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Undergraduate Colleges /
Wellesley College |
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Table of Contents |
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Famous alumnae |
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- Katharine Lee Bates (1880) (author of the words to the anthem America the Beautiful)
- Marjory Stoneman Douglas (1912) (conservationist and writer)
- Bing Xin (1926) (famous Chinese Poetess, essayist, short-story writer)
- Annie Jump Cannon (1884) (astronomer)
- Madeleine Albright (1959) (former U.S. Secretary of
State)
- Madame Chiang Kai-shek (1917)
(Former First Lady of the Republic of China)
- Hillary Rodham Clinton (1969) (U.S. Senator; Former First Lady of the U.S.)
- Nora Ephron (1962) (Movie
screenplay writer: When Harry Met Sally; Writer and
Director: Sleepless in Seattle and You've Got Mail)
- Judith Martin (1959) (Newspaper
columnist: Miss Manners)
- Cokie Roberts (1964)
(Journalist)
- Diane Sawyer (1967)
(Journalist)
- Lynn Sherr (1963) (Journalist)
- Pamela Melroy (1983)
(Astronaut)
- Virginia Abernethy (1955) Anthropologist
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Interesting Fact |
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Founded in 1851, Cooper Union was the first college to prohibit discrimination on the basis of race or religion in its charter. |
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