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DaffyKD 11-18-2013 02:01 PM
When I was in school I was told that Pat Nixon (President Nixon's wife) was a Kappa Delta. Imagine my surprise when her name was not at the memorial service during convention. It was actually Jean Lowry Nixon, the authoress of children's books, who was a Kappa Delta.

DaffyKD

DrPhil 11-18-2013 02:50 PM
Morris Chestnut is still not an Omega. Even his hesitant "hook" in The Best Man Holiday can't change that.

StealthMode 11-18-2013 05:30 PM
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Originally Posted by DrPhil (Post 2249756)
Morris Chestnut is still not an Omega. Even his hesitant "hook" in The Best Man Holiday can't change that.
LOL I saw that and wondered if he purposely made it a little "off." Rumors were floating around that he's actually a Sigma and those have been debunked as well.

Wikipedia say Master P is an Omega. Is that legit or just Wiki fodder?

IndianaSigKap 11-18-2013 10:15 PM
I doubt Percy Miller (Master P) is an Omega. He went to Houston, I think, on a basketball scholarship but dropped out before basketball season started and then he went to some small school. Don't think he lasted long there either. I remember seeing an interview with him about how wanted to make sure his kids have college degrees since he doesn't.

DrPhil 11-18-2013 11:06 PM
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Originally Posted by StealthMode (Post 2249770)
LOL I saw that and wondered if he purposely made it a little "off." Rumors were floating around that he's actually a Sigma and those have been debunked as well.
LOL. He looked like the writers and directors forced him to do that "hook". He made it quick as hell as though he prayed no one noticed it. LOL.

Morris is non-Greek and fine nonetheless. :)


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Originally Posted by StealthMode (Post 2249770)
Wikipedia say Master P is an Omega. Is that legit or just Wiki fodder?
Probably Wikipedia fodder. While there are BGLO members who didn't graduate college and there are eternal (insert title prior to initiation), I doubt Master Percy Miller is Greek. His handsome son (who it took me a while to consider handsome) is also non-Greek. If he decides to become Greek, I hope they stop showing those ICDC college commercials. LOL.

dekeguy 11-22-2013 05:12 PM
Originally Posted by glittergal1985
Just found this thread!
Claimed by Theta Phi Alpha
1.Jackie Kennedy
2.Grace Kelly
3.Betty Crocker ( was she even a real person??)
4.Reese Witherspoon
5.Sarah Jessica Parker

I'm sure I'll think of more later :-)

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Originally Posted by WhiteRose1912 (Post 2167586)
Goodness. Where did you hear any of these?
When I was an undergraduate a had a very close friend who was a Theta Phi Alpha. She told me that while Mrs Kennedy and HSH Princess Grace were not undergrad initiates they were honoraries like JFK was an honorary Phi Kappa Theta. Might that be the origin of this urban legend?

WhiteRose1912 11-22-2013 09:28 PM
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Originally Posted by dekeguy (Post 2250164)
When I was an undergraduate a had a very close friend who was a Theta Phi Alpha. She told me that while Mrs Kennedy and HSH Princess Grace were not undergrad initiates they were honoraries like JFK was an honorary Phi Kappa Theta. Might that be the origin of this urban legend?
We don't do honorary initiates. The closest thing we have would be our Siena Medalists, but they do not go through any kind of initiation ceremony.

Panhell 11-30-2013 08:36 PM
It is amazing to hear and see all the 'urban legend-ary members' of GLOs across the country. More to dispel, Cybil Shepherd is not a Chi Omega, and Princess Grace is not a Delta Delta Delta,….Panhell love….

amIblue? 11-30-2013 09:03 PM
Oh look, from 2003 in this very thread


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Originally Posted by sugar and spice (Post 401903)
Grace Kelly isn't a Tri Delt, although some websites may lead you to believe otherwise.
And from the same year and this very same thread, too!

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Originally Posted by xo_kathy (Post 401936)
Delta Burke is definitely not a Chi O. I've also seen a lot of chapter websites claiming Cybil Sheppard and Shelly Long? Never seen any proof of that from Nationals...:rolleyes:
But thanks for repeating what has already been said. Panhell love!

