HONOREE HONOREE James Collins Warren Edward M. Zwick Class of 1942 Class of 1970 Lt. Col. James Collins Warren grew up in the northern suburbs of Born in Winnetka, Edward Zwick began directing and acting in high Chicago and graduated from New Trier High School in 1942. He enlisted school and trained as an apprentice at the Academy Festival in Lake Forest. in the Army Air Forces in November 1942 and entered active duty in March While studying literature at Harvard, he continued writing and directing 1943. He participated in aviation cadet training at Tuskegee Army Air Field for the theatre. Upon graduation, he was awarded a Rockefeller Fellowship and served as a member of the 477th Bombardment Group. to study in Europe with some of the major innovative theatre companies. From 1947 to 1950, he attended the University of Illinois and Zwick was accepted as a Directing Fellow at the American Film majoreWd in Architecture. He was employed with the firm of Holsman, Institute in 1975. ZTimothy and the Angel , Zwick’s AFI short film, won first Holsman, Klekamp and Taylor. place in the student film competition at the 1976 Chicago Film Festival and During the Korean War, Warren was recalled to active duty and flew caught the attention of the producers of the television series Family . 50 combat missions. Over his flying career of more than 12,000 hours, he He served as story editor on Family and subsequently became a director and flew several missions of note: e Bob Hope Christmas Show from Vietnam producer. to Los Angeles in 1964, the Apollo Moon Crew from splashdown in the e television movie Special Bulletin marked the beginning of Zwick’s Pacific near American Samoa to Houston, Texas, and as Navigator on the collaboration with Marshall Herskovitz, with whom he created the Emmy “Homecoming One” mission to return the first group of American ex-POWs Award- winning television series thirty something . Together Herskovitz and to freedom from Vietnam. Zwick created e Bedford Falls Company as their home for film and In 1978, Warren retired from the Air Force after over 35 years of television projects, including the critically acclaimed series My So-Called Life, service. During his career he earned numerous decorations and awards, Relativity , and Once and Again . including three Distinguished Flying Crosses, 11 Air Medals, and three Zwick began his feature film career directing About Last Night . Meritorious Service Medals. He is the author of e Tuskegee Airmen Mutiny He went on to direct the Academy Award-winning films Glory and Legends at Freeman Field. of the Fall. Zwick also directed Courage Under Fire, e Siege, e Last During his time at New Trier, Warren was amazed at the number of Samurai, Blood Diamond and Defiance . extracurricular activities available but found his time limited because Zwick has been honored with three Emmy Awards, the Humanitas he worked after school. He played baseball and lettered every year and also Prize, the Writer’s Guild of America Award, two Peabody Awards, a Director’s participated in football despite never having seen a football Guild of America Award, and AFI’s Franklin J. Schaffner before arriving at New Trier. Alumni Award. He received an Academy Award as a Warren is married to the former Xanthia Francis producer of 1999’s Best Picture Shakespeare in Love . Cooper. He has three sons, Captain James Warren II (ret), At New Trier, Zwick played soccer and tennis, Captain Stewart T. Warren, USNR, and former Lt. produced Potpourri, played various leads in plays and Commander Dwayne Warren. musicals, and sang with every possible singing group, not to mention the stairwell of the MD building. 14 15.