Connecticut, with major tributaries extending into southwest Massachusetts. Via its longest branch , the Farmington's length increases to , making it the Connecticut River's longest tributary by a mere over the major river directly to its...

 and Connecticut
Connecticut River
The Connecticut River is the largest and longest river in New England, and also an American Heritage River. It flows roughly south, starting from the Fourth Connecticut Lake in New Hampshire. After flowing through the remaining Connecticut Lakes and Lake Francis, it defines the border between the...

 rivers. Several generations later, the inspiration for the school was born out of family tragedy, when, in the early 1870s, four Loomis brothers and their sister had outlived all their children.

As a memorial to their own offspring, and as a gift to future children, they pooled their considerable estates to found a secondary school called The Loomis Institute to educate young persons, "hoping and trusting that some good may come to posterity, from the harvest, poor though it be, of our lives."
The original 1640 Loomis Homestead
Loomis Homestead
The Loomis Homestead in Windsor, Connecticut is one of the oldest timber-frame houses in America. The oldest part of the house was built in 1640 by Joseph Loomis who came to America from England in 1638 . Later additions to the Loomis house were made around the turn of the eighteenth century. The...

 was chosen as the site where their dream would become reality.

James Chaffee Loomis, Hezekiah Bradley Loomis, Osbert Burr Loomis, John Mason Loomis, and Abigail Sarah Loomis Hayden broke new educational ground by planning a school that would offer both vocational and college preparatory courses. (Vocational offerings were discontinued during the later development of the school.)

The founders' enlightened and democratic school would have no religious or political admission criteria. Boys and girls would be given as free an education as the endowment would allow.

The Loomis Institute opened its doors in 1914 to 39 boys and five girls. In 1926, their girls’ division broke off to focus more closely on girls’ educational issues and became The Chaffee School.

Both schools continued to expand. The Loomis Institute built several new facilities in 1967, and the two schools reunited in 1970, forming The Loomis Chaffee School. Six years later it began admitting girls as boarders.

The reunification led to a major revision of the curriculum, which combined a demanding basic program with a broad range of electives in art, music, philosophy, religion and other subjects.

The Loomis Chaffee School has enjoyed a period of unprecedented growth since the 1970s. It strengthened its endowment to bolster financial aid and broadened the diversity of the student body. Recently, it opened new dormitories, an enclosed hockey and skating rink, a brand new athletics center, a visual arts center, a new history & social science facility, an expanded dining hall, and a new student center. Within the most recent years, the Clark Center for Science and Mathematics was completely renovated, and Chaffee Hall was transformed and expanded to house the all new Hubbard Music Center.

Facts & Figures

The school semi-rural campus in historic Windsor, Connecticut (settled 1633)
  • 5-to-1 student-to-faculty ratio
  • 4-to-1 boarding student-to-residential faculty ratio; 10 dormitories with 31 live-in faculty families
  • 190 courses (regular, advanced and Advanced Placement) and independent study
  • Average class size: 12
  • 64 girls and boys interscholastic teams in 18 sports; 19 intramural sports offerings
  • Fully computerized and wired campus: internal and external email and Internet access for all; campus-wide wireless access
  • Numerous extracurricular organizations and an active community service program
  • Trimester schedule; classes held on alternate Saturday mornings
  • Katharine Brush Library: 60,000 books; more than 42,000 e-books; access to more than 10,000 periodicals and scholarly journals; 1,500 videos; 2,000 CDs, extensive microfilm collection; 18 public computers; full electronic reference and information services; 50 subscription databases


Finances, tuition and financial aid
  • $200 million endowment; $31 million annual operating budget
  • $2.45 million in Annual Fund contributions (2007–08) with 58% of current parents participating
  • $41,200 boarding tuition; $30,100 day tuition (for the 2008–09 school year)
  • $6 million in need-based financial aid awarded to 30% of student body (for the 2008–09 school year)


The students (2008–09)
  • 690 enrollment
  • 50% male, 50% female
  • From 5 continents (and Oceania), 20 countries, 25 U.S. states
  • 21% students of color; 9% international students
  • 70 Advanced Placement Scholars (2007): 1 National Scholar, 20 with Distinction, 22 with Honor
  • 24 National Merit finalists in last three years; 70 National Merit commended students in last three years
  • SAT: The middle 50% of the class of 2008 scored in the 570–700 range (critical reading), 570–700 (math), and 590–700 (writing).


