List of Wittenberg University alumni
Following is a list of notable Wittenberg University alumni.
Art and architecture
[edit]- George Izenour (BA, 1934; MA 1936), theatre designer, author, and educator
- Jennifer Vanderpool, visual artist
- Helen Bosart Morgan Wagstaff, artist, first president of the Springfield Art Association
Business
[edit]- Ben J. Phalen, Salesman at Google responsible for introducing 'Buffalo' to the company
- Ronald Fook Shiu Li, founder of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange[1]
- William C. Martin, founder, Bank of Ann Arbor; founder, First Martin Corp.; former president of the United States Olympic Committee, University of Michigan athletic director
- Matthew Shay, president and CEO of the National Retail Federation
- Adam Willis Wagnalls, Funk & Wagnalls Company co-founder
Clergy
[edit]- Lloyd C. Douglas, minister and author
- Robert J. Marshall, president of the Lutheran Church of America[2]
- ZeBarney Thorne Phillips, Chaplain of the U.S. Senate, 1927–1942
Education
[edit]- Mark A. Boyer, Ph.D. 1988, Professor of Political Science, University of Connecticut[3]
- Barry Burden, Ph.D. 1998, professor of political science, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Jonathan Howes (bachelor's degree 1959), Director of the Center for Urban and Regional Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and mayor of Chapel Hill, North Carolina[4]
- George Philip Krapp, professor of English at Columbia University
- John Warwick Montgomery, Distinguished Research Professor of Philosophy at Concordia University, lawyer, theologian (M.Div., 1958)[5]
- Robert Bruce Raup, philosopher, writer, professor in the Philosophy of Education, Teachers College, Columbia University
- Karl Weick, organizational theorist at the University of Michigan
- Amanda Knerr,Ph.D. (bachelor's degree), student affairs expert and co-author of The Curricular Approach to Student Affairs: A revolutionary shift for learning beyond the classroom
Entertainment
[edit]- John Chowning, American musician, inventor, and professor
- Lauren Schmidt Hissrich, television writer
- Thomas Hyland, professional blackjack player, Blackjack Hall of Fame inductee
- Pierre Lhomme, French cinematographer[6]
- James Rebhorn, actor
- Barbara Shearer, pianist
- Brendan Wentworth, Actor.
Government and civil service
[edit]- Fritz W. Ermarth, Director of National Security Programs at the Nixon Center
- Robert C. Henry, first African-American mayor in Ohio
- Douglas E. Lumpkin, director of the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services
- John E. McLaughlin, Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, senior fellow at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies and Brookings Institution
Law
[edit]- Gregory L. Frost, United States federal judge
- Peter S. Grosscup, Judge U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, 1899–1911
- James G. Johnson, justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio
- Mary Miller Johnston, judge, Superior Court of Delaware, 2003-2024
- A. John Pelander, justice of the Arizona Supreme Court
- Augustus N. Summers, Justice of the Ohio Supreme Court, 1904–1911
- Shelice Tolbert, attorney in Indiana
- Charles B. Zimmerman, Associate Justice of the Ohio Supreme Court, 1933 and 1934–1949
Military
[edit]- James M. Bell, (1837–1919), U.S. Army brigadier general[7][8]
- Benjamin Thurman Hacker (1935–2003), U.S. Navy Officer, first Naval Flight Officer to achieve flag rank
- Edward Vollrath (attended 1879–1881), U.S. Army brigadier general[9]
Nonprofits
[edit]- Sandra Postel, founder and director of the Global Water Policy Project, environmentalist and author.[10]
- Jere Ratcliffe, Chief Scout Executive of Boy Scouts of America, from 1993 to 2000.
Politics
[edit]- Jennette Bradley, former Lieutenant Governor of Ohio and Ohio State Treasurer
- Albert Bryan, Governor of the United States Virgin Islands
- Jonathan Howes (bachelor's degree 1959), mayor of Chapel Hill, North Carolina and Director of the Center for Urban and Regional Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill[4]
- Thomas D. Shepard, Los Angeles City Council member, 1961–67
- Sheila Simon, Lieutenant Governor of Illinois
- Walter L. Weaver, U.S. Representative from Ohio
- Marietje Schaake, former Member of the European Parliament and international policy director at Stanford University[11]
Sports
[edit]- Brian Agler, basketball coach, formerly the head coach of WNBA's Seattle Storm and Los Angeles Sparks. He now serves as Wittenberg's Athletic Director
- Al Davis, owner of the Oakland Raiders NFL franchise, attended Wittenberg University but graduated from Syracuse University 1950
- Sandy Dukat, athlete
- Mark Henninger, football coach
- Taver Johnson, football coach
- Ron Lancaster, 4-time Grey Cup-winning CFL quarterback and coach, member of the Canadian Football Hall of Fame
- William C. Martin, University of Michigan athletic director, 2000–2009; founder, Bank of Ann Arbor; founder, First Martin Corp.; former president of the United States Olympic Committee
- Eldon Miller – former men's college basketball coach at Wittenberg University, Western Michigan University, Ohio State University, and the University of Northern Iowa
Science and medicine
[edit]- Paul Dressel (B.A. 1931), American educational psychologist[12]
- David W. Hertzog, scientist
- Elwood V. Jensen, scientist
- David Ward King, inventor of the King Road Drag
- James Marcia, psychologist of identity development
- Waldo Nelson, pediatrician and author of the Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics
- Hugh M. Raup, botanist and ecologist
Writing and journalism
[edit]- Sherwood Anderson, writer
- Isaac Kaufmann Funk, editor, lexicographer, publisher; founder of Funk & Wagnalls Company publishing firm
- Minnie Willis Baines Miller (A.M.), author
- Brandy Schillace, writer[13]
References
[edit]- ^ "Disgraced Hong Kong Stock Exchange Pioneer Ronald Li Dies Of Cancer". Forbes.
- ^ "Topic Galleries". Chicago Tribune. Archived from the original on December 28, 2008. Retrieved January 1, 2009.
- ^ "Mark A. Boyer". September 15, 2020.
- ^ a b Albers, Sarah M. (June 1, 2015). "Former Chapel Hill Mayor Jonathan Howes dies at 78". The News & Observer. Retrieved June 14, 2015.
- ^ "JWM's WEB SITE". Retrieved September 10, 2012.
- ^ McGinn, Andrew (January 6, 2011). "The year foreign films came to Springfield". Springfield News-Sun. Retrieved January 7, 2011.
- ^ Leonard, John W., ed. (1908). Who's Who In Pennsylvania (Second ed.). New York, NY: L. R. Hammersly. p. 54 – via Internet Archive.
- ^ Twenty-Ninth Annual Catalogue of the Officers and Students of Wittenberg College. Springfield, OH: Republic Printing Company. 1876. p. 13 – via Google Books.
- ^ Neff, William B. (1921). Bench and Bar of Northern Ohio. Cleveland, OH: Historical Publishing Company. p. 701 – via HathiTrust.
- ^ "Bio | Sandra Postel". Globalwaterpolicy.org. Retrieved March 29, 2014.
- ^ "FSI - Marietje Schaake to Join Stanford Cyber Policy Center and Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence in Dual Policy Roles". October 2, 2019. Archived from the original on October 2, 2019. Retrieved May 9, 2025.
- ^ "Paul Dressel and Family Collection". Michigan State University Archives and Historical Collections. Michigan State University. Retrieved May 29, 2018.
- ^ Segall, Grant (March 17, 2016). "Brandy Schillace of Dittrick Medical History Center highlights birth, death and things in between: My Cleveland (photos and video)". Cleveland.com. Retrieved January 8, 2025.