EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION

Coeducational in 1980.

Location:
Haverford, PA

Founding Date:
1833

Radio Station:
WHRC

Enrollment:
1100

Official Website:
http://www.haverford.edu/

STUDENTS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Nicholson Baker	Author	7-Jan-1957		Double Fold
Dave Barry	Columnist	3-Jul-1947		Dave Barry's Guide to Life
Ralph F. Boyd, Jr.	Attorney	c. 1957		EVP at Freddie Mac
Charles Canady	Politician	22-Jun-1954		Congressman from Florida, 1993-2001
Chevy Chase	Comic	8-Oct-1943		He is, you're not
Ron Christie	Government	7-Aug-1969		Former Cheney aide
Frank Conroy	Author	15-Jan-1936	6-Apr-2005	Stop-Time
Stephen G. Emerson	Educator	c. 1952		President, Haverford College
Mark Geragos	Attorney	5-Oct-1957		High-profile defense attorney
Oscar Goodman	Politician	26-Jun-1939		Mayor of Las Vegas
John Lamberton Harper	Historian	2-Oct-1950		American Visions of Europe
Christopher Van Hollen	Diplomat	23-Sep-1922	30-Jan-2012	US Ambassador to Sri Lanka, 1972-76
Akira Iriye	Historian	20-Oct-1934		Across the Pacific
Fredric Jameson	Author	14-Apr-1934		The Political Unconscious
Alex Karp	Business	2-Oct-1967		CEO of Palantir Technologies
Christoph M. Kimmich	Educator	16-Jan-1939		President, Brooklyn College
Robert H. Krieble	Philanthropist	1916	8-May-1997	Loctite Corporation
Joshua Kurlantzick	Journalist	c. 1976		Charm Offensive
Morris E. Leeds	Business	6-Mar-1869	8-Feb-1952	Leeds & Northrup Co.
Jerry Levin	Business	6-May-1939		CEO of Time Warner, 2000-02
Drew Lewis	Government	3-Nov-1931	10-Feb-2016	US Secretary of Transportation, 1981-83
Richard Lingeman	Author	2-Jan-1931		Biographer of Theodore Dreiser
Kermit V. Lipez	Judge	18-Aug-1941		1st Circuit Court of Appeals
Howard W. Lutnick	Business	c. 1961		CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald
George M. Marsden	Historian	25-Feb-1939		Jonathan Edwards: A Life
J. Howard Marshall II	Business	24-Jan-1905	4-Aug-1995	Oilman, married Anna Nicole Smith
Charles Mathias	Politician	24-Jul-1922	25-Jan-2010	US Senator from Maryland, 1969-87
Jim Moody	Politician	2-Sep-1935		Congressman from Wisconsin, 1983-93
Christopher Morley	Novelist	5-May-1890	28-Mar-1957	The Haunted Bookshop
Grayson Murphy	Business	1878	Nov-1937	Banker, Co-Founder of American Legion
Judd Nelson	Actor	28-Nov-1959		The Breakfast Club
Philip Noel-Baker	Politician	1-Nov-1889	8-Oct-1982	Instrumental creating League of Nations and UN
George G. C. Parker	Educator	c. 1939		Finance Professor Emeritus, Stanford
Michael K. Parks	Business	c. 1960		TCW Group
Maxfield Parrish	Artist	25-Jul-1870	10-Mar-1966	American book and magazine illustrator
Norman Pearlstine	Journalist	4-Oct-1942		Former Time Inc. Editor in Chief
Frederic Prokosch	Novelist	17-May-1908	6-Jun-1989	The Skies of Europe
Jack N. Rakove	Historian	4-Jun-1947		Original Meanings
Theodore W. Richards	Chemist	31-Jan-1868	2-Apr-1928	Atomic weights
Roberto A. Rivera-Soto	Judge	10-Nov-1953		Justice, New Jersey Supreme Court
Thomas J. Ryan	Business	3-Nov-1924	23-Sep-2009	CEO of ISU International
Rob Simmons	Politician	11-Feb-1943		Congressman from Connecticut, 2001-07
Samuel S. Stratton	Politician	27-Sep-1916	13-Sep-1990	Congressman from New York
Joseph H. Taylor, Jr.	Astronomer	24-Mar-1941		Co-Discovered first binary pulsar
David Wessel	Journalist	21-Feb-1954		Wall Street Journal
John C. Whitehead	Business	2-Apr-1922	7-Feb-2015	US Deputy Secretary of State, 1985-89
Juan Williams	Pundit	10-Apr-1954		Fox News commentator
Peter W. Wood	Anthropologist	1953		Diversity: The Invention of a Concept

TEACHERS AND PROFESSORS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Benjamin R. Barber	Scholar	2-Aug-1939		Jihad vs. McWorld
Wayne C. Booth	Critic	22-Feb-1921	10-Oct-2005	The Rhetoric of Fiction
Ernest W. Brown	Astronomer	29-Nov-1866	22-Jul-1938	Tables of the Motion of the Moon
Walter Dean Burnham	Scholar	15-Jun-1930		Democracy in the Making
Ron Christie	Government	7-Aug-1969		Former Cheney aide
Edward Drinker Cope	Paleontologist	28-Jul-1840	12-Apr-1897	Potential holotype for Homo Sapiens
Guy Davenport	Author	23-Nov-1927	4-Jan-2005	Thasos and Ohio
Steven Muller	Educator	22-Nov-1927	19-Jan-2013	President of Johns Hopkins, 1972-90

ADMINISTRATORS AND TRUSTEES

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Stephen G. Emerson	Educator	c. 1952		President, Haverford College
Morris E. Leeds	Business	6-Mar-1869	8-Feb-1952	Leeds & Northrup Co.
Jerry Levin	Business	6-May-1939		CEO of Time Warner, 2000-02
Howard W. Lutnick	Business	c. 1961		CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald
George G. C. Parker	Educator	c. 1939		Finance Professor Emeritus, Stanford
Jane G. Pepper	Agriculturalist	c. 1945		Pennsylvania Horticultural Society
Wesley S. Williams, Jr.	Attorney	13-Nov-1942		Former Partner, Covington & Burling

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