David P. Faxon '67, M.D. (Biology) Chief of Cardiology, University of Chicago; former President, American Heart Association
Martin S. Hirsch '60, (Biology) Physician and Professor of Medicine, Harvard University Medical School; former Director of AIDS Research, Massachusetts General Hospital
Christine Laine '83 MD, MPH, FACP, (Biology and Creative Writing) Editor, Annals of Internal Medicine (youngest editor in the Journal's 82-year history)
Ronald Pressman '80, (Biology) President and CEO, GE Real Estate
Hugh A. Sampson Jr., M.D., '71, (Biology) President, American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology; Professor of Pediatrics and Chief of the Division of Allergy and Immunology, Department of Pediatrics at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York; Director of the Jaffe Food Allergy Institute and Dean for Translational Biomedical Sciences
William H. Luers '51, (Chemistry and Mathematics) Chairman and President, United Nations Association of the USA; former President, Metropolitan Museum of Art; former U.S. Ambassador to Czechoslovakia and Venezuela
Scott Wood '80, (Chemistry and Geology) Dean, University of Idaho College of Science
Stephen R. Foley '84, (Creative Writing) Commander, U.S. Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron (Blue Angels)
Christine Laine '83 MD, MPH, FACP, (Biology and Creative Writing) Editor, Annals of Internal Medicine (youngest editor in the Journal's 82-year history)
Jane Mason '89, (Creative Writing) Writer/Editor of Children's Books; former Senior Editor, LucasFilm
Kamila Shamsie '94, (Creative Writing) Author, Salt and Saffron, Kartography
Gillian Zucker '90, (Creative Writing and Religion) President, Auto Club Speedway of Southern California
Stephen Angell '41, (Economics and Public Policy) Co-Founder, Alternatives to Violence
David W. Blood '81, (Economics and Psychology) Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Generation Investment Management; former CEO of Goldman Sachs Asset Management
Johannes Burlin '87, (Economics) President and CEO, Advanced BioScience Laboratories, Inc. (working on AIDS vaccine)
Michael N. Castle '61, (Economics) U.S. Representative; former Governor of Delaware
Thomas R. Crane, Jr. '61, (Economics and Spanish) former President/CEO, Castrol
Katherine Ertsgaard '83, (Economics) Executive Director, Rochester City Ballet/Draper Center for Dance
Dan Ferguson '48, (Economics and History) Retired CEO, Newell Rubbermaid Company
Joel W. Johnson '65, (Economics and English Literature) Retired President and CEO, Hormel Co.
Kraig Kayser '82, (Economics) President and CEO, Seneca Food Corp.
Mark M. Leckie '75, (Economics) Vice President, The Gillette Company; Past President of Duracell, H.J. Heinz and Campbell Soups, U.S. Grocery Division
Paul Lieberstein '89, (Economics) Writer, Producer and Actor, The Office (2006 Emmy for Best Comedy Series)
James Logan '74, (Economics) CEO, Gotuit Media Corp.; Past President, Microtouch Systems, Inc.
Carl B. Menges '51, (Economics and English Literature) Retired Vice Chairman of the Board, Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette
John Rice '78, (Economics) President and CEO, GE Infrastructure
Thomas J. Schwarz '66, (Economics) President, SUNY Purchase
Jack Selby '96, (Economics) founder, PayPal; now a managing director at Clarium Capitol Management
Susan Skerritt K'78, (Economics and Spanish) Managing Director, Bank of New York
David Grubin '65, (English Literature) Independent Film Producer, Director and Writer (FDR, LBJ, Napoleon); recipient of three George Foster Peabody awards, two Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University awards, and nine Emmys
James L. Ferguson '49, (English Literature) Retired Chairman and CEO, General Foods
Sean K. Fitzpatrick '63, (English Literature) Retired Vice President/Chief Creative Officer, McCann-Erickson
Joel W. Johnson '65, (Economics and English Literature) Retired President and CEO, Hormel Co.
