List of Goucher College people
Goucher College is a private liberal arts college in Towson, Maryland, that was founded in 1885. It was originally established as a women's college but became coeducational in 1986.
The following is an incomplete list of prominent Goucher people.
Notable alumni
Jonah Goldberg, conservative commentator and National Review senior editor
Lucé Vela, former first lady of Puerto Rico
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Phyllis A. Kravitch, former United States Circuit Judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and later for the Eleventh Circuit
Law, government, and public affairs
- Sally Brice-O'Hara (class of 1974), Vice Admiral and Vice Commandant of the United States Coast Guard
- Joan Claybrook (class of 1959), president of Public Citizen, think tank founded by Ralph Nader
- Ellen Lipton Hollander (class of 1971), federal judge for the United States District Court for the District of Maryland
- Sarah T. Hughes (class of 1917), federal judge who administered the presidential oath of office to Lyndon B. Johnson following the assassination of John F. Kennedy
- Margaret G. Kibben, Rear Admiral, U.S. Navy, Chaplain of the United States Marine Corps
- Phyllis A. Kravitch (class of 1941), federal judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
- John A. Olszewski, Jr. (class of 2004), delegate on the Maryland General Assembly
- Kevin B. Quinn (class of 2001), Chief Executive Officer and Administrator of the Maryland Transit Administration
- Jessie Woodrow Wilson Sayre (class of 1908), daughter of U.S. President Woodrow Wilson and political activist
- Lucé Vela (class of 1982), former First Lady of Puerto Rico
Literature and journalism
- Ellen Bass (class of 1968), poet
- Emily Newell Blair, writer, feminist, and co-founder of the League of Women Voters[1]
- Andrew Ervin (class of 1993), novelist and critic
- Margaret Fishback (class of 1921), author and poet
- Jonah Goldberg (class of 1991), New York Times bestselling author and noted conservative commentator
- Anne Lamott (attended for two years), memoir writer
- Laura Amy Schlitz (class of 1977), author, Newbery Medal and Newbery Honor winner[2]
- Eleanor Wilner (class of 1959), poet, 1991 MacArthur Fellow[3]
Scientists, physicians, psychologists, mathematicians and researchers
- Beatrice Aitchison (class of 1928), mathematician and transportation economist
- Hattie Alexander (class of 1923), pediatrician and microbiologist
- Ruth Bleier (class of 1945), neurophysiologist
- Teresa Cohen (class of 1912), mathematician
- Helen Dodson Price (class of 1927), astronomer, winner of the Annie J. Cannon Award in Astronomy[4]
- Margaret Irving Handy (class of 1911), pediatrician
- Helen C. Harrison (class of 1931), winner of the John Howland Award and the E. Mead Johnson Award for work in pediatrics[5][6]
- Ethel Browne Harvey, embryologist
- Marjorie G. Horning, biochemist and pharmacologist
- Georgeanna Seegar Jones (class of 1932), reproductive endocrinologist
- Kate Breckenridge Karpeles (class of 1909), United States Army doctor during World War I
- Grace Manson, psychologist
- Margaret McFarland (class of 1927), psychologist and consultant to Mister Rogers' Neighborhood[7]
- Florence Marie Mears (class of 1917), mathematician
- Bessie Moses (class of 1915), gynecologist and obstetrician[8]
- Florence B. Seibert (class of 1918), biochemist
- Lydia Villa-Komaroff, molecular biologist
- Jean Worthley (class of 1944), naturalist
Academics and scholars
- Shirley Montag Almon (class of 1956), economist
- Constance Prem Nath Dass (class of 1911), first Indian president of Isabella Thoburn College
- Karen S. Haynes (class of 1968), president of California State University, San Marcos[9]
- Alice Kessler-Harris (class of 1961), historian and professor
- Stephen Kimber, Canadian journalist and professor at University of King's College
- Nancy Mowll Mathews (class of 1968), art historian
- Sara Haardt Mencken (class of 1920), professor of English literature, wife of H. L. Mencken
- Edith Philips (class of 1913), educator and writer, 1928 Guggenheim Fellow[10]
- Hortense Powdermaker (class of 1919), anthropologist
- Darcey Steinke (class of 1985), author and university lecturer
Arts and entertainment
- Clara Beranger (class of 1907), screenwriter, married to William C. DeMille
- Mildred Dunnock (class of 1922), Oscar-nominated film and stage actress[11]
- Alison Fanelli (class of 2001), actress starring as Ellen on The Adventures of Pete & Pete
- Anne Hummert (née. Schumacher) (class of 1925), creator of leading radio soap operas during the 1930s and 1940s[12]
