Groton School

Groton School is a private Episcopal boarding school located in Groton, Massachusetts. Often known as the "bastion of the elite", its student body of about 350 covers the eighth (IInd Form) through twelfth grades (VIth Form). The academic environment is very rigorous and Groton students regularly compete for positions at Ivy League and comparable universities.

Notable alumni

Notable alumni of Groton School include:

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• Alexandra Paul, actress, star of Baywatch;
• Ayi Kwei Armah, Ghanain novelist, short-story writer, essayist, considered one of Africa's most important writers;
• C. Douglas Dillon, Secretary of the Treasury, Under Secretary of State, Ambassador to France;
• Carter Brown, Late art historian;
• Curtis Sittenfeld, author
• Dean Acheson, Secretary of State under President Truman, presidential advisor to Johnson;
• Eugene Rostow, Under-Secretary of State under President Johnson, head of Arms Control Agency
• Francis Bator, Deputy National Security Advisor under President Johnson;
• Francis Keppel, Commissioner of Education under President Kennedy
• Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States;

:* Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., son of President Teddy Roosevelt, Led the D-day assault on Utah Beach;

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Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. - D-day - Utah Beach

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:* Quentin Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt's brother, fought and died in World War I;

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• Fuller Potter, abstract-expressionist artist;
• John Hay Whitney, Ambassador to Great Britain, newspaper publisher;
• Joseph Alsop, important and famous political journalist after World War II
• Joseph Grew, Ambassador to Japan before WWII, Under Secretary of State;
• Marshall Green, Ambassador to Indonesia, Assistant Secretary of State for Far East;
• McGeorge Bundy, National Security Advisor under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson;
• Paul Stewart, former NHL referee;
• Peter Gammons, ESPN's Major League Baseball journalist, his father was formerly the school's organist;
• Richard Bissell, CIA Deputy Director for Plans, Bay of Pigs planner, father of U-2;
• Sam Waterston, actor;
• Stanley Resor, Secretary of the Army, Under Secretary of Defense for Policy;
• Sumner Wells, WW II Undersecretary of State;
• Tracy Barnes, World War II Silver Star recipient, CIA deputy under fellow Grotonian, Richard Bissell
• W. Averell Harriman, former New York governor;
• Walter Russell Mead, Henry A. Kissinger Chair at the Council on Foreign Relations
• William Bundy, McGeorge Bundy's brother, foreign affairs advisor to Presidents Kennedy and Johnson;
• William Polk, Long-time headmaster of Groton School; retired in 2003 after a quarter century of service
• Several other members of the Auchincloss, Sedgwick, Harriman, Roosevelt, and Peabody families.