List of Earlham College people

The following is a list of notable people associated with Earlham College, located in the American city of Richmond, Indiana.

In addition to this list, the Earlham Outstanding Alumni Award recipients can be found on the college's website.

Notable alumni

A–M

• Carl W. Ackerman — first head of the Columbia University School of Journalism^[1]
• Marjorie Hill Allee - author
• Warder Clyde Allee - known for his research on animal behavior, protocooperation, and for identifying the Allee effect; elected to the National Academy of Sciences
• John S. Allen - founding president of the University of South Florida; interim president of the University of Florida^[2][3]
• Gertrude Bonnin (Zitkala-Sä) - writer, Native American activist, founded National Council of Indian Americans^[4][5]
• Howard Boyer - former editor at Harvard University Press who published the work of prominent scientists like Stephen Jay Gould, Edward O. Wilson and Ernst Mayr^[6]
• Elizabeth Burchinal - authority on American folk dance, especially for women and children
• Greg Burdwood - State Legislator in the New Hampshire House of Representatives^[7]
• Rick Carter - head football coach, College of the Holy Cross; his 1983 team remains the only Holy Cross team to ever qualify or the NCAA Division I-AA playoffs; N.C.A.A. Division I-AA Coach of the Year^[8]
• Al Cobine - big band leader and tenor saxophonist; worked closely with Henry Mancini and often associated with the Pink Panther theme song^[9]
• Joseph John Copeland - former president of City College of New York^[10]
• David W. Dennis - Congressman from Indiana^[11]
• Juan Dies - co-founder and executive director of Sones de Mexico Ensemble, nominated for a Latin Grammy^[12][13]
• Christoper Dilts - Senior Photographer at Obama for America 2012^[14]
• Joseph M. Dixon - Congressman, Senator, 7th Governor of Montana^[15]
• Liza Donnelly - cartoonist for the New Yorker^[16]
• John Porter East - former U.S. Senator for North Carolina^[17]
• Ken Edgett - lead investigator for a camera (Mars Hand Lens Imager or MAHLI) on the Curiosity rover on Mars^[18][19]
• Amelia Epler-Musser - owner of Scottish terrier Sadie, winner of "Best in Show" at the 134th Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show, 2010^[20]
• Brigadier General Bonner F. Fellers - General MacArthur's psychological warfare director during World War II; during the subsequent occupation of Japan, worked with fellow Earlhamite Isshiki Yuri (see below) to persuade MacArthur to preserve the institution of the Emperor and clear Emperor Hirohito of war crimes^[21]
• Jim Fowler - star of Wild Kingdom^[22]
• Lew Frederick (Lewis Reed Frederick) - member of the Oregon House of Representatives; Outstanding Alumni Award 2013
• Sara Gelser - member of the Oregon House of Representatives
• Andrew Ginther - member and president of Columbus, Ohio, City Council (2007-2015) and Mayor-elect of Columbus
• Bobbie Gottschalk - co-founder of Seeds of Peace; presented with the Medal of Honor by King Hussein of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan^[23]
• Robert Graham - Endowed Chair, Department of Family Medicine, University of Cincinnati Medical Center; elected to the National Academy of Sciences, Institute of Medicine^[24]
• Tim Grimm - played FBI agent Dan Murray alongside Harrison Ford in the film Clear and Present Danger (1994)^[25][26]
• Mary Haas - linguist, pioneer in the field of Siamese language studies; former President of the Linguistic Society of America^[27][28]
• William Hadley - established the Hadley School for the Blind^[29]
• Michael C. Hall - actor on HBO's Six Feet Under and star of Showtime's Dexter, for which he was nominated for an Emmy^[30] and won Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild awards
• Margaret Hamilton – headed the team that wrote the onboard flight software for NASA's Apollo Program^[31]
• Daniel Hernandez-Joseph – Consul of Mexico in Boston, Ambassador by rank in the Mexican Foreign Service^[32]
• Robert M. Hirsch - former Chief Hydrologist and head of water science for the United States Geological Survey^[33]
• Mary I. Hussey - Semitic text authority; first woman to teach at the American Society for Oriental Research in Jerusalem^[34]
• Yuri Isshiki - Japanese Christian and classmate of Brig. Gen. Bonner F. Fellers who helped to define the institution of the Emperor of Japan after World War II^[21]
• John Herndon James - Chief Justice of the 4th Court of Civil Appeals in San Antonio^[35]
• C. Francis Jenkins - demonstrated the first practical motion picture projector^[36][37]
• Walter Jessup - former head of the Carnegie Corporation and president of the University of Iowa^[38]
• Henry Underwood Johnson - US Congressman from Indiana^[39]
• Robert Underwood Johnson - former US Ambassador to Italy^[40]
• 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^[41]
• Joseph Henry Kibbey - Territorial Governor of Arizona^[42]
• Peter D. Klein - chaired Rutgers University's Department of Philosophy
• Frances Moore Lappé - activist and author of three-million-copy bestseller Diet for a Small Planet
• Maurice Manning - Pulitzer Prize finalist poet^[43]
• Howard Marmon - former president of the American Society of Automotive Engineers^[44]
• Manning Marable - professor at Columbia University;^[45] author of Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention, which won a Pulitzer Prize in 2012
• Edward Matney - received an Emmy for a 1998 segment of Nightline on the Clinton White House^[46]
• Dan McCoy - writer for The Daily Show and host of The Flop House podcast
• Molly R. Morris - ecologist, professor at Ohio University
• Jack Mutti - economist, served on the White House's Council of Economic Advisors^[47]

