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List of Mount Holyoke College people
The following is a list of individuals associated with Mount Holyoke College through attending as a student, or serving as a member of the faculty or staff.
Notable alumnae
Academics and scientists
Mary Cutler Fairchild , 1875 - a pioneering librarianMartha Warren Beckwith , 1893 - anthropologistAbby Howe Turner , 1896 - founded Mount Holyoke's department of physiologyMargaret Morse Nice , 1905 - ornithologistLouise Freeland Jenkins , 1911 - astronomerMarion Elizabeth Blake , 1913 - classics professorRachel Fuller Brown , 1920 - chemist who discovered Nystatin Mildred Trotter , 1920 - noted forensic anthropologist Lucy Weston Pickett , 1925 - noted chemistHelen Sawyer Hogg , 1926 - astronomerJanet Wilder Dakin , B.A. 1933, M.A. 1935 - zoologist who was the youngest sister of Thornton Wilder and Charlotte Wilder Mary McHenry , 1954 - professor of English credited with introducing African American literature to Mount HolyokeJane English , 1964 -physicist, translator, photographerDolores Hayden , 1966 - professor of architecture, urbanism, and American studiesCarolyn Collette , 1967 - professor of EnglishSusan Shirk , 1967 - professor of political science and the former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for North Asia during the Clinton administrationKaren E. Rowe - English professor
Activists
Lucy Stone , (attended 1839) - women's rights activistOlympia Brown , (attended 1854-55) - women's rights activistHelen Pitts , 1859 - women's rights activist, second wife of Frederick Douglass , and founder of the Frederick Douglass Memorial and Historical Association Hortense Parker , 1883 - daughter of African American abolitionist , John Parker and the first African American student to graduate from Mount Holyoke College Elizabeth Holloway Marston , 1915 - involved in the creation of Wonder Woman Sybil Bailey Stockdale , 1946 - founded the National League of Families of American Prisoners and MIAs in S.E. Asia; Lecturer; widow of '92 U.S. Vice-Presidential nominee, Adm. James Stockdale Gloria Johnson-Powell (Gloria Johnson), 1958 - child psychiatrist; an important figure in the American Civil Rights Movement (1955-1968) and the first African American woman to attain tenure at Harvard Medical School Mallika Dutt , 1983 - Executive Director of Breakthrough: building human rights culture, an international human rights organizationKavita Ramdas , 1985 - President and CEO, Global Fund for Women
Actresses, musicians, and performers
Artists
Athletes
Businesswomen
College presidents
Susan Tolman Mills , 1845 - co-founder and first president of Mills College Ada Howard , 1853 - first president of Wellesley College Abbie Park Ferguson , 1856 - founder and president of Huguenot CollegeSarah Ann Dickey , 1869 - founder of Mount Hermon Female Seminary Florence M. Read , 1909 - former president, Spelman College Barbara M. White , 1941 - former president, Mills College Pauline Tompkins , 1941 - former president, Cedar Crest College Alice Stone Ilchman 1957 - former president, Sarah Lawrence College Nancy J. Vickers , 1967 - President, Bryn Mawr College Carol Geary Schneider , 1967 - President, Association of American Colleges and Universities Elaine Tuttle Hansen , 1969 - President, Bates College
Computer scientists and graphic designers
Doctors, nurses, psychologists, and psychiatrists
Filmmakers, broadcast presidents, and producers
Journalists
Judges
Politicians and family
Louisa “Louise” Maria Torrey Taft , 1845 - mother of president William Howard Taft Frances Perkins , 1902 - the first woman cabinet member (U.S. Secretary of Labor from 1933-1945 under President Franklin D. Roosevelt ).Ella T. Grasso , 1940 - Governor of Connecticut; the first female Governor elected in her own right in United States historyNancy Kissinger (Nancy Maginnes), 1955 - philanthropist; wife of former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger Nita Lowey , 1959 - United States House of Representatives member (D-NY)Susan Shirk , 1967 - professor of political science and the former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for North Asia during the Clinton administrationJudith Kurland , 1967 - former Regional Director, United States Department of Health and Human Services Jane Garvey (Jane Famiano), 1969 (M.A.) - former head of Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)Elaine Chao , 1975 - U.S. Secretary of Labor , 2001-Present; former national director, United Way Karen Middleton (Colorado legislator) , 1988 - a legislator in the U.S. state of Colorado
Writers
