List of Mount Holyoke College Peopl (456 items)report

• Clara Harrison Stranahan, 1849 - author; founder and trustee of Barnard College
  
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• Harriet Newell Haskell, 1855 - educator and administrator
  
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• Cornelia Clapp, 1871 - zoologist and marine biologist
  
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• Mary Cutler Fairchild, 1875 - pioneering librarian
  
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• Alice Carter Cook, circa 1888 - botanist and later faculty, first female recipient of an American botany PhD
  
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• Marian E. Hubbard, 1889 - zoology professor
  
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• Alice Huntington Bushee, 1891 - Spanish literature professor at Wellesley College
  
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• Martha Warren Beckwith, 1893 - anthropologist
  
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• Abby Howe Turner, 1896 - founded Mount Holyoke's department of physiology
  
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• Margaret Morse Nice, 1905 - ornithologist
  
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• Alzada Comstock, 1910 - economics professor
  
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• Mildred Sanderson, 1910 - mathematician
  
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• Louise Freeland Jenkins, 1911 - astronomer
  
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• Marion Elizabeth Blake, 1913 - classics professor
  
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• Helen G. Fisk, 1917 - vocational services educator
  
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• Rachel Fuller Brown, 1920 - chemist who discovered Nystatin
  
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• Mildred Trotter, 1920 - forensic anthropologist
  
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• Lucy Weston Pickett, 1925 - chemist
  
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• Helen Sawyer Hogg, 1926 - astronomer
  
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• Alice Standish Allen, 1929 - the first female engineering geologist in North America
  
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• Janet Wilder Dakin, B.A. 1933, M.A. 1935 - zoologist who was the youngest sister of Thornton Wilder and Charlotte Wilder
  
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• Sara Anderson Immerwahr, 1935 - Classical archaeologist
  
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• Carolyn Shaw Bell, 1941 - economics professor
  
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• Mary McHenry, 1954 - professor of English credited with introducing African American literature to Mount Holyoke
  
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• Jane English, 1964 - physicist, translator, photographer
  
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• Dolores Hayden, 1966 - professor of architecture, urbanism, and American studies
  
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• Carolyn Collette, 1967 - professor of English
  
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• Karen E. Rowe, 1967 - English professor at UCLA
  
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• Susan Shirk, 1967 - professor of political science and the former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for North Asia during the Clinton administration
  
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• Lila M. Gierasch, 1970 - professor of chemistry, biochemistry and molecular biology
  
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• Victoria C. Yan, 2018 - cancer researcher known for pioneering and patenting treatment drugs. Also known writer on COVID-19 treatments.
  
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• Lucy Stone, (attended 1839) - women's rights activist
  
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• Olympia Brown, (attended 1854-55) - women's rights activist
  
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• Helen Pitts, 1859 - women's rights activist, second wife of Frederick Douglass, and founder of the Frederick Douglass Memorial and Historical Association
  
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• Hortense Parker, 1883 - daughter of African American abolitionist, John Parker and the first African American student to graduate from Mount Holyoke College
  
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• Alice Bradford Wiles, 1873 - Chicago clubwoman
  
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• Elizabeth Holloway Marston, 1915 - was the inspiration for Wonder Woman
  
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• Ruth Muskrat Bronson, 1925 - Poet, educator, Indian rights activist
  
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• 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
  
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• Gloria Johnson-Powell (Gloria Johnson), 1958 - child psychiatrist; an important figure in the Civil Rights Movement and the first African-American woman to attain tenure at Harvard Medical School
  
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• Rose Dugdale- political activist and prominent member of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA).
  
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• Lynn Pasquerella, 1980 - Medical ethicist; president, Mount Holyoke College
  
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• Mallika Dutt, 1983 - Executive Director of Breakthrough: bring human rights home, an international human rights organization
  
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• Kavita Ramdas, 1985 - President and CEO, Global Fund for Women
  
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• Marcia Hofmann, 2000 - digital rights attorney and activist
  
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• Elizabeth Eaton Converse - later known as Connie Converse, 1946 - singer and songwriter
  
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• Dianne Consoer Leech, 1952 - original member of the Joffrey Ballet Company touring with the company in 1956
  
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• Caitlin Clarke (Katherine Clarke), 1974 - actress
  
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• Michelle Hurst, 1974 - actress, known for her role as Miss Claudette on the Netflix Series Orange Is the New Black
  
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• Nancy Gustafson, 1978 - opera singer
  
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• Melinda Mullins, 1979 - actress
  
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• Donna Kane, 1984 - actress
  
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• Martha Mason, 1988 - dancer, founder and artistic director of the Snappy Dance Theater
  
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• Geneva Carr, 1988 - actress, Tony Award nominee, main cast member in CBS television series Bull
  
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• Kimberly Hebert Gregory, 1994 - actress
  
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• Zeb Bangash, 2004 - part of Pakistani music duo Zeb and Haniya
  
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• Zoe Weizenbaum, 2014 - actress, known for her roles in Memoirs of a Geisha and 12 and Holding
  
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• Sho Madjozi, 2015 - South African rapper
  
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• Esther Howland, 1847 - artist noted for her role in popularizing St. Valentine's Day cards
  
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• Minerva J. Chapman, 1880 - painter
  
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• Jane Hammond, 1972 - artist
  
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• Susan Mohl Powers, 1966 - sculptor, painter
  
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• Maia Cruz Palileo, 2001 – artist
  
