Notable Alumni
- Walter A. Anderson, Baker class of 1922 The first “fast-food” mass-produced hamburger. He did this through the co-founding of the White Castle (restaurant) Restaurant Chain in 1922.
- Andrew Cherng - Panda Express founder
- Joseph Little Bristow - US Senator from Kansas, 1909-1915.
- Don Wendell Holter - American Bishop of the United Methodist Church, elected in 1972.
- Mike Gardner - head football coach at Tabor College and Malone University
- Delma Kollar - supercentenarian and teacher
- Kevin Mahogany - Jazz Singer.
- Mike McCarthy - Green Bay Packers head coach, appointed in 2006. Winning coach of Super Bowl XLV.
- Homer A. McCrerey - Commissioned US Naval Academy officer and bioneering oceanographer.
- Candice Millard, Class of 1989, American writer and journalist. Author of New York Times best sellers "The River of Doubt" and "Destiny of the Republic"
- William Alfred Quayle - American bishop of the Methodist Church, elected in 1908.
- John Clark Ridpath - American educator, historian, and editor.
- William M. Runyan, Christian songwriter who composed Great Is Thy Faithfulness
- Bennett J. Sims - Sixth bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Atlanta consecrated as Diocesan Bishop in 1972.
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