Alan Schechter (born 1936) is a Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Wellesley College in Massachusetts. He was educated at Amherst College, where he received his AB, and at Columbia University, where he earned his PhD. He is a distinguished and award-winning political scientist. He was also Hillary Rodham's advisor during her years at Wellesley College and supervised her senior thesis; Susan Estrich's book The Case for Hillary Clinton mentions her experience also writing an honors thesis for Professor Schechter (at a different time). He remains involved with the college, running the Wellesley in Washington internship program, in which Rodham participated as a student and which continues to send approximately twenty women to Washington for internships each summer. Professor Schechter is the former Chairman, Vice-Chairman, and member of the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board (Fulbright Program), a Presidential appointment.
Began training as a survivalist in high school and kept his apartment full of emergency supplies including MREs, ammunition, tools, and even suture kits.
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Mother died in a traffic accident when Alan was only 8 years old.
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Father was born Morris Paul Schecter and was a local radio personality in Cleveland in the 1950s known as the "Voice of Racing" because he broadcast local horse races. He changed his name to Van Lane in 1950 after the radio station he was working for had a "Name the DJ" contest.
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Started working in films in the mid 1970s as a production assistant at Cannon Films.
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Died at his Los Angeles home from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
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