The following is a list of notable people associated with Earlham College, a

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Notable alumni

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Carl W. Ackerman Carl William Ackerman (January 16, 1890 in Richmond, Indiana – October 9, 1970 in New York City) was an American journalist, author and educational administrator, the first dean of the Columbia School of Journalism. In 1919, as a correspondent o ...

— first head of the

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School of Journalism * Marjorie Hill Allee – author *

Warder Clyde Allee Warder Clyde Allee (June 5, 1885 – March 18, 1955) was an American ecologist. He is recognized to be one of the great pioneers of American ecology. Schmidt, Karl Patterson. "Warder Allee: A Biographical Memoir", National Academy of Sciences. Was ...

– known for his research on animal behavior, protocooperation, and for identifying the Allee effect; elected to the

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John S. Allen John Stuart Allen (May 13, 1907 – December 27, 1982) was an American astronomer, university professor and university president. He was a native of Indiana, and pursued a career as a professor of astronomy after receiving his bachelor's, ma ...

– founding president of the

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; interim president of the

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. Retrieved March 9, 2009. *

Gertrude Bonnin Zitkala-Ša (Lakota: Zitkála-Šá, meaning Red Bird; February 22, 1876 – January 26, 1938), also known by her missionary and married name, Gertrude Simmons Bonnin, was a Yankton Dakota writer, editor, translator, musician, educator, and polit ...

(Zitkala-Sä) – writer, Native American activist, founded National Council of Indian Americans * Greg Burdwood – State Legislator in the

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* Rick Carter – head football coach,

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; his 1983 team remains the only Holy Cross team to ever qualify for the NCAA Division I-AA playoffs; N.C.A.A. Division I-AA Coach of the Year * Al Cobine – big band leader and tenor saxophonist; worked closely with Henry Mancini and often associated with the

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theme song * Jana E. Compton – research ecologist with the Environmental Protection Agency * Joseph John Copeland – former president of City College of New York *

Ione Virginia Hill Cowles Ione Virginia Hill Cowles (, Hill; after marriage, Mrs. Josiah Evans Cowles; March 13, 1858 - July 4, 1940) was an American clubwoman and social leader. Cowles served as eighth international president of the General Federation of Women's Clubs (GFW ...

– president, General Federation of Women's Clubs *

Garfield V. Cox Garfield Vestal Cox (May 4, 1893 – February 9, 1970) was a leading authority on business fluctuations and forecasting. He was one of the first people to study the performance of experts versus novices in forecasting stock prices. He was also ...

– attended but did not graduate; Dean of the

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, 1942–1952 *

David W. Dennis David Worth Dennis II (June 7, 1912 – January 6, 1999) was an American attorney and Republican United States Representative from Indiana from 1969 to 1975. Early life and education He was born in Washington, D.C. and was named for his grand ...

–

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from Indiana * Juan Dies – co-founder and executive director of

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; nominated for a Latin Grammy * Christoper Dilts – Senior Photographer at Obama for America 2012 *

Joseph M. Dixon Joseph Moore Dixon (July 31, 1867May 22, 1934) was an American History of the Republican Party (United States), Republican politician from Montana. He served as a U.S. House of Representatives, Representative, United States Senate, Senator, and th ...

–

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, 7th Governor of Montana * Liza Donnelly – cartoonist for the '' New Yorker'' *

John Porter East John Porter East (May 5, 1931 – June 29, 1986) was a Republican U.S. senator The United States Senate is the upper chamber of the United States Congress, with the House of Representatives being the lower chamber. Together they compose t ...

– former U.S. Senator for

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* Brigadier General Bonner F. Fellers –

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director during

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; during the subsequent

occupation of Japan Japan was occupied and administered by the victorious Allies of World War II from the 1945 surrender of the Empire of Japan at the end of the war until the Treaty of San Francisco took effect in 1952. The occupation, led by the United States wi ...

, worked with fellow Earlhamite Isshiki Yuri (see below) to persuade MacArthur to preserve the institution of the

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and clear Emperor Hirohito of war crimes

Bix, Herbert P. Herbert P. Bix (born 1938) is an American historian. He wrote ''Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan'', an account of the Japanese Emperor and the events which shaped modern Japanese imperialism, which won the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonficti ...

'' Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan.'' New York: Perennial/Harper Collins, 2001. p. 542. *

Jim Fowler James Mark Fowler (April 9, 1930 – May 8, 2019) was an American professional zoologist and host of the acclaimed wildlife documentary television show Mutual of Omaha's ''Wild Kingdom''. Early years Born in Albany, Georgia, Fowler spent h ...

– star of ''

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'' *

Lew Frederick Lew Frederick (born December 1951) is an American Democratic politician, currently representing District 22 in the Oregon Senate. Early life and education Born in Pullman, Washington, Frederick grew up in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Atlanta, G ...

(Lewis Reed Frederick) – member of the

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2010–2016; Member Oregon State Senate 2017–present; Outstanding Alumni Award 2013 * Reverend Wilda C.Gafney – priest and bible scholar *

Sara Gelser Sara Gelser Blouin (born December 20, 1973) is an American politician from Oregon. She is a member of the Democratic Party. Since 2015, she has been a member of the Oregon State Senate from District 8. From 2005 to 2015, she served in the Oregon ...

– member of the

2005-2014 and member of the

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2015–present) Outstanding Alumni Award 2016; Recognized as one of Time Magazine's "Person of the Year" Silence Breakers in 2017 * Andrew Ginther – Mayor of

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, 2016–present * Robert Graham – Endowed Chair, Department of Family Medicine, University of Cincinnati Medical Center; elected to the

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* Tim Grimm – played FBI agent Dan Murray alongside

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in the film '' Clear and Present Danger'' (1994) *

David Grosso David Grosso (born September 18, 1970) is an American attorney and politician. He is a former at-large member of the Council of the District of Columbia who lives in Brookland. A native Washingtonian, he graduated from Earlham College and Georget ...

— City Council Member for the District of Columbia *

Mary Haas Mary Rosamond Haas (January 23, 1910 – May 17, 1996) was an American linguist who specialized in North American Indian languages, Thai, and historical linguistics. She served as president of the Linguistic Society of America. She was elected a ...

– linguist, pioneer in the field of Siamese language studies; former President of the Linguistic Society of America * William Hadley – established the Hadley School for the Blind *

Michael C. Hall Michael Carlyle Hall (born February 1, 1971) is an American actor and singer best known for his roles as Dexter Morgan, the titular character in the Showtime series ''Dexter,'' and David Fisher in the HBO drama series '' Six Feet Under.'' Thes ...

–

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's '' Six Feet Under'' and star of

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's ''

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'', for which he was nominated for an

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and won

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and

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awards * Margaret Hamilton – headed the team that wrote the onboard flight software for

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program * Helen Hansma – Researcher Emeritus and Associate Adjunct Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Santa Barbara * Robert M. Hirsch – former Chief Hydrologist and head of water science for the

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Emily Caroline Chandler Hodgin Emily Caroline Chandler Hodgin (April 12, 1838 – November 13, 1907) was an American temperance reformer. She was one of the leaders in the temperance crusade of Terre Haute, Indiana, in 1872, and was a delegate to the convention in Cleveland, Ohi ...

– temperance reformer * Mary Inda Hussey – Semitic text authority; first woman to teach at the American Society for Oriental Research in

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* John Herndon James – Chief Justice of the 4th Court of Civil Appeals in San Antonio * C. Francis Jenkins – demonstrated the first practical

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projector * Walter Jessup – former head of the Carnegie Corporation and president of the

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Henry Underwood Johnson Henry Underwood Johnson (October 28, 1850 – June 4, 1939) was an American lawyer and politician who served four terms as a U.S. Representative from Indiana from 1891 to 1899. Biography Born in Cambridge City, Indiana, Johnson attended the Ce ...

– US Congressman from Indiana *

Mary Coffin Johnson Mary Coffin Johnson (, Coffin; July 15, 1834 - August 10, 1928) was an American activist and writer. She was acquainted with Abraham Lincoln, and was a friend of Henry Ward Beecher and his wife Eunice. Biography Mary Carol Coffin was born in North ...

(1834-1928) – temperance activist, newspaper publisher *

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– former US Ambassador to Italy * Andrew Johnston – film critic for ''Time Out New York'', ''Us Weekly'', ''Radar'' magazine; Editor of the "Time In" section; TV critic for ''Time Out New York'' *

Joseph Henry Kibbey Joseph Henry Kibbey (March 4, 1853 – June 14, 1924) was an American attorney who served as Associate Justice of the Arizona Territorial Supreme Court from 1889 to 1893 and Governor of Arizona Territory from 1905 to 1909. His legal career is mo ...

