DePauw University

Founded in 1837, DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana, is a selective private liberal arts college with a 2002 enrollment of 2,339. The school has a Methodist heritage. The school was originally known as Indiana Asbury College, after Francis Asbury, the first American bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church. It first admitted women in 1867. Indiana Asbury College changed its name to DePauw University in the 1870's, after Washington C. DePauw donated a very generous $600,000 to the University. The DePauw family took a further interest in the school by helping to establish the college's School of Music in 1884. It remains one of the oldest Schools of Music in the nation. DePauw University is also a member of the Great Lakes Colleges Association.

Notable alumni

• Karen Koning Abu Zayd - former United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, current Acting Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency
• Lee Hamilton - vice chair of the 9-11 Commission and currently serves on the Homeland Security Advisory Council
• John Jakes - novelist
• Vernon Jordan Jr. - noted broker and executive, former president of the National Urban League, personal friend and advisor to Bill Clinton
• Barbara Kingsolver - contemporary fiction writer, founder of Bellwether Prize for "literature of social change"
• Eugene C. Pulliam - noted newspaper publisher
• Martha Steele-Robes, Dow Jones director
• Dan Quayle - 44th Vice President of the United States under George H. W. Bush
• James C. Quayle - noted newspaper publisher
• Percy Julian - creator of synthetic cortisone