The faculty
  • 150 members
  • 50% male, 50% female
  • 112 advanced degrees (master’s degrees and doctorates)
  • 50% of full-time teaching faculty at Loomis Chaffee more than 10 years

Academics

Loomis Chaffee offers courses in English
English literature
English literature is the literature written in the English language, including literature composed in English by writers not necessarily from England; for example, Robert Burns was Scottish, James Joyce was Irish, Joseph Conrad was Polish, Dylan Thomas was Welsh, Edgar Allan Poe was American, J....

, Spanish, French, Arabic, Chinese, Latin
Latin
Latin is an Italic language originally spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. It, along with most European languages, is a descendant of the ancient Proto-Indo-European language. Although it is considered a dead language, a number of scholars and members of the Christian clergy speak it fluently, and...

, Art
Art
Art is the product or process of deliberately arranging items in a way that influences and affects one or more of the senses, emotions, and intellect....

, History
History
History is the discovery, collection, organization, and presentation of information about past events. History can also mean the period of time after writing was invented. Scholars who write about history are called historians...

 and Social Science, Mathematics
Mathematics
Mathematics is the study of quantity, space, structure, and change. Mathematicians seek out patterns and formulate new conjectures. Mathematicians resolve the truth or falsity of conjectures by mathematical proofs, which are arguments sufficient to convince other mathematicians of their validity...

, Music
Music
Music is an art form whose medium is sound and silence. Its common elements are pitch , rhythm , dynamics, and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture...

, Philosophy
Philosophy
Philosophy is the study of general and fundamental problems, such as those connected with existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language. Philosophy is distinguished from other ways of addressing such problems by its critical, generally systematic approach and its reliance on rational...

, Psychology
Psychology
Psychology is the study of the mind and behavior. Its immediate goal is to understand individuals and groups by both establishing general principles and researching specific cases. For many, the ultimate goal of psychology is to benefit society...

 and Religion
Religious studies
Religious studies is the academic field of multi-disciplinary, secular study of religious beliefs, behaviors, and institutions. It describes, compares, interprets, and explains religion, emphasizing systematic, historically based, and cross-cultural perspectives.While theology attempts to...

, Science
Science
Science is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe...

, and Theater Arts
Theatre
Theatre is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music or dance...

. Noncredit diploma requirements include Library Skills and Fitness and Wellness. Advanced Placement courses are offered in English, Spanish, French, Latin, Calculus AB and BC
Calculus
Calculus is a branch of mathematics focused on limits, functions, derivatives, integrals, and infinite series. This subject constitutes a major part of modern mathematics education. It has two major branches, differential calculus and integral calculus, which are related by the fundamental theorem...

, Chemistry
Chemistry
Chemistry is the science of matter, especially its chemical reactions, but also its composition, structure and properties. Chemistry is concerned with atoms and their interactions with other atoms, and particularly with the properties of chemical bonds....

, Economics
Economics
Economics is the social science that analyzes the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. The term economics comes from the Ancient Greek from + , hence "rules of the house"...

, Environmental Science
Environmental science
Environmental science is an interdisciplinary academic field that integrates physical and biological sciences, to the study of the environment, and the solution of environmental problems...

, Physics
Physics
Physics is a natural science that involves the study of matter and its motion through spacetime, along with related concepts such as energy and force. More broadly, it is the general analysis of nature, conducted in order to understand how the universe behaves.Physics is one of the oldest academic...

, Statistics
Statistics
Statistics is the study of the collection, organization, analysis, and interpretation of data. It deals with all aspects of this, including the planning of data collection in terms of the design of surveys and experiments....

