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Marymount College - Fordham University: Famous Marymount Graduates

Susan Lucci

Class of 1968

Star of “All My Children” Erica Kane.

She has received the 1980 Harvard University Award for best actress of the year and the 1988 Soap Opera Digest Editor's Award for "outstanding contribution" to daytime television drama.

Rosaland Russell

ROSALIND RUSSELL (1912-1976)

Attended Marymount College 1925-1927

Actress; noted for her portrayals of witty, sophisticated career women and sprightly matrons; appeared in scores of motion pictures, including The Women (1939), His Girl Friday (1940), My Sister Eileen (1942), Picnic (1956), Majority of One (1962), Gypsy (1963), and Mrs. Pollifax, Spy (1971); earned four Academy Award nominations; won acclaim for Broadway stage performances in Wonderful Town (1953) and Auntie Mame (1956).

 

Susan Robinson King

Class of 1969

First female news anchor in Buffalo, 1973-1975. Washington DC News anchor and White House Correspondent during Reagan Administration. Vice President, Carnegie Corporation of New York. Won two Emmy Awards as a broadcast journalist.

 

Patricia Gaffney

Class of 1967

Bestselling Novelist

Ann Laurenstein Dore McLaughlin

Class of 1963

Secretary of Labor, Reagan Administration,  Chair of the Aspen Institute 1996-2000,  Board of Directors of Microsoft 2000-2006.

Patricia Connell Shakow

Class of 1958

Editor, Washington Post 1981-1997

 

LORET MILLER RUPE (1936-1996)

Class of  1957

Director of the Peace Corps 1981-1989. 

Appointed Ambassador to Norway 1989.

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Gabriella DiMeglio
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Rosa DeLauro

Class of 1964

Connecticut Congresswoman

Barbara Bradley

Class of 1961

Co-Founder of Vera Bradley Fashion