46 Notable alumni of
Goddard College
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Goddard College is 1191st in the world, 423rd in North America, and 396th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 46 notable alumni from Goddard 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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William H. Macy
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- film directorteachertelevision actortheatrical directorfilm actor
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William Hall Macy Jr. is an American actor and filmmaker. He is a two-time Emmy Award and four-time Screen Actors Guild Award winner, and has been nominated for an Academy Award, a Drama Critics' Circle Award, and five Golden Globe Awards.
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David Mamet
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- film directordirectortheatrical directornovelisttelevision producer
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David Alan Mamet is an American playwright, author, and filmmaker. He won a Pulitzer Prize and received Tony nominations for his plays Glengarry Glen Ross (1984) and Speed-the-Plow (1988). He first gained critical acclaim for a trio of 1970s off-Broadway plays: The Duck Variations, Sexual Perversity in Chicago, and American Buffalo. His plays Race and The Penitent, respectively, opened on Broadway in 2009 and previewed off-Broadway in 2017.
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Tommie Smith
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- coachsprinterAmerican football player
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Tommie C. Smith is an American former track and field athlete and wide receiver in the American Football League. At the 1968 Summer Olympics, Smith, aged 24, won the 200-meter sprint finals and gold medal in 19.83 seconds – the first time the 20-second barrier was broken officially. His Black Power salute with John Carlos atop the medal podium caused controversy, as it was seen as politicizing the Olympic Games. It remains a symbolic moment in the history of the Black Power movement.
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Trey Anastasio
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- composerguitaristsingeracademic musician
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Ernest Joseph "Trey" Anastasio III is an American guitarist, composer, and singer-songwriter best known as the lead guitarist of the rock band Phish, which he co-founded in 1983. He is credited by name as composer of 152 Phish original songs, 141 of them as a solo credit, in addition to 41 credits attributed to the band as a whole.
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Miriam Hopkins
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- screenwriterstage actortelevision actoractorfilm actor
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Ellen Miriam Hopkins was an American actress known for her versatility. She signed with Paramount Pictures in 1930.
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Walter Mosley
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- playwrightactorwriterscience fiction writerchildren's writer
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Walter Ellis Mosley is an American novelist, most widely recognized for his crime fiction. He has written a series of best-selling historical mysteries featuring the hardboiled detective Easy Rawlins, a black private investigator living in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. In 2020, Mosley received the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, making him the first Black man to receive the honor.
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Mary Karr
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- essayistuniversity teacherwriterhistorianpoet
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Mary Karr is an American poet, essayist and memoirist from East Texas. She is widely noted for her 1995 bestselling memoir The Liars' Club. Karr is the Jesse Truesdell Peck Professor of English Literature at Syracuse University.
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Jane O'Meara Sanders
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- academic administratorsocial worker
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Mary Jane O'Meara Sanders is an American social worker, college administrator, activist, and political strategist. She was provost and interim president of Goddard College (1996–1997) and president of Burlington College (2004–2011). In 2017, she founded the think tank The Sanders Institute. She has been married to U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders since 1988. She has also served as the first lady of Burlington, Vermont, during her husband's term as mayor.
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Archie Shepp
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- saxophonistcomposerjazz musicianuniversity teacherpianist
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Archie Shepp is an American jazz saxophonist, educator and playwright who since the 1960s has played a central part in the development of avant-garde jazz.
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Jon Fishman
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- drummer
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Jon Fishman is an American drummer and co-founder of the band Phish, which was, in part, named after him. He is credited with co-writing nineteen Phish songs, eight with a solo credit.
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Paul Zaloom
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- television actoractorperformance artistpuppeteer
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Paul Finley Zaloom is an American actor and puppeteer, best known for his role as the character Beakman on the television show Beakman's World.
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Jonathan Katz
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- cabaret performercomedianfilm producerfilm actoractor
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Jonathan Paul Katz is an American actor and comedian best known for his starring role in the animated sitcom Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist as Dr. Katz. He is also known for voicing Erik Robbins in the UPN/Adult Swim series Home Movies. He produces a podcast titled Hey, We're Back and can be heard on Explosion Bus.
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Page McConnell
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- keyboardistorganistpianistmusician
- Biography
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Page Samuel McConnell is an American multi-instrumentalist, most noted for his work as the keyboardist and a songwriter for the band Phish.
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Matthew Quick
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- writernovelist
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Matthew Quick is an American writer of adult and young adult fiction. His 2008 debut novel, The Silver Linings Playbook, became a New York Times bestseller and was adapted as a 2012 movie of the same name starring Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence.
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Peter Hannan
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- screenwritercomposerwritersinger-songwritertelevision producer
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Peter John Hannan is an American producer, animator, singer-songwriter and author.
