List of Smith College people
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The following is a list of individuals associated with Smith College through attending as a student, or serving as a member of the faculty or staff.
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[edit] Notable alumnae
The Alumnae Association of Smith College considers all former students to be members, whether they graduated or not, and does not generally differentiate between graduates and non-graduates when identifying Smith alumnae.
- Mira Hinsdale Hall 1883
- Harriet Boyd-Hawes 1892
- Florence R. Sabin 1893
- Otelia Cromwell 1900
- Elisabeth Irwin 1903
- Margaret Petherbridge Farrar 1919
- Margaret Mitchell 1922^
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh 1928
- Ernestine Gilbreth Carey 1929
- Julia McWilliams Child 1934
- Sarah P. Harkness 1937
- Madeleine L'Engle 1941
- Betty Goldstein Friedan 1942
- Nancy Davis Reagan 1943
- Barbara Pierce Bush 1947
- Meg Greenfield 1952
- Enid Mark 1954
- Sylvia Plath 1955
- Gloria Steinem 1956
- Mary Patterson McPherson 1957
- Halina Poświatowska 1961
- Cynthia Irving Voigt 1963
- Jane Yolen 1963 (also a professor of the college)
- Sally Katzen 1964
- Jane Lakes Harman 1966
- Molly Ivins 1966
- Catharine MacKinnon 1968
- Rochelle Lazarus 1968
- Laura D'Andrea Tyson 1969
- Emily Couric 1969
- Julie Nixon Eisenhower 1970
- Maria Lopez
- Ann Matthews Martin 1977
- Ann Downer 1982
- Margaret Edson 1983
- Tammy Baldwin 1984
- Susan Lindauer 1985
- Erin Casler 1999 (Miss Deaf America 2004-06)
- Patricia Wettig MFA 2001
Margaret Mitchell, class of 1922, left the college shortly after her mother's death in the 1918-1919 school year.
Barbara Bush, class of 1947, did not graduate; she left the college in 1945 to marry George H. W. Bush.
[edit] Fictional alumnae
- Emily Gilmore, from the television series Gilmore Girls
- Ainsley Hayes, from the television series The West Wing
- Joanna Kramer, from the 1979 film, Kramer vs. Kramer
- Charlotte York, from the television series Sex and the City
- Dr. Cristina Yang, from the television series Grey's Anatomy
Susan, from the 1971 Mike Nichols' film, Carnal Knowledge
[edit] Presidents
- Carol T. Christ (2002-present)
- John M. Connolly (acting president 2001-2002)
- Ruth J. Simmons, first African-American president (1995-2001)
- Mary Maples Dunn (1985-1995)
- Jill Ker Conway, first woman president (1975-1985)
- Thomas Corwin Mendenhall (1959-1975)
- Benjamin Fletcher Wright (1949-1959)
- Herbert Davis (1940-1949)
- Elizabeth Cutter Morrow (acting president 1939-1940)
- William Allan Neilson (1917-1939)
- Marion LeRoy Burton (1910-1917)WEF
- Laurenus Clark Seelye (1875-1910)
[edit] Notable deans, administrators, and faculty (past and present)
- Alice Ambrose - professor of philosophy
- Newton Arvin - literary critic
- Leonard Baskin - artist
- Mary Ellen Chase - professor of English
- Henri Cole - poet
- Sylvia Plath - poet
- John M. Connolly - professor of philosophy
- Anita Desai - author
- Alfred Einstein - musicologist
- Stanley Elkins - professor of history
- Hallie Flanagan - director and playwright
- Jean Garrigue - poet
- Denis Johnston - professor of philosophy
- Kurt Koffka - psychologist
- Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz - historian
- Barry Moser – artist and illustrator
- Eric Reeves - professor of english
- Laura Woolsey Lord Scales, Dean of Students (1923-1944)
- Roger Sessions - composer
- David Staines - literary critic
- David Peck Todd - astronomer
- Thomas Tymoczko - philosopher
- Kurt Vonnegut - author
- Allen Weinstein - Archivist of the United States
- Dorothy Maud Wrinch - mathematician
- Chien-Shiung Wu - physicist
