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Haverford College
Haverford College is a private, coeducational liberal arts college located in Haverford, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia.
The college was founded in 1833 by area members of the Orthodox Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) to ensure an education grounded...
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Jonathan W Lowe
Jonathan W Lowe works as a Geographic Information Systems (GIS) specialist as a technical lead on systems integration projects. He enjoys building digital models of the real world in order to predict future conditions or interpret the present....
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- May 1987
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- Sep 1983
Martin Heller
Martin Heller, a Web and Windows programming consultant, is a Contributing Editor, reviewer and blogger for InfoWorld, and was previously associated with Byte Magazine and Windows Magazine. He was the author of two early Windows...
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- May 1972
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- Sep 1968
Theodore William Richards
Theodore William Richards (January 31, 1868 – April 2, 1928) was the first American scientist to receive the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, earning the award "in recognition of his exact determinations of the atomic weights of a large number of the...
Joseph Hooton Taylor, Jr.
Joseph Hooton Taylor, Jr. (born March 29, 1941) is an American astrophysicist and Nobel Prize in Physics laureate for his discovery with Russell Alan Hulse of a "new type of pulsar, a discovery that has opened up new possibilities for the study of...
Oscar Goodman
Oscar Baylin Goodman (born July 26, 1939) is an American attorney and politician who has been the Mayor of Las Vegas, Nevada since 1999. Mayor Goodman is an Independent and a former member of the Democratic Party.
Goodman was born to a Jewish family...
Jeffrey N. Edwards
Jeffrey N. Edwards serves as Merrill Lynch vice chairman and member of the Executive Client Coverage Group. He works with the group's other senior executives to enhance Merrill Lynch capital markets and corporate finance capabilities with clients...
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Robert Ihrie Jr.
Bob Ihrie was promoted to senior vice president of employee rewards and services of Lowe's in August 2007He is responsible for the strategic direction and supervision of all aspects of compensation, benefits, international human resources,...
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Morris E. Leeds
Morris E. Leeds (March 6, 1869 in Philadelphia - February 8, 1952) was an American electrical engineer known for his many inventions in the field of electrical measuring devices and controls. He was inducted into the Academy of Natural Sciences and...
Henry Shoemaker Conard
Henry Shoemaker Conard was a leading authority on bryophytes and water lilies, as well as an early advocate of environmental preservation. From 1906 to 1955, Professor Conard worked at Grinnell College in Grinnell, Iowa. In 1969, the college...
Ralph F. Boyd Jr
Ralph F. Boyd, Jr. is Freddie Mac's Executive Vice President, Community Relations. He is also Chairman, President and CEO of the Freddie Mac Foundation, and serves on the Foundation's Investment Committee.
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- 1979
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Philip Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker
Philip John Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker, born Philip John Baker (1 November 1889 – 8 October 1982) was a British politician, diplomat, academic, an outstanding amateur athlete, and renowned campaigner for disarmament who received the Nobel Peace...
Ronald M. Shapiro
Ronald M. Shapiro (born March 29, 1943 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is a well-known sports agent, attorney, author, expert negotiator, educator, speaker, and civic leader.
Shapiro graduated from Haverford College in 1964 with a B.A. and cum laude...
Henry Scattergood
Joseph Henry Scattergood (26 January 1877–15 June 1953) was an American cricketer, active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Scattergood was one of the Philadelphian cricketers that played from the end of the 19th century through the early...
Mark Kleiman
Mark A. R. Kleiman is an American professor, author, and blogger who is a Professor of Public Policy at the UCLA School of Public Affairs. Kleiman is a nationally recognized expert in the field of crime and drug policy and the author of Marijuana:...
Timothy Taylor
Timothy Taylor (born 1960) an American economist. He is Managing Editor of the Journal of Economic Perspectives, a quarterly academic journal produced at Macalester College and published by the American Economic Association.
Taylor received his...
