Western Reserve Academy (also known as 'WRA' or 'Reserve') is a
privatePrivate schools, also known as independent schools, are not administered by local, state or national governments; thus, they retain the right to select their students and are funded in whole or in part by charging their students tuition, rather than relying on public funds...
, mid-sized, coeducational
boardingA boarding school is a school where some or all pupils not only study, but also live during term time, with their fellow students and possibly teachers. The word 'boarding' is used in the sense of "bed and board", that is, food and lodging...
and day college
preparatory schoolA university-preparatory school or college-preparatory school is a secondary school, usually private, designed to prepare students for a college or university education. Some schools will also include a junior, or elementary, school...
located in
Hudson, OhioHudson is a city in Summit County, Ohio, United States. The population was 22,439 at the 2000 census, making it the 389th largest city in the Midwest. This number rose to 23,037 at the 2008 census estimates. It is an affluent exurban community and is part of the Akron, Ohio Metropolitan...
.
Western Reserve Academy was established in 1826 as the Western Reserve College and Preparatory School in
Hudson, OhioHudson is a city in Summit County, Ohio, United States. The population was 22,439 at the 2000 census, making it the 389th largest city in the Midwest. This number rose to 23,037 at the 2008 census estimates. It is an affluent exurban community and is part of the Akron, Ohio Metropolitan...
on a 190-acre (768,930 m²) plot of land set aside via charter. In 1882 the college moved north to
Cleveland, OhioCleveland is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Cuyahoga County, the most populous county in the state. The municipality is located in northeastern Ohio on the southern shore of Lake Erie, approximately 60 miles west of the Pennsylvania border...
and became Western Reserve University, later merging with the Case Institute of Technology.
Western Reserve Academy (also known as 'WRA' or 'Reserve') is a
privatePrivate schools, also known as independent schools, are not administered by local, state or national governments; thus, they retain the right to select their students and are funded in whole or in part by charging their students tuition, rather than relying on public funds...
, mid-sized, coeducational
boardingA boarding school is a school where some or all pupils not only study, but also live during term time, with their fellow students and possibly teachers. The word 'boarding' is used in the sense of "bed and board", that is, food and lodging...
and day college
preparatory schoolA university-preparatory school or college-preparatory school is a secondary school, usually private, designed to prepare students for a college or university education. Some schools will also include a junior, or elementary, school...
located in
Hudson, OhioHudson is a city in Summit County, Ohio, United States. The population was 22,439 at the 2000 census, making it the 389th largest city in the Midwest. This number rose to 23,037 at the 2008 census estimates. It is an affluent exurban community and is part of the Akron, Ohio Metropolitan...
.
History
Western Reserve Academy was established in 1826 as the Western Reserve College and Preparatory School in
Hudson, OhioHudson is a city in Summit County, Ohio, United States. The population was 22,439 at the 2000 census, making it the 389th largest city in the Midwest. This number rose to 23,037 at the 2008 census estimates. It is an affluent exurban community and is part of the Akron, Ohio Metropolitan...
on a 190-acre (768,930 m²) plot of land set aside via charter. In 1882 the college moved north to
Cleveland, OhioCleveland is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Cuyahoga County, the most populous county in the state. The municipality is located in northeastern Ohio on the southern shore of Lake Erie, approximately 60 miles west of the Pennsylvania border...
and became Western Reserve University, later merging with the Case Institute of Technology. Reserve is the 27th oldest preparatory boarding school in the United States, and the oldest outside of the Northeast.
Loomis Observatory, on the Academy campus, was constructed in 1837 and still stands today. It is the second-oldest observatory in the United States and houses its original instruments inside.
Western Reserve Academy remained open for another twenty-one years, until 1903, when it was forced to close due to financial problems. In 1916, however, the school reopened due to the graces of benefactor
James EllsworthJames Ellsworth was an American coal mine owner and banker.-Early life:...
, a former student and
Hudson, OhioHudson is a city in Summit County, Ohio, United States. The population was 22,439 at the 2000 census, making it the 389th largest city in the Midwest. This number rose to 23,037 at the 2008 census estimates. It is an affluent exurban community and is part of the Akron, Ohio Metropolitan...
resident who had returned after making millions of dollars in the coal industry.
