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.