Marietta College - Notable Alumni

Notable Alumni

• Edward H. Allen - Kansas City Mayor 1867
• Zane E. Barnes 1947 - Chairman Emeritus, Southwestern Bell Corporation
• Ray Barnhart - Federal Highway Administration director (1981–1987) and member of the Texas House of Representatives (1973–1975); Marietta College faculty member (1951–1955), resident of St. Clairsville, Ohio
• Robert J. Blendon 1964 - Professor of Health Policy-Political Analysis at Harvard School of Public Health and Harvard Kennedy School of Government
• Penny Contner 1972 - President, Not Bad For A Girl, Inc. and former co-producer of television’s ER.'
• E. Jocob Crull (attended in 1880-81)-Montana State Representative and colonel who was Jennette Rankin's (first female member of the U.S. Congress) chief primary rival
• Charles G. Dawes 1884 - Vice President of the United States; Nobel Prize winner
• Matt DeSalvo 2003 - Former Major League Baseball pitcher
• Eric S. Dobkin 1964 - Retired Partner of Goldman, Sachs & Co.
• Robert R. Dyson 1968 - President, Dyson-Kissner-Moran Corporation; Professional Race Car Driver
• Bill C. Fenton 1944 - Chairman of the Board, Fenton Art Glass Company
• Frank M. Fenton 1936 - Director, Fenton Art Glass Company
• James Fowler Given 1825 - 1867 American Episcopalian evangelist, primary co-founder and organizer of the Christian Union denomination in 1864
• Carte Goodwin 1996 - United States Senator of West Virginia
• Dean Hess 1941 - American minister and United States Air Force colonel
• William Irwin 1848 - 13th Governor of California
• Henry J. Jelinek 1968 - President, Jelinek Cork Corporation
• Byron Bancroft Ban Johnson 1887 - Founder, Baseball’s American League
• Richard E. MacCullagh 1957 - Retired CAPT USN Chaplains Corp, two time recipient of the Bronze Star with Combat V
• Charles W. McCoy 1942 - Retired Chairman and CEO, Premiere Banks
• John G. McCoy 1935 - Chairman Emeritus, Banc One Corp.
• Terry Mulholland 1985 - Former Major League Baseball pitcher
• Ann Muscari 1951 - Vice President and Co-Founder, Kinder Care Learning Centers; Author of Child Care That Works
• F. Story Musgrave 1960 - Retired NASA Astronaut/Shuttle Pilot
• C. William O'Neill 1938 - 59th Governor of Ohio
• Andrea Parhamovich 2000 - National Democratic Institute employee killed in Baghdad, Iraq on January 17, 2007.
• Charles "Chick" Peterson 1953 - Nationally-known painter, water colorist and print-maker
• Don Schaly 1959 - ABCA Hall of Fame member, all-time winningest baseball coach in Division III history
• Wilbur Schramm 1928 - Founding Father of the Communication Studies Discipline
• John M. Stowell - Mayor of Milwaukee, Wisconsin and member of the Wisconsin State Assembly
• Kent Tekulve 1969 - Former Major League Baseball pitcher, Pittsburgh Pirates
• Jim Tracy 1978 - Former Major League Baseball manager, Colorado Rockies, Pittsburgh Pirates, and Los Angeles Dodgers
• Dale W. VanVoorhis 1963 - President, Amusement Business Consultants
• Willard Warner 1845 - United States Senator from Alabama, 1868–71
• Walter E. Webber 1965 - 33°, Former Sovereign Grand Commander, Scottish Rite, Northern Masonic Jurisdiction; received W. Bay Irvine Award; former vice-chair of Marietta's board of trustees; scholarship fund founded in his name
• Joseph G. Wilson 1846 - U.S. Congressman from Oregon, justice on the Oregon Supreme Court
• Gary Kott - Award-winning television and advertising writer, and an American Folk Artist. A writer and supervising producer of The Cosby Show, Kott worked on the program during its five consecutive years of number one Nielsen ratings.