Famous Greeks... or are they???

[Senusret I]

DeltAlum, both are probably true.

Ambassador Maura Harty is a prominent female Brother of APO.

[hottytoddy]

OK I think this is really cool...

Jackie O pledged Phi Mu but is not an alum she dropped out.

Gen George Patton and Edgar Hoover were KA's

Robert Redford, Ted Turner, and music newcomer Josh Kelley were all Kappa Sigs.

Paul Newman was a Phi Kappa Tau

Paul Bear Bryant, Archie Manning (and Eli), Sen. Trent Lott and Pat Riley were all Sigma Nu's.

John Goodman was a Sig Ep

these are just a couple that I didn't see mentioned.

[Firehouse]

DeltAlum: you are correct about former Governor Rubin Askew. One of the most respected political figures in Florida history was student body president at FSU and a member of Delta Tau Delta. The current IFC president is also a Delt.
Responding to an earler mention of Jon Stewart: he was a Pike at William & mary, initiated 1981. Other Pike alumni include newsman Ted Koppel (Syracuse '59) and singer Tim McGraw (Northeast Louisiana '86), plus a number of actors and politicians.
One story: Bobby Bowden was Pike president at Samford University when he was an undergraduate. He was present at his son Jeff's initiation at Florida State in 1981. Now, Jeff is Coach Bowden's offensive coordinator, and Coach's grandson, Robert Hines, is the quarterback at Tennessee-martin where he is also a Pike.

[hannahgirl]

A friend of mine is dating a guy who is from the same Lambda Chi chapter that Kenny Chesney is from. A bigger wow is that Kenny Chesney was his new member educator! The guy my friend is dating still stays in contact with Kenny. I can't wait for my friend's wedding!! KENNY CHESNEY WILL BE THERE! woo hoo!!

OH I'm SOOOOO JEALOUS!!! Can I come to the wedding too? Any of the guys that are going to be there need dates?? I'll go!! I would love to meet KENNY!! I just went to his concert last week!!!!

[OUlioness01]

Originally posted by hottytoddy
OK I think this is really cool...

Jackie O pledged Phi Mu but is not an alum she dropped out.

i thought this was just rumor?

[MSKKG]

My sister catered Steve "Air" McNair's wedding reception a few years ago. Both he and his wife are Greeks, but I don't remember which ones. Delta Sigma Theta comes to mind for his wife, but it has been too long ago for me to be sure.

[enlightenment06]

Originally posted by Jody
Star Jones, one of the moderaters of The View is a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority. For verification, please review the acknowledgements in her book, If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything.

Plus, I saw her at a national conference almost 17 years ago!

AND I know people from her chapter. She is most definitely a soror.

[starang21]

Originally posted by MSKKG
My sister catered Steve "Air" McNair's wedding reception a few years ago. Both he and his wife are Greeks, but I don't remember which ones. Delta Sigma Theta comes to mind for his wife, but it has been too long ago for me to be sure.

he's a que.

[! alan]

Originally Posted by starang21

he's a que.

most agree with this

[UGAalum94]

I'm challenging on Faulkner as an SAE. It seems unlikely, really, if you know his biography. "Count no 'count" was an SAE?

(By some accounts, he dropped out of high school, went off to join the Royal Air Force because he was too short to join the US military for WWI, when he was enrolled at Ole Miss, he was a special student, and I think, kind of thought of as unusual. It just doesn't seem like he would have been invited to join SAE, but maybe I'm wrong.)

Are you saying that the Modernist writer was in a fraternity as a young man or are you saying the fraternity gave him honorary membership, or maybe, that the fraternity had a member named William Faulkner, but he wasn't the writer. What are the circumstances of his membership?

The list is impressive enough without him. If you've got Walker Percy and Shelby Foote, you're well represented in terms of 20th century southern men of letters, even without Faulkner. I certainly don't mean to slight the rest of the list or SAE.

[jon1856]

Originally Posted by Alphagamuga

I'm challenging on Faulkner as an SAE. It seems unlikely, really, if you know his biography. "Count no 'count" was an SAE?

(By some accounts, he dropped out of high school, went off to join the Royal Air Force because he was too short to join the US military for WWI, when he was enrolled at Ole Miss, he was a special student, and I think, kind of thought of as unusual. It just doesn't seem like he would have been invited to join SAE, but maybe I'm wrong.)

Are you saying that the Modernist writer was in a fraternity as a young man or are you saying the fraternity gave him honorary membership, or maybe, that the fraternity had a member named William Faulkner, but he wasn't the writer. What are the circumstances of his membership?

