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- Clarence AllenClarence Allen (geologist)Clarence Roderic Allen is a geologist who studies seismology. He is a graduate of Reed College and the California Institute of Technology...
, 1949 - Professor Emeritus of Geology, California Institute of TechnologyCalifornia Institute of TechnologyThe California Institute of Technology is a private research university located in Pasadena, California, United States. Caltech has six academic divisions with strong emphases on science and engineering... - Jon AppletonJon AppletonJon Howard Appleton is an American composer and teacher who was a pioneer in electro-acoustic music. His earliest compositions in the medium, e.g. Chef d'Oeuvre and Newark Airport Rock attracted attention because they established a new tradition some have called programmatic electronic music...
, 1961 - Arthur R. Virgin Professor of Music at Dartmouth CollegeDartmouth CollegeDartmouth College is a private, Ivy League university in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States. The institution comprises a liberal arts college, Dartmouth Medical School, Thayer School of Engineering, and the Tuck School of Business, as well as 19 graduate programs in the arts and sciences...
, Visiting Professor of Music at Stanford UniversityStanford UniversityThe Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San... - John BackusJohn Backus (acoustician)John Graham Backus was an American physicist and acoustician.John Backus was born and raised in Portland, Oregon, where he studied at Reed College, receiving a BA in 1932. He went on to graduate studies at the University of California, Berkeley, where he did research in nuclear physics at the...
, 1932 - former Professor of Physics, University of Southern CaliforniaUniversity of Southern CaliforniaThe University of Southern California is a private, not-for-profit, nonsectarian, research university located in Los Angeles, California, United States. USC was founded in 1880, making it California's oldest private research university... - Michael BallsMichael BallsMichael Balls, CBE, is a British zoologist and professor emeritus of medical cell biology at Nottingham University. He is best known for his work on laboratory animal welfare and alternatives to animal testing.-Biography:...
, 1966 - Professor Emeritus of Biology, University of NottinghamUniversity of NottinghamThe University of Nottingham is a public research university based in Nottingham, United Kingdom, with further campuses in Ningbo, China and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia... - Daryl BemDaryl BemDaryl J. Bem is a social psychologist and professor emeritus at Cornell University. He is the originator of the self-perception theory of attitude change, and has carried out research on psi phenomena , group decision making, handwriting analysis, sexual orientation and personality theory and...
, 1960 - Professor of Psychology, Cornell UniversityCornell UniversityCornell University is an Ivy League university located in Ithaca, New York, United States. It is a private land-grant university, receiving annual funding from the State of New York for certain educational missions... - Louis T. BenezetLouis T. BenezetLouis Tomlinson Benezet was an American educator, education administrator and multiple U.S. university president....
, 1939 - former President, Colorado CollegeColorado CollegeThe Colorado College is a private liberal arts college in Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States, in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains. It was founded in 1874 by Thomas Nelson Haskell... - Sacvan BercovitchSacvan BercovitchSacvan Bercovitch is a Canadian Americanist, literary and cultural critic and academic.-Education and academic career:Bercovitch is perhaps the most influential and controversial Americanist of his generation. Born in Montreal, Quebec, He received his B.A. at Sir George Williams College, now...
, (did not graduate) - Professor of American Literature, Harvard UniversityHarvard UniversityHarvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country... - Walter BernsWalter BernsWalter Berns is an American constitutional law and political philosophy professor. He is currently a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and a professor emeritus at Georgetown University.- Early life and career :...
, (did not graduate) - Resident Scholar, American Enterprise InstituteAmerican Enterprise InstituteThe American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research is a conservative think tank founded in 1943. Its stated mission is "to defend the principles and improve the institutions of American freedom and democratic capitalism—limited government, private enterprise, individual liberty and... - Charles Bigelow (type designer)Charles Bigelow (type designer)Charles A. Bigelow is a type historian, professor, and designer. Bigelow grew up in the Detroit suburbs and attended the Cranbrook School in Bloomfield Hills. He received a MacArthur Fellowship in 1982. Along with Kris Holmes, he is the co-creator of Lucida and Wingdings font families...
, 1967 - Professor of Type Design and Writing, Rochester Institute of TechnologyRochester Institute of TechnologyThe Rochester Institute of Technology is a private university, located within the town of Henrietta in metropolitan Rochester, New York, United States... - Robert A. BradyRobert A. Brady (economist)Robert Alexander Brady was an American economist who analyzed the dynamics of technological change and the structure of business enterprise. Brady developed a potent analysis of fascism and other emerging authoritarian economic and cultural practices...
, 1923 - former Professor of Economics, University of California, BerkeleyUniversity of California, BerkeleyThe University of California, Berkeley , is a teaching and research university established in 1868 and located in Berkeley, California, USA... - Robert BrennerRobert BrennerRobert P. Brenner is a professor of history and director of the Center for Social Theory and Comparative History at UCLA, editor of the socialist journal Against the Current, and editorial committee member of New Left Review...
, 1964 - Professor of History, UCLA - Joan BresnanJoan BresnanJoan Wanda Bresnan is Professor of Linguistics at Stanford University. She is best known as one of the architects of the theoretical framework of Lexical-Functional Grammar....
, 1966 - Professor of Linguistics, Stanford UniversityStanford UniversityThe Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San... - Robert A. BrightmanRobert A. BrightmanRobert A. Brightman is an American anthropologist known for his work among the Cree Indians in Manitoba, Canada.He received his undergraduate education at Reed College, graduating in 1973. He earned his MA and Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Chicago in 1983. There he studied under...
, 1973 - Greenberg Professor of Native American Studies, Reed CollegeReed CollegeReed College is a private, independent, liberal arts college located in southeast Portland, Oregon. Founded in 1908, Reed is a residential college with a campus located in Portland's Eastmoreland neighborhood, featuring architecture based on the Tudor-Gothic style, and a forested canyon wilderness... - Peter ChildPeter ChildPeter Burlingham Child is an American composer, teacher, and musical analyst. He is Professor of Music at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a composer in residence with the New England Philharmonic....
, 1975 - composer, professor of music at MIT - Diskin Clay, 1960 - Professor of Classical Studies Emeritus, Duke UniversityDuke UniversityDuke University is a private research university located in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present day town of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco industrialist James B...
- Kalman J. CohenKalman J. CohenKalman J. Cohen was an American economist and among the pioneers of studying market microstructure. Cohen was the Distinguished Bank Research Professor at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business. He served at Duke since 1974. Prior to joining the Duke faculty, he was a tenured professor at...
, 1951 - former Professor of Economics, Duke UniversityDuke UniversityDuke University is a private research university located in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present day town of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco industrialist James B... - Galen CranzGalen CranzGalen Cranz is a professor of architecture at the College of Environmental Design at the University of California, Berkeley, who studies the social and cultural bases of architectural and urban design....
, 1966 - Professor of Architecture at the University of California, Berkeley - Ann Cvetkovich, 1980- Associate Professor of English at University of Texas, Austin; author of several books including "An Archive of Feelings: Trauma, Sexuality, and Lesbian Public Cultures."
- Donald Engelman, 1962 - Professor of Biochemistry, Yale UniversityYale UniversityYale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...
- Kai T. EriksonKai T. EriksonKai Theodor Erikson is an American sociologist, noted as an authority on the social consequences of catastrophic events. He served as the 76th president of the American Sociological Association....
, 1953 - former President, American Sociological AssociationAmerican Sociological AssociationThe American Sociological Association , founded in 1905 as the American Sociological Society , is a non-profit organization dedicated to advancing the discipline and profession of sociology by serving sociologists in their work and promoting their contributions to serve society.The ASA holds its...
and Professor at Yale UniversityYale UniversityYale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States... - Allah Verdi Mirza Farman FarmaianAllah Verdi Mirza Farman FarmaianAllah Verdi Mirza Farman Farmaian born 1929 is the son of the deceased Qajar Persian nobleman Abdol Hossein Mirza Farmanfarma and his wife Hamdam Khanoum. He studied at Reed College undergraduate and obtained a Doctorate in Biology at Stanford University...
, 1951 - Professor Emeritus of Biology, Rutgers UniversityRutgers UniversityRutgers, The State University of New Jersey , is the largest institution for higher education in New Jersey, United States. It was originally chartered as Queen's College in 1766. It is the eighth-oldest college in the United States and one of the nine Colonial colleges founded before the American... - James D. Faubion, 1980 - anthropologist, Chair of anthropology at Rice UniversityRice UniversityWilliam Marsh Rice University, commonly referred to as Rice University or Rice, is a private research university located on a heavily wooded campus in Houston, Texas, United States...
- Janet FitchJanet FitchJanet Fitch is most famously known as the author of the Oprah's Book Club novel White Oleander, which became a film in 2002. She is a graduate of Reed College, located in Portland, Oregon....
, 1978 - Professor of Professional Writing, University of Southern CaliforniaUniversity of Southern CaliforniaThe University of Southern California is a private, not-for-profit, nonsectarian, research university located in Los Angeles, California, United States. USC was founded in 1880, making it California's oldest private research university... - Ronald F. Fox, 1964 - Regents' Professor Emeritus of Physics, Georgia Institute of TechnologyGeorgia Institute of TechnologyThe Georgia Institute of Technology is a public research university in Atlanta, Georgia, in the United States...
- Robert FragerRobert FragerRobert Frager is a Harvard-trained psychologist. He is the past president of the Association for Transpersonal Psychology and the founder of the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, where he is currently Director of the Spiritual Guidance program and professor of Psychology.-Life:Frager is...
