Phamous Phi Psi Thread
 

This just in, courtesy of Kent Owen (Indiana Beta, '58):

John Lehman, former Secretary of the Navy and Virginia Betan, has just appeared on the NEWSHOUR WITH JIM LEHRER this evening, but you can expect to see more of him as a member of the 9/11 Commission.

Jerry Colangelo (Illinois Delta, '59)
 

SAN ANTONIO, TX - Suns Managing General Partner Jerry Colangelo is one of six new members elected into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. Colangelo will be joined by four players and one coach when he is enshrined on September 10, 2004 in Springfield, Mass., the birthplace of basketball. The six new electees represent the 46th group to enter the Hall of Fame since the process began in 1959.

John L. Doleva, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Basketball Hall of Fame, announced that, in addition to the Suns Chairman, former Portland Trail Blazer and Houston Rockets All-Star Clyde Drexler, championship coach Bill Sharman, legendary women's basketball superstar Lynette Woodard, the late Maurice Stokes, and dominant international guard Drazen Dalipagic comprise the Class of 2004. Sharman joins John Wooden and Lenny Wilkens as only the third person in Basketball Hall of Fame history to be enshrined as both a coach and a player.

Mayor Bloomberg (Maryland Alpha, '61)
 

Brother Bloomberg is now speaking at the Republican National Convention on C-Span. He spearheaded the effort to get the convention in NYC.

Stephen J. Hadley (New York Alpha '66)
 

http://www.news.cornell.edu/releases...adley.fac.html

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ITHACA, N.Y. -- Stephen J. Hadley, who received a bachelor's degree in government from Cornell University in 1969, has been appointed national security adviser by President George W. Bush. The president announced the appointment Nov. 16; it does not require Senate approval. Hadley is the second Cornellian to be named to the post in the past eight years. In 1996 President Clinton appointed Samuel R. "Sandy" Berger, Class of 1967, as national security adviser.

Hadley, 57, was appointed assistant to the president and deputy national security adviser in 2001. He previously served as a senior foreign and defense policy adviser to Gov. Bush during the 2000 Presidential Campaign and worked in the Bush-Cheney transition on the National Security Council. Prior to that position, he was a partner in the Washington, D.C., law firm of Shea & Gardner and a principal in The Scowcroft Group Inc., an international consulting firm.

"Stephen is a very intelligent, very able person and a terrific administrator," said Walter LaFeber, the Andrew H. and James S. Tisch Distinguished University Professor of History, of his former student. "He's got a lot of integrity, and of the various new appointments in the Bush administration, this is one of the best."

As a Cornell undergraduate, Hadley was active as a member of the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity, the Phi Beta Kappa and Phi Eta Sigma national honor societies, The Quill and Dagger Society and the Cornell Glee Club. He also was a student member of the Faculty Committee on Student Affairs and served as chairman of the Scheduling Coordination and Activities Review Board (SCARB), among other activities.

Before joining the Bush team, Hadley served as the assistant secretary of defense for international security policy from 1989 to 1993. In that position, he guided defense policy toward NATO and Western Europe, on nuclear weapons and ballistic missile defense, and arms control. Hadley also served as Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney's representative in talks led by Secretary of State James Baker that resulted in the START I and START II treaties. Hadley previously served in a variety of other capacities in the defense and national security fields, including serving from 1986 to 1987 as counsel to the special review board established by President Reagan to inquire into U.S. arms sales to Iran (the "Tower Commission"), as a member of the National Security Council staff under President Ford from 1974 to 1977, and as an analyst for the comptroller of the Department of Defense from 1972 to 1974.

Hadley has been a member of the Department of Defense Policy Board, the National Security Advisory Panel to the director of Central Intelligence, and the board of trustees of Analytical Services Inc. ("ANSER"). His professional legal practice focused on business problems of U.S. and foreign corporations, particularly as they involved international business and regulatory and strategy issues. He received a law degree from Yale Law School in 1972.

Evan Bayh (Indiana Beta, '75)
 

This just in from Suzie Owen (Delta Gamma & wife of Kent Owen, Indiana Beta, '58)

NBC's "Meet the Press" this morning closed with predictions about the 2008 campaign. Bill Safire predicted that the Democrats will nominate Evan Bayh (Indiana Beta, Phi Kappa Psi) and Bill Richardson and the Republicans will nominate John McCain and Condi Rice (Alpha Chi Omega). Let the race begin!!!!

Jerry Yang (Cal Beta, '87)
 

Brother Yang, co-founder of Yahoo, was on Charlie Rose last night. He was talking all things Internet, as Yahoo celebrates its tenth anniversary.