The "Ellsworth Era" was marked by significant construction, namely Seymour Hall (the newly appointed academic building), the Bicknell Gymnasium, and Ellsworth Hall, a dormitory and dining hall.
In 1922, Western Reserve Academy became an all-boys institution, which it remained for fifty years, until 1972, when girls were once again admitted.
In the late 1990s and into the early 21st century, Western Reserve Academy again underwent a major construction period, eclipsing even the growth of the "Ellsworth Era." During this time the following projects were completed:
- Renovation of computer lab in Seymour Hall (1995)
- Expansion/ Construction of the Metcalf Center (1999)
- Renovation of Wood House (2000-2002)
- Construction and expansion of athletic facilities, including the Murdough Athletic Center (2001-2004)
- Renovation of Bicknell Gymnasium into Bicknell House (2004)
- Construction of the John D. Ong Library (2000)
- Renovation of Wilson Science Hall (2001)
- Construction of Long House Dormitory (2000)
- Renovation of Nathan P. Seymour Guest House (1998)
In 2001, Western Reserve Academy was recognized by US News and World Report as one of the top boarding schools in the country .
A boarding school, Western Reserve Academy is largely a residential campus, with 250 of 370 students living on campus and the remainder attending the day program as "day-students." In that population, students matriculated from 27 states and 18 countries. Its population consists of 203 male students and 167 female students.
Nearly 61% of the faculty hold advanced degrees. Approximately 90% of the faculty members reside on campus in either faculty homes or dormitory apartments.
Reserve participates in an annual summer exchange program with the
Caterham SchoolCaterham School is an independent coeducational day and boarding school in Caterham, Surrey and a member of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference.-History:...
in
SurreySurrey is a county in the South East of England and is one of the Home Counties. The county borders Greater London, Kent, East Sussex, West Sussex, Hampshire, and Berkshire. The historic county town is Guildford...
, England.
Boarding
There are nine dormitories, in which about 250 boarding students reside during the school year.
Boys Dormitories
- North Hall
- The Athenaeum (The A)
- Wood House
- Bicknell Dormitory
- Long House
Girls Dormitories
- Carroll Cutler House
- Cartwright Hall (Garden)
- Ellsworth Hall
- Hobart House
The Arts
Reserve offers over 20 different classes catering to students interested in the arts. Courses are available through the school's music, dance, theater, and visual arts programs.
Music Program
Music students perform in instrumental and vocal groups, compete and perform locally and internationally and study music theory and history. Historic Hayden Hall houses the music department and features six practice rooms, two large rehearsal rooms, a recital room, music classrooms, five
SteinwaySteinway may refer to:* Steinway & Sons, an American and German piano manufacturer* Steinway Hall, a building housing concert halls, showrooms and sales departments for Steinway pianos-Steinway family members:* Albert Steinway* Charles G. Steinway...
grand pianos, two harpsichords, drum sets and electronic studio equipment. Performances take place in the Knight Fine Arts Center (KFAC) or in the Chapel, which facilitates the use of a
HoltkampThe Holtkamp Organ Company of Cleveland, Ohio is one of America's oldest builders of pipe organs. Founded in 1855 by G.F. Votteler, the company was passed on to the Holtkamps in 1931...
pipe organ. In recent years, ensembles from Reserve have traveled to Austria, Germany, The Czech Republic, and China.
The Academy Choir
The Academy Choir performs music from a variety of styles and periods. The Choir presents an array of concerts, including the Midwinter Madrigal Feaste, Vespers, traditional choral concerts and major works with the Chamber Strings. Notable works performed in the past include Mozart's Requiem, Hayden's Lord Nelson Mass, and Rutter's Mass of the Children. The choir is under direction of Margaret "Midge" Karam, Chair of Fine Arts at Western Reserve Academy.
Symphonic Winds
The Symphonic Winds provide an opportunity for woodwind, brass and percussion players to perform traditional concert band literature and transcriptions. The Symphonic Winds are under the direction of Edward E. Wiles.
