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The following is a list of individuals associated with [[Mount Holyoke College]] through attending as a student, or serving as a member of the faculty or staff.
==Notable alumnae==
===
* [[Clara Harrison Stranahan]], 1849 - author; founder and trustee of Barnard College
* [[Harriet Newell Haskell]], 1855 - educator and administrator
* [[Lucy Myers Wright Mitchell]], 1864 - one of the first female classical archaeologists
* [[Cornelia Clapp]], 1871 - zoologist and marine biologist
* [[Mary Cutler Fairchild]], 1875 - pioneering librarian
* [[Alice Carter Cook]], circa 1888 - botanist and later faculty, first female recipient of an American botany PhD
* [[Marian E. Hubbard]], 1889 - zoology professor
* [[Alice Huntington Bushee]], 1891 - Spanish literature professor at Wellesley College
* [[Martha Warren Beckwith]], 1893 - anthropologist
* [[Abby Howe Turner]], 1896 - founded Mount Holyoke's department of physiology
* [[Caroline Ransom Williams]], 1896 - first female Egyptologist in North America
* [[Margaret Morse Nice]], 1905 - ornithologist
* [[Alzada Comstock]], 1910 - economics professor
* [[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 - chemist who discovered [[Nystatin]]
* [[Mildred Trotter]], 1920 - [[Forensic anthropology|forensic anthropologist]]
* [[Elizabeth K. Worley]], 1924 - zoologist, microbiologist
* [[Lucy Weston Pickett]], 1925 - chemist
* [[Helen Sawyer Hogg]], 1926 - astronomer
* [[Alice Standish Allen]], 1929 - first female engineering geologist in North America
* [[Janet Wilder Dakin]], 1933 - zoologist who was the youngest sister of [[Thornton Wilder]] and [[Charlotte Wilder]]
* [[Sara Anderson Immerwahr]], 1935 - classical archaeologist
* [[Phoebe Stanton]], 1937 - [[architectural historian]], professor at [[Johns Hopkins University]], and active in urban planning for the city of Baltimore.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|last=Cowles|first=Amy|date=October 6, 2003|title=Obituary: Phoebe Stanton, 88, Outspoken Guardian of City's Architecture|url=https://pages.jh.edu/gazette/2003/06oct03/06phoebe.html|access-date=2021-03-08|website=Johns Hopkins Gazette, Vol. 33 No. 6}}</ref>
* [[Virginia Griffing]], 1940, physicist and chemist, first woman on the faculty of [[Catholic University of America|Catholic University of America's]] physics department<ref>Virginia F. Griffing. ''Physics Today'' 1 January 1964; 17 (1): 126. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3051343</ref>
* [[Carolyn Shaw Bell]], 1941 - economics professor
* [[Marie Mercury Roth]], 1945 - [[Synthetic organic chemistry|synthetic organic chemist]]
* [[Eva Moseley]], 1953 - curator and archivist
* [[Mary McHenry]], 1954 - professor of English credited with introducing [[African American literature]] to Mount Holyoke
* [[Margaret A. Dix]], 1964 - British-Guatemalan botanist and taxonomist specializing in orchids
* [[Jane English]], 1964 - physicist, translator, photographer
* [[Dolores Hayden]], 1966 - professor of architecture, urbanism, and American studies
* [[Phyllis Young]], 1966 - professor of Classical Studies
* [[Carolyn Collette]], 1967 - professor of English
* [[Karen E. Rowe]], 1967 - English professor at [[UCLA]]
* [[Susan Shirk]], 1967 - professor of political science and former [[United States Deputy Secretary of State|Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for North Asia]] during the [[Bill Clinton|Clinton]] administration
* [[Lila M. Gierasch]], 1970 - professor of chemistry, biochemistry and molecular biology
* [[Melissa McGrath]], 1977 - astronomer; Chief Scientist at [[Marshall Spaceflight Center|NASA Marshall Spaceflight Center]]
* [[Catherine Walker (US scientist)|Catherine Colello Walker]], 2007 - planetary scientist at [[Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute]]
===Activists===
* [[
* [[Olympia Brown]] (attended 1854-55) - women's rights activist
* [[Helen Pitts Douglass|Helen Pitts]], 1859 - women's rights activist, second wife of [[Frederick Douglass]], and founder of the [[Frederick Douglass Memorial and Historical Association]]
* [[Eliza Read Sunderland]] (graduated 1865) - writer, educator, lecturer, women's rights advocate
* [[Hortense Parker]], 1883 - daughter of [[African American]] [[Abolitionism in the United States|abolitionist]], [[John Parker (abolitionist)|John Parker]] and the first [[African American]] student to graduate from [[Mount Holyoke College]]
* [[Alice Bradford Wiles]], 1873 - Chicago clubwoman
* [[Elizabeth Holloway Marston]], 1915 - the inspiration for [[Wonder Woman]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/liberated-wife-really-was-wonder-woman/|title=The Liberated Wife Who Really Was Wonder Woman|date=February 21, 2014}}</ref>
* [[Ruth Muskrat Bronson]], 1925 - poet, educator, Indian rights activist
* [[Sybil Stockdale|Sybil Bailey Stockdale]], 1946 - founded the [[National League of Families of American Prisoners and Missing in Southeast Asia|National League of Families of American Prisoners and MIAs in S.E. Asia]]; Lecturer; widow of '92 U.S. vice-presidential nominee, [[James Stockdale|Adm. James Stockdale]]
* [[Nancy Skinner Nordhoff]], 1954 - environmentalist and philanthropist; designated a [[Women's History Month|Women’s History Month]] Honoree by the [[National women's history project|National Women’s History Project]] in 2006
* [[Gloria Johnson-Powell]] (Gloria Johnson), 1958 - child psychiatrist; an important figure in the [[Civil Rights Movement]] and the first [[African-American]] woman to attain tenure at [[Harvard Medical School]]
* [[Rose Dugdale]] - political activist and prominent member of the [[Provisional Irish Republican Army|Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA)]]
* [[Jody Cohen]], 1976 - first woman rabbi in Connecticut history; leader in the [[Women's Rabbinic Network]] and [[Union for Reform Judaism]]
* [[Lynn Pasquerella]], 1980 - medical ethicist; president, [[Mount Holyoke College]]; president of the [[Association of American Colleges and Universities]]<ref>{{Cite web|last=McCuen@aacu.org|date=2018-05-30|title=Lynn Pasquerella|url=https://www.aacu.org/president/lynn-pasquerella|access-date=2021-08-03|website=Association of American Colleges & Universities|language=en}}</ref>
* [[Louise C. Purington]], 1864 - physician and temperance activist
* [[Mallika Dutt]], 1983 - executive director of [[Breakthrough (human rights)|Breakthrough]], an international human rights organization
* [[Kavita Ramdas]], 1985 - president and CEO, [[Global Fund for Women]]
* [[Marcia Hofmann]], 2000 - digital rights attorney and activist
* [[Mei Lum]], 2012 - Chinese-American artist, activist, and entrepreneur
===Actors, musicians, dancers and performers===
* [[Connie Converse|Elizabeth Eaton Converse]] - later known as Connie Converse, 1946 - singer and songwriter
* [[Caitlin Clarke]] (Katherine Clarke), 1974 - actress
* [[Michelle Hurst]], 1974 - actress, known for her role as Miss Claudette on the [[Netflix]] series ''[[Orange Is the New Black]]''
* [[Nancy Gustafson]], 1978 - opera singer
* [[Melinda Mullins]], 1979 - actress
* [[Donna Kane]], 1984 - actress
* [[Geneva Carr]], 1988 - actress, [[Tony Award]] nominee, main cast member in CBS television series ''[[Bull (2016 TV series)|Bull]]''
* [[Kimberly Hebert Gregory]], 1994 - actress
* [[Zeb Bangash]], 2004 - part of Pakistani music duo [[Zeb and Haniya]]
