{"id":9,"date":"2019-08-23T16:03:25","date_gmt":"2019-08-23T16:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/alumnihouse\/?p=9"},"modified":"2019-10-15T13:24:30","modified_gmt":"2019-10-15T13:24:30","slug":"vistors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/alumnihouse\/vistors\/","title":{"rendered":"Visitors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dickinson has proudly hosted a wide range of national and international leaders at the Historic President&#8217;s House over the years. As impressive as the list is, we envision <em><strong>The Alumni House @ Dickinson<\/strong><\/em> serving as a gathering place where an equally accomplished but more diverse collection of leaders are hosted in the years to come, culled from an even wider swath of professional sectors.\u00a0<span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>Can you match the names and faces?<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Elected office<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/alumnihouse\/files\/2019\/08\/PublicServiceHi3.2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-671\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/alumnihouse\/files\/2019\/08\/PublicServiceHi3.2.jpg\" alt=\"elected\" width=\"225\" height=\"597\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/alumnihouse\/files\/2019\/08\/PublicServiceHi3.2.jpg 360w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/alumnihouse\/files\/2019\/08\/PublicServiceHi3.2-113x300.jpg 113w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>\u00d3scar Arias S\u00e1nchez<\/strong>, Nobel-prize winner; president of Costa Rica<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mary Robinson<\/strong>, president of Ireland<\/li>\n<li><strong>Edward G. Rendell<\/strong>, mayor of Philadelphia; Governor of Pennsylvania (D)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tom Wolfe<\/strong>, Governor of Pennsylvania (D)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tom Ridge<\/strong>, Governor of Pennsylvania (R); Secretary of Homeland Security<\/li>\n<li><strong>William Scranton<\/strong>, Governor of Pennsylvania (R)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Christine Todd Whitman<\/strong>, Governor of New Jersey (R)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Thomas H. Kean<\/strong>, Governor of New Jersey (D)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Douglas Wilder<\/strong>, Governor of Virginia (D)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Jesse Ventura<\/strong>, professional wrestler and governor of Minnesota (Reform Party)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Edwin Meese<\/strong>, US Attorney General (R)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Paul Sarbanes<\/strong>, U.S. Representative and Senator (D-MD)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Birch Bayh<\/strong>, U.S. Senator (D-IN)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Paul Simon<\/strong>, U.S. Senator (D-IN)<\/li>\n<li><strong>John Heinz,<\/strong> U.S. Senator (R-PA)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Richard Schweiker<\/strong>, U.S. Senator (D-PA)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Jacob K. Javits<\/strong>, U.S. Senator (D-NY)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Bob Dole<\/strong>, U.S. Senator (R-KS); Republican presidential candidate<\/li>\n<li><strong>Joseph Sestak<\/strong>, 3-star Admiral, U.S. Navy (ret.); U.S. Representative (D-PA)<\/li>\n<li><strong>George Gekas<\/strong> (Dickinson &#8217;52), U.S. Representative (R-PA)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Bill Shuster<\/strong> (Dickinson &#8217;83), U.S. Representative (R-PA)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Jim Gerlack<\/strong> (Dickinson &#8217;77)), U.S. Representative (R-PA)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Kurt L. Schmoke<\/strong>, Mayor, Baltimore, MD (D)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Public law<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-574\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/alumnihouse\/files\/2019\/08\/Law-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Legal\" width=\"225\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/alumnihouse\/files\/2019\/08\/Law-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/alumnihouse\/files\/2019\/08\/Law.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>William Rehnquist,<\/strong> Chief Justice, U.S. Supreme Court<\/li>\n<li><strong>Harry Blackmun<\/strong>, US Supreme Court Justice<\/li>\n<li><strong>Owen J. Roberts<\/strong>, US Supreme Court Justice<\/li>\n<li><strong>John E. Jones III \u201977<\/strong>, U.S. District Judge, Middle District of PA; Chair, Board of Trustees (2017-)<\/li>\n<li><strong>James Comey<\/strong>, director, FBI<\/li>\n<li><strong>Kenneth Starr<\/strong>, U.S. Solicitor General, special counsel investigator of President Bill Clinton<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Diplomacy<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-582\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/alumnihouse\/files\/2019\/08\/Diplomacy-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Diplomats\" width=\"225\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/alumnihouse\/files\/2019\/08\/Diplomacy-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/alumnihouse\/files\/2019\/08\/Diplomacy.