Famous Greeks... or are they???

[phikappapsiman]

Originally posted by TriDeltaGal
amycat,
Here is the deal with Heather Locklear or how I heard it because she was supposedly a member at my chapter. Supposedly, she pledged TriDelt first but depledged for undisclosed reasons (word on the street is that she did some risque things with a few too many fraternity men) and later pledged Chi Omega but was never initiated at either. Neither TriDelt or Chi O claim her as member.

Heather Locklear, risque???? The woman who was once married to Tommy Lee and is now married to Richie Sambora-could she be a "party girl"???? I have never seen the "famous" Tommy Lee and Pam video, but from what I understand...Tommy is no choir boy But, apparently he is quite a man among men, to say the least...

[ROWDYsister]

I think the reason several groups have "wrongly" claimed Delta Burke as one of their members (when she supposedly went to school in London and herself said she was never a member of any house) is that her character on "Designing Women," Suzanne Sugarbaker, was an Ole Miss Pi Phi. If this is a repeat, sorry...I just didn't read all the way through.[COLOR=deeppink][COLOR=deeppink]

[Jen]

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[Knowledge1922]

Originally posted by sweet-n-rho
I was trying to be modest on my first thread but since everyone else listed all of there famous people you know I have to represent for my Sigma Gamma Rho Sorors.

Soror Jocelyn Brown -National Sales Director ESSENCE Magazine

Soror Gwendolyn Cherry- Former Florida Congresswoman

Soror Alice Childress- Author of "A Hero Ain't Nothing But A Sandwich"
Soror Emily D. Gunter- Motivational speaker, Author of Superlearning 2000:The new Technologies of Self Empowerment
Soror Alice Hille Jackson- Creative Artist, Co-Creater/Producer of Hal Jackson's Miss Talented Teen Pageant
Soror Dr. Alma Illery- humanitarian and Founder of George Washington Carver Commemoration. Through her efforts, Congress issued a Carver Stamp in 1944.
Soror Marie Lafontant - Founder and President of Haitian Research Center
Soror Kiamsha Madelyn Leeke- a lawyer in Washington, D.C.; Writer and self-publisher of three books of poetry: MY SOUL SPEAKS, I AM MY SISTA'S KEEPER and BABY, I GOT IT BAD FOR YOU BLUES
Soror Charlotte Ottley - Public Relations Specialist, CEO C. Ottley Strategies
Soror L. Marion Poe- First African-American woman to be admitted to the bar in the Southern U.S.
Soror Betrice Powell- Senior Director Mary Kay Cosmetics
Soror Brenda Pressley - Actress
Soror Erika R. Ragland- Committee on Labor and Human Responses on Capitol Hill.
Soror April Sinclair- Author of "Coffee Will Make You Black" and "Ain't Goin' Be The Same Fool Twice"
Soror Chizu Shindo Suzuki - Japanese Artist and Writer
Soror Pat Tobin - Public Relations Specialist, Principle, Pat Tobin & Associate
Soror Mary Washington- First African-American CPA
Soror Rosa Page Welch- Famed Mezzo Soprano & Lecturer, "Ambassador of Goodwill" in interracial relations
Soror Ruth Whitehead Whaley- First African-American woman to actively practice law in the U.S.
Soror Priscilla Williams White- Author of "The Children- What Shall We Tell Them About God?"
Soror Judge Joyce Williams Warren- The First African- American Judge in Arkansas
Soror Ruth Russell Williams- Artist and Entreprenuer, her artwork is sold at JCPenney, Nordstroms & Micheals nationally and internationally. Her works include The Baptism, Family Reunion,The Graduation, Old Time Revival, & Kitchen Beautician. She created the promotional artwork, BigBookBag for the sorority's current project of the same name.

Soror Mother Love- Actress, Radio Person, Television Host of Forgive or Forget
Soror Anna Maria Horsford- Actress on sitcoms Wayan Brothers, Amen and The Movie Fridays
Soror Vanessa Bell Armstrong- Gospel Recording Artist
Soror Cynthia Horner- Right on Magazine Editor
Soror Lindy Corrine Claiborne Boggs-First female U.S. Representative from Louisiana, 1st Woman to Chair National Convention of Major American Political Party

Also:

Soror Corrine Brown- U.S. Representative, Florida- District 3
Soror Marilyn McCoo- musicican
Soror Toni Y. Odom- Author of "Sistahs N' Sistahood"
Soror Ann Fudge- CEO of Power One
Sorors Tonya Lee Williams and Victoria Rowell- actreses- Young and Restless, Diagnosis Murder
Soror Brenda Joysmith- artist

[anniesigkap]

In my chapter we werer told that the founder of Weight Watchers was a Sigma Kappa, as well as the creator of Barney. One I have heard and have not confirmed and maybe someone can help me out is that Dr. Seuss married a Sigma Kappa.