* [[Zoe Weizenbaum]], 2014 - actress, known for her roles in ''[[Memoirs of a Geisha (film)|Memoirs of a Geisha]]'' and ''[[12 and Holding]]''
* [[Sho Madjozi]], 2015 - South African rapper
===Artists===
* [[Esther Howland]], 1847 - artist noted for her role in popularizing [[St. Valentine's Day]] cards
* [[Minerva J. Chapman]], 1880 - painter
* [[Sarah A. Worden]] 1883–1891 - painter, art instructor
* [[
* [[Susan Mohl Powers]], 1966 - sculptor, painter
* [[Maia Cruz Palileo]], 2001 - artist
* [[Zehra Laila Javeri]] (year unknown) - artist
===Athletes===
* [[Stacy Apfelbaum]]{{When|date=August 2018}} - rowing cox; gold medal winner at the [[1984 World Rowing Championships]]<ref>{{cite web |title= Stacy Apfelbaum |url= http://www.worldrowing.com/athletes/athlete/34383/results/apfelbaum-stacy |publisher=[[International Rowing Federation]] |access-date=10 November 2017}}</ref>
* [[Margaret Hoffman]], 1934 - [[Swimming (sport)|swimmer]] who participated in both the [[1928 Summer Olympics]] and [[1932 Summer Olympics]] (200 m breaststroke)<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.olympic.org/margaret-hoffman|title=Margaret Hoffman - Olympic Swimming {{!}} United States of America|date=2016-06-14|work=International Olympic Committee|access-date=2018-03-14|language=en}}</ref>
* [[Imogene Opton|Imogene Opton Fish]], 1955 - [[alpine skier]] who was captain of the U.S. women's [[1952 Winter Olympics]] ski team
* [[Michele Drolet]], 1976 - blind cross-country skier who was the first American woman to ever earn a Paralympic [[cross-country skiing (sport)|cross-country skiing]] medal - bronze at the [[1994 Winter Paralympics]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.acb.org/magazine/1994/bf0694.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070714075747/http://www.acb.org/magazine/1994/bf0694.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=2007-07-14|title=The Braille Forum, June 1994|date=2007-07-14|access-date=2018-03-14}}</ref>
* [[Harriet (Holly) Metcalf]], 1981 - executive director and founder of Row As One Institute who won a gold medal in [[rowing at the 1984 Summer Olympics]]
* [[Mary Mazzio]], 1983 - filmmaker and Olympic athlete who participated in [[Rowing (sport)|rowing]] at the [[1992 Summer Olympics]]
* [[Olga Maria Sacasa Cruz|Olga Maria Sacasa]], 1984 - [[cycle sport|cyclist]] was the first woman ever to represent Nicaragua in cycling, at the [[1992 Summer Olympics]]
* [[Katheryn Curi]], 1996 - [[cycle sport|cyclist]] who placed first at the National Road Race Championships in Park City, [[Utah]] in June 2005
===Businesswomen===
* [[Maria J. Forbes]] (1853) – manager, [[Lunalilo Home]]
* [[Jean Picker Firstenberg]], 1958 - director and CEO of the [[American Film Institute]]
* [[Mary Duffy]], 1966 - feminist fashion expert, spokeswoman, entrepreneur, author, and motivational speaker, expanding concepts of beauty for the majority of women who do not fit ideal stereotypes popularized by fashion and media Big Beauties/Little Women, Ford Models
* [[Barbara J. Desoer]], 1974 - CEO for [[Citibank]] N.A. and a member of its board of directors
* [[Eileen Kraus]], 1960 - trailblazing woman banker and president of Connecticut National Bank
* [[Vicki Roberts]], 1980 - attorney, on-air legal commentator, television and film personality
* [[Barbara Cassani]], 1982 - first leader of London's successful bid for the [[2012 Summer Olympics]]
* [[Sheila Lirio Marcelo]], 1993 - founder and CEO of [[Care.com]]
* [[Sara Menker]], 1982, CEO, businesswomen, and food sustainability advocate
===College presidents===
* [[Susan Tolman Mills]], 1845 - co-founder and first president of [[Mills College]]
* [[Ada Howard]], 1853 - first president of [[Wellesley College]]
* [[Abbie Park Ferguson]], 1856 - founder and president of [[Huguenot College]]
* [[
* [[Florence M. Read]], 1909 - former president, [[Spelman College]]
* [[Yau Tsit Law]], 1916 - dean of women, [[Lingnan University (Guangzhou)|Lingnan University]]
* [[Pauline Tompkins]], 1941 - former president, [[Cedar Crest College]]
* [[Barbara M. White]], 1941 - former president, [[Mills College]]
* [[
* [[
* [[
* [[Nancy J. Vickers]], 1967 - president, [[Bryn Mawr College]]
* [[Elaine Tuttle Hansen]], 1969 -
* [[Lynn Pasquerella]], 1980 - president, [[Mount Holyoke College]]
* [[Vivian Blanche Small]] 1896, BA; 1912, Litt.D. - president, [[Lake Erie College]]
* [[Leocadia I. Zak]], 2018 - president, [[Agnes Scott College]]
*[[Patricia Draves]], 2024 - president, [[Monmouth College]]
===Computer
* [[Jean E. Sammet]], 1948 - computer scientist who developed the [[FORMAC programming language]]
* [[Susan Kare]], 1975 -
===
* [[Nancy M. Hill]], 1859 - Civil War nurse and one of the first female doctors in the U.S.<ref>{{cite news|title=Character reference; Costumed performers bring history forward at Linwood walk|date=September 22, 2005|work=[[Telegraph Herald]]|first=Sandye|last=Voight}}</ref>
* [[Seraph Frissell]], 1869 - physician, medical writer
* [[Mary Phylinda Dole]], 1886, 1889 - became a doctor at a time when it was difficult for women to do so
* [[Dorothy Hansine Andersen]], 1922 - doctor involved in cystic fibrosis research (first to identify the disease)
* [[Virginia Apgar]], 1929 - doctor who developed the [[Apgar score]] for evaluating newborns; anesthesiologist
* [[Florence Wald]] 1938 - nurse, leader of the U.S. [[Hospice care in the United States|hospice]] movement
* [[Ellen P. Reese]], 1948 - psychologist
* [[Abby Howe Turner]] - professor of physiology and zoology who founded the department of physiology at Mount Holyoke
* [[Gloria Johnson-Powell]] (Gloria Johnson), 1958 - child psychiatrist; an important figure in the [[Civil Rights Movement]] and the first [[African American]] woman to attain tenure at [[Harvard Medical School]]
===
* [[Martha Atwell]] (attended, 1918-1919) - radio director<ref>Howes, Durward, ed. (1937). ''[https://archive.org/details/americanwomenoff02howe/page/26/mode/2up?q=%22Atwell+Martha%22 American Women : The Official Who's Who Among the Women of the Nation, Vol. II (1937-38)]''. Los Angeles, CA: American Publications, Inc. p. 26. [[OCLC|435906904]].</ref><ref>[https://www.newspapers.com/image/837267459/?clipping_id=125702212 "Personal Notes"]. ''Holyoke Transcript-Telegram''. June 24, 1922. p. 7. Retrieved June 3, 2023.</ref>
* [[Dulcy Singer]], 1955 - former [[Emmy Award]]-winning producer of ''[[Sesame Street]]''
* [[Julia Phillips]] (Julia Miller), 1965 - [[Cinema of the United States|Hollywood]] producer and author
* [[Debra Martin Chase]], 1977 - [[Cinema of the United States|Hollywood]] producer
* [[Mary Mazzio]], 1983 - filmmaker and Olympic athlete who participated in [[rowing at the 1992 Summer Olympics]]
* [[Sonali Gulati]], 1996 - filmmaker and director of the film ''[[Nalini by Day, Nancy by Night]]''
* [[Chloé Zhao]], 2005 - Academy Award winner, director/filmmaker
===Journalists===
* [[Janet Huntington Brewster]], 1933 - philanthropist, writer, and radio broadcaster; wife of [[Edward R. Murrow]]
* [[Beth Karas]], 1979 - senior reporter, ''[[CourtTV]]''
* [[Dari Alexander]], {{circa}} 1991 - co-anchor of [[WNYW]]'s weeknight 6 p.m. newscast, and previously a [[reporter]] and part-time anchor for the [[Fox News Channel]]
===
* [[Maryanne Trump Barry]], 1958 - judge on the [[United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit]]; older sister of 45th president of the United States [[Donald Trump]]