, 1961 - noted psychologist - Victor FriedmanVictor FriedmanVictor A. Friedman is an American linguist. He is currently Andrew W. Carnegie Professor in the humanities at the University of Chicago. He holds a joint appointment in linguistics and Slavic languages and literatures with an associated appointment in anthropology...
, 1970 - Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Balkan and Slavic Linguistics, University of ChicagoUniversity of ChicagoThe University of Chicago is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It was founded by the American Baptist Education Society with a donation from oil magnate and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller and incorporated in 1890... - Peter Dobkin HallPeter Dobkin HallPeter Dobkin Hall is an American author and historian. He is Professor of Public Affairs at Baruch College, CUNY], and Senior Research Fellow at the , Harvard University....
, 1968 - Hauser Lecturer on nonprofit organizations, Kennedy School of Government at Harvard UniversityHarvard UniversityHarvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country... - David H. FrenchDavid H. FrenchDavid Heath French was an American anthropologist and linguist from Bend, Oregon. During his lifetime he was considered the foremost academic authority on the Chinookan people of the middle Columbia River, especially the Wasco-Wishram Chinooks of the Warm Springs Indian Reservation in Oregon...
, 1939 - anthropologist and linguist - Rose FriedmanRose FriedmanRose Director Friedman , also known as Rose D. Friedman and Rose Director was a professor at the University of Chicago Law School. She was the wife of Milton Friedman , the winner of the 1976 Nobel Prize in Economics, and sister of Aaron Director...
, 1930 - author, wife of Nobel PrizeNobel PrizeThe Nobel Prizes are annual international awards bestowed by Scandinavian committees in recognition of cultural and scientific advances. The will of the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, established the prizes in 1895...
-winning economist Milton FriedmanMilton FriedmanMilton Friedman was an American economist, statistician, academic, and author who taught at the University of Chicago for more than three decades...
, and economist in her own right; left in 1930 after her sophomore year - Mason GaffneyMason GaffneyMason Gaffney is an American economist and a major critic of Neoclassical economics from a Georgist point of view. He earned his B.A. in 1948 from Reed College in Portland, Oregon. Gaffney first read Henry George's masterwork Progress and Poverty as a high school junior...
, 1948 - economist - Volney Gay, 1970 - Professor of Religion, Professor of Psychiatry, and Professor of Anthropology at Vanderbilt UniversityVanderbilt UniversityVanderbilt University is a private research university located in Nashville, Tennessee, United States. Founded in 1873, the university is named for shipping and rail magnate "Commodore" Cornelius Vanderbilt, who provided Vanderbilt its initial $1 million endowment despite having never been to the...
and Director, Center for the Study of Religion and Culture. - Ted Robert GurrTed Robert GurrTed Robert Gurr is one of the world’s leading authorities on political conflict and instability. His book Why Men Rebel emphasized the importance of social psychological factors and ideology as root sources of political violence...
, 1957 - former Professor of Political Science, Northwestern UniversityNorthwestern UniversityNorthwestern University is a private research university in Evanston and Chicago, Illinois, USA. Northwestern has eleven undergraduate, graduate, and professional schools offering 124 undergraduate degrees and 145 graduate and professional degrees.... - Loyd HaberlyLoyd HaberlyLoyd Haberly was an American poet, letterpress printer, and educator. He was born in Ellsworth, Iowa on 9 December 1896 and raised in Iowa and Oregon. After studying at Reed College and Harvard, Haberly was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to study Law at Trinity College, Oxford...
, 1919 - former Dean, Fairleigh Dickinson UniversityFairleigh Dickinson UniversityFairleigh Dickinson University is a private university founded as a junior college in 1942. It now has several campuses located in New Jersey, Canada, and the United Kingdom.-Description:... - Harry HarlowHarry HarlowHarry Frederick Harlow was an American psychologist best known for his maternal-separation and social isolation experiments on rhesus monkeys, which demonstrated the importance of care-giving and companionship in social and cognitive development...
, (did not graduate) - former Professor of Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Madison - Sally HaslangerSally HaslangerSally Haslanger is a professor of philosophy in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Since 2009, she has also served as Director of the Women's and Gender Studies program. She has published in metaphysics, epistemology, feminist theory, ancient...
, 1977 - Professor of Philosophy, MIT - David HogganDavid HogganDavid Leslie Hoggan was an American historical writer, author of The Forced War: When Peaceful Revision Failed and other works in the German and English languages.-Early life:...
, 1945 - controversial historian - Dell HymesDell HymesDell Hathaway Hymes was a sociolinguist, anthropologist, and folklorist whose work dealt primarily with languages of the Pacific Northwest. He was one of the first to call the fourth subfield of anthropology "linguistic anthropology" instead of "anthropological linguistics"...
, 1950 - anthropologist and linguist - Maurice IssermanMaurice IssermanMaurice Isserman is James L. Ferguson Professor of History at Hamilton College and an important contributor to the “new history of American communism” which reinterpreted the role of the Communist Party USA during the Popular Front period of the 1930s and 1940s. His books have also traced the...
, 1973 - Professor of History, Hamilton College - Herbert JasperHerbert JasperHerbert Henri Jasper, was a Canadian psychologist, physiologist, anatomist, chemist and neurologist.Born in La Grande, Oregon, he attended Reed College in Portland, Oregon and received his PhD in psychology from the University of Iowa in 1931 and earned a Doctor of Science degree from the...
, 1928 - former Professor of Psychology, McGill UniversityMcGill UniversityMohammed Fathy is a public research university located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The university bears the name of James McGill, a prominent Montreal merchant from Glasgow, Scotland, whose bequest formed the beginning of the university... - Lewis Webster JonesLewis Webster JonesLewis Webster Jones was an economist, and the President of the University of Arkansas from 1947 to 1951 and of Rutgers University from 1951 to 1958.-Biography:...
, 1921 - former President of Rutgers UniversityRutgers UniversityRutgers, The State University of New Jersey , is the largest institution for higher education in New Jersey, United States. It was originally chartered as Queen's College in 1766. It is the eighth-oldest college in the United States and one of the nine Colonial colleges founded before the American... - Dale W. JorgensonDale W. JorgensonDale Weldeau Jorgenson is the Samuel W. Morris University Professor at Harvard University, teaching in the Department of Economics and John F. Kennedy School of Government...
, 1955 - economist, Samuel W. Morris University Professor at Harvard UniversityHarvard UniversityHarvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...
, past president of the AEAAmerican Economic AssociationThe American Economic Association, or AEA, is a learned society in the field of economics, headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee. It publishes one of the most prestigious academic journals in economics: the American Economic Review...
and the Econometric SocietyEconometric SocietyThe Econometric Society is an international society for the advancement of economic theory in its relation with statistics and mathematics. It was founded on December 29, 1930 at the Stalton Hotel in Cleveland, Ohio.... - Don KatesDon KatesDon Kates is a retired American professor of constitutional and criminal law, and a criminologist and research fellow with The Independent Institute in Oakland, California...
, 1962 - noted criminologist - Gail M. KellyGail M. KellyGail M. Kelly was an American anthropologist known for training generations of anthropologists at Reed College in Portland, Oregon....
, 1955 - anthropologist - Daniel S. KempDaniel S. KempFor the American actor, see Dan Kemp.Daniel Schaeffer Kemp is an American chemist. He is a professor of chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is best known for being the author of a widely-used organic chemistry textbook.-Background:Kemp was born in Portland, Oregon...
, 1958 - Professor of Chemistry, MIT - Lester Lave, 1960 - Professor of Economics at Carnegie Mellon UniversityCarnegie Mellon UniversityCarnegie Mellon University is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States....
. - Eleanor MaccobyEleanor MaccobyEleanor Emmons Maccoby is a psychologist best known for her contributions to developmental psychology and the psychology of sex differences. She worked with B.F. Skinner and obtained her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan...
, 1939 - Emeritus Professor of Psychology at Stanford UniversityStanford UniversityThe Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...
, member of the National Academy of SciencesUnited States National Academy of SciencesThe National Academy of Sciences is a corporation in the United States whose members serve pro bono as "advisers to the nation on science, engineering, and medicine." As a national academy, new members of the organization are elected annually by current members, based on their distinguished and... - Brendan McConvilleBrendan McConvilleBrendan McConville is an American professor of history at Boston University. His many books on American History include "The King's Three Faces" and "The American Revolution, 1763-1789" . He was educated at Brown University and Reed College, Portland...
, 1987 - Professor of History at Boston UniversityBoston UniversityBoston University is a private research university located in Boston, Massachusetts. With more than 4,000 faculty members and more than 31,000 students, Boston University is one of the largest private universities in the United States and one of Boston's largest employers... - Wallace T. MacCaffreyWallace T. MacCaffreyWallace T. MacCaffrey is Professor Emeritus of History at Harvard University. He is a graduate ofReed College and Harvard University. He also taught at the University of California, Los Angeles and Haverford College. Among his awards is a Guggenheim fellowship...
, 1942 - Pre-eminent scholar of Elizabethan England. Chaired the Harvard UniversityHarvard UniversityHarvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...
history department twice. - William D. McElroyWilliam D. McElroyWilliam David McElroy was an American biochemist and academic administrator.-Early years:McElroy was born to William D. McElroy and Ora Shipley in Rogers, Texas...
