College of Wooster - Notable Alumni

Notable Alumni

• Debra Allbery, English (1979), poet (Walking Distance), winner of the 1990 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize.
  IS title: Night Vision (creative project)
• Frederic Lauriston Bullard (1891), Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist for the Boston Herald, Lincoln historian, writer (Famous War Correspondents)
• Caitlin Cary, English (1990), Alt-Country musician, member of the band Whiskeytown.
  IS title Painting Cows: A Collection of Stories
• Christine Camp, (1951), campaign worker for John F. Kennedy, assistant to White House Press Secretary Pierre Salinger, Deputy Press Secretary for George McGovern.
• Ted Celeste, member of Ohio House of Representatives
• Vince Cellini, Speech (1981), Current host on The Golf Channel and former anchor for CNN Sports.
  IS title: Communication Theory: Its Use in the Formation of Public Opinion
• J.C. Chandor, Cultural Film Studies (1996), film director, Margin Call (2011)
  IS title: The Table
• Arthur Holly Compton, Physics (1913), Nobel Prize-winning physicist, Member of the National Academy of Sciences, Chancellor of Washington University from 1945 to 1953
• Karl Taylor Compton, Philosophy (1908), President of MIT from 1930 to 1948, Member of the National Academy of Sciences.
• Wayne A. Cornelius, Political Science (1967), Founder of the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies at the University of California San Diego.
  IS title: Political Modernization in Mexico: The Role of the New Middle Sectors
• Mary Crow, English (1955), Poet Laureate, State of Colorado
  IS title: Study of Some Elizabethan Sonnetiers - Sidney, Daniel, Drayton
• John Dean, Political Science (1961), White House Counsel (1970–1973) to President Richard Nixon.
  IS title: The Social Responsibilities of the Political Novelist
• Eugene DePasquale, Political Science (1993), member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives.
  IS title: The Effectiveness of Negative Television Advertisements in Presidential Elections
• Stephen R. Donaldson, English (1968), New York Times bestselling science fiction author (Thomas Covenant).
  IS title: A Creative Writing Project
• David Dudley Dowd Jr., (1951), United States federal judge, United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio.
• Alfred William Edel, History (1957), news anchor for ABC Radio News and Voice of America.
  IS title: World War I in Fiction
• George Fitch, Economics (1970), politician and business consultant, cofounder of the Jamaican Bobsled Team, which debuted at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Alberta
  IS title: The Role and Effects of Foreign Trade and External Assistance in the Development of Underdeveloped Countries
• Helen Murray Free, Chemistry (1945), Elected President of the American Chemical Society in 1993, Inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2000.
• Elizebeth Friedman, America's first female cryptologist, attended briefly but transferred elsewhere
• Stanley Gault, Geology (1948), Former CEO of Rubbermaid and Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company.
• John Lawrence Goheen (1906), Missionary, agriculturist, writer (Glimpses of Ichalkaranji).
• Divya Gopikumar, Psychology (2008), South Indian Actress
  IS title: Looking to Fill Someone’s Shopping Cart? Role Of Ad - Self Congruency In Advertisement Effectiveness For Individualists And Collectivists
• Frederick Hinitt, Doctor of Divinity (1902), Presbyterian pastor, President of Centre College and Washington & Jefferson College.
• Daniel Howes, History (1983), business columnist for The Detroit News.
  IS Title: Russian Foreign Policy and the Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905)
• Duncan Jones (aka Zowie Bowie or Joey Bowie), Philosophy (1995), British film director of Moon (2009) and Source Code (2011), son of rock musician David Bowie.
  IS title: How to Kill Your Computer Friend: An Investigation of the Mind/Body Problem and How It Relates to the Hypothetical Creation of a Thinking Machine
• Isaac C. Ketler, Presbyterian scholar, founder of Grove City College
• Charles F. Kettering, inventor of electric automobile starter motor, Vice-President of General Motors Research Corporation, and namesake of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, attended Wooster but did not graduate.
• Donald Kohn, Economics (1964), Vice Chairman of the Board of Governors of the United States Federal Reserve.