* [[Janet Bond Arterton]], 1966 - judge on the [[United States District Court for the District of Connecticut]]
* [[Janet C. Hall]], 1970 - judge on the [[United States District Court for the District of Connecticut]], chief judge of the District of Connecticut (2013–present)
* [[Glenda Hatchett]], 1973 - judge on nationally syndicated television series, ''[[Judge Hatchett]]''
===
* [[Louise Taft|Louisa "Louise" Maria Torrey Taft]], 1845 - mother of President [[William Howard Taft]]
* [[
* [[Marion West Higgins]], 1936 - first female [[Speaker (politics)|Speaker]] of the [[New Jersey General Assembly]]
* [[Ella T. Grasso]], 1940 - governor of Connecticut; the first female governor elected in her own right in United States history
*[[Jetta Jones]], 1947 - lawyer in Chicago, served in Mayor [[Harold Washington]]'s administration
* [[Joanne H. Alter]], 1949 - activist and politician
* [[Nancy Kissinger]] (Nancy Maginnes), 1955 - philanthropist; wife of former U.S. Secretary of State [[Henry Kissinger]]
* [[Nita Lowey]], 1959 - [[United States House of Representatives]] member (D-NY)
* [[Judith Kurland]], 1967 - former regional director, [[United States Department of Health and Human Services]]
* [[Susan Shirk]], 1967 - professor of political science and the former [[United States Deputy Secretary of State|Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for North Asia]] during the [[Bill Clinton|Clinton]] administration
* [[Jane Garvey (aviation administrator)|Jane Garvey]] (Jane Famiano), 1969 (M.A.T.) - former head of [[Federal Aviation Administration]] (FAA)
* [[Elaine Chao]], 1975 - [[United States Secretary of Transportation|U.S. Secretary of Transportation]], 2017-2021, [[United States Secretary of Labor|U.S. Secretary of Labor]], 2001–2009; director of the [[Peace Corps]], 1991–1992; former national director, [[United Way of America|United Way]]
* [[Susan Longley]], 1978 - state senator and judge of probate from [[Maine]]
* [[Karen Middleton (Colorado legislator)|Karen Middleton]], 1988 - legislator in the [[U.S. state]] of [[Colorado]]
* [[Mona Sutphen]], 1989 - [[Deputy White House Chief of Staff]] in the Obama administration
* [[Mahua Moitra]], 1998 - member of Indian parliament, [[Lok Sabha]]
* [[Rabiya Javeri Agha]], 1983 - a member of Pakistan Administrative Service, [[Pakistan Administrative Service]]
* [[Laura Loomer]] (transferred) - [[Alt-right|alt right]] conspiracy theorist
===Writers===
* [[Edna Dean Proctor]], 1847 - poet
* [[Emily Dickinson]] (attended 1847–1848) - poet
* [[Emily Gilmore Alden]], 1855 - author and educator
* [[Julia Harris May]], 1856 - poet, teacher, school founder
* [[Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman]] (attended 1870–1871) - novelist and short story writer
* [[Louise Lamprey]], 1891 - writer, children's literature
* [[Anne W. Armstrong]] (attended 1890–1892) - novelist
* [[Caroline Henderson (author)|Caroline Henderson]], 1901 - Dust Bowl author
* [[Alice Geer Kelsey]], 1918 - writer, children's literature
* [[Charlotte Wilder]], 1919 - poet
* [[Kathryn Irene Glascock]], 1922 - poet
* [[Constance McLaughlin Green]], 1925 (master's degree) - historian who won the 1963 [[Pulitzer Prize for History]] for ''[[Washington, Village and Capital, 1800-1878]]''
* [[Roberta Teale Swartz]], 1925 - poet
* [[Virginia Hamilton Adair]], 1933 - poet
* [[Martha Whitmore Hickman]], 1947 - non-fiction author
* [[Nancy McKenzie]], 1948 - [[Arthurian legend]] author
* [[Jean Rikhoff]], 1948 - author
* Martha Henissart, 1950 - mystery author writing under the pen-name of [[Emma Lathen]] with Mary Jane Latsis
* [[Nancy Bauer]] (Nancy Luke), 1956 - non-fiction author
* [[Elizabeth Topham Kennan]], 1960 - author writing under the pen-name of [[Clare Munnings]] with [[Jill Ker Conway]]
* [[Nancy Bond]], 1966 - writer, children's literature
* [[Olivia Mellan]], 1968 - author of six books on money psychology
* [[Patricia Roth Schwartz]], 1968 - poet
* [[Kathleen Eagle]] (Kathleen Pierson), 1970 - romance novelist
* [[Marisabina Russo]], 1971 - writer, children's literature
* [[Wendy Wasserstein]], 1971 - playwright who won the 1989 [[Tony Award for Best Play]] and the 1989 [[Pulitzer Prize for Drama]] for ''[[The Heidi Chronicles]]''
* [[Lynne Barrett]], 1972 - author
* [[Susan Shwartz]], 1972 - science fiction and fantasy author
* [[Gjertrud Schnackenberg]], 1975 - poet
* [[Kathleen Hirsch]], 1975 - non-fiction author
* [[Judith Tarr]], 1976 - science fiction and fantasy author
* [[Carol Higgins Clark]], 1978 - mystery author
* [[Lan Cao]], 1983 - novelist
* [[Suzan-Lori Parks]], 1985 - playwright who won the [[2002 Pulitzer Prize]] in Drama for ''[[Topdog/Underdog]]''
* [[Liz Fenwick]], 1985 - novelist
* [[Deborah Harkness]], 1986 - author of the ''[[New York Times]]'' best selling novel ''[[A Discovery of Witches (book series)|A Discovery of Witches]]''
* [[Sehba Sarwar]], 1986 - novelist
* [[C. Leigh Purtill]], 1988 - young adult author
* [[Sabina Murray]], 1989 - screenwriter; wrote screenplay for ''[[The Beautiful Country]]''
* [[Sherri Browning Erwin]], 1990 - author of ''Thornbrook Park'' and ''Jane Slayre'', member of [[Romance Writers of America]]
* [[Tahmima Anam]], 1997 - author
* [[Susan J. Elliott]], 2000 - non-fiction author
* [[Betsy James]], writer
* [[Hanna Pylväinen]], 2007 - author of ''We Sinners''<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.hannapylvainen.com/|title=Hanna Pylväinen {{!}} Main|last=Pylväinen|first=Hanna|website=www.hannapylvainen.com|access-date=2018-03-14}}</ref>
*[[Katy Simpson Smith]], ?2018 - novelist
* [[Hayeon Lim]], 2017 - South Korean socialite and author
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=== Fictional alumnae ===
* Catherine, ''[[Black Widow (1987 film)|Black Widow]]''<ref name="auto">{{Cite web|title=Mount Holyoke Alumnae Quarterly Summer 2011|url=https://issuu.com/mhcalumnae/docs/summer2011q_1.0/9|access-date=2020-08-14|website=Issuu|date=July 14, 2011 |language=en}}</ref>
* Frances "Baby" Houseman, ''[[Dirty Dancing]]''<ref>{{Cite web|title=Incoming students enjoy a Mount Holyoke movie tradition: Watching "Dirty Dancing" under the stars – Alumnae Association|url=https://alumnae.mtholyoke.edu/blog/incoming-students-enjoy-a-mount-holyoke-tradition-dirty-dancing-under-the-stars/|access-date=2020-08-13|language=en}}</ref>
* Sarah Gadon, ''[[Indignation (novel)|Indignation]]''<ref>{{Cite web|date=2016-07-28|title=Review: Philip Roth's 29th novel gets a stellar adaptation with 'Indignation'|url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-et-mn-indignation-review-20160725-snap-story.html|access-date=2020-08-13|website=Los Angeles Times|language=en-US}}</ref>
* Barbara Kornpett, ''[[The In-Laws (1979 film)|The In-Laws]]''<ref name="auto"/>
* Helen Bishop, ''[[Mad Men]]''<ref>{{Cite web|date=2012-04-18|title=Milestones 2009|url=https://www.mtholyoke.edu/media/milestones2009|access-date=2020-08-13|website=Mount Holyoke College|language=en}}</ref>
* Bethany Van Nuys, ''[[Mad Men]]''<ref>{{Cite web|last1=July 25|first1=Kyrie on|last2=PM|first2=2010 at 10:00|date=2010-07-26|title=Mad Men Season 4, Ep. 1|url=https://blog.chron.com/tubular/2010/07/mad-men-season-4-ep-1/|access-date=2020-08-13|website=Tubular|language=en-US}}</ref>
* Judy Maxwell, ''[[What's Up, Doc? (1972 film)|What's Up Doc?]]''
