List of Goucher College people

Goucher College is a private liberal arts college in Towson, Maryland. It was originally established in 1885 as a women's college and became coeducational in 1986.

The following is an incomplete list of prominent Goucher people.

Law, government, and public affairs

 * Sally Brice-O'Hara (1974), Vice Admiral and Vice Commandant of the United States Coast Guard
 * Joan Claybrook (1959), president of Public Citizen, think tank founded by Ralph Nader
 * Rita C. Davidson (1948), first woman on the Maryland Court of Appeals
 * Ellen Lipton Hollander (1971), federal judge for the United States District Court for the District of Maryland
 * Sarah T. Hughes (1917), federal judge who administered the presidential oath of office to Lyndon B. Johnson following the assassination of John F. Kennedy
 * Margaret G. Kibben, Rear Admiral, U.S. Navy (ret.), Chaplain of the United States House of Representatives, Chaplain of the United States Marine Corps
 * Phyllis A. Kravitch (1941), federal judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
 * Amy Kuhn, state representative in Maine
 * Laurie McKinnon, (1982) Associate Justice of the Montana Supreme Court
 * John A. Olszewski, Jr. (2004), Baltimore County Executive
 * Kevin B. Quinn (2001), Chief Executive Officer and Administrator of the Maryland Transit Administration
 * A. Margaret Russanowska (1912), social worker, US Department of Labor, film censor, Red Cross worker
 * Jessie Woodrow Wilson Sayre (1908), daughter of U.S. President Woodrow Wilson and political activist
 * Paula Stern (1967), former chairwoman of the United States International Trade Commission
 * Lucé Vela (1982), former First Lady of Puerto Rico

Literature and journalism

 * Ellen Bass (1968), poet
 * Emily Newell Blair, writer, feminist, and co-founder of the League of Women Voters
 * Sheri Booker author and poet
 * Andrew Ervin (1993), novelist and critic
 * Margaret Fishback (1921), author and poet
 * Jonah Goldberg (1991), author and conservative commentator
 * Anne Lamott (attended for two years), memoirist
 * Laura Amy Schlitz (1977), author, Newbery Medal and Newbery Honor winner
 * Darcey Steinke (1985), author and university lecturer
 * Eleanor Wilner (1959), poet, 1991 MacArthur Fellow

Scientists, physicians, psychologists, mathematicians, and researchers

 * Beatrice Aitchison (1928), mathematician and transportation economist
 * Hattie Alexander (1923), pediatrician and microbiologist
 * Anne Bahlke (1926), physician, medical research, state public health official
 * Ruth Bleier (1945), neurophysiologist, feminist scholar
 * Teresa Cohen (1912), mathematician
 * Nan Dieter-Conklin (1948), radio astronomer
 * Helen Dodson Price (1927), astronomer, winner of the Annie J. Cannon Award in Astronomy
 * Margaret Irving Handy (1911), pediatrician
 * Helen C. Harrison (1931), winner of the John Howland Award and the E. Mead Johnson Award for work in pediatrics
 * Ethel Browne Harvey, embryologist
 * Marjorie G. Horning, biochemist and pharmacologist
 * Georgeanna Seegar Jones (1932), reproductive endocrinologist
 * Kate Breckenridge Karpeles (1909), United States Army doctor during World War I
 * Harriet H. Malitson (1948), astronomer at Goddard Space Flight Center
 * Grace Manson, psychologist
 * Margaret McFarland (1927), psychologist and consultant to Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
 * Florence Marie Mears (1917), mathematician
 * Bessie Moses (1915), gynecologist and obstetrician
 * Florence B. Seibert (1918), biochemist
 * Lydia Villa-Komaroff, molecular biologist
 * Jean Worthley (1944), naturalist

Academics and scholars

 * Elizabeth Nesbitt (1897 – 1977), children's librarian and a library science educator
 * Shirley Montag Almon (1956), economist
 * Constance Prem Nath Dass (1911), first Indian president of Isabella Thoburn College
 * Alice Deal (1899) first female school principal in the District of Columbia
 * Karen S. Haynes (1968), president of California State University, San Marcos
 * Alice Kessler-Harris (1961), historian and professor
 * Amy Hewes (1897), Economist and professor at Mount Holyoke College
 * Melissa Klapper (1995), historian and storyteller
 * Stephen Kimber, Canadian journalist and professor at University of King's College
 * Joan Maling, linguist and professor
 * Nancy Mowll Mathews (1968), art historian
 * Sara Haardt Mencken (1920), professor of English literature, wife of H. L. Mencken
 * Edith Philips (1913), educator and writer, 1928 Guggenheim Fellow
 * Hortense Powdermaker (1919), anthropologist
 * Elizabeth Barrows Ussher, Christian missionary and witness to the Armenian genocide
 * Anna Crone, linguist and literary theorist

