List of Mount Holyoke College people
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The following is a list of individuals associated with Mount Holyoke College through attending as a student, or serving as a member of the faculty or staff.
[edit] Notable alumnae
[edit] Academics and scientists
- Mildred Sanderson, 1910 - mathematician
- Cornelia Clapp, 1871 - zoologist and marine biologist
- Mary Cutler Fairchild, 1875 - pioneering librarian
- Martha Warren Beckwith, 1893 - anthropologist
- Abby Howe Turner, 1896 - founded Mount Holyoke's department of physiology
- Margaret Morse Nice, 1905 - ornithologist
- Louise Freeland Jenkins, 1911 - astronomer
- Marion Elizabeth Blake, 1913 - classics professor
- Rachel Fuller Brown, 1920 - chemist who discovered Nystatin
- Mildred Trotter, 1920 - noted forensic anthropologist
- Lucy Weston Pickett, 1925 - noted chemist
- Helen Sawyer Hogg, 1926 - astronomer
- Janet Wilder Dakin, B.A. 1933, M.A. 1935 - zoologist who was the youngest sister of Thornton Wilder and Charlotte Wilder
- Mary McHenry, 1954 - professor of English credited with introducing African American literature to Mount Holyoke
- Jane English, 1964 -physicist, translator, photographer
- Phyllis Young Forsyth, 1966 - Distinguished Professor of Classical Studies, Emerita; founding chair, Classical Studies, University of Waterloo
- Dolores Hayden, 1966 - professor of architecture, urbanism, and American studies
- Carolyn Collette, 1967 - professor of English
- Susan Shirk, 1967 - professor of political science and the former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for North Asia during the Clinton administration
- Karen E. Rowe - English professor
- Carolyn Hotchkiss - current Babson College and former Harvard graduate school business law professor
- Cornelia Cook - Senior Lecturer of 19th and 20th Century Literature
- Clare M. Waterman-Storer, 1989 - noted biologist & winner of National Institutes of Health Director's Pioneer Award
[edit] Activists
- Lucy Stone, (attended 1839) - women's rights activist
- Olympia Brown, (attended 1854-55) - women's rights activist
- Helen Pitts, 1859 - women's rights activist, second wife of Frederick Douglass, and founder of the Frederick Douglass Memorial and Historical Association
- Hortense Parker, 1883 - daughter of African American abolitionist, John Parker and the first African American student to graduate from Mount Holyoke College
- Elizabeth Holloway Marston, 1915 - involved in the creation of Wonder Woman
- Sybil Bailey Stockdale, 1946 - founded the National League of Families of American Prisoners and MIAs in S.E. Asia; Lecturer; widow of '92 U.S. Vice-Presidential nominee, Adm. James Stockdale
- Gloria Johnson-Powell (Gloria Johnson), 1958 - child psychiatrist; an important figure in the American Civil Rights Movement (1955-1968) and the first African American woman to attain tenure at Harvard Medical School
- Susannah Sirkin, 1976 - Deputy Director,Physicians for Human Rights co-recipient of the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize as a part of The International Campaign to Ban Land Mines
- Lynn Pasquerella, 1980 - Medical ethicist & current President, Mount Holyoke College
- Mallika Dutt, 1983 - Executive Director of Breakthrough: bring human rights home, an international human rights organization
- Kavita Ramdas, 1985 - President and CEO, Global Fund for Women
- Marcia Hofmann, 2000 - digital rights activist and Senior Staff Attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation
[edit] Actresses, musicians, and performers
- Elizabeth Eaton Converse - later known as Connie Converse - singer and songwriter
- Caitlin Clarke (Katherine Clarke), 1974 - actress
- Bonnie Catto, 1973 - cellist
- Nancy Gustafson, 1978 - opera singer
- Melinda Mullins, 1979 - actress
- Donna Kane, 1984 - actress
- Martha Mason, 1988 - dancer, founder and artistic director of the Snappy Dance Theater
- Mara Bonde, 1991 - opera singer
- Laura Kamrath, 2004 - actress
[edit] Artists
- Esther Howland, 1847 - artist noted for her role in popularizing St. Valentine's Day cards
- Minerva J. Chapman, 1880 - painter
- Jane Hammond, 1972 - artist
- Manuel Rivera-Ortiz, did not graduate - documentary photographer; attended classes at Springfield Colleges as part of the Massachusetts Migrant Education summer program, where he was offered his first courses in photography.
