List_of_Radcliffe_College_people Knowpia

The following is a list of individuals associated with Radcliffe College through attending as a student, or serving as college president or dhjj an.

List of presidents edit

Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz, 1894–1900 (honorary president 1900–1903)
LeBaron Russell Briggs, 1903–1923
Ada Louise Comstock, 1923–1943
Wilbur Kitchener Jordan, 1943–1960
Mary Bunting, 1960–1972
Matina Horner, 1972–1989
Linda Wilson, 1989–1999

Deans edit

Frances R. Brown
Agnes Irwin, 1894–1909

Notable alumnae edit

Architects and landscape architects edit

Lois Wilson Langhorst, class of 1966, architect and educator; pioneer of modernist architecture^[1]^[2]^[3]
Judith Ledeboer, architect
Ellen Biddle Shipman, landscape architect (left after one year)
Anne Whiston Spirn, landscape architect

Art and architecture historians edit

Leila Cook Barber, MA degree 1928, art historian and professor emeritus at Vassar College, specializing in the Renaissance art and medieval studies.^[4]
Mary Berenson (1864–1945), Harvard Annex student 1884-1885, art historian
Katharine Seymour Day, historical preservationist
Florence M. Montgomery (1914–1998), American art historian and curator at Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library
Eva Moseley, American curator and archivist
Phoebe Stanton (1914–2003), MA 1939, architectural historian, professor at Johns Hopkins University, and urban planner for Baltimore.^[5]

Lawyers and judges edit

Deborah Batts, judge
Cora Agnes Benneson, attorney, lecturer, and writer^[6]
Marsha Berzon, judge
Elaine Denniston, lawyer, supported the Apollo program
Jennifer Gordon, workers rights activist, lawyer
Karen Nelson Moore, judge

Physicians edit

Sara Murray Jordan, gastroenterologist
Judith Palfrey, pediatrician and author
Carla J. Shatz, neuroscientist
Nancy Wexler, geneticist

Writers, poets, journalists, and editor edit

Virginia Hamilton Adair, poet
Alice Adams, writer
Fannie Fern Andrews, writer
Margaret Atwood, 1961, author
Marita Bonner, writer, playwright
Elizabeth Brewster, poet
Barbara Epstein, literary editor
Anne Fadiman, essayist and reporter
Norma Farber, children's book writer and poet
Anne Garrels, journalist
Katharine Fullerton Gerould, novelist
Amy Goodman, journalist and political activist
Ellen Goodman, journalist and writer
Joyce Ballou Gregorian, 1968, science fiction author
Melissa Glenn Haber, writer
Rachel Hadas, poet, teacher, essayist, and translator
Rona Jaffe, author
Helen Keller, deaf blind writer, activist
Maxine Kumin, poet and author
Jean Kwok, author
Ursula K. Le Guin, American writer, poet
Alison Lurie, writer
Michel McQueen Martin, 1980, journalist
Anne McCaffrey, 1947, science fiction author
Priscilla Johnson McMillan, MA 1953, journalist, translator, author, historian
Daisy Newman, writer
Andrea Nye a feminist philosopher and writer
Linda Pastan, poet
Julia Quinn, New York Times best selling author
Clara Claiborne Park (1923–2010), author who raised awareness of autism^[7]
Josephine Preston Peabody, poet
Katha Pollitt, poet, essayist and critic
Francine Prose writer
Adrienne Rich, poet
Margot Roosevelt, journalist
Elsie Singmaster, author
Gertrude Stein, American writer, poet, playwright and feminist
Lily Tuck, novelist and short story writer
Jean Valentine, poet
Lally Weymouth, journalist
Hannah Weiner, poet
Natalie Wexler, novelist
Ruth Whitman, poet
Charlotte Wilder, MA, poet and eldest sister of Thornton Wilder

