List of Smith College people
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The following is a list of individuals associated with Smith College through attending as a student, or serving as a member of the faculty or staff.
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[edit] Notable alumnae
The Alumnae Association of Smith College considers all former students to be members, whether they graduated or not, and does not generally differentiate between graduates and non-graduates when identifying Smith alumnae.
- Barbara Adams, General Counsel of Pennsylvania
- Tammy Baldwin 1984
- Barbara Pierce Bush (class of 1947, did not graduate; she left the college in 1945 to marry George H. W. Bush)
- Ernestine Gilbreth Carey 1929
- Erin Casler 1999 (Miss Deaf America 2004-06)
- Julia McWilliams Child 1934
- Jennifer Chrisler 1992
- Patience Cleveland 1952
- Emily Couric 1969 (late Virginia state senator and sister of Katie Couric)
- Otelia Cromwell 1900
- Ann Downer 1982
- Margaret Edson 1983
- Leecia Eve 1986
- Julie Nixon Eisenhower 1970
- Margaret Petherbridge Farrar 1919
- Betty Goldstein Friedan 1942
- Meg Greenfield 1952
- Mira Hinsdale Hall 1883
- Sarah P. Harkness 1937
- Jean Harris 1945
- Jane Lakes Harman 1966
- Harriet Boyd-Hawes 1892
- Doan Hoang 1994
- Elisabeth Irwin 1903
- Molly Ivins 1966
- Sally Katzen 1964
- Shelly Lazarus 1968, chairman and CEO of Ogilvy & Mather
- Madeleine L'Engle 1941
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh 1928
- Susan Lindauer 1985
- Maria Lopez 1975
- Joan Lynch, Psychiatrist
- Enid Mark 1954
- Catharine MacKinnon 1968
- Ann Matthews Martin 1977
- Mary Patterson McPherson 1957
- Olive Beaupre Miller (née Olive Kennon Beaupré) 1904
- Margaret Mitchell (class of 1922, left the college shortly after her mother's death in the 1918-1919 school year.)
- Jacquelyn A. Ottman, author of Green Marketing: Opportunity for Innovation
- Ruth Ozeki 1980
- Sylvia Plath 1955
- Halina Poświatowska 1961
- Sally Quinn 1963
- Nancy Davis Reagan 1943
- Florence R. Sabin 1893
- Lara M. Schwartz, 1992, music video producer
- Julianna Smoot 1989
- Martha Southgate 1982, award-winning author
- Gloria Steinem 1956
- Niki Tsongas 1968
- Laura D'Andrea Tyson 1969
- Yoshiko Uchida 1943-?
- Cynthia Irving Voigt 1963
- Patricia Wettig MFA 2001
- Jane Yolen 1963 (also a professor of the college)
[edit] Fictional alumnae
- Emily Gilmore, from the television series Gilmore Girls
- Ainsley Hayes, from the television series The West Wing
- Lysterine, from the 1997 film Booty Call
- Joanna Kramer, from the 1979 film Kramer vs. Kramer
- Charlotte York, from the television series Sex and the City
- Dr. Cristina Yang, from the television series Grey's Anatomy
- Susan, from the 1971 Mike Nichols film Carnal Knowledge
[edit] Presidents
- Carol T. Christ (2002-present)
- John M. Connolly (acting president 2001-2002)
- Ruth J. Simmons, first African-American president (1995-2001)
- Mary Maples Dunn (1985-1995)
- Jill Ker Conway, first woman president (1975-1985)
- Thomas C. Mendenhall (historian) (1959-1975)
- Benjamin Fletcher Wright (1949-1959)
- Herbert Davis (1940-1949)
- Elizabeth Cutter Morrow (acting president 1939-1940)
- William Allan Neilson (1917-1939)
- Marion LeRoy Burton (1910-1917)WEF
- Laurenus Clark Seelye (1875-1910)
[edit] Notable deans, administrators, and faculty (past and present)
- Alice Ambrose - professor of philosophy
- Newton Arvin - literary critic
- Leonard Baskin - artist
- Mary Ellen Chase - professor of English
- Henri Cole - poet
- Sylvia Plath - poet
- John M. Connolly - professor of philosophy
- Anita Desai - author
- Donna Robinson Divine
- Alfred Einstein - musicologist
- Stanley Elkins - professor of history
- Hallie Flanagan - director and playwright
- Jean Garrigue - poet
- Judith Gordon - pianist
- Denis Johnston - professor of philosophy
- Kurt Koffka - psychologist
- Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz - historian
- Barry Moser - artist and illustrator
- Eric Reeves - professor of English
- Laura Woolsey Lord Scales - Dean of Students (1923-1944)
- Roger Sessions - composer
- David Staines - literary critic
- David Peck Todd - astronomer
- Thomas Tymoczko - philosopher
- Kurt Vonnegut - author
- Allen Weinstein - Archivist of the United States
- Dorothy Maud Wrinch - mathematician
- Chien-Shiung Wu - physicist
