Famous Greeks... or are they???
 

Reading through the "Did you pledge someone famous" thread, it seems like there are a lot of celebrities who people *think* were Greek, but no one can verify which GLO they belonged to (or if they even went to college). So, if you want to find out if a certain celeb is Greek, post here and let your fellow GC'ers help you investigate.

Famous Greeks
 

Star Jones, one of the moderaters of The View is a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority. For verification, please review the acknowledgements in her book, If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything.

Plus, I saw her at a national conference almost 17 years ago!

I started a thread like this on the Delta Zeta board. It seems like all the famous people I was told were DZs turned out not to be... :p

I think there are 3 or 4 groups that claim Delta Burke, and the only place she went to college was in London...where there are no sororities.

DJ Skribble
 

He has a theta chi tatto :confused:

These were definitely undergraduate
 

members: Brad Pitt (Sigma Chi), Jon Stewart (Pike), David Schwimmer on Friends (Delta Tau Delta), David Spade (SAE).

Didn't she also go to Florida? I know that many ZTA chapters put her in the famous listing, but she says (I think it was on Lifetime) that she was never in a house.

I thought she had gone to a school in Florida also. A lot of ZTA's have her one their website as their famous alum. Also, I've heard Lynda Carter (wonder woman) as well.

Some Famous Betas are

Sam Walton (of Walmart)
The Nordstrom family
Hall of Fame Baseball player Mike Schmidt
Sen. Richard Lugar
House Minority Leader Richard Gephardt
Former Secretary of Defense William Perry
Miami Dolphins QB Jay Fiedler
Richard Karn of TV's Home Improvement

Infamous Betas include
Kenneth Lay of Enron and government subpeona
David Shula former Head Coach of the Cinncinati Bengals (when they were really horrible)

Famous ZTA's
 

Some famous ZTA's include
Phyllis Brown- Miss America
Susan Ford Bales the daughter of President Ford
Lynda Johnson Robb the daughter of President Johnson.
ZLAM-UDZETA :D

Wrestler: The Big Show = TKE
 

Wrestler: The Big Show = TKE

His pix in latest TKE mag

Some Sigma Nu's on TV...

Bob Barker, host of The Price is Right
Trent Lott, Senate Minority Leader
Boyd Tinsley, Fiddle player for Dave Matthews
Harrison Ford, Actor
James Dean, Actor (didn't graduate)
Al Michaels - Television Announcer, ABC Monday Night Football
Pat Riley - Basketball coach of the Los Angeles Lakers, the N.Y. Knicks, and the Miami Heat; won 4 NBA titles with the Los Angeles Lakers
Tom Johnson - President, CNN
Paul Rudd - Movie Actor

LHT,
Kevin

FYI...Richard Lugar is from Indiana.

Re: These were definitely undergraduate
 

I can personally vouch for this. He went to college in Arizona. I've also seen a picture of him as well as a framed, autographed t-shirt in our Headquarters when I went to Leadership School. David Spade rocks!!!

Re: Famous Greeks
 

Joy Behr (sp?), also of The View, is a Delta Zeta from Queens College. I wonder if Barbara Walters, Lisa Ling and the other View chickie are greek?

Nearly all fraternity and sororities' sities will list their distinguished members. I assume these are pretty reliable.
Famous TriDeltas include:

-Katie Couric (I'm sure everyone already knows this, its been brought up quite a few times in various posts)

-Dixie Carter

-Leeza Gibbons

-Deborah Norville

-Catherine Crier (journalist)

-Eliazbeth Dole

-Cathy Guisewite (creator of the Cathy cartoon)

These are just some of the many wonderful TriDelts out there!

Famous sisters of Phi Mu include....