Reserve Jazz Project
The Reserve Jazz Project is a contemporary jazz group that performs at numerous school and community events. The Reserve Jazz Project is under the direction of Edward E. Wiles.
The Academy Orchestra
The Academy Orchestra provides performance opportunities for students interested in performing classical orchestral literature. The Orchestra also provides accompaniment for the Academy Choir's Masterwork series.
Athletics
The school offers a wide variety of sports, including soccer, football, golf, cross country, field hockey, volleyball, swimming and diving, basketball, wrestling, riflery, ice hockey, baseball, softball, track and field, tennis, and lacrosse.The School's motto is "Lax equals life"
In recent years, Western Reserve Academy has gained a reputation as one of the top high school
lacrosseLacrosse is a team sport of Native American origin that is played using a small solid rubber ball and a long-handled racquet called a crosse or lacrosse stick. The head of the lacrosse stick is strung with loose netting that is designed to hold the lacrosse ball...
teams in the
United StatesThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
. In 2006 and 2009, WRA won the Midwest Scholastic Lacrosse Championship. Only three different teams have won the Midwest Championships since 1992; Brother Rice, Western Reserve Academy and Upper Arlington. Inside Lacrosse ranked the 2009 WRA lacrosse team number one in the Midwest.
WRA lacrosse national rankings according to Laxpower poll: 2004 - 49th, 2005 - 49th, 2006 - 27th, 2007 - 23rd, 2008 - 41st, 2009 - 28th
The track and cross-country teams under Frank Longstreth, also the Latin department head, achieved extraordinary success from the 1940s through the 1980s, winning many Interstate League championships, with the cross country team at one time boasting a streak of 179-1.
Notable alumni
The following represents an incomplete list of renowned graduates of the school. Individuals with a † next to their name were enrolled in either or both institutions before Western Reserve College moved from the Hudson campus to Cleveland in 1882 and became Western Reserve University. As such, the degree to which they were affiliated with both institutions may vary. Individuals with a * next to their name did not complete their studies.
Politics, Government and Law
- William B. Allison
William Boyd Allison was an early leader of the Iowa Republican Party, who represented northeastern Iowa for four consecutive terms in the U.S. House before representing his state for six consecutive terms in the U.S. Senate...
† - U.S. Senator from Iowa
- David R. Paige
David Raymond Paige was a U.S. Representative from Ohio.Born in Madison, Ohio, Paige attended the public schools and Western Reserve Academy, Hudson, Ohio.He was graduated from Union College, Schenectady, New York, in 1865....
† - U.S. Representative from Ohio
- Mark Hanna
Marcus Alonzo Hanna , best known as Mark Hanna, was an American industrialist and Republican politician from Cleveland, Ohio. He rose to fame as the campaign manager of the successful Republican Presidential candidate, William McKinley, in the U.S...
*† - U.S. Senator from Ohio, campaign manager for President William McKinleyWilliam McKinley Jr. was the 25th President of the United States, and the last veteran of the American Civil War to be elected to the office....
, chairman of Republican National CommitteeThe Republican National Committee provides national leadership for the Republican Party of the United States. It is responsible for developing and promoting the Republican political platform, as well as coordinating fundraising and election strategy. It is also responsible for organizing and...
- Louis P. Harvey
Louis Powell Harvey was an American politician and the seventh governor of Wisconsin.Harvey was born in East Haddam, Connecticut, later moving with his family to Ohio. He attended Western Reserve College and Preparatory School and worked as a teacher for a time, and eventually moved to Kenosha,...
† - 7th Governor of WisconsinThe Governor of Wisconsin is the highest executive authority in the government of the U.S. state of Wisconsin. The position was first filled by Nelson Dewey in June 7, 1848, the year Wisconsin became a state...
- William H. Upson
William Hanford Upson was a nineteenth century politician, lawyer and judge from Ohio.Born in Worthington, Ohio, Upson attended Tallmadge Academy, pursued in classical studies and graduated from Western Reserve College in 1842...
† 1842 - U.S. Representative from Ohio, lawyer
- George Hoadly
George Hoadly was a Democratic politician. He served as the 36th Governor of Ohio.Hoadly served as Governor from 1884 to 1886.- External links :...
