List of Mount Holyoke College people

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The following is a list of individuals associated with Mount Holyoke College through attending as a student, or serving as a member of the faculty or staff.

Notable alumnae[]

Academics and scientists[]

  • Clara Harrison Stranahan, 1849 - author; founder and trustee of Barnard College
  • Harriet Newell Haskell, 1855 - educator and administrator
  • Lucy Myers Wright Mitchell, 1864 - one of the first female classical archaeologists
  • Cornelia Clapp, 1871 - zoologist and marine biologist
  • Mary Cutler Fairchild, 1875 - pioneering librarian
  • Alice Carter Cook, circa 1888 - botanist and later faculty, first female recipient of an American botany PhD
  • Marian E. Hubbard, 1889 - zoology professor
  • Alice Huntington Bushee, 1891 - Spanish literature professor at Wellesley College
  • Martha Warren Beckwith, 1893 - anthropologist
  • Abby Howe Turner, 1896 - founded Mount Holyoke's department of physiology
  • Caroline Ransom Williams, 1896 - the first female Egyptologist in North America
  • Margaret Morse Nice, 1905 - ornithologist
  • Alzada Comstock, 1910 - economics professor
  • Mildred Sanderson, 1910 - mathematician
  • Louise Freeland Jenkins, 1911 - astronomer
  • Marion Elizabeth Blake, 1913 - classics professor
  • Helen G. Fisk, 1917 - vocational services educator
  • Rachel Fuller Brown, 1920 - chemist who discovered Nystatin
  • Mildred Trotter, 1920 - forensic anthropologist
  • Elizabeth K. Worley, 1924 - zoologist, microbiologist
  • Lucy Weston Pickett, 1925 - chemist
  • Helen Sawyer Hogg, 1926 - astronomer
  • Alice Standish Allen, 1929 - the first female engineering geologist in North America
  • Janet Wilder Dakin, B.A. 1933, M.A. 1935 - zoologist who was the youngest sister of Thornton Wilder and Charlotte Wilder
  • Sara Anderson Immerwahr, 1935 - classical archaeologist
  • Phoebe Stanton, B.A. 1937, architectural historian, professor at Johns Hopkins University, and active in urban planning for the city of Baltimore.[1]
  • Carolyn Shaw Bell, 1941 - economics professor
  • Mary McHenry, 1954 - professor of English credited with introducing African American literature to Mount Holyoke
  • Jane English, 1964 - physicist, translator, photographer
  • Dolores Hayden, 1966 - professor of architecture, urbanism, and American studies
  • Carolyn Collette, 1967 - professor of English
  • Karen E. Rowe, 1967 - English professor at UCLA
  • Susan Shirk, 1967 - professor of political science and the former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for North Asia during the Clinton administration
  • Lila M. Gierasch, 1970 - professor of chemistry, biochemistry and molecular biology
  • Melissa McGrath, 1977 - astronomer; Chief Scientist at NASA Marshall Spaceflight Center

Activists[]

  • Lucy Stone, (attended 1839) - women's rights activist
  • Olympia Brown, (attended 1854-55) - 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
  • Eliza Read Sunderland, (graduated 1865) - writer, educator, lecturer, women's rights advocate
  • Hortense Parker, 1883 - daughter of African American abolitionist, John Parker and the first African American student to graduate from Mount Holyoke College
  • Alice Bradford Wiles, 1873 - Chicago clubwoman
  • Elizabeth Holloway Marston, 1915 - was the inspiration for Wonder Woman[2]
  • Ruth Muskrat Bronson, 1925 - poet, educator, Indian rights activist
  • 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
  • Gloria Johnson-Powell (Gloria Johnson), 1958 - child psychiatrist; an important figure in the Civil Rights Movement and the first African-American woman to attain tenure at Harvard Medical School
  • Rose Dugdale - political activist and prominent member of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA)
  • Lynn Pasquerella, 1980 - medical ethicist; president, Mount Holyoke College; president of the Association of American Colleges and Universities[3]
  • Mallika Dutt, 1983 - executive director of Breakthrough, an international human rights organization
  • Kavita Ramdas, 1985 - president and CEO, Global Fund for Women
  • Marcia Hofmann, 2000 - digital rights attorney and activist

