冈本视频 has produced a remarkable number of alumni who have made important contributions in areas such as journalism, business, entertainment, government, science, and sports.
There are easily recognizable names, such as 60 Minutes commentator and columnist Andy Rooney 鈥42, and others that are less so. Trivia buffs, for example, might not know that two 冈本视频 alumni 鈥 Ed Werner 鈥71 and John Haney 鈥72 鈥 invented the Trivial Pursuit game.
Here鈥檚 a 鈥渨ho鈥檚 who鈥 of 冈本视频 alumni.
(Editor鈥檚 note: (D) indicates deceased)
鈥 (D) Charles Addams 鈥33, New Yorker cartoonist known for macabre drawings
鈥 Ivy Austin 鈥79, actress (Garrison Keillor show)
鈥 (D) Ernest Hamlin Baker 鈥12, illustrator with Time, including many 鈥淢an of the Year鈥 covers
鈥 Joe Berlinger 鈥83, producer (Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2; documentary Brother鈥檚 Keeper)
鈥 David Brode 鈥68, stage producer (Into the Woods)
鈥 (D) Robert J. Cenedella 鈥33, writer and actor (A Little to the East, The Guiding Light, Another World); founded Radio Writers Guild committee against the McCarthy-era blacklist
鈥 Anthony Santa Croce 鈥69, producer, director, actor (Felicity, Profiler, Carnivale)
鈥 Mel Damski 鈥68, director, producer, writer (Ally McBeal, The Practice, M*A*S*H)
鈥 George Davis 鈥61, writer/teacher
鈥 Theordore M. Griffin 鈥93, screenwriter (Ocean鈥檚 Eleven)
鈥 Ray Hartung 鈥70, writer, director (Earth: the Final Conflict, Miami Vice)
鈥 (D) Maurice Hindus 鈥25, author
鈥 Yumi Iwama 鈥86, actor (Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman; The New Swiss Family Robinson)
鈥 Barnet Kellman 鈥69, director/producer (Once and Again, Ally McBeal, Felicity, Murphy Brown)
鈥 (D) John Marks 鈥31, creator of 鈥淩udolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer鈥 etc.
鈥 Robert K. Rodat 鈥75, screenwriter (Saving Private Ryan)
鈥 John Romano 鈥70, writer/producer (Third Watch, Michael Hayes, Early Edition)
鈥 Martin Ransohoff 鈥49, film producer (Martin Ransohoff Productions)
鈥 Jeff Sharp 鈥89, producer (Proof, You Can Count on Me, Boys Don鈥檛 Cry)
鈥 Woody Thompson 鈥89, creator, VH-1鈥檚 Pop Up Video
鈥 Mel Watkins 鈥62, writer, editor, social commentator
鈥 Lydia Woodward 鈥73, executive producer, screenwriter (Citizen Baines, ER, China Beach)
鈥 Francesca Zambello 鈥78, opera director, manager
鈥 Charles Beitz 鈥70, professor of politics, Princeton University
鈥 (D) Eugene Bewkes 鈥19, former president of St. Lawrence University
鈥 William Boyle 鈥55, former president of Keuka and Curry colleges
鈥 Dr. Gerald Fischbach 鈥60, dean, VP of health and biomedical sciences, Columbia University
鈥 Richard Janeway 鈥54, former executive VP for health affairs, Wake Forest University
鈥 Ed Macias 鈥66, executive vice chancellor; dean of faculty, arts & sciences, Washington University
鈥 Lionel Meno 鈥69, former Texas commissioner of education
鈥 Richard J. Samuels 鈥73, Ford International Professor of political science and director of the MIT Center for International Studies
鈥 Warren Anderson 鈥43, former CEO, Union Carbide
鈥 Everett Baldwin 鈥54, retired CEO, Welch Foods
鈥 E. Garrett Bewkes 鈥48, former chairman, president and CEO of American Bakeries Co.
鈥 Lawrence Bossidy 鈥57, chairman, CEO, Honeywell International; former CEO, AlliedSignal Inc.
鈥 Stephen B. Burke 鈥80, president of Comcast Cable
鈥 Charles 鈥楥hase鈥 Carey 鈥76, president and CEO, DirecTV Group
鈥 Bennett Cohen 鈥73, co-founder and president, Ben & Jerry鈥檚 Ice Cream
鈥 Harrington Drake 鈥41, former CEO, Dun & Bradstreet
鈥 Robert Duffy 鈥62, former owner, Duffy Broadcasting
鈥 Cyrus Eaton 鈥41, chairman, Eaton Corp.
鈥 (D) John M. Fox 鈥34, founder and president, Minute Maid Corp.; former president, United Fruit (Chiquita)
鈥 (D) Curtiss Frank 鈥25, former president, Dun & Bradstreet
鈥 Philip Geier 鈥57, chairman emeritus, Interpublic Group
鈥 Harold Selmer Jensen 鈥34, research chemist held patents for Woolite, Griffin Shoe Polish
鈥 Robert W. Jones 鈥72, vice chairman of investment banking, Morgan Stanley
鈥 (D) Wm. Brian Little 鈥64, former limited partner, Forstmann Little & Co.
鈥 Howard Love 鈥52, retired CEO, National Intergroup Inc.
鈥 Jim Manzi 鈥73, former CEO, Lotus Development Corp.
鈥 Harry Mariani 鈥59, president, Banfi Vintners
鈥 J. Richard Munro 鈥57, former head of Time Inc.; director, Exxon Mobil
鈥 Harry O鈥橬eill 鈥50, vice chair, The Roper Organization
鈥 (D) Wellington Powell 鈥21, former president, AT&T
鈥 G. Kirk Raab 鈥59, former CEO, Genentech Inc.
