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3 unusual facts about Amherst College


Jennifer Baumgardner

She has keynoted at more than 250 universities, organizations, and conferences, including the National Coalition of Abortion Providers, Amherst College, Take Back The Night UW-Madison, and the New Jersey Women and Gender Studies Consortium.

Robert Purvis

As their father wanted his sons to be educated as gentlemen, Robert and Joseph Purvis both studied at Amherst College in Massachusetts.

Winchester, Tennessee

Though a women's college, it offered a classical curriculum based upon what was being offered at the time by Amherst College, Brown University, and the University of Virginia.


Amherst Center for Russian Culture

The Amherst Center for Russian Culture was created by Amherst College in Amherst, Massachusetts after the gift of a major collection of Russian books, manuscripts, periodicals and ephemera by Thomas P. Whitney in 1991.

Armory Show

In 1944 the Cincinnati Art Museum mounted a smaller version, in 1958 Amherst College held an exhibition of 62 works, 41 of which were in the original show, and in 1963 the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute in Utica, New York organized the "1913 Armory Show 50th Anniversary Exhibition" sponsored by the Henry Street Settlement in New York, which included more than 300 works.

Barry Loewer

He obtained his BA from Amherst College (1965) and his PhD from Stanford (under the direction of Jaakko Hintikka).

Bill Swiacki

His son, Bill Swiacki, Jr., was a standout three-sport athlete at Amherst College who was drafted by both the NFL New York Giants and MLB Los Angeles Dodgers.

College Terrace, Palo Alto, California

All of the street names in the College Terrace neighborhood are named after East Coast colleges and universities such as Amherst, Bowdoin, Columbia, Dartmouth, Harvard, Oberlin, Princeton, Cornell, Wellesley, Williams and Yale.

Contemplative education

It has inspired networks of higher-education professionals for the advancement of contemplative education at Amherst College, Hampshire College, Mount Holyoke, Smith College and University of Massachusetts Amherst and in Colorado, with the Rocky Mountain Contemplative Higher Education Network (RMCHEN), which launched in September 2006 with an event hosted by Naropa University; and with the Contemplative Studies Initiative at Brown University.

Iran Human Rights Documentation Center

Board members include prominent American legal scholars such as Professors Owen Fiss and John Simon (Yale University), Lawrence Douglas (Amherst College), and Laura Dickenson (Arizona State University), and prominent Iranian-American author Roya Hakakian.

John C. Coffee

After graduation, he attended Amherst College with his high school friend and classmate, actor Ken Howard.

Kevin Graber

He served as an assistant baseball coach under Bill Thurston at Amherst College in Amherst, Massachusetts for several years, and his college coaching career has included stops at Lassen College in Susanville, California and Riverland Community College in Austin, Minnesota.

Marilynne Robinson

She has been writer-in-residence or visiting professor at many universities, including the University of Kent, Amherst, and the University of Massachusetts Amherst' MFA Program for Poets and Writers.

Milan Milišić

After its return he was able to travel to the United States as a poet-in-residence at New York University and Amherst College.

New England Interstate Route 10

Route 10 is often called the College Highway because it links Yale University, Trinity College, Mount Holyoke College, Smith College, Amherst College, the University of Massachusetts and Dartmouth College.

Piney Woods Country Life School

More than 98 percent of Piney Woods' graduates go on to attend colleges, including Xavier University, Princeton University, the University of Chicago, Smith College, Harvard University, Vassar College, Tufts University and Amherst College.

Rowland Hall-St. Mark's School

Universities and colleges attended by Rowland Hall graduates include Ivy League schools such as Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, and smaller private colleges across the U.S., including Pomona College, Lewis and Clark, Reed, Whitman, Williams, Amherst, Wesleyan and Westminster.

Temasek Junior College

TJC students have been admitted to universities including MIT, Dartmouth, Harvard, Yale, Cambridge, Oxford, Duke, LSE, University of Toronto, McGill, UCLA, Berkeley, Caltech, Stanford, Peking University and Amherst.

Thomas W. Bicknell

Thomas Bicknell attended Thetford Academy in Vermont and Amherst College in Massachusetts, taught school and became principal in Rehoboth, Massachusetts, then principal in Elgin, Illinois.

Uchimura Kanzō

Prior to Uchimura's arrival, William S. Clark, a graduate of Amherst College, had spent the year assisting the Japanese government in establishing the college.

University of Nashville

Lindsley, along with George Ticknor at Harvard, Jacob Abbott at Amherst, and James Marsh at the University of Vermont, was considered one of the leading educational reformers of the era.

Walter Wyman

He obtained his A.B. degree from Amherst College in Massachusetts in 1870 and then graduated in 1873 from the St. Louis Medical College (now Washington University School of Medicine)

William W. McGuire

In 2004, Dr. and Mrs. McGuire made a $7.5 MM gift to Amherst College in Amherst, Massachusetts.


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Academy Theatre

The play was performed by the Amherst College Masquers and directed by F. Curtis Canfield, a professor at Amherst and Director of Amherst's Kirby Theatre.

Bertrand Snell

After graduating from Amherst College in 1894 where he was a member of Beta Theta Pi fraternity, he labored as a bookkeeper and lumberjack.

James Olds

Olds attended college at a number of schools including St. John's College, Annapolis, and the University of Wisconsin, but received his undergraduate B.A. from Amherst College in 1947.

Margaret Ridley Charlton

Miss Charlton, who had recently completed a summer course at Amherst College in the newly developed field of librarianship, and is thought to have studied under Melvil Dewey, came to this library in 1895.

Richard LeFrak

Previously, he served on the board of trustees of Amherst College and Trinity School; was a member of the New York State Banking Board; and served as director of BankUnited, Florida.

Robert Thurman

At Amherst College Thurman met his lifelong friend Prof. Lal Mani Joshi, a distinguished Indian Buddhist scholar.

Zajonc

Arthur Zajonc (born 1949), professor of physics at Amherst College in Massachusetts