David E. Dodge 1948

Principal Architect, Taliesin Architects Ltd., the continuation of the architectural practice established by Frank Lloyd Wright; member, Federation of Swiss Architects; board member, Gesellschaft der Freunde von Bayreuth (Wagner Festival, Beyreuth, Germany); former board member, Detroit Symphony Orchestra

William R. L. Mead 1956 *

Architect; conceived and coordinated the master plan, Adriaen's Landing (urban revitalization project), Hartford, CT

Henry S. Reeder 1957

Architect; Chairman, Founding Principal, ARC/Architectural Resources Cambridge, Inc., Principal-in-Charge of many of the firm's projects, overseeing design and management; specializes in school, university, commercial work

Nader Tehrani 1981

Founding Principal, NADAAA, a Boston-based architecture firm dedicated to design innovation, interdisciplinary collaboration, the cultivation of new methods of fabrication, and productive dialogue with the construction industry; Professor, Head of Department, Architectural Design, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; award-winning projects include the Tongxian Art Gatehouse in Beijing, the Fleet Library at RISD, the LEED-certified Helios House in Los Angeles, and the LEED-Gold certified Macallen Building in Boston; recipient, 13 Progressive Architecture Awards, the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award in Architecture, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters Architectural Award

Fred Cray 1975

Fred Cray '75
Photo copyright Bob Haiko, 2010

Artist; Guggenheim Fellowship for his work in photography (2003)

Rodney H.R. Downes 1958

Realist painter, author; MacArthur Fellow (2009); Guggenheim Fellowship (1998); inducted, Academy of Arts and Letters

William Kienbusch 1932 *

Abstract expressionist artist; work can be found in collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Whitney Museum of American Art

Kenneth B. Beattie 1943 *

Pioneer, graphic arts industry; instrumental in introducing what came to be known as pre-press preparation of camera-ready copy

John E. Bierwirth 1913 *

Silver Plate AwardPresident, Chairman of the Board, National Distillers; Hotchkiss Board of Trustees (1943-1962), President (1946-1962), Emeritus (1963)

Shelby Bonnie 1982

Allen & Company, Partner; former Chief Executive Officer, Whiskey Media, LLC; Co-founder, former President, CEO, CNET Networks Inc.

Alexander Bryan 1931 *

Designer, builder, Sunfish and Sailfish sailboats, Yankee-class Iceboat, named by Fortune Magazine as one of the world’s 25 best designed products

Bernice Chen 1996

President, CEO, Cheng Ming Ming Cosmetics Ltd.

John G. Coumantaros 1980

President, Southern Star Shipping Co. Inc.; Board of Directors, Flour Mills of Nigeria PLC; Chairman, Nigerian Bag Manufacturing Company PLC and United Cement Company of Nigeria Ltd.; Board of Trustees, The Buckley School

Peter O. Crisp 1950

Peter O. Crisp '50

Pioneer, venture capital industry; philanthropist; retired as a founder and managing general partner of Venrock Associates, a limited partnership funded by members of the Rockefeller family; 42 years of service on the boards of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Memorial Hospital for Cancer and Allied Diseases, and Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer; Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Venture Capital Association (2004); Hotchkiss Board of Trustees (1974-1982)

Joseph F. Cullman III 1931 *

Silver Plate AwardPresident, CEO, Philip Morris Company; early practitioner of the leveraged buyout; philanthropist; Hotchkiss Board of Trustees (1962-1971)

Felipe A. Custer 1972

Chairman, CEO, Corporacion Custer S.A.; President, Voxiva Peru, which connects the world’s non-internet population to government, health, and education services; founder, Fundacion Felipe Antonio Custer, a foundation that created the “Aprendamos Juntos” program with 12 centers in schools to help children with learning disabilities in the lowest income areas of Lima; author, The Art of Peruvian Cuisine; Director, Youth Orchestra of the Americas, Washington D.C.; Director, Harvard Business School Global Initiative; Advisory Board, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University

Steven B. Dodge 1963

Founder, Chief Executive Officer, Windover LLC, a developer of high end homes, a developer/sponsor of urban renewal projects and affordable housing, and a construction management company; former Vice President, Bank of Boston; founder, Chief Executive Officer, American CableSystems Corporation (NASDAQ), a top 20 cable television company with industry leading revenue per subscriber and revenue per home passed, which was merged into Continental Cable in 1988; founder, CEO of American RadioSystems Corporation (NYSE), the revenue and ratings leader in 19 out of 20 markets in the U.S., which was subsequently merged into CBS Radio in 1998; founder, CEO of American Tower Corporation (NYSE), owner and operator of communications towers with market leading positions in the U.S., Mexico, and Brazil, which had and has the highest operating margins among the major tower companies as well as the highest return on assets (retired from AMT in 2004)

