This is a list of notable graduates, students who attended, and former faculty of Punahou School, a private, co-educational, college preparatory school in Honolulu, Hawaii. An asterisk (*) indicates a person who attended Punahou but did not graduate with senior class. Parents and children of alumni are noted only if they have made significant achievements in the same field or activity.
Numerous athletic, educational, cultural, business, and government leaders of significance to the State of Hawaii have been excluded, as well as most University of Hawaii and other State of Hawaii educators, and Hawaii-based entertainers, and artists.
Olympic athletes, medalists and other world champions
'45
Calvin C.J. Sia (Dartmouth)—developer and leading advocate of the nationwide Medical Home concept for pediatric care[50] and federal Emergency Medical Services for Children program
'45* William L. Morgan[51] (Yale)—Master of the
American College of Physicians, Clinical Approach to the Patient, William L. Morgan Professorship in Medicine (University of Rochester) (attended 1939–44)
'50 Richard Ikeda (Harvard)—chief medical consultant to Medical Board of California[52]
'53 Carol Kasper[53] (Chicago)—emerita professor of medicine at USC; VP of World Federation of
Hemophilia
'42 Pamela Lei Strathairn (Stanford)—associate director of athletics at Stanford, Strathairn Award[95]
'66* George Barnett Forsythe[96] (West Point)—president of Westminster College (MO), brigadier general, academic dean of West Point US Military Academy (attended 63–65)[97][98][99]
'33 Honorable
Samuel P. King—Federal District Court Judge, Ninth Circuit; co-author, Broken Trust: Greed, Mismanagement and Political Manipulation at America's Largest Charitable Trust
'48
Isaac Shapiro[107] (Columbia)—Professor of Law at NYU and Columbia, Working but Poor: America's Contradiction, The Soviet Legal System
'60 Evan L. Porteus[109] (Claremont)—Endowed Professor of Business at Stanford, Foundations of Stochastic Inventory Theory
'61
William Ouchi (Williams)—Endowed Professor of Business at UCLA, U Chicago, and Stanford, Theory Z and Making Schools Work, Chief of Staff of LA Mayor
Richard Riordan
‘65 Robert Klein (Stanford)-Associate Justice Supreme Court of Hawaii
'70 Andrea L. Peterson[110] (Stanford)—Professor of Law at UC Berkeley
'72 Linda Hamilton Krieger[111] (Stanford)—Professor of Law at UC Berkeley and UH, Reinterpreting Disability Rights
'74 Warren R. Loui[112] (MIT)—Lecturer in Law at USC
'82 Ian Haney-Lopez[113] (
Washington University in St. Louis)—Professor of Law at UC Berkeley, The Chicano Fight for Justice and The Legal Construction of Race
'79 Laura S. L. Kong[132] (Brown)—director of International Tsunami Information Center
'79 Jonathan V. Selinger[133] (Harvard)—Ohio Eminent Scholar and Professor of Chemical Physics at
Kent State University, Assoc. Editor of Physical Review E
Logic, philosophy, mathematics, computing and engineering
'59* Robert M. Harnish[134] (Berkeley)—emeritus professor of philosophy at Arizona, twenty books, including Linguistics and Minds, Brains, Computers[135] (attended 1954–57)
'62 John Stephen Walther[136] (MIT)—Hewlett Packard developer of
CORDIC
'65 Lynn Sumida Joy[137] (Harvard/Radcliffe)—professor of philosophy at Notre Dame, book on
Pierre Gassendi
'69 John P. Richardson, Jr.[138] (Harvard)—professor of philosophy at NYU, four books including Nietzsche
'72 Patricia Sullivan Kale[140] (Berkeley)—
Lawrence Livermore computer scientist, one of the many thousands of researchers involved in the International Human Genome Sequencing Consortium, contributing to final stages of the
Human Genome Project[141]
'72 Michael C. Loui[142] (Yale)—
IEEE Fellow, professor of electrical and computer engineering at U Illinois, department chairman, graduate dean
'79
Ronald Loui (Harvard)—professor of computer science at Wash U, patent holder on packet processing hardware,[145]Knowledge Representation and Defeasible Reasoning and Legal Knowledge and Information Systems
'81 Robert C. Zak, Jr.[146] (MIT)—patent holder on variable-refresh
DRAM,[147] other computing architectures
'82 Chau Wen Tseng[148] (Harvard)—professor of computer science at U Maryland, Languages and Compilers for Parallel Computing and Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
'89 Herbie K. H. Lee III[149] (Yale)—professor of statistics at UC Santa Cruz, Multiscale Modeling and Bayesian Nonparametrics
Social science
'23 Laura M. Thompson[150] (Mills)—anthropologist who taught at UNC, NC State, CCNY, CUNY, SIU, SFU, and UH;
Malinowski Award and honorary LLD from
Mills College, Toward a Science of Mankind and Secret of Culture, spouse of Indian Affairs commissioner
John Collier
'43
Joyce Lebra Chapman (Minnesota)—
Fulbright Scholar, Emerita Professor of History at Colorado, nine books on women and Asia
'62 Elise Kurashige Tipton[152] (Wellesley)—professor and chair of Japanese studies, University of Sydney (Australia), Modern Japan, Japanese Police State, etc.
