# List of Miss Porter's School alumnae

The following is a list of notable Ancients (alumnae) from Miss Porter's School in Farmington, Connecticut.

## 1850s

* Eliza Talcott – attended in the 1850s; founder of Kobe College

## 1870s

* Grace Hoadley Dodge (1873) – established Columbia University Teachers’ College
* Nellie Grant (1873) – daughter of U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant and First Lady Julia Grant
* Mary Knight Wood (1875) – American pianist, music educator and composer
* Julia Lathrop (1876) – the first woman ever to head a government agency in the United States

## 1880s

* Helen Gilman Noyes Brown (1881) – philanthropist
* Edith Hamilton (1886) – Greek mythology scholar; sister of Alice Hamilton
* Alice Hamilton (1888) – first female faculty member of the Harvard Medical School; founder of the field of industrial medicine
* Theodate Pope Riddle (1888) – architect and philanthropist; architect and founder of Avon Old Farms School; architect of Westover School

## 1890s

* Madeline McDowell Breckinridge (1890) – a leader of the women's suffrage movement, a leading Progressive reformer, and great-granddaughter of Henry Clay
* Ruth Hanna McCormick (1897) – member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Illinois and the first woman to run for the U.S. Senate
* Princess Anastasia of Greece and Denmark (née Nonie May Stewart) – American-born wife of Prince Christopher of Greece and Denmark, the son of King George I of Greece

## 1910s

* Edith Roelker Curtis (1912) – author, historian, and diarist
* Dorothy Keeley Aldis (1914) – American children's author and poet
* Emily Hale (1916) – speech and drama teacher, and muse of T.S. Eliot

## 1920s

* Helen Coley Nauts (1925) – founder of the Cancer Research Institute

## 1930s

* Barbara Hutton (1930) – American socialite, dubbed "Poor Little Rich Girl"
* Gloria Vanderbilt – American artist, writer, actress, fashion designer, heiress, and socialite
* Edith Bouvier Beale (1935) – American socialite; cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis; subject of the documentary film Grey Gardens
* Anne Cox Chambers (1938) – U.S. Ambassador to Belgium during the Carter administration
* Gene Tierney (1938) – Academy Award-nominated actress
* Brenda Frazier (1939) – American socialite

## 1940s

* Polly Allen Mellen (1942) – editor of Vogue magazine
* Dina Merrill (née Nedenia Hutton) (1943) – actress and American socialite
* Letitia Baldrige Hollensteiner (1943) – author and social secretary to Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy
* Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis (1947) – former First Lady of the United States
* Patience Cleveland (1948) – American actress and published author
* Lilly Pulitzer (née Lillian Lee McKim) (1949) – fashion designer and American socialite

## 1950s

* Lee Radziwill (née Bouvier) (1950) – public relations executive for Giorgio Armani, author, and younger sister of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
* Elizabeth Cushman Titus Putnam (1951) – founding president of the Student Conservation Association (SCA) and recipient of the Presidential Citizens Medal
* Laura Rockefeller Chasin (1954) – American socialite
* Elise Ravenel Wood du Pont (1954) – former First Lady of Delaware and 1984 Republican candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives
* Barbara Babcock (1955) – Emmy Award-winning actress for Hill Street Blues
* Pema Chödrön (formerly Deirdre Blomfield-Brown) (1955) – Buddhist nun and author; resident director of Gampo Abbey
* Edith Kunhardt Davis (1955) – children's author and illustrator, daughter of Dorothy Kunhardt
* Agnes Gund (1956) – President Emerita of the Museum of Modern Art and 1997 recipient of the National Medal of Arts

## 1960s

* Mimi Alford (1961) – former White House intern who wrote a book about her affair with John F. Kennedy
* Sheila Ford Hamp (1969) – owner of the Detroit Lions

## 1970s

* Elizabeth May (1972) – the first elected Green Party Member of Parliament in Canada and leader of the Green Party of Canada
* Dorothy Bush Koch (1977) – philanthropist and member of the Bush political family
* Sarah Ludlow Blake (1978) – American writer

## 1980s

* Susannah Grant (1980) – director and Academy Award-nominated screenwriter for Erin Brockovich
* Ariane de Vogue (1984) – CNN reporter and commentator
* R. Erica Doyle (1985) – educator and poet
* Pippa Tubman Armerding (1986) – director of Africa Research Office, Harvard Business School
* Gregg Renfrew (1986) – entrepreneur and founder of Beautycounter
* Lisette Bross (1989) – Chief Strategy Officer, Radar Pictures
* Mary Anne Amirthi Mohanraj (1989) – American writer and editor

## 1990s

* Katherine Collins Pope (1990) – president of television at Chernin Entertainment, formerly president of Universal Media Studios, and executive producer of such television series as New Girl, Touch, and Ben & Kate
* Kate Bennett (1993) -- CNN White House reporter assigned to Melania Trump
* Chrishaunda Lee (1994) – niece of Oprah Winfrey and hostess of PBS programming

## 2000s

* Mamie Gummer (2001) – actress; daughter of actress Meryl Streep
* Hayley Petit (2007) – victim of the Cheshire murders
* Victoria de Lesseps – French-American artist

## Fictional alumnae

* In the 2003 drama Mona Lisa Smile, Joan Brandwyn's student file reveals that she attended Miss Porter's School, though the film incorrectly locates it in Pennsylvania
* In the 2000 drama The Skulls, Chloe is stated to have attended Miss Porter's School
* In the series Gossip Girl, a guest character by the name of Shelby Wright goes to Miss Porter's
* In the series Mad Men, Sally Draper attended Miss Porter's