List of Middlebury College alumni
The following is a list of Middlebury alumni, including both graduates and attendees as well as fictional alumni. For a list of Middlebury faculty, refer to the list of Middlebury College faculty.
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Notable alumni
Selected Middlebury Alumni
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Academia
College and University Presidents
Professors
- Mary Annette Anderson – First black woman elected to Phi Beta Kappa; later a professor at Howard University[1][2]
- Ana Cara – creolist, translator, and Professor of Hispanic Studies at Oberlin College.[3]
- Paul O. Carrese – Professor of political science at the United States Air Force Academy, and author of the book The Cloaking of Power: Montesquieu, Blackstone, and the Rise of Judicial Activism (University of Chicago Press).
- Thomas Jefferson Conant – American Biblical scholar
- Sarah Delaney – Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Brown University
- Edward Diller - Professor of Germanic Languages and Literature, University of Oregon
- Taylor Fravel – Associate Professor of Political Science at M.I.T.
- Peter Gries – Harold J. & Ruth Newman Chair in US-China Issues and Director of the Institute for U.S.-China Issues at the University of Oklahoma.
- Cynthia Huntington – poet, professor of English and Creative Writing at Dartmouth College
- Edward A. Jones – African-American linguist, scholar and diplomat
- Dan M. Kahan – Elizabeth K. Dollard Professor of Law at Yale Law School.
- Nancy Kollmann – William H. Bonsall Professor of History at Stanford University
- Lawrence Kritzman – American scholar, the Willard Professor of French, Comparative Literature and Oratory at Dartmouth College
- Tamsin Lorraine – Professor of Philosophy at Swarthmore College
- Christopher Merrill – American poet, essayist, director of the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa
- Joseph Nevins – Associate Professor of Geography at Vassar College
- Avital Ronell – Professor of German, Comparative Literature, and English at New York University.
- Nicholas Sambanis – Professor of Political Science at Yale University.
- David Skelly – Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Yale University
- Suzanna Sherry – Herman O. Loewenstein Professor of Law at Vanderbilt University Law School.
- Virginia E. Swain – Professor of French at Dartmouth College
- James Reist Stoner, Jr. – Chair of the Department of Government and a professor of political science at Louisiana State University.
- Hollis Summers – American poet, novelist, short story writer and editor, Professor of English at the University of Kentucky
Teachers
Arts
Fine arts
Literature
- John W. Aldridge – American writer and literary critic, professor of English at the University of Michigan, director of the Hopwood Program, and USIA Special Ambassador to Germany[5]
- Julia Alvarez – Award-winning author, poet, and writer-in-residence at Middlebury.
- Stacie Cassarino – Award-winning American poet and author of the collection Zero at the Bone
- T Cooper – American novelist.
- Frances Frost – American poet, novelist and mother of poet Paul Blackburn
- Dwight Garner – literary critic for The New York Times[6], former senior editor at the New York Times Book Review
- Patricia Goedicke – American poet.
- Hall J. Kelley – Explorer, settler, and writer; strong advocate for U.S. settlement of the Oregon Country in the 1830s.
- Richard E. Kim – Korean-American writer and professor of literature; author of The Martyred (1964), The Innocent (1968), and Lost Names (1970); Guggenheim Fellow (1966) and was recipient of a Fulbright grant
- Peter Knobler – Author, former editor-in-chief of Crawdaddy magazine
- Jeff Lindsay – American playwright and crime novelist, best known for his novels about sociopathic vigilante Dexter Morgan.
- Judy Malloy – Poet whose works inhabit the intersection of hypernarrative, magic realism, and information art.
- Louise McNeill – American poet, essayist, and historian of Appalachia.
- Wesley McNair – American poet, writer, editor, and professor
- Emily Mitchell – Anglo-American novelist.
- Wendy Mogel – Speaker and author who looks at every day parenting problems through the lens of the Torah, the Talmud, and important Jewish teachings.
- Jacqueline S. Moore – American poet and author of Moments of My Life.
- Dan O'Brien – American playwright whose plays include The Cherry Sisters Revisited, The Voyage of the Carcass, The Dear Boy, The House in Hydesville, and The Three Christs of Ypsilanti.
- John Perkins – Activist and author of Confessions of an Economic Hit Man.
- John Godfrey Saxe – American poet perhaps best known for his re-telling of the Indian parable "The Blindmen and the Elephant"
- Lewis Robinson – Writer, author of Officer Friendly and Other Stories
- Michael Tolkin – American film maker and novelist whose screenplays include The Player (1992), which he adapted from his 1988 novel by the same name
- Vendela Vida – novelist, editor of The Believer magazine
- Anne Walker – Architectural historian and author in New York City.
Music
Television and film
- Anna Belknap – Actress, known for her role as Lindsay Monroe on CSI: NY
- Vanessa Branch – British actress, model, former Miss Vermont, noted for her role as the woman in the Orbit Gum commercials.
