- Alex Katz
Alex Katz (born July 24 1927) is an American figural artist associated with the Pop art movement. In particular, he is known for his paintings, sculptures, and prints. Katz was born in Brooklyn, New York. In 1928 the family moved to St.Albans, Queens. From 1946 to 1949 he studied at The Cooper Union in New York, and from 1949 to 1950 he studied at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Skowhegan, Maine. - Jennifer Finney Boylan
Hello All, I am a Chicago based model orignally from the Detroit Metro area. There's lots I love to do. I'm athletic and I love to travel. I'm outgoing yet I enjoy my quiet time. I am a true Gemini. I am always looking for perspecti - Richard Russo
Richard Russo (born July 15 1949) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist. Born in Johnstown, New York, and raised in nearby Gloversville, he earned a B.A. (1967), a M.F.A. (1980), and a Ph.D. (1979) from the University of Arizona. His novel "Empire Falls", published in 2001, won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. He has written four other novels: "Mohawk", "The Risk Pool", "Nobody's Fool", and "Straight Man", … - Margaret Chase Smith
Margaret Chase Smith was a Republican Senator from Maine, and one of the most successful politicians in Maine history. She was the first woman to be elected to both the U.S. House and the Senate, and the first woman from Maine to serve in either. She was also the first woman to have her name placed in nomination for the U.S. Presidency at a major party's convention (1964 Republican Convention, won by Barry Goldwater). - Stuart Rothenberg
Stuart Rothenberg is the editor and publisher of The Rothenberg Political Report, a Washington-based, biweekly, non-partisan newsletter that reports on and analyzes the United States Presidential, House, Senatorial, and Gubernatorial elections and current political developments. Rothenberg holds a B.A. from Colby College in Waterville, Maine, and a Ph.D. from the University of Connecticut. He has taught political science at Bucknell University Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, … - Alan Taylor
Alan Taylor (born 1955) is an historian specializing in early American history. He is the author of a number of books about Colonial America, the American Revolution, and the Early American Republic. Taylor was born in Portland, Maine. He graduated from Colby College, in Waterville, Maine, in 1977. He earned his Ph.D. from Brandeis University in 1986. Currently he is a professor of history at the University of California, … - Dan Harris
Dan Harris is a correspondent for ABC News. He has been anchoring "World News Sunday" since November 2006 and frequently anchors "World News", "World News with Charles Gibson's" webcast. He is also a frequent contributor to "World News". He also anchored ABC's coverage of Hurricane Katrina in September of 2005. He is a graduate of Colby College in Waterville, Maine. - Barry Mills
Barry Mills is the president of Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine. Barry Mills was born in Warwick, Rhode Island and is a 1972 Bowdoin College graduate. He holds a Ph.D. in biology from Syracuse University (1976) and a J.D. from Columbia Law School (1979). Prior to assuming the Bowdoin College presidency, Mills was a partner at the Manhattan law firm Debevoise & Plimpton. He follows Samuel Harris (1867-71), Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain (1871-83), … - Fred Wertheimer
Fredric Michael "Fred" Wertheimer (born 1939) is an American activist notable for his work on campaign finance reform. He served as president of Common Cause and is currently the President and CEO of Democracy 21 and Democracy 21 Education Fund, which he founded in 1997. In 1990 he received an honorary Doctorate from Colby College. - Andrew Rice
Andrew Rice represents Oklahoma State Senate district 46. The district is located in Oklahoma County.He attended Casady School. He graduated from Colby College in 1996; and Harvard University Divinity School in 1999. - Elizabeth Gorham Hoag
Elizabeth Gorham Hoag (1857-June 8, 1875) was one of the five founding members of Sigma Kappa sorority. Along with Mary Caffrey Low, Ida Fuller, Frances Mann and Louise Helen Coburn, Hoag helped to form Sigma Kappa at Colby College in Waterville, Maine on November 9, 1874. The five women were the only female students at Colby at that time. Colby was the first New England college to allow the admittance of women. - Ida Fuller
Ida Fuller (? - September 26, 1933) is one of the five founding members of Sigma Kappa sorority. Fuller served as one of the co-founders of the Sigma Kappa sorority, along with Mary Caffrey Low Carver, Elizabeth Gorham Hoag, Frances Elliott Mann Hall and Louise Helen Coburn. The group founded the sorority at Colby College in Waterville, Maine on November 9, 1874. They were the only female students at Colby at that time. - Mike Daisey
Mike Daisey (b. 1973) is an American monologist, author, and actor best known for his full-length extemporaneous monologues. His breakthrough work "21 Dog Years" is an account of life as an Amazon.com employee during the Dot-com boom. Since that time he has created monologues about Nikola Tesla, L. Ron Hubbard, the history of the New York transit system, 9/11, Wal-Mart and a variety of other topics, … - Robert Diamond
Robert Edward "Bob" Diamond, Jr. (born Springfield, Massachusetts, July 27, 1951) is an American banker who is currently a main board director of Barclays PLC, the third largest British-based banking group, with the titles of President, Barclays PLC; and CEO, investment banking and investment management. One of seven children, Diamond was raised in Concord, Massachusetts, and was selected as an All-State Linebacker. - Cynthia Tucker
