List of Kent School people

This list contains notable people associated with Kent School in Kent, Connecticut, including alumni and current and former faculty.

Alumni

Arts and entertainment

• Richard Arnest, class of 1968, composer, performer
• Newman Taylor Baker, class of 1961, percussionist, composer
• John Biddle, yachting cinematographer and lecturer; inducted into America's Cup Hall of Fame
• Lawrence Casserley, class of 1959, composer, performer, conductor
• Alicia Coppola, class of 1986, actress
• Ted Danson, class of 1966, Emmy and Golden Globe winning actor, notably in Cheers^[1]
• Lana Del Rey, class of 2003, singer
• Chris Donald, class of 1965, stage name Vinnie Taylor as lead guitarist for rock band Sha Na Na
• Sean Durkin, class of 2000, film director
• Emme (Melissa Aronson), class of 1981, plus-size supermodel^[2]
• Peter Farrelly, class of 1975, writer, producer, director (Outside Providence, Dumb and Dumber)
• Mamie Gummer class of 2001, (daughter of Meryl Streep), actress
• Joseph Kaiser, class of 1995, Metropolitan Opera star, operatic tenor
• Seth MacFarlane, class of 1991, actor, voice actor, animator, writer, producer, director, singer, comedian (best known for creating Family Guy)
• Grayson McCouch, class of 1987, actor
• Daniel Richter, choreographer, actor 2001: A Space Odyssey
• Roger Sessions, class of 1911, composer, critic, teacher of music
• Barclay Shaw, class of 1968, artist
• Mandy Stein, class of 1994, film producer
• KT Tunstall, class of 1993, musician^[3]
• Will Wallace, class of 1984, film director
• Treat Williams, class of 1969, actor

Athletics

• Johnny Bent, class of 1926, silver medalist with the American hockey team in the 1932 Winter Olympics
• Étienne Boulay, class of 2002, Canadian football player
• Jack Capuano, class of 1985, Head Coach, New York Islanders
• Steve Gladstone, class of 1960, rowing coach
• Billy Jaffe, class of 1987, sports analyst
• Ryan Leib, professional soccer player
• H. Graham Motion, class of 1983, horse trainer
• Winthrop Palmer, class of 1926, silver medalist with the American hockey team in the 1932 Winter Olympics
• Scott Perry, NFL football player^[4]
• Carl-Olivier Primé, Canadian football player
• David Quinn, class of 1984, hockey player for Minnesota North Stars and head coach for Boston University
• William Stowe, class of 1958, Olympic gold medalist in rowing

Business

• Jonathan Harmsworth, 4th Viscount Rothermere, Chairman of Daily Mail and General Trust (post-graduate year)

Engineering and science

• Craig Call Black, class in 1950, paleontologist
• Thomas Elliot Bowman III, class of 1938, carcinologist
• Schuyler V. Cammann, class of 1931, anthropologist
• Flemming Gomme Graae, class of 1967, psychiatrist
• John S. Meyer, class of 1941, neurologist
• Ilhi Synn, class of 1958, educator
• Bruno H. Zimm, class of 1938, polymer chemist and DNA researcher

Government and politics

• John A. Baldwin, Jr., class of 1950, United States Navy Vice Admiral
• Jacob D. Beam, US Ambassador to the USSR, 1969–73
• His Royal Highness Prince Carl Philip Edmund Bertil, Duke of Värmland, third in line to the Swedish Throne (left in his tenth year to attend finishing school)
• Christopher Burnham, class of 1975, diplomat
• Peter Carlisle, class of 1970, Mayor and former Prosecuting Attorney of Honolulu ^[5]
• Richard Dearlove, class of 1963, former Chief of MI6, British Secret Intelligence Service (1999–2004)^[6]
• Alexandra Davis DiPentima, class of 1971, Chief Judge of the Connecticut Appellate Court
• Hamilton Fish IV, Congressman from New York, 1969–95
• Howard Hart, class of 1958, Central Intelligence Agency officer
• Draper Kauffman, class of 1929, Navy Rear Admiral; considered the father of Navy Frogmen; grandfather of Navy SEALs^[7]
• Stewart McKinney, Congressman from Connecticut
• Stephanie Nyombayire, class of 2004, activist
• Carlton Powell, class of 1957, judge
• John A. Shaw, class of 1957, former civil servant who held positions under several presidents
• J. Fife Symington Jr., class of 1929, airline pioneer and former US Ambassador to Trinidad and Tobago
• Cyrus Vance, class of 1935, former US Secretary of State
• Dinghy Young, class of 1932, World War II pilot
• Marie L. Yovanovitch, class of 1976, former US Ambassador to the Kyrgyz Republic; current US Ambassador to Ukraine