† - 36th Governor of Ohio
- James W. Dawes
James William Dawes was a Republican Nebraska politician best known as the sixth governor of Nebraska. He was also a delegate to the state constitutional convention and a member of state senate in 1877. Dawes County, Nebraska is named in his honor...
† - 6th Governor of NebraskaThe Governor of Nebraska holds the "supreme executive power" of the State of Nebraska as provided by the fourth article of the Nebraska Constitution. The current Governor is Dave Heineman, a Republican, who assumed office on January 20, 2005 upon the resignation of Mike Johanns . He won a full...
- George K. Nash
George Kilborn Nash was a Republican politician from Ohio. He served as the 41st Governor of Ohio.-Biography:...
† 1860 - 41st Governor of Ohio
- John Hessin Clarke
John Hessin Clarke was an American lawyer and judge who served as an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court from 1916 to 1922. -Early life:...
† - Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
- Walter Folger Brown
Walter Folger Brown , the son of James Marshall and Lavinia Folger Brown, was Postmaster General of the United States from 1929 through 1933 under Herbert Hoover. He was best known for his involvement in the Air Mail scandal...
1888 - United States Postmaster GeneralThe United States Postmaster General is the executive head of the United States Postal Service. The office, in one form or another, is older than both the United States Constitution and the United States Declaration of Independence...
- William R. Hopkins
William Rowland Hopkins was an American politician of the Republican Party who served as the first city manager of Cleveland, Ohio from 1924 to 1929, during the brief period that Cleveland had a council-manager government instead of a mayor-council government.Hopkins was born in Johnstown,...
1892 - Politician, first city managerA city manager is an official appointed as the administrative manager of a city, in a council-manager form of city government. Called the chief administrative officer in some municipalities...
of Cleveland, Ohio, namesake of Cleveland Hopkins International AirportCleveland Hopkins International Airport is a public airport located nine miles southwest of the central business district of Cleveland, a city in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, United States...
- Clyde E. Stone - Chief Justice of Illinois Supreme Court, lawyer
- Alvah Corlett 1902 - Member of Ohio House of Representatives
The Ohio House of Representatives is the lower house of the Ohio General Assembly, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Ohio. ....
- David S. Dennison '36 - U.S. Representative from Ohio, member of Federal Trade Commission
The Federal Trade Commission is an independent agency of the United States government, established in 1914 by the Federal Trade Commission Act...
- Ronald B. Cameron
Ronald Brooks Cameron was a U.S. Representative from California's 25th congressional district.-Biography:Born in Kansas City, Missouri, Cameron graduated from Western Reserve Academy, Hudson, Ohio, 1945....
'45 - U.S. Representative from CaliforniaCalifornia is the most populous state in the United States, and the third largest by area. California is the second most populous sub-national entity in the Americas, behind only São Paulo, Brazil...
- Holsey G. Handyside '45 - U.S. Ambassador to Mauritania
Mauritania , officially the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, is a country in northwest Africa. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean on the west, by Senegal on the southwest, by Mali on the east and southeast, by Algeria on the northeast, and by the Morocco-controlled Western Sahara on the northwest...
(1975-1977)
- James Robertson
James Robertson is a judge for the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. James Robertson was appointed a United States District Judge by President Bill Clinton in 1994. Chief Justice William Rehnquist later placed him on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court...
'55 - Federal District Court judge; former Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court judge; presided over Hamdan v. RumsfeldHamdan v. Rumsfeld, 548 U.S. 557 , is a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that military commissions set up by the Bush administration to try detainees at Guantanamo Bay lack "the power to proceed because its structures and procedures violate both the Uniform Code of Military...
- Lieut. Gen. Daniel W. Christman (ret.) '61 - Former Assistant to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is by law the highest ranking military officer in the United States armed forces, and the principal military adviser to the President of the United States, the National Security Council, and the Secretary of Defense...
, Former United States Military AcademyThe United States Military Academy at West Point is a four-year coeducational federal service academy located at West Point, New York. Established in 1802, USMA is the oldest of the United States's five service academies. The military garrison at West Point was occupied in 1778 and played a key...
