List of The Hill School alumni

The following is a list of notable alumni of The Hill School. The Hill School is a preparatory boarding school located in Pottstown, Pennsylvania.

Contents :

• Top
• 0–9
• A
• B
• C
• D
• E
• F
• G
• H
• I
• J
• K
• L
• M
• N
• O
• P
• Q
• R
• S
• T
• U
• V
• W
• X
• Y
• Z

A

• Malcolm Atterbury, 1926 – actor

B

• John Backus, 1942 – computer scientist; inventor of the FORTRAN computer language^[1]
• James Baker III, 1948 – Secretary of State, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury^[2]
• Chris Bala, 1997 – professional ice hockey player
• Perry Richardson Bass – investor and philanthropist^[3]
• Manoj Bhargava, 1972 – inventor of 5-hour Energy^[4]
• Pinckney Benedict, 1982 – screenwriter and author
• Josiah Bunting III, 1957 – educator

C

• Robert Davis Carey, 1896 – governor and senator from Wyoming
• John Dickson Carr, 1925 – author
• Sabin Carr, 1924 – Olympic athlete
• Bernard Chan, 1983 – Hong Kong politician and businessman^[5]
• William F. Clinger, 1947 – former Congressman from Pennsylvania, 1979–97, US Navy (1951–55, Lt.)
• Henry S. Coleman, c. 1944 – educator^[6]
• Chris Collingwood, 1985 – singer, songwriter
• Paul Collins, 1986 – historian and memoirist
• James Cromwell, 1958 – Academy Award-nominated television and film actor
• Briggs Swift Cunningham, 1926 – sportsman, motor enthusiast; won America's Cup yacht race in 1958

D

• Hugh DeHaven, 1914 – professor at Cornell University and "Father of Crash Survivability"
• Kingman Douglass, 1914 – investment banker; deputy director of CIA

E

• Lincoln Ellsworth, 1919 – polar explorer, first to sight geographic North Pole along with explorer Roald Amundsen

F

• John Heaphy Fellowes, 1951 – U.S. Navy captain, pilot, and P.O.W. during the Vietnam War
• Leonard Firestone, 1927 – US Ambassador to Belgium, 1974–77, US Navy (WWII, Lt.)
• Mitchell Froom, 1971 – record producer and musician

G

• George Garrett, 1941 – poet, novelist, educator
• Wolcott Gibbs, class of '20 but did not graduate – writer for The New Yorker

H

• Harry Hamlin, 1970 – actor
• Dick Harter, 1948 – assistant coach of the Philadelphia 76ers
• Frederick Herreshoff, 1904 – amateur golfer
• Mahlon Hoagland, 1940 – discoverer of transfer RNA
• Randy Hopper, 1985 – Wisconsin State Senator
• Roger Horchow, 1945 – Tony Award-winning Broadway producer
• Clark Hoyt, 1960 – Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist
• James Calhoun Humes, 1952 – speechwriter
• Lamar Hunt, 1951 – businessman
• Nelson Bunker Hunt, did not graduate – scion of the Hunt Oil Company family; donated the costs to renovate his namesake building on campus
• Thad Hutcheson, 1933 – politician

L

• Lewis Lehrman, 1956 – politician, businessman, author
• Robert A. Lovett, 1914 – fourth United States Secretary of Defense

M

• Patrick Maher (attended) – author^[7]
• James A. Michener, 1931 – author; faculty, department of English

P

• Frank Pace, 1929 – Secretary of the Army; CEO of General Dynamics
• Alan J. Pakula, 1944 – Hollywood director and producer
• George Patton IV, 1942 – Major General in the United States Army; son of World War II General George Patton
• Norman Pearlstine, 1960 – publisher
• Lionel Pincus, 1948 – co-founder of Warburg Pincus
• William Porter, 1944 – Olympic athlete
• Winston L. Prouty, 1924 – U.S. Senator from Vermont (1959–1971)
• William Proxmire, 1934 – U.S. Senator from Wisconsin (D)^[8]

