Selected List of Gibbs Graduates

Education

Marjorie Bell Chambers, PhD, first woman president of Colorado Women’s College

Allegra Maynard, headmistress of The Madeira School in McLean Virginia

Agnes Missirian, PhD, Fulbright scholar, prolific author, faculty member at Bentley University

Katharine Towle, first director of women marines, dean of students at UC Berkeley.  Awarded Legion of Merit and the Navy Commendation Medal

Business

Annie Tryon Adams, founder of nationally franchised Annie’s Book Stop

Colleen Sullivan Bastkowski, regional vice president of an educational software company

Dorothy Breininger, Dorothy the Organizer, best- selling author and  media personality

Felton Brown, art director at New York City advertising agency

Terrence Gray, secretary turned entrepreneur whose motto is “Success by Design”

Ellen Merlo, senior vice president for corporate affairs at Phillip Morris USA, philanthropist

Doris Tarrant, first woman president of the multimillion-dollar United Jersey Bank North

Karen Eddy Kent, first female in the country to head a trade association.

Karyn Khoury, Senior Vice President of Corporate Fragrance Development at Estee Lauder

Barbara Bancroft, first Woman of the Year, Advertising club of Greater Boston

Helene Pilibosian, poet, publisher, first woman editor of the newspaper Armenian-American.

Patricia Ryan, first female editor of People

Entertainment

Kay Francis, the queen of Warner Brothers before Bette Davis

Barbara Gaines, “The Late Show with David Letterman” executive producer

Loretta Swit, Emmy-winning actress

Meredith Vieira, journalist and television personality

Government

Joan M. Clark, United States Ambassador to Malta, director of management operations at the Department of State, Director General of the Foreign Service, Assistant Secretary of Consular Affairs

Mary Claiborne Jarratt, Assistant Secretary of Agriculture

Joyce E. Munkacsi, New Jersey Superior Court judge, first woman Assistant County Prosecutor, Middlesex County, New Jersey

Marion West Higgins, first woman elected Speaker of the New Jersey Assembly, second woman in the country to hold this office

Jean MacIntire Kennet, first woman appointed as Clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court, Massachusetts

Mary Sutton Ramsdell, first state policewoman in the nation

Ruth A. Robinson, Chief of the Army Medical Specialist Corps.  Awarded the Legion of Merit

Writers

Mary Louise Beneway Clifford, CIA operative, prolific author

Jeanne Gurnee, geographer and writer, awarded Society of Woman Geographers Outstanding Achievement Award

Marie Lyons Killilea, co-founder of the National United Cerebral Palsy Foundation and author whose five books have sold four million copies in eleven languages

Mary Slattery Stoltz , author of more than 60 books translated into almost 30 languages, early practitioner of the young adult novel, received two Newbury Honors, and award for her life’s work.