Date: November 12th, 2009 10:27 AM
Author: slate nursing home
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NOTABLE ALUMNI
Academic
* Philip Milledoler Brett, President of Rutgers University.
* Edward Duffield, President of Princeton University. At one time he was also President of the Prudential Life Insurance Company.
* Francis Patrick Garvan, Dean of Fordham University School of Law. Later became head of the Chemical Foundation, which played a role in the founding of the American Institute of Physics, and the National Institutes of Health. Remains the only non-scientist to win the Priestley Medal, the highest honor conferred by the American Chemical Society (ACS) for distinguished service in the field of chemistry.
[edit] Business
* Chester Carlson, a physicist and former engineer at Bell Labs, while a student at New York Law School in 1938 invented the xerography photocopy process.
* Blanche Lark Christerson, currently Managing Director at Deutsche Bank Private Wealth Management.
* Susan E. Cohig, presently Group Vice President for Club Services for the National Hockey League.
* Gregory D. Frost, Chairman, CEO and General Counsel of Able Energy, Inc. (Nasdaq).
* Maurice R. Greenberg, former chairman and CEO of American International Group (AIG); current chairman and CEO of C.V. Starr and Company.
* Richard LaMotta, inventor of Chipwich ice cream sandwich, co-founder of Chipwich Inc., later sold to CoolBrands, and then Dreyer's (Nestle).
* Lawrence S. Huntington, former Chairman of Fiduciary Trust Company.
* Christopher Johnson Jr., currently VP and General Counsel of General Motors North America.
* J. Bruce Llewellyn, Chairman of Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Philadelphia, among the five largest minority-owned businesses in the nation.
* Marc Lasry, Founder and Managing Partner, Avenue Capital Group. Founder and Senior Managing Director, Amroc.
* John McMahon, currently President and CEO, Orange & Rockland Utilities.
* Bernard H. Mendik, former chairman of the Real Estate Board of New York, CEO of Mendik Properties which he sold to Steve Roth for $654 million and became co-chairman of Vornado. Later left Vornado to start another real estate company.
* Charles Phillips (businessman), currently President of Oracle Corporation; former Managing Director of Morgan Stanley.
* Alfred Swayne, Chairman of General Motors Acceptance Corporation.
* Kenneth D. Werner, currently President of Warner Brothers Domestic Television Distribution.
* Zygmunt Wilf, head of Garden Commercial Properties, and principal owner of the Minnesota Vikings of the NFL.
[edit] Civic
* Leo Cherne, executive director of the Research Institute of America; chairman of the executive committee of Freedom House; chairman of the International Rescue Committee. Served on U.S. Select Committee for Western Hemisphere Immigraions and the U.S. Advisory Commission on International Education and Cultural Affairs, as well as, the U.S. President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board (PFIAB), and the Intelligence Oversight Board. Was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Ronald Reagan in 1984.
* Cynthia Price Cohen, executive director Child Rights International Research Institute.
* Raymond B. Fosdick, former President of the Rockefeller Foundation.
* Meir Kahane, founder of the Jewish Defense League.
* Christina M. Storm, founder and president of Lawyers Without Borders.
[edit] Cultural
* Arnold Kopelson, won Best Picture Academy Award, a Golden Globe, and an Independent Spirit Award, all for his production of Platoon (1986). Received a Best Picture Academy Award nomination for his production of The Fugitive (1993), and his films have been collectively responsible for 17 Academy Award nominations.
* Jerry Masucci, record producer, concert and boxing promoter and film maker. Founded Fania Records (later owned 10 record companies).
* Michael Rego, producer of Tony Award-winning plays, Urinetown (2002), and Wicked (2004).
* Elmer Rice, Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright, The Adding Machine (1923) and Street Scene (1929), Class of 1912.
* Judith Sheindlin ("Judge Judy"), New York family court judge, author, and television personality.
* Wallace Stevens, Pulitzer Prize–winning poet, Collected Works (1955), Class of 1903.
[edit] Government
* Bainbridge Colby, United States Secretary of State under President Woodrow Wilson (1920-1921).
* James W. Gerard, U.S. Ambassador to Germany during World War I, and New York Supreme Court justice.
* Kathleen Grimm, Deputy Chancellor, Finance and Administration for the New York City Department of Education.
* Seymour Glanzer, First Chief of the Anti-Fraud Section of the U.S. Attorney's Office in Washington D.C., and one of three original prosecutors in the Watergate Scandal.
* Charles Maikish, former director of the World Trade Center, more recently head of the Lower Manhattan Command Center - the government entity that has been overseeing all public and private construction post - 9/11.
* Randolph E. Paul, General Counsel U.S. Treasury Department, founder Paul, Weiss Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison.
* Ferdinand Pecora, appointed Chief Counsel to the U.S. Senate's Committee on Banking and Currency following the 1932 election of Franklin D. Roosevelt. He led Senate hearings, known as the Pecora Commission into the causes of the Wall Street Crash of 1929 which launched a major reform of the American financial system, that resulted in the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Became one of the first members of the Securities Exchange Commission.
* Laura Simone Unger, member of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (1997-2001), acting Chairman (2001).
* Barbara M. Watson, daughter of James S. Watson (judicial), U.S. Ambassador to Malaysia, and first female Assistant Secretary of State of the United States.
[edit] Judicial
* Hon. Clarence E. Case, Chief Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court.
* Hon. Albert C. Cohn, New York State Supreme Court justice, and father of lawyer Roy Cohn.
* Hon. Charles William Froessel, New York Court of Appeals (1949-1962).
