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Famous Amherst Alumni
Henry Ward Beecher (Class of 1834) – Preacher
Melvil Dewey (Class of 1874) – Inventor of the Dewey Decimal System
Harlan Fiske Stone (Class of 1894) – Chief Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1941-46
Calvin Coolidge (Class of 1895) – President of the United States, 1923-29
Charles E. Merrill (Class of 1908) – Co-founder of Merrill Lynch
Clarence Birdseye (Class of 1910) – Inventor of frozen foods
Charles R. Drew (Class of 1926) – Established first Red Cross blood bank
Richard Wilbur (Class of 1942) – Former U.S. Poet Laureate
Henry Kendall (Class of 1950) – Nobel laureate
Harold Varmus (Class of 1961) – Nobel laureate; former director of National Institutes of Health
Joseph Stiglitz (Class of 1964) – Nobel laureate; former chief economist of World Bank
Scott Turow (Class of 1970) – Novelist (Burden of Proof, Presumed Innocent)
Francisco Flores (Class of 1981) – Former president of El Salvador
Sung Joo Kim (Class of 1981) – Managing director, Sung Joo International, Ltd.
Susannah Grant (Class of 1984) – Screenwriter (Erin Brockovich, Pocohontas)
David Foster Wallace (Class of 1985) – Author (Infinite Jest, A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again)
Jeffrey Wright (Class of 1987) – Actor (Basquiat, Angels in America, Bring in Da Noise)

Most Recent Contributing Author

Name: Lem Atanga McCormick
Hometown: Chicago, IL
Major: Pre-Med (Biology and French)

Lem has been to 17 different countries.

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