, 1939 - former Chancellor, University of California, San DiegoUniversity of California, San DiegoThe University of California, San Diego, commonly known as UCSD or UC San Diego, is a public research university located in the La Jolla neighborhood of San Diego, California, United States...
and former Director, National Science FoundationNational Science FoundationThe National Science Foundation is a United States government agency that supports fundamental research and education in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering. Its medical counterpart is the National Institutes of Health... - Dennis B. McGilvrayDennis B. McGilvrayDennis B. McGilvray is a professor in the Department of Anthropology in University of Colorado at Boulder. Dennis's research interest are focused on the Tamils and Muslims of south India and Sri Lanka. His research examines matrilineal Hindu and Muslim kinship, caste structure, religious ritual,...
, 1965 - Professor of Anthropology, University of ColoradoUniversity of ColoradoThe University of Colorado system is a system of public universities in Colorado consisting of three universities in four campuses: University of Colorado Boulder, University of Colorado Colorado Springs, and University of Colorado Denver in downtown Denver and at the Anschutz Medical Campus in... - Lisa NakamuraLisa NakamuraLisa Nakamura is Director and Professor of Asian American Studies Program at the Institute of Communication Research at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.-Education:Lisa Nakamura earned a B.A. from Reed College and a Ph.D...
, 1987 - Professor at the Institute of Communication Research and Asian American Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign - Victor NizetVictor NizetVictor Nizet, M.D. is a pediatric physician-scientist who is currently Professor of Pediatrics and Pharmacy at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences in La Jolla, California...
, 1984 - Professor of Pediatrics and Pharmacy at the University of California, San DiegoUniversity of California, San DiegoThe University of California, San Diego, commonly known as UCSD or UC San Diego, is a public research university located in the La Jolla neighborhood of San Diego, California, United States... - Eric T. Olson (philosopher)Eric T. Olson (philosopher)Eric T. Olson is an American philosopher who specializes in metaphysics and philosophy of mind. Olson is most famous for his research in the field of personal identity, namely animalism. Olson received a BA from Reed College and a PhD from Syracuse University...
, 1986 - Professor of Philosophy, University of SheffieldUniversity of SheffieldThe University of Sheffield is a research university based in the city of Sheffield in South Yorkshire, England. It is one of the original 'red brick' universities and is a member of the Russell Group of leading research intensive universities...
. Also taught at Cambridge University. - Christopher PhelpsChristopher PhelpsChristopher Phelps is an American political and intellectual historian of the twentieth century. The subjects of his research and writing include philosophical pragmatism, concepts of class and labor in social thought, the fate of the American Left and the socialist ideal, and ideas of race in...
, 1988 - Professor of History, University of NottinghamUniversity of NottinghamThe University of Nottingham is a public research university based in Nottingham, United Kingdom, with further campuses in Ningbo, China and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia... - Mark PtashneMark PtashneMark Ptashne is a molecular biologist and violinist. He currently holds the Ludwig Chair of Molecular Biology at Memorial Sloan–Kettering Cancer Center in New York...
, 1961 - Professor of Molecular Biology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer CenterMemorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer CenterMemorial Sloan–Kettering Cancer Center is a cancer treatment and research institution founded in 1884 as the New York Cancer Hospital... - Ray RaphaelRay RaphaelRay Raphael is an American historian and author of fourteen books. He is noted for his work on the American Revolution and the regional history of Northern California.-Books: The American Revolution and the Founding Era:...
, 1965 - noted historian - Diane Silvers Ravitch, (did not graduate) - Professor of History, New York UniversityNew York UniversityNew York University is a private, nonsectarian research university based in New York City. NYU's main campus is situated in the Greenwich Village section of Manhattan...
and Senior Fellow, Brookings InstitutionBrookings InstitutionThe Brookings Institution is a nonprofit public policy organization based in Washington, D.C., in the United States. One of Washington's oldest think tanks, Brookings conducts research and education in the social sciences, primarily in economics, metropolitan policy, governance, foreign policy, and... - Kenneth Raymond, 1964 - Professor of Chemistry, University of California, BerkeleyUniversity of California, BerkeleyThe University of California, Berkeley , is a teaching and research university established in 1868 and located in Berkeley, California, USA...
- Barbara ReskinBarbara ReskinBarbara Reskin is a professor of sociology. As the S. Frank Miyamoto Professor of Sociology at the University of Washington, Reskin studies labor market stratification, examining job queues, nonstandard work, sex segregation, and affirmative action policies in employment and university admissions,...
, (did not graduate) - Professor of Sociology, University of WashingtonUniversity of WashingtonUniversity of Washington is a public research university, founded in 1861 in Seattle, Washington, United States. The UW is the largest university in the Northwest and the oldest public university on the West Coast. The university has three campuses, with its largest campus in the University... - Howard RheingoldHoward Rheingold-See also:* Collective intelligence* Information society* The WELL* Virtual community-External links:***** at TED conference** a 48MB Quicktime movie, hosted by the Internet Archive...
, 1968 - information lecturer, University of California, BerkeleyUniversity of California, BerkeleyThe University of California, Berkeley , is a teaching and research university established in 1868 and located in Berkeley, California, USA... - Lawrence RinderLawrence RinderLawrence R. Rinder is the Director of Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive , a position to which he was appointed in 2008.Previously, he was the Dean of the College at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco...
, 1983 - Dean of Graduate Studies at the California College of the ArtsCalifornia College of the ArtsCalifornia College of the Arts , founded in 1907, is known for its broad, interdisciplinary programs in art, design, architecture, and writing. It has two campuses, one in Oakland and one in San Francisco, California, USA...
, former Curator of Contemporary Art at the Whitney Museum - Eleanor RoschEleanor RoschEleanor Rosch is a professor of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, specializing in cognitive psychology and primarily known for her work on categorization, in particular her prototype theory, which has profoundly influenced the field of cognitive psychology...
, 1960 - Professor of Psychology, University of California, BerkeleyUniversity of California, BerkeleyThe University of California, Berkeley , is a teaching and research university established in 1868 and located in Berkeley, California, USA... - Jay RosenbergJay RosenbergJay Frank Rosenberg was a Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He was a student of Wilfrid Sellars and established his reputation with ten books and over 80 articles in metaphysics, epistemology, the philosophy of language, and the history of philosophy...
, 1963 - former Professor of Philosophy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill - Michael RothschildMichael RothschildMichael Rothschild is an American economist; he is visiting professor at the Department of Economics of the University of California in Los Angeles and a former dean at Princeton.- Education :...
, 1963 - economist, Dean of the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton UniversityPrinceton UniversityPrinceton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution.... - Stephen Shapin, 1966 - historian and sociologist of science at Harvard UniversityHarvard UniversityHarvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...
. Also has taught at the University of EdinburghUniversity of EdinburghThe University of Edinburgh, founded in 1583, is a public research university located in Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland, and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The university is deeply embedded in the fabric of the city, with many of the buildings in the historic Old Town belonging to the university... - Sydney ShoemakerSydney ShoemakerSydney Shoemaker is an American philosopher. Until his retirement, he was a Susan Linn Sage Professor of Philosophy at Cornell University. He holds a PhD from Cornell and BA from Reed. In 1971, he delivered the John Locke Lectures at Oxford University...
, 1953 - Susan Linn Sage Professor of Philosophy at Cornell UniversityCornell UniversityCornell University is an Ivy League university located in Ithaca, New York, United States. It is a private land-grant university, receiving annual funding from the State of New York for certain educational missions... - Guy Sircello, 1958 - Professor of Philosophy, University of California, IrvineUniversity of California, IrvineThe University of California, Irvine , founded in 1965, is one of the ten campuses of the University of California, located in Irvine, California, USA...
and scholar of aesthetics - John Alexander SimpsonJohn Alexander SimpsonJohn Alexander Simpson worked as an experimental nuclear, and cosmic ray physicist who was deeply committed to educating the public and political leaders about science and its implications. The year he died, his instruments in space had been sending data back for nearly 40 years...
, 1940 - former Professor of Physics, University of ChicagoUniversity of ChicagoThe University of Chicago is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It was founded by the American Baptist Education Society with a donation from oil magnate and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller and incorporated in 1890...
and atomic scientist on the Manhattan ProjectManhattan ProjectThe Manhattan Project was a research and development program, led by the United States with participation from the United Kingdom and Canada, that produced the first atomic bomb during World War II. From 1942 to 1946, the project was under the direction of Major General Leslie Groves of the US Army... - John SperlingJohn SperlingJohn Glen Sperling is an American businessman who is credited with leading the contemporary for-profit education movement in the United States. His fortune is based on his founding of the for-profit University of Phoenix for working adults in 1976, which is now part of the publicly traded Apollo...
, 1948 - founder of the University of PhoenixUniversity of PhoenixThe University of Phoenix is a for-profit institution of higher learning. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of Apollo Group Inc. which is publicly traded , an S&P 500 corporation based in Phoenix, Arizona... - Ross StarrRoss StarrRoss Starr is an American economist who specializes in microeconomic theory, monetary economics and mathematical economics. He is a Professor at the University of California, San Diego....
, (did not graduate) - Professor of Economics, University of California, San DiegoUniversity of California, San DiegoThe University of California, San Diego, commonly known as UCSD or UC San Diego, is a public research university located in the La Jolla neighborhood of San Diego, California, United States... - Richard Steinberg, 1976 - Chair in Operations Research at the London School of EconomicsLondon School of EconomicsThe London School of Economics and Political Science is a public research university specialised in the social sciences located in London, United Kingdom, and a constituent college of the federal University of London...
- Robert K. ThomasRobert K. Thomas (BYU)Robert K. Thomas was a professor of English at Brigham Young University as well as the founder of that university's honors program and later the academic vice president of BYU....
