Eugene Hotchkiss III was born and raised in Highland Park, IL, the son of a stock broker and the sister of George F. Kennan. He attended Dartmouth College, served in the U.S. Navy in the 1950s, and worked in student affairs at Dartmouth and at the Claremont colleges in Los Angeles. He served as Executive Dean of Chatham College, Pittsburgh, prior to becoming president of Lake Forest College in 1970. He retired in 1993. He also was active in many civic roles locally during and after his presidency of the College.
Edward Arpee (1899-1979), the brother of Armenian historian and theologian Leon Arpee, was a career (over thirty-five years, beginning ca. 1929) professor at Lake Forest Academy. He was the spouse of Katherine Trowbridge Arpee (granddaughter of Chicago wholesale grocer and later LF resident Calvin Durand), and father of Harriet Sherman of Lake Bluff. Arpee graduated from Princeton Theological Seminary and wrote various notable books, including "History of Lake Forest Academy" (Chicago: Alderbrink Press, 1944) and "From Frigates to Flat Tops" (1953).
The Arpees lived at 383 N. Washington Road, less than a block from the Academy, and about a block south of Mrs. Arpee's parents' home on College Road. According to the Apree's, the home was once a summer rental property for Onwentsia residents when it was owned by Van Weganen Alling. One of the past renters was Adlai Stevenson, who later built his farm in Libertyville.
Sources:
"Senior master Publishes an Historical Documentary," Spectator [Lake Forest Academy], April 20, 1964, 1.
Biographical Details gathered by, Arthur H. Miller Archivist & Librarian for Special Collections
Alicia Patterson Guggenheim was the daughter of Alice Patterson (nee Higinbotham) and famed founder and editor of the New York Daily News, Joseph Medill Patterson. Patterson Guggenheim had two sisters, Josephine and Elinor, as well as a half-brother, James “Jimmy” Patterson. She grew up in Libertyville, Illinois and developed a love of hunting, horseback riding and travel at an early age. Alicia Patterson Guggenheim followed in her father’s footsteps and became a writer at both the New York Daily News and Liberty magazine in her 20s. It was during this time that Patterson Guggenheim became interested in aviation and earned her transport pilot’s license in 1934, only the tenth woman in America to do so. Patterson Guggenheim was married three times, first to James Simpson (1927-1930), then to Joseph Brooks (1931-1939) and finally to Harry Guggenheim (1939-1963), whom she was married to until her death. Along with Guggenheim, Patterson Guggenheim founded and became publisher and editor of the newspaper, Newsday, in 1940. Newsday won a Pulitzer Prize in 1954. Patterson Guggenheim died at age 56 in 1963 due to complications from stomach surgery.
Amanda Smith Hood (April 30, 1967-) is the daughter of Stephen Smith and Jean Kennedy Smith, former ambassador to Ireland and John F. Kennedy’s sister. She was born and raised in New York City and later graduated from Harvard College. Smith Hood holds a PhD in special education. She married tax lawyer Carter Hood in 2000; the couple have two children. Smith Hood is the editor of the book, Hostage to Fortune: The Letters of Joseph P. Kennedy, published in 2001. In 2011, she authored the book, Newspaper Titan: The infamous life and monumental times of Cissy Patterson, a biography of socialite and newspaper editor and publisher Eleanor Medill “Cissy” Patterson.
Dr. Virginia Stewart is a history professor at Lake Forest College. She received her B.A. from Knox College, her M.A. from Purdue University and her Ph.D. from Northwestern University.