There are actually two Pamela Andersons who are ASAs (I looked on SisterCircle). However, as they pledged in the early 1970s and the famous Pam was born in 1967, that pretty much negates that. I think this is the source of 90% of these mixups - a noncelebrity w/ the same name as a celebrity.

Tim graduated from NLU a few years before I got there, and I doubt that he reminisces about good ole ULM since most alums will always call it NLU! If you watch his "Down on the Farm" video, you'll see the Pike fire engine with a bunch of the Pikes from NLU in the early 90's riding down a country road. He shot that video in his hometown...I think Start, LA. Anyway, he paid for the large deck on the back of the double wide trailer that Pike liked to call a house back then. I think they bought the KA or Kappa Sig house later.

As for fake AOII famous alums, I was told by so many people that Phyllis Diller and the lady that played Marcy on "Married with Children" were AOIIs. I think neither were...though I've never tried feeding Marcy's name into our database.


Addendum: I looked on IMdb and saw that Amanda Bearse, aka Marcy D'Arcy, went to a small liberal arts college, Young Harris College, which has no NPC groups. The rumor was that she joined AOII at Pi Chapter at Tulane. Another myth disproved!

Wait.

Betty Crocker is NOT a real person?

My world has been shattered.

:(

SigEp will now claim the Cat in the Hat and every other Dr. Seuss character b/c he was a SigEp. :P

Welcome to the family, Sam I Am.

from reading this thread, i think that's where most these urban legends come from

As much as I love Anthony Bourdain, he is not a Delta Chi.

So many chapter list him on their websites and recruitment videos. Gentlemen, by college you should know that Wikipedia is not a credible source. He's not listed on the HQ list of famous members. If that wasn't enough, wikipedia lists him as "NYU '74" he went to Vassar (which does not have Greek life).

Not an urban legend, Benjamin Bratt is a Lambda Chi from UCSB.

Consider me baffled that anyone would want to claim Brittany Spears as her sorority sister.

Ive heard repeatidly that Colbert from the Colbert report or w.e is a delta sig. NOT TRUE

Once upon a time when I was in college, I was told that Betty Crocker was a KD. I was also told that Pat Nixon, wife of President Nixon was a KD. When Mrs. Nixon died, no mention was made of it in the sorority magazine, thus I learned another legend was urban! I was also told that Racque Welsh was an Alpha Phi pledge who was asked to leave. After reading this thread, seems Ms. Welsh is claimed by several houses.

DaffyKD

On the Chi Omega website is a comprehensive list of well-known Chi Omegas. For as long as I can remember, there have been urban legends and/or rumors that everyone from Barbara Eden to Faith Hill is a Chi Omega! Not true. I thought I would include some of my research on famous women who some think are our Sisters!

•Cybill Shepherd: Cybill Shepherd -- that is her real name. She first attended Hunter College (we did not have a chapter at Hunter when she was there) and after a couple of stints at schools where there has never been a Chi Omega chapter, she attended the University of Southern California. Alumnae who were involved during the early 1970s have no memory of her being a Chi Omega.

•Lauren Hutton Real name: Mary Laurence Hutton – one of the first students to attend the University of South Florida in 1960 (before Theta Theta Chapter was founded) and then she transferred to Tulane University and graduated in 1964 (never a member of Rho Chapter).

•Heather Locklear: Locklear attended UCLA, but was not a Chi Omega. Heather Thomas who starred with Lee Majors in the TV series “The Fall Guy” (1981-86)– was an initiate of Gamma Beta at UCLA.

•Lee Meriweather: Her real name is Lee Ann Meriwether and she attended City College of San Francisco. Chi Omega has never had a chapter there.

•Shelley Long: Born Shelley Lee Long, she studied drama at Northwestern University, but left before graduating. No record of her being an initiate of Xi Chapter.

I know that this is saying that she wasn't a member - but just as a sidenote - in the book Model she says she got a modeling job because the person hiring her was impressed that she went to Sophie Newcomb. How did that work? Were the chapters actually at Sophie Newcomb or Tulane?

The chapters were/are at the H. Sophie Newcomb Memorial College of Tulane University. Non-Newcomb (Architecture and Engineering) female undergrads were able to join. [Although traditionally there are not many female students in those colleges.] B-school undergrads spend their 1st 2 years at Newcomb before transfering to b school so it was not an issue. Post Katrina renewal plan (reorganization), all undergraduates are members of Newcomb-Tulane Undergraduate College of Tulane U regardless of major.

From the Alpha Delta Pi International website:

"<> Agnes White Tizard, Sigma, Nutritionist; "Betty Crocker" authored Betty Crocker cookbook"

So, Agnes wrote the book, and Marjorie did the voice over? What a panhellenic collaboration!

Up until reading this post, I had never heard an urban legend about anyone famous being a KD. I was starting to get a complex.

I've heard this many times but havent heard it confirmed. I have also heard that Holly Hunter and Edie Brickell were Thetas.

I heard when I pledged that there were pansies on the original Budweiser label because the Budweiser daughters were Thetas. While there seem to be pansies on the label, I'm unsure of the Theta connection.

KD4Me, I heard a few years ago that Alison Moorer was a KD, but she's not on the national Web site. Oh, well.