*Rebecca Morgan, ''[[Chapelwaite]]''<ref>{{Cite web|title=Upcoming Works |url=https://stephenking.com/upcoming/index.html|access-date=2021-07-29|website=Stephen King}}</ref>
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==Notable faculty, past and present==
===
* [[Leonard DeLonga]] - professor of art
* [[William Churchill Hammond]] - organist, choirmaster, chairman of music department
* [[(Charles) Denoe Leedy]] - concert pianist and music journalist
* [[Harrison Potter]] - concert pianist and accompanist
* [[David Sanford (composer)|David Sanford]] - professor of music
* [[Emmett Williams]] - artist in residence 1975-1976
===Athletics===
* [[Mary Ellen Clark]] - former head diving coach; [[Diving (sport)|diver]] who won two [[Olympic Games|Olympic]] bronze medals at the [[1992 Summer Olympics]] and the [[1996 Summer Olympics]]
===Authors, actors, poets, and playwrights===
* [[Martha Ackmann]] - author and journalist<ref>{{cite web |title=Martha Ackmann |url=https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/martha-ackmann/ |website=John Simon Guggenheim Foundation |access-date=26 June 2019}}</ref>
* [[Awam Amkpa]] - actor and playwright
* [[W.H. Auden]] - poet
* [[James Baldwin (writer)|James Baldwin]] - [[Five Colleges (Massachusetts)|Five Colleges]] faculty and novelist
* [[Sven Birkerts]] - author, ''The Gutenberg Elegies''
* [[Joseph Brodsky]] - winner of the
* [[Luis Cernuda]] - poet
* [[Anita Desai]] - novelist
* [[Anthony Giardina]] - novelist
* [[John Irving]] - author of ''[[The Cider House Rules]]'', and ''[[The World According to Garp]]''
* [[Denis Johnston]] - playwright
* [[Brad Leithauser]] - author, poet
* [[Margaret Chai Maloney]] - author
* [[Jaime Manrique]] - author, poet
* [[Mary Olivia Nutting]] - librarian and historian
* [[Valerie Martin]] - novelist and short story writer
* [[Mary Jo Salter]] - poet and a coeditor of The ''[[W.W. Norton|Norton Anthology of Poetry]]''
* [[Bapsi Sidhwa]] - novelist
* [[Paul Smyth (poet)|Paul Smyth]] - poet
*[[Ada L. F. Snell]] - poet
* [[Genevieve Taggard]] - poet
* [[Peter Viereck]] - 1949 [[Pulitzer Prize for Poetry]] for ''Terror and Decorum'' and professor of Russian History
* [[Richard Weber (poet)|Richard Weber]] - Irish poet; visiting lecturer from 1967 to 1970
* [[Douglas Whynott]] - author
===Education===
* [[Eunice Caldwell Cowles]] - assistant to Mary Lyon in the founding of Mount Holyoke Female Sminary
* [[Robert Hess (college president)|Robert Hess]] (1938–1994) - president of [[Brooklyn College]]
* [[Mary Lyon]] - founder of Mount Holyoke Female Seminary in 1837 (later Mount Holyoke College)
* [[Vivian Blanche Small]] - president, [[Lake Erie College]]
* [[Beverly Daniel Tatum]] - president of [[Spelman College]]
===Historians===
* [[Michael Burns (historian)|Michael Burns]]
* [[Joseph Ellis]]
* [[Robert Matteson Johnston]]
* [[Stephen F. Jones]]
* [[William S. McFeely]]
* [[Nellie Neilson]]
* [[Bertha Putnam]]
* [[Annah May Soule]]
* [[Peter Viereck]]
===Humanities===
* [[Christopher Benfey]] - professor of English
* [[Peter Berek]] - professor of English
* [[Marion Elizabeth Blake]] - classics professor
*[[Flora Bridges]] - taught Greek and English
* [[Gordon Keith Chalmers]] - professor of English
* [[Carolyn Collette]] - professor of English
* [[Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze]] - philosopher
* [[Leah Blatt Glasser]] - dean of first-year studies and lecturer in English
* [[Jeannette Augustus Marks]] - professor of English
* [[Mary McHenry]] - professor of English
* [[Indira Viswanathan Peterson]] - professor of Asian Studies
* [[William H. Quillian]] - professor of English
*[[Clara F. Stevens]] - professor of English, department head
*[[Ellen Bliss Talbot]] - professor of Philosophy and chair of the Department of Philosophy and Psychology for 32 years
* [[Jean Wahl]] - philosopher
* [[Donald Weber]] - professor of English
* [[Jon Western]] - professor of international relations
*[[Mary Gilmore Williams]] - professor of Greek
===Journalists===
* [[Todd Brewster]] - journalist, author, film producer, and current senior visiting lecturer in journalism
===Politics===
* [[Shirley Chisholm]] - U.S. representative, 1968–1983, founding member of the [[Congressional Black Caucus]], and simultaneously the first woman and the first African-American to run for U.S. president
* [[Ellen Deborah Ellis]] - founder and first chair of the political science department at the college
* [[Jean Grossholtz]] - professor emeritus of politics; [[bodybuilder]] who won a silver medal at the 1994 [[Gay Games]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.mtholyoke.edu/offices/comm/csj/980213/hidden.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929111531/http://www.mtholyoke.edu/offices/comm/csj/980213/hidden.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=2007-09-29|title=Hidden Talents|date=2007-09-29|access-date=2018-03-14}}</ref>
* [[Anthony Lake|W. Anthony Lake]] - [[National Security Advisor (United States)|U.S. National Security Advisor]], 1993–1997
* [[Christopher Pyle]] - professor of politics, journalist and whistleblower
* [[Margaret Rotundo]] - [[Maine Legislature|Maine State legislator]]
* [[Cyrus Vance]] - U.S. Secretary of State, 1977–1980
===Sciences and social sciences===
* [[A. Elizabeth Adams]] - zoologist
* [[Katherine Aidala]] - physicist
* [[Mildred Allen (physicist)|Mildred Allen]] - physicist
* [[Elisabeth Bardwell]] - astronomer
* [[Susan R. Barry]] - neurobiologist
* [[Grace Bates]] - mathematician
* [[John Bissell Carroll]] - psychologist
* [[Jill Bubier]] - environmental scientist
* [[Patty Brennan]] - evolutionary biologist
* [[Cornelia Clapp]] - zoologist and marine biologist
* [[Janet Wilder Dakin]] - zoologist, youngest sister of [[Thornton Wilder]] and [[Charlotte Wilder]]
* [[Ethel B. Dietrich]] - economist, foreign service officer
* [[Melinda Darby Dyar]] - planetary geologist, mineralogist, and spectroscopist
* [[Joanne Elliott]] - mathematician
* [[Alice Hall Farnsworth]] - astronomer, director of the [[John Payson Williston Observatory]]
* [[Anna Lockhart Flanigen]] - chemistry professor from 1903 to 1910
* [[Dorothy Hahn]] - organic chemist
* [[Anna J. Harrison]] - organic chemist, first female President of the [[American Chemical Society]]
* [[Olive Hazlett]] - mathematician
* [[Amy Hewes]] - economist
* [[Karen Hollis]] - psychologist
* [[Janice Hudgings]] - physicist, former associate dean of faculty at Mount Holyoke College
* [[Elizabeth Laird (physicist)|Elizabeth Laird]] - head of the physics department from 1903 to 1940
* [[Flora Belle Ludington]] - librarian
* [[Emilie Martin]] - mathematician
* [[Mark McMenamin]] - paleontologist and geologist
* [[Ann Haven Morgan]] - zoologist
* [[Lucy Taxis Shoe Meritt]], classical archaeologist and Greek scholar
* [[Kerstin Nordstrom]] - physicist
* [[Donal O'Shea]] - mathematician
* [[Harriet Pollatsek]] - mathematician
* [[Becky Wai-Ling Packard]] - educational psychologist
* [[Lucy Weston Pickett]] - chemist
* [[Louise Fitz-Randolph]], 1872 - art historian; established Department of Art and plaster cast collection in Dwight Art Memorial Building (forerunner of [[Mount Holyoke College Art Museum]])
* [[Ellen P. Reese]] - psychologist
* [[Margaret M. Robinson]] - mathematician
* [[Lydia Shattuck]] - botanist, founding member of the American Chemical Society<ref>{{Cite book|last=Oakes|first=Elizabeth H.|title=Encyclopedia of world scientists|date=2007|publisher=Facts on File|isbn=978-1-4381-1882-6|edition=|___location=New York|oclc=466364697}}</ref>
* [[Mignon Talbot]] - paleontologist who recovered and named the only fossils of the dinosaur [[Podokesaurus|''Podokesaurus holyokensis'']]
