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There are easily recognizable names, such as 60 Minutes commentator and columnist Andy Rooney ’42, and others that are less so. Trivia buffs, for example, might not know that two �Ա���Ƶ alumni – Ed Werner ’71 and John Haney ’72 – invented the Trivial Pursuit game.

Here’s a “who’s who” of �Ա���Ƶ alumni.

(Editor’s note: (D) indicates deceased)

THE ARTS

 • (D) Charles Addams ’33, New Yorker cartoonist known for macabre drawings 
 • Ivy Austin ’79, actress (Garrison Keillor show)
 • (D) Ernest Hamlin Baker ’12, illustrator with Time, including many “Man of the Year” covers
 • Joe Berlinger ’83, producer (Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2; documentary Brother’s Keeper)
 • David Brode ’68, stage producer (Into the Woods)
 • (D) Robert J. Cenedella ’33, writer and actor (A Little to the East, The Guiding Light, Another World); founded Radio Writers Guild committee against the McCarthy-era blacklist
 • Anthony Santa Croce ’69, producer, director, actor (Felicity, Profiler, Carnivale)
 • Mel Damski ’68, director, producer, writer (Ally McBeal, The Practice, M*A*S*H)
 • George Davis ’61, writer/teacher
 • Theordore M. Griffin ’93, screenwriter (Ocean’s Eleven)
 • Ray Hartung ’70, writer, director (Earth: the Final Conflict, Miami Vice)
 • (D) Maurice Hindus ’25, author
 • Yumi Iwama ’86, actor (Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman; The New Swiss Family Robinson)
 • Barnet Kellman ’69, director/producer (Once and Again, Ally McBeal, Felicity, Murphy Brown)
 • (D) John Marks ’31, creator of “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” etc. 
 • Robert K. Rodat ’75, screenwriter (Saving Private Ryan)
 • John Romano ’70, writer/producer (Third Watch, Michael Hayes, Early Edition)
 • Martin Ransohoff ’49, film producer (Martin Ransohoff Productions)
 • Jeff Sharp ’89, producer (Proof, You Can Count on Me, Boys Don’t Cry)
 • Woody Thompson ’89, creator, VH-1’s Pop Up Video
 • Mel Watkins ’62, writer, editor, social commentator 
 • Lydia Woodward ’73, executive producer, screenwriter (Citizen Baines, ER, China Beach)
 • Francesca Zambello ’78, opera director, manager

ACADEME

 • Charles Beitz ’70, professor of politics, Princeton University
 • (D) Eugene Bewkes ’19, former president of St. Lawrence University
 • William Boyle ’55, former president of Keuka and Curry colleges
 • Dr. Gerald Fischbach ’60, dean, VP of health and biomedical sciences, Columbia University
 • Richard Janeway ’54, former executive VP for health affairs, Wake Forest University
 • Ed Macias ’66, executive vice chancellor; dean of faculty, arts & sciences, Washington University
 • Lionel Meno ’69, former Texas commissioner of education
 • Richard J. Samuels ’73, Ford International Professor of political science and director of the MIT Center for International Studies

BUSINESS

 • Warren Anderson ’43, former CEO, Union Carbide
 • Everett Baldwin ’54, retired CEO, Welch Foods
 • E. Garrett Bewkes ’48, former chairman, president and CEO of American Bakeries Co.
 • Lawrence Bossidy ’57, chairman, CEO, Honeywell International; former CEO, AlliedSignal Inc.
 • Stephen B. Burke ’80, president of Comcast Cable
 • Charles ‘Chase’ Carey ’76, president and CEO, DirecTV Group 
 • Bennett Cohen ’73, co-founder and president, Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream
 • Harrington Drake ’41, former CEO, Dun & Bradstreet 
 • Robert Duffy ’62, former owner, Duffy Broadcasting
 • Cyrus Eaton ’41, chairman, Eaton Corp.
 • (D) John M. Fox ’34, founder and president, Minute Maid Corp.; former president, United Fruit (Chiquita)
 • (D) Curtiss Frank ’25, former president, Dun & Bradstreet
 • Philip Geier ’57, chairman emeritus, Interpublic Group
 • Harold Selmer Jensen ’34, research chemist held patents for Woolite, Griffin Shoe Polish
 • Robert W. Jones ’72, vice chairman of investment banking, Morgan Stanley
 • (D) Wm. Brian Little ’64, former limited partner, Forstmann Little & Co.
 • Howard Love ’52, retired CEO, National Intergroup Inc.
 • Jim Manzi ’73, former CEO, Lotus Development Corp.
 • Harry Mariani ’59, president, Banfi Vintners
 • J. Richard Munro ’57, former head of Time Inc.; director, Exxon Mobil
 • Harry O’Neill ’50, vice chair, The Roper Organization
 • (D) Wellington Powell ’21, former president, AT&T
 • G. Kirk Raab ’59, former CEO, Genentech Inc.
 • Carole Palermo ’83, executive v.p. of corporate communications, MTV Networks
 • Jack Shafer ’66, former division president, Allied Domecq (Dunkin Donuts, Baskin-Robbins)
 • Lorie Slutsky ’75, president, N.Y. Community Trust
 • Van Smith ’50, chairman, Ontario Corp.
 • Ed Werner ’71 and John Haney ’72, inventors of Trivial Pursuit
 • (D) W. Bradford Wiley ’32, chairman emeritus, John Wiley & Sons