Thomas J. Edelman 1969

Co-Founder, Managing Partner, White Deer Energy LP, an energy private equity fund; Chairman of the Board, Berenson & Company; President of the Board, Lenox Hill Neighborhood House; Director, Noble Energy Inc.; Board of Directors, Georgetown University; Co-Founder, former Chairman, CEO, Range Resources Inc., Patina Oil & Gas Corporation, Co-Founder, President, Snyder Oil Corporation; Hotchkiss Board of Trustees (1994-1999) (2003-present), Chair, Investment Committee

Lawrence Flinn 1953

Chairman, CEO, Privet Capital, LLC; former Chairman, CEO, United Video Satellite, Inc.; heralded as a pioneer in the cable television industry; Hotchkiss Board of Trustees (2003-present)

William C. Ford Jr. 1975

William C. Ford, Jr. '75

Executive Chairman of the Board, Ford Motor Company; Vice Chairman, Detroit Lions football team

Frederick Frank 1950

Pioneer, biotech ventures; Vice Chairman, Peter J. Solomon Company; former Vice Chairman, Director, Lehman Brothers; recognized as one of “Top 100 Living Contributors to Biotechnology” (2005); The Albert Einstein Award from the Weizmann Institute of Science; Hotchkiss Board of Trustees (1999-2001), President (2000-2001), Emeritus (2001)

Ronald J. Gidwitz 1963

Co-Founder, GCG Partners; Chairman, Illinois Coalition for Jobs, Growth & Prosperity; President, Founder, Students First Illinois; former President, Chief Executive Officer, Unilever HPC Helene Curtis; former President, Chief Executive Officer, Director, Helene Curtis; Boards of Directors, Continental Materials Corporation, Kapstone Paper and Packaging Corporation; former Director, Prairie Packaging, SEI Technologies; Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Field Museum of Natural History; Board member, Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center, Museum of Science and Industry, Lyric Opera of Chicago, City Colleges of Chicago; Governor, Boys and Girls Clubs of America, Council for Aid to Education; Chairman, Economic Freedom Alliance and the New Prosperity Foundation; former Chairman of the Economic Development Commission of the City of Chicago; former Chairman, Illinois State Board of Education; Crain's Chicago Business Executive of the Year (1988); Distinguished Service Award by the National Association of State Boards of Education (2003)

Peter Grauer 1964

Chairman, Bloomberg L.P.; Bloomberg Board of Trustees; President, Executive Council, Inner-City Scholarship Fund of New York; Managing Director, Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette; Managing Director, Senior Partner, CSFB Private Equity; founder, DLJ Merchant Banking Partners, DLJ Investment Partners; Lead Director, Davita, Inc.; Chairman Emeritus, Board of Directors, The Big Apple Circus; Chairman of the External Advisory Board, Undergraduate Honors Program and the Johnson Center for Undergraduate Excellence at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; President, Pomfret School Board of Trustees; Board member, USA Cycling Development Foundation, Prostate Cancer Foundation; Trustee, Rockefeller University; former President of the Board of Trustees, Irvington Institute for Immunological Research, Greenwich Library's Peterson Business Award (2010)

James B. Hamann 1985

Inventor, owner, eGO electric moped

Richard Y.R. Holkar 1962

President, Ahilya Hotels, New Delhi, India

Robert Lehman 1908 *

American banker; assumed leadership role of Lehman Brothers bank when his father retired (1925); often quoted as saying, "bet on people"; under his leadership, the bank concentrated on rapidly developing consumer industries with financing deals arranged in retailing, airlines, and the entertainment business; owner, extensive and important art collection; Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Alan Y.K. Lo 1999

Entrepreneur, Hong Kong restaurateur, co-founder of Hong Kong-based Press Room Group (along with Paulo Pong ’96 and a third partner); owner, operator food and beverage outlets; The Press Room, a French-European brasserie; Classified, a collection of neighborhood cafes specializing in cheese, breads, and wines; The Pawn, a modern British concept housed in a local heritage building; featured (along with Pong) in Business Week as two of Asia’s best young entrepreneurs (2008); Chairman, NGO, Charity Hong Kong Ambassadors of Design; advisory group member, ART HK (Hong Kong International Art Fair); non-official member, Hong Kong Government’s Tourism Strategy Group; non-official member, Hong Kong Government’s Business Facilitation Advisory Committee; curator for arts, city integration & events of 2009 Hong Kong-Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture

