List of Roosevelt University people
This is a list of people associated with Roosevelt University.
Presidents
Current president
- Ali Malekzadeh
Past presidents
- Theodore L. Gross, the last president
- Edward J. Sparling, the first president
Members of advisory
Members of the first advisory
- Marian Anderson
- Pearl Buck
- Ralph Bunche
- Albert Einstein
- Marshall Field
- Thomas Mann
- Gunnar Myrdal
- Eleanor Roosevelt
- Albert Schweitzer
Members of the current advisory
Albert A. Robin Campus Community Advisory Board
- Norman Alesi: Haskris Company
- Rita Athas: Director of Regional Programs, City of Chicago
- Sharyn Bowling: President, SJB Enterprises, Inc.
- Clark Delanois: Managing Director, Northern Trust Company
- Dr. Carlee Drummer: Executive Director of College Advancement and the Educational Foundation, Oakton Community College
- Albert Henriksen: Principal, Anchor Bolt & Screw Company
- David Hill: Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, Kimball Hill Homes, Inc.
- Mark Iammarino: Vice President and General Manager, Turner Construction
- Joseph Klein: Partner of Stitt, Klein, Daday, Aretos & Giampietro
- Marianne Kral: Partner of Kral, Goodenough, Kral
- Al Larson: Village President, Village of Schaumburg, Illinois
- Frank Lazowski: Vice President of Human Resources, Material Sciences Corporation
- John Licht: President and Chief Executive Officer, Duraco Products, Inc.
- Edward Loughridge: President and Chief Operating Officer, Globe Marketing Partners, Ltd.
- Mark Lusson: Vice President of Human Resources, Northwest Community Healthcare
- Sidney Mathias: State Representative - 53rd District, Illinois General Assembly
- Mary Jo McCarthy
- Jeff Miller: owner of Divine Signs, Inc.
- Arlene Mulder: Mayor, Village of Arlington Heights, Illinois
- Rita Mullins: Mayor, Village of Palatine, Illinois
- Kenneth Nelson: Mayor, City of Rolling Meadows, Illinois
- Terry Parke: retired State Representative
- Lisa Pinion: Human Resources Manager, Navistar Financial Corporation
- Billie Roth: President, Village of Streamwood, Illinois
- Martin Roth: President, MASTR Business Solutions
- Michael Silverman: Chairman of the Board, First Northwest Bank
- Dr. Margaret Skold: Vice President of Academic Affairs, William Rainey Harper College
- Roger Stelle: Partner of Meltzer, Purtill & Stelle
- Laurie Stone: President, Schaumburg Business Association
- Kenneth Tucker: Principal, Tucker Development Corporation
Distinguished alumni
- Tony Alcantar: actor
- Peri E. Arnold: Chairman, Department of Government and International Studies, University of Notre Dame
- Andrew Barrett: former Commissioner, Federal Communications Commission
- Melissa Bean: politician (U.S. Congressman, Illinois 8th 2005)
- Ira Berkow: sportswriter, The New York Times
- Jesse Brown: U.S. Secretary of Veteran's Affairs 1993-97
- Clark Burrus: former Senior Vice President, First National Bank of Chicago
- Sylvia Flanagan: Senior Editor, Jet Magazine
- Marilyn Flynn: Dean, University of Southern California, School of Social Work
- Brenda Gaines: President and CEO, Diners Club North America
- Eckhard Gerdes: novelist
- Karen Gibbs: co-anchor, Wall $treet Week with FORTUNE
- Charles V. Hamilton: political science professor and co-author of Black Power
- Mark Handler: former President, Macy's Department Stores
- Eddie Harris: jazz musician
- Patricia Harris: Assistant Vice President of Diversity for McDonald's Corporation
- Phillip Jackson: politician and community organizer
- Donald Jacobs: retired former Dean, Kellogg Graduate School of Business Administration, Northwestern University
- Howard Johnson: former chairman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- T.E. Kendall: screenwriter
- Ambassador Jacques Paul Klein ('63, '71): special representative of the Secretary-General and Coordinator of United Nations Operations in Liberia with the rank of Under-Secretary-General
- Mort Kondracke: political commentator and journalist, author of Saving Milly: Love, Politics, and Parkinson's Disease
- Basil Kromelow: president, Gold Coast Group of Hotels
- Ramsey Lewis: jazz musician, host of Legends of Jazz and The Ramsey Lewis Morning Show, WNUA radio
- John Licht: President, CEO and Chairman of Duraco Products
- Blanche Manning: U.S. District Court Judge for the Northern District of Illinois
- LeRoy Martin: Chief of Police for the State of Illinois, Central Management Services
- Robert Mednick: retired Managing Partner, Professional and Regulatory Matters at Andersen Worldwide
- Eugene Morris: Chairman and CEO, E. Morris Communications
- Steven Nasiter: president of the Jewish Federation, Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago, and JFMC Facilities Corp
- Terry Peterson: CEO, Chicago Housing Authority
- Mel Reynolds: politician and Congressman, Illinois 2nd 1993-95
- Bobby Rush: politician and Congressman, Illinois 1st since 1993
- Wallace S. Sayre: Professor of Government, Columbia University
- Harold Horton Sheldon, professor and physicist
- William Sheldon: Chicago broadcaster
- Harold Washington: late mayor of Chicago and the first African American to hold the title
- Reginald Weaver: president, National Education Association
- David Woolridge: retired Corporate Vice President, Motorola
Others
Founder of Chicago Musical College:
Architects of the auditorium building:
Notable faculty:
- Rose Hum Lee, first woman and the first Chinese American to head a US university sociology department, appointed 1956[1]
References
- ↑ ""Women . . . on the Level with Their White Sisters": Rose Hum Lee and Butte's Chinese Women in the Early Twentieth Century". Women's History Matters. Montana Historical Society. Retrieved 31 August 2015.
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