The Classical World




Famous Classics Students

List of “Famous” Classics Students (with URL of source of information)

Jane Addams, social worker, founder of Hull House, winner Nobel Peace Prize-1931
http://www.unca.edu/classics/

James A. Baker III, White House Chief of Staff and Treasure Secretary under Pres. Ronald Reagan and Secretary of State under Pres. George H. Bush.
http://www.willamette.edu/cla/classics/VIPs/vips.html

Bill Bradlee, former editor of the Washington Post
http://www.unca.edu/classics/

Jerry Brown [a.k.a. Edmund G. Brown] (1938 - ) former governor of California
http://www.willamette.edu/cla/classics/VIPs/vips.html

Rita Mae Brown, animal enthusiast and author
http://www.unca.edu/classics/

Willa Cather, teacher, journalist, critic, and author
http://www.unca.edu/classics/

William S. Cohen (1940 - ), former Secretary of Defense
http://www.willamette.edu/cla/classics/VIPs/vips.html

Lian Dolan (1966 - ) public radio talk show host
http://www.willamette.edu/cla/classics/VIPs/vips.html

Dr. Charles M. "Chuck" Geschke, former CEO and Co-founder of Adobe Systems
http://www.willamette.edu/cla/classics/VIPs/vips.html

W.E.B. DuBois, sociologist, co-founder of NAACP, and author
http://www.unca.edu/classics/

Sigmund Freud, pioneer in psychoanalysis and author
http://www.unca.edu/classics/

Betty Friedan, found of NOW and author
http://www.unca.edu/classics/Porter Goss, head of the CIA

Robert Graves, poet
http://www.unca.edu/classics/

Bruce H. Johnson, former Commissioner for the Minnesota Dept. of Children, Families, and Education (originally listed by Dr. Margaret Cook at the URL http://www.users.csbsju.edu/~mcook/JOHNSON_Jack.html early in 2005, but no longer accessible on the Internt. The academic and professional background of Judge Johnson can be found at the URL http://www.oah.state.mn.us/roster/bhj.html, but there is no specific reference to undergraduate work in the Classics.)
http://www.users.csbsju.edu/~mcook/JOHNSON_Jack.html

David Karp, Fruit Detective
http://www.willamette.edu/cla/classics/VIPs/vips.html

Gerda Lerner, pioneer in teaching women's history and author
http://www.unca.edu/classics/James J. O'Donnell, provost of Georgetown University

Jim Manzi, former CEO of Lotus Development Corp.
http://www.willamette.edu/cla/classics/VIPs/vips.html

Karl Marx (1818-1883), philosopher, political thinker, journalist, and author of the Manifesto of the Communist Party (1848) and The Capital (1867-83)
http://www.willamette.edu/cla/classics/VIPs/vips.html

Toni Morrison (1931 - ), author and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature (1993)
http://www.willamette.edu/cla/classics/VIPs/vips.html

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900), philosopher
http://www.willamette.edu/cla/classics/VIPs/vips.html

Joanne Kathleen "Jo" Rowling (1965 - ), best-selling author and multimillionaire
http://www.willamette.edu/cla/classics/VIPs/vips.html and http://www.unca.edu/classics/

Matthew Santirocco, Dean of Arts and Sciences, New York University
http://www.unca.edu/classics/

Dorothy L. Sayers, Britsh author (Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries) and translator (Dante's Divine Comedy), Christians humanist

Carl Schurz (1829-1906), Revolutionary Hero, Journalist, and German-American Statesman
http://www.willamette.edu/cla/classics/VIPs/vips.html

Lynn Sherr, correspondent, ABC-TV's "20-20"
http://www.unca.edu/classics/

John Silber, former Chancellor of Boston University

Teller of Penn and Teller, Magicians
http://www.unca.edu/classics/

Robert Edward "Ted" Turner III (1938 - ), media-mogul and billionaire
http://www.willamette.edu/cla/classics/VIPs/vips.html

Nancy Vickers, president of Bryn Mawr College
http://www.unca.edu/classics/

William F. "Bill" Weld, former governor of Massachusetts
http://www.willamette.edu/cla/classics/VIPs/vips.html

Nancy Vickers, president of Bryn Mawr College
http://www.unca.edu/classics/

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