Emily Dickinson , (attended 1847-1848) - poetMary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman , (attended 1870-1871) - novelist and short story writerAlice Geer Kelsey , 1918 - writer, children's literatureCharlotte Wilder , 1919 - poetKathryn Irene Glascock , 1922 - poetRoberta Teale Swartz , 1925 - poetVirginia Hamilton Adair , 1933 - poet.Martha Whitmore Hickman , 1947 - non-fiction authorJean Rikhoff , 1948 - authorEmma Lathen , (pen-name for mystery authors Martha Henissart '50 and Mary Jane Latsis)Nancy Bauer (Nancy Luke), 1956 - non-fiction authorClare Munnings , (pen-name for mystery authors Elizabeth Topham Kennan '60 and Jill Ker Conway )Nancy Bond , 1966 - writer, children's literaturePatricia Roth Schwartz , 1968 - poetKathleen Eagle (Kathleen Pierson), 1970 - romance novelistMarisabina Russo , 1971 - writer, children's literatureWendy Wasserstein , 1971 - playwright who won the 1989 Tony Award for Best Play and the 1989 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for The Heidi Chronicles Susan Shwartz , 1972 - science fiction and fantasy authorLynne Barrett , 1972 - authorGjertrud Schnackenberg , 1975 - poetKathleen Hirsch , 1975 - non-fiction authorJudith Tarr , 1976 - science fiction and fantasy authorCarol Higgins Clark , 1978 - mystery authorJacqueline Jones LaMon, 1978 - poet and novelist [3]
Lan Cao , 1983 - novelistSuzan-Lori Parks , 1985 - playwright who won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize in Drama for Topdog/Underdog Sehba Sarwar , 1986 - novelistShoba Narayan , 1987 (MHCG) - non-fiction authorC. Leigh Purtill , 1988 - young adult authorSabina Murray , 1989 - screenwriter; wrote screenplay for The Beautiful Country Tahmima Anam , 1997 - author
Notable faculty, past and present
Artists
Athletics
Authors, actors, poets, and playwrights
Education
Historians
Humanities
Politics
Sciences and social sciences
Presidents A number of individuals have acted as head of Mount Holyoke. Until 1888, the term principal was used. From 1888 to the present, the term president has been used. [1]
1837-1849: Mary Lyon , 1st President (Founder and Principal)
1849-1850: Mary C. Whitman , 2nd President (Principal)
1850-1865: Mary W. Chapin , 3rd President (Principal)
1865-1867: Sophia D. Stoddard 4th President (Acting Principal)
1867-1872: Helen M. French , 5th President (Principal)
1872-1883: Julia E. Ward , 6th President (Principal)
1883-1889 Elizabeth Blanchard , 7th President (Principal and Acting President)
1889: Mary A. Brigham , 8th President (President Elect - died in an accident)
1889-1890: Louisa F. Cowles , 9th President (Acting President)
1890-1900: Elizabeth Storrs Mead , 10th President
1900-1937: Mary Emma Woolley , 11th President
1937-1957: Roswell G. Ham , 12th President (first male head)
1957-1968: Richard Glenn Gettell , 13th President
1968-1969: Meribeth E. Cameron , 14th President (Acting President)
1969-1978: David Truman , 15th President
1978-1995: Elizabeth Topham Kennan , 16th President
1996-present: Joanne V. Creighton , 17th President
Acting and Interim Presidents
Beverly Daniel Tatum , served as Acting President for part of 2002 while President Creighton was on leave.Peter Berek , served as interim president in Fall 1995.Joseph Ellis , served as as Acting President for part of 1984 while President Kennan was on leave.Meribeth E. Cameron , served as as Acting President for part of 1954 while President Ham was on leave and for part of 1966 while President Gettell was on leave.
Commencement addresses
Notes
^ List of Presidents ^ Carol Gilligan Commencement Speech ^ Wendy Kopp Commencement Speech ^ Joyce Carol Oates Commencement Speech ^ Boston Globe article ^ Nina Totenberg Commencement Speech ^ Kim Campbell Commencement Speech ^ Judy Blume Commencement Speech ^ Photo from Judy Blume's official website ^ Queen Noor of Jordan Commencement Speech ^ Suzan-Lori Parks Commencement Speech ^ Mary Patterson McPherson Commencement Speech ^ Anna Quindlen Commencement Speech ^ Johnnetta B. Cole Commencement Speech ^ Madeleine Albright Commencement Speech ^ Donna Shalala Commencement Speech ^ Ann Richards Commencement Speech ^ a b c d e List of commencement speakers 1987-1997 ". Mount Holyoke Collge. Retrieved on 2008 -05-28 .
^ Wendy Wasserstein Commencement Speech ^ Glenn Close Commencement Speech ^ Commencements; Mount Holyoke ", The New York Times (May 25, 1987). Retrieved on 2007 -10-12 . ^ Daily Hampshire Gazette ^ Political Action Urged ^ Commencement Address, the Genre ^ Lillian Hellman papers with draft of Mount Holyoke commencement speech ^ The Education of Ella Grasso ^ The Education of Ella Grasso ^ The Education of Ella Grasso ^ MOUNT HOLYOKE GRADUATES; The College Celebrates Its Seventyfifth Commencement. ", The New York Times (June 16, 1912). ^ PRESIDENT GIVES DIPLOMAS; Mount Holyoke College Confers a Degree Upon Him. THE FIRST MAN SO HONORED Speech to the Graduating Class, Among Whom Was His Niece -- The President's Trip. ", The New York Times (June 21, 1899).
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