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This '''List of Haverford College people''' includes alumni and faculty of [[Haverford College]]. Haverford is a smaller college and has a smaller alumni population than its peers. Because expansion occurred in the 1980s, most of Haverford's alumni are still quite young. Despite this, as of 2010, Haverford alumni include four [[Nobel Prize]]s, four [[MacArthur Fellow]]s, 20 [[Rhodes Scholarship]]s, 10 [[Marshall Scholarship]]s, nine [[Henry Luce]] Fellowships,<ref name="Haverford awards">{{cite web|url=http://www.haverford.edu/abouthaverford/ataglance.php|title=Why Haverford - Office of Admission|publisher=Haverford.edu|accessdate=21 November 2014}}</ref> 56 [[Watson Fellowship]]s,<ref name="Haverford awards" /> two [[Mitchell Scholarship|George Mitchell Scholarship]], two [[Carnegie Endowment for the Humanities|Carnegie Endowment]] Junior Fellowships,<ref name="Haverford awards" /> two Churchill Scholars, one Gates Cambridge Scholar,<ref name="Haverford awards" /> 13 [[All Americans]], and 23 [[NCAA]] post-graduate winners.
This '''List of Haverford College people''' includes alumni and faculty of [[Haverford College]]. Haverford is a smaller college and has a smaller alumni population than its peers. Because expansion occurred in the 1980s, most of Haverford's alumni are still quite young. Despite this, as of 2010, Haverford alumni include four [[Nobel Prize]]s, four [[MacArthur Fellow]]s, 20 [[Rhodes Scholarship]]s, 10 [[Marshall Scholarship]]s, nine [[Henry Luce]] Fellowships,<ref name="Haverford awards">{{cite web|url=http://www.haverford.edu/abouthaverford/ataglance.php|title=Why Haverford - Office of Admission|publisher=Haverford.edu|accessdate=21 November 2014|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20111110103523/http://www.haverford.edu/abouthaverford/ataglance.php|archivedate=10 November 2011|df=}}</ref> 56 [[Watson Fellowship]]s,<ref name="Haverford awards" /> two [[Mitchell Scholarship|George Mitchell Scholarship]], two [[Carnegie Endowment for the Humanities|Carnegie Endowment]] Junior Fellowships,<ref name="Haverford awards" /> two Churchill Scholars, one Gates Cambridge Scholar,<ref name="Haverford awards" /> 13 [[All Americans]], and 23 [[NCAA]] post-graduate winners.


==Alumni==
==Alumni==
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==External links==
==External links==
*[http://www.haverford.edu/alumni/index.htm Haverford College Alumni Relations]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20070718114846/http://www.haverford.edu/alumni/index.htm Haverford College Alumni Relations]


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This List of Haverford College people includes alumni and faculty of

NCAA
post-graduate winners.

Alumni

Business and industry

Higher education and academia

Entertainment, fine and performing arts

  • David Scull Bispham 1876, baritone; Metropolitan Opera and Covent Garden soloist; author of A Quaker Singer's Recollection, 1920
  • Alfred Steiglitz[3]
  • William Carragan 1958, musicologist noted for his work on Anton Bruckner, and for contributions to physics
  • Chevy Chase ex-'66, attended for one semester, comedian and actor
  • Roger Director 1971, scriptwriter for TV shows, including Moonlighting and Hill Street Blues; nominated for two Emmys; consulting producer for NCIS, Wolf Lake; wrote Dream in Blue about the New York Giants football team, and A Place to Fall: A Novel
  • Deborah Colette Freedman 1990, playwright, screenwriter, and novelist; voted "One of the 50 to Watch" by the Dramatist's Guild; co-wrote thriller The Thirteen Hallows; wrote several novels, The Affair, The Consequences, Anomalies, Sister Cities
  • Robert E. Hecht 1941, collector, dealer and expert in antiquities
  • Mark Hudis 1990, former co-executive producer of True Blood, former writer and co-executive producer of Nurse Jackie, former executive producer of That '70s Show
  • Harlan Jacobson 1971, film critic, lecturer and author
  • Julius Katchen 1947, concert pianist, recognized by Eugene Ormandy at his debut concert playing Mozart's Piano Concerto in D-Minor (age 10)
  • Daniel Dae Kim 1990, film and stage actor; Hawaii Five-0, Lost, The Andromeda Strain; holds an MFA from the Graduate Acting Program at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts; winner of Screen Actors Guild Awards for Lost and Crash; named one of the "Sexiest Men Alive" in 2005 by People magazine
  • Steptoe & Johnson LLP
  • Andrew Millstein 1984, General Manager of Walt Disney Animation Studios
  • Judd Nelson ex-'82, actor, did not graduate
  • Craig Owens 1971, art critic and theorist
  • Maxfield Parrish (attended 1888-1891), painter, illustrator
  • Rand Ravich 1984, writer, director, and producer
  • Peter Rockwell 1958, sculptor and art historian; sculpture restorer; one of his works appears on Haverford campus; son of artist-illustrator Norman Rockwell
  • George Segal ex-'55, actor, attended
  • Sigmund Spaeth 1905, musicologist, composer, radio personality, known as The Tune Detective
  • Gregory Whitehead 1978, audio artist, media philosopher, award-winning radio playwright and documentary producer.

