- List of Haverford College people
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 4Nobel Prize s, 19Rhodes Scholarship s, 10Marshall Scholarship s, 9Henry Luce Fellowships, 48Watson Fellowship s, 1George Mitchell Fellowship , 2Carnegie Endowment Junior Fellowships, 13All Americans , and 17NCAA Post-graduate winners. Since March 1961, over 138 Haverford alumni have served in 64 developing countries asPeace 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.
Alumni
Business and industry
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Douglas B. Gardner '83, Executive Managing Director ofCantor Fitzgerald , L.P., died in theWorld Trade Center on September 11, 2001.
*Gerald M. Levin '60 Religion, formerTime Warner Inc. Chief Executive Officer
*Howard Lutnick '83, President of theCantor Fitzgerald Company.
*J. Howard Marshall '24, Texan billionaire oil tycoon, who marriedAnna Nicole Smith in his late 80s
*John Morse '73, president and publisher of Merriam-Webster
*Ken Stern , CEO ofNPR
*Arn Tellem , Principal, ManagementWasserman Media Group
*John C. Whitehead '43, former Co-Chairman ofGoldman Sachs , deputyU.S. Secretary of State under Reagan and current chairman ofLower Manhattan Development Corporation , Whitehead Campus Center is his namesake
*Dennis Stern '69, senior vice president and deputy general manager ofThe New York Times .
*Barry Zubrow '75 economics, Former Chief Administrative Officer atGoldman Sachs ; Current Chief Risk Officer at JPMorgan Chase; member of the Haverford College Board of Managers.Education and academia
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Anthony Amsterdam '57,MacArthur Fellow , University Professor of Law, NYU.
*Terry Belanger '63, 2005MacArthur Fellow , University Professor and Director of Rare Book School,University of Virginia .
*Douglas C. Bennett '68, former provost ofReed College , current president ofEarlham College .
*Thomas N. Bisson '54, Henry Charles Lea Professor of Medieval History (Emeritus),Harvard University .
*William M. Chace '61, former president ofWesleyan University andEmory University .
*David Ellis '58 Chemistry, former assistant professor of chemistry at theUniversity of New Hampshire , former president ofLafayette College (1978-1990), former president of theBoston Museum of Science .
*Stephen G. Emerson '74, stem cell researcher,UPenn Professor of Pediatrics and Medicine, and Haverford College's 13th President.
*David Fraser '65, former president ofSwarthmore College (1982-91).
*Akira Iriye '57, Professor of History,Harvard University , President ofAmerican Historical Society .
*Fredric Jameson '54,Marxist cultural and literary critic, William A. Lane Professor of Comparative Literature and Romance Studies atDuke University .
*Christoph M. Kimmich '61, current president ofBrooklyn College
*Bruce Lincoln , author ofHoly Terrors and professor at theUniversity 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 ofCornell University from 1995-2003 (made interim president again in 2005), former President ofUniversity of Iowa
*Ed Sikov , film scholar and author of "Mr. Strangelove: A Biography ofPeter Sellers " and "On Sunset Boulevard: The Life and Times of Billy Wilder"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 '90, actor, "Lost"
*Michael Lewis '80, Architectural historian atWilliams College , Culture critic forThe New Criterion , Commentary, etc.
*Ken Ludwig ,Tony Award -winningplaywright of "Lend Me a Tenor " and "Crazy for You "
*Jonathan Mednick '80, director of "American High" -- documentary-style drama on Fox; former film professor atWesleyan 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.Government, diplomacy, and public service
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Charles Canady , former member of Congress. Florida Supreme Court Justice 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 CEOUnion Pacific ,Secretary of Transportation underRonald Reagan
*Charles Mathias , former Maryland Senator
*Koichiro Matsuura '61 Economics, formerJapan ese Ambassador toFrance , 1999-now, Director-General ofUNESCO
*Philip Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker 1908, Member of theParliament 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'sChariots of Fire Olympic track team.
*Xavier Romeu '86, Executive Director of and General Counsel to thePuerto Rico Federal Affairs Administration in Washington, D.C.
*Rob Simmons , former Congressman (Republican ofConnecticut )
*Walter Sondheim 1928, Baltimore civic leader who engineered the "Inner HArbor" project and who was the main proponent behind integrating Baltimore's public schools.Journalism
*John Carroll '63, former executive vice president and editor of
The Los Angeles Times , currently the first Knight Visiting Lecturer at Harvard'sShorenstein Center
*Loren Ghiglione '63, dean of theMedill School of Journalism atNorthwestern University
*Josh Mankiewicz , Correspondent, "Dateline NBC "
*Norman Pearlstine '64, former Editor-in-Chief of Time Inc., senior advisor at theCarlyle Group
*Juan Williams '76 Philosophy,National Public Radio senior correspondentLiterature and writing
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Lloyd Alexander (attended ca. 1940, did not graduate),Newbery Medal -winning author
*Nicholson Baker , novelist, winner of theNational 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 theIowa Creative Writing Program
*Roy Gutman ,Pulitzer prize winning journalist, author
*Christopher Morley , writerMedicine
*Robert C. Bollinger '79, professor of infectious diseases at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and director of the Center for Clinical Global Health Eduction.
