11 Notable alumni of
Alma College
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Alma College is 2870th in the world, 997th in North America, and 944th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 11 notable alumni from Alma College sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Tom Crean
- Occupations
- basketball coach
- Biography
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Thomas Aaron Crean is a college basketball coach. Most recently, he was the head coach for the University of Georgia men's basketball team. Crean was previously the head coach of Indiana University. Prior to that, he served as head coach at Marquette University (1999–2008), where his team reached the 2003 NCAA Final Four.
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Gary Peters
- Enrolled in Alma College
- In 1980 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- university teacherprofessorvice presidentinstructorpolitician
- Biography
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Gary Charles Peters Sr. is an American lawyer, politician, and former military officer serving as the junior United States senator from Michigan since 2015. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the U.S. representative for Michigan's 14th congressional district, which included the eastern half of Detroit, the Grosse Pointes, Hamtramck, Southfield, and Pontiac, from 2009 to 2015 (the district was Michigan's 9th congressional district until 2013).
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George Allen
- Occupations
- American football coach
- Biography
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George Herbert Allen was an American football coach. He served as the head coach for two teams in the National Football League (NFL), the Los Angeles Rams from 1966 to 1970 and the Washington Redskins from 1971 to 1977. Allen led his teams to winning records in all 12 of his seasons as an NFL head coach, compiling an overall regular-season record of 116–47–5. Seven of his teams qualified for the NFL playoffs, including the 1972 Washington Redskins, who reached Super Bowl VII, losing to Don Shula's Miami Dolphins. Allen made a brief return as head coach of the Rams in 1978, but was fired before the regular season commenced.
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Frank Knox
- Occupations
- politicianjournalist
- Biography
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William Franklin Knox was an American politician, soldier, newspaper editor, and publisher. He was the Republican vice presidential candidate in 1936 and Secretary of the Navy under Franklin D. Roosevelt during most of World War II. On December 7, 1941, Knox, flanked by his assistant John O’Keefe, walked into Roosevelt's White House study around 1:30 pm EST, and announced that Japan had attacked Pearl Harbor.
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Bob Devaney
- Occupations
- player of American football
- Biography
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Robert Simon Devaney was a college football coach. He served as the head coach at the University of Wyoming from 1957 to 1961 and at the University of Nebraska from 1962 to 1972, compiling a career record of 136–30–7 (.806). Devaney's Nebraska Cornhuskers won consecutive national championships in 1970 and 1971 and three consecutive Orange Bowls.
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Jim Northrup
- Occupations
- athletics competitorbaseball player
- Biography
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James Thomas Northrup, nicknamed "the Silver Fox" due to his prematurely graying hair, was an American Major League Baseball outfielder and left-handed batter who played for the Detroit Tigers (1964–74), Montreal Expos (1974) and Baltimore Orioles (1974–75).
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M. Thomas Shaw
- Occupations
- priest
- Biography
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Marvil Thomas Shaw III was an Episcopal bishop based in New England and a member of the Society of St. John the Evangelist. In 1995, he was called as the fifteenth Bishop of Massachusetts.
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Mark Jacobs
- Biography
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Mark Jacobs is a former foreign service officer. He has published more than 90 stories in a range of magazines, including The Atlantic, The Iowa Review, The Kenyon Review, The Southern Review, The Idaho Review, and Southern Humanities Review. His story "How Birds Communicate" won the Iowa Review Fiction Prize in 1998. His five books include three novels and two collections of short stories. Pulitzer Prize winner in fiction Robert Olen Butler wrote that "Mark Jacobs is one of the most exciting new writers I've read in years... a writer who I think will become our own Graham Greene." While much of his earlier work was set in the countries in which he lived and traveled, more recent material has included novels and short stories that are set in the United States.
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Harry Helmer
- Occupations
- athletics competitorbasketball coachbaseball player
- Biography
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Harry William Helmer was an American football player and coach of football, basketball, and baseball coach. He served as the head football coach at Central Michigan Normal School, now Central Michigan University, from 1909 to 1912 and at Alma College in 1916 and 1917, compiling a career college football record of 20–10–2. Helmer was also the head basketball coach at Central Michigan from 1910 to 1916 and at Alma from 1916 to 1918, amassing a career college basketball mark of 50–40. In addition, he was the head baseball coach at Central Michigan from 1910 to 1916, tallying a mark of 33–26–2.
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Paul H. Bruske
- Occupations
- baseball playersportswriter
- Biography
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Paul Hale Bruske was an American writer, journalist, advertising executive, and sportsman.
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Pearl Fuller
- Occupations
- head coach
- Biography
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Pearl Fuller was an American football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at Alma College in Alma, Michigan, for one season, in 1903, compiling a record of 3–5.