  IS title: Flexible Exchange Rates as a Means to Stable International Markets - Theory, Practice, and Evaluation
• Ping-Wen Kuo (1911) Prominent Chinese educator and statesman.
• Tim McCreight, Art (1973), artist and metalsmith, President of the Society of North American Goldsmiths (1993–1994).
  IS title: Jewelry
• Shannon Boyd-Bailey McCune, (1935) geographer and university administrator, President of the University of Florida and the University of Vermont.
• John McSweeney, (1912), member of the United States House of Representatives.
• David Means, English (1984), short story writer (Assorted Fire Events), winner of 2000 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction.
  IS title: Bullfighting in Boston and other Poems
• Erie Mills, (1975) Soprano and Educator
• Reggie Minton, Physical Education (1963), deputy executive director of the National Association of Basketball Coaches, head basketball coach United States Air Force Academy (1985–2000).
  IS title: Intramurals at the High School and College Levels
• Blake Moore, History (1980), NFL lineman for the Cincinnati Bengals and Green Bay Packers, CEO of Allianz Global Investors.
  IS title: Brezhnev: A Preliminary Appraisal
• John T. Morrison, (1887), sixth Governor of Idaho 1903-1905.
• Norman Morrison, Religion (1956), pacifist, Vietnam War protester.
  IS title: The Christian Approach to Pacifism, 1900–1950
• Mary Neagoy, English (1983), Former Senior Vice President of Communications for Nickelodeon.
  IS title: Narrative Authority and Female Characters in the Novels of William Faulkner
• James V. Neel, Biology (1935), Distinguished Professor of Human Genetics University of Michigan, Albert Lasker Award Winner, National Medal of Science Winner, National Academy of Sciences Member -- 'Father of Modern Human Genetics.'
• Yalman Onaran, Economics (1991), Senior Writer for Bloomberg News, author of Zombie Banks (2011),
  IS title: "Dissolved: Social and Economic Inequality; Solvent: Employee Ownership and Management"
• Erika Poethig, Political Science (1993), Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy Development U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
  IS title: Points of (P)Light: Discourses of Community Service in America
• Mark Stephens (aka Robert X. Cringely), History (1975), Technology journalist for Public Broadcasting Service.
  IS title: The Battle Of Britain: A Strategic Reassessment
• Susan Stranahan, History (1968), Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, reporter for The Philadelphia Inquirer.
  IS title: The Mining Camp
• Solomon Oliver Jr., Philosophy and Political Science (1969), U.S. District Court Chief Judge for the Northern District of Ohio.
  IS title: The Problem of Civil Disobedience in Philosophy of Law
• Larry Shyatt, Physical Education (1973), basketball coach, head coach of Clemson University and the University of Wyoming.
  IS title:An Analysis of and the Teaching Progression for the Basketball Jump Shot and Free Throw
• Ronald Takaki, History (1961), historian, ethnographer, professor of ethnic studies at the University of California, Berkeley.
  IS title: American Expatriates in the 1920s
• George W. Thorn, Biology (1927), Chief of Medicine Bringham & Woman's Hospital Harvard University, NAS Public Welfare Medal Winner, Chairman Emeritus Howard Hughes Medical Institute
• James S. Toedtman, Political Science (1963), Editor for the AARP Bulletin.
  IS title: An Analysis of the 1962 Congressional Campaign in the 13th District of Ohio
• Bill Townsend, Art (1986), Internet entrepreneur, politician, founder and chairman of The Amati Foundation
  IS Title: Processions
• John Travis, Chemistry (1965), preventive medicine physician, founder of first wellness center in US,
  IS title: Computer Controlled-Potential Polarography
• Timothy Smucker, Economics (1967), CEO of The J.M. Smucker Co..
  IS title: PERT and Plant Location
• Thom Ward, English (1986), poet (The Matter of the Casket, Various Orbits, Tumblekid), editor for BOA Editions, a non-profit publisher.
  IS title: The World of Loren Eiseley
• E. W. 'Bud' Wendell, Economics (1950), President and CEO of Opryland USA, member Country Music Hall of Fame.
• Sophie Perinot, History, Author "The Sister Queens"
• John T. Morrison, (1887), sixth Governor of Idaho