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Originally Posted by Panhell (Post 2250982)
It is amazing to hear and see all the 'urban legend-ary members' of GLOs across the country. More to dispel, Cybil Shepherd is not a Chi Omega, and Princess Grace is not a Delta Delta Delta,….Panhell love….

Xidelt 11-30-2013 09:28 PM
Panhell is like a super hero: Captain Obvious

DrPhil 11-30-2013 09:34 PM
"Gobble, gobble, gobble..."
~ Thanksgiving Turkey

PersistentDST 12-03-2013 06:00 PM
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Originally Posted by DrPhil (Post 2249756)
Morris Chestnut is still not an Omega. Even his hesitant "hook" in The Best Man Holiday can't change that.
That hook made me cringe! Lol!

klf3kids 03-06-2015 04:06 PM
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Originally Posted by ChioLu (Post 2093358)
Here's the Lauren Hutton story I heard: She was in Nashville shooting a movie in the 1980s. Lauren was staying at a downtown hotel that was the venue for a Vanderbilt Chi Omega date party. She was invited as a guest to the party and ended up leaving with a members' date. How this got morphed into Lauren being a member of Chi O, I have NO idea.

Heather Locklear: She pledged Chi Omega and is pictured in the Bruin yearbook in the Chi O group photo that year. Heather deactivated. A year later, she pledged Tri Delta. Never initiated and left school when her acting/modeling career started to take off.

Zeta rumor: I had always heard that the wife of the founder of Hallmark cards was a Zeta Tau Alpha, as the logo for the company is a 5-point crown (like ZTA's symbol). But haven't seen any evidence to this. Can any ZTA's verify?

Now, I do know that a beer was created for a Chi Omega. The former CMO of Iron City Beer (located in Pittsburgh) created Iron City Light for his wife, a Chi Omega alumna. (I'm friends with the daughter and verified the story at her wedding.) Now that's love!
Testing

33girl 03-06-2015 04:42 PM
So IowaHawkeye and Jenny McCarthy went to the same high school?

This explains a lot.

ChioLu 11-11-2016 01:15 PM
Got some new ones for you!

Malcolm Jenkins, Safety for the Philadelphia Eagles, is an Omega Psi Phi. I've even seen the Omega brand on his arm.
Terrence Jenkins, former co-host for E! News, is also an Omega.
(One day, I'll ask Malcolm if he's related to Terrence.)

Newly announced Miss Golden Globe 2017, Sophia Stallone (Sylvester Stallone's daughter), is a Delta Gamma (sophomore) at USC (SoCal). https://www.yahoo.com/celebrity/sylv...020500338.html

violetgeek 11-12-2016 01:00 PM
Olympic Figure Skater Polina Edmonds is a Delta Gamma at Santa Clara, Fall 2016 recruitment class.

FSUZeta 11-12-2016 04:56 PM
The wife of the founder of Hallmark is not a ZTA

DaffyKD 11-13-2016 06:18 PM
Can't remember if I posted once upon a time when this thread of new (no working brain cells left in my head). When I was in school in the dark ages we were were told

1. Betty Crocker was a KD (seems a lot groups claim her)
2) Former First Lady Pat Nixon. I was surprised when I went to convention a few months after her death that she wasn't mentioned during the memorial service. Finally dawned on me-- URBAN LEGEND
3) Sophia Loren supposedly went to my school, pledged Alpha Phi and was asked to de-pledge due to morals. Never saw her name on any alumni list for the school

clemsongirl 11-20-2016 03:21 PM
Proof that these go very far back:

I'm currently doing a history paper on the early history of sororities at William & Mary, and in the 1949 and 1950 Greek Guides Dinah Shore is listed as an alum of Tri-Delta. I recognized her name from Adam Sandler's Hanukkah Song (talk about dating myself here) and thought it was interesting that they had a Jewish alum, so I did some searching and it turns out she was a well-known member of Alpha Epsilon Phi at Vanderbilt. Just goes to show that you can't always trust historical records either!

honeychile 11-21-2016 09:43 PM
I think some of the urban legends started when So and So pledge XYZ, but never initiated. Two women I can think of off the top of my head are Farrah Fawcett (pledged Tri Delta, never initiated) and Michelle Pfeiffer (pledged ADPi, never initiated).

