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|  | About Hackley About our Alumni/ae Just as there is no “typical” Hackley student, there is no typical Hackley alumnus/a, yet our alums are unified in appreciation of certain core values. They are curious, committed, and passionate about what they do. At Hackley, they worked hard, they learned to write well, they made great friends, and enjoyed the partnership of teammates, classmates and fellow performers.
From its roots as an all-boys boarding school that attracted boys from all over the United States and around the world to its current identity as a co-educational day and boarding school, Hackley has drawn motivated, interested students from a wide range of philosophical, geographical, economic, ethnic and religious backgrounds.
The phrase carved over the entrance door, “Enter Here to Be and Find a Friend,” resonates among alums across the decades and generations of our more than 100-year history. Hackley alumni return to Hackley as teachers and guest lecturers; they come back for reunions and they support the school financially. Our alums are also eager to support fellow alumni/ae, and volunteer as mentors and career contacts. |
Our alumni community includes journalists, authors, painters, opera singers, educators, doctors, leaders in the finance world, peace corps volunteers, film makers, and more. A number
of alums play leadership roles at Wall Street firms while others work
as hedge fund or portfolio managers. Among our alumni are leaders of
major industrial and business concerns as well.
It includes such notables in their field as literary critic F.O. Matthiesson ’18, architect Philip Johnson ’23, political writer Joe Klein ’64, actor Peter Strauss ’65, sports broadcaster Chris Berman ’73 and television journalist Keith Olbermann ’75.
Andrew Jarecki and Adam Slutsky, fellow members of the Class of 1981, became friends at Hackley and went on to create Moviefone. Cathy Shulman ’83 produced the Oscar-winning film Crash. One young Hackley alumna is a sportswriter for ESPN; and another is a PhD psychologist who has done extensive work in the area of eating disorders.
Internet entrepreneurs Ali and Hadi Partovi ’90 created the music networking site iLike. One young alumna has gone on to be a professional rock climber, and another competes at the national level in women’s freestyle wrestling.
Doug Lasdon ’73 founded the Urban Justice Center in New York City, and singer/songwriter Ben Miller ’02 is a founding member of the band The Low Anthem, which has toured nationally and in Europe and performed at the Bonnaro Festival. Morgan Lathrop ‘05 led the Northwestern women’s lacrosse team to four consecutive NCAA championships as starting goalkeeper.
A young alumna who studied nuclear physics in college spent two years
at Goldman Sachs before attending Harvard Law, where she was editor of
the law review; she is now working for a leading New York law firm.
Claude Canizares ’63 is a vice president of research, a professor of
physics and Associate Provost at MIT.
Julianne Puente ’91 returned to Hackley as a teacher, dean and coach after college, and was recently named Deputy Headmaster at the King’s Academy in Amman, Jordan.
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