– Territorial Governor of Arizona *

Peter D. Klein Peter David Klein (born September 17, 1940) is an American philosopher specializing in issues in epistemology who spent most of his career at Rutgers University. Education and career He received a BA at Earlham College (1962), and an MA (1964 ...

– chaired Rutgers University's Department of Philosophy * Frances Moore Lappé – activist and author of three-million-copy bestseller ''

Diet for a Small Planet ''Diet for a Small Planet'' is a 1971 bestselling book by Frances Moore Lappé, the first major book to note the environmental impact of meat production as wasteful and a contributor to global food scarcity. She argued for environmental vegetaria ...

'' *

Simone Leigh Simone Leigh (born 1967) is an American artist from Chicago who works in New York City in the United States. She works in various media including sculpture, installations, video, performance, and social practice. Leigh has described her work as au ...

– noted multimedia and ceramic artist * Maurice Manning – Pulitzer Prize finalist poet * Howard Marmon – former president of the American Society of Automotive Engineers * Manning Marable – professor at Columbia University; author of '' Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention'', which won a Pulitzer Prize in 2012 *

Robert Meeropol Robert Meeropol (born May 14, 1947 as Robert Rosenberg) is the younger son of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg. Meeropol was born in New York City. His father Julius was an electrical engineer and a member of the Communist Party. His mother Ethel (né ...

– founder of the Rosenberg Fund for Children, attorney, college professor and activist; son of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg * Edward Matney – received an Emmy for a 1998 segment of ''Nightline'' on the Clinton White House *

Dan McCoy Dan McCoy (born 1978) is an American comedian and was an Emmy-winning writer for the news satire program ''The Daily Show''. He is the producer and co-host of the movie podcast The Flop House, which he co-hosts with comedian/bar owner Stuart Wel ...

– writer for ''

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'' and host of ''The Flop House'' podcast *

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(real name Joseph O'Connell) – lo-fi recording artist * Morris Hadley Mills – Indiana State Senator *

Molly R. Morris Molly R. Morris is an American behavioral ecologist who has worked with treefrogs and swordtail fishes in the areas of alternative reproductive tactics and sexual selection. Morris received a Bachelor of Arts from Earlham College and a PhD ...

– ecologist, professor at

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N–Z

William Penn Nixon William Penn Nixon, Sr., (1832 – February 20, 1912) was an American publisher and politician from Indiana. Following an extensive private education, Nixon graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and became involved in Ohio politics. He se ...

– publisher of the '' Chicago Inter Ocean'' and president of the

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Larry Overman Larry E. Overman is Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at the University of California, Irvine. He was born in Chicago in 1943. Overman obtained a B.A. degree from Earlham College in 1965, and he completed his Ph.D. in chemistry from the Unive ...

– organic chemist, member of the

* Josh Penn – producer of '' Beasts of the Southern Wild'', which won the narrative grand jury prize and the cinematography award at the

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in January 2012 and was nominated for the Best Picture Oscar in 2013 *

Robert Quine Robert Wolfe Quine (December 30, 1942 – May 31, 2004) was an American guitarist. A native of Akron, Ohio, Quine worked with a wide range of musicians, though he himself remained relatively unknown. Critic Mark Deming wrote that "Quine's eclect ...

– named by ''

Rolling Stone ''Rolling Stone'' is an American monthly magazine that focuses on music, politics, and popular culture. It was founded in San Francisco, San Francisco, California, in 1967 by Jann Wenner, and the music critic Ralph J. Gleason. It was first kno ...

'' as one of the 100 greatest guitarists of all time *

Marc Reisner Marc Reisner (September 14, 1948 – July 21, 2000) was an American environmentalist and writer best known for his book ''Cadillac Desert'', a history of water management in the American West. Early life He was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, th ...

– author of the books ''A Dangerous Place'' and ''

Cadillac Desert ''Cadillac Desert'' (1986), is a history by American Marc Reisner about land development and water policy in the western United States. Subtitled ''The American West and Its Disappearing Water'', it explores the history of the federal agencies, ...