Dan W. Lufkin 1949

Silver Plate AwardFounding Partner, Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette; first Director, Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection; outdoorsman and conservationist; Hotchkiss Board of Trustees (1970-1988)

John Luke 1967

Chairman, CEO, MeadWestvaco Corporation

Cristina Mariani-May 1989

Family Proprietor, Co-CEO, Banfi Vintners (America’s leading wine importer) and the award-winning Castello Banfi Vineyard Estate, Montalcino, Tuscany

John Mars 1953

Retired Co-President, Mars, Inc.

Randall T. Mays 1983

Vice Chairman, Clear Channel Communications

Robert C. McCormack 1958

Former Acting Deputy Under Secretary of Defense; Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Industrial and International Programs; Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense; Assistant Secretary of the Navy; Co-founder, Partner, Advisory Director, Trident Capital, Lake Forest, IL; former Senior Vice President, Dillon, Read, and Company; Vice President, Principal, Managing Director, Morgan Stanley; Board of Directors, Meadwestvaco, Northern Trust; Distinguished Alumni Award - Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago (2001); Department of Defense Distinguished Service Medal (1989); The Vietnam Service Medal (1966); Hotchkiss Board of Trustees (1993-1995)

William Gelon McKnight Jr. 1930 *

Silver Plate AwardLawyer; Partner, Eastman Dillon Union Securities; Hotchkiss Board of Trustees (1957-1973), Emeritus (1974)

George W. Mead II 1946

Retired Chairman, Consolidated Papers, Inc.

John Miller Musser 1926 *

Silver Plate AwardPhilanthropist, Weyerhaeuser Company executive, community leader; joined the General Timber Company, a Weyerhaeuser subsidiary, as an auditor, St. Paul offices; rose to become its President as well as an officer or board member in many other Weyerhaeuser firms, including a long tenure on the Weyerhaeuser Company Board of Directors; Trustee of Carleton College, Yale University, and the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies; Yale Medal (1970); Hotchkiss Board of Trustees (1976-1979)

Paulo K. Pong 1996

Founder, Altaya Wines Limited; Entrepreneur, Hong Kong restaurateur; owner, operator (along with Alan Y.K. Lo '99 and a third partner), French-European brasserie called the Press Room, a wine and cheese shop called Classified, and their latest endeavor featuring modern British cuisine, The Pawn; Lo and Pong were featured in Business Week as two of Asia's best young entrepreneurs (2008)

George A. Ranney 1958

President, CEO, Chicago Metropolis 2020, a membership organization of leading area business and civic leaders working together to ensure the preeminence of the Chicago Metropolitan Region in the 21st century; Chair, Chief Executive, Prairie Holdings Corporation, the firm developing Prairie Crossing, a nationally recognized conservation community in north suburban Grayslake; former Vice President, General Counsel, Inland Steel Industries

T. Russell Shields 1959

Businessman; founder, Chair, Ygomi LLC (Shields Enterprises International, Connexis, ArrayComm), delivers innovative software and technology; founder, Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association; first President, Automotive Multimedia Interface Collaboration; former Chair of the Committee on Communications of the Transportation Research Board (National Research Council); founding officer and Director, Intelligent Transportation Society of America; founder, Director, ITS World Congress; Fellow, Society of Automotive Engineers (2007); SAE-Delco Electronics Intelligent Transportation Systems Award (1998); inducted, inaugural class, ITS America’s ITS Hall of Fame (2008); University of Chicago Booth School of Business Distinguished Alumni Award, Entrepreneurship (2008); inaugural U.S. member, ITS World Congress Hall of Fame (2010)

Robert Chapman Sprague 1918 *

Silver Plate AwardManufacturer; founder, Sprague Electric Company, North Adams, MA; Chairman, Pine Cobble School; Distinguished Citizen Award at Bates College (1958)

Harold Stanley 1904 *

Silver Plate AwardInvestment banker; one of the founders of Morgan Stanley; National Commercial Bank, Albany, NY; J. G. White & Company, NYC; Guaranty Trust Company, NY, Vice President , President, The Guaranty Company; Partner, J.P. Morgan & Company; President, Morgan Stanley & Company, Inc., Partner, Limited Partner; Hotchkiss Board of Trustees (1935-1955), Emeritus (1956)

