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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 or
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an .
List of presidents
Deans
Notable alumnae
Architects and landscape architects
Art and architecture historians
Leila Cook Barber , MA degree 1928,
art historian and
professor emeritus at
Vassar College , specializing in the
Renaissance art and
medieval studies .
[4]
Mary Berenson (1864–1945), Harvard Annex student 1884-1885,
art historian
Katharine Seymour Day ,
historical preservationist
Florence M. Montgomery (1914–1998), American art historian and curator at
Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library
Eva Moseley , American curator and archivist
Phoebe Stanton (1914–2003), MA 1939,
architectural historian , professor at
Johns Hopkins University , and urban planner for Baltimore.
[5]
Lawyers and judges
Deborah Batts , judge
Cora Agnes Benneson , attorney, lecturer, and writer
[6]
Marsha Berzon , judge
Elaine Denniston , lawyer, supported the
Apollo program
Jennifer Gordon , workers rights activist, lawyer
Karen Nelson Moore , judge
Physicians
Writers, poets, journalists, and editor
Virginia Hamilton Adair , poet
Alice Adams , writer
Fannie Fern Andrews , writer
Margaret Atwood , 1961, author
Marita Bonner , writer, playwright
Elizabeth Brewster , poet
Barbara Epstein , literary editor
Anne Fadiman , essayist and reporter
Norma Farber , children's book writer and poet
Anne Garrels , journalist
Katharine Fullerton Gerould , novelist
Amy Goodman , journalist and political activist
Ellen Goodman , journalist and writer
Joyce Ballou Gregorian , 1968, science fiction author
Melissa Glenn Haber , writer
Rachel Hadas , poet, teacher, essayist, and translator
Rona Jaffe , author
Helen Keller ,
deaf blind writer, activist
Maxine Kumin , poet and author
Jean Kwok , author
Ursula K. Le Guin , American writer, poet
Alison Lurie , writer
Michel McQueen Martin , 1980, journalist
Anne McCaffrey , 1947, science fiction author
Priscilla Johnson McMillan , MA 1953, journalist, translator, author, historian
Daisy Newman , writer
Andrea Nye a feminist philosopher and writer
Linda Pastan , poet
Julia Quinn ,
New York Times best selling author
Clara Claiborne Park (1923–2010), author who raised awareness of autism
[7]
Josephine Preston Peabody , poet
Katha Pollitt , poet, essayist and critic
Francine Prose writer
Adrienne Rich , poet
Margot Roosevelt , journalist
Elsie Singmaster , author
Gertrude Stein , American writer, poet, playwright and feminist
Lily Tuck , novelist and short story writer
Jean Valentine , poet
Lally Weymouth , journalist
Hannah Weiner , poet
Natalie Wexler , novelist
Ruth Whitman , poet
Charlotte Wilder , MA, poet and eldest sister of
Thornton Wilder
Others
Elizabeth Bailey , economist
Tryphosa Bates-Batcheller , singer
Gail Lee Bernstein , Japanese historian
Susan Berresford , 1965, president of the
Ford Foundation 1996–2007
Benazir Bhutto , first woman elected to lead a Muslim state, Prime Minister of Pakistan (1988–1990; 1993–1996)
Melissa Block , radio journalist, co-host,
All Things Considered
Thérèse Bonney , photographer and publicist
Jane Britton , 1967, murdered while a graduate student at Harvard University
Stockard Channing , actress, famous for her roles in
Grease and
The West Wing
Nancy Chodorow , sociologist
Judy Clapp , 1952, computer scientist
Zoe Cruz , business, co-president of
Morgan Stanley (most powerful woman on Wall Street)
Natalie Zemon Davis , historian of the
early modern period
Frances Gardiner Davenport (1870–1927), historian of he later
Middle Ages and the
European colonization
[8]
Jane Dempsey Douglass , feminist theologian, ecclesiastical historian, and president of the
World Alliance of Reformed Churches
Peggy Dulany , heiress and philanthropist
Eva Beatrice Dykes , academic
Debbie Ellison , model
Rebecca Elson , writer and astronomer
Abigail Folger , 1964, American coffee heiress, debutante, socialite, volunteer social worker, civil rights devotee
Mary Parker Follett , social worker, management consultant, and philosopher
Carol Gilligan , feminist, ethicist, and psychologist
Susanna Grannis , academic and nonprofit organizer
Phyllis Granoff , academic of
Indic religions
Linda Greenhouse , legal journalist
Marjorie Grene , philosopher
Gisela Kahn Gresser , chess player
Lani Guinier , legal scholar and civil rights theorist
Amy Gutmann , current president of the
University of Pennsylvania
Virginia Hall , SOE spy
Olive Hazlett , mathematician
Diana Mara Henry , photographer
Helen Sawyer Hogg , astronomer
Elizabeth Holtzman , politician
Elizabeth Hubbard , actress