Writers, journalists and publishers

• Bruce Beattie, class of 1972, political cartoonist
• John Brooks, class of 1938, writer
• Oliver Butterworth, class of 1933, writer and educator
• James Gould Cozzens, class of 1925, novelist, Pulitzer Prize recipient in 1949 for Guard of Honor; wrote By Love Possessed
• Wilbur Cross, class of 1937, author
• Vine Deloria, Jr., class of 1951, American Indian author, theologian, historian, activist
• Chard deNiord, class of 1971, poet, poet laureate of Vermont
• P. G. Downes, class of 1928, explorer, educator, author
• Rowland Evans, class of 1939, columnist, journalist, co-host of Evans & Novak on CNN
• Oscar Gonzáles, writer
• James Grinwis, class of 1990, poet
• Robert Hillyer, poet
• Stu Kennedy, class of 1946, historian
• Charles P. Kindleberger, class of 1928, historical economist, author
• Sidney D. Kirkpatrick, award winning documentary filmmaker and bestselling historical author
• Alfred W. McCoy, class of 1964, historian
• Christopher McDougall, class of 1981, bestselling author
• Charles Patterson, author and historian^[8]
• John Rawls, class of 1939, political philosopher, author of A Theory of Justice^[9]
• Bernard Ryan, Jr., class of 1942, author
• Serge Schmemann, class of 1963, reporter, Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting recipient in 1991^[10]
• Frank W. Wadsworth, class of 1938, scholar, author, and sportsman

Faculty

• William H. Armstrong, Kent teacher for decades; author of Study is Hard Work and the novel Sounder, which received the Newbery Medal in 1970 and was made into an Oscar-nominated movie
• Joe Bouchard, music instructor, retired member of rock band Blue Öyster Cult
• Edmund Fuller
• Tom Hunt, Kent English teacher and author of Cliffs of Despair^[11]
• Michael Page, equestrian

References

1. "Ted Danson", Saturday Evening Post, May 1, 2007. Retrieved on March 12, 2008. "Actor and environmentalist Ted Danson's first starring role was on the basketball team at Connecticut's Kent School in 1961, before his interest in acting emerged while attending Stanford University."
2. Witchel, Alex."Size 14, 190 Pounds: A Model Figure", The New York Times, March 12, 1997. Retrieved on December 3, 2007. "When she was high-school age, her family moved back to the States, settling in Houston, and Emme attended the Kent School in Connecticut, where she joined the rowing team, sealing a life's passion for strenuous exercise."
3. Thomason, Carmel. "KT's got one eye on the future", Manchester Evening News, March 10, 2005. Retrieved on February 24, 2008. "After school, having learned to play the piano, flute and guitar, she left her native St Andrews to take up a scholarship at Kent School in Connecticut, New England, where she formed her first band, The Happy Campers."
4. "Scott Endecott Perry". databaseFootball.com. Retrieved December 3, 2012.
5. Peter B. Carlisle, National District Attorneys Association. Retrieved on December 3, 2007.
6. New MI6 spymaster named, BBC News, February 25, 1999. Retrieved on February 13, 2008.
7. National Navy UDT-SEAL Museum"Navy SEAL History", Navy UDT-SEAL Museum webpage, 2004. Retrieved on October 25, 2007.
8. "Charles Patterson". Charleswpatterson.com. Retrieved 26 November 2014.
9. Gewertz, Ken. "John Rawls, influential political philosopher, dead at 81", Harvard University Gazette, November 25, 2002. Retrieved on July 24, 2008.
10. Serge Schmemann - Executives Biographies - The New York Times Company
11. http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/cliffs-of-despair-tom-hunt/1100618720?ean=9780307430816