Hotchkiss School

The Hotchkiss School is a private, coeducational preparatory school in Lakeville, Connecticut, USA.

History

It was founded in 1891 by Maria Bissell Hotchkiss with the encouragement of Yale University president Timothy Dwight V.

Campus and Facilities

The school is set in 545 acres (2 km²) of woodland near two lakes, which allows it to offer environmental science courses. The school is well known for its arts, photography and video programs. A 212,000-ft² (19,700 m²) athletic center opened in 2002; a 715-seat glass-enclosed performing arts center and music pavilion opened in spring 2005. Hotchkiss' 9-hole golf course was created by famed designer Seth Raynor. Hotchkiss is currently embarking on a 30 million dollar renovation and construction upgrade to its student residences. As of the start of the 2004–2005 school year Hotchkiss boasted 555 students, more than 200 faculty and staff, and one of the largest high school endowments in the country – more than $320 million. [1]

Alumni include

• Victor Ashe US Ambassador to Poland
• John G. Avildsen Film Director (Rocky, The Karate Kid)
• Robert Bork Conservative legal scholar, former Solicitor-General of the US
• Jonathan Bush uncle of George W., brother of George H. W.
• Walter P Chrysler, Jr Industrialist and art collector, son of Walter Chrysler
• Herbert Dow Founder of Dow Chemical Company
• Charles Edison Governor of New Jersey, son of Thomas Edison,
• Edsel Ford President of Ford Motor Company, son of Henry Ford
• Henry Ford II President of Ford Motor Company
• William Clay Ford, Jr. CEO of Ford Motor Company
• Varian Fry journalist and 'the American Schindler'
• Arthur Lehman Goodhart Legal scholar, Master of University College, Oxford
• Porter J. Goss Director of the CIA
• Alfred Whitney Griswold President of Yale
• Ernest Gruening Governor of Alaska, US Senator
• Briton Hadden Co-founder of Time Magazine with Henry Luce
• John Hammond Record Producer (discovered Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen)
• Leland Hayward Hollywood and Broadway agent and producer
• John Hersey Pulitzer Prize winning author
• Allison Janney Emmy Award winning Actress
• Lawrence M. Judd Governor of Hawaii
• Lewis H. Lapham Editor of [[Harper's Magazine]
• William Loeb conservative newspaper proprietor
• Winston Lord US Ambassador to the People's Republic of China 1985–1989
• Henry Luce Co-founder of Time Magazine with Briton Hadden
• Archibald MacLeish Poet Laureate, Pulitzer Prize winner
• Forrest Mars, Jr CEO of Mars, Incorporated, billionaire
• Peter Matthiessen Naturalist and Writer
• Douglas Stuart Moore Composer
• Gerald Murphy Precisionist Artist
• Paul Nitze Secretary of the Navy, architect of US policy towards the Soviet Union
• Clark T. Randt, Jr. US Ambassador to the People's Republic of China 2001-
• Tom Reiss Author
• Dickinson W. Richards Nobel Prize winner
• William Warren Scranton Governor of Pennsylvania, US Ambassador to the UN
• Harold Stanley Founder, Morgan Stanley
• Potter Stewart Justice of the US Supreme Court
• Strobe Talbott Journalist and diplomat
• John Thornton President, Goldman Sachs
• Fay Vincent Baseball Commissioner
• Arthur Kittredge Watson Chairman of IBM, US Ambassador to the UK
• Charles Yost US Ambassador to the UN

Fictional Hotchkiss alumni

In the book Primary Colors by Joe Klein, later turned into a film, the principal character Henry Burton was educated at Hotchkiss, and is frequently referred to as 'Hotchkiss'. In Jeffrey Archer's novel Sons of Fortune protagonist Fletcher Andrew Cartright is a Hotchkiss alumnus.

External links

• Hotchkiss school website