, (did not graduate) - Academic Vice President, Brigham Young UniversityBrigham Young UniversityBrigham Young University is a private university located in Provo, Utah. It is owned and operated by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints , and is the United States' largest religious university and third-largest private university.Approximately 98% of the university's 34,000 students... - Nicolaus TidemanNicolaus TidemanT. Nicolaus Tideman is a Professor of Economics at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. He received his Bachelor of Arts in economics and mathematics from Reed College in 1965 and his PhD in economics from the University of Chicago in 1969...
, 1965 - economist - Gina G. TurrigianoGina G. TurrigianoGina G. Turrigiano is an American neuroscientist, and Professor of Biology and of the Volen National Center for Complex Systems, at Brandeis University.She graduated from Reed College, B.A.,and from University of California, San Diego, with a Ph.D....
, 1984 - Professor of Biology, Brandeis UniversityBrandeis UniversityBrandeis University is an American private research university with a liberal arts focus. It is located in the southwestern corner of Waltham, Massachusetts, nine miles west of Boston. The University has an enrollment of approximately 3,200 undergraduate and 2,100 graduate students. In 2011, it... - Katherine Verdery, 1970 - Julien J. Studley Faculty Scholar and Distinguished Professor, Anthropology Program, City University of New YorkCity University of New YorkThe City University of New York is the public university system of New York City, with its administrative offices in Yorkville in Manhattan. It is the largest urban university in the United States, consisting of 23 institutions: 11 senior colleges, six community colleges, the William E...
Graduate Center - Tom WasowTom WasowThomas A. Wasow is an American linguist, the Clarence Irving Lewis Professor of Philosophy at Stanford University.Wasow did his undergraduate studies in mathematics at Reed College, graduating in 1967. He earned his Ph.D. in linguistics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1972, and...
, 1967 - Professor of Linguistics and Philosophy at Stanford UniversityStanford UniversityThe Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San... - Jon WestlingJon WestlingJon Westling is an American educator, and was president of Boston University from 1996 until 2002.Raised in Yakima, Washington, he took his undergraduate degree from Reed College and studied history at St. John's College, Oxford University on a Rhodes scholarship...
, 1964 - President Emeritus and Professor of History at Boston UniversityBoston UniversityBoston University is a private research university located in Boston, Massachusetts. With more than 4,000 faculty members and more than 31,000 students, Boston University is one of the largest private universities in the United States and one of Boston's largest employers... - Richard WolinRichard WolinRichard Wolin is an intellectual historian.He is Distinguished Professor of History at the CUNY Graduate Center, where he has worked since 2000...
, 1974 - Professor at City University of New YorkCity University of New YorkThe City University of New York is the public university system of New York City, with its administrative offices in Yorkville in Manhattan. It is the largest urban university in the United States, consisting of 23 institutions: 11 senior colleges, six community colleges, the William E...
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Arts/Entertainment
- Alaleh AlamirAlaleh AlamirAlaleh Alamir آلاله علامیر is an artist. She graduated with a BA from Reed College, and postgraduate studies led to an MFA from Parsons School of Design ....
, 1982 - artist - Jacob AvshalomovJacob AvshalomovJacob Avshalomov is a Jewish American composer and conductor.-Early life and education:Jacob Avshalomov was born on March 28, 1919 in Tsingtao, China. His father was Aaron Avshalomov, the Siberian-born composer known for "oriental musical materials cast in western forms and media"; his mother was...
, 1941 - composer - Alafair BurkeAlafair BurkeAlafair S. Burke is an American author, professor of law, and legal commentator. She is the author of two series of crime novels, one featuring NYPD Detective Ellie Hatcher, the other featuring Portland prosecutor Samantha Kincaid...
, 1991 - author, Court TVCourt TVtruTV is an American cable television network owned by Turner Broadcasting, a subsidiary of Time Warner. The network launched as Court TV in 1991, changing to truTV in 2008...
commentator - Kip Berman, 2002 - lead singer of The Pains of Being Pure At HeartThe Pains of Being Pure at HeartThe Pains of Being Pure at Heart are an indie pop band from New York City. Their first album was a self-released EP which came out in 2007 through the Painbow label. Their debut self-titled full length album was released on February 3, 2009 via Slumberland Records. The band name comes from an...
- Peter ChildPeter ChildPeter Burlingham Child is an American composer, teacher, and musical analyst. He is Professor of Music at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a composer in residence with the New England Philharmonic....
, 1975 - composer, professor of music at MITMassachusetts Institute of TechnologyThe Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT has five schools and one college, containing a total of 32 academic departments, with a strong emphasis on scientific and technological education and research.Founded in 1861 in... - Ry CooderRy CooderRyland Peter "Ry" Cooder is an American guitarist, singer and composer. He is known for his slide guitar work, his interest in roots music from the United States, and, more recently, his collaborations with traditional musicians from many countries.His solo work has been eclectic, encompassing...
, x1971 - singer, songwriter; attended Reed for one semester - Robert O. CornthwaiteRobert O. CornthwaiteRobert O. Cornthwaite was an American film and television character actor who began his acting career in 1937, appearing in a college production of Twelfth Night, while attending Reed College in Portland, Oregon....
, 1939 - actor - Lamar CrowsonLamar CrowsonJohn Lamar Crowson was an American concert pianist and a chamber musician....
, 1948 - pianist - Barret HansenDr. DementoBarret Eugene Hansen , better known as Dr. Demento, is a radio broadcaster and record collector specializing in novelty songs, comedy, and strange or unusual recordings dating from the early days of phonograph records to the present....
, 1963 - the radio personality also known as Dr. DementoDr. DementoBarret Eugene Hansen , better known as Dr. Demento, is a radio broadcaster and record collector specializing in novelty songs, comedy, and strange or unusual recordings dating from the early days of phonograph records to the present.... - Rob HeinsooRob HeinsooRob Heinsoo is an American tabletop game designer. He has been designing and contributing to professional roleplaying games, card games, and board games since 1994. He has also designed and contributed to miniatures games and a computer game.-Career:...
, 1987 - game designer - Pozzi EscotPozzi EscotPozzi Escot is an American composer and faculty member at the New England Conservatory in Boston, Massachusetts....
, 1956 - composer - Johanna FatemanJohanna FatemanJohanna Fateman is a writer, songwriter, musician, and record producer. She is a member of the post-punk rock band Le Tigre and founded the band MEN with Le Tigre bandmate JD Samson.-Background and career:...
, (did not graduate) - musician - Simone FortiSimone FortiSimone Forti , a postmodern American choreographer and musician, was born in Italy but moved to the United States at a young age. Throughout her career she became known for a style of dancing and choreography that was largely based on basic everyday movements, such as games and children's...
, (did not graduate) - choreographer - Hope LangeHope LangeHope Elise Ross Lange was an American stage, film, and television actress.- Early life :Lange was born into a theatrical family in Redding, Connecticut...
, (did not graduate) - actress - Peter MarsPeter MarsPeter Mars is an American artist with ties to both the Pop Art and Outsider Art movements.-Early life and education:...
, 1982 - artist - Robert MorrisRobert Morris (artist)Robert Morris is an American sculptor, conceptual artist and writer. He is regarded as one of the most prominent theorists of Minimalism along with Donald Judd but he has also made important contributions to the development of performance art, land art, the Process Art movement and installation...
, 1953(attended two years) - sculptor - Bill MorrisonBill Morrison (director)Bill Morrison is a New York-based filmmaker and artist, best known for his experimental collage film Decasia . He is a member of Ridge Theater and the founder of Hypnotic Pictures...
, 1985, avant-garde filmmaker, Guggenheim fellow - Charles MunchCharles Munch (painter)-Biography:Munch and his four brothers and sisters, including his twin sister, were raised and attended public schools in Webster Groves, a suburb of St. Louis, Missouri where he was actually born...
, 1968 - painter - Daria O'NeillDaria O'NeillDaria Eliuk is a radio and television personality and an entertainer in Portland, Oregon, United States. With a background in theatre, she is known for her irreverent humor, sharp wit, and sexy style. Her first major media roles were as a morning host on local radio station KNRK and as a weather...
, 1993 - Portland Radio and TV Personality - Michael Paul Oman-ReaganMichael Paul Oman-ReaganMichael Paul Oman-Reagan is an American post-minimal conceptual artist and curator.Oman-Reagan is known for his work around socio-cultural and anthropological themes...
, 1999 - artist - Eric OvermyerEric OvermyerEric Overmyer is a writer and producer. He has written and/or produced numerous TV shows, including St. Elsewhere, Homicide: Life on the Street, Law & Order, The Wire, New Amsterdam, and Treme.-Biography:...
, 1973 - screenwriter, producer, playwright - David ReedDavid Reed (artist)David Reed is a contemporary American conceptual and visual artist.-Art:David Reed is known as a colorist and for creating long, narrow abstract paintings on canvas that are hung either lengthwise or vertically and feature several images resembling enlarged photographs of swirling brushstrokes...
, 1968 - artist - Lawrence Reed, 1983 - Director of the Berkeley Art Museum
- Brian RollandBrian RollandBrian Rolland is an American guitarist, composer and songwriter raised in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His instrumental sound is characterized by a mix of Latin/Spanish and North American guitar styles.-Background:...
, (did not graduate) - musician - Susan SilasSusan SilasSusan Silas is a visual artist and writer living in Brooklyn, New York. Silas is a dual American and Hungarian national who has built a diverse career as an artist during the past two decades...
, 1981 - artist - Pat Silver-LaskyPat Silver-LaskyPat Silver-Lasky is an American actress, screenwriter, and writer, mostly known for her collaborations with her second husband Jesse Lasky Jr.-Early years:...