* Hon. John Marshall Harlan II, United States Supreme Court Justice from 1955 to 1971.
* Hon. Robert Alexander Inch, Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York.
* Hon. Roger J. Miner, Chief Judge United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
* Hon. Francis T. Murphy, Presiding Justice New York State Supreme Court, Appellate Division, 1977-97.
* Hon. Emilio Nuñez, became the first Latino judge in New York City.
* Hon. Samuel Seabury, associate justice of the Court of Appeals.
* Hon. Jonah Triebwasser, Justice of the Village and Town of Red Hook, New York
* Hon. Nicholas Tsoucalas, former chief judge, now senior judge U.S. Court of International Trade.
* Hon. James S. Watson, became a judge and was the first African American admitted to membership in the American Bar Association.
[edit] Political
* Henry C. Allen, U.S. Congressman from New Jersey (1905-1907).
* Michael Arcuri, present U.S. Congressman, New York's 24th district.
* Mario Biaggi, U.S. Congressman from New York (1969-1988).
* Julio Brady, a former lieutenant governor, United States attorney, Attorney General and Territorial Court Judge in the United States Virgin Islands, presently a judge on the Superior Court.
* Harry H. Dale, U.S. Congressman from New York (1913-1919).
* Isidore Dollinger. U.S. Congressman from New York (1949-1959).
* Eliot L. Engel, presently U.S. Congressman, New York's 17th district.
* Otto G. Foelker, U.S. Congressman from New York (1908-1911).
* John J. Fitzgerald, U.S. Congressman from New York (1899-1917).
* Franklin W. Fort (1880-1937), represented New Jersey's 9th congressional district from 1925-1931.[18]
* Benjamin A. Gilman, former U.S. Congressman (1973-2003), Chair of House Committee on International Relations. Previously New York Attorney General.
* Elmer H. Geran, U.S. Attorney, and U.S. Congressman for New Jersey.
* Daniel J. Griffin, U.S. Congressman from New York (1913-1917).
* Clarence E. Hancock, U.S. Congressman from New York (1927-1947).
* Francis Burton Harrison, U.S. Congressman from New York (1903-1913) and Governor-General of the Philippines (1913-1921) under Woodrow Wilson.
* G. Murray Hulbert. U.S. Congressman from New York (1915-1918), resigning to become commissioner of docks and director of the port of New York City; elected president of the Board of Aldermen of New York City (1921), and served as acting mayor during the long illness of Mayor Hylan.
* John F. Hylan, New York City mayor (1918-1925).
* Conrad A. Johnson, an immigrant from Barbados, became the first black Republican Alderman in New York City.
* Eugene W. Leake, U.S. Congressman from New Jersey (1907-1909).
* Warren I. Lee, U.S. Congressman from New York (1921-1923).
* Frederick R. Lehlbach, U.S. Congressman from New Jersey (1915-1937).
* Michael McMahon, U.S. Congressman from the 13th Congressional District of New York (Staten Island/Bay Ridge), elected 2008.
* John Purroy Mitchel, youngest person ever elected Mayor of New York City (1914-1917).
* Guy Molinari, former U.S. Congressman from New York (1981-1989). Father of Susan Molinari, former U.S. Congresswoman from New York.
* Frederick W. Mulkey, U.S. Senator from Oregon, twice elected to finish out term of other Senators that died in office. (1907, and 1918 - both times did not seek re-election).
* Charles F.X. O'Brien (1879-1940), represented New Jersey's 12th congressional district from 1921 to 1925.[19]
* James Oddo, currently New York City Council Member and Republican Minority Leader.
* Thomas Francis Smith, U.S. Congressman from New York (1916-1921).
* Oscar W. Swift, U.S. Congressman from New York (1915-1919).
* John Taber, U.S. Congressman from New York (1923-1963).
* William L. Tierney, U.S. Congressman from Connecticut (1931-1933).
* Robert F. Wagner, Chairman of the National Labor Board, and then United States Senator from New York from 1927 to 1949, introduced and won passage of the National Labor Relations Act, or Wagner Act. Father of Robert F. Wagner, Jr. mayor of New York City.
* Alton R. Waldon, Jr., U.S. Congressman from New York (1986-1987).
* James J. Walker, New York Assemblyman, Senate Majority Leader, and New York City Mayor (1926-1932).
* Royal H. Weller, U.S Congressman form New York (1923-1929).
[edit] Sports
* Walter Dukes, all-American basketball player at Seton Hall University, while averaging 26.1 points and 22.2 rebounds per game (still an NCAA record for rebounds in a season). The 2-time NBA All-Star played 8 seasons for the Knicks, Lakers and Pistons, as well as 2 seasons for the Harlem Globetrotters.
[edit] Name partners in prominent firms
* Abbey Spanier Rodd Abrams & Paradis: Arthur N. Abbey.
* Breed, Abbott & Morgan: Henry Hurlbut Abbott.
* Chadbourne & Parke: William Parke.
* Davis Polk: Edwin Sunderland.
* Heraty Law: Quinn Heraty.
* Kaye Scholer: Jacob Scholer.
* Kelley Drye & Warren: Reid Carr.
* LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae: Cameron R. MacRae.
* Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy: Albert Milbank and Walter Hope.
* Parker Chapin Flattau & Klimpl: Albert Parker.
* Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison: Randolph E. Paul and John F. Wharton.
* Pegalis & Erickson: Steven E. Pegalis.
* Proskauer Rose: Alfred Rose.
* Walter, Conston, Alexander & Green: Otto Walter.
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