Actors, musicians, dancers and performers[]

Artists[]

Athletes[]

  • Stacy Apfelbaum[when?] - rowing cox; gold medal winner at the 1984 World Rowing Championships[5]
  • Margaret Hoffman, 1934 - swimmer who participated in both the 1928 Summer Olympics and 1932 Summer Olympics (200 m breaststroke)[6]
  • Imogene Opton Fish, 1955 - alpine skier who was captain of the U.S. women's 1952 Winter Olympics ski team
  • Michele Drolet, 1976 - blind cross-country skier who was the first American woman to ever earn a Paralympic cross-country skiing medal - bronze at the 1994 Winter Paralympics[7]
  • Harriet (Holly) Metcalf, 1981 - executive director and founder of Row As One Institute who won a gold medal in rowing at the 1984 Summer Olympics
  • Mary Mazzio, 1983 - filmmaker and Olympic athlete who participated in rowing at the 1992 Summer Olympics
  • Olga Maria Sacasa, 1984 - cyclist was the first woman ever to represent Nicaragua in cycling, at the 1992 Summer Olympics
  • Katheryn Curi, 1996 - cyclist who placed first at the National Road Race Championships in Park City, Utah in June 2005

Businesswomen[]

  • Jean Picker Firstenberg, 1958 - director and CEO of the American Film Institute
  • Mary Duffy, 1966 - feminist fashion expert, spokeswoman, entrepreneur, author, and motivational speaker, expanding concepts of beauty for the majority of women who do not fit ideal stereotypes popularized by fashion and media Big Beauties/Little Women, Ford Models
  • Barbara J. Desoer, 1974 - CEO for Citibank N.A. and a member of its board of directors
  • Audrey A. McNiff, 1980 - managing director and co-head of Currency Sales, Goldman Sachs
  • Vicki Roberts, 1980 - attorney, on-air legal commentator, television and film personality
  • Barbara Cassani, 1982 - first leader of London's successful bid for the 2012 Summer Olympics
  • Sheila Lirio Marcelo, 1993 - founder and CEO of Care.com

College presidents[]

Computer scientists and graphic designers[]

  • Jean E. Sammet, 1948 - computer scientist who developed the FORMAC programming language
  • Susan Kare, 1975 - original designer of many of the interface elements for the original Apple Macintosh.

Doctors, nurses and psychologists[]

  • Nancy M. Hill, 1859 - Civil War nurse and one of the first female doctors in the U.S.[8]
  • Seraph Frissell, 1869 - physician, medical writer
  • Mary Phylinda Dole, 1886, 1889 - became a doctor at a time when it was difficult for women to do so
  • Dorothy Hansine Andersen, 1922 - doctor involved in cystic fibrosis research (first to identify the disease)
  • Virginia Apgar, 1929 - doctor who developed the Apgar score for evaluating newborns; anesthesiologist
  • Florence Wald 1938 - nurse who was the leader of the U.S. hospice movement
  • Ellen P. Reese, 1948 - psychologist
  • Abby Howe Turner - professor of physiology and zoology who founded the department of physiology at Mount Holyoke
  • Gloria Johnson-Powell (Gloria Johnson), 1958 - child psychiatrist; an important figure in the Civil Rights Movement and the first African American woman to attain tenure at Harvard Medical School

Filmmakers, broadcast presidents, and producers[]

Journalists[]

  • Janet Huntington Brewster, 1933 - philanthropist, writer, and radio broadcaster; wife of Edward R. Murrow
  • Beth Karas, 1979 - senior reporter, CourtTV
  • Dari Alexander, c. 1991 - co-anchor of WNYW's weeknight 6 p.m. newscast, and previously a reporter and part-time anchor for the Fox News Channel

Judges[]

  • Maryanne Trump Barry, 1958 - judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit; older sister of 45th president of the United States Donald Trump
  • Janet Bond Arterton, 1966 - judge on the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut
  • Janet C. Hall, 1970 - judge on the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut, chief judge of the District of Connecticut (2013–present)
  • Glenda Hatchett, 1973 - judge on nationally syndicated television series, Judge Hatchett

