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.

A

Malcolm Atterbury, 1926 – actor
William Arrowsmith, 1941 – professor^[1]

B

John Backus, 1942 – computer scientist; inventor of the FORTRAN computer language^[2]
James Baker III, 1948 – Secretary of State, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury^[3]
Chris Bala, 1997 – professional ice hockey player
Perry Richardson Bass – investor and philanthropist^[4]
Manoj Bhargava, 1972 – inventor of 5-hour Energy^[5]
Pinckney Benedict, 1982 – screenwriter and author
George Packer Berry – Dean of Harvard Medical School^[6]
Josiah Bunting III, 1957 – educator, Superintendent of the Virginia Military Institute
Butch van Breda Kolff, Professional basketball player and coach in the NBA
Irving T. Bush, businessman
William Whiting Borden, missionary, heir of Borden fortune^[7]
Cleve Benedict, 1953 – West Virginian Congressman ^[8]
Curtis Bok, 1915 – Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice
Hans Brase, 2012 – German Basketball player
George Bradley

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^[9]
William F. Clinger, 1947 – former Congressman from Pennsylvania, 1979–97, US Navy (1951–55, Lt.)
Henry S. Coleman, c. 1944 – educator^[10]
Chris Collingwood, 1985 – singer, songwriter, member of rock band Fountains of Wayne
Paul Collins, 1986 – historian and memoirist
James Cromwell, 1958 – Academy Award-nominated television and film actor
Briggs Cunningham, 1926 – sportsman, motor enthusiast; won America's Cup yacht race in 1958
Jay Clayton
Seward Collins – Distributist, Anti-modernist
Evans Clark (1888–1970), writer committed first to Communist and Socialist causes and then liberal socio-economic issues.^[11]

D

Hugh DeHaven, 1914 – professor at Cornell University and "Father of Crash Survivability"
Kingman Douglass, 1914 – investment banker; deputy director of CIA
Jack G. Downing, 1958 – Director of the National Clandestine Service under President Bill Clinton

E

Lincoln Ellsworth, 1919 – polar explorer, first to sight geographic North Pole along with explorer Roald Amundsen
German Horton Hunt Emory
Nick Eppehimer – professional basketball player
Brett Eppehimer – professional basketball player

F

John Heaphy Fellowes, 1951 – U.S. Navy captain, pilot, and POW during the Vietnam War
Leonard Firestone, 1927 – U.S. Ambassador to Belgium, 1974–77, US Navy (WWII, Lt.)
Clarence Fincke – Captain of Yale Football team, Hill Football coach
Harold Furth, 1947 – scientist^[12]
Morton Fetterolf – Pennsylvania State Senator^[13]
William Fincke – pacifist minister
Walter Forbes, 1961 – notable fraudulent executive
Wilson P. Foss Jr., 1910 – board chair New York Trap Rock Corporation, art dealer and collector of Asian art

G

George Garrett, 1941 – poet, novelist, educator
Chris Gebhard, 1992 – business owner, Pennsylvania state senator
Wolcott Gibbs, class of '20 but did not graduate – writer for The New Yorker
S. C. Gwynne, 1970 – bestselling author, Pulitzer Prize finalist
Caleb Frank Gates, 1922 – Chancellor of the University of Denver

H

Harry Hamlin, 1970 – actor
Dick Harter, 1948 – assistant coach of the Philadelphia 76ers
Laning Harvey, 1903 – Pennsylvania state senator
Frederick Herreshoff, 1904 – amateur golfer
Ralph Hills, 1921 – Olympic shot putter, physician
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
Sam Horner, 1956 – NFL halfback, defensive back and punter
Ralph Hills – USA Olympian shot putter, bronze medallist

J

Alexander Jerrems

K

Bob Kudelski, 1983 – professional ice hockey player, 1994 NHL All Star
Theo Killion – CEO 2010–14 tenure led the failing Zale Corporation back from near-bankruptcy
Eric King – NFL player^[14]

L

Lewis Lehrman, 1956 – politician, businessman, author
Robert A. Lovett, 1914 – fourth United States Secretary of Defense
Bill Luders – notable naval architect
Steven Lisberger – American film director and producer, directed Tron
Josiah K. Lilly Jr.

