Alumni of Note

Ring Cardé ’61 – distinguished professor of entomology and A.M. Boyce Chair at the University of California Riverside; awarded Silver Medal, International Society of Chemical Ecology

 

Lawrence M. Cathles III ’61 – professor of geographical studies at Cornell University; won the Extractive Metallurgy Science Award of the Metallurgical Society of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers

 

Arthur W. Frank ’64 – professor of sociology at the University of Calgary; received the Natalie Davis Spingarn Writer’s Award from the National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship and the Abbyann Lynch Medal for Bioethics from the Royal Society of Canada

 

John S. Masker ’74 – professor of political science at Temple University, where he teaches international relations (U.S. foreign policy, environmental politics, war and peace theory) and political philosophy (pre-Socratics to Machiavelli); won the College of Liberal Arts Merit in Teaching Award

 

Henry L. Shipman ’65 – professor of physics and astronomy at University of Delaware; leading expert on science education; one of just 28 people nationwide to receive the National Science Foundation’s Director’s Award for Distinguished Teaching Scholars

 

Judith Tucker ’65 – professor of history and director of the Master of Arts in Arab Studies Program at Georgetown University; former editor of the International Journal of Middle East Studies

 

Stephen H. Watters ’66 – head of school at The Green Vale School

Robbins W. Barstow ’36 (deceased) – creator of 30-minute color film “Disneyland Dream,” which was admitted to the National Film Registry, operated by the Library of Congress, alongside classics such as “The Terminator,” “Deliverance” and “A Face in the Crowd”

 

Jonathan L. Baskin ’82 – supervising editor at Discovery Networks; producer, editor and manager for postproduction of documentaries, television series, Web content, commercials and promotional campaigns; work can be seen on major networks such as HBO, ABC, CBS, Discovery and USA; teacher of production and editing at the NYU School of Continuing Education

John Conklin ’55 – theater designer and teacher in the department of design for stage and film at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts; designer for The Metropolitan Opera, the New York City Opera, the New York Shakespeare Festival, Broadway and off-Broadway productions, and many more

 

Charles E. Dox Jr. ’61 – two-time Emmy Award-winning production designer

 

Richard K. Elbaum ’84 – vice president, legal and business affairs at A&E Television Networks

 

Tarik Ergin ’79 – actor; portrayed security officer Lieutenant Ayala in almost every episode of “Star Trek: Voyager”; also professional lacrosse player

 

Liza Finley ’73 – Emmy Award-winning producer for “48 Hours Mystery”; producer of television from El Salvador, Tibet and the top of Mount Everest; credits include Fox News, CBS News and ABC’s “20/20”

 

Brad Gann ’79 – producer, director and writer of the movie “Black Irish”; writer of the popular football movie “Invincible,” starring Mark Wahlberg

 

Katharine Hepburn ’26 (deceased) – film icon ranked as the top female star of all time by the American Film Institute; winner of Academy Awards for “Morning Glory,” “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner,” “The Lion in Winter” and “On Golden Pond”

 

Katharine Grant Houghton ’61 – stage and film actress; portrayed the daughter in “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner”; most recently appeared in “The Last Airbender,” directed by M. Night Shyamalan

 

Peter J. Krygowski ’81 – director and producer at House of Moves, a motion capture and animation studio; video game projects have included James Bond, Need for Speed, The Lord of the Rings, Def Jam Vendetta/Fight for NY, FIFA, Madden NFL and NASCAR

 

Joellyn Lankin ’72 – executive producer, CBS Sports

 

Randall Scott McAboy ’83 – director and producer; projects include “Merry Christmas, Drake & Josh,” “Gym Teacher: The Movie” and “Son of the Beach”

 

Brendan McDonald ’89 – writer and producer; produced “Tenure,” starring Luke Wilson and Gretchen Mol, and soon-to-be-released “Analog”

 

