List of Clark University people

This list of Clark University people features alumni, including currently matriculating students and alumni that are graduates or non-matriculating students of Clark University and faculty.

Alumni

Academia

• Edwin Aldrin – father of Buzz Aldrin, worked with Robert Goddard on his theories of rocketry (1915)
• Adelbert Ames, Jr. – research professor at Dartmouth College, pioneered the study of physiological optics
• Samuel Flagg Bemis – two-time recipient of the Pulitzer Prize
• Alexander Francis Chamberlain – anthropologist
• John H. Flavell – Stanford University Professor (MA Psychology 1952, Phd 1955)
• E. Franklin Frazier – sociologist, MA
• Yair Galily – Israeli sociologist (M.Sc Communications, 1996)
• Robert H. Goddard – rocket engineer, invented the modern day rocket (MA Physics 1910, PhD Physics 1911)
• Frederick Grinnell – cell biologist, bio-ethicist, shortlist 2010 Royal Society Prizes for Science Books (BA Chemistry 1966)
• Clarence N. Hickman – rocket scientist and recipient of the Medal for Merit, known as the "Father of Scientific Archery" and for his involvement in the development of the bazooka
• Grayson L. Kirk – President of the Council on Foreign Relations and president of Columbia University during the student protests of 1968
• Solomon Lefschetz – mathematician (PhD 1911)
• J. Ross Mackay – Canadian geographer (BA Geography 1939)
• Robert Marion – pediatrician to conjoined twins Carl and Clarence Aguirre^[1]
• Shannon Boyd-Bailey McCune – geographer
• Margaret Morse Nice – ornithologist (MA Biology 1915)
• Howard W. Odum – sociologist and founder of the journal Social Forces (PhD Psychology 1909)
• W.S. Small – experimental psychologist
• Francis Sumner – first African-American to receive a Ph.D. in psychology at an American university
• Amy Tanner – psychologist
• Lewis Madison Terman – pioneer in cognitive psychology (PhD 1905)
• L.T.E. Thompson – physicist and ballistician (Physics MA 1915, PhD 1917)
• Albert Potter Wills – PhD advisor of the Nobel Prize winner Isidor Isaac Rabi (PhD 1897)

Business

• Fred S. Anton – Executive Officer of Warner Bros. (BA Economics)^[2]
• Mark Freedman – founder of Surge Licensing responsible for discovering and marketing Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles^[3]
• Matt Goldman – co-founder of the Blue Man Group (BA Economics 1983, MBA 1984)
• Robert J. Hurst – former Vice Chairman of Goldman Sachs (Class of 1966)^[4]
• Alan Kotok – computer pioneer, Digital architect, associate chairman of W3C (MBA 1978)
• Marc Lasry – CEO and co-founder of Avenue Capital Group (BA History 1981)
• Michael Marcus – commodities trader
• Hugh Panero – CEO of XM Radio (BA Government 1978)
• Thomas Peterffy – entrepreneur, founder, chairman, and CEO of Interactive Brokers Group and played a key role in founding the Boston Options Exchange
• Fred Rosen – former CEO of Ticketmaster, co-founder of the Bel Air Homeowners Alliance
• Arrien Schiltkamp – Businessman (BA Government)^[5]
• Ronald M. Shaich – CEO and founder of Panera Bread, co-founder of Au Bon Pain (BA 1976)^[6]
• David Slain – senior Wall Street trader and FBI informant^[7]

Law and politics

• D'Army Bailey – former Circuit Court Judge in Shelby County, TN, founder of the National Civil Rights Museum, and civil rights activist
• David Brenerman – member of the Maine House of Representatives and ceremonial mayor of Portland, Maine (BA 1973)
• Beth Edmonds – Maine State Senator (BA Geography 1972)
• John M. Granville – USAID diplomat assassinated in Sudan
• Joseph L. Kennedy – independent candidate in the United States Senate special election in Massachusetts, 2010 (BA Computer Science 1993)
• Raymond Mariano – Mayor of Worcester, MA, 1993-2001 (MPA 1982)
• Richard T. Moore – Massachusetts State Senator (BA History 1966)
• Libby Pataki – First Lady of New York and wife of Republican presidential candidate George Pataki
• Michael P. Ross – member of the Boston City Council since 1999, representing District 8, which includes Beacon Hill, Back Bay, and the Fenway (BA 1993)

Military

• Andrew J. Olmsted – U.S. Army Major; blogger; killed in action while serving in the Iraq War (BA Government & International Relations 1992)

Journalism and media

• Ben Bagdikian – educator and journalist
• Andrew Brill (class of 1987) – Host of "ESPN New York Tonight" and New York Giants beat reporter
• Mark Bittman – food journalist for The New York Times and author of How to Cook Everything
• Otis Ferguson – film critic for The New Republic in the 1930s