Others edit

Elizabeth Bailey, economist
Tryphosa Bates-Batcheller, singer
Gail Lee Bernstein, Japanese historian
Susan Berresford, 1965, president of the Ford Foundation 1996–2007
Benazir Bhutto, first woman elected to lead a Muslim state, Prime Minister of Pakistan (1988–1990; 1993–1996)
Melissa Block, radio journalist, co-host, All Things Considered
Thérèse Bonney, photographer and publicist
Jane Britton, 1967, murdered while a graduate student at Harvard University
Stockard Channing, actress, famous for her roles in Grease and The West Wing
Nancy Chodorow, sociologist
Judy Clapp, 1952, computer scientist
Zoe Cruz, business, co-president of Morgan Stanley (most powerful woman on Wall Street)
Natalie Zemon Davis, historian of the early modern period
Frances Gardiner Davenport (1870–1927), historian of he later Middle Ages and the European colonization^[8]
Jane Dempsey Douglass, feminist theologian, ecclesiastical historian, and president of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches
Peggy Dulany, heiress and philanthropist
Eva Beatrice Dykes, academic
Debbie Ellison, model
Rebecca Elson, writer and astronomer
Abigail Folger, 1964, American coffee heiress, debutante, socialite, volunteer social worker, civil rights devotee
Mary Parker Follett, social worker, management consultant, and philosopher
Carol Gilligan, feminist, ethicist, and psychologist
Susanna Grannis, academic and nonprofit organizer
Phyllis Granoff, academic of Indic religions
Linda Greenhouse, legal journalist
Marjorie Grene, philosopher
Gisela Kahn Gresser, chess player
Lani Guinier, legal scholar and civil rights theorist
Amy Gutmann, current president of the University of Pennsylvania
Virginia Hall, SOE spy
Olive Hazlett, mathematician
Diana Mara Henry, photographer
Helen Sawyer Hogg, astronomer
Elizabeth Holtzman, politician
Elizabeth Hubbard, actress
Ruth Hubbard, professor, biologist, feminist
Josephine Hull, stage and film actress
Leslie P. Hume, historian and philanthropist
Catharine Sargent Huntington, actress, producer, director, founder of multiple theater companies, activist
Lydia P. Jackson, former Louisiana state legislator
Nancy Johnson, politician
Roberta Karmel (born 1937), Centennial Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School, and first female commissioner of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
Caroline Kennedy, author and diplomat
Sinah Estelle Kelley, chemist
Susanne Langer, philosopher
Mary Lasker, health activist and philanthropist
Henrietta Swan Leavitt, astronomer
Mary Lefkowitz, scholar of Classics
Edith Lesley, academic and founder of Lesley University
Princess Christina, Mrs. Magnuson, Swedish princess
Pauline Maier, historian
Emily Mann (BA English literature 1974), director
Elizabeth Holloway Marston, MA 1921—involved in the creation of the comic book character Wonder Woman
Helen Reimensnyder Martin, novelist
Jessica Mathews
Jean Trepp McKelvey (1908–1998), American economist
Laura Meneses, political activist
Alice Vanderbilt Morris
Amelia Muir Baldwin, interior designer and women's suffrage activist
Chris Mulford, AB 1963, breastfeeding advocate^[9]
Laura Nader, professor in controlling processes
Ursula Oppens, classical pianist
Deborah Orin, journalist
Mary White Ovington, activist, NAACP founder
Masako Owada, 1985, empress of Japan
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, astronomer
Carol Potter, actress
Bonnie Raitt (attended one year), Grammy Award-winning singer and musician
Philinda Rand, American English-language teacher in the Philippines
Lois Rice, 1954, vice president of the College Board and architect of the Pell Grant^[10]
Emeline Hill Richardson, archeologist
Alice Rivlin, economist
Helen Jean Rogers, television producer
Judith Ann Wilson Rogers
Michelle Rosaldo, anthropologist
Phyllis Schlafly, political activist, coined term A choice not an echo
Ellen Schrecker, historian
Mary Sears, oceanographer
Edie Sedgwick (attended), iconic American socialite and Warhol superstar
Judith Shuval, sociologist
Cynthia Solomon, computer scientist, co-designer of Logo (programming language), and co-developer of LCSI Logo.
Diane Souvaine, computer scientist
Diane B. Snelling, politician
Edith G. Stedman, 1910, head the Appointment Bureau 1930–1954
Doris Zemurray Stone, 1930 (1909–1994), archaeologist and ethnographer of pre-Columbian Mesoamerican cultures^[11]
Abby A. 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, public administrator and social reformer
Martha J. B. Thomas, (1926–2006), PhD MBA, chemical engineer
Caroline Thompson, screenwriter-director
Barbara W. Tuchman, historian and author
Abby Howe Turner, zoologist
Ruth Turner, marine biologist
Julie Vargas, educator
Emily Vermeule, archeologist
Maribel Vinson, figure skater
Caroline F. Ware, historian
Ruth Wendell Washburn, educational psychologist
Marina von Neumann Whitman, economist
Olive Winchester, professor at the Point Loma, Northwest, and Eastern Nazarene colleges
Marie Winn, ornithologist

Notes edit

^ Hess, Alan (2007). Forgotten Modern: California Houses 1940-1970. Gibbs Smith. pp. 154–158. ISBN 978-1-58685-858-2.
^ "Lois Wilson Langhorst". PCAD. Retrieved 2024-03-02.
^ "Lois Wilson Langhorst". IAWA Biographical Database. Retrieved 2024-03-02.
^ "Barber, Leila Cook". Dictionary of Art Historians. 21 February 2018. Retrieved March 2, 2021.
^ Cowles, Amy (October 6, 2003). "Obituary: Phoebe Stanton, 88, Outspoken Guardian of City's Architecture". Johns Hopkins Gazette, Vol. 33 No. 6. Retrieved 2021-03-08.
^ Nazzal, James A. (2000). "'Verite Sans Peur': Cora Agnes Benneson, a First-Wave Feminist of Illinois". Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society. 93 (3): 273–286. JSTOR 40193344.
^ Hevesi, Dennis. "Clara Claiborne Park, 86, Dies; Wrote About Autistic Child", The New York Times, July 12, 2010. Accessed July 13, 2010.
^ Introduction to European Treaties Bearing on the History of the United States and its Dependencies, vol. 2 (Washington, D.C.: Carnegie Institution of Washington, 2010 edition)
^ "Obituary - Chris Mulford, IBCLC (1941-2011)".
^ Roberts, Sam (January 18, 2017). "Lois Dickson Rice, Trailblazing Executive Behind Pell Grants, Dies at 83". The New York Times. Archived from the original on May 7, 2023. Retrieved March 29, 2024.
^ Union College Office of Communications (January 1995). "Doris Zemurray Stone dies" (online reproduction). Union College Magazine. Schenectady, NY: Union College. OCLC 6850493. Retrieved 2008-08-10.