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• Stacy Apfelbaum - rowing cox; gold medal winner at the 1984 World Rowing Championships
  
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• Margaret Hoffman, 1934 - swimmer who participated in both the 1928 Summer Olympics and 1932 Summer Olympics (200M Breaststroke)
  
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• Imogene Opton Fish, 1955 - alpine skier who was captain of the U.S. women's 1952 Winter Olympics ski team
  
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• Michele Drolet, 1976 - blind cross-country skier who was the first American woman to ever earn a Paralympic cross-country skiing medal - bronze at the 1994 Winter Paralympics
  
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• 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
  
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• Mary Mazzio, 1983 - filmmaker and olympic athtlete who participated in rowing at the 1992 Summer Olympics
  
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• Olga Maria Sacasa, 1984 - cyclist was the first woman ever to represent Nicaragua in cycling at the 1992 Summer Olympics
  
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• Katheryn Curi, 1996 - cyclist who placed first at the National Road Race Championships in Park City, Utah in June 2005
  
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• Jean Picker Firstenberg, 1958 - Director and CEO of the American Film Institute
  
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• Mary Duffy, 1966 - feminist fashion expert, spokeswoman, entrepreneur, author, and motivational speaker, expanding concepts of beauty for the majority of women who do not fit ideal stereotypes popularized by fashion and media Big Beauties/Little Women, Ford Models
  
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• Barbara J. Desoer, 1974 - CEO for Citibank N.A. and a member of its board of directors
  
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• Audrey A. McNiff, 1980 - Managing Director and co-head of Currency Sales, Goldman Sachs
  
  (Businesswomen) (Notable alumnae)

• Vicki Roberts, 1980 - attorney, on-air legal commentator, television and film personality
  
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• Barbara Cassani, 1982 - first leader of London's successful bid for the 2012 Summer Olympics
  
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• Beth Gibson, 1993 - Former CFO of NYC Blood Center retired 2019
  
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• Sheila Lirio Marcelo, 1993 - Founder and CEO of Care.com
  
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• Margaux Avedisian, 2006 - renowned bitcoin entrepreneur and radio personality.
  
  (Businesswomen) (Notable alumnae)

• Susan Tolman Mills, 1845 - co-founder and first president of Mills College
  
  (College presidents) (Notable alumnae)

• Ada Howard, 1853 - first president of Wellesley College
  
  (College presidents) (Notable alumnae)

• Abbie Park Ferguson, 1856 - founder and president of Huguenot College
  
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• Sarah Ann Dickey, 1869 - founder of Mount Hermon Female Seminary
  
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• Florence M. Read, 1909 - former president, Spelman College
  
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• Yau Tsit Law, 1916 - dean of women, Lingnan University (Guangzhou)
  
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• Pauline Tompkins, 1941 - former president, Cedar Crest College
  
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• Barbara M. White, 1941 - former president, Mills College
  
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• Alice Stone Ilchman 1957 - former president, Sarah Lawrence College
  
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• Elizabeth Topham Kennan, 1960 - former president, Mount Holyoke College
  
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• Carol Geary Schneider, 1967 - president, Association of American Colleges and Universities
  
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• Nancy J. Vickers, 1967 - President, Bryn Mawr College
  
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• Elaine Tuttle Hansen, 1969 - president, Bates College
  
  (College presidents) (Notable alumnae)

• Lynn Pasquerella, 1980 - president, Mount Holyoke College
  
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• Jean E. Sammet, 1948 - computer scientist who developed the FORMAC programming language
  
  (Computer scientists and graphic designers) (Notable alumnae)

• Susan Kare, 1975 - original designer of many of the interface elements for the original Apple Macintosh.
  
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• Nancy M. Hill, 1859 - Civil War nurse and one of the first female doctors in the U.S.
  
  (Doctors, nurses and psychologists) (Notable alumnae)

• Seraph Frissell, 1869 - physician, medical writer
  
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• Mary Phylinda Dole, 1886, 1889 - became a doctor at a time when it was difficult for women to do so
  
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• Dorothy Hansine Andersen, 1922 - doctor involved in cystic fibrosis research (first to identify the disease)
  
  (Doctors, nurses and psychologists) (Notable alumnae)

• Virginia Apgar, 1929 - doctor who developed the Apgar score for evaluating newborns; anesthesiologist
  
  (Doctors, nurses and psychologists) (Notable alumnae)

• Florence Wald 1938 - nurse who was the leader of the U.S. hospice movement
  
  (Doctors, nurses and psychologists) (Notable alumnae)

• Ellen P. Reese, 1948 - psychologist
  
  (Doctors, nurses and psychologists) (Notable alumnae)

• Gloria Johnson-Powell (Gloria Johnson), 1958 - child psychiatrist; an important figure in the Civil Rights Movement and the first African American woman to attain tenure at Harvard Medical School
  
  (Doctors, nurses and psychologists) (Notable alumnae)

• Dulcy Singer, 1955 - former Emmy Award-winning producer of Sesame Street
  
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• Julia Phillips (Julia Miller), 1965 - Hollywood producer and author
  
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• Debra Martin Chase, 1977 - Hollywood producer
  
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• Mary Mazzio, 1983 - filmmaker and olympic athlete who participated in rowing at the 1992 Summer Olympics
  
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• Sonali Gulati, 1996 - filmmaker and director of the film Nalini by Day, Nancy by Night
  