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Mark Doty
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- poet
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Mark Doty is an American poet and memoirist best known for his work My Alexandria. He was the winner of the National Book Award for Poetry in 2008.
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Ellen Ratner
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- journalistradio personality
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Ellen Ratner is an American news analyst who formerly appeared on the Fox News Channel and appeared on The Strategy Room and The Long and Short of It. She is a retired White House correspondent and former bureau chief for Talk Media News, which she also managed, covering the White House and was heard on more than 400 radio stations across the US. Her brothers are New York City-based developer Bruce Ratner and the late human rights attorney Michael Ratner.
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Tobias Schneebaum
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- anthropologistwriter
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Tobias Schneebaum was an American artist, anthropologist, and AIDS activist. He is best known for his experiences living and traveling among the Harakmbut people of Peru, and the Asmat people of Papua, Indonesia.
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Shaul Magid
- Years
- 1958-.. (age 68)
- Occupations
- rabbi
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Shaul Magid is a rabbi, Visiting Professor of Modern Jewish Studies at Harvard Divinity School, and Distinguished Fellow in Jewish Studies at Dartmouth College. From 2004 to 2018, he was a professor of religious studies and the Jay and Jeannie Schottenstein Chair of Jewish Studies in Modern Judaism at Indiana University as well as a senior research fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute. From 1996 to 2004, he was a professor of Jewish philosophy at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America; he chaired the Department of Jewish Philosophy from 2000 to 2004.
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Mónica Mayer
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- paintercolumnistdraftspersonperformance artistart critic
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Mónica Mayer is a feminist Mexican artist, activist, and art critic whose work includes performance, digital graphics, drawing, photography and art theory. As a conceptual artist, curator, art critic and art theorist she has been engaged in various forums and groups, and has organized workshops and collective movements. From 1988 to 2008, she was a columnist for Mexican newspaper, El Universal. She continues writing for various blogs.
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Ellis Avery
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- writernovelist
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Ellis Avery was an American writer. She was the only author to win two Stonewall Book Awards, one in 2008 for her debut novel The Teahouse Fire and one in 2013 for her second novel The Last Nude. The Teahouse Fire also won a Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Debut Fiction and an Ohioana Library Fiction Award in 2007. She self-published her memoir, The Family Tooth, in 2015. Her final book, Tree of Cats, was independently published posthumously.
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Susie Ibarra
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- percussionistcomposerjazz musician
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Susie Ibarra is an American contemporary composer and percussionist who has worked and recorded with jazz, classical, world, and indigenous musicians. One of SPIN's "100 Greatest Drummers of Alternative Music", she is known for her work as a performer in avant-garde, jazz, world, and new music. She received the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for Music.
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Stephan Ross
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- psychologist
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Stephan Ross, also known as Steve Ross, was a Polish-American holocaust survivor who spearheaded the creation of the New England Holocaust Memorial.
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Mary Johnson
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- writereducatornunnon-fiction writer
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Mary Johnson is a writer and director of A Room of Her Own Foundation. She worked and served with the Missionaries of Charity, the order of nuns founded by Mother Teresa, for twenty years before leaving the order. She is now a writer and a public speaker and a supporter of women's rights in the arts. She received her bachelor's degree in English from Lamar University and her MFA in creative writing from Goddard College.
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Conrad Herwig
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- university teachercomposerjazz musician
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Lee Conrad Herwig III is an American jazz trombonist from New York City.
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Cris Ericson
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Cris Ericson is an American marijuana legalization activist and perennial candidate for public office in Vermont. She has unsuccessfully run for the governorship of Vermont nine times and for a seat in the United States Congress eight times.
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Jeff McCracken
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- stage actorfilm directortelevision actoractortelevision producer
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Jeff McCracken is an American actor, director, producer, and artist.
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Oliver Foot
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- 1946-2008 (aged 62)
- Occupations
- actor
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The Honourable Oliver Isaac Foot was a British actor, philanthropist and charity worker.
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Christopher Dell
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- diplomat
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Christopher William Dell is an American diplomat who served as the U.S. ambassador to Angola, Zimbabwe, and Kosovo.
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David Gallaher
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- comics writer
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David Matthew Gallaher is an American video game writer, comics writer, podcaster and editor, known primarily for his work in comics and video games: Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Breakpoint, Vampire: The Masquerade, Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, High Moon, Box 13, The Only Living Boy and 'The Only Living Girl'. His clients include Marvel Comics, the CBLDF, Harris Publications and McGraw-Hill. He also helped create ad campaigns for the New York City Police Department.
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Larry Feign
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- 1955-.. (age 71)
- Occupations
- comics artistcartoonist
- Biography
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Larry Feign is an American cartoonist and writer based in Hong Kong. Feign is best known for his comic strip The World of Lily Wong.
