List of Putney School people
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According to The Putney School 2008 Alumni Directory, alumni of The Putney School include (graduation date shown, where applicable):[1]
- Sam Amidon, musician
- David Amram '48, composer
- Tim Asch '51, anthropologist, filmmaker
- Carlos Buhler '72, mountaineer
- Peter L. Buttenwieser, educator, philanthropist, member of the Lehman family
- Tim Caldwell, Olympic cross-country skier, son of John Caldwell[2]
- Jonathan Crary, art historian
- Dave Cole '96, sculptor
- Carlton Cuse '77, television writer/executive of LOST[3]
- Tim Daly '74, actor
- Alicia Dana '87, U.S. Paralympian
- Lydia Davis '65, writer, Man Booker International Prize recipient[4]
- Thulani Davis '61, playwright, journalist, librettist, novelist, poet, and screenwriter
- Anna Dewdney '83, children's book author and illustrator
- Barnaby Dorfman '86, inventor, technology products
- Mahdi ElMandjra '50, Moroccan futurist, economist and sociologist
- Kai T. Erikson '49, sociologist
- David J. Griffiths '60, physicist, teacher
- William B. Gray, U.S. Attorney for Vermont[5]
- Andrea Gruber, soprano
- William Hinton '36, author, agricultural advisor, People's Republic of China
- Joan Hinton '39, atomic physicist, dairy farmer in China
- Lee Hirsch '90, filmmaker.
- Jeffrey Hollender '73, CEO of Seventh Generation Inc.
- Reid Hoffman '85, web entrepreneur, co-founder of LinkedIn
- Felicity Huffman '81, actor[6]
- Jeffrey Jones '64, actor
- Kathleen Kennedy Townsend '69, lieutenant governor of Maryland
- Kerry Kennedy '77, lawyer and human rights activist
- Bill Koch '73, Olympic cross-country skiing medalist
- Steven Kunes '74, TV writer and producer
- Mike Ladd, hip-hop artist
- Jonathan Lash '63, Hampshire College president
- Ellen Hamilton Latzen '99, actor
- Téa Leoni (Pantaleoni) '84, actor
- Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, '52, journalist, critic, novelist[7]
- J. Anthony Lukas '51, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author
- Sally Mann '69, fine-art photographer
- Jared Martin, actor
- Joanna Miles '58, Emmy award-winning actress in The Glass Menagerie
- Adrian Morris, painter
- Errol Morris '65, filmmaker
- Nell Newman '78, co-founder/owner, Newman's Own
- Heather Nova '83, musician and songwriter
- Eli Noyes '60, film animator[8]
- Ken Olin '72 actor, director and TV producer
- Priscilla Paetsch '50, violinist, composer
- Bob Perelman '64, poet, literary critic and professor
- Jonathan Piel '57, science journalist, past editor of Scientific American
- Tyler Rasch '06, television personality
- Noel Rockmore '47, painter, portraitist
- Martha Rockwell '62, Olympic cross-country skier[9]
- Jonathan Rosenbaum '61, film critic
- Demetria Royals, filmmaker
- Jonathan Schell '61, author
- Wallace Shawn '61, actor, playwright
- Lucy Shelton '61, soprano
- Harper Simon '90, singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer and son of Paul Simon
- Alexis Stewart '83, television host, daughter of Martha Stewart
- Eliot Weinberger, essayist
- Peter Willcox '72, Greenpeace activist, Arctic Sunrise captain[10]
- Ellen Winner '65, professor specializing in the psychology of art[11][12]
- John Bell Young, American concert pianist
Faculty
Some Putney faculty members (subject taught in parentheses) had careers that extended beyond their teaching.
- Eric Aho (art), American painter
- John H. Caldwell (mathematics), Nordic skier on the U.S. Olympic Ski Team, author and Nordic coach of the U.S. Olympic Ski Team
- Chard deNiord (English, philosophy), Poet Laureate of Vermont
- Eric Evans (English) Olympic canoeist
- Fernando Gerassi (art), artist
- Peter C. Goldmark Jr. (history), environmentalist, publisher, and executive
- Peter Schumann (dance), founder of the Bread and Puppet Theater[13]
- Margarete Seeler (art), German-born American artist, designer, educator, and author
References
- ↑ The Putney School 2008 Alumni Directory. Bloomington, Indiana: University Publishing Corporation. 2008.
- ↑ Robidoux, Carol (January 21, 2015). "Olympic Skiing Runs in Lebanon Lawyer's Family". Bar News. New Hampshire Bar Association.
- ↑ Poniewozik, James (April 29, 2010). "Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof". The 2010 TIME 100—Artists. TIME. Retrieved 2014-03-28.
- ↑ Sherwin, Adam (2013-05-23). "World's most concise short story writer Lydia Davis wins Booker International Prize 2013". Independent. Archived from the original on 2022-06-18. Retrieved 2013-05-23.
- ↑ "Class of 1964 Obituaries: William Barton Gray". HR 1964.org. Cambridge, MA: Harvard-Radcliffe Class of 1964. 1994. Retrieved November 16, 2019.
- ↑ "Felicity Huffman, actress charged in college-admission bribery case, has Vermont ties". Burlington Free Press.
- ↑ Aspen (30 August 2016). "Christopher Lehmann-Haupt '52". putneyschool.org.
- ↑ "Elm Lea Circle | Community | The Putney School". www.elmleacircle.com. Retrieved 2024-03-27.
- ↑ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Martha Rockwell Olympic Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 8 February 2018.
- ↑ Walker, Shaun (24 November 2013). "Arctic 30 captain re-evaluates protest methods after Russian jails Veteran Greenpeace skipper Peter Willcox was also captain of Rainbow Warrior – which was bombed by French agents in 1985". The Guardian. Retrieved 2014-03-28.
- ↑ Cuerdon, Don (Fall 2015). "Putney Post". Putney Post. p. 23. Retrieved 2021-04-15.
- ↑ Bloom, Paul (2018-09-06). "What We Know About Art and the Mind". The New Yorker. ISSN 0028-792X. Retrieved 2019-04-05.
- ↑ Katzman, Allan (1966-05-15). "The Bread and The Puppet". The East Village Other. 1 (12): 3.