The list is impressive enough without him. If you've got Walker Percy and Shelby Foote, you're well represented in terms of Th century southern men of letters, even without Faulkner. I certainly don't mean to slight the rest of the list or SAE.

Fair question for which I do not have any kind of direct answer for.
He is listed as a Brother on our Nationals site as well as many others.
And yes, he was at Ole Miss for a very short period of time.....

[DSTRen13]

This may have already been posted; I didn't read through from the beginning.

From http://www.deltasigmatheta.org/ :

Notable Deltas

This provides a glimpse of some of the people who helped mold a legacy to make Delta Sigma Theta a powerful force -- more than a sorority.

Osceola Macarthy Adams, a founding member of Delta, was one of the first Black actresses on Broadway. She was the Director of the Harlem School of the Arts and directed the theatrical debuts of Harry Belafonte and Sidney Poitier.

Sadie T. M. Alexander, Ph.D., 1st National President (1919-1923), was the nation's first woman to earn a Ph.D. in economics (1921). A distinguished attorney, she was among the founders of the National Bar Association (1925) and she was appointed to President Truman's Commission on Civil Rights (1945).

Tina Allen, sculptor and painter recently sculpted a life-sized bust of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. She is the conceptual designer of two major international projects: The International Children's Peace Park and the Monumental Statue of Nelson Mandela. Ms. Allen has received the Essence Award, the Stellar Award and the Thurgood Marshall Lifetime Achievement Award.

Brigadier General Hazel Johnson Brown, Ph.D., was the first African American woman general in the United States Army.

Selma Burke, Ph.D., sculptor, won the 1943 Fine Arts Competition for the District of Columbia for a profile of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. This artwork was adapted for the United States dime.

Alexa Canady, M.D., at age 26 became the first Black woman neurosurgeon in the United States. She specializes in pediatric neurosurgery.

Elizabeth Catlett is an internationally acclaimed sculptor and lithographer. She is noted for the vast range of works she creates, including life-size sculptures and even larger pieces.

Shirley Chisholm, the first Black woman member of the U.S. Congress, was the first African American and first woman to run as a major party candidate for the presidency of the United States.

Ruby Dee Davis is an extraordinary actress with performance credits on stage, in film and on television. She has also written a collection of poetry.

Myrlie Evers-Williams is the Chairman Emerita of the Board for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).

Frankie M. Freeman, noted attorney and 14th National President (1967-1971), was the first woman appointed to the Civil Rights Commission by President Lyndon B. Johnson and served 16 years.

Patricia Roberts Harris served as Delta Sigma Theta's first Executive Director. She was also the first Black woman to be appointed ambassador to a European country (Luxembourg) and to be appointed to a presidential cabinet post as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). She was later appointed as Secretary of Health and Human Services. In January 2000, she was honored on the 23rd commemorative stamp in the United States Postal Service's Black Heritage Series. Other Deltas that have been ambassadors are Ann Holloway and Bynthis Perry.

Dorothy I. Height, Ph.D., 10th National President (1947-1956), was appointed by President Carter to the Presidential Commission on a National Agenda for the 1980s. She has served as president of the National Council of Negro Women for over 40 years.

Alexis Herman was the Secretary of Labor and a Cabinet Member in the administration of President William Clinton.

Darlene Clark Hine, Ph.D., noted author, built her career on researching, publishing and raising the bar of how the experience of African American women should be recorded. She was the first African American to become the John A. Hannah of History Endowed Chair at Michigan State University.

Shirley Jackson, Ph.D., is the 18th President of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. She is the first African-American woman to head a leading technological university, the first African-American woman to earn a Ph.D. at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (in 1973), and she was the first African-American woman to become a commissioner of the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

Elaine R. Jones is the first woman to serve as Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. She is also the first African American woman graduate of the University of Virginia Law School and the first African American woman elected to the American Bar Association Board of Governors.

Barbara Jordan was the first African-American to serve in the U.S. congress from the South since reconstruction; first Black woman to preside over a state senate; and the first Black person to deliver the keynote address at the Democratic National Convention.

Jewel S. Lafontant was the first American woman to be admitted into the International Academy of Trial Lawyers. She was also the first female Deputy Solicitor General of the U.S. during the Nixon Administration.

Carrie P. Meek is a Congresswoman in the United States House of Representatives for the 17th District of Florida.

Jane E. Smith, Ph.D. served as the President and CEO of the National Council of Negro Women.

Mary Church Terrell was the first African American chosen to represent the United States Congress of Women and to serve on the board of education of a major city.

Rae Lewis-Thornton is an AIDS activist who has been featured on the cover of Essence magazine, as well as in numