Went to High School with filmmaker Spike Lee, film composer Eliot Goldenthal, playwright Donald Margulies, NPR Talk of the Nation host Ray Suarez, Discover magazine writer Robert Sapolsky.

My father-in-law won the Nobel Prize in economics, 1982 but remains very down-to-earth. Retired Yale Professor James Tobin still teaches the occasional class, and has lectured all over the globe. If it weren't for Jim we would never have met Doris Lessing, or sat shoulder to shoulder with Al Gore's secret service escort.