* [[Abby Howe Turner]] - founder of Mount Holyoke College's department of physiology
* [[Esther Boise Van Deman]] - archeologist
* [[Anne Sewell Young]] - astronomer, director of the [[John Payson Williston Observatory]]
* [[Antoni Zygmund]] - mathematician, co-founder of the [[Chicago school of mathematical analysis]]
===Actors===
* [[Michael Burns (historian)|Michael Burns]] - Moondoggie in ''[[Gidget Gets Married]]'', 1972<ref>imdb.com</ref>
==Presidents==
[[Image:MaryLyon Portrait.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Mary Lyon]]]]
[[Image:Mary Emma Woolley.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Mary Emma Woolley|President Woolley]]]]
A number of individuals have acted as head of Mount Holyoke. Until 1888, the term principal was used. From 1888 to the present, the term president has been used.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.mtholyoke.edu/archives/history/principals.html|title=Principals and Presidents (1837-)|date=2012-04-18|work=Mount Holyoke College|access-date=2018-03-14|language=en}}</ref>
*1837–1849: [[Mary Lyon]], 1st president (founder and principal)
*1849–1850: [[Mary C. Whitman]], 2nd president (principal)
*1850–1865: [[Mary W. Chapin]], 3rd president (principal)
*1865–1867: [[Sophia D. Stoddard]] 4th president (acting principal)
*1867–1872: [[Helen M. French]], 5th president (principal)
*1872–1883: [[Julia E. Ward]], 6th president (principal)
*1883–1889: [[Elizabeth Blanchard (educator)|Elizabeth Blanchard]], 7th president (principal and president)
*1889: [[Mary A. Brigham]], 8th president (president elect - died in an accident)
*1889–1890: [[Louisa F. Cowles]], 9th president (acting president)
*1890–1900: [[Elizabeth Storrs Mead]], 10th president
*1900–1937: [[Mary Emma Woolley]], 11th president
*1937–1957: [[Roswell G. Ham]], 12th president (first male president of MHC)
*1954: [[Meribeth E. Cameron]], served as acting president for part of 1954 while President Ham was on leave
*1957–1968: [[Richard Glenn Gettell]], 13th president
*1966: [[Meribeth E. Cameron]], served as acting president part of 1966 while President Gettell was on leave
*1968–1969: [[Meribeth E. Cameron]], 14th president (acting president)
*1969–1978: [[David Truman]], 15th president
*1978–1995: [[Elizabeth Topham Kennan]] '60, 16th president
*1984: [[Joseph Ellis]], served as acting president for part of 1984 while President Kennan was on leave
*1995: [[Peter Berek]], served as interim president in fall 1995
*1996–2010: [[Joanne V. Creighton]], 17th president
*2002: [[Beverly Daniel Tatum]], served as acting president for part of 2002 while President Creighton was on leave
*2010–2016: [[Lynn Pasquerella]] '80, 18th president
*2016–2022: [[Sonya Stephens]], 19th president
*2022-2023: [[Beverly Daniel Tatum]], served as interim president
*2023-present: [[Danielle Holley-Walker|Danielle Ren Holley]], 20th president, first Black president of MHC
==Commencement speakers==
{{Dynamic list}}
The following is a list of Mount Holyoke College [[commencement speaker]]s by year.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mtholyoke.edu/archives/history/commencement_year.html|title=Commencement Speakers|date=April 18, 2012}}</ref>
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*2023: [[Lan Cao]] '83, Nancy K. Welker '63, [[Imani Perry]], Wilma Ambang Abam-DePass ’23 <ref>{{Cite web |title=Commencement Program 2023 |url=https://www.mtholyoke.edu/documents/commencement-program-2023}}</ref>
*2022: [[Natalie Diaz]], Katherine Butler Jones '57, Susannah Sirkin '76, [[Ocean Vuong]]<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-04-26 |title=2022 Commencement speakers announced |url=https://www.mtholyoke.edu/media/2022-apr/2022-commencement-speakers-announced |access-date=2022-05-01 |website=Mount Holyoke College |language=en}}</ref>
*2021: [[Rabiya Javeri Agha]] '83, [[Yo-Yo Ma]], [[Chloé Zhao]] '05, Casey Roepke '21<ref>{{Cite web|date=2021-05-23|title=Mount Holyoke College Virtual Commencement|url=https://www.mtholyoke.edu/sites/default/files/MHC-Commencement-2021-Exercises-AM.pdf|access-date=2021-05-23|website=Mount Holyoke College|language=en}}</ref>
*2020{{Efn|Held in 2022 due to the coronavirus pandemic}}: Helen Drinan '69, [[Anita Hill]], [[Lynn Pasquerella]] '80<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-05-09 |title=Mount Holyoke to hold 2020 Commencement |url=https://www.mtholyoke.edu/media/2022-may/mount-holyoke-hold-2020-commencement |access-date=2022-05-09 |website=Mount Holyoke College |language=en}}</ref>
*2019: [[Adrienne Arsht]] '63, [[Barbara Smith]] '69, [[Gary Younge]], Nada Taha Al-Thawr '19<ref>{{Cite web|date=2019-05-17|title=Commencement Remarks and Citations 2019|url=https://www.mtholyoke.edu/commencement/commencement-remarks-and-citations-2019|access-date=2020-12-20|website=Mount Holyoke College|language=en}}</ref>
*2018: [[Nancy Pelosi]], Aiza Amjad Malik '18<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.mtholyoke.edu/commencement/commencement-remarks-and-citations-2018|title=Commencement Remarks and Citations 2018|work=Mount Holyoke College|access-date=2020-04-25|language=en-US}}</ref>
*2017: [[Dolores Huerta]],<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.mountholyokenews.com/news/2017/3/23/dolores-huerta-selected-as-commencement-speaker|title=Dolores Huerta selected as commencement speaker|work=Mount Holyoke News|access-date=2018-03-14|language=en-US}}</ref> Anqa Khan '17<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.mtholyoke.edu/stories/67152/student-commencement-address-2017|title=Student Commencement Address 2017|date=2017-05-21|work=Mount Holyoke College|access-date=2018-03-14|language=en}}</ref>
*2016: [[Joia Mukherjee]],<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.mtholyoke.edu/stories/64620/commencement-address-2016|title=Commencement Address 2016|date=2016-05-15|work=Mount Holyoke College|access-date=2018-03-14|language=en}}</ref> Areeba Kamal ‘16<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.mtholyoke.edu/stories/64529/student-commencement-address-2016|title=Student Commencement Address 2016|date=2016-04-25|work=Mount Holyoke College|access-date=2018-03-14|language=en}}</ref>
*2015: [[Carol Geary Schneider]] ‘67,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mtholyoke.edu/commencement/speeches-citations/commencement-address-2015|title=Commencement Address 2015|date=May 15, 2015}}</ref> Olivia Papp ‘15<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mtholyoke.edu/commencement/speeches-citations/student-commencement-address-2015|title=Student Commencement Address 2015|date=May 14, 2015}}</ref>
*2014: [[Deborah Bial]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mtholyoke.edu/commencement/deborah-bial|title=Deborah Bial|date=May 22, 2014}}</ref> Iman A. Abubaker '14<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mtholyoke.edu/commencement/iman-abdulwassi-abubaker|title=Iman Abdulwassi Abubaker|date=May 23, 2014}}</ref>
*2013: [[Kavita N. Ramdas]] '85,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mtholyoke.edu/news/channels/30/stories/5684293|title=Kavita Ramdas '85 Named Commencement Speaker|date=February 27, 2013}}</ref> Jenna M. Ruddock '13<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_WJQk0lrb0&|title=Student Address, Jenna McCutcheon Ruddock '13|last=Mount Holyoke College|date=May 19, 2013|via=YouTube}}{{cbignore}}{{Dead Youtube links|date=February 2022}}</ref>
*2012: [[Azar Nafisi]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mtholyoke.edu/news/channels/22/stories/5683709|title=Azar Nafisi to Give 175th Commencement Address|date=February 9, 2012}}</ref> Tamar S. Westphal '12<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mtholyoke.edu/media/tamar-spitz-westphal-%E2%80%9812|title=Tamar Spitz Westphal '12|date=May 20, 2012}}</ref>