'63 Jonathan M. Chu[153] (Penn)—Fulbright Scholar, professor of history at U Massachusetts Boston, Neighbors, Friends, or Madmen
'63 Christine Hamilton Rossell[154] (UCLA)—endowed professor of political science, Boston University, five books, including School Desegregation in the 21st Century
'65 Frederick E. Hoxie[155] (Amherst)—endowed professor of history at U Illinois, twenty books on Native American peoples
'66 Ellen Lenney[156] (UH)—professor of psychology at U Maine Orono, early researcher on gender roles, oft cited, e.g., Women Don't Ask
'68 E. Mark Cummings III[157] (Johns Hopkins)—endowed chair in psychology at Notre Dame U, five books on child development
'68 Patricia A. Roos (UC Davis)—professor of sociology at Rutgers, Explaining Women's Inroads into Male Occupations, and Gender and Work, VP of
American Sociological Association[158]
'70 James J. Moore[159] (Stanford)—professor of anthropology at UCSD
'78
John Lie (Harvard)—endowed professor of sociology at UC Berkeley and U Illinois, dean of international studies, six books on Korea, Japan, and two textbooks on sociology
'83 Jennifer Hickson Frankl[160] (Princeton)—professor of economics at Williams College
'84 Hugh C. Crethar[161] (Oklahoma)—endowed associate professor of counseling and counseling psychology at Oklahoma State University and co-author of Inclusive Cultural Empathy[162]
'89 Adria L. Imada[163] (Yale)—professor of ethnic studies at UCSD
'89 Devah Pager[164] (Wisconsin)—associate professor of sociology at Princeton University
'88* John W.I. Lee[174] (Cornell)—associate professor of history at
University of California, Santa Barbara, A Greek Army on the March: Soldiers and Survival in Xenophon's Anabasis
1892
Hiram Bingham (Yale)—Republican US Senator from Connecticut 1924–33, discoverer of
Machu Picchu, lecturer at Harvard and Princeton, Professor of History at Yale, spouse to the
Tiffany fortune heiress, buried at Arlington National Cemetery, possible inspiration for
Indiana Jones
'90
Brian Schatz (Pomona)—Democratic US Senator from Hawaii, former Lieutenant Governor of Hawaii
'15
Joseph Farrington (Wisconsin)—Republican US Congressman from Hawaii 1943-54
'39*
Otis Pike (Princeton)—Democratic US Congressman from New York 1961–79, decorated USMC World War II pilot, known for work on environment,
Pike Committee investigations of
Richard Nixon's intelligence abuses, Otis G. Pike Wilderness Area (Long Island, New York) (attended 1927–29)
'87
Charles Djou (Penn)—Republican US Congressman from Hawaii 2010-2011 (finishing
Neil Abercrombie's term), and Major in the Army Reserve
Presidential appointees
1864
Sanford Dole (Williams)—appointed first territorial governor of Hawaii and Federal Judge by
William McKinley
'64 Jonathan Jay Healy (Williams)—Massachusetts state legislator and State Commissioner of Food and Agriculture, appointed USDA regional director by
Barack Obama[177][178][179]
'14* Edward W. Timberlake (West Point)—brigadier general, commanded 49th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Brigade, HQ Battery of
29th Infantry Division at
Omaha Beach[209] and
Battle of the Bulge;[210] had earlier been the inaugural (December 1942 – May 1943) commander of 400 Women's Army Auxiliary Corps members being trained with Coastal Anti-Aircraft units, a contributing factor to the July 1943 creation of the
Women's Army Corps[211] (attended 1910–13)
'23 Archie Chun-Ming (Columbia)—World War II lieutenant colonel in Army Medical Corps, Bronze Star[219][220][221]