Arts and entertainment

 * Nan Agle, children's books author
 * Clara Beranger (1907), screenwriter, married to William C. DeMille
 * Mildred Dunnock (1922), Oscar-nominated film and stage actress
 * Alison Fanelli (2001), actress starring as Ellen on The Adventures of Pete & Pete
 * Dustin Hodge, producer and writer
 * Jesse J. Holland (2012), journalist, author, and guest host on C-SPAN's Washington Journal.
 * Anne Hummert (née. Schumacher) (1925), creator of leading radio soap operas during the 1930s and '40s
 * Christine Jowers (1985), choreographer, producer, and dance critic
 * Nancy Koenigsberg (B.A. degree 1949), American sculptor and textile artist
 * Jane Levy (attended for a semester), actress
 * Selma L. Oppenheimer, Baltimore-based artist
 * Mary Vivian Pearce, actress who worked with film director John Waters, considered one of the Dreamlanders
 * Gabby Rivera (2004), author of fiction and graphic novels.
 * Ruddy Roye (1998), documentary photographer and Time magazine's pick for Instagram Photographer of 2016
 * Rosalind Solomon (1951), artist and photographer

Business

 * Katherine August-deWilde, former president of First Republic Bank from 2007 to 2015 and current vice chair
 * Sally Buck, partial owner of the Major League Baseball team Philadelphia Phillies
 * Sherry Cooper (1972), former chief economist at BMO Financial Group
 * Olive Dennis (1908), civil engineer for B&O Railroad, first female member of the American Railway Engineering and Maintenance-of-Way Association
 * Bradford Shellhammer (1998), eBay executive, co-founder of Fab.com, Bezar, and Queerty
 * Elsie Shutt, one of the first women to start a software company in the United States

Sports

 * Susan Devlin (1953), American-Irish badminton champion
 * Judy Devlin Hashman (1958), ten-time All-England badminton singles champion
 * Matthew Forgues, racewalker
 * Emily Kagan, American mixed martial artist
 * Nathan Chen (post-baccalaureate premedical class of 2025), two-time Olympic gold medalist in figure skating.

Notable faculty

 * Vasily Aksyonov, Soviet-Russian novelist
 * Flo Ayres, radio actress
 * Kaushik Bagchi, Indian historian
 * Jean H. Baker, historian
 * Robert M. Beachy, historian
 * Dorothy Lewis Bernstein, mathematician
 * Chrystelle Trump Bond, dancer, choreographer and dance historian
 * Alice Braunlich, classical philologist
 * Neil H. Buchanan, economist and legal scholar
 * George Delahunty, physiologist and endocrinologist
 * Rhoda Dorsey, historian
 * Janet Dudley-Eshbach, academic administrator
 * Andrew Ervin, author, critic and, editor
 * Harriet Campbell Foss, painter
 * Thomas French, journalist
 * Marianne Githens, political scientist, author, and feminist
 * Margret Grebowicz, Polish philosopher, author, and jazz vocalist
 * Pamela Haag author, historian
 * Mildred Harnack, American-German historian, translator, and German Resistance fighter in Nazi Germany
 * Elaine Ryan Hedges, writer and feminist
 * Clark S. Hobbs, Vice President
 * Dustin Hodge, producer and writer
 * Jesse J. Holland, journalist and author
 * Ailish Hopper, poet, writer, and teacher
 * Nancy Hubbard, author and public relations consultant
 * Harry Mortimer Hubbell, classicist
 * Julie Roy Jeffrey, historian
 * Nina Kasniunas, political scientist and writer
 * Elaine Koppelman, mathematician
 * Florence Lewis, mathematician and astronomer
 * Robert Hall Lewis, composer
 * Laura Lippman, author
 * Oliver W. F. Lodge, British author and poet
 * William Harding Longley, botanist
 * Suzannah Lessard, author
 * Nina Marković, Croatian-American physicist
 * Elizabeth Stoffregen May, economist and women's education advocate
 * Howard Norman, writer and educator
 * Edith Philips, writer and French literary academic
 * Richard Pringle, psychologist
 * Victor Ricciardi, professor of business and author
 * Alice S. Rossi, sociologist and feminist
 * Mike Sager, journalist and author
 * Forrest Shreve, botanist
 * Martha Siegel, mathematician and educator
 * Robert Slocum, botanist and biologist
 * Eleanor Patterson Spencer, art historian
 * Elizabeth Spires, poet
 * Dorothy Stimson, historian of science
 * Shira Tarrant, writer
 * Ruth Dogget Terzaghi, geologist
 * Bill Thomas, journalist
 * Michelle Tokarczyk, author, poet, and literary critic
 * Meline Toumani author and journalist
 * Sanford J. Ungar, journalist and academic administrator
 * Robert S. Welch, academic administrator
 * Juliette Wells, author and editor
 * Lilian Welsh, physician, educator, suffragist, and advocate for women's health
 * Mary Wilhelmine Williams, historian
 * Ola Elizabeth Winslow, historian, biographer, and educator
 * Jill Zimmerman, computer scientist
 * Mary Kay Zuravleff, writer and novelist
 * David Zurawik, journalist, author, and media critic

Presidents
Since its founding, Goucher has had a total of 18 presidents, five of whom were acting. The college's longest-serving president was Rhoda Dorsey, who held the position for 20 years.

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