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| McCain, John | Episcopal H.S., Alexandria, VA | Senator John McCain described himself as a "victim" of this suburban Washington, DC school in that it left a strong impression on him and helped to shape his beliefs and values. Another person to pass through the school's halls was Brett Johnson of the BET Johnsons (see separate entry).
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| McCarthy, Andrew | Pingry School, Martinsville, NJ | Actor McCarthy went to Pingry, where Casey Johnson's second cousin, Jamie Johnson, who is behind the HBO film, "Born Rich," went. The school is located in New Jersey. Another person to come through Pingry was S.I. Newhouse IV, the grandson of Conde Nast CEO S.I., Jr.
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| McDonald, Michael | Taft School, Watertown, CT | The silken voiced former Doobie is an alum of Taft, as is Mary Chapin Carpenter and others. For more, see her entry on these pages.
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| McDowell, Roddy | Culver Military Academy, Culver, IN | Child star McDowell got kicked out of this Indiana military school, where is mentioned in the entry for Barbara Stanwyck. Michael Huffington also went there and excelled, according to Joe Eszterhas.
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| McEnroe, John | Trinity School, New York, NY | McEnroe attended Trinity in NYC, where a classmate was heiress Katrina Van den Heuvel, now editor of the Nation. (Trinity is mentioned several times on these pages; for example, in entries for Truman Capote and Oliver Stone. Patty Smythe's stepdaughter attended Trinity and that Hank Greenberg's grandsons went to the school, too. Also, someone wrote to say McEnroe attended Buckley Country Day School, located on Long Island.
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| McGuinn, Roger | Latin School of Chicago, Chicago, IL | Byrds member McGuinn attended this Chicago school, where Nancy Davis Reagan, actor Bob Balaban, Ted Field, and others went. Also Ike Barinholtz, Amy Laughlin, and Sarah Danielle Madison..
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| McPhee, John | Deerfield Academy, Deerfield, MA | Writer McPhee is a product of Deerfield and wrote "The Headmaster" about Deerfield's head. Deerfield is also the alma mater of Nelson Doubleday, journalist Steven Brill, members of the Rockefeller family, members of the Jordanian royal family, actor Matt Fox of "Party of Five," and actor Nestor Carbonell. Others to come through Deerfield include Senators Christopher Bond and John H. Chafee.
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| Menendez Brothers | Princeton Day School, Princeton, NJ | Both Lyle and Erik attended the school and early on had difficulties learning. Some viewed them as immature; others saw them simply as average students. Princeton Day School also turned out Christopher Reeve, legal great Nicholas Katzenbach, little known actor Tom Gaman ("Lord of hte Flies"), and Mary Chapin Carpenter, who has her own entry here and is also associated with Kent.
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| Mercer, Johnny | Woodberry Forest School, Woodberry Forest, VA | Songwriting great Mercer attended this Virginia school, where Jim Hedges, and Marvin Bush passed through. For more, read the very interesting entry on these pages for Jonathan Yardley.
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| Meredith, Burgess | Hoosac School, Hoosick, NY | Meredith was in the Class of '26 and performed in the "Boar's Head and Yule Log Christmas Celebration."
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| Merrill, James | Lawrenceville School, Lawrenceville, NJ | Poet Merrill attended the school, which is also mentioned here in the section about the Hayward Family. Another product of Lawrenceville is rock star Huey Lewis of Huey Lewis and the News. He not only graduated ('67) but was an academic standout. Patty Hearst's daughters (Gillian and Lydia) went to Lawrenceville; one graduated. A correspondent writes that playwright Edward Albee went there but was booted out for non-attendance. The Head wrote him a recommendation to Choate. Lawrenceville is popular with the Bunn (coffeemaker) family, too, correspondents say, and several members of the family graduated from the school. (There is a Bunn Library there to prove their mark.) Michael Eisner, Malcolm Forbes (1934), Heisman winner Clinton Frank, 1936 Wimbledon winner Tim Disney, Peter O. Lawson-Johnson (a Guggenheim), champ Frank Parker, and singer Dierks Bentley (Class of 93), all came through Lawrenceville. Bentley and his brother Fife were members of Dickinson House.
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| Miller, Steve | St. Mark's School of Texas, Dallas and/or Wesleyan School, Norcross, GA | This 70s rock great attended St. Mark's, as did another notable from the classic rock era, Boz Scaggs. Someone else wrote to say he went to Wesleyan, a desirable day school near Atlanta. Other St. Mark's students include the Wilson Brothers (Owen and Luke) and actor Tommy Lee Jones. Luke Wilson is a 1990 graduate but Owen left and went on to New Mexico Military Institute, class of 1987.
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| Miscellaneous | St. Andrew's School, Middletown, DE; Buckley Country Day School, Rosslyn, NY; Master School, Dobbs Ferry, NY | St. Andrews is where "Dead Poet's Society" was filmed. Buckley is where "School of Rock was filmed." "Stepford Wives" was filmed at Master's.
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| Miscellaneous Families | Various Schools | I've gotten several notes about what I would call "famous families," some of which have connections to Royals (see separate section for "Royals"). The Taittinger family, of champagne fame, send their younger members to Le Rosey, St. Mary's in the UK (the female version of Eton, according to some), Lycee Jeanne D'Arc, Beau Soleil, another famous Swiss school, and TASIS, also in Switzerland. The Miller sisters (Pia, Marie-Chantal, and Alexandria) all went to the French International School in Hong Kong and later Le Rosey in Switzerland, but I got a note recently from a classmate of theirs from the Masters School in Dobbs Ferry. The Rothschilds have attended Institut Montana in Switzerland, where John Kerry spent some time, as well as Le Rosey, Eton, both in Switzerland, and Malvern Girls School in the UK. Le Rosey is also where the accursed Woodwards, Jimmy and Woody, went. Designer Monique Lhullier went to Chateau Mont-Choisi in Switzerland (now closed). The Zobel de Ayala family of Asia have a connection to Salisbury in Salisbury CT, one school associated with Nelson Doubleday, Dublin School in Dublin, NH, Leys (Cambridge, England); and others. The Marcos family of the Philippines have sent their kids to a convent school in Monterey,CA and to Worth in England. The Sulzberger family has been the subject of a few pieces of mail and is associated with Browning School in New York (see the Howard Dean entry, also the Rockefeller entry) and with Loomis Chafee. And someone recently wrote to say the Marriott family has ties to the still-all-male Bullis School, which is located in the tony DC suburb of Potomac, Maryland. The DuPonts have ties to Pomfret, and Edward B. ('52) and there's a library there to prove it.
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| Morgan, JP | Cheshire Academy, Cheshire, CT | JP Morgan, a correspondent writes, went to this academy, which is where Dawson's Creek star James Van Der Beek and writer Robert Ludlom went.
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| Morris, Errol | Putney School, Putney, VT | Film director Errol Morris graduated from this school in 1965. John Irving's kids went to Putney and one of them dated Tea Leoni (see separate mentions of the school under Alger Hiss, John Irving, and Tea Leoni). Irving, who attended Phillips Exeter, was a wrestler and coached his children in wrestling, too. Putney students pick vegetables and milk cows. For more on Putney, see Tea Leoni's entry.
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| Moxley, John | Choate Rosemary Hall, Wallingford, CT | John Moxley, Martha's brother, attended Chate, along with Glenn Close and James Dickey's daughter. Ivanka Trump was a graduate, as was Peter Jennings' son. One correspondent writes that Choate Rosemary Hall was the choice of the royal family of Bhutan and the Hearst family, too, for members of those families. Actor Paul Giamatti went to Choate. Jamie Lee Curtis was a member of the class of 1976 but has her own entry which also mentions a stint at Harvard Westlake.
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| Murray, Bill | Loyola Academy, Wilmette, IL | Both Bill Murray and Chris O'Donnell went to this suburban Chicago prep school. See O'Donnell's entry below for more.
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| Nash, John Jr. | Peddie School, Hightstown, NJ | Peddie School alum Ambassador Walter Annenberg gave $100 million dollars to this New Jersey school, one of the largest gifts ever made to a private school. John Nash, Jr. attended Peddie. His father, who was the featured character in A Beautiful Mind, may or may not have but probably did not. (John Jr. didn't graduate but got his PhD anyway.) Other Peddie graduates include film producer and M*A*S*H author Howard W. Koch and medical journalist Dean Edell. By the way, Bill Cosby is somehow associated with the spectacularly endowed school, which is located in Highstown, about 50 miles from New York City. A correspondent writes that Cosby sent his kids to the George School in Newton, PA, mentioned further below in entries for Stephen Sondheim and Gwyneth Paltrow (Paltrow's mom went there).
