User:FelisObscura/WIP/MHC People (Old)

List of Mount Holyoke College people

Notable alumnae

Academics

Name	Class year	Notability	Reference(s)
Clara Harrison Stranahan (1831–1905)	1849 (before transferring)	Author; founder and trustee of Barnard College
Harriet Newell Haskell (1835–1907)	1855	Educator; administrator; principal of Monticello Seminary
Lucy Myers Wright Mitchell (1845–1888)	1864 (left with no degree)	Writer; historian; one of the first women to study classical archaeology
Cornelia Clapp (1849–1934)	1871; honorary Sc.D. in 1921	Zoologist; marine biologist; first women in the United States to earn a Ph.D. in biology; instructor (1872–) and professor of zoology (1904–1916) at Mount Holyoke
Mary Cutler Fairchild (1855–1921)	1875	Pioneering librarian; educator; administrator; Mount Holyoke faculty (1876–1878)
Henrietta Hooker (1851–1929)	1873; honorary Sc.D. in 1923	Botanist; professor and chair of botany at Mount Holyoke (1873–1908)
Alice Carter Cook (1868–1943)	c. 1888	Botanist; first female recipient of an American botany Ph.D.; later faculty
Marian E. Hubbard (1868–1956)	1889	Zoology professor
Alice Huntington Bushee (1867–1956)	1891	Spanish literature professor at Wellesley College
Martha Warren Beckwith (1871–1959)	1893	Anthropologist; folklorist; ethnographer
Abby Howe Turner (1875–1957)	1896	Founder of Mount Holyoke College's department of physiology
Caroline Ransom Williams (1872–1952)	1896	First female Egyptologist in North America
Emma P. Carr (1880–1972)	1902; honorary Sc.D. in 1952	Chemist; educator
Margaret Morse Nice	1905; honorary Sc.D. in 1955	Ornithologist
Alzada Comstock	1910	Economist; educator
Mildred Sanderson	1910	Mathematician
Louise Freeland Jenkins	1911	Astronomer
Marion Elizabeth Blake	1913	Classics professor
Helen G. Fisk	1917	Vocational services educator
Rachel Fuller Brown	1920; honorary Sc.D. in 1972	Chemist who discovered Nystatin
Mildred Trotter	1920; honorary Sc.D. in 1960	Forensic anthropologist
Elizabeth K. Worley	1924	Zoologist; microbiologist
Lucy Weston Pickett	1925	Chemist
Helen Sawyer Hogg	1926; honorary Sc.D. in 1958	Astronomer
Alice Standish Allen	1929	First female engineering geologist in North America
Janet Wilder Dakin	1933	Zoologist
Sara Anderson Immerwahr	1935	Classical archaeologist
Phoebe Stanton	1937; honorary Litt.D. in 1971	Architectural historian; professor at Johns Hopkins University; active in urban planning for the city of Baltimore
Carolyn Shaw Bell	1941	Economics professor
Mary McHenry	1954	English professor credited with introducing African American literature to Mount Holyoke
Jane English	1964	Physicist; translator; photographer
Dolores Hayden	1966; honorary L.H.D. in 1987	Professor of architecture, urbanism, and American studies
Carolyn Collette	1967	English professor
Karen E. Rowe	1967	English professor at UCLA
Susan Shirk	1967	Professor of political science; former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for North Asia during the Clinton administration
Susan B. Vroman	1968	Professor of Economics at Georgetown University
Lila M. Gierasch	1970; honorary Sc.D. in 2002	professor of chemistry; biochemistry and molecular biology
Melissa McGrath	1977	Astronomer; Chief Scientist at NASA Marshall Spaceflight Center

Activists

Name	Class year	Notability	Reference(s)

Actors, musicians, dancers and performers

Name	Class year	Notability	Reference(s)

Artists

Name	Class year	Notability	Reference(s)

Athletes

Name	Class year	Notability	Reference(s)

Businesswomen

Name	Class year	Notability	Reference(s)

College presidents

Name	Class year	Notability	Reference(s)

Computer scientists and graphic designers

Name	Class year	Notability	Reference(s)

Doctors, nurses and psychologists

Name	Class year	Notability	Reference(s)

Filmmakers, broadcast presidents, and producers

Name	Class year	Notability	Reference(s)

Journalists

Name	Class year	Notability	Reference(s)

Judges

Name	Class year	Notability	Reference(s)

Politics

Name	Class year	Notability	Reference(s)

Writers

Name	Class year	Notability	Reference(s)

Fictional alumnae

Name	Class year	Notability	Reference(s)

Sections

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Academics and scientists	Academics > [relevant subsection]
Activists	Activism
Actors, musicians, dancers and performers	Film, theater, and television > [relevant subsection]
Artists	Art and design
Athletes	Athletics
Businesswomen	Business
College presidents	Academics > College presidents and founders
Computer scientists and graphic designers	Academics > Formal science Art and design Science, technology, medicine, and mathematics
Doctors, nurses and psychologists	Science, technology, medicine, and mathematics > [relevant subsection]
Filmmakers, broadcast presidents, and producers	Film, theater, and television > [relevant subsection]
Journalists	Journalism
Judges	Law
Politics	[no change]
Writers	Literature
Fictional alumnae	In fiction