State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry - Alumni

Alumni

More than 18,000 have graduated from ESF since its founding in 1911. The college's Alumni Association was founded fourteen years later, in 1925. Notable alumni include:

• Reginald E. Balch, MS '28, Canadian photographer and scientist
• Bruce C. Bongarten, BS '73, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, SUNY-ESF
• Joseph Buongiorno, MS '69, Class of 1933 Bascom Professor of Forest Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Roger H.C. Donlon, first man to receive the Medal of Honor in Vietnam
• Ronald J. Eby, BS 1969, PhD 1974 National Medal of Technology award, 2007 for his work in pediatric medicine. A polysaccharide / carbohydrate chemist whose career was devoted to vaccine development.
• Frank Edwin Egler, plant ecologist and pioneer in the study of vegetation science
• Sol Feinstone, '15, historian, businessman, conservationist
• Jean Fréchet, MS '69, PhD'71, Henry Rapoport Chair of Organic Chemistry and Professor of Chemical Engineering, UC Berkeley - Dendritic Polymers: Dendrimers
• Delfin Ganapin, Jr., PhD '87, Global Manager, Global Environmental Facility Small Grants Program, United Nations Development Program
• Stephen Kay, BLA '73
• Edwin Ketchledge, BS '49, Distinguished Teaching Professor of Botany and Dendrology, SUNY-ESF
• Robin W. Kimmerer, BS '75, author of Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses; Professor of Biology and Director, Center for Native Peoples, SUNY-ESF
• Michael Kudish, PhD '71, author, historian, forester and professor
• Moshe Levy, PhD '55, professor of chemistry, discoverer of living polymerization, and solar energy researcher
• Bob Marshall, BS '24, forester, writer and wilderness activist.
• James Morrissey, BS '58, "first American to climb the east face of Mt. Everest"
• Clarence Petty, BS '30, forest ranger, conservationist and outdoorsman
• Harry Frederick Recher, ornithologist
• Bruce Shelley, BS '70, computer game designer
• Earl Lewis Stone, Jr., BS '38; In 1948, he became the first endowed Charles Lathrop Pack Professor of forest soils at Cornell University. Retired 1979
• Lissa Widdoff, BS '79, Executive Director, Robert and Patricia Switzer Foundation

The accomplishments of additional outstanding ESF alumni are documented at: http://www.esf.edu/success/.