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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
TYPE
 
GRAD.
DATE
 
FIELD
 
TRADE
Louis Auchincloss   Undergraduate   1939   Arts   Author
Judah Benjamin   Undergraduate   1828   Government   Senator, Confederate cabinet officer
Melvin Bourne   Drama   1948   Entertainment   Film director
Richard Cheney   Undergraduate   1963   Government   Vice president
J. Fenimore Cooper   Undergraduate   1805   Letters   Author
Ron Darling   Undergraduate   1982   Athletics   Baseball player
Bruce Davidson   Art   1957   Arts   Photographer
David Duchovny   Graduate School   1987   Entertainment   Actor
Henry Ford II   Undergraduate   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   Undergraduate   1935   Government   Governor, Arkansas
Mark Rothko   Undergraduate   1925   Arts   Painter
Talia Shire   Drama   1969   Arts   Actor
Oliver Stone   Undergraduate   1968   Entertainment   Film director
Samuel J. Tilden   Undergraduate   1831   Government   Presidential candidate, NY governor
Joan Van Ark   Drama   1964   Entertainment   Actor
 
 
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