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Henry Merritt Wriston (1889-1978) was a 1911 graduate of Wesleyan University and served as president of Lawrence College and Brown University. He was also active in United States foreign policy issues.

The Hewlett Fellows were students at Wesleyan University who investigated and documented the history of racial diversity on campus.

Dr. H. Kenneth Shook was a 1954 graduate of the Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) program at Wesleyan University.

Reverend Holden Dwight (August 28, 1810-November 24, 1846), Wesleyan University class of 1835, taught at the College of Louisiana and the Norwalk Seminary. Dwight also worked for the Methodist Church in Louisiana and Mississippi, and as principal of the Baldwin Institute in Berea, Ohio. Dwight also unsuccessfully opened private schools in Columbus, Georgia; New Orleans, Louisiana; and Clinton, Mississippi.

Howard Fifield Legg (1881-1973), Wesleyan class of 1904, spent his career as a pastor and later a professor.

Vivienne Mader (1901-1972), who received the name "Huapala" from native Hawaiian dancers, was an authority on dance and music of Hawaii. She was the first person to perform the hula on the concert stage.

James Oliver Longstreet was born November 16, 1833. He received a bachelor's degree from Wesleyan in 1857. As a student at Wesleyan, he was a member of the Mystical Seven secret society and the Missionary Lyceum. After graduating from Wesleyan, Longstreet worked as both a teacher and a preacher until his death in 1861.

Jean Stafford (1915-1979) was a Pulitzer Prize winning writer of novels, short stories, non-fiction, and children's literature. She spent the 1964-1965 academic year as a resident fellow in the Center for Advanced Studies at Wesleyan University.

John Cage (1912-1992) was an experimental musician, composer, and writer.

John Cecil Rushworth Whiteley (1904-1959) was a member of the Wesleyan Class of 1925. He was also the recipient of a Rhodes Scholarship and attended Waldham College in Oxford.