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The Hotchkiss School is a private, coeducational preparatory school in Lakeville, Connecticut, USA. It was founded in 1891 by Maria Bissell Hotchkiss with the encouragement of President Timothy Dwight V of Yale. It is set in 545 acres (2 km²) of woodland and is in proximity to two lakes. This allows additional environmental science courses to be offered. The school is well known for its photography and video program. The 212,000 ft² (19,700 m²) athletic center opened in 2002, while a 715 seat glass-enclosed performing arts center and music pavilion will open in Spring 2005. Hotchkiss' 9 hole golf course was created by famed designer Seth Raynor. As of the start of the 2004-2005 school year Hotchkiss boasts 555 students, over 200 faculty and staff, and an endowment valued at more than $320 million.
Alumni include
- Victor Ashe US Ambassador to Poland
- John G. Avildsen Film Director (Rocky, The Karate Kid)
- Robert Bork Conservative legal scholar, former Attorney-General of the US
- Jonathan Bush uncle of George, brother of George
- Walter P Chrysler, Jr Industrialist and art collector, son of Walter Chrysler
- Charles Edison Governor of New Jersey, son of Thomas Edison,
- Edsel Ford President of Ford Motor Company, son of Henry Ford
- Henry Ford II President of Ford Motor Company
- William C. Ford CEO of Ford Motor Company
- Varian Fry journalist and 'the American Schindler'
- Arthur Lehman Goodhart Legal scholar, Master of University College, Oxford
- Porter J. Goss Director of the CIA
- Alfred Whitney Griswold President of Yale
- Ernest Gruening Governor of Alaska, US Senator
- Briton Hadden Co-founder of Time Magazine with Henry Luce
- John Hammond Record Producer (discovered Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen)
- Leland Hayward Hollywood and Broadway agent and producer
- John Hersey Pulitzer Prize winning author
- Allison Janney Emmy Award winning Actress
- Lawrence M. Judd Governor of Hawaii
- Lewis H. Lapham Editor of Harper's Magazine
- Winston Lord US Ambassador to the People's Republic of China 1985-1989
- Henry Luce Co-founder of Time Magazine with Briton Hadden
- Archibald MacLeish Poet Laureate, Pulitzer Prize winner
- Forrest Mars, Jr CEO of Mars, Incorporated, billionaire
- Peter Matthiessen Naturalist and Writer
- Douglas Stuart Moore Composer
- Gerald Murphy Precisionist Artist
- Paul Nitze Secretary of the Navy, architect of US policy towards the Soviet Union
- Clark T. Randt, Jr. US Ambassador to the People's Republic of China 2001-
- Dickinson Richards Nobel Prize winner
- William Warren Scranton Governor of Pennsylvania, US Ambassador to the UN
- Harold Stanley Founder, Morgan Stanley
- Potter Stewart Justice of the US Supreme Court
- Strobe Talbott Journalist and diplomat
- John Thornton President, Goldman Sachs
- Fay Vincent Baseball Commissioner
- Arthur Kittredge Watson Chairman of IBM, US Ambassador to the UK
- Charles Yost US Ambassador to the UN
Fictional Hotchkiss alumni
In the book Primary Colors by Joe Klein, later turned into a film, the principal character Henry Burton was educated at Hotchkiss, and is frequently referred to as 'Hotchkiss'. In Jeffrey Archer's novel Sons of Fortune protagonist Fletcher Andrew Cartright is a Hotchkiss alumnus.
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