M

James A. Michener, 1931 – author; faculty, department of English
Alberto Mestre, 1982 – Olympian swimmer ^[15]
Charles William Mayo^[16]
Spencer Moseley – CEO of Railway Express Agency^[17]
Devereux Milburn – Big Four polo player

O

P

Frank Pace, 1929 – Secretary of the Army; CEO of General Dynamics
Alan J. Pakula, 1944 – Hollywood director and producer^[18]
George Patton IV, 1942 – Major General in the United States Army; son of World War II General George Patton
Norman Pearlstine, 1960 – a former top editor at The Wall Street Journal, Time Inc., Bloomberg L.P. and The Los Angeles Times
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)^[19]
The Pullman Twins (George, Jr. and Walter (Sanger) Pullman) – attended for a term^[20]
Edward E. Paramore Jr. – screenwriter^[21]
David Paton – founder of Orbis International
Stephen Puth – Singer; Brother of Charlie Puth

Q

William Thomas Quick, 1964 – novelist, screenwriter, blogger. Named the Blogosphere.

R

Pat Rissmiller, 1998 – NHL athlete
Robert F. Rockwell, 1903 – United States Congressman from Colorado
Frank Runyeon, 1971 – actor, two-time Emmy Award winner
William S. Reyburn, Congressman for Pennsylvania^[8]
William A. Roosma, U.S. Army major general^[22]
Peter Rummell, CEO of St. Joe Company
Parviz C. Raji – Iranian Diplomat

S

Len Sassaman, 1998 – computer scientist and biohacker; candidate for Satoshi
Peter Schaffer, 1980 – lawyer and sports 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 married the former Edward VIII of the United Kingdom, elder brother of George VI
Kenneth F. Simpson – congressman
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
Daniel Willard Streeter – hunter, adventurer and author
Barry Sheen, 1937 – British judge
Stephen Sohn, 2005 – Korean-American Model

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 – former president of Washington College
Franchot Tone, Class of 1923, but did not graduate – prominent, Oscar-nominated actor of American stage, film and television productions
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
Roswell Tripp

U

David Vogel Uihlein, Sr. – heir to the Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company

V

John Van Voorhis, 1919 – New York Supreme Court Judge ^[23]

W

John M. Walker, 1927 – physician and investment banker
Douglas "Sandy" A. Warner III, 1964 – former CEO of J. P. Morgan & Co.
Laurence Hawley Watres, 1900 – U.S. Congressman from Pennsylvania^[24]
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 (2015–2023)^[25]
Tobias Wolff, Class of 1964, but was expelled for forging information for admission – writer, novelist, English and writing professor at Stanford
Sidney Wood – Wimbledon tennis champion
Irving Price Wanger – congressman^[26]
Benjamin Drake Wright

Y

Richard Yuengling Sr., 1933 – President of Yuengling Brewery

References

^ "William Ayres Arrowsmith '45". Princeton Alumni Weekly. January 21, 2016.
^ JOHN BACKUS: a restless inventor, accessed December 24, 2006
^ 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."
^ Leslie Wayne, Perry R. Bass, 91, Patriarch of Famed Texas Oil Family, Dies, The New York Times, June 2, 2006
^ Clare O'Connor (February 8, 2012). "The Mystery Monk Making Billions With 5-Hour Energy". Forbes magazine.
^ Altman, Lawrence K., "George P. Berry, 87, Is Dead; Bacteriologist and Educator", New York Times
^ William Whiting Borden. Vol. 5 – via rowman.com. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
^ ^a ^b Congress, United States; Dodge, Andrew R.; Koed, Betty K. (2005). Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774–2005. Government Printing Office. ISBN 978-0-16-073176-1.
^ "Home". Bernardchan.com.
^ Martin, Douglas. "Henry S. Coleman, 79, Dies; Hostage at Columbia in '68", The New York Times, February 4, 2006. Accessed September 12, 2009.
^ Staff. "Evans Clark, Writer, Is Dead; Director of 20th Century Fund", The New York Times, August 29, 1970. Accessed December 24, 2017. "Mr. Clark, who was born in Orange, N. J., on Aug. 9, 1888, received his early education in private schools in New York City and at the Hill School in Pottstown, Pa."
^ Biographical Memoirs. National Academies Press. December 7, 2003. ISBN 978-0-309-08699-8.
^ http://www.house.state.pa.us/BMC/Bios/PDF/1328.PDF ^{[bare URL PDF]}
^ "King Perseveres To Become One Of ACC's Elite". Wake Forest University Athletics.
^ "The Hill School Hall of Fame Founders Fall p. 2". www.thehill.org. Archived from the original on August 29, 2016.
^ Covet, Sylvia S. (2008). "Charles William Mayo, M.D. July 28, 1898 – July 28, 1968". Postgraduate Medicine. 120 (4): 5–6. doi:10.3810/pgm.2008.11.1927. PMID 19020359. S2CID 207558354.
^ Cook, Joan (May 24, 1991). "S. D. Moseley, 72, Football Star at Yale And Executive, Dies". The New York Times.
^ Carnes, Mark Christopher (2002). American National Biography: Supplement. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-522202-9.
^ 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."
^ "The Pullman State Historic Site : George Mortimer Pullman : The Twins". www.pullman-museum.org.
^ Gardner, Martin (February 20, 2013). Famous Poems from Bygone Days. Courier Corporation. ISBN 978-0-486-14856-4.
^ "Roosma Twins Will Go to West Point". Herald News. Passaic, NJ. July 2, 1954. p. 4 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "Historical Society of the New York Courts". www.nycourts.gov.
^ "Col. L. H. Watres, 82, World War Hero, Dies". Scranton Tribune. Scranton, PA. February 7, 1964. pp. 3, 15 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "Hill alumnus Tom Wolf '67 elected Pennsylvania Governor". The Hill School. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved January 25, 2015.
^ "Irving Price Wanger". www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org.

