List of Loomis Chaffee School alumni

The following is a list of notable alumni of Loomis Chaffee School. Also called LC or Loomis, the Loomis Chaffee School is a college preparatory school located in Windsor, Connecticut.

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A

• John Ashmead 1934 – writer, educator, author of The Mountain and the Feather, writer for The Atlantic, book reviewer for The Philadelphia Bulletin

B

• Deborah Baker 1977 – biographer and essayist known for A Blue Hand: The Beats in India, a biography of Allen Ginsberg that focuses on his time in India.
• Stephen R. Barnett – American legal scholar
• Peter Barton 1969 – British military historian, author and filmmaker specialising in trench warfare during World War I.
• Jerome Beatty Jr. 1935 – twentieth-century American author of children's literature. He was also an accomplished feature writer for magazines.
• Andrew Berenzweig 1995 – professional ice hockey player, Nashville Predators
• Gerald Warner Brace 1918 – writer, educator, sailor, and boat builder
• Peter C. Brinckerhoff 1970 – writer, educator of nonprofits
• Mark Brown 1977 – Major League Baseball pitcher for the Baltimore Orioles (1984) and Minnesota Twins (1985)
• Harry G. Broadman 1973 – foreign trade and investment negotiator, global business growth strategist, corporate director, private equity investor, economist, litigation dispute expert, author and journalist.
• Frank Bruni 1982 – reporter, food critic, and columnist, The New York Times; author of Ambling into History: The Unlikely Odyssey of George W. Bush
• Jacob Bryson 2016 - professional ice hockey player, Buffalo Sabres
• Miriam Butterworth 1936 – American educator, activist, and politician who fought for equal representation in the Connecticut General Assembly.

C

• Jesse Camp 1997 – video jockey, media personality
• Thomas Cancian 2022 - American Baseball athlete, Notable public health advisor to the white house
• David E. Cane 1962 – American biological chemist serving as the Vernon K. Krieble Professor of Chemistry Emeritus and Professor of Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, and Biochemistry Emeritus at Brown University.
• Richard Adams Carey 1969 – American writer best known for Against the Tide: The Fate of the New England Fisherman.
• Jonathan Carroll 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
• John Chamberlain 1920 – was an American journalist, business and economic historian, syndicated columnist and literary critic.
• Benjamin Cheever 1967 – author of The Plagiarist, The Partisan, Famous After Death
• Pauline Chen 1982 – surgeon, author, and The New York Times columnist
• Aaron Civale 2013 – American professional baseball pitcher for the Cleveland Guardians of the MLB.
• Chris Cillizza 1994 – political journalist at CNN and author
• Larry Collins 1947 – author of Is Paris Burning?
• Nancy W. Collins 1991 – Columbia University professor
• Neal Conan – American radio journalist, producer, editor, and correspondent who worked for National Public Radio and hosted Talk the Nation.
• Alfred V. Covello 1950 – Senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut, Former Connecticut Supreme Court Justice.
• Alexander M. Cutler 1969 – former chairman and CEO of an American multinational power management company known as the Eaton Corporation.

D

• Bianca D'Agostino 2007 – soccer player for the Boston Breakers
• Damon Daunno 2003 – Tony and Grammy-nominated American actor, musician, and composer known for playing Curly McLain in the Broadway revival of Oklahoma!
• Adam Davies 1990 – American author known for The Frog King.
• Bob Davis – Major League Baseball pitcher
• Ruthie Davis 1980 – founder, designer, and president of luxury shoe brand Ruthie Davis
• Myron "Moe" W. Drabowsky 1953 – Major League Baseball player with the Baltimore Orioles and other teams
• Guilford Dudley Jr. 1925 – United States Ambassador to Denmark

E

• David Edelstein 1977 – film critic for New York Magazine, NPR's Fresh Air, CBS Sunday Morning, Slate, the New York Post, the Village Voice, and the Boston Phoenix
• Warren William Eginton 1941 – Senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut
• Alexander Eliot 1936 – American writer who served as art editor for Time Magazine. He was best known for his works on spirituality and myth.
• James F. English Jr. 1944 — former bank executive and President of Trinity College.
• Lord David Ennals (one-year student) – British Labour Party politician and campaigner for human rights who served as Secretary of State for Social Services from 1976 to 1979.

