List of College of Wooster people

This page lists notable alumni and former students, faculty, and administrators of the College of Wooster.

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Alumni

Academia

• Karl Taylor Compton, Philosophy (1908), President of MIT 1930-1948; member of the National Academy of Sciences
• Wayne A. Cornelius, Political Science (1967), founder of the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies at the University of California, San Diego
• Fred Eastman, B. A. (1908), Theologist, professor, playwright, author, and journalist; chair of dept. of religious drama and literature at Chicago Theological Seminary (1926–1952) ^{[1] [2]}
• Frederick Hinitt, Doctor of Divinity (1902), Presbyterian pastor; President of Centre College and Washington & Jefferson College
• Isaac C. Ketler, Presbyterian scholar, founder of Grove City College
• Shannon Boyd-Bailey McCune (1935), geographer and university administrator; President of the University of Florida and the University of Vermont
• Kimberly Bracken Long, B. Mus. (1981), Presbyterian pastor; writer; Associate Professor of Worship at Columbia Theological Seminary
• Merton M. Sealts, Jr., English (1937), Emerson and Melville scholar
• Ronald Takaki, History (1961), historian, ethnographer, professor of ethnic studies at the University of California, Berkeley
• J. Campbell White, President of Wooster, 1915-1919
• Wendell L. Wylie, American Orthodontist
• Courtney Young (librarian), English (1996), Librarian and past president of the American Library Association, 2014-2015
• Nancy Zahniser, pharmacologist

Business

• George Fitch, Economics (1970), politician and business consultant; co-founder of the Jamaican Bobsled Team, which debuted at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Alberta
• Stanley Gault, Geology (1948), former CEO of Rubbermaid and Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company ^[3]
• Charles F. Kettering, inventor of electric automobile starter motor; Vice President of General Motors Research Corporation; namesake of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center; attended but did not graduate
• Blake Moore, History (1980), NFL lineman for the Cincinnati Bengals and Green Bay Packers; CEO of Allianz Global Investors
• R.J. Thomas, President of the United Auto Workers
• Bill Townsend, Art (1986), Internet entrepreneur, politician, founder and chairman of the Amati Foundation ^[4]
• Victor J. Andrew, Physics (1926), founder of Andrew Corporation.

Education

• Margaret Lee Chadwick, founder and headmistress of the Chadwick School, and author

Government

• W. Thomas Andrews (1963), Pennsylvania State Senator ^[5]
• William Moore McCulloch, chair of the United States House Committee on the Judiciary, forced Civil Rights Act of 1964 through Congress ^[6]
• John Carwile, U.S. Ambassador to Latvia (2019–present) ^[7]
• Ted Celeste, member of the Ohio House of Representatives ^[8]
• John Dean, Political Science (1961), White House Counsel (1970–1973) to President Richard Nixon ^[9]
• Eugene A. DePasquale, Political Science (1993), Pennsylvania Auditor General ^[10]
• David Dudley Dowd Jr. (1951), United States federal judge, United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio ^[11]
• Charlie Earl, former Ohio state representative; candidate in the 2014 Ohio gubernatorial election
• Mark F. Giuliano, Deputy Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation ^[12]
• Donald Kohn, Economics (1964), Vice Chairman of the Board of Governors of the United States Federal Reserve
• Ping-Wen Kuo (1911), Chinese educator and statesman
• John McSweeney (1912), member of the United States House of Representatives
• John T. Morrison (1887), sixth Governor of Idaho, 1903-1905 ^[13]
• Norman Morrison, Religion (1956), pacifist, Vietnam War protester
• Solomon Oliver Jr., Philosophy and Political Science (1969), U.S. District Court Chief Judge for the Northern District of Ohio
• Carl V. Weygandt (1912), Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio

Journalism

• Vince Cellini, Speech (1981), host of The Golf Channel ; former anchor for CNN Sports
• Alfred William Edel, History (1957), news anchor for ABC Radio News and Voice of America
• Daniel Howes, History (1983), business columnist for The Detroit News
• Mary Sifton Pepper (1883), journalist and translator on The Jesuit Relations
• Mark Stephens, also known as Robert X. Cringely, History (1975), technology journalist for Public Broadcasting Service

Literature

• Debra Allbery, English (1979), poet (Walking Distance), winner of the 1990 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize
• Frederic Lauriston Bullard (1891), Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist for the Boston Herald; Lincoln historian; writer (Famous War Correspondents)
• Mary Crow, English (1955), Poet Laureate of Colorado ^[14]
• Stephen R. Donaldson, English (1968), New York Times bestselling science fiction author ( Thomas Covenant )
• John Lawrence Goheen (1906), missionary, agriculturist, writer (Glimpses of Ichalkaranji )
• David Means, English (1984), short story writer (Assorted Fire Events), winner of 2000 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction

Performing arts

• James B. Allardice, Emmy Award winning television writer
• Caitlin Cary, English (1990), alt-country musician, member of the band Whiskeytown
• J.C. Chandor, Cultural Film Studies (1996), film director
• Darius Scott Dixson (DIXSON), Academy Award-nominated Songwriter & Music Producer, "Be Alive", contestant on The Voice (American season 9)
• Divya Gopikumar, Psychology (2008), South Indian actress
• Duncan Jones (aka Zowie Bowie or Joey Bowie), Philosophy (1995), British film director of Moon and Source Code ; son of rock musician David Bowie
• Debi Smith, Psychology (1976), folk singer/songwriter and member of the Four Bitchin' Babes ^[15]