- Jeffrey Bushell – American writer, has written for The Bernie Mac Show, Drawn Together, MADtv, What I Like About You, and Zoey 101
- James Cromwell – Actor noted for his roles in Babe, L.A. Confidential, The Queen, and 24
- Sam Daly – American actor featured on U.S. production of The Office
- Malaya Drew – American actress known for her roles on The L Word (2008)[8], ER (2006–2007).[9], Las Vegas (2006–2007) and Entourage (2005).[10]
- Cassidy Freeman – American actress and singer, known for her role as Tess Mercer in Smallville.
- Justin Haythe – American novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter, screenwriter for The Clearing and the film adaptation of Revolutionary Road
- Antonio Macia – Screenwriter, writer of Holy Rollers[11]
- Emily McLaughlin – American soap opera actress
- Amanda Peterson – American actress, star of Can't Buy Me Love
- Rodney Rothman – Writer, screenwriter, 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 – Creator of the FX television series The Shield and CBS series The Unit
- John Tinker – Executive Producer of Chicago Hope and writer for L.A. Law
- Jake Weber – English actor, known for his role as Michael in Dawn of the Dead and starring opposite Brad Pitt in Meet Joe Black
- Julia Whelan – Actress, noted for her role on Once and Again.
- Becky Worley – American journalist and broadcaster, tech contributor for Good Morning America, host and blogger for a web show on Yahoo! Tech.
- Jessica St.Clair - American Actress and Comedian
Theater
Athletics
Business
- Louis Bacon – Hedge fund manager, one of Forbes Magazine's 400 wealthiest Americans[14]
- Randy Brock – Executive VP, Fidelity Investments; former Vermont Auditor of Accounts (2005–2007); Vietnam War veteran, recipient of the Bronze Star
- Sean Casten – businessman and writer known for his work on industrial energy recycling; president and CEO of Recycled Energy Development
- Roger Chapin – Businessman-turned-fundraiser, self-described "nonprofit entrepreneur,"[15] and founder of numerous charities variously under scrutiny for questionable ethics.[16]
- John Deere – Blacksmith, inventor of the steel plow and founder of John Deere & Company
- Jim Davis – Chairman of New Balance, one of Forbes Magazine's 400 wealthiest Americans, from the family for whom the Davis Library on Middlebury's campus is named[17]
- Patrick Durkin – Former Managing Director of Credit Suisse First Boston.
- Peter T. Francis – President and CEO of JM Huber Corporation.
- Rick Fritz – Former President of BancBoston Capital, subsidiary of FleetBoston Financial
- Stephen J. Harasimowicz – Managing Director, Head of Trading for Columbia Management, the asset management branch of Bank of America.
- A. Barton Hepburn – United States Comptroller of the Currency and President of Chase National Bank
- Ann Williams Jackson – Group President of Real Simple, Parenting and InStyle magazines[18]
- Reuben Mark – Former CEO, Colgate-Palmolive
- John E. Martin – Former CEO, Taco Bell[19]
- Garret Moran – Chief Operating Officer of Private Equity Group and Senior Managing Director, The Blackstone Group[20]
- William H. Porter – prominent New York City banker
- Carolyn Reidy – President and CEO of Simon & Schuster
- Felix Rohatyn – President of Rohatyn Associates LLC; former partner and Managing Director of Lazard; Commander in the Légion d'honneur; member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
- Vivian Schiller – Former President and CEO of National Public Radio; New York Times senior vice president / general manager for NYTimes.com[21]
- Dan Schulman – President of Sprint's Prepaid Group, former CEO of Virgin Mobile USA
- Peter Smith – former President of StarKist Seafood. Currently President and CEO of New World Pasta, the largest pasta and Rice manufacturer in North America.
- Christopher Tsai – Hedge fund manager with Tsai Capital, major collector of works by Ai Weiwei, son of noted financier Gerald Tsai
Journalism
- Elizabeth Farnsworth – Journalist and co-anchor of PBS News Hour with Jim Lehrer.
- Trip Gabriel – New York Times Style editor
- Dwight Garner (critic) New York Times book critic
- Ralph Gardner, Jr. – freelance American Journalist for the New York Times and New York Magazine.[22]
- Mel Gussow – Influential American theater critic who wrote for The New York Times for 35 years.
- W. C. Heinz – American sportswriter and winner of the Red Smith Award for sports journalism
- Andrea Koppel – Director of International Communications for the Red Cross, former U.S. State Department correspondent for CNN.
- Alexandra Kotur – Fashion journalist, Style Director and contributing editor for American Vogue, author of Carolina Herrera: Portrait of a Fashion Icon and co-author of The World in Vogue: People, Parties, Places
- Dori J. Maynard – President of the Robert C. Maynard Institute for Journalism Education in Oakland, California
- 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.
- Jeanne Meserve – CNN correspondent.
- Mark Patinkin – Columnist at the Providence Journal.
- Andrew Purvis – American journalist, John S. Knight fellow at Stanford University, former bureau chief for Time magazine's Berlin bureau.
