List of Washington College alumni: Difference between revisions

• Steve Amick, Class of 1969, State legislator in Delaware.

• Linda Ayres, Class of 1969, American arts specialist and former Chief of Prints and Photographs for the Library of Congress.

• Walter Baker, Class of 1957, Maryland State Senator.

• William O. Baker, Class of 1935, Joined Bell Laboratories in 1939 and retired in 1980 as chairman of the board of Bell Telephone Laboratories; Served as vice-chairman of the NJ Board of Higher Education and co-authored A Nation at Risk: the Imperative for Educational Reform.

• Steve Bender, Class of 1976, Author/writer for Southern Living.

• Neal Bolton, Class year unknown, Editor of Men’s Health Magazine.

• Captain L. Thomas Bortmes, USN, Class of 1973, Director of the Office of Naval Intelligence and former Director of Intelligence for the Pacific Fleet.

• Colonel Hiram Staunton Brown, Class of 1900, New York banker, businessman, multimillionaire and president of the RKO Movie Corporation; Served as President of College's Board of Visitors and Governors.

• William O. Baker, Class of 1935, chairman of the board of Bell Telephone Laboratories, served as vice-chairman of the New Jersey Board of Higher Education and co-authored A Nation at Risk: The Imperative for Educational Reform (1983).

• George Avery Bunting, Class of 1891, entered Washington College at the age of 16, pursued a career in pharmacology and invented the facial cream known as Noxzema. He founded the company in 1917 and served as its president until 1948.

• Gilbert Byron, Class of 1923, author, best known as the “Chesapeake Thoreau” or “Voice of the Chesapeake” for such regionally-flavored works as The Lord’s Oysters and Done Crabbin’.

• James M. Cain, Class of 1910, journalist, screenwriter and novelist, best known for three novels: The Postman Always Rings Twice, Double Indemnity, and Mildred Pierce—which firmly established the film noir genre.

• Betty Brown Casey, Class of 1947, philanthropist, chair of the Eugene B. Casey Foundation, created the Casey Trees Endowment Fund to restore the tree cover of the District of Columbia.

• Ezekial Chambers, Class of 1805, Captain in the War of 1812; Served in MD Senate (1822-25) and US Senate (1826-34) and member of MD Court of Appeals.

• Charles B. Clark, Class of 1933, Historian, Professor and Father of Men's Lacrosse at WC.

• John W. Crisfield, Class year unknown, Congressman for Maryland 6th District, 1847-1849; Congressman for Maryland 1st District, 1861-1863. Town of Crisfield, MD named in his honor.

• Thomas Crouse, Class of 1959, Retired Chairman and Founder of CIG International, LLC.

• H. Lawrence Culp, Class of 1985, President and CEO of Danaher, a Fortune 500 company and a world leader in the development and manufacture of process and environmental instrumentation.

• Robert P. Dean, Class year unknown, Maryland State Senator.

• Peter DeJong, Class of 1992, Manager of Programming and Production with A&E Networks, Inc. including the History Channel, A&E Network, and the Biography Channel.

• John Dimsdale, Class of 1973, Reporter for NPR's Marketplace.

• Christopher Ely , Class of 1970, Former sports broadcaster for the WJZand WBAL television stations in Baltimore, MD.

• Bishop John Emory, Class of 1805, a lawyer and a minister of the Methodist Church. Emory helped in the organization of several colleges and universities, including New York University, Wesleyan University and Dickinson College. Emory University, founded in 1836, was named in his honor.

• Mary Adele France, Class of 1900, principal of St. Mary’s Female Seminary, establishing it as a junior college that later became St. Mary’s College of Maryland.

• Joseph M. Getty, Class of 1974, Author; historian; former elected official in Maryland House of Delegates. Currently serves as the Policy and Legislative Director to Maryland Governor Robert L. Ehrlich, Jr.

• Charles H. Gibson, Class year unknown, U.S. Senator for Maryland, 1891-1897; Congressman for Maryland 1st District, 1885-1891.

• Louis L. Goldstein, Class of 1935, Maryland's longest-serving elected official; Member of the MD House of Delegates (1939-42); MD Senate (1947-58) and was the State's Comptroller from 1959-1998); Chair of BOVG.

• John D. Hall, Class of 1970, Former President of Time-Life International; Currently the Managing Director of U.S. CTJ, Inc., and Venture Partner in Plum Capital.

• Linda Hamilton, Class of 1978, actress.

• Richard Heymann, Class of 1969, Journalist and principal of Magellan Marketing and Splash Marketing; Free lance writer for "The Post and Courier" and "The Charleston Regional Business Journal".

• Marcia Invernizzi, Class of 1972, Professor and Program Coordinator of Reading Education in the Department of Curriculum, Instruction and Special Education at the Curry School of Education in Charlottesville, Virginia, and clinical director of the McGuffey Reading Center at the University of Virginia.