, ???? - screenwriter and actress - David Henry SterryDavid Henry SterryDavid Henry Sterry is an American author, actor/comic, and former sex worker.- Biography :Sterry started in show business as a standup comedian in the early 1980s, opening for acts ranging from Milton Berle to Robin Williams to Dana Carvey...
, 1978 - author, actor/comic - Igor VamosIgor VamosIgor Vamos, born April 15, 1968, is an internationally known multimedia artist, leading member of The Yes Men , and an associate professor of media arts at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute...
, 1990 - contemporary artist, member of The Yes MenThe Yes MenThe Yes Men are a culture jamming activist duo and network of supporters created by Jacques Servin and Igor Vamos. Through actions of tactical media, The Yes Men primarily aim to raise awareness about what they consider problematic social issues. To date, the duo has produced two films: The Yes Men...
Food industry
- James BeardJames BeardJames Andrew Beard was an American chef and food writer. The central figure in the story of the establishment of a gourmet American food identity, Beard was an eccentric personality who brought French cooking to the American middle and upper classes in the 1950s...
, 1923 - chef; expelled - Mark BittermanMark BittermanMark Bitterman is an American food writer and entrepreneur. With his wife Jennifer Turner Bitterman he is co-owner of The Meadow, a boutique that specializes in finishing salts, single-origin dark chocolate bars, bitters, and gourmet accoutrements...
, 1995 - food writer and author - Juliet GlassJuliet GlassJuliet Glass is a writer and food critic, who formerly lived in Minneapolis. She is currently markets and program manager of FreshFarm Markets, a non-profit organization based in Washington, D.C. that promotes the growth of local food in the Chesapeake Bay region . She is the daughter of JoAnne...
, 1992 - writer and food critic - Steven RaichlenSteven RaichlenSteven Raichlen is an American chef, writer, author, and TV host.-Early life:Born March 11 in Japan and raised in Baltimore, Maryland, Raichlen graduated in 1975 from Reed College with a Bachelor of Arts in French literature. He received a Thomas J. Watson Foundation Fellowship to study medieval...
, 1975 - television chef, author
Government
- Bud Clark, 1957 - former Mayor of Portland, OregonPortland, OregonPortland is a city located in the Pacific Northwest, near the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers in the U.S. state of Oregon. As of the 2010 Census, it had a population of 583,776, making it the 29th most populous city in the United States...
- Richard DanzigRichard DanzigRichard Jeffrey Danzig is an American lawyer who served as the 71st Secretary of the Navy under President Bill Clinton...
, 1965 - 71st Secretary of the Navy - Chris GarrettChris GarrettChris Garrett is an attorney and a Democratic politician from the U.S. state of Oregon. In 2008, he was elected to the Oregon House of Representatives representing District 38, which includes most of Lake Oswego and portions of southwestern Portland...
, 1996 - member of the Oregon Legislature - Richard L. HannaRichard L. HannaRichard L. Hanna is the U.S. Representative for . He is a member of the Republican Party.- Early life, education, and business career :...
, 1973 - United States Representative from New YorkNew YorkNew York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east... - Norman SolomonNorman SolomonNorman Solomon is an American journalist, media critic, antiwar activist, and current candidate for the United States House of Representatives. Solomon is a longtime associate of the media watch group Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting...
, (did not graduate) - candidate for the United States House of RepresentativesUnited States House of RepresentativesThe United States House of Representatives is one of the two Houses of the United States Congress, the bicameral legislature which also includes the Senate.The composition and powers of the House are established in Article One of the Constitution... - Howard WolpeHoward WolpeHoward Eliot Wolpe III was a seven-term U.S. Representative from Michigan and Presidential Special Envoy to the African Great Lakes Region in the Clinton Administration, where he led the United States delegation to the Arusha and Lusaka peace talks, which aimed to end civil wars in Burundi and the...
, 1960 - former Congressman (D-MichiganMichiganMichigan is a U.S. state located in the Great Lakes Region of the United States of America. The name Michigan is the French form of the Ojibwa word mishigamaa, meaning "large water" or "large lake"....
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Law
- George W. JosephGeorge W. JosephGeorge W. P. Joseph was an attorney and Republican politician in the U.S. state of Oregon. A native of California, his family relocated to Oregon when he was young. There he would practice law and serve in the Oregon State Senate....
, 1951 - former Chief Judge, Oregon Court of AppealsOregon Court of AppealsThe Oregon Court of Appeals is the state intermediate appellate court in the U.S. state of Oregon. Part of the Oregon Judicial Department, it has ten judges and is located in Salem... - Berkeley LentBerkeley LentBerkeley "Bud" Lent was an American politician and jurist in the state of Oregon. He was the 38th Chief Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court, serving from 1982 to 1983. Elected to the court in 1976, Lent remained until 1988...
, 1948 - former Chief Justice, Oregon Supreme CourtOregon Supreme CourtThe Oregon Supreme Court is the highest state court in the U.S. state of Oregon. The only court that may reverse or modify a decision of the Oregon Supreme Court is the Supreme Court of the United States. The OSC holds court at the Oregon Supreme Court Building in Salem, Oregon, near the capitol... - Michael E. LevineMichael E. LevineMichael E. Levine is a "Distinguished Research Scholar" at the New York University School of Law. He has been involved in the world of air transportation and its regulation as a senior airline executive, an academic and a government official...
, 1962 - Senior Lecturer at the New York University School of LawNew York University School of LawThe New York University School of Law is the law school of New York University. Established in 1835, the school offers the J.D., LL.M., and J.S.D. degrees in law, and is located in Greenwich Village, in the New York City borough of Manhattan....
and Dean Emeritus of the Yale School of ManagementYale School of ManagementThe Yale School of Management is the graduate business school of Yale University and is located on Hillhouse Avenue in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. The School offers Master of Business Administration and Ph.D. degree programs. As of January 2011, 454 students were enrolled in its MBA... - Hans A. LindeHans A. LindeHans Arthur Linde, is a German American attorney and former jurist in Oregon. Born in Germany, he also lived with his family in Denmark before immigrating to Portland, Oregon. After serving in the United States Army during World War II he graduated from college and law school. Linde then worked...
, 1947 - former Justice, Oregon Supreme CourtOregon Supreme CourtThe Oregon Supreme Court is the highest state court in the U.S. state of Oregon. The only court that may reverse or modify a decision of the Oregon Supreme Court is the Supreme Court of the United States. The OSC holds court at the Oregon Supreme Court Building in Salem, Oregon, near the capitol... - Jessica LitmanJessica LitmanJessica Litman is a widely known expert on copyright law and author of Digital Copyright , which traces the history of lobbying that led to the passage of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act....
, 1974 - Professor of Law at the University of MichiganUniversity of MichiganThe University of Michigan is a public research university located in Ann Arbor, Michigan in the United States. It is the state's oldest university and the flagship campus of the University of Michigan...
, legal advisor - Jacob TanzerJacob TanzerJacob B. Tanzer is an American attorney in the state of Oregon, United States. Prior to private practice Tanzer served as the 81st Associate Justice on the Oregon Supreme Court...
, (did not graduate) - former Justice, Oregon Supreme CourtOregon Supreme CourtThe Oregon Supreme Court is the highest state court in the U.S. state of Oregon. The only court that may reverse or modify a decision of the Oregon Supreme Court is the Supreme Court of the United States. The OSC holds court at the Oregon Supreme Court Building in Salem, Oregon, near the capitol...
Literature
- Tamim AnsaryTamim AnsaryMir Tamim Ansary is an Afghan-American author and public speaker. He is the author of West of Kabul, East of New York, a book published shortly after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, and is a columnist for the encyclopedia website Encarta.- Early life and education :Ansary was born in...
, 1970 - author of West of Kabul, East of New York - Doon ArbusDoon ArbusDoon Arbus, , daughter of actor Allan Arbus and the late photographer Diane Arbus, is a writer and journalist. Her sister, Amy Arbus, is a photojournalist...
, 1967 - writer and journalist, daughter of Diane ArbusDiane ArbusDiane Arbus March 14, 1923 – July 26, 1971) was an American photographer and writer noted for black-and-white square photographs of "deviant and marginal people or of people whose normality seems ugly or surreal." A friend said that Arbus said that she was "afraid..... - Alison Baker, 1975 - writer
- Mary BarnardMary BarnardMary Ethel Barnard was an American poet, biographer and Greek-to-English translator. She is known for her clear interpretation of the works of Sappho, a translation which has never gone out of print....
, 1932 - poet and GreekGreek languageGreek is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages. Native to the southern Balkans, it has the longest documented history of any Indo-European language, spanning 34 centuries of written records. Its writing system has been the Greek alphabet for the majority of its history;...
translator - Margaret BechardMargaret BechardMargaret Bechard is an American author of contemporary science fiction for children and young adults.-Biography:Bechard was born in 1953 in Chico, California. She received her bachelor’s degree in English literature from Reed College in 1976. She is married to Lee Boekelheide and they have three...
, 1976 - science fiction writer - Don BerryDon Berry (author)Don Berry was an American artist and author best known for his historical novels about early settlers in the Oregon Country.He was born in Minnesota but moved to Oregon as a young man and came to think of himself as a native of that state. He attended Reed College in Portland, Oregon...
, 1931 - writer - Mei-mei BerssenbruggeMei-mei BerssenbruggeMei-mei Berssenbrugge is a contemporary poet. Winner of two American Book Awards, her work is often associated with the Language School, the poetry of the New York School, phenomenology, and visual art...
