List of Miss Porter's School alumnae
The following is a list of notable alumnae from Miss Porter's School.
1870s
- Grace Hoadley Dodge (1873) - established Columbia University Teachers’ College[1][2]
- Nellie Grant (1873) – daughter of U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant and First Lady Julia Grant[3]
- Mary Knight Wood (1875) – American pianist, music educator and composer[4]
- Julia Lathrop (1876) – the first woman ever to head a government agency in the United States
1880s
- Edith Hamilton (1886) – Greek Mythology scholar and sister of Alice Hamilton[5]
- Alice Hamilton (1888) – first female faculty member of Harvard Medical School, founder of the field of industrial medicine[5]
- Theodate Pope Riddle (1888) – architect and founder of Avon Old Farms and Westover School
1890s
- Madeline McDowell Breckinridge (1890) – a leader of the women's suffrage movement, a leading Progressive reformer, and granddaughter of Henry Clay[6]
- Ruth Hanna McCormick (1897) – member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Illinois and the first woman to run for the U.S. Senate
1910s
- Edith Roelker Curtis (1912) – author, historian, and diarist
- Dorothy Keeley Aldis (1914) – American children's author and poet
1920s
- Helen Coley Nauts (1925) – founder of the Cancer Research Institute[7][8]
- Isabel Morrell Beadleston (1928) – American socialite and wife of politician Alfred N. Beadleston
1930s
- Barbara Hutton (1930) – American socialite, dubbed "Poor Little Rich Girl"
- Edith Bouvier Beale (1935) – American socialite, cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, and subject of the documentary film Grey Gardens
- Anne Cox Chambers (1938) – U.S. Ambassador to Belgium during the Carter administration[9]
- Gene Tierney (1938) – Academy Award-nominated actress[10]
- Brenda Frazier (1939) – American socialite
1940s
- Polly Allen Mellen (1942) – editor of Vogue magazine
- Dina Merrill (née Nedenia Hutton) (1943) – actress and American socialite
- Letitia Baldrige Hollensteiner (1943) – author and social secretary to Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy[10][11]
- Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis (1947) – former First Lady of the United States[10][12]
- Patience Cleveland (1948) – American actress and published author[13]
- Lilly Pulitzer (née Lillian Lee McKim) (1949) – fashion designer and American socialite[10]
1950s
- Lee Radziwill (née Bouvier) (1950) – public relations executive for Giorgio Armani, author, and younger sister of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis[10]
- Elizabeth Cushman Titus Putnam (1951) – founding president of the Student Conservation Association (SCA) and recipient of the Presidential Citizens Medal[14][15][16]
- Laura Rockefeller Chasin (1954) – American socialite
- Elise Ravenel Wood du Pont (1954) – former First Lady of Delaware and 1984 Republican candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives[17]
- Barbara Babcock (1955) – Emmy-award-winning actress for Hill Street Blues
- Pema Chödrön (formerly Deirdre Blomfield-Brown) (1955) – Buddhist nun and author; resident director of Gampo Abbey[18]
- Edith Kunhardt Davis (1955) – children's author and illustrator, daughter of Dorothy Kunhardt[19][20]
- Agnes Gund (1956) – President Emerita of the Museum of Modern Art and 1997 recipient of the National Medal of Arts from President Bill Clinton, she was nominated by President Barack Obama as a member of the Board of Trustees of the National Council on the Arts in 2011[21][22]
1960s
- Mimi Alford (1961) – former White House intern who wrote a book about her affair with John F. Kennedy[23][24]
1970s
- Elizabeth May (1972) – the first elected Green Party Member of Parliament in Canada and leader of the Green Party of Canada
- Dorothy Bush Koch (1977) – philanthropist and member of the Bush political family
- Sarah Ludlow Blake (1978) – American writer[25]
1980s
- Susannah Grant (1980) – director and Academy Award-nominated screenwriter for Erin Brockovich[26]
- Ariane de Vogue (1984) -- CNN reporter and commentator[27]
- R. Erica Doyle (1985) -- educator and noted poet[28]
- Gregg Renfrew (1986) -- entrepreneur and founder of Beautycounter[29]
- Lisette Bross (1989) -- Chief Strategic Officer at Radar Pictures[30]
- Mary Anne Amirthi Mohanraj (1989) – American writer and editor
1990s
- Katherine Collins Pope (1990) – president of television at Chernin Entertainment, formerly president of Universal Media Studios, and executive producer of such television series as New Girl, Touch, and Ben & Kate[31][32]
- Kate Bennett (1993) -- CNN White House reporter assigned to Melania Trump[33]
- Chrishaunda Lee (1994) – niece of Oprah Winfrey and hostess of the PBS program Animal Attractions Television
2000s
- Mamie Gummer (2001) – actress and daughter of actress Meryl Streep
- Hayley Petit (2007) – victim of the Cheshire, Connecticut, home invasion murders[34]
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- ^ The Musician. 5. Vol. 22. Hatch Music Company. 1917. p. 396. Retrieved September 1, 2012.
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- ^ "Madeline McDowell Breckinridge Papers, 1867, 1888–1923. – Kentucky Digital Library". Eris.uky.edu. Retrieved April 23, 2013.
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- ^ Davis, Nancy; Barbara Donahue (1992). Miss Porter's School: A History. ISBN 0-9632985-1-8.
- ^ "Boarding School Graduates – The Association of Boarding Schools (TABS)". Boardingschools.com. Retrieved April 23, 2013.
- ^ "About Patience | A Day in the Life". Patiencecleveland.wordpress.com. Retrieved April 23, 2013.
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- ^ "Miss Porter's School Annual Report 2009-2010, page 9" (PDF). Retrieved April 23, 2013.
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- ^ "Pema Chödrön". Gampo Abbey. Archived from the original on March 24, 2013. Retrieved April 23, 2013.
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- ^ Maslin, Janet (February 9, 2012). "Sure, Mr. President, if You Really Want Me To". The New York Times. The New York Times Company. p. C4. Retrieved July 25, 2012.
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- ^ "R. Erica Doyle". Poetry Foundation. Poetry Foundation. 2018-09-27. Retrieved 2018-09-27.
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