Graceland University - Alumni

Alumni

• Alik L. Alik: politician, Vice President of the Federated States of Micronesia, 2007-Present
• Leonard Boswell: politician, Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives, Iowa 3rd District, 1997–Present
• Teresa Carpenter: journalist and novelist, Pulitzer Prize winner, 1981
• Jeff Criswell: football player; offensive lineman for Indianapolis Colts 1987, New York Jets 1988–1994 and Kansas City Chiefs 1995–1998.
• Merle Harmon: sport announcer, motivational speaker, entrepreneur
• Bruce Jenner: athlete, Olympic gold medalist, 1976
• Don Knabe: Member of Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors
• Roger D. Launius: historian of space flight, NASA and National Air and Space Museum
• C. Robert Mesle: Process theologian, 1972
• Richard J. "Dick" Resch: pre-engineering 1958 graduate, President and CEO of KI, donated $3 mil to Graceland for the Platz-Mortimore Science Hall, renamed Resch Hall
• Frederick Madison Smith: Graceland's first graduate; third president of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, now the Community of Christ, 1915–1946
• Israel Alexander Smith: President of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, now the Community of Christ, 1946–1958
• David Yost: actor, original Blue Power Ranger
• Milton Young: politician, Republican U.S. Senator from North Dakota, 1945–1981
• Kevin Souter: athlete, Kansas City Wizards in Major League Soccer
• Jerome Messam: football player; all-star running back for the Edmonton Eskimos of the Canadian Football League