KATHARINE GIBBS SCHOOL | GIBBS COLLEGE 1911-2011

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Some Famous Employers of Gibbs Secretaries

Bernard Baruch, financier and presidential advisor

Senator Edward W. Brooke, Massachusetts

Helen Gurley Brown, Editor-in-Chief, Cosmopolitan magazine

Christie Brinkley, model, actress, entrepreneur

President Jimmy Carter, 39th president of the United States

Julia Child, chef and television star who made French cooking accessible to Americans

John Foster Dulles, secretary of state in the Eisenhower administration

President Dwight W. Eisenhower, five–star general and 34th president of the United States

Arthur Fiedler, conductor of the Boston Pops

President Gerald Ford, 38th president of the United States

Katharine Graham, publisher of The Washington Post

President Herbert Hoover, 31st president of the United States

Thomas P. H. Hoving, director, Metropolitan Museum of Art

Howard Hughes, American business man, aviator, aerospace engineer, film maker, and philanthropist

Senator Edward M. Kennedy, Massachusetts

Joseph P. Kennedy, first chairman of the Security and Exchange Commission, ambassador to Great Britain, businessman

Senator Robert F. Kennedy, attorney general and presidential candidate

Senator John F. Kerry, Massachusetts

Serge Koussevitzky, conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra

Stanley Kubrick, film director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer, and editor

Robert Lehman, head of Lehman Brothers, art collector, philanthropist

Charles Lindbergh, aviator, political activist, and environmentalist

John V. Lindsay, mayor of New York

Margaret Mead, anthropologist

President Richard Nixon, 37th president of the United States, governor of California

Aristotle Onassis, Greek shipping magnate

Frank Perdue, president and CEO of Perdue Farms

President Ronald Reagan, actor and 40th president of the United States

Nelson Rockefeller, vice-president of the United States, governor of New York, businessman, philanthropist

Alfred E. Smith, presidential candidate and head of the Empire State Building project

Rise Stevens, Metropolitan Opera

Juan Trippe, founder and CEO of Pan Am

Barbara Walters, television journalist and first woman to co–anchor national evening news

Fred Waring, bandleader

Bradford Washburn, explorer, photographer, and director of the Museum of Science, Boston

Kevin H. White, mayor of Boston

Duke and Duchess of Windsor, the former King Edward VIII and his American wife Wallis Spencer

Tom Yawkey, owner, Boston Red Sox

Robert R. Young, CEO of New York Central Railroad

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