Like Matthew McConaughey (sp?) wore a shirt with huge Delt letters in some kind of celebrity appearance (there was a thread on it somewhere) and has a number of Delts working for his production company.

Drew Carey is less outspoken, but has said hello to Delts in the audience on Who's Line Is It a couple of times.

The Alpha Phi website lists famous Phis here. An abbreviated list:

Maile Misajon (UCLA) Singer, actress. In female pop group Eden’s Crush and on Popstars television series. Has appeared in several commercials. Albums include Popstars, featuring the group’s hit single "Get Over Yourself" (see Fall 2001 Quarterly).

Jeri Ryan (Northwestern) Actress. Played Seven of Nine on Star Trek: Voyager. She joins the cast of Fox’s Boston Public this fall. Other television credits include Melrose Place, Matlock and Dark Skies. Films include Men Cry Bullets, The Last Man, Wes Craven Presents: Dracula 2000 and a cameo in Disney's The Kid.

Kimberly Williams (Northwestern) Actress. Movies: Father of the Bride, Father of the Bride: Part 2 and Indian Summer. Stage credits: Vagina Monologues. Television credits: Neil Simon's Jake's Women, Relativity, The 10th Kingdom miniseries and Hallmark commercials. She appears this fall on ABC®’s According to Jim (see Fall 2001 Quarterly).

Catherine Anaya (USC) Emmy Award®-winning television news anchor for KCBS-TV in Los Angeles (see Spring and Summer 2001 Quarterlies).

Ann Martin (Washington) Prime time news anchor and co-host of Woman 2 Woman, KCBS-TV, Los Angeles. Winner of three Emmy Awards®, two Golden Mike Awards and an award for best 30-minute news cast. Early in her career, first female to anchor the weekend news solo in Seattle, Wash. (see Spring 2001 Quarterly).

Dorothy Wright Nelson (UCLA) Senior judge in the U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit, appointed in 1979 by President Jimmy Carter (senior judge since 1995). Former dean of the University of Southern California Law Center.

Susan Pierson Sonderby (Illinois) First woman appointed to the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Northern District of Illinois. Elevated to chief judge (1998).

Marilyn Aboussie (Midwestern State) Chief Justice, Third Court of Appeals, Texas (since 1998), the state’s first woman justice (1986). First woman district judge in Tom Green County, Texas (1983-86).

The girl who created the Daily Show on comedy central is a DG. I consider my Dad to be famous around Clemson and he is a Pi KA ! Alumnae initiate! We have several SNL graduates but like has been said I don't think they are still involved. I looked them up in our DG big alumnae book and couldn't find them.

i heard alyssa milano was a Zeta

I don't think that's fun or funny. The fraternities at USC did that a couple of years ago to PNMs as they walked up and down the row during rush and PHC lost a lot of PNMs because of it. There was no system in place at the time to penalize them for it, but now they get rush infractions for saying anything to PNMs.

Yup, they did this when I was there too, it was AWFUL.

Harland Sanders (colonel Sanders) was a PIKE and Steve never went to college i looked that up as well and Stuart yep though he disaffiliated.

Though me getting famous is a small possibility i will wear my letters proud. In fact i will have a flag flying The letters Pi K A at my house when i get old and i will be known in my neighborhood as the old guy who won't let go of his college years.


But on Faith Hill she is married to a Pike.

lauradav,

i don't think they were doing it to pnm. just the other girls at the school. my dad always talked about it in a joking manner so i guess i never thought about it negatively. my mom would always take the long way around to avoid being rated. lol.
ps. sorry, didn't mean to hurt anyone's feelings by bringing it up. i had no idea that happened at rush and it sucks how pnm dropped out

Well this is a new one but i heard from somewhere that the original drummer for Blink-182 was a Pi Kappa Phi but the again it was from heresay so its yet another urban legend.

I saw Puck with a FIJI shirt on in the RW/RR Battle of the Sexes. I don't think he is a member, but he had the shirt on.

Jean Smart from Designing Women IS an ADPi. :) There are even a couple of episodes that she mentions ADPi. That's always exciting.
I also remember that the DZ chapter at my university used to have Courtney Cox listed as a famous alum... They've changed their website and don't have any listed anymore, but does anyone know for sure if she is a Delta Zeta or not?



Lindsey

Julia Roberts??
 

I have heard that Julia Roberts is an honorary Phi Mu because of the movie "Steel Magnolias." Does anybody know if this is true... or is it just another greek urban legend?