'' *

David Rovics David Stefan Rovics (born April 10, 1967) is an American indie singer/songwriter. His music concerns topical subjects such as the 2003 Iraq war, anti-globalization, anarchism, and social justice issues. Rovics has been an outspoken critic of ...

– singer/songwriter and activist * José Royo – CEO of Ascent Media Group, a provider of large-scale digital services to creative media companies, including film studios * Olive Rush – artist * Rock Scully – manager of The Grateful Dead 1965–1985 *

Andrea Seabrook Andrea Seabrook (born 1974) is an American journalist reporting in various formats: radio, print, podcast & digital. She is known for her coverage of politics, Congress and the White House, and for her work hosting NPR's signature news programs, ...

– contributor to

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's ''

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'' and former Congressional correspondent for NPR * David Shear – US Ambassador to

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* William E. Simkin – helped prevent national strikes and resolved thousands of labor disputes as the federal government's chief labor mediator and as a leading private arbitrator *

Ruth Hinshaw Spray Ruth Hinshaw Spray (February 16, 1848 – February 26, 1929) was an American peace activist. Spray was prominent as a teacher in the public schools and work for the protection of children and animals. She was also active in the work of child labo ...

– peace activist *

Wendell Meredith Stanley Wendell Meredith Stanley (16 August 1904 – 15 June 1971) was an American biochemist, virologist and Nobel laureate. Biography Stanley was born in Ridgeville, Indiana, and earned a BSc in Chemistry at Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana. He ...

– biochemist, shared a 1946

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for discovering methods of producing pure enzymes and virus proteins * Laura Sessions Stepp –

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–winning journalist for ''

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'' * Edwin Way Teale – naturalist writer; won the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in 1966; elected fellow of the

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; staff writer at ''Popular Science'' * Nellie Teale (1900–1993) – naturalist * Ralph Waldo Trueblood – Editor-in-Chief of ''

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'' (1934–37); co-inventor of the Telephotography, telephotographer, the first device used by newspapers for sending pictures by wire * Summia Tora – Afghan activist * Thomas Trueblood – President of the National Society of Elocutionists; his golf teams won two NCAA National Championships and five Big Ten Conference championships * Harold Urey – received the Chemistry Nobel prize in 1934; known for his discovery of deuterium and the Miller–Urey experiment * Martha Valentine, President, Richmond (Indiana) Women's Christian Temperance Union, member, Earlham Board of Trustees, 1865-1867. * Frederick Van Nuys – U.S. Senator from Indiana 1932–1944 * Amy Walters – producer,

* Zach Warren – ran the Boston Marathon while juggling in 2 hours, fifty-eight minutes * Newton K. Wesley – Japanese American optometrist; early developer of commercially successful rigid contact lenses in the 1950s * Herman Brenner White – physicist * Don Wildman – actor and host of TV travel shows including ''Ushuaia'', ''Men's Journal'' and ''Cities of the Underworld'' on The History Channel * Mary Chawner Woody – President, North Carolina Woman's Christian Temperance Union * Harry N. Wright – President of City College of New York, mathematician

Notable faculty

* William W. Biddle – social scientist and a major contributor to the study of community development and propaganda * Landrum Bolling – President of Earlham from 1958 to 1973; Director at Large of Mercy Corps; back channel between Yasser Arafat, Yasir Arafat and Jimmy Carter * Wayne C. Booth – former Professor of English; literary critic; author of ''The Rhetoric of Fiction'' and ''The Company We Keep'' * Anna Cox Brinton and Howard Brinton – Quaker scholars and administrators * John Elwood Bundy – impressionist painter * Evan Ira Farber – Emeritus Library Director, named Academic Research Librarian of the Year in 1980 * Del Harris – former Earlham basketball coach; current NBA coach * Robert L. Kelly – former Earlham College president, made Chevalier of the Legion of Honor by the French government * Thomas R. Kelly – author of ''A Testament of Devotion'' * Dale Noyd, Dale Edwin Noyd – decorated fighter pilot and Air Force captain who became a conscientious objector during the Vietnam War * E. Merrill Root – poet * Peter Suber – Professor of Philosophy Emeritus, creator of the game Nomic, and a leader in the Open access (publishing), open access movement * D. Elton Trueblood – Quaker author and theologian

References

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External links

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Earlham Outstanding Alumni Award recipients
Earlham College, * Lists of people by university or college in Indiana, Earlham College people Earlham College alumni, *