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| Nealon, Kevin | St. Joseph's School, Trumbull, CT | Kevin Nealon attended this school, a Catholic prep school.
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| Nederlander, Eric | Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI | Nederlander, an heir to the New York City theater dynasty, but perhaps better known as the former husband of now-Mrs. Jerry Seinfeld, went to this tony prep school, known for its art and architecture tradition. Actresses Selma Blair and Dey Young also went to Cranbrook. Cranbrook's most notorious alum is African dictator President Obiang of Equatorial Guinea.
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| Nelson, Judd | St. Paul's, Concord, NH | Actor Nelson attended school at St. Paul's, where Catherine Oxenberg, Alexis Denisof, Archibald Cox, FBI's Robert Mueller, agent Andrew Wylie, cartoonist Gary Trudeau, John Kerry, and many others also passed through. Poker champs Howard Lederer and his sister Annie Duke went to St. Paul's, where their father taught. For more, see John Kerry's entry.
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| Newhouse, Samuel "Si" | Horace Mann School, Riverdale, NY and Pingry School, Martinsville, NJ | Media magnate Newhouse, behind Vanity Fair, Vogue, and others, went to Horace Mann. For a list of others to come through Horace Mann, see entries for Generoso Pope, James Salter, Bob Rafelson, and Roy Cohn.
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Nixon Family | Sidwell Friends School, Washington, DC; Marlborough School, Los Angeles, CA | The Nixons were Quakers, hence the choice of Sidwell for their daughters. The school is popular with Washington political families, such as the Clintons (daughter Chelsea), the Roosevelts and the Hoovers. Herbert Hoover's son attended Sidwell, as did Teddy Roosevelt's. Nancy Davis Reagan attended Sidwell, too. Another person wrote to tell me the Nixon girls attended the elite Marlborough School for Girls, on Rossmore in Los Angeles. Anne Archer went there, too. Yet another person said they went to Harvard Westlake in North Hollywood (see Bridge Fonda's entry).
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| Nye, Bill | Sidwell Friends School, Washington, DC | The "Science Guy" went to Sidwell, I'm told, which is mentioned right above in the entry for the Nixon family. The Quaker School is known for its popularity with the Washington, DC elite. It is where Chesea Clinton went to school and where various Gores, Roosevelts, and Hoovers went, and Nancy Davis Reagan, too. It is mentioned several times on these pages.
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| O'Donnell, Chris | Loyola Academy, Wilmette, IL | O'Donnell rowed crew here long before a career in films, including a role in "School Ties," which he filmed at Middlesex School in Concord MA. (Middlesex is where Steve Carrell from the Daily Show went.). Another Loyola man is Bill Murray!
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| O'Keeffe, Georgia | Chatham Hall, Chatham, VA | O'Keeffe graduated from this legendary southern girl's institution, mentioned here elsewhere in entries for the Hayward Family and for author Jonathan Yardley. The Mars family are benefactors of the school, which also turned out Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Claudia Emerson who, like O'Keefe, went on to teach there. I wonder if they serve M&Ms there.
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| Olsen, Mary-Kate and Ashley | Campbell Hall, North Hollywood, CA | A correspondent wrote to say the young actress-entrepreneurs will graduate from this Episcopal school in the Class of 2004. The school is located on Laurel Canyon Boulevard.
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| Oprah | Miss Porter's School, Farmington, CT | Although Oprah didn't go to tony Miss Porter's School, someone wrote to say she has paid the way for more than one ingenue to go here. For more, see the entry for the ever-charming Beales.
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Osment, Haley Joel | Flintridge Prep, La Canada, CA | A correspondent wrote to say Osment attends school here, perhaps sister Emily Osment, as well.
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| Oxenberg, Catherine | St. Paul's School, Concord, NH | Oxenberg, who is royalty in real life (through Greek lineage) and also on television's Dynasty (remember Moldavia, was it?), went here. For more, see John Kerry's entry.