John A. O’Hurley Jr. ’72 – actor and television personality; portrayed J. Peterman on the NBC sitcom “Seinfeld;” hosted game show Family Feud from 2006 to 2010; in 2005 won charity dance-off competition on “Dancing with the Stars” with professional dance partner Charlotte Jorgensen

 

Stuart M. Schoolnik ’63 – film director, producer and editor; projects include “The Walking Dead,” “Angel,” “Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction,” “Hollywood Confidential” and “Kung Fu: The Movie”

 

Jonathan Taylor ’82 – co-executive producer of Karga Seven Pictures, currently in production of “I Spy,” and “Sniper: Deadliest Missions”; previous work includes “Ace of Cakes,” “Cities of the Underworld” and “Life as a Marine”

 

David C. Trainer ’65 – television director, perhaps best known for directing every episode of “That ’70s Show” except the pilot, “That ’70s Pilot”; other directing credits include “Boy Meets World,” “Designing Women” and “Sonny With A Chance”

 

Norton Virgien ’70 – director of “Curious George 2: Follow That Monkey!” “Rugrats Go Wild,” “The Rugrats Movie” and “Rugrats” the TV series.

 

Alice Wilder ’84 – educational psychologist and television producer; work has included “Blue’s Clues,” “Super WHY” and Think It Ink It Publishing.

Kate Cheney Chappell ’63 – artist, poet, teacher, mother and co-founder of Tom’s of Maine with her husband, Tom; as vice president of Tom’s of Maine, championed family-friendly policies that included flextime, parenting leave and paid time for volunteering; directed new product development with innovations such as the first natural children’s toothpaste; brought her artistic eye and voice to consumer packaging and dialogue; spearheaded a 10 percent charitable giving program for Tom’s that led to more than 30 years of support of the arts, human needs, education and the environment that continues today

 

Jerome D. Elbaum ’57 – president and CEO of CowParade Holdings Corp., owner of the CowParade, the largest and most successful public art event in the world with events staged in more than 50 sites around the globe

 

George L. Estes III ’67 – chairman and CEO of SPARTA Insurance Co.

 

Janet Kraus Giebutowski ’84 – recipient of Boston’s 40 Under 40; finalist in Ernst & Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year; co-founder in 1997 of Circles, which grew to be a $50 million company with nearly 1,000 people operating from Boston; now leads Spire, a Circles spin-off; Spire’s flagship brand, Suzanne’s Files, provides savvy perspective on quality lifestyle; Circles was awarded the Small Business of the Year Award by the Chamber of Commerce; companies have been profiled in the Wall Street Journal, Fortune, Fortune Small Business, The New York Times and numerous other publications

 

Doug Harris ’77 – CEO of The Kaleidoscope Group, a Chicago diversity-management consulting firm

 

Frank M. Hatheway ’75 – chief economist at NASDAQ

 

Bradley Hoffman ’78 – president of Hoffman Auto Group

 

John Green ’74 – president and CEO of Lux, Bond & Green

 

Lauren Bliss Kawasaki ’86 – vice president of fashion for Amazon Japan

 

Todd H. Larsen ’84 – president of Dow Jones & Co., a publishing and financial information firm that includes The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s and MarketWatch and various research tools and news wire services

 

Nancy Lublin ’89 – founder of Dress for Success; CEO of Do Something, one of the largest organizations in the country dedicated to helping young people work for causes they care about; firm was on track to activate two million young people in 2011

 

Robert M. Stavis ’80 – partner at Bessemer Venture Partners; focuses on investments in the financial-services sector and in emerging software technologies; exited investments include Web site security-rating firm SiteAdvisor (acquired by McAfee), home network-management software provider Pure Networks (acquired by Cisco) and Skype (acquired by eBay in 2005)

Tony Banbury ’82 – appointed United Nations assistant secretary-general for field support by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon; responsible for developing cross-cutting field support policies and strategies, as well as overseeing day-to-day operations across the full range of mission support areas

