Hi KappaStargirl:)

You're right, Jane Pauley is a Kappa. You have a great list of celebrity sisters!;)

I didn't know Mandy Moore went to Bishop Moore! I went to a catholic HS in Melbourne Fl and we used to play them all the time in sports! We went to a track mee there every year! I think she is pretty cool, I caught her show on MTV this summer, she seems to be a great celebrity personality!

oh and to keep to the subject ....err....well somewhat (no I won't bring up brittney) But one of my friends is a KD and she says that the girl on the Doritos comercial is a KD!

Ali Landry, the 'Doritos girl', was initiated as a KD at LSU, I believe.

I visited my fraternity's University of Fla. chapter several times back in my undergrad days when Brother Emmitt Smith(1992) was being initiated.

I was talking to my roommate (Chi O alum) about famous Greeks and completely forgot about a "pseudo-famous" Chi Omega at UT! Her name is Carolina Iglesias. She's the niece of Julio and cousin to Enrique. She was a senior when we were freshman or sophomores (we can't remember) and so nice!

Ok are there any famous ZTA's??!! I havent heard of any and was just wondering if anyone else knew of any.

Nichole

Good Story
 

One of the best stories I've heard is about the Kappa Sigma chapter consultant who travelled to their Southern Mississippi chapter back in the 1960s. On of the brothers was a kind of rascally, good natured guy with a really, really bad car. The consultant borrowed the car, but had to keep two or three extra quarts of oil in the trunk just to keep it going. The guy in the chapter liked to play guitar and dreamed of being an entertainer. ....Jimmy Buffett.

Our website has a list of them. There is an Ohio chapter that lists Delta Burke and Linda Carter as being ZTA's but our national website does not.

I don't know their real names lol, but Winnie from the Wonder years is an ADPi and also one of the Designing Women, I think its Charlene is an ADPi, and a few others...

In the student union we have a display case and each week a different fraternity or sorority puts up their cute little stuff etc, and tells all about themselves, and in our display we had a section for famous ADPi's and thats where I saw it.

To answer the Janis Joplin question, I watched a VH1 special on her a few months ago. They said she went to UT but did not graduate. They didn't mention her being in a sorority, but a fraternity (they didn't say which one) voted her "Ugly Man on Campus."

Janis Joplin - Ugly Man on Campus
 

Janis was voted Ugly Man on Campus by Delta Tau Delta.

This isn't really about any famous greeks exactly...but it's a funny story. A few years ago two sisters/roomates of mine went to Michigan State to visit a friend who was in a fraternity up there...not sure which one. Well one of the guys looked exactly like Jonathan Brandis (he was in the 1992 movie Ladybugs). So all the guys had my sisters convinced that it was him and they came back home and were all excited and told me and since both of them had boyfriends they were all like yeah we're gonna hook you up! And I thought he was a cutie so I was like sweet! Yeah...well come to find out a week later...it wasn't him. The guys were just being stupid boys. But now that I think about it Jonathan Brandis is probably like 40! Hehe...
:D

I heard from several people here that the girl who plays Jody in Center Stage was a Tri-Delt at IU. Also, I have heard that Sandra Bullock was an AOII pledge.

I know that Margaret Bourke-White was an AOII at the University of Michigan. For those that don't know, she was the photographer for Life Magazine during the 30s and 40s. She died of Parkinson's Disease in 1971 and AOII awarded her and award posthumously (I can't remember which one off the top of my head, but its downstairs - and get back to the AOIIs tomorrow with it!) There are some others as well but lots are authors from the30s, etc.

Sarah

According to the latest Greek101 catalog, Cindy Crawford is a Pi Beta Phi. I had never heard that, but she went to my school... so if this is correct, Cindy Crawford and I are members of the same chapter!

Cindy Crawford is a Theta Chi little sister!! We list her as famous almumni (almumae??) Thats cool she's in a sorority too!

I like Britney. I think she is bad. She has a lot of things going for her, and she participates in community involvement. You guys have to realize for one is Britney or whomever is the best person who will represent your sorority to the fullest. I know a lot of people tends to look at her lifestyle, i.e. the way she dresses. A lot of people dress like that, and some dress more horribly, but that is just a stage act. I believe that she is a wonderful person, but hey that's my opinion. Before I go just give these people a chance, find out who they really are, do not judge them based on $/fame. In my opinion, those who reject B. Spears, is losing out because I think she can give a lot.

http://us.imdb.com/Bio?Ryan,%20Meg according to this website, Meg Ryan is an ADPI....????
and Jane (no "Y") Seymour did not attend college in the US (if at all) so not sure how she became a PiPhi....
Also not sure about Susan Lucci -- she attended Marymount College in NY -- is there a PiPhi chapter there?

Candice Bergen deactivated from Kappa -- I found that out several years ago when I was calling to verify if Marilyn Quayle was a Kappa (I was creating a Panhel trivia game at the time) -

http://us.imdb.com/Bio?Crawford,%20Cindy

According to this website, Cindy Crawford was only at Northwestern for one semester... I had heard she was a PiPhi but cannot verify at all....I doubt she was...

I heard thru bigraphers on IMDB website that Delta Burke had pledged Zeta but was never initiated...

No one ever answered the earlier question about Chelsea Clinton -- was she in a sorority? That is hard to fathom if she was!!!

A few years after I graduated from Southern Cal, my chapter of Gamma Phi Beta there pledged and initiated the daughter of James Garner (Rockford Files); her name is Greta.

What do you mean by "deactivated"? She went to the Univ. of Penn. but didn't stay all four years. She is listed in our directory from 1987. I'm just confused why someone 20 or 30 years out of college would give up her membership.

I don't think Marilyn Quayle is a Kappa--did you find out otherwise?

