List of Miss Porter's School alumnae

The following is a list of notable alumnae from Miss Porter's School.

1870s

• Grace Hoadley Dodge (1873) - established Columbia University Teachers’ College^[1][2]
• Nellie Grant (1873) – daughter of U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant and First Lady Julia Grant^[3]
• Mary Knight Wood (1875) – American pianist, music educator and composer^[4]
• Julia Lathrop (1876) – the first woman ever to head a government agency in the United States

1880s

• Edith Hamilton (1886) – Greek Mythology scholar and sister of Alice Hamilton^[5]
• Alice Hamilton (1888) – first female faculty member of Harvard Medical School, founder of the field of industrial medicine^[5]
• Theodate Pope Riddle (1888) – architect and founder of Avon Old Farms and Westover School

1890s

• Madeline McDowell Breckinridge (1890) – a leader of the women's suffrage movement, a leading Progressive reformer, and granddaughter of Henry Clay^[6]
• Ruth Hanna McCormick (1897) – member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Illinois and the first woman to run for the U.S. Senate

1910s

• Edith Roelker Curtis (1912) – author, historian, and diarist
• Dorothy Keeley Aldis (1914) – American children's author and poet
• Dorothy Walker Bush (1919) – mother of the 41st President of the United States, George H. W. Bush and grandmother of the 43rd President of the United States, George W. Bush

1920s

• Helen Coley Nauts (1925) – founder of the Cancer Research Institute^[7][8]

1930s

• Barbara Hutton (1930) – American socialite, dubbed "Poor Little Rich Girl"
• Edith Bouvier Beale (1935) – American socialite and one of the subjects of the documentary film Grey Gardens
• Anne Cox Chambers (1938) – U.S. Ambassador to Belgium during the Carter administration^[9]
• Gene Tierney (1938) – Academy Award-nominated actress^[10]
• Brenda Frazier (1939) – American socialite

1940s

• Polly Allen Mellen (1942) – editor of Vogue magazine
• Dina Merrill (née Nedenia Hutton) (1943) – actress and American socialite
• Letitia Baldrige Hollensteiner (1943) – author and social secretary to Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy^[10][11]
• Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis (1947) – former First Lady of the United States^[10][12]
• Patience Cleveland (1948) – American actress and published author^[13]
• Lilly Pulitzer (née Lillian Lee McKim) (1949) – fashion designer and American socialite^[10]

1950s

• Lee Radziwill (née Bouvier) (1950) – public relations executive for Giorgio Armani, author, and younger sister of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis^[10]
• Elizabeth Cushman Titus Putnam (1951) – founding president of the Student Conservation Association (SCA) and recipient of the Presidential Citizens Medal^[14][15][16]
• Laura Rockefeller Chasin (1954) – American socialite
• Elise Ravenel Wood du Pont (1954) – former First Lady of Delaware and 1984 Republican candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives^[17]
• Barbara Babcock (1955) – Emmy-award winning actress for Hill Street Blues
• Pema Chödrön (formerly Deirdre Blomfield-Brown) (1955) – Buddhist nun and author; resident director of Gampo Abbey^[18]
• Edith Kunhardt Davis (1955) – children's author and illustrator, daughter of Dorothy Kunhardt^[19][20]
• Agnes Gund (1956) – President Emerita of the Museum of Modern Art and 1997 recipient of the National Medal of Arts from President Bill Clinton, she was nominated by President Barack Obama as a member of the Board of Trustees of the National Council on the Arts in 2011^[21][22]

1960s

• Mimi Alford (1961) – former White House intern who wrote a book about her affair with John F. Kennedy^[23][24]

1970s

• Elizabeth May (1972) – the first elected Green Party Member of Parliament in Canada and leader of the Green Party of Canada
• Dorothy Bush Koch (1977) – philanthropist and member of the First Family
• Sarah Ludlow Blake (1978) – American writer^[25]

1980s

• Susannah Grant (1980) – director and Academy Award-nominated screenwriter for Erin Brockovich^[26]
• Mary Anne Amirthi Mohanraj (1989) – American writer and editor

1990s

• Katherine Collins Pope (1990) – president of television at Chernin Entertainment, formerly president of Universal Media Studios, and executive producer of such television series as New Girl, Touch, and Ben & Kate^[27][28]
• Chrishaunda Lee (1994) – niece of Oprah Winfrey and hostess of the PBS program Animal Attractions Television