Bruce Lincoln
Bruce Lincoln is Caroline E. Haskell Professor of the History of Religions in the Divinity School of the University of Chicago.
His primary scholarly concern was for many years the study of Indo-European religion. His work within this field and...
Charles T. Canady
Charles Terrance Canady (born June 22, 1954) is a Republican politician and jurist from Florida. He was a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1993 to 2001, was a judge on the Florida Second District Court of Appeal from 2002 to...
Andy Gavin
Andy Gavin (born 1970) is a programmer notable for co-founding the video game company Naughty Dog with childhood friend Jason Rubin in 1986. Naughty Dog's games (most famously, Crash Bandicoot) are known for their combination of exceptional...
Roy Gutman
Roy Gutman (born March 5, 1944, New York City) is an American journalist and author.
Gutman graduated from Haverford College, in 1966, majoring in History, and from London School of Economics in 1968 with a masters degree in International Relations....
Iwao Ayusawa
Iwao Frederick Ayusawa (October 15, 1894 – November 30, 1972) was a diplomat and international authority on social and labor issues.
In 1911 he went to Hawaii as a recipient of the Friend Peace Scholarship. He graduated from Haverford College in...
Andrew L. Lewis, Jr.
Andrew Lindsay Lewis, Jr. (born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on November 3, 1931) is a businessman who was Secretary of Transportation for part of the administration of United States President Ronald Reagan. He is widely known as Drew Lewis.
He...
Juan Williams
Juan Williams (born April 10, 1954) is a an American journalist, author, and political commentator.
Williams regularly appears on major radio and television programs, notably National Public Radio and the Fox News Channel. He also writes for leading...
Gerald M. Levin
Gerald M. "Jerry" Levin (b. 6 May 1939: Pennsylvania, USA) is an American mass-media businessman. CNBC named him as one of the "Worst American CEOs of All Time".
Levin comes from a Jewish family. He attended Haverford College, where he is a member...
John C. Whitehead
John Cunningham Whitehead (born April 2, 1922), is an American banker and civil servant, currently the chairman of the World Trade Center Memorial Foundation (WTC Memorial Foundation), and former chairman of the Lower Manhattan Development...
Frank Conroy
Frank Conroy (January 15, 1936 - April 6, 2005) was an American author, born in New York, New York to an American father and a Danish mother. He published five books, including the highly acclaimed memoir Stop-Time, published in 1967, which...
Douglas C. Bennett
Douglas C. Bennett (born 1946) is the current president of Earlham College, located in Richmond, Indiana. He was installed as president in 1996. Since 1997, Bennett has also a member of the political science department at Earlham.
Bennett grew up in...
Rufus Jones
Rufus Matthew Jones (January 25, 1863–June 16, 1948) was an American writer, magazine editor, philosopher, and college professor. He was instrumental in the establishment of the Haverford Emergency Unit (a pre-cursor to the American Friends Service...
Mark Geragos
Mark John Geragos (born October 5, 1957) is an American criminal defense attorney best known for defending the musician Michael Jackson, actress Winona Ryder, politician Gary Condit, and Susan McDougal, who was involved in the Whitewater scandal. He...
Daniel Dae Kim
Daniel Dae Kim (born August 4, 1968) is an American actor. Although he has appeared in numerous television shows, Kim is well known for playing Jin-Soo Kwon on the series Lost.
Kim was born in Busan, South Korea and moved to the United States with...
Jonathan Z. Smith
Jonathan Zittell Smith (J. Z. Smith) is a historian of religions. He has researched the theory of ritual, Hellenistic religions, Māori cults in the 19th century, and mass suicide in Jonestown, Guyana. His works include Map is Not Territory,...
Henry Goddard
Henry Herbert Goddard (August 14, 1866 – June 18, 1957) was a prominent American psychologist and eugenicist in the early 20th century. He is known especially for his 1912 work The Kallikak Family: A Study in the Heredity of Feeble-Mindedness, which...