Government, diplomacy, and law

Journalism

Literature and writing

  • Tamar Adler '99, author of An Everlasting Meal
  • Lloyd Alexander (attended ca. 1940, did not graduate), Newbery Medal-winning author
  • Nicholson Baker 1979, novelist, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award
  • Dave Barry '69 English, Pulitzer Prize–winning humor columnist
  • John Dickson Carr '29, author of detective stories; also published under the pen names Carter Dickson, Carr Dickson and Roger Fairbairn
  • Iowa Writers Workshop
  • Robert Flynn, 1990, Editor in Chief of Getty Publications[7]
  • Roy Gutman '66, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, author
  • Evan Jones '49, poet, playwright, and screenwriter
  • Richard Lederer '59, author known for books on wordplay and the English language
  • Richard Lingeman '53, Senior Editor of The Nation; author of many books on literary, historical and linguistic topics
  • Stephen W. Meader 1913, author of over forty novels for young readers
  • Christopher Morley 1910, novelist, poet, essayist, Rhodes scholar
  • Norman Pearlstine '64, former editor-in-chief of Time magazine; Chief Content Officer at Bloomberg L.P.
  • Logan Pearsall Smith attended 1881-1884, man of letters, author of Trivia[8]
  • Lara Wozniak '90, Editor of Finance Asia; former Money Editor for Far Eastern Economic Review (Hong Kong)
  • Charles D. Cohen '83, author of several Random House books about Dr. Seuss, including the 400-page, 700-image visual biography The Seuss, the Whole Seuss and Nothing But the Seuss (2004)--chosen by Time magazine's Richard Corliss as the "Pop Culture Book of the Year";[9] two collections of "lost" Dr. Seuss stories that hadn't been seen in over half a century: The Bippolo Seed and Other Lost Stories (2011) and Horton and the Kwuggerbug and More Lost Stories (2014), both of which debuted at #1 on the New York Times' best-selling Children's Picture Books list.;[10][11] and special anniversary editions of two classics: How the Grinch Stole Christmas! A 50th-Anniversary Retrospective (2007) and Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories: A 50th-Anniversary Retrospective (2008).

