41 Notable alumni of
Alfred University
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Alfred University is 1737th in the world, 615th in North America, and 580th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 41 notable alumni from Alfred University sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Robert Klein
- Occupations
- stage actorfilm actorfilm producerscreenwritersinger
- Biography
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Robert Klein is an American stand-up comedian, singer, and actor. He is known for his appearances on stage and screen. He has released four standup comedy specials: A Child of the 50s (1973), Mind Over Matter (1974), New Teeth (1975), and Let's Not Make Love (1990). The first two albums received Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album nominations. Klein hosted Saturday Night Live in its first season in 1975 and again in 1978. Klein made his Broadway debut in the 1966 production of The Apple Tree opposite Alan Alda. He earned a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical nomination for his performance in Neil Simon's musical comedy They're Playing Our Song (1979).He also starred on his own show that aired on the cable network USA called Robert Klein Time in the mid 80s(1986-88).
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Tom Reed
- Enrolled in Alfred University
- In 1993 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- lawyerbusiness executivescreenwriterpolitician
- Biography
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Thomas Willard Reed II is an American lobbyist, attorney, and politician from the state of New York. Reed served as the U.S. representative for New York's 23rd congressional district; the district is in New York's Southern Tier. A Republican, Reed first joined the U.S. House after winning a special election to replace Eric Massa in 2010. He previously served one term as mayor of Corning, New York.
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Bob Benmosche
- Occupations
- entrepreneur
- Biography
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Robert Herman Benmosche was the president and chief executive officer of American International Group (NYSE: AIG). He was appointed President & Chief Executive Officer by the US Department of Treasury and AIG Board of Directors to succeed Edward M. Liddy. Benmosche is known for his leadership at AIG, where he led a turnaround, improved profits 60% year over year, and paid down government aid pledged by the Bush and Obama Administrations.
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Ella Eaton Kellogg
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- suffragistwriterdietitian
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Ella Eaton Kellogg was an American dietitian known for her work on home economics and vegetarian cooking. She was educated at Alfred University (B.A. 1872, A.M. 1875); and the American School Household Economics (1909). In 1875, Kellogg visited the Battle Creek Sanitarium, became interested in the subjects of sanitation and hygiene, and a year later enrolled in the Sanitarium School of Hygiene. Later on, she joined the editorial staff of Good Health magazine, and in 1879, married Dr. John Harvey Kellogg, superintendent of the Battle Creek Sanitarium.
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Charles Loloma
- Occupations
- painterjewelervisual artistceramicistjewelry designer
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Charles Sequevya Loloma was a Hopi Native American artist known for his jewelry. He also worked in pottery, painting and ceramics.
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Steve Skeates
- Occupations
- comics writer
- Biography
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Stephen Skeates was an American comic book creator known for his work on such titles as Aquaman, Hawk and Dove, T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents, and Plop! He also wrote under the pseudonyms Chester P. Hazel and Warren Savin.
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Cathy Bissoon
- Occupations
- judgelawyer
- Biography
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Cathy Bissoon is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania. Previously, she was a United States magistrate judge of the same court. She was appointed to as a district judge by President Barack Obama and was confirmed by the United States Senate in October 2011.
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Mike Pellicciotti
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- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Michael John Pellicciotti is an American attorney and politician who has served as the 24th Washington State Treasurer since 2021. He previously served as a Democratic member of the Washington House of Representatives for the 30th legislative district, which includes Federal Way, Algona, Auburn, Pacific, Milton, and Des Moines from 2017 to 2021.
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Clarence W. Spicer
- Occupations
- engineer
- Biography
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Clarence Winfred Spicer was an American automotive engineer and inventor, best known for the first practical design and use of the universal joint in automotive applications.
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Daniel Rhodes
- Occupations
- painterceramicist
- Biography
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Daniel Rhodes was an American artist, known as a ceramic artist, muralist, sculptor, author and educator. During his 25 years (1947–1973) on the faculty at the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, in Alfred, New York (a division of the State University of New York), he built an international reputation as a potter, sculptor and authority on studio pottery.
