List of Shimer College people

This is a list of notable students and faculty of Shimer College, a very small Great Books college that was acquired in 2017 by North Central College.

Shimer people in a Shimer class

Founded in 1853, Shimer occupied a traditional college campus in Mount Carroll, Illinois, from 1853 to 1978, and an improvised campus in Waukegan from 1979 to 2006. It then occupied a dedicated space on the Illinois Institute of Technology campus in Chicago since 2006. Small throughout its existence, Shimer enrolled 141 students as of 2012.[1] As of 2008, Shimer had 5,615 living alumni.[2]

On June 1, 2017 the College became the Shimer Great Books School of North Central College after an innovative agreement led by then Shimer President Susan Henking.

The school was known for its Great Books curriculum, and also for its early entrance program, both of which have been in effect since 1950.[3][4] Many on this list were early entrants.

Contents

• A
• B
• C
• D
• E
• F
• G
• H
• J
• K
• L
• M
• N
• O
• P
• R
• S
• T
• V
• W
• Y

• References

A

José Aybar

Name	Known for	Relationship to Shimer College	Citation
Stephen Abrams	Parapsychologist and drug law reform activist	1950s student	[5]
José Aybar	President of Richard J. Daley College	1964 graduate	[6]

B

Beulah Bondi

Name	Known for	Relationship to Shimer College	Citation
Frederick C. Beiser	Scholar of German Idealist thought	1971 graduate	[7]
John Bellairs	Novelist	1960s faculty	[8]
Beulah Bondi	Film actress	1907 graduate	[9]
Alice Braunlich	Classical philologist	1910s faculty	[10]
Rachel Fuller Brown	Chemist and coinventor of nystatin	1920s faculty	[11]
Carol Bruch	Legal scholar	1960 graduate	[12]
Ron Bruder	Entrepreneur and founder of Education for Employment	1960s student	[13]

C

Peter Cooley

Name	Known for	Relationship to Shimer College	Citation
Samuel James Campbell	Businessman and philanthropist	1909 certificate, chairman of the board 1935–1956	[14]
Lynda Caspe	Painter, sculptor and poet	1960s student	[15]
Lisa Collier Cool	Author and journalist	1970s student	[16]
Peter Cooley	Poet and professor of English at Tulane University	1962 graduate	[17]
Heather Corinna	Author, sex columnist and activist	1990s student	[18]
John Nathan Crouse	Dentist, organizer of patent litigation, and American Dental Association president	1860s student	[19]

DorianElectra.TexasIdaho.jpg|thumb|100px|Virginia Dox]]

Name	Known for	Relationship to Shimer College	Citation
Bina Deneen	First Lady of Illinois, 1904–1912	1890 graduate; 1889–1890 faculty	[20][21]
Stephen Dobyns	Poet and novelist	1960s student	[22]
George W. Downs	Political scientist	1967 graduate	[23]
Alan Dowty	International relations scholar	1959 graduate, 1966–1967 faculty	[24]
Virginia Dox	Frontier educator, popular public speaker, key Whitman College fundraising agent	1875 graduate, 1875–1877 faculty	[25]
Dale Dubin	Author of bestselling cardiology textbook	1950s student	[26]

E

Name	Known for	Relationship to Shimer College	Citation
Dorian Electra	Singer and video artist	2014 graduate	[27]

F

Virgil Ferguson

Name	Known for	Relationship to Shimer College	Citation
Virgil Ferguson	Member of the Illinois State Senate 1891–1895	1860s student	[28]
Arthur Fine	Philosopher of science	1950s student	[29]
Ken Friedman	Experimental artist and author	1966	[30]

G

Sherna Berger Gluck

Name	Known for	Relationship to Shimer College	Citation
Robert H. Gray	Amateur astronomer and writer on SETI	1970 graduate	[31]
Evelyn Greeley	Silent film actress	1900s student (disputed)[32]	[33]
Redd Griffin	Illinois state legislator	1960 graduate	[34]

H

Mitzi Hoag

Name	Known for	Relationship to Shimer College	Citation
Henry Winfield Haldeman	Physician, banker and two-term mayor of Girard, Kansas	1860s student	[35][36]
Mitzi Hoag	TV actress	1952 graduate	[37]

