Inventors and artists

Inventors and artists is a working face gallery of Ritchie Boys whose profiles or Notable Ritchie Boys entries document creative, inventive, or cultural careers after Camp Ritchie — inventors, designers, writers, photographers, architects, musicians, and related fields.

This is not a complete roster. Cards are added only when a source already on this wiki supports the postwar creative link.

Ralph H. Baer

Class 10

• “Father of video games”; Odyssey; Pong
• Full story

Fred Howard

Class 17

• Display company owner; invented L’Eggs pantyhose packaging

George Jellinek

Class 16

• WQXR radio host, The Vocal Scene

Philip C. Johnson

Class 10

• Architect; modern glass and steel towers

Simon J. Lewen

Class 16

• Artist of the Holocaust; Si Lewen Museum

Ib J. Melchior

Class 10

• Novelist, Order of Battle

Eric R. Pleskow

Class 27

• Film producer; president, United Artists

Jerome D. Salinger

• Novelist, The Catcher in the Rye

David R. Seymour

Class 5

• Photographer known as “Chim”

William C. Warfield

• Bass-baritone; Porgy and Bess

See also

• Themes — all theme face galleries
• Notable Ritchie Boys
• The Stories
• Refugees who enlisted