I have had the pleasure of meeting and partying with Drew Carey. He is an alum of the Delta Omega chapter of Delta Tau Delta at Kent State, and during my collegiate years and shortly thereafter he used to come to KSU's Homecoming.....he was very funny and down-to-earth.

I didn't have the patience to read the whole thread, but Chi Omegas I can vouch for are Lucy Liu, Sela Ward, Mary Ann Mobley (former Miss America, actress, she's on Game Show Network a lot!!!!!!!!) Joanne Woodward (actress, married to Paul Newman), Joyce DeWitt (yes, Janet from 3s Company!!!!)

I have a hard time believing there are not others, particularly with as large a national as we are.

Re: Accomplished Alpha Gamma Deltas
 

That's hilarious -- I've heard the Carly Simon rumor, too! We had some Thetas call and yell at us after we listed Rue McL....han (can't spell) as an alum in our NPC view book. Our mistake, BUT Blanch (the character) was an Alpha Gam on the show.

Famous Chi Omegas
 

These are some of the names my chapter has gathered from other websites....I know some of them (like Heather Locklear and a couple of other actresses) were not "official" -- I don't know if they were not initiated or if they disaffiliated or whatever....if anyone knows the real deal on any of them, let me know!

Also, there are a lot of other women in other fields....too numerous to mention. Like someone else said, we've had a lot of members!

Kathryn Grant Crosby, actress
Joyce Dewitt, actress (Three’s Company)
Lisa Huber, actress, (Passions)
Lucy Liu, television and film actress (Ally McBeal, Charlie’s Angels)
Shelly Long, actress (Cheers)
Cybil Shepard, actress (Moonlighting)
Sela Ward, Emmy Winning Actress (Sisters, Now and Again, The Fugitive)
Joanne Woodward, Academy Award Winning actress (The Three Faces of Eve)

Natalie Allen, news anchor, (CNN)
Alanna Davis, news anchor (The Today Show)

Lauren Hutton, model
Lee Meriweather, Miss America 1955
Mary Ann Mobley, Miss America 1959
Sylvia Hitchcock, Miss Universe 1967

Martha Layne Collins, Former Governor of Kentucky
Shirley Hufsyedler, former Sect. Of Education (Carter Administration)
Chairwoman of the Committee on Immigration Reform (Clinton Administration)
Patricia Schroder, Longest-serving Congresswoman in U.S. History (24 years)

Harper Lee, author, (To Kill a Mockingbird)
Holly Nicholson, financial author

Susan Athey, noted economist

Susan Helms, NASA Astronaut and first woman to live in the International Space Station

Alice Sheets Marriot, hotel executive

Pat Summitt, Olympic gold and silver medallist
Championship Women’s Basketball coach

Mabelle McElvain Miller, First lady of oil and gas production

Another Pi Phi
 

Apparently actress Jennifer Garner, star of "Alias", is a Pi Phi. That one hasn't been posted yet.

I'm awfully dissapointed. Noone has mentioned Kappa Sigma yet...

These are the some of the 200,000+ great men that have worn the Star & Crescent:

Bob Dole - Kansas (undergrad) and Washburn (yea!)(law school) - Famous Politician

Jimmy Buffet - Southern Mississippi - Musician
Robert Redford - Colorado - Actor, Director
Sam Donaldson - Texas/El Paso - News Correspondent
Mort Walker - Mizzou - Created Beetle Bailey
Ted Turner - Brown - AOL/Time Warner, Owns Atlanta Braves
Dennis Haskins - Tennessee/Chatanooga - Actor on Saved by the Bell
Edward R. Murrow - Washington State - Journalist (ended McCarthyism)
Jerry Jones - Arkansas (Fabulous Xi) - Owner of Dallas Cowboys
William Hewlett - Stanford - Hewlett Packard Co.
Jack Smith Jr - Mass. - CEO of General Motors
Allen Jacobsom - Iowa State - CEO of 3M
Ben Gilmor - Auborn - CEO of AT&T
Hal Daub - G Washington - Former Nebraska Politician
Edwin Hubble - Chicago - Hubble Telescope

"The Star and Crescent shall not be worn by every man, but only by him who is worthy to wear it"

OX has the following
Jon Stuart-daily show
Steven Speilberg. Thats right.
Lee Iacocoa
George Chapman-wrote the order of the arrow for boy scouts
Cindy Crawford is one our DreamGirls.

