Selected History Alumni

What follows is a sampling of alumni who have gone on to successful careers with a History degree from Wooster:

› Allison Urbanek ('05) - Health Education Coordinator for the American Sickle Cell Anemia Assoc. in Cleveland, Ohio

› Drew Gittus ('04) - District Sales Coordinator for AFLAC

› Rachel Glickel ('04) - English teacher for the United States Peace Corps

› Lindsay Zella ('03) - A member of the United States Marine Corps.

› Justin Fishel ('01) - Assignment Editor for Fox News Channel

› Brad Townsend ('00) - Senior Mortgage Consultant for Residential Finance Corporation.

› Max Wilson ('00) - 2nd Lieutenant-Field Artillery for the US Army

› Daniel Griffis ('94) - Vice President of Marketing for the Chip Ganassi Racing Teams

› Emily (Bertram) Linn ('97) - Runs the transportation and recycling programs at the Clean Air Council in Philadelphia, Pa.

› Robert Koe ('93) - Vice President of GMAC Commercial Finance

› Josh Denbeaux ('90) - Partner in the law firm of Denbeaux and Denbeaux in New Jersey & New York, and defended two of 517 prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in 2006.

› Ken Swope ('92) - Assistant Professor of History at Ball State University in Muncie, IN

› Kevin Logsdon ('88) - Teacher of Social Studies Hilliard Davidson High School and Boys Varsity Basketball Coach.

› Karen Johnson ('87) - Vice President of University Relations at Midwestern University in Chicago, Ill.

› Trish Dunn Balderson ('85) - Manager of Museum Education for the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation

› Andy Tveekrem ('85) - Brewmaster at Dogfish Head Craft Brewing, a fastgrowing brewery in Milton, Del.

› Amy Sancetta ('81) - Travels the world taking news and sports photographs for the Associated Press

› Sid Hastings ('86) - Stints at National Geographic and Corbis in photographic capacities

› Blake Moore ('80) - Played center in the National Football League for the Green Bay Packers and Cincinnati Bengals and then graduated from Harvard Law School

› Margaret Kirpatrick ('76) - Vice President and General Counsel for Northwest Natural Gas Company

› Mark Stephens ('75) - Writer, PBS host on issues of information technology, for eight years wrote the "I, Cringley" column for InfoWorld

› Ron Wilcox ('75) - Executive Vice President and Chief Business and Legal Affairs Officer at Sony BMG Music Entertainment

› Donald G. Gifford ('73) - The Dean of the School of Law at The University of Maryland

› Allen K. Easley ('70) - President and Dean, William Mitchell College of Law in St. Paul, Minn.

› David Fleming ('70) - Senior Vice President of diagnostics division of Genzyme — world's leading producer of genetic testing services

› Mark Hendrickson ('70) - Naval Flight Officer for the United States Navy

› Katherine Hoffman ('70) - Works as an English editor at the United Nations

› David Hopkins ('69) - Provost of Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio

› Jay R. Gates ('68) - Curates the prestigious Phillips Collection of art in Washington, D.C.

› Gary Reichard ('65) - Executive vice chancellor and chief academic officer for the California State University system

› Ronald Takaki ('61) - Wrote a critically-acclaimed history of Asian-Americans

› Catherine A. Tisinger ('58) - Distinguished Professor, History and Economics, Professor Emerita, Shenandoah University, Winchester, VA. Former college president

› Robert Tignor ('55) - Chair of the Department of History at Princeton University