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Alumni Publications
  • CentrePiece
  • TheFlameRun
Major Alumni Events Homecoming
Alumni Services
  • Career Services
  • CentreNet, providing permanent e-mail, an online directory, class notes, and message boards
  • Hosts special events for alumni
  • Information on alumni travel
  • Online store
Famous Alumni
  • Joshua Fry Bell (Class of 1828) – first Centre alumnus to serve in Congress
  • John Cabell Breckinridge (Class of 1838) – vice president of the United States under Buchanan (1856-60)
  • John Sherman Cooper (Class of 1922) – senator for 16 years and the first U.S. ambassador appointed to East Germany
  • John Marshall Harlan (Class of 1850) – associate justice of the Supreme Court 1877–1911, cast the dissenting vote in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896); his dissent became the basis for Brown v. Board of Education (1954), leading to the Civil Rights Movement
  • Alfred Nugent Bo McMillin (Class of 1922) – scored the winning touchdown in the famous C6H0 game; later served as head coach at Indiana University, then the Detroit Lions and the Philadelphia Eagles
  • T. Hunton Rogers (Class of 1914) – developed octane rating system for fuel
  • Adlai Stevenson (Class of 1860) – vice president of the United States under Cleveland (1893-97), also served in Congress
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Alumni House
600 W. Walnut St., Danville
Phone: (859) 238-5500
www.centrelinkonline.com/s/285/start.aspx

Did You Know? Centre can boast an overall total of 43 elected alumni to House and 13 to the Senate.

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