Maria Bissell Hotchkiss founded the independent boarding school on 65 acres in Lakeville CT in 1891 to prepare young men in grades 9-12 for Yale University. It became coed in 1974.
Their goal is not just to get students into top colleges, but Today the campus covers 545 acres in rural NW Connecticut a little over 2 hrs. from New York City, with academic and residential buildings, playing fields, and a golf course by the deepest freshwater lake in Connecticut, an area designated by The Nature Conservancy as one of 200 "Last Great Places."
590 students choose from a curriculum that includes more than 200 courses in 16 academic departments.
Universities with the most students from the 2005-2008 classes:
www.hotchkiss.org Hotchkiss in mentioned in F. Scott Fitzgerald's "This Side of Paradise" and in his short story Six of One, Joe Klein's book later turned into a movie "Primary Colors", Jeffrey Archer's novel "Sons of Fortune ".
In "Can't Take It With You: The Art of Making and Giving Money", alumnus and supporter Lewis B. Cullman writes, "Like most New England boarding schools of the time, Hotchkiss was built around the concept of rugged, manly Christianity. Living conditions were Spartan; trips home, rare...There was a Hotchkiss way to do everything." Some notable Hotchkiss Alumni: Business: Henry Ford II '36, CEO of Ford Motor Company William C. Ford '43, CEO of Ford Motor Company William Clay Ford, Jr., Chairman of Ford Motor Company Forrest Mars Jr. '75, CEO of Mars candy, Incorporated, billionaire John Mars, billionaire Arthur Kittredge Watson '38, Chairman of IBM, US Ambassador to France Tom Werner, Chairman of the Boston Red Sox and co-founder of Casey Werner, producers of "The Cosby Show", "3rd Rock" and "That 70's Show" Fay Vincent - Baseball commissoner Harold Stanley, Founder, Morgan Stanley Dan W. Lufkin Founder Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette CT Environmental Commissioner Thomas P. F. Hoving, Head of Tiffany & Company, former director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Frank A. Sprole '38 Retired, vice chairman, Bristol-Myers Journalist - Writer: Henry Luce, Co-founder of Time Magazine William Loeb, conservative newspaper proprietor Archibald MacLeish, Poet Laureate, Pulitzer Prize winner Peter Matthiessen, Naturalist and Writer John Hersey, Pulitzer Prize winning author Diplomat - Government: Strobe Talbott, Journalist, diplomat, president of Brookings Institution Winston Lord, US Ambassador to the People's Republic of China 1985-1989 Paul Nitze, Secretary of the Navy, architect of US policy towards the Soviet Charles Yost, US Ambassador to the UN Porter J. Goss, former Director of the CIA Malcolm Baldrige '40 - Secretary of Commerce Politician: Charles Edison, Governor of New Jersey, son of Thomas Edison Lawrence M. Judd, Governor of Hawaii William Warren Scranton, Governor of Pennsylvania, US Ambassador to the UN Jurist: Potter Stewart, Justice of the US Supreme Court Robert Bork, Conservative legal scholar, nominated for the Supreme Court by Arthur Lehman Goodhart, Legal scholar, Master of University College, Oxford Science Dickinson Woodruff Richards, Jr. '13, GP'91 - Nobel Prize in Medicine William Mansfield Clark '03, GP'63 - Pioneer in the field of biochemistry, Physiological Chemistry professor David Hawkins '31 Philosopher of science and assistant to J. Robert Oppenheimer, director of the Manhattan Project to build atomic bombs Sports: Matt Herr and Torrey Mitchell, who played in the NHL Gina M.A. Kingsbury '00 Olympic Gold Medal Winner 2006 Canadian Hockey Team Environmentalist: Donal C. O'Brien Jr. '52 University of Virginia Law School. Chairman of the Board, Atlantic Salmon Federation; former chairman, National Audubon Society; vice-chair, the Nature Conservancy Dan W. Lufkin Founder Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette CT Environmental Commissioner George Cooley Hixon '55, P'90, '98 - Environmentalist Entertainment: Allison Janney '77 Emmy Award-winning actress John G. Avildsen '55 Independent film director; recipient of the Academy Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in a Feature Film for Rocky. John Hammond '29 Executive at Columbia Records who discovered musical talents Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Billie Holiday, and Aretha Franklin. F. Dennis Greene '68 Founder and lead singer, Sha Na Na; professor of law, University of Dayton School of Law _______________________ Alumni Awards: 2008 - John Ziegler, MD - Founding Director of the UCSF AIDS Clinical Research Center - Director of the UCSF Cancer Risk Program at the Comprehensive Cancer Center 2006 - Roswell H. Rudd Jazz Trombonist 2005 - Jon Lovelace '44 - Chairman Emeritus and President, Capital Research and Management Company 2004 - Ambassador