List of Roosevelt University people

This is a list of people associated with Roosevelt University.

Presidents

Current president

• Ali Malekzadeh

Past presidents

• Ted Gross[1]
• Charles "Chuck" R. Middleton: the last president
• Edward J. Sparling: the first president
• Rolf A. Weil[1]

Advisory boards

Members of early advisory boards included the following:[2][3][4]

• Marian Anderson
• Pearl Buck
• Ralph Bunche
• Albert Einstein
• Marshall Field
• Thomas Mann
• Gunnar Myrdal
• Eleanor Roosevelt
• Albert Schweitzer

Notable alumni

Arts and entertainment

• Tony Alcantar: actor
• Anthony Braxton: musician and composer
• Merle Dandridge: Broadway actress and singer
• Eddie Harris: jazz musician, saxophonist
• Ramsey Lewis: jazz musician, host of Legends of Jazz and The Ramsey Lewis Morning Show, WNUA radio
• Courtney Reed: Broadway actress and singer
• Danitra Vance: comedian (The Second City, Saturday Night Live) and actress

Literature, news, and academia

• Ira Berkow: author and sportswriter, The New York Times
• Susan Carlson: news anchor
• Parvesh Cheena: actor
• Eckhard Gerdes: novelist
• Charles V. Hamilton: political science professor and co-author of Black Power
• Howard Johnson: former chairman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Christopher Robert Reed: historian known for his expertise on the African American experience in 20th-century Chicago
• Harold Horton Sheldon: professor and physicist
• Martha M. Vertreace-Doody: poet, author, and teacher

Military

• Stephen Iacovelli: U.S. Army Brigadier General

Politics

• Melissa Bean (BA): U.S. Representative for Illinois's 8th congressional district, 2005–2011
• Leonard F. Becker: Illinois state senator
• Jesse Brown: United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs, 1993–97
• Carla Hayden: Librarian of Congress and former American Library Association president
• Douglas Huff: Illinois politician
• Ambassador Jacques Paul Klein ('63, '71): special representative of the Secretary-General and Coordinator of United Nations Operations in Liberia with the rank of Under-Secretary-General
• Mort Kondracke: political commentator and journalist, author of Saving Milly: Love, Politics, and Parkinson's Disease
• Blanche Manning: U.S. District Court Judge for the Northern District of Illinois
• LeRoy Martin: Chief of Police for the State of Illinois, Central Management Services
• Mel Reynolds: politician and Congressman, Illinois 2nd 1993–95
• Bobby Rush (BGS): politician and Congressman, Illinois 1st since 1993
• Harold Washington (BA): lawyer, 51st Mayor of Chicago (first African American to hold the title), former state representative and state senator

Others

• Dankmar Adler: architect of the auditorium building
• Louis Sullivan: architect of the auditorium building
• Florenz Ziegfeld: founder of Chicago Musical College

Notable faculty:

• Rose Hum Lee: first woman and the first Chinese American to head a US university sociology department, appointed 1956[5]
• Mojisola Adeyeye: Director General of NAFDAC, Nigeria; Founding Chair of Biopharmaceutical Sciences

References

1. Kogan, Rick. "REVVING UP ROOSEVELT". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 2019-08-11.
2. "ROOSEVELT UNIVERSITY – History" (PDF). Roosevelt University Catalog.
3. University, Laura Mills and Lynn Y. Weiner on behalf of Roosevelt (2014). Roosevelt University. Arcadia Publishing. p. 73. ISBN 9781467112475.
4. University, Laura Mills and Lynn Y. Weiner on behalf of Roosevelt (2014). Roosevelt University. Arcadia Publishing. p. 42. ISBN 9781467112475.
5. ""Women . . . on the Level with Their White Sisters": Rose Hum Lee and Butte's Chinese Women in the Early Twentieth Century". Women's History Matters. Montana Historical Society. Retrieved 31 August 2015.