Politics[]

Writers[]

  • Edna Dean Proctor, 1847, poet
  • Emily Dickinson, (attended 1847–1848) - poet
  • Emily Gilmore Alden, 1855 - author and educator
  • Julia Harris May, 1856 - poet, teacher, school founder
  • Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, (attended 1870–1871) - novelist and short story writer
  • Anne W. Armstrong, (attended 1890–1892) - novelist
  • Caroline Henderson, 1901 - Dust Bowl author
  • Alice Geer Kelsey, 1918 - writer, children's literature
  • Charlotte Wilder, 1919 - poet
  • Kathryn Irene Glascock, 1922 - poet
  • Constance McLaughlin Green, 1925 (master's degree) - historian who won the 1963 Pulitzer Prize for History for Washington, Village and Capital, 1800-1878
  • Roberta Teale Swartz, 1925 - poet
  • Virginia Hamilton Adair, 1933 - poet
  • Martha Whitmore Hickman, 1947 - non-fiction author
  • Nancy McKenzie, 1948 - Arthurian legend author
  • Jean Rikhoff, 1948 - author
  • Martha Henissart, 1950 - mystery author writing under the pen-name of Emma Lathen with Mary Jane Latsis
  • Nancy Bauer (Nancy Luke), 1956 - non-fiction author
  • Elizabeth Topham Kennan, 1960 - author writing under the pen-name of Clare Munnings with Jill Ker Conway
  • Nancy Bond, 1966 - writer, children's literature
  • Olivia Mellan, 1968 - author of 6 books on money psychology
  • Patricia Roth Schwartz, 1968 - poet
  • Kathleen Eagle (Kathleen Pierson), 1970 - romance novelist
  • Marisabina Russo, 1971 - writer, children's literature
  • Wendy Wasserstein, 1971 - playwright who won the 1989 Tony Award for Best Play and the 1989 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for The Heidi Chronicles
  • Lynne Barrett, 1972 - author
  • Susan Shwartz, 1972 - science fiction and fantasy author
  • Gjertrud Schnackenberg, 1975 - poet
  • Kathleen Hirsch, 1975 - non-fiction author
  • Judith Tarr, 1976 - science fiction and fantasy author
  • Carol Higgins Clark, 1978 - mystery author
  • Lan Cao, 1983 - novelist
  • Suzan-Lori Parks, 1985 - playwright who won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize in Drama for Topdog/Underdog
  • Deborah Harkness, 1986 - author of the New York Times best selling novel A Discovery of Witches
  • Sehba Sarwar, 1986 - novelist
  • C. Leigh Purtill, 1988 - young adult author
  • Sabina Murray, 1989 - screenwriter; wrote screenplay for The Beautiful Country
  • Sherri Browning Erwin, 1990 - author of Thornbrook Park and Jane Slayre, member of Romance Writers of America
  • Amy Glynn, 1992 - poet, author of A Modern Herbal[9]
  • Tahmima Anam, 1997 - author
  • Susan J. Elliott, 2000 - non-fiction author
  • Betsy James, writer
  • Hanna Pylväinen, 2007 - author of We Sinners[10]
  • Katy Simpson Smith - novelist[clarification needed]
  • Hayeon Lim, 2017 - South Korean socialite and author

Fictional alumnae[]

Notable faculty, past and present[]

Artists[]

  • Leonard DeLonga - professor of art
  • William Churchill Hammond - organist, choirmaster, chairman of music department
  • (Charles) Denoe Leedy - concert pianist and music journalist
  • Harrison Potter - concert pianist and accompanist
  • David Sanford - professor of music
  • Emmett Williams - artist in residence 1975-1976

Athletics[]

  • Mary Ellen Clark - former head diving coach; diver who won two Olympic bronze medals at the 1992 Summer Olympics and the 1996 Summer Olympics

Authors, actors, poets, and playwrights[]

