List of Middlebury College alumni
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[edit] Politics and law
Ari Fleischer '82 conducts a White House press conference
- Ron Brown - Former Chairman of the Democratic National Committee and U.S. Secretary of Commerce.
- Alexander W. Buel - Former United States Congressman from Michigan
- Jim Douglas - Governor of Vermont
- Bill Delahunt- United States Congressman from Massachusetts
- Roswell M. Field - Prominent antebellum lawyer who represented Dred Scott
- Ari Fleischer - Former White House Press Secretary and field director for the National Republican Congressional Committee.
- Solomon Foot - Former U.S. Senator and President pro tempore during the Civil War.
- Lado Gurgenidze - Prime Minister of Georgia
- William Alanson Howard - U.S. Congressman from Michigan and Governor of Dakota Territory
- Samuel Nelson - Former U.S. Supreme Court Justice
- Frank Pallone - U.S. Congressman from New Jersey [1]
- Edward John Phelps - Lawyer and diplomat; second controller of the United States Treasury; a founding member and president of the American Bar Association.
- Felix Rohatyn - President of Rohatyn Associates LLC; former partner and Managing Director of Lazard, U.S. Ambassador to France under President Bill Clinton; Commander in the Légion d'honneur; member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
- Albio Sires - Member of the United States House of Representatives from New Jersey's 13th congressional district.[2]
- Robert Stafford - Former Governor of Vermont and United States Senator from Vermont
- John Wolcott Stewart - Former U.S. Senator and Representative from Vermont, and from the family for which Stewart Dorm on the Middlebury campus is named
- Alexander Twilight - first African American to graduate from an American college; first African American elected to public office, serving as a Representative in the Vermont House of Representatives.
- Silas Wright - Former Chairman of the U.S. Senate Finance Committee, Democratic Senator, and Governor of New York [1]
[edit] Education, media, art, and literature
- Julia Alvarez - Award-winning author, poet, and professor.
- Anna Belknap - Actress (CSI:NY)
- Vanessa Branch - British actress, model, former Miss Vermont, noted for her role as the woman in the Orbit Gum commercials.
- Thomas Calcagni - Author, Tough Questions Good Answers, PRSA Award winner and Media Coach
- James Cromwell - Actor noted for his roles in L.A. Confidential, The Queen, and 24
- Dispatch - Prominent American indie jam band, comprising Chad Urmston, Brad Corrigan, and Pete Heimbold, which was formed at Middlebury
- Eve Ensler - Author, playwright, feminist theorist, and peace activist best known for her play, The Vagina Monologues
- Elizabeth Farnsworth - Journalist and co-anchor of PBS News Hour with Jim Lehrer.
- Dan M. Kahan - Professor of Law at Yale Law School
- Peter Knobler - Author, editor of Crawdaddy magazine
- Andrea Koppel - Former U.S. State Department correspondent for CNN.
- Alexandra Kotur - Senior features editor at Vogue and author of Carolina Herrera: Portrait of a Fashion Icon
- Walter R. Mears - Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist
- Andrew Meldrum - American journalist and former correspondent of The Economist and The Guardian in Zimbabwe from 1980 to 2003.
- Anais Mitchell - Folk singer-songwriter
- Emily Mitchell - Novelist.
- Mark Patinkin - Columnist at the Providence Journal.
- Matt Power - India-based reporter for National Public Radio, Harper's, and The Christian Science Monitor.
- Jane Bryant Quinn - Contributing Editor for Newsweek and former author of the twice-weekly column, “Staying Ahead,” syndicated by the Washington Post Writers Group
- Lewis Robinson - Writer, author of Officer Friendly and Other Stories
- Rodney Rothman - Writer, Funny Man, author of Early Bird; Film Writer/Producer (Forgetting Sarah Marshall and The Year One) Television writer (Late Show with David Letterman and Undeclared)
- Shawn Ryan - Television, executive producer (The Shield and The Unit).