, Studio Art
Studio art
Studio art is made of art and studio, and the term has several implications depending on the context used. The term encompasses all art forms, be they performing or visual.-Definition:...

 and U.S. History. Additionally, the 2011 school year will mark the induction of an AP European History course among others. In 2007, 183 students were administered 349 AP exams, 91% of whom were awarded the three highest grades of 3, 4, and 5.

Arts

The Richmond Art Center, the Sue and Eugene Mercy, Jr. Gallery and the visiting artist program make the visual arts a school specialty. Core art courses are supplemented by television production and graphic design. Music programs offer both theoretical training and performance experience, including orchestra, chamber music ensembles, concert band, jazz band, jazz improvisation, concert choir and chamber singers. Training in all aspects of theater is supported by curricular offerings in acting, directing, technical theater and playwriting as well as an active yearly production schedule of full-length plays, musicals and one-acts.

Athletics

All students participate in interscholastic, intramural or daytime athletic programs each trimester. Interscholastic varsity and junior varsity competition for boys and girls is offered on 60 teams in baseball, basketball, cross country, field hockey, football, golf, ice hockey, lacrosse, skiing, soccer, softball, squash, swimming/diving, tennis, track, volleyball, water polo and wrestling. There are an additional 26 intramural sports, including both team sports and "lifetime and leisure" sports like yoga and weight lifting. Freshman-level teams are offered in soccer, lacrosse, field hockey, boys basketball and boys tennis. Facilities include a double gymnasium and two other gymnasia, supporting basketball and volleyball courts; a fitness center and a weight room, totalling 6300 square feet (585.3 m²); a 25-meter, six-lane swimming pool; an enclosed hockey rink; a 400-meter, eight-lane, all-weather track; eight international squash courts; 17 tennis courts; a 3.1 miles (5 km) cross-country course; two baseball diamonds; two softball diamonds; 17 fields for football, soccer, lacrosse and field hockey; and a golf practice driving range, putting green and sand trap.

College guidance

Four full-time college counselors guide students through the college search and application process. Eighty-seven percent of the members of the Class of 2007 were admitted to colleges and universities deemed most selective or highly selective by Barron’s Profiles of American Colleges.

Student Council

The Loomis Chaffee student council
Student council
Student council is a curricular or extra-curricular activity for students within elementary and secondary schools around the world. Present in most public and private K-12 school systems across the United States, Canada and Australia these bodies are alternatively entitled student council, student...

 is a student group that is elected at the end and beginning of every year. They focus on aid in education as well as community service. The Loomis Chaffee student council was the first student council democratically elected by students in the United States. The council consists of two representatives per constituency, divided by gender, age, and residency.

The Loomis Chaffee Log

The Loomis Chaffee Log is the student-run, school-sponsored newspaper. Its broad readership includes students, faculty, parents, and alumni. Published monthly by a large team of student editors, The Log is now in its 94th year as principle chronicle of life at Loomis Chaffee. It recently launched an online edition to stay current with growing trends in today's media.

Traditions

  • Loomis and Kent School
    Kent School
    Kent School is a private, co-educational college preparatory school in Kent, Connecticut, USA. The Reverend Frederick Herbert Sill, Order of the Holy Cross, established the school in 1906 and it retains its affiliation with the Episcopal Church of the United States.Students at Kent come from more...

     have a long-running rivalry. The two schools take this historic enmity quite seriously, and have annual Kent vs. Loomis days. The two schools compete for a bowl and spoon. The spoon goes to the winner of the football game and the bowl goes to the winner of the most athletic contests on that particular day.
  • The Senior Path is brick pathway running through the middle of the Grubbs Quadrangle. Tradition holds that only seniors, PGs, and graduates are allowed to walk the length of the path. As each class heads into its final months at Loomis, the soon-to-be-graduates design a new section of brick to be laid.
  • Traditionally, the third floor floor of Founders Hall, the tunnels, and some parts of the health center are rumored to be haunted.

Distinguished alumni

  • Gerald Warner Brace
    Gerald Warner Brace
    Gerald Warner Brace was an American novelist, writer, educator, sailor and boat builder. His work frequently employed settings from rural life in New England.-Early life and ancestors:...