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| Paltrow, Gwyneth | Spence School, NYC, NY | Spence is popular with elite NYC families. Other celebs who have picked it for their girls include Sigourney Weaver, Kevin Kline, Gabriel Byrne, Michael Bloomberg, Revlon's Ronald O. Perelman, Walter Cronkite, and Katie Couric. Jade Jagger attended Spence, I'm told (but graduated from an English school), as did "Phantom of the Opera" actress Emily Rossum, who has some interesting things to say about it. Another notable who may have attended Spence was Edie Beale, one of the Kennedys who was profiled in a documentary called "Grey Gardens" (see separate mention). Edie, like Jackie O, also went to Miss Porter's, which is popular with the Bush, Vanderbilt, Rockefeller, and Bass families. A correspondent writes that Miss Porter's was under consideration for Chelsea Clinton by her parents. (They ended up sending her to Sidwell Friends in Washington.) By the way, a correspondent tells me that Gwyneth's mom, actress Blythe Danner, attended the George School, mentioned here under Stephen Sondheim's entry. Bill Cosby's kids and George Segal went there, too. Brother Jake Paltrow attended Riverdale, mentioned elsewhere on these pages in entries for Dan Abrams and Carly Simon.
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| Parker, Sarah Jessica | School for Creative and Performing Arts, Cincinnati, OH | Parker attended this Cincinnati arts school. Classmate Carmen Electra appeared in Peter Pan with Nick Lachey, who attended the school along with brother Drew and their fellow bandmate, Justin Jeffre.
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| Patton, George S. | Fessenden School, Newton MA and Hill School, Pottstown, PA | Patton attended both schools, according to my research and notes from correspondents. Hill is mentioned several times here, for example under Oliver Stone. Fessenden is where John Kerry and Ted Kennedy passed through, as well as Howard Hughes. The school is known as "Fessy" and is technically a junior boarding school (through 8th grade). For more on Fessy, see John Kerry's entry. Patton's daughters went to a very old and prominent music school called Walnut Hill, located near Boston, which was then a girls' school. For more on that school, see the entry for Elizabeth Bishop.
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| Paul, Alexandra | Groton, Groton, MA | Baywatcher Paul attended this tony and highly respected prep school and was a member of the Class of 1981. The school is where Sam Waterson went and is mentioned here in entries for the Roosevelts, the Sedgwicks, and Jonathan Yardley.
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| Peet, Amanda | Friends Seminary, NYC | Actress Amanda Peet was raised in New York and attended this low-key and highly respected Quaker prep school.
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| Pell Family | Various schools | The venerable Pell family is simply hard to beat when it comes to patronizing prep schools, about two dozen to be precise. The Reverend Walden Pell was Head and Rector at St. Andrew's in Delaware (see "Miscellaneous" section). But which one did Senator Claiborne attend?
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| Peltz, Nelson | Choate Rosemary Hall, Wallingford, CT; Rye Country Day School, Rye, NY | Billioinaire businessman Peltz chose Choate and Rye for his children, I'm told, but son Will left after his junior year then returned.
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| Perry, Joe | Vermont Academy, Saxtons River, VT | Guitar god Perry of Aerosmith got booted from here (thank goodness!). We love him.
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| Perry, Matthew | Buckley School, Sherman Oaks, CA | Matthew attended Buckley, as did Quncy Jones and Peggy Lipton's daughter, Rashida. During the January 2002 Golden Globe awards telecast, Melissa Rivers made it public that she and Perry had gone to school together. A source writes me that she was Melissa Rosenberg then, in 1985. The Roy Disney Family has a strong connection to the school, which should not be confused with the elite boy's school located in New York City. Other Buckley (California) names: Tito Jackson, Jr., Albert Hammons, Jr. of the "Strokes," Gaby Hoffman, the Hilton sisters, Nicole Richie, Tevin Campbell, writer Brett Easton Ellis, the Marcus family (of Neiman Marcus), and a number of current A-List celebs' kids.