I posted the same information once before in a similar thread, so please bear with me if you have already seen it:

Re: Heather Locklear...she was often confused with Heather Thomas (probably best known for her role as "Jody" on the '80s T.V. series, "The Fall Guy," and for a very successful "pin-up girl" type poster that came out about the same time as the show I believe). Both "Heathers" were at UCLA when I attended the university in the mid-late 70's and the reason Heather Locklear is frequently and incorrectly referred to as a Chi Omega alumna.

Heather Thomas was in my fall 1975 Chi Omega pledge class and she was definitely initiated (as we all were) during UCLA's winter quarter 1976. Heather Locklear began her studies at UCLA when Heather Thomas and I were upper classmen if I remember correctly. Heather Locklear was on the cover of the UCLA Bruin "Bearwear" catalogue her freshman year, I think, and became a campus sensation (but Chi O Heather Thomas was quite the campus beauty as well!).

FYI: Heather Thomas was highlighted in the Eleusis a few months ago for publishing her first novel, "Trophies." She was also interviewed on "The Today Show," etc., about the book.

Susan Sarandon attended the Catholic University of America, where there is one local sorority- Kappa Tau Gamma. Just to support the Pi Phi rumor :)

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I personally wouldn't want to claim anyone who dated David Spade anyway! LOL

I can't tell you how many TPA chapter websites claim Sarah Jessica Parker as a famous alum. She's not; I asked her myself when she was promoting her line at Steve & Barry's. She did say she was flattered, but embarrassed to admit she never went to college.

Yeah I've heard that too. It would've been cool though because we don't have any famous alums. :(

I've said it before - while it is kinda neat to have famous sisters, I am far more impressed by the unsung heroes of our GLOs, those who make a difference day in, day out in the lives of their colleges, their friends, their families, their communities. I've no doubt Theta Phi Alpha can claim MANY of these wonderful women. We may not know their names, but they are the heart and soul of the NPC - all of the member glos.

LOL we have Key Food here (NY/LI/Westchester/Duchess/NJ), hilarious. The ones here dont scream of anything related to the class that is sorority life.

Actually, there was a chapter of Theta Phi Alpha at Catholic while Susan Sarandon was a student there. She is not a member, however.


Although I totally agree with SWTXBelle's take on famous alums, check out the post I just made in the Theta Phi forum. It contains an updated list of notable alumnae.

Last year during my run as an LC for Tri Sigma, one of my fellow consultants told me that she had to burst an alumna's bubble and tell her that Olivia Newton-John was not a Tri Sigma. And the alumna was just not having it and didn't believe her!

We all got a kick out of it, especially because Olivia is Australian - and did not attend college here in the US where we have chapters. Even better, the alumna brought up an alumnae initiation in her defense. In all of our dreams, I guess.

So I heard Macaulay Culkin was a SigEp. What the heck? Did he even go to college?

IMO, that is someone trying to make a rude comment against SigEp, considering the whole MJ thing plus Party Monster. (Not that Party Monster isn't an awesome movie but I don't think most people would want the dude in their fraternity.)

Bumping, because the Summer edition of the KAO magazine was just released and they debunk several myths that just won't die.

1. While Walt Disney's daughters were Thetas, he did not write Let's Go Fly a Kite for them.

2. The Kit-Kat bar was not named for Theta.

3. As mentioned earlier in this thread, the radio voice of the character Betty Crocker was a Theta, but any visual representation of the character was not a Theta.

4. Sandra Day O'Conner is not a Theta.

http://issuu.com/theta/docs/summer_2011_magazine See page 23.

This same article made me think of how we were always told (by upperclass women) that the founder or inventor of Budweiser (or Anheuser-Busch or someone...) had daughters who were Theta's because so many of our symbols can be found on the label of Bud Light. :rolleyes:

Re: Susan Lucci and Pi Phi, I'm pretty sure her daughter, Liza Huber (Passions), was a Pi Phi at UNC Chapel Hill.

I know this is from '03, but Elvis Presley is an alumni/honor initiate of Tau Kappa Epsilon. He was inducted by the chapter at Arkansas State University.

Paul Simon and Art Garfunkle are either Alpha Epsilon Pis or Zeta Beta Taus. I don't know if they were collegiate or alumni initiates.

As for current urban legends of Sigma Chi: Eddie Murphy and Daniel Tosh ARE NOT Sigs.

Eddie Murphy? Seriously? A very young person who didn't see 18 year old Eddie on SNL must have started that one.

S & G are AEPi. Everything that comes up indicates they were members in college.

You realize that would have been '79/'80 right? Thirty year olds weren't alive then, and forty year olds would be forgiven for not watching SNL ages 10-15 or so.

(There are reruns, but just making the point that it's not a 'very young' thing.)

Eddie Murphy started on the show in 1980. Every now 40-then 15 year old knew about him, trust me. If you didn't, you were kind of screwed socially...SNL was a HUGE deal (even after the original cast left).

and 30 year olds are very young. Just enjoy it. :)

Ah, I'm not 30, and it really isn't a compliment/insult thing. Just pointing out the illogic.

Sure you do! You have the co-host of the 700 Club & former Miss America - Terry Meeuwsen. I'm sure that there are more, but she immediately comes to mind.

I heard somewhere that a contestant on "Rock of Love" was an Alpha Xi. Ick. I searched but couldn't find anything confirming...so I'm hoping that means that's not true.