Name: Paul Pfeiffer (“The Wonder Years”; Josh Saviano)School: FAS Activities: Studied law, according to childhood friend Kevin Arnold. Years after starting college, he was “still allergic to everything.” Year of Graduation: 1978 If Only Real Life Were So Kind: After “The Wonder Years” ended, Josh Saviano, the actor who played Paul, graduated from Yale in 1998 and is now a paralegal at a New York City law firm.
Name: Miles Silverberg (“Murphy Brown”; Grant Shaud)School: FAS Year of Graduation: 1988 Academic and Professional History: Producing “FYI”, the fictional TV newsmagazine at the center of “Murphy Brown”, is Miles’ first job after Harvard, where he had studied Murphy’s reporting style as an undergrad.
In Real Life: According to a September 1992 issue of People, Shaud “barely graduated” from the University of Richmond.
Name: Maj. Charles Emerson Winchester III (“M*A*S*H”; David Ogden Stiers)School: HMS Activities: Polo, crew Honors: First in his class Graduation Year: 1943
Fitting the Stereotype: Assigned to the rowdy 4077th unit in Korea (he calls it “a fetid and festering sewer”), this well-heeled Bostonian loves wine and classical music, votes Republican, has an enormous ego and turns up his nose at all things lowbrow.
RECENT TV REJECTS
Name: Paris Eustace Geller (“Gilmore Girls”; Liza Weil)School: Yale University (Calhoun College) Projected Year of Yale Graduation: 2007 Chilton Activities: Editor-in-Chief of The Franklin; Student Body President Chilton Honors: Class Salutatorian Harvard Memories: A Harvard legacy many times over, Paris is not accepted to fair Harvard and instead (surprise, surprise) winds up as Rory’s roommate at Yale. Memorable Quote: “I didn’t get into Harvard. I had sex, but I didn’t get into Harvard. If you had asked me last year which I thought was more likely, it would not have been not getting into Harvard!”
Name: Rory Gilmore (“Gilmore Girls”; Alexis Bledel)School: Yale University (Calhoun College) Projected Year of Yale Graduation: 2007 Chilton Activities: Reporter for The Franklin; Student Body Vice President
Chilton Honors: Class Valedictorian Harvard Memories: After being gung-ho Harvard since birth, Rory ultimately decides to stay closer to home and attend Yale. Putz!Rory’s mother on Yale: “Sweetie, have you ever been to New Haven? . . .Take a look at the coffee pot tomorrow before I clean it: that’s New Haven.”
(Compiled by Nell A. Hanlon, Michael M. Grynbaum, Marcus L. Wang, Benjamin J. Soskin and Nathan K. Burstein)