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| Phish | Taft School, Watertown, CT, Gill St. Bernard's School, Gladstone, NJ, Lawrence Academy, Groton, MA, and Princeton Day School, NJ | Those loyal Phish fans have weighed in. In the 1980s, Phish singer/guitarist Trey Anastasio went to Taft (as did Steve Pollak, the Dude of Life) and Princeton Day School. Princeton Day School is where that fun pair the Menendez brothers went. Anastasio was a hockey player, I'm told, who was born in Princeton. Apparently, writer/director Steven Cragg went to Princeton Day School, too. Taft, by the way, is where ballplayer Darren Bragg went and where Mary Chapin Carpenter graduated before heading off to Brown. Counting Crows singer Adam Duritz attended Taft for a time. Another Phish-head correspondent writes that other members of the band attended various other public and prep schools. Mike Gordon attended a day school located in Sudbury, MA. Page McConnell went to Gill St. Bernard's School in Gladstone, NJ until his junior year, then transferred to Lawrence Academy in Groton, MA. And Jon Fishman went to DeWitt HS in Syracuse, NY. They all converged at the University of Vermont.
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| Plimpton, George | Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, NH | The late great Plimpton attended Exeter, which has been called the "Harvard of Boarding Schools." Writer John Knowles allegedly set his novel, "A Separate Peace," at Exeter, but I read an article saying the work was based on a Milton School boy and was simply set at Exeter. Another alum of Exeter is Suzy Wetlaufer, the former editor of Harvard Business Review, who was forced to resign in 2002 because of her love affair with former GE CEO Jack Welch. Another reader wrote to inform me that David Eisenhower and Fred Grandy (of Love Boat and US Congressional fame) were roomies at Exeter, and that the class of '66 included US Senator G. Kent Conrad and QVC kitchen maestro Bob Bowesox. Other Exeter notables include writer John Irving, Lex Barker, Donald Hall, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Booth Tarkington, Pierre Dupont, Joyce Maynard, Peter "Jaws" Benchley, Nicholas Katzenbach, George Plimpton, Gore Vidal, Alessandro Nivola of "Laurel Canyon," and the Duponts and Gettys.
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| Pope, Generoso | Horace Mann School, Riverdale, NY | Pope was the founder of the National Enquirer. Others attending the school were Hollywood director Bob Rafelson, lawyer Roy Cohn, media magnate Si Newhouse, Jack Kerouac, William Carlos Williams, Elliot Spitzer, and writer James Salter. Others: journalist Anthony Lewis, poet Peter Viereck, composer Elliot Carter, publisher Cyrus Sultzberger, James Schlesinger, Henry Geldzahler, and Allard Leowenstein.
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| Porter, Cole | Worcester Academy, Worcester, MA | Porter graduated from this Massachusetts prep school. Another graduate out of Worcester was anti-war activist and Chicago 7 member Abbie Hoffman. Note that actor Kevin Kline, who portrayed Porter in a film, is mentioned elsewhere on these pages as a graduate of a St. Louis school, St. Louis Priory.
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| Povich, Maury | Landon School, Bethesda, MD | Most people know Povich as a talk show host, but he inherited his eye for journalism from his father, a late great Washington, DC sports journalist, Shirley Povich, who sent son Maury to this suburban Washington boys school, not far from the girls school where Julia Louis-Dreyfus went to school.
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| Price, Vincent | Mary Institute and St. Louis Country Day School, St. Louis, MO | Missouri has turned out its fair share of celebrities educated at prep schools. Price attended Mary Institute and St. Louis Country Day School (then just called St. Louis Country Day School), which is also associated with Senator Tom Eagleton, Senator John Danforth, former California Governor Pete Wilson, and Betty Grable. Eagleton, Danforth and Wilson all served concurrently, which enables them to join a unique club along with Teddy Kennedy and John Kerry, who, as former Fessenden School students, also serve as Senators at the same time. John Hartford and William S. Burroughs went to John Burroughs. Kevin Kline attended St. Louis Priory (St. Anselm's). And golfer Tom Watson went to Pembroke Hill in Kansas City where Kareem Rush of the Lakers went. St. Louis University High is where Thomas Dooley went and where members of the Gunn were was educated: James (of "Scooby Doo"), Sean (of "Gilmour Girls" fame), and Sundance winner Matt.
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| Rafaelson, Bob | Horace Mann School, Riverdale, NY | Rafelson is a famous Hollywood director who attended Horace Mann as did National Enquirer founder Generoso Pope, lawyer Roy Cohn, Si Newhouse, James Salter, Jack Kerouac, William Carlos Williams, Elliot Spitzer, journalist Anthony Lewis, poet Peter Viereck, composer Elliot Carter, publisher Cyrus Sultzberger, James Schlesinger, Henry Geldzahler, and Allard Lowenstein.