'28* Stephen O. Fuqua, Jr. (West Point)—brigadier general, director at Bureau of International Security Affairs, son of Stephen O. Fuqua, Chief of Infantry[222][223][224] (attended 1921–24)
'31 John Alexander Johnson (UH)—major, commanded company of U.S. 100th Infantry Battalion Nisei,
killed in action at
Cassino, John A. Johnson Hall (University of Hawaii)[226][227]
'33 Stanley R. Larsen[228] (West Point)—
lieutenant general, commanded
8th Infantry Division 1962–64, commanded
I Field Force, Vietnam 1966–67, commanded 6th Army, deputy commander in chief and chief of staff U.S. Army Pacific at Fort Shafter,[229] featured in book Touched with Fire: the Land War and author of
US Army text, Allied Participation in Vietnam[230][231]
'34 Benjamin Franklin Dillingham II (Harvard)—lieutenant colonel, Bronze Star in World War II, unsuccessful Republican candidate for US Senator from Hawaii[232]
'35 Richard P. Scott (West Point)—brigadier general and commandant of Cadets, West Point US Military Academy[233][234][citation needed]
'79 Paul Siegrist (Annapolis)—commander of ballistic missile submarine
USS West Virginia[262] and program manager for Navy unmanned maritime (undersea and surface) vehicles[263]
'63* Benjamin F. Dillingham, III (Harvard)—leading gay and human rights benefactor in San Diego,
Bronze Star for service in Vietnam with the U.S. Marine Corps[265] (attended '53–59)
Air Force
'28 Benjamin Jepson Webster[266] (West Point)—lieutenant general, commander of Allied Airforces, Southern Europe (AIRSOUTH)
'33*
Jean Erdman (Sarah Lawrence)—one of
Martha Graham's first dancers, founded her own NYC dance company; spouse of religion and mythology author
Joseph Campbell (attended 1921–32)
'69 Bonnie Oda Homsey (Juilliard)—
principal dancer for Martha Graham, co-founder of LA-based American Repertory Dance Company, Perspectives of a Healthy Dancer,[279][280][281][282][283]
'33 Maude (Ackerman) Woods Wodehouse[297] (UCLA)—philanthropist, America's #14 most-generous donor in 2003 according to Chronicle of Philanthropy ($80M in 2003)[298][299]
'65*
James C. Kennedy (Denver)—director of
Cox Enterprises and principal heir of the Barbara Cox Anthony estate, #49 in 2008 on
Forbes 400, Atlanta philanthropist of the year 2003, conservation and education donor (attended '55-61)
'76
Steve Case (Williams)—co-founder and CEO of
America Online and philanthropist, America's #19 most generous donor in 1999 according to Chronicle of Philanthropy ($40M in 1999), appointed to the Presidential Council on Jobs and Competitiveness
'84*
Pierre Omidyar (Tufts)—founder of
eBay and philanthropist, America's #20 in 2002, #13 in 2003, #7 in 2004, #9 in 2005, and #29 most-generous donor in 2006 according to Chronicle of Philanthropy ($403M, 2002–06), appointed to the Presidential Commission on White House Fellows (attended '79-81)
Other charitable and development business leaders
'34 Richard Tam[300] (Stanford)—Las Vegas developer, honorary LLD from UNLV, Richard Tam Alumni Center (UNLV) named for him
'52 Hugh T. Murphy (Berkeley)—director at
IRRI, Trustee of AsiaRice USA, development banker at
World Bank[301][302][303]
'52 John Bowman O'Donnell (Stanford)—decorated
USAID official, nonprofit fundraising[304][305]
'56* W. Robert Warne (Princeton)—president of Korea Economic Institute of America (attended 1953–55)[306][307]
'63
David Boynton (UCSB)—photographer, naturalist, educator and author of Kauai Days, Kauai, NaPali: Images of Kauai's Northwest Shore, and several other photographic essays about Hawaii
'63
Susanna Moore—author of My Old Sweetheart, The Whiteness of Bones, Sleeping Beauties, In The Cut, One Last Look, I Myself Have Seen It: The Myth of Hawai'i, The Big Girls, The Life of Objects
