Yale ’69 Biographies in Wikipedia
Over the past month, with the help of a program, I sifted through articles in Wikipedia, looking for biographies of members of our class. The program returned 456 possible articles; manually checking that list, I found 50 biographies, linked below.
Note: If you know of other Wikipedia articles referring to you or any classmate, please send me (harry@forsdick.com) the classmate’s name and the URL of the Wikipedia article. Thanks.
Classmate’s Name | Primary reason mentioned in Wikipedia | ||
Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. | |||
Editor of The Times-Picayune. Pulitzer Prize winner 1997 and 2006. | |||
Educator, historian, author, American University | |||
Biochemist and molecular biologist currently at Pennsylvania State University | |||
Researcher into Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder(FASD), University of Washington School of Medicine | |||
Financier, educator, author, and triathlete. Managing Director and Chief Investment Strategist of Morgan Stanley Wealth Management | |||
President and Chief Executive Officer of the Mount Sinai Health System, an American author and medical researcher who developed the Alzheimer’s Disease Assessment Scale | |||
Governor of Minnesota, since 2011. Previously United States Senator, Minnesota State Auditor | |||
College and professional football player and was the starting quarterback of the Yale University football team | |||
Television executive and a senior adviser for NBC Universal Sports & Olympics | |||
Science fiction author | |||
Attorney, a Democratic candidate for Governor of Wisconsin in 2018 | |||
Professor of the History of Art, Columbia University | |||
Tax lawyer, Commissioner of Internal Revenue. | |||
Arabist and Hellenist and professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at Yale University. | |||
Attorney, former Republican member of the Pennsylvania State Senate | |||
American football player | |||
Television producer and property developer | |||
Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at The Georgia Institute of Technology | |||
Businessman and philanthropist | |||
Attorney who served as chairman of the United States Federal Communications Commission | |||
Olympic swimmer | |||
Professor of Comparative Literature at Pennsylvania State University | |||
Educator, attorney and architect | |||
Writer | |||
Radio talk show host | |||
Professor at Kennedy School, Harvard | |||
Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Northwestern | |||
Composer | |||
Economist, politician, newspaper columnist, professor of Economics,Norwegian School of Economics | |||
Mayor of Portland, Maine, United States ambassador to Chile | |||
President of Grinnell College (1998–2010) Professor of history and political science. Dean of Cornell Law School | |||
Professor of Law at Boston University School of Law | |||
17th president of Hamilton College, the 14th president of Williams College, and later president of Woodward Academy | |||
Professor, Yale Law School | |||
Cryptographer and an Institute Professor at MIT in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science | |||
Lawyer, chess expert, chess book author, translator | |||
Nutritional epidemiologist | |||
Businessman, investor and philanthropist.Chairman and CEO of The Blackstone Group | |||
26th lieutenant governor of Pennsylvania | |||
Long-distance runner, Gold and Silver medals in the marathon at the 1972 and 1976 Summer Olympics, respectively. | |||
Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit | |||
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives | |||
American legal scholar and currently the Dean of the William S. Richardson School of Law in the U.S. state of Hawaii | |||
Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, where he is a specialist in the history of business. | |||
Senior Judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama | |||
Film director | |||
US Ambassador to Sweden 2006-2009 | |||
Senior Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts | |||
Former newspaper editor serving as the U.S. Representative for Kentucky’s 3rd congressional district |