, 1969 - poet - Lee BlessingLee Blessing-Biography:Blessing's best-known play is A Walk in the Woods, which depicts the developing relationship between two arms limitation negotiators, one Russian and one American, over years of negotiation...
, 1971 - playwright - Kate ChristensenKate ChristensenKate Christensen is an American novelist. She won the 2008 PEN/Faulkner Award for her fourth novel, The Great Man, about a painter and the three women in his life. Her previous novels are In the Drink , Jeremy Thrane , and The Epicure's Lament...
, 1986 - novelist, winner of 2008 PEN/Faulkner Award for FictionPEN/Faulkner Award for FictionThe PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction is awarded annually by the PEN/Faulkner Foundation to the authors of the year's best works of fiction by living American citizens. The winner receives US $15,000 and each of four runners-up receives US $5000. The foundation brings the winner and runners-up to... - Jim ComptonJim ComptonJim Compton was a member of the Seattle City Council, first elected in 1999. At his resignation in December 2005, he was chair of the Utilities & Technology Committee, vice chair of the Energy & Environmental Policy Committee, and a member of the Government Affairs & Labor Committee.Compton got his...
, 1964 - noted journalist at PBSPublic Broadcasting ServiceThe Public Broadcasting Service is an American non-profit public broadcasting television network with 354 member TV stations in the United States which hold collective ownership. Its headquarters is in Arlington, Virginia.... - Gordon DahlquistGordon DahlquistGordon Dahlquist is an American playwright, theater director, novelist and experimental filmmaker. A native of the Pacific Northwest, Dahlquist has lived and worked in New York City since 1988. His plays, which include Mesilina and Delirium Palace , have been performed in New York and Los Angeles...
, 1984 - playwright, novelist - William DickeyWilliam Dickey (poet)William Hobart Dickey was an American poet and professor of English and creative writing at San Francisco State University. He authored 15 books of poetry over a career that lasted three and a half decades....
, 1951 - poet - Katherine DunnKatherine DunnKatherine Dunn is a best-selling novelist, journalist, voice artist, radio personality, book reviewer, and poet from Portland, Oregon.- Personal life :...
, 1969 - author - Elana DykewomonElana DykewomonElana Dykewomon is a Jewish lesbian activist, award-winning author, editor and teacher.- Childhood :...
, ca. 1971 - author - Elyssa EastElyssa EastElyssa East is an American novelist. She is the author of the historical fiction novel Dogtown: Death and Enchantment in a New England Ghost Town, which chronicles a murder that occurred in an area known as Dogtown, Massachusetts, just outside of Gloucester, in 1984. As part of her research for the...
, 1994 - novelist - David EddingsDavid EddingsDavid Eddings was an American author who wrote several best-selling series of epic fantasy novels.-Biography:...
, 1954 - writer - Barbara EhrenreichBarbara Ehrenreich-Early life:Ehrenreich was born Barbara Alexander to Isabelle Oxley and Ben Howes Alexander in Butte, Montana, which she describes as then being "a bustling, brawling, blue collar mining town."...
, 1963 - scientist, writer and social critic - Nancy FarmerNancy Farmer (author)Nancy Farmer is a prominent children's book author from the United States.Farmer was born in Phoenix, Arizona. She earned her B.A. at Reed College and later studied chemistry and entomology at the University of California, Berkeley...
, 1963 - author and writer - Janet FitchJanet FitchJanet Fitch is most famously known as the author of the Oprah's Book Club novel White Oleander, which became a film in 2002. She is a graduate of Reed College, located in Portland, Oregon....
, 1978 - fiction writer, White OleanderWhite OleanderWhite Oleander is a 1999 novel by American author Janet Fitch. It is a coming-of-age story about a child who is separated from her mother and placed in a series of foster homes. The book was a selection by Oprah's Book Club in May 1999 and became a 2002 film.-Plot summary:Astrid Magnussen is a... - Debra M. GinsbergDebra M. GinsbergDebra M. Ginsberg is a London born, American author. She is the author of three memoirs as well as two novels. Her first memoir Waiting: The True Confessions of a Waitress was published by HarperCollins Publishers in 2000, followed by Raising Blaze: A Mother and Son's Long, Strange Journey Into...
, 1984 - author - Shadab Zeest HashmiShadab Zeest HashmiShadab Zeest Hashmi is a poet from Pakistan. She graduated from Reed College in 1995 and received her MFA from Warren Wilson...
, 1995 - poet - Ernest HaycoxErnest HaycoxErnest James Haycox was a prolific American author of Western fiction.-Biography:Haycox was born in Portland, Oregon, to William James Haycox and the former Martha Burghardt on October 1, 1899...
, (did not graduate) - author - Myrlin HermesMyrlin HermesMyrlin Hermes is an American author. She has written two books, Careful What You Wish For and The Lunatic, the Lover, and the Poet. She was born in California, but raised in India and Hawaii. She attended Reed College, and received her Master's from Royal Holloway at University of London...
, 1997 - author - Jemiah JeffersonJemiah JeffersonJemiah Jefferson is an African-American writer. Her first printed work was St*rf*ck*ng, a collection of short erotic stories published by Future Tense Books. Her first full length novel was written in 24 hours in 1990. This eventually became Voice of the Blood, later published by Leisure Books in...
, 1994 - author - Laleh KhadiviLaleh Khadivi-Life:Shortly after the Iranian Revolution, Khadivi emigrated to the United States with her family, settling in the San Francisco Bay Area.She graduated from Reed College and from Mills College with an MFA....
, ???? - author and writer - Lisa Dale NortonLisa Dale NortonLisa Dale Norton is an American author best known as a writer of literary nonfiction and creative nonfiction. She is the great-niece of Evelyn Maurine Norton Lincoln, U.S. President John F. Kennedy's personal secretary...
, 1976 - author - Caroline B. MillerCaroline B. MillerCaroline Miller is a former elected member of the county commission of Multnomah County, Oregon in the United States, and a published author.Miller served a term as an original councilor with METRO. She later served two consecutive four year terms as a member of the Multnomah County Commission,...
, 1959 - author - Donald Miller, 1997 - Author of Blue Like JazzBlue Like JazzBlue Like Jazz is the second book by Donald Miller. This semi-autobiographical work, subtitled "Non-Religious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality," is a collection of essays and personal reflections chronicling the author's growing understanding of the nature of God and Jesus, and the need and...
- Adam L. Penenberg, 1986 - writer, professor of journalism at New York UniversityNew York UniversityNew York University is a private, nonsectarian research university based in New York City. NYU's main campus is situated in the Greenwich Village section of Manhattan...
- Steven RaichlenSteven RaichlenSteven Raichlen is an American chef, writer, author, and TV host.-Early life:Born March 11 in Japan and raised in Baltimore, Maryland, Raichlen graduated in 1975 from Reed College with a Bachelor of Arts in French literature. He received a Thomas J. Watson Foundation Fellowship to study medieval...
, 1975 - author and writer - Howard RheingoldHoward Rheingold-See also:* Collective intelligence* Information society* The WELL* Virtual community-External links:***** at TED conference** a 48MB Quicktime movie, hosted by the Internet Archive...
, 1968 - writer - M. C. RichardsM. C. RichardsMary Caroline Richards was a poet, potter, and writer best-known for her book Centering in Pottery, Poetry and the Person....
, 1938 - poet - Sheila RogersSheila Rogers-Biography:Sheila Rogers began her career as a writer for Rolling Stone Magazine as its Random Notes columnist in 1986. She later branched out into special feature articles including interviews with the Rolling Stones, the Eagles , Phoebe Snow , Billy Idol, and Bonnie Raitt...
, 1980 - journalist - David RomtvedtDavid Romtvedt-Life:He graduated from Reed College, and the Iowa Writers' Workshop.He teaches at University of Wyoming. He lives in Buffalo, Wyoming, with his wife, the potter Margo Brown.His work appears in The Sun Magazine, Prairie Schooner, Missouri Review,...
, 1972 - poet - Vern RutsalaVern RutsalaVern Rutsala is an American poet, born in McCall, Idaho, in 1934. He was educated at Reed College and the Iowa Writers' Workshop . He taught English and creative writing at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon for more than forty years, before retiring in 2004...
, 1956 - poet and writer - Leslie ScalapinoLeslie ScalapinoLeslie Scalapino was a United States poet, experimental prose writer, playwright, essayist, and editor, sometimes grouped in with the Language poets, though she felt closely tied to the Beat poets. A longtime resident of California's Bay Area, she earned an M.A. in English from the University of...
, 1966 - poet, publisher, and playwright - Gary SnyderGary SnyderGary Snyder is an American poet , as well as an essayist, lecturer, and environmental activist . Snyder is a winner of a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry...
, 1951 - Pulitzer PrizePulitzer PrizeThe Pulitzer Prize is a U.S. award for achievements in newspaper and online journalism, literature and musical composition. It was established by American publisher Joseph Pulitzer and is administered by Columbia University in New York City...
winner and poet - Sally WatsonSally WatsonSally Watson is an American author best known for her English Family Tree series, which encompasses generations of a family with roots in England and Scotland.-Biography:...
, 1950 - writer - Philip WhalenPhilip WhalenPhilip Glenn Whalen was an American poet, Zen Buddhist, and a key figure in the San Francisco Renaissance and close to the Beat generation.-Biography:...
, 1951 - poet - Lew WelchLew WelchLewis Barrett Welch, Jr. was an American poet associated with the Beat generation of poets, artists, and iconoclasts.Welch published and performed widely during the 1960s...
