List of Lafayette College people

This is a list of notable people affiliated with Lafayette College.

Notable alumni and trustees

William C. Cattell, president of Lafayette College from 1863–83
Ralph Cooper Hutchison, president of Lafayette College from 1945 to 1958
William E. Simon, class of 1952, served as the United States Secretary of the Treasury from 1974–77.
Fred Morgan Kirby, trustee from 1916–40, provided funds to establish a Professorship of Civil Rights.

Academics and education

Business

Engineering

Entertainment

Government

Arts and Humanities

Literature and poetry

Medicine

  • Philip S. Hench, class of 1916, winner of Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1950
  • Haldan K. Hartline, class of 1923, winner of Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1967
  • Orvan Hess, class of 1927, physician noted for his early use of penicillin and development of the fetal heart monitor
  • C. Harmon Brown, class of 1952, pioneer in women's sports medicine; Olympic track and field coach

Military

Religion and theology

Sciences

Sports

Notable faculty

  • Jacob E. Cooke, Henry McCracken Professor of History, 1962-90, and editor of The Federalist[31]
  • Guy Consolmagno, assistant professor, physics and astronomy
  • Tom Davis, college men's basketball coach, 1971–77
  • Clement Eaton, chair of history department, 1931–42
  • Terry Jonathan Hart, visiting lecturer of engineering
  • George Junkin, first president of Lafayette College
  • Chawne Kimber, mathematician and quilter
  • John Kincaid, Robert B. & Helen S. Meyner Professor of Government and Public Service and Director of the Meyner Center for the Study of State and Local Government, 1994-present[32]
  • Butch van Breda Kolff, college men's basketball coach, 1952–56
  • Francis March, first professor of English Literature at any American college or university
  • Herb McCracken, head football coach
  • Edward Mylin, head football coach
  • Bruce Allen Murphy, Supreme Court Scholar
  • Theodore Roethke, poet, served on faculty prior to his publication and fame
  • Steve Spagnuolo, football coach, defensive line/special teams 1984–86
  • Jock Sutherland, head football coach 1919–23
  • Lee Upton, poet, writer in residence, professor of English
  • Hal Wissel, college men's basketball coach, 1967–71
  • Tim Lenahan, Men's Soccer Coach, 1998–2001
  • Gary Williams, Men's Head Soccer Coach and Assistant Basketball Coach, 1972–77

Presidents of Lafayette College

William Sebring Kirkpatrick served as acting president from 1902 to 1903 during the tenure of Warfield, who remained as president. Warfield had suffered a nervous breakdown before commencement in 1902, and was granted one years absence to recuperate.[33]

References

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  29. Teitel, John. "Jon Teitiel's "Forgotten Legends": Lafayette's Tracy Tripucka". Collegehoops.net. Archived from the original on June 5, 2012. Retrieved June 8, 2012.
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  31. Jacob E. Cooke
  32. John Kincaid
  33. Skillman, David Bishop (1932). The Biography of a College: Being the History of the First Century of the Life of Lafayette College. Easton, Pennsylvania: Lafayette College.
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