List of Hobart and William Smith Colleges alumni
Following is a list of notable alumni from Hobart and William Smith Colleges. The institution was known as Geneva Academy from 1784 to 1822 and Geneva College from 1822 to 1852.
Academia
- Willis Adcock (1944), professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Texas at Austin
- Willard Myron Allen, MD (1926), professor and chairman of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Washington University School of Medicine
- John D'Agata (1995), M.F. Carpenter Professor of English at the University of Iowa
- William Watts Folwell (1857), first president of the University of Minnesota
- John P. Grotzinger (1979), Fletcher Jones Professor of Geology at California Institute of Technology and chair of the Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences
- Michael Ann Holly (1973), Starr Director of the Research and Academic Program at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute and Professor of Art History at the University of Rochester
- Stephen Kuusisto (1978), University Professor of Disability Studies at Syracuse University
- William Latimer (1985), Elizabeth Faulk Professor of Clinical and Health Psychology at the University of Florida
- Jacquelyn S. Litt (1980), professor of Sociology and Women's and Gender Studies at Rutgers University and Dean of Douglass Residential College
- Kay Payne (1973), professor of Communication Sciences and Disorders at Howard University
- Elizabeth J. Perry (1969), Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government at Harvard University, director of the Harvard-Yenching Institute, fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a corresponding fellow of the British Academy, and recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship
- Edward Regan (1950), president of Baruch College from 2000 to 2004
- Gregory J. Vincent (1983), president of Talladega College and former president of Hobart and William Smith Colleges
- Ralph Wyckoff (1916), professor of Microbiology and Physics at the University of Arizona
Art
- Arthur Dove (attended), early American modernist often considered the first American abstract painter
- Jonas Wood (1999), contemporary artist
Business
- Janet Braun-Reinitz (1973), president of Artmakers, Inc.
- Abigail Johnson (1984), CEO and President of Fidelity Investments
- Reynold Levy (1966), former president of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts and former the Robin Hood Foundation
- Wanjira Mathai (1994), Vice President and Regional Director for Africa at the World Resources Institute, named one of the TIME 100 Most Influential People in the World (2023)
- Dan Rosensweig (1983), business executive; president, and chief executive officer of Chegg.
- William "Bill" Scandling (1949), founder of Saga Corporation (sold to Marriott Corporation in 1986).
- Dana Telsey (1984), CEO, Telsey Advisory Group
Entertainment
- Eric Bloom (1967), singer, songwriter, guitarist, and keyboardist, most recently of Blue Öyster Cult
- Christian Camargo (Minnick) (1992), actor, various movies and series, including Dexter, Fast, Inc., All My Sons (Broadway)
- Brad Falchuk (1993), television writer, director, and producer best known for American Horror Story and Glee
- Alan Kalter (1964), actor, announcer of the Late Show with David Letterman
- Warren Littlefield (1974), head of programming for Sony Pictures Television and the former president of NBC Entertainment.
- Christopher McDonald (1977), movie, television, and stage actor (Happy Gilmore, Requiem for a Dream, The Perfect Storm, Quiz Show)
- Greg Mullavey (1955), actor (Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, The Rockford Files, Hawaii Five-O, iCarly)
- Mark Neveldine (1995), screenwriter and director of films such as Gamer and Crank
- Leslie Peirez (1992), television producer
- Milissa Rehberger (1993), news reporter for MSNBC
- Laura Sydell (1983), digital culture correspondent for NPR
- John Trivers (1969), songwriter and bassist with Blue Öyster Cult
- Ben J. Wattenberg (1955), PBS host, and former speech writer for President Lyndon Johnson
- Bill Whitaker (1973), Emmy-winning CBS News correspondent for the CBS Evening News and 60 Minutes[1]
- Brock Yates (1955), screenwriter of the film The Cannonball Run
Charles J. Folger
Law
- Harold Baer Jr. (1954), Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
- Richard Brown (1953), Associate Justice of the New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division and longest-serving District Attorney in New York City
- Charles J. Folger (1836) Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals and United States Secretary of the Treasury
- Ward Hunt, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
- Herbert J. Stern (1958), Judge of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey and United States Attorney who prosecuted Malcolm X killers
- John Paul Wiese (1962), Judge of the United States Court of Federal Claims
- George Washington Woodward (c. 1828) Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania and U.S. Congressman from Pennsylvania
Literature and journalism
- Byron Andrews (1876), journalist for Chicago Inter Ocean and National Tribune, owner of the National Tribune newspaper and publishing company, and private secretary to President Ulysses S. Grant; received an honorary degree at Hobart in 1900
- Melissa Bank (1982), author of The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing
- Michael Burkard (1968), poet, recipient of the Whiting Award and the Jerome Shestack Poetry Award
- John D'Agata (1995), essayist, author of The Lifespan of a Fact
- Evelyn Tooley Hunt (1926), originator of the American style of Haiku; her poem inspired the book The Color Purple by Alice Walker
- Holman W. Jenkins Jr (1982), The Wall Street Journal editorial board member and policy commentator
- Uzma Aslam Khan, author
- Jessica Knoll (2006), novelist, author of best-seller Luckiest Girl Alive
- Stephen Kuusisto (1978),poet
- Eric Lax (1966), author, biographer of Woody Allen and Humphrey Bogart
- Taylor Lorenz, journalist and columnist for The Washington Post
- Hunter "Rip" Rawlings IV (1994), New York Times bestselling author of Red Metal
- Dorothy Wickenden (1976), executive editor of The New Yorker[2]