Cynthia Tucker is an American syndicated columnist, and the editor of the opinion section of "The Atlanta Journal-Constitution". She was recognized with a Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 2007 "for her courageous, clear-headed columns that evince a strong sense of morality and persuasive knowledge of the community"; she was a Pulitzer-nominated finalist in 2004 and 2006. - Wylie Dufresne
Wylie Dufresne is the chef and owner of wd~50 restaurant in Manhattan. Dufresne is a disciple of Spanish chef Ferran Adria and a leading American proponent of molecular gastronomy, the movement to introduce new techniques and sciences in the preparation and delivery of food. Born in 1970 in Providence, Rhode Island, USA, Dufresne is a graduate of the French Culinary Institute in New York. In 1992, Wylie completed a B.A. in philosophy at Colby College in Waterville, Maine. - Bill Kovach
Bill Kovach has been a journalist and writer for 50 years. In that time he was chief of the New York Times Washington Bureau, served as editor of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and curator of the Nieman Fellowships at Harvard University and the founding chairman of the Committee of Concerned Journalists , a group that now totals more than 9,000 journalists worldwide. - Elijah P. Lovejoy
Elijah Parish Lovejoy (November 9 1802 - November 7 1837), the son of Daniel Lovejoy, a Congregational minister, was an American minister and journalist who was murdered for his abolitionist views. His brother was reverend and congressman Owen Lovejoy. Born in Albion, Maine, Elijah joined the Army at the age of 19 because he was lacking money. He served under the French-American General Girin. Girin developed close ties to Lovejoy, and introduced him to Abraham Lincoln, … - William Raspberry
William Raspberry (b. Okolona, Mississippi, United States, October 12 1935) is an American columnist. He is a Pulitzer Prize-winning syndicated urban affairs columnist at "The Washington Post", as well as the Knight Professor of the Practice of Communications and Journalism at the Sanford Institute of Public Policy at Duke University. In 1999, Raspberry received the Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award as well as an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Colby College. - Jack Coombs
John Wesley "Jack" Coombs, nicknamed Colby Jack after his alma mater, was a pitcher in Major League Baseball who played with the Philadelphia Athletics (1906-1914), Brooklyn Robins (1915-1918), and Detroit Tigers (1920). Coombs set a number of records in the American League and World League which stand to this day. Born in LeGrand, Iowa, Coombs was a 1906 graduate of Colby College in Waterville, Maine, where he was a chemistry major and a member of Delta Upsilon. - Morton A. Brody
Morton Aaron Brody (June 12 1933-2000) was an American judge. He served in the United States District Court for the District of Maine from 1991 to 2000. Brody was born in Lewiston, Maine. He graduated from Bates College in 1955 and University of Chicago Law School in 1958. Brody was engaged in private practice in Washington, DC from 1958 to 1961 and in Waterville, Maine from 1961 to 1980. Brody was then appointed as a justice on the Superior Court, Maine, … - Mary McGrory
Mary McGrory (August 22, 1918 - April 20, 2004) was an American journalist and columnist. She was a fierce opponent of the Vietnam War and was on Richard Nixon's enemies list for writing "daily hate Nixon articles." Born in Boston, Massachusetts to Edward and Mary McGrory, she shared her father's love of Latin and writing, and she graduated from the Girls' Latin School and began her career as a book reviewer at "The Boston Herald". - Albion Woodbury Small
Albion Woodbury Small founded the first Department of Sociology in the USA at the University of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois in 1892. He was influential on the establishment of sociology as a valid field of academic study. Small was born in Buckfield, Maine. He studied theology from 1876 to 1879 at the Andover Newton Theological School. From 1879 to 1881 he studied at the University of Leipzig and the University of Berlin in Germany history, social economics and politics. - Tara Allain
Tara Allain (born October 2, 1985) is Miss Maine for 2007. She is a student at Colby College. - John S. Knight
John Shively Knight was an American newspaper publisher and editor. He was born in Bluefield, West Virginia to Charles Landon Knight and Clara Scheifley. He attended Cornell University but never graduated, leaving early to enlist in the Army. While at Cornell he was a member of the Phi Sigma Kappa fraternity. In 1920 he started at his father's newspaper, "The Beacon-Journal", as sportswriter, and moved up to managing editor before inheriting the paper in 1933. - Jack Levine
Jack Levine (b. Boston, Massachusetts, January 3 1915) is an American expressionist painter best known for his satires of modern life in the United States. He was a part of the Social Realism school in the 1930s and was for a time employed by the Works Progress Administration. Along with the Boston painters Hyman Bloom and Karl Zerbe, he became associated with the style known as Boston Expressionism. - Clifford Geertz
Clifford James Geertz was an American anthropologist and served until his death as professor emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey. - Sean McCormack