     1918 (1901–1978) was an American writer, educator, sailor and boat builder.
  • Mark Brown
    Mark Brown
    Mark Brown may refer to:* Mark A. Brown, American businessman and gaming industry executive* Mark N. Brown, NASA astronaut* Brownmark, bassist of Prince's Revolution* Mark Malloch Brown, United Kingdom politician...

     1977 – Major League Baseball pitcher, Baltimore Orioles (1984) and Minnesota Twins (1985)
  • Frank Bruni
    Frank Bruni
    Frank Anthony Bruni is an American journalist. He was the chief restaurant critic of The New York Times, a position he held from 2004 to 2009. In May 2011, he became the first openly gay Op-Ed columnist of The New York Times....

     1982 – Reporter and food critic, The New York Times; author of Ambling into History: The Unlikely Odyssey of George W. Bush
  • Jonathan Carroll
    Jonathan Carroll
    Jonathan Samuel Carroll is an American author primarily known for novels, which can be characterized as magic realist, slipstream or modern fantasy...

     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
    Benjamin Cheever
    Benjamin Hale Cheever is an American writer and editor. He is the son of writer John Cheever and brother of Susan Cheever...

     1967 – Author of The Plagiarist, The Partisan, Famous After Death
  • Larry Collins
    Larry Collins (writer)
    Larry Collins, born John Lawrence Collins Jr., , was an American writer.-Life:...

     1947 – author of Is Paris Burning?
  • Nancy W. Collins
    Nancy W. Collins
    Nancy Walbridge Collins is a European Studies professor at Columbia University. Collins focuses on contemporary Europe and transatlantic affairs....

     1991 – Columbia University professor of European Studies; Editor of European Studies Forum
  • Myron “Moe” W. Drabowsky
    Moe Drabowsky
    Myron Walter Drabowsky was a Polish-American right-handed relief pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for the Chicago Cubs , Milwaukee Braves , Cincinnati Reds , Kansas City Athletics , Baltimore Orioles , Kansas City Royals , St...

     1953 – Major League Baseball player with the Baltimore Orioles
    Baltimore Orioles
    The Baltimore Orioles are a professional baseball team based in Baltimore, Maryland in the United States. They are a member of the Eastern Division of Major League Baseball's American League. One of the American League's eight charter franchises in 1901, it spent its first year as a major league...

  • Guilford Dudley Jr.
    Guilford Dudley (ambassador)
    Guilford Dudley , was the United States ambassador to Denmark under the Nixon and Ford presidential administrations. From 1952 until 1969 Dudley served as president of Life & Casualty Insurance Company...

     1925 – United States Ambassador to Denmark
    United States Ambassador to Denmark
    The first representative from the United States to Denmark was appointed in 1827 as a Chargé d'Affaires. There followed a series of chargés and ministers until 1890 when the first full ambassador was appointed...

  • David Edelstein
    David Edelstein
    David Edelstein is the chief film critic for New York Magazine, as well as the film critic for NPR's Fresh Air and CBS Sunday Morning. He lives in Brooklyn, New York....

     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
  • John D. Rockefeller III 1925 – successful businessman and philanthropist
  • Benjamin Hedges
    Benjamin Hedges
    Benjamin Hedges was an American athlete who competed mainly in the high jump....

     1926 – Olympic track and field athlete (1928)
  • Winthrop Rockefeller
    Winthrop Rockefeller
    Winthrop Rockefeller was a politician and philanthropist who served as the first Republican Governor of Arkansas since Reconstruction. He was a third-generation member of the Rockefeller family.-Early life:...

     1931 – Governor of Arkansas
  • George P. Shultz
    George P. Shultz
    George Pratt Shultz is an American economist, statesman, and businessman. He served as the United States Secretary of Labor from 1969 to 1970, as the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury from 1972 to 1974, and as the U.S. Secretary of State from 1982 to 1989...

     1938 – former United States Secretary of State
    United States Secretary of State
    The United States Secretary of State is the head of the United States Department of State, concerned with foreign affairs. The Secretary is a member of the Cabinet and the highest-ranking cabinet secretary both in line of succession and order of precedence...

