Hyde School, The Most Truthful Informative Post I have Seen

[Anonymous]

On 2006-01-22 15:38:00, Anonymous wrote:

"yes i remember when this girl wnt off with anolder man after an AA meeting and came back several days later with a bunch of methodone (synthetic herion)she had procured during her little trip. i also remember having a bunch of my suff stolen out of my back pack when i was on 2/4 and my bag was locked up in deans area (supposedly safe) when i confronted the staff they said it was impossible someone could have stolen my belongings and told me i need to concentrate on my attitude.



i also was on the leadership trip (so they told my parents) to manna island. they sent me there because  

i refused to believe there bullshit, evin after the trip i did not give in to there philosophy.i held tight to my beleifs all through out the year

refusing to assymilate into the hyde cult



i remeber being called out by students who were obviously faking it, and they would confront me about my attitude only minuets after hearing them talk about all the partys and drugs they did over vacation. that place was so hypocritical



does any one remember jd the rastafarian cook who hated the school but needed a job man i spent so many hours talking to that guy during 2/4. he was on of the few great chareters i met there. how about the performing arts director mr edwards (not sure if i got the name right) who left after mccrain reapropriated all the money he had raised for the performing arts departmet.



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Yes, JD was awesome.  Different from all those "programmed staff."  Mr Edwards was also fantastic.  He worked so hard for that school, but loyalty means nothing to them in spite of all this "character building" that they preach.

[Anonymous]

On 2006-01-22 15:14:00, Anonymous wrote:

"he lives in nyc i still talk to him from time to time"

You said you speak to Steve Tucker.  I was wondering how he feels about Hyde.  He seemed to try to get along so that he could get out of there.

If you still speak to these people maybe you can guide them to this website so that more students can tell their stories.

[Anonymous]

Because I'd really want to send children to a school that produces others that use "gay" as an insult.

Really... you're motivating.

[Anonymous]

On 2006-01-22 15:38:00, Anonymous wrote:

"yes i remember when this girl wnt off with anolder man after an AA meeting and came back several days later with a bunch of methodone (synthetic herion)she had procured during her little trip. i also remember having a bunch of my suff stolen out of my back pack when i was on 2/4 and my bag was locked up in deans area (supposedly safe) when i confronted the staff they said it was impossible someone could have stolen my belongings and told me i need to concentrate on my attitude.



i also was on the leadership trip (so they told my parents) to manna island. they sent me there because  

i refused to believe there bullshit, evin after the trip i did not give in to there philosophy.i held tight to my beleifs all through out the year

refusing to assymilate into the hyde cult



i remeber being called out by students who were obviously faking it, and they would confront me about my attitude only minuets after hearing them talk about all the partys and drugs they did over vacation. that place was so hypocritical



does any one remember jd the rastafarian cook who hated the school but needed a job man i spent so many hours talking to that guy during 2/4. he was on of the few great chareters i met there. how about the performing arts director mr edwards (not sure if i got the name right) who left after mccrain reapropriated all the money he had raised for the performing arts departmet.



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Yes, I definitely remember JD.  A very cool guy who was probably the only honest staff member at Hyde.  Doesn't surprise me that your stuff got stolen out of Deans area and then when you confronted them, you were told you have a bad attitude.  I had problems in Deans area once with Dubinsky, who was in charge of Deans area. I broke the sex ethic and that pervert sat there behind his desk asking for details of what me and my boyfriend did.  It was disgusting how he wanted to know everything and the way he looked at me!  When one of my girlfriends complained about him to the administration she was told, "you need to go and confront Mr Dubinsky and tell him how he makes you feel." Hyde never wanted to take responsibility for anything.  It was always about us dealing with the problems that they brought on.  That place is disgusting!

[Anonymous]

On 2006-02-08 07:29:00, Anonymous wrote:

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On 2006-01-22 15:38:00, Anonymous wrote:


"yes i remember when this girl wnt off with anolder man after an AA meeting and came back several days later with a bunch of methodone (synthetic herion)she had procured during her little trip. i also remember having a bunch of my suff stolen out of my back pack when i was on 2/4 and my bag was locked up in deans area (supposedly safe) when i confronted the staff they said it was impossible someone could have stolen my belongings and told me i need to concentrate on my attitude.





i also was on the leadership trip (so they told my parents) to manna island. they sent me there because  


i refused to believe there bullshit, evin after the trip i did not give in to there philosophy.i held tight to my beleifs all through out the year


refusing to assymilate into the hyde cult





i remeber being called out by students who were obviously faking it, and they would confront me about my attitude only minuets after hearing them talk about all the partys and drugs they did over vacation. that place was so hypocritical





does any one remember jd the rastafarian cook who hated the school but needed a job man i spent so many hours talking to that guy during 2/4. he was on of the few great chareters i met there. how about the performing arts director mr edwards (not sure if i got the name right) who left after mccrain reapropriated all the money he had raised for the performing arts departmet.





