List of College of Wooster people

This page lists notable alumni and former students, faculty, and administrators of the College of Wooster.

Alumni[edit]

Academia[edit]

Karl Taylor Compton, Philosophy (1908), President of MIT 1930-1948; member of the National Academy of Sciences
Wayne A. Cornelius, Political Science (1967), founder of the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies at the University of California, San Diego
Frederick Hinitt, Doctor of Divinity (1902), Presbyterian pastor; President of Centre College and Washington & Jefferson College
Isaac C. Ketler, Presbyterian scholar, founder of Grove City College
Shannon Boyd-Bailey McCune (1935), geographer and university administrator; President of the University of Florida and the University of Vermont
Kimberly Bracken Long, B. Mus. (1981), Presbyterian pastor; writer; Associate Professor of Worship at Columbia Theological Seminary
Merton M. Sealts, Jr., English (1937), Emerson and Melville scholar
Ronald Takaki, History (1961), historian, ethnographer, professor of ethnic studies at the University of California, Berkeley
J. Campbell White, President of Wooster, 1915-1919
Wendell L. Wylie, American Orthodontist
Courtney Young (librarian), English (1996), Librarian and past president of the American Library Association, 2014-2015
Nancy Zahniser, pharmacologist

Business[edit]

George Fitch, Economics (1970), politician and business consultant; co-founder of the Jamaican Bobsled Team, which debuted at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Alberta
Stanley Gault, Geology (1948), former CEO of Rubbermaid and Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company^[1]
Charles F. Kettering, inventor of electric automobile starter motor; Vice President of General Motors Research Corporation; namesake of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center; attended but did not graduate
Blake Moore, History (1980), NFL lineman for the Cincinnati Bengals and Green Bay Packers; CEO of Allianz Global Investors
R.J. Thomas, President of the United Auto Workers
Bill Townsend, Art (1986), Internet entrepreneur, politician, founder and chairman of the Amati Foundation^[2]

Education[edit]

Margaret Lee Chadwick, founder and headmistress of the Chadwick School, and author

Government[edit]

W. Thomas Andrews (1963), Pennsylvania State Senator^[3]
William Moore McCulloch, chair of the United States House Committee on the Judiciary, forced Civil Rights Act of 1964 through Congress^[4]
John Carwile, U.S. Ambassador to Latvia (2019-present)^[5]
Ted Celeste, member of the Ohio House of Representatives^[6]
John Dean, Political Science (1961), White House Counsel (1970–1973) to President Richard Nixon^[7]
Eugene A. DePasquale, Political Science (1993), Pennsylvania Auditor General^[8]
David Dudley Dowd Jr. (1951), United States federal judge, United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio^[9]
Charlie Earl, former Ohio state representative; candidate in the 2014 Ohio gubernatorial election
Mark F. Giuliano, Deputy Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation^[10]
Donald Kohn, Economics (1964), Vice Chairman of the Board of Governors of the United States Federal Reserve
Ping-Wen Kuo (1911), Chinese educator and statesman
John McSweeney (1912), member of the United States House of Representatives
John T. Morrison (1887), sixth Governor of Idaho, 1903-1905^[11]
Norman Morrison, Religion (1956), pacifist, Vietnam War protester
Solomon Oliver Jr., Philosophy and Political Science (1969), U.S. District Court Chief Judge for the Northern District of Ohio
Carl V. Weygandt (1912), Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio

Journalism[edit]

Vince Cellini, Speech (1981), host of The Golf Channel; former anchor for CNN Sports
Alfred William Edel, History (1957), news anchor for ABC Radio News and Voice of America
Daniel Howes, History (1983), business columnist for The Detroit News
Mary Sifton Pepper (1883), journalist and translator on The Jesuit Relations
Mark Stephens, also known as Robert X. Cringely, History (1975), technology journalist for Public Broadcasting Service

Literature[edit]