Arts & Entertainment
Pamela Long Hammer, head writer for CBS' Guiding Light
Susan Harling, inspiration for the play and movie Steel Magnolias
Joyce Carol Oates, author of Blonde: A Novel, We Were the Mulvaneys, and many other renowned novels
Mary Wickes, actress, Aunt March in Little Women and Sister Mary Lazarus in Sister Act

Aviation
Jerrie Mock, first woman to successfully fly solo around the world
Mary Ellen Weber, Ph.D., astronaut, Space Shuttle Atlantis Mission, May 2000; Space Shuttle Discovery Mission, July 1995

Business
Tammy Cohen, owner and founder of ERS, a multi-million dollar corporation that performs employee screening for Fortune 500 Companies
Evett Simmons, president of the National Bar Association

Government
Carol Laise Bunker , U.S. Ambassador to Nepal 1966-1973, first woman director general of the Foreign Service
Betty Montgomery, currently serving as the first female Attorney General of Ohio
Kathleen D. Morrison, first commanding officer of the Naval Medical Clinic and Legion of Merit award winner
Melinda Schwegmann, first female Lt. Governor of Louisiana
Elizabeth Weaver, currently a Michigan Supreme Court Justice and former chief justice
Commander Tova Wiley, first woman to hold the rank of Commander in the U.S. Navy, winner of the Legion of Merit Award

Journalism
Pat Mitchell, president, PBS
Toria Tolley, VP/consultant, The Psychological Advantage, former CNN weekend anchor

Sports
Gail Barron, winner of the Boston Marathon, 1978. Partner of multi-million dollar fitness center franchise

Here are theta's or you can look on our website www.kappaalphatheta.org
we have a ton but here are some off the top of my head
Amy Grant
Sheryl Crow
Rue McChalahan (Blanch from the golden girls)
Ann Margaret
Kerri Strug
Laura Bush and the twins
Vice Pres Cheney's wife
creator of sesame street
1st woman elected to senate
six from blossom
The walt disney theme song was written for thetas"Let's fly a kite
because his wife and daughter were thetas
Author of the yearling
lots of pro golfers
and lots more

Sig Pi has Tracy Lawrance (country singer) and I know a member of the new survivor (the judge) is a pi
sig Chi you can't forget John Wayne(hehe)
Does anyone know what Pres Bush is? a DEKE I think but I am not forsure

If I recall correctly Pres. Bush was actually a member of a "Secret Society" not exactly a Greek Letter Org but close.


LHT,
Kevin

Hey ktsnake,

You are right about the secret society, George Bush and W. are both in the "skulls" (and I don't mean phi kappa sigma). But they are both Dekes too.

Kris

I knew the first Bush was in a secret society but I did not know about George W. I always heard he was a DEKE but never heard anything about him being in the secret society. That's really interesting

Delta Gamma has some good ones!

We have Julia Louis Dreyfus (Elaine from SEINFELD) and others.

I believe that Barbara Walters from THE VIEW is a Sigma Delta Tau.

I thought only the Bush daughter at Texas went greek?

I thought George Senior was the Skull and George W the DEKE?

John Wayne-- Sigma Chi at USC! :D

Nah, both Dubya and Senior are members of Yale's Skull and Bones society and Delta Kappa Epsilon.

Re: Re: Famous Greeks
 

I seem to recall reading that Barbara was an A E Phi.

Jenna von Oy was in one of those terrible "sororities are full of witchy girls who are mean to pledges" movies. I can't remember the name of it, but it's been mentioned before on GC. I wonder if that was before or after she went greek?

The All TKE Broadcasting Team:

Terry Bradshaw-FOX Football
Marv Levy-FOX Football
Phil Simms-CBS Football
Digger Phelps-ESPN Basketball

Yeah, I have seen the movie but I am not for sure if she was greek yet or not.

senator breaux from louisiana
senator max cleland from georgia
mark brunell- nfl qb
cobi jones- pro soccer player
the doctor from the jurassic park movies
General doolittle
president harry truman
nba coaches larry brown and rick pitino

theres more but i cant remember, all these guys were lambda chis

It's called "Dying to Belong"

Whats really cool is she has another greek to thank for that job!!!

Irna (Ima? Ive seen it both ways, darn typos!) Phillips, FOUNDER of Phi Sigma Sigma's Theta chapter!!!!!!!!!