Jere W. Thompson 1950

Retired President, The Williamsburg Corporation; member of the Dallas family who built an ice business into the world’s largest convenience store chain, 7-Eleven

John L. Thornton 1972

John L. Thornton

Professor, Director, Global Leadership Program, Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management, Chairman, International Advisory Board; Chairman, Board of Trustees, Brookings Institution; Co-Chairman, Barrick Gold Corporation; Director, HSBC, Chairman, HSBC North America; Honorary Fellow, St. John's College, Oxford (2009); Friendship Award, People's Republic of China (2008), the highest honor accorded to a non-Chinese citizen, named by the Chinese government as one of 15 'foreign experts' who have made the most significant contribution to China's social and economic development over three decades; Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2007); Hotchkiss Board of Trustees(1996-present), President (2001-2011)

Francis T. Vincent Jr. 1956

Silver Plate AwardFormer President, CEO, Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc.; Eighth Commissioner, Major League Baseball; author, The Last Commissioner; The Gift of His Example: George Van Santvoord of Hotchkiss; Hotchkiss Board of Trustees (1975-1989), President (1985-1987), Emeritus (1989)

Arthur K. Watson 1938 *

Silver Plate AwardPresident, CEO, IBM; Ambassador to France; Hotchkiss Board of Trustees (1956-1974), President (1967-1970)

Gretchen J. Biedron 1983

Co-Founder, President of the Board of Trustees, The Willow School, Gladstone, NJ

Everett N. Case 1918 *

Silver Plate AwardPresident, Colgate University

Chisholm S. Chandler 1985

Headmaster, Salisbury School, Salisbury, CT

Edward S. Cooke Jr. 1973

Professor of American Decorative Arts, Department of History, Yale University

Ian R. Desai 2000

Postdoctoral Associate, lecturer, South Asian Studies and History, Yale University; Rhodes Scholar, Oxford University; University of Chicago (Phi Beta Kappa), Binyon Prize for Distinction in Humanistic Pursuits in the College Community, Brooker Prize, Hawthorne Travel Prize, elected a Student Marshal, the College’s highest award for academic achievement and leadership; Hotchkiss Board of Trustees (2007-present)

Theodore S. Faunce 1969

Head of School, Chinese International School, Hong Kong

Prosser Gifford 1947

Silver Plate AwardFormer Director of Scholarly Programs, Library of Congress; Rhodes Scholar; teaching appointments, Yale University, Amherst College (Professor of History, first Dean of Faculty); Deputy Director, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; Visiting Scholar, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris; Trustee, Concord Academy; Trustee, Chairman of the Board (12 years) Marine Biology Laboratory, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution; Library of Congress special programs included the establishment of the Japan Documentation Center; organization a major exhibition of Treasures from the Bibliotheque nationale de France; setting up of the Library of Congress/Ameritech National Digital Library competition, Mellon Foreign Area Fellowship competition; editor of volumes on African history; Founding President, nonprofit organization, Merton College, Oxford; Hotchkiss Board of Trustees (1970-1981)

Lyttleton B. Gould Jr. 1939 *

Headmaster, Far Hills Country Day School, Far Hills, NJ; founder, first Headmaster, Purnell School, Pottersville, NJ; Trustee, Miss Porter's School, Holton-Arms School, Garrison Forest School, Briarcliff College, and others

Walter Phelps Hall 1901 *

Silver Plate AwardProfessor of History; Instructor of History, Amherst College; Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, (Dodge Professor of History), Princeton; Author, Iron out of Calvary, Essays in Nineteenth Century Thought; Hotchkiss Board of Trustees (1928-1932)

Arthur Howe Jr. 1938

Silver Plate AwardRetired President, American Field Service; former Dean of Admissions, Yale University

Charles P. Lord 1952

Former Headmaster, St. Timothy’s School, Stevenson, MD; former Headmaster, Holton-Arms School, Bethesda, MD

William K. Muir Jr. 1949

Professor Emeritus of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley; author, The Bully Pulpit: The Presidential Leadership of Ronald Reagan; Legislature: California’s School for Politics; Police: Streetcorner Politicians, (Pulitzer Prize nominee)

A. William Olsen Jr. 1939 *

Headmaster A. William Olsen '39, left, presents the 1964 Alumni Award to Zeph Stewart '39.