, 1950 - poet
Science and engineering
- John AlroyJohn AlroyJohn Alroy is a paleobiologist born in New York in 1966 and now residing in Sydney.-Area of expertise:Alroy specializes in diversity curves, speciation, and extinction of North American fossil mammals and Phanerozoic marine invertebrates, connecting regional and local diversity, taxonomic...
, 1989 - paleobiologist - Allen BerginAllen BerginAllen Bergin is a clinical psychologist known for his work on psychotherapy values. His 1980 article on theistic values was ground-breaking in the field and elicited over 1,000 responses and requests for reprints, including luminaries such as Carl Rogers and Albert Bandura...
, (did not graduate) - psychologist - Arlene BlumArlene BlumArlene Blum is an American mountaineer, writer, and environmental health scientist. She is best known for leading an all-woman ascent of Annapurna , a climb that was also the first successful American ascent...
, 1966 - mountaineer and scientist - Theodore James CourantTheodore James CourantTheodore James Courant is a mathematician who has conducted research in the fields of differential geometry and classical mechanics. In particular, he made seminal contributions to the study of Dirac manifolds, which generalize both symplectic manifolds and Poisson manifolds, and are related to...
, 1982 - mathematician - Thomas William FergusonThomas William FergusonThomas William "Tom" Ferguson, M.D. was an American medical doctor, educator, and author. He was an early advocate for patient empowerment, urging patients to educate themselves, to assume control of their own health care, and to use the Internet as a way of accomplishing those goals.-Personal...
, 1965 - noted physician - Elizabeth Warnock FerneaElizabeth Warnock FerneaElizabeth Warnock Fernea was an influential writer, filmmaker, and anthropologist who spent much of her life in the field producing numerous ethnographies and films that capture the struggles and turmoil of African and Middle Eastern cultures. Her husband, the anthropologist Robert A. Fernea, was...
, 1950 - anthropologist - David Flory, 1964 - physicist. Fairleigh Dickinson University: Professor of Physics, Chairman of the Physics Department, and Director of the School of Natural Sciences.
- Jonathan GrudinJonathan GrudinJonathan Grudin is a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research in the fields of human-computer interaction and computer-supported cooperative work . Grudin is a pioneer of the field of CSCW and one of its most prolific contributors. His collaboration distance to other HCI researchers has been...
, 1972 - computer scientist - Steve JobsSteve JobsSteven Paul Jobs was an American businessman and inventor widely recognized as a charismatic pioneer of the personal computer revolution. He was co-founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of Apple Inc...
, 1976, (did not graduate) - Apple, Co-founder and former CEO; PixarPixarPixar Animation Studios, pronounced , is an American computer animation film studio based in Emeryville, California. The studio has earned 26 Academy Awards, seven Golden Globes, and three Grammy Awards, among many other awards and acknowledgments. Its films have made over $6.3 billion worldwide...
Co-founder and former CEO; attended Reed as freshman. - Daniel KottkeDaniel KottkeDaniel Kottke is a U.S. computer engineer and one of the earliest employees of Apple Inc. His official employee number was 12, having been assigned a few months after he originally started working. He assembled and tested the first Apple I computers with its computer designer and Apple co-founder...
, 1976 - computer scientist - Arthur H. LivermoreArthur H. LivermoreArthur Hamilton Livermore was a science educator, He was educated at Reed College in Portland and in the University of Rochester in New York, where he worked on the synthesis of penicillin under Vincent du Vigneaud, who won the 1955 Nobel Prize in chemistry...
, 1940 - biochemist - Jayne LoaderJayne LoaderJayne Loader is an American director and writer. She co-directed The Atomic Cafe with Pierce Rafferty and Kevin Rafferty. She is the author of Between Pictures , a novel, and Wild America , a collection of short stories. In 1995, Jayne created the CD-ROM and Website Public Shelter...
, 1973 - writer and director; produced and co-directed The Atomic CafeThe Atomic CafeThe Atomic Cafe is an American documentary film produced and directed by Jayne Loader, Kevin Rafferty, and Pierce Rafferty.-Synopsis:The film covers the beginnings of the era of nuclear warfare, created from a broad range of archival film from the 1940s, 1950s and early 1960s - including newsreel... - Steven McGeadySteven McGeadySteven McGeady is a former Intel executive best known as a witness in the Microsoft antitrust trial. His notes contained colorful quotes by Microsoft executives threatening to "cut off Netscape's air supply" and Bill Gates' guess that "this anti-trust thing will blow over"...
, 1980 - technologist - Peter NortonPeter NortonPeter Norton is an American programmer, software publisher, author, and philanthropist. He is best known for the computer programs and books that bear his name. Norton sold his PC-Software business to Symantec Corporation in 1990....
, 1965 - creator of the Norton UtilitiesNorton UtilitiesNorton Utilities is a utility software suite designed to help analyze, configure, optimize and maintain the computer. The current version 15 of Norton Utilities Premier Edition for Windows XP/Vista/7 was released December 27, 2010.... - Catherine OttoCatherine OttoProf. Catherine M. Otto is an internationally recognized echocardiography specialist, Director of Training Programs in Cardiovascular Disease at Cardiology Division, University of Washington Medical Center, and has authored famous echocardiography textbooks...
, 1975 - noted physician - Keith PackardKeith PackardKeith Packard is a software developer, best known for his work on the X Window System.Packard is responsible for many X extensions and technical papers on X...
, 1986 - software developer; known for his work on the X Window SystemX Window SystemThe X window system is a computer software system and network protocol that provides a basis for graphical user interfaces and rich input device capability for networked computers... - Norman PackardNorman PackardNorman Harry Packard is a chaos theory physicist and one of the founders of the Prediction Company and ProtoLife. He is an alumnus of Reed College and the University of California, Santa Cruz. Packard is known for his contributions to both chaos theory and cellular automata...
, 1977 - chaos theoryChaos theoryChaos theory is a field of study in mathematics, with applications in several disciplines including physics, economics, biology, and philosophy. Chaos theory studies the behavior of dynamical systems that are highly sensitive to initial conditions, an effect which is popularly referred to as the...
physicist - Mario RabinowitzMario RabinowitzMario Rabinowitz is an American physicist who has published 170 scientific papers on a wide variety of subjects such as Meissner effect, ball lightning, black holes, superconductivity, classical tunneling, nuclear electromagnetic pulse, equivalence principle, physical electronics, electrical...
, (did not graduate) - former Baker scholar and physicist - Edward RambergEdward RambergEdward G. Ramberg was an American physicist who contributed to the early development of electron microscopy and color television. He was the uncle of Mario Capecchi, a 2007 Nobel laureate. His mother was an American painter, Lucy Dodd Ramberg , and his father a German archaeologist, Walter Ramberg...
, (did not graduate) - physicist - James RussellJames RussellJames T. Russell is an American inventor. He earned a BA in physics from Reed College in Portland in 1953. He joined General Electric's nearby labs in Richland, Washington, where he initiated many types of experimental instrumentation...
, 1953 - inventor of the compact discCompact DiscThe Compact Disc is an optical disc used to store digital data. It was originally developed to store and playback sound recordings exclusively, but later expanded to encompass data storage , write-once audio and data storage , rewritable media , Video Compact Discs , Super Video Compact Discs ,... - Larry SangerLarry SangerLawrence Mark "Larry" Sanger is an American philosopher, co-founder of Wikipedia, and the founder of Citizendium....
, 1991 - co-founder of WikipediaWikipediaWikipedia is a free, web-based, collaborative, multilingual encyclopedia project supported by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. Its 20 million articles have been written collaboratively by volunteers around the world. Almost all of its articles can be edited by anyone with access to the site,... - Stephen C. SillettStephen C. SillettStephen C. Sillett is a botanist specializing in old growth forest canopies. As the first scientist to enter the redwood forest canopy, he pioneered new methods for climbing, exploring, and studying tall trees...
, 1989 - botanist - Sumner StoneSumner StoneSumner Stone is a typeface designer and graphic artist. He notably designed ITC Stone while working for Adobe. A specimen of ITC Stone exists at his personal website.-Career:...
, 1967 - type face designer - Bruce VoellerBruce VoellerBruce Raymond Voeller was a biologist and researcher, primarily in the study of AIDS.-Biography:Voeller was born in Minneapolis...
, 1956 - biologist - C. Howard VollumHoward VollumCharles Howard Vollum , an engineer, scientist, and philanthropist, was the co-founder of Tektronix Corporation, and endowed the Vollum Institute.-Background:Howard Vollum was born on May 31, 1913, in Portland, Oregon...
, 1936 - founder of TektronixTektronixTektronix, Inc. is an American company best known for its test and measurement equipment such as oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and video and mobile test protocol equipment. In November 2007, Tektronix became a subsidiary of Danaher Corporation....
, inventor of the edge-triggered oscilloscopeOscilloscopeAn oscilloscope is a type of electronic test instrument that allows observation of constantly varying signal voltages, usually as a two-dimensional graph of one or more electrical potential differences using the vertical or 'Y' axis, plotted as a function of time,...
Other
- Yoram BaumanYoram BaumanYoram Bauman is an American economist and stand-up comedian.-History:He grew up in San Francisco, received an undergraduate degree in mathematics at Reed College in Portland, Oregon, then attended graduate school at the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington, receiving a Ph.D. in Economics...