 

Virginia Swain Baratta ’61 – director, the Institute for Global Leadership, an organization that provides consultation and training for leaders in a post-Sept. 11 world

 

Thomas J. Collamore ’77 – senior vice president of communications and strategy at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce

 

Matthew R. Dougherty ’98 – special advisor at the Department of Justice

 

H.P. Goldfield ’69 – vice chair of Albright Stonebridge Group, a global strategy firm affiliated with Albright Capital Management, an investment advisory firm focused on emerging markets; provides strategic advice to clients regarding international affairs, international trade matters and general public policy issues and strategies

 

Kevin T. Kane ’61 – Connecticut chief state’s attorney

 

Matthew W. King ’94 – special agent, Federal Bureau of Investigation

 

Geoffrey M. Odlum ’85 – deputy political counselor at U.S. Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan

 

Matthew R. Ritter ’00 – Connecticut state representative serving the 1st Assembly District; former Hartford City Council member

 

Neil Schoolnik ’89 – deputy director at National Security Agency

 

William K. Sessions III ’65 – U.S. district court judge for the District of Vermont; nominated by President Bill Clinton and confirmed by the Senate in 1995; nominated in 2009 by President Barack Obama to chair the U.S. Sentencing Commission

 

Steven W. Waugh ’82 – branch chief, Chemical Biological Defense Physical Science Technology Integration Branch at Defense Threat Reduction Agency

 

Ryan D’Agostino ’93 – editor at Esquire magazine; author of “Rich Like Them: My Door-To-Door Search for the Secrets of Wealth in America’s Richest Neighborhoods”

 

Donald Burness ’59 – author of 20 books of poetry and works on African literature and culture; books are used in classrooms in various American universities as well as at Kings College London; recipient of the Kwanzaa Award by Africa Network

 

Dominick Dunne ’43 (deceased) – author of five bestselling books and investigative journalist, whose subjects frequently hinged on the ways in which high society interacted with the judicial system; movie producer in Hollywood; known for his frequent appearances on television

 

Elizabeth Egloff ’71 – author of numerous plays, including “The Swan,” “The Devils” and “The Ether Dome,” which was a commission from the Hartford Heritage Project, a Hartford Stage program that develops Hartford-centric works; “The Ether Dome” tells about Hartford native Horace Wells, a pioneer in the use of anesthesia in dentistry

 

Brendan Gill ’32 (deceased) – writer for The New Yorker for more than 60 years; author of several books, including “Here at The New Yorker,” about his time at The New Yorker magazine

 

Katharine Hepburn ’26 (deceased) – author of the autobiography “Me: Stories of My Life”

 

Brysun Hull ’91 – bureau chief for Reuters in Sri Lanka and Maldives

 

Erica Grody Levens ’78 – associate director at NBC’s “Today”

 

Bridie Clark Loverro ’95 – a former editor of The Harvard Crimson; book and magazine editor; writer for The New York Times, Vanity Fair, New York, Quest and Elegant Bride; author of the novels “Because She Can” and “The Overnight Socialite”; film and TV rights to third novel, “I Think She’s Got It,” acquired by The Weinstein Co.
 

Colin W. McEnroe ’72 – newspaper/magazine columnist and radio personality; host of The Colin McEnroe Show on Connecticut Public Radio; host of blog, To Wit, on The Courant’s Web site

David Rosenthal ’71 – head of Maryland news at The Baltimore Sun

 

Charles D. Taylor ’56 – author of numerous novels, including the military fiction books “Counterstrike,” “Show of Force,” “Silent Hunter” and “Shadow Wars”

Steve Ahern ’96 – principal clarinetist of the Sarasota Opera Orchestra, bass clarinetist with Santa Fe Opera Orchestra and a frequent guest with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra

 

Timothy J. Brennan ’00 – band member of Dropkick Murphys; plays mandolin, acoustic guitar, accordion and tin whistle