SuperintendentThe commanding officer of the United States Military Academy is its Superintendent. This position is roughly equivalent to the chancellor or president of an American civilian university. The officer appointed is by tradition a graduate of the United States Military Academy, commonly known as "West...
- Theodore H. Moran '61 - globalization expert and Georgetown University
Georgetown University is a Jesuit private university located in Georgetown, Washington, D.C. Father John Carroll founded the school in 1789, though its roots extend back to 1634. While the school struggled financially in its early years, Georgetown expanded into a branched university after the...
dean and professor in the School of Foreign Service.
- Oliver Everett
Oliver Everett, CVO, formerly Royal Librarian to the Sovereign of the United Kingdom.This office, in the Royal Collection Department of the Royal Household of the Sovereign of the United Kingdom, is responsible for the care and maintenance of the royal collection of books and manuscripts owned by...
'62 - Royal LibrarianThe office of Royal Librarian in the Royal Collection Department of the Royal Household of the Sovereign of the United Kingdom is responsible for the care and maintenance of the royal collection of books and manuscripts owned by the Sovereign in an official capacity — as distinct from those...
to Elizabeth II of the United KingdomElizabeth II is the queen regnant of sixteen independent states known informally as the Commonwealth realms: the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Jamaica, Barbados, the Bahamas, Grenada, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines,...
- Thomas C. Sawyer
Thomas Charles Sawyer, usually known as Tom Sawyer, is a Democratic member of the Ohio Senate, representing the 28th District since his appointment in February 2007. He previously served as a U.S. representative from Ohio from 1987 to 2003....
* '63 - U.S. Representative from Ohio, current member of the Ohio State Senate
- Martin R. Hoke '69 - U.S. Representative from Ohio
- R. Steven Walker '70 - Former Senior Global Management & Operations Consultant, US Department of Transportation; Former Senior Financial Management & Communications Fellow & Deputy to Commissioner, Department of Insurance, Securities & Banking, DC
- Meredith M. Broadbent '77- Assistant United States Trade Representative
- Stephen Dyer '90 - Member of Ohio House of Representatives
The Ohio House of Representatives is the lower house of the Ohio General Assembly, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Ohio. ....
- Neel Kashkari
Neel T. Kashkari was the Interim Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Financial Stability in the United States Department of the Treasury. While in this role, he lead the Office of Financial Stability, the office set up to buy troubled financial assets from U.S. financial firms under the $700...
'91 - http://www.treas.gov/organization/bios/kashkari-e.html Head of the U.S. Office of Financial StabilityThe Office of Financial Stability is a new office within the Office of Domestic Finance of the United States Treasury created by theEmergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 to operate the Troubled Assets Relief Program....
, Assistant Secretary of the TreasuryThe Department of the Treasury is an executive department and the treasury of the United States federal government. It was established by an Act of Congress in 1789 to manage government revenue...
, former Senior Advisor to U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson, Jr., former Vice President of Goldman SachsThe Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. is a bank holding company that engages in investment banking, securities services and investment management. Goldman Sachs was founded in 1869, and is headquartered in the Lower Manhattan area of New York City at 85 Broad Street and has its secondary office at 30...
Literature and Journalism
- Rupert Hughes
Rupert Hughes was a historian, novelist, film director and composer based in Hollywood. Hughes was born in Lancaster, Missouri. His parents were Felix Turner Hughes and Jean Amelia Summerlin, who were married in 1865. His brother Howard R. Hughes, Sr., co-founded the Hughes Tool Company. He was...
1888 - Novelist, film director, historian, composer
- Lucien Price
Junius Lucien Price , who also published under the name Seymour Deming, was the author of more than a dozen books and a writer for publications such as The Boston Evening Transcript and The Atlantic Monthly...
1901 - Journalist for The Boston GlobeThe Boston Globe is an American daily newspaper based in Boston, Massachusetts. The Globe has been owned by The New York Times Company since 1993. Its chief print rival is the Boston Herald....
, author
- R. W. Apple, Jr.
