Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson

female, deceased (1886)
MountHolyokeCollegealumni, American women writer, lesbian, Emily Elizabeth Dickinson, from Amherst, Massachusetts, Mount Holyoke College alumnae
Emily Dickinson was an American poet. Though virtually unknown in her lifetime, Dickinson has come to be regarded, along with Walt Whitman, as one...
Frances Perkins

Frances Perkins

female, deceased (1965)
Frances Coralie Perkins, MountHolyokeCollegealumni, New Deal Coalition, Labor unions in the United States, labor movement, from Worcester, Massachusetts…Mount Holyoke College alumnae, Columbia University alumni, mount holyoke college
Frances Coralie Perkins (born Fanny Coralie Perkins, lived April 10 1882 - May 14 1965) was the U.S. Secretary of Labor from 1933 to 1947, and the...
Elaine Chao

Elaine Chao

female, 56 years old
MountHolyokeCollegealumni, Harvard Business School alumni, Elaine Lan Chao, United States Cabinet, Mount Holyoke College alumnae, from Nassau County, New York…Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
Elaine Lan Chao (born March 26, 1953) currently serves as the 24th United States Secretary of Labor in the Cabinet of President of the United...
Margaret Morse Nice

Margaret Morse Nice

female, deceased (1974)
MountHolyokeCollegealumni, Mount Holyoke College alumna, women biologist, Clark University alumni, Biologist, zoologist…Mount Holyoke College alumnae, mount holyoke college
Margaret Morse Nice (December 6, 1883 - June 26, 1974) was an American ornithologist who made an extensive study of the life history of the sparrow...
Lucy Stone

Lucy Stone

female, deceased (1893)
MountHolyokeCollegealumni, marriage, Henry B. Blackwell, Henry Brown Blackwell, Mount Holyoke College alumnae, from Worcester County, Massachusetts…Oberlin College alumni, oberlin college
Lucy Stone (August 13, 1818 - October 18, 1893, died at age 75) was a prominent American suffragist. She was the wife of abolitionist Henry Brown...
Barbara Cassani

Barbara Cassani

female, 49 years old
MountHolyokeCollegealumni, easyJet, Order of the British Empire, Mount Holyoke College alumnae, Latin honors, American expatriate in the United Kingdom…mount holyoke college
Barbara Ann Cassani, CBE, (born July 22 1960) is an American businesswoman. She was the founder under British Airways of budget airline Go Fly and...
Martha Whitmore Hickman

Martha Whitmore Hickman

female, 84 years old
MountHolyokeCollegealumni, American self-help writer, Mount Holyoke College alumnae, Self-Help, phi beta kappa, author…mount holyoke college
Martha Whitmore Hickman (1925-) is an American author. Hickman grew up in Massachusetts. She received her B.A. in English literature, "phi beta...
Wendy Wasserstein

Wendy Wasserstein

female, deceased (2006)
MountHolyokeCollegealumni, American women writer, the new yorker, Cornell University, Lymphoma death, Pulitzer Prize for Drama winner…Mount Holyoke College alumnae, Yale University alumni
Wendy Wasserstein was an award-winning American playwright and an Andrew Dickson White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University. She was the...
Dorothy Hansine Andersen

Dorothy Hansine Andersen

female, deceased (1963)
Johns Hopkins University alumni, MountHolyokeCollegealumni, Johns Hopkins University, scientist, surgeon, physician…mount holyoke college, Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeon, Mount Holyoke College alumnae, College of Physicians
Dorothy Hansine Andersen (May 15, 1901 - 1963) was the American who was "the first person to identify cystic fibrosis and the first American...