List of Scripps College people

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Scripps College is a private liberal arts women's college in Claremont, California. It was founded in 1926 as a member of the Claremont Colleges, and is widely regarded as the most prestigious women's college in the Western United States.^[1] Many notable individuals have been affiliated with the college as graduates, non-graduating attendees, faculty, staff, or administrators.

Graduation ceremony at Scripps College

Scripps has graduated 93 classes of students.^[a][2] As of the spring 2019 semester, the college enrolls approximately 1,110 students.^[3]

As of the spring 2019 semester, Scripps employs 136 faculty members.^[3] The college has had nine official presidents and several interim presidents, including the current interim president, Amy Marcus-Newhall.^[4]

Notable alumnae

Main category: Scripps College alumni

 

Former U.S. Representative Gabby Giffords (D‑AZ 8th), class of 1993

Name	Class year	Notability	Ref.
Anne Hopkins Aitken	1932	Zen Buddhist in the Harada-Yasutani lineage	^[5]
Helene Mayer	Exchange student 1932–1934	Olympic gold medalist fencer who competed for Nazi Germany despite being Jewish	^[6]
Nancy Neighbor Russell	1953	Founder, Friends of the Columbia Gorge	^[7]
Molly Ivins	Attended 1962–1963	Newspaper columnist	^[8]^[9]^[10]
Beth Nolan	1973	White House Counsel for Bill Clinton	^[11]
Harriet Doerr	Attended 1975–1976	Novelist	^[12]^[13]
Alison Saar	1978	Sculptor and installation artist known for work on black identity	^[14]
Elizabeth Turk	1983	Sculpture artist	^[15]
Merodie A. Hancock	1987	Academic and president of Thomas Edison State University	^[16]
Gabby Giffords	1993	Democratic U.S. Representative for Arizona's 8th district, gun control advocate	^[8]

Notable faculty

Main category: Scripps College faculty

Name	Active tenure	Notability	Ref.
Hartley Burr Alexander	1927–1939	Philosopher, writer, educator, scholar, poet, and iconographer	^[17]
Millard Sheets	1932–1955	Artist and designer	^[18]^[19]
Albert Stewart	1939–1965	Sculptor	^[20]
Lee Pattison	1941–1962	Concert pianist, composer, arranger, opera director	^[21]
Michael S. Roth	1983–2000	Historian, university administrator, Hartley Burr Alexander Chair, President of Wesleyan University	^[22]
Hao Huang (pianist)	1994–present	Concert pianist, composer, playwright, Fulbright Scholar to Hungary, Bessie Bartlett Frankel Chair	^[23]
Ken Gonzales-Day	1995–present	Conceptual artist and historian, a fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Fletcher Jones Chair	^[24]
David Lloyd (academic)	1996-2004	Poet and professor of English and Humanities	^[25]
Juliet Koss	2000–present	Art historian	^[26]
Myriam J. A. Chancy	2008–present	Haitian-Canadian-American writer, fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Hartley Burr Alexander Chair	^[27]
Martha Gonzalez (musician)	2012–present	Chicana artivista (artist/activist) musician, feminist music theorist	^[28]
Vanessa C. Tyson	2015–present	Political scientist and politician	^[29]

Presidents of Scripps College

#	Name	Tenure	Academic expertise	Ref.
1	Ernest Jaqua	1926–1942	Theology	^[4]
–	Mary Kimberly Shirk	1942–1944		^[4]
2	Frederick Hard	1944–1964		^[4]
3	Mark Curtis	1964–1976		^[4]
4	John H. Chandler	1976–1989		^[4]
5	E. Howard Brooks	1989–1990		^[4]
6	Nancy Y. Bekavac	1990–2007		^[4]
^[1]7^[b]	Frederick Weis	2007–2009		^[4]
8	Lori Bettison-Varga	2009–2015	Geology	^[4]
–	Amy Marcus-Newhall	2015–2016		^[4]
9	Lara Tiedens	2016–2020		^[4]
–	Amy Marcus-Newhall	2020–2021		^[4]
10	Susan Keen	2021-2022
11	Amy Marcus-Newhall	2022-Present

Key

–	Denotes interim president

See also

• List of Claremont Colleges people

Notes

1. Calculated assuming a commencement date of June 1; may be off by one if commencement takes place earlier.
2. Weis served as an interim president, but was elected full president before he stepped down, so he is counted in the college's official count.^[30]

References

1. Fiske, Edward B. (July 6, 2021). Fiske Guide to Colleges 2022 (38th ed.). Naperville, Illinois: Sourcebooks. p. 157. ISBN 978-1-4926-6498-7. Scripps is easily the premier women's college on the West Coast
2. "College Timeline". Scripps College. Retrieved August 7, 2021.
3. "Scripps College Common Data Set 2019-2020" (PDF). Scripps College.
4. "President | History of the Presidency". Scripps College. Retrieved August 7, 2021.
5. "Anne Arundel Hopkins Aitken - An Tanshin (1911-1994)". Retrieved September 1, 2020.
6. Mogulof, Milly (2002). Foiled: Hitler's Jewish Olympian : the Helene Mayer Story. RDR Books. p. 73. ISBN 978-1-57143-092-2. Retrieved August 29, 2020.
7. Oregonian/OregonLive, Katy Muldoon | The (September 20, 2008). "Guardian of the gorge". oregonlive. Retrieved March 28, 2021.
8. "Alumnae manuScripps". alumnae.scrippscollege.edu. Scripps College. Retrieved August 29, 2020.
9. "Molly Ivins Honored". Scripps College News. Scripps College. November 11, 2005. Retrieved August 29, 2020.
10. Molly Ivins : a rebel life (1st ed.). New York: PublicAffairs. 2009. pp. 39–41. ISBN 9781586487171. Retrieved August 30, 2020.
11. "Nolan, Beth". LC Linked Data Service: Authorities and Vocabularies. The Library of Congress. Retrieved September 1, 2020.
12. Doerr, Harriet (1984). Stones for Ibarra. Viking Press. ISBN 9780670192038. Retrieved August 29, 2020.
13. Wallace, Amy (May 22, 1996). "Claremont Colleges: Can Bigger Be Better?". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved August 29, 2020.
14. Larkins, Zoe (April 1, 2008). "Alison Saar". Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery. Scripps College. Retrieved August 29, 2020.
15. "Elizabeth Turk". Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery. Scripps College. Retrieved September 1, 2020.
16. "Merodie Hancock '87 Inaugurated Fourth President of SUNY Empire State College". Scripps College. March 27, 2014. Retrieved August 29, 2020.
17. "PROF. H.B. ALEXANDER OF SCRIPPS COLLEGE dies". July 28, 1939. Retrieved January 17, 2022.
18. Kendall, John (April 2, 1989). "Millard Owen Sheets, 81; Artist, Designer and Teacher". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved January 17, 2022.
19. "Millard Sheets: The Scripps Years, 1932-1955". Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery. Scripps College. March 11, 2001. Retrieved January 17, 2022.
20. "Albert Stewart". Smithsonian. June 12, 2000. Retrieved January 17, 2022.
21. "Pattison, Lee bio". April 2, 1989. Retrieved February 22, 2021.
22. "Biography of Michale S. Roth". Wesleyan University News. Wesleyan University. July 10, 2007. Retrieved September 1, 2022.
23. "Hao Huang's NEA Project Will Highlight the Realities of Anti-Asian American Racism". Scripps College News. Scripps College. January 11, 2022. Retrieved August 31, 2022.
24. "Spotlight on Faculty: Ken Gonzales-Day, Professor of Art". Scripps College News. Scripps College. September 18, 2017. Retrieved September 4, 2022.
25. "David C. Lloyd, Distinguished professor of English". UCR profiles. University of California Riverside. August 2, 2013. Retrieved July 30, 2022.
26. "Juliet Koss Awarded Senior Fellowship at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art". Scripps College News. Scripps College. September 4, 2021. Retrieved June 18, 2022.
27. "In the Media: NPR Interviews Myriam J.A. Chancy about New Novel". Scripps College News. Scripps College. October 8, 2015. Retrieved October 7, 2021.
28. "In the Media: Los Angeles Times Interviews Martha Gonzalez about New Book Chican@ Artivistas". Scripps College News. Scripps College. July 27, 2020. Retrieved September 7, 2022.
29. "Spotlight on Faculty: Vanessa Tyson, Assistant Professor of Politics". Scripps College News. Scripps College. October 4, 2021. Retrieved September 5, 2022.
30. Hong, Heidi (April 24, 2009). "Scripps Drops Weis's "Interim" Title". The Student Life. Retrieved August 7, 2021.

External links

• Scripps College alumnae website