DeRosa, comedian and actor Joe Emrick, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives John Gabriel, executive in the NBA John Linder, Mayor of Chester, Pennsylvania (2012–2016) John Mobley, former professional football player, Denver Broncos. Jordan Morgan (American football), NFL offensive lineman José Lorenzo Pesquera, former Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico Karen TenEyck, scenic and graphic designer Linda Grace Hoyer Updike, author, mother of John Updike Mark Gillen, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives Mark Rozzi, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives Mark Ruwedel, landscape photographer Mark Schultz, writer and illustrator Matt Swarmer, Major League Baseball pitcher Matthew McGurk, United States Army Officer, American Talent Manager and Music Producer Paul Frederick Berdanier, illustrator and cartoonist Paul R. Wieand, folklorist, Pennsylvania German playwright, and radio broadcaster Peter Zug, former member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. Rick Vito, guitarist and singer, formerly with Fleetwood Mac Robert Gibb, winner of National Poetry Series Award Robert Donchez, former mayor of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania Roy C. Afflerbach, former mayor of Allentown, Pennsylvania Ruth Mountaingrove, photographer, poet and musician Ryan Vogelsong, Major League and Japanese league baseball pitcher Ryat (Christina McGeehan), musician Scott Menzel, film critic and chairperson of Hollywood Critics Association Stephen Dennis (born 1987), basketball player for Bnei Herzliya of the Israeli Basketball Premier League Susan Daigle-Leach, comic book artist Thomas J. Hylton, winner of 1990 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing Tom Warburton, creator of the animated television series, Codename: Kids Next Door Tyler Lepley, class of 2010, American actor Vicki DaSilva, light painter and graffiti artist William Martin Croll, former U.S. Congressman from Pennsylvania Notable faculty/staff David Cullen, Grammy Award-winning guitarist, former faculty F. Javier Cevallos, former university president Irv Mondschein, former assistant track coach John Bernard Riley, Grammy Award-winning jazz drummer Kenneth Hawkinson, current university president Tim D. Seip, former member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, faculty References External links Official website Official athletics website Educational institutions established in 1866 Universities and colleges in Berks County, Pennsylvania 1866 establishments in Pennsylvania Public universities and colleges in Pennsylvania