  (Filmmakers, broadcast presidents, and producers) (Notable alumnae)

• Chloé Zhao, 2005 - filmmaker
  
  (Filmmakers, broadcast presidents, and producers) (Notable alumnae)

• Janet Huntington Brewster, 1933 - philanthropist, writer, and radio broadcaster; wife of Edward R. Murrow
  
  (Journalists) (Notable alumnae)

• Beth Karas, 1979 - senior reporter, CourtTV
  
  (Journalists) (Notable alumnae)

• Priscilla Painton, 1980 - editor in chief, Simon & Schuster; former deputy managing editor, Time Magazine
  
  (Journalists) (Notable alumnae)

• Dari Alexander, ca. 1991 - co-anchor of WNYW's weeknight 6 p.m. newscast, and previously a reporter and part-time anchor for the Fox News Channel.
  
  (Journalists) (Notable alumnae)

• Maryanne Trump Barry, 1958 - Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit; older sister of 45th president of the United States Donald Trump
  
  (Judges) (Notable alumnae)

• Janet Arterton, 1966 - Judge on the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut
  
  (Judges) (Notable alumnae)

• Janet C. Hall, 1970 - Judge on the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut, Chief Judge of the District of Connecticut (2013–present)
  
  (Judges) (Notable alumnae)

• Glenda Hatchett, 1973 - judge on nationally syndicated television series, Judge Hatchett
  
  (Judges) (Notable alumnae)

• Louisa "Louise" Maria Torrey Taft, 1845 - mother of president William Howard Taft
  
  (Politics) (Notable alumnae)

• Frances Perkins, 1902 - first woman cabinet member (U.S. Secretary of Labor from 1933-1945 under President Franklin D. Roosevelt)
  
  (Politics) (Notable alumnae)

• Marion West Higgins, 1936 - first female Speaker of the New Jersey General Assembly
  
  (Politics) (Notable alumnae)

• Ella T. Grasso, 1940 - Governor of Connecticut; the first female Governor elected in her own right in United States history
  
  (Politics) (Notable alumnae)

• Joanne H. Alter, 1949 - American activist and politician
  
  (Politics) (Notable alumnae)

• Nancy Kissinger (Nancy Maginnes), 1955 - philanthropist; wife of former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger
  
  (Politics) (Notable alumnae)

• Nita Lowey, 1959 - United States House of Representatives member (D-NY)
  
  (Politics) (Notable alumnae)

• Judith Kurland, 1967 - former Regional Director, United States Department of Health and Human Services
  
  (Politics) (Notable alumnae)

• Susan Shirk, 1967 - professor of political science and the former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for North Asia during the Clinton administration
  
  (Politics) (Notable alumnae)

• Jane Garvey (Jane Famiano), 1969 (M.A.) - former head of Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)
  
  (Politics) (Notable alumnae)

• Elaine Chao, 1975 - U.S. Secretary of Transportation, 2017 - present, U.S. Secretary of Labor, 2001–2009; Director of the Peace Corps, 1991–1992; former national director, United Way
  
  (Politics) (Notable alumnae)

• Susan Longley, 1978 - State Senator and Judge of Probate from Maine
  
  (Politics) (Notable alumnae)

• Karen Middleton, 1988 - legislator in the U.S. state of Colorado
  
  (Politics) (Notable alumnae)

• Mona Sutphen, 1989 - Deputy White House Chief of Staff in the Obama administration
  
  (Politics) (Notable alumnae)

• Mahua Moitra, 1998 - Member of Indian Parliament, Lok Sabha
  
  (Politics) (Notable alumnae)

• Edna Dean Proctor, 1847, poet
  
  (Writers) (Notable alumnae)

• Emily Dickinson, (attended 1847-1848) - poet
  
  (Writers) (Notable alumnae)

• Emily Gilmore Alden, 1855 - author and educator
  
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• Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, (attended 1870-1871) - novelist and short story writer
  
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• Anne W. Armstrong, (attended 1890–1892) - novelist
  
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• Caroline Henderson, 1901 - Dust Bowl author
  
  (Writers) (Notable alumnae)

• Alice Geer Kelsey, 1918 - writer, children's literature
  
  (Writers) (Notable alumnae)

• Charlotte Wilder, 1919 - poet
  
  (Writers) (Notable alumnae)

• Kathryn Irene Glascock, 1922 - poet
  
  (Writers) (Notable alumnae)

• Constance McLaughlin Green, 1925 (Master's degree) - historian who won the 1963 Pulitzer Prize for History for Washington, Village and Capital, 1800-1878
  
  (Writers) (Notable alumnae)

• Roberta Teale Swartz, 1925 - poet
  
  (Writers) (Notable alumnae)

• Virginia Hamilton Adair, 1933 - poet
  
  (Writers) (Notable alumnae)

• Martha Whitmore Hickman, 1947 - non-fiction author
  
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• Nancy McKenzie, 1948 - Arthurian legend author
  
  (Writers) (Notable alumnae)

• Jean Rikhoff, 1948 - author
  
  (Writers) (Notable alumnae)

• Martha Henissart, 1950 - mystery author writing under the pen-name of Emma Lathen with Mary Jane Latsis
  
  (Writers) (Notable alumnae)

• Nancy Bauer (Nancy Luke), 1956 - non-fiction author
  
  (Writers) (Notable alumnae)