*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 atJohns Hopkins School of Medicine , director ofJohns Hopkins Institute for Basic Biomedical Sciences.
*Thomas S. Inui , '65, founder andPaul C. Carbot Professor ofHarvard Medical School Ambulatory Care and Prevention Division.
*William H. Harris , '49, for whichHarris 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 ofUniversity of Washington . former head of theInstitute 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, notedmindfulness 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 atThomas Jefferson University andCurtis Institute of Music .
*Joel Selanikio ’86 Sociology, pediatrician and adviser toTommy Thompson , formerSecretary for Health and Human Services .
*Jonathan Rhoads '28, former Chairman of Surgery atHospital of the University of Pennsylvania , President ofAmerican College of Surgeons .
*James Tyson class of 1860, Dean ofUniversity of Pennsylvania School of Medicine .cience
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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 atPrinceton University ocial action and community service
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Henry J. Cadbury ,Nobel Peace Prize winner and founder ofAmerican 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 duringWorld War II "
*Norman Hill , civil rights activist, Black labor leader
*Rufus Jones (class of 1885) author, philosopher and founder of theAmerican Friends Service Committee
*Robert Schwartz '71, co-founder and executive director of Juvenile Law Center (winner of 2008 MacArthur Award)ports and athletics
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Josh Byrnes '92, general manager of theNational League 'sArizona Diamondbacks .
*Tony Petitti '83, President and Chief Executive Officer, MLB Network.
*Munik Shrestha '09, professional cricket player
*Karl Paranya '97, firstNCAA Division III runner to run a sub-four minute mile and world record holder in the indoor 4x800 relay race.Fictional alumni
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Dale Cooper , FBI detective in David Lynch's "Twin Peaks ".
*Brian Callahan, former lacrosse player in Jonathan Franzen'sThe Corrections 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 ofHannah Arendt .
*Ruth Levy Guyer, Visiting Professor for General Studies. Teachesbioethics . 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 ofBates College in Lewiston, Maine.
*Dale Harper Husemoller,Topologist , author of "Fibre Bundles" and "Elliptic Curves" ofSpringer Verlag math textbook series, studied underLars Ahlfors
*Ariel G. Loewy, late founder of Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology (1954-2000), discoverer ofFactor XIII .
*Lucius T. Outlaw, Professor of Philosophy (1980-2000), Scholar ofW. E. B. Dubois , Director of African American Studies,Vanderbilt University (2001- )
*Harry C. Payne, Provost and Professor of European History (1985-1988), Acting President(1987-1988), President ofWilliams College (1994-2005).
*Julio de Paula, Professor of Chemistry (1989-2005), co-author of popular textbook "Physical Chemistry " withPeter Atkins ofOxford , current Dean ofLewis 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 theUniversity of Chicago .
*Ronald F. Thiemann , Chairman of Religion (1975-1985), Dean ofHarvard Divinity School (1986-1998).
*Joseph A. Tolliver, Dean of Students 1998-2006. Current vice president ofSt. Lawrence University in Canton, New York.
*Cornel West , Assistant Professor of Philosophy (1987-88). currently Professor of Religion atPrinceton University .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 aQuaker . 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 ofUNESCO . [http://www.haverford.edu/ns/commencement/2006/]
*2005:Dave Matthews ,Grammy -winning lead vocalist and guitarist for theDave Matthews Band . [http://www.haverford.edu/publicrelations/news/dmatthews.htm]
*2005:Juan Williams '76,Emmy Award –winning writer, and radio and television correspondent. Senior correspondent ofNational Public Radio . [http://www.haverford.edu/publicrelations/news/jwilliams.htm]
*2004:Jane Goodall , English primatologist, ethologist, and anthropologist. [http://www.haverford.edu/publicrelations/news/goodall.htm]
*2004:Paul Krugman , American economist and a columnist forThe New York Times . [http://www.haverford.edu/publicrelations/news/krugman.html]
*2002:Bill Cosby , American actor, comedian, television producer, and activist. [http://www.haverford.edu/commencement/cosby.htm]
*2001:Chinua Achebe , Nigerian novelist and poet. Author ofThings Fall Apart .
*2000:Madeleine L'Engle , American writer best known for her children's books, particularly theNewbery Medal -winningA Wrinkle in Time . [http://www.haverford.edu/publicrelations/archives/commencement2000.html]
*2000:Edward Said , Palestinian-American literary theorist and outspoken Palestinian activist. [http://www.haverford.edu/publicrelations/archives/commencement2000.html]
*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 thePulitzer Prize .
*1985:Elie Wiesel , Romania-born American novelist, political activist, andHolocaust survivor. Author of "Night ".
*1983:Paul Simon , American singer-songwriter and guitarist of folk-singing duoSimon and Garfunkel .
*1982:Winnie Madikizela-Mandela , former South African politician who has held several government positions and headed theAfrican National Congress ' Women's League.
*1981:Rosa Parks , African American civil rights activist.
*1981:Chambon-sur-Lignon, France , Town in France that harbored thousands of Jews during the Holocaust.For a complete list of honorary degree recipients since 1858, visit Haverford's Commencement page. [http://www.haverford.edu/commencement/past.htm]
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