 

Horace W.B. Donegan ’59 – musician and founder of the Connecticut Songwriters Association, a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the art and craft of original music

 

Richard Gelles ’79 – chief financial officer of Wild Woods Inc., an Emmy Award-winning, 15,000-square-foot digital audio postproduction facility servicing the television, film and multimedia industries, with credits including “Survivor,” “Losing It with Jillian Michaels,” “Fear Factor,” “The Biggest Loser” and “The Apprentice”

 

R. Bruce Hobson ’61 – founding member of the Guild of Composers, a performing organization, and the Association for the Promotion of New Music; composer whose chamber music varies from solo piano to chamber orchestra and has been performed by some of the world’s foremost interpreters of contemporary music, including Margaret Kampmeier, Jan Opalach, Jacques-Louis Monod, Rolf Schulte, Christopher Oldfather and John Whitfield

 

Dylan Rau ’03 – band member of Bear Hands; sings vocals and plays guitar

Michael K. Banbury ’81 – chair and chief cardiovascular surgeon at Christiana Care Health System’s Center for Heart & Vascular Health in Delaware, leading a team of heart surgeons who perform approximately 700 open heart procedures each year; former clinician and researcher at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation

 

Christopher Brown ’64 – director of Wilderness and Wild and Scenic Rivers Resources, U.S. Forest Service, Department of Agriculture

 

Robert M. Goldstein ’66 – aquatic biologist for the U.S. Geological Survey

 

Paul A. Kurlansky ’70 – director of research at the Florida Heart Research Institute

 

Jerrold F. Rosenbaum ’65 – chief of psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital; one of the world’s foremost authorities on mood and anxiety disorders, with a special emphasis on pharmacotherapy of those conditions; president and executive director of the MGH Mood and Anxiety Disorders Institute

 

Sharin Sakurai ’82 – chief of neurosciences for Kaiser Permanente Hawaii

 

Stephen R. Treat ’69 – senior therapist and former director and CEO of Council for Relationships, the nation’s oldest and largest counseling agency

 

Marc Vaillant ’91 – partner, chief technology officer, director of engineering and lead architect at Animetrics Inc., the leading developer of cloud-based Web service facial search and retrieval applications

 

David Waugh ’78 – senior investigator at the National Cancer Institute Macromolecular Crystallography Laboratory

Michele Amidon ’90 – regional manager of the American Development Model for women’s USA Hockey; former head women’s ice hockey coach at Bowdoin College

 

Durelle Brown ’97 – professional basketball player who has played in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Holland, Mexico, Spain and Venezuela

 

Linda “Lyndy” Gray Burdet ’49 – holder, along with her husband, of the Guinness World Record for being the oldest couple to reach the summit of the highest most northern mountain in the world and skiing to the North Pole; credits initial interest in outdoor adventures to the late Kingswood faculty member professor Jim Goodwin ’28

 

Michael Burke ’35 (deceased) – president of New York Yankees from 1966 to 1973, when the team was sold to George Steinbrenner by CBS; got city to refurbish Yankee Stadium and kept the team from moving to the Meadowlands; former president of Madison Square Garden, where he was also president of the Knicks, chairman of the Rangers, impresario of boxing and grand master of Holiday on Ice

 

Stacy Blumer Evans ’87 – winner of two national titles and second place at the World Cup for freestyle skiing; competitor in women’s aerials with the 1998 U.S. Olympic Ski Team in Nagano, Japan

 

Jared Jordan ’03 – professional basketball player in Bonn, Germany; also has played in Greece and Lithuania

 

James Mill ’87 – assistant to the general manager of the NHL’s Minnesota Wild and general manager of the AHL’s Houston Aeros

 

Walter W. Lowell ’50 – PGA professional; named PGA Golf Professional of the Year in 1978; inducted into the PGA Golf Professional Hall of Fame in 2005