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Yes, I definitely remember JD.  A very cool guy who was probably the only honest staff member at Hyde.  Doesn't surprise me that your stuff got stolen out of Deans area and then when you confronted them, you were told you have a bad attitude.  I had problems in Deans area once with Dubinsky, who was in charge of Deans area. I broke the sex ethic and that pervert sat there behind his desk asking for details of what me and my boyfriend did.  It was disgusting how he wanted to know everything and the way he looked at me!  When one of my girlfriends complained about him to the administration she was told, "you need to go and confront Mr Dubinsky and tell him how he makes you feel." Hyde never wanted to take responsibility for anything.  It was always about us dealing with the problems that they brought on.  That place is disgusting!"

Isn't that the Hyde faculty member who ended up resigning because of allegations?

[Anonymous]

Yeah, he left a year after I was there.  The school was hush, hush about it, but a faculty member told me he was finally forced to resign.  It wasn't until one of the girls finally sued the school that they got rid of him for good. This guy was a total pervert who gave all of us the creeps.  We never understood why the school wouldn't do anything about it.  Guess it was because he and his wife were part of the school all their lives.  They both graduated from Hyde and worked there.

[Anonymous]

I would like to take a stab at answering your questions.

1.WRT the 2/4 issue and being taken out of class, most private schools work on a seperate calendar than the public schools.  At Hyde the students are expected to maek up the work they miss on their own time.  This is one of the tools that the school uses to reinforce the issues of responsibility.

2.  WRT to Hyde being a non-profit.  To the best of my knowledge most, if not all, private schools are non-profit organizations.  This is done for many purposes, one of which is taxes.  A non-profit can set money aside for future use. A corporation would have to declare profits and pay out dividens from the "profits" that the organization is making.  As far as the family owning the properties in Maine and CT, I think you will find that the property is owned by the non-profit organization and that the Gauld Family is only receiving a salary from the non-profit organization.

3.  WRT to passing out meds w/o a Dr on staff - The staff is not prescribing the meds, the school is passing out meds based on the prescriptions written from the students personal physicians.  This is no different than at most, if not all, nursing homes or rehab facilities.  Again I think if you investigate any boarding school that is not a therapeutic school, having a nurse pass out medications based on a physicians script is not uncommon.

It would be nice for people to do some research before they jump into something without knowing what they are talking about.

[Anonymous]

On 2006-02-13 12:44:00, Anonymous wrote:

"I would like to take a stab at answering your questions.



1.WRT the 2/4 issue and being taken out of class, most private schools work on a seperate calendar than the public schools.  At Hyde the students are expected to maek up the work they miss on their own time.  This is one of the tools that the school uses to reinforce the issues of responsibility.



2.  WRT to Hyde being a non-profit.  To the best of my knowledge most, if not all, private schools are non-profit organizations.  This is done for many purposes, one of which is taxes.  A non-profit can set money aside for future use. A corporation would have to declare profits and pay out dividens from the "profits" that the organization is making.  As far as the family owning the properties in Maine and CT, I think you will find that the property is owned by the non-profit organization and that the Gauld Family is only receiving a salary from the non-profit organization.



3.  WRT to passing out meds w/o a Dr on staff - The staff is not prescribing the meds, the school is passing out meds based on the prescriptions written from the students personal physicians.  This is no different than at most, if not all, nursing homes or rehab facilities.  Again I think if you investigate any boarding school that is not a therapeutic school, having a nurse pass out medications based on a physicians script is not uncommon.



It would be nice for people to do some research before they jump into something without knowing what they are talking about."

Thank you for these clarifications.  I would like one more issue addressed.  It is clear that Hyde School accepts many students with pretty serious mental health problems and challenges.  I have met many students there with diagnoses such as depression, bipolar disorder, eating disorders, anxiety disorders, PTSD, etc.  Many have received psychiatric care of one kind of another and are receiving medication to help them with their issues.

How do you explain the fact that Hyde School accepts so many of these kids but does not have mental health professionals on staff?  I know Hyde says it's not a therapeutic school, but it seems like a terrible disservice for the school to accept these kids without having mental health professionals on staff.  Many of these kids encounter problems with Hyde's rules, but the school treats everything as an 'attitude' problem and 'character' problem.  Doesn't it seem quite possible that in some of these cases the student is behaving badly because of untreated mental health issues?

[Anonymous]

On 2006-02-13 14:58:00, Anonymous wrote:

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On 2006-02-13 12:44:00, Anonymous wrote:


"I would like to take a stab at answering your questions.





1.WRT the 2/4 issue and being taken out of class, most private schools work on a seperate calendar than the public schools.  At Hyde the students are expected to maek up the work they miss on their own time.  This is one of the tools that the school uses to reinforce the issues of responsibility.





2.  WRT to Hyde being a non-profit.  To the best of my knowledge most, if not all, private schools are non-profit organizations.  This is done for many purposes, one of which is taxes.  A non-profit can set money aside for future use. A corporation would have to declare profits and pay out dividens from the "profits" that the organization is making.  As far as the family owning the properties in Maine and CT, I think you will find that the property is owned by the non-profit organization and that the Gauld Family is only receiving a salary from the non-profit organization.





