In the absence of rights, behavior that we do not wish to value and do not wish to encourage has absolutely no protection. Contact Reed College. Steven Paul Jobs (February 24, 1955 - October 5, 2011) was an American business magnate, industrial . George Burgess Although one of the youngest additions to our list, 27-year-old George Burgess has achieved more in a decade than most of us do in a lifetime. The most successful and famous alumni from each Oxford College Megan Prelinger is a cultural historian and archivist. Demento, born Barret Hansen, 1963 radio personalityPozzi Escot, 1956 composerJohanna Fateman (did not graduate) musicianSimone Forti (did not graduate) choreographerRob Heinsoo, 1987 game designerHope Lange (did not graduate) actressJayne Loader, 1973 writer and director; produced and co-directed The Atomic CafePeter Mars, 1982 artist[7]Robert Morris, 1953 (attended two years) sculptorBill Morrison, 1985, filmmaker, Guggenheim fellowCharles Munch, 1968 painterDaria ONeill, 1993 Portland radio and TV personalityEric Overmyer, 1973 screenwriter, producer, playwrightDavid Reed, 1968 artistLawrence Rinder, 1983 Director of the Berkeley Art MuseumBrian Rolland (did not graduate) musicianLeo Rubinfien, 1974 photographerSusan Silas, 1975[8] artistPat Silver-Lasky 1949 screenwriter and actressMorgan Spector, 2002 actorKim Spencer, 1970 television producerDavid Henry Sterry, 1978 author, actor/comicIgor Vamos, 1990 contemporary artist, member of The Yes MenAnne Washburn, 1991 playwright (Mr. Burns, A Post-Electric Play)BusinessEmilio Pucci, 1937 fashion designer; member of the Italian ParliamentBill Naito, 1949 Portland businessman, developer, and civic leaderDan Greenberg, 1962 CEO of Electro RentDan Drake, 1964 co-founder of AutodeskMiriam Sontz, 1973 CEO of Powells Books, the worlds largest independent bookstore.Robert Friedland, 1974 businessman and CEO of Ivanhoe MinesSuzan DelBene, 1983 CEO of Nimble Technology and Vice President at MicrosoftElly Blue, 2005 co-owner of Microcosm PublishingMichael Richardson, 2007 co-founder of Urban Airship.EconomicsDorothy Brady, 1925 Professor of Economics, University of PennsylvaniaRobert A. Brady, 1923 Professor of Economics, University of California, BerkeleyRose Friedman, 1930 author; wife of Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman; economist in her own right; left in 1930 after her sophomore year[9]Mason Gaffney, 1948 economist and critic of neoclassical economicsJohn Krutilla, 1949, economist who developed concept of existence value, Walter Berns (with First Lady Laura Bush and President George W. Bush) receiving the National Humanities MedalKalman J. Cohen, 1951 Professor of Economics, Duke UniversityDale W. Jorgenson, 1955 economist, professor at Harvard University, past president of the AEA and the Econometric SocietyMichael Rothschild, 1963 economist, Dean of the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton UniversityNicolaus Tideman, 1965 economistYoram Bauman, 1995 economist and stand-up comedianRoss Starr (did not graduate) Professor of Economics, University of California, San DiegoWalter Berns (did not graduate) Resident Scholar, American Enterprise InstituteFood and DrinkJames Beard, expelled 1922/23; honorary degree 1976 chef and cookbook authorMark Bitterman, 1995 food writer and authorSteven Raichlen, 1975 television chef, authorKate Christensen, 1986 food writer and authorSusan Sokol Blosser, 1967 founder of Sokol Blosser Winery[10]Sean Thackrey (did not graduate) winemakerGovernment, Richard L. HannaJosiah H. Beeman V, 1958 United States Ambassador to New ZealandBud Clark (did not graduate) Mayor of PortlandRichard Danzig, 1965 71st Secretary of the NavySuzan DelBene, 1983 United States Representative from Washington state (D)Chris Garrett, 1996 member of the Oregon LegislatureRichard L. Hanna, 1973 United States Representative from New York (R)Cordelia Hood, 1936 Office of Strategic Services and CIA agentSheldon T. Mills, 1927 Former United States Ambassador to AfghanistanJ. He was involved in the world of air transportation and its regulation as a senior airline executive, an academic and a government official. He is Senior Research Associate at the Labor and Worklife Program, Harvard Law School. Reed College - Wikipedia Reed is named for Oregon pioneers Simeon Gannett Reed (18301895) and Amanda Reed (died 1904). . 