Ruth Hubbard , professor, biologist, feminist
Josephine Hull , stage and film actress
Leslie P. Hume , historian and philanthropist
Catharine Sargent Huntington , actress, producer, director, founder of multiple theater companies, activist
Lydia P. Jackson , former Louisiana state legislator
Nancy Johnson , politician
Roberta Karmel (born 1937), Centennial Professor of Law at
Brooklyn Law School , and first female
commissioner of the
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
Caroline Kennedy , author and diplomat
Sinah Estelle Kelley , chemist
Susanne Langer , philosopher
Mary Lasker , health activist and philanthropist
Henrietta Swan Leavitt , astronomer
Mary Lefkowitz , scholar of Classics
Edith Lesley , academic and founder of Lesley University
Princess Christina, Mrs. Magnuson , Swedish princess
Pauline Maier , historian
Emily Mann (BA English literature 1974), director
Elizabeth Holloway Marston , MA 1921—involved in the creation of the comic book character
Wonder Woman
Helen Reimensnyder Martin , novelist
Jessica Mathews
Jean Trepp McKelvey (1908–1998), American economist
Laura Meneses , political activist
Alice Vanderbilt Morris
Amelia Muir Baldwin , interior designer and women's suffrage activist
Chris Mulford , AB 1963, breastfeeding advocate
[9]
Laura Nader , professor in controlling processes
Ursula Oppens , classical pianist
Deborah Orin , journalist
Mary White Ovington , activist, NAACP founder
Masako Owada , 1985, empress of Japan
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin , astronomer
Carol Potter , actress
Bonnie Raitt (attended one year),
Grammy Award -winning singer and musician
Philinda Rand , American
English-language teacher in the
Philippines
Lois Rice , 1954, vice president of the
College Board and architect of the
Pell Grant
[10]
Emeline Hill Richardson , archeologist
Alice Rivlin , economist
Helen Jean Rogers , television producer
Judith Ann Wilson Rogers
Michelle Rosaldo , anthropologist
Phyllis Schlafly , political activist, coined term A choice not an echo
Ellen Schrecker , historian
Mary Sears , oceanographer
Edie Sedgwick (attended), iconic American socialite and
Warhol superstar
Judith Shuval , sociologist
Cynthia Solomon , computer scientist, co-designer of
Logo (programming language) , and co-developer of LCSI Logo.
Diane Souvaine , computer scientist
Diane B. Snelling , politician
Edith G. Stedman , 1910, head the Appointment Bureau 1930–1954
Doris Zemurray Stone , 1930 (1909–1994), archaeologist and ethnographer of pre-Columbian
Mesoamerican cultures
[11]
Abby A. 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 , public administrator and social reformer
Martha J. B. Thomas , (1926–2006), PhD MBA, chemical engineer
Caroline Thompson , screenwriter-director
Barbara W. Tuchman , historian and author
Abby Howe Turner , zoologist
Ruth Turner , marine biologist
Julie Vargas , educator
Emily Vermeule , archeologist
Maribel Vinson , figure skater
Caroline F. Ware , historian
Ruth Wendell Washburn , educational psychologist
Marina von Neumann Whitman , economist
Olive Winchester , professor at the
Point Loma ,
Northwest , and
Eastern Nazarene colleges
Marie Winn , ornithologist
Notes
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^
"Lois Wilson Langhorst" . PCAD. Retrieved 2024-03-02 .
^
"Lois Wilson Langhorst" . IAWA Biographical Database. Retrieved 2024-03-02 .
^
"Barber, Leila Cook" . Dictionary of Art Historians . 21 February 2018. Retrieved March 2, 2021 .
^ Cowles, Amy (October 6, 2003).
"Obituary: Phoebe Stanton, 88, Outspoken Guardian of City's Architecture" . Johns Hopkins Gazette, Vol. 33 No. 6 . Retrieved 2021-03-08 .
^ Nazzal, James A. (2000).
" 'Verite Sans Peur': Cora Agnes Benneson, a First-Wave Feminist of Illinois" .
Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society . 93 (3): 273–286.
JSTOR
40193344 .
^ Hevesi, Dennis.
"Clara Claiborne Park, 86, Dies; Wrote About Autistic Child" ,
The New York Times , July 12, 2010. Accessed July 13, 2010.
^ Introduction to European Treaties Bearing on the History of the United States and its Dependencies , vol. 2 (Washington, D.C.: Carnegie Institution of Washington, 2010 edition)
^
"Obituary - Chris Mulford, IBCLC (1941-2011)" .
^ Roberts, Sam (January 18, 2017).
"Lois Dickson Rice, Trailblazing Executive Behind Pell Grants, Dies at 83" .
The New York Times . Archived from
the original on May 7, 2023. Retrieved March 29, 2024 .
^ Union College Office of Communications (January 1995).
"Doris Zemurray Stone dies" (online reproduction) . Union College Magazine . Schenectady, NY:
Union College .
OCLC
6850493 . Retrieved 2008-08-10 .