3.  WRT to passing out meds w/o a Dr on staff - The staff is not prescribing the meds, the school is passing out meds based on the prescriptions written from the students personal physicians.  This is no different than at most, if not all, nursing homes or rehab facilities.  Again I think if you investigate any boarding school that is not a therapeutic school, having a nurse pass out medications based on a physicians script is not uncommon.





It would be nice for people to do some research before they jump into something without knowing what they are talking about."

Thank you for these clarifications.  I would like one more issue addressed.  It is clear that Hyde School accepts many students with pretty serious mental health problems and challenges.  I have met many students there with diagnoses such as depression, bipolar disorder, eating disorders, anxiety disorders, PTSD, etc.  Many have received psychiatric care of one kind of another and are receiving medication to help them with their issues.



How do you explain the fact that Hyde School accepts so many of these kids but does not have mental health professionals on staff?  I know Hyde says it's not a therapeutic school, but it seems like a terrible disservice for the school to accept these kids without having mental health professionals on staff.  Many of these kids encounter problems with Hyde's rules, but the school treats everything as an 'attitude' problem and 'character' problem.  Doesn't it seem quite possible that in some of these cases the student is behaving badly because of untreated mental health issues?"

How do you explain it?  Very simple.  Hyde ONLY cares about the numbers!  Hyde does not care about helping kids, which is apparent by the way they operate. As you said, they take in kids who have obvious medical and emotional conditions and they group them all into one and call it an "attitude problem."

Can you imagine a heart specialist taking care of a person with a brain tumor, and the heart specialist telling the patient that he really doesn't have a problem that can't be fixed by the heart doctor.  It would also be like this Heart specialist bringing in student interns to operate without any prior education in the medical field.

Hyde does this type of thing everyday.  They have unqualified staff members trying to "help" kids who have diagnosed emotional conditions.  DOESN'T WORK!!

[Anonymous]

The one thing wrong with your trite analogy is that if you had a brain tumor, you would never go see a heart specialist in the first place, your physcian would send you to an oncologist.

The typical parent who sends a kid dealing with LD, ADD, Depresstion, Bi-Polar, etc  to Hyde is told by an educational consultant that "Maybe the brain tumor can be made smaller with a little heart care" so the desperate parent is willing to try, but they only follow the parts of the heart Dr.'s prescription that are easy and they want to do.

So the tumor just gets bigger and the parent is forced to go see the Oncologist (A therapy program!)

[Anonymous]

On 2006-02-16 10:36:00, Anonymous wrote:

"The one thing wrong with your trite analogy is that if you had a brain tumor, you would never go see a heart specialist in the first place, your physcian would send you to an oncologist.



The typical parent who sends a kid dealing with LD, ADD, Depresstion, Bi-Polar, etc  to Hyde is told by an educational consultant that "Maybe the brain tumor can be made smaller with a little heart care" so the desperate parent is willing to try, but they only follow the parts of the heart Dr.'s prescription that are easy and they want to do.



So the tumor just gets bigger and the parent is forced to go see the Oncologist (A therapy program!)  "

A major problem with Hyde is that they know that many of the kids they accept have these complicated mental health challenges and needs.  The school simply doesn't have the resources, staff or perspective required to meet these students' needs.  I am a professional in the field and often get requests from parents and mental health professionals about appropriate schools for struggling teens.  Based on what I have learned about Hyde's approach from my extensive contact with several dozen families that have used the school, I can no longer refer families to Hyde, particularly when their child has any challenging mental health issues.  I've now seen too many instances at Hyde where the school has been a tragic fit.  I now strongly recommend to educational consultants and professionals that they avoid Hyde and look for one of the more appropriate alternatives.

[OKB4RMA]

On 2005-12-19 13:05:00, Anonymous wrote:

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On 2005-12-19 12:45:00, Anonymous wrote:


"Don't be misled by these posts!!!  Hyde has it's flaws, but the school are run very well.  If you look into that happens at ANY boarding school, there are some of the same concerns.  Half the senior class was kicked out of a pretigeous boarding school in CT last year for drinking and sex, a friend who is Dean of Students at one of the nation's oldest and most prestigeous boarding schools, suspends or expells students for breaking rules on a weekly basis!


All private schools are 501(c)(3) Non profits.  Again, look at the 990's for any school and you'll see that Hyde's salaries are WAY under the norm, and the fund raising is also a lot less.  Exeter's Annual Fund is 5 million... Hyde's is $450K per campus.  Exeter's Head makes well over $400K per year..Hyde's highest paid is Malcolm Gauld who after Salary and benefits has a hard time reaching $200K.


So Puleeeese, put hese concerns into perspective.


Thank you!"

THANK YOU GOD! Someone who actually isnt a babbling cry baby!!! Great post, keep it up! :roll: And I don't even have know one single thing about Hyde to know that.

Tell you what...you compile a list of successful Hyde graduates and I'll compile a list of successful Exeter grads (I'll cut you some slack and not pick Andover) and then we can both post them here...you game?

[OKB4RMA]

Lewis Cass (1792) - Secretary of State
Samuel Conner (1794) - U.S. Representative from Massachusetts
Daniel Webster (1796) - U.S. Senator from Massachusetts, born in New Hampshire
John Adams Dix (1810) - Secretary of the Treasury, Senator from New York, Governor of New York
George Bancroft (1811) - Historian, Secretary of Navy, and founder of the United States Naval Academy.
Franklin Pierce (1820) - 14th U.S. President
Alpheus Felch (c. 1822) - U.S. Senator and Governor of Michigan
John Parker Hale (c. 1824) - U.S. Representative and Senator and abolitionist from New Hampshire
Amos Tappan Akerman (c.1839) - U.S. Attorney General, 1870-1872 [1]
Robert Todd Lincoln (1860) - Son of President Abraham Lincoln, US Secretary of War.
John Edwards Leonard (1863) - U.S. Representative from Louisiana
Emmanuel Sollavou (1867) - 2nd African American to Graduate from Harvard (link)
Ulysses S. (Buck) Grant, Jr. (c. 1870) - Entrepreneur, Son of President Ulysses S. Grant
Frederick Winslow Taylor (1874)
Gifford Pinchot (1885) - First Chief Forester of the US Forest Service
George Higgins (1887) - U.S. Senator from New Hampshire
Thomas Lamont (1888) - Partner and chairman of Board of Directors of J.P. Morgan & Co..
Booth Tarkington (1889) - Winner, Pulitzer Prize
Thomas Coffin (1906) - U.S. Representative from Idaho
Lawrence Dennis (1912?) - Author and economist
Norris Cotton (1918?) - U.S. Representative and Senator from New Hampshire
James Agee (1928) - Author and critic
Pierre DuPont III (1930)
Adolph Coors III (1933) - Businessman
Arthur Schlesinger Jr. (1933) - Historian
Richard Bolling (c. 1934) - U.S. Representative from Missouri
Joseph Coors (1935)
James T. Aubrey, Jr. (c. 1936), President of CBS and MGM
Lex Barker (1938) - Actor
 Burke Marshall (1940) - U.S. Assistant Attorney General
Gore Vidal (1943) - Author
George Plimpton (1944) - Author/Journalist
John Knowles (1945) - Author (A Separate Peace)
Carlos Romero Barceló (1949) - Former Governor of Puerto Rico
Pierre Dupont IV (1952)
John D. "Jay" Rockefeller IV (1954) - Senator from West Virginia
Stewart Brand (1956) - Editor, author, Internet pioneer
H. John Heinz III (1956) - Former Senator from Pennsylvania
John Negroponte (1956) - The first Director of National Intelligence
Peter Benchley (1957)- Journalist, Presidential Speech Writer, Author and Screenwriter (Jaws)
Daniel Dennett (1959) - Philosopher
Charles C. Krulak (1960) - 31st Commandant of the U.S Marine Corps
John Irving (1961) - Author
David Darst (1965) - Author and Investment Strategist
Peter H. Coors (1965) - 2004 Republican Senatorial candidate from Colorado
Judd Gregg (1965) - Senator from New Hampshire
Kent Conrad (1966) - Senator from North Dakota
David Eisenhower (1966)
Fred Grandy (1966) - Actor
Joyce Maynard (1971)
Suzy Welch (1977) - Journalist, author, married to former GE CEO Jack Welch
Ted Hope (1980) - Producer
Paul Klebnikov (1981) - Journalist
Dan Brown (1982) - Bestselling author (The Da Vinci Code)
Chang-Rae Lee (1983) - Author
John Forté (1993) - Musician
Win Butler (1998) - Musician (Lead singer of The Arcade Fire)
Sam Fuld (2000) - Professional Baseball Player  

I win.

[Anonymous]

Ain't no way anyone can come up with half a list like this when talking about Hyde School!!

[OKB4RMA]

and now for Andovers List...separated by category

Art
 
Carl Andre '53 ?Internationally-known sculptor

Joseph Cornell '21 (d.) ? Internationally-known artist; best know for his "box" art

Carroll Dunham '67 ? Influential American painter, known for expressionistic, eye-popping color and combination of biomorphism, cartooning and abstraction

Walker Evans '22 (d.) ? Photographer; won fame for Depression-era photos in Let Us Now Praise Famous Men

Cleve Gray '36 (d.) ? Painter known for large-scale, vividly colorful abstract compositions

Horatio Greenough , student in 1814-1815 (d.) ? Designer of Bunker Hill Monument; first American sculptor of international reputation

Mel Kendrick '67 ? Sculptor, known for innovative wood sculpture and cast work in bronze, rubber and plastic; 2002 recipient of Academy Award in Art

Angela Lorenz '83 ? Book artist; her limited editions represented in 50 public collections

William B. Macomber Jr. '40 (d.) ? Former president of Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; former U.S. ambassador to Turkey

Beaumont Newhall '26 (d.) ? Photo historian; founder, Department of Photography, Museum of Modern Art, New York

Frank Stella '54 ?Leading American abstract artist in painting and metal reliefs

George C. Tooker '38 ? Internationally-known painter


Business and industry

William S. Beinecke '32 ? Former chairman of the board, The Sperry & Hutchinson Co.

Broughton H. Bishop '45 ? Chairman, CEO, Pendleton Woolen Mills

William W. Boeschenstein '44 ? Retired chairman, CEO and president, Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corporation

Harry M. Cornell Jr. '47 ? Chairman emeritus, former CEO, Leggett & Platt, Inc.

Ted Forstmann '57 ? Founding general partner, N.Y. investment firm Forstmann Little & Co.; co-founder, Children's Scholarship Fund

Richard L. Gelb '41 (d.) ? Chairman emeritus, Bristol-Myers Co.

David L. Gunn '55 ? President, Amtrak

John Hess '72 ? Chairman & CEO, Amerada Hess Corp.

Victor K . Kiam '44 (d.) ? President, Remington Products, Inc.; former owner, New England Patriots football team

John D. Macomber '46 ? Former president, Celanese Corporation; chairman, Export-Import Bank of U.S.

Richard A . Moore '32 (d.) ? Ambassador to Ireland; president, Western Broadcasting

Nicholas J. Nicholas Jr. '58 ? Former president and co-CEO, TIME-Warner, Inc.

Robert W. Sarnoff '35 (d.) ? Former president, RCA and NBC

Whitney Stevens '44 ? Former chairman, J.P. Stevens Co.

Alexander B. Trowbridge '47 ? See Government and public service

L. Stanton Williams '37 ? Former president of Pittsburgh Plate Glass Industries

Philip K. Wrigley '15 (d.) ? Manufacturer, Wrigley's Chewing Gum; owner, Chicago Cubs and Wrigley Field

Thomas H . Wyman (d.) '47 ? Former chairman and CEO of CBS


Economics

William D. Nordhaus '59 ? Economist; member of the Council of Economic Advisors, Carter administration

William S. Vickrey '31 (d.)? Nobel Prize-winning economist


Education
James Phinney Baxter '18 (d.) ? Former president, Williams College; Pulitzer Prize winner

Chris Bischof '88?Founder, Eastside College Preparatory School, East Palo Alto, Calif., for disadvantaged students

Fitzgerald B. Bramwell '62 ? Vice president for research and graduate studies, professor of chemistry and biochemistry, University of Kentucky

Richard H. Brodhead '64 ? President-elect, Duke University; Professor of English and Dean, Yale College

Rebecca Tyler Brown Abbot 1837 (d.) ? First assistant principal, Hampton Institute

Jeffrey Garten '64 ? Dean, Yale School of Management

A. Bartlett Giamatti '56 (d.) ? Former president, Yale University; commissioner of baseball

Anthony Grafton '67 ? Professor of history and chair, Council of the Humanities, Princeton; winner of Mellon Foundation's Distinguished Achievement Award

Richard Theodore Greener 1865 (d.) ? Teacher, editor, lawyer, diplomat; first black graduate, Harvard; law dean, Howard University; U.S. Consul, Vladivostok and Bombay

Ann McKeever Hatch '67 ? Founder, Oxbow School, Napa Valley, Calif., high school art immersion program; philanthropist; founder, Capp Street Project, San Francisco

Thomas H. Jackson '68 ? President, University of Rochester

John T. Kirkland 1786 (d.) ? President of Harvard, 1810-1828

Thomas C. Mendenhall '28 (d.) ? Former president, Smith College

Elizabeth Luce Moore '18 ? Former SUNY board president; former chair Institute for International Education and YWCA International Division

Joseph Hardy Neesima 1867 (d.) ? Founder, Doshisha University, largest private university in Japan; first Japanese ordained Congregational minister

David Pingree '50 ? MacArthur Award-winning Brown University classicist

David J. Smith '62 ? Educator; developer of award-winning curriculum, "Mapping the World by Heart; children's book author, "If the World Were a Village"

Peter P. Smith '64 ? Assistant director-general for education, UNESCO; founding president, California State University, Monterey Bay

Thomas P. Smith , Andover student in 1838 (d.) ? Leader in Boston's black community seeking black separatist "Smith Schools"

David J. Steinberg '55 ? President, Long Island University


Engineering and Architecture

William LeBaron Jenny 1846 (d.) ? Builder of first skyscraper

Guy Nordenson '73 ? Associate professor, Princeton School of Architecture; founder, Structural Engineers Association of New York

Frederick Law Olmsted 1838 (d.) ? Landscape architect; designed New York's Central Park


Entertainment and the arts

Leslie H. Blank Jr. '54 ? Award-winning independent documentary film maker

Humphrey Bogart '20 (d.) ? Film actor

Tom Chapin '75 (d.) ? Band leader and composer, The Thomas Chapin Trio; former musical director, Lionel Hampton Band

Frank Converse '56 ? Actor

Dana Delany '74 ? Actress, producer; winner of Emmy Awards in 1989 and 1992 for ABC-TV's China Beach

