Alumni According to The Putney School 2008 Alumni Directory, alumni of The Putney School include (graduation date shown, where applicable):
Sam Amidon, musician David Amram '48, composer Tim Asch '51, anthropologist, filmmaker Carlos Buhler '72, mountaineer Peter L. Buttenwieser, educator, philanthropist, member of the Lehman family Tim Caldwell, Olympic cross-country skier, son of John Caldwell Jonathan Crary, art historian Dave Cole '96, sculptor Carlton Cuse '77, television writer/executive of LOST Tim Daly '74, actor Alicia Dana '87, U.S. Paralympian Lydia Davis '65, writer, Man Booker International Prize recipient Thulani Davis '61, playwright, journalist, librettist, novelist, poet, and screenwriter Anna Dewdney '83, children's book author and illustrator Barnaby Dorfman '86, inventor, technology products Mahdi ElMandjra '50, Moroccan futurist, economist and sociologist Kai T. Erikson '49, sociologist David J. Griffiths '60, physicist, teacher William B. Gray, U.S. Attorney for Vermont Andrea Gruber, soprano Peter Heller, writer and kayaker William Hinton '36, author, agricultural advisor, People's Republic of China Joan Hinton '39, atomic physicist, dairy farmer in China Lee Hirsch '90, filmmaker. Jeffrey Hollender '73, CEO of Seventh Generation Inc. Reid Hoffman '85, web entrepreneur, co-founder of LinkedIn Felicity Huffman '81, actor Jeffrey Jones '64, actor Kathleen Kennedy Townsend '69, lieutenant governor of Maryland Kerry Kennedy '77, lawyer and human rights activist Bill Koch '73, Olympic cross-country skiing medalist Steven Kunes '74, TV writer and producer Mike Ladd, hip-hop artist Jonathan Lash '63, Hampshire College president Ellen Hamilton Latzen '99, actor Téa Leoni (Pantaleoni) '84, actor Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, '52, journalist, critic, novelist J. Anthony Lukas '51, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Sally Mann '69, fine-art photographer Jared Martin, actor Joanna Miles '58, Emmy award-winning actress in The Glass Menagerie Adrian Morris, painter Errol Morris '65, filmmaker Nell Newman '78, co-founder/owner, Newman's Own Heather Nova '83, musician and songwriter Eli Noyes '60, film animator Ken Olin '72 actor, director and TV producer Priscilla Paetsch '50, violinist, composer Bob Perelman '64, poet, literary critic and professor Jonathan Piel '57, science journalist, past editor of Scientific American Tyler Rasch '06, television personality Noel Rockmore '47, painter, portraitist Martha Rockwell '62, Olympic cross-country skier Jonathan Rosenbaum '61, film critic Demetria Royals, filmmaker Jonathan Schell '61, author Wallace Shawn '61, actor, playwright Lucy Shelton '61, soprano Harper Simon '90, singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer and son of Paul Simon Alexis Stewart '83, television host, daughter of Martha Stewart Eliot Weinberger, essayist Peter Willcox '72, Greenpeace activist, Arctic Sunrise captain Ellen Winner '65, professor specializing in the psychology of art John Bell Young, American concert pianist
Faculty Some Putney faculty members (subject taught in parentheses) had careers that extended beyond their teaching.
Eric Aho (art), American painter John H. Caldwell (mathematics), Nordic skier on the U.S. Olympic Ski Team, author and Nordic coach of the U.S. Olympic Ski Team Chard deNiord (English, philosophy), Poet Laureate of Vermont Eric Evans (English) Olympic canoeist Fernando Gerassi (art), artist Peter C. Goldmark Jr. (history), environmentalist, publisher, and executive Peter Schumann (dance), founder of the Bread and Puppet Theater Margarete Seeler (art), German-born American artist, designer, educator, and author
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