Goucher College - Notable Alumni

Notable Alumni

• Hattie Alexander (class of 1923), pediatrician and microbiologist
• Ellen Bass, (class of 1968), poet
• Clara Beranger, (class of 1907), screenwriter and wife of William C. DeMille
• Emily Newell Blair, an American writer, suffragist, national Democratic Party political leader, a founder of the League of Women Voters and feminist.
• Sally Brice-O'Hara, Class of 1974, Vice Admiral and vice commandant, United States Coast Guard
• Joan Claybrook, (class of 1959), president of Public Citizen, a consumer advocacy group founded by Ralph Nader.
• Teresa Cohen, (class of 1912), mathematician
• Sherry Cooper, (class of 1972), economist
• Constance Maya-Das Dass class of 1911, Phi Beta Kappa, first Indian President of Isabella Thoburn College, Lucknow, India from 1939-45
• Olive Dennis, (class of 1908), railroad engineer
• Judy Devlin Hashman, (class of 1958), 10-time All-England badminton singles champion.
• Susan Devlin, (class of 1953), American-Irish badminton champion
• Helen Dodson, (class of 1927), astronomer, winner of the Annie J. Cannon Award in Astronomy
• Mildred Dunnock, (class of 1922), Oscar-nominated film and stage actress
• Alison Fanelli, (class of 2001), actress famous for starring as Ellen on The Adventures of Pete & Pete
• Margaret Fishback, (class of 1921), author and poet
• Jonah Goldberg, (class of 1991), journalist and conservative commentator
• Margaret Irving Handy, (class of 1911), pioneering pediatrician
• Helen C. Harrison, (class of 1931), winner of the John Howland Award and the E. Mead Johnson Award for work with her husband in pediatrics
• Ethel Browne Harvey, embryologist
• Karen S. Haynes, (class of 1968), President, California State University, San Marcos
• Ellen Lipton Hollander, (class of 1971), Judge of the Maryland Court of Special Appeals, nominee to the United States District Court for the District of Maryland
• Sarah T. Hughes, (class of 1917), federal judge who swore in Lyndon B. Johnson to the presidency.
• Anne Hummert (née. Schumacher), (class of 1925), a leading creator of daytime radio serials during the 1930s and 1940s
• Georgeanna Seegar Jones, (class of 1932), reproductive endocrinologist
• Alice Kessler-Harris, (class of 1961) historian and professor
• Margaret G. Kibben, Rear Admiral, U S Navy, Chaplain of the United States Marine Corps
• Hon. Phyllis A. Kravitch, (class of 1941), Senior Circuit Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
• Kathleen Moore Mallory, (class of 1902), Woman's Missionary Union executive and member of the Alabama Women's Hall of Fame
• Nancy Mowll Mathews, (class of 1968), art historian
• Florence Marie Mears, (class of 1917), mathematician
• Sara Haardt Mencken, (class of 1920), professor of English Literature (and wife of H.L. Mencken)
• Shirley Montag Almon, (class of 1956), economist
• Bessie Moses, (class of 1915), contraception activist
• Mary Vivian Pearce, (class of 1994), actress famous for working with John Waters
• Margot Perot, then Margot Birmingham, (class of 1955) wife of Ross Perot
• Hortense Powdermaker, (class of 1919), anthropologist
• Jessie Woodrow Wilson Sayre, (class of 1908), daughter of U.S. President Woodrow Wilson and political activist
• Laura Amy Schlitz (class of 1977), author and Newbery Medal winner
• Florence B. Seibert, (class of 1918) American biochemist
• Rosalind Solomon, (class of 1951), artist and photographer
• Darcey Steinke, (class of 1985), writer
• Paula Stern, (class of 1967), former chairwoman of the United States International Trade Commission
• Lucé Vela, (class of 1982), First Lady of Puerto Rico
• Christopher Weed (class of 2008) and Brad Sappington (class of 2007), creators of Humans vs. Zombies
• Eleanor Wilner, (class of 1959), poet, 1991 recipient of the prestigious MacArthur Fellows Program
• Jeanette Rosner Wolman, (class of 1923), lawyer and woman's rights advocate, inducted into the Maryland Women's Hall of Fame in 1986
• Jean Worthley, (class of 1944), naturalist