(OT) Famous Alums - final article

[Scott Kominkiewicz \'84]

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

Was Dryden on the list?  

Besides Derrick Harmon `84, there are two more from my graduating class that may qualify.  One is author and TV personality Ann Coulter and the other is former Rolling Stone senior editor David Wild.  As you will see in Wild's bio, he was also on the staff of the Sun.   http://www.kepplerassociates.com/wildd.htm

Here is Coulter's.
http://www.anncoulter.org/bio.html

Derrick and David were cool guys to know on the hill.  Coulter was in DG.

[Greg Berge]

Coulter's an imbecile, but even were she not she's questionable for the list, considering (1) she unabashedly hates Cornell and (2) her 15 minutes were up about 6 months ago.

[bigred apple]

Greg - where do you get (1) from?

[Adam \'01]

Janet Reno is an imbecile too, but she was listed.

[jd212]

how could you forget the actor Jimmy Smits? He went to Cornell

[CUlater \'89]

The Sun has had a list of famous alumni for years and years, so I'm surprised you needed help.  In fact, the freshman edition typically has an article or two on that same subject, so you might want to look at some past editions.

[CUlater \'89]

Have you looked at the Sun alumni site:  http://www.cornellsun.org/

It doesn't have a complete list of alums from either the University or the Sun, but it does have some names that you might recognize (and others you won't but should).

[Hillel]

Some of my personal faves (bach' degree only--I don't like counting the others):

Harold Bloom, culture/education critic/crank
David Burpee, the seed guy
Richard Fariña, seminal folkie
Sheldon Glashow, kick-ass physicist
Laurens Hammond, inventor of eponymous organ
Barbara McClintock, truly kick-ass botanist/geneticist***
Thomas Pynchon, bizarro novelist
Steve Reich, sleep-inducing modern composer
Dick Schaap, dearly departed sports journalist
David Starr Jordan, first prez of Stanford

*** Perhaps my fave "famous" alum of all-time. McClintock rocks. Arguably the winner of the "Most Important/Influential Alum Most Folks Have Never Heard Of" award. And she really stuck around and gave back: CU bachelors', doctorate, professor, you name it. Look her up, it's worth it.

[CUlater \'89]

ESPN is or was home to many alums, as noted in the Cornell Magazine article of a few years ago (Bill Pidto, Mark Schwartz, the Schaaps, Olbermann, Whit Watson)

The NYT is also home to CU alums including metro columnist Sam Roberts (also appearing on NY1), Liz Robbins who covers the Nets and wrote today's game story about the All-Star Games, national reporter Marc Lacey and metro reporter Abby Goodnough.

Don't forget E.B. White.

[Al DeFlorio]

And don't forget the  great sportswriter for The New York Times, Allison Danzig, who played football at Cornell.

http://www.tennisfame.com/enshrinees/allison_danzig.html

[Lowell '99]

I'd like to point out that Dr. Heimlich was also Drum Major of the marching band when he was a student.

[Will]

Don't forget about Hawk, one of the American Gladiators, a former Cornell football team captain and MVP!  

http://www.phrd.ab.ca/Schools/INFO_HWY_TUTORIAL/sites/gladiat/gladiat.htm

[Greg Berge]

Now, now.  Reno is a bitch, not an imbecile.  Get your terms right.:-D

As for (1), each time I have heard Coulter interviewed, she has gone out of her way to make her disgust at Cornell in particular and the Ivies in general known vociferously (the only way she ever does anything).  The last time I specifically heard her was on Charlie Rose about 6 months ago.

I will give Coulter credit, however, for making me a liberal.  In an interview about a year ago she blasted libertarians for being "blind to the fact that while there are a few bad Republicans there are no good Democrats."  Good grief, what an idiot.  She and Tucker Carlson should get together -- between the two of them they might weigh in with half a brain.

Cute, though.  A little long in the tooth, but still more baggable than anything we "subversives" (her actual word, laughably) on the left have to offer.

[Hillel]

I forgot to add that Schaap the Elder was also a (not so great, forgive me) lacrosse goalie at Cornell. He had the pleasure of trying to stop Syracuse's Jim Brown, a subject he was always happy to talk about. His opposite number between the pipes for SU was none other than Chief Oren Lyons, wolf clan, Haudenosaunee (Onandaga, Six Nations of the Iroquois Confederacy).

[Adam \'01]

I think one could argue that Dr. Jim Maas should be added to the list.  In fact, he's probably more notable in certain circles than many of the people listed above.