Hollis W. Frampton Jr. '54 (d.) ? Internationally-known film maker

Brian Henson '82? President, Jim Henson Productions

Eugen Indjic '65 ? Internationally renowned concert pianist

Theresa Koff '86? Writer, producer, NBC-TV's Law & Order

Jack Lemmon '43 (d.) ? Academy Award-winning actor in Mister Roberts and Save the Tiger; Emmy Award winner for TV miniseries Tuesdays with Morrie

Jonathan Meath '74 - Children's TV producer, PBS's Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? and ZOOM

Daniel R. Pinkham Jr. '40 ? Internationally-known composer

Thomas S. Seligson '64 ? CBS producer; writer of Parade Magazine profiles

Peter Sellars '75 ? Opera, theatre, film director; MacArthur Fellow and Emmy Award winner; former artistic director, Los Angeles Festival and American National Theatre

Duncan Sheik '88 ? Singer-songwriter; Top 20 hit Barely Breathing; gold album Duncan Sheik

Samuel Francis Smith, Seminary 1832 (d.) ? Wrote national hymn "America" while Andover Theological Seminary student

Robert Smythe '78 ? Founder, artistic director, Mum Puppettheatre; 1998 Guggenheim Fellow

James Spader '78 ? Actor; co-star, TV's Boston Legal; Best Actor Award, 1989 Cannes Film Festival

Ming Tsai '82? Chef; star of public television's Simply Ming; owner of Blue Ginger restaurant; author of Blue Ginger: East Meets West Cooking with Ming Tsai.

Richard A. Wolf '64 ? Creator, executive producer, NBC-TV's Law & Order, Law & Order Special Victims Unit, Wolf Films

Dan Zanes '79 ? Recording artist; member of the Del Fuegos; most recent CDs of children's music, House Party, Night Time!, Family Dance

Warren Zanes '83 ? Vice president of education, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame; member of the Del Fuegos



Exploration


Ian Baker '75 ? Himalayan explorer, Buddhist scholar, photographer, author; discovered Hidden Falls of Tsangpo; named National Geographic Explorer for the Millennium

Hiram Bingham 1894 (d.) ? Archaeologist; rediscovered ancient ruin of Machu Picchu in Peru

Britton Keeshan '00 ? Youngest person to complete the Seven Summits by climbing the tallest peaks on seven continents, including Mt. Everest in May 2004.



Government and public service

Paul "Jerry" Bremer '59 ? U.S. civilian administrator in Iraq, appointed by President George W. Bush; former ambassador to the Netherlands and President Reagan's ambassador-at-large for counterterrorism


George Bush '42 ? 41st President of the United States

George W. Bush '64 ? 43rd President of the United States

John "Jeb" Bush '71 ? Governor of Florida

Lincoln D. Chafee '71 ? U.S. Senator, Republican-Rhode Island

Harlan Cleveland '34 ? Director, Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs; former U.S. ambassador to NATO

Raymond C. Clevenger III '55 ? Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

Walter J.P. Curley '40 ? Ambassador to France; former ambassador to Ireland

Edward E. Elson '52 ? Former ambassador to Denmark; founding director, National Public Radio

Annie Edwards, Abbot 1855 (d.) ? First woman postmaster in U.S., Rockford, Ill.

Thomas Foley '71 ? Director of private sector development, Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq

Gerhard A. Gesell '28 (d.) ? U.S. District Judge, District of Columbia; prominent in Watergate, Oliver North trials

Robert Ingersoll '33 ? Deputy secretary of state under President Nixon; former U.S. ambassador to Japan

Clay Johnson III '64 ? Deputy director, U.S. Office of Management and Budget

Patrick J. Kennedy '86? U.S. Representative, Democrat-Rhode Island

Franklin L. Lavin '75 ? U.S. ambassador to Singapore

Gen. Barry R. McCaffrey '60 ? Former director, Office of National Drug Control Policy, Clinton administration; four-star Army general and Desert Storm commander; teacher of national securities studies at West Point

William H. Moody 1871 (d.) ? U.S. Supreme Court Justice

Robert H. Pelletreau Jr. '53 ? Ambassador to Tunisia; U.S. liaison with PLO

Lovett C. Peters '32 ? Founder, Pioneer Institute for Public Policy Research


Anthony Quainton '51 ? Diplomat in residence, American University; former president, National Policy Association; former director general, U.S. Foreign Service; adviser on antiterrorist policy to every president since Gerald Ford

Josiah Quincy 1786 (d.) ? Mayor of Boston, 1823-1828; president of Harvard College, 1828-1845

W. Bradford Reynolds '60 ? Former U.S. assistant attorney general, Reagan administration

Charles F.C. Ruff '56 (d.) ? Chairman, Fair Labor Association; White House Counsel during Clinton impeachment trial; member of Watergate Special Prosecution Force

James Shannon '69 ? Former U.S. Representative, Massachusetts; former Massachusetts attorney general

Henry L. Stimson 1883 (d.) ? Secretary of War under Presidents Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman; member of five presidential administrations; FDR's key adviser on atomic policy