*2011: [[Martha Nussbaum]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mtholyoke.edu/news/stories/5682797|title=Martha Nussbaum to Give MHC Commencement Address|date=April 7, 2011}}</ref> Zehra Nabi '11<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mtholyoke.edu/media/zehra-nabi-11|title=Zehra Nabi '11|date=May 22, 2011}}</ref>
*2010: [[Gail Collins]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.masslive.com/holyokeplus/republican/index.ssf?/base/news-5/1271143284200540.xml&coll=1|title=Columnist to deliver Mount Holyoke College graduation address}}</ref> Sarah Elahi '10<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mtholyoke.edu/commencement/address_elahi|title=Sarah Elahi '10|date=April 18, 2012}}</ref>
*2009: [[Mary McAleese]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mtholyoke.edu/media/mcaleese-mhc-grads-world-needs-you|title=McAleese to MHC Grads: "The World Needs You"|date=May 24, 2009}}</ref> Caitlin M. Healey '09<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mtholyoke.edu/media/commencement-speech-caitlin-healey-%E2%80%9909|title=Commencement Speech Caitlin Healey '09|date=May 24, 2009}}</ref>
*2008: [[Carol Gilligan]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mtholyoke.edu/media/carol-gilligan-delivers-171st-commencement-address|title=Carol Gilligan Delivers 171st Commencement Address|date=May 25, 2008}}</ref> Sally J. Brzozowski '08<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mtholyoke.edu/media/2008-commencement|title=2008 Commencement|date=May 23, 2008}}</ref>
*2007: [[Wendy Kopp]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mtholyoke.edu/media/commencement-speakers-offer-inspiration-0|title=Commencement Speakers Offer Inspiration|date=May 27, 2007}}</ref> Sara E. Richards '07<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mtholyoke.edu/media/2007-commencement-1|title=2007 Commencement|date=May 25, 2007}}</ref>
*2006: [[Joyce Carol Oates]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mtholyoke.edu/news/story/4334335|title=Commencement Speakers Offer Inspiration|date=May 31, 2006}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2006/05/28/joyce_carol_oates_to_graduates_we_do_love_our_students?mode=PF|title=Joyce Carol Oates to Graduates: We Do Love Our Students}}</ref> Margaret McDermott '06<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mtholyoke.edu/media/2006-commencement|title=2006 Commencement|date=June 8, 2006}}</ref>
*2005: [[Nina Totenberg]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mtholyoke.edu/offices/comm/news/commencement_05/speakers.shtml|title=Commencement 2005 Speakers Laud the Mount Holyoke Advantage|website=www.mtholyoke.edu}}</ref> Claudia Y. Calhoun '05<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mtholyoke.edu/offices/comm/news/commencement_05/calhoun.shtml|title=Student Commencement Speech - May 2005|website=www.mtholyoke.edu}}</ref>
*2004: [[Kim Campbell]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mtholyoke.edu/offices/comm/news/commencement04/index.shtml|title=Kim Campbell Commencement Speech}}</ref> Stacey R. Pulmano '04<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mtholyoke.edu/offices/comm/csj/052104/commencement.shtml|title=Mount Holyoke's Commencement Set for Weekend of May 21–23|access-date=May 25, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160226123003/https://www.mtholyoke.edu/offices/comm/csj/052104/commencement.shtml|archive-date=February 26, 2016|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}}</ref>
*2003: [[Judy Blume]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mtholyoke.edu/offices/comm/news/commencement03.shtml|title=Judy Blume Commencement Speech}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://judyblume.com/about/gallery/photo.php|title=Judy Blume on the Web: Photo Gallery|website=judyblume.com}}</ref> Chiara D. Fuller '03<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mtholyoke.edu/media/student-commencement-speech|title=Student Commencement Speech|date=May 25, 2003}}</ref>
*2002: [[Queen Noor of Jordan]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mtholyoke.edu/offices/comm/oped/QueenNoor.shtml|title=Commencement Address May 2002|date=May 26, 2002}}</ref> Sara R. Curtin '02
*2001: [[Suzan-Lori Parks]] '85,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mtholyoke.edu/offices/comm/oped/loriparks.shtml|title=Commencement Speech|date=May 27, 2001}}</ref> Lena K. Zuckerwise '01
*2000: [[Mary Patterson McPherson]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mtholyoke.edu/offices/comm/oped/commencement.shtml|title=Commencement Address|date=May 21, 2000}}</ref> Elisabeth F. Snell '00
*1999: [[Anna Quindlen]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mtholyoke.edu/offices/comm/oped/Quindlen.shtml|title=1999 Commencement Speech|date=May 23, 1999}}</ref> Caroline E. Green '99
*1998: [[Johnnetta B. Cole]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mtholyoke.edu/offices/comm/press/releases/speech/drcole.shtml|title=Dr. Johnnetta Cole speaks at MHC's 161st Commencement|date=June 9, 1998}}</ref> Meghan E. Freed '98<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mtholyoke.edu/offices/comm/csj/980605/1cole.html|title="Sister President" Johnnetta Cole Tells Grads to "Help Get the World Right-Side Up Again"|access-date=May 25, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150917232342/https://www.mtholyoke.edu/offices/comm/csj/980605/1cole.html|archive-date=September 17, 2015|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}}</ref>
*1997: [[Madeleine Albright]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mtholyoke.edu/offices/comm/misc/albright/speech.shtml|title=Madeleine Albright's Commencement Speech|website=www.mtholyoke.edu|access-date=June 18, 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070312204919/http://www.mtholyoke.edu/offices/comm/misc/albright/speech.shtml|archive-date=March 12, 2007|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}}</ref> Chandra R.B.G. Dunn '97<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mtholyoke.edu/offices/comm/misc/albright/chandra.shtml|title=Madeleine Albright's Commencement Speech|website=www.mtholyoke.edu}}</ref>
*1996: [[Donna Shalala]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mtholyoke.edu/offices/comm/csj/960607/commen.html|title=Donna Shalala Commencement Speech|access-date=June 18, 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070812232405/http://www.mtholyoke.edu/offices/comm/csj/960607/commen.html|archive-date=August 12, 2007|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}}</ref> Devavani Chatterjea '96<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mtholyoke.edu/offices/comm/csj/960607/commen.html|title=Commencement Speaker Shalala Sees Future President in Class of 1996|access-date=May 25, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160625083301/https://www.mtholyoke.edu/offices/comm/csj/960607/commen.html|archive-date=June 25, 2016|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}}</ref>
*1995: [[Ann Richards]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mtholyoke.edu/offices/comm/csj/950605/richards.html|title=Ann Richards Commencement Speech|access-date=June 18, 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070626032144/http://www.mtholyoke.edu/offices/comm/csj/950605/richards.html|archive-date=June 26, 2007|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}}</ref> [[Jennifer Lynch]] '95
*1994: [[Nita Lowey]] '59, S. Rhae Parkes '94