N–Z

• William Penn Nixon – publisher of the Chicago Inter Ocean and president of the Associated Press
• Larry Overman - organic chemist, member of the National Academy of Sciences
• Josh Penn - producer of Beasts of the Southern Wild, which won the narrative grand jury prize and the cinematography award at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2012^[48] and was nominated for the Best Picture Oscar in 2013^[49]
• Susan A. Porter - Appointments Secretary to First Ladies Pat Nixon and Betty Ford^[50]
• Robert Quine - named by Rolling Stone as one of the 100 greatest guitarists of all time^[51][52][53]
• Marc Reisner - author of the books A Dangerous Place and Cadillac Desert^[54]
• Hugh Roberts - banker and philanthropist in North Carolina
• José Royo - CEO of Ascent Media Group, a provider of large-scale digital services to creative media companies, including film studios^[55]
• Olive Rush - artist^[56]
• Nathan Salsburg - 2014 Grammy nominee (Best Album Notes)^[57]
• Rock Scully - manager of The Grateful Dead 1965-1985^[58]
• Andrea Seabrook - contributor to National Public Radio's All Things Considered and former Congressional correspondent for NPR^[59]
• David Shear - US Ambassador to Vietnam^[60]
• 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^[61]
• Preston L. Smith - founder of Killington Ski Resort^[62]
• Walter E. Spahr - economist; advocate of the "gold standard," headed NYU economics department 1928-1956^[63]
• Steve Specht - NFL High School Coach of the year 2012^[64]
• Wendell Meredith Stanley - biochemist, shared a 1946 Nobel Prize for discovering methods of producing pure enzymes and virus proteins^[65]
• Laura Sessions Stepp - Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist for The Washington Post^[66]
• Edwin Way Teale - naturalist writer; won the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in 1966; elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; staff writer at Popular Science^[67]
• Ralph Waldo Trueblood - Editor-in-Chief of The Los Angeles Times (1934–37); co-inventor of the telephotographer, the first device used by newspapers for sending pictures by wire^[68]
• 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^[69]
• Frederick Van Nuys - U.S. Senator from Indiana 1932-1944^[70]
• Amy Walters - producer, National Public Radio
• Zach Warren - ran the Boston Marathon while juggling in 2 hours, fifty-eight minutes^[71]
• Stuart Wellington - co-host of The Flop House podcast^[72]
• Newton K. Wesley - Japanese American optometrist; early developer of commercially successful rigid contact lenses in the 1950s^[73]
• Herman B. White - physicist^[74]
• Don Wildman - actor and host of TV travel shows including Ushuaia, Men's Journal and Cities of the Underworld on The History Channel
• Robert Wissler - biochemist, discovered the damaging effects of smoking and cholesterol on the vascular system^[75]
• Kenneth Wollack - President of the National Democratic Institute^[76]
• Harry N. Wright - President of City College of New York, mathematician

Notable faculty

• Landrum Bolling - President of Earlham from 1958 to 1973; Director at Large of Mercy Corps; back channel between 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^[77]
• 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^[78]
• Robert L. Kelly - former Earlham College president, made Chevalier of the Legion of Honor by the French government^[79]
• Thomas R. Kelly - author of A Testament of Devotion
• Dale Edwin Noyd - decorated fighter pilot and Air Force captain who became a conscientious objector during the Vietnam War^[80]
• E. Merrill Root - poet^[81]
• Peter Suber - Senior Research Professor of Philosophy, creator of the game Nomic, and a leader in the open access movement
• D. Elton Trueblood - Quaker author and theologian^[82]

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External links

• Earlham College Alumni Association website