Greenville College - Notable Alumni

Notable Alumni

Name Class year Notability References
Bands
Augustana rock-n-roll band; formed on campus in 2002-2003; members attended but did not graduate
Jars of Clay Christian rock band; formed on campus in the early 1990s, granted honorary degrees in 2001 after dropping out in 1994
Paper Route Indie/Rock Band; members met at Greenville College
People
Ernest L. Boyer former Chancellor of the State University of New York system
Bob Briner once a leading figure in professional sports management, an Emmy Award-winning television producer, and president of ProServ Television. The Greenville College Robert A. Briner Salt and Light Award is named after him.
Leila Fletcher 1916 piano pedagog; Greenville College was Leila Fletcher's sixth form college for girls and young women. http://www.leilafletcher.com/
John Hammond General Manager of the Milwaukee Bucks
Alfred Harrison Joy Bruce Medal-winning astronomer
Winnie Ruth Judd enrolled 1919 Notorious "Trunk Murderess"
Mary Previte author of Hungry Ghosts, served in the New Jersey General Assembly from 1998 to 2006
Stephanie Smith 2006 Christian singer/songwriter; discovered, signed at Greenville College
Howard Zahniser B.A., English, 1928 environmental activist, "Father of the Wilderness Act"
Matthias Zahniser B.A., 1960 Author of The Mission and Death of Jesus in Islam and Christianity,Ph. D. Johns Hopkins University, member of American Academy of Religion Wesleyan Theological Society Tyndale House http://www.greenville.edu/academics/faculty_staff/bio_detail.dot?id=140529
Coleman Griffith considered the Father of American Sport Psychology, continued education and taught at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where he wrote the predecessors to many modern sport psychology and physical fitness text books; worked with the Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team and the Chicago Cubs as a consultant

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