J

Name	Known for	Relationship to Shimer College	Citation
Randolph Jackson	New York Supreme Court justice and co-founder of Metropolitan Black Bar Association	1960s student	[38][39]

K

Robert O. Keohane

Name	Known for	Relationship to Shimer College	Citation
Robert Keohane	Professor of Political Science at Princeton University	1961 graduate	[40]
C. Clark Kissinger	Political activist	1960s student	[41]
Ken Knabb	Writer and translator	1965 graduate	[42]
Penney Kome	Canadian author and journalist, editor of Straight Goods	1960s student	[43]
Adam Kotsko	Writer on philosophy and popular culture	Faculty 2011–present	[44]
Jesse Kraai	Chess Grandmaster	1994 graduate	[45]
Jerome Kristian	Cosmologist and discoverer of quasar host galaxies	1953 graduate	[46]

L

Emil Liebling

Name	Known for	Relationship to Shimer College	Citation
Jake La Botz	Musician and actor	1980s student	[47]
Kevin Larmee	Painter in the East Village art movement	1960s student, 1990 graduate[48]	[49]
Emil Liebling	Pianist and composer	1900s faculty	[50]
Thomas Locker	Artist and author	1970s faculty	[51]

M

Samuel McCall

Name	Known for	Relationship to Shimer College	Citation
Gavin MacFadyen	Investigative journalist and documentary filmmaker	1958–1959 student	[52]
Annie Marion MacLean	Sociologist	1894–1896 faculty	[53]
John Norman Maclean	Author and journalist	1964	[54]
Samuel W. McCall	Governor of Massachusetts	1864–1866 student	[55]
Anne McKnight (Anna de Cavalieri)	Opera soprano	1943 graduate	[56]
Suzanna Whitelaw Miles	Mayanist	1940–1942 student	[57]
H.H.C. Miller	Early Evanston mayor and civic leader	1860–1864 student	[58]

N

Mary Nourse

Name	Known for	Relationship to Shimer College	Citation
Debbie Nathan	Feminist journalist and writer	1960s student	[59]
Henry Neikirk	Mine owner and Colorado state senator	1850s student	[60]
Mary Nourse	Historian of China and co-founder of Jinling College	1899 graduate	[61]
Jan Novák	Czech novelist and screenwriter	1970s student	[62]

O

Jinny Osborn

Name	Known for	Relationship to Shimer College	Citation
Kenneth Olwig	Geographer	1967 graduate	[63]
Jinny Osborn	Singer and founding member of The Chordettes	1945 graduate	[64]

P

Mia Park

Name	Known for	Relationship to Shimer College	Citation
Mia Park	TV show host and actress	1995 graduate	[65]
Theodore Pepoon	Nebraska state senator	1850s student	[66]
Daniel Perlman	President of Suffolk University and Webster University	1954 graduate	[67]
Nick Pippenger	Researcher in computer science	1965 graduate	[68]
Frank Pooler	Choirmaster and choral instructor	1950s faculty	[69]
Edwin Hartley Pratt	Homeopathic physician and inventor of "orificial surgery"	1864–1865 student	[70]

R

J. Morris Rea

Name	Known for	Relationship to Shimer College	Citation
J. Morris Rea	Iowa state senator	1850s–1860s student	[71]

S

Neta "Snookie" Snook

Name	Known for	Relationship to Shimer College	Citation
Daniel J. Sandin	Computer graphics and visual arts pioneer	1964 graduate	[72]
Ron Schultz	Florida State Representative	1950s student	[73]
Frances Shimer	Educator; founder and principal of Mount Carroll Seminary, which later became Shimer College	Founder
Henry Shimer	Entomologist and physician	19th-century faculty, husband of founder Frances Shimer	[74]
Neta Snook	Pioneer aviator and teacher of Amelia Earhart	1912 graduate	[75]
Phoebe Snow	Singer-songwriter	1970s student	[76]
Laurie Spiegel	Composer and computer scientist	1967 graduate	[77]
Sydney Spiesel	Pediatrician and clinical faculty at Yale University School of Medicine	1961 graduate	[78]
Sarah Hackett Stevenson	First female delegate of the American Medical Association	1850s student	[79]
Paula Stewart	Stage, film and television actress	1947	[80]