GOVERNMENT

 • Warren Anderson ’37, former majority leader of  New York State Senate
 • A. Peter Burleigh ’63, U.S. ambassador to the Phillipines
 • E. Virgil Conway ’51, chairman of the board, MTA, New York City
 • James Courter ’63, former N.J. congressman and candidate for governor
 • (D) Perry Duryea Jr. ’42, former minority leader/speaker of New York State Assembly
 • Louis Frey ’55, former congressman from Florida
 • Alan Frumin ’68, U.S. Senate parliamentarian
 • James Holmes ’65, former U.S. ambassador to Latvia, now State Department special adviser
 • (D) Charles Evans Hughes 1884, chief justice, U.S. Supreme Court 1930-41
 • D. Brian McKay ’67, former Nevada attorney general
 • Peter Peyser ’43, former U.S. congressman 1971-77, 1979-83
• (D) Adam Clayton Powell ’30, N.Y. congressman
 • (D) William P. Rogers ’34, former U.S. secretary of state, attorney general 
 • Jack J. Schramm ’53, former Missouri House of Representatives member, candidate for lieutenant governor; former senior administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
 • Peter Tarnoff ’58, former U.S. undersecretary of state

JOURNALISM

 • Ken Bader ’71, senior producer, The World (WGBH, PRI, BBC)
 • Ken Baker ’92, author; former People journalist
 • Gloria Borger ’74, U.S. News & World Report, Washington Week, CBS special correspondent
 • Monica Crowley ’90, Richard Nixon biographer; political and international affairs analyst, FOX
 • Sheila Norman-Culp ’80, Associated Press general supervisor
 • Jeff Fager ’73, executive producer, 60 Minutes
 • Thomas A. Dine ’62, president, Radio Free Europe
 • Howard Fineman ’70, chief political correspondent, senior editor, Newsweek
 • Chris Hedges ’79, war correspondent, New York Times
 • Michael Hiltzik ’73, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Los Angeles Times
 • G. Bruce Knecht ’80, foreign correspondent, Asia, Wall Street Journal
 • Craig Neff ’79, assistant managing editor, Sports Illustrated
 • Linda Pattillo ’78, CNN correspondent
 • Kevin Phillips ’61, publisher, American Political Research Corp.
 • Andy Rooney ’42, CBS-TV: 60 Minutes commentator, columnist
 • Brian Rooney ’74, ABC News correspondent
 • Stephanie Rosenbloom, New York Times reporter
 • Priit Vesilind ’64, senior writer, National Geographic
 • Bob Woodruff ’83, ABC News foreign correspondent

RELIGION

  • James Ault ’49, retired Methodist bishop
  • David Ball ’50, bishop of Albany, N.Y., diocese (Episcopal)
  • Roger Ferlo ’73, former Episcopal rector of  The Church of St. Luke in the Fields, N.Y.C.
  • (D) Harry Emerson Fosdick 1900, pastor/author
  • Richard Schaper ’67, former Lutheran pastor (Rhodes Scholar)

SCIENCE/MEDICINE

 • R. Peter Altman ’55, president, American Pediatric Surgical Association
 • (D) Oswald Avery 1900, helped lead groundbreaking DNA research
 • Harvey Berger ’72, CEO, Ariad Pharmaceuticals Inc.
 • Dr. Henry Nadler ’57, former vice president, American Health Care Systems
 • Dr. Bernard Siegel ’53, surgeon, author, speaker
 • H. Guyford Stever ’38, former head of National Science Foundation/NASA

SPORTS

 • Mark van Eeghen ’74, former running back, Oakland Raiders
 • Rich Erenberg ’84, former running back, Pittsburgh Steelers
 • Andrew S. Esocoff  ’79, director of ABC Sports’ Monday Night Football
 • (D) Dan Fortmann ’36, Hall of Fame guard, Chicago Bears in ’30s
 • Adonal Foyle ’98, center, Golden State Warriors
 • Howard Ganz ’63, attorney for Major League Baseball; partner in Proskauer, Rose LLP
 • Marvin Hubbard ’68, former fullback, Oakland Raiders
 • Howard Katz ’71, former president, ABC Sports
 • Andy McDonald 2000, Anaheim Mighty Ducks
 • Mark Murphy ’77, former safety, Washington Redskins
 • Steve Poapst ’91, Chicago Blackhawks
 • Eugene Robinson ’85, safety, played for Carolina Panthers, Atlanta Falcons, Green Bay Packers,  Seattle Seahawks
  • Ken Schanzer ’66, president of NBC Sports
 • Ernest Vandeweghe ’49, former surgeon for L.A. Lakers
 • Douglas Wilson ’57, ABC Sports producer (figure skating)
 

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