  • Martha Ackmann - author and journalist[18]
  • Awam Amkpa - actor and playwright
  • W.H. Auden - poet
  • James Baldwin - Five Colleges faculty and American novelist
  • Sven Birkerts - author, The Gutenberg Elegies
  • Joseph Brodsky - winner of the 1987 Nobel Prize in Literature, and Poet Laureate of the United States for 1991–1992
  • Luis Cernuda - poet
  • Anita Desai - novelist
  • Anthony Giardina - novelist
  • John Irving - author of The Cider House Rules, and The World According to Garp
  • Denis Johnston - playwright
  • Brad Leithauser - author, poet
  • Margaret Chai Maloney - author
  • Jaime Manrique - author, poet
  • Mary Olivia Nutting - librarian and historian
  • Valerie Martin - novelist and short story writer
  • Mary Jo Salter - poet and a coeditor of The Norton Anthology of Poetry
  • Bapsi Sidhwa - novelist
  • Paul Smyth - poet
  • Ada L. F. Snell - poet
  • Genevieve Taggard - poet
  • Peter Viereck - 1949 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for Terror and Decorum and professor of Russian History
  • Richard Weber - Irish poet; visiting lecturer from 1967 to 1970
  • Douglas Whynott - author

Education[]

  • Eunice Caldwell Cowles - assistant to Mary Lyon in the founding of Mount Holyoke Female Sminary
  • Robert Hess (1938–1994) - president of Brooklyn College
  • Mary Lyon - founder of Mount Holyoke Female Seminary in 1837 (later Mount Holyoke College)
  • Beverly Daniel Tatum - president of Spelman College

Historians[]

  • Michael Burns
  • Joseph Ellis
  • Robert Matteson Johnston
  • Stephen F. Jones
  • William S. McFeely
  • Nellie Neilson
  • Bertha Putnam
  • Annah May Soule
  • Peter Viereck

Humanities[]

  • Christopher Benfey - professor of English
  • Peter Berek - professor of English
  • Marion Elizabeth Blake - classics professor
  • Flora Bridges - taught Greek and English
  • Gordon Keith Chalmers - professor of English
  • Carolyn Collette - professor of English
  • Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze - philosopher
  • Leah Blatt Glasser - dean of first-year studies and lecturer in English
  • Mary McHenry - professor of English
  • Indira Viswanathan Peterson - professor of Asian Studies
  • William H. Quillian - professor of English
  • Clara F. Stevens - professor of English, department head
  • Jean Wahl - philosopher
  • Donald Weber - professor of English
  • Mary Gilmore Williams - professor of Greek

Journalists[]

  • Todd Brewster - journalist, author, film producer, and current senior visiting lecturer in journalism

Politics[]

  • Shirley Chisholm - U.S. representative, 1968–1983, founding member of the Congressional Black Caucus, and simultaneously the first woman and the first African-American to run for U.S. president
  • Ellen Deborah Ellis - founder and first chair of the political science department at the college
  • Jean Grossholtz - professor emeritus of politics; bodybuilder who won a silver medal at the 1994 Gay Games[19]
  • W. Anthony Lake - U.S. National Security Advisor, 1993–1997
  • Christopher Pyle - professor of politics, journalist and whistleblower
  • Margaret Rotundo - Maine State legislator
  • Cyrus Vance - U.S. Secretary of State, 1977–1980

Sciences and social sciences[]