Literature

• Christopher Collier – children's author (My Brother Sam is Dead)
• Daniel Strachman – author of business books (BA Government 1993)
• Xu Zhimo – 20th century Chinese romantic poet

Art, entertainment, and architecture

• Moti Bodek – Israeli architect; senior lecturer in architecture at Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem (MPA 1995)
• Corey Carrier – child actor (BA)
• Steven DePaul – Emmy Award-winning television producer and director of NYPD Blue (BA English 1972)^[8]
• Ali Fedotowsky – host of NBC television show 1st Look, star of the sixth season of The Bachelorette (BA Psychology 2006)
• Mitch Glazer – film producer and screenwriter (Scrooged, The Recruit, Lost in Translation)
• Alexander Gould – actor, voice of Nemo in Finding Nemo
• John Heard – actor (BA History 1968)
• Padma Lakshmi – host of television show Top Chef (BA Theater 1992)
• Paul Pena – singer, songwriter and guitarist
• Ben Schechter – Internet artist (BA Government 2003)
• Brian Shactman – former ESPN broadcaster; co-anchor of Worldwide Exchange on CNBC (MBA English)
• Debra Jean Strimike – former Miss United States (Class of 1993)^[9][10]

Religion

• Noyuri Otsuka – Christian writer and researcher, honorary professor of Keisen University, Japan (MA 1952) Japanese Wikipedia
• Frederick Madison Smith – religious leader; author; a Prophet-President of the Community of Christ Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, now renamed Community of Christ (PhD 1916)

Athletics and exploration

• Jeffrey Lurie – owner of Philadelphia Eagles (BA Psychology 1973)
• Paul Siple – Antarctic explorer and inventor of wind chill factor (PhD Geography 1939)

Activism and reform

• Robert Dexter – human rights (PhD Sociology 1927)
• Miriam Van Waters – prison reformer
• Mesfin Woldemariam – Ethiopian human rights activist

Faculty

• Taner Akcam
• Wallace Atwood
• Georg Baur
• George Athan Billias
• George Hubbard Blakeslee
• Franz Boas
• Oskar Bolza
• Edwin G. Boring
• Rafael Bruschweiler
• Leonard Carmichael
• William Damon
• Stephen DiRado
• Debórah Dwork
• J. Ronald Eastman, Professor of Geography, chief developer of IDRISI
• Cynthia Enloe
• Richard M. Freeland
• Benjamin Ives Gilman
• Robert Goddard
• Beverly Grier
• G. Stanley Hall, first president of the university
• Tamara Hareven
• David S. Hibbett
• Alan A. Jones
• Robert Kates
• Wolfgang Köhler
• Charles A. Kraus
• Douglas Little
• Drew McCoy
• J. Playfair McMurrich
• Albert Abraham Michelson
• John Ulric Nef
• Arthur Amos Noyes
• Gregory Pincus
• Relly Raffman
• Martin André Rosanoff
• Ellen Churchill Semple
• Christina Hoff Sommers
• William Edward Story
• Amy Tanner
• Arthur Gordon Webster
• Heinz Werner
• Charles Otis Whitman
• Carroll D. Wright

Presidents

• G. Stanley Hall, 1888–1920 (University)
• Carroll D. Wright, 1902–1909 (College)
• Edmund Sanford, 1909–1920 (College)
• Wallace Walter Atwood, 1920–1946
• Howard B. Jefferson, 1946–1967
• Frederick H. Jackson, 1967–1970
• Glenn W. Ferguson, 1970–1973
• Mortimer H. Appley, 1974–1984
• Richard P. Traina, 1984–2000
• John E. Bassett, 2000–2010
• David Angel, 2010-^[11]

References

1. http://www.einstein.yu.edu/features/stories/949/robert-marion-md-gifted-pediatrician-geneticist-and-teacher/
2. http://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=136908&privcapId=702071
3. http://surgelicensing.com/Company/
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5. http://www.ithaca.edu/trustees/bios/?item=10173
6. http://money.cnn.com/2003/06/27/news/ceos/panera/index.htm
7. Glovin, David; Voreacos, David (2 December 2012). "Dream Insider Informant Led FBI From Galleon to SAC". Bloomberg. Bloomberg L.P. Retrieved 2 July 2016.
8. http://www2.clarku.edu/neverstops/careerpaths/sdepaul.cfm
9. https://books.google.com/books?id=MzRV_fQOnHIC&pg=PT105&lpg=PT105&dq=debra+strimike&source=bl&ots=cqi_iOnBJe&sig=7Vrc9Zyc8DXMC75Vppvh-EX6AA0&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiQgpL9hZ7OAhVGpR4KHVR9AmwQ6AEINDAF#v=onepage&q=debra%20strimike&f=false
10. http://www.nytimes.com/1994/02/13/nyregion/about-long-island-a-beauty-queen-with-eyes-on-the-law.html?pagewanted=all
11. List of Presidents of Clark University and Clark College