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Business, government, and academia
* Donaldson Brown, Class of 1902, financial executive and corporate director
with both DuPont and General Motors
* Robert B. Pamplin, Sr., Class of 1933, CEO of Georgia Pacific Corp.
* Clifton C. Garvin, Class of 1943 (BS) and 1947 (MS), Chairman and CEO of Exxon
Corp.
* Clifford A. Cutchins III, Class of 1944, Chairman and CEO of Sovran Bank
* Chris Kraft, Class of 1944, NASA architect of Mission Control and the first
flight director
* Thomas L. Phillips, Class of 1947, Chairman and CEO of Raytheon Corp.
* Robert Coleman Richardson, Class of 1958 (BS) and 1960 (MS), physicist at
Cornell University, shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1996 for the discovery
of superfluidity in He-3
* Homer Hickam, Class of 1964, NASA employee and author of the memoir Rocket
Boys, which was the basis for the film October Sky
* Roger K. Crouch, Class of 1968 (MS) and 1971 (PhD), NASA astronaut
* James K. Asselstine, Class of 1970, Commissioner of the Nuclear Regulatory
Commission during Three Mile Island incident
* Richard Baker, game designer
* William Lewis, Rhodes Scholar, Founding Director of McKinsey Global Institute
* Mark Embree, Class of 1996, Rhodes Scholar, currently Assistant Professor of
Mathematics at Rice University
* Denis G. Clem, Class of 1973, Chief Information Officer for the Office of the
Secretary of Defense
* George Nolen, Class of 1978, President and CEO of Siemens Corp.
* Charles J. Camarda, Class of 1983 (Ph.D) — Astronaut on board the space
shuttle Discovery for the STS-114 mission
* Jim Buckmaster, CEO of craigslist.org
* Steve DeBenedittis, Herndon, Virginia Town Mayor (2006-present)
* Chet Culver, current Governor of Iowa and former Iowa Secretary of State
(1999-2007)
* Jess Cliffe, Game Designer and co-creator of Counter-Strike, the popular
online videogame.
* David L. Calhoun, CEO and Chairman of the Board, VNU
* Lawrence L. Koontz, Jr., Justice, Supreme Court of Virginia
* Sharyn McCrumb, Author
* Hoda Kotb, Class of 1986 - Television news anchor and correspondent for NBC
* Doug Curling, President and COO, ChoicePoint
* Guillermo Ramon Miranda, former Assistant of the General Manager of Empresa
Nacional Portuaria (Honduras National Port Authority).
* Tony McNulty, Minister for Police and Security in the UK government.
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