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Siona Shimshi
- Occupations
- paintertextile designerceramicistsculptordesigner
- Biography
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Siona Shimshi was an Israeli painter, sculptress, ceramist, and textile designer.
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Don Reitz
- Occupations
- artistceramicist
- Biography
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Donald Lester Reitz was an American ceramic artist, recognized for inspiring a reemergence of salt glaze pottery in United States. He was a teacher of ceramic art at the University of Wisconsin–Madison from 1962 until 1988. During this period, he adapted the pottery firing technique developed in the Middle Ages, which involved pouring salt into the pottery kiln during the firing stage. The method was taught in European ceramic art schools, but largely unknown in United States studio pottery.
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Maija Grotell
- Occupations
- ceramicist
- Biography
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Maija Grotell (August 19, 1899 — December 6, 1973) was an influential Finnish-American ceramic artist and educator. She is often described as the "Mother of American Ceramics."
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Alfred Allen
- Occupations
- actor
- Biography
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Alfred Allen was an American silent film actor and author.
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Keith R. Hall
- Enrolled in Alfred University
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts in political science and history
- Occupations
- military officercivil servant
- Biography
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Keith Ralph Hall is a United States government official who served as the 12th director of the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO).
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Amy Karle
- Occupations
- contemporary artistbioartistartist
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Amy Karle is an American artist, bioartist, and futurist whose work focuses on the relationship between technology and humanity, specifically how technology and biotechnology impact health, humanity, society, evolution, and the future. Karle combines science and technology with art and is known for using living tissue in her work.
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Ayumi Horie
- Years
- 1969-.. (age 55)
- Occupations
- ceramicist
- Biography
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Ayumi Horie is a Portland, Maine-based studio potter. She is recognized for her unique aesthetic as well as for her pioneering use of digital marketing and social media within contemporary ceramics. She is curator of the popular Instagram feed Pots in Action and is a 2015 United States Artist Distinguished Fellow in Craft.
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Sean Healy
- Occupations
- multimedia artist
- Biography
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Sean P. Healy is a multimedia artist based in Portland, Oregon.
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Patrick Baynes
- Occupations
- entrepreneur
- Biography
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Patrick Baynes is an American entrepreneur. He worked at LinkedIn and is known for being the co-founder of PeopleLinx, and the founder of UpdatesCentral.
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Rebekah Modrak
- Occupations
- writer
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Rebekah Modrak is an American artist, author, and educator, born in 1971, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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Nancy Nadel
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Nancy Nadel is a U.S. politician, businesswoman, and former four-term member of the Oakland City Council. After two terms on the Board of the East Bay Municipal Utility District, Nadel was elected to the District Three Downtown-West Oakland City Council seat in 1996. In 2006, Nadel ran unsuccessfully for Mayor. In 2008, Nadel was re-elected to her fourth consecutive term on Oakland's City Council in a contentious race with two other candidates. She retired from the Oakland City Council in 2012; her seat is currently held by Lynette Gibson McElhaney. Nadel is the founder of a chocolate business.
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J. Hale Sypher
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- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Jacob Hale Sypher was an attorney and politician, elected as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives representing Louisiana. He served four terms as a Republican, after having served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
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George P. Darrow
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- politician
- Biography
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George Potter Darrow was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
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Mary Jo Bole
- Occupations
- artistceramicist
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Mary Jo Bole, US, is a sculptor, printmaker, and artist-bookmaker who lives and works in Columbus. Bole has exhibited her works in the United States and Europe. She was a professor of art at Ohio State University.