• Elizabeth Topham Kennan, 1960 - author writing under the pen-name of Clare Munnings with Jill Ker Conway
  
  (Writers) (Notable alumnae)

• Nancy Bond, 1966 - writer, children's literature
  
  (Writers) (Notable alumnae)

• Olivia Mellan, 1968 - author of 6 books on money psychology
  
  (Writers) (Notable alumnae)

• Patricia Roth Schwartz, 1968 - poet
  
  (Writers) (Notable alumnae)

• Kathleen Eagle (Kathleen Pierson), 1970 - romance novelist
  
  (Writers) (Notable alumnae)

• Marisabina Russo, 1971 - writer, children's literature
  
  (Writers) (Notable alumnae)

• Wendy Wasserstein, 1971 - playwright who won the 1989 Tony Award for Best Play and the 1989 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for The Heidi Chronicles
  
  (Writers) (Notable alumnae)

• Lynne Barrett, 1972 - author
  
  (Writers) (Notable alumnae)

• Susan Shwartz, 1972 - science fiction and fantasy author
  
  (Writers) (Notable alumnae)

• Gjertrud Schnackenberg, 1975 - poet
  
  (Writers) (Notable alumnae)

• Kathleen Hirsch, 1975 - non-fiction author
  
  (Writers) (Notable alumnae)

• Judith Tarr, 1976 - science fiction and fantasy author
  
  (Writers) (Notable alumnae)

• Carol Higgins Clark, 1978 - mystery author
  
  (Writers) (Notable alumnae)

• Jacqueline Jones LaMon, 1978 - poet and novelist
  
  (Writers) (Notable alumnae)

• Lan Cao, 1983 - novelist
  
  (Writers) (Notable alumnae)

• Suzan-Lori Parks, 1985 - playwright who won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize in Drama for Topdog/Underdog
  
  (Writers) (Notable alumnae)

• Deborah Harkness, 1986 - author of The New York Times best selling novel A Discovery of Witches
  
  (Writers) (Notable alumnae)

• Sehba Sarwar, 1986 - novelist
  
  (Writers) (Notable alumnae)

• C. Leigh Purtill, 1988 - young adult author
  
  (Writers) (Notable alumnae)

• Sabina Murray, 1989 - screenwriter; wrote screenplay for The Beautiful Country
  
  (Writers) (Notable alumnae)

• Sherri Browning Erwin, 1990 - author of "Thornbrook Park" and "Jane Slayre", member of Romance Writers of America (RWA)
  
  (Writers) (Notable alumnae)

• Amy Glynn, 1992 - poet, author of "A Modern Herbal"
  
  (Writers) (Notable alumnae)

• Tahmima Anam, 1997 - author
  
  (Writers) (Notable alumnae)

• Susan J. Elliott, 2000 - non-fiction author
  
  (Writers) (Notable alumnae)

• Betsy James, writer
  
  (Writers) (Notable alumnae)

• Hanna Pylväinen, 2007 - author of We Sinners
  
  (Writers) (Notable alumnae)

• Katy Simpson Smith - novelist
  
  (Writers) (Notable alumnae)

• Hayeon Lim, 2017 - South Korean socialite and author
  
  (Writers) (Notable alumnae)

• Catherine, Black Widow
  
  (Fictional Alumnae) (Notable alumnae)

• Frances "Baby" Houseman, Dirty Dancing
  
  (Fictional Alumnae) (Notable alumnae)

• Sarah Gadon, Indignation
  
  (Fictional Alumnae) (Notable alumnae)

• Barbara Kornpett, The In-Laws
  
  (Fictional Alumnae) (Notable alumnae)

• Helen Bishop, Mad Men
  
  (Fictional Alumnae) (Notable alumnae)

• Bethany Van Nuys, Mad Men
  
  (Fictional Alumnae) (Notable alumnae)

• Judy Maxwell, What's Up Doc?
  
  (Fictional Alumnae) (Notable alumnae)

• Leonard DeLonga - professor of art
  
  (Artists) (Notable faculty, past and present)

• (Charles) Denoe Leedy - concert pianist and music journalist
  
  (Artists) (Notable faculty, past and present)

• Harrison Potter - concert pianist and accompanist
  
  (Artists) (Notable faculty, past and present)

• David Sanford (composer) - professor of music
  
  (Artists) (Notable faculty, past and present)

• Emmett Williams - artist in residence 1975-6
  
  (Artists) (Notable faculty, past and present)

• Mary Ellen Clark - former head diving coach; diver who won two Olympic bronze medals at the 1992 Summer Olympics and the 1996 Summer Olympics
  
  (Athletics) (Notable faculty, past and present)

• Martha Ackmann - author and journalist
  
  (Authors, actors, poets, and playwrights) (Notable faculty, past and present)

• Awam Amkpa - actor and playwright
  
  (Authors, actors, poets, and playwrights) (Notable faculty, past and present)

• W.H. Auden - poet
  
  (Authors, actors, poets, and playwrights) (Notable faculty, past and present)

• James Baldwin - Five Colleges (Massachusetts) faculty and American novelist
  
  (Authors, actors, poets, and playwrights) (Notable faculty, past and present)

• Sven Birkerts - author, The Gutenberg Elegies
  
  (Authors, actors, poets, and playwrights) (Notable faculty, past and present)

• Joseph Brodsky - winner of the 1987 Nobel Prize in Literature, and Poet Laureate of the United States for 1991–1992
  
