List of Mount Holyoke College people

Notable Mount Holyoke College Alumnae [1]:

Activists

• Lucy Stone, 1839 - women's rights activist
• Helen Pitts, 1859 - women's rights activist, second wife of Frederick Douglass, and founder of the Frederick Douglass Memorial and Historical Association
• Elizabeth (Sadie) Holloway Marston, 1915 - Co-creator of Wonder Woman
• Sybil Bailey Stockdale, 1946 - founded the National League of Families of American Prisoners and MIAs in S.E. Asia; Lecturer; widow of '92 U.S. Vice-Presidential nominee, Adm. James Stockdale
• Kavita Ramdas, 1985 - President and CEO, Global Fund for Women

Architects, Artists, Authors/Poets, Musicians

• Esther Howland, 1847 - woman credited with popularizing St. Valentine's Day cards
• Emily Dickinson, 1849 - poet; left Mount Holyoke Seminary after one year because her religious ideologies differed from those of the college's founder, Mary Lyon
• Mary Wilkins Freeman, 1874 - Author; short stories, 14 novels, three plays, poetry, children's books
• Minerva Chapman, 1880 - Artist
• Anna Mary Wells Smits, 1926 - author
• Mildred Fischer, 1928 - artist; one of foremost tapesters
• Virginia Hamilton Adair, 1933 - poet; received critical acclaim for her collection of poetry
• Sara de Ford, 1936 - author and poet
• Pauline Tompkins, 1941- author
• Martha Whitmore Hickman, 1947 - author
• Martha Henissart /Emma Latham, 1950 - author
• Jane English, 1964 - physicist, phototographer, journalist, and translator.
• Nancy Bond, 1966 - author
• Heather Willson Cass, 1969 - one of Washington's most sought-after architects
• M. Kathleen Pierson Eagle, 1970 - author
• Wendy Wasserstein, 1971 - playwright who won the 1989 Tony Award for Best Play and the 1989 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for The Heidi Chronicles
• Susan Shwartz, 1972 - author; published several novels, 60 pieces of short fiction; nominated for Nebula Award, the Hugo and World Fantasy Award
• Caitlin Clarke/(Katherine Clarke), 1974 - actress
• Nancy Gustafson, 1975 - internationally renowned opera singer
• Gjertrud Schnackenberg, 1975 - poet; published three books of poetry; has won awards from the Academy of American Poets; has had work selected for "Best American Poetry" anthology.
• Kathleen Hirsch, 1975 - author of well received book on homelessness, Songs from the Alley; upcoming book on Chelsea school district
• Judith Tarr, 1976 - author
• Carol Higgins Clark, 1978 -- actress, mystery author, and daughter of Mary Higgins Clark
• Lan Cao, 1983 - novelist
• Suzan-Lori Parks, 1985 - playwright who won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize in Drama for Topdog/Underdog
• Sehba Sarwar, 1986 - author, Black Wings
• Shoba Naryan, 1987 (Foreign Fellow) - author, Monsoon Diary: A Memoir with Recipes

Athletics and Olympics

• Holly Metcalf, 1981 - Olympic Gold Medalist, 1984 Summer Olympics (Crew)
• Barbara Cassani, 1982 - the American busineswoman was the first leader of London's successful bid for the 2012 Summer Olympics
• Mary Mazzio, 1983 - 1992 Summer Olympics (Crew); 1992, winner, Head of the Charles Regatta

College Presidents

• Susan Tolman Mills, 1845 - Co-founder and first President of Mills College
• Ada L. Howard, 1853 - First President of Wellesley College
• Florence Read, 1909 - former President, Spelman College
• Barbara White, 1941 - former President, Mills College
• Alice Stone Ilchman, 1957 - former President, Sarah Lawrence College (1981-1998)
• Elizabeth Topham Kennan, 1960 - former President, Mount Holyoke College (1978-1995)
• Nancy J. Vickers, 1967 - President, Bryn Mawr College
• Carol Geary Schneider, 1967 - President, Association of American Colleges and Universities
• Elaine Tuttle Hansen, 1969 - President, Bates College

Finance

• Alice Maroni, 1975 - Chief Financial Officer, Smithsonian Institution
• Barbara Byrne, 1976 - Head of Senior Client Relationships, Lehman Brothers
• Audrey McNiff, 1980 - Managing Director and co-head of Currency Sales, Goldman Sachs
• Sally Elizabeth Durdan, 1981 - Executive Vice President of Finance, JP Morgan