Re: GLO Famous Members Urban Legends
 

So I just got my Greek Life Introduction mailer, and at the bottom of every page they have "famous greeks", male and female. So I'm flipping though and there waws Cindy Crawford. I nearly fell out of my chair laughing. If only the writers had read this thread.

Unfortunately, she's not! From what I've read, she went to Mount Vernon College for 1 year. As far as I know, we've never had a DZ chapter there, but I could be wrong!

tim mcgraw is a pike?

I've heard rumors the last several years that tiger woods was a fraternity pledge at Stanford but never initiated. not sure what house. any cardinal out there that can clear this up ?

Yes Tim McGraw is a PiKe. And we all like to referr to him as Brother Mcgraw. One of my brothers works at the Ford Center in oklahoma City and met him and talked to him a bit about his days a UL-Monroe.

I've heard that Betty White (from the Golden Girls) was an Alpha Gam.....I don't see her listed on our official website, so I don't know if it's true or not....

Fiji is also a famous country island of the Pacific, so it doesn't necessarily refers to Phi Gamma Delta.

I've also heard she was a Delta Zeta! But I haven't seen any hard proof on that one, either.

She's not, but supposedly the character of Blanche on the Golden Girls mentioned being an Alpha Gam and going to sorority events. I don't watch the Golden Girls anymore, so you'd have to check with someone who watches the re-runs.

Mount Vernon College does not have a Greek system.

Because we're all (allegedly) sensible, college-educated (in whole or part) people here, here's a suggestion: Do not claim a member UNLESS you have proof (ie, International HQ website). That is all. No Betty Crockers, Courteney Coxes, or Jenny McCarthys, please! :p

That's why this the GLO Famous Members Urban Legends thread.

Yeah, a lot of people seem to be missing the point. This thread is for those funny rumors about famous people who are not actually Greek or who don't even exist.

I heard that Napolean was a I Felta Thi

The guys on 90210 were KEGs.

Tappa Tappa Keg

On the lifetime website profiles it states that Betty White did not attend college. She is so sweet, she would have been a great Alpha Gam. :)

Gloria Loring (whom most of y'all are too young to remember as being Liz on Days of our Lives) is an AGD. I think she was initiated as an alumna member. Maybe Betty White was too. If so, perhaps she is listed under her not-so-famous name.

To repeat:

This thread is for urban legends!

This is about silly, false rumors. Not actual members of GLOs! ;):cool:

Jodie Sweeden (Full House, stephanie) is an alpha phi somewhere in CA-=- At least she was listed in our quartly magazine (I think)

She went to Chapman in Orange County. I just watched the Full House thing on E! but it didn't mention any membership in a sorority.

Repeat, Repeat ;)

Thanx Leslie AGD! You are my gal!

Mrs Dr Seuss is NOT a Sigma Kappa!

I know a lot of people mentioned Cindy Crawford was rumored to be a Pi Phi pledge at Northwestern. I had always heard the urban legend that she was a Sigma Kappa at Michigan!

I decided to search the web for pages listing famous Tri Deltas. Here are some of those that various webpages are claiming even though the national webpage doesn't list them:


Heather Locklear
Mrs. Neil Armstrong
Grace Kelly
Liz Claiborne

Jodie Sweeden pledged Alpha Phi at Chapman University several years ago but was never initiated into Alpha Phi.

Edited to add that it's always been my understanding that Heather Locklear was a member of the Tri-Delt chapter at UCLA. I don't think it's an urban legend b/c they have pix of her in their slideshow (or at least they did when I went through school).

To clear up the Blanche/Rue Mclahanan being an ADGRPSE
She is a member of Kappa Alpha Theta
In an interview she was asked:

Do you spend any time with your sorority sisters in Kappa Alpha Theta? Theta is VERY proud to have you as a member!

Rue McClanahan: I spend my social time, which is limited, with a couple of close friends, one or two, and my husband.

You can find this on Lifetime.com under interviews.

We went over this last summer when I looked it up. Neil Armstrongs first wife, who he was married to for 30 odd years (though she died a couple of years ago) was an Alpha Chi Omega and it is registered as such on our national website. He does have a new wife so maybe she's a Tri-Delta but the woman he was married to longest was an Alpha Chi. And the thing about Cindy Crawford at Michigan. She went to Northwestern for sure, I heard her say it in an interview.