List of Lake Forest Academy alumni
This list of alumni of Lake Forest Academy includes graduates and non-graduate former students.
Arts
[edit]- John Agar, actor, formerly married to Shirley Temple[1]
- Bix Beiderbecke, jazz cornet player (expelled; attended 1921–22)[2]
- David Bradley, film director
- Temple Hoyne Buell (1914), architect, viewed as the father of the modern indoor shopping mall[3]
- Jay Chandrasekhar, comedian and film director[4]
- Max Demián (2005), performance artist
- Lindsay Glazer (1996), comedian
- Jesse Hibbs (1925), film director
- Brad Morris (1994), television actor
- Robert Myhrum (1944), television director
- Tom Neal, actor[5]
- Kelly Perine (1987), actor
- McLean Stevenson, actor[6]
- Stephen Wade (1970), folk musician
- Melora Walters (1979), actress
Business and law
[edit]- James Aubrey (attended 1931–32), president of CBS and MGM
- Charles Edmund Beard (1916), aviation pioneer and president of Braniff Airlines[7]
- Andrew T. Berlin (1979), businessman and philanthropist; minority stakeholder in the Chicago Cubs Major League Baseball team
- Ralph Bogan, co-owned baseball's Milwaukee/Atlanta Braves
- James R. Cargill (1941), billionaire scion of Minnesota's Cargill family; pioneered in the computerization of animal feed formulations[8]
- Gaylord Donnelley (attended 1923–24), former chairman of R. R. Donnelley & Sons
- Charles Gelatt (1935), Wisconsin businessman and philanthropist, early co-owner of the Milwaukee Brewers
- George N. Gillett Jr. (1956), communications mogul, former co–owner of the English Premier League team Liverpool F.C. and NASCAR auto-racing team Richard Petty Motorsports
- Louis Upton (1907), co-founder of Whirlpool Corporation
- Rawleigh Warner Jr. (attended 1935–36), chairman/CEO of Mobil Oil
Government and public service
[edit]- Makola Abdullah (1986), 14th President of Virginia State University (VSU)
- Richard L. Conolly (1910), Admiral of the United States Navy during World War II[9]
- Jan Crull Jr., Native American rights advocate, filmmaker, attorney[10]
- Geoff Diehl, class of 1988, State Representative for the 7th Plymouth District of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
- John Francis Grady (1948), United States District Court Judge; senior judge for the Northern District of Illinois
- Melvin R. Laird (attended 1938–39), US Congressman (1952–69) and Secretary of Defense (1969–73)[6]
- Edward Everett Nourse, theologian[11]
- Nauman S. Scott, class of 1934, one of the first Louisiana U.S. District Court Judges to advocate desegregation
- Charles H. Wacker (1872), chairman of the Chicago Plan Commission and beer-maker[12][13][14]
Journalism and letters
[edit]- Bill Ayers, professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago who co-founded the Weather Underground[15]
- Ward Just, Washington Post Vietnam War correspondent and author
- Michael Leonard, class of 1966, feature reporter for NBC's Today show
- Rebecca Makkai, class of 1995, author
- Ralph J. Mills, poet and critic
- Robert Wilson Patterson, class of 1867, newspaper publisher
- Bill Schulz, class of 1994, Fox News
Science
[edit]- Patrick M. McCarthy (surgeon), class of 1973, heart surgeon
- Cristopher Moore, class of 1983, computer scientist, mathematician, and physicist
- Karl Patterson Schmidt, herpetologist
- Paul Starrett, class of 1883, structural engineer
- Charles Thom, microbiologist and mycologist
Athletics
[edit]- Neil Blatchford (1964), speed skater who competed in the 1972 Winter Olympics[16]
- Angus Brandt, Australian professional basketball player
- Alex DeBrincat, right winger for NHL's Detroit Red Wings
- Alfred Eissler, NFL player
- Dylan Ennis, professional basketball player
- Tyler Ennis, NBA player for the Los Angeles Lakers
- Babe Frump, NFL player with the Chicago Bears
- Ángel García, professional basketball player
- Geneviève Lacasse, Olympic gold medalist goalkeeper, Canadian national women's hockey team
- David Levine, ARCA Racing Series race car driver for Lira Motorsports
- Victor Pineda, soccer player for Chicago Fire and United States U-18 national team
- Olivier-Maxence Prosper, professional basketball player for Dallas Mavericks
- Teddy Purcell, right winger for NHL's Tampa Bay Lightning
- Paul Schuette, NFL player with the New York Giants, Chicago Bears, and Boston Braves
Other
[edit]- Robert S. Hartman, logician and philosopher
References
[edit]- ^ Vallance, Tom (10 April 2002), "John Agar: Strappingly handsome actor married to Shirley Temple (obituary)", The Independent, archived from the original on July 27, 2010, retrieved 13 April 2010,
Born in Chicago in 1921, Agar was the eldest of four sons of an affluent executive of a meat-packing company. Educated at the Harvard School for Boys and Lake Forest Academy, he excelled in athletics but did not receive good enough grades to attend college.
- ^ "Bix Beiderbecke". PBS. Retrieved 2007-01-01.
- ^ "Biographical Note" (Temple Hoyne Buell Architectural Records,WH1397, Western History Collection). biographical sketch. Denver Public Library. Retrieved 13 April 2010.
Temple Hoyne Buell was born in Chicago on September 9, 1895. He grew up in Chicago and attended Lake Forest Academy.
- ^ "Jay Chandrasekhar: Director, actor, writer". biographic sketch. Office of the Clerk of Cook County. 2009. Archived from the original on 8 July 2011. Retrieved 13 April 2010.
- ^ O'Dowd, John (2007). Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye: The Barbara Payton Story. BearManor Media. p. 148. ISBN 978-1-593-93063-9.
- ^ a b Sweeney, Annie (27 January 1998), "Diversity Apparent In An Unlikely Place", Chicago Tribune, retrieved 14 April 2010,
Past students include such luminaries as former U.S. Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird, the late actor McLean Stevenson and Illinois State Treasurer Judy Baar Topinka, who attended Ferry Hall, which merged with LFA in 1974.
- ^ Moore, Matthew Douglas (22 February 2010). "BEARD, CHARLES EDMUND (1900–1982)". biographic sketch. Texas State Historical Association/University of North Texas. Retrieved 13 April 2010.
Charles Beard, airline executive, was born in Toledo, Ohio, on November 23, 1900, the son of Hiram Edmund and Mamie (Reiser) Beard. He received his early education at Lake Forest Academy.
- ^ Medcalf, Myron P. (29 March 2006), "James R. Cargill, grandson of firm's founder; The fourth-wealthiest Minnesotan retired from the company in 1989 but still worked on other interests", Star Tribune (Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA), archived from the original on 3 November 2012, retrieved 13 April 2010,
He was born in 1923 in Chicago and raised in Minneapolis. After graduating from Lake Forest Academy in Lake Forest, Ill., …
- ^ Moran, Dan (5 February 2007), "Destroyer museum plans could be sinking Waukegan", The News Sun (Waukegan, Illinois),
The Conolly is named for World War II Adm. Richard Lansing Conolly, who was born in Waukegan and attended Lake Forest Academy.
- ^ "a.b.c...." Who's Who in America 2011 65th Edition, Vol. 1 + A-L. New Providence, N.J.: Marquis Who's Who. pp. 1003–1004.
- ^ The Encyclopedia Americana, vol. 20, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation, 1919, p. 462,
American theologian: b. Bayfield, Wis. 24 Dec. 1863. He was educated at Lake Forest Academy and University ...
- ^ Andres, Alfred Theodore (1886), History of Chicago, vol. 3, Chicago: The A. T. Andreas Company, p. 578,
Charles H. Wacker ... received his education in the graded and high schools of the city, also studying one year at Lake Forest Academy.
- ^ Waterman, Arba Nelson (1908), Historical review of Chicago and Cook county and selected biography, vol. 3, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, p. 1116,
Charles Henry Wacker was born in Chicago ... He attended the public schools of Chicago and the Lake Forest (Ill.) Academy.
- ^ Hirsch, Susan (Summer 2016). "Ethnic and Civic Leadership: Charles H. Wacker and Chicago". Journal of American Ethnic History. 35 (4): 5–31. doi:10.5406/jamerethnhist.35.4.5.
- ^ Leonard, John (2001-09-27). "Looking for Mr. Goodbomb". The Nation. Retrieved 2007-01-01.
- ^ "Northbrook Skater Wins Midwest Title: Neil Blatchford Leads Triumph by Illinois as Field Accounts for 29 Records", Milwaukee Journal, p. 11, 3 February 1964,
While Blatchford, a star athlete at Lake Forest (Ill.) academy was winning the ...