of Modern Art Jane Mayer – best selling author, investigative journalist, The New Yorker Zach McGowan - actor Marguerita Mergentime – industrial designer Nicholas Meyer – film director Jo Mielziner – stage designer Olivette Miller – jazz harpist Marvin Minsky – pioneer in artificial intelligence at MIT Tim Minton – television journalist and media executive Alfred Mirsky – cell biologist Jeannette Mirsky – writer Frederic S. Mishkin – governor of the Federal Reserve Board Robert M. Morgenthau – retired New York County District Attorney Howard Nemerov – former United States Poet Laureate Gabriel Olds – actor, writer J. Robert Oppenheimer – physicist, Scientific Director of the Manhattan Project, "Father of the Atomic Bomb" Eleanor Pepper – architect, interior designer Emanuel R. Piore – chief scientist of IBM, and electrical engineering pioneer Belva Plain – author Susan Poser - President of Hofstra University Letty Cottin Pogrebin – author Edward R. Pressman – film producer Richard Ravitch – business and civic leader Nancy Reiner - graduating as Nancy Russek, cover artist of Jimi Hendrix album The Cry of Love (1971), among others Menachem Z. Rosensaft – attorney and founding chairman of the International Network of Children of Jewish Survivors Dan Rottenberg — journalist and author Muriel Rukeyser – poet and playwright David Sarasohn – associate editor and syndicated columnist for The Oregonian newspaper James H. Scheuer – US Congressman (NY) Gil Scott-Heron – musician Nicole Seligman – lawyer, Sony executive Cynthia Propper Seton – novelist Robert B. Sherman – composer, lyricist, screenwriter, painter Stephen Slesinger – creator of the Red Ryder comic strip Tess Slesinger – author/screenwriter Jay Smooth – radio host and cultural commentator Donald J. Sobol – author of juvenile short stories; creator of Encyclopedia Brown Stephen Sondheim – composer; attended the Fieldston Lower School Dan Squadron – New York State Senator Andy Stein – musician Stewart Stern – screenwriter Paul Strand – photographer and filmmaker James Toback – filmmaker Richard Tofel – journalist, attorney, administrator, non fiction writer Doris Ulmann – photographer of Appalachia Laurence Urdang – lexicographer, dictionary editor Helen Valentine – founder of Seventeen magazine Elliot Villar – actor Barbara Walters – TV news Andrew Weisblum – Oscar-nominated film editor Chris Wink, performance artist; co-founder, Blue Man Group Howard Wolfson – deputy mayor of New York City Jane C. Wright – oncologist Keith L. T. Wright – New York State Assemblyman Sheryl WuDunn – investment banker, Pulitzer