EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION

Founded 1870 by Thomas Hunter as the Normal College for Women.

Part of the City University of New York System.

Location:
New York City

Founding Date:
1870

Motto:
Mihi cura futuri

Team:
Hawks

Enrollment:
21,000

Official Website:
http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/

STUDENTS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Bella Abzug	Politician	24-Jul-1920	31-Mar-1998	Feminist and former Congresswoman
Martina Arroyo	Singer	2-Feb-1937		Operatic soprano
Ellen Barkin	Actor	16-Apr-1954		Siesta
Catherine Burns	Actor	24-Sep-1945		Last Summer
Edward Burns	Actor	29-Jan-1968		Saving Private Ryan
Carmen Beauchamp Ciparick	Judge	1942		Judge, NY Court of Appeals
Eleanor Clift	Journalist	7-Jul-1940		Madam President
Naomi W. Cohen	Historian	13-Nov-1927		Jews in Christian America
Richard Cohen	Columnist	1941		Washington Post columnist
Harry Connick, Jr.	Singer	11-Sep-1967		Golden voiced singer/actor
Leon G. Cooperman	Business	c. 1943		Omega Advisors, Inc.
Judith Crist	Critic	22-May-1922	7-Aug-2012	Ascerbic film critic
Bobby Darin	Singer	14-May-1936	20-Dec-1973	Mack the Knife
Ruby Dee	Actor	27-Oct-1924	12-Jun-2014	The Jackie Robinson Story
Vin Diesel	Actor	18-Jul-1967		Riddick from Pitch Black
Hugh Downs	Journalist	14-Feb-1921		20/20
Gertrude B. Elion	Scientist	23-Jan-1918	21-Feb-1999	Developed medicines for leukemia, herpes, AIDS
Constance Ford	Actor	1-Jul-1923	26-Feb-1993	Ada Hobson on Another World
Martin Garbus	Attorney	8-Aug-1934		Attorney for Lenny Bruce
Valerie Harper	Actor	22-Aug-1940		Rhoda on Mary Tyler Moore
Harry Harrison	Novelist	12-Mar-1925	15-Aug-2012	Stainless Steel Rat series
Rita E. Hauser	Activist	12-Jul-1934		Former Partner, Stroock & Stroock & Lavan
Evan Hunter	Novelist	15-Oct-1926	7-Jul-2005	The Blackboard Jungle
Richard Jeni	Comic	14-Apr-1957	10-Mar-2007	A Big Steaming Pile of Me
Audre Lorde	Author	18-Feb-1934	17-Nov-1992	A Burst of Light
Paule Marshall	Novelist	9-Apr-1929		Brown Girl, Brownstones
Michael Massee	Actor	1955		Momentum
Gabrielle K. McDonald	Judge	12-Apr-1942		US District Court Judge, Texas, 1979-88
Tom Murphy	Politician	15-Aug-1944		Mayor of Pittsburgh, 1994-2006
Bess Myerson	Model	16-Jul-1924	14-Dec-2014	First Jewish Miss America
Julianne Nicholson	Actor	1-Jul-1971		Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Mollie Orshansky	Economist	9-Jan-1915	18-Dec-2006	Orshansky Index
Grace Paley	Author	11-Dec-1922	22-Aug-2007	The Little Disturbances of Man
Rhea Perlman	Actor	31-Mar-1948		Cheers
Sylvia Porter	Columnist	18-Jun-1913	5-Jun-1991	Financial columnist
Judy Reyes	Actor	5-Nov-1967		Nurse Espinosa on Scrubs
Cybill Shepherd	Actor	18-Feb-1950		Moonlighting
Robert Smigel	Actor	7-Feb-1960		Triumph the Insult Comic Dog
Jean Stapleton	Actor	19-Jan-1923	31-May-2013	Edith on All In The Family
Pamela Tiffin	Actor	13-Oct-1942		One, Two, Three
Robert Townsend	Actor	6-Feb-1957		A Soldier's Story
Nick Valensi	Guitarist	16-Jan-1981		Guitarist for The Strokes
James Van Praagh	Paranormal	23-Aug-1958		Spiritualist faker
Rosalyn Sussman Yalow	Physicist	19-Jul-1921	30-May-2011	Developed radioimmunoassay technique

TEACHERS AND PROFESSORS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Benjamin R. Barber	Scholar	2-Aug-1939		Jihad vs. McWorld
Jacqueline K. Barton	Chemist	7-May-1952		Professor of Chemistry at CalTech
Naomi W. Cohen	Historian	13-Nov-1927		Jews in Christian America
Johnnetta B. Cole	Educator	19-Oct-1936		President of Spelman College, 1987-97
Norman Finkelstein	Scholar	8-Dec-1953		The Holocaust Industry
Lillian Hellman	Playwright	20-Jun-1905	30-Jun-1984	Little Foxes
John Hollander	Poet	28-Oct-1929	17-Aug-2013	Powers of Thirteen
Irving Howe	Critic	11-Jun-1920	5-May-1993	Editor of Dissent
William R. Hutchison	Historian	21-May-1930	16-Dec-2005	The Modernist Impulse in American Protestantism
Robert Motherwell	Painter	24-Jan-1915	16-Jul-1991	Abstract expressionist
Gail K. Naughton	Biologist	c. 1955		Advanced Tissue Sciences
Leonard Peikoff	Philosopher	15-Oct-1933		Proseletyzer of objectivism
Ad Reinhardt	Painter	24-Dec-1913	30-Aug-1967	Abstract expressionist
Albert Shanker	Labor Leader	14-Sep-1928	22-Feb-1997	American Federation of Teachers
Clay Shirky	Author	1964		Cognitive Surplus
John Kennedy Toole	Novelist	7-Dec-1937	26-Mar-1969	A Confederacy of Dunces
Lionel Trilling	Critic	4-Jul-1905	5-Nov-1975	The Liberal Imagination
Nydia Velázquez	Politician	28-Mar-1953		Congresswoman, New York 12th
Robert C. Weaver	Government	29-Dec-1907	17-Jul-1997	US HUD Secretary, 1966-68
James Wright	Poet	13-Dec-1927	25-Mar-1980	The Branch Will Not Break

ADMINISTRATORS AND TRUSTEES

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Hugh Downs	Journalist	14-Feb-1921		20/20
Paul LeClerc	Administrator	28-May-1941		CEO of New York Public Library
Jennifer J. Raab	Educator	c. 1956		President, Hunter College
Donna Shalala	Government	14-Feb-1941		Secretary of HHS, 1993-2001

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