  (Authors, actors, poets, and playwrights) (Notable faculty, past and present)

• Luis Cernuda - poet
  
  (Authors, actors, poets, and playwrights) (Notable faculty, past and present)

• Anita Desai - novelist
  
  (Authors, actors, poets, and playwrights) (Notable faculty, past and present)

• Anthony Giardina - novelist
  
  (Authors, actors, poets, and playwrights) (Notable faculty, past and present)

• John Irving - author of The Cider House Rules, and The World According to Garp
  
  (Authors, actors, poets, and playwrights) (Notable faculty, past and present)

• Denis Johnston - playwright
  
  (Authors, actors, poets, and playwrights) (Notable faculty, past and present)

• Brad Leithauser - author, poet
  
  (Authors, actors, poets, and playwrights) (Notable faculty, past and present)

• Margaret Chai Maloney - author
  
  (Authors, actors, poets, and playwrights) (Notable faculty, past and present)

• Jaime Manrique - author, poet
  
  (Authors, actors, poets, and playwrights) (Notable faculty, past and present)

• Mary Olivia Nutting - librarian and historian
  
  (Authors, actors, poets, and playwrights) (Notable faculty, past and present)

• Valerie Martin - novelist and short story writer
  
  (Authors, actors, poets, and playwrights) (Notable faculty, past and present)

• Mary Jo Salter - poet and a coeditor of The Norton Anthology of Poetry
  
  (Authors, actors, poets, and playwrights) (Notable faculty, past and present)

• Bapsi Sidhwa - novelist
  
  (Authors, actors, poets, and playwrights) (Notable faculty, past and present)

• Paul Smyth - poet
  
  (Authors, actors, poets, and playwrights) (Notable faculty, past and present)

• Genevieve Taggard - poet
  
  (Authors, actors, poets, and playwrights) (Notable faculty, past and present)

• Peter Viereck - 1949 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for Terror and Decorum and professor of Russian History
  
  (Authors, actors, poets, and playwrights) (Notable faculty, past and present)

• Richard Weber - Irish poet; visiting lecturer from 1967 to 1970
  
  (Authors, actors, poets, and playwrights) (Notable faculty, past and present)

• Douglas Whynott - author
  
  (Authors, actors, poets, and playwrights) (Notable faculty, past and present)

• Robert Hess (1938-1994) - President of Brooklyn College
  
  (Education) (Notable faculty, past and present)

• Mary Lyon - founder of Mount Holyoke Female Seminary in 1837 (later Mount Holyoke College)
  
  (Education) (Notable faculty, past and present)

• Beverly Daniel Tatum - president of Spelman College
  
  (Education) (Notable faculty, past and present)

• Michael Burns
  
  (Historians) (Notable faculty, past and present)

• Joseph Ellis
  
  (Historians) (Notable faculty, past and present)

• Robert Matteson Johnston
  
  (Historians) (Notable faculty, past and present)

• Stephen F. Jones
  
  (Historians) (Notable faculty, past and present)

• William S. McFeely
  
  (Historians) (Notable faculty, past and present)

• Nellie Neilson
  
  (Historians) (Notable faculty, past and present)

• Bertha Putnam
  
  (Historians) (Notable faculty, past and present)

• Annah May Soule
  
  (Historians) (Notable faculty, past and present)

• Christopher Benfey - professor of English
  
  (Humanities) (Notable faculty, past and present)

• Peter Berek - professor of English
  
  (Humanities) (Notable faculty, past and present)

• Marion Elizabeth Blake - classics professor
  
  (Humanities) (Notable faculty, past and present)

• F.W.Brownlow - professor of English
  
  (Humanities) (Notable faculty, past and present)

• Gordon Keith Chalmers - professor of English
  
  (Humanities) (Notable faculty, past and present)

• Carolyn Collette - professor of English
  
  (Humanities) (Notable faculty, past and present)

• Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze - philosopher
  
  (Humanities) (Notable faculty, past and present)

• Leah Blatt Glasser - Dean of First-Year Studies and Lecturer in English
  
  (Humanities) (Notable faculty, past and present)

• Mary McHenry - professor of English
  
  (Humanities) (Notable faculty, past and present)

• Indira Viswanathan Peterson - professor of Asian Studies
  
  (Humanities) (Notable faculty, past and present)

• William H. Quillian - professor of English
  
  (Humanities) (Notable faculty, past and present)

• Jean Wahl - philosopher
  
  (Humanities) (Notable faculty, past and present)

• Donald Weber - professor of English
  
  (Humanities) (Notable faculty, past and present)

• Todd Brewster - journalist, author, film producer, and current Senior Visiting Lecturer in Journalism
  
  (Journalists) (Notable faculty, past and present)

• 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
  
  (Politics) (Notable faculty, past and present)

• Jean Grossholtz - professor emeritus of politics; bodybuilder who won a silver medal at the 1994 Gay Games
  
  (Politics) (Notable faculty, past and present)

• W. Anthony Lake - U.S. National Security Advisor, 1993–1997
  
  (Politics) (Notable faculty, past and present)

• Christopher Pyle - professor of politics, journalist and whistleblower
  
  (Politics) (Notable faculty, past and present)

• Margaret Rotundo - Maine State Legislator
  
  (Politics) (Notable faculty, past and present)

• Cyrus Vance - U.S. Secretary of State, 1977–1980
  
  (Politics) (Notable faculty, past and present)