Medicine

Science

Social action, philanthropy, and community service

Sports and athletics

  • Edward "Eddie" Andujar '79, world welterweight champion (PKA) in full-contact karate, retired 1977
  • Josh Byrnes '92, senior vice president of baseball operations, San Diego Padres; former general manager of the Arizona Diamondbacks
  • Thomas Glasser 1982, gold medalist in the 4x400 meter relay at the 1981 Maccabiah Games;[12] died in the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001
  • Thad Levine '94, General Manager of the Minnesota Twins
  • Stuart Levitt 1963, NCAA College Division Champion in Men's Javelin, 1963; All-American; gold medalist in javelin at the Maccabiah Games, winner Penn Relays 1963
  • Seamus McElligott '91, five-time national track champion; 1990 national Division III cross country champion; last Division III athlete to earn Division I All-American status
  • Philip Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker 1908, ran for Great Britain in the Olympic games in 1912, 1920 (silver medalist at 1500 meters), and 1924; team captain at the Paris games, and the team's exploits were made famous as the Chariots of Fire
    Olympic track team
  • Karl Paranya '97, first NCAA Division III runner to run a sub-four minute mile and world record holder in the indoor 4x800 relay race
  • Tony Petitti '83, Chief Operating Officer, Major League Baseball and former President and Chief Executive Officer, MLB Network
  • Ronald M. Shapiro '64, attorney and sports agent, Shapiro Sher Guinot & Sandler;past clients include Hall of Famers Cal Ripken, Jr., Jim Palmer, Brooks Robinson, Kirby Puckett, and Eddie Murray
  • Arn Tellem '76, attorney and sports agent; clients have included Tracy McGrady, Jason Giambi, and Pau Gasol
  • Dick Voith '77, All-American basketball player; economist at Econsult; adjunct professor at the Wharton Business School

Fictional alumni

  • Brian Callahan, former lacrosse player in Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections
  • Stephen Collins, U.S. Congressman in
    State of Play
  • Dale Cooper, FBI detective in David Lynch's Twin Peaks
  • Astrid Farnsworth, FBI agent in Fringe[13]
  • Cal McCaffrey, D.C. reporter in State of Play
  • Professor Gary Shepherd of the TV series
    thirtysomething
     was an untenured professor at the college.

Notable current and former faculty

Honorary degree recipients

honoris causa
.

A complete list of honorary degree recipients since 1858 is available online.[15]

Prominent recipients include:

  • 2011: Dikembe Mutombo, Congolese American former NBA basketball player and humanitarian
Bob Schwartz '71, founder of Juvenile Law Center
Judy Wicks, restaurateur and local food activist
Barbara Ehrenreich, columnist essayist; author, Nickel and Dimed
Grammy-winning lead vocalist and guitarist for the Dave Matthews Band
Emmy Award
–winning writer; radio and television correspondent; senior correspondent of National Public Radio
Paul Krugman, economist and a columnist for The New York Times
Edward Said, Palestinian-American literary theorist and outspoken Palestinian activist
Catharine MacKinnon
, feminist legal scholar
Freeman Dyson, physicist and mathematician
Chambon-sur-Lignon, France, town in France that harbored thousands of Jews during the Holocaust

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Why Haverford - Office of Admission". Haverford.edu. Archived from the original on 10 November 2011. Retrieved 21 November 2014. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  2. ^ Univ. of Hawaii Law faculty page https://www.law.hawaii.edu/personnel/lawrence/charles
  3. ISBN 0-89381-405-9
    .
  4. ^ "Henry Drinker : Lawyer". Whopislog.info. Retrieved 21 November 2014.
  5. ^ https://www.fd.org/cjaort/cjaort/contacts/023.html
  6. Baltimore Sun
    . Retrieved 2013-02-25.
  7. ^ "Rob Flynn : Editor in Chief". Linkedin.com. Retrieved 21 November 2014.
  8. ^ Allen C Thomas; Haverford College Alumni Association (1900). Biographical catalogue of the matriculates of Haverford College, together with lists of the members of the college faculty and the managers, officers and recipients of honorary degrees, 1833-1900. Philadelphia: Printed for the Alumni Association. p. 173.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  9. ^ Corliss, Richard, "That Old Feeling: And The Feelie Goes To...,". "Time (Feb. 26, 2005". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  10. ^ "The New York Times Book Review (October 16, 2011), p.34: 'Print / Children's Best Sellers PICTURE BOOKS'". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  11. ^ "The New York Times (September 28, 2014): 'Best Sellers: Children's Picture Books'". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  12. ^ "Haverford Athletics". Haverfordathletics.com. Retrieved 21 November 2014.
  13. ^ [1] Archived May 8, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
  14. ISBN 978-0-394-44571-7
    .
  15. ^ "Honorary Degree Recipients" (PDF). Haverford.edu. Retrieved 13 December 2015.

External links

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