Famous Graduates
Muhlenberg College, PA John Trainer, Bolles President
Rollins College, Florida Mr. Rogers; Donald Cram, Nobel Prize Winner
University of Miami, FL Sylvester Stallone; Ray Liotta, actor; Gloria Estefan; Greg Louganis, diver; Betty Castor, politician; Enrique Iglesias, musician
DePaul University, Chicago Richard Daley, Chicago Mayor
Knox College, IL Bob Jamison, ABC News; Ismat Kittani, former Pres. UN General Assembly
Georgia Institute of Tech. Jimmy Carter; Sam Nunn, congressman; D. Truly, former NASA head; Ron Allen, former CEO Delta Airlines; Kary Mulles, Nobel Prize chemistry
Hamilton College Alan Lafley, CEO Procter and Gamble
U of Illinois, Urbana Roger Ebert; Lynn Martin, former Secretary of Labor; Dennis Swanson, head of ABC Sports
Wheaton College, IL Billy Graham
Eureka College, IL Ronald Reagan
Nicholls College, MA Peter Lynch, CEO Winn-Dixie
West Virginia University Don Knotts, actor
Whittier College, CA Richard Nixon
Grinnell College, IA Herbie Hancock, musician
Tulane, LA Newt Gingrich; Michael Debakey, cardiac surgeon and MASH unit pioneer
Bates College, Maine Bryant Gumbel, Greg Gumbel, Edmund Muskie
Bowdoin College, Maine Chris McCormick, Pres. of L.L. Bean; Joan Benoit Samuelson, Gold Medal Olympian
Colby College, Maine Doris Kearns Goodwin, history writer
Loyola College MD Tom Clancy; Jim McKay, ABC sports
Emerson College, MA Henry Winkler; Jay Leno
Carleton College, MI Garrick Utley, ABC News
Fresno State, CA Paul O’Neill, former Secretary of the Treasury
Macalester College, MI Walter Mondale, presidential candidate
Bard College, NY Blythe Danner, actress; Chevy Chase
St. Lawrence U. NY Kirk Douglas
Sarah Lawrence, NY Alice Walker, author; Barbara Walters
Case Western Reserve, Ohio President of Saturn; inventor of Nike Airsole
Denison U., Ohio Richard Lugar, US Senator; Michael Eisner, former Walt Disney CEO
Kenyon College, Ohio Paul Newman
Miami U., Ohio Ara Parseghian, Notre Dame football coach; Rita Dove, U.S. poet laureate
Oberlin College, Ohio Carl Rowan, columnist
Furman University, SC Betsy King, LPGA champion; Keith Lockhart, conductor,
Boston Pops
Fisk University, TN Hazel O’Leary, former Secretary of Energy
Virginia Tech, Virginia Christopher Kraft, NASA
Ripon College, WI Richard Threlkeld, CBS News; Harrison Ford
Oregon State University Linus Pauling, 2 time Nobel Prize recipient; Betty Crocker
Bucknell University, PA Bernard Marcus, Home Depot founder
University of Washington Beverly Cleary, author; Kenny G; Hank Ketcham, Dennis the Menace cartoonist; Bruce Lee, Patrick Duffy
University of Northern Michigan Howard Schultz, CEO of Starbucks