Alexander B. Trowbridge '47 ? U.S. Secretary of Commerce under President Lyndon Johnson; former president, National Association of Manufacturers

William Ury '70 ? See Literature and writing

Christopher A. Wray '85? Chief of the U.S. Justice Department's Criminal Division


Journalism and publishing

Sam Allis '64 ? Columnist, Boston Globe; correspondent, Time magazine

Jonathan H. Alter '75 ? Senior editor/ columnist, Newsweek; contributing correspondent, NBC News

Willow Bay '81? CNN News anchor

H.G. "Buzz" Bissinger III '72 ? Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist; author of Friday Night Lights

Melissa Biggs Bradley '85 ? Senior editor, Town & Country magazine

Otis Chandler '46 ? Former publisher, Los Angeles Times

Kenneth J. Cooper '73 ? Pulitzer Prize-winning Boston Globe reporter

Lucy Danziger '78 ? Editor-in-chief, Self magazine

John Darnton '60 ? Pulitzer Prize-winning foreign correspondent, New York Times

David B. Ensor '69 ? CNN correspondent

William Hamilton '58 ? Syndicated New Yorker cartoonist; author; playwright

John F. Kennedy Jr. '79 (d.) ? Publisher, George magazine

William E. "Bill" Littlefield Jr. '66 ? Host of NPR's Only a Game; author; award-winning journalist; sports commentator

Jeffrey K. MacNelly '65 (d.) ? Creator of Shoe cartoon; editorial cartoonist; winner of two Pulitzer Prizes

Despina Plakias Messinesi '29 (d.) ? Former travel editor, fashion editor, Vogue magazine

Seth A. Mydans '64 ? New York Times foreign correspondent

Gerard Piel '33 ? Former publisher and president, Scientific American

Jane Pratt '80 ? Editor-in-chief, Jane magazine; author

Robert B. Semple Jr. '54 ? Associate editor, editorial page, New York Times; Pulitzer Prize winner for environmental editorial writing

William Davis Taylor '27 (d.) ? Former publisher, chairman of the board, Boston Globe

Evan Thomas '69 ? Assistant managing editor, Newsweek; author, Robert Kennedy: His Life


 
Literature and writing

Julia Alvarez '67 ? Critically acclaimed poet, novelist; author of How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents; professor of English, Middlebury College

Michael R. Beschloss '73 ? See Social action and community service

Edgar Rice Burroughs 1894 (d.) ? Author of Tarzan novels

Oliver Wendell Holmes 1825 (d.) ? Poet, literary leader and doctor

Tracy Kidder '63 ? Pulitzer Prize-winning author; novelist

Ring Lardner Jr . '32 (d.) ? Author, Hollywood screen writer ( MASH )

Lucy Lippard '54 ? Cultural critic; feminist; theorist; political activist; author, On the Beaten Track: Tourism, Art and Place

Gordon Lish '52 ? Influential literary figure; author, Krupp's Lulu ; Guggenheim Fellowship recipient; founder of two literary magazines; teacher

Paul Monette '63 (d.) ? Writer; poet; AIDS activist; English teacher; winner, National Book Award for Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story

Stacy Schiff '78 ? Pulitzer Prize winner for biography, Vera

Charles Monroe Sheldon 1879 (d.) ? Pastor; author of religious novel, In His Steps, which outsold every book except the Bible.

Benjamin Spock '21 (d.) ? Author; authority on child-rearing; anti-war activist

Elizabeth Marshall Thomas '49 ? Author

Shelby Tucker '53 ? Travel author, Among Insurgents: Walking Through Burma; world traveler and adventurer

James Ramsey Ullman '25 (d.) ? Author, The White Tower; chronicler of mountaineering

William Ury '70 ? Best-selling author, Getting to Yes; international peace negotiator


 Medicine


Bernard Ackerman '54 ? Former director, Institute for Dermatopatholgy, Jefferson Medical College; founder, Ackerman Academy of Dermatopathology; board member, Coalition and Center for Ethical Medical Testimony

Alexander de Lahunta '51 ? World-class neuroanotomist, clinical neurologist, neuropathologist; author; James Law Professor of Anatomy, Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine

Louis J. Elsas II '54 ? Director, Division of Medical Genetics, Emory University School of Medicine; president, Association of Professors of Human and Medical Genetics

Oliver Wendell Holmes 1825 (d.) ? See Literature and writing

Paul McHugh '48 ? Psychiatrist-in-chief, Johns Hopkins Hospital; co-chairman, Ethics Committee at the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology; author, Genes, Brain, and Behavior

David Nathan '47 ? President emeritus, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute; 1990 National Medal of Science winner

Benjamin Spock '21 (d.) ? See Literature and writing

Chris Weatherley-White '50 ? Plastic surgeon with Operation Smile, bringing reconstructive surgery to children in Third World nations


 Military

Sullivan Ballou 1849 (d.) ? Civil War major in the 2nd Rhode Island Volunteers who died at the Battle of Bull Run. His letter to his wife Sarah was featured in the PBS series, The Civil War.

