List of Sewanee: The University of the South people

This is a list of some notable people affiliated with Sewanee: The University of the South.

Contents 1 Arts 1.1 Fine Arts 1.2 Literature 1.3 Music 1.4 Television and Film 1.5 Performing Arts 2 Athletics 3 Education 4 Journalism 5 Law 6 Military 7 Business 8 Politics 9 Religion 10 Technology 11 References

Arts

Fine Arts

• Stephen Alvarez, National Geographic photographer

Literature

• Franklin Burroughs, author
• H.T. Kirby-Smith, author and poet
• Thomas Lakeman, author, playwright and screenwriter
• Andrew Nelson Lytle, author
• Catherine Richardson, author

Music

• Jay Faires, President of Music at Lionsgate
• Radney Foster, singer/songwriter
• Bob Morris, Bass Player for Litigants

Television and Film

• Julian Adams, film producer, actor, and screenwriter
• Paul Harris Boardman, film producer and screenwriter
• Jean Yarbrough, film and television director
• Mallory Ervin, Miss America contestant and Amazing Race 17 finisher

Performing Arts

• Anson Mount, stage, film, and television actor
• Gina Nicolopulos, American actress

Athletics

• 1899 Sewanee Tigers football team
• Charlie Dexter, Major League Baseball player
• Joe B. Hall, University of Kentucky head basketball coach
• Kyle Rote, Jr., American soccer player
• Phil Savage, Former Senior VP and General Manager, Cleveland Browns
• John Shoop, football coach
• William Brown, squirrel hunter

Education

• Benjamin B. Dunlap, president of Wofford College
• John V. Fleming, Professor Emeritus at Princeton University
• Samuel F. Pickering, Jr., Professor of English at the University of Connecticut and inspiration for Mr. Keating in the film Dead Poets Society.
• Dr. Richard Mitchell, "The Underground Grammarian"
• Walter Nance, professor of Human Genetics at Virginia Commonwealth University
• Douglas Porch, professor at the Naval Postgraduate School
• Richard Tillinghast, English teacher and poet

Journalism

• Smith Hempstone, journalist and U.S. Ambassador to Kenya
• Jack Hitt, author and contributing editor of New York Times Magazine, Harper's Magazine and This American Life.
• Roger Hodge, former editor of Harper's Magazine
• Robert Ivy, Editor-in-Chief of Architectural Record and Editorial Director and Vice-President of McGraw-Hill Construction Media.^[1]
• Jon Meacham, editor of Newsweek and winner of 2009 Pulitzer Prize for biography

Law

• Phelan Beale, 1902, lawyer of Grey Gardens fame
• Stuart Bowen, lawyer currently serving as the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction
• Honorable Robert L. Brown, Associate Justice Arkansas Supreme Court
• Alexander Campbell King, Solicitor General of the United States
• Thorn Lord, lawyer and Democratic politician from New Jersey
• William Alexander Percy, lawyer and author

Military

• Archibald Butt, military advisor to Presidents Roosevelt and Taft
• William Crawford Gorgas, Surgeon General of the US Army
• Frank Kelso, former Chief of Naval Operations (CNO)
• Admiral (ret) William O. Studeman

Business

• Grayson Hall, President and Chief Executive Officer of Regions Financial Corporation

Politics

• Ellis Arnall, Governor of Georgia
• Richard Walker Bolling, Democratic congressman from Missouri
• Harry P. Cain, Republican Senator from Washington
• Elwood Dunn, Professor of political science and former minister of state for presidential affairs for the country of Liberia ^[2]
• Tucker Eskew, Republican Political Consultant
• Jason W. Forrester, Director of Policy Veterans for America
• Luke Lea, Democratic Senator from Tennessee
• Shannon R. Valentine, member of the Virginia House of Delegates

Religion

• The Rt. Rev J. Neil Alexander, IX bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Atlanta and current Chancellor of The University of the South
• The Most Rev. John Maury Allin, XXIII Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church
• The Most Rev. Edmond Browning, XXIV Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church
• The Rt. Rev. Charles Judson Child, Jr., VII bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Atlanta
• Carl P. Daw Jr., Executive Director of the Hymn Society
• The Very Rev. William Porcher DuBose, Dean, and priest
• The Rt. Rev. Leopold Frade, Episcopal bishop
• The Rt. Rev. Mark Allan Frye, Episcopal bishop
• The Rt. Rev. Campbell Gray, Episcopal bishop
• The Rev. Marion J. Hatchett, liturgical scholar and one of the key framers of the 1979 Book of Common Prayer.
• The Rt. Rev. William Millsaps, presiding bishop of the Episcopal Missionary Church
• The Rt. Rev. Henry N. Parsley, X bishop of the Episcopal Bishop of Alabama, former Chancellor of The University of the South
• The Rt. Rev. Charles Todd Quintard, Episcopal bishop
• The Rt. Rev. Gene Robinson, bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire, first openly gay Episcopal bishop
• The Ven. Hudson Stuck, (Anglican) Archdeacon who organized the first ascent of Mount McKinley
• The Rt. Rev John Moore Walker, Jr., 3rd bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Atlanta

Technology

• Brian Reynolds, computer strategy game designer

References