- Christine Jowers (class of 1985), choreographer, producer, and dance critic
- Jane Levy (attended for a semester), actress
- Selma L. Oppenheimer, Baltimore-based artist
- Mary Vivian Pearce, actress who worked with film director John Waters, considered one of the Dreamlanders
- Ruddy Roye (class of 1998), documentary photographer and Time magazine's pick for Instagram Photographer of 2016[13]
- Rosalind Solomon (class of 1951), artist and photographer
Business
- Katherine August-deWilde, former president of First Republic Bank from 2007 to 2015 and current vice chair
- Sally Buck, partial owner of the Major League Baseball team Philadelphia Phillies
- Sherry Cooper (class of 1972), former chief economist at BMO Financial Group
- Olive Dennis (class of 1908), civil engineer for B&O Railroad, first female member of the American Railway Engineering and Maintenance-of-Way Association[14]
- Bradford Shellhammer (class of 1998), eBay executive, co-founder of Fab.com, Bezar, and Queerty
- Elsie Shutt, one of the first women to start a software company in the United States[15]
- Paula Stern (class of 1967), former chairwoman of the United States International Trade Commission[16]
Sports
- Susan Devlin (class of 1953), American-Irish badminton champion[17]
- Judy Devlin Hashman (class of 1958), ten-time All-England badminton singles champion
- Emily Kagan (born 1981), American mixed martial artist
Notable faculty
- Vasily Aksyonov, Soviet-Russian novelist
- Flo Ayres, radio actress
- Kaushik Bagchi, Indian historian
- Jean H. Baker, historian
- Robert M. Beachy, historian
- Dorothy Lewis Bernstein, mathematician
- Chrystelle Trump Bond, dancer, choreographer and dance historian
- Alice Braunlich, classical philologist
- Neil H. Buchanan, economist and legal scholar
- George Delahunty, physiologist and endocrinologist
- Rhoda Dorsey, historian
- Janet Dudley-Eshbach, academic administrator
- Andrew Ervin, author, critic and, editor
- Harriet Campbell Foss, painter
- Thomas French, journalist
- Marianne Githens, political scientist, author, and feminist
- Margret Grebowicz, Polish philosopher, author, and jazz vocalist
- Mildred Harnack, American-German historian, translator, and German Resistance fighter in Nazi Germany
- Elaine Ryan Hedges, writer and feminist
- Ailish Hopper, poet, writer, and teacher
- Nancy Hubbard, author and public relations consultant
- Harry Mortimer Hubbell, classicist
- Julie Roy Jeffrey, historian
- Nina Kasniunas, political scientist and writer
- Florence Lewis, mathematician and astronomer
- Laura Lippman, author
- Oliver W. F. Lodge, British author and poet
- William Harding Longley, botanist
- Nina Marković, Croatian-American physicist
- Elizabeth Stoffregen May, economist and women's education advocate
- Howard Norman, writer and educator
- Edith Philips, writer and French literary academic
- Richard Pringle, psychologist
- Alice S. Rossi, sociologist and feminist
- Mike Sager, journalist and author
- Forrest Shreve, botanist
- Martha Siegel, mathematician and educator
- Robert Slocum, botanist and biologist
- Elizabeth Spires, poet
- Dorothy Stimson, historian of science
- Shira Tarrant, writer
- Ruth Dogget Terzaghi, geologist
- Bill Thomas, journalist
- Michelle Tokarczyk, author, poet, and literary critic
- Sanford J. Ungar, journalist and academic administrator
- Robert S. Welch, academic administrator
- Juliette Wells, author and editor
- Lilian Welsh, physician, educator, suffragist, and advocate for women's health
- Mary Wilhelmine Williams, historian
- Ola Elizabeth Winslow, historian, biographer, and educator
- Jill Zimmerman, computer scientist
- Mary Kay Zuravleff, writer and novelist
- David Zurawik, journalist, author, and media critic
Presidents
Acting presidents were temporary appointments.
| S. No. | Name | Term |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | William Hersey Hopkins | 1886–1890 |
| 2. | John Goucher | 1890–1908 |
| 3. | Eugene Allen Noble | 1908–1911 |
| * | John Blackford Van Meter | 1911–1913 |
| 4. | William Westley Guth | 1913–1929 |
| * | Hans Froelicher | 1929–1930 |
| * | Dorothy Stimson | 1930 |
| 5. | David Allan Robertson | 1930–1948 |
| 6. | Otto Kraushaar | 1948–1967 |
| 7. | Marvin Banks Perry Jr. | 1967–1973 |
| * | Rhoda Dorsey | 1973–1974 |
| 8. | Rhoda Dorsey | 1974–1994 |
| 9. | Judy Jolley Mohraz | 1994–2000 |
| * | Robert S. Welch | 2000–2001 |
| 10. | Sanford J. Ungar | 2001–2014 |
| 11. | José Antonio Bowen | 2014–present |
- Color key
Acting president (*)
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