- Brock Yates (1955), editor-in-chief of Car and Driver magazine
- Mark Zusman (1976), editor-in-chief of Willamette Week
Albert J. Myer
Military
- Edward Stuyvesant Bragg (1848), brigadier general of the American Civil War and United States Representative from Wisconsin
- DeWitt Clinton Littlejohn, brigadier general in the Union Army and United States Representative from New York
- Frederick S. Lovell (1835), brigadier general and member of the Wisconsin State Assembly
- Albert J. Myer, MD (1847), father of the U.S. Army Signal Corps and a founding member of the International Meteorological Organization
Edward S. Bragg
Politics
- Edward Stuyvesant Bragg (1848), United States Representative from Wisconsin and Union brigadier general
- James Rood Doolittle (1834), United States Senator from Wisconsin
- Peter Myndert Dox (1833); United States Representative from Alabama, 1869–1873
- Charles J. Folger (1836) United States Secretary of the Treasury and Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals
- Rodney Frelinghuysen (1969), United States Representative for New Jersey
- Henry R. Gibson (1862), United States Representative for Tennessee's 2nd congressional district
- Richard R. Kenney (1878), United States Senator from Delaware
- Joseph M. Kyrillos (1982), New Jersey state senator
- DeWitt Clinton Littlejohn, United States Representative from New York and brigadier general in the Union Army
- Frederick S. Lovell (1835), Wisconsin State Assembly and Union brigadier general
- Alan Lowenthal (1962), United States Representative for California's 47th congressional district
- Truman A. Merriman (1861), United States Representative for New York's 11th congressional district
- Donald J. Mitchell (1949), United States Representative for New York's 31st congressional district
- Edward Regan (1950), Comptroller of New York
- David Rumsey, United States Representative from New York
- Horatio Seymour (1823–1825) 18th Governor of New York, Democratic candidate for 1868 President
- Ben Wattenberg (1955), speechwriter for Lyndon B. Johnson from 1966 to 1968 and adviser to Hubert Humphrey's 1970 Senate race
- George Washington Woodward (About 1828) lawyer, U.S. Congressman of Pennsylvania, and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Religion
- Leigh Richmond Brewer (1863), Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Montana
- Albert Arthur Chambers (1950), seventh Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Springfield
- Michael B. Curry (1975), first African American Bishop and Primate of the Episcopal Church, presided at the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle
- Thomas Frederick Davies, Sr. (1889), third Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Michigan 1889 – 1905
- Oliver J. Hart (1913), Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania
- Arthur Wheelock Moulton (1897), Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Utah
- George Elden Packard (1966), Episcopal Suffragan Bishop of the Armed Forces
- William Persell (1965), Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Chicago
- Robert Rusack (1947), fourth Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles
- Edward R. Welles (1850), third Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Milwaukee
Science and medicine
- Willis Adcock (1944), inventor of the silicon transistor, member of the team that developed the atomic bomb
- Willard Myron Allen, MD (1926), co-discoverer of progesterone with George W. Corner. Allen received the first Eli Lilly Award in Biological Chemistry in 1935.
- Darrick E. Antell, MD (1973), New York plastic surgeon known for his studies on aging and twins
- Harry Coover (1941), inventor of super glue
- Robert Peter Gale, MD (1966), leukemia and bone marrow disorders expert; coordinated medical relief efforts for victims of the Chernobyl nuclear power accident
- John P. Grotzinger (1979), mission leader and project scientist for NASA's Mars Science Laboratory
- Matt Lamanna (1997), paleontologist responsible for several major discoveries
- Ralph Walter Graystone Wyckoff (1916), pioneer inventor of X-ray crystallography
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Sports
- Frank Dwyer (1889), Major League Baseball player
- Jeremy Foley (1974), athletics director at the University of Florida
- Fred King (1937), the first Hobart Statesman to play in the NFL
- Ali Marpet (2015), NFL football player, left guard on the Tampa Bay Buccaneers team that won Super Bowl LV, and member of 2022 Pro Bowl Team.
- Pierre McGuire (1983), two-time Stanley Cup winner; hockey commentator for NBC Sports Network
- Kent Smack (1997), 2004 Athens Olympic rower for Team U.S.A.
- Jon Wallach (1989), sports broadcaster, WEEI, WBZ-FM (The Toucher and Rich Show)
Honorary degree recipients
- Eric Andersen - received in 2022[3]
- Byron Andrews – received in 1900
- William Martin Beauchamp, S.T.D. – received in 1886, author on Native Americans and archeologist of New York State Museum[4]
- William Robert Brooks – received in 1898
- William Jefferson Clinton - received in 2017
- Nat King Cole – received in 1965 (posthumous)
- Millard Fillmore – received in 1850
- Ulysses Prentiss Hedrick – received in 1913
- Henry Champlin Lay – Bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America, Diocese of Easton
- Wangari Maathai – received in 1994
- George McAneny – received in 1914
- Henry Ustick Onderdonk – received in 1827, Bishop of Pennsylvania
- Fred Rogers – received in 1985
- Eleanor Roosevelt – received in 1947
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt – received in 1929
- B. F. Skinner – received in 1972
- Gloria Steinem – received in 1998
- Gulian Crommelin Verplanck – received in 1834
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr. – received in 1974
See also
References
- "60 Minutes' Bill Whitaker to receive the RTDNF First Amendment Award". CBS. CBS News. 14 February 2017. Retrieved 11 September 2017.
- "Dorothy Wickenden". hws.edu. Retrieved November 27, 2019.
- Brady, Eric (26 May 2022). "Singer-songwriter Eric Andersen, a Hobart 'dropout,' receives honorary doctorate". The Buffalo News. Retrieved 26 May 2022.
- The International Who's Who Pub. Co., 1911, p. 103
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