- Alex Prud'homme – American journalist and author of non-fiction books; Prud'homme's books including My Life in France, written in collaboration with his great-aunt Julia Child
- Jane Bryant Quinn – Contributing Editor for Newsweek and former author of the twice-weekly column, “Staying Ahead,” syndicated by the Washington Post Writers Group.
- Robert Schlesinger – Author, opinion editor for US News & World Report, Huffington Post blogger, and co-founder of the blog RobertEmmet.
- Frank Sesno – Washington Bureau Chief and White House correspondent for CNN; Professor of Public Policy at George Mason University and George Washington University.[8]
- Vendela Vida – Novelist, journalist, and editor; co-founded and co-edits the monthly periodical The Believer.
- David Wolman – American author and journalist whose writing has appeared in publications such as Wired, Newsweek, Discover, National Geographic Traveler, New Scientist and Outside.
- Janine Zacharia – Journalist, Middle East correspondent for the Washington Post, former diplomatic reporter for Bloomberg News.
Law
Military
Philanthrophy
Politics
Presidents and Prime Ministers
Diplomats
US Senators and Representatives
Governors
State Senators and Representatives
- Claire D. Ayer – Democratic member of the Vermont State Senate, representing the Addison senate district, majority leader of the Vermont Senate as of Fall 2006.
- Michael P. Cahill – American politician who represented the 6th Essex district in the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1993–2003.[27]
- Merritt Clark – Democratic politician from Vermont; he was elected to the Vermont House of Representatives in 1832–33, 1839, and 1865–66, and to the Vermont Senate in 1863–64 and 1868–69, as well as the 1870 Vermont Constitutional Convention
- Barbara Comstock – Republican member of the Virginia House of Delegates; formerly a spokesperson, lobbyist, political consultant, and a founding partner and co-principal of public policy and public relations firm Corallo Comstock
- Luther Day – Republican politician in the US state of Ohio who was in the Ohio Senate and a judge on the Ohio Supreme Court
- George Z. Erwin – Former member of the New York State Senate.
- Brett Hulsey – Wisconsin consultant and Democratic politician, elected to the Wisconsin State Assembly's 77th district in 2010
- Rand Knight – American ecologist, businessman, and a Democratic Party politician in Georgia.
- William M. Straus – Member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives.
- 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.
Other Political Figures
Religion
Science
Fictional alumni
- Snake Jailbird – Fictional character and criminal on the 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 conversations 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."
- Ruth Cole, protagonist of John Irving's A Widow for One Year.
References
- ^ http://womenshistory.vermont.gov/?TabId=61&personID=228
- ^ http://www.jbhe.com/features/53_blackhistory_timeline.html
- ^ http://new.oberlin.edu/arts-and-sciences/departments/hispanic_studies/faculty_detail.dot?id=20615
- ^ [1], Timothy Rub of the Cleveland Museum is Named to Lead Philadelphia Museum of Art - NYTimes.com. Accessed July 3, 2009.
- ^ http://bentley.umich.edu/general/findingaids/aldridge.pdf
- ^ [2] New York Times archive of the work of Dwight Garner
- ^ http://www.middlebury.edu/academics/music/alumni/colpitts
- ^ Article about Malaya Drew on the L Word: http://lesbianlife.about.com/od/lesbiantravels/ig/Dinah-Shore-2011/Malaya-Rivera-Drew-.htm
- ^ Celebrity Photobook page of Malaya Drew on ER: http://www.celebrityphotobook.com/index.php/events/image_full/2334/
- ^ Malaya Drew's profile on Variety: http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117949278?categoryid=28&cs=1
- ^ http://blogs.middlebury.edu/middmag/2010/11/03/holy-rollers/
- ^ http://www.one-revolution.com/about.html
- ^ "Paraplegic Climber Summits Kilimanjaro". CBS News. October 4, 2009. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/10/04/eveningnews/main5362688.shtml.
- ^ No. 655 Louis Bacon
- ^ Barrett, William P. (2006-12-11). "Charity Case". Forbes.com (Forbes.com LLC.). http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2006/1211/198.html. Retrieved 2008-03-22.
- ^ Jowers, Karen (2008-01-18). "Charity draws fire for paying generals". Army Times (Army Times Publishing Company). http://www.armytimes.com/news/2008/01/military_charity_080117w/. Retrieved 2008-03-22.
- ^ No. 556 Jim Davis & Family
- ^ [3]
- ^ [4]
- ^ Garret Moran: Executive Profile
- ^ [5], Russian School alumna named president and CEO of National Public Radio. Accessed November 25, 2008.
- ^ Mastering the Ceremonies
- ^ [6], Conservation Law Foundation :: Staff & Board. Accessed June 19, 2009.
- ^ http://www.middlebury.edu/about/pubaff/news_releases/2009/pubaff_633758174964859450.htm
- ^ 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.
- ^ 2001–2002 Public Officers of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. http://www.archive.org/stream/publicofficersof20012002bost#page/96/mode/2up.
- ^ Mastering the Ceremonies
- ^ [7], The 31-Year-Old in Charge of Dismantling G.M.. Accessed June 15, 2007
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