List of Haverford College people
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This List of Haverford College people includes alumni and faculty of Haverford College. Haverford is a smaller college and has a smaller alumni population than its peers. Because expansion occurred in the 1980s, most of Haverford's alumni are still quite young. Despite this, as of 2005, Haverford alumni boast 4 Nobel Prizes, 19 Rhodes Scholarships, 10 Marshall Scholarships, 9 Henry Luce Fellowships, 48 Watson Fellowships, 1 George Mitchell Fellowship, 2 Carnegie Endowment Junior Fellowships, 13 All Americans, and 17 NCAA Post-graduate winners. Since March 1961, over 138 Haverford alumni have served in 64 developing countries as Peace Corps Volunteers.
Based on data on the Class of 2006, nearly 60% have secured employment by graduation in the business, education and science sectors; 15% will attend graduate/professional schools (many in the arts & sciences, medicine, and law; nearly 40% plan to attend graduate/professional schools within 5 years); 5% will travel; and 4% have fellowships such as the ones mentioned above.
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[edit] Alumni
[edit] Business and industry
- Douglas B. Gardner '83, Executive Managing Director of Cantor Fitzgerald, L.P., died in the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.
- Gerald M. Levin '60 Religion, former Time Warner Inc. Chief Executive Officer
- Howard Lutnick '83, President of the Cantor Fitzgerald Company.
- J. Howard Marshall '24, the late Texan billionaire oil tycoon, who married Anna Nicole Smith in his late 80s
- Ken Stern, CEO of NPR
- Arn Tellem, Chief Executive Officer SFX Sports Group
- John C. Whitehead '43, former Co-Chairman of Goldman Sachs, deputy U.S. Secretary of State under Reagan and current chairman of Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, Whitehead Campus Center is his namesake
- Dennis Stern '69, senior vice president and deputy general manager of The New York Times.
- Barry Zubrow '75 economics, Former Chief Administrative Officer at Goldman Sachs; Current Chief Risk Officer at JPMorgan Chase; member of the Haverford College Board of Managers.
[edit] Education and academia
- Anthony Amsterdam '57, MacArthur Fellow, University Professor of Law, NYU
- Douglas C. Bennett '68, former provost of Reed College, current president of Earlham College.
- Thomas N. Bisson '54, Henry Charles Lea Professor of Medieval History (Emeritus), Harvard University.
- William M. Chace '61, former president of Wesleyan University and Emory University.
- David Ellis '58 Chemistry, former assistant professor of chemistry at the University of New Hampshire, former president of Lafayette College (1978-1990), former president of the Boston Museum of Science.
- Stephen G. Emerson '74, stem cell researcher, UPenn Professor of Pediatrics and Medicine, and Haverford College's 13th President.
- Akira Iriye '57, Professor of History, Harvard University, President of American Historical Society.
- Fredric Jameson '54, Marxist cultural and literary critic, William A. Lane Professor of Comparative Literature and Romance Studies at Duke University.
- Christoph M. Kimmich '61, current president of Brooklyn College
- Bruce Lincoln, author of Holy Terrors and professor at the University of Chicago Divinity School
- Adam Zachary Newton, Professor of English, Yeshiva University
- Ken Nakayama Professor, Dept. of Psychology, Harvard University
- Paul R. Rablen '88, Chair, Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Swarthmore College.
- Jack N. Rakove '68 History, Coe Professor of History, Stanford University, Pulitzer Prize '97.
- Hunter R. Rawlings III '66 Classics, 10th President of Cornell University from 1995-2003 (made interim president again in 2005), former President of University of Iowa
- Ed Sikov, film scholar and author of Mr. Strangelove: A Biography of Peter Sellers and On Sunset Boulevard: The Life and Times of Billy Wilder
[edit] Entertainment and the arts
- David Scull Bispham 1876, Baritone, Metropolitan Opera and Covent Garden soloist, author of A Quaker Singer's Recollection, 1920
- Chevy Chase, comedian, attended for one semester
- Julius Katchen '46, concert pianist, recognized by Eugene Normandy at his debut concert playing Mozart's Piano Concerto in D-Minor (age 10)
- Daniel Dae Kim, actor, Lost
- Michael Lewis '80, Architectural historian at Williams College, Culture critic for The New Criterion, Commentary, etc.
- Ken Ludwig, Tony Award-winning playwright of Lend Me a Tenor and Crazy for You
- Jonathan Mednick '80, director of "American High" -- documentary-style drama on Fox; former film professor at Wesleyan University.
- Judd Nelson, actor, did not graduate
- Craig Owens '71, art critic and theorist.
