Upsala College - Notable Graduates

Notable Graduates

• John Bobowicz, Sun Microsystems Executive and Founder of Java.net.
• Okianer Christian Dark, Associate Dean of Howard University School of Law, graduated magna cum laude from Upsala in 1975.
• Kay Gardella, New York Daily News television critic.
• John Langston Gwaltney, Anthropology professor, earned his B.A. at Upsala.
• Allen Klein, the businessman whose controversial career involved him with both The Beatles and The Rolling Stones, and Vin Scelsa, the radio DJ who created the "Idiots Delight" freeform radio program. Scelsa did his first broadcasting at Upsala's campus radio station, WFMU, which began in 1958. The volunteer staff bought the broadcasting license from the bankrupt school in 1995 and continues to operate the freeform station independently.
• Karen Mitchell, Ottawa University Dean of Education and Professor of Political Science.
• Jerry Recco, WFAN personality, attended but did not graduate due to the closing of the school.
• Richie Roberts, former New Jersey police detective and defense attorney. He is most widely recognized for the arrest, prosecution and later defense of Harlem drug lord Frank Lucas. He is portrayed by Russel Crowe in the film American Gangster.
• Tim Walsh, Brooklyn Nets Head Athletic trainer, who grew up on Hawkins Street in Newark, NJ. His father was a highly decorated Newark fire fighter.

In fiction, the protagonist of Philip Roth's 1997 novel American Pastoral, Seymour "Swede" Levov, and his wife, Dawn Levov, are graduates of Upsala.