# Who went to your school? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 6, 2000, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-went-to-your-school/36007 "2000-10-06T20:54:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Sophie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/35a633/32.png) [@Sophie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sophie)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2000, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-went-to-your-school/36007/61 "2000-10-09T19:13:10Z")
John Grisham and I went to the same school… …'course that might not say much, since that school is in Miss’ippi. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Corrado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a88e4f/32.png) [@John\_Corrado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Corrado)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2000, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-went-to-your-school/36007/62 "2000-10-09T19:23:51Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by wring \* > \*\* John \*\* How can you forget Connie Chung (who also went to Blair) How do I know this??? So did my SO. Dammit, you’re right. I can’t believe I forgot about her; she was one of the two people we bragged about graduating from Blair back when I attended (as Ben Stein was a character actor only known for “Bueller?” and Drudge was still in college). So, it being a very small world, what year did your SO graduate? ---
**Author:** ![Cabbage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f07891/32.png) [@Cabbage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cabbage)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2000, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-went-to-your-school/36007/63 "2000-10-09T19:34:53Z")
The most famous person I can think of from my high school is porn star **Seka**. I don’t know her personally, she’s 10-15 years older than me, but she’s a friend of a friend of mine. ---
**Author:** ![C3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/c3/32/3108_2.png) [@C3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C3)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2000, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-went-to-your-school/36007/64 "2000-10-09T19:45:32Z")
Nobody actually famous went to my school that I know of, but Joey Poindexter, the son of Admiral Poindexter, was there when I was. Admiral Poindexter was heavily involved in the Iran Contra scandal, which was going on at the time we were in high school. I went to college at the University of Maryland, which is also the alma mater of Jim Henson & Connie Chung (if you were wondering where they went after Blair and whatever high school Jim Henson went to in University Park). Jim Henson’s wife is a member of my sorority. **John** , I went to Wootton…we used to be neighbors (sort of)! ---
**Author:** ![fierra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/58956e/32.png) [@fierra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fierra)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2000, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-went-to-your-school/36007/65 "2000-10-09T22:44:34Z")
No one that I know of from my school, but from the boys’ school next door (part of the same foundation, so I can just about claim it…& we had joint lessons in the sixth form, in some subjects…yeah, definitely claim it) we have : drumroll : J R R Tolkien Bill Oddie (of Goodies fame & lots of bird watching programs since then!) & a non-student, but part of Clockwise was filmed at the boys’ school, so for a long time we regularly saw John Cleese striding up & down the drive…followed at lunchtime by a gaggle of adoring sixth formers from the girls school… ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2000, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-went-to-your-school/36007/66 "2000-10-09T22:59:38Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by waterj2 \* > \*\*High school: (I just cut and pasted this off the internet) > > Cotton Mather > Benjamin Franklin > Samuel Adams > John Hancock > Charles Bulfinch > Edward Everett > Ralph Waldo Emerson > Francis Gardner > Wendell Phillips > Edward Everett Hale > Charles William Eliot > Charles Sumner > Phillips Brooks > Henry Lee Higginson > Edward Charles Pickering > John F. Fitzgerald > George Santayana > Howard Lindsey > Joseph P. Kennedy U.S. > Roy E. Larsen > Paul A. Dever > Elliot Norton > Ralph B. Rodgers > John Cardinal > Dr. Paul Zoll > Vincent Learson > Theodore H. White > Leonard Bernstein > Wade McGee, Jr. > Brig. General Robert McDermott > Raymond D. Nasher > Sumner M. Redstone > Thomas L. Phillips > Rev. John E. Brooks > Aaron Fuerstein > Clifton R. Wharton, Jr. > Marshall S. Cogan > Most Reverend William Murphy > Thomas Ryan, Jr. > Charles I. Clough, Jr. > Thomas Finneran > > OK, most of those guys aren’t really famous. > > College: > > The guy that designed the Brooklyn Bridge > The guy Kevin Bacon played in Apollo 13 > Adam Oates > Joe Juneau > The guy that invented the ferris wheel (one of the founders of my fraternity as well) \*\* Care to say which high school? ---
**Author:** ![Idnew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/278dde/32.png) [@Idnew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idnew)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2000, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-went-to-your-school/36007/67 "2000-10-09T23:13:40Z")
Farrah Fawcett in High School ---
**Author:** ![BrothaTJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d07c76/32.png) [@BrothaTJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrothaTJ)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2000, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-went-to-your-school/36007/68 "2000-10-09T23:21:53Z")
Billy Corgan of the Smashing Pumpkins in high school (Glenbard North, Carol Stream, IL) and middle school (Marquardt Middle, Glendale Heights, IL). My mom sat next to Bob Woodward for several years (alphabetical seating, she was a Warner) at elementary school in Wheaton, IL. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2000, 10:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-went-to-your-school/36007/69 "2000-10-11T10:18:10Z")
