The following is a list of notable Ancients (alumnae) from Miss Porter's School in Farmington, Connecticut.

Contents

• 1850s
• 1870s
• 1880s
• 1890s
• 1910s
• 1920s
• 1930s
• 1940s
• 1950s
• 1960s
• 1970s
• 1980s
• 1990s
• 2000s
• Fictional alumnae
• References

1850s

• Eliza Talcott – attended in the 1850s; founder of Kobe College ^[1]

1870s

• Grace Hoadley Dodge (1873) – established Columbia University Teachers’ College ^{[2] [3]}
• Nellie Grant (1873) – daughter of U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant and First Lady Julia Grant ^[4]
• Mary Knight Wood (1875) – American pianist, music educator and composer ^[5]
• Julia Lathrop (1876) – the first woman ever to head a government agency in the United States

1880s

• Helen Gilman Noyes Brown (1881) – philanthropist^{[ citation needed ]}
• Edith Hamilton (1886) – Greek mythology scholar; sister of Alice Hamilton ^[6]
• Alice Hamilton (1888) – first female faculty member of the Harvard Medical School; founder of the field of industrial medicine ^[6]
• Theodate Pope Riddle (1888) – architect and philanthropist; architect and founder of Avon Old Farms School; architect of Westover School ^[7]

1890s

• Madeline McDowell Breckinridge (1890) – a leader of the women's suffrage movement, a leading Progressive reformer, and great-granddaughter of Henry Clay ^[8]
• 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 ^{[ citation needed ]}

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 ^[9]

1920s

• Helen Coley Nauts (1925) – founder of the Cancer Research Institute ^{[10] [11]}

1930s

• Barbara Hutton (1930) – American socialite, dubbed "Poor Little Rich Girl" ^[12]
• Gloria Vanderbilt – American artist, writer, actress, fashion designer, heiress, and socialite ^[12]
• Edith Bouvier Beale (1935) – American socialite; cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis; subject of the documentary film Grey Gardens ^[12]
• Anne Cox Chambers (1938) – U.S. Ambassador to Belgium during the Carter administration ^[13]
• Gene Tierney (1938) – Academy Award-nominated actress ^{[12] [14]}
• Brenda Frazier (1939) – American socialite ^[12]

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 ^{[14] [15]}
• Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis (1947) – former First Lady of the United States ^{[14] [16]}
• Patience Cleveland (1948) – American actress and published author^{[ citation needed ]}
• Lilly Pulitzer (née Lillian Lee McKim) (1949) – fashion designer and American socialite ^[14]

1950s

• Lee Radziwill (née Bouvier) (1950) – public relations executive for Giorgio Armani, author, and younger sister of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis ^[14]
• Elizabeth Cushman Titus Putnam (1951) – founding president of the Student Conservation Association (SCA) and recipient of the Presidential Citizens Medal ^{[17] [18] [19]}
• 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 ^[20]
• 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 ^[21]
• Edith Kunhardt Davis (1955) – children's author and illustrator, daughter of Dorothy Kunhardt ^{[22] [23]}
• Agnes Gund (1956) – President Emerita of the Museum of Modern Art and 1997 recipient of the National Medal of Arts ^{[24] [25]}

1960s

• Mimi Alford (1961) – former White House intern who wrote a book about her affair with John F. Kennedy ^{[26] [27]}
• Sheila Ford Hamp (1969) – owner of the Detroit Lions ^[28]

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 ^[29]

1980s

• Susannah Grant (1980) – director and Academy Award-nominated screenwriter for Erin Brockovich ^[30]
• Ariane de Vogue (1984) – CNN reporter and commentator ^[31]
• R. Erica Doyle (1985) – educator and poet ^[32]
• Pippa Tubman Armerding (1986) – director of Africa Research Office, Harvard Business School ^[33]
• Gregg Renfrew (1986) – entrepreneur and founder of Beautycounter ^{[ citation needed ]}
• Lisette Bross (1989) – Chief Strategy Officer, Radar Pictures ^[34]
• Mary Anne Amirthi Mohanraj (1989) – American writer and editor^{[ citation needed ]}

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 ^{[35] [ citation needed ]}
• Kate Bennett (1993) -- CNN White House reporter assigned to Melania Trump ^[36]
• Chrishaunda Lee (1994) – niece of Oprah Winfrey and hostess of PBS programming ^[37]

2000s

• Mamie Gummer (2001) – actress; daughter of actress Meryl Streep ^{[38] [ better source needed ]}
• Hayley Petit (2007) – victim of the Cheshire murders ^[39]

Fictional alumnae

• In the 2003 drama Mona Lisa Smile , Joan Brandwyn's student file reveals that she attended Miss Porter's School, though the film incorrectly locates it in Pennsylvania^{[ citation needed ]}
• In the 2000 drama The Skulls , Chloe is stated to have attended Miss Porter's School^{[ citation needed ]}
• In the series Gossip Girl , a guest character by the name of Shelby Wright goes to Miss Porter's
• In the series Mad Men , Sally Draper attended Miss Porter's ^[40]

References