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This list of Colby College alumni includes graduates, non-graduate former students, current students, and honorary degree recipients of Colby College. Colby, which was founded in 1813, has a total of more than 25,000 living alumni.
Pages in category "Colby College alumni" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 264 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Colby College (BA, AM) Signature Theophilus Capen Abbot (April 29, 1826 – November 7, 1892) was an American educator and the third President of the State Agricultural College (now Michigan State University ), serving from 1863 until 1885.
That year, Colby outscored its three in-state rivals Bowdoin College, the University of Maine, and Bates College 123 to 0 to win the series title. Colby also gained national recognition for its game against the star–studded Navy Midshipmen. Colby led Navy 21–10 at the half, but due to Navy's superior manpower, it was able to use a great ...
He attended Colby College and then served in the navy during the Korean War. During that time, he was stationed in Okinawa. After his service in the military, he attended Harvard Business School. After his graduation, he joined Sterilite, the company that his uncle and father founded in 1939.
Alumni remain engaged with the college through alumni programs, affinity groups, and a directory and related services online, all offered by the Office of Alumni Relations. Colby alumni include Governors Lot M. Morrill (ex-1869), Harris M. Plaisted (1881–1883), Nelson Dingley, Jr. (1874–1876), Llewellyn Powers (1901–1908), Benjamin Butler ...
73–57–9 {college ice hockey) Ellsworth Willis "Bill" Millett was an American baseball , football , and ice hockey player and coach and college professor. He was a fixture at Colby College , in Waterville, Maine , for 25 years, before his retirement in 1948.
Louise Helen Coburn (September 1, 1856 – February 7, 1949) was one of the five founders of Sigma Kappa sorority, a pioneer for women's education at Colby College, where she served as the first female trustee, and an accomplished scientist and writer known for writing the two volumes of Skowhegan on the Kennebec.