- Maxfield Parrish, (attended 1888-1891), American painter
- Joti Rockwell, composer and co-founder of the musical duet, Rockwell Church. Former Haverford College Humtone.
[edit] Government, diplomacy, and public service
- Charles Canady, former member of Congress. Florida Judge who coined the term "partial-birth abortion".
- Mark Geragos, defense attorney for Winona Ryder and Michael Jackson
- Oscar Goodman, Mayor of Las Vegas
- Andrew Lewis, former CEO Union Pacific, Secretary of Transportation under Ronald Reagan
- Charles Mathias, former Maryland Senator
- Koichiro Matsuura '61 Economics, former Japanese Ambassador to France, 1999-now, Director-General of UNESCO
- Philip Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker 1908, Member of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, chairman of the British Labour Party, Nobel Laureate in Peace (1959), architect of the League of Nations; Olympian and captain of Great Britain's Chariots of Fire Olympic track team.
- Xavier Romeu '86, Executive Director of and General Counsel to the Puerto Rico Federal Affairs Administration in Washington, D.C.
- Rob Simmons, former Congressman (Republican of Connecticut)
- Walter Sondheim 1928, Baltimore civic leader who engineered the "Inner HArbor" project and who was the main proponent behind integrating Baltimore's public schools.
[edit] Journalism
- John Carroll '63, former executive vice president and editor of The Los Angeles Times, currently the first Knight Visiting Lecturer at Harvard's Shorenstein Center
- Loren Ghiglione '63, dean of the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University
- Josh Mankiewicz, Correspondent, Dateline NBC
- Norman Pearlstine '64, former Editor-in-Chief of Time Inc., senior advisor at the Carlyle Group
- Juan Williams '76 Philosophy, National Public Radio senior correspondent
[edit] Literature and writing
- Lloyd Alexander (attended ca. 1940, did not graduate), Newbery Medal-winning author
- Nicholson Baker, novelist, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award.
- Dave Barry '69 English, Pulitzer Prize-winning humor columnist
- John Carroll '63, former Editor-in-Chief of the Los Angeles Times
- Frank Conroy, author, director of the Iowa Creative Writing Program
- Roy Gutman, Pulitzer prize winning journalist, author
- Christopher Morley, writer
[edit] Medicine
- James Dahlberg '62, professor of biomolecular chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Thomas Dawber, 1933, The first director of Harvard Medical School's Framingham Heart Study, one of the most important population studies that led to the knowledge that diabetes, cholesterol and tobacco are risk factors for heart disease.
- Stephen Desiderio '74, professor of molecular biology and genetics at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, director of Johns Hopkins Institute for Basic Biomedical Sciences.
- Thomas S. Inui, '65, founder and Paul C. Carbot Professor of Harvard Medical School Ambulatory Care and Prevention Division.
- William H. Harris, '49, for which Harris Hip Score was named after, Alan Gerry Chair of Orthopedic Surgery, Harvard Medical School.
- John R. Hogness '43, former dean of school of medicine and president of University of Washington. former head of the Institute of Medicine.
- James H. McKerrow, '68, Robert E. Smith Endowed Chair in Experimental Pathology, UCSF, former head of Biomedical research Graduate Program UCSF
- Jon Kabat-Zinn '64, noted mindfulness meditation practitioner and researcher.
- Jordan Pober '71, Professor Immunology and Dermatology, Yale School of Medicine.
- Robert T. Sataloff, '71, MD and DMA, Otolaryngologist and Choral Director at Thomas Jefferson University and Curtis Institute of Music.
- Joel Selanikio ’86 Sociology, pediatrician and adviser to Tommy Thompson, former Secretary for Health and Human Services.
- Jonathan Rhoads '28, former Chairman of Surgery at Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, President of American College of Surgeons.
- James Tyson class of 1860, Dean of University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.
[edit] Science
- Armando Daniels, biologist and paleobotanist.
- Steven Lippard '62, Arthur Amos Noyes chair of chemistry, MIT
- Theodore William Richards class of 1885, Nobel laureate (Chemistry, 1914), first American to win a Nobel in Chemistry
- Joseph Hooton Taylor, Jr. '63 Physics, Nobel laureate (Physics, 1993), Dean of Faculty at Princeton University
[edit] Social action and community service
- Henry J. Cadbury, Nobel Peace Prize winner and founder of American Friends Service Committee (AFSC)
- Steve Cary, Quaker and former president of the American Friends Service Committee, Nobel Laureate as representative of the AFSC for their work during World War II
- Norman Hill, civil rights activist, Black labor leader
- Rufus Jones (class of 1885) author, philosopher and founder of the American Friends Service Committee
[edit] Sports and athletics
- Josh Byrnes '92, general manager of the National League's Arizona Diamondbacks.