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William Wallace Brown
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- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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William Wallace Brown was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
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Kait Rhoads
- Years
- 1968-.. (age 56)
- Enrolled in Alfred University
- In 2001 graduated with Master of Fine Arts in art of sculpture
- Occupations
- glass artist
- Biography
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Kait Rhoads is an American glass artist. She uses traditional Italian techniques as a base to create public art, sculpture, vessels and jewelry. The aquatic realm is the root of much of her work, the result of spending six years on a boat in the Caribbean in her youth. Since moving to the Northwest over two decades ago, her fascination extended from coral colonies to kelp forests. Aquatic life infuses her sculptures with animated forms, sparkling surfaces and faceted exoskeletons. Rhoads volunteers at the Seattle Aquarium, gaining inspiration and information on ocean ecology first hand on a weekly basis.
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Les Goble
- Occupations
- player of American football
- Biography
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Lester Bois Goble was a former American football halfback who played two seasons with the Chicago Cardinals of the National Football League (NFL). He was drafted by the Chicago Cardinals in the thirteenth round of the 1954 NFL Draft. He played college football at Alfred University and attended Waverly High School in Waverly, New York.
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Rufus Mallory
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- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Rufus Mallory was an American educator, lawyer, and politician in the state of Oregon. A native of New York, he was a teacher in Iowa before moving to Oregon where he became an attorney. He was a district attorney before he served in the Oregon House of Representatives in the early 1860s. A Republican, he served as U.S. Representative from Oregon for a single term from 1867 to 1869 and then returned to the state house where he was Speaker of the Oregon House. Later he worked for the U.S. Treasury Department, while the Hotel Mallory in Portland was commissioned by him. Portland has additionally honored his memory via Mallory Avenue in the Albina District.
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Sanjit Sethi
- Biography
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Sanjit Sethi is the president of the Minneapolis College of Art and Design.
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Lowell Fitz Randolph
- Occupations
- botanist
- Biography
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Lowell Fitz Randolph was an American scientist, in the field of genetics, botany and horticulture. He was a Cornell University graduate who became Professor of Botany and was also employed as an associate cytologist for the United States Department of Agriculture. He was also an avid iris collector and wrote a book on the Iris genus. He carried out research into plant chromosomes of iris, orchid genus and corn plants (such as maize). He was sometimes known as "Fitz" by his friends and associates.
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Charles Butts
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- botanistpaleontologist
- Biography
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Charles Butts was an American paleontologist.
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Judy Moonelis
- Occupations
- ceramicist
- Biography
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Judy Moonelis is an American ceramist.
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Albert Cole Hopkins
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- politician
- Biography
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Albert Cole Hopkins was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
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Jason Mangone
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- player of American footballAmerican football coach
- Biography
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Jason Mangone is an American football coach. He is the head football coach at SUNY Brockport, a position he has held since 2013. Mangone played college football as a quarterback, first at Alfred University in Alfred, New York, before transferring to Brockport. He became an assistant coach at Brockport in 1999 and was promoted to offensive coordinator in 2004.
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Mary Bassett Clarke
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- writerpoet
- Biography
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Mary Bassett Clarke was an American writer of the long nineteenth century. She was a contributor to The Flag of Our Union, Rural New Yorker, as well as periodicals issued by the Seventh Day Baptists. Autumn Leaves was published in 1894.
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Mortimer Fitzland Elliott
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- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Mortimer Fitzland Elliott was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
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Greenleaf S. Van Gorder
- Years
- 1855-1933 (aged 78)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Greenleaf Scott Van Gorder was an American lawyer and politician from New York.
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Franklin D. Sherwood
- Years
- 1841-1907 (aged 66)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Franklin D. Sherwood was an American politician from New York.
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Flora A. Brewster
- Occupations
- physiciansurgeon
- Biography
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Flora Alzora Brewster was an American physician, surgeon, journalist, medical editor, and inventor. She is remembered as Baltimore, Maryland's first woman surgeon.
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Herbert E. Horowitz
- Biography
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Herbert Eugene Horowitz, a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, Class of Minister-Counselor, was the American Ambassador to The Gambia (1986–1989), consul general in Sydney, Australia, 1981-1984, and was deputy chief of mission at the Embassy in Beijing, China, from 1984 to 1986.
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Horace Billings Packer
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- politicianlawyer
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Horace Billings Packer was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