F

• Scott Fankhouser 1994 – former American ice hockey goaltender who used to be the Assistant Coach for the Cincinnati Cyclones. He is currently the assistant manager of Swonder Ice Arena in Evansville Indiana.
• Diana Farrell 1983 – Founding President and CEO of the JPMorgan Chase Institute, member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and Deputy Assistant on Economic Policy to President Barack Obama

G

• Betty Gilpin 2004 – Emmy-nominated American actress known for her performances in the Netflix comedy series GLOW and Nurse Jackie.
• Pete Grannis 1960 – former Commissioner of the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation and member of the New York State Assembly.
• Ella T. Grasso 1936 – first woman elected Governor of Connecticut and the first woman elected governor of any US state without following her husband.
• Jack Gould (1914–1993) – influential television and radio critic and reporter for The New York Times from 1944 to 1972.

H

• John A. Hall 1964 – Professor of Comparative Historical Sociology at McGill University
• Benjamin Hedges 1926 – Olympic track and field athlete (1928)
• Chris Hedges 1975 – Fellow at Nation Institute; professor at Princeton University; author of War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning; former Middle East Bureau Chief for The New York Times; former correspondent, National Public Radio; member of team winning 2002 Pulitzer Prize for explanatory journalism; 2002 Amnesty International Global Award for Human Rights Journalism
• Louis Hernandez 2023 - Mexican-American student-athlete at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
• Liana Hinds 2011 – American-born Trinidadian footballer who plays as a defender for Swedish club Sundsvalls DFF and the Trinidad and Tobago women's national team.
• Allan Hobson 1951 – American psychiatrist, dream researcher, and Professor of Psychiatry, Emeritus, at Harvard Medical School who is known for his research on rapid eye movement sleep.
• Henry R. Horsey 1943 – Delaware Supreme Court justice
• Sirena Huang 2012 – Taiwanese American concert violinist
• Morris N. Hughes, Jr. 1963 – American Career Foreign Service Officer who served as the United States Ambassador to Burundi

I

• Robert Grant Irving 1958 – author of Indian Summer

K

• Charles Kaiser 1968 – American author, journalist, and acting director of the LGBTQ Public Policy Center at Hunter College.
• David E. Kaiser 1965 – professor of history, Naval War College, Newport, Rhode Island; author of American Tragedy, Politics and War: European Conflict from Philip II to Hitler, and Epic Season: The 1948 American League Pennant Race
• Robert G. Kaiser 1960 – managing editor of and associate editor and senior correspondent for The Washington Post; author of "Russia from the Inside" and "Act of Congress: How America's Essential Institution Works, and How It Doesn't".
• Jamie Kennedy 1974 - Canadian chef and recipient of the Order of Canada
• Ray Kidder 1941 – American physicist and nuclear weapons designer
• Henry R. Kravis 1963 – billionaire, founding partner of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.
• Corby Kummer 1974 – restaurant critic for Boston magazine and editor at The Atlantic magazine
• Alexander Kuo 1957 – American teacher, poet, fiction writer, and essayist who served as Professor of English at Washington State University.
• Joshua Kurlantzick 1994 – American Journalist and Fellow for Southeast Asia at the Council on Foreign Relations.

L

• Pete Larson 1962 – former American football Running back for the Washington Redskins
• Neil Lebhar 1968 – American Anglican Bishop who served as the first bishop of the Gulf Atlantic Diocese
• Tom Lehrer 1943 – musical satirist, entertainer, and mathematician
• Nicholas M. Loeb – businessman and son of John Langeloth Loeb, Jr.
• Tony Lupien 1935 – American first baseman in Major League Baseball. He was a left-handed batter who played for the Boston Red Sox, Philadelphia Phillies, and Chicago White Sox, grandfather of John Cena.

M

• David Margolick 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
• Andrea McCarren 1981 – television journalist and educator
• Taylor Mead 1942 – American writer, actor, and performer known for his appearances in Andy Warhol's underground films.
• Terry Melcher – musician, songwriter ("Kokomo") and producer, The Beach Boys and The Byrds; son of Doris Day
• Nana Mensah 2001 — American actress, writer, and director.
• Geoff Muldaur 1961 – American singer, songwriter, solo guitarist and a founding member of the Jim Kweskin Jug Band.
• Matthew M. Murray 1989 – Major League Baseball pitcher, Boston Red Sox (1995)
• John Garvan Murtha 1959 – Senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Vermont.

N

• John Nichols 1958 – American Novelist known for the New Mexico trilogy
• Charles Hollister Noble – American historical novelist and screenwriter

O

• John Peter Oleson 1964 – Canadian classical archaeologist and historian of ancient technology
• Richard Ottinger 1946 – American legal educator and politician from New York who served in the United States House of Representatives for eight terms.

P

• David Park – American painter and a pioneer of the Bay Area Figurative Movement in painting during the 1950s.
• Richard Plepler 1977 – former chairman and CEO of HBO.
• J.J. Philbin 1992 - American producer and screenwriter known for her work on The O.C.

