Thanks for the heads-up, OTW! Sometimes the BS from Hollywood publicists filters out into the real world... it may be also possible she was a pledge but never initiated. Those records don't go into that much detail, do they? :)

When filling out the profile, there's information that you can mark as private. Some people like to just include their email and keep their mailing address and phone numbers private. For each sister, though, it'll list what year they were initiated and what chapter they're from.

To view a list of AGD Entertainers, you can go here:

http://www.alphagammadelta.org/About...ertainment.asp

The complete list of Accomplished Alpha Gams is here:

http://www.alphagammadelta.org/About...Alpha_Gams.asp

Re: Jenny McCarthy -

She went to SIU Edwardsville for a year or two and studied nursing before she hit the big time. As far as I know she wasn't Greek.

Re: Jenny McCarthy
 

Actually, Jenny went to school for nursing at SIU Carbondale in the late 1980's.

Re: Re: Jenny McCarthy
 

Jenny graduated from my high school (it's a catholic all girls school - she caused an uproar) in 1990. She went to SIU the next year and then was playboys ms. october in 1993 and playmate of the year in 1994. She wasn't greek.

Some of the rumors of famous DZ's are Courteney Cox, Betty Crocker (who isn't a real person, but the president or founder of Betty Crocker was a DZ), Sharon Stone, Ann Rice, Betty White and some others. Of course, when you're a fairly new initiate, you don't KNOW to call HQ and get it verified. You just believe what you're told about your sorority, as dumb as that may sound. While I really hate seeing it on websites, I know I believed it at one time, as well.

Mary Margaret Truman
 

Carnation, the missing line or lines -- at least the way I learned it (though obviously I'm not a PiPhi, and as I recall I first heard it from members of another sorority, not Pi Phis) -- went:
"But her social rating was not worth debating
For she was a member of Pi Beta Phiiiiii!"
Memories ... beer....

Another Fact: WA Congresswoman Jennifer Dunn is a GPhiB. She was honored at convention last summer in DC.

Re: This all makes me laugh...
 

actually Jackie Kennedy really did pledge phi mu..

The funniest one I have seen for ADPi is Meg Ryan. While I am sure we would love to claim her as a member, she is not one of ours.

http://www.greek101.com/new/lounge/grk_famous.stm

At first I read Orville Redenbacher was an AGD!! Then I reread and it said AGRho!

True or not, lol.

Interesting. I had no idea Paul Simon was my sister...

:p

I've read several places that he was an AGR. Not surprising considering AGR is an ag fraternity.

I've heard everything now!
 

Where, at her alma mater Vassar, which did not have a Greek system in the 1940s?

Lest we forget, she came from a social class---that for whom, sorority membership was an unneeded choice. Women of her social standing did not need the social or business connections that came with sorority membership, as those had been taken care generations before. Besides, in the biographies I have read of her, none has included sorority membership, and it's not mentioned on the Phi Mu site.

Its been debated whether or not she was a pi phi..... But i have only heard about it as a maybe on GC

Sandra Day O'Connor is a Theta.

Delta Burke's co-star, Dixie Carter, is a Tri-Delt. Also, I saw somewhere that her other co-star, Jean Smart, is an ADPi. I loved that show! I don't know Delta Burke's affiliation, if any, but I thought I remembered that she didn't go to college.

Maybe some of these "legends" are honorary members (if that's still used) or alum initiates. I've been thinking it was strange that some GLOs all of a sudden listed a gazillion famous women who were never claimed before (and I'm talking from the 1950s!).

famous alpha xi delta's
 

ok, this is from the official new member education booklet from alpha xi delta headquarters (spring 2002)

carol lawrence (actress,singer, dancer,maria in the original broadway cast of "west side story")

kim webster (actress, "the west wing" and the movie "the glass house")

jane henson (jim henson's wife)

gail kobe (actress, and former exec. producer of "guiding light")

megan blake (actress, appeared on "the young and the restless")

betsey johnson (fashion designer)

verna kay gibson (former president and CEO of the limited clothing stores)

plus many many government/military members, as well as pageant winners.

The biggest urban legend affiliation for fraternities is that of porn star Ron Jeremy...I've heard numerous chapters claim him as a member of their org, but never the inter/national organization.