[edit] Athletes
- Margaret Hoffman, 1934 - swimmer who participated in both the 1928 Summer Olympics and 1932 Summer Olympics (200M Breaststroke) [1]
- Imogene Opton Fish, 1955 - alpine skier who was captain of the U.S. women's 1952 Winter Olympics ski team
- Michele Drolet, 1976 - blind cross country skier who was the first American woman to ever earn a Paralympics cross country ski medal - bronze at the 1994 Winter Paralympics [2]
- Harriet (Holly) Metcalf, 1981 - Executive Director and founder of Row As One Institute who won a Gold medal in rowing at the 1984 Summer Olympics
- Mary Mazzio, 1983 - filmmaker and olympic athtlete who participated in rowing at the 1992 Summer Olympics
- Olga Maria Sacasa, 1984 - cyclist was the first woman ever to represent Nicaragua in cycling at the 1992 Summer Olympics
- Katheryn Curi, 1996 - cyclist who placed first at the National Road Race Championships in Park City, Utah in June 2005
[edit] Businesswomen
- Jean Picker Firstenberg, 1958 - Director and CEO of the American Film Institute
- Barbara J. Desoer - Global Technology, Service and Fulfillment Executive at Bank of America Corporation
- Audrey A. McNiff, 1980 - Managing Director and co-head of Currency Sales, Goldman Sachs
- Barbara Cassani, 1982 - first leader of London's successful bid for the 2012 Summer Olympics
[edit] College presidents
- Susan Tolman Mills, 1845 - co-founder and first president of Mills College
- Ada Howard, 1853 - first president of Wellesley College
- Abbie Park Ferguson, 1856 - founder and president of Huguenot College
- Sarah Ann Dickey, 1869 - founder of Mount Hermon Female Seminary
- Florence M. Read, 1909 - former president, Spelman College
- Barbara M. White, 1941 - former president, Mills College
- Pauline Tompkins, 1941 - former president, Cedar Crest College
- Alice Stone Ilchman 1957 - former president, Sarah Lawrence College
- Elizabeth Topham Kennan, 1960 - former president, Mount Holyoke College
- Nancy J. Vickers, 1967 - President, Bryn Mawr College
- Carol Geary Schneider, 1967 - President, Association of American Colleges and Universities
- Elaine Tuttle Hansen, 1969 - President, Bates College
- Lynn Pasquerella, 1980 - President, Mount Holyoke College
[edit] Computer scientists and graphic designers
- Jean E. Sammet, 1948 - computer scientist who developed the FORMAC programming language
- Susan Kare, 1975 - the original designer of many of the interface elements for the original Apple Macintosh.
[edit] Doctors, nurses, psychologists, and psychiatrists
- Mary Phylinda Dole, 1886, 1889 - became a doctor at a time when it was difficult for women to do so
- Dorothy Hansine Andersen, 1922 - doctor involved in cystic fibrosis research (first to identify the disease)
- Virginia Apgar, 1929 - doctor who developed the Apgar score for evaluating newborns; anesthesiologist
- Ellen P. Reese, 1948 - noted psychologist
- Florence Wald 1938- nurse who was the leader of the U.S. hospice movement
- Gloria Johnson-Powell (Gloria Johnson), 1958 - child psychiatrist; an important figure in the American Civil Rights Movement (1955-1968) and the first African American woman to attain tenure at Harvard Medical School
[edit] Filmmakers, broadcast presidents, and producers
- Dulcy Singer, 1955 - former Emmy Award winning producer of Sesame Street
- Julia Phillips (Julia Miller), 1965 - Hollywood producer and author
- Debra Martin Chase, 1977 - Hollywood producer
- Mary Mazzio, 1983 - filmmaker and olympic athtlete who participated in rowing at the 1992 Summer Olympics.