*Hugh R. Jones '35, (English Literature and Mathematics) Retired Justice, NY State Court of Appeals
*Harry Kondoleon '77, (English Literature) Obie Award-Winning Playwright and Novelist
John R. Leopold '64, (English Literature) Delegate, State of Maryland; former Member, National Council on Disability
*William H. Masters '38, (English Literature) Co-Founder, Masters & Johnson Institute
Thomas E. Meehan '51, (English Literature) Playwright, Ain't Broadway Grand, Annie, Space Balls; 2001 Tony Award, The Producers, and 2003 Tony for Hairspray
Peter Meinke '55, (English Literature) Poet and Fiction Writer; past Director of the Eckerd College Writing Workshop; recipient of the 1986 Flannery O'Connor Award and a PEN Syndicated Fiction Award
Carl B. Menges '51, (Economics and English Literature) Retired Vice Chairman of the Board, Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette
David A. Nelson '54, (English Literature and History) Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals
John Nichols '62, (English Literature) Author, The Sterile Cuckoo
Christina H. Pearson '95, (English Literature) Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services (Public Affairs)
Haskell Rhett '58, (English Literature) President Emeritus, Woodrow Wilson Foundation
*Sol M. Linowitz '35, (German and Philosophy) Ambassador to the Organization of American States; Chairman of the Board of Xerox; Co-Negotiator of the Panama Canal Treaties; Recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom
Rev. Dr. Joel MacCollam '68, (German) President, World Emergency Relief
Arthur J. Massolo '64, (History and German) President/CEO, Straticon, Inc. and Chairman, Innovative Pharmaceutical Concepts
Clyde Tuggle '84, (German) Senior Vice President, Coca-Cola Company
Alicia Davis '97, (Government and Spanish) Director of Marketing and Senior Project Manager, Target Point Consulting; former Regional Political Director, Republican National Committee; former Deputy Assistant Secretary for External Affairs and Communications, U.S. Department of Commerce
John B. Emerson '75, (Government and Philosophy) President, Personal Investment Management for the Capital Group Companies; former Deputy Assistant to President Clinton
Cynthia Sherwood Evans '82, (Government) Chief Financial Officer, Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation
Michael Fleischer '88, (Government) Executive Director, New York State Thruway Authority
Peter C. Haeffner '88, (Government) Publisher, TV Guide
John Hester '69, (Government) Attorney, MGM; former Senior Executive Vice President, Orion Pictures
John Hewko '79, (Government and Russian Studies) Vice President, Millennium Challenge Corporation
William A. Kerr '79, (Government and History) Co-Chair Europe, The Bank of New York
Jack Levy '75, (History and Government) Global Head, Mergers & Acquisitions Dept, Goldman Sachs
Joe Morone '74, (Government) former President, Bentley College; CEO Albany International Corp
Dan Nye '88, (Government) former CEO, LinkedIn
William P. Purcell III '76, (Government) Director, The Harvard Institute of Politics at the John F. Kennedy School of Government; former Mayor, City of Nashville; former Director, Vanderbilt University Medical Center; 2006 "Public Official of the Year" by Governing Magazine
*Arnold L. Raphel '64, (Government) U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan
G. Jeremiah Ryan'72, (Government and Speech) President, Bergen Community College
Stephen Sadove '73, (Government) Vice Chairman and COO, Saks Inc.
