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Scripps College is a private liberal arts women's college in Claremont, California. It was founded in 1926 as a member of the Claremont Colleges, and is widely regarded as the most prestigious women's college in the Western United States. [1] Many notable individuals have been affiliated with the college as graduates, non-graduating attendees, faculty, staff, or administrators.

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Scripps has graduated 95 classes of students. [2] As of the fall2019 semester, the college enrolls approximately 1,110 students. [3]

As of the fall2019 semester, Scripps employs 136 faculty members. [3] The college has had nine official presidents and several interim presidents, including the current interim president, Amy Marcus-Newhall. [4]

Notable alumnae

Former U.S. Representative Gabby Giffords (D-AZ 8th), class of 1993 Gabrielle Giffords official portrait.jpg
Former U.S. Representative Gabby Giffords (D‑AZ 8th), class of 1993
NameClass yearNotabilityRef.
Anne Hopkins Aitken 1932 Zen Buddhist in the Harada-Yasutani lineage [5]
Helene Mayer Exchange student 1932–1934Olympic gold medalist fencer who competed for Nazi Germany despite being Jewish [6]
Nancy Neighbor Russell 1953Founder, Friends of the Columbia Gorge [7]
Molly Ivins Attended 1962–1963Newspaper columnist [8] [9] [10]
Beth Nolan 1973 White House Counsel for Bill Clinton [11]
Harriet Doerr Attended 1975–1976Novelist [12] [13]
Alison Saar 1978Sculptor and installation artist known for work on black identity [14]
Elizabeth Turk 1983Sculpture artist [15]
Merodie A. Hancock 1987Academic and president of Thomas Edison State University [16]
Gabby Giffords 1993Democratic U.S. Representative for Arizona's 8th district, gun control advocate [8]
Lily Foss 2013 New Hampshire State Representative for Hillsborough District 41 [17]

Notable faculty

NameActive tenureNotabilityRef.
Hartley Burr Alexander 1927–1939Philosopher, writer, educator, scholar, poet, and iconographer [18]
Millard Sheets 1932–1955Artist and designer [19] [20]
Albert Stewart 1939–1965Sculptor [21]
Lee Pattison 1941–1962Concert pianist, composer, arranger, opera director [22]
Michael S. Roth 1983–2000Historian, university administrator, Hartley Burr Alexander Chair, President of Wesleyan University [23]
Hao Huang (pianist) 1994–presentConcert pianist, composer, playwright, Fulbright Scholar to Hungary, Bessie Bartlett Frankel Chair [24]
Ken Gonzales-Day 1995–presentConceptual artist and historian, a fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Fletcher Jones Chair [25]
David Lloyd (academic) 1996-2004Poet and professor of English and Humanities [26]
Juliet Koss 2000–presentArt historian [27]
Myriam J. A. Chancy 2008–presentHaitian-Canadian-American writer, fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Hartley Burr Alexander Chair [28]
Martha Gonzalez (musician) 2012–presentChicana artivista (artist/activist) musician, feminist music theorist [29]
Vanessa C. Tyson 2015–presentPolitical scientist and politician [30]

Presidents of Scripps College

The following persons served as president of Scripps College: [4]

#ImageNameTerm startTerm endRef.
1 Ernest James Jaqua at the opening of Scripps College.jpg Ernest Jaqua 19261942 [4]
interim Mary Kimberly Shirk 19421944 [4]
2 Frederick Hard 19441964 [4]
3 Mark Curtis July 1, 1964June 30, 1976 [4] [31] [32]
4 John H. Chandler July 1, 1976June 30, 1989 [4] [33]
5 E. Howard Brooks July 1, 1989June 30, 1990 [4]
6 Nancy Y. Bekavac July 1, 1990June 30, 2007 [4] [34]
interim Frederick Weis [a] July 1, 2007April 24, 2009 [4]
7April 24, 2009June 30, 2009 [35]
8 Lori Bettison-Varga July 1, 2009October 1, 2015 [4] [36] [37] [38]
interim Amy Marcus-Newhall October 2, 2015July 31, 2016 [4]
9 Lara Tiedens August 1, 2016April 14, 2021 [39] [40]
interim Amy Marcus-Newhall April 15, 2021June 30, 2022 [4]
10Susan KeenJuly 1, 2022March 20, 2023 [41]
interimAmy Marcus-NewhallMarch 20, 2023April 6, 2023
11April 6, 2023Present [42] [43]
Key
–Denotes interim president

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ Weis served as an interim president, but was elected full president before he stepped down, so he is counted in the college's official count.

