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The class of 1927 sitting in front of William Smith Hall

Washington College is a private liberal arts college in Chestertown, Maryland, which is on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. The college was founded in 1782 by William Smith, but is the successor institution to the earlier Kent County Free School which was founded in 1732.[1] Modern college classes – freshman, sophomore, junior, and senior – were introduced in the 1870s by President William Rivers.[2] At the same time, a class called sub-freshmen was created for students that did not meet the requirements to be freshmen. The college continued to admit sub-freshmen to the preparatory department until 1924.[3]

Washington College experienced major fires in 1827[4] and 1916[5] that destroyed most of the school's records. Because of this, it is impossible to know how many students graduated before 1916 and which years people graduated.[5] However, it is known that 218 students graduated between 1845 and 1903[6] and, that in 1910, the college had 113 students enrolled.[7] The college has continued to grow since then. In 1952, the college more than doubled its enrollment to 350 students.[8] Between the 1950s and 1970s, the college doubled its enrollment again to 800 students in 1972. Since the 1970s, the college has close to doubled the 1972 enrollment with 1,480 students enrolled in 2019.[9]

Alumni of Washington College includes two Governors of Maryland, a Governor of Delaware, four United States Senators, seven members of the United States House of Representatives, and nine State senators. Outside of the world of politics, nine alumni of Washington College played at least one game in Major League Baseball including Jake Flowers who was on two World Series winning teams. John Emory, the namesake of Emory University and Emory & Henry College, graduated from Washington College. Several alumni were successful writers including James M. Cain and Đỗ Nguyên Mai. Mary Adele France, who was the first president of St. Mary's College of Maryland, and Robert K. Crane, who discovered sodium-glucose cotransport, both found success in academia. H. Lawrence Culp Jr. has found success in business as the CEO of Danaher Corporation and the CEO of General Electric.

Arts and entertainment

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James M. Cain
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Linda Hamilton
Washington College alumni who are notable for their contributions to the arts or as entertainers
Name Class year[a] Notability Ref(s)
James M. Cain 1910 Writer of The Postman Always Rings Twice, Double Indemnity and Mildred Pierce [10]
Linda Hamilton 1978‡ Actress who portrayed Sarah Connor in The Terminator [11]
Laura San Giacomo 1983‡ Actress who portrayed Cynthia Patrice Bishop in Sex, Lies, and Videotape and Maya Gallo in Just Shoot Me! [12][13]
Erin Murphy 1990 Poet [14]
Geoffrey Girard 1990 Writer [15]
Vicco von Voss 1991 Woodworking Craftsman and Artist [16]
Raph Koster 1992 Game designer, Ultima Online and Star Wars Galaxies, author of A Theory of Fun for Game Design [17]
Deborah Anzinger 2001 Visual artist [18]
Frank Giampietro 2002 M Poet [19]
Đỗ Nguyên Mai 2019 Poet [20]

Athletics

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D'Arcy "Jake" Flowers
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Bill Nicholson
Washington College alumni who are notable for their contributions to sports or athletics
Name Class year[a] Notability Ref(s)
Al Burris 1894 Pitcher for the Philadelphia Phillies [21]
Dave Zearfoss ?[b] Catcher for the New York Giants and St. Louis Cardinals [22]
Homer Smoot 1897[c] Center fielder for the St. Louis Cardinals and Cincinnati Reds [23]
John "Happy" Townsend ?[d] Pitcher for the Philadelphia Phillies, Washington Senators, and Cleveland Naps [24]
Ralph "Pepe" Young ?[e] Second baseman for the New York Yankees, Detroit Tigers, and Philadelphia Athletics [25]
Frederick "Doc" Wallace ?[f] Shortstop for the Philadelphia Phillies [26]
D'Arcy "Jake" Flowers ?[g] Second baseman and shortstop for the St. Louis Cardinals, Brooklyn Dodgers and Cincinnati Reds [27]
Bill Nicholson 1936 Right fielder for the Philadelphia Athletics, Chicago Cubs and Philadelphia Phillies [28]
John Howard 1956 Head coach of Maryland Terrapins men's lacrosse and Professor of English [29]
Dave Leonhard 1960‡ Pitcher for the Baltimore Orioles [30]

Law and government

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James Barroll Ricaud
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Charles Hopper Gibson
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Lucy Gwynne Branham
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Barry Glassman
Washington College alumni who are notable for their contributions to law or politics
Name Class year[a] Notability Ref(s)
Robert Wright ?[h] United States Senator for Maryland (1801–1806), 12th Governor of Maryland, and U.S. Representative for Maryland's 7th congressional district (1810–1817; 1821–1823) [31]
Thomas Veazey 1795 24th Governor of Maryland [32]
Ezekiel F. Chambers 1805 United States Senator (1826–1834) [33]
James Barroll Ricaud 1828 U.S. Representative for Maryland's 2nd congressional district (1855–1859) [34]
John W. Crisfield ?[i] U.S. Representative for Maryland's 6th congressional district (1847–1849) and Maryland's 1st congressional district (1861–1864) [35]
George Vickers ?[j] United States Senator for Maryland (1868–1873) [36][37]
Joseph A. Wickes ?‡[k] Member of the Maryland House of Delegates (1856) and judge on the Maryland Second Circut [38]
James Alfred Pearce ?‡[l] Judge on the Maryland Court of Appeals [39]
Charles Hopper Gibson ?[m] U.S. Representative for Maryland's 1st congressional district (1885–1891) and United States Senator for Maryland (1891–1897) [40]
Robert Franklin Brattan 1864 President of the Maryland Senate and U.S. Representative for Maryland's 1st congressional district (1893–1894) [41]
Isaac Freeman Rasin ?[n] Baltimore political boss [42]
William T. Watson ?[o] Speaker of the Delaware Senate and 49th Governor of Delaware [43]
Thomas Alan Goldsborough 1899 U.S. Representative for Maryland's 1st congressional district (1921–1939) and United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia [44][45]
Dudley Roe 1903 Maryland State Senator (1923–1935; 1939–1943) and U.S. Representative for Maryland's 1st congressional district (1945–1947) [46]
Lucy Gwynne Branham ?[p] Suffragette and Carnegie Medal awardee [47]
Margaret Jefferson Jackson 1929 Maryland State Senator (1953–1955) [48]
Robert P. Dean 1931 Maryland State Senator (1955–1971) [49]
Louis L. Goldstein 1935 Maryland State Senator (1947–1958) and Comptroller of Maryland (1959–1998) [50]
Joseph J. Longobardi 1952 Judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware [51]
Thomas Hunter Lowe 1952 Speaker of the Maryland House of Delegates and judge on the Maryland Court of Special Appeals [52]
Rose Mary Hatem Bonsack 1955 Member of the Maryland House of Delegates (1991–1999) [53]
Walter M. Baker 1960 Maryland State Senator (1979–2003) [54]
John Overington 1962 Speaker pro tempore of the West Virginia House of Delegates [55]
Barbara Osborn Kreamer 1970 Member of the Maryland House of Delegates (1983–1991) [56]
Dean Skelos 1970 New York State Senator (1985–2015) and felon [57][58][59]
Joseph M. Getty 1974 Maryland State Senator (2011–2015) and judge on the Maryland Court of Appeals [60]
Barry Glassman 1984 Maryland State Senator (2011–2015) and Harford County County Executive [61]
Jerry Davis 1995 Member of the Houston City Council (2012–2020) [62]

Other

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Gilbert T. Rude
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Robert K. Crane
Washington College alumni who are notable for their contributions to other fields
Name Class year[a] Notability Ref(s)
William Murray Stone 1799 Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Maryland [63]
John Emory 1805 Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church [64]
Edward F. C. Davis 1866 President of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers [65]
Mary Adele France 1900 First president of St Mary's College of Maryland [66]
Gilbert T. Rude ?[q] United States Coast and Geodetic Survey and United States Navy Captain [67]
William J. Wallace 1917 US Marine Corps Lieutenant general [68]
Joseph McLain 1937 Pyrotechnic chemist and president of Washington College [69]
Benjamin H. Vandervoort 1938 US Army colonel who was twice awarded the Distinguished Service Cross [70]
William O. Baker 1935 President of Bell Labs (1973–1979) [71]
Robert K. Crane 1942 Biochemist who discovered sodium-glucose cotransport [72]
Ralph Snyderman 1961 Chancellor for health affairs and dean of the School of Medicine at Duke University [73]
Jeannie Baliles 1962 First Lady of Virginia and founder of Virginia Literacy Foundation [74]
Marcia A. Invernizzi 1972 Professor at the University of Virginia School of Education and Human Development [75]
Jane E. Mitchell 1976 M Nurse and civil rights activist [76]
Stephan Lewandowsky 1980 Professor of Psychology at the University of Bristol [77]
Kenneth M. Merz Jr. 1981 Biochemist and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling [78]
H. Lawrence Culp Jr. 1985 CEO of General Electric and CEO of Danaher Corporation [79]
Harris Whitbeck 1987 Correspondent for CNN International [80]
James A. Adkins 1991 M 28th Adjutant General of Maryland [81]

References

Notes

  1. ^ a b c d The year that an alumnus graduated from or left Washington College.
  2. ^ Zearfoss's first season in Major League Baseball was 1896.
  3. ^ The Society for American Baseball Research has found evidence that Smoot played for Washington College as late as 1899.
  4. ^ Townsend's first season in Major League Baseball was 1901.
  5. ^ Young's first season in Major League Baseball was 1913.
  6. ^ Wallace's first season in Major League Baseball was 1919.
  7. ^ Flowers's first season in Major League Baseball was 1923.
  8. ^ Wright was admitted to the bar in 1773. His Senate biography and The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography (1899, p. 297) mention that he graduated from Washington College before he was admitted to the bar, but the school was not chartered until 1782 (Dumschott 1980, p. 10). Wright probably attended the predecessor institution, the Kent County Free School.
  9. ^ Crisfield was admitted to the bar in 1830.
  10. ^ Vickers was admitted to the bar in 1832. Lanman (1868, p. 395) mentions there was a substantial gap between Vickers's formal education and his bar membership.
  11. ^ Wickes transferred from Washington College to Princeton University where he graduated in 1845.
  12. ^ Pearce transferred from Washington College to Princeton University c. 1859.
  13. ^ Gibson was admitted to the bar in 1864.
  14. ^ Rasin was elected to the Baltimore City Democratic executive committee in 1864. Brugger (1988, p. 385) does not mention how long the gap was between his education and political career.
  15. ^ Watson was elected to the Delaware House of Representatives in 1884. Addresses Delivered at the Formal Presentation of the Portraits of the Governors of Delaware to the State, Thursday, May 26th, 1898 (1898, p. 41) does not mention the size of the gap between his education and his election.
  16. ^ Branham earned her masters from Johns Hopkins University in 1914.
  17. ^ Rude received his commission in 1903.

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