鈥 Carole Palermo 鈥83, executive v.p. of corporate communications, MTV Networks
鈥 Jack Shafer 鈥66, former division president, Allied Domecq (Dunkin Donuts, Baskin-Robbins)
鈥 Lorie Slutsky 鈥75, president, N.Y. Community Trust
鈥 Van Smith 鈥50, chairman, Ontario Corp.
鈥 Ed Werner 鈥71 and John Haney 鈥72, inventors of Trivial Pursuit
鈥 (D) W. Bradford Wiley 鈥32, chairman emeritus, John Wiley & Sons
鈥 Warren Anderson 鈥37, former majority leader of New York State Senate
鈥 A. Peter Burleigh 鈥63, U.S. ambassador to the Phillipines
鈥 E. Virgil Conway 鈥51, chairman of the board, MTA, New York City
鈥 James Courter 鈥63, former N.J. congressman and candidate for governor
鈥 (D) Perry Duryea Jr. 鈥42, former minority leader/speaker of New York State Assembly
鈥 Louis Frey 鈥55, former congressman from Florida
鈥 Alan Frumin 鈥68, U.S. Senate parliamentarian
鈥 James Holmes 鈥65, former U.S. ambassador to Latvia, now State Department special adviser
鈥 (D) Charles Evans Hughes 1884, chief justice, U.S. Supreme Court 1930-41
鈥 D. Brian McKay 鈥67, former Nevada attorney general
鈥 Peter Peyser 鈥43, former U.S. congressman 1971-77, 1979-83
鈥 (D) Adam Clayton Powell 鈥30, N.Y. congressman
鈥 (D) William P. Rogers 鈥34, former U.S. secretary of state, attorney general
鈥 Jack J. Schramm 鈥53, former Missouri House of Representatives member, candidate for lieutenant governor; former senior administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
鈥 Peter Tarnoff 鈥58, former U.S. undersecretary of state
鈥 Ken Bader 鈥71, senior producer, The World (WGBH, PRI, BBC)
鈥 Ken Baker 鈥92, author; former People journalist
鈥 Gloria Borger 鈥74, U.S. News & World Report, Washington Week, CBS special correspondent
鈥 Monica Crowley 鈥90, Richard Nixon biographer; political and international affairs analyst, FOX
鈥 Sheila Norman-Culp 鈥80, Associated Press general supervisor
鈥 Jeff Fager 鈥73, executive producer, 60 Minutes
鈥 Thomas A. Dine 鈥62, president, Radio Free Europe
鈥 Howard Fineman 鈥70, chief political correspondent, senior editor, Newsweek
鈥 Chris Hedges 鈥79, war correspondent, New York Times
鈥 Michael Hiltzik 鈥73, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Los Angeles Times
鈥 G. Bruce Knecht 鈥80, foreign correspondent, Asia, Wall Street Journal
鈥 Craig Neff 鈥79, assistant managing editor, Sports Illustrated
鈥 Linda Pattillo 鈥78, CNN correspondent
鈥 Kevin Phillips 鈥61, publisher, American Political Research Corp.
鈥 Andy Rooney 鈥42, CBS-TV: 60 Minutes commentator, columnist
鈥 Brian Rooney 鈥74, ABC News correspondent
鈥 Stephanie Rosenbloom, New York Times reporter
鈥 Priit Vesilind 鈥64, senior writer, National Geographic
鈥 Bob Woodruff 鈥83, ABC News foreign correspondent
鈥 James Ault 鈥49, retired Methodist bishop
鈥 David Ball 鈥50, bishop of Albany, N.Y., diocese (Episcopal)
鈥 Roger Ferlo 鈥73, former Episcopal rector of The Church of St. Luke in the Fields, N.Y.C.
鈥 (D) Harry Emerson Fosdick 1900, pastor/author
鈥 Richard Schaper 鈥67, former Lutheran pastor (Rhodes Scholar)
鈥 R. Peter Altman 鈥55, president, American Pediatric Surgical Association
鈥 (D) Oswald Avery 1900, helped lead groundbreaking DNA research
鈥 Harvey Berger 鈥72, CEO, Ariad Pharmaceuticals Inc.
鈥 Dr. Henry Nadler 鈥57, former vice president, American Health Care Systems
鈥 Dr. Bernard Siegel 鈥53, surgeon, author, speaker
鈥 H. Guyford Stever 鈥38, former head of National Science Foundation/NASA
鈥 Mark van Eeghen 鈥74, former running back, Oakland Raiders
鈥 Rich Erenberg 鈥84, former running back, Pittsburgh Steelers
鈥 Andrew S. Esocoff 鈥79, director of ABC Sports鈥 Monday Night Football
鈥 (D) Dan Fortmann 鈥36, Hall of Fame guard, Chicago Bears in 鈥30s
鈥 Adonal Foyle 鈥98, center, Golden State Warriors
鈥 Howard Ganz 鈥63, attorney for Major League Baseball; partner in Proskauer, Rose LLP
鈥 Marvin Hubbard 鈥68, former fullback, Oakland Raiders
鈥 Howard Katz 鈥71, former president, ABC Sports
鈥 Andy McDonald 2000, Anaheim Mighty Ducks
鈥 Mark Murphy 鈥77, former safety, Washington Redskins
鈥 Steve Poapst 鈥91, Chicago Blackhawks
鈥 Eugene Robinson 鈥85, safety, played for Carolina Panthers, Atlanta Falcons, Green Bay Packers, Seattle Seahawks
鈥 Ken Schanzer 鈥66, president of NBC Sports
鈥 Ernest Vandeweghe 鈥49, former surgeon for L.A. Lakers
鈥 Douglas Wilson 鈥57, ABC Sports producer (figure skating)
For more information about any of these alumni, or to update this list, please contact the Communications Department at 315.228.7417.