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Tiger Inn Notable Alumni

  • Kwesi Adofo-Mensah (2003)- General Manager of the Minnesota Vikings
  • Gerardo (Gerry) Angulo (1978) – Publisher of the only English-language daily newspaper in Puerto Rico, The San Juan Star
  • Ralph Bard (1906)- Under Secretary of the Navy and Assistant Secretary of the Navy during World War II, Roosevelt Administration
  • Carl Behnke (1967)– After building the second largest Pepsi dealership in North America, Carl partnered with his wife Renee to launch Sur la Table, a gourmet culinary store and specialty cookware company that expanded from a single location at Pike Place Market to a nationwide multimillion dollar business.
  • Dan M. Berkovitz (1978)- General Counsel of the CFTC, Obama Administration
  • Walter C. Booth (1900)- Known as “Bummy,” an American football coach serving as the head football coach at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln (the Huskers), compiling a career record of 46-8-1.
  • R. Manning Brown Jr. (1936)- former chairman of the board of New York Life Insurance Co. and former chairman of Princeton University’s Board of Trustees
  • Howard Crosby Butler (1892)– Charter Member, one of the founders of Princeton’s School of Architecture, and its Director from 1920
  • Robert Casciola (1958)- Head Football Coach at Princeton from 1973 to 1977
  • Grover Cleveland – Honorary Member, President of the United States
  • Garrett Cochran – Head football coach at the University of California, Berkeley (1898–99), the United States Naval Academy (1900) and Princeton (1902)
  • Robert “Hap” Cooper (1982)—Twenty-year Chairman of Tiger Inn who led the Club back from the brink  to becoming the most sought after Club on the Street. Instituted gender parity among the membership, officer corps and Board. 
  • Richard Coulter Jr. (1892)- Charter Member, Brigadier General in the U.S. Army in WWI; professional football player
  • John F. Cregan (1899) – Olympic athlete; Silver medalist in the 1900 Olympic games
  • John Danforth (1958) – former United States Senator, Missouri
  • John R. DeWitt (1904)- Olympic athlete, St Louis Games of 1904; College Football Hall of Fame
  • Selden Edwards (1963) – Best-selling novelist, author of The Little Book and The Lost Prince.
  • William Hanford Edwards – author of Football Days, the definitive work on American Football in the 19th century; famous for saving the life of N.Y. Mayor William Gaynor by tackling his assailant.
  • Max Farrand (1892)- Charter Member, professor, first Director of the Huntington Library, past President of the American Historical Society
  • John V. A. Fine (1925)- Classics Professor at Princeton, noted author in Greek history
  • Barry S. Friedberg (1962) – Former Executive Vice President of Merrill Lynch, and Head of Investment Banking, Chairman Emeritus of the New York City Ballet
  • Robert Garrett– First modern Olympic champion in the discus; organized the four Princetonians in the 1896 Athens games; won two golds and two silvers in Athens, 1896, and two bronzes in Paris, 1900
  • Will Garwood – President of Cypress Asset Management and, at Princeton, Vice Chairman of the advisory board of the James Madison Program
  • Charlie Gogolak (1966) – Football placekicker noted for his innovations; initially with the Washington Redskins and then the New England Patriots
  • Wyc Grousbeck (1983)- Owner of the Boston Celtics and 2x winner of the NBA Championship (’08, ’24)
  • Hy Gunning – Played professional baseball with the Boston Red Sox
  • J. P. Harland (1913)- Professor of Classics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 
  • John Grier Hibben – Honorary member; President of Princeton, 1920–32; he opposed President Wilson’s plans to replace the Eating Clubs with “Residential Quadrangles”
  • Arthur Hillebrand (1900)- Head football coach at Princeton, 1903–05, his record was 27–4 and the team out-scored opponents 669–85; the 1903 team was 11–0 and was national champion
  • Thomas Hoving (1953)– Former Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
  • Robert J. Hugin (1976)- Chairman and President of Celgene, Inc. ; Elected Charter Trustee of Princeton in June 2012
  • Cosmo Iacavazzi (1965)- Professional football player, a member of the New York Jets; inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame
  • Herbert Jamison (1897)- Silver Medalist at the first modern Olympic games in Athens
  • Gordon Johnston – Colonel, U.S. Army, recipient of the Medal of Honor;  head coach of the University of North Carolina (the Tar Heels) football team in 1896
  • Philip King (1893)- American football player, notable as a college football coach, especially at Georgetown University, compiling a career record of 73-14-1
  • Howard “Cookie“ Krongard – Head of the Office of the Inspector General of the Department of State; Bush “43” Administration
  • Frank A. Lane (1897)- Member of the first U.S. Olympic Team in Athens, 1896; technically, the first American to compete in the modern Olympiad; bronze medal winner 
  • Louis Le Guyader – First TI member to seek elective office outside the United States in a campaign to serve as a Depute in the French National Assembly in 2012 
  • Chauncey C. Loomis (1952)- Famous explorer who led five expeditions to the Arctic; Dartmouth professor
  • Donald Lourie – Under Secretary of State for Administration, Eisenhower Administration; declined a pro football career with the Cleveland Browns
  • Roscoe Parke McClave – Head Football Coach, Bowdoin College; twice Speaker of the House, General Assembly of New Jersey
  • Roland S. Morris – American Ambassador to Japan, 1917–20
  • N. J. Nicholas Jr – President of HBO in its earliest days, President of Time Inc in 1986 and co-ceo of Time Warner in 1990
  • Michael Novogratz (1987)– Former president of the Fortress Investment Group
  • Henry Furlow Owsley III – Wall Street financier, noted as co-author of the leading book in his field, Distressed Investment Banking: To the Abyss and Back and in 2014, “Equity Holders Under Siege: Strategies and Tactics for Distressed Businesses,” Beard Books LLC
  • W. K. Prentice (1892)- Princeton Professor, noted philologist
  • Marc Rayman (1978)- Project Manager of Deep Space 1, NASA 
  • Pete Raymond (1968)- 2x Olympic oarsman, Won the silver medal in Munich in 1972; “a god among men.”
  • Wayne Rogers – Actor, “Trapper McIntyre” for three seasons on “M.A.S.H.”
  • Rudolf J. Schaefer – Yachtsman and brewer, ran the F & M Schaefer Brewing Company of Brooklyn, New York
  • Maxwell “Max” Shaw (2012)– Founder of Shawskaboy inc. and the Face Morpher and Pro Interval Timer iPhone Apps
  • Michael Spence (1966)– Nobel Prize winner in Economics; Rhodes Scholar; Former Dean of the Stanford Graduate School of Business
  • Robert “Huck” Alston Stevenson (1892)- Charter Member, second headmaster of the Allen-Stevenson School the private elementary school in New York City, founded by his father. 
  • Frank E Taplin Jr. (1937) – Rhodes Scholar; President of the Metropolitan Opera
  • H. K. Twitchell – Executive director of Moral Re-Armament, an international religious movement founded in 1938 in London to reshape the world through absolute morality; author of “Regeneration in the Ruhr: The Unknown Story of a Decisive Answer to Communism in Postwar Europe,” Princeton University Press
  • George Augustus Vaughn, Jr. – Known as “Ace,” a World War I Flying Ace: officially credited with downing 12 enemy planes and one balloon
  • Jesse Lynch Williams (1892) – Charter Member, prize winning author and dramatist, won the first Pulitzer Prize in drama in 1918 for the play Why Marry?
  • A. M. Woods – Lacrosse player and Olympic Athlete, 1904 games, where he earned a silver medal
  • John E. Zuccotti (1959)- Former First Deputy Mayor of New York City