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| Reagan Family | Sidwell Friends School, Washington, DC; Latin School, Chicago, IL; Orme School, Mayer, AZ | Nancy Davis Reagan attended Sidwell, as did members of the Nixon and Roosevelt families. Patty Reagan attended the Orme School in Mayer, Arizona. It is an interesting school for a number of reasons. It is a large ranch with a schoolhouse originally designed for the education of the ranching family's children, the Ormes. There is a row of buildings called the Frontier Village, and much of the other architecture is in the Southwestern style. Students go on a Spring Caravan trip, in which the desert serves as an outdoor laboratory. Nancy Davis Reagan attended the Latin School in Chicago, mentioned elsewhere on these pages in entries for Bob Balaban. Others to come through the Latin School include Ted Field, Sarah Danielle Madison, Amy Laughlin, Ike Barinholtz, and Roger McGuinn of the Byrds.
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| Reeve, Christopher | Princeton Day School, Princeton, NJ |
Acting great and humanitarian Reeve attended this New Jersey school, mentioned also in the entry for the Menendez Brothers, who apparently had a troubled time there.
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| Reitman, Jason | Harvard-Westlake School, No. Hollywood, CA | "Juno" director Reitman, Ivan's son, attended this school from which "Facts of Life" star Mindy Cohn was plucked. For more on the school, see Bridget Fonda's entry.
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| Ricci, Christina | Professional Children's School, NYC, NY | PCS is where many child stars head off to in NYC. The school day is organized to allow for professional commitments. Other PCS alums and graduates include Tara Reid, Jena Malone, Eddie Kaye Thomas, Julia Stiles, Gaby Hoffman, the Culkin kids, Vanessa Carlton, Rickie Lake, Phoebe Cates, Adam Arkin, Milton Berle, Sidney Lumet, Yo-Yo Ma, violinist Midori, Sarah Michelle Gellar, and Christopher Walken. Gypsy Rose Lee handed out diplomas at Walken's graduation.
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| Rice, Condoleeza | St. Mary's Academy, Englewood, CO | NSC chief Rice attended attended this Colorado school, located in an affluent suburb of Denver. Madeline Albright went to another Englewood Schol called Kent Denver School.
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| Richardson, Patricia | The Holton-Arms School, Bethesda, MD | TV favorite Richardson attended this suburban Washington girls school, mentioned on these pages in entries for Barbara Howar, the Gore family, and Julia Louis-Dreyfuss. The school is the alma materof PBS correspondent Margaret Warner, Aerin and Jane Lauder, and others. Jackie Kennedy attended, but did not graduate.
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| Richie, Nicole | Montclair Prep, Van Nuys, CA; Buckley School, Sherman Oaks, CA | Hilton pal and farm star Nicole Richie has been named in association with these two schools. She is mentioned in entries for both Cher and the Hiltons.
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| Rockefeller Family | Various schools | Younger members attend Trinity in New York City. The family has also sent several members to the Browning School in NYC ( known for its preppiness and formality, such as the wearing of coats and ties), and several girls to National Cathedral School, Washington, DC. Nelson Rockefeller, Jr. was a student at the Deerfield Academy in Deerfield MA and Mark Fitler Rockefeller also went to Deerfield. One correspondent writes that Nelson, Laurence and John III attended Pine Lodge School in Lakehurst NJ (extant?), where C. Douglas Dillon went, but I can't locate any information on the school. Laurence also attended Lincoln School, affiliated with Columbia and later merged with Horace Mann, then relaunched separately (what drama!). John III went to Browning and Loomis. Mark Rockefeller attended Buckley in NYC. Andrew Rockefeller Kluge went to York Prep. John D. went to Oswego Academy in Oswego, NY. One person wrote recently to say Withrop Rockefeller, Jr. of Arkansas went to Le Rosey in Switzerland. Michael Rockefeller was in the Class of 1981 at Brooks. So many Rockefellers, so many schools!
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| Roddick, Andy | Boca Raton Preparatory School, Boca Raton, FL | This school is part of the SEK group of schools and has since been renamed, I'm told.