- Nicholas Sambanis - Professor of Political Science at Yale University
- Robert Schlesinger - Author, opinion editor for US News & World Report, and Huffington Post blogger
- Frank Sesno - Washington Bureau Chief and White House correspondent for CNN; Professor of Public Policy at George Mason University and George Washington University.[2]
- Barry Sullivan - Law professor and dean of the Washington & Lee University School of Law.
- John Tinker - Executive Producer of Chicago Hope and writer for L.A. Law
- Michael Tolkin - Novelist, screenwriter, director
- John Valby - Musician and comedian
- Vendela Vida - Novelist, journalist, and editor
- Julia Whelan - Actress
- Jake Weber - Actor
- Jeanne Meserve - CNN correspondent
[edit] Science and engineering
- Louis Winslow Austin, physicist
[edit] Business and entrepreneurship
- Louis Bacon - Hedge fund manager, one of Forbes Magazine's 400 wealthiest Americans
- Jim Davis - Chairman of New Balance, one of Forbes Magazine's 400 wealthiest Americans
- Stephen J. Harasimowicz - Managing Director, Head of Trading for Columbia Management, the assest management branch of Bank of America
- John Deere - blacksmith, inventor, founder of John Deere & Company
[edit] Philanthrophy
- Dana Reeve - Philanthropist and actress; founder and former Chair of the Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation.
- Eileen Rockefeller Growald - Philanthropist; founder of the Institute for Healthcare Advancement (IHA), Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Economic Learning (CASEL), Champaign Valley Greenbelt Alliance (CVGA), and Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors.
- John Wallach - Founder of Seeds of Peace.
[edit] Miscellaneous
- Lynne Kathryn Schulze - Middlebury College freshman, of Simsbury, CT, USA, who inexplicably vanished from the college grounds on December 10, 1971, and has never been seen since.
- Roger Chapin - Businessman turned fundraiser, self-described "nonprofit entrepreneur,"[3] and founder of numerous charities variously under scrutiny for questionable ethics.[4]
- Hall J. Kelley - Explorer, settler, and writer; strong advocate for U.S. settlement of the Oregon Country in the 1830s.
- Archibald Crowell (Kenneth Lee) - Director 1976 Montreal Summer Olympics
- Tessa Horst - Final rose recipient on the Spring 2007 series of the American television show, The Bachelor: Officer and a Gentleman.
[edit] Fictional alumni
- Snake Jailbird - Fictional character and criminal on animated television series The Simpsons who repaid his Middlebury College student loans after robbing Springfield landmark Moe's Tavern. Voiced by Hank Azaria.
- Brenda Cushman, Elise Elliot, and Annie Paradis - The three main characters in Olivia Goldsmith's first novel The First Wives Club (1992). The women, who in the novel met while students at Middlebury College (class of 1969), were portrayed by Bette Midler, Goldie Hawn, and Diane Keaton in the 1996 film adaptation.
- Mr. Wolfe - A teacher in George Lucas' 1973 film American Graffiti. The character, played by Terry McGovern, is a confidant of Curt Henderson's, played by Richard Dreyfuss. In their one conversation together, Mr. Wolfe tells Curt that he "got drunk as hell the night before" going to college, and that he "barfed on the train all next day." When Curt asks him where he went to school, Mr. Wolfe replies, "Middlebury, Vermont...On a scholarship...[I stayed only] one semester. After all that, I came back here...I guess I just wasn't the competitive type."
[edit] References
- ^ Frank Pallone, Jr., Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Accessed August 30, 2007.
- ^ Albio Sires, Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Accessed September 25, 2007.
- ^ Barrett, William P.. "Charity Case", Forbes.com, Forbes.com LLC., 2006-12-11. Retrieved on 2008-03-22.
- ^ Jowers, Karen. "Charity draws fire for paying generals", Army Times, Army Times Publishing Company, 2008-01-18. Retrieved on 2008-03-22.
