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Comment on this article Distinguished Dropouts
March 2001—Special Tercentennial Edition An unwritten understanding makes an alumnus or alumna of any student who has spent at least a semester at Yale. Below, some of those who went on to distinction, but without the benefit of a Yale
degree.
| name |
degree |
year |
field |
trade |
| Louis Auchincloss |
undergrad |
1939 |
arts |
author |
| Judah Benjamin |
undergrad |
1828 |
government |
senator, Confederate cabinet officer |
| Melvin Bourne |
drama |
1948 |
entertainment |
film director |
| Richard Cheney |
undergrad |
1963 |
government |
vice president |
| J. Fenimore Cooper |
undergrad |
1805 |
letters |
author |
| Ron Darling |
undergrad |
1982 |
athletics |
baseball player |
| Bruce Davidson |
art |
1957 |
arts |
photographer |
| David Duchovny |
graduate school |
1987 |
entertainment |
actor |
| Henry Ford II |
undergrad |
1941 |
business |
executive |
| Frank D. Gilroy |
drama |
1953 |
letters |
playwright, film writer |
| Julie Harris |
drama |
1947 |
entertainment |
actor |
| David Henry Hwang |
drama |
1983 |
letters |
playwright |
| Elia Kazan |
drama |
1933 |
entertainment |
film director |
| Stacy Keach |
drama |
1966 |
entertainment |
actor |
| Robert Klein |
drama |
1965 |
entertainment |
comedian, actor, writer |
| Paul Newman |
drama |
1954 |
entertainment |
actor, director |
| Aldo Parisot |
music |
1948 |
arts |
cellist, teacher |
| Winthrop Rockefeller |
undergrad |
1935 |
government |
governor, Arkansas |
| Mark Rothko |
undergrad |
1925 |
arts |
painter |
| Talia Shire |
drama |
1969 |
arts |
actor |
| Oliver Stone |
undergrad |
1968 |
entertainment |
film director |
| Samuel J. Tilden |
undergrad |
1831 |
government |
presidential candidate, NY governor |
| Joan Van Ark |
drama |
1964 |
entertainment |
actor |
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