2000s

• Mamie Gummer (2001) – actress and daughter of actress Meryl Streep
• Hayley Petit (2007) – victim of the Cheshire, Connecticut, home invasion murders^[29]

References

1. ↑ Roger L. Geiger (1 January 2000). History of Higher Education Annual 2000. Transaction Publishers. ISBN 978-1-4128-2521-4. Retrieved 13 August 2016. 
2. ↑ John F. Ohles (1978). Biographical Dictionary of American Educators. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 386–387. ISBN 978-0-313-04012-2. 
3. ↑ Waxman, Olivia B. (July 4, 2012). "Nellie Grant | Happy Birthday to America—and her First Daughters | TIME.com". Swampland.time.com. Retrieved April 23, 2013. 
4. ↑ The Musician. 5. 22. Hatch Music Company. 1917. p. 396. Retrieved September 1, 2012. 
5. 1 2 Gorman, Kathleen (July 11, 1995). "Miss Porter's Graduate To Appear On Stamp". Hartford Courant. Hartford. Retrieved September 3, 2012. 
6. ↑ "Madeline McDowell Breckinridge Papers, 1867, 1888–1923. – Kentucky Digital Library". Eris.uky.edu. Retrieved April 23, 2013. 
7. ↑ Nagourney, Eric (January 9, 2001). "Helen C. Nauts, 93, Champion Of Her Father's Cancer Work". The New York Times. 
8. ↑ "Our History – CRI". Cancerresearch.org. Retrieved April 23, 2013. 
9. ↑ Heckert, Amanda. "Anne Cox Chambers: A conversation with the famously private billionaire". Retrieved September 3, 2012. 
10. 1 2 3 4 5 Glasberg, Eve (March 3, 2006). "A 'Village of Pretty Houses,' Where Women's Lives Were Reshaped". The New York Times. 
11. ↑ Davis, Nancy; Barbara Donahue (1992). Miss Porter's School: A History. ISBN 0-9632985-1-8. 
12. ↑ "Boarding School Graduates – The Association of Boarding Schools (TABS)". Boardingschools.com. Retrieved April 23, 2013. 
13. ↑ "About Patience | A Day in the Life". Patiencecleveland.wordpress.com. Retrieved April 23, 2013. 
14. ↑ "2012 Presidential Citizens Medal Recipients | The White House". Whitehouse.gov. April 1, 2013. Retrieved April 23, 2013. 
15. ↑
16. ↑ "Miss Porter's School Annual Report 2009-2010, page 9" (PDF). Retrieved April 23, 2013. 
17. ↑ Bartlett, Kay (July 1, 1984), "Delaware's first lady becomes a candidate", The Milwaukee Journal, p. 3 
18. ↑ "Pema Chödrön". Gampo Abbey. Retrieved April 23, 2013. 
19. ↑ "Back in Print: 'Pat the Bunny' Author's Earliest Titles". Publishers Weekly. Aug 1, 2013. 
20. ↑ "Bulletin" (PDF). Miss Porter's School. Winter 2012. 
21. ↑ "President Obama Announces More Key Administration Posts, 12/22/10 | The White House". Whitehouse.gov. December 22, 2010. Retrieved April 23, 2013. 
22. ↑ Prato, Judy (October 18, 2003). "Miss Porter's School Honors Agnes Gund – Hartford Courant". Articles.courant.com. Retrieved April 23, 2013. 
23. ↑ Maslin, Janet (February 9, 2012). "Sure, Mr. President, if You Really Want Me To". The New York Times. The New York Times Company. p. C4. Retrieved July 25, 2012. 
24. ↑ Smith, Emily Esfahani (February 9, 2012). "What's the Most Shocking Part of Mimi Alford's Story?". Retrieved July 25, 2012. 
25. ↑ "Teacher Is Wed To Sarah Blake". The New York Times. August 5, 1984. 
26. ↑ "Miss Porter's School ~ alumnae". Porters.org. Retrieved April 23, 2013. 
27. ↑ Goldman, Andrew (October 28, 2009). "Katherine Pope". ELLE Magazine. 
28. ↑ http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0691142/
29. ↑ Wool, Hillary. "Petit remembered as an athlete, role model." The Dartmouth. Friday July 27, 2007. Retrieved on November 9, 2010.