Raymond Walter Apple, Jr. , known to all as "Johnny", but bylined as R.W. Apple Jr, was an associate editor at The New York Times, where he wrote on a variety of subjects, most notably politics, travel, and food.-Early Life and Education:Born in Akron, Ohio, Apple graduated from Western Reserve...
'52 - New York Times Associate Editor and Chief Correspondent
- Ted Gup '68 - Author, investigative reporter, finalist for Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting
The Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting has been awarded since 1948 for a distinguished example of reporting on national affairs. The Pulitzer Committee issues an official citation explaining the reasons for the award....
- Ian Frazier
Ian Frazier is an American writer and humorist. He is best known for his 1989 non-fiction history Great Plains, and as a writer and humorist for The New Yorker.-Background and education:...
'69 - Nonfiction author
- P. Steven Ainsley '71 - Publisher of The Boston Globe
The Boston Globe is an American daily newspaper based in Boston, Massachusetts. The Globe has been owned by The New York Times Company since 1993. Its chief print rival is the Boston Herald....
- John Yang
John Yang is an American Peabody Award-winning television news correspondent, commentator, and journalist. He currently works for NBC as a correspondent and commentator, covering issues for all NBC News programming, including NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams, Today, and MSNBC...
'75 - NBC NewsNBC News is the news division of American television network NBC. Its current president is Steve Capus.-Caravan era:The first American television newscast in history was made by NBC News on February 21, 1940, anchored by Lowell Thomas and airing weeknights at 6:45 pm. In 1948, NBC teamed up with...
White HouseThe White House is the official residence and principal workplace of the President of the United States. Located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, D.C., it was built between 1792 and 1800 of white-painted Aquia sandstone in the late Georgian style and has been the residence of every...
correspondent, former ABC NewsABC News is a division of American television network ABC, owned by The Walt Disney Company. Its current president is David Westin.-Current programs:* America This Morning* Good Morning America* Good Morning America Weekend Edition...
correspondent, Peabody AwardThe George Foster Peabody Awards are annual, international awards for excellence in radio and television broadcasting. First awarded in 1941 for programs from the previous year, they are one of the oldest honors in electronic media...
winner, former writer for The Washington PostThe Washington Post is the newspaper with the largest circulation in Washington, D.C. and is the city's oldest paper, founded in 1877. Being located in the nation's capital, it has a particular emphasis on national politics and international affairs...
and The Wall Street JournalThe Wall Street Journal is an English-language international daily newspaper published by Dow Jones & Company, a division of News Corporation, in New York City, with Asian and European editions. As of 2007, it has a worldwide daily circulation of more than 2 million, with approximately 931,000...
- Kevin Prufer
Kevin D. Prufer is an American poet, academic, editor, and essayist.-Biography:After Prufer received a B.A. at Wesleyan University and an M.A. at the Hollins University Writing Program, he went on to earn an MFA at Washington University in St. Louis...
'88 - Essayist and poet
The Arts
- D.M. Marshman, Jr. '41 - Academy Award-winning screenplay writer for Sunset Boulevard.
- Frederick Coffin
Frederick D. Coffin was an American film actor.He was the son of actress Winifred Deforest Coffin. He appeared in numerous movies and television series. He made guest appearances on Murder, She Wrote, L.A. Law, The X-Files and Hunter. One of his most memorable roles was Officer Koharski in the...
- Film and television actor
- William McClelland '69 - Composer and pianist
- David Nicksay '70 - Emmy-nominated Hollywood film producer and executive producer (Legally Blonde
Legally Blonde is a American comedy film starring Reese Witherspoon, produced by Marc E. Platt for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios and directed by Robert Luketic...
and Legally Blonde 2, Be CoolBe Cool is a American comedy film which was adapted from a 1999 novel. The book was the sequel to the 1990 novel Get Shorty by Elmore Leonard about mobster Chili Palmer's entrance into the film industry....
, What's the Worst That Could Happen?What's the Worst That Could Happen? is a 2001 American comedy film directed by Sam Weisman and starring Martin Lawrence and Danny DeVito. Loosely based on the book of the same name by Donald Westlake, the film's supporting cast includes John Leguizamo, Bernie Mac, Larry Miller, Nora Dunn, GQ, and...