Rob Simmons
Robert Ruhl "Rob" Simmons (born February 11, 1943) is an American politician who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from 2001 to 2007, representing Connecticut's 2nd district as a Republican. Simmons is currently a...
Nicholson Baker
Nicholson Baker (born January 7, 1957) is a contemporary American writer of fiction and non-fiction. As a novelist, he often focuses on minute inspection of his characters' and narrators' stream of consciousness, and has written about such...
Fredric Jameson
Fredric Jameson (born 14 April 1934) is an American literary critic and Marxist political theorist. He is best known for his analysis of contemporary cultural trends—he once described postmodernism as the spatialization of culture under the pressure...
Christopher Morley
Christopher Morley (5 May 1890 – 28 March 1957) was an American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet. He also produced stage productions for a few years, and gave college lectures.
Christopher Morley was born in Haverford, Pennsylvania. His...
William Draper Lewis
William Draper Lewis (1867–1949) was the first full-time dean of the University of Pennsylvania Law School (1896-1914) and the founding director (1923-1947) of the American Law Institute.
William Draper Lewis was an Episcopalian, probably of Quaker...
Arishima Takeo
Takeo Arishima (有島 武郎, Arishima Takeo, March 4, 1878 – June 9, 1923) was a novelist, short-story writer and essayist during the late Meiji and Taishō periods. His two younger brothers, Ikuma Arishima (有島生馬) and Ton Satomi (里美弴) were also authors....
Dave Barry
David "Dave" Barry (born July 3, 1947) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American author and columnist, who wrote a nationally syndicated humor column for the The Miami Herald from 1983 to 2005. He has also written numerous books of humor and parody, as...
Peter J. Goldmark
Peter James Goldmark is the Washington State Commissioner of Public Lands and heads the Washington Department of Natural Resources. He is a Democrat from a rural part of Okanogan County, Washington, outside of the town of Okanogan.
Peter Goldmark...
Anthony G. Amsterdam
Anthony G. Amsterdam (born 1935) is an American lawyer and Professor of Law at New York University School of Law.
Working with the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Amsterdam argued and won Furman v. Georgia in 1972, in which the Supreme...
Charles Mathias, Jr.
Charles McCurdy "Mac" Mathias, Jr. (born July 24, 1922) is a Republican former member of the United States Senate, representing Maryland from 1969 to 1987. He was also a member of the Maryland House of Delegates from 1959 to 1960, and of the United...
Curtis Callan
Curtis Callan (1942– ) is a theoretical physicist and a professor at Princeton University. He has conducted research in gauge theory, string theory, instantons, black holes, strong interactions, and many other topics. He was awarded the Sakurai...
Edward B. Cassatt
Colonel Edward Buchanan Cassatt (August 23, 1869 – January 31, 1922) was an American soldier and an owner/breeder of Thoroughbred racehorses. He was the son of Alexander Cassatt, president of the Pennsylvania Railroad, and his wife, Lois Buchanan, a...
Harold E. Taylor
Harold E. Taylor, Haverford College, MIT, and University of Iowa alumnus, was a Professor of Physics at The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey for over 30 years. As one of the original faculty members, Hal did research and instructed in the...
Alexia Kelley
Alexia Kelley currently serves as director of the Department of Health and Human Services' Center for Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships. She is a co-founder of Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good.
Ms. Kelley graduated with honors from...
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Frank J. Popper
Frank J. Popper (born 1944) is a professor at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy of Rutgers University and the Princeton Environmental Institute at Princeton University, known for proposing the Buffalo Commons idea for the...
Samuel S. Stratton
Samuel Studdiford Stratton (September 27, 1916–September 13, 1990) was a U.S. Representative, representing New York for almost 30 years from 1959 to 1989.
Stratton was born in Yonkers, New York and his family moved to Schenectady, New York while he...
