List of Taft School alumni

The following is a list of notable alumni of Taft School. The Taft School is a private, coeducational prep school located in Watertown, Connecticut, United States. The school was founded by Horace Dutton Taft, the brother of President William Howard Taft, in 1890.

Academics

Todd J. Albert
T. H. Breen '60, Guggenheim fellow, history professor
Stevan Dedijer '30, founder of the Research Policy Institute, pioneer of Business Intelligence
Alfred G. Gilman '58, Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine^[1]
Mason Gross '29, President of Rutgers University
Samuel T. Orton 1897, pioneer in the study of dyslexia

Trey Anastasio '83, Phish lead guitarist
Jeff Baxter '67, musician (Steely Dan, Doobie Brothers)
Henry Beard '63, co-founder of National Lampoon, co-author of Bored of the Rings
Peter Berg '80, actor/director of Friday Night Lights, Lone Survivor
Mia Borders, '05, singer-songwriter
Mary Chapin Carpenter '76, five-time Grammy-award winner^[2]
Spencer Treat Clark '05, actor in Gladiator, Mystic River, Unbreakable, and The Last House on the Left
Dominique Dunne, actress^[3]
Adam Duritz '82, lead singer of Counting Crows
James Franciscus '53, actor in The Naked City, Longstreet
Grant Goodeve, actor in Eight is Enough
Geoffrey T. Hellman '24, longtime New Yorker columnist
Deane G. Keller '17, painter and educator^[4]
Alan Klingenstein '72, film producer
Ralph Lee '53, Guggenheim fellow and Obie Award winner
Lorenzo Mariani '73, international opera director
Steve Sandvoss '98, actor
Tom Santopietro '72, author and Broadway theater manager
Fred Small '70, singer-songwriter
Dudley Taft '84, member of Sweet Water guitars, vocals
Karen L. Thorson '78, producer of The Wire, The Unusuals

Peter S. Kaufman '71, investment banker, president of the Gordian Group LLC
Joseph Irwin Miller '27, industrialist, Cummins Engine Company
John M. Schiff '21, investment banker, philanthropist, honorary chairman of Lehman Brothers^[5]
John G. Taft '68, financier and writer
George Weyerhaeuser '44, Chairman and CEO, Weyerhaeuser Company^[6]

Darren Bragg '87, professional baseball player
James Driscoll '96, professional golfer^[11]
Patrick Kerney '95, professional football player
Allison Mleczko '93, gold medalist in first women's Olympic ice hockey game at Nagano; silver medalist in 2002^[12]
Max Pacioretty '07, professional hockey player for the Montreal Canadiens
Barbara Potter '79, Hall of Fame professional tennis player
James Stillman Rockefeller '20, Olympic gold medalist, 8-man rowing (Paris, France)
Ryan Shannon '01, professional hockey player
Tammy Lee Shewchuk '96, Olympic gold medalist in women's ice hockey, Salt Lake City
Jaime Sifers '02, professional ice hockey player
Katey Stone '84, head coach of 2014 Olympic Team USA women's ice hockey team, coach of Harvard Crimson women's ice hockey team
John Welchli '46, Olympic silver medalist, Melbourne, 1956

Laurence Bergreen '67, historian and biographer
Nelson Denis '72, journalist, screenwriter, former New York State Assemblyman
Steven J. Erlanger ’70, London bureau chief (formerly Paris and Jerusalem bureau chief) for The New York Times
Philip K. Howard '66, founder of Common Good, author of The Death of Common Sense: How Law is Suffocating America^[13]
Thomas Kuhn '40, author of Structure of Scientific Revolutions, coined the phrase "paradigm shift"
John Merrow ’59, Peabody Award-winning journalist and producer
Sumner Chilton Powell '42, Pulitzer Prize winner in history for Puritan Village: The Formation of a New England Town^[14]
Josh Quittner '75, author, editor of Business 2.0
David Kenyon Webster '40, soldier, journalist, and author

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