[1] "William Ayres Arrowsmith '45". Princeton Alumni Weekly. January 21, 2016.

[2] JOHN BACKUS: a restless inventor, accessed December 24, 2006

[3] 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."

[4] Leslie Wayne, Perry R. Bass, 91, Patriarch of Famed Texas Oil Family, Dies, The New York Times, June 2, 2006

[5] Clare O'Connor (February 8, 2012). "The Mystery Monk Making Billions With 5-Hour Energy". Forbes magazine.

[6] Altman, Lawrence K., "George P. Berry, 87, Is Dead; Bacteriologist and Educator", New York Times

[7] William Whiting Borden. Vol. 5 – via rowman.com. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)

[auto-8] Congress, United States; Dodge, Andrew R.; Koed, Betty K. (2005). Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774–2005. Government Printing Office. ISBN 978-0-16-073176-1.

[9] "Home". Bernardchan.com.

[10] Martin, Douglas. "Henry S. Coleman, 79, Dies; Hostage at Columbia in '68", The New York Times, February 4, 2006. Accessed September 12, 2009.

[11] Staff. "Evans Clark, Writer, Is Dead; Director of 20th Century Fund", The New York Times, August 29, 1970. Accessed December 24, 2017. "Mr. Clark, who was born in Orange, N. J., on Aug. 9, 1888, received his early education in private schools in New York City and at the Hill School in Pottstown, Pa."

[12] Biographical Memoirs. National Academies Press. December 7, 2003. ISBN 978-0-309-08699-8.

[13] ttp://www.house.state.pa.us/BMC/Bios/PDF/1328.PDF ^{[bare URL PDF]}

[14] "King Perseveres To Become One Of ACC's Elite". Wake Forest University Athletics.

[15] "The Hill School Hall of Fame Founders Fall p. 2". www.thehill.org. Archived from the original on August 29, 2016.

[16] Covet, Sylvia S. (2008). "Charles William Mayo, M.D. July 28, 1898 – July 28, 1968". Postgraduate Medicine. 120 (4): 5–6. doi:10.3810/pgm.2008.11.1927. PMID 19020359. S2CID 207558354.

[17] Cook, Joan (May 24, 1991). "S. D. Moseley, 72, Football Star at Yale And Executive, Dies". The New York Times.

[18] Carnes, Mark Christopher (2002). American National Biography: Supplement. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-522202-9.

[19] 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."

[20] "The Pullman State Historic Site : George Mortimer Pullman : The Twins". www.pullman-museum.org.

[21] Gardner, Martin (February 20, 2013). Famous Poems from Bygone Days. Courier Corporation. ISBN 978-0-486-14856-4.

[Twins-22] "Roosma Twins Will Go to West Point". Herald News. Passaic, NJ. July 2, 1954. p. 4 – via Newspapers.com.

[23] "Historical Society of the New York Courts". www.nycourts.gov.

[Hero-24] "Col. L. H. Watres, 82, World War Hero, Dies". Scranton Tribune. Scranton, PA. February 7, 1964. pp. 3, 15 – via Newspapers.com.

[25] "Hill alumnus Tom Wolf '67 elected Pennsylvania Governor". The Hill School. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved January 25, 2015.

[26] "Irving Price Wanger". www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org.

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