• Bob Jackson, Class year unknown, lacrosse All-American.

• Karen Johnson, Class of 1968, Oncologist with National Cancer Institute.

• William B. Johnson, Class of 1940, captain of industry, CEO and chair of Illinois Central Gulf Railroad, brought his company and his investors out of the “railroad blues” of the late 1960s through diversification and the creation of a multi-billion dollar conglomerate that included businesses such as the Abex Corporation, Pepsi bottlers, Midas Muffler, Pet Foods, Hussman refrigeration equipment, Pneumo Aircraft Systems and the Illinois center corporate office complex in downtown Chicago.

• David Knepler, Class of 1976, Entrepreneur; Top income producer for Springfield Place in Petaluma, CA; Authored numerous articles for "The Street Beat" for the San Francisco Chronicle; Serves on the Board of Directors for the Marin County, California, Hospice.

• Theodore Kurze, Class of 1943, One of the most world's respected brain surgeons; Credited with radically altering the practice of neurosurgery with his introduction of the microscope to surgery in 1957.

• Michael Ludden, Class of 1973, journalist and editor, led The Orlando Sentinel to a Pulitzer Prize in 1993 for an investigation of racial profiling and the abuse of no-arrest seizures laws by the Volusia County Sheriff’s Office.

• Susan Dunnin Matthews, Class of 1975, Acclaimed jazz vocalist.

• Amy McCleary, Class of 1993, Assistant Women’s Lacrosse coach – German National Team.

• Joseph H. McLain, Class of 1937, chemist in the field of pyrotechnics who held more than 30 patents for devices such as pyrotechnic actuation devices for stage separation in spacecraft and smoke grenades for camouflaging troop movements. Returned to WC to serve as President 1973-1981.

• John A. Moag, Jr., Class of 1977, Vice Chairman of Legg Mason; brought Ravens to Baltimore from Cleveland while Chairman of Maryland Stadium Authority.

• Scott Newman, Paul Newman's late son.

• "Swish" Nicholson, Class of 1936, star in Major League Baseball as a two-time National League home run and RBI champion. After a short stint with the Philadelphia Athletics and in the minors, Nicholson joined the Chicago Cubs in 1939.

• James Potter, Class of 1959, Medical doctor; Started a zoo for the community in Pensacola, FL.

• David Ritz, Class of 1969, CEO of Ritz Camera Centers.

• Laura San Giacomo, Class of 1983, actress.

• Nathan Schnaper , Class of 1940, Past President of the MD Assoc. of Private Practicing Psychiatrists; Fellow of the American Psychiatric Assoc.; Founding Member of American Trauma Society; Member of Israel Psychoanalytic Society; Author; Psychiatrist at large at the Univ. of MD Greenebaum Cancer Center in Baltimore.

• Edward Schulman, Class of 1971, Renowned research immunologist specializing in solutions for asthma

• Theodore Simonson, Class of 1949, scriptwriter of the 1958 sci-fi horror classic, The Blob.

• The Honorable Dean Skelos, Class of 1970, State Senator from New York and advocate for such legislation as Amber Alerts and Megan's Law.

• Carey Smith, Class of 1991, Oscar winner for special effects, Spiderman II.

• Rodgers T. Smith, Class of 1951, Served in the Marines; Received two Bronze Stars, the Meritorious Service Medal, the Navy Commendation Medal, and the Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry.

• Ralph Snyderman, M.D., Class of 1961, past Chancellor for Health Affairs at Duke University and President and CEO of the Duke University Health System, served as President of the Association of American Physicians and Chair of the Association of American Medical Colleges.

• Colin Stam, Class of 1916, Attorney for the Internal Revenue Service (1922-26); Assistant counsel for Joint Congressional Committee on Internal Revenue taxation (1927-29), counsel (1929-38); Chief of Staff (1938); Coauthor of Internal Revenue Code of 1939).

• Tamara Tiehel Stedman (Tami), Class of 1986, Academy award winning producer.

• Batsy Beard Stillings, Class of 1985, Olympic gold medalist in rowing in 1984.

• Peter Turchi, Class of 1982, Sophie Kerr winner; Guggenheim Fellowship recipient.

• Benjamin H. Vandervoort, Class of 1938, famed officer in the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division, portrayed by John Wayne in the 1962 movie, The Longest Day. Vandervoort was one of the few soldiers to be awarded three Distinguished Service Crosses for Bravery in combat, in addition to three Purple Hearts and a Bronze Star with Valor. Renowned for his heroics during the Normandy Invasion.

• Major General William Wallace, Class of 1918, Known for his distinguished service during World War II.

• Harris Whitback, Class of 1987, Correspondent for CNN; Has reported from Baghdad during the war.