List of Bates College People - Academia

Academia

• Ransom Dunn, Attended divinity school 1840, President of Hillsdale College and Rio Grande College
• Waterman T. Hewett, Class of 1864 (Nichols Latin School), Professor of German at Cornell University, author, and editor.
• George C. Chase, Class of 1868, President of Bates College
• Mary Mitchell, Class of 1869, first woman to graduate from a New England college, professor of English at Vassar College
• George Washington Flint, Class of 1871, President of University of Connecticut, 1898-1901
• James Baker, Class of 1873, President of University of Colorado, 1892–1914
• Walter Ranger, Class of 1879, President of Rhode Island College and Johnson State College, Rhode Island State Board of Education Secretary.
• Edward C. Hayes, Class of 1887, early sociology pioneer, President and founding member of the American Sociological Association
• Grace Conant, Class of 1893, English scholar at Millikin University
• William A. Saunders, Class of 1899, African American scholar at Storer College
• Tyler Dennett, attended 1900-01, president of Williams College
• Wayne Clark Jordan, Class of 1906, Rhodes Scholar
• Louis R. Sullivan, Class of 1914, American Anthropologist (1916-1925)
• John Powers, Class of 1919, Rhodes Scholar
• Benjamin Mays, Class of 1920, President of Morehouse College (1940–1967), mentor to Martin Luther King
• Meredith Burrill, Class of 1925, United Nations geographer, President of Association of American Geographers
• Erwin Canham, Class of 1925, Rhodes Scholar, journalist
• John P. Davis, Class of 1926, African American intellectual, author, National Negro Congress activist
• Joseph K. Yamagiwa Class of 1928, American educator, University of Michigan
• Samuel Brookner Gould, Class of 1930, American educator, Chancellor of SUNY
• W. Denham Sutcliffe, Class of 1937, Rhodes Scholar, Professor at Bates, Kenyon, and Harvard
• Val H. Wilson, Class of 1938, President of Skidmore College, 1957-1964.
• William Stringfellow, Class of 1949, peace activist, human rights lawyer, theologian
• William Rankin Dill, Class of 1951, President of Babson College (1981–1989)
• Warren H. Carroll, Class of 1953, Founder of Christendom College
• Gerald Zaltman, Class of 1960, Author, Professor at Harvard Business School 1991–present
• Robert Witt, Class of 1962, President of University of Alabama
• John Strassburger, Class of 1964, President of Ursinus College 1994–present
• William H. Tucker, Class of 1967, psychologist and author
• Richard James Gelles, Class of 1968, Dean, University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy and Practice, 2003–present
• Jeffrey K. Tulis, Class of 1972, author The Rhetorical Presidency, served on faculty of Princeton University, and University of Texas at Austin
• Valerie Smith, Class of 1975, Woodrow Wilson Professor of Literature and African American Studies, Princeton University
• H. Scott Bierman, Class of 1977, President of Beloit College, 2009–present
• Ronald W. Monroe, Class of 1978, Upper School Director, Kingswood-Oxford School
• Jamie P. Merisotis, Class of 1986, President and Founder of the Institute for Higher Education Policy, Former Executive Director of National Commission on Responsibilities for Financing Postsecondary Education