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Prominent Emma Willard Alumnae

Name
Class Year
Notes

Elizabeth Cady Stanton 1832
(Troy Female Seminary)
Women’s rights activist

Margaret Olivia Slocum Sage 1847
(Troy Female Seminary)
Philanthropist, founded Russell Sage College for women in 1916

Mary Arthur 1857
(Troy Female Seminary)
Sister of President Chester Arthur, served as First Lady during his term

Mrs. Marshall Field (Nancy Scott) 1857
(Troy Female Seminary)
Philanthropist

Mrs. Cyrus McCormick (Nettie Fowler) 1853
(Troy Female Seminary)
Philanthropist

Lily Price 1872 Dutchess of Marlborough (later Lady Beresford)

Clementine Miller Tangeman ’23 Philanthropist

Helen Snell Cheel ’23 Philanthropist

Jane Seddon Willson ’41 Pecan farmer, statewide business leader in Georgia, first female board member of Bell South

Hope McEldowney Kobak ’40 President/co-founder, Kirkus Reviews

Sue McKee Wierengo ’49 Founder, Michigan Hospice

Polly Ormsby Longsworth ’51 Emily Dickinson scholar, biographer
Recipient of Amherst College's Medal for Eminent Service

Jean Bernhard Buttner ’53 CEO, Valueline, investment advisory company

Jane Fonda ’55 Academy Award-winning actor, citizen activist, philanthropist

Sara Lubin Schupf ’58 Philanthropist, former spokesperson for the Sara Lee Baking Company

Florence Habiby Browne ’58 Founder/executive director of the Arab-American Family Support Center in NYC

Kendra Stearns O’Donnell ’60 Scholar and first female head of school of Phillips Exeter Academy

Jameson Adkins Baxter ’61 Investment banker, served concurrently as Board president for Mount Holyoke College and Emma Willard School

Michael Gage ’61 Administrative judge in charge of the 47 family courts in New York City

Mary Lake Polan ’61 First female chair of clinical department at Stanford University Medical School

Jennifer von Mayrhauser Cottrell ’65 Emmy-nominated costume designer who has received an Obie for Sustained Excellence

Elizabeth L. Colton ’66 Founder/executive director, International Museum of Women, San Francisco

Jane Wales ’66 International security policy expert

Hannah Chase Kinney ’67 Groundbreaking researcher on Sudden Infant Death Syndrome

Laurie Burt ’67 One of the nation’s leading environmental attorneys

Ruth Scovill ’68 Digital production technology, feature film industry, Oscar winner

Antonia Stolper ’75 International attorney, political activist

Robin Bell ’76 Research geologist

Jyoti Srivastava ’77 Pioneer, restorative dentistry, associate professor at New York University School of Dentistry

Coleman Hough ’78 Screenwriter, playwright

Erin Crotty '84 First female Commissioner of Environmental Conservation for New York State

Kirsten Rutnik Gillibrand ’84 U.S. Representative, D-Greenport, NY
U.S. Senator

 


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