*1993: [[Judith Kurland]] '67
*1992: [[Pat Schroeder]]
*1991: [[Evelyn Fox Keller]]<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1991/05/27/us/commencements-brandeis-graduates-told-stay-involved.html|title=Commencements; Brandeis Graduates Told, 'Stay Involved' (Published 1991)|newspaper=The New York Times |date=May 27, 1991}}</ref>
*1990: [[Wendy Wasserstein]] '71<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1990/05/28/us/commencements-mount-holyoke-college.html|title=Commencements; Mount Holyoke College (Published 1990)|newspaper=The New York Times |date=May 28, 1990}}</ref>
*1989: [[Glenn Close]]<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1989/05/29/nyregion/commencements-help-youth-asks-speaker-at-wesleyan.html|title=Commencements; Help Youth, Asks Speaker At Wesleyan (Published 1989)|newspaper=The New York Times |date=May 29, 1989}}</ref>
*1988: [[Joseph Brodsky]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.openculture.com/2013/11/dissident-poet-joseph-brodsky-gives-life-tips-to-college-grads-1988.html|title=Dissident Poet Joseph Brodsky Gives Six Life Tips to College Grads (1988) | Open Culture}}</ref>
*1987: [[Maya Angelou]]<ref>{{Cite news| title = Commencements; Mount Holyoke | work = The [[New York Times]] | date = May 25, 1987 | url = https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0DE6D8103CF936A15756C0A961948260&n=Top%2fReference%2fTimes%20Topics%2fPeople%2fA%2fAngelou%2c%20Maya |
access-date = 2007-10-12 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news| title = At Mount Holyoke: Angelou tells seniors to reflect on their education| work =[[Daily Hampshire Gazette]] | date = May 26, 1987 }}</ref>
*1986: [[Xie Xide]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://apnews.com/e0d56b033cb5199214d7df372597b9c2|title=Yale Protesters Note Apartheid At Commencement|website=www.apnewsarchive.com}}</ref>
*1985: [[Nadine Gordimer]], [[Gjertrud Schnackenberg]] ‘75
*1984: [[Barbara B. Kennelly]]<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/topic/organization/mount-holyoke-college|title=Mount Holyoke College|newspaper=The New York Times |date=January 19, 2018}}</ref>
*1983: [[George Steiner]]<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1983/06/12/us/graduates-next-challenges-strife-among-nations-strife-among-people.html|title=GRADUATES' NEXT CHALLENGES: STRIFE AMONG NATIONS, STRIFE AMONG PEOPLE (Published 1983)|newspaper=The New York Times |date=June 12, 1983}}</ref>
*1982: [[Elizabeth Topham Kennan]]
*1981: [[Shirley Chisholm]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://harvardmagazine.com/2000/07/commencement-address-the.html|title=Commencement Address, the Genre|date=July 1, 2000}}</ref>
*1980: [[John Irving]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://archive.esquire.com/issue/19790327/#!&pid=53|title=Esquire - March 27, 1979|website=archive.esquire.com}}</ref>
*1979: [[Ellen Goodman]] '64
*1978: [[David Bicknell Truman]]<ref name="fivecolleges.edu">{{cite web|url=https://asteria.fivecolleges.edu/findaids/mountholyoke/mshm327_scope.html|title=David Bicknell Truman Records}}</ref>
*1977: Ruth Ida Abrams
*1976: [[Lillian Hellman]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/research/fa/hellman.folderlist.html|title=Lillian Hellman papers with draft of Mount Holyoke commencement speech}}</ref>
*1975: [[Ella T. Grasso]] '40<ref name="The Education of Ella Grasso">{{cite web|url=http://www.hogriver.org/issues/v02n04/ella_grasso.htm|title=Hog River Journal|website=www.hogriver.org}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://mtholyoke.cdmhost.com/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p1030coll8/id/2603/rec/2|title=Mount Holyoke College Commencement Address by Ella T. Grasso}}</ref>
*1974: Beryl Robichaud Collins ‘40
*1973: [[Matina Souretis Horner]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/~sch01195|title=Horner, Matina. Records of Radcliffe College President Matina Horner, 1972-1989: A Finding Aid|website=oasis.lib.harvard.edu|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100708013458/http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/~sch01195|archive-date=2010-07-08|url-status=dead}}</ref>
*1972: [[Barbara M. White]]<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1972/06/25/archives/speakers-at-commencements-put-new-emphasis-on-old-values.html|title=Speakers at Commencements Put New Emphasis on Old Values|last=Peterson|first=Iver|date=1972-06-25|work=The New York Times|access-date=2018-03-14|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
*1971: [[David Bicknell Truman]]<ref name="fivecolleges.edu"/>
*1970: [[Ted Kennedy]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://mtholyoke.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/p1030coll8/id/5569/rec/3|title=Ted Kennedy at the Mount Holyoke College class of 1970 commencement ceremony}}</ref>
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*1969: [[Kenneth Keniston]]
*1968: [[David Riesman]]<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=buaXtgAACAAJ|title=Dilemmas of the Educated Woman: Commencement Address at Mount Holyoke College : Typescript, 1968 June 2|last=Riesman|first=David|date=1968|language=en}}</ref>
*1967: [[August Heckscher]]
*1966: [[Philip Johnson]]<ref>{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1977/05/23/forms-under-light|title=Forms Under Light|date=1977-05-16|magazine=The New Yorker|access-date=2018-03-14|language=en|issn=0028-792X}}</ref>
*1965: [[James R. Killian, Jr.]]<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/55090583/|title=The Berkshire Eagle from Pittsfield, Massachusetts on June 7, 1965 · Page 26|work=Newspapers.com|access-date=2018-03-14|language=en}}</ref>
*1964: [[Lauris Norstad]]<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1964/06/08/mt-holyoke-class-hears-norstad-urge-wider-nato.html|title=Mt. Holyoke Class Hears Norstad Urge Wider NATO|date=1964-06-08|work=The New York Times|access-date=2018-03-14|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}
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*1963: [[U Thant]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://search.archives.un.org/mount-holyoke-college-south-hadley-massachusetts-2-june-1963|title=Mount Holyoke College - South Hadley, Massachusetts, 2 June 1963 - UNARMS|website=search.archives.un.org|language=en|access-date=2018-03-14}}</ref>
*1962: [[Abraham A. Ribicoff]]
*1961: [[William O. Douglas]]<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/32101427/|title=The Bridgeport Telegram from Bridgeport, Connecticut on June 5, 1961 · Page 4|work=Newspapers.com|access-date=2018-03-14|language=en}}</ref>
*1960: [[Charles Malik]]
*1959: [[Mildred McAfee Horton]]
*1958: [[Norman Cousins]]
*1957: [[Henry Steele Commager]]
*1956: [[Edmund W. Sinnott]]
*1955: [[Earl Warren]]
*1954: [[Helen Rogers Reid]]
*1953: [[Willard Thorp]]
*1952: [[Eliot family (America)|Frederick May Eliot]]
*1951: [[Roswell G. Ham]]
*1950: Frederick May Eliot<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/100769948/|title=The Star-Democrat from Easton, Maryland on May 19, 1950 · Page 13|work=Newspapers.com|access-date=2018-03-14|language=en}}</ref>
*1949: [[Norman Makin]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://news.hrvh.org/veridian/cgi-bin/senylrc?a=d&d=bronxvillereporterBRONXVILLE19490526.1.5|title=The Bronxville Reporter 26 May 1949 — HRVH Historical Newspapers|website=news.hrvh.org|language=en|access-date=2018-03-14}}</ref>
*1948: [[Arnold Wolfers]]
*1947: [[Katharine E. McBride]]
*1946: [[Roswell G. Ham]]
*1945: [[Robert F. Bradford]]
*1944: [[Meta Glass]]
*1943: [[Harold Butler (civil servant)|Harold Beresford Butler]]