My mother was a classmate of the guy who created Superman. ---
**Author:** ![Chickenhead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7cd45c/32.png) [@Chickenhead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chickenhead)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2000, 10:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-went-to-your-school/36007/70 "2000-10-11T10:25:27Z")
Ava Gardner ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2000, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-went-to-your-school/36007/71 "2000-10-11T12:10:10Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by John Corrado \* > \*\* > So, it being a very small world, what year did your SO graduate? \*\* 1965 I believe (added 18 to his birth year) and you? ---
**Author:** ![Trout\_Mask\_Replica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a88e57/32.png) [@Trout\_Mask\_Replica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trout_Mask_Replica)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2000, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-went-to-your-school/36007/72 "2000-10-11T14:22:37Z")
Howard Stern went to my college. ---
**Author:** ![Ruffian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/71e660/32.png) [@Ruffian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruffian)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2000, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-went-to-your-school/36007/73 "2000-10-11T14:34:21Z")
**Michael Richards** (Kramer of _Seinfeld_ fame) **Marion Jones** (just won 5 medals at the Olympics in track and field; funny, I think she was on the basketball team in high school) **Ted Nugent** **Kurt Russell** **The kid from _Alf_** …and most importantly, **Storytyler!** ---
**Author:** ![John\_Corrado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a88e4f/32.png) [@John\_Corrado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Corrado)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2000, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-went-to-your-school/36007/74 "2000-10-11T14:57:39Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by wring \* > 1965 I believe (added 18 to his birth year) > and you? 1990, so I doubt we ever passed in the hallways. But he might have run into one of my uncles- Jim Corrado, class of '63, I believe. ---
**Author:** ![mikehardware](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5fc32e/32.png) [@mikehardware](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mikehardware)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2000, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-went-to-your-school/36007/75 "2000-10-11T15:13:08Z")
The most famous graduate of Hickman County High School in Centerville, TN was the late country comic Minnie Pearl. She was the speaker at graduation for my class (1976), which was the last to use the old building that was the school she attended. Her old high school class photo was still up at our school. ---
**Author:** ![PatrickM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7feea3/32.png) [@PatrickM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickM)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2000, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-went-to-your-school/36007/76 "2000-10-11T15:40:35Z")
I went to Kent State for my undergraduate degree. At law school we were shooting the breeze in the student lounge (when we should’ve been studying) when a guy from Harvard and a guy from Yale tried to outdo each other by listing famous alums. “So and so went to Harvard”, “Well, such and such went to Yale.” Back and forth it went. Finally, I chimed in, “Joe Walsh dropped out of Kent State.” Both guys said, “We give up, Pat. You win.” And speaking of Kent State, Lou Holtz graduated from there. All you need to know about how pathetic Kent State’s football teams have been is to know that Lou, the scrawny guy who now coaches South Carolina, was a linebacker at KSU. ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2000, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-went-to-your-school/36007/77 "2000-10-11T15:48:34Z")
Nobody and of y’all’ll have heard of went to my high school - at least you won’t hear of them for a few years yet. But a guy who was in “Hotel” went there, along with my father. As did some current Senator Fitzgerald from some state I can’t remember. And Washington Post dude E.J. Dionne. And a good number of the faculty at my high school went there. The guy who co-founded [tellme.com](http://tellme.com) graduated my frosh year of HS. ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2000, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-went-to-your-school/36007/78 "2000-10-11T15:54:08Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by KevinLeeC \* > \*\*Christine Cavanaugh was a year ahead of me in high school. > \*\* I knew a Christine Cavanaugh (sp?) back in high school. She would now be in her . . . mid-late forties maybe? Not a slim person . . wannabe operastar. When she didn’t get that to swing (mostly because of her lisp and lack of talent, IMNSHO), she decided to take over my high school glee club. Ugh. ---
**Author:** ![NicePete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ee7513/32.png) [@NicePete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NicePete)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2000, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-went-to-your-school/36007/79 "2000-10-11T16:16:43Z")
Steve Gorman, drummer for The Black Crowes, was one of 12 in my graduating class. ---
**Author:** ![JoshMoses](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ebca7d/32.png) [@JoshMoses](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JoshMoses)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2000, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-went-to-your-school/36007/80 "2000-10-11T20:44:47Z")
Ernest Hemingway Homer Simpson (Dan Castalleneta, or whatever) That woman from Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves Roy (or Ray) Kroc, the McDonald’s guy. Some gossip columnist from the Trib or SunTimes, Zwecker I think his name is. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-went-to-your-school/36007.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-went-to-your-school/36007.md?page=5)