List of Radcliffe College people
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The following is a list of individuals associated with Radcliffe College through attending as a student, or serving as college president.
List of presidents
Notable alumnae
- Benazir Bhutto, The first woman elected to lead a Muslim state, having twice been Prime Minister of Pakistan (1988–1990; 1993–1996).
- Virginia Hamilton Adair
- Alice Adams (writer)
- Fannie Fern Andrews
- Margaret Atwood, 1961,author
- Elizabeth Bailey
- Tryphosa Bates-Batcheller
- Deborah Batts
- Eva Beatrice Dykes
- Sallie Bernard, 1979, executive director of Safe Minds
- Gail Lee Bernstein, Japanese historian
- Susan Berresford, 1965, president of the Ford Foundation 1996-2007
- Marsha S. Berzon
- Melissa Block, radio journalist, Co-host, All Things Considered
- Marita Bonner
- Thérèse Bonney
- Elizabeth Brewster
- Stockard Channing, actress, famous for her roles in Grease and The West Wing.
- Nancy Chodorow
- Zoe Cruz, Co-President of Morgan Stanley (Most Powerful woman on Wall Street)
- Natalie Zemon Davis
- Peggy Dulany
- Eva Beatrice Dykes
- Debbie Ellison
- Rebecca Elson
- Barbara Epstein
- Anne Fadiman
- Norma Farber
- Abigail Folger, 1964—American heiress and murder victim.
- Mary Parker Follett
- Anne Garrels
- Katharine Fullerton Gerould
- Carol Gilligan
- Ellen Goodman
- Jennifer Gordon
- Phyllis Granoff
- Linda Greenhouse
- Joyce Ballou Gregorian, 1968 - Science fiction author
- Marjorie Grene
- Gisela Kahn Gresser
- Caroline Thompson, screenwriter-director
- Lani Guinier
- Amy Gutmann, Current president of the University of Pennsylvania
- Melissa Glenn Haber
- Rachel Hadas
- Olive Hazlett
- Helen Sawyer Hogg
- Elizabeth Holtzman
- Rachel Vetter Huang, violinist and music professor
- Elizabeth Hubbard
- Ruth Hubbard, professor, biologist, feminist
- Josephine Hull
- Agnes Irwin, educator
- Rona Jaffe, author
- Nancy Johnson
- Helen Keller, deafblind writer, activist
- Jean Kwok
- Maxine Kumin
- Susanne Langer
- Ursula K. Le Guin, American writer, poet
- Henrietta Swan Leavitt
- Mary Lefkowitz
- Edith Lesley
- Princess Christina, Mrs. Magnuson
- Pauline Maier
- Elizabeth Holloway Marston, M.A. 1921—involved in the creation of the comic book character, Wonder Woman
- Helen Reimensnyder Martin
- Jessica Mathews
- Anne McCaffrey, 1947—Science fiction author
- Karen Nelson Moore
- Alice Vanderbilt Morris
- Chris Mulford, A.B. 1963, breastfeeding advocate[1]
- Lois Murphy
- Laura Nader, Professor in Controlling Processes
- Daisy Newman
- Ursula Oppens, classical pianist
- Deborah Orin
- Mary White Ovington
- Judith Palfrey:
- Clara Claiborne Park (1923-2010), author who raised awareness of autism.[2]
- Linda Pastan
- Josephine Preston Peabody
- Katha Pollitt
- Carol Potter (actress)
- Francine Prose
- Julia Quinn, New York Times Best Selling Author
- Bonnie Raitt (attended one year), Grammy-award winning singer and musician.
- Philinda Rand
- Adrienne Rich, poet
- Emeline Hill Richardson
- Alice Rivlin
- Helen Jean Rogers
- Judith Ann Wilson Rogers
- Margot Roosevelt, journalist
- Michelle Rosaldo
- Phyllis Schlafly, political activist, coined term A choice not an echo
- Ellen Schrecker
- Mary Sears
- Edie Sedgwick (attended), iconic American socialite and Warhol Superstar
- Carla J. Shatz
- Ellen Biddle Shipman - landscape architect (left after 1 year)
- Judith Shuval, sociologist
- Diane Souvaine
- Diane B. Snelling
- Gertrude Stein, American writer, poet, playwright and feminist
- Doris Zemurray Stone (1909–1994), archaeologist and ethnographer of pre-Columbian Mesoamerican cultures; graduated 1930[3]
- Abby Sutherland, cum laude graduate, head mistress, president, and owner of The Ogontz School for Girls. Sutherland deeded the school to Penn State in 1950.
- Mary E. Switzer
- Barbara Tuchman
- Lily Tuck
- Abby Howe Turner
- Ruth Turner
- Betty Miller Unterberger, first woman president of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations[4]
- Jean Valentine
- Julie Vargas
- Emily Vermeule
- Maribel Vinson
- Caroline F. Ware
- Hannah Weiner
- Natalie Wexler
- Nancy Wexler
- Lally Weymouth
- Marina von Neumann Whitman
- Charlotte Wilder, M.A.—poet and eldest sister of Thornton Wilder
- Olive Winchester, professor at the Point Loma, Northwest, and Eastern Nazarene Colleges
- Marie Winn
Fictional alumnae
Notes
- ^ [1]
- ^ Hevesi, Dennis. "Clara Claiborne Park, 86, Dies; Wrote About Autistic Child", The New York Times, July 12, 2010. Accessed July 13, 2010.
- ^ Union College Office of Communications (January 1995). "Doris Zemurray Stone dies" (online reproduction). Union College Magazine (Schenectady, NY: Union College). OCLC 6850493. http://www.union.edu/N/DS/edition_display.php?e=662&s=2475. Retrieved 2008-08-10.
- ^ "Lee W. Formwalt, "From Scotland to India: A Conversation with American Historian Betty Unterberger." August 2005". oah.org. http://www.oah.org/pubs/nl/2005aug/formwalt.html. Retrieved October 23, 2010.