*1942: [[Roswell G. Ham]]
*1941: [[Christopher Morley]]
*1940: [[Lillian M. Gilbreth]]
*1939: [[Chauncey Brewster Tinker]]<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/89491534/|title=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on June 6, 1939 · Page 8|work=Newspapers.com|access-date=2018-03-14|language=en}}</ref>
*1938: [[David Allan Robertson]]
*1937: [[John Gilbert Winant]]
*1936: [[William Allan Neilson]]
*1935: [[William Ernest Hocking]]
*1934: [[John Huston Finley]]
*1933: [[The New Republic#Editors|Bruce Bliven]]
*1932: [[George E. Vincent]]
*1931: [[George W. Kirchwey]]
*1930: [[James T. Shotwell]]
*1929: [[Newton D. Baker]]
*1928: [[Paul Shorey]]
*1927: [[Frederick Carlos Ferry]]
*1926: [[Frederick M. Davenport]]
*1925: [[James Rowland Angell]]
*1924: [[Henry Morgenthau Sr.|Henry Morgenthau]], [[Kenneth C. M. Sills]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://mtholyoke.cdmhost.com/cdm/singleitem/collection/p1030coll8/id/6048/rec/2|title=1924 Commencement speaker Honorable Henry Morgenthau with Joseph A. Skinner, president of Board of Trustees, 1924|access-date=May 25, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170819191443/http://mtholyoke.cdmhost.com/cdm/singleitem/collection/p1030coll8/id/6048/rec/2|archive-date=August 19, 2017|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}}</ref>
*1923: [[Alexander Meiklejohn]]
*1922: [[University of Helsinki#Notable alumni, faculty, and staff|Sergius A. Korff]]
*1921: [[William Howard Taft]]
*1920: [[Charles Zueblin]]
*1919: [[Andover Theological Seminary|Albert Parker Fitch]]
*1918: [[George Edgar Vincent]]
*1917: [[Henry Noble MacCracken]]
*1916: [[Charles E. Jefferson]]
*1915: [[William Ernest Hocking]]
*1914: [[Charles S. Whitman]]
*1913: [[Harry Emerson Fosdick]]
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*1912: [[Edward F. Sanderson]], [[Charles R. Brown]]<ref>{{Cite news| title = Mount Holyoke Graduates; The College Celebrates Its Seventy fifth Commencement. | work = The [[New York Times]] | date = June 16, 1912 | url = https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9800E4D91E3CE633A25755C1A9609C946396D6CF}}</ref>
*1911: [[List of University of Georgia people#Ministry and religion|Henry Stiles Bradley]]
*1910: [[Mary E. Woolley]]
*1909: [[Hugh Black (theologian)|Hugh Black]]
*1908: [[First Congregational Church (Minneapolis, Minnesota)|Rev. Henry A. Stimson]]
*1907: [[Jane Addams]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://digital.janeaddams.ramapo.edu/items/show/5990|title=Mount Holyoke Commencement Speech, June 19, 1907 · Jane Addams Digital Edition|website=digital.janeaddams.ramapo.edu|language=en-US|access-date=2018-03-14}}</ref>
*1906: [[LeBaron Russell Briggs|Russell Briggs]]
*1905: [[American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions#Corresponding Secretaries and other key leaders|Judson Smith]]
*1904: [[Talcott Williams]]
*1903: [[Ira Remsen]]
*1902: [[George Herbert Palmer]]
*1901: [[James Hulme Canfield]]
*1900: N. D. Hills
*1899: [[William McKinley]], [[Roger Wolcott (Massachusetts politician)|Roger Wolcott]], [[American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions#Corresponding Secretaries and other key leaders|Judson Smith]]<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1899/06/21/archives/president-gives-diplomas-mount-holyoke-college-confers-a-degree.html|title=President Gives Diplomas; Mount Holyoke College Confers a Degree Upon Him. The First Man So Honored Speech to the Graduating Class, Among Whom Was His Niece -- The President's Trip.|date=1899-06-21|work=The New York Times|access-date=2018-03-14|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
*1898: [[List of Middlebury College alumni#Religion|Charles M. Mead]]
*1897: [[Union Theological Seminary (New York City)|Charles Cuthbert Hall]]
*1896: [[William Faunce]]
*1895: [[South Congregational Church, Chapel, Ladies Parlor, and Rectory|A. J. Lyman]]<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1895/06/20/102462822.html?pageNumber=10|title=Mount Holyoke College.|work=The New York Times |access-date=2018-03-14|language=en}}</ref>
*1894: [[First Congregational Church (Minneapolis, Minnesota)|Rev. Henry A. Stimson]]
*1893: [[Chester David Hartranft]]
*1892: Henry M. Storrs
*1891: [[Elizabeth Storrs Mead]], [[Merrill Gates]]
*1890: Alexander McKenzie
*1889: [[Luther Tracy Townsend]]
*1888: [[American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions#Corresponding Secretaries and other key leaders|N. G. Clark]]
*1886: [[Henry L. Dawes]]
*1884: [[J. H. Vincent]]
*1883: Joseph L. Daryea
*1882: [[Broadway United Church of Christ|William M. Taylor]]
*1881: [[Albion W. Tourgee]]
*1880: [[Mount Vernon Church, Boston|Samuel E. Herrick]]
*1879: [[Theodore L. Cuyler]]
*1878: [[William Seymour Tyler]], Thomas P. Field
*1877: [[Matthew Brown Riddle]]
*1876: [[Alexander H. Bullock]]
*1875: [[Julius H. Seelye]]
*1874: [[Julius H. Seelye]], [[Samuel Harris (theologian)|Samuel Harris]]
*1873: [[John M. Greene]], [[William Seymour Tyler]]
*1872: [[Harvey Denison Kitchel]]
*1868: [[Edward N. Kirk]]
*1867: George Nye Boardman
*1864: [[Leonard Swain]]
*1860: [[Roswell Dwight Hitchcock]]
*1859: [[Austin Phelps]]
*1856: [[Hamilton College (New York)|Samuel W. Fisher]]
*1853: [[Westfield State University#Westfield Normal School|Emerson Davis]]
*1851: [[University of Montana School of Journalism|A. L. Stone]]<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100641368|title=The mission of woman: an address|last=Stone|first=A. L.|date=1851|publisher=T.R. Marvin|___location=Boston}}</ref>
*1850: [[William Chauncey Fowler]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5DV3AQAACAAJ|title=Professor Fowler's Anniversary Address Before the Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, August 2, 1850|first=William Chauncey|last=Fowler|date=March 14, 2018|publisher=Trustees of Mount Holyoke Female Seminary|via=Google Books}}</ref>
*1849: [[Edward Hitchcock]]
*1846: J. B. Condit<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/dl/ww/004448433|title=Open Collections Program: Women Working, An address. 004448433|website=ocp.hul.harvard.edu|access-date=2018-03-14|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171002115921/http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/dl/ww/004448433|archive-date=October 2, 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref>
*1845: [[Mary Jane Holmes#Early life and education|Joel Hawes]]<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008375610|title=A looking-glass for ladies, or, The formation and excellence of the female character: an address delivered at the eighth anniversary of the Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, South Hadley, Mass., July 31, 1845.|last=Hawes|first=Joel|date=1845|publisher=Printed by Wm. D. Ticknor & Co.|___location=Boston}}</ref>
*1844: [[Edward N. Kirk]]
*1842: [[Edward Hitchcock]]
*1841: [[Bela Bates Edwards]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/dl/ww/002713572|title=Open Collections Program: Women Working, An address delivered at the fourth anniversary of the Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, South Hadley, Mass. July 29, 1841. 002713572|website=ocp.hul.harvard.edu|access-date=2018-03-14|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180315003750/http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/dl/ww/002713572|archive-date=March 15, 2018|url-status=dead}}</ref>
*1840: [[Mark Hopkins (educator)|Mark Hopkins]]
*1839: [[Rufus Anderson]]
*1838: [[Mary Jane Holmes#Early life and education|Joel Hawes]]
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