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Chester Alan Arthur
Class of 1848
Chester Arthur was the twenty-first president of the United States (1881-1885). |
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Andrea Barrett
Class of 1974
A Biology major at Union, Barrett went on to become an acclaimed novelist, winner of the National Book Award in 1996, and a finalist for the 2003 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction.
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Theodore R. Berger Class of 1972
Dr. Theodore W. Berger is the David Packard Professor of Engineering, Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Neurobiology, and Director of the Center for Neural Engineering at the University of Southern California. |
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Philip R. Beuth Class of 1954
Philip Beuth was a producer and president of various television and radio programs including the top rated Good Morning America and the groundbreaking TV series In A New Light that rose the awareness of AIDS from 1992 - 1995. |
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John Bigelow Class of 1835
Actively involved in the Democratic Party and a strong supporter of abolition, Bigelow was instrumental in the establishment of the New York Public Library. |
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Helena Binder Class of 1976
Helena Binder is known as an actress, director of plays and musicals, and director of opera. |
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Baruch Samuel Blumberg Class of 1946
Baruch Blumberg, M.D. is an internationally renowned physician, researcher, and scholar, who received the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1976 (along with D. Carlton Gajdusek, M.D.) for the discovery of the hepatitis B virus. |
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Daniel Butterfield Class of 1849
Daniel Butterfield won the Congressional Medal of Honor in 1892 for his heroic service in the Civil War and composed the enduring lights-out call "Taps." |
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Charles Frederick Chandler (1836-1925)
Chandler was considered to be one of the leading Chemists of his generation. He taught the first laboratory class in analytical chemistry on an American college campus at Union in 1859. |
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Estelle Cooke-Sampson Class of 1974
One of the hundred women in Union's first coed class, Cooke-Sampson is a highly respected member of the medical and academic communities in the field of Radiology. |
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Dr. Lee Losee Davenport Class of 1931
Dr. Davenport was a physicist famous for his development of anti-aircraft radar that was crucial in the Allied victory in World War II. |
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Philip G. DiSorbo Class of 1971
As Executive Director of Community Hospice and later co-founder and executive director of the Foundation for Hospice in Sub-Saharan Africa, Philip DiSorbo's work embodies the idea of "carrying your humanity with you". |
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Ruth Anne Evans (1924-2001)
Evans was one of the most accomplished librarians and most knowledgeable college historians to ever work at Union College. |
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Armand V. and Donald S. Feigenbaum
Class of 1942 & 1946 The Feigenbaum brothers founded General Systems Company, an engineering firm that designs and helps implement operational systems for corporations worldwide, and are leaders in the field of systems technology. |
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Franklin Henry Giddings Class of 1878
Franklin H. Giddings wrote the first sociology textbook in the United States, Principles of Sociology, and was a Union College Trustee for twenty-five years. |
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Sue J. Goldie Class of 1984
Named a MacArthur Fellow in 2005 for her application of Decision Science methods, Goldie develops complex models of the effects various interventions have on populations with diseases. |
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Gordon Gould Class of 1941
A physicist widely recognized as the inventor of the laser (1920-2005). |
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Robert Holland Jr. Class of 1962
Holland is known for his work as CEO of Ben & Jerry's in the 1990s; he is currently a General Partner with Williams Capital Partners and with the West Africa Fund. |
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Alan F. Horn Class of 1964
Alan F. Horn is President and Chief Operating Officer of Warner Bros. Entertainment. Among the films produced under Horn’s aegis are some of the Studio’s most popular and profitable, including the six films in the Harry Potter series. |
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Edward R. Kane Class of 1940
Edward Kane served as the president of one of the nation’s largest, science-based products companies, DuPont. |
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Fitz Hugh Ludlow Class of 1856
A poet, critic, fiction and travel writer, and journalist, Fitz Hugh Ludlow was the author of The Hasheesh Eater (1857). |
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Lewis Henry Morgan Class of 1840
A pioneer in the field of Anthropology, who developed theory of cultural evolution (1818-1881). |
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Robert Porter Patterson Class of 1912
As Under Secretary of War from 1940-1945, Robert Patterson was responsible for mobilizing and organizing America's industrial resources to manufacture supplies necessary to the United States and its allies during World War II. |
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John Howard Payne(1791-1852)
The author of the poem Home Sweet Home, Payne attended Union College from 1806 - 1808. |
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Phil Alden Robinson Class of 1971
Film writer, director, and producer, including Field of Dreams and Sneakers (1950 - ). Photo on display in Reamer Campus Center |
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William Henry Seward Class of 1820
Best known as Abraham Lincoln’s Secretary of State, Seward was first a N.Y. State Senator, Governor of New York, U.S. Senator, and presidential candidate running against Lincoln in 1860. |
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Howard Simons Class of 1951
As Managing Editor of the Washington Post from 1971 to 1984 Simons was a key figure in its Watergate investigation. |
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Charles Proteus Steinmetz Union Faculty, 1902-1923
Steinmetz made significant contributions to the development of electricity as an engineer and inventor, and was also an influential and inspiring educator. |
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Nikki Stone Class of 1995
Nikki Stone is known for winning the gold medal for aerial skiing in the 1998 Winter Olympics. |
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Joseph Christopher Yates Union College Board of Trustees, 1795 - 1837
Joseph Christopher Yates was a lawyer, statesman, politician and founding trustee of Union College. As Mayor of Schenectady Yates helped to pass the the construction of the Erie Canal, and as New York State's fourth Governor he aided in pushing electoral votes for Presidential elections. |
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