(OT) Famous Alums - final article

[Section A]

Wondering if you guys could help me; I'm doing a little research for the Sun, and I want to get a list of famous Cornell alums. I know quite a few already, but could you all list the ones you know?

(Especially those who have been or are in showbiz). Thanks very much. I appreciate it :-)



http://www.cornelldailysun.com/articles/7579/

[Greg Berge]

There used to be a stock list in the media guide.

[marty]

Chris Reeve, '74
John Megna, '74 (child actor- To Kill a Mockingbird, Startrek)

Huey Lewis comes to mind.

Ed Marinaro of football and TV's Hill Street Blues.

[Anne 85]

What about that former ESPN guy?  Keith something.  Or Kevin something?

[DeltaOne81]

I had Bill Maher and Bill Nye off the top of my head, and then I found this... source: http://cuinfo.cornell.edu/Campus/Infobase/Infocard.phtml?tindex=Alumni

Some famous Alumni:
(more alumni of note may be found in the 2002 edition of CU Facts)

Blanchard, Kenneth AB '61 PhD '67: Management consultant and writer who co-authored The One Minute Manager series with Norman Vincent Peale.

Blanchard, Marjorie AB '62, MA '65: Lecturer, writer, and co-author of Working Well: Managing for Health and High Performance and The One Minute Manager Gets Fit.

Bourke-White, Margaret AB '27: Photo-journalist.

Brody, Jane BS '62: Author, science writer New York Times. Author of Jane Brody's Good Food Book and Jane Brody's Nutrition Book.

Brothers, Joyce BS '47: Psychologist, author, TV and radio personality.

Buck, Pearl S. MA '26: Pulitzer Prize for The Good Earth (1931); Nobel Award in Literature (1938) "for her rich and genuine epic pictures of Chinese life, and for her masterly biographies."

Burt, Richard AB '69: U.S. Ambassador to West Germany

Conable, Barber AB '42, LLB '48: President of World Bank, former member of U.S. Congress.

Coors, Adolph AB '07 and Coors, Joseph BS '39: founder/executives of the nation's largest single brewery

Arthur Dean AB '19: former US Ambassador to Korea

Funt, Allen AB '34: Producer, originator of "Candid Camera."

Ginsburg, Ruth Bader AB '54: U.S. Supreme Court justice

Gould, Harold AM '48, PhD '53: Stage, screen, and TV actor. Appeared in film "The Sting" and TV series "Rhoda."

Greatbatch, Wilson BEE '50: Inventor of the cardiac pacemaker. Designed biomedical equipment used on NASA space monkeys; inducted into the inventor Hall of Fame, Washington, DC in 1986.

Harmon, Derrick BS '84: A two-time All-Ivy team selection and the 1983 Ivy League Player of the Year. He is second on Cornell's all-time rushing list behind Ed Marino and has several Cornell scoring and rushing records. He played
the 1984 and 1985 seasons with the San Francisco 49'ers as a running back and a kickoff returner, helping the 49'ers win the Super Bowl in 1985. He made the Associated Press Division I-AA All-America second team as a senior, and was a two-time Academic All-American.

Heimlich, Henry AB '41, MD '43: Surgeon, author. Developed "Heimlich Maneuver," invented esophagoplasty.

Hicks, Catherine MFA '76: Actress on "Ryan's Hope." Movies: "Trouble," "Bad News Bears," "Tucker's Witch," and "Marilyn."

Holland, Jerome (Brud) BS '39, MS '41: Educator, diplomat, businessman. Former president of Hampton Institute, former ambassador to Sweden.

Jones, Robert Trent (attended 1928-1930): Golf course architect, designed more than 400 of world's courses.

Kane, Robert BS '36: Past president, US Olympic Committee. Founded National Sports Festival.

Kingsley, Sidney AB '28: Playwright, director. Author of "Men in White" for which he won a Pulitzer Prize for Best American Play (1934), "The Patriots" (1943), Author, director of "Dead End" (1936), "Ten Million Ghosts" (1937), "The World We Make"

Maher, Bill AB '78: comedian, author, and host of Politically Incorrect television panel show

Morrison, Toni AM 55: author and winner of the 1988 Pulitzer Prize and 1993 Nobel Prize for literature

Nye, Bill BS, MEng '77: award-winning popular-science media host and author

Reeve, Christopher AB '74: actor, activist for medical research

Reno, Janet AB '60: U.S. attorney general 1993-2000

Smits, Jimmy MFA '82: actor

White, E.B. AB '21: writer (Charlotte's Web, Stuart Little) and editor; co-author (with William Strunk, PhD 1896) of Elements of Style

[gwm3]

Keith Olbermann

[jd212]

ummm, doesb't the word "alumnae" imply that he is only looking for women?

[Section A]

Normally, yes...but in this case, I made a mistake. I corrected my initial post. Thanks for pointing it out though :-).

So, I'm looking for any famous alums, male or female.

[djk26]

Author Kurt Vonnegut (Slaughterhouse-Five, Mother Night) also attended Cornell during the WWII years, but I don't believe he graduated.  Of course, Avash, if you work for the Sun, you probably already knew that since Vonnegut wrote for the Sun.

[Section A]

Indeed I did :-D ...

Thanks guys for your help. I'm writing a column on the famous Cornell alums who made it in showbiz. It'll be in the Sun this Thursday.

I think I've got all I need, so thanks very much again.

Now we can all go back to talking about what's really important...hockey...:-P

[Al DeFlorio]

I don't know how far back you want to go, Avash, but:

The actor Adolphe Menjou was apparently a Cornell engineer.

http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/byform/mailing-lists/amia-l/2002/01/msg00109.html

The actor Franchot Tone graduated Cornell in three years Phi Beta Kappa--or at least that's what this web site says:

http://www.lynnpdesign.com/classicmovies/tone/bio.html

I believe the actor Dan Dailey was also a Cornell alum, and a TKE, but I can't find confirmation on the web.

They all lived sometime after Shakespeare and before Avash.;-)

[Jeff Hardgrove ,01]

And no list would be complete without Cornell drop-out Huey Lewis!  

He was in Cayuga's Waiters I believe

[jtwcornell91]

Don't forget Dick and Jeremy Schaap.

[Section A]

Here's a quote from Christopher Reeve, which I have included in my article, regarding his first Cornell hockey practice -

"On the first day of practice for the freshman team, I noticed that there were only two Americans and the rest were Canadians. I was in the goal, and the whole team lined up on the blue line, each with a puck, and they were supposed to take turns going from left to right taking a slapshot. They started to get out of sequence, and sometimes two or three were coming at me, faster than I'd ever seen a puck come at me in my entire lifetime. I got absolutely shelled, and I thought, 'You know, I'm probably going to end up with no teeth,' and so I retreated to the safety of the theatre department. That was the end of my hockey career. In retrospect, I made the right choice. And I still have all my teeth."

Pretty cool, eh?

Of course, even if he HAD played, he would have been backing up Dryden.

Anyhow, you guys were a lot of help, and I'll be sure to post the link to the article later in the week. There are plenty of hockey references in it :-D

[gwm3]

Umm,  if Reeve was Class of '74 as the list above indicates, he would not have been been backing up Dryden.  Class of '74 would have arrived on campus in fall of 1970, more than a year after Dryden left.