• A. Elizabeth Adams - zoologist
  
  (Sciences and social sciences) (Notable faculty, past and present)

• Mildred Allen - physicist
  
  (Sciences and social sciences) (Notable faculty, past and present)

• Susan R. Barry - neurobiologist
  
  (Sciences and social sciences) (Notable faculty, past and present)

• John Bissell Carroll - psychologist
  
  (Sciences and social sciences) (Notable faculty, past and present)

• Cornelia Clapp - zoologist and marine biologist
  
  (Sciences and social sciences) (Notable faculty, past and present)

• Janet Wilder Dakin - zoologist who was the youngest sister of Thornton Wilder and Charlotte Wilder
  
  (Sciences and social sciences) (Notable faculty, past and present)

• Anna J. Harrison - professor of chemistry
  
  (Sciences and social sciences) (Notable faculty, past and present)

• Olive Hazlett- mathematician
  
  (Sciences and social sciences) (Notable faculty, past and present)

• Flora Belle Ludington - librarian
  
  (Sciences and social sciences) (Notable faculty, past and present)

• Mark McMenamin - paleontologist and geologist, winner of the Presidential Young Investigator Award
  
  (Sciences and social sciences) (Notable faculty, past and present)

• Ann Haven Morgan - zoologist
  
  (Sciences and social sciences) (Notable faculty, past and present)

• Lucy Taxis Shoe Meritt, classical archaeologist and a scholar of Greek architectural ornamentation and mouldings
  
  (Sciences and social sciences) (Notable faculty, past and present)

• Becky Wai-Ling Packard - winner of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE)
  
  (Sciences and social sciences) (Notable faculty, past and present)

• Lucy Weston Pickett - chemist
  
  (Sciences and social sciences) (Notable faculty, past and present)

• Caroline Louise Ransom, Egyptologist
  
  (Sciences and social sciences) (Notable faculty, past and present)

• Ellen P. Reese, 1948 - psychologist
  
  (Sciences and social sciences) (Notable faculty, past and present)

• Lydia White Shattuck - botanist
  
  (Sciences and social sciences) (Notable faculty, past and present)

• Mignon Talbot - professor of Geology and Geography, who recovered the only fossils of the dinosaur Podokesaurus holyokensis
  
  (Sciences and social sciences) (Notable faculty, past and present)

• Abby Howe Turner - founded Mount Holyoke's department of physiology
  
  (Sciences and social sciences) (Notable faculty, past and present)

• Esther Boise Van Deman - archeologist
  
  (Sciences and social sciences) (Notable faculty, past and present)

• Anne Sewell Young - astronomer, director of the John Payson Williston Observatory
  
  (Sciences and social sciences) (Notable faculty, past and present)

• Antoni Zygmund - mathematician who exerted a major influence on 20th-century mathematics
  
  (Sciences and social sciences) (Notable faculty, past and present)

• Michael Burns - Moondoggie in Gidget Gets Married, 1972 <imdb.com>
  
  (Actors) (Notable faculty, past and present)

• Rie Hachiyanagi—Former professor suspected of intent to murder a faculty member.
  
  (Accused Murderer) (Notable faculty, past and present)

• 1837-1849: Mary Lyon, 1st President (Founder and Principal) (Presidents)

• 1849-1850: Mary C. Whitman, 2nd President (Principal) (Presidents)

• 1850-1865: Mary W. Chapin, 3rd President (Principal) (Presidents)

• 1865-1867: Sophia D. Stoddard 4th President (Acting Principal) (Presidents)

• 1867-1872: Helen M. French, 5th President (Principal) (Presidents)

• 1872-1883: Julia E. Ward, 6th President (Principal) (Presidents)

• 1883-1889 Elizabeth Blanchard, 7th President (Principal and President) (Presidents)

• 1889: Mary A. Brigham, 8th President (President Elect - died in an accident) (Presidents)

• 1889-1890: Louisa F. Cowles, 9th President (Acting President) (Presidents)

• 1890-1900: Elizabeth Storrs Mead, 10th President (Presidents)

• 1900-1937: Mary Emma Woolley, 11th President (Presidents)

• 1937-1957: Roswell G. Ham, 12th President (first male president of MHC) (Presidents)

• 1954: Meribeth E. Cameron, served as Acting President for part of 1954 while President Ham was on leave (Presidents)

• 1957-1968: Richard Glenn Gettell, 13th President (Presidents)

• 1966: Meribeth E. Cameron, served as Acting President part of 1966 while President Gettell was on leave (Presidents)

• 1968-1969: Meribeth E. Cameron, 14th President (Acting President) (Presidents)

• 1969-1978: David Truman, 15th President (Presidents)

• 1978-1995: Elizabeth Topham Kennan '60, 16th President (Presidents)

• 1984: Joseph Ellis, served as Acting President for part of 1984 while President Kennan was on leave (Presidents)

• 1995: Peter Berek, served as interim president in Fall 1995 (Presidents)

• 1996-2010: Joanne V. Creighton, 17th President (Presidents)

• 2002: Beverly Daniel Tatum, served as Acting President for part of 2002 while President Creighton was on leave (Presidents)

• 2010–2016: Lynn Pasquerella '80, 18th President (Presidents)

• 2016–present: Sonya Stephens, 19th President (Presidents)

• 2018: Nancy Pelosi, Aiza Amjad Malik '18 (Commencement speakers)

