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

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