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Date 1839 - present
Areas Of Involvement Coeducation
Notable Alumni Ha Jin • Martin Luther King, Jr. • Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez • James Lawson • Keiko Fujimori • Steve Kornacki • Julianne Moore • John Cazale • Drew Weissman • Jhumpa Lahiri • Carolyn Bessette Kennedy • Song Binbin • Rosie O’Donnell • Hong Chau • Marc Maron • Faye Dunaway • Geena Davis • F. Lee Bailey • Norman Vincent Peale • Rebecca Lee Dorsey • Anna Howard Shaw • Howard Stern • Alfonso Valdivieso Sarmiento • Edward Brooke • Marisa Tomei • Brice Marden • Robert Munsch • Helen Magill White • Franz Kline • David Hemery
Related People Mercy Ruggles Bisbe Jackson

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