• 2017: Dolores Huerta, Anqa Khan '17 (Commencement speakers)

• 2016: Joia Mukherjee, Areeba Kamal ‘16 (Commencement speakers)

• 2015: Carol Geary Schneider ‘67, Olivia Papp ‘15 (Commencement speakers)

• 2014: Deborah Bial, Iman A. Abubaker ’14 (Commencement speakers)

• 2013: Kavita N. Ramdas '85, Jenna M. Ruddock ’13 (Commencement speakers)

• 2012: Azar Nafisi, Tamar S. Westphal ’12 (Commencement speakers)

• 2011: Martha Nussbaum, Zehra Nabi ’11 (Commencement speakers)

• 2010: Gail Collins, Sarah Elahi ’10 (Commencement speakers)

• 2009: Mary McAleese, Caitlin M. Healey ’09 (Commencement speakers)

• 2008: Carol Gilligan, Sally J. Brzozowski ’08 (Commencement speakers)

• 2007: Wendy Kopp, Sara E. Richards ’07 (Commencement speakers)

• 2006: Joyce Carol Oates, Margaret McDermott ’06 (Commencement speakers)

• 2005: Nina Totenberg, Claudia Y. Calhoun ’05 (Commencement speakers)

• 2004: Kim Campbell, Stacey R. Pulmano ’04 (Commencement speakers)

• 2003: Judy Blume, Chiara D. Fuller ’03 (Commencement speakers)

• 2002: Queen Noor of Jordan, Sara R. Curtin ’02 (Commencement speakers)

• 2001: Suzan-Lori Parks ’85, Lena K. Zuckerwise ’01 (Commencement speakers)

• 2000: Mary Patterson McPherson, Elisabeth F. Snell ’00 (Commencement speakers)

• 1999: Anna Quindlen, Caroline E. Green ’99 (Commencement speakers)

• 1998: Johnnetta B. Cole, Meghan E. Freed ’98 (Commencement speakers)

• 1997: Madeleine Albright, Chandra R.B.G. Dunn ’97 (Commencement speakers)

• 1996: Donna Shalala, Devavani Chatterjea ’96 (Commencement speakers)

• 1995: Ann Richards, Jennifer Lynch ’95 (Commencement speakers)

• 1994: Nita Lowey ’59, S. Rhae Parkes ’94 (Commencement speakers)

• 1993: Judith Kurland ’67 (Commencement speakers)

• 1992: Pat Schroeder (Commencement speakers)

• 1991: Evelyn Fox Keller (Commencement speakers)

• 1990: Wendy Wasserstein ’71 (Commencement speakers)

• 1989: Glenn Close (Commencement speakers)

• 1988: Joseph Brodsky (Commencement speakers)

• 1987: Maya Angelou (Commencement speakers)

• 1986: Xie Xide (Commencement speakers)

• 1985: Nadine Gordimer, Gjertrud Schnackenberg ‘75 (Commencement speakers)

• 1984: Barbara B. Kennelly (Commencement speakers)

• 1983: George Steiner (Commencement speakers)

• 1982: Elizabeth Topham Kennan (Commencement speakers)

• 1981: Shirley Chisholm (Commencement speakers)

• 1980: John Irving (Commencement speakers)

• 1979: Ellen Goodman ’64 (Commencement speakers)

• 1978: David Bicknell Truman (Commencement speakers)

• 1977: Ruth Ida Abrams (Commencement speakers)

• 1976: Lillian Hellman (Commencement speakers)

• 1975: Ella T. Grasso '40 (Commencement speakers)

• 1974: Beryl Robichaud Collins ‘40 (Commencement speakers)

• 1973: Matina Souretis Horner (Commencement speakers)

• 1972: Barbara M. White (Commencement speakers)

• 1971: David Bicknell Truman (Commencement speakers)

• 1970: Ted Kennedy (Commencement speakers)

• 1969: Kenneth Keniston (Commencement speakers)

• 1968: David Riesman (Commencement speakers)

• 1967: August Heckscher (Commencement speakers)

• 1966: Philip Johnson (Commencement speakers)

• 1965: James R. Killian, Jr. (Commencement speakers)

• 1964: Lauris Norstad (Commencement speakers)

• 1963: U Thant (Commencement speakers)

• 1962: Abraham A. Ribicoff (Commencement speakers)

• 1961: William O. Douglas (Commencement speakers)

• 1960: Charles Malik (Commencement speakers)

• 1959: Mildred McAfee Horton (Commencement speakers)

• 1958: Norman Cousins (Commencement speakers)

• 1957: Henry Steele Commager (Commencement speakers)

• 1956: Edmund W. Sinnott (Commencement speakers)

• 1955: Earl Warren (Commencement speakers)

• 1954: Helen Rogers Reid (Commencement speakers)

• 1953: Willard Thorp (Commencement speakers)

• 1952: Frederick May Eliot (Commencement speakers)

• 1951: Roswell G. Ham (Commencement speakers)

• 1950: Frederick May Eliot (Commencement speakers)

• 1949: Norman Makin (Commencement speakers)

• 1948: Arnold Wolfers (Commencement speakers)

• 1947: Katharine E. McBride (Commencement speakers)

• 1946: Roswell G. Ham (Commencement speakers)

• 1945: Robert F. Bradford (Commencement speakers)

• 1944: Meta Glass (Commencement speakers)

• 1943: Harold Beresford Butler (Commencement speakers)