  • A. Elizabeth Adams - zoologist
  • Katherine Aidala - physicist
  • Mildred Allen - physicist
  • Elisabeth Bardwell - astronomer
  • Susan R. Barry - neurobiologist
  • Grace Bates - mathematician
  • John Bissell Carroll - psychologist
  • Jill Bubier - environmental scientist
  • Cornelia Clapp - zoologist and marine biologist
  • Janet Wilder Dakin - zoologist, youngest sister of Thornton Wilder and Charlotte Wilder
  • Ethel B. Dietrich - economist, foreign service officer
  • Melinda Darby Dyar - planetary geologist, mineralogist, and spectroscopist
  • Joanne Elliott - mathematician
  • Alice Hall Farnsworth - astronomer, director of the John Payson Williston Observatory
  • Anna Lockhart Flanigen - chemistry professor from 1903 to 1910
  • Dorothy Hahn - organic chemist
  • Anna J. Harrison - organic chemist, first female President of the American Chemical Society
  • Olive Hazlett - mathematician
  • Amy Hewes - economist
  • Karen Hollis - psychologist
  • Janice Hudgings - physicist, former associate dean of faculty at Mount Holyoke College
  • Flora Belle Ludington - librarian
  • Emilie Martin - mathematician
  • Mark McMenamin - paleontologist and geologist
  • Ann Haven Morgan - zoologist
  • Lucy Taxis Shoe Meritt, classical archaeologist and Greek scholar
  • Kerstin N. Nordstrom - physicist
  • Donal O'Shea - mathematician
  • Harriet Pollatsek - mathematician
  • Becky Wai-Ling Packard - educational psychologist
  • Lucy Weston Pickett - chemist
  • , 1872 - art historian; established Department of Art and plaster cast collection in Dwight Art Memorial Building (forerunner of Mount Holyoke College Art Museum)
  • Ellen P. Reese - psychologist
  • Margaret M. Robinson - mathematician
  • Lydia White Shattuck - botanist, founding member of the American Chemical Society[20]
  • Mignon Talbot - paleontologist who recovered and named the only fossils of the dinosaur Podokesaurus holyokensis
  • Abby Howe Turner - founder of Mount Holyoke College's department of physiology
  • Esther Boise Van Deman - archeologist
  • Anne Sewell Young - astronomer, director of the John Payson Williston Observatory
  • Antoni Zygmund - mathematician, co-founder of the Chicago school of mathematical analysis

Actors[]

Presidents[]

Mary Lyon
President Woolley

A number of individuals have acted as head of Mount Holyoke. Until 1888, the term principal was used. From 1888 to the present, the term president has been used.[22]

  • 1837–1849: Mary Lyon, 1st president (founder and principal)
  • 1849–1850: Mary C. Whitman, 2nd president (principal)
  • 1850–1865: Mary W. Chapin, 3rd president (principal)
  • 1865–1867: Sophia D. Stoddard 4th president (acting principal)
  • 1867–1872: Helen M. French, 5th president (principal)
  • 1872–1883: Julia E. Ward, 6th president (principal)
  • 1883–1889: Elizabeth Blanchard, 7th president (principal and president)
  • 1889: Mary A. Brigham, 8th president (president elect - died in an accident)
  • 1889–1890: Louisa F. Cowles, 9th president (acting president)
  • 1890–1900: Elizabeth Storrs Mead, 10th president
  • 1900–1937: Mary Emma Woolley, 11th president
  • 1937–1957: Roswell G. Ham, 12th president (first male president of MHC)
  • 1954: Meribeth E. Cameron, served as acting president for part of 1954 while President Ham was on leave
  • 1957–1968: Richard Glenn Gettell, 13th president
  • 1966: Meribeth E. Cameron, served as acting president part of 1966 while President Gettell was on leave
  • 1968–1969: Meribeth E. Cameron, 14th president (acting president)
  • 1969–1978: David Truman, 15th president
  • 1978–1995: Elizabeth Topham Kennan '60, 16th president
  • 1984: Joseph Ellis, served as acting president for part of 1984 while President Kennan was on leave
  • 1995: Peter Berek, served as interim president in fall 1995
  • 1996–2010: Joanne V. Creighton, 17th president
  • 2002: Beverly Daniel Tatum, served as acting president for part of 2002 while President Creighton was on leave
  • 2010–2016: Lynn Pasquerella '80, 18th president
  • 2016–present: Sonya Stephens, 19th president

Commencement speakers[]

The following is a list of Mount Holyoke College commencement speakers by year.[23]

