List of Juniata College people

This is a list of notable Juniata College alumni, in order of graduation year.

  • J.E. Keeny, prior to 1889, President of Louisiana Tech University from 1908-1926[1]
  • Carl Henry Hoffman, 1922, Republican Congressman from Pennsylvania
  • Quinn McNemar, 1925, psychologist and statistician
  • Jack E. Myers, Ph.D., 1934, Professor Emeritus, University of Texas; one of six Juniata alumni members of the National Academy of Sciences; and 1998 recipient of the Society's highest honor - The Founders Award
  • Francis Harvey Green, 1931, Chair of English at West Chester University, Headmaster of Pennington School
  • Gene E. Sease, Ph.D., 1952, Chairman, Sease Gerig & Associates, Indianapolis, Ind. President Emeritusm, University of Indianapolis
  • Chuck Knox, 1954, former National Football League head coach, Los Angeles Rams, Buffalo Bills and Seattle Seahawks, also the NFL's fifth winningest coach
  • Peter Marzio, 1965, former director of Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
  • William Phillips, 1970, atomic physicist, National Institute of Standards and Technology, jointly awarded Nobel Prize in 1997 for advancing basic knowledge and new techniques to chill atoms to extremely low temperatures.
  • John Kuriyan, 1980, 2005 winner of the Lounsbery Award for extraordinary scientific achievement, Howard Hughes Investigator and Chancellor's Professor of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology at the University of California Berkeley.
  • Ayinde Alakoye, 1994, CEO, Hitch Radio/ Board Member,created the mobile app that Clear Channel turned into iHeartRadio, Application Developers Alliance/ Contributing Speech Writer, Obama for America (2008) [2]
  • Mary White, 1973, President and CEO of the Swedish Medical Center in Denver, Colorado
  • Renee D. Diehl, 1976, Professor of Physics, Penn State University; Awardee, Fulbright Fellowship, 2007; Winner, Outstanding Service Award from the Women in the Sciences and Engineering (WISE) Institute at Penn State, 2006
  • Heidi Cullen, Chief Scientist for Climate Central and leads the World Weather Attribution program. Served as The Weather Channel’s first on-air climate expert and helped create Forecast Earth
  • Harriet Smith Windsor,1962, Secretary of State for the State of Delaware from 2001-2009

References
  1. "Keeny, John Ephraim". Louisiana Historical Association, A Dictionary of Louisiana Biography (lahistory.org). Archived from the original on 2010-12-01. Retrieved December 27, 2010.
  2. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2015-12-22. Retrieved 2015-12-11.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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