Law/Politics

• Frances Perkins, 1902 - U.S. Secretary of Labor (1933-1945). First female cabinet member.
• Ella T. Grasso, 1940 - Governor of Connecticut; the first female Governor elected in her own right in United States history
• Barbara F. Mishkin, 1959 - Partner, Hogan & Hartson
• Nita M. Lowey, 1959 - House of Representatives member (D-NY)
• Michèle B. Corash, 1967 - Partner, Morrison & Foerster
• Jane Garvey, MA 1969 - Head of Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)
• Christine Olsen, 1971 - Partner, O'Melveny & Myers
• Carolyn M. DuPuy, - 1972, Partner, Weil, Gotshal & Manges
• Jacqueline M. (Jackie) Saue, 1972 - Partner, Foley & Lardner
• Ellen Flannery, 1973 - Partner, Covington & Burling
• Jeanne M. Luboja, 1973 - Partner, Willkie Farr & Gallagher
• Tracy Thompson, 1974 - Partner, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius
• Elaine Chao, 1975 - U.S. Secretary of Labor, 2001-Present; former national director, United Way
• Amy Moore], 1976 - Partner, Covington & Burling
• Margaret Wolff, 1976 - Partner, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom
• Elizabeth Clough Kitslaar, 1979, Partner, Jones Day
• Julia A. Hatcher, 1982 - Partner, Latham & Watkins
• Angela Garcia, 1982 - Partner, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom
• Candida Wolff, 1986 - Assistant to George W. Bush for Legislative Affairs, Former Partner at Ernst & Young [2]
• Jeannemarie O'Brien, 1989 - Partner, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz

Media/Entertainment

• Dulcy Singer, 1955 - former Emmy Award winning Executive Producer of Sesame Street
• Jean Picker Firstenberg, 1958 - Director and CEO of the American Film Institute
• Julia Phillips (Julia Miller), 1965 - first woman to win an Academy Award for Best Picture for The Sting; producer, Close Encounters of the Third Kind; author of the controversial Hollywood memoir, You'll Never Eat Lunch in this Town Again
• Nancy Button Nathan, 1968 - Executive Producer of NBC's Meet the Press. Previously, Nancy was Chief Washington Producer of The Today Show on NBC.
• Helen Donovan, 1969 - Former Executive Editor, The Boston Globe
• Nancy Novogrod, 1971 - Editor-in-Chief, Travel and Leisure magazine. Novogrod was formerly Editor-in-Chief of House and Garden magazine.
• Glenda Hatchett, 1973 - judge on nationally syndicated television series
• Anne Foley, 1976 - Executive Vice President, Showtime
• Beth Karas, 1979 - Senior Reporter, CourtTV
• Patricia Painton, 1980 - Executive Editor, Time Magazine
• Nina Lederman, 1981 - Vice President, NBC Studios
• Donna Kane, 1984 - actress
• Catherine Snyder-Charlip, 1985 - Emmy Award winning Senior Executive Producer, WUSA-TV 9, Washington D.C.
• Simisola Sanni Nwogugu, 1997 - Director, Strategy Group at MTV Networks/Nickelodeon

Science, Technology, Medicine, and General Education/Scholarship

• Mary Cutler Fairchild, 1875 - a pioneering librarian
• Mary Phylinda Dole, 1886 - researcher who was involved in the cure for diphtheria
• Abbie Howe Turner, 1896 - scientist
• Margaret Morse Nice, 1905 - ornithologist
• Lucy Mallary Bugbee, 1908 - environmentalist
• Louise Freeland Jenkins, 1911 - astronomer
• Rachel Fuller Brown, 1920 - discovered Nystatin
• Mildred Trotter, 1920 - anthropologist
• Dorothy Hanfine Andersen]], 1922 - involved cystic fibrosis research (first to identify the disease)
• Ida Scudder, 1925 - doctor
• Lucy Pickett, 1925 - scientist
• Helen Sawyer Hogg, 1926 - astronomer
• Dr. Virginia Apgar, 1929 - developed the Apgar score for evaluating newborns; anesthesiologist
• Lois Visscher, 1935 - doctor; first female doctor who served during the Vietnam war
• Blanche Geer, 1942 - pioneer in medical sociology; co-authored Boys in White, 1961, classic study of medical students
• Claire Bates Davidson, 1946 - geologist
• Jean E. Sammet, 1948 - mathematician and computer scientist; developed FORMAC programming language
• Ellen Pulford Reese, 1948 - professor, psychologist, and educational filmmaker
• Claire Baertschi Parssinen, 1948 - engineer and physicist
• Sally Hoddick Bender, 1954 - nuclear medicine pioneer
• Gloria Johnson-Powell, 1958 - first African-American woman to attain tenure at Harvard Medical School
• Susan Kare, 1975 - designer of computer icons for Macintosh, including path-breaking work on original Macintosh in the early 1980s

Misc

• Louisa Torrey, 1845 - mother of president William Howard Taft
• Nancy Kissinger (Nancy Maginnes), 1955 - philanthropist; married to former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger