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 or dean.

List of presidents

• 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

• Frances R. Brown
• Agnes Irwin, 1894–1909

Notable alumnae

Architects and landscape architects

• 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

• 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

• 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
• Dayna Bowen Matthew, law school dean ^[7]
• Karen Nelson Moore, judge

Physicians

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

Writers, poets, journalists, and editor

• 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
• 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 ^[8]
• Josephine Preston Peabody, poet
• Katha Pollitt, poet, essayist and critic
• Francine Prose writer
• Helen Leah Reed, 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

• 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 the later Middle Ages and the European colonization ^[9]
• Elisabeth Deichmann (1896–1975), Danish-born American marine biologist
• 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
• Elizabeth Ellis Hoyt, economist
• 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 ^[10]
• 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
• Sue Pritzker, socialite, philanthropist, and activist
• 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 ^[11]
• 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 ^[12]
• 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

1. Hess, Alan (2007). Forgotten Modern: California Houses 1940-1970. Gibbs Smith. pp. 154–158. ISBN   978-1-58685-858-2.
2. "Lois Wilson Langhorst". PCAD. Retrieved March 2, 2024.
3. "Lois Wilson Langhorst". IAWA Biographical Database. Retrieved March 2, 2024.
4. "Barber, Leila Cook". Dictionary of Art Historians. February 21, 2018. Retrieved March 2, 2021.
5. Cowles, Amy (October 6, 2003). "Obituary: Phoebe Stanton, 88, Outspoken Guardian of City's Architecture". Johns Hopkins Gazette, Vol. 33 No. 6. Retrieved March 8, 2021.
6. 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.
7. "GW Names New Law Dean". GW Law. February 19, 2020.
8. Hevesi, Dennis. "Clara Claiborne Park, 86, Dies; Wrote About Autistic Child", The New York Times , July 12, 2010. Accessed July 13, 2010.
9. 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)
10. "Obituary - Chris Mulford, IBCLC (1941-2011)".
11. 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.
12. Union College Office of Communications (January 1995). "Doris Zemurray Stone dies" (online reproduction). Union College Magazine. Schenectady, NY: Union College. OCLC   6850493 . Retrieved August 10, 2008.