R

• David M. Raup 1950 – University of Chicago Paleontologist.
• Betsy Reed 1986 – journalist and editor-in-chief of The Intercept and editor of The Nation.
• Howie Richmond 1935 – American music publisher and music industry executive.
• Richard Rifkind 1948 – American Cancer Researcher who served as chairman and Chief Scientific Officer of the Sloan Kettering Institute.
• Thomas D. Ritter 1970 – lawyer, lobbyist, and retired politician from Connecticut who was the Speaker of the Connecticut House of Representatives
• Selden Rodman 1927 – prolific U.S. writer of poetry, plays and prose, political commentary, art criticism, Latin American and Caribbean history, biography and travel writing.
• Adam Rome 1976 – American environmental historian who teaches environmental history and environmental non-fiction at the University at Buffalo.
• John D. Rockefeller III 1925 – philanthropist
• Winthrop Rockefeller 1931 – first Republican Governor of Arkansas

S

• Keith Scribner 1980 – American novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter, essayist, and educator.
• Richard Scudder 1931 – American newspaper pioneer, newspaper publisher, journalist, and co-founder of the MediaNews Group.
• Edward H. Shortliffe 1965 – biomedical informatician, physician, and computer scientist who pioneered the use of artificial intelligence in medicine.
• George P. Shultz 1938 – former United States Secretary of State
• George Selden 1947 – author of The Cricket in Times Square and other children's classics
• Joyce Sidman 1974 – American children's writer
• R. Peter Straus 1940 – American media Proprietor who served as president of WMCA and chairman of Strauss News, member of the Sulzberger Family.
• Steven Strogatz 1976 – Professor of Applied Mathematics, Cornell University, recipient of Presidential Young Investigator Award, author of SYNC: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order, math blogger for The New York Times (2010)
• John Chabot Smith 1932 – American journalist with the Washington Post, White House correspondent, and author of Alger Hiss: The True Story, an account sympathetic to Hiss.
• Lyman Maynard Stowe 1930 – American physician and the first dean of the University of Connecticut School of Medicine.
• Arthur Ochs Sulzberger 1945 – chairman and publisher of The New York Times

T

• John Terry 1968 – film and television actor, Against the Grain, A Dangerous Woman, Iron Will, Lost
• Jeremiah Tower 1961 – celebrity chef credited with pioneering the culinary style known as California cuisine.
• James B. Twitchell 1962 – author and former professor of English at University of Florida

U

• Gretchen Ulion 1990 – Olympic gold medalist, U.S. Women's Olympic Hockey Team, Nagano, Japan 1998

W

• Katherine Waterston 1998 – actor Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
• Geoffrey Wawro 1978 – Professor of Military History at the University of North Texas
• Nancy Weber 1959 – American writer known primarily for The Life Swap
• Benjamin C. Wedeman 1979 – American journalist and war correspondent
• William Wemple 1930 – American lawyer who served in the United States Navy Reserve as a Lieutenant Commander and as General Counsel of the Navy
• Mike Whalen 1979 – athlete and coach for Williams College and Wesleyan University
• A.B.C. Whipple 1936 – journalist for Life magazine, author, and historian
• James Widdoes 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)
• David Wild 1980 – Senior Editor, Rolling Stone; host of Musicians (Bravo television)
• Robert Winters 1949 – President and CEO of The Prudential Insurance Company of America
• Jason Wu 2001 – fashion designer (designed First Lady Michelle Obama's inaugural ball gown and other pieces)

Z

• Drew Zingg 1973 – American rock, blues, soul and jazz guitarist, best known for his performing with Steely Dan and Boz Scaggs

Faculty

• Eric Wollencott Barnes – American educator, diplomat, actor, and author.
• Kalena Bovell – American conductor who currently serves as assistant conductor of the Memphis Symphony Orchestra.
• John Horne Burns – American writer who was best known for his novel The Gallery (1947).
• Miriam Butterworth 1936 – American educator, activist, and politician who taught at Loomis Chaffee.
• Germaine Cheruy – French costume designer, artist, and intellectual. Madame Cheruy taught art programs at Loomis Chaffee.
• René Cheruy – French soldier, educator, and artist. He served as a French professor and French Department Head at Loomis Chaffee. During his time as a soldier he received the Legion of Honor.
• William V. D'Antonio – Italian-American sociologist and educator.
• John W. Howe – American bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Central Florida. He served as the Loomis School's chaplain.
• Evelyn Beatrice Longman – American sculptor who married Headmaster Nathaniel Horton Batchelder and taught sculpting classes at the Loomis School.
• Vincent Schaefer – American chemist and meteorologist who developed cloud seeding. He was director of the Atmospheric Science Center at the Loomis School in Connecticut.