David Solomon '84, (Government) Co-Head of Investment Banking, Goldman Sachs
Michael Stone '72, (Government) Co-Chairman, The Beanstalk Group
Vincent Strully '69, (Government), Founder, Executive Director and President, The New England Center for Children
Thomas Tull '92, (Government) Founder, Chairman and CEO, Legendary Pictures
Linda Woolley K'75, (Government) Executive Vice President, Direct Marketing Association
W. Robert Connor '56, (Greek and Latin) President and CEO, The Teagle Foundation; former President and Director, National Humanities Center; appointed by President Clinton to the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities
Robert Bernstock '72, (History) President, Mailing and Shipping Services, U.S. Postal Service; former President, Campbell Soup Company
Mary Bonauto '83 (Comparative Literature and History) Civil Rights Attorney (gay marriage)
Kevin M. Brown '83, (History) Chief Operating Officer, American Red Cross
Kevin Burns '77, (English Literature and History) President, Prometheus Entertainment; Emmy Award-Winning Television Producer and Filmmaker
*Richard W. Couper '44, (History) former President, The New York Public Library; former President, The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation
Lisa Reifenberg Daniels '94, (Mathematics and History) former Reporter, NBC Nightly News and the Today Show
Curtis Decker '66, (History) Executive Director, National Disability Rights Network
Dan Ferguson '48, (Economics and History) Retired CEO, Newell Rubbermaid Company
Charles L. Flynn, Jr., '74, (History) President, College of Mount St. Vincent
Scott M. Hand '64, (History) President, Inco Ltd.
William A. Kerr '79, (Government and History) Co-Chair Europe, The Bank of New York
Michael Klosson '71, (History and Public Policy) former U.S. Ambassador to Cyprus; former U.S. Consul General to Hong Kong and Macau; former Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Legislative Affairs
A.G. Lafley '69, (French and History) Chairman and CEO, Procter & Gamble
Jack Levy '75, (History and Government) Global Head, Mergers & Acquisitions Dept, Goldman Sachs
Henry Little '65, (History) Vice President, The Nature Conservancy
Arthur J. Massolo '64, (History and German) President/CEO, Straticon, Inc. and Chairman, Innovative Pharmaceutical Concepts
David Morse '74, (History) Vice President of Communications, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
David A. Nelson '54, (English Literature and History) Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals
Ralph Oman '62, (History) former Register of Copyrights of the United States
Cameron "Kip" Paine '94, (History) Vocalist with Chanticleer; recipient of 2000 Best Small Ensemble Grammy for the CD titled Colors of Love
Richard Pfau '64, (History) President, Averett University
Neal Pilson '60, (History) former Senior Vice President, CBS Broadcast Group; former President, CBS Sports
Preeta Samarasan '98, (History and Music) Author, Evening is the Whole Day
Douglas Sgarro '81, (History) Executive Vice President and Chief Legal Officer for CVS Caremark Corporation
Michael Shapiro '72, (Art and History) Director, High Museum of Art
Brian Levin-Stankevich '72, (History) Chancellor, University of Wisconsin Eau Claire
Roger G. Strand '55, (History) Senior Judge, U.S. District Court
Tom Vilsack '72, (History) U.S. Secretary of Agriculture; former Governor of Iowa; Democratic Candidate for President in 2008
Christopher Whitcomb '81, (History and English Literature) Author, Cold Zero and Black; former Special Agent, FBI
W. Robert Connor '56, (Greek and Latin) President and CEO, The Teagle Foundation; former President and Director, National Humanities Center; appointed by President Clinton to the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities
Lisa Reifenberg Daniels '94, (Mathematics and History) former Reporter, NBC Nightly News and the Today Show
William S Gaden '84, (Mathematics) Senior Vice President and General Manager, Rogers and Hammerstein Organization
Paul Greengard '48, (Mathematics and Physics) Professor, Rockefeller University; 2000 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
*Hugh R. Jones '35, (English Literature and Mathematics) Retired Justice, NY State Court of Appeals
William H. Luers '51, (Chemistry and Mathematics) Chairman and President, United Nations Association of the USA; former President, Metropolitan Museum of Art; former U.S. Ambassador to Czechoslovakia and Venezuela
John B. Emerson '75, (Government and Philosophy) President, Personal Investment Management for the Capital Group Companies; former Deputy Assistant to President Clinton
*Sol M. Linowitz '35, (German and Philosophy) Ambassador to the Organization of American States; Chairman of the Board of Xerox; Co-Negotiator of the Panama Canal Treaties; Recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom
Matt McKenna '72, (Philosophy and Speech) President, Keep America Beautiful; former Senior Vice President of Finance, PepsiCo
Adam Miller '92, (Philosophy) President and COO, Abernathy MacGregor Group
Robert Moses '56, (Philosophy) Leader of the Civil Rights Movement; Founder, The Algebra Project
Stewart G. Pollock '54, (Philosophy) Retired Associate Justice, New Jersey Supreme Court
Edward S. Walker, Jr. '62, (Philosophy) Christian A. Johnson Distinguished Professor in Global Political Theory at Hamilton College; former President and CEO, Middle East Institute; former U.S. Ambassador to Israel, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates
Bill Weaver '65, (Philosophy) former CEO, Puget Sound Energy
Marjory Abrams Edelston '85, (English Literature and Psychology) Publisher, Boardroom Inc.