  • Tom Lehrer
    Tom Lehrer
    Thomas Andrew "Tom" Lehrer is an American singer-songwriter, satirist, pianist, mathematician and polymath. He has lectured on mathematics and musical theater...

     1943 – musical satirist, entertainer, and mathematician
  • Arthur Ochs Sulzberger
    Arthur Ochs Sulzberger
    Arthur Ochs "Punch" Sulzberger, Sr. to a prominent media and publishing family, is himself an American publisher and businessman. He succeeded his father, Arthur Hays Sulzberger, and maternal grandfather as publisher and chairman of the New York Times in 1963, passing the positions to his son...

     1945 – Chairman and Publisher of The New York Times
    The New York Times
    The New York Times is an American daily newspaper founded and continuously published in New York City since 1851. The New York Times has won 106 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any news organization...

  • George Selden Thompson 1947 – author of The Cricket in Times Square and other children's classics
  • Robert Winters
    Robert Winters
    Robert Henry Winters, PC was a Canadian politician and businessman.Born in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, the son of a fishing captain, Winters went to Mount Allison University in New Brunswick, and then to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to complete his degree in electrical engineering...

     1949 – President and CEO, The Prudential Insurance Company of America
    Prudential Financial
    The Prudential Insurance Company of America , also known as Prudential Financial, Inc., is a Fortune Global 500 and Fortune 500 company whose subsidiaries provide insurance, investment management, and other financial products and services to both retail and institutional customers throughout the...

  • Robert Grant Irving
    Robert Grant Irving
    Robert Grant Irving, Ph.D. is an author and lecturer specializing in the history of art and architecture of Britain and the British Empire. His book Indian Summer: Lutyens, Baker, and Imperial Delhi is the story of the creation of New Delhi from 1911 to 1931, the grandest architectural...

     1958 – Author of Indian Summer
  • William Weld
    William Weld
    William Floyd Weld is a former governor of the US state of Massachusetts. He served as that state's 68th governor from 1991 to 1997. From 1981 to 1988, he was a federal prosecutor in the United States Justice Department...

     1962 – Governor of Massachusetts
    Governor of Massachusetts
    The Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is the executive magistrate of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, United States. The current governor is Democrat Deval Patrick.-Constitutional role:...

     (1991–1997), United States Ambassador to Mexico
    United States Ambassador to Mexico
    The United States has maintained diplomatic relations with Mexico since 1823, when Andrew Jackson was appointed Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to that country. Jackson declined the appointment, however, and Joel R. Poinsett became the first U.S. envoy to Mexico in 1825. The rank...

  • Henry R. Kravis 1963 – Founding partner, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.
    Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.
    KKR & Co. L.P. is an American-based global private equity firm, specializing in leveraged buyouts, based in New York. The firm sponsors and manages private equity investment funds. Since its inception, the firm has completed over $400 billion of private equity transactions and was a pioneer in...

  • David E. Kaiser
    David E. Kaiser
    David E. Kaiser, born June 7, 1947, is an American historian whose published works have covered a broad range of topics, from European Warfare to American League Baseball...

     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.
  • John Terry
    John Terry (actor)
    John Terry is an American film, television, and stage actor.-Early life:Terry was born in Florida, where he attended Vero Beach High School. He was also educated at the prestigious Loomis Chaffee prep school in Windsor, Connecticut, and began a career building original custom log homes in North...

     1968 – Film and television actor, Against the Grain, A Dangerous Woman, Iron Will, Lost
    Lost (TV series)
    Lost is an American television series that originally aired on ABC from September 22, 2004 to May 23, 2010, consisting of six seasons. Lost is a drama series that follows the survivors of the crash of a commercial passenger jet flying between Sydney and Los Angeles, on a mysterious tropical island...

  • David Margolick
    David Margolick
    David Margolick is a long-time contributing editor at Vanity Fair. Margolick has held similar positions at Newsweek and Portfolio. Prior to joining Vanity Fair he was a legal affairs reporter at The New York Times, where he wrote the weekly “At the Bar" column and covered the trials of O.J....

     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
  • James Widdoes
    James Widdoes
    James "Jamie" Widdoes is an American actor and film and television director, sometimes credited as Jamie Widdoes.-Career:...