)
- Matt Rego - Broadway
Broadway Theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, is the theatre associated with the 40 large professional theaters with 500 seats or more located in the Theatre District, New York in Manhattan, New York City...
show producer (UrinetownUrinetown: The Musical is a satirical comedy musical, with music by Mark Hollmann, lyrics by Hollmann and Greg Kotis, and book by Kotis. It satirizes capitalism, social irresponsibility, populism, bureaucracy, corporate mismanagement, and petty small town politics. It also is a satire of the...
, The Vagina MonologuesThe Vagina Monologues is an episodic play written by Eve Ensler which ran at the off-Broadway Westside Theatre after a limited run at HERE Arts Center in 1996. Ensler originally starred in the production; when she left the play it was recast with three celebrity monologists...
)
- Jeff Schaffer '87 - Emmy-nominated TV show writer and Hollywood film writer, executive producer and director (Seinfeld
Seinfeld is an American television sitcom that originally aired on NBC from July 5, 1989, to May 14, 1998, lasting nine seasons, and is now in syndication. The eponymous series was created by Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld, with the latter starring as a fictionalized version of himself...
, Curb Your EnthusiasmCurb Your Enthusiasm is an American comedy series starring Seinfeld writer, co-creator, and executive producer Larry David as himself. It is produced and broadcast by HBO....
, EurotripEuroTrip is a 2004 American comedy film. The main plot tells a story about how Scott Thomas and his three friends travel across Europe in search of his German pen pal Mieke , whom he initially mistakes for a man...
)
- Geoffrey Nauffts '79 - Film and television actor
- Richard Brake
Richard Brake is a Welsh/American actor.-Early life:Brake was born in Ystrad Mynach, Hengoed, Wales and raised in the United States...
'83 - Film actor (Batman BeginsBatman Begins is a superhero film based on the fictional DC Comics character Batman, directed by Christopher Nolan. It stars Christian Bale as Batman, along with Michael Caine, Gary Oldman, Liam Neeson, Katie Holmes, Cillian Murphy, Morgan Freeman, Ken Watanabe, Tom Wilkinson, and Rutger Hauer...
)
- Macy Gray
Macy Gray , also credited as Natalie Hinds in her music, is an American R&B and soul singer-songwriter, record producer, and actress, famed for her distinctive raspy voice and a singing style heavily influenced by Billie Holiday and Betty Davis.To date, Gray has released four studio albums, one...
* '84 - Grammy AwardThe Grammy Awards —or Grammys—are presented annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States for outstanding achievements in the music industry...
-winning musician/singer
- Ted Humphrey '87 - Film and television writer and producer (The Nine
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, Shark (TV Series)Shark is an American legal drama that originally ran on CBS from September 21, 2006 to May 20, 2008. Created by Ian Biederman, the series starred James Woods as Sebastian Stark, a notorious Los Angeles defense attorney who becomes a prosecutor....
, The UnitThe Unit is an American action-drama television series that focuses on a top-secret military unit modeled after the real-life Delta Force. The series originally aired on CBS from March 7, 2006, to May 10, 2009.-Production:...
, Thick as Thieves (2008 film), Now and AgainNow and Again is an American television series which aired in the US from September 24, 1999 until May 5, 2000 on CBS. The story revolves around the United States government engineering the perfect human body for use in espionage, but not being able to yet perfect the brain...
)
- Rob Loos '77 - co-founder of TLC Entertainment and award-winning Hollywood writer, executive producer and director (Captain Kangaroo
Captain Kangaroo is a children's television series which aired weekday mornings on the American television network CBS from 1955 until 1984...
, McGee and Me!, Secret Adventures)
Business
- James Ellsworth
James Ellsworth was an American coal mine owner and banker.-Early life:...
† 1868 - Coal mine owner, banker
- James L. Knight
James Landon Knight was an American newspaper publisher and founder of the Knight Ridder group of newspapers....
