Friends' Central School - Notable Alumni

Notable Alumni

• Hilda Doolittle (Class of 1903) - Noted poet and novelist.
• Cynthia Shallcross Calhoun (Class of 1919) - Former President of the Pennsylvania Resources Council
• James Wolfenden - United States Congressman from Pennsylvania
• Charlotte McAleer Kohler (Class of 1931) - Former First Lady of Wisconsin, wife of Governor Walter J. Kohler, Jr., who was also President of the Kohler Company.
• Jane Wooster Scott (Class of 1947) - Renowned American folk artist
• Gardner C. Hendrie (Class of 1950) - Designer of "microNova," the first commercial single chip, 16-bit microprocessor. Special Limited Partner, Sigma Partners - a Silicon Valley venture capital firm.
• Sylvia Hill Williams (Class of 1953) - former director of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of African Art
• Alexander L. Fetter (Class of 1954) - Professor of Physics and Applied Physics and Director of the Laboratory for Advanced Materials (LAM), Stanford University
• Elizabeth Osborne (Class of 1954) - Renowned artist
• Stephen A. Cozen (Class of 1957) - Founder and Chairman of Cozen O'Connor, a Philadelphia-based law firm with 21 offices throughout the United States and offices in London and Toronto.
• Richard B. Klein (Class of 1957) - Judge of the Superior Court of Pennsylvania
• Brian De Palma (Class of 1958) - Movie Director
• K. Barry Sharpless (Class of 1959) - 2001 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry
• Maude Southwell Wahlman (Class of 1959) - Dorothy and Dale Thompson/Missouri Endowed Professor of Global Arts, University of Missouri-Kansas City
• A. Carter Pottash (Class of 1966) - Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at New York University and a Distinguished Fellow in the American Psychiatric Association
• Lise Funderburg (Class of 1977) - Author
• Stacey (Goldsborough) Snider (Class of 1978) - CEO, Dreamworks
• Douglas G. Baird (Class of 1971) - Harry A. Bigelow Distinguished Service Professor of Law, University of Chicago. Former Dean of the Law School from 1994 to 1999.
• Barry L. Zubrow (Class of 1971) - Former Chief Administrative Officer of Goldman Sachs, chairman of the New Jersey Schools Construction Corporation and current Chief Risk Officer of JPMorgan Chase.
• Daniel Porter (Class of 1984) - Former CEO OMGPOP, Creator of Draw Something Game, Former President of Teach For America
• Jonathan H. Adler (Class of 1987) - Professor of Law at the Case Western University School of Law
• Sonya Sklaroff (Class of 1988) - Artist
• Adam Goldstein (Class of 1991) - Renowned Disk Jockey, also known as DJ AM
• Jocelyn Patterson - (Class of 1993) United States Public Health Service, Behavioral Scientist Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• Andy Greenwald (Class of 1995) - Author
• Zach Leibowitz (Class of 1997) - ESPN Personality
• Hakim Warrick (Class of 2001) - NBA Player (Phoenix Suns, Chicago Bulls, Milwaukee Bucks, Memphis Grizzlies), former NCAA Player (Syracuse University, member of 2003 NCAA Men's Basketball Championship team)
• Mike Cook (Class of 2002) - Former NCAA Player (East Carolina and Pittsburgh)
• Benj Pasek (Class of 2003) - Songwriter - Pasek and Paul, Johnny and the Sprites
• Mustafa Shakur (Class of 2003) - NBA Player (Washington Wizards), Polish Basketball Player, former NBA Player (Sacramento Kings), former NCAA Player (Arizona)
• Keenan "Y.G." Jackson (Class of 2004) - Rapper and producer, most notably known for his critically acclaimed single "Toot It & Boot It"
• Devin Coleman (Class of 2011) - College Basketball player (Clemson Tigers), ranked 89th in ESPN's University National Basketball Recruiting System, ninth in Pennsylvania state