     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)
  • Chris Hedges
    Chris Hedges
    Christopher Lynn Hedges is an American journalist, author, and war correspondent, specializing in American and Middle Eastern politics and societies...

     1975 – Fellow at The Nation Institute; professor at Princeton University
    Princeton University
    Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution....

    ; author of War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning
    War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning
    War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning is a 2002 nonfiction book by journalist Chris Hedges. In the book, Hedges draws on classical literature and his experiences as a war correspondent to argue that war seduces entire societies, creating fictions that the public believes and relies on to continue...

    ; former Middle East Bureau Chief for The New York Times; former correspondent, National Public Radio; member of team winning 2002 Pulitzer Prize
    Pulitzer Prize
    The Pulitzer Prize is a U.S. award for achievements in newspaper and online journalism, literature and musical composition. It was established by American publisher Joseph Pulitzer and is administered by Columbia University in New York City...

     for explanatory journalism; 2002 Amnesty International Global Award for Human Rights Journalism
  • Steven Strogatz
    Steven Strogatz
    Steven Henry Strogatz is an American mathematician and the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Applied Mathematics at Cornell University...

     1976 – Professor of Applied Mathematics, Cornell University
    Cornell University
    Cornell University is an Ivy League university located in Ithaca, New York, United States. It is a private land-grant university, receiving annual funding from the State of New York for certain educational missions...

    ; recipient of Presidential Young Investigator Award; author of SYNC: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order; math blogger for The New York Times (2010).
  • David Wild
    David Wild
    David Wild is an American writer and critic in the music and television industries and a contributing editor at Rolling Stone magazine. His published books include Friends: The Official Companion , Seinfeld: The Totally Unauthorized Tribute , Friends 'til the end and others.Wild was the host of...

     1980 – Senior Editor, Rolling Stone
    Rolling Stone
    Rolling Stone is a US-based magazine devoted to music, liberal politics, and popular culture that is published every two weeks. Rolling Stone was founded in San Francisco in 1967 by Jann Wenner and music critic Ralph J...

    ; host of Musicians (Bravo television)
  • Matthew M. Murray
    Matt Murray (baseball)
    Matthew Michael Murray is a former pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for the Atlanta Braves and Boston Red Sox during the season...

     1989 – Major League Baseball pitcher, Boston Red Sox
    Boston Red Sox
    The Boston Red Sox are a professional baseball team based in Boston, Massachusetts, and a member of Major League Baseball’s American League Eastern Division. Founded in as one of the American League's eight charter franchises, the Red Sox's home ballpark has been Fenway Park since . The "Red Sox"...

     (1995)
  • Gretchen Ulion
    Gretchen Ulion
    Gretchen Ulion is an American ice hockey player. She won a gold medal at the 1998 Winter Olympics. She is the Dartmouth Big Green women's ice hockey program's all-time leading scorer with 189 goals and 312 points...

     1990 – Olympic gold medalist, U.S. Women's Olympic Hockey Team, Nagano, Japan 1998 (see Ice hockey at the 1998 Winter Olympics
    Ice hockey at the 1998 Winter Olympics
    Ice hockey at the 1998 Winter Olympics was played at The Big Hat and Aqua Wing Arena in Nagano, Japan.-Men's tournament:The 1998 Olympic men's ice hockey tournament was the first in which professional players from the National Hockey League were allowed to participate, allowing national teams to...

     and list of athletes on Wheaties boxes)
  • Jason Wu
    Jason Wu
    Jason Wu is a Manhattan-based Taiwanese American fashion designer.-Biography:Born in Taiwan, Wu moved to Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada at age nine and attended Eaglebrook School in Deerfield, Massachusetts and Loomis Chaffee, in Windsor ,Connecticut. He learned how to sew by designing and...

     2001 – Fashion Designer (designed First Lady Michelle Obama
    Michelle Obama
    Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama is the wife of the 44th and incumbent President of the United States, Barack Obama, and is the first African-American First Lady of the United States...

    's inaugural ball gown and other pieces for the first lady).

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