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Whitman College

EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION

"Missionaries, Missionaries, We're on Top!"

Location:
Walla Walla, WA

Founding Date:
1859

Team:
Missionaries

Enrollment:
1450

Official Website:
http://www.whitman.edu/

STUDENTS

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Keiko Agena
Actor
3-Oct-1973   Lane Kim on Gilmore Girls
Walter H. Brattain
Physicist
10-Feb-1902 13-Oct-1987 Co-Inventor of the transistor
Wallace R. Brode
Chemist
12-Jun-1900 10-Aug-1974 Absorption spectra of dyes
Ryan C. Crocker
Diplomat
19-Jun-1949   US Ambassador to Iraq, 2007-09
William O. Douglas
Judge
16-Oct-1898 19-Jan-1980 US Supreme Court Justice, 1939-75
Dennis P. Eichhorn
Author
19-Aug-1945 8-Oct-2015 Real Stuff
Barbara S. Feigin
Business
c. 1937   Grey Advertising Inc.
W. Michael Gillette
Judge
c. 1941   Justice, Oregon Supreme Court
John Markoff
Journalist
24-Oct-1949   New York Times computer guy
Steve McConnell
Computer Programmer
c. 1963   Author of Code Complete
Diane Middlebrook
Author
16-Apr-1939 15-Dec-2007 Biographer of Anne Sexton
Walt Minnick
Politician
20-Sep-1942   Congressman from Idaho, 2009-11
Al Swift
Politician
12-Sep-1935   Congressman from Washington, 1979-95
Al Ullman
Politician
9-Mar-1914 11-Oct-1986 Congressman from Oregon, 1957-81
Adam West
Actor
19-Sep-1928   Batman, Mayor of Quahog

TEACHERS AND PROFESSORS

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Samuel Flagg Bemis
Historian
20-Oct-1891 26-Sep-1973 Scholar of diplomacy
Walter H. Brattain
Physicist
10-Feb-1902 13-Oct-1987 Co-Inventor of the transistor
Otto Harbach
Songwriter
18-Aug-1873 24-Jan-1963 Smoke Gets in Your Eyes

ADMINISTRATORS AND TRUSTEES

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Barbara S. Feigin
Business
c. 1937   Grey Advertising Inc.




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