President of Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America (1987–1995); Chairman of Americans for Democratic Action (1995–1998); leading labor internationalist; Cornell University trustee; Council on Foreign Relations Peter Busch Orthwein (1968) – co-founder and chairman of Thor Industries; great-great-grandson of Adolphus Busch Oil Walter C. Teagle (1900) – President (1917–1937) and Chairman (1937–1942) of Standard Oil; namesake and donor of Cornell University's Teagle Hall; Cornell University trustee Joseph N. Pew, Jr. (1908) – Vice President (1912–1947) and Chairman (1947–1963) of Sun Oil Company; founder of The Pew Charitable Trusts; namesake of Cornell University's Pew Engineering Quad James J. Cosgrove (1909) – General Counsel (1929–1948) and Chairman (1948–1952) of Continental Oil H. Laurance Fuller (1960) – President (1983–1995), CEO (1991–1998), and Chairman (1991–2000) of Amoco; Lincoln Center Humanitarian of the Year (1998); Cornell University trustee; Cornell University presidential councilor Technology James C. Morgan (1960) – Chairman of Applied Materials (1987–2009); 1996 National Medal of Technology recipient Jules Kroll (1963) – founder of Kroll Inc. and the modern investigations, intelligence, and security industry; responsible for tracking the assets of Jean-Claude Duvalier, Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos, and Saddam Hussein; corporate member of Council on Foreign Relations and Trilateral Commission; Cornell Entrepreneur of the Year (2003) Henry A. Klyce (1969) – entrepreneur; developer of orthopedic, neurosurgery, and spinal stenosis devices; founder and executive of multiple medical device companies Dick Brass (1973) – technology investor, executive, and pioneer; developed first electronic dictionary and thesaurus; responsible for development of ClearType and Open eBook John H. Foote (1974) – co-founder and Executive Vice-President of TransCore (1995–2005) Jay Walker (1977) – founder of Priceline.com and Walker Digital Scott Belsky (2002) – founder of Behance; author of best-selling book Making Ideas Happen, named one of the "100 Most Creative People in Business" by Fast Company John Zimmer (2006) – co-founder and COO of Lyft Other Paul A. Schoellkopf (1906) – hydroelectric energy magnate; President (1919–1933) and Chairman (1942–1947) of Niagara Falls Power Company and later conglomerates; New York State Council of National Defense; Cornell University trustee (1939–1947); donor of Schoellkopf Field Cedric A. Major (1913) – President of the Lehigh Valley Railroad (1947–1961); ranked 11th tennis player nationally in the 1930s competing against Vincent Richards and Bill Tilden George P. McNear, Jr. (1913) – President of the Toledo, Peoria and Western Railway (1925–1947) during disputes with labor unions; victim of unsolved murder two weeks after testifying for the House Labor Committee