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Ethel McGhee Davis (1923), educator, social worker, and college administrator; Shawn L. Decker, sound artist and academic; Walter B. Denny (1964), art historian; Jon Michael Dunn, philosopher (logician) John Millott Ellis (1851), acting president of Oberlin College and abolitionist; George Fairchild (1862), third president of Kansas State ...
Oberlin Conservatory of Music alumni (112 P) Pages in category "Oberlin College alumni" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 1,103 total.
In addition to Oberlin Conservatory, Oberlin has musical opportunities available for amateur musicians and students in the college. Oberlin Steel, a steel pan ensemble founded around 1980, [ 153 ] plays calypso/soca music from Trinidad and Tobago and has been performing at Oberlin's Commencement Illumination event for over 30 years.
Four of the Patterson children graduated from Oberlin College and all four became teachers. [14] Henry Patterson, who as a child was friends with future US president Andrew Johnson, [15] [16] worked as a master mason in Oberlin. For many years the family boarded large numbers of Black students in their home. [6]
Fanny Jackson Coppin (October 15, 1837 – January 21, 1913) was an American educator, missionary and lifelong advocate for female higher education.One of the first Black alumnae of Oberlin College, she served as principal of the Institute for Colored Youth in Philadelphia and became the first African American school superintendent in the United States.
Julia Brainerd Hall was a student in the Conservatory of Music at Oberlin College from 1876 to 1878. [14] [15] She is listed as a second year student in the "Literary" course at Oberlin as of 1878, [16] and graduated in the Literary course in 1881.
Oberlin College alumni (2 C, 1,103 P) ... Pages in category "Oberlin College people" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total.
After two years at what was then Oberlin's preparatory division, she attended Oberlin College, one of the few coeducational institutions in the United States at the time. The only Wright sibling to earn a college degree, she graduated in 1898. [4] Katharine was intellectually curious and determined to become financially independent.