List of Miss Porter's School alumnae

The following is a list of notable alumnae from Miss Porter's School.

1870s

• Grace Hoadley Dodge (1873) - established Columbia University Teachers’ College[1][2]
• Nellie Grant (1873) – daughter of U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant and First Lady Julia Grant[3]
• Mary Knight Wood (1875) – American pianist, music educator and composer[4]
• Julia Lathrop (1876) – the first woman ever to head a government agency in the United States

1880s

• Edith Hamilton (1886) – Greek Mythology scholar and sister of Alice Hamilton[5]
• Alice Hamilton (1888) – first female faculty member of Harvard Medical School, founder of the field of industrial medicine[5]
• Theodate Pope Riddle (1888) – architect and founder of Avon Old Farms and Westover School

1890s

• Madeline McDowell Breckinridge (1890) – a leader of the women's suffrage movement, a leading Progressive reformer, and great-granddaughter of Henry Clay[6]
• Ruth Hanna McCormick (1897) – member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Illinois and the first woman to run for the U.S. Senate
• Princess Anastasia of Greece and Denmark-(née Nonie May Stewart) American born-wife of Prince Christopher of Greece and Denmark,the son of King George I of Greece

1910s

• Edith Roelker Curtis (1912) – author, historian, and diarist
• Dorothy Keeley Aldis (1914) – American children's author and poet
• Emily Hale (1916) – speech and drama teacher, and muse of T.S. Eliot[7]

1920s

• Helen Coley Nauts (1925) – founder of the Cancer Research Institute[8][9]
• Isabel Morrell Beadleston (1928) – American socialite and wife of politician Alfred N. Beadleston

1930s

• Barbara Hutton (1930) – American socialite, dubbed "Poor Little Rich Girl"
• Gloria Vanderbilt American artist, author, actress, fashion designer, heiress, and socialite.
• Edith Bouvier Beale (1935) – American socialite, cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, and subject of the documentary film Grey Gardens
• Anne Cox Chambers (1938) – U.S. Ambassador to Belgium during the Carter administration[10]
• Gene Tierney (1938) – Academy Award-nominated actress[11]
• Brenda Frazier (1939) – American socialite

1940s

• Polly Allen Mellen (1942) – editor of Vogue magazine
• Dina Merrill (née Nedenia Hutton) (1943) – actress and American socialite
• Letitia Baldrige Hollensteiner (1943) – author and social secretary to Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy[11][12]
• Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis (1947) – former First Lady of the United States[11][13]
• Patience Cleveland (1948) – American actress and published author
• Lilly Pulitzer (née Lillian Lee McKim) (1949) – fashion designer and American socialite[11]

1950s

• Lee Radziwill (née Bouvier) (1950) – public relations executive for Giorgio Armani, author, and younger sister of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis[11]
• Elizabeth Cushman Titus Putnam (1951) – founding president of the Student Conservation Association (SCA) and recipient of the Presidential Citizens Medal[14][15][16]
• Laura Rockefeller Chasin (1954) – American socialite
• Elise Ravenel Wood du Pont (1954) – former First Lady of Delaware and 1984 Republican candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives[17]
• Barbara Babcock (1955) – Emmy-award-winning actress for Hill Street Blues
• Pema Chödrön (formerly Deirdre Blomfield-Brown) (1955) – Buddhist nun and author; resident director of Gampo Abbey[18]
• Edith Kunhardt Davis (1955) – children's author and illustrator, daughter of Dorothy Kunhardt[19][20]
• Agnes Gund (1956) – President Emerita of the Museum of Modern Art and 1997 recipient of the National Medal of Arts[21][22]

1960s

• Mimi Alford (1961) – former White House intern who wrote a book about her affair with John F. Kennedy[23][24]

1970s

• Elizabeth May (1972) – the first elected Green Party Member of Parliament in Canada and leader of the Green Party of Canada
• Dorothy Bush Koch (1977) – philanthropist and member of the Bush political family
• Sarah Ludlow Blake (1978) – American writer[25]

1980s

• Susannah Grant (1980) – director and Academy Award-nominated screenwriter for Erin Brockovich[26]
• Christine Scott Bates (1983) - Savant Military Analyst
• Ariane de Vogue (1984) -- CNN reporter and commentator[27]
• R. Erica Doyle (1985) -- educator and noted poet[28]
• Pippa Tubman Armerding (1986) -- Director of Africa Research Office, Harvard Business School[29]
• Gregg Renfrew (1986) -- entrepreneur and founder of Beautycounter
• Lisette Bross (1989) -- Chief Strategic Officer at Radar Pictures[30]
• Mary Anne Amirthi Mohanraj (1989) – American writer and editor

1990s

• Katherine Collins Pope (1990) – president of television at Chernin Entertainment, formerly president of Universal Media Studios, and executive producer of such television series as New Girl, Touch, and Ben & Kate[31][32]
• Kate Bennett (1993) -- CNN White House reporter assigned to Melania Trump[33]
• Chrishaunda Lee (1994) – niece of Oprah Winfrey and hostess of the PBS program Animal Attractions Television

2000s

• Mamie Gummer (2001) – actress and daughter of actress Meryl Streep
• Hayley Petit (2007) – victim of the Cheshire, Connecticut, home invasion murders[34]
• Victoria de Lesseps, French-American artist

Fictional Alumnae

• In the 1938 romantic comedy Holiday, Katharine Hepburn's character Linda Seton tells Cary Grant's character Johnny Case that she played in Macbeth at Miss Porter's School.

• In 1981, the character of Fallon Carrington on "Dynasty"(played by Pamela Sue Martin) states that she was educated at Miss Porter's.

• In the 2003 drama Mona Lisa Smile, Joan Brandwyn's (played by Julia Stiles) student file reveals that she attended Miss Porter's School, though the film incorrectly locates it in Pennsylvania.[35]

• In the television show Mad Men, Don Draper's daughter, Sally Draper, attends Miss Porter's.

• In the 2005 musical Rent, Joanne describes learning to tango from the French ambassador’s daughter in her dorm room at Miss Porter’s.

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