[FHwku]

tim mcgraw was a pike.
orville redenbacher (popcorn guy) was alpha gamma rho
and of course, just about everyone has at least one senator or congressman.

[DeltaSigStan]

The dumbest thing I ever heard/saw was in a Famous Greek section in a greek clothing catalog, it said that the POPE was in a fraternity.

The only Famous Delta Sigs that people would know about is Brother Micheal Shannahan, coach of the Denver Broncos, Brother Micheal Billoti, head coach at Oregon University, and Brother Jim Bouton, who wrote the controversial book "Ball Four", detailing the life of a baseball player back in his time.

[UNFSigmaChi]

Famous Sigma Chis are...sorry if i forget some cause their are a lot

Brad Pitt
Woody Harrelson
John Wayne...yes the duke
Bob Greise
Mike Ditka
Tom Selleck
Warren Beatty
Clarence Gilyard(black guy on walker texas ranger aka trivette)
Jim Palmer(baseball player)
David Letterman
Grover Clevland(US President)
Z, the guy on MIB whos has the goatee and says this isn't an intergalactic kegger!!!
Armstrong(astronaut)
Can't think of any more at the moment so gotta go...oh the guy who did the peanuts cartoon
And NO carson daly is not a sigma chi

[AlphaGam1019]

Originally posted by UNFSigmaChi
Famous Sigma Chis are...sorry if i forget some cause their are a lot
Armstrong(astronaut)

FYI, Armstrong is a member of Phi Delta Theta.

[DeltAlum]

And his first name is Neil.

[AlphaGam1019]

Neil A. Armstrong is a Phi Delt from Purdue. He was the commander of Apollo XI, the first lunar landing.

[queequek]

OK, I did some stuff for our historian, and came up with several famous Theta Delts

ARTS
Robert Frost, Dartmouth 1896, four time Pulitzer Prize winning poet
Alexander Woolcott, Hamilton 1896, drama critic NY Times, Herald-Tribune, Sun.
Norman Hackett, Michigan 1898, actor
Bellamy Partridge, Hobart 1900, author of “County Lawyer”
Donald Parson, Havard 1905, author “Portraits of Keats” “Grass Flowers”
Arthur Hornblow, Dartmouth 1915, film producer Paramount and MGM
Frank Thomas, Stanford 1933, Thumpers (Bambi) creator
George Mosel, Amherst 1944, Pulitzer Prize for “All the Way Home”
John Nichols, Hamilton 1962, author “the Milagro Bean Field War” “the Sterile Cuckoo”
James Wood, MIT ??, actor

JOURNALISM
Charles Miller, Dartmouth 1872, Editor-in-Chief NY Times
S. Emory Thompson, Michigan 1904, publisher Chicago Times
Frazier Hunt, Illinois 1908, writer and war correspondent
Richard Wilson, Iowa State 1927, President of the National Press Club
Harrison Salisbury, Minnesota 1929, Pulitzer Prize journalist

MEDICINE
Frank Lahey, Harvard 1904, Founder of Boston’s Lahey Clinic
Oliver Beahrs, Berkeley 1937, Head Surgery at the Mayo Clinic

