Oberlin’s Great Achievers From Alumni and Faculty
Oberlin College’s famed alumni list spans educators, journalists, politicians, scientists, and artists. Notables include Robert M Hutchins and Erwin Griswold in academe, Reischauer and Heller in government service, Langston in politics, Rowan and Catton in journalism, Wilder and May in literature and psychology, Millikan the Nobel physicist, Hall the aluminum innovator, and Barrows of Sears. The roster also features Moonlight contributors in medicine, finance, and music, highlighting Oberlin’s long impact across diverse fields.
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Oberlin College
Robert and
Nessie Millikan
Tome
U.S. Navy
Griswold
Reischauer
Japan
Heller
Council of Economic Advisers
Cooper
Department of State
John Mercer Langston
Oberlin
Harvard Law Department
U.S. House of Representatives
Virginia
Charles Mosher
Illinois
Wisconsin
Notable Oberlin Figures Reach Arts and Public Life
The article profiles several Oberlin alumni and affiliates in arts and public service. It highlights Zinman, a Rochester Philharmonic conductor. Paul Horn, renowned jazz flutist with U.S. and European tours and Grammy wins. William Grant Still, composer of operas and symphonies who worked with major stars. Tony Musante of TV and film. William Goldman, Oscar-winning screenwriter. Gilbert Moses, TV director and theater award winner. and James Calvert, former Navy admiral and former Naval Academy superintendent, with ties to Oberlin in the 1930s.
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Paul Horn
U.S
Europe
William Grant Still
The
Conservatory
Sophie Tucker
Paul Whiteman
Artie Shaw
Tony Musante
James Calvert
Oberlin
U.S.5
North Pole
U.S. Naval Academy
Oberlin College Faculty and Facilities Highlight Excellence
A survey on Oberlin College shows strong faculty quality and impressive facilities. It notes many graduates pursue graduate study, with Oberlin ranking high in Ph.D. production and a broad pattern of alumni engagement in education, law, medicine, and public service.
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Oberlin College
Harvard
Yale
UCLA
George Scott
Bob Tufts
Milton Yinger
Oberlin
Princeton
Columbia
University of California
University of Michigan
College
Conservatory of Music
Warner
Kettering Hall of Science
Jesse Philips
Seely G. Mudd
Allen Art Museum
Powell
Franklin & Marshall Institutional Research Office
OC Grads
Brown University
Brown
Dartmouth
Swarthmore
Amherst
Hagge-Greenberg
Also Mentioned on This Page
Academe
Robert M. Hutchins
University of Chicago
Ford Foundation
Center For
California
Erwin Griswold
Harvard Law School
American Bar Foundation
Edwin Reisehauer
Harvard-Yenching Institute
Walter Heller
University of Minnesota
Richard Cooper
Yale University
House
U.S. Senate
Pete Williams Jr
New Jersey
Washington
Nancy Hays Teeters
House Budget Committee
Courtney Slater
Federal Reserve Board
Mary Dent Crisp
Arizona
Republican National
Rennie Davis
Students For A Democratic Society
Judge Hoffman
Chicago 7
Davis
Guru Maharaj Ji
Johan Hanock
Denver
Eduardo Mondlane
Mozambique
Northwestern
Syracuse University
Africa
Mozambique Liberation Front
Hs Homeland
Crief
Lucy Stone
Antoinette Brown Blackwell
Stone
Henry Blackwell
Blackwell
United States
Carl T. Rowan
Bruce Catton
Rowan
Chicago Daily News
United States Information Agency
Finland
Catton
American Heritage
Cleveland News
Plain Dealer
Tom Boardman
Cleveland Press
Neil Strawser
CBS News
Sun Papers
Allen Bussman
Yellow Pages
Ohio Bell
McCalls
James Fixx
Thornton Wilder
Rollo May
John E. Mack
Harvard Medical School
Lawrence of
Arana
OC Grad
Donald A. Henderson
John Hopkins University School of Public Health
World Health Organization
Robert A. Millikan
Bill Schopf
National Science Foundation
Schopf
Earth
Charles Martin Hall
Donald H. Wells
Hall
George A. Roose
Roose- Wade Co
Toledo
Cedar Point
Arthur S. Barrows
Chicago
Sears, Roebuck
Natalie Hinderas
Metropolitan Opera
Alma Jean Smith
Malcolm Smith
David
Carl Rowan
George Roose
Zinman
Rochester Philharmonic
William Still
Lanna Hagge-Greenberg
Office of Career Development
American Civil Liberties Union
City Planning Commissions
Common Cause
Midge Brittingham
OC Alumni Association
Tahiti
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