# List of Albion College people

This is a list of notable alumni and faculty, people who attended and graduated from Albion College in Albion, Michigan, and people who received honorary degrees.

## Alumni
### Academia

* Ella H. Brockway Avann, 1871, educator (1853–1899)
* Robert Bartlett, surgeon (1939–)
* Bob Bemer, 1940, computer scientist (1920–2004)
* Bruce C. Berndt, 1961, mathematician (1939–)
* J Harlen Bretz, 1906, geologist (1882–1981)
* Mark W. Chase, 1973, botanist (1951–)
* Harriet Gertrude Eddy, 1890s, educator and librarian (1876–1966)
* Britt Halvorson, professor, writer, anthropologist
* Robert E. Horton, 1897, hydrology (1875–1945)
* Melvin H. Knisely, 1927, anatomist specializing in microcirculation (1904–1975)
* Forest Ray Moulton, 1894, astronomer (1872–1952)
* John W. Porter, 1953, former president of Eastern Michigan University; first African-American State Superintendent since Reconstruction
* Dwight B. Waldo, first president of Western Michigan University (1864–1939)
* Mary Chawner Woody, minister, teacher, and temperance leader (1846–1928)

### Arts and entertainment

* Philip Campbell Curtis, 1930, surrealist-inspired painter (1907–2000)
* Allie Luse Dick, music teacher
* Cornelia Moore Chillson Moots, 1882, missionary, temperance evangelist (1843–1929)
* Jon Scieszka, 1976, children's book author (1954–)
* John Sinclair, poet and '60s counterculture icon (1941–2024)
* F. Dudleigh Vernor, 1914, organist, composer

### Business

* William C. Ferguson, 1952, chairman of NYNEX NKA Verizon Communications (1930–2015)
* Steve Grigorian, President and CEO, Detroit Economic Club
* Joel Manby, 1981, former CEO of SeaWorld Entertainment
* Geoffery Merszei, CFO of Dow Chemical Company (1951–)
* Martin Nesbitt, 1985, businessman, Barack Obama friend and campaign treasurer (1962–)
* Doug Parker, 1984, chairman and chief executive officer of American Airlines (1962–)
* Moose Scheib, founder and CEO of LoanMod.com (1980–)
* Richard Mills Smith, 1968, chairman and editor-in-chief, Newsweek (1946–)
* Paul "Skip" Ungrodt, 1952, former chairman and president of Ideation, Inc.

### Government and politics

* Florence Riddick Boys, 1896, Indiana suffragist, journalist, state official
* Prentiss M. Brown, 1911, U.S. Senator from Michigan
* David L. Camp, 1975, U.S. Representative from Michigan
* Barbara Ann Crancer, 1960, Missouri state circuit court judge and daughter of former Teamsters Union president Jimmy Hoffa
* Homer Folks, 1887, a pioneer of mental and public health reform in New York
* Bates Gill, Chinese foreign policy expert and director of Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
* Matthew Gillard, politician, member of the Michigan House of Representatives
* George Heartwell, 1971, mayor of Grand Rapids, Michigan
* Matt Heinz, politician, member of Arizona House of Representatives
* Charles Tisdale Howard, 1880, Speaker of the South Dakota House of Representatives
* Thomas Ludington, 1976, judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan and Albion College trustee
* Lyle H. Miller, 1914, brigadier general in the Marine Corps
* Arnold R. Pinkney, 1952, campaign manager for Jesse Jackson 1984 Democratic presidential nomination
* Carl W. Riddick, member of the U.S. House of Representatives from the Second District of Montana
* Mark Schauer, 1984, U.S. Representative from Michigan
* Anna Howard Shaw, attended 1872–1875, civil rights leader, first female Methodist minister in the U.S.
* Robert M. Teeter, 1961, Republican pollster
* Edwin B. Winans, attended in 1840s, U.S. Representative and Governor of Michigan

### Other

* Josh A. Cassada, 1995, physicist, NASA astronaut
* Cedric Dempsey, 1954, former president of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA)
* Chris Greenwood, 2012, former National Football League player for Detroit Lions
* Phyllis Harrison-Ross, 1956, psychiatrist working with developmentally disabled and mentally ill children
* Mary Catherine Judd (1852–1930s), educator, author, and peace activist
* Mary Beecher Longyear, philanthropist and founder of Longyear Foundation
* J. Fred “Pop” McKale, 1910, former University of Arizona basketball coach; 1998 Albion Hall of Fame inductee
* Forest Ray Moulton, 1894, astronomer
* Will Carl Rufus, 1902, astronomer, mathematician
* Leonard F. "Fritz" Shurmur, 1956, former college and National Football League football coach
* Madelon Stockwell, first woman to graduate from the University of Michigan
* Hazen Graff Werner, 1920, bishop of the United Methodist Church
* Nicolle Zellner, 2007, astronomer, planetary scientist, astrobiologist, professor, public outreach in space science and racial and gender minority recognition in STEM

### Honorary degrees

* Barbara Bush, 2005, former First Lady of the United States

## Faculty

* Henrietta Ash Bancroft (1843-1929), professor of English and dean of women (1892-98)

## Presidents of Albion College

* Wayne P. Webster (2024–)
* Mathew B. Johnson (2020–2021)
* Mauri A. Ditzler (2014–2020)
* Donna M. Randall (2007–2013)
* Peter T. Mitchell (1997–2007)
* Melvin L. Vulgamore (1983–1997)
* Bernard T. Lomas (1970–1983)
* Louis W. Norris (1960–1970)
* William W. Whitehouse (1945–1960)
* John Lawrence Seaton (1924–1945)
* John Wesley Laird (1921–1924)
* Samuel F. Dickie (1901–1921)
* John Ashley (1898–1901)
* Lewis R. Fiske (1877–1898)
* William B. Silber (1870–1871)
* J.L.G. McKown (1869–1870)
* George Beiners Jocelyn (1864–1869 and 1871–1877)
* Thomas H. Sinex (1854–1864)
* Ira Mayhew (1853–1864)
* Clark T. Hinman (1846–1853)
* Rev. Charles Franklin Stockwell (1843–1845)
Notes: William C. Ferguson served as interim president for six months in 1997. Dr. Michael L. Frandsen served as interim president for the 2013–2014 academic year.

## Athletics

    See List of Albion Britons head football coaches
* Dustin Beurer, 2005, head football coach for Albion
* Morley Fraser, head football coach
* Walter S. Kennedy, head football coach and all-American quarterback at for the University of Chicago Maroons
* Dale R. Sprankle, head football coach at Albion and also at Adrian College
* Gina Warlick, women’s volleyball and basketball