Clark T. Randt, Jr. '64, P'09, U.S. Ambassador to China 2003 - Bishop Peter J. Lee '66, P '92 2002 - John Shedd Reed '35, P '73, '81, GP '85, '88, '05 - Railroad Executive, Philanthropist 2001 - Lewis Henry Lapham II '52, P '99 - Journalist, Harper's Magazine 2000 - George Cooley Hixon '55, P'90, '98 - Environmentalist 1999 - Howard Cary Bissell '55, P'82 - Manufacturing 1998 - Porter Johnston Goss '56, P'84, '88 - U.S. Representative from Florida 1997 - Donald Boyd Easum '42 - Ambassador to Nigeria 1996 - Strobe Talbott '64 - Journalist and Diplomat 1995 - Charles Newton Schenck '40 - Lawyer, Long Wharf Theatre patron 1994 - Zeph Stewart '39 - Classics Professor, Harvard 1993 - John O'Hea Crosby '44 - Santa Fe Opera Company 1992 - Edgar Meyer Cullman '36, P'64, GP'84 - Cullbro 1991 - Francis Thomas Vincent, Jr. '56, P'85 - Baseball Commissioner 1990 - George Francis Cahill, Jr. '44 - Medical Research Scientist 1989 - Winston Lord '55 - Ambassador to China 1988 - C.S. Harding Mott '25 - Philanthropist 1987 - Woods McCahill '33, P'61,'69 - Lawyer 1986 - Robert Arthur Bryan '49 - Archbishop of Maritimes 1985 - Malcolm Baldrige '40 - Secretary of Commerce 1984 - Eli Whitney Debevoise '17 - Lawyer, Debevoise & Plimpton 1983 - Michael MacCracken Stewart '53 - Physician and Educator 1982 - William Block '32, P'62,'71 - Newspaper Publisher 1981 - David Lincoln Luke III '41 - President, Westvaco 1980 - Jon Ormond Newman '49 - Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals 1979 - William Elfers '37, P'67 - Venture capitalist 1978 - John Henry Hammond, Jr. '29 - Discoverer of Dylan, Springsteen 1977 - Frank Arnott Sprole '38, P'65,'73,'78, GP'89,'91,'01,'02,'03 - Vice Chairman, Bristol-Meyers 1976 - John Miller Musser '26 - Philanthropist 1975 - Gaylord Donnelley '27, P'60 - Chairman, RR Donnelley 1974 - Peter Matthiessen '45 - Naturalist Author 1973 - Joseph Frederick Cullman III '31, GP'82 - Chairman of Phillip Morris 1972 - Dan Wende Lufkin '49, P'80,'82,'88 - CT Environmental Commissioner 1971 - William Gelon McKnight, Jr. '30, P'58,'61 - Prominent lawyer 1970 - Thomas Pearsall F. Hoving '49 - Director, Metropolitan Museum of Art 1969 - Arthur Howe, Jr. '38, P'66,'72,'75 - President, American Field Service 1968 - Atholl McBean 1900 - Founder, Stanford Research Institute 1967 - Paul Henry Nitze '24, GP'82,'92,'96,'97 - Secretary of the Navy 1966 - Charles Woodruff Yost '24, P'56,'64 - Diplomat, Ambassador to the UN 1965 - Arthur Kittredge Watson '38, P'76,'78, GP'00 - Chairman of IBM, Ambassador to UK 1964 - Albert William Olsen, Jr. '39 - Headmaster 1963 - William Warren Scranton '35, P'65,'67 - Gov. of Pennsylvania, Ambassador to the UN 1962 - Roswell Leavitt Gilpatric '24, P'56 - Deputy Secretary of Defense 1961 - John Hersey '32 - Pulitzer Prize, Fiction 1960 - Ernest Gruening '03 - Senator, Governor of Alaska 1959 - Potter Stewart '33 - US Supreme Court Justice 1958 - Robert Chapman Sprague '18 - Industrialist (executive) 1957 - James Alexander Linen III '30, P'56,'62,'65,'68, GP '83,'84 - Executive Committee, TIME 1956 - Livingston Talmadge Merchant '22 - Ambassador to Canada 1955 - Dickinson Woodruff Richards, Jr. '13, GP'91 - Nobel Prize in Medicine 1954 - Richard Lyon Bowditch '19, P'48 - Steamship Executive 1953 - Henry Ford II '36, P'68 - President, Ford Motor Company 1952 - Walter Phelps Hall '01, P'43 - Professor of History 1951 - John Edward Bierwirth '13, P'42, GP'65, GGP'99,'00 - President, National Distillers 1950 - Alfred Whitney Griswold '25, P'62 - President, Yale University 1949 - Everett Needham Case '18 - President, Colgate University 1948 - Edwin Foster Blair '20, P'55 - "Mr. Yale", Instructor at Yale Law 1947 - Erdman Harris '16 - Prominent Educator, Clergyman 1946 - Douglas Stuart Moore '11 - Composer, Pulitzer Prize in Music 1945 - No Award 1944 - Artemus Lamb Gates '14 - President, NY Trust; Under Secretary of Navy 1943 - Arthur Morris Collens 1899, P'30,'34 - President, Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance 1942 - Archibald MacLeish '11 - Poet Laureate, Pulitzer Prize Winner 1941 - Henry Lockwood de Forest 1893 - Lawyer 1940 - Allen Lawrence Chickering 1894, GP'61 - Lawyer 1939 - Arthur Lehman Goodhart '08, P'44 - Elite Professor, Oxford University 1938 - William Mansfield Clark '03, GP'63 - Physiological Chemistry professor 1937 - Charles Edison '09 - Gov. of New Jersey, son of inventor 1936 - Harold Stanley '04, P'52,'55 - Investment Banker (Morgan Stanley) 1935 - Henry Robinson Luce '16, GP'68 - Founder of TIME 1934 - George Van Santvoord '08, P'37, GP'65,'71 - Headmaster 1933 - Lawrence McCully Judd '06 - Governor of Hawaii 1932 - Arthur Howe '08, P'38,'42, GP'66,'72,'75,'75 - President, Hampton Institute 1931 - Henry Knox Sherrill '07 - Episcopal Bishop |
