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

Ameriks, Karl

Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame.

Amoss, Jim

Editor of The Times-Picayune. Pulitzer Prize winner 1997 and 2006.

Breitman, Richard

Educator, historian, author, American University

Broach, James

Biochemist and molecular biologist currently at Pennsylvania State University

Clarren, Sterling

Researcher into Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder(FASD), University of Washington School of Medicine

Darst, David

Financier, educator, author, and triathlete. Managing Director and Chief Investment Strategist of Morgan Stanley Wealth Management

Davis, Kenneth

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

Dayton, Mark

Governor of Minnesota, since 2011. Previously United States Senator, Minnesota State Auditor

Dowling, Brian

College and professional football player and was the starting quarterback of the Yale University football team

Ebersol, Duncan

Television executive and a senior adviser for NBC Universal Sports & Olympics

Effinger, George

Science fiction author

Flynn, Matthew

Attorney, a Democratic candidate for Governor of Wisconsin in 2018

Freedberg, David

Professor of the History of Art, Columbia University

Goldberg, Fred

Tax lawyer, Commissioner of Internal Revenue.

Gutas, Dimitri

Arabist and Hellenist and professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at Yale University.

Heckler, David

Attorney, former Republican member of the Pennsylvania State Senate

Hill, Calvin

American football player

Hill, Leonard

Television producer and property developer

Houston, Paul

Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at The Georgia Institute of Technology

Hume, George

Businessman and philanthropist

Hundt, Reed

Attorney who served as chairman of the United States Federal Communications Commission

Johnson, David

Olympic swimmer

Kadir, Djelal

Professor of Comparative Literature at Pennsylvania State University

Landsmark, Theodore

Educator, attorney and architect

McNamee, Thomas

Writer

Medved, Michael

Radio talk show host

Moore, Mark

Professor at Kennedy School, Harvard

Morson, Gary

Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Northwestern

Mosko, Stephen

Composer

Norman, Victor

Economist, politician, newspaper columnist, professor of Economics,Norwegian School of Economics

O’Leary, John

Mayor of Portland, Maine, United States ambassador to Chile

Osgood, Russell

President of Grinnell College (1998–2010) Professor of history and political science. Dean of Cornell Law School

Park, William

Professor of Law at Boston University School of Law

Payne, Harry

17th president of Hamilton College, the 14th president of Williams College, and later president of Woodward Academy

Priest, George

Professor, Yale Law School

Rivest, Ronald

Cryptographer and an Institute Professor at MIT in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Russell, Hanon

Lawyer, chess expert, chess book author, translator

Schatzkin, Arthur

Nutritional epidemiologist

Schwarzman, Stephen

Businessman, investor and philanthropist.Chairman and CEO of The Blackstone Group

Scranton, William

26th lieutenant governor of Pennsylvania

Shorter, Frank

Long-distance runner, Gold and Silver medals in the marathon at the 1972 and 1976 Summer Olympics, respectively.

Smith, Jerry

Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

Smith, Lamar

Member of the U.S. House of Representatives

Soifer, Aviam

American legal scholar and currently the Dean of the William S. Richardson School of Law in the U.S. state of Hawaii

Tedlow, Richard

Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, where he is a specialist in the history of business.

Thompson, Myron

Senior Judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama

Weisman, Sam

Film director

Wood, Michael

US Ambassador to Sweden 2006-2009

Woodlock, Douglas

Senior Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Yarmuth, John

Former newspaper editor serving as the U.S. Representative for Kentucky’s 3rd congressional district

 

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