Ball State University "Late Show", Angela Ahrendts, former CEO of Burberry and current Apple Inc. executive (BA, 1981; DHL, 2010),Prof Dan Kgwadi, Vice-Chancellor North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa,Jim Davis, creator of the "Garfield" comic strip (BA, 1967; LittD (h.c.), 1991), actor Doug Jones (BA, 1982), actress Joyce DeWitt (BA, 1972), Kent C. Nelson, former president and CEO of UPS (BA, 1959), Jeffrey D. Feltman, United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs, former U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon (BS, 1981), Brent McMillan, National Political Director of the Green Party (BS and BArch, 1991), Angelin Chang, Grammy Award-winning classical pianist (BA and BM, 1990), and Vince Bertram,
John Simmons (clothing manufacturer) was thus an innovator in making ready-to-wear clothing in standard sizes. By the end of the American Civil War, he had become the country’s largest clothing manufacturer. With the profits from his clothing business, he became a real estate investor and eventually owned much of the Financial District in Boston. When Simmons died in 1870, his will provided for his estate to "found and endow an institution to be called Simmons Female College, for the purpose of teaching medicine, music, drawing, designing, telegraphy, and other branches of art, science, and industry best calculated to enable the scholars to acquire an