DJ Skribble


the list goes on and on...but i'm done bragging for right now.

So, I tried to sort through all of these posts, but I gave up, so hopefully I'm not repeating...


... Our sorority has done a lot of research on Sigma Chi famous alums for Derby Days before (well, not a lot, but anyway...), so here are the ones I can remember:

David Letterman
Carson Daly
Burt Reynolds

Some famous alums of Kappa Kappa Psi:

John Phillip Sousa, Karl L. King, Leroy Anderson, Hoagy Carmichael, Morton Gould, John Williams, H. Robert Reynolds, Count Basie, Ray Charles, Earth Wind and Fire, Phillip Farkas, Maynard Ferguson, "Dizzy" Gillespie, Stan Kenton, Branford Marsalis, Wynton Marsalis, Buddy Rich, Carl "Doc" Severinson, Lawrence Welk, Neil Armstrong, and President William Clinton.

I heard Dave Matthews pledged Kappa Sig at UVA, but I have no idea if it is true.

I thought Dave Matthews is from the UK?

Dave Matthews is from Virginia, and I think he may be from Charlottesville. Can't speak to the Kappa Sig part, though.

Dave Matthews definately went to UVA, but I don't know about the Kappa Sig part. I'll ask around.

don't you love simultaneous posting MysticCat?

;)
:p

I have to agree.. I've never heard of any famous ASA alum... the only one I heard was Pamela Anderson Lee but I was then informed later that she never went to college so she couldn't have been an ASA... but it kinda makes me sad that we don't have anyone famous to claim...

Dave dropped out of High School at 16. He PLAYED fraternity parties at UVA in the early 90s, which is probably how that rumor started. But he did not go to college.

RIght on! :) He definitely did not go to college!

In reference to other comments:

1. I heard Dave Matthews was born in South Africa (thought the part about Virginia and fraternity parties is true).

2. I heard that Pamela Anderson started college to become a nurse, but never finished (obviously).

Just random things I hae heard.....correct me if I am wrong!:rolleyes:

It's downright mystic! :D

Dave Matthews did grow up in South Africa before moving to VA. Maybe he just played Kappa Sig parties at UVA.

Dave Matthews
 

In light of all the Dave Matthews posts, check out his bio at the Dave Matthews Band Mailing List website. He did finish high school(in Johannesburg), he did not got to college, and the band got its start in Charlottesville.

Wrong
 

Jon Stuart is a Pike. Along with Jon, other prominent Pikes include:

Tim McGraw, Married to Faith Hill...country music megastar on the side

Bobby Bowden, Head Football Coach at Florida State

Dr. Stephen Covey, Author of the 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

Strom Thurmond, Old Dude...US Senator

Rick Dees, hosts the Weekly Top 40

Horace Grant, professional Basketball Player

Ted Koppel, ABC News Anchor

Jeff Taylor, Founder & CEO of Monster.com

Nolan Bushnell - Founder of Atari and Chuck E. Cheese's Pizza Time Theater

And many more CEOs and business leaders, Congressmen, and athletes or coaches.

Re: Wrong
 

...and married to an ADPi less than half his age! :D

honeychile

Ladies,

There are almost certainly some famous people from your sorority. Maybe they're (you're) simply not hung up on name dropping.

You have some very good chapters on some of the campuses where I advise -- and in the long run, isn't that what is important?

A close friend of mine in high school went to South East Missouri State and pledged ASA there... She loved it!

Sandra Day O'Connor is a Kappa Alpha Theta.

Kate Spade, sister-in-law of David Spade (I think), is a Kappa Kappa Gamma.

Helen Walton, widow of Sam Walton of Wal-Mart fame, is also a Kappa.

