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.

A

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

B

• 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)
• Frank Bruni 1982 – reporter and food critic, The New York Times; author of Ambling into History: The Unlikely Odyssey of George W. Bush

C

• Jesse Camp 1997 - video jockey, media personality
• 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
• Benjamin Cheever 1967 – author of The Plagiarist, The Partisan, Famous After Death
• Pauline Chen 1982 - surgeon, author, and The New York Times columnist
• Chris Cillizza 1994 – political journalist for the Washington Post and author
• Larry Collins 1947 – author of Is Paris Burning?
• Nancy W. Collins 1991 – Columbia University professor of European Studies, Editor of European Studies Forum

D

• Bianca D'Agostino 2007 - soccer player for the Boston Breakers
• Myron “Moe” W. Drabowsky 1953 – Major League Baseball player with the Baltimore Orioles and other teams^[1]
• 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

G

• Ella T. Grasso 1936 – first woman elected Governor of Connecticut

H

• Benjamin Hedges 1926 – Olympic track and field athlete (1928)
• Chris Hedges 1975 – Fellow at Nation Institute;^[2] 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
• Henry R. Horsey - Delaware Supreme Court justice
• Sirena Huang 2012 - Taiwanese American concert violinist

I

• Robert Grant Irving 1958 – author of Indian Summer

K

• 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
• 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

L

• Tom Lehrer 1943 – musical satirist, entertainer, and mathematician
• Nicholas M. Loeb - businessman and son of John Langeloth Loeb, Jr.

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
• Terry Melcher - musician, songwriter ("Kokomo") and producer, The Beach Boys and The Byrds; son of Doris Day
• Matthew M. Murray 1989 – Major League Baseball pitcher, Boston Red Sox (1995)

R

• Cynthia A. Rangoon 1982 - State of Connecticut Department on Aging
• John D. Rockefeller III 1925 - philanthropist
• Winthrop Rockefeller 1931 – first Republican Governor of Arkansas
• Thomas Rome 1974 - producer of jazz and world music, concert impresario

S

• George P. Shultz 1938 – former United States Secretary of State
• George Selden Thompson 1947 – author of The Cricket in Times Square and other children's classics
• 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 The New York Times (2010)
• 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 - celebrity chef

U

• Gretchen Ulion 1990 – Olympic gold medalist, U.S. Women's Olympic Hockey Team, Nagano, Japan 1998 (see Ice hockey at the 1998 Winter Olympics and list of athletes on Wheaties boxes)

W

• Geoffrey Wawro 1978 - Professor of Military History at the University of North Texas
• 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)

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