  • 2021: Rabiya Javeri Agha '83, Yo-Yo Ma, Chloé Zhao '05, Casey Roepke '21[24]
  • 2019: Adrienne Arsht '63, Barbara Smith '69, Gary Younge, Nada Taha Al-Thawr '19[25]
  • 2018: Nancy Pelosi, Aiza Amjad Malik '18[26]
  • 2017: Dolores Huerta,[27] Anqa Khan '17[28]
  • 2016: Joia Mukherjee,[29] Areeba Kamal ‘16[30]
  • 2015: Carol Geary Schneider ‘67,[31] Olivia Papp ‘15[32]
  • 2014: Deborah Bial,[33] Iman A. Abubaker '14[34]
  • 2013: Kavita N. Ramdas '85,[35] Jenna M. Ruddock '13[36]
  • 2012: Azar Nafisi,[37] Tamar S. Westphal '12[38]
  • 2011: Martha Nussbaum,[39] Zehra Nabi '11[40]
  • 2010: Gail Collins,[41] Sarah Elahi '10[42]
  • 2009: Mary McAleese,[43] Caitlin M. Healey '09[44]
  • 2008: Carol Gilligan,[45] Sally J. Brzozowski '08[46]
  • 2007: Wendy Kopp,[47] Sara E. Richards '07[48]
  • 2006: Joyce Carol Oates,[49][50] Margaret McDermott '06[51]
  • 2005: Nina Totenberg,[52] Claudia Y. Calhoun '05[53]
  • 2004: Kim Campbell,[54] Stacey R. Pulmano '04[55]
  • 2003: Judy Blume,[56][57] Chiara D. Fuller '03[58]
  • 2002: Queen Noor of Jordan,[59] Sara R. Curtin '02
  • 2001: Suzan-Lori Parks '85,[60] Lena K. Zuckerwise '01
  • 2000: Mary Patterson McPherson,[61] Elisabeth F. Snell '00
  • 1999: Anna Quindlen,[62] Caroline E. Green '99
  • 1998: Johnnetta B. Cole,[63] Meghan E. Freed '98[64]
  • 1997: Madeleine Albright,[65] Chandra R.B.G. Dunn '97[66]
  • 1996: Donna Shalala,[67] Devavani Chatterjea '96[68]
  • 1995: Ann Richards,[69] Jennifer Lynch '95
  • 1994: Nita Lowey '59, S. Rhae Parkes '94
  • 1993: Judith Kurland '67
  • 1992: Pat Schroeder
  • 1991: Evelyn Fox Keller[70]
  • 1990: Wendy Wasserstein '71[71]
  • 1989: Glenn Close[72]
  • 1988: Joseph Brodsky[73]
  • 1987: Maya Angelou[74][75]
  • 1986: Xie Xide[76]
  • 1985: Nadine Gordimer, Gjertrud Schnackenberg ‘75
  • 1984: Barbara B. Kennelly[77]
  • 1983: George Steiner[78]
  • 1982: Elizabeth Topham Kennan
  • 1981: Shirley Chisholm[79]
  • 1980: John Irving[80]
  • 1979: Ellen Goodman '64
  • 1978: David Bicknell Truman[81]
  • 1977: Ruth Ida Abrams
  • 1976: Lillian Hellman[82]
  • 1975: Ella T. Grasso '40[83][84]
  • 1974: Beryl Robichaud Collins ‘40
  • 1973: Matina Souretis Horner[85]
  • 1972: Barbara M. White[86]
  • 1971: David Bicknell Truman[81]
  • 1970: Ted Kennedy[87]
  • 1969: Kenneth Keniston
  • 1968: David Riesman[88]
  • 1967: August Heckscher
  • 1966: Philip Johnson[89]
  • 1965: James R. Killian, Jr.[90]
  • 1964: Lauris Norstad[91]
  • 1963: U Thant[92]
  • 1962: Abraham A. Ribicoff
  • 1961: William O. Douglas[93]
  • 1960: Charles Malik
  • 1959: Mildred McAfee Horton
  • 1958: Norman Cousins
  • 1957: Henry Steele Commager
  • 1956: Edmund W. Sinnott
  • 1955: Earl Warren
  • 1954: Helen Rogers Reid
  • 1953: Willard Thorp
  • 1952: Frederick May Eliot
  • 1951: Roswell G. Ham
  • 1950: Frederick May Eliot[94]
