page_title: Pomfret School
section_title: Notable alumni
hierarchical_section_title: Pomfret School / Notable alumni
caption_attribution_description: English: James Rothman receives Nobel Prize 2013 - Andrux
context_page_description: Pomfret School is an independent, coeducational, college preparatory boarding and day school in Pomfret, Connecticut, United States, serving 360 students in grades 9 through 12 and post-graduates.
  Located in the Pomfret Street Historic District, a 45-minute drive west from Boston, the average class size is 11 students with a student-teacher ratio of 6:1. Over 80% of faculty hold master's or doctorate degrees. Typically, 40% of students receive financial aid or support from over 60 endowed scholarship funds, 9% are students of color, 17% are international students.
  Pomfret is ranked in the top 20 of similarly sized U.S. boarding schools, in the top 50 of all U.S. boarding schools, and has been recognized as one of the "Most Beautiful Boarding Schools Around the World." The 2008 film Afterschool by Antonio Campos was filmed on Pomfret's campus.
  Opened October 3, 1894 by Founder William E. Peck and his wife Harriet Jones Peck, who designed the school's coat of arms, Pomfret's graduates have distinguished themselves in sports, government, the arts, sciences, business, and public service as philanthropists and activists.
context_section_description: Alumni listed below are recorded in the school's official records as having received their diploma from Pomfret.
       
  Herbert Claiborne Pell, Jr. 1902, member of Congress (D-NY) and U.S. Minister to Hungary & Portugal
  Arthur Purdy Stout 1903, noted surgeon and pathologist
  Edward Streeter 1910, New York Times Bestselling author of Father of the Bride and Mr. Hobbs' Vacation, vice president, The Bank of New York c. 1928–1953
  Frederic W. Lincoln, Jr. 1917, former chairman of the Board of Trustees of the New York Medical College
  Edward Stettinius, Jr. 1920, U.S. Secretary of State 1945, instrumental in the creation of the United Nations and first U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations
  William F. Draper '31, combat artist and prominent portrait painter of U.S. presidents and other notables
  Roger Angell '38, fiction editor and regular contributor at The New Yorker
  Robert Vickrey '44, author, painter in major museum collections, and a leader in the Magic Realism art movement
  Robert B. Fiske '48, United States Attorney and Whitewater controversy Special Prosecutor
  William P. Carey '48, founder of WP Carey, Inc., the Carey Business School at Johns Hopkins University, the Carey School of Law, and the W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University
  Jon Stone '48, Emmy winning founding producer of Sesame Street and author
  Theodore R. Sizer '49, noted leader of U.S. educational reform, dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education (1964–72), founding director of the Annenberg Institute for School Reform, author of numerous influential books on education reform
  Reverend Peter L. Pond '51, Director for Resettlement, Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service; consultant, Lutheran Social Services of New England, the Peace Corps in Colombia and Chile, VISTA on Navajo reservations; appointed by First Lady Rosalynn Carter to the White House National Cambodian Crisis Committee
  Peter Beard '56, nature photographer and conservationist author, numerous international exhibitions, museum and private collections
  Orville Hickock Schell III '58, author, journalist, expert on Asian affairs; former dean, Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley; Arthur Ross Director of the Center on US–China Relations at the Asia Society in New York City; 1980 Alicia Patterson Journalism Fellowship, 1992 Emmy Award and Alfred I. duPont Award - Columbia University Silver Baton for 60 Minutes' Made in China; 1997 Peabody Award  for Frontline's documentary Gate of Heavenly Peace
  Adam Hochschild '60, a founder of Mother Jones, author of the best-selling book King Leopold's Ghost
  Joe Boyd '60, record producer and author of White Bicycles - Making Music in the 1960s
  Jack Hardy '65, influential writer, performer, and mentor in North American and European folk music, founding editor, Fast Folk Musical Magazine
  Antônio Augusto Cançado Trindade '66, professor, Public International Law, University of Brasilia; judge, the International Court of Justice, The Hague; former president, Inter-American Court of Human Rights
  James Rothman '67, Nobel Prize 2013, Fergus F. Wallace Professor of Biomedical Sciences at Yale University, chairman of the Department of Cell Biology at Yale School of Medicine, and director of the Nanobiology Institute at the Yale West Campus
  Eric D. Coleman '69, State Senator, Deputy President Pro Tempore in the Connecticut Senate
  Alex Gibney '71, Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature 2008 Taxi to the Dark Side; multi Emmy winning documentary film director, writer, and producer
  Robert W. McChesney '71, noted author, Gutgsell Endowed Professor in the Department of Communication, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, co-founder of the Free Press (organization).
  Ridley Pearson '71, New York Times best-selling author, Undercurrents, The Art of Deception, The Kingdom Keepers series, Steel Trap: The Academy set at Pomfret School, co-author of the Peter & The Starcatchers series, one of which was adapted for a multi Tony Award-winning Broadway play
  Eben Fiske Ostby '73, founding employee of Pixar Animation, Vice Pre
caption: Nobel Laureate James Rothman - Andrux
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