Silver Plate AwardSixth Headmaster of Hotchkiss (1960-1981)

Thomas W. Philip 1980

Headmaster, Brunswick School, Greenwich, CT

Jerome J. Pollitt 1953

Sterling Professor Emeritus, Classical Archeology and the History of Art, Greek Art, Yale University; author of Art and Experience in Classical Greece, The Ancient View of Greek Art, and Art in the Hellenistic Age; Dean of the Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences ( 1986-1991); one of few individuals in Yale's history to have served as chair of two departments - Classics (1971-1972 and 1975-1977) and History of Art (1981-1984); William Clyde DeVane Medal from the Yale chapter of Phi Beta Kappa for distinguished scholarship and teaching, Wilbur Lucius Cross Medal from the Alumni Association of the Yale Graduate School

Jean Weinberg Rose 1980

Founder, Eye on Art, an art education and consulting business; Advisory Board of the New York Chapter of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation; Hotchkiss Board of Trustees (1995-present), Vice President (1999-2011), President (2011-present)

Charles R.S. Shepard 1945 *

Founding Headmaster, Phoenix Country Day School, Phoenix, AZ; Headmaster, Hamden Hall Country Day, Hamden, CT

Walter Sinnott-Armstrong 1973

Chauncey Stillman Professor in Practical Ethics, Department of Philosophy, Kenan Institute for Ethics, Duke University; former Professor of Philosophy and Legal Studies, Dartmouth College

Zeph Stewart 1939 *

Headmaster A. William Olsen '39, left, presents the 1964 Alumni Award to Zeph Stewart '39.

Silver Plate AwardProfessor of Classics, Harvard University; Guggenheim Fellowship; Hotchkiss Board of Trustees (1966-1987); Emeritus (1987)

Brainerd A. Thresher 1914*

Faculty member, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; appointed MIT’s first full time Admissions Director (1936); a pioneer in development of the College Entrance Examination Board (Chairman) and in the creation of the SAT exam system; involved in the selection process of scientists and engineers who worked on the Manhattan Project during WW II; author College Admissions and the Public Interest, a text still often recommended reading for those new in admissions

Alexander T. Dodge 1989

Award-winning set and costume designer; Broadway credits, Present Laughter (Tony nomination 2010), Trust, Old Acquaintance, Butley, Hedda Gabler; Off-Broadway credits, The Understudy, Chaucer in Rome, Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Toward the Somme (Lucille Lortel Award); operas, II Trittico, Der Waffenschmied, Lohengrin, The Flying Dutchman; Boston’s Elliot Norton Award (two), Independent Reviewers of New England Award (three)

John M. Hoysradt 1922 *

Actor; Stage name, John Hoyt; film, television, theater: Overture; Ziegfield Follies of 1936; Julius Caesar; portrayed Dr. Philip Boyse, Star Trek's first pilot; The Cage; O.S.S.; When Worlds Collide; Blackboard Jungle; Spartacus; Lost Continent; The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing; Forever Darling; Desperately Seeking Susan; Fireside Theatre; The Lone Ranger; Gunsmoke; Wagon Train; The Rifleman; Death Valley Days; Rawhide; Maverick; The Wild Wild West; Make Room for Daddy; The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show; Leave It to Beaver; Petticoat Junction; The Munsters; Get Smart; The Beverly Hillbillies; The Untouchables; Dr. Kildare; The Man From U.N.C.L.E.; Perry Mason; Hogan's Heroes; Twilight Zone

Allison Janney 1977

Actress; productions include Taming of the Shrew, A View from the Bridge (Tony Award nomination, Drama League Award for outstanding artist), 9 to 5, The Autumn Garden, Present Laughter (Outer Critics Circle Award, Actors' Equity award 2010); television appearances include Lost, Family Guy, Phineas and Ferb, Two and a Half Men, Frasier, The West Wing (Emmy Award); films include Drop Dead Gorgeous, American Beauty, 10 Things I Hate About You, Nurse Betty, The Hours, How to Deal, Juno, Hairspray,The Help

Benedict M.P. Mulroney 1993

Canadian television host; co-host, etalk, entertainment news show; former host, Canadian Idol; Good Morning America weekend co-host

Albert W. Selden 1940 *

Broadway producer; three Tony Awards (including one for his role as co-producer, Man of La Mancha); instrumental in the restoration of the landmark Goodspeed Opera House, East Haddam, CT, which reopened with Mr. Selden as its Managing Director

Margot Stabler Bass 1988

Executive Director, Finding Species, which seeks to eradicate species’ extinctions by bridging the communications gap among scientists, conservationists, and the public; has identified 20,000 trees in Ecuador for the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute

James R. Compton 1940 *

Environmentalist, peace activist, humanitarian; President, Compton Foundation, supporter of local river and watershed groups across the country in their efforts to achieve their restoration and protection goals through The Clean Water Act of 1972; Chairman of the Board, Fund For Peace; President, The National Conference for Community and Justice; Anti-Defamation League’s Service Award, Hotchkiss Community Service Award; honored by The Fund for Peace with the creation of the James R. Compton Peace Award in his name

B. Reid Detchon 1966

Vice President for Energy and Climate, United Nations Foundation; Executive Director, Energy Future Coalition, a broad-based non-partisan public policy initiative supported by the United Nations Foundation that seeks to bring about change in U.S. energy policy

Anthony P. Grassi 1962

Former Chairman, The Nature Conservancy

George C. Hixon 1955

Silver Plate AwardChairman, Parks & Wildlife Foundation of Texas; San Antonio Anglers Club Conservationist of the Year Award, Game Conservation International’s Conservationist of the Year Award, Chevron Conservation Award; Hotchkiss Board of Trustees (1977-1991)

Kathleen Touhey Moore 1989

Manager, International Fund for Animal Welfare; former Director, Cape Cod Stranding Network, rescue organization to save stranded whales and other mammals; Hotchkiss Community Service Award

J. Campbell Plowden 1971

Founder, President, Center for Amazon Community Ecology; former Tropical Forest Campaign Director and Whale Campaign Director, Greenpeace; former Whale Campaign Director, Humane Society of the U.S.

S. Bruce Beattie 1947 *

Writer, Producer, Director, official bicentennial film, America the Beautiful

Elizabeth Chandler 1982

Screenwriter, films, Someone Like You, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, What A Girl Wants

Eric d’Arbeloff 1983

Independent filmmaker, producer, films, Lovely & Amazing, Super Size Me, Winter's Bone (Sundance Film Festival Best Picture and Best Screenplay 2010)

William L. Hayward 1920 *

Hollywood and Broadway agent, producer

Christopher H. Meledandri 1977

President, Illumination Entertainment, film Despicable Me; former founding President Fox Animation, 20th Century Fox, visionary of Fox’s powerhouse animation unit with Blue Sky Studios, movies, Ice Age, Ice Age: The Meltdown, Robots, Alvin and The Chipmunks, The Simpsons Movie, Horton Hears a Who; former President, Dawn Steel Pictures at Disney; Hotchkiss Board of Trustees (2007-present), Vice President (2011-present)

William H. Forsyth 1924 *

Curator Emeritus, medieval art, Metropolitan Museum of Art; Director of the Cloisters

John H. Hauberg 1935 *

Art collector, benefactor; founder, Pilchuck Glass School; President, Seattle Art Museum

Leighton R. Longhi 1963

Prominent Art Dealer, Collector, Far Eastern Art; owner, Kikusuido, Inc.

Marjorie Brush Priebe 1977

Co-founder, Stepping Stones Children’s Museum, Norwalk, CT

Samuel Wagstaff 1940 *

Noted museum director (Wadsworth Atheneum, Detroit Institute of Arts); photography collector; his photographs formed the basis of the Getty Museum’s collection, one of the finest in the world

Malcolm Baldrige 1940 *

Silver Plate AwardSecretary of Commerce, Reagan Administration

Warren Clark Jr. 1954

Ambassador; Executive Director, Churches for Middle East Peace (2008); former U.S. Foreign Service Officer, Department of State, the Middle East, Europe, Canada, Africa, and at the United Nations; Charge d’affaires, Lagos, Nigeria; U.S. Ambassador, Libreville, Gabon; Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Africa; Desk Officer for Libya; U.S. representative, UN Security Council for Middle East and African issues

George Paul Cooke 1901 *

Territorial Senator of Hawaii (34 years); rancher who developed a system of "ear-marking" that simplified the handling of stock

Louis G. Dreyfus Jr. 1906 *

U.S. Consul, Budapest, Paris, Palermo, Dresden, U.S. Vice Consul, Budapest; U.S. Consul General, Copenhagen; U.S. Minister to Iran, Afghanistan, Iceland, Sweden; U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan

Charles Edison 1909 *

Silver Plate AwardSecretary of the U.S. Navy; Assistant Secretary of the Navy; 42nd Governor of New Jersey; Hotchkiss Board of Trustees (1947-1955); Emeritus (1958)

