NOTABLE ALUMNI
Leah Peelman - Class of 2006
Fourth place in NCAA III National 10K
Peter Kassig
Aid worker was taken hostage and beheaded by the Islamic State
John Resig - Class of 2001
Co-founder of Resignation Media, LLC in August 2007
Launched theCHIVE.com in November 2008
Peter Dunn - Class of 2000
Financial author, radio host, television personality, and speaker
Chris Culver (pen name)
Crime novelist
Eric Holcomb - Class of 1990
Current Governor of Indiana, 51st Lieutenant Governor
Mike Leonard - Class of 1984
Former Head Football Coach at Franklin College (retired)
Woody Harrelson - Class of 1983
Actor in films and TV series "Cheers"
Three-time Academy Award nominee
Michael Henderickson - Class of 1983
20th Century Fox Film Corporation Executive Vice President for feature productions
Jane Huffman Hayes - Class of 1983
Awarded the "Most Daring Research Award" by NASA
Mike Pence - Class of 1981
48th Vice President of the United States
50th Governor of Indiana
Member of U.S. House of Representatives
Jim Ward - Class of 1981
Former President of LucasArts
Thom Mayer - Class of 1973
Command physician at the Pentagon during 911
Medical Director of the National Football League Players Association (NFL)
Bertha Lewis - Class of 1972
CEO and Chief Organizer of ACORN
Jim Green - Class of 1972
Computer scientist who reduced wireless communication time to usable levels
Joyce Hopewell Brinkman - Class of 1966
First poet laureate of Indiana
Stephen Olvey - Class of 1965
Co-Director of the International Motorsports and Vehicular Injury Research Center
James A. Lake - Class of 1965
Retired Associate Laboratory Director of Nuclear Programs, Idaho National Laboratory
Philip Hendrick - Class of 1964
American population geneticist
Bob Donewald - Class of 1964
Former head basketball coach at Illinois State and Western Michigan (retired)
Assistant coach of 1976 Indiana Hoosiers National Champions
Bob Schults - Class of 1964
Former CEO of Shaklee
John Shoemaker - Class of 1964
Retired Executive Vice President of Sun Microsystems
Harold K. Voris - Class of 1962
Curator and Head of the Division of Amphibians and Reptiles, Field Museum of Natural History Chicago
James W. Near - Class of 1960
Chairman and CEO of Wendy's International, Inc. from 1986-199
Carol Warner Shields - Class of 1957
Pulitzer Prize-winning author
Walter Lafeber - Class of 1955
A historian at Cornell University
Monica Sone - Class of 1946
Author of noted memoir Nisei Daughter
George F. Whitworth - Class of 1938
Presbyterian missionary
Founder of Whitworth College
President of University of Washington
Charles Kirwan McHarry - Class of 1936
Journalist, drama critic, wrote "On the Town" column for the New York Daily News
Wilbur Young - Class of 1930
Indiana's Superintendent of Schools from 1951-1959. Under his administration, he moved the schools in Indiana to consolidation, improved graduation rates, and authored a book on building better schools. He made headlines nationwide news fighting McCarthyism keeping books such as Little Red Riding Hood and others on the bookshelves of the schools.
Harriet Elliott - Class of 1910
Educator and civic leader
Colonel Leslie MacDill - Class of 1909
Early aviation pioneer and US Army Air Corps officer
Namesake of MacDill Air Force Base in Florida, headquarters of US CENTCOM
Charles Sherrod Hatfield - Class of 1904
Judge of United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals
James Graham Brown - Class of 1902
Philanthropist, businessman, and real estate developer
Thomas Cleland Dawson - Class of 1888
Diplomat
William Donner - Class of 1887
Steel industry businessman and philanthropist
William L. Fisher - Class of 1883
United State Secretary of the Interior from 1911 to 1913
William A. Cullop - Class of 1878
Member of United States House of Representatives from Indiana
Reginald H. Thomson - Class of 1877
A civil engineer who designed modern Seattle
Lafe Pence - Class of 1877
Member of United States House of Representatives from Colorado
Robert J. Tracewell - Class of 1874
Member of U.S. House of Representatives
Comptroller of the U.S. Department of the Treasury
John Merle Newhouse - Class of 1872
Representative and Senator for the State of Indiana
Stanley Coulter - Class of 1870
Dean of School of Sciences at Purdue University
John Merle Coulter - Class of 1870
Botanist
Professor at Hanover College, Wabash College, and University of Chicago
President of Indiana University and Lake Forest University
Harvey W. Wiley - Class of 1867
Chemist involved with the passage of Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906
John M. Bloss - Class of 1860
Third President of Oregon State University
James Kennedy Patterson - Class of 1856
First President of the University of Kentucky
Albert G. Porter - Class of 1843
Governor of Colorado and member of U.S. House of Representatives
Thomas Andrews Hendricks - Class of 1841
21st Vice President of the United States
Governor of Indiana
U.S. Senator
Member of U.S. House of Representatives
Delegate to 1851 Indiana Constitutional Convention
William Hayden English
Member of U.S. House of Representatives
Candidate for Vice President of the United States
Speaker of the Indiana House of Representatives
William Ross Wallace - Class of 1836
Poet
Ebenezer Dumont - Class of 1836
Member of U.S. House of Representatives from Indiana
Brigadier general of Union Army during American Civil War
Jonathan Edwards - Class of 1835
First President of Washington and Jefferson College
John Davis Paris - Class of 1833
Builder of missionary churches on the island of Hawaii
William M. Dunn
Member of U.S. House of Representatives
Judge Advocate of General of the United States Army
Delegate to 1850 Constitution of Indiana Convention