David W. Blood '81, (Economics and Psychology) Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Generation Investment Management; former CEO of Goldman Sachs Asset Management
Fabio Freyre '83, (Psychology) Group Vice President, Corporate Sales and Marketing, Time Inc.; former Publisher, Sports Illustrated
Audrey Moore '84, (Psychology) Assistant District Attorney, Manhattan District Attorney's Office
Stephen Angell '41, (Economics and Public Policy) Co-Founder, Alternatives to Violence
*J. Carter Bacot '55, (Public Policy) Chairman, The Bank of New York
Daniel Becker '77, (Public Policy) Director Global Warming, Sierra Club
Wayland F. Blood '53, (English Literature and Public Policy) Retired Vice President/Treasurer, Ford Motor Credit Co.
Margaret Keller O'Bryon K'75, (Public Policy) President/CEO, Consumer Health Foundation
Michael Klosson '71, (History and Public Policy) former U.S. Ambassador to Cyprus; former U.S. Consul General to Hong Kong and Macau; former Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Legislative Affairs
Evan Smith '87, (Public Policy) CEO, Texas Tribune
Thomas R. Crane, Jr. '61, (Economics and Spanish) former President/CEO, Castrol
Alicia Davis '97, (Government and Spanish) Director of Marketing and Senior Project Manager, Target Point Consulting; former Regional Political Director, Republican National Committee; former Deputy Assistant Secretary for External Affairs and Communications, U.S. Department of Commerce
Stryker J. McGuire '69, (Spanish) Editor, International Quarterly and Contributing Editor for Newsweek; former London Bureau Chief, Newsweek
Susan Skerritt K'78, (Economics and Spanish) Managing Director, Bank of New York
Note: The major did not exist until well into the 20th Century; most graduates simply received the A.B degree
Samuel Hopkins Adams 1891, Author
*William M. Bristol 1882, Co-Founder, Bristol-Myers Co.
Carl Carmer '14, Stars Fell on Alabama
John W. Dwinelle 1834, Founder of the University of California (authored the "Organic Act that in 1868 created the Univ. of California).
*Laurentine Hamilton 1850, Minister and Educator; Mount Hamilton in California's Diablo Range, the tallest mountain overlooking Silicon Valley, is named for him
David Kunselman '66, CEO, Development of World Orphan Care, World Orphan Network
*Ezra Pound, 1905, Poet
*Elihu Root 1864, U.S. Senator, Secretary of War, Secretary of State and Winner of the 1912 Nobel Peace Prize
*James S. Sherman 1878, Vice President of the United States
*Gerrit Smith 1818, Philanthropist and Leading Abolitionist
Edward J. Wickson 1869, Horticulturalist and Founder of the California State Horticultural Society and Dean of the College of Agriculture at the University of California.
*Alexander Woollcott, 1909, Drama Critic, The New York Times