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Madeline Albright<\/strong>, Secretary of State<\/li>\n<li><strong>Paul Warnke<\/strong>, U.S. Diplomat and arms control negotiator<\/li>\n<li><strong>Nicholas Burns<\/strong>, American Ambassador (Greece) and diplomat<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ellsworth Bunker<\/strong>, Ambassador (Argentina, Italy, India, Nepal and South Vietnam); lead negotiator for the Panama Canal Treaty (1978)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Hodding Carter III<\/strong>, Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs<\/li>\n<li><strong>P.J. Crowley<\/strong>, Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1155\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/alumnihouse\/files\/2019\/08\/OtherPublicService1.jpg\" alt=\"Other public service\" width=\"225\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/alumnihouse\/files\/2019\/08\/OtherPublicService1.jpg 360w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/alumnihouse\/files\/2019\/08\/OtherPublicService1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/alumnihouse\/files\/2019\/08\/OtherPublicService1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/alumnihouse\/files\/2019\/08\/OtherPublicService1-180x180.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/>Other public service<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>David H. Petraeus<\/strong>, Four-star General, U.S. Army (ret.);\u00a0 CIA Director<\/li>\n<li><strong>David C. Meade &#8217;62<\/strong>, Two-star General, U.S. Army (ret.); Trustee Emeritus<\/li>\n<li><strong>Jody Powell<\/strong>, Press Secretary to President Jimmy Carter<\/li>\n<li><strong>Alice Rivlin<\/strong>, Director of the White House Office of Management and Budget<\/li>\n<li><strong>Dennis C. Blair<\/strong>, 4-star Admiral, U.S. Navy (ret.);\u00a0 Director of National Intelligence<\/li>\n<li><strong>Valerie Plame Wilson<\/strong>, CIA operative<\/li>\n<li><strong>David Kessler<\/strong>, Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission<\/li>\n<li><strong>Donna Shalala<\/strong>, Secretary of Health and Human Services<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-587 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/alumnihouse\/files\/2019\/08\/Journalism-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Journalists\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/alumnihouse\/files\/2019\/08\/Journalism-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/alumnihouse\/files\/2019\/08\/Journalism.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/>Journalism<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Christiane Amanpour<\/strong>, <em>CNN<\/em> Chief Correspondent<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ted Koppel<\/strong>, broadcast journalist<\/li>\n<li><strong>George F. Will<\/strong>, columnist for <em>The Washington Post<\/em> and <em>Newsweek<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Kimberly Dozier<\/strong>, intelligence writer for the <em>Associated Press<\/em>, best-selling author<\/li>\n<li><strong>Richard Atkinson<\/strong>, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist with the <em>Washington Post<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>David Gergen<\/strong>, political commentator and advisor to presidents Nixon, Ford, Reagan, and Clinton<\/li>\n<li><strong>Daniel Schorr<\/strong>, Emmy-Award-winning journalist<\/li>\n<li><strong>Brian Lamb<\/strong>, American journalist and the founder of<em> C-SPAN<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Ann Woodruff Compton<\/strong>, <em>ABC New<\/em>s White House Correspondent<\/li>\n<li><strong>James Reston<\/strong>, American journals, <em>New York Times<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>John Curley<\/strong> (Dickinson &#8217;60 and Chair, Board of Trustees, 1998-2008), former editor of <em>USA Today<\/em> and retired Chairman of Gannet News Service<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1012 size-medium alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/alumnihouse\/files\/2019\/08\/ArtsSciences-225x300-3-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Arts and Sciences\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/>The arts, sciences, and social sciences<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>James Hansen<\/strong>, director of NASA&#8217;s Goddard Institute for Space Studies<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ian McEwan<\/strong>, English author<\/li>\n<li><strong>Seamus Heaney<\/strong>, Irish poet and Nobel Prize winner<\/li>\n<li><strong>Robert Frost<\/strong>, Pulitzer-prize-winning American poet<\/li>\n<li><strong>Margaret Mead<\/strong>, American anthropologist<\/li>\n<li><strong>Carl Sagan<\/strong>, American astronomer, astrophysicist, astrobiologist, author, and science popularizer<\/li>\n<li><strong>Benjamin Spock<\/strong>, pediatrician and author of <em>Baby and Child Care<\/em> (1946) is one of the best-selling volumes in history<\/li>\n<li><strong>David McCullough<\/strong>, Pulitzer-prize-winning author and historian<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mario Vargas Llosa<\/strong>, writer and Nobel Prize in literature<\/li>\n<li><strong>Margaret Atwater<\/strong>, Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, inventor, teacher, and environmental activist<\/li>\n<li><strong>Herta Muller<\/strong>, writer and Nobel Prize in Literature<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-591\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/alumnihouse\/files\/2019\/08\/Entertainment-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Entertainers\" width=\"225\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/alumnihouse\/files\/2019\/08\/Entertainment-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/alumnihouse\/files\/2019\/08\/Entertainment-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/alumnihouse\/files\/2019\/08\/Entertainment-180x180.jpg 180w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/alumnihouse\/files\/2019\/08\/Entertainment.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/>Entertainment<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Antonio Bandaras<\/strong>, Spanish-born actor and producer<\/li>\n<li><strong>Melanie Griffith<\/strong>, American film, stage, and television actress, and film producer<\/li>\n<li><b>Lord Richard Attenborough<\/b>, English actor, filmmaker, entrepreneur, and politician<\/li>\n<li><strong>Jack Palance<\/strong>, Academy Award-winning actor<\/li>\n<li><strong>Julie Harris<\/strong>, American actress and 5-time Tony Award winner<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mike Farrell<\/strong>, American actor (Capt. B.J. Hunnicutt, television series <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0068098\/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1\">M*A*S*H<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tommy Flanagan<\/strong>, jazz pianist<\/li>\n<li><strong>John Walsh<\/strong>, host of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0094415\/\"><em>America&#8217;s Most Wanted<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Phil Capice<\/strong> (Dickinson &#8217;52), television producer; executive producer of the TV show <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0077000\/\">Dallas<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Social activism<span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-579 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/alumnihouse\/files\/2019\/08\/HiActivist2-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Activists\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/alumnihouse\/files\/2019\/08\/HiActivist2-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/alumnihouse\/files\/2019\/08\/HiActivist2.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Bishop Desmond Tutu<\/strong>, South African anti-apartheid and human rights activist<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ralph Nader<\/strong>, consumer and environmental activist<\/li>\n<li><strong>Jonathan Kozol<\/strong>, social and educational activist<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mark Ruffalo<\/strong>, actor, director and award-winning advocate for addressing climate change and increasing renewable energy<\/li>\n<li><strong>James Balog<\/strong>, author, scientist and award-winning photographer who founded the Extreme Ice Survey (EIS) and Earth Vision Trust<\/li>\n<li><strong>Bill McKibben<\/strong>, American environmentalist, author, and journalist who has written extensively on the impact of global warming<\/li>\n<li><strong>Dr. William Sloane Coffin<\/strong>, peace activist<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sam Rose<\/strong> (Dickinson &#8217;58), real estate developer and co-founder with wife Julie of the <em>Rose-Walters Prize at Dickinson College for Global Environmental Activism<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Derek Humphry<\/strong>, British-born American journalist and author notable as a proponent of legal assisted suicide and the right to die philosophy<\/li>\n<li><strong>Bill Ayers<\/strong>, co-founder of the <em>Weather Underground<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Sports<span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-593\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/alumnihouse\/files\/2019\/08\/Sports-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Athletes\" width=\"225\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/alumnihouse\/files\/2019\/08\/Sports-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/alumnihouse\/files\/2019\/08\/Sports.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Howard Cosell<\/strong>, American sportscaster, sports journalist, and author<\/li>\n<li><strong>Kareem Abdul Jabbar<\/strong>, Hall-of-Fame professional basketball player, social commentator on race and religion<\/li>\n<li><strong>Bill Bradley<\/strong>, Hall-of-Fame professional basketball player; U.S. Senator (D-NJ)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Doug Flutie<\/strong>, professional football player (quarterback); social activist (autism)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dickinson has proudly hosted a wide range of national and international leaders at the Historic President&#8217;s House over the years. 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