  • 1949: Norman Makin[95]
  • 1948: Arnold Wolfers
  • 1947: Katharine E. McBride
  • 1946: Roswell G. Ham
  • 1945: Robert F. Bradford
  • 1944: Meta Glass
  • 1943: Harold Beresford Butler
  • 1942: Roswell G. Ham
  • 1941: Christopher Morley
  • 1940: Lillian M. Gilbreth
  • 1939: Chauncey Brewster Tinker[96]
  • 1938: David Allan Robertson
  • 1937: John Gilbert Winant
  • 1936: William Allan Neilson
  • 1935: William Ernest Hocking
  • 1934: John Huston Finley
  • 1933: Bruce Bliven
  • 1932: George E. Vincent
  • 1931: George W. Kirchwey
  • 1930: James T. Shotwell
  • 1929: Newton D. Baker
  • 1928: Paul Shorey
  • 1927: Frederick Carlos Ferry
  • 1926: Frederick M. Davenport
  • 1925: James Rowland Angell
  • 1924: Henry Morgenthau, Kenneth C. M. Sills[97]
  • 1923: Alexander Meiklejohn
  • 1922: Sergius A. Korff
  • 1921: William Howard Taft
  • 1920: Charles Zueblin
  • 1919: Albert Parker Fitch
  • 1918: George Edgar Vincent
  • 1917: Henry Noble MacCracken
  • 1916: Charles E. Jefferson
  • 1915: William Ernest Hocking
  • 1914: Charles S. Whitman
  • 1913: Harry Emerson Fosdick
  • 1912: Edward F. Sanderson, Charles R. Brown[98]
  • 1911: Henry Stiles Bradley
  • 1910: Mary E. Woolley
  • 1909: Hugh Black
  • 1908: Rev. Henry A. Stimson
  • 1907: Jane Addams[99]
  • 1906: Russell Briggs
  • 1905: Judson Smith
  • 1904: Talcott Williams
  • 1903: Ira Remsen
  • 1902: George Herbert Palmer
  • 1901: James Hulme Canfield
  • 1900: N. D. Hills
  • 1899: William McKinley, Roger Wolcott, Judson Smith[100]
  • 1898: Charles M. Mead
  • 1897: Charles Cuthbert Hall
  • 1896: William Faunce
  • 1895: A. J. Lyman[101]
  • 1894: Rev. Henry A. Stimson
  • 1893: Chester David Hartranft
  • 1892: Henry M. Storrs
  • 1891: Elizabeth Storrs Mead, Merrill Gates
  • 1890: Alexander McKenzie
  • 1889: Luther Tracy Townsend
  • 1888: N. G. Clark
  • 1886: Henry L. Dawes
  • 1884: J. H. Vincent
  • 1883: Joseph L. Daryea
  • 1882: William M. Taylor
  • 1881: Albion W. Tourgee
  • 1880: Samuel E. Herrick
  • 1879: Theodore L. Cuyler
  • 1878: William Seymour Tyler, Thomas P. Field
  • 1877: Matthew Brown Riddle
  • 1876: Alexander H. Bullock
  • 1875: Julius H. Seelye
  • 1874: Julius H. Seelye, Samuel Harris
  • 1873: John M. Greene, William Seymour Tyler
  • 1872: Harvey Denison Kitchel
  • 1868: Edward N. Kirk
  • 1867: George Nye Boardman
  • 1864: Leonard Swain
  • 1860: Roswell Dwight Hitchcock
  • 1859: Austin Phelps
  • 1856: Samuel W. Fisher
  • 1853: Emerson Davis
  • 1851: A. L. Stone[102]
  • 1850: William Chauncey Fowler[103]
  • 1849: Edward Hitchcock
  • 1846: J. B. Condit[104]
  • 1845: Joel Hawes[105]
  • 1844: Edward N. Kirk
  • 1842: Edward Hitchcock
  • 1841: Bela Bates Edwards[106]
  • 1840: Mark Hopkins
  • 1839: Rufus Anderson
  • 1838: Joel Hawes

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