'65
Kathleen Norris (Bennington)—best-selling Christian spiritual poet and essayist, Dakota: A Spiritual Geography
'73
Kirby Wright (UCSD)—author of Punahou Blues, Moloka'i Nui Ahina: Summers on the Lonely Isle, Sorrow Town: Selected Stories, The End, My Friend: Prelude to the Apocalypse , Square Dancing at the Asylum: Nouveau Noir Flash Fiction, and The Queen of Moloka'i: Book 1
'74 Robert S. Sandla (UH)—editor in chief, Symphony magazine and Stagebill (see Playbill)[330][331][332]
'78* Gale Pryor (Cornell)—author of Nursing Mother, Working Mother, co-author of an edition of Nursing your Baby with mother Karen Pryor (attended 1972–76)[333]
'75
Lindy Vivas (UCLA)—Fresno State women's volleyball coach, plaintiff awarded largest compensation for retaliation under
Title IX discrimination statute
'96*
Lena Yada—professional wrestler and actress (attended 1992–1996)
'02*
Kiwi Camara (HPU)—youngest matriculate of Harvard Law School, catalyst for racial scandal (attended 1990-95?)
Notable former faculty and staff
Nick Bozanic—former English teacher, winner of Anhinga Prize for Poetry for The Long Drive Home[342]
Edward Lane-Reticker[343]—former Latin and Greek teacher, directed banking and law centers at Boston University
Tom Haine—coach, 1968 US Olympic volleyball captain[344]
Henry Wells Lawrence—former computing teacher, commanded 339th Fighter Squadron in World War II, one of the first US pilots in the air during Attack on Pearl Harbor;
Distinguished Flying Cross and Purple Heart[345][346][347][348][349]
Duncan Macdonald—coach, 1976 Olympian
Loye H. Miller, former biology instructor, paleontologist
Queenie B. Mills[350]—former director of kindergarten, University of Illinois Head of Human Development Department, helped design the
Head Start Program and programs for animal visits to nursing home residents
Willard Warch—former schoolmaster, professor of music at
Oberlin College, author of texts such as Music for Study and Beethoven's Use of Intermediate Keys, World War II Army Air Corps Band[353]
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This is a list of notable graduates, students who attended, and former faculty of Punahou School, a private, co-educational, college preparatory school in Honolulu, Hawaii. An asterisk (*) indicates a person who attended Punahou but did not graduate with senior class. Parents and children of alumni are noted only if they have made significant achievements in the same field or activity.
Numerous athletic, educational, cultural, business, and government leaders of significance to the State of Hawaii have been excluded, as well as most University of Hawaii and other State of Hawaii educators, and Hawaii-based entertainers, and artists.
Olympic athletes, medalists and other world champions
'45
Calvin C.J. Sia (Dartmouth)—developer and leading advocate of the nationwide Medical Home concept for pediatric care[50] and federal Emergency Medical Services for Children program
'45* William L. Morgan[51] (Yale)—Master of the
American College of Physicians, Clinical Approach to the Patient, William L. Morgan Professorship in Medicine (University of Rochester) (attended 1939–44)
'50 Richard Ikeda (Harvard)—chief medical consultant to Medical Board of California[52]
'53 Carol Kasper[53] (Chicago)—emerita professor of medicine at USC; VP of World Federation of
Hemophilia
'42 Pamela Lei Strathairn (Stanford)—associate director of athletics at Stanford, Strathairn Award[95]