Religion

• Sophia Lyon Fahs (1897), honorary degree (1961), writer, liberal religious activist, and educator
• Elizabeth Eaton, Music Education (1977), Presiding Bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) from 2013–present. ^[16]

Science

• Arthur Holly Compton, Physics (1913), Nobel Prize-winning physicist; member of the National Academy of Sciences; Chancellor of Washington University 1945-1953
• Helen Murray Free, Chemistry (1945), elected President of the American Chemical Society in 1993; inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2000
• Martha Chase (1950), American geneticist; performed the Hershey–Chase experiment in 1952, proving that genetic information is transmitted by DNA and not protein.
• Elizebeth Friedman, America's first female cryptologist; attended briefly but transferred elsewhere
• George E. Goodfellow (1876), physician, authority on gunshot wounds, first surgeon to perform a perineal prostatectomy
• Tim McCreight, Art (1973), artist and metalsmith; President of the Society of North American Goldsmiths (1993–1994)
• James V. Neel, Biology (1935), Distinguished Professor of Human Genetics University of Michigan; Albert Lasker Award winner, National Medal of Science winner, National Academy of Sciences member; "father of modern human genetics"
• Stephen J. Page (1993), biomedical researcher, author, clinician, academic, and expert on motor recovery and care after stroke
• James C. Stevens, Chemistry (1975), Distinguished Fellow at Dow Chemical; inventor of constrained geometry catalyst for polyolefin manufacture; member of the National Academy of Engineering
• George W. Thorn, Biology (1927), Chief of Medicine, Bringham & Woman's Hospital Harvard University; NAS Public Welfare Medal winner; Chairman Emeritus Howard Hughes Medical Institute
• John Travis, Chemistry (1965), preventive medicine physician, founder of first wellness center in US
• Emily A. Buchholtz, Paleontology, vertebrate paleontologist

Sports

• Charles Follis (1902*), the first black professional football player; he played for a team in the Ohio League (which later became the NFL)
• Reggie Minton, Physical Education (1963), deputy executive director of the National Association of Basketball Coaches; head basketball coach United States Air Force Academy (1985–2000)
• Larry Shyatt, Physical Education (1973), basketball coach; head coach of Clemson University and the University of Wyoming; assistant coach of the Dallas Mavericks (2016-2019)
• Lamont Paris, (1996), basketball coach; head coach of University of South Carolina and the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga.

Faculty and administrators

• Daniel Bourne, poet, professor of English
• Joanne Frye, writer, professor of English and Women's Studies
• Jack Gallagher, composer, Olive Williams Kettering Professor of Music
• William Gass, novelist ( The Tunnel ), professor of philosophy and English
• R. Stanton Hales, president of Wooster (1995–2007), national US badminton champion
• Dario Hunter, rabbi
• Jack Lengyel, head football coach and lacrosse coach 1966–1970; head football coach at Marshall University 1971–1974
• Hayden Schilling, professor of history
• Orange Nash Stoddard, professor of natural history
• Anthony Tognazzini, writer, professor of Creative Writing
• Charles F. Wishart president of Wooster (1921-1944)
• Susanne Woods, president-elect of Wooster (1995)
• Josephine Wright, musicologist, Josephine Lincoln Morris Professor of Black Studies ^[17]

References

1. Marquise-Who's Who, Inc. (1989). Who's Who in America With World Notables, Vol. IX 1985-1989 . St. Louis: The Von Hoffman Press. p. 275. ISBN   0837902177.
2. "Fred Eastman Services Set; Noted Teacher; Headed Department at Seminary". Chicago Tribune. April 6, 1963. Sec. 2A, p. 12. Retrieved October 1, 2024.
3. Goldstein, Matthew (July 6, 2016). "Stanley Gault, Who Led Rubbermaid and Goodyear, Dies at 90 (Published 2016)". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved October 14, 2020.
4. "Amati Foundation & Extreme Makeover: Home Edition". Amatifoundation.org. Retrieved March 1, 2014.
5. "W. Thomas Andrews". The Times. September 17, 2009. Retrieved October 19, 2020.
6. Hall, Linda (March 7, 2017). "McCulloch statue dedicated at The College of Wooster". The Daily Record. Retrieved October 19, 2020.
7. "Ambassador John L. Carwile".
8. Hallett, Joe (February 11, 2012). "Ted Celeste: 'It's time to get things done'". Archived from the original on February 16, 2012.
9. Anderson, Patrick (July 8, 1973). "Rushing toward a footnote in history (Published 1973)". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved October 19, 2020.
10. "Meet Auditor General Eugene DePasquale". paauditor.gov. Pennsylvania Department of the Auditor General.
11. "Biography for retired U.S. District Judge David D. Dowd Jr". Akron Beacon Journal. Retrieved October 19, 2020.
12. "Mark F. Giuliano Named Deputy Director of the FBI". FBI. November 5, 2013. Retrieved November 6, 2013.
13. "Idaho Governor John T. Morrison". National Governors Association. Retrieved September 19, 2012.
14. "Mary Crow, Colorado Poet Laureate". Colostate.edu.
15. Denise Dunbar (June 2, 2022). "The Four Bitchin' Babes return to The Birchmere - Alexandria Times". Alexandria Times. Retrieved June 6, 2022.
16. "Presiding Bishop". ELCA.org. Retrieved October 26, 2019.
17. Graham, Sandra Jean (May 26, 2010). "Wright, Josephine". Grove Music Online. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.a2087811. ISBN   978-1-56159-263-0.