Some others are Mariska Hargitay, Donna DeVarona, Madelyn Pugh ("I Love Lucy" writer), and Barbara Feldon.

Someone said something about someone in O-Town wearing Pi Kappa Phi letters, yea... Trevor went to CSU- Fullerton and was a Pi Kappa Phi there... He was good with the ladies.. and he is still really close with the guys there.. and go party with them..

Actually, Magaret Chase Smith, the first woman senator was a Sigma Kappa...she was also the first woman to sit on both houses of Congress..

There's a statistic somewhere... I can't remember it exactly... but it's something like, 75% of goverment officials were greek in their college days. I don't know about you, but that makes me pretty d@mn proud. :D

dave mathews
 

I don't know about Dave being in a fraternity, I knew he was from South Africa because most great people are from there (including myself ):D however, on Tuesday when I see dave (Floor seats by the way) I will ask him.. he hehe. Also I think it's funny because nearly all sororities have said their pins have been up in space, theres supposably been a xo pin in space also!! But I know for sure Haper Lee who wrote To Kill a Mockingbird was a Chi O!!


Princess E

I serached the Internet to find out about this senate stuff. The Theta one was Nancy Kassenbaum... she is considered the first woman elected to senate in her own right.

Here is what I found...

Out of the first five female senators, the three women who served a full Senate term all succeeded their husbands. Hattie Caraway (D. Ark.) initially filled her dead husband's term but was twice re-elected. Margaret Chase Smith (R. Me.) succeeded her husband in the House, then ran for the Senate on her own. Maurine Neuberger (D. Ore.) replaced her incumbent husband when he died two days before the deadline to file for reelection. It was 1978 before a woman was elected to a full term who was not a political widow succeeding her husband; Nancy Landon Kassenbaum (R. KS) was a political daughter who had not held public office prior to her election to the Senate.

Famous Betas
 

A few well known Betas:

John Wooden - legendary UCLA basketball coach (10 national titles)
Gary Barnett - head football coach, Colorado
Dick Gephardt - Congressman (House minority leader)
Kyle Brandt - MTV Real World Chicago
Mike Schimdt - Hall of Fame 3rd baseman, Philadelphia Phillies
Scott McCarron - professional golfer
Samuel Palmisano - newly elected CEO, IBM
Adam West - actor (original batman series)
Stephen Sondheim - famous broadway composer (West Side Story)
George Peppard - actor, Hannibal (the A-Team)

Also...
*More Congressmen, Senators, Supreme Court Justices and Olympic Medalists than any other fraternity* (atleast thats what they tell me :) )

I found on one Pi Kappa Phi website that Jerry "The King" Lawler was a Pi Kapp, but have not been able to confirm this anywhere. Anyone know?

http://www.pikapps.net/images/lawler.jpg

Re: dave mathews
 

i can confirm this one :) susan helms was a special initiate of the pi gamma chapter in 1998(my chapter) she was the first woman to live on the mir space station, and she brought her badge with her on her. After returning she presented her badge back the chapter as a gift to thank us for initiating her (she framed it w/photos taken from space and stuff like that)..unfortunately it was stolen from the chapter some time last year, i don't know if i has been returned. :(

I was reading through the post and realized 1 famous Deepher, possibly the most recgonizable 1 is missing from the list: Bette Midler

I've been hearing this bette midler thing for a while and from watching VH1 behind the music, I give you my conclusion.....
Bette Midler went to college in hawaii....
I don't think we've ever had chapters in hawaii...
second she dropped out of college, which makes her not an alum.

I wish it were true though! oh well....

Does anyone know of any famous ADPis?

Lindy!!!!!!!! She rocks. I think she will be famous one day.

I don't know where and how that Bette Midler rumor started. She's not on the International website as a famous alumna so I figure that she isn't. It would be cool though. ;)

Best link (that I've found):
http://www3.baylor.edu/alpha_delta_pi/famous.htm

The one we always got a kick out of was Loula Kendall Rodgers, who designed the Confederate Flag! :)

I just discovered that the woman who played Maybelle Merriweather in GWTW was an ADPi, too.

honeychile

ps - I love Bette Midler!