List of Radcliffe College people

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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.

List of presidents

• Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz, 1894-1900 (honorary president 1900-1903)
• LeBaron Russell Briggs, 1903-1923
• Ada Louise Comstock, 1923-1943
• Wilbur Kitchener Jordan, 1943-1960
• Mary Bunting, 1960-1972
• Matina Horner, 1972-1989
• Linda Wilson, 1989-1999

Notable alumnae

• Virginia Hamilton Adair
• Alice Adams (writer)
• Fannie Fern Andrews
• Margaret Atwood, 1961,author
• Elizabeth Bailey
• Tryphosa Bates-Batcheller
• Deborah Batts
• Eva Beatrice Dykes
• Gail Lee Bernstein, Japanese historian
• Susan Berresford, 1965, president of the Ford Foundation 1996-2007
• Marsha S. Berzon
• Benazir Bhutto, The first woman elected to lead a Muslim state, having twice been Prime Minister of Pakistan (1988–1990; 1993–1996).
• Melissa Block, radio journalist, Co-host, All Things Considered
• Marita Bonner
• Thérèse Bonney
• Elizabeth Brewster
• Stockard Channing, actress, famous for her roles in Grease and The West Wing
• Nancy Chodorow
• Judy Clapp, 1952, computer scientist
• Zoe Cruz, Co-President of Morgan Stanley (Most Powerful woman on Wall Street)
• Natalie Zemon Davis
• Frances Gardiner Davenport (1870–1927), historian^[1]
• Peggy Dulany
• Eva Beatrice Dykes
• Debbie Ellison
• Rebecca Elson
• Barbara Epstein
• Anne Fadiman
• Norma Farber
• Abigail Folger, 1964 - American coffee heiress, debutante, socialite, volunteer social worker, civil rights devotee, and one of the murder victims of the Manson Family
• Mary Parker Follett
• Anne Garrels
• Katharine Fullerton Gerould
• Carol Gilligan
• Amy Goodman, political activist
• Ellen Goodman
• Jennifer Gordon
• Phyllis Granoff
• Linda Greenhouse
• Joyce Ballou Gregorian, 1968 - Science fiction author
• Marjorie Grene
• Gisela Kahn Gresser
• Lani Guinier
• Amy Gutmann, Current president of the University of Pennsylvania
• Melissa Glenn Haber
• Rachel Hadas
• Olive Hazlett
• Diana Mara Henry, photographer
• Helen Sawyer Hogg
• Elizabeth Holtzman
• Rachel Vetter Huang, violinist and music professor
• Elizabeth Hubbard
• Ruth Hubbard, professor, biologist, feminist
• Josephine Hull
• Leslie P. Hume, historian and philanthropist
• Agnes Irwin, educator
• Lydia P. Jackson, former Louisiana state legislator
• Rona Jaffe, author
• Nancy Johnson
• Sara Murray Jordan, gastroenterologist
• Caroline Kennedy
• Helen Keller, deafblind writer, activist
• Jean Kwok
• Maxine Kumin
• Susanne Langer
• Mary Lasker, health activist and philanthropist
• Ursula K. Le Guin, American writer, poet
• Henrietta Swan Leavitt
• Judith Ledeboer, architect
• Mary Lefkowitz
• Edith Lesley
• Alison Lurie, writer
• Princess Christina, Mrs. Magnuson
• Pauline Maier
• Emily Mann (BA English literature 1974), director
• Elizabeth Holloway Marston, M.A. 1921—involved in the creation of the comic book character, Wonder Woman
• Helen Reimensnyder Martin
• Michel McQueen Martin, 1980 - journalist
• Jessica Mathews
• Anne McCaffrey, 1947—Science fiction author
• Karen Nelson Moore
• Alice Vanderbilt Morris
• Chris Mulford, A.B. 1963, breastfeeding advocate^[2]
• Lois Murphy
• Laura Nader, Professor in Controlling Processes
• Daisy Newman
• Andrea Nye a feminist philosopher and writer.
• Ursula Oppens, classical pianist
• Deborah Orin
• Mary White Ovington
• Judith Palfrey:
• Clara Claiborne Park (1923-2010), author who raised awareness of autism.^[3]
• Linda Pastan
• Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, astronomer
• Josephine Preston Peabody
• Katha Pollitt
• Carol Potter (actress)
• Francine Prose
• Julia Quinn, New York Times Best Selling author
• Bonnie Raitt (attended one year), Grammy-award winning singer and musician
• Philinda Rand
• Adrienne Rich, poet
• Emeline Hill Richardson
• Alice Rivlin
• Helen Jean Rogers
• Judith Ann Wilson Rogers
• Margot Roosevelt, journalist
• Michelle Rosaldo
• Phyllis Schlafly, political activist, coined term A choice not an echo
• Ellen Schrecker
• Mary Sears
• Edie Sedgwick (attended), iconic American socialite and Warhol Superstar
• Carla J. Shatz
• Ellen Biddle Shipman - landscape architect (left after 1 year)
• Judith Shuval, sociologist
• Diane Souvaine
• Diane B. Snelling
• Anne Whiston Spirn, Landscape Architect
• Gertrude Stein, American writer, poet, playwright and feminist
• Doris Zemurray Stone (1909–1994), archaeologist and ethnographer of pre-Columbian Mesoamerican cultures; graduated 1930^[4]
• Abby 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
• Caroline Thompson, screenwriter-director
• Barbara Tuchman
• Lily Tuck
• Abby Howe Turner
• Ruth Turner
• Betty Miller Unterberger, first woman president of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations^[5]
• Jean Valentine
• Julie Vargas
• Emily Vermeule
• Maribel Vinson
• Caroline F. Ware
• Hannah Weiner
• Natalie Wexler
• Nancy Wexler
• Lally Weymouth
• Marina von Neumann Whitman
• Charlotte Wilder, M.A.—poet and eldest sister of Thornton Wilder
• Olive Winchester, professor at the Point Loma, Northwest, and Eastern Nazarene Colleges
• Marie Winn

Fictional alumnae

• Jennifer Cavilleri, from the book and film Love Story
• Sarah Goode, from Wendy Wasserstein's play The Sisters Rosensweig
• Florentyna Kane, from Jeffrey Archer's book The Prodigal Daughter
• Brenda Patimkin, from the novella and consequent film Goodbye, Columbus
• Patty Pryor, from the television series American Dreams
• Karen Richards, from the film All About Eve
• Sally, from Woody Allen's film Husbands and Wives
• Claire Underwood, wife of Frank Underwood, House of Cards

Notes

1. 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)
3. Hevesi, Dennis. "Clara Claiborne Park, 86, Dies; Wrote About Autistic Child", The New York Times, July 12, 2010. Accessed July 13, 2010.
4. 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.
5. "Lee W. Formwalt, "From Scotland to India: A Conversation with American Historian Betty Unterberger." August 2005". oah.org. Retrieved October 23, 2010.