, 1995 - comic and economist - Greta ChristinaGreta ChristinaGreta Christina is a prominent atheist blogger, as well as an author.- Life :Greta was born in Chicago on December 31, 1961, graduated from Reed College in 1983, and has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area since 1984. She is openly bisexual, and is married to Ingrid, whom she has been with since 1998...
, 1983 - blogger - Mike DavisMike Davis (scholar)Mike Davis is an American Marxist social commentator, urban theorist, historian, and political activist. He is best known for his investigations of power and social class in his native Southern California.-Life:...
, (did not graduate) - activist and scholar - Suzan DelBeneSuzan DelBeneSuzan Kay DelBene was the 2010 Democratic nominee for U.S. Representative for , but was defeated by incumbent Republican Dave Reichert.-Early life and education:...
, 1983 - former CEO of Nimble Technology and former Vice President at MicrosoftMicrosoftMicrosoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions... - Robert FriedlandRobert FriedlandRobert Martin Friedland is an international financier and businessman. Since the early 1980s, he has specialized in securing funding for the exploration and development of mineral and energy resources and advanced technology ventures...
, 1974 - businessman - Randall GilesRandall GilesRandall Giles was an American music composer, Episcopal Church missionary, and ethnographer.He was born in Oregon City, Oregon in 1950. His first studies in composition were with Mark DeVoto at Reed College, after which he took his undergraduate degree at the University of York while studying with...
, (did not graduate) - composer - Peter S. GoodmanPeter S. GoodmanPeter S. Goodman is an American economics journalist and author. Goodman worked for the Washington Post and the New York Times and was hired in September 2010 by the Huffington Post.Goodman graduated from Reed College in 1989...
, 1989 - journalist - Max Gordon, 1924 - Owner of the Village VanguardVillage VanguardThe Village Vanguard is a jazz club located at in Greenwich Village, New York City. The club was opened on February 22, 1935, by Max Gordon. At first, it also featured other forms of music such as folk music and beat poetry, but it switched to an all-jazz format in 1957.-History:Over 100 jazz...
- Christopher Langan - Described as "America's smartest man". Won a scholarship to Reed after earning a perfect SAT score, but dropped out eventually.
- Murray LeafMurray LeafMurray John Leaf is an American social and cultural anthropologist. He was born in New York City in 1939, and grew up in Tucson, Arizona. After active duty for training in the United States Army Reserves in 1957, he attended the University of Arizona and Reed College, receiving a B.A. in...
, 1961 - noted anthropologist - Mukunda GoswamiMukunda GoswamiMukunda Goswami is a spiritual leader within the International Society for Krishna Consciousness ....
, 1961 - Hare Krishna guru - Bill NaitoBill NaitoWilliam Sumio Naito , better known as Bill Naito, was a noted businessman, civic leader and philanthropist in Portland, Oregon, U.S...
, 1949 – noted Portland businessman and civic leader - Emilio PucciEmilio PucciEmilio Pucci, Marquis of Barsento , was a Florentine Italian fashion designer and politician. He and his eponymous company are synonymous with geometric prints in a kaleidoscope of colours.-Early life:...
, 1937 - fashion designer and member of the Italian Parliament - Harry Wayland RandallHarry Wayland RandallHarry W. Randall, Jr. served in the Abraham Lincoln Brigade and was the Chief Photographer of the Photographic Unit of the 15th International Brigade.- Early life :...
, 1936 - member of international brigades in Spanish Civil WarSpanish Civil WarThe Spanish Civil WarAlso known as The Crusade among Nationalists, the Fourth Carlist War among Carlists, and The Rebellion or Uprising among Republicans. was a major conflict fought in Spain from 17 July 1936 to 1 April 1939... - Aaron RhodesAaron RhodesAaron Rhodes is an international human rights activist, university lecturer and essayist based in Hamburg, Germany. He served as Executive Director of the International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights between 1993 and 2007, during which period the IHF was engaged inter alia in human rights...
, 1971 - Human rights advocate - Adam RiggsAdam Riggs (executive)Adam Riggs is an American finance and ecommerce/new media executive and entrepreneur.Shutterstock is the world's largest online subscription-based microstock photography site, and is based in Manhattan. Adam has been involved in every phase of Shutterstock's growth since he joined the company in...
, 1995 - former president, CFO, ShutterstockShutterStockShutterstock is a microstock photography website which maintains a library of royalty-free stock images available by subscription. Visitors can browse the entire image library for free, and can license and download images online through a variety of subscription offers.Shutterstock adds to its... - Leo RubinfienLeo RubinfienLeo Rubinfien is an American photographer and essayist. He lives and works in New York City.- Biography :Rubinfien first came to prominence as part of the circle of artist-photographers who investigated new color techniques and materials in the 1970s...
, 1974 - photographer - Bernard SmithBernard Smith (sailboat designer)Bernard Smith , was an US rocket scientist and speed sailboat designer, father of the Aerohydrofoil sailboat concept.-Life:Smith was born in New York City, to Jewish Russian immigrants...
, 1949 - sailboat designer - Genny SmithGenny SmithSince 1959, Genny Smith has been a publisher and editor of guidebooks about the Eastern Sierra Nevada and the Owens Valley of California, USA. Her writings about the history, geology and biology of the region have caused her to be dubbed "the Naturalist Queen of the Eastern Sierra".She received a...
, ???? - publisher - Peter StaffordPeter StaffordPeter Stafford was an American writer and author of the Psychedelics Encyclopedia . Stafford is also co-author with Bonnie Golightly of LSD: The Problem-solving Psychedelic, as well as other books on psychedelics. He was the editor of Crawdaddy! from 1969 to 1970...
, (did not graduate) - author and writer - Michael TeitelbaumMichael TeitelbaumMichael S. Teitelbaum is a demographer at the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in New York City.He publishes on immigration issues in both the popular and academic press and served as Commissioner to the U.S. Commission for the Study of International Migration and Cooperative Economic Development and...
, 1966 - program director and demographer at the Alfred P. Sloan FoundationAlfred P. Sloan FoundationThe Alfred P. Sloan Foundation is a philanthropic non-profit organization in the United States. It was established in 1934 by Alfred P. Sloan, Jr., then-President and Chief Executive Officer of General Motors.-Overview:... - Sean ThackreySean ThackreySean Thackrey is an American winemaker based in the Marin County, California enclave of Bolinas. From a background as director of an art gallery, Thackrey has been described as an unconventional winemaker who has done pioneering work in promoting California Syrah.-Career:Thackrey studied art...
, (did not graduate) - winemaker - Donald Niven Wheeler, 1936 - political activist
- Peter ZuckermanPeter ZuckermanPeter Zuckerman is an American prize-winning journalist and author who has focused his career in court reporting, investigative journalism and adventure stories.-Early career:...
, 2003 - journalist and author
Fictional alumni
- John William Barry from David GutersonDavid GutersonDavid Guterson is an American novelist, short story writer, poet, journalist, and essayist.-Early life:David Guterson was born May 4, 1956, in Seattle, Washington. During his childhood, he attended Seattle public schools and later attended the University of Washington where he earned Bachelor of...
's The Other - Bill McKay (Robert RedfordRobert RedfordCharles Robert Redford, Jr. , better known as Robert Redford, is an American actor, film director, producer, businessman, environmentalist, philanthropist, and founder of the Sundance Film Festival. He has received two Oscars: one in 1981 for directing Ordinary People, and one for Lifetime...
) from The CandidateThe Candidate (1972 film)The Candidate is a 1972 American film starring Robert Redford. Its themes include how the political machine corrupts. There are many parallels between the then-recent 1970 California Senate election between John V. Tunney and George Murphy; however, Redford's character Bill McKay is a political... - Harald Petersen, Reed '27 from Mary McCarthyMary McCarthy (author)Mary Therese McCarthy was an American author, critic and political activist.- Early life :Born in Seattle, Washington, to Roy Winfield McCarthy and his wife, the former Therese Preston, McCarthy was orphaned at the age of six when both her parents died in the great flu epidemic of 1918...
's The Group - Japhy Ryder from Jack KerouacJack KerouacJean-Louis "Jack" Lebris de Kerouac was an American novelist and poet. He is considered a literary iconoclast and, alongside William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, a pioneer of the Beat Generation. Kerouac is recognized for his spontaneous method of writing, covering topics such as Catholic...
's "The Dharma BumsThe Dharma BumsThe Dharma Bums is a 1958 novel by Beat Generation author Jack Kerouac. The semi-fictional accounts in the novel are based upon events that occurred years after the events of On the Road...
" - Hunter Scangarelo - friend of Meadow SopranoMeadow SopranoMeadow Mariangela Soprano , played by Jamie-Lynn Sigler, is a fictional character on the HBO TV series The Sopranos.-Character:Meadow is the first-born child of Tony and Carmela Soprano...
in the television series The SopranosThe SopranosThe Sopranos is an American television drama series created by David Chase that revolves around the New Jersey-based Italian-American mobster Tony Soprano and the difficulties he faces as he tries to balance the often conflicting requirements of his home life and the criminal organization he heads... - Sierra from Megan McCaffertyMegan McCaffertyMegan Fitzmorris McCafferty is an American author known for The New York Times bestselling Jessica Darling series of young-adult novels published between 2001 and 2009...
's Charmed Thirds - Lambert "Sharkey" Somers, from Judy BlumeJudy BlumeJudy Blume is an American author. She has written many novels for children and young adults which have exceeded sales of 80 million and been translated into 31 languages...
's Summer SistersSummer SistersSummer Sisters is a 1998 novel by Judy Blume. It focuses on the life of two fictional characters, the girls Victoria Leonard and Caitlin Somers....