List of Albion College people

List of notable alumni and faculty, people who attended and graduated from Albion College in Albion, Michigan, and people who received honorary degrees.

Alumni

Academia
Ella H. Brockway Avann, 1871, educator
Robert Bartlett, surgeon
Bob Bemer, 1940, computer scientist
Bruce C. Berndt, 1961, mathematician
J Harlen Bretz, 1906, geologist
Mark W. Chase, 1973, botanist
Harriet Gertrude Eddy, 1890s, educator and librarian
Robert E. Horton, 1897, hydrology
Forest Ray Moulton, 1894, astronomer
John W. Porter, 1953, former president of Eastern Michigan University; first African-American State Superintendent since Reconstruction
Dwight B. Waldo, first president of Western Michigan University

Arts and entertainment
Philip Campbell Curtis, 1930, surrealist-inspired painter
Daniel Henney, 2000, Korean model and actor, most notably in My Name is Kim Sam Soon
Patrick Maher, 1989, author 
Cornelia Moore Chillson Moots, 1882, missionary, temperance evangelist
Jon Scieszka, 1976, children's book author
John Sinclair, poet and '60s counterculture icon

Business
William C. Ferguson, chairman (retired), NYNEX NKA Verizon Communications
Steve Grigorian, President and CEO, Detroit Economic Club
Joel Manby, 1981, CEO of SeaWorld Entertainment
Geoffery Merszei, CFO of Dow Chemical Company
Martin Nesbitt, 1985, businessman, Barack Obama friend and campaign treasurer
Doug Parker, 1984, chairman and chief executive officer of American Airlines
Moose Scheib, founder and CEO of LoanMod.com 
Richard Mills Smith, 1968, chairman and editor-in-chief, Newsweek
Paul "Skip" Ungrodt, 1952, former chairman and president of Ideation, Inc.

Government and politics
Florence Riddick Boys, 1896, Indiana suffragist, journalist, state official
Prentiss M. Brown, 1911, U.S. Senator from Michigan
David L. Camp, 1975, U.S. Representative from Michigan
Barbara Ann Crancer, 1960, Missouri state circuit court judge and daughter of former Teamsters Union president Jimmy Hoffa
Homer Folks, 1887, a pioneer of mental and public health reform in New York
Bates Gill, Chinese foreign policy expert and director of Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
Matthew Gillard, politician, member of the Michigan House of Representatives
George Heartwell, 1971, mayor of Grand Rapids, Michigan
Matt Heinz, politician, member of Arizona House of Representatives
Thomas Ludington, 1976, judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan and Albion College trustee
Lyle H. Miller, 1914, brigadier general in the Marine Corps
Arnold R. Pinkney, 1952, campaign manager for Jesse Jackson 1984 Democratic presidential nomination
Carl W. Riddick, member of the U.S. House of Representatives from the Second District of Montana
Mark Schauer, 1984, U.S. Representative from Michigan
Anna Howard Shaw, attended 1872–1875, civil rights leader, first female Methodist minister in the U.S.
Robert M. Teeter, 1961, Republican pollster
Edwin B. Winans, attended in 1840s, U.S. Representative and Governor of Michigan
Jacob M. Collini, 2008, Chief Assistant to the Prosecuting Attorney for Roscommon County & graduate of the John James McCoy School of Law

Other
 Josh A. Cassada, 1995, physicist, NASA astronaut
 Chris Greenwood, 2012, former NFL player for Detroit Lions
 Phyllis Harrison-Ross, 1956, psychiatrist working with developmentally disabled and mentally ill children
 Mary Beecher Longyear, philanthropist and founder of Longyear Foundation
 J. Fred “Pop” McKale, 1910, former University of Arizona basketball coach; 1998 Albion Hall of Fame inductee
 Leonard F. "Fritz" Shurmur, 1956, former college and National Football League football coach
 Hazen Graff Werner, 1920, bishop of the United Methodist Church

Honorary degrees 

 Barbara Bush, 2005, former First Lady of the United States

Presidents of Albion College

Mauri A. Ditzler (2014- )
Donna M. Randall (2007–2013)
Peter T. Mitchell(1997–2007)
Melvin L. Vulgamore (1983–1997)
Bernard T. Lomas (1970–1983)
Louis W. Norris (1960–1970)
William W. Whitehouse (1945–1960)
John Lawrence Seaton (1924–1945)
John Wesley Laird (1921–1924)
Samuel F. Dickie (1901–1921)
John Ashley (1898–1901)
Lewis R. Fiske (1877–1898)
William B. Silber (1870–1871)
J.L.G. McKown (1869–1870)
George Beiners Jocelyn (1864–1869 and 1871–1877)
Thomas H. Sinex (1854–1864)
Ira Mayhew (1853–1864)
Clark T. Hinman (1846–1853)
Rev. Charles Franklin Stockwell (1843–1845)

Notes: William C. Ferguson served as interim president for six months in 1997. 
Dr. Michael L. Frandsen served as interim president for the 2013–2014 academic year.

Athletics
See List of Albion Britons head football coaches
Morley Fraser, head football coach
Walter S. Kennedy, head football coach and all-American quarterback at for the University of Chicago Maroons
Dale R. Sprankle, head football coach at Albion and also at Adrian College

References 

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