- Sonali Gulati, 1996 - filmmaker and director of the film Nalini by Day, Nancy by Night
[edit] Journalists
- Janet Huntington Brewster, 1933 - philanthropist, writer, and radio broadcaster; wife of Edward R. Murrow
- Beth Karas, 1979 - Senior Reporter, CourtTV
- Priscilla Painton, 1980 - Editor in Chief, Simon & Schuster; former Deputy Managing Editor, Time Magazine
- Dari Alexander - Co-anchor of WNYW's weeknight 6pm newscast, and previously a reporter and part-time anchor for the Fox News Channel.
- Manuel Rivera-Ortiz, did not graduate - photojournalist; attended classes at Springfield Colleges as part of the Massachusetts Migrant Education summer program, where he was offered his first courses in photography.
[edit] Judges
- Maryanne Trump Barry, 1958 - judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and the older sister of Donald Trump
- Glenda Hatchett, 1973 - judge on nationally syndicated television series, Judge Hatchett
[edit] Politicians and family
- Louisa “Louise” Maria Torrey Taft, 1845 - mother of president William Howard Taft
- Frances Perkins, 1902 - the first woman cabinet member (U.S. Secretary of Labor from 1933-1945 under President Franklin D. Roosevelt).
- Marion West Higgins, 1936 - first female Speaker of the New Jersey General Assembly
- Ella T. Grasso, 1940 - Governor of Connecticut; the first female Governor elected in her own right in United States history
- Nancy Kissinger (Nancy Maginnes), 1955 - philanthropist; wife of former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger
- Nita Lowey, 1959 - United States House of Representatives member (D-NY)
- Susan Shirk, 1967 - professor of political science and the former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for North Asia during the Clinton administration
- Judith Kurland, 1967 - former Regional Director, United States Department of Health and Human Services
- Jane Garvey (Jane Famiano), 1969 (M.A.) - former head of Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)
- Elaine Chao, 1975 - U.S. Secretary of Labor, 2001–2009; Director of the Peace Corps, 1991–1992; former national director, United Way
- Karen Middleton (Colorado legislator), 1988 - a legislator in the U.S. state of Colorado
- Mona Sutphen, 1989 - a Deputy White House Chief of Staff in the Obama administration.
[edit] Writers
- Emily Dickinson, (attended 1847-1848) - poet
- Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, (attended 1870-1871) - novelist and short story writer
- Anne W. Armstrong, (attended 1890–1892) - novelist
- Alice Geer Kelsey, 1918 - writer, children's literature
- Charlotte Wilder, 1919 - poet
- Kathryn Irene Glascock, 1922 - poet
- Constance McLaughlin Green, 1925 (Master's degree) - historian who won the 1963 Pulitzer Prize for History for Washington, Village and Capital, 1800-1878
- Roberta Teale Swartz, 1925 - poet
- Virginia Hamilton Adair, 1933 - poet.