17 . [112] The college's least-loved complex (as measured by applications to the college's housing lottery), MacNaughton and Foster-Scholz, is known on campus as "Asylum Block" because of its post-World War II modernist architecture and interior spaces dominated by long, straight corridors lined with identical doors, said by students to resemble that of an insane asylum. Is it the kind of behavior that we value and wish to encourage? [75] In 202223 over half of students received financial aid from the college. He has also researched psi phenomena, group decision making, handwriting analysis, sexual orientation, and personality theory and assessment. He is currently executive director of TransitCenter, Inc., a New York-based non-profit organization which commissions and conducts research and advocacy related to urban transportation. [78], Reed's endowment as of June 30, 2021, was $726 million. This page lists prominent, famous, and notable alumni of Reed College, an American institution of liberal arts and sciences, located in Oregon's most populous city, Portland, along with their past and present positions. In 1993, then-President Steve Koblik invited Moore to visit the college, and in 1995 the last surviving member of the Board that fired Moore expressed his regret and apologized to him. 3203 Southeast Woodstock Boulevard Portland, Oregon 97202-8199 Phone: 503-771-1112 Fax: 503-777-7769. He teaches Religion and Literature at the College of the Holy Cross, in Worcester, Massachusetts. He was the co-founder, chairman, and CEO of Apple; the chairman and majority shareholder of Pixar; a member of The Walt Disney Company's board of directors following its acquisition of Pixar; and the founder, chairman, and CEO of NeXT. The Stanford Alumni Association was established in 1892 by the university's first graduates. Hans Arthur Linde was a German Jewish American legal scholar and Oregon Supreme Court justice. Brian Rolland was an American guitarist, composer, and songwriter raised in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In addition to famous Reed College graduates, it also includes some famous Reedies who did not graduate. Athena recently launched the second season of Zombified, a podcast created to communicate the science of zombification in daily life. [117], A landmark of the campus, the Blue Bridge, spans the canyon. Solomon is a longtime associate of the media watch group Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR). [63], Money magazine ranked Reed 512th in the U.S. out of 623 schools evaluated for its 2022 "Best Colleges for Your Money" edition. She is the Ford Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her blog at DianeRavitch.net has received more than 36 million page views since she began blogging in 2012. [89] College President Colin Diver said "I don't honestly know" whether the drug death was an isolated incident or part of a larger problem. 3203 Southeast Woodstock Boulevard Portland, Oregon 97202-8199 Phone: 503-771-1112 Fax: 503-777-7769. Tom Crosshill is a Latvian author of speculative and literary fiction, active since 2010. The recent addition of a circus-themed mural to the cafe prompted a name change, and it now operates as Caffe Circo. Professional football player, author and lawyer; two-time collegiate All-American and first-round draft pick in the 1986 NFL Draft by the Atlanta Falcons; children's book "Football Genius" made "New York Times'" best-seller list of children's chapter books; recipient of the Chancellor's Medal. Madonna called herself a "famed high-school dropout" in a 1983 "American Bandstand" interview with Dick Clark, but she's actually a college dropout: According to the University of Michigan, the. [6], Reed alumni include 118 Fulbright Scholars, 67 Watson Fellows, and three Churchill Scholars. "[90] Local reporter James Pitkin of the newspaper Willamette Week editorialized that "Reed College, a private school with one of the most prestigious academic programs in the U.S., is one of the last schools in the country where students enjoy almost unlimited freedom to experiment openly with drugs, with little or no hassles from authorities", though Willamette Week stated the following week concerning Pitkin's editorial: "As of press time, almost 500 responses, many expressing harsh criticism of Willamette Week, had been posted on our website.