List of Radcliffe College people
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The following is a list of individuals associated with Radcliffe College through attending as a student, or serving as college president.
[edit] List of presidents
- Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz, 1894-1900 (honorary president 1900-1903)
- LeBaron Russell Briggs, 1903-1923
- Ada Louise Comstock, 1923-1943
- Wilbur Kitchener Jordan, 1943-1960
- Mary Bunting, 1960-1972
- Martina Horner, 1972-1989
- Linda Wilson, 1989-1999
[edit] Notable alumnae
- Virginia Hamilton Adair
- Alice Adams (writer)
- Fannie Fern Andrews
- Margaret Atwood, 1961,author
- Elizabeth Bailey
- Tryphosa Bates-Batcheller
- Deborah Batts
- Sallie Bernard, 1979, executive director of Safe Minds
- Gail Lee Bernstein, Japanese historian
- Marsha L. Berzon
- Benazir Bhutto, Late Prime Minister of Pakistan
- Melissa Block, radio journalist, Co-host, All Things Considered
- Thérèse Bonney
- Elizabeth Brewster
- Stockard Channing, actress, famous for her roles in Grease and The West Wing.
- Nancy Chodorow
- Natalie Zemon Davis
- Peggy Dulany
- Eva Beatrice Dykes
- Debbie Ellison
- Rebecca Elson
- Barbara Epstein
- Anne Fadiman
- Norma Farber
- Abigail Folger, 1964—American heiress and murder victim.
- Mary Parker Follett
- Anne Garrels
- Katharine Fullerton Gerould
- Carol Gilligan
- Ellen Goodman
- Jennifer Gordon
- Phyllis Granoff
- Linda Greenhouse
- Joyce Ballou Gregorian, 1968 - Science fiction author
- Marjorie Grene
- Lani Guinier
- Amy Gutmann, Current president of the University of Pennsylvania
- Melissa Glenn Haber
- Rachel Hadas
- Olive Hazlett
- Helen Sawyer Hogg
- Elizabeth Holtzman
- Elizabeth Hubbard
- Josephine Hull
- Agnes Irwin, educator
- Rona Jaffe, author
- Nancy Johnson
- Helen Keller, deafblind writer, activist
- Maxine Kumin
- Susanne Langer
- Ursula K. Le Guin, American writer, poet
- Henrietta Swan Leavitt
- Mary Lefkowitz
- Pauline Maier
- Elizabeth Holloway Marston, M.A. 1921—involved in the creation of the comic book character, Wonder Woman
- Helen Reimensnyder Martin
- Jessica Mathews
- Anne McCaffrey, 1947—Science fiction author
- Karen Nelson Moore
- Alice Vanderbilt Morris
- Lois Murphy
- Laura Nader, Professor in Controlling Processes
- Daisy Newman
- Deborah Orin
- Mary White Ovington
- Judith Palfrey
- Linda Pastan
- Josephine Preston Peabody
- Katha Pollitt
- Carol Potter (actress)
- Francine Prose
- Julia Quinn, New York Times Best Selling Author
- Bonnie Raitt (attended one year), Grammy-award winning singer and musician.
- Philinda Rand
- Adrienne Rich, poet
- Emeline Hill Richardson
- Alice Rivlin
- Helen Jean Rogers
- Judith Ann Wilson Rogers
- Michelle Rosaldo
- Phyllis Schlafly, conservative political activist, coined term A choice not an echo
- Ellen Schrecker
- Mary Sears
- Edie Sedgwick (attended), iconic American socialite and Warhol Superstar
- Carla J. Shatz
- Ellen Biddle Shipman - landscape architect (left after 1 year)
- Diane B. Snelling
- Gertrude Stein, American writer, poet, playwright and feminist
- Abby Sutherland, cum laude graduate, head mistress, president, and owner of The Ogontz School for Girls. Sutherland deeded the school to Penn State in 1950.
- Mary E. Switzer
- Barbara Tuchman
- Abby Howe Turner
- Ruth Turner
- Jean Valentine
- Julie Vargas
- Emily Vermeule
- Maribel Vinson
- Caroline F. Ware
- Hannah Weiner
- Natalie Wexler
- Lally Weymouth
- Marina von Neumann Whitman
- Charlotte Wilder, M.A.—poet and eldest sister of Thornton Wilder
- Marie Winn
- Not an alumnus of Radcliffe: Eugene C. Barker, premier historian of Texas, taught at Radcliffe while attending Harvard in the 1910s.
[edit] Fictional alumnae
- Brenda Patimkin, from the novella and consequent film Goodbye, Columbus
- Jennifer Cavilleri, from the book and film Love Story
- "Florentyna Kane", from Jeffrey Archer's book "The Prodigal Daughter"
- Sarah Goode, from Wendy Wasserstein's play The Sisters Rosensweig
- Karen Richards, from the film All About Eve
- Patty Pryor, from the television series American Dreams'