- Martha Whitmore Hickman, 1947 - non-fiction author
- Jean Rikhoff, 1948 - author
- Nancy McKenzie, 1948 - Arthurian legend author
- Emma Lathen, (pen-name for mystery authors Martha Henissart '50 and Mary Jane Latsis)
- Nancy Bauer (Nancy Luke), 1956 - non-fiction author
- Clare Munnings, (pen-name for mystery authors Elizabeth Topham Kennan '60 and Jill Ker Conway)
- Nancy Bond, 1966 - writer, children's literature
- Patricia Roth Schwartz, 1968 - poet
- Olivia Mellan, 1968 - Author of 6 books on Money Psychology
- Kathleen Eagle (Kathleen Pierson), 1970 - romance novelist
- Marisabina Russo, 1971 - writer, children's literature
- Wendy Wasserstein, 1971 - playwright who won the 1989 Tony Award for Best Play and the 1989 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for The Heidi Chronicles
- Susan Shwartz, 1972 - science fiction and fantasy author
- Lynne Barrett, 1972 - author
- Gjertrud Schnackenberg, 1975 - poet
- Kathleen Hirsch, 1975 - non-fiction author
- Judith Tarr, 1976 - science fiction and fantasy author
- Carol Higgins Clark, 1978 - mystery author
- Jacqueline Jones LaMon, 1978 - poet and novelist [3]
- Lan Cao, 1983 - novelist
- Suzan-Lori Parks, 1985 - playwright who won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize in Drama for Topdog/Underdog
- Sehba Sarwar, 1986 - novelist
- Shoba Narayan, 1987 (MHCG) - non-fiction author
- C. Leigh Purtill, 1988 - young adult author
- Sabina Murray, 1989 - screenwriter; wrote screenplay for The Beautiful Country
- Tahmima Anam, 1997 - author
- Susan J. Elliott, 2000 - non-fiction author
[edit] Notable faculty, past and present
[edit] Artists
- Leonard DeLonga - professor of art
- (Charles) Denoe Leedy - concert pianist and music journalist
- Harrison Potter - concert pianist and accompanist
- David Sanford (composer) - professor of music
- Bonnie Catto - cellist
[edit] Athletics
- Mary Ellen Clark - head diving coach; diver who won two Olympic bronze medals at the 1992 Summer Olympics and the 1996 Summer Olympics.
[edit] Authors, actors, poets, and playwrights
- Awam Amkpa - actor and playwright
- James Baldwin - Five Colleges (Massachusetts) faculty and noted American novelist
- Sven Birkerts - author, The Gutenberg Elegies
- Joseph Brodsky - winner of the 1987 Nobel Prize in Literature, and Poet Laureate of the United States for 1991–1992
- Luis Cernuda - poet
- Anita Desai - novelist
- Anthony Giardina - novelist
- John Irving - author of The Cider House Rules, and The World According to Garp
- Denis Johnston - playwright
- Brad Leithauser - author, poet
- Jaime Manrique - author, poet
- Valerie Martin - novelist and short story writer
- Mary Jo Salter - poet and a coeditor of The Norton Anthology of Poetry
- Bapsi Sidhwa - novelist
- Paul Smyth - poet
- Genevieve Taggard - poet
- Peter Viereck - 1949 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for Terror and Decorum and professor of Russian History
- Douglas Whynott - author
[edit] Education
- Mary Lyon - founder of Mount Holyoke Female Seminary in 1837 (later Mount Holyoke College)
- Beverly Daniel Tatum - president of Spelman College
[edit] Historians
- Michael Burns
- Joseph Ellis
- Robert Matteson Johnston
- Stephen F. Jones
- William S. McFeely
- Nellie Neilson
- Bertha Putnam
[edit] Humanities
- Christopher Benfey - professor of English
- Peter Berek - professor of English
- Marion Elizabeth Blake - classics professor
- Bonnie Catto - Classics professor
- Gordon Keith Chalmers - professor of English
- Carolyn Collette - professor of English
- Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze - philosopher