'29 - Newspaperman and philanthropist, founder of Knight RidderKnight Ridder was an American media company, specializing in newspaper and Internet publishing. Until it was bought by The McClatchy Company on June 27, 2006, it was the second-largest newspaper publisher in the United States, with 32 daily newspapers....
newspaper group
- William D. Perez ’65 - CEO of Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company
The William Wrigley Jr. Company was founded on April 1, 1891 originally selling products such as soap and baking powder. In 1892, William Wrigley, Jr., the company's founder, began offering chewing gum with each can of baking powder...
, former CEO of Nike, Inc.Nike, Inc. is a major publicly traded sportswear and equipment supplier based in the United States. The company is headquartered in Beaverton, Oregon, which is part of the Portland metropolitan area...
- Martin D. Franks '68 - CBS
CBS Broadcasting Inc. is an American television network, one of television's original "big three", which also include NBC and ABC. Like NBC, CBS started out as a radio network. The name is derived from the initials of the network's former name, Columbia Broadcasting System...
and ViacomViacom , short for "Video & Audio Communications", is an American media conglomerate with various worldwide interests in cable and satellite television networks , and movie production and distribution with Paramount Motion Pictures Group. Paramount is also the distributor of movie studio DreamWorks...
executive
- Gavin J. Domm '87 -Executive Director of UBS Investment Bank
Miscellaneous
- John Strong Newberry
John Strong Newberry was a U.S. geologist, physician, explorer, author, and a member of the Megatherium Club at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C....
- Geologist, physician, explorer
- Frederic de Forest Allen
Frederic de Forest Allen was an American classical scholar, born in Oberlin, Ohio. He graduated at Oberlin College in 1863, and attended the University of Leipzig in 1868–1870. He earned his Ph.D. there with his thesis De Dialecto Locrensium...
- Philologist, classicsClassics is the branch of the Humanities comprising the languages, literature, philosophy, history, art, archaeology and other culture of the ancient Mediterranean World; especially Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome during Classical Antiquity...
scholar
- Lincoln Ellsworth
-Birth:Son of James Ellsworth and Eva Frances Butler, he was born in Chicago, Illinois. He also lived in Hudson, Ohio as a child.-Arctic/North Pole exploration:...
- U.S. explorer; first undisputed sighting of North PoleThe North Pole, also known as the Geographic North Pole or Terrestrial North Pole, is, subject to the caveats explained below, defined as the point in the northern hemisphere where the Earth's axis of rotation meets the Earth's surface...
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- Scott E. Forbush '20 - Physicist, discoverer of the Forbush decrease
A Forbush decrease is a rapid decrease in the observed galactic cosmic ray intensity following a coronal mass ejection . It occurs due to the magnetic field of the plasma solar wind sweeping some of the galactic cosmic rays away from Earth.-Observation:...
, member of the National Academies of Science
- George Kubler
George Alexander Kubler was an American art historian and among the foremost scholars on the art of Pre-Columbian America and Ibero-American Art....
'29 - Art historian
- K. Frank Austen, M.D. '45 - Research physician, President of American Academy of Allergy
- Lee M.E. Morin
Lee Miller Emile Morin M.D. Ph.D. is a United States Navy captain and NASA astronaut.-Personal data:Born in Manchester, New Hampshire, he is married with two children and three grandchildren...
'70 - NASAThe National Aeronautics and Space Administration is an agency of the United States government, responsible for the nation's public space program. NASA was established by the National Aeronautics and Space Act on July 29, 1958, replacing its predecessor, the National Advisory Committee for...
astronaut
- Kathryn Clark '76 - NASA
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is an agency of the United States government, responsible for the nation's public space program. NASA was established by the National Aeronautics and Space Act on July 29, 1958, replacing its predecessor, the National Advisory Committee for...
Chief Scientist for the Human Exploration & Development of Space Enterprise
- David W. Lippy '73 - First President World of Children www.WorldofChildren.org world class fundraising specialist
- Joel Dalgarno
Joel Dalgarno was an All-American lacrosse player at the Ohio State University from 2006 to 2009, leading the Buckeyes to an NCAA Men's Lacrosse Championship tournament appearance in 2008. Dalgarno attended Western Reserve Academy as a prep star, and also starred in Canadian box lacrosse at the...
'05 - Collegiate lacrosse player; all-time scoring leader for Ohio State Buckeyes
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