- Munik Shrestha '09, professional cricket player
- Karl Paranya '97, first NCAA Division III runner to run a sub-four minute mile and world record holder in the indoor 4x800 relay race.
[edit] Fictional alumni
- Dale Cooper, FBI detective in David Lynch's Twin Peaks.
- Brian Callahan, former lacrosse player in Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections
[edit] Notable current and former faculty
- Richard J. Bernstein, Professor of Philosophy (1966-1989), author of John Dewey (1966), current Dean of Graduate Studies, New School of Social Research.
- Elisabeth Young-Bruehl, author and psychoanalyst, former student and biographer of Hannah Arendt.
- Ruth Levy Guyer, Visiting Professor for General Studies. Teaches bioethics. Frequent contributor on National Public Radio.
- Jerry P. Gollub, Professor of Physics, Member of the National Academy of Sciences since 1992.
- Elihu Grant, writer, Professor of Biblical litterature 1917-1938
- Elaine Tuttle Hansen, Provost of Haverford College 1995-2002, Current President of Bates College in Lewiston, Maine.
- Dale Harper Husemoller, Topologist, author of Fibre Bundles and Elliptic Curves of Springer Verlag math textbook series, studied under Lars Ahlfors
- Ariel G. Loewy, late founder of Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology (1954-2000), discoverer of Factor XIII.
- Lucius T. Outlaw, Professor of Philosophy (1980-2000), Scholar of W. E. B. Dubois, Director of African American Studies, Vanderbilt University (2001- )
- Harry C. Payne, Provost and Professor of European History (1985-1988), President of Williams College (1994-2005).
- Julio de Paula, Professor of Chemistry (1989-2005), co-author of popular textbook Physical Chemistry with Peter Atkins of Oxford, current Dean of Lewis and Clark College (2005- ).
- Michael Sells, Gest Professor of Comparative Religions at Haverford 1984-2005. Author of Approaching the Qur'an: The Early Revelations. Current Barrows Professor of Islamic History and Literature at the Divinity School of the University of Chicago.
- Ronald F. Thiemann, Chairman of Religion (1975-1985), Dean of Harvard Divinity School (1986-1998).
- Joseph A. Tolliver, Dean of Students 1998-2006. Current vice president of St. Lawrence University in Canton, New York.
- Cornel West, Assistant Professor of Philosophy (1987-88). currently Professor of Religion at Princeton University.
[edit] Honorary degree recipients
Haverford College invites distinguished members of society to speak at academic convocations and at commencement. There are four honorary degree recipients at commencement, and it is tradition that one of the recipients is a Quaker. The college awards Litt.D, Sci.D, LL.D, D.MA, D.FA, D.H.A honoris causa.
Prominent recipients include:
- 2006: Koichiro Matsuura '61, Director-General of UNESCO.[1]
- 2005: Dave Matthews, Grammy-winning lead vocalist and guitarist for the Dave Matthews Band.[2]
- 2005: Juan Williams '76, Emmy Award–winning writer, and radio and television correspondent. Senior correspondent of National Public Radio.[3]
- 2004: Jane Goodall, English primatologist, ethologist, and anthropologist.[4]
- 2004: Paul Krugman, American economist and a columnist for The New York Times.[5]
- 2002: Bill Cosby, American actor, comedian, television producer, and activist.[6]
- 2001: Chinua Achebe, Nigerian novelist and poet. Author of Things Fall Apart.
- 2000: Madeleine L'Engle, American writer best known for her children's books, particularly the Newbery Medal-winning A Wrinkle in Time.[7]
- 2000: Edward Said, Palestinian-American literary theorist and outspoken Palestinian activist.[8]
- 1998: Wynton Marsalis, one of the most prominent Jazz musician of his age.
- 1993: Arthur Ashe, prominent African American tennis player. Winner of three Grand Slam titles.
- 1992: Thomas L. Friedman, American journalist, author and a three-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize.
- 1985: Elie Wiesel, Romania-born American novelist, political activist, and Holocaust survivor. Author of Night.
- 1983: Paul Simon, American singer-songwriter and guitarist of folk-singing duo Simon and Garfunkel.
- 1982: Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, former South African politician who has held several government positions and headed the African National Congress' Women's League.
- 1981: Rosa Parks, African American civil rights activist.
For a complete list of honorary degree recipients since 1858, visit Haverford's Commencement page.[9]