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Valerie Maynard
- Enrolled in Goddard College
- In 1977 graduated with Master of Fine Arts
- Occupations
- paintercuratorartistprintmakersculptor
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Valerie Jean Maynard was an American sculptor, teacher, printmaker, and designer. Maynard's work frequently addressed themes of social inequality and the civil rights movement.
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Taina Asili
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United States - Occupations
- singer
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Taína Asili is an American musician, singer, songwriter, poet, artist and activist. Born in Binghamton, New York to Puerto Rican parents, she first came to prominence in the late 1990s as the singer for the punk band Anti-Product, and later for her social justice themed music with the band Taina Asili y la Banda Rebelde. Asili’s musical career has spanned genres as diverse as Afro-Caribbean music, flamenco, hardcore punk and opera, and her art is driven by her work on prisoner justice, climate justice and food justice.
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George Legrady
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- new media artistphotographerartist
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George Legrady is a multidisciplinary digital media artist and university professor in photography and computational media arts.
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Mayme Agnew Clayton
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- librarian
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Mayme Agnew Clayton was a librarian, and the founder, president, and leader of the Western States Black Research and Education Center (WSBREC), the largest privately held collection of African-American historical materials in the world. The collection represents the core holdings of the Mayme A. Clayton Library and Museum (MCLM), formerly located in Culver City, California. This collection was curated and managed by her son, Avery Clayton. The museum is the largest and most academically substantial independently held collection of objects, documents, and memorabilia on African American history and culture. On July 31, 2019, the Mayme A. Clayton Library and Museum closed permanently. The bulk of its collections went to the West Los Angeles College in unincorporated Los Angeles County on a temporary basis.
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Blakeley White-McGuire
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- 1974-.. (age 52)
- Occupations
- choreographer
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Blakeley White-McGuire born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, is a dancer, choreographer, répétiteur, and educator. She is a Principal Guest Artist and former Principal Dancer of Martha Graham Dance Company. Described by Gia Kourlas of the New York Times as having a "powerful technique and dramatic instinct with an appealing modern spunk", White-McGuire has received widespread critical acclaim as a Graham dancer.
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Jared Carter
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- poetwriter
- Biography
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Jared Carter is an American poet and editor.
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Sue Owen
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- poetwriter
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Sue Owen is a dark humor poet influenced by the work of W. S. Merwin, Charles Simic, and Mark Strand. As the Poet-in-Residence, she taught poetry writing until 2005 at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. She now lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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William Wildman Campbell
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- lawyerpolitician
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William Wildman Campbell was a U.S. representative from Ohio.
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Jared Pappas-Kelley
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Jared Pappas-Kelley is an American curator, researcher, and visual artist. He studied at The Evergreen State College, Goddard College and the European Graduate School where he served as Graduate Teaching Assistant for both Jean-Luc Nancy and Paul D. Miller while completing his PhD. Pappas-Kelley also studied with filmmakers Claire Denis and Barbara Hammer whom he cites as influences on his visual work. His doctoral thesis, supervised by Sylvère Lotringer, examines the inherent instability of art objects, investigating what he terms "the thing that is not a thing" through an examination of events such as the 2004 Momart warehouse fire and the objects stolen and subsequently lost or destroyed by art thief Stéphane Breitwieser. Much of his current research focuses on ideas of this instability of the art object and the intersection between practice and theory, examining art as a method for understanding the object’s coming together through its undoing. Developing these themes, he is currently organizing a group exhibition that he is co-curating with Natasha Chuk entitled Solvent Forms.
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Evalyn Bates
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Evalyn Cora Bates was an American educator who helped found Goddard College in Plainfield, Vermont.
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Murdock A. Campbell
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- lawyer
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Murdock A. Campbell was a Vermont attorney and military officer who served as Adjutant General of the Vermont National Guard.
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Susan Tichy
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- poetwriter
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Susan Elizabeth Tichy is an American poet.
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Royce S. Pitkin
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- educatorteacher
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Royce Stanley “Tim” Pitkin was an American educator. He was President of Goddard College from 1938 to 1969.
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Charlie Bondhus
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- 1981-.. (age 45)
- Occupations
- poet
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Michael McKeown Bondhus is an American poet and author of four books. His second book, All the Heat We Could Carry, was the winner of the 2013 Main Street Rag Poetry Book Award, the 2014 Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry, and a finalist for the Gival Press Poetry Book Award.
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Orlando L. Martin
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- 1872-1951 (aged 79)
- Occupations
- lawyerjudgepolitician
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Orlando L. Martin was a Vermont farmer, teacher and politician who served as Speaker of the Vermont House of Representatives.