'66* George Barnett Forsythe[96] (West Point)—president of Westminster College (MO), brigadier general, academic dean of West Point US Military Academy (attended 63–65)[97][98][99]
'33 Honorable
Samuel P. King—Federal District Court Judge, Ninth Circuit; co-author, Broken Trust: Greed, Mismanagement and Political Manipulation at America's Largest Charitable Trust
'48
Isaac Shapiro[107] (Columbia)—Professor of Law at NYU and Columbia, Working but Poor: America's Contradiction, The Soviet Legal System
'60 Evan L. Porteus[109] (Claremont)—Endowed Professor of Business at Stanford, Foundations of Stochastic Inventory Theory
'61
William Ouchi (Williams)—Endowed Professor of Business at UCLA, U Chicago, and Stanford, Theory Z and Making Schools Work, Chief of Staff of LA Mayor
Richard Riordan
‘65 Robert Klein (Stanford)-Associate Justice Supreme Court of Hawaii
'70 Andrea L. Peterson[110] (Stanford)—Professor of Law at UC Berkeley
'72 Linda Hamilton Krieger[111] (Stanford)—Professor of Law at UC Berkeley and UH, Reinterpreting Disability Rights
'74 Warren R. Loui[112] (MIT)—Lecturer in Law at USC
'82 Ian Haney-Lopez[113] (
Washington University in St. Louis)—Professor of Law at UC Berkeley, The Chicano Fight for Justice and The Legal Construction of Race
'79 Laura S. L. Kong[132] (Brown)—director of International Tsunami Information Center
'79 Jonathan V. Selinger[133] (Harvard)—Ohio Eminent Scholar and Professor of Chemical Physics at
Kent State University, Assoc. Editor of Physical Review E
Logic, philosophy, mathematics, computing and engineering
'59* Robert M. Harnish[134] (Berkeley)—emeritus professor of philosophy at Arizona, twenty books, including Linguistics and Minds, Brains, Computers[135] (attended 1954–57)
'62 John Stephen Walther[136] (MIT)—Hewlett Packard developer of
CORDIC
'65 Lynn Sumida Joy[137] (Harvard/Radcliffe)—professor of philosophy at Notre Dame, book on
Pierre Gassendi
'69 John P. Richardson, Jr.[138] (Harvard)—professor of philosophy at NYU, four books including Nietzsche
'72 Patricia Sullivan Kale[140] (Berkeley)—
Lawrence Livermore computer scientist, one of the many thousands of researchers involved in the International Human Genome Sequencing Consortium, contributing to final stages of the
Human Genome Project[141]
'72 Michael C. Loui[142] (Yale)—
IEEE Fellow, professor of electrical and computer engineering at U Illinois, department chairman, graduate dean
'79
Ronald Loui (Harvard)—professor of computer science at Wash U, patent holder on packet processing hardware,[145]Knowledge Representation and Defeasible Reasoning and Legal Knowledge and Information Systems
'81 Robert C. Zak, Jr.[146] (MIT)—patent holder on variable-refresh
DRAM,[147] other computing architectures
'82 Chau Wen Tseng[148] (Harvard)—professor of computer science at U Maryland, Languages and Compilers for Parallel Computing and Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
'89 Herbie K. H. Lee III[149] (Yale)—professor of statistics at UC Santa Cruz, Multiscale Modeling and Bayesian Nonparametrics
Social science
'23 Laura M. Thompson[150] (Mills)—anthropologist who taught at UNC, NC State, CCNY, CUNY, SIU, SFU, and UH;
Malinowski Award and honorary LLD from
Mills College, Toward a Science of Mankind and Secret of Culture, spouse of Indian Affairs commissioner
John Collier
'43
Joyce Lebra Chapman (Minnesota)—
Fulbright Scholar, Emerita Professor of History at Colorado, nine books on women and Asia
'62 Elise Kurashige Tipton[152] (Wellesley)—professor and chair of Japanese studies, University of Sydney (Australia), Modern Japan, Japanese Police State, etc.