My own theory of so many GLOs claiming Betty Crocker is how many different models there were for Betty. Either that, or every sorority in the 1940s-1950s were hot to claim her!

clemsongirl 11-21-2016 11:25 PM
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Originally Posted by honeychile (Post 2423311)
I think some of the urban legends started when So and So pledge XYZ, but never initiated. Two women I can think of off the top of my head are Farrah Fawcett (pledged Tri Delta, never initiated) and Michelle Pfeiffer (pledged ADPi, never initiated).

My own theory of so many GLOs claiming Betty Crocker is how many different models there were for Betty. Either that, or every sorority in the 1940s-1950s were hot to claim her!
I have only ever seen Michelle Pfeiffer tied to a two-year institution in California that for obvious reasons never had and doesn't have an ADPi chapter. What school did she pledge and not initiate at?

ChioLu 11-22-2016 01:49 PM
Tim McGraw & Faith Hill's daughter, Maggie McGraw, is a freshman at Stanford. Maybe next spring, she'll be a New Member in 1 of the GLOs!

honeychile 11-22-2016 06:49 PM
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Originally Posted by clemsongirl (Post 2423313)
I have only ever seen Michelle Pfeiffer tied to a two-year institution in California that for obvious reasons never had and doesn't have an ADPi chapter. What school did she pledge and not initiate at?
Honestly don't remember, but I think it was in Texas.

I think.

honeychile 12-13-2016 07:25 PM
Just found this, and there's more than a couple that I question:

Greek Celebrities: 35 Surprising Stars Who Were Sorority Girls in College

Sister Havana 12-14-2016 01:58 AM
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Originally Posted by honeychile (Post 2424340)
Just found this, and there's more than a couple that I question:

Greek Celebrities: 35 Surprising Stars Who Were Sorority Girls in College
Bette Midler and Michelle Pfeiffer - nope. Connie Britton was a member of Sigma Delta, the former Sigma Kappa chapter at Dartmouth, right around the time it split from SK and went local. (Sigma Delta Instagram has a recent photo of her with one of the current chapter members.) I have no idea if she was ever initiated into Sigma Kappa, or if she was initiated and then dropped her membership when the chapter went local.

The others listed I'm pretty sure are all legit. (My 1993-1994 IU yearbook has pictures of Catt Sadler as a Chi Omega song leader in that year's IU Sing!)

IndianaSigKap 12-14-2016 11:32 PM
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Originally Posted by Sister Havana (Post 2424363)
The others listed I'm pretty sure are all legit. (My 1993-1994 IU yearbook has pictures of Catt Sadler as a Chi Omega song leader in that year's IU Sing!)
Catt Sadler was at IU either last year or year before last and posted several photos from the Chi Omega house on twitter. She mentioned being a member several times during the weekend. Two Bachelor(ette) people were Greek at IU, as well. Trista Sutter was an AXO and Molly Melaney was a Pi Phi.

33girl 12-15-2016 01:19 AM
I think this is the first I've ever heard about Holly Hunter going to Carnegie Mellon.

33girl 12-15-2016 01:26 AM
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Originally Posted by DaffyKD (Post 2422801)
3) Sophia Loren supposedly went to my school, pledged Alpha Phi and was asked to de-pledge due to morals. Never saw her name on any alumni list for the school
This is the wackiest one I've heard yet. Sophia didn't even come to America till she was almost past college age and when she did, it was to make movies.

alum 12-15-2016 01:46 PM
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Originally Posted by 33girl (Post 2424405)
I think this is the first I've ever heard about Holly Hunter going to Carnegie Mellon.
She's class of 1980.


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