List of Putney School people

Alumni

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

1. The Putney School 2008 Alumni Directory. Bloomington, Indiana: University Publishing Corporation. 2008.
2. Robidoux, Carol (January 21, 2015). "Olympic Skiing Runs in Lebanon Lawyer's Family". Bar News. New Hampshire Bar Association.
3. Poniewozik, James (April 29, 2010). "Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof". The 2010 TIME 100—Artists. TIME. Retrieved 2014-03-28.
4. 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.
5. "Class of 1964 Obituaries: William Barton Gray". HR 1964.org. Cambridge, MA: Harvard-Radcliffe Class of 1964. 1994. Retrieved November 16, 2019.
6. "Felicity Huffman, actress charged in college-admission bribery case, has Vermont ties". Burlington Free Press.
7. Aspen (30 August 2016). "Christopher Lehmann-Haupt '52". putneyschool.org.
8. "Elm Lea Circle | Community | The Putney School". www.elmleacircle.com. Retrieved 2024-03-27.
9. 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.
10. 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.
11. Cuerdon, Don (Fall 2015). "Putney Post". Putney Post. p. 23. Retrieved 2021-04-15.
12. Bloom, Paul (2018-09-06). "What We Know About Art and the Mind". The New Yorker. ISSN   0028-792X . Retrieved 2019-04-05.
13. Katzman, Allan (1966-05-15). "The Bread and The Puppet". The East Village Other. 1 (12): 3.