'63 Jonathan M. Chu[153] (Penn)—Fulbright Scholar, professor of history at U Massachusetts Boston, Neighbors, Friends, or Madmen
'63 Christine Hamilton Rossell[154] (UCLA)—endowed professor of political science, Boston University, five books, including School Desegregation in the 21st Century
'65 Frederick E. Hoxie[155] (Amherst)—endowed professor of history at U Illinois, twenty books on Native American peoples
'66 Ellen Lenney[156] (UH)—professor of psychology at U Maine Orono, early researcher on gender roles, oft cited, e.g., Women Don't Ask
'68 E. Mark Cummings III[157] (Johns Hopkins)—endowed chair in psychology at Notre Dame U, five books on child development
'68 Patricia A. Roos (UC Davis)—professor of sociology at Rutgers, Explaining Women's Inroads into Male Occupations, and Gender and Work, VP of
American Sociological Association[158]
'70 James J. Moore[159] (Stanford)—professor of anthropology at UCSD
'78
John Lie (Harvard)—endowed professor of sociology at UC Berkeley and U Illinois, dean of international studies, six books on Korea, Japan, and two textbooks on sociology
'83 Jennifer Hickson Frankl[160] (Princeton)—professor of economics at Williams College
'84 Hugh C. Crethar[161] (Oklahoma)—endowed associate professor of counseling and counseling psychology at Oklahoma State University and co-author of Inclusive Cultural Empathy[162]
'89 Adria L. Imada[163] (Yale)—professor of ethnic studies at UCSD
'89 Devah Pager[164] (Wisconsin)—associate professor of sociology at Princeton University
'88* John W.I. Lee[174] (Cornell)—associate professor of history at
University of California, Santa Barbara, A Greek Army on the March: Soldiers and Survival in Xenophon's Anabasis
1892
Hiram Bingham (Yale)—Republican US Senator from Connecticut 1924–33, discoverer of
Machu Picchu, lecturer at Harvard and Princeton, Professor of History at Yale, spouse to the
Tiffany fortune heiress, buried at Arlington National Cemetery, possible inspiration for
Indiana Jones
'90
Brian Schatz (Pomona)—Democratic US Senator from Hawaii, former Lieutenant Governor of Hawaii
'15
Joseph Farrington (Wisconsin)—Republican US Congressman from Hawaii 1943-54
'39*
Otis Pike (Princeton)—Democratic US Congressman from New York 1961–79, decorated USMC World War II pilot, known for work on environment,
Pike Committee investigations of
Richard Nixon's intelligence abuses, Otis G. Pike Wilderness Area (Long Island, New York) (attended 1927–29)
'87
Charles Djou (Penn)—Republican US Congressman from Hawaii 2010-2011 (finishing
Neil Abercrombie's term), and Major in the Army Reserve
Presidential appointees
1864
Sanford Dole (Williams)—appointed first territorial governor of Hawaii and Federal Judge by
William McKinley
'64 Jonathan Jay Healy (Williams)—Massachusetts state legislator and State Commissioner of Food and Agriculture, appointed USDA regional director by
Barack Obama[177][178][179]
'14* Edward W. Timberlake (West Point)—brigadier general, commanded 49th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Brigade, HQ Battery of
29th Infantry Division at
Omaha Beach[209] and
Battle of the Bulge;[210] had earlier been the inaugural (December 1942 – May 1943) commander of 400 Women's Army Auxiliary Corps members being trained with Coastal Anti-Aircraft units, a contributing factor to the July 1943 creation of the
Women's Army Corps[211] (attended 1910–13)
'23 Archie Chun-Ming (Columbia)—World War II lieutenant colonel in Army Medical Corps, Bronze Star[219][220][221]
'28* Stephen O. Fuqua, Jr. (West Point)—brigadier general, director at Bureau of International Security Affairs, son of Stephen O. Fuqua, Chief of Infantry[222][223][224] (attended 1921–24)
'31 John Alexander Johnson (UH)—major, commanded company of U.S. 100th Infantry Battalion Nisei,
killed in action at
Cassino, John A. Johnson Hall (University of Hawaii)[226][227]
'33 Stanley R. Larsen[228] (West Point)—
lieutenant general, commanded
8th Infantry Division 1962–64, commanded
I Field Force, Vietnam 1966–67, commanded 6th Army, deputy commander in chief and chief of staff U.S. Army Pacific at Fort Shafter,[229] featured in book Touched with Fire: the Land War and author of
US Army text, Allied Participation in Vietnam[230][231]
'34 Benjamin Franklin Dillingham II (Harvard)—lieutenant colonel, Bronze Star in World War II, unsuccessful Republican candidate for US Senator from Hawaii[232]
'35 Richard P. Scott (West Point)—brigadier general and commandant of Cadets, West Point US Military Academy[233][234][citation needed]
'79 Paul Siegrist (Annapolis)—commander of ballistic missile submarine
USS West Virginia[262] and program manager for Navy unmanned maritime (undersea and surface) vehicles[263]
'63* Benjamin F. Dillingham, III (Harvard)—leading gay and human rights benefactor in San Diego,
Bronze Star for service in Vietnam with the U.S. Marine Corps[265] (attended '53–59)
Air Force
'28 Benjamin Jepson Webster[266] (West Point)—lieutenant general, commander of Allied Airforces, Southern Europe (AIRSOUTH)
'33*
Jean Erdman (Sarah Lawrence)—one of
Martha Graham's first dancers, founded her own NYC dance company; spouse of religion and mythology author
Joseph Campbell (attended 1921–32)
'69 Bonnie Oda Homsey (Juilliard)—
principal dancer for Martha Graham, co-founder of LA-based American Repertory Dance Company, Perspectives of a Healthy Dancer,[279][280][281][282][283]
'33 Maude (Ackerman) Woods Wodehouse[297] (UCLA)—philanthropist, America's #14 most-generous donor in 2003 according to Chronicle of Philanthropy ($80M in 2003)[298][299]
'65*
James C. Kennedy (Denver)—director of
Cox Enterprises and principal heir of the Barbara Cox Anthony estate, #49 in 2008 on
Forbes 400, Atlanta philanthropist of the year 2003, conservation and education donor (attended '55-61)
'76
Steve Case (Williams)—co-founder and CEO of
America Online and philanthropist, America's #19 most generous donor in 1999 according to Chronicle of Philanthropy ($40M in 1999), appointed to the Presidential Council on Jobs and Competitiveness
'84*
Pierre Omidyar (Tufts)—founder of
eBay and philanthropist, America's #20 in 2002, #13 in 2003, #7 in 2004, #9 in 2005, and #29 most-generous donor in 2006 according to Chronicle of Philanthropy ($403M, 2002–06), appointed to the Presidential Commission on White House Fellows (attended '79-81)
Other charitable and development business leaders
'34 Richard Tam[300] (Stanford)—Las Vegas developer, honorary LLD from UNLV, Richard Tam Alumni Center (UNLV) named for him
'52 Hugh T. Murphy (Berkeley)—director at
IRRI, Trustee of AsiaRice USA, development banker at
World Bank[301][302][303]
'52 John Bowman O'Donnell (Stanford)—decorated
USAID official, nonprofit fundraising[304][305]
'56* W. Robert Warne (Princeton)—president of Korea Economic Institute of America (attended 1953–55)[306][307]
'63
David Boynton (UCSB)—photographer, naturalist, educator and author of Kauai Days, Kauai, NaPali: Images of Kauai's Northwest Shore, and several other photographic essays about Hawaii
'63
Susanna Moore—author of My Old Sweetheart, The Whiteness of Bones, Sleeping Beauties, In The Cut, One Last Look, I Myself Have Seen It: The Myth of Hawai'i, The Big Girls, The Life of Objects
'65
Kathleen Norris (Bennington)—best-selling Christian spiritual poet and essayist, Dakota: A Spiritual Geography
'73
Kirby Wright (UCSD)—author of Punahou Blues, Moloka'i Nui Ahina: Summers on the Lonely Isle, Sorrow Town: Selected Stories, The End, My Friend: Prelude to the Apocalypse , Square Dancing at the Asylum: Nouveau Noir Flash Fiction, and The Queen of Moloka'i: Book 1
'74 Robert S. Sandla (UH)—editor in chief, Symphony magazine and Stagebill (see Playbill)[330][331][332]
'78* Gale Pryor (Cornell)—author of Nursing Mother, Working Mother, co-author of an edition of Nursing your Baby with mother Karen Pryor (attended 1972–76)[333]
'75
Lindy Vivas (UCLA)—Fresno State women's volleyball coach, plaintiff awarded largest compensation for retaliation under
Title IX discrimination statute
'96*
Lena Yada—professional wrestler and actress (attended 1992–1996)
'02*
Kiwi Camara (HPU)—youngest matriculate of Harvard Law School, catalyst for racial scandal (attended 1990-95?)
Notable former faculty and staff
Nick Bozanic—former English teacher, winner of Anhinga Prize for Poetry for The Long Drive Home[342]
Edward Lane-Reticker[343]—former Latin and Greek teacher, directed banking and law centers at Boston University
Tom Haine—coach, 1968 US Olympic volleyball captain[344]
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