• 1942: Roswell G. Ham (Commencement speakers)

• 1941: Christopher Morley (Commencement speakers)

• 1940: Lillian M. Gilbreth (Commencement speakers)

• 1939: Chauncey Brewster Tinker (Commencement speakers)

• 1938: David Allan Robertson (Commencement speakers)

• 1937: John Gilbert Winant (Commencement speakers)

• 1936: William Allan Neilson (Commencement speakers)

• 1935: William Ernest Hocking (Commencement speakers)

• 1934: John Huston Finley (Commencement speakers)

• 1933: Bruce Bliven (Commencement speakers)

• 1932: George E. Vincent (Commencement speakers)

• 1931: George W. Kirchwey (Commencement speakers)

• 1930: James T. Shotwell (Commencement speakers)

• 1929: Newton D. Baker (Commencement speakers)

• 1928: Paul Shorey (Commencement speakers)

• 1927: Frederick C. Ferry (Commencement speakers)

• 1926: Frederick M. Davenport (Commencement speakers)

• 1925: James Rowland Angell (Commencement speakers)

• 1924: Henry Morgenthau, Kenneth C. M. Sills (Commencement speakers)

• 1923: Alexander Meiklejohn (Commencement speakers)

• 1922: Sergius A. Korff (Commencement speakers)

• 1921: William Howard Taft (Commencement speakers)

• 1920: Charles Zueblin (Commencement speakers)

• 1919: Albert Parker Fitch (Commencement speakers)

• 1918: George Edgar Vincent (Commencement speakers)

• 1917: Henry Noble MacCracken (Commencement speakers)

• 1916: Charles E. Jefferson (Commencement speakers)

• 1915: William Ernest Hocking (Commencement speakers)

• 1914: Charles S. Whitman (Commencement speakers)

• 1913: Harry Emerson Fosdick (Commencement speakers)

• 1912: Edward F. Sanderson, Charles R. Brown (Commencement speakers)

• 1911: Henry Stiles Bradley (Commencement speakers)

• 1910: Mary E. Woolley (Commencement speakers)

• 1909: Hugh Black (Commencement speakers)

• 1908: Rev. Henry A. Stimson (Commencement speakers)

• 1907: Jane Addams (Commencement speakers)

• 1906: Russell Briggs (Commencement speakers)

• 1905: Judson Smith (Commencement speakers)

• 1904: Talcott Williams (Commencement speakers)

• 1903: Ira Remsen (Commencement speakers)

• 1902: George Herbert Palmer (Commencement speakers)

• 1901: James Hulme Canfield (Commencement speakers)

• 1900: N. D. Hills (Commencement speakers)

• 1899: William McKinley, Roger Wolcott, Judson Smith (Commencement speakers)

• 1898: Charles M. Mead (Commencement speakers)

• 1897: Charles Cuthbert Hall (Commencement speakers)

• 1896: William Faunce (Commencement speakers)

• 1895: A. J. Lyman (Commencement speakers)

• 1894: Rev. Henry A. Stimson (Commencement speakers)

• 1893: Chester David Hartranft (Commencement speakers)

• 1892: Henry M. Storrs (Commencement speakers)

• 1891: Elizabeth Storrs Mead, Merrill Gates (Commencement speakers)

• 1890: Alexander McKenzie (Commencement speakers)

• 1889: Luther Tracy Townsend (Commencement speakers)

• 1888: N. G. Clark (Commencement speakers)

• 1886: Henry L. Dawes (Commencement speakers)

• 1884: J. H. Vincent (Commencement speakers)

• 1883: Joseph L. Daryea (Commencement speakers)

• 1882: William M. Taylor (Commencement speakers)

• 1881: Albion W. Tourgee (Commencement speakers)

• 1880: Samuel E. Herrick (Commencement speakers)

• 1879: Theodore L. Cuyler (Commencement speakers)

• 1878: William Seymour Tyler, Thomas P. Field (Commencement speakers)

• 1877: Matthew Brown Riddle (Commencement speakers)

• 1876: Alexander H. Bullock (Commencement speakers)

• 1875: Julius H. Seelye (Commencement speakers)

• 1874: Julius H. Seelye, Samuel Harris (Commencement speakers)

• 1873: John M. Greene, William Seymour Tyler (Commencement speakers)

• 1872: Harvey Denison Kitchel (Commencement speakers)

• 1868: Edward N. Kirk (Commencement speakers)

• 1867: George Nye Boardman (Commencement speakers)

• 1864: Leonard Swain (Commencement speakers)

• 1860: Roswell Dwight Hitchcock (Commencement speakers)

• 1859: Austin Phelps (Commencement speakers)

• 1856: Samuel W. Fisher (Commencement speakers)

• 1853: Emerson Davis (Commencement speakers)

• 1851: A. L. Stone (Commencement speakers)

• 1850: William Chauncey Fowler (Commencement speakers)

• 1849: Edward Hitchcock (Commencement speakers)

• 1846: J. B. Condit (Commencement speakers)

• 1845: Joel Hawes (Commencement speakers)

• 1844: Edward N. Kirk (Commencement speakers)

• 1842: Edward Hitchcock (Commencement speakers)

• 1841: Bela Bates Edwards (Commencement speakers)

• 1840: Mark Hopkins (Commencement speakers)

• 1839: Rufus Anderson (Commencement speakers)

• 1838: Joel Hawes (Commencement speakers)

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