Debra Allbery, English (1979), poet (Walking Distance), winner of the 1990 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize
Frederic Lauriston Bullard (1891), Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist for the Boston Herald; Lincoln historian; writer (Famous War Correspondents)
Mary Crow, English (1955), Poet Laureate of Colorado^[12]
Stephen R. Donaldson, English (1968), New York Times bestselling science fiction author (Thomas Covenant)
John Lawrence Goheen (1906), missionary, agriculturist, writer (Glimpses of Ichalkaranji)
David Means, English (1984), short story writer (Assorted Fire Events), winner of 2000 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction

Performing arts[edit]

James B. Allardice, Emmy Award winning television writer
Caitlin Cary, English (1990), alt-country musician, member of the band Whiskeytown
J.C. Chandor, Cultural Film Studies (1996), film director, Margin Call
Darius Scott Dixson (DIXSON), Academy Award-nominated Songwriter & Music Producer, "Be Alive", contestant on The Voice (American season 9)
Divya Gopikumar, Psychology (2008), South Indian actress
Duncan Jones (aka Zowie Bowie or Joey Bowie), Philosophy (1995), British film director of Moon and Source Code; son of rock musician David Bowie
Debi Smith, Psychology (1976), folk singer/songwriter and member of the Four Bitchin' Babes^[13]

Religion[edit]

Sophia Lyon Fahs (1897), honorary degree (1961), writer, liberal religious activist, and educator
Elizabeth Eaton, Music Education (1977), Presiding Bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) from 2013–present.^[14]

Science[edit]

Arthur Holly Compton, Physics (1913), Nobel Prize-winning physicist; member of the National Academy of Sciences; Chancellor of Washington University 1945-1953
Helen Murray Free, Chemistry (1945), elected President of the American Chemical Society in 1993; inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2000
Martha Chase (1950), American geneticist; performed the Hershey–Chase experiment in 1952, proving that genetic information is transmitted by DNA and not protein.
Elizebeth Friedman, America's first female cryptologist; attended briefly but transferred elsewhere
George E. Goodfellow (1876), physician, authority on gunshot wounds, first surgeon to perform a perineal prostatectomy
Tim McCreight, Art (1973), artist and metalsmith; President of the Society of North American Goldsmiths (1993–1994)
James V. Neel, Biology (1935), Distinguished Professor of Human Genetics University of Michigan; Albert Lasker Award winner, National Medal of Science winner, National Academy of Sciences member; "father of modern human genetics"
Stephen J. Page (1993), biomedical researcher, author, clinician, academic, and expert on motor recovery and care after stroke
James C. Stevens, Chemistry (1975), Distinguished Fellow at Dow Chemical; inventor of constrained geometry catalyst for polyolefin manufacture; member of the National Academy of Engineering
George W. Thorn, Biology (1927), Chief of Medicine, Bringham & Woman's Hospital Harvard University; NAS Public Welfare Medal winner; Chairman Emeritus Howard Hughes Medical Institute
John Travis, Chemistry (1965), preventive medicine physician, founder of first wellness center in US

Sports[edit]

Charles Follis (1902*), the first black professional football player; he played for a team in the Ohio League (which later became the NFL)
Reggie Minton, Physical Education (1963), deputy executive director of the National Association of Basketball Coaches; head basketball coach United States Air Force Academy (1985–2000)
Larry Shyatt, Physical Education (1973), basketball coach; head coach of Clemson University and the University of Wyoming; assistant coach of the Dallas Mavericks (2016-2019)

Faculty[edit]

Daniel Bourne, poet, professor of English
Joanne Frye, writer, professor of English and Women's Studies
Jack Gallagher, composer, Olive Williams Kettering Professor of Music
William Gass, novelist (The Tunnel), professor of philosophy and English
R. Stanton Hales, president of Wooster (1995–2007), national US badminton champion
Dario Hunter, rabbi
Jack Lengyel, head football coach and lacrosse coach 1966–1970; head football coach at Marshall University 1971–1974
Hayden Schilling, professor of history
Orange Nash Stoddard, professor of natural history
Anthony Tognazzini, writer, professor of Creative Writing
Josephine Wright, musicologist, Josephine Lincoln Morris Professor of Black Studies^[15]

