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Hotchkiss School
The Hotchkiss School is a private, coeducational preparatory school in Lakeville, Connecticut , USA. It was founded in 1891 by Maria Bissell Hotchkiss with the encouragement of President Timothy Dwight V of Yale. It is set in 545 acres (2 km²) of woodland and is in proximity to two lakes. Hotchkiss' 9 hole golf course was created by famed designer Seth Raynor. The 212,000 ft² (19,700 m²) athletic center opened in 2002, while a 715 seat glass-enclosed performing arts center and music pavilion will open in Spring 2005. As of the start of the 2004-2005 school year Hotchkiss boasts 555 students, over 200 faculty and staff, and an endowment valued at more than $320 million.
Alumni include
- Victor Ashe US Ambassador to Poland
- John G. Avildsen Film Director (Rocky, The Karate Kid)
- Robert Bork Conservative legal scholar, former Attorney-General of the US
- Jonathan Bush uncle of George, brother of George
- Walter P Chrysler, Jr Industrialist and art collector, son of Walter Chrysler
- Charles Edison Governor of New Jersey, son of Thomas Edison,
- Edsel Ford President of Ford Motor Company, son of Henry Ford
- Henry Ford II President of Ford Motor Company
- William C. Ford CEO of Ford Motor Company
- Varian Fry journalist and 'the American Schindler'
- Arthur Lehman Goodhart Legal scholar, Master of University College, Oxford
- Porter J. Goss Director of the CIA
- Alfred Whitney Griswold President of Yale
- Ernest Gruening Governor of Alaska, US Senator
- Briton Hadden Co-founder of Time Magazine with Henry Luce
- John Hammond Record Producer (discovered Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen)
- Leland Hayward Hollywood and Broadway agent and producer
- John Hersey Pulitzer Prize winning author
- Allison Janney Emmy Award winning Actress
- Lawrence M. Judd Governor of Hawaii
- Lewis H. Lapham Editor of Harper's Magazine
- Winston Lord US Ambassador to the People's Republic of China 1985-1989
- Henry Luce Co-founder of Time Magazine with Briton Hadden
- Archibald MacLeish Poet Laureate, Pulitzer Prize winner
- Forrest Mars, Jr CEO of Mars, Incorporated, billionaire
- Peter Matthiessen Naturalist and Writer
- Douglas Stuart Moore Composer
- Gerald Murphy Precisionist Artist
- Paul Nitze Secretary of the Navy, architect of US policy towards the Soviet Union
- Clark T. Randt, Jr. US Ambassador to the People's Republic of China 2001-
- Dickinson Richards Nobel Prize winner
- William Warren Scranton Governor of Pennsylvania, US Ambassador to the UN
- Harold Stanley Founder, Morgan Stanley
- Potter Stewart Justice of the US Supreme Court
- Strobe Talbott Journalist and diplomat
- John Thornton President, Goldman Sachs
- Fay Vincent Baseball Commissioner
- Arthur Kittredge Watson Chairman of IBM, US Ambassador to the UK
- Charles Yost US Ambassador to the UN
Fictional Hotchkiss alumni
In the book Primary Colors by Joe Klein, later turned into a film, the principal character Henry Burton was educated at Hotchkiss, and is frequently referred to as 'Hotchkiss'. In Jeffrey Archer's novel Sons of Fortune protagonist Fletcher Andrew Cartright is a Hotchkiss alumnus.
External links
- Hotchkiss school website http://www.hotchkiss.org