PUBLIC LIFE
Alien Beach, Union 1849, Lt. Governor of New York, Secretary of State
W.D. Bloxham, William and Mary 1854, Governor of Florida
Clemment H. Sinnickson, Union 1855, New Jersey (Rep.)
John Hay, Brown 1858, Abraham Lincoln’s secretary, Secretary of State
Henry J. Spooner, Brown 1860, Rhode Island (Rep.)
Henry Gibson, Hobart 1862, Tennessee (Rep.)
Daniel L. Rockwood, Union 1869, Democratic Representative
Hon. John W. Griggs, Lafayette 1868, Governor of New Jersey, Attorney General
Nathan F. Dixon, Jr., Brown 1869, Senator Rhode Island
John Bellamy, Virginia 1875, Senator North Carolina
Walter Stiness, Brown 1877, Rhode Island (Rep.)
Thomas B. Kyle, Dartmouth 1880, Ohio (Rep.)
Frederic C. Stevens, Bowdoin 1881, Minnesota (Rep.)
Daniel J. McGillicuddy, Bowdoin 1881, Maine (Rep.)
John A. Dix, Cornell 1883, Governor of New York
Gonzalo de Quesada, CCNY 1888, founder of Cuban Republic (statue at Havana Park)
J.H. Bartlett, Dartmouth 1894, Governor of New Hampshire
Rollin Stanford, Tufts 1897, New York (Rep.)
Earle S. Warner, Hobart 1902, US Supreme Court Justice
William F. Love, Rochester 1903, New York Supreme Court Justice
Frank H. Buck, Berkeley 1907, California (Dem.)
Hans Schoefeld, Washington 1907, US Minister to Finland
Maurice E. Crumpecker, Michigan 1909, Oregon (Rep.)
Eric A. Johnston, Washington 1917, US Chamber of Commerce President
Irving M. Ives, Hamilton 1919, Senator New York
Arthur Kelly, Toronto 1920, Justice of the Supreme Court of Ontario
Louis P. Baeubien, McGill 1925, Senator of Canada from Quebec
Herman P. Smith, Dartmouth 1933, Member of Congress from Pennsylvania
Henry P. Smith, Dartmouth 1933, New York (Rep.)
John W. Tuthill, William and Mary 1932, Ambassador to Brazil
Alvin M. Bentley, Michigan 1940, Michigan (Rep.)
John W. Brook, Toronto 1946, Justice of the Supreme Court of Ontario
Donald R. Steele, Toronto 1946, Justice of the Supreme Court of Ontario
Richard Holland, Toronto 1947, Justice of the Supreme Court of Ontario
Edward Saunders, Toronto 1949, Justice of the Supreme Court of Ontario
Robert L. Leggett, Berkeley 1948, Congressman from California
Thomas R. Pickering, Bowdoin 1953, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations
Jerry Lewis, UCLA 1956, California (Rep.)
Wesley C. Uhlman, Washington 1956, Mayor of Seattle

EDUCATION
Albert W. Smith, Cornell 1878, Dean of Cornell Law School
Ernest W. Huffcut, Cornell 1884, Dean of Cornell Law School
Frederick C. Ferry, Williams 1891, President of Hamilton College
Alexander Meiklejohn, Brown 1893, President of Amherst College
Guy S. Ford, Wisconsin 1895, President of University of Minnesota, Phi Beta Kappa
Samuel P. Capen, Tufts 1898, President of the University of Buffalo
Winfred F. Smiter, Bowdoin 1899, President of John Hopkins University
Edmund E. Day, Dartmouth 1905, President of Cornell University
Chauncy Boucher, Michigan 1909, Chancellor of the University of Nebraska
Robert E. Doherty, George Washington 1909, President of Carnegie Institute of Tech
Leonard Carmichael, Tufts 1921, President of Tufts University, Secretary of Smithsonian
Alvin D. Chandler, William and Mary 1922, President of College of William and Mary
Francis H. Horn, Dartmouth 1930, President of the University of Rhode Island
Norman Topping, Washington 1930, Chancellor of the University of Southern California
Robert V. Schnabel, Bowdoin 1944, President of Valparaiso University
Julian Gibbs, Amherst 1946, President of Amherst College
W. Lawrence Gulick, Hamilton 1952, President of St. Lawrence College
Elmer H. Capen, Tufts 1960, President of Tufts University

SCHOLARSHIP
Stephan M. Babcock, Tufts 1886, inventor of the Babcock Centrifuge (butterfat testing)
Herbert E. Bolton, Wisconsin 1895, President of the American Historical Association
Carlos Baker, Dartmouth 1932, Hemingway biographer, scholar of Princeton University
Lester C. Turow, Williams 1960, Dean of the Sloan School of Management (MIT)
William A. McClung, Williams 1966, literary and architectural historian