Sean McCormack is a U.S. Assistant Secretary of State. He was sworn in as Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs and Department Spokesman on June 2 2005. Immediately prior to returning to the State Department, McCormack was Special Assistant to the President, Spokesman for the National Security Council, and Deputy White House Press Secretary for Foreign Policy. McCormack began his career in the Foreign Service in 1995. - Otis Chandler
Otis Chandler (November 23 1927-February 27 2006) was best known as the publisher of the "Los Angeles Times" between 1960 and 1980. His family had owned the newspaper since Harrison Gray Otis founded the company in 1882. He was the son of Norman Chandler, his predecessor as publisher, and Dorothy Buffum Chandler, a patron of the arts and a Regent of the University of California. After attending his parents' alma mater, Stanford University, … - James Russell Wiggins
James Russell Wiggins (December 4, 1903 in Luverne, Minnesota - November 19, 2000 in Brooklin, Maine) was the managing editor of "The Washington Post" from 1947 to 1966. In 1954 Wiggins Received the Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award as well as an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Colby College. He was president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors in 1959-60. - Jeffrey D. Anderson
Jeffrey Anderson (also known as Jeffrey Leif Anderson) is an American anthropologist who specializes in Arapaho language and culture. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, where he studied under Raymond D. Fogelson. He has also studied the intersection of psychology, … - Ralph McGill
Ralph Emerson McGill, American journalist, was best known as the anti-segregationist editor and publisher of the "Atlanta Constitution" newspaper. He won a Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing in 1959. McGill was born near Soddy-Daisy, Tennessee and attended school at the McCallie School in Chattanooga, Tennessee. - Herblock
Herblock vigorously attacked the political abuses and scandals of the Nixon Administration and won his third Pulitzer Prize in 1979. Nixon canceled his subscription to the "Post" after Herblock drew him crawling out of a sewer. In 1986, Block received the Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award as well as an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Colby College. - Murray Kempton
Murray Kempton (December 16, 1917 - May 5, 1997) was an important American journalist who was a significant presence on the political left for many years. He was born James Murray Kempton in Baltimore. He worked as a copyboy for H. L. Mencken at the "Baltimore Evening Sun". He was educated at Johns Hopkins, where he was editor-in-chief of the "Johns Hopkins News-Letter". - Marston Morse
Marston Morse was an American mathematician best known for his work on the calculus of variations in the large, a subject where he introduced the technique of differential topology now known as Morse theory. In 1933 he was awarded the Bôcher Memorial Prize for his work in mathematical analysis. Harold Calvin Marston Morse was born in Waterville, Maine to Ella Phoebe Marston and Howard Calvin Morse in 1892. - Stephen Coburn
Stephen Coburn (1817 - July 4, 1882) was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from Maine. He was brother to Maine Governor Abner Coburn and the father of Louise Helen Coburn, the founder of Sigma Kappa Sorority and a prominent Maine writer. Coburn was born in Bloomfield, now known as Skowhegan. He graduated from Colby College in Waterville in 1839 and after teaching at a plantation school for two years, … - Dave Epstein
Dave Epstein is a member of the American Meteorological Society and has been an on-air meteorologist for over 20 years. He was awarded the AMS Seal of Approval in 1991. According to the Massachusetts Fruit Growers' Association, in 2006 he received the Ronald J. Prokopy Award for individuals who have provided exceptional support of Massachusetts agriculture. Currently, he is on-air at WCVB-TV, the Boston, Massachusetts local American Broadcasting Company (ABC) affiliate, … - David Barr Kirtley
David Barr Kirtley (b. 1977) is an American short story writer. His website describes his work as "offbeat, whimsical fiction blending fantasy, science fiction, politics, and pop culture." Much of his recent work appears in Realms of Fantasy magazine. He was profiled in the 2008 <i>Novel & Short Story Writer's Market</i>; as part of "Speculative Fiction: The Next Generation." He grew up in Katonah, New York. From 1996-2000, he attended Colby College in Waterville, Maine, … - Frances Elliott Mann Hall
Frances Mann Hall (?- February 6 1935) is one of the five founders of Sigma Kappa sorority. Colby College, in Waterville, Maine, became the first New England college to admit women along with men. Mary Caffrey Low became the first female student at Colby, and for two years remained the only one. Eventually she was joined by four other women, and along with Elizabeth Gorham Hoag, Ida Fuller, Hall and Louise Helen Coburn, … - Lot M. Morrill
Lot Myrick Morrill (May 13, 1813 - January 10, 1883) was an American statesman who served as Governor of Maine, and in the United States Senate and as Secretary of the Treasury. He was born in Belgrade, Maine, to Peaslee and Nancy (Macomber) Morrill, and studied law at Waterville College, now Colby College. His older brother Anson P. Morrill was also a prominent U.S. statesman. A member of the Republican party, he served in the Maine State Senate from 1854 until 1856, …
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