Kate Jackson is indeed a Kappa from my chapter. The closest I came to meeting her was her composite picture!

From what I was told...
 

...when I called Kappa HQtrs (this was in about the 1996-7 timeframe when I called -- at about the height of Murphy Brown fame), Candace Bergen had reportedly turned her badge back in -- resigned her membership... not sure why, but I think (not sure) it may have been because she was tired of what she viewed as too many requests to do thus and such for the sorority...you can check with your Hqtrs and see though....oh and no, I found out that Marilyn Quayle was not a Kappa, nor was she a Gamma Phi, or a PiPhi or Theta or anything else...

Also, for those who reference a collegiate chapter website for famous alums, I always look at their listings with a grain of salt -- they are not always the most accurate source -- e.g there are many collegiate Gamma Phi websites that list Kirstie Alley and Elizabeth Montgomery as famous alums when in fact they are NOT....

Thanks for the info. If other GLOs can claim famous members who never were initiated or were rumored to be a member, then I will still claim her! ;)

Does anyone know what sorority Sharon Lawrence is in? She is the actress who used to play the DA Costas who was married to Dennis Franz's character on NYPD Blue. I was flipping channels and I heard her say, "When my sorority sisters and I would get together...."

This might be in the thread somewhere....

Donald Trump's daughter, Ivanka, goes to UPenn. Is she Greek?

Don't know about Ivanka. The new Governor of Pennsylvania is Ed Rendell. He went to UPenn and he is a member of Pi Lambda Phi.

Amanda Schull attended IU from 96-98, but she did not pledge or initiate into a sorority. :)

The closest my chapter can get is Brad Pitt's first cousin who is an active right now...and that's about it. :)

Brad Pitt's 1st cousin??!!! :eek: :D

If I was Brad Pitt's 1st cousin, I would go into rush at LSU with no recs and let them fight over my lucky little self ;)

The President of U. of Penn is a D Phi E.

Although during the 70's...
 

...they were my alma mater, Southern Cal's football enemy, Ohio State University's president is a Gamma Phi Beta!!:D

Hey I still wanna know about Chelsea Clinton -- anyone???

Re: Although during the 70's...
 

She replaced a Delt.

Bob Dole was a Kappa Sig, and lived in our chapter house while attending Law School at Washburn University.

Within my chapter, our two famous alumni were: Maj. Gen (Dr.) Alvin Gorby (AA 9 - 1923), former Surgeon General of the Army, and Ross Swimmer (AA 544 - 1962), former Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation.

Other famous Alpha Sig alumni:

Vincent Price, Alpha (Yale) 1930 - Distinguished stage and screen actor.

John R. Kasich, Zeta (Ohio State) 1973 - Former member of the U.S. Congress from the 12th District, State of Ohio. Now a commentator on Fox News.

Tom Watson, Tau (Stanford) 1970 - Golf professional.

Ted Cassidy, Beta Nu (West Virginia Wesleyan) 1939 -
Film and television actor, played "Lurch" in The Addams Family TV series.

Stephen Schnetzer, Gamma (University of Massachusetts) 1967 - Television actor, plays Cass Winthrop on NBC's "Another World."

Dr. Reinhold Niebuhr, Alpha (Yale) 1913 - Author, internationally-celebrated theologian. His "Serenity Prayer" is probably one of the best-known in the world.

Dr. C. Everett Koop, Alpha Eta (Dartmouth) 1938 - Former Surgeon General of the United States 1980-89, founder of the C. Everett Koop Institute at Dartmouth University.

Willard Scott, Beta Chi (American) 1946 - Television personality, former weatherman for NBC's Today show.

Warren Buffett, Omicron (Penn) 1948 - Owner of Berkshire Hathaway.

Frank R. Wolf, Upsilon (Penn State) 1960 - Member of the U.S. Congress, 10th Congressional District, Commonwealth of Virginia.

John Ogden Merrill, Kappa (Wisconsin) 1914 - Architect, partner of the internationally-known architectural firm Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, Chicago, Illinois.

Andrew Dickson White, Alpha (Yale) 1850 - First president of Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. While a student at Yale, he was an editor of The Tomahawk.

Billy "White Shoes" Johnson, Gamma Xi (Widener University) 1971 - Retired NFL professional football player. inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame.

Hubert H. (Skip) Humphrey III, Beta Chi (American) 1962 - Former Attorney General, State of Minnesota, son of former Vice President of the United States Hubert H. Humphrey, Jr. (His son, HHH #4 is also an Alpha Sig.) Lost to Jesse Ventura in the 1998 gubernatorial election.

What an impressive and interesting list of alums!! No wonder you are proud.

Re: Re: Although during the 70's...
 

No one can replace a Delt!;) From what I remember about the hunky, WILD Delts at Southern Cal, they were irreplaceable!! Not even sure they are there anymore -- they were so wild!!!:D

Re: Re: Re: Although during the 70's...
 

OK, you'll do!!

Thanks.

They just recolonized and got their charter, and from what I read are doing very well.

That's good to hear!
 

Glad to hear that -- when I heard the Delts lost their charter way back when, I just could not imagine the Row without them! I wonder if they are back in their same house? Glad they are doing well!! Yay! DTD!!:D

By the way, someone, anyone PLEASE answer my ignored question about Chelsea Clinton -- was she in a sorority in college? I want details!!

I have heard that Chelsea Clinton wasn't in a sorority in college, but I have no serious sources to back that up. It seems that since such a big deal was made over the Bush twins' sorority affiliation, we'd surely have heard about it by now if Chelsea was in one. Also, since Chelsea's mom wasn't a sorority woman herself, it's probably less likely that Chelsea would go Greek.

So what chapter did the Bush twins affiliate with?? Now I'm really curious. If nobody has the former first daughter, I want to know who has the current ones??