References

  1. ↑ Fiske, Edward B. (July 6, 2021). Fiske Guide to Colleges 2022 (38th ed.). Naperville, Illinois: Sourcebooks. p. 157. ISBN   978-1-4926-6498-7. Scripps is easily the premier women's college on the West Coast
  2. ↑ "College Timeline". Scripps College. Retrieved August 7, 2021.
  3. 1 2 "Scripps College Common Data Set 2019-2020" (PDF). Scripps College.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 "President | History of the Presidency". Scripps College. Retrieved August 7, 2021.
  5. ↑ "Anne Arundel Hopkins Aitken - An Tanshin (1911-1994)" . Retrieved September 1, 2020.
  6. ↑ Mogulof, Milly (2002). Foiled: Hitler's Jewish Olympian : the Helene Mayer Story. RDR Books. p. 73. ISBN   978-1-57143-092-2 . Retrieved August 29, 2020.
  7. ↑ Oregonian/OregonLive, Katy Muldoon | The (September 20, 2008). "Guardian of the gorge". oregonlive. Retrieved March 28, 2021.
  8. 1 2 "Alumnae manuScripps". alumnae.scrippscollege.edu. Scripps College. Retrieved August 29, 2020.
  9. ↑ "Molly Ivins Honored". Scripps College News. Scripps College. November 11, 2005. Retrieved August 29, 2020.
  10. ↑ Molly Ivins : a rebel life (1st ed.). New York: PublicAffairs. 2009. pp. 39–41. ISBN   9781586487171 . Retrieved August 30, 2020.
  11. ↑ "Nolan, Beth". LC Linked Data Service: Authorities and Vocabularies. The Library of Congress . Retrieved September 1, 2020.
  12. ↑ Doerr, Harriet (1984). Stones for Ibarra. Viking Press. ISBN   9780670192038 . Retrieved August 29, 2020.
  13. ↑ Wallace, Amy (May 22, 1996). "Claremont Colleges: Can Bigger Be Better?". Los Angeles Times . Retrieved August 29, 2020.
  14. ↑ Larkins, Zoe (April 1, 2008). "Alison Saar". Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery. Scripps College. Retrieved August 29, 2020.
  15. ↑ "Elizabeth Turk". Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery. Scripps College. Retrieved September 1, 2020.
  16. ↑ "Merodie Hancock '87 Inaugurated Fourth President of SUNY Empire State College". Scripps College. March 27, 2014. Retrieved August 29, 2020.
  17. ↑ "Scripps Senior Theses". Scholarship @ Claremont. Retrieved June 3, 2025.
  18. ↑ "PROF. H.B. ALEXANDER OF SCRIPPS COLLEGE dies". July 28, 1939. Retrieved January 17, 2022.
  19. ↑ Kendall, John (April 2, 1989). "Millard Owen Sheets, 81; Artist, Designer and Teacher". Los Angeles Times . Retrieved January 17, 2022.
  20. ↑ "Millard Sheets: The Scripps Years, 1932-1955". Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery. Scripps College. March 11, 2001. Retrieved January 17, 2022.
  21. ↑ "Albert Stewart". Smithsonian . June 12, 2000. Retrieved January 17, 2022.
  22. ↑ "Pattison, Lee bio". April 2, 1989. Retrieved February 22, 2021.
  23. ↑ "Biography of Michale S. Roth". Wesleyan University News. Wesleyan University. July 10, 2007. Retrieved September 1, 2022.
  24. ↑ "Hao Huang's NEA Project Will Highlight the Realities of Anti-Asian American Racism". Scripps College News. Scripps College. January 11, 2022. Retrieved August 31, 2022.
  25. ↑ "Spotlight on Faculty: Ken Gonzales-Day, Professor of Art". Scripps College News. Scripps College. September 18, 2017. Retrieved September 4, 2022.
  26. ↑ "David C. Lloyd, Distinguished professor of English". UCR profiles. University of California Riverside. August 2, 2013. Retrieved July 30, 2022.
  27. ↑ "Juliet Koss Awarded Senior Fellowship at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art". Scripps College News. Scripps College. September 4, 2021. Retrieved June 18, 2022.
  28. ↑ "In the Media: NPR Interviews Myriam J.A. Chancy about New Novel". Scripps College News. Scripps College. October 8, 2015. Retrieved October 7, 2021.
  29. ↑ "In the Media: Los Angeles Times Interviews Martha Gonzalez about New Book Chican@ Artivistas". Scripps College News. Scripps College. July 27, 2020. Retrieved September 7, 2022.
  30. ↑ "Spotlight on Faculty: Vanessa Tyson, Assistant Professor of Politics". Scripps College News. Scripps College. October 4, 2021. Retrieved September 5, 2022.
  31. ↑ "Mark Curtis New Head of Scripps College" . Los Angeles Times . April 17, 1964. p. 39.
  32. ↑ "President of Scripps College to Retire in '76" . Los Angeles Times . March 17, 1975. p. 43.
  33. ↑ "Scripps President to Resign in June" . Los Angeles Times . February 9, 1989. p. 39.
  34. ↑ "Head of Scripps College will leave post June 30" . Los Angeles Times . February 22, 2007.
  35. ↑ Hong, Heidi (April 24, 2009). "Scripps Drops Weis's "Interim" Title". The Student Life . Retrieved August 7, 2021.
  36. ↑ "Lori Bettison-Varga Elected Scripps College President". Scripps College. March 28, 2009.
  37. ↑ "Scripps College Announces Departure of President Lori Bettison-Varga". Scripps College. July 8, 2015.
  38. ↑ Ison, Lauren (September 18, 2015). "Lori Bettison-Varga Steps Down From Scripps Presidency". The Student Life .
  39. ↑ "Scripps College names new president". Inland Valley Daily Bulletin . June 22, 2016.
  40. ↑ Heeter, Maria (November 30, 2020). "Scripps College President Lara Tiedens to resign". The Student Life .
  41. ↑ Weaver, Hannah (March 20, 2023). "Suzanne Keen resigns after eight months as Scripps president". The Student Life .
  42. ↑ "Scripps College Names Amy Marcus-Newhall as 11th President". Scripps College. April 6, 2023.
  43. ↑ Puckett, Macy (October 10, 2024). "Amy Marcus-Newhall named 11th president of Scripps College, faces backlash for closing Motley". The Student Life .
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