Q

• William Thomas Quick, Class of 1964, but did not graduate – writer, screenwriter, blogger

R

• Pat Rissmiller, 1998 – NHL athlete
• Robert F. Rockwell, 1903 – United States Congressman from Colorado
• Frank Runyeon, 1971 – actor, two-time Emmy Award winner

S

• Len Sassaman, 1998 – computer scientist and biohacker
• Peter Schaffer, 1980 – lawyer and sports agent; clients include Barry Sanders, Hakeem Nicks, Joe Thomas, Russell Okung, Phil Taylor, Trevor Pryce. Star of the Esquire Network docuseries titled "The Agent."
• Jon Shirley, 1956 – former President of Microsoft
• Ernest Simpson, 1915 – British shipping tycoon best known as the second husband of Wallis Simpson, who later would marry the former King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom, elder brother of King George VI
• Lane Smith, attended in 1955, did not graduate – character actor
• Jerry Stahl, 1971 – novelist, screenwriter
• David Stein, 1979 – radio personality
• Oliver Stone, 1964 – Academy Award-winning producer/director
• William Irvin Swoope, 1888 – United States Congressman from Pennsylvania

T

• Harold E. Talbott, 1907 – aviator and President of the Dayton-Wright Airplane Company, which manufactured more wartime aircraft overall than any other U.S. plant; third Secretary of the Air Force; selected the permanent site for the Air Force Academy
• Baird Tipson, Dr., 1961 – President of Washington College
• Franchot Tone, Class of 1923, but did not graduate – character actor
• Juan T. Trippe, 1917 – airline pioneer, founder of Pan Am
• Bobby Troup – composer of "Route 66", musician, composer, jazz authority, recording artist, actor, Emmy Award winner
• Donald Trump Jr., 1996 – son of Donald Trump
• Eric Trump, 2002 – son of Donald Trump; Hill board of trustees

W

• John M. Walker, 1927 – physician and investment banker
• Douglas "Sandy" A. Warner III, 1964 – former CEO of J. P. Morgan & Co.
• Harry Elkins Widener, 1902 – businessman; son of wealthy businessman George Dunton Widener; grandson of wealthy railroad tycoon Peter A.B. Widener; two buildings donated in his name
• Edmund Wilson, 1912 – writer
• Tom Wolf, 1967 – 47th Governor of Pennsylvania (2015–present)^[9]
• Tobias Wolff, Class of 1964, but was expelled for forging information for admission – writer, novelist, English and writing professor at Stanford

References

1. JOHN BACKUS: a restless inventor, accessed December 24, 2006
2. James A. Baker, 3rd, Current Biography, March 2007. Accessed December 25, 2007. "Like his father, Jim Baker, as he prefers to be known, attended the Hill School, a college prep school in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, then enrolled at Princeton University."
3. Leslie Wayne, Perry R. Bass, 91, Patriarch of Famed Texas Oil Family, Dies, The New York Times, June 2, 2006
4. Clare O'Connor (February 8, 2012). "The Mystery Monk Making Billions With 5-Hour Energy". Forbes magazine.
5. http://www.bernardchan.com/1/en/
6. Martin, Douglas. "Henry S. Coleman, 79, Dies; Hostage at Columbia in '68", The New York Times, February 4, 2006. Accessed September 12, 2009.
7. Glan, Latshering. "Interview with American Author Patrick Maher". Retrieved March 1, 2013.
8. Severo, Richard. "William Proxmire, Maverick Democratic Senator From Wisconsin, Is Dead at 90", The New York Times, December 16, 2005. Accessed October 31, 2007. "The family was well-to-do, and he was sent to the Hill School in Pottstown, Pa., and then to Yale, where he was an English major."
9. "Hill alumnus Tom Wolf '67 elected Pennsylvania Governor". The Hill School. Retrieved January 25, 2015.