- Leah Blatt Glasser - Dean of First-Year Studies and Lecturer in English
- Lynne Hanley - professor of English
- Mary McHenry - professor of English
- Indira Viswanathan Peterson - professor of Asian Studies
- William H. Quillian - professor of English
- David Staines - literary critic
- Jean Wahl -philosopher
- Donald Weber - professor of English
- Lucy Cummings - anthropologist researching Sino-U.S. relations; based out of Shanghai, CHN
[edit] Politics
- Shirley Chisholm - U.S. Representative, 1968–1983, founding member of the Congressional Black Caucus, and simultaneously the first woman and the first African-American to run for U.S. President
- Jean Grossholtz - professor emeritus of politics; bodybuilder who won a silver medal at the 1994 Gay Games [4]
- W. Anthony Lake - U.S. National Security Advisor, 1993–1997
- [Cyrus Vance] - U.S. Secretary of State, 1977–1980
[edit] Sciences and social sciences
- A. Elizabeth Adams - zoologist
- Mildred Allen - physicist
- John Bissell Carroll - psychologist
- Cornelia Clapp - zoologist and marine biologist
- Janet Wilder Dakin - zoologist who was the youngest sister of Thornton Wilder and Charlotte Wilder
- Anna J. Harrison - professor of chemistry
- Olive Hazlett- mathematician
- Mark McMenamin - paleontologist and geologist, winner of the Presidential Young Investigator Award (PYI)
- Ann Haven Morgan - zoologist
- Lucy Taxis Shoe Meritt, classical archaeologist and a scholar of Greek architectural ornamentation and mouldings
- Becky Wai-Ling Packard - winner of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE)
- Lucy Weston Pickett - noted chemist
- Ellen P. Reese, 1948 - noted psychologist
- Mignon Talbot - professor of Geology and Geography, who recovered the only fossils of the dinosaur, Podokesaurus holyokensis
- Abby Howe Turner - founded Mount Holyoke's department of physiology
- Esther Boise Van Deman - archeologist
- Antoni Zygmund - mathematician who exerted a major influence on 20th-century mathematics
[edit] Presidents
A number of individuals have acted as head of Mount Holyoke. Until 1888, the term principal was used. From 1888 to the present, the term president has been used.[1]
- 1837-1849: Mary Lyon, 1st President (Founder and Principal)
- 1849-1850: Mary C. Whitman, 2nd President (Principal)
- 1850-1865: Mary W. Chapin, 3rd President (Principal)
- 1865-1867: Sophia D. Stoddard 4th President (Acting Principal)
- 1867-1872: Helen M. French, 5th President (Principal)
- 1872-1883: Julia E. Ward, 6th President (Principal)
- 1883-1889 Elizabeth Blanchard, 7th President (Principal and President)
- 1889: Mary A. Brigham, 8th President (President Elect - died in an accident)
- 1889-1890: Louisa F. Cowles, 9th President (Acting President)
- 1890-1900: Elizabeth Storrs Mead, 10th President
- 1900-1937: Mary Emma Woolley, 11th President
- 1937-1957: Roswell G. Ham, 12th President (first male head)
- 1957-1968: Richard Glenn Gettell, 13th President
- 1968-1969: Meribeth E. Cameron, 14th President (Acting President)
- 1969-1978: David Truman, 15th President
- 1978-1995: Elizabeth Topham Kennan '60, 16th President
- 1996-2010: Joanne V. Creighton, 17th President
- 2010–Present: Lynn Pasquerella '80, 18th President
[edit] Acting and Interim Presidents
- Beverly Daniel Tatum, served as Acting President for part of 2002 while President Creighton was on leave.
- Peter Berek, served as interim president in Fall 1995.
- Joseph Ellis, served as Acting President for part of 1984 while President Kennan was on leave.
- Meribeth E. Cameron, served as Acting President for part of 1954 while President Ham was on leave and for part of 1966 while President Gettell was on leave.