V

Elizabeth Van Wie Davis

Name	Known for	Relationship to Shimer College	Citation
Elizabeth Van Wie Davis	Asian studies scholar and administrator at Nazarbayev University	1977 graduate	[81]
Elizabeth Vandiver	Classicist and classics educator	1976 graduate	[82]

W

Art by Mary Wings

Name	Known for	Relationship to Shimer College	Citation
David Weisburd	Criminologist	1970s student	[5]
David Hilton Wheeler	Italian translator and Northwestern University and Allegheny College president	1850s faculty	[83]
Lilian Whiting	Author and editor	19th-century student	[84]
Mary Wings	Writer, artist, and musician	1960s student	[85]
Roland Winston	Expert in nonimaging optics for solar energy	1953 graduate	[86]

Y

Cat Yronwode

Name	Known for	Relationship to Shimer College	Citation
Cat Yronwode	Comic book publisher and folklorist	1960s student	[87]

Works cited

• Shimer College (2000). Shimer College Faculty & Alum Directory 2000.

References

1. Peterson's Colleges in the Midwest. Lawrenceville, NJ: Peterson's. 2012. p. 61. ISBN 0-7689-2690-4.
2. "Shimer College Profile" (PDF). R.H. Perry & Associates. p. 6. Archived from the original (PDF) on August 19, 2008. Retrieved April 28, 2010.
3. "Shimer College Early Entrance Program". Shimer College. Archived from the original on June 2, 2013. Retrieved October 3, 2012.
4. "Great Books Curriculum". Shimer College. Archived from the original on January 17, 2013. Retrieved November 26, 2012.
5. Shimer College 2000. sfn error: multiple targets (2×): CITEREFShimer_College2000 (help)
6. Richard J. Daley College. "Leadership". City Colleges of Chicago. Retrieved December 5, 2012.
7. Shimer College (1971). Shimer College Graduation Bulletin.
8. "Teaching". Bellairsia. Archived from the original on August 6, 2012. Retrieved October 2, 2012.
9. Shimer College (March 1976). "Beulah Bondi Stars at Shimer Film Tribute". Shimer College Bulletin. p. 8.
10. Janice M. Benario (1994). "Braunlich, Alice Freda". In Ward W. Briggs (ed.). Biographical Dictionary of North American Classicists. Westport, CT/London: Greenwood Press. pp. 61–62. ISBN 9780313245602.
11. Joyce Harvey; Marilyn Ogilvie (2000). "Brown, Margaret Fuller". The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science. 1. p. 191. ISBN 0203801458.
12. "Carol S. Bruch". University of California Davis. Retrieved December 5, 2012.
13. Adelphi University (2011). "Ronald B. Bruder '68" (PDF). Adelphi University Transfer Students Newsletter. p. 5. Retrieved October 3, 2012.
14. "Class of 1909". Frances Shimer Record. 2 (1): 51.
15. Carla Marie Rupp (February 3, 2008). "Lynda Caspe: A Profile".
16. "Creative Success". Shimer College. April 26, 2013. Archived from the original on June 29, 2013. Retrieved June 24, 2013.
17. "Peter Cooley". Tulane.edu. Retrieved April 22, 2010.
18. "Biography". Retrieved April 22, 2010.
19. "John Nathan Crouse, D.D.S." Dental Items of Interest. 36: 234. 1914.
20. Bina Deneen House (1968). E. George Thiem (ed.). Carroll County: A Goodly Heritage. Kable Printing Company. p. 369.
21. "Mount Carroll Seminary". The Oread of Mount Carroll Seminary. Shimer College. 1890. p. 13.
22. Rosemary Herbert (2003). "Dobyns, Stephen". Whodunit? : A Who's Who in Crime and Mystery Writing. Oxford University Press. p. 53. ISBN 0198035829.
23. "Remembering George Downs, 1946-2015" (PDF) (PDF). New York University. Retrieved February 1, 2015.
24. "Alumni board of directors". Archived from the original on June 9, 2010. Retrieved April 22, 2010.
25. "Letters". Oread. June 1893. pp. 25–26.
26. "Shimer College Alumni News". Shimer College Bulletin. May 1970.
27. "Dorian Electra '14 Releases A New Music Video". Shimer College. September 3, 2014. Archived from the original on February 8, 2015. Retrieved February 8, 2015.
28. Triennial Catalogue of the Mount Carroll Seminary. 1862. p. 13.
29. Shimer College 2000, p. 38. sfn error: multiple targets (2×): CITEREFShimer_College2000 (help)
30. Shimer College (March 1976). "Class Notes". Shimer College Bulletin. p. 16.
31. "Robert Gray". LinkedIn.com. Retrieved July 1, 2013.
32. Rudolf Ulrich (2004). Österreicher in Hollywood. Film Archiv Austria. p. 167. ISBN 3901932291.
33. Billy H. Doyle & Anthony Slide (1995). "Evelyn Greeley". The ultimate directory of the silent screen performers: a necrology of births and deaths and essays on 50 lost players. p. 31. ISBN 0810829584.CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)
34. Ken Trainor (November 20, 2012). "Remembering Redd". Wednesday Journal. Retrieved November 26, 2012.
35. "Gentlemen". Triennial Catalogue of the Mount Carroll Seminary. Shimer College. 1862. p. 14.
36. Bryan, Mary Lynn; Barbara Bair (2002). The Selected Papers of Jane Addams, vol. 1: Preparing to Lead. p. 508. ISBN 0252027299.
37. "Shimer's First Four-Year Graduates Received Degrees Seventeen Years Ago". Shimer College Bulletin. Shimer College. May 1969. p. 1.
38. "Shimer College Symposium, Fall 2010, p. 12" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on June 7, 2012. Retrieved October 4, 2012.
39. Shimer College 2000, p. 53. sfn error: multiple targets (2×): CITEREFShimer_College2000 (help)
40. "Alumni Profiles: Robert O. Keohane". Shimer College. Archived from the original on March 1, 2012. Retrieved June 15, 2013.
41. Kirkpatrick Sale (1974). SDS: Ten Years Towards a Revolution. New York: Vintage Books. p. 126. ISBN 0394719654.
42. Ken Knabb (1997). "Shimer College and first independent ventures". Public Secrets.
43. Penney Kome. "Bit of Background". Retrieved August 3, 2013.
44. Shimer College. "Adam Kotsko". Archived from the original on July 8, 2012. Retrieved October 2, 2012.
45. "Jesse Kraai Attains Chess Pinnacle" (PDF). Shimer College Symposium. Spring 2008. p. 3. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 9, 2010. Retrieved June 15, 2013.
46. Guido Munch (1997). "Obituary: Jerome Kristian, 1934-1996". Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society: 1476. Bibcode:1997BAAS...29.1476M.
47. "Jake La Botz". The Days of Yore. May 14, 2012. Retrieved September 29, 2012.
48. Shimer College (2000). Shimer College Faculty & Alum Directory 2000.. Does not distinguish between graduates and non-graduates.
49. "Eight Urban Painters: Contemporary Artists of the East Village" (PDF). The Fine Arts Center Art Gallery (SUNY Stony Brook). July 9, 1986. p. 5. Retrieved December 18, 2014.
50. "The Departments of Music and Art". Annual Calendar of the Frances Shimer Academy of the University of Chicago. Shimer College. 1905. p. 8.
51. Catskill Mountain Foundation (August 2000). "Galleries". Retrieved October 2, 2012.
52. Michael Best (April 24, 2017). "Long before WikiLeaks, the FBI spent decades obsessing over Gavin MacFadyen". Muckrock.com.
53. Mary Jo Deegan (2014). Annie Marion MacLean and the Chicago Schools of Sociology, 1894-1934. ISBN 9781412852883.
54. "About John Maclean". Retrieved December 3, 2010.
55. Lawrence Boyd Evans (1916). Samuel McCall, Governor of Massachusetts. Houghton Mifflin. p. 7.
56. "Elizabeth Anne McKnight". Fox Valley Arts Hall of Fame. Retrieved November 5, 2011.
57. Proskouriakoff, Tatiana (August 1968). "Suzanna Whitelaw Miles, 1922-1966". American Anthropologist. Arlington, VA: American Anthropological Association and affiliated societies. 70 (4): 753–754. doi:10.1525/aa.1968.70.4.02a00060. ISSN 0002-7294. JSTOR 670556. OCLC 481547925.
58. H.H.C. Miller (June 1893). "Letters". The Oread of Mount Carroll Seminary. pp. 16–17.
59. Patrick Murfin (September 17, 2012). "Diez y Seis de Septiembre and Rosh Hashanah—Oh My!". Retrieved June 20, 2013.
60. Twitty, Eric (2009). "Amendment to Metal Mining and Tourist Era Resources of Boulder County" (PDF). p. E99. Archived from the original (PDF) on December 20, 2015. Retrieved May 30, 2013.
61. "Shimer Honors Four Alumnae". Shimer College Record. 58 (1). April 1966. p. 13.
62. "Jan Novák: Děda (1-12)". Český rozhlas 3 - Vltava (in Czech). October 6, 2007. Retrieved September 30, 2012.
63. "Kenneth R. Olwig: Calendar 2012, Research Projects, CV, Publications" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on March 4, 2016. Retrieved October 2, 2012.
64. "Jinny Osborn" (PDF). Radio and Television Mirror. July 1950. p. 84.
65. Shimer College. "Shimer College Alumni Make News". Alumni.shimer.edu. Archived from the original on December 15, 2012. Retrieved September 30, 2012.
66. "Personals". Oread of the Mount Carroll Seminary. Mount Carroll Seminary. August 1878. pp. 12–13.
67. Webster University. "History of the Presidency". Archived from the original on October 17, 2012. Retrieved September 20, 2012.
68. "Nicholas Pippenger". Hmc.edu. Retrieved April 25, 2010.
69. "In Memoriam". Shimer College. February 5, 2013. Archived from the original on June 18, 2013. Retrieved June 15, 2013.
70. "Edwin Hartley Pratt". The Biographical Dictionary and Portrait Gallery of Representative Men of Chicago, St. Louis and the World's Columbian Exposition, Part 2. American Biographical Publishing Company. 1892. pp. 468–473.
71. Iowa Historical Society (2000). "Rea, J. Morris" (PDF). Retrieved June 12, 2013.
72. "35 Years of Art & Science Collaboration". Shimer College. Archived from the original on June 17, 2013. Retrieved June 15, 2013.
73. Florida House of Representatives. "Representative Ron Schultz". Retrieved October 2, 2012.
74. Harold Henderson (June 16, 1988). "Big Ideas: Tiny Shimer College has survived for 135 years on great books, high hopes, and very little money". Chicago Reader.
75. "Class Notes". Shimer College Bulletin. September 1975. p. 16.
76. "Named for a Train, Phoebe Snow is on the Right Track". People. March 22, 1976. Retrieved September 13, 2010.
77. "Spiegel, Laurie". The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music. 1996. p. 857. ISBN 0674372999.
78. "Who We Are". Slate Magazine. Archived from the original on June 5, 2011. Retrieved December 3, 2010.
79. Chicago Women: Sarah Stevenson
80. Shimer College 2000, p. 121. sfn error: multiple targets (2×): CITEREFShimer_College2000 (help)
81. "Davis, Elizabeth Van Wie". Center for Asian Studies. Archived from the original on August 22, 2014. Retrieved August 3, 2015.
82. "Directories: The Faculty". Whitman College. Archived from the original on June 9, 2013. Retrieved June 15, 2013.
83. First Biennial Register and Circular. Mount Carroll Seminary. 1855. p. 8.
84. "Personals". Oread of Mount Carroll Seminary. Shimer College. August 1890. p. 25.
85. Ellen Lewin (1993). "Mary Geller (1949– )". Contemporary lesbian writers of the United States. p. 572. ISBN 0313282153.
86. University of California, Merced. "UC Merced Appoints First Founding Faculty". Retrieved September 29, 2012.
87. Cat Yronwode. "Catherine Yronwode". Luckymojo.com. Retrieved June 15, 2013.