Ron Jeremy would be the kind of star that even if he legitimately was a member of a fraternity, the IHQ probably would not recognize it or play it up at all. For instance, Cheech Marin for years was not included in the list of entertainers that are Phi Sigs in our new member manual, Hills and a Star. But once the show Nash Bridges started to become popular, there was a cover story about him in our quarterly magazine, The Signet.

Re: famous alpha xi delta's
 

I'm sorry, but I hate it when someone is considered famous because she has a famous husband.

Like douthit said, if it were true, I hope no one would ever claim him! That's just embarrassing to your letters.

Re: Re: famous alpha xi delta's
 

I believe that she is considered famous because she helped him create at least a few, if not several of the muppet characters.

Re: I've heard everything now!
 

Didn't she actually graduate from GWU though? But, still, I have never read about her being greek.

Re: I've heard everything now!
 

http://www.lander.edu/activities/greeklife.html

That Phi Mu chapter claims she pledged...but that's about the only thing on the internet that I could find. I truly think if she had, Phi Mu would have made her an honorary member, or advertised on their national site that she was a member.

Re: Re: I've heard everything now!
 

I'm sure that Jackie Kennedy did pledge. However, I doubt that Jacqueline Bouvier (who then married John F Kennedy) did. It's all in how you say it people....

Re: Re: Re: I've heard everything now!
 

You just read my mind. I have many family members with the last name Kennedy, but not the same family.

She didn't graduate from Vassar, but from George Washington University as KillarneyRose mentioned.

Her son, John Kennedy, Jr. was Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity at Brown. As the son of a U.S. President, he most certainly didn't need the social or business connections that you mentioned. Sometimes people just want friends. :)

Re: Re: Re: Re: I've heard everything now!
 

Yes, I know he was a Phi Psi at Brown...the composite resides just down the hall from me. :p It's funny and his hair is big. Like, huge. Brown's Greek system, because it is so flexible, tends to attract the children of the super-rich. John D. Rockefeller Jr. was also a fraternity man here.

Thanks for the clarification, though! My point is that before people begin to add celebrities to their roll of brothers and sisters, some fact-checking should be done. :)

There is a whole thread on the Ron Jeremy thing in the TKE forum. A chapter out in california (don't feel like looking to find out exactly which one) 'initiated' him. From what has been said I think their HQ didn't accept the application for his membership, but I'll wait for a TKE in the know to confirm or deny that fact.

Yes a chapter tried to make him an honorary, but IHQ said heck no. But many guys like to consider him one still, and apparently if u ask Ron he will tell u he was one to.

Thanks for the confirmation zntke711. I knew he was 'supposedly' a TKE. The guys at GMU use it in their rush flyers to attract pnm's.

Re: Re: famous alpha xi delta's
 

i totally agree!

isn't it possible that some celebrities don't want to be associated with their collegiate glo? there are plenty of people who drop off the planet after graduation....and i would guess that the national group needs to get some sort of permission to post thier names and bios on the national site. but this is just a guess.

He probably says he is one because, from what I remember from the previous thread about him, he was actually initiated by the San Diego State chapter prior to HQ denying membership.

Yah I figured as much he knows the whole deal since he has been through it all. I am not suprized the chapter waited til after the intiation to send it in. I know in most case chapters let IHQ know before they initiate an honorary member. I heard he is still close to the chapter and even donates money to them occasionally. But he has to know he isn't a recognized member since he never got a TKE badge.

im a pi phi at northwestern, the rumor is she was a pi phi here but didn't initiate. i should check our pledge book.

John Stewart (of the daily show) was not Theta Chi. He pledged Pike but quit. There was some one named Jon Stuart (or something liked that) who was a Theta Chi at the same Cindy Crawford was a little sister.

D.J. Skribble, according to his entourage member at spring break isn't either. OH well.

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Ha Ha! One funny one I always hear is that Colonel Sanders from KFC was an honorary member of Pi Kappa Alpha. Another rumor I heard is that Steve the bouncer from the Jerry Springer show is a Pike!
BTW, Jon Stuart was actually initiated into pi kappa alpha.

jon stuart was initiated into my uncle's chapter at william and mary like 2 years after my uncle graduated. he's gone to homecoming a couple of times so my aunt and uncle have met him!

how about Puck from the Real World being a FIJI. What a joke.