Capt. (ret.) Thomas J. Hudner Jr. '43 ? Recipient of Congressional Medal of Honor; commissioner of Veterans Services, Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Gen. Barry R. McCaffrey '60 ? See Government and public service

Rear Admiral (ret.) Richard H. O'Kane '30 (d.) ? Recipient of Congressional Medal of Honor; author

Major General James Parker 1870. (d.) ? Commissioned in 1876, he served through World War I.  For valor displayed during the Spanish-American War, he received the Congressional Medal of Honor.


Arthur Murray Preston '31 (d.) ? Recipient of Congressional Medal of Honor for action as World War II torpedo boat commander

Lt.-Gen. Sir John Watts '48 (d.) ? Distinguished British commander of special forces; Chief of Defense Staff in Oman; knighted.



Science
 
Dr. Charles Greeley Abbot 1891 (d.) ? Pioneer in astrophysics and solar energy; headed Smithsonian Institution

Constance Brinckerhoff '59 ? Molecular biologist; professor, Dartmouth Medical School; recipient of Merit award from National Institutes of Health

Mary Wilkes Eubanks '65 ? Botanist; senior research scientist, Duke University; president, Sun Dance Genetics

Nicholas J. Hadley '72 ? Physicist; professor of physics, University of Maryland; member of team that discovered the Quark

William S. Knowles '35 ? Winner of Nobel Prize in chemistry

Alfred Lee Loomis '05 (d.) ? Physicist, lawyer, investment banker; invented Loran radar system; director of radar research in WWII; father of ultrasonics

Othniel Charles Marsh 1856 (d.) ? First professor of paleontology, Yale; established Yale's Peabody Museum of Natural History

Marvin Minsky '45 ? Authority on artificial intelligence, computers, robotics

Samuel F.B. Morse 1805 (d.) ? Inventor of telegraph, Morse code; painter and president of National Academy of Design

George Pieczenik '61 ? Biochemist in genetic research; associate professor at Rutgers University

Gerard Piel '33 ? See Journalism and publishing

Herbert Scoville '33 (d.) ? Nuclear physicist, Los Alamos; chief scientist in President Kennedy's U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency

Lyman Spitzer Jr. '31 (d.)? International leader in stellar dynamics, plasma physics, thermonuclear fusion, space astronomy; designer of first telescope-bearing satellite; author of idea of placing large telescope in space and driving force behind development of Hubble Space Telescope.

George Hoyt Whipple 1896 (d.) ? Winner of 1933 Nobel Prize for cure for pernicious anemia

George M. Whitesides '57 ? Professor of chemistry, Harvard; 1998 National Medal of Science winner


Social action and community service

 
Hafsat Abiola '92 ? Nigerian political activist; winner, 1999 Women to Watch award, Association of Women's Development

Prince Rahim Aga Khan '90 ? Executive director, Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development, world's second largest private economic development foundation

John Badman III '62 ? Chairman, The Conference of Patriotic and Historical Societies

Michael R. Beschloss '73 ? Award-winning historian; author; Annenberg senior fellow; director, Annenberg Project on Television and U.S. Foreign Policy

Sarah Chayes '80?Director, Project BALCO, market-based production cooperative in rural Southern Afghanistan; former Kandahar field director, Afghans for Civil Society; former foreign correspondent, National Public Radio

William Sloane Coffin Jr. '42 ? Minister, Riverside Church, New York; former chaplain, Yale; civil rights proponent and peace activist

Justin W. Dart Jr. '49 (d.) ? Advocate for rights of disabled people; primary force behind Americans with Disabilities Act; Medal of Freedom recipient

Edith Williamson Kean '54 ? Director of landscape design for Green Thumb, New York City Parks and Recreation Department

Robert C . Macauley '41 ? Founder and director, Americares, international relief agency

Kathryn L. Mulvey '84 ? Executive director of Infact, public interest group that targets corporate abuse

Benjamin Spock, M.D. '21 (d.) ? See Literature and writing

Audrey Synnott '54 ? Sister of Mercy; coordinator of sisters' associates program serving healthcare facilities and schools

Theodore Weld 1820 (d.) ? Abolitionist; anti-slavery agitator with Edmund Quincy, Class of 1817

Heather White '76 ? Founder of Verite, non-profit organization that monitors factory conditions for goods produced by child labor and sweatshops

Sports and athletics
 

William S. "Bill" Belichick '71 ? Head coach, New England Patriots, Super Bowl XXXVI, XXXVIII and XXXIX Champions

A. Bartlett Giamatti '56 (d.) ? See Education

Victor K . Kiam '44 (d.) ? See Business and industry

James P. McLane '49 ? Olympic swimming champion; winner of three gold and one silver medals at 1948 and 1952 Olympics; International Swimming Hall of Fame

William L. Veeck Jr. '32 (d.) ? Owner, Chicago White Sox

Philip K. Wrigley '15 (d.) ? See Business and industry


so don't even think of comparing Hyde to a REAL PREP SCHOOL. :razz: