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Notable Alumni

Dan Harris ’93
ABC World News Sunday anchor

Doris Kearns Goodwin ’64
Historian, Daily Show guest

Pete Rouse ’68
White House Chief of Staff

Hannah Beech ’95
Time magazine, Southeast Asia bureau chief

Robert Diamond Jr. ’73
President, Barclays

Rocco Landesman '69
Chair, National Endowment for the Arts; Broadway entrepreneur

David Bodine ’76
Chief of Genetics and Molecular Biology, NIH

Amy Walter ’91
Political director, ABC News

Andrea Nix Fine ’91
Academy Award-nominated documentary filmmaker

Henry Sockbeson '73
Chief justice, Mashpee Wampanoag Supreme Court

Andrew J. Weiland ’64
Acclaimed orthopedic surgeon; professor, Weill Cornell Medical College

Cecily von Ziegesar ’92
Author of Gossip Girls series

Joseph Jabar ’68
Maine Supreme Court Justice

Mike Daisey ’96
Satirist, actor, star of one-man off-Broadway shows

Inspired Lives

Colby graduates succeed. They find their places at the best medical schools and research universities, the finest law and business programs, top financial firms, in the arts, government service, social service, education, and nonprofit organizations, and they are inspired leaders in their communities.


Stories

  • Alums Walk for Charity

    Sam Rouleau, ready for volunteer duty in Texas. When Nick Tucker ’10 and Sam Rouleau ’10 set out to walk across the country, volunteering along the way, the distance seemed vast. But they’re measuring the trip not in miles but in...


  • Mike Daisey Bites the Apple

    Mike Daisey Bites the Apple

    For monologist Mike Daisey '96, the death of Steve Jobs was another defining moment in a remarkable career


  • Alum's Van Gogh Bio Another Bestseller

    Alum's Van Gogh Bio Another Bestseller

    Gregory White Smith '73, who shared the 1990 Pulitzer for biography, is back on the bestseller lists with Van Gogh: The Life, which...More »


  • The Alchemist

    The Alchemist

    Sculptor Stefanie Rocknak turns wood into captured moments of expression


  • Diamond Delivers Inaugural BBC Lecture

    Diamond Delivers Inaugural BBC Lecture

    Bob Diamond '73, chief executive of Barclays, was interviewed on the BBC and delivered the inaugural BBC Today Business Lecture Nov. 3 (transcript...More »


  • Lincoln Peirce '85

    Lincoln Peirce '85

    Q&A with creator of comics hero Big Nate


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