[edit] Commencement speakers
The following is a list of Mount Holyoke College Commencement Speakers by year. [2]
| Date | Name | Speeches and links |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Martha Nussbaum | [3] |
| 2010 | Gail Collins | [4] |
| 2009 | Mary McAleese | [5] |
| 2008 | Carol Gilligan | [6] |
| 2007 | Wendy Kopp | [7] |
| 2006 | Joyce Carol Oates | [8][9] |
| 2005 | Nina Totenberg | [10] |
| 2004 | Kim Campbell | [11] |
| 2003 | Judy Blume | [12][13] |
| 2002 | Queen Noor of Jordan | [14] |
| 2001 | Suzan-Lori Parks ’85 | [15] |
| 2000 | Mary Patterson McPherson | [16] |
| 1999 | Anna Quindlen | [17] |
| 1998 | Johnnetta B. Cole | [18] |
| 1997 | Madeleine Albright | [19] |
| 1996 | Donna Shalala | [20] |
| 1995 | Ann Richards | [21] |
| 1994 | Nita Lowey ’59 | [22] |
| 1993 | Judith Kurland ’67 | [22] |
| 1992 | Pat Schroeder | [22] |
| 1991 | Evelyn Fox Keller | [22] |
| 1990 | Wendy Wasserstein ’71 | [23] (quotes) |
| 1989 | Glenn Close | [24] (quotes) |
| 1988 | Joseph Brodsky | [22] |
| 1987 | Maya Angelou | [25][26] |
| 1984 | Barbara B. Kennelly | [27] |
| 1981 | Shirley Chisholm | [28] |
| 1976 | Lillian Hellman | [29] |
| 1975 | Ella T. Grasso '40 | [30] |
| 1963 | U Thant [30] | [30] |
| 1912 | The Rev. Edward F. Sanderson | [31] |
| 1899 | William McKinley | [32] |
[edit] Notes
- ^ Principals & Presidents (1837-)
- ^ Commencement Speakers by Year
- ^ Martha Nussbaum to speak at Mount Holyoke College commencement
- ^ Columnist to deliver Mount Holyoke College graduation address
- ^ McAleese to MHC Grads: "The World Needs You"
- ^ Carol Gilligan Commencement Speech
- ^ Wendy Kopp Commencement Speech
- ^ Joyce Carol Oates Commencement Speech
- ^ Boston Globe article
- ^ Nina Totenberg Commencement Speech
- ^ Kim Campbell Commencement Speech
- ^ Judy Blume Commencement Speech
- ^ Photo from Judy Blume's official website
- ^ Queen Noor of Jordan Commencement Speech
- ^ Suzan-Lori Parks Commencement Speech
- ^ Mary Patterson McPherson Commencement Speech
- ^ Anna Quindlen Commencement Speech
- ^ Johnnetta B. Cole Commencement Speech
- ^ Madeleine Albright Commencement Speech
- ^ Donna Shalala Commencement Speech
- ^ Ann Richards Commencement Speech
- ^ a b c d e "List of commencement speakers 1987-1997". Mount Holyoke College. http://www.mtholyoke.edu/offices/comm/misc/albright/speakers.shtml. Retrieved 2008-05-28.
- ^ Wendy Wasserstein Commencement Speech
- ^ Glenn Close Commencement Speech
- ^ "Commencements; Mount Holyoke". The New York Times. May 25, 1987. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0DE6D8103CF936A15756C0A961948260&n=Top%2fReference%2fTimes%20Topics%2fPeople%2fA%2fAngelou%2c%20Maya. Retrieved 2007-10-12.
- ^ "At Mount Holyoke:Angelou tells seniors to reflect on their education". Daily Hampshire Gazette. May 26, 1987.
- ^ Political Action Urged
- ^ Commencement Address, the Genre
- ^ Lillian Hellman papers with draft of Mount Holyoke commencement speech
- ^ a b c The Education of Ella Grasso
- ^ "Mount Holyoke Graduates; The College Celebrates Its Seventyfifth Commencement.". The New York Times. June 16, 1912. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9800E4D91E3CE633A25755C1A9609C946396D6CF.
- ^ "President Gives Diplomas; Mount Holyoke College Confers a Degree Upon Him. The First Man So Honored Speech to the Graduating Class, Among Whom Was His Niece -- The President's Trip.". The New York Times. June 21, 1899. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9902E1D71530EE32A25752C2A9609C94689ED7CF.