She was the creator of The Guiding Light, the worlds longest running program, started on the radio way back when, and is still on TV today!!!!

YEA GREEKS!!!



We also claim Miss Florida USA 2002

and many others!!

(Including me, watch this space for whatever I end up doing!)

<3Alison

If I am correct, she is also a member of Sigma Alpha Iota!

<3Alison
(gotta support the music greeks!)

Ok isn't the wife of the guy who created Hallmark a Zeta?? I thought that was why there were the crowns on the backs of the cards...

Nichole

Here are some famous Delta Phi Epsilons:
Peggy Bernheim Judge/Administrator of the New York Civil Court
Barbara Aronstein Black Former Dean, Columbia Law School
Barbara Levy Boxer U.S. Senator from California
Susan Davis U.S. Representative from California
Lee Ducat Founder of the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation
Jackie Goldberg Councilperson, City of Los Angeles
Linda Gordon Former Service Editor at Glamour Magazine
Judy Heuman Assistant Secretary, Office of Special Education and Rehabilitation Services in the U.S. Department of Education; chosen by President Bill Clinton to serve.
Phyliss Kossoff Co-Founder of the Cystic Fibrosis Research Foundation
Minna Mahler United National Observer for the State of New Jersey, United Nations Speaker Bureau
Ofira Navon Former First Lady of Israel, wife of former President of Israel
Judith Seitz Rodin President, University of Pennsylvania
Ruth B. Roufberg Author of children's craft books
Janet Rzewnicki Treasurer, State of Delaware
Susan Polis Schutz Poet and Creator of the Blue Mountain Arts series greeting cards
Melvynne Sommers Founder of Save Our Seniors (SOS) in Miami, Florida

Famous Members
 

Well, Gamma Sig doesn't have any celeb members (to my knowledge) like you all do. But when people ask I like to tell them about Mrs. Barbara Bush and Mae Jemison, who are honoraries.

Also people like to think that former First Lady Hillary Clinton is a Gamma Sig-probably because her hubby Bill is in Alpha Phi Omega and they're trying to get the brother-sister thang going on :p I wish I could say that's true, but it's not!

In Service...

Maroon and White Goes Golden...50 Years of Service: 1952-2002

The APO Hall of Fame
 

Famous Brothers of APO include:

Bill Clinton- 42nd President of the United States

Sen. Thomas Daschle (D-SD)- Fmr. Senate Majority Leader

CAPT James Lovell, USN (Ret.)- Apollo 13 Mission Commander

Hon. Togo West- Fmr. Secretary of the Army/ VA Affairs

James McLernon- Fmr. President of Volkswagen of USA

Phillip Pfieffer- Fmr. Chairman/CEO of Random House, INC.

Sen. Mark Hatfield(D-OR) Fmr. United States Senator from Oregon

Rep. Ike Skelton (D-MO)- U.S. Congressman from Missouri

Reuben Askew- Fmr. Governor of Florida

Terry Miller- Fmr. Lieutenant Governor of Alaska (1978-1982)

Hon. Willard Wirtz- Fmr. U.S. Secretary of Labor (Kennedy Admn.)

Walter Menninger, M.D. - Founder, Menninger Foundation & Cancer Clinic

Mike Garrett- 1965 Heisman Trophy Winner (USC)

Bob "Butterbean" Love- 3-Time NBA All-Star (Chicago Bulls)

Just a short:

Robert Urick actor

All Of the Nevada Supreme Court Justices
William Dillard-Department Stores
Glen King Found Vitimam C
Hank Iba Basketball
Bill Rasmussen Founder ESPN
Billy Williams Chicago Cubs
Fergie Jenkins BaseBall
Will Geer Grampa Walton
Chester Gould Dick Tracy
Paul Harvey
John Tesh
Henry Blackman US Supreme Court Justice.

Well Not so short



:cool:

Re: The APO Hall of Fame
 

If I am correct again... I think Bill Clinton was also a Kappa Kappa Psi! (Dood, that means hes my brother!)

(again, go MUSIC ORGS! :) )