G. McMurtrie Godley 1935 *

Ambassador to France, Switzerland, Belgium, Cambodia, Congo, Laos, and Lebanon; considered by some to be the person most responsible for preventing the fall of Laos to the Pathet Lao and North Vietnamese during the Vietnam War

Mary B. Goodman 1983

Former Special Assistant to President Obama for Financial Markets, international economist for Moore Capital Management, LLC; Hotchkiss Board of Trustees (2008-2009)

Ernest Gruening 1903 *

Ernest Gruening '03

Silver Plate AwardTerritorial Governor, Alaska; U.S. Senator, Alaska (appointed from the Territory of Alaska as an advocate of Alaska statehood but did not take the oath of office and was not accorded senatorial privileges 1955); known as The Father of Alaska Statehood; Managing Editor, New York Tribune; Editor, The Nation, New York Post; Adviser, United States delegation to the Seventh Inter-American Conference, Montevideo, Chile; Director, Division of Territories and Island Possessions of the Department of the Interior; Administrator, Puerto Rico Reconstruction Administration; member, Alaska International Highway Commission; elected to the United States Senate (upon admission of Alaska as a State into the Union on January 3, 1959); reelected; one of two senators to vote against the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution escalating U.S. involvement in Vietnam

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Hallett Johnson 1904 *

U.S. Ambassador to Costa Rica

Paul C. Lambert 1946

Former Ambassador to Ecuador; Partner, Breed, Abbott & Morgan; American Law Institute Lecturer; Counsel, Winston & Strawn; Partner, Trusts and Estates Department, McLaughlin & Stern, LLP; Executive Committee, New York State Republican Party; Steering Committee, Finance Committee, George Bush for President election campaign; member, New York Delegation to the Republican National Conventions; Chairman of the Board of Governors, Association of Yale Alumni; Director, Yale Alumni Fund; member, Yale Development Board, the Honorary Degree Committee, University Council; Yale Medal (1988); past Director, Secretary, National Society to Prevent Blindness; former Vice President, Trustee, The Brearley School; Board of Directors of The Chamber Music Society, Lincoln Center; Hotchkiss Board of Trustees (1974-1981)

John L. Loeb Jr. 1948

Chairman, Loeb Rhoades Trust Company, investment counselors; U.S. Ambassador to Denmark from (1981-1983); Delegate to the 38th Session of the UN General Assembly; Advisor to Governor Nelson Rockefeller on Environmental and Economic Affairs (1967-1970); Chairman of the Governor's New York State Council of Environmental Advisors (1970-1975); Chairman, Winston Churchill Foundation of the U.S.; Commander of the Order of the British Empire, bestowed by Queen Elizabeth II for his work with the Churchill Foundation (1994); founder, Chairman, George Washington Institute for Religious Freedom; Vice Chairman, Council of American Ambassadors; Trustee, Langeloth Foundation, American-Scandinavian Foundation, Educational Testing Service (SAT) (1986-1993), American University (1985-1994); Justice Louis D. Brandeis Award, Distinguished Patriot Award of the Sons of the American Revolution; named the John Clarke Laureate by the John Clarke Society; Knight of the Grand Cross of the Order of Dannebrog; Honorary Doctorate of Laws from Georgetown University; member, Society of Colonial Wars, Sons of the American Revolution

Livingston T. Merchant 1922 *

Silver Plate AwardU.S. Department of State (1942-1962); Assistant Chief, Division of Defense Materials, Chief, War Areas Division, Counselor for Economic Affairs with rank of Minister, American Embassy, Paris, Chief of Aviation Division, appointed, Foreign Service Officer, Counselor of American Embassy, Nanking, China, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs, Deputy for Political Affairs to United States (special representative in Europe and alternate United States permanent representative to North Atlantic Council), Paris, rank of Ambassador, Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs, Ambassador to Canada, Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs; U.S. Executive Director of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development

Robert D. Orr 1936 *

Governor, Indiana; Indiana Senate; Lieutenant Governor, (re-elected); U.S. Ambassador to Singapore

Henry Pillsbury 1954

Decorated as an Officier in the Ordre des Arts et Lettres for his lifetime contributions to French cultural life and for his introduction of American cultural figures to the French