MILITARY
Benjamin Lamberton, Dickinson 1862, Admiral U.S. Navy
Arthur J. Hepburn, Dickinson 1896, Admiral Commander in Chief of the U.S. Fleet
Donald B. MacMillan, Bowdoin 1897, Arctic explorer, Rear Admiral, U.S.N.
Robert W. Manss, Michigan 1930, Judge Advocare General of the U.S. Air Force
Robert Lee Scott, Arizona State 1932, U.S. General
Rudolf F. Peskens, Tufts 1966, Brigadier General U.S. Air Force

ARCHITECTURE
Raymond M. Hood, Brown 1902, Rockefeller Center and Chicago Tribune

BUSINESS
James R. Mellon, Washington and Jefferson 1865, President of Ligonier Valley Railroad
Eugene Grace, Lehigh 1899, Chairman of the Board of Bethlehem Steel
J. Frank Drake, Dartmouth 1902, Chairman of the Board of Gulf Oil Corporation
Harvey Dow Gibson, Bowdoin 1902, President of the Manufacturers Trust Co
Stanton Griffs, Cornell 1910, Chairman of the Board of Madison Square Garden
Willard H. Dow, Williams 1919, President of Dow Chemical Corporation
Leo D. Welch, Rochester 1919, Chairman of the Board of Standard Oil
Myford Irvine, Stanford 1921, landholder in California, City of Irvine named after him
George L. Smith, Columbia 1925, President of Kinney Shoe Company
William H. Elliot, William and Mary 1928, President of Border Corporation
Charles C. Tillinghast, Brown 1932, President of TWA, Chancellor of Brown University
Karl J. Neer, Illinois 1933, President of Neer Oil Company
James W. Kerr, Toronto 1937, President of TransCanada Pipelines
William Edwards, Michigan 1939, President of Hilton Hotels
Edwin A. Gee, George Washington 1941, CEO International Paper
Charles K. Fletcher, Jr., Stanford 1950, Chairman of the Home Federal Saving Assoc
William J. Henry, William and Mary 1963, President Time Life Books, Inc.

ENGINEERING
Alexander Holley, Brown 1853, Bessemer Steel, statue in Washington Square, NYC

SPORT
Edward Marsh, Lehigh 1894, gold medalist 1900 Olympics – rowing
Walter H. Snell, Brown 1913, player Boston Red Sox
Clarence P. Houston, Tufts 1914, President of NCAA
Leon Tuck, Dartmouth 1915, silver medalist 1920 Olympics – hockey
Stanley Lomax, Cornell 1923, radio sports broadcaster
Walter F. O’Malley, Pennsylvania 1926, owner of Brooklyn/LA Dodgers
William F. McAfee, Jr., Michigan 1929, player Chicago White Sox
John W. Allyn, Lafayette 1939, owner of Chicago White Sox
Donald B. Canham, Michigan 1941, University of Michigan Athletic Director
Harry Dalton, Amherst 1950, Executive VP Milwaukee Brewers
William P. Ficker, Berkeley 1950, Winner of America’s Cup Race
Benjamin L. Abruzzo, Illinois 1952, Crewmember of “Double Eagle II”
(first trans-Atlantic balloon flight)
Mark Donahue, Brown 1959, Indianapolis 500 Winner
Darrin Nelson, Stanford 1981, Stanford All-American, player Minnesota Vikings
Chuck Muncie, Berkeley 1975, Cali professional football player
Garin Veris, Stanford 1985, All-Pro football player

CLERGY
RT. Rev. J.H.D. Wingfield, William and Mary 1853, Bishop of North Carolina
RT. Rev. A.M. Randolph, William and Mary 1855, Bishop of Virginia
Rev. Franklin Clark Fry, Hamilton 1921, President of the Lutheran Church of America
RT. Rev. Robert C. Rusack, Hobart 1947, Bishop of Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles

[queequek]

Originally posted by DeltAlum
And his first name is Neil.

DeltAlum, LOL

[navane]

Originally posted by UNFSigmaChi
Famous Sigma Chis are...sorry if i forget some cause their are a lot

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My cousin said that Justin Huish - 1994 Olympic Gold Medalist in Archery is a Sigma Chi from his chapter at Arizona State University.


......Kelly

[phikappapsiman]

Originally posted by navane



My cousin said that Justin Huish - 1994 Olympic Gold Medalist in Archery is a Sigma Chi from his chapter at Arizona State University.


......Kelly

I remember him...he won two gold medals...he also got busted for possession of marijuana, didn't he? I seem to remember it being in the paper a while back