EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION

Location:
Delaware, OH

Founding Date:
1842

Motto:
In lumine tuo videbimus lumen

Team:
Battling Bishops

Mascot:
Battling Bishop

Enrollment:
2000

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

STUDENTS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Morten Arntzen	Business	c. 1955		CEO of Overseas Shipholding Group
Alice M. Batchelder	Judge	15-Aug-1944		6th Circuit Court of Appeals
Susan H. Black	Judge	20-Oct-1943		11th Circuit Court of Appeals
George Conrades	Business	c. 1939		CEO of Akamai, 1999-2005
Trish Van Devere	Actor	9-Mar-1943		One Is a Lonely Number
Clarence C. Dill	Politician	21-Sep-1884	14-Jan-1978	US Senator from Washington, 1923-35
Jo Ann Emerson	Politician	16-Sep-1950		Former Congresswoman from Missouri
Charles W. Fairbanks	Politician	11-May-1852	4-Jun-1918	Vice President under Theodore Roosevelt
Arthur S. Flemming	Government	12-Jun-1905	7-Sep-1996	HEW Secretary, 1958-61
William H. Gass	Novelist	30-Jul-1924		The Tunnel
Paul Gillmor	Politician	1-Feb-1939	5-Sep-2007	Congressman from Ohio, 1989-2007
Clark Gregg	Actor	2-Apr-1962		The New Adventures of Old Christine
Lucy Hayes	First Lady	28-Aug-1831	25-Jun-1889	Wife of US President Rutherford B. Hayes
David Hobson	Politician	17-Oct-1936		Congressman, Ohio 7th
James A. Locke III	Attorney	1942		Of Counsel at Nixon Peabody
Wendie Malick	Actor	13-Dec-1950		Judith on Dream On
George Meader	Politician	13-Sep-1907	15-Oct-1994	Congressman from Michigan, 1951-65
Phillip J. Meek	Business	c. 1937		Senior VP at ABC, 1986-97
James E. Oberg	Historian	7-Nov-1944		Space exploration historian
Norman Vincent Peale	Religion	31-May-1898	24-Dec-1993	The Power of Positive Thinking
Robert Pine	Actor	10-Jul-1941		Sgt. Getraer on CHiPS
Susan P. Read	Judge	1947		Judge, NY Court of Appeals
Branch Rickey	Baseball	20-Dec-1881	9-Dec-1965	Longtime Baseball GM
F. Sherwood Rowland	Chemist	28-Jun-1927	10-Mar-2012	Ozone depletion
Alex Shumate	Attorney	1950		Partner Squire, Sanders & Dempsey
Louis A. Simpson	Business	c. 1937		Head of investments at GEICO
Clay G. Small	Attorney	c. 1950		Senior VP and General Counsel at Pepsi
Paul L. Smith	Business	c. 1935		CFO of Kodak, 1983-93
Frank Stanton	Business	20-Mar-1908	24-Dec-2006	President of CBS, 1946-73
Melvin Van Peebles	Film Director	21-Aug-1932		Watermelon Man
Patricia Wettig	Actor	4-Dec-1951		thirtysomething
Linda S. Wolf	Business	c. 1948		CEO of Leo Burnett Worldwide, 2001-05

ADMINISTRATORS AND TRUSTEES

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
George Conrades	Business	c. 1939		CEO of Akamai, 1999-2005
Arthur S. Flemming	Government	12-Jun-1905	7-Sep-1996	HEW Secretary, 1958-61
David Hobson	Politician	17-Oct-1936		Congressman, Ohio 7th
Mark W. Huddleston	Educator	c. 1950		President, University of New Hampshire
Phillip J. Meek	Business	c. 1937		Senior VP at ABC, 1986-97
Paul L. Smith	Business	c. 1935		CFO of Kodak, 1983-93

COACHES

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Fielding H. Yost	Football	30-Apr-1871	20-Apr-1946	Legendary UMich Head Coach

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