Clark T. Randt Jr. 1964

Silver Plate AwardU.S. Ambassador to China; U.S. Air Force Security Service; Associate, Millbank, Tweed, Hadley, & McCloy; First Secretary and Commercial Attaché, U.S. Embassy in Beijing (lead negotiator on compliance issues under the U.S. – China Bilateral Trade Agreement); Partner, Heller, Ehrman, White, & McAuliffe; Partner, Head of the China Practice Group, Gibson, Dunn, & Crutcher; Partner, Head of the China Practice Group, Shearman & Sterling; Distinguished Service Silver Medal, Foreign Service Sustained Superior Service Award; recognized expert on Chinese law

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H. Chapman Rose 1924 *

Under Secretary of the Treasury; personal adviser to President Richard M. Nixon in the Watergate crisis; last law clerk for Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes; directed the Office of Contract Settlement in the U.S. Department of War; Assistant Secretary of the Treasury; lawyer, Partner, Tolles, Hogsett & Ginn (predecessor to Jones, Day, Cockley & Reavis); oversaw the merger of his law firm's Washington office with Pogue & Neale, served as national Managing Partner; Hotchkiss Board of Trustees (1958-1970)

John C. Schiffer 1963

Senator, Wyoming State Senate; President, Wyoming State Senate

William W. Scranton 1935

William W. Scranton '35, left, presents his credentials to Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim at United Nations Headquarters, March 19, 1976

Silver Plate AwardGovernor; Ambassador; thirteenth United States Permanent Representative to the United Nations; Special Assistant to Secretary of State, Member of Congress; candidate for the Republican nomination for President, Republican National Convention; Governor, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania; Vice Chairman, President Johnson's Panel on Insurance for Riot Torn Areas; Delegate, Chairman, Committee on Judiciary and the Committee on Rules, Pennsylvania State Constitutional Convention; member, Carnegie Commission on Higher Education; Chairman, U.S. Ambassador, U.S. Delegation INTELSAT; Chairman, President's Commission on Campus Unrest; Member, President's Price Commission; Chairman of the National Conference on Government; member, Executive Committee of the Trilateral Commission -- Japan, North America, and European Community; member, Executive Committee United States Railway Association Board; Chairman of the Urban Institute; member, General Advisory Committee on Arms Control and Disarmament (SALT); President Ford's Transition Team; Commission on White House Fellowships; Chairman of the Board, Director, Northeastern Pennsylvania Broadcasting Company; Chairman of the Board, National Liberty Corporation; Trustee, Yale University; President, National Municipal League; honorary degrees from 35 colleges and universities

Strobe Talbott 1964

Silver Plate Award President, Brookings Institution; Chairman, the State Department’s Foreign Affairs Policy Board; former Deputy Secretary of State; Ambassador-at-large and special adviser to the Secretary of State for the new independent states of the former Soviet Union; founding Director, Yale Center for the Study of Globalization; correspondent, Time magazine, (Eastern Europe, the State Department, the White House, Washington bureau chief, editor-at-large and foreign affairs columnist); author, Khruschev Remembers, Endgame: The Inside Story of SALT II, The Great Experiment: The Story of Ancient Empires, Modern States, and the Quest for a Global Nation, The Russia Hand: A Memoir of Presidential Diplomacy, Master of the Game: Paul Nitze and the Nuclear Peace, The Age of Terror, Deadly Gambits, Reagan and the Russians, Endgame; co-author, Fast Forward: Ethics and Politics in the Age of Global Warming, At the Highest Levels, Reagan and Gorbechev; Rhodes Scholar, Oxford University; recipient, Edward Weintal Prize for Distinguished Diplomatic Reporting (twice), Overseas Press Club awards (four times), Olive Branch Award; honorary doctorates, Monterey Institute of Strategic Studies (Humane Letters); Trinity College, Georgetown University, Fairfield University; awarded state orders by the presidents of Estonia, Finland, Germany, Lithuania, Poland, and the Kings of Sweden and Belgium; Board of Directors, American Association of Rhodes Scholars; Trustee, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; Board of Directors, Council on Foreign Relations; North American Executive Committee, Trilateral Commission; member, World Economic Forum, Aspen Strategy Group; fellow, American Academy of Arts & Sciences, Academy of Diplomacy; Hotchkiss Board of Trustees (1982-1987)

Horace Jeremiah Voorhis 1919 *

Congressman, author; served five terms in the United States House of Representatives representing the 12^th Congressional district in Los Angeles County; first political opponent of Richard Nixon; loyal supporter of the New Deal; liberal voting record, major accomplishment was the Voorhis Act of 1940 requiring registration of certain organizations controlled by foreign powers; founder, Headmaster, Voorhis School for Boys