References[edit]

^ Goldstein, Matthew (2016-07-06). "Stanley Gault, Who Led Rubbermaid and Goodyear, Dies at 90 (Published 2016)". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-10-14.
^ "Amati Foundation & Extreme Makeover: Home Edition". Amatifoundation.org. Retrieved 2014-03-01.
^ "W. Thomas Andrews". The Times. 17 September 2009. Retrieved 2020-10-19.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
^ Hall, Linda (7 March 2017). "McCulloch statue dedicated at The College of Wooster". The Daily Record. Retrieved 2020-10-19.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
^ "Ambassador John L. Carwile".
^ Hallett, Joe (11 February 2012). "Ted Celeste: 'It's time to get things done'". Archived from the original on 16 February 2012.
^ Anderson, Patrick (1973-07-08). "Rushing toward a footnote in history (Published 1973)". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-10-19.
^ "Meet Auditor General Eugene DePasquale". paauditor.gov. Pennsylvania Department of the Auditor General.
^ "Biography for retired U.S. District Judge David D. Dowd Jr". Akron Beacon Journal. Retrieved 2020-10-19.
^ "Mark F. Giuliano Named Deputy Director of the FBI". FBI. 5 Nov 2013. Retrieved 6 Nov 2013.
^ "Idaho Governor John T. Morrison". National Governors Association. Retrieved September 19, 2012.
^ "Mary Crow, Colorado Poet Laureate". Colostate.edu.
^ Denise Dunbar (2 June 2022). "The Four Bitchin' Babes return to The Birchmere - Alexandria Times". Alexandria Times. Retrieved 6 June 2022.
^ "Presiding Bishop". ELCA.org. Retrieved 2019-10-26.
^ Graham, Sandra Jean (2010-05-26). "Wright, Josephine". Grove Music Online. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.a2087811.

[1] Goldstein, Matthew (2016-07-06). "Stanley Gault, Who Led Rubbermaid and Goodyear, Dies at 90 (Published 2016)". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-10-14.

[2] "Amati Foundation & Extreme Makeover: Home Edition". Amatifoundation.org. Retrieved 2014-03-01.

[3] "W. Thomas Andrews". The Times. 17 September 2009. Retrieved 2020-10-19.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)

[4] Hall, Linda (7 March 2017). "McCulloch statue dedicated at The College of Wooster". The Daily Record. Retrieved 2020-10-19.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)

[5] "Ambassador John L. Carwile".

[6] Hallett, Joe (11 February 2012). "Ted Celeste: 'It's time to get things done'". Archived from the original on 16 February 2012.

[7] Anderson, Patrick (1973-07-08). "Rushing toward a footnote in history (Published 1973)". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-10-19.

[8] "Meet Auditor General Eugene DePasquale". paauditor.gov. Pennsylvania Department of the Auditor General.

[9] "Biography for retired U.S. District Judge David D. Dowd Jr". Akron Beacon Journal. Retrieved 2020-10-19.

[10] "Mark F. Giuliano Named Deputy Director of the FBI". FBI. 5 Nov 2013. Retrieved 6 Nov 2013.

[11] "Idaho Governor John T. Morrison". National Governors Association. Retrieved September 19, 2012.

[12] "Mary Crow, Colorado Poet Laureate". Colostate.edu.

[13] Denise Dunbar (2 June 2022). "The Four Bitchin' Babes return to The Birchmere - Alexandria Times". Alexandria Times. Retrieved 6 June 2022.

[14] "Presiding Bishop". ELCA.org. Retrieved 2019-10-26.

[:0-15] Graham, Sandra Jean (2010-05-26). "Wright, Josephine". Grove Music Online. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.a2087811.

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