List of University of Mount Union people

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This is a list of people associated with University of Mount Union. The University of Mount Union is a 4-year private, coeducational, liberal arts college in Alliance, Ohio.

Alumni

Arts

• Carrie Coon - Tony-nominated actress for her role on Broadway in the Steppenwolf revival of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf
• Dominic Dieter - Rover's Morning Glory personality; in-house "World's Dumbest Dude" expert; three-time National Football Champion with the Mount Union Purple Raiders
• DW (Dave) Drouillard - vocalist, songwriter and musician
• Will Lamartine Thompson - writer and composer of "Softly and Tenderly, Jesus is Calling"
• Tyler Turkle - filmmaker, painter and sculptor
• Eduardo Valdes - operatic tenor; has performed with the Metropolitan Opera over 500 times ^[1]
• Heather Brumbaugh (Lewis) - morning show producer for WKYC-TV 3 in Cleveland, OH Graduate in 2001

Athletics

• Jim Ballard - former Mount Union quarterback; member of the College Football Hall of Fame; quarterback in the Arena Football League, Canadian Football League, and NFL Europe; Commissioner of the American Indoor Football League^[2]
• Paul Bixler - former head football coach at Ohio State University and Colgate University
• Matt Campbell - head football coach of the Iowa State Cyclones
• Dom Capers - former defensive back of the Mount Union Purple Raiders; former NFL Head Coach for the Carolina Panthers and Houston Texans; current defensive coordinator for the Green Bay Packers
• Dick Crum - head football coach for Miami University, North Carolina and Kent State University
• Wilmer Fleming - halfback for the NFL's Canton Bulldogs
• Pierre Garçon - American football wide receiver, drafted by the Indianapolis Colts in the 2008 NFL Draft, 205th overall; FA signed to Washington Redskins 2012
• Charlie Joachim - basketball player
• Larry Kehres - highest winning percentage as a head coach in college football (All Divisions) - 303-23-3/.925
• Nate Kmic - Purple Raiders running back, 2005–08; first player in any division of NCAA football with 8,000 career rushing yards
• Frank Lauterbur - head football coach for the University of Toledo
• Ron Lynn - Assistant Football Coach, Stanford University
• Harry March - NFL executive; second American Football League founder; medical doctor for the pre-NFL Canton Bulldogs; New York Giants executive; professional football historian and promoter; author of Pro Football: Its Ups and Downs
• Rae McDonald - first NCAA All-American wrestler in OAC history; first wrestler inducted into the Mount Union Athletic HOF (1992)
• Kurt Rocco - arena football quarterback; has played for the Cleveland Gladiators and the New Orleans VooDoo

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• Cecil Shorts III - football wide receiver, drafted by the Jacksonville Jaguars in the 2011 NFL Draft, 114th overall
• LeRoy Sprankle - high school sports coach and athletics advocate in Eastern Tennessee and South Florida; the "Father of East Tennessee Sports"
• E. J. Stewart - former college football coach' professional football player-coach' general manager and founder of the Ohio League's Massillon Tigers

Business

• Vincent Marotta – business executive and co-creator of Mr. Coffee^[3]
• Susan McGalla - former president of American Eagle Outfitters; former chief executive officer of Wet Seal

Education

• Bowman Foster Ashe - first president of the University of Miami
• Victor Boschini - current Chancellor of Texas Christian University
• Henry Solomon Lehr - founder, Ohio Northern University
• Chip Mosher - newspaper columnist; high school "Educator of Distinction;" poet

Medical

• Charles Armstrong - virologist, physician in the U.S. Public Health Service
• Richard Drake - professor of surgery Cleveland Clinic, Lerner College of Medicine

Politics and law

• Thomas H. Anderson - United States federal judge
• Christopher A. Boyko - United States federal judge
• Allen Foster Cooper - U.S. Congressman from Pennsylvania
• Bruce R. Harris - United States administrative judge, Interior Board of Land Appeals
• David Hollingsworth - U.S. Congressman from Ohio; an organizer of the Ohio State bar association, serving as its chairman in 1908
• Lyman U. Humphrey - 11th Governor of Kansas
• Samuel Austin Kendall - U.S. Congressman from Pennsylvania
• Philander Knox - Attorney General of the United States in the cabinets of Presidents William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt; Senator of Pennsylvania; United States Secretary of State for President William Howard Taft
• William McKinley - 25th President of the United States
• C. Ellis Moore - U.S. Congressman from Ohio
• Miner G. Norton - U.S. Congressman from Ohio
• Ralph Regula - U.S. Congressman from Ohio
• Brian L. Stafford - the 20th Director of the United States Secret Service
• W. Aubrey Thomas - U.S. Congressman from Ohio

Religion

• James Midwinter Freeman - clergyman and writer
• John William Hamilton - Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church
• Francis Enmer Kearns - Bishop of the Methodist Church and the United Methodist Church
• Charles Bayard Mitchell - Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church
• Wesley Matthias Stanford - Bishop of the United Evangelical Church

Science

• Shuvo Roy - Associate professor, Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Science, University of California, San Francisco; developed an artificial kidney^[4]
• Lorin B. Sebrell - Goodyear Research Director noted for his work on organic accelerators for vulcanization

Notable faculty

• De Scott Evans, noted 19th-century artist, former head of Mount Union art department

References

1. "Alum Performs with Metropolitan Opera House". University of Mount Union, Alliance. Retrieved 28 June 2013.
2. Turner, Jamie (July 17, 2008). "Mount Union's Jim Ballard eager for College Football Hall of Fame induction". The Plain Dealer. Retrieved 2 October 2011.
3. Fox, Margalit (2015-08-03). "Vincent Marotta Sr., a Creator of Mr. Coffee, Dies at 91". New York Times. Retrieved 2015-08-26.
4. "Biomedical Microdevices Laboratory". University of California, San Francisco. Retrieved 2 October 2011.

External links

• Mount Union official site