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| Roker, Al | Xavier HS, New York, NY | Because I've had so many people write me about the NBC weatherman, the good news is, I'm mentioning him here just to quiet his legions of fans. Argue amongst yourselves (not with me) as to whether you think Xavier is really a prep school (it is a Jesuit-run school). If you don't, you probably went to St. Paul's. And like the case of Matt Damon's schooling, I include Xavier just because I've gotten so much mail about the subject. Justice Scalia also came out of Xavier.
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| Romney, Mitt | Cranbrook Schools, Bloomfield Hills, MI | Former Masschusetts governor Mitt Romney, of Bain Capital Management fame, went to the architecturally-rich Cranbrook, the equally famous Michigan prep school. For more on Cranbrook, see the entry for Selma Blair.
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| Roosevelt Family | Groton School, Groton, MA and Sidwell Friends, Washington, DC, and National Cathedral School, Washington, DC | Groton refers to itself simply as "The School"and is mentioned several times here. See for example, the section on the Sedgwick family, below. One writer has called it "an assembly line for Back Bay and Wall Street." Reportedly, each day ends at Groton with a formal handshake. FDR and his sons attended Groton, as did actor Sam Waterston, Alexandra Paul, and writer Jonathan Yardley (see separate entry). The late great art historian Carter Brown, of the Brown University "Browns," went to Groton and at the age of 16
graduated first in his class. He also attended the Stowe School in Buckinghamshire, England, known for its architecture. Several members of the Auchincloss and Harriman families also went to Groton. Another Roosevelt, Teddy, sent his son to Sidwell Friends, which was founded in the late 1800s. Other Sidwell alums include the Nixon daughters, Chelsea Clinton, and Nancy Davis Reagan. Several Roosevelts have gone to NCS, the all girl school associated with the National Cathedral in Washington, DC.
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| Royals (see separate entry for the Jordanian royals) | Various schools including Lakefield College School, Ontario; Upper Canada College, Toronto; Queen's Gate School, London; Aiglon College, Switzerland, Bedales School in Hampshire, and St. George's School, Ascot, Berkshire | The Queen was educated privately while her husband, Prince Phillip, went to the prestigious UCC-- Upper Canada College -- where he still remains Royal Patron. Princess Diana started out at Riddlesworth Hall in Norfolk and attended senior school at West Heath for a few years before heading for finishing school at the Institut Alpin Videmanette in Switzerland. She was a teacher before her marriage. Charles attended Gordonstoun, a tough Scottish school, where Anthony Haden-Guest went. Charles also spent time at Geelong in Australia. His brother Andrew went to Lakefield College School in Canada before embarking on his military career. Camilla Parker-Bowles is an "Old Girl" from Queen's Gate School in London. Prince William of course was educated at Eton and prepared for his Eton years at Ludgrove. Skiing royals Fergie and Andrew, who frequent Swiss slopes, first eschewed British girls' schools for their daughters and planned to pack them off to Aiglon, which is located in the Alpine village of Villars. When the headmaster of the College was arrested over child sex allegations, which emerged during his divorce from his wife, the Duke of York decided hastily to send little Princess Beatrice instead to St. George's School in Ascot, Berkshire. Eugenie, I'm told, is now headed to Marlborough, which is mentioned here in an entry for singer Nick Drake. St. George's has been described as "useful for the less academic" where a "great feeling of being in the social whirl still pervades." Princess Margaret chose the very progressive Bedales School for her children, which is located in Hampshire and is where Daniel Day Lewis and Minnie Driver were students. A word about Lakefield in Ontario, the Prince of Spain went there, I'm told. The Casiraghi family, who married into the Monaco royals, are closely connected to Lycee Jeanne D'Arc, a French boarding school. Prince Carl-Philip Bernadotte of Sweden went to Kent in Connecticut for a few years. That shcool is mentioned in entries here for the Farrelly Brothers, Ted Danson, and Treat Williams. As for the Spanish and French royals, the Institut Montana in Switzerland is one high on there list. The school is famous because John Kerry went there in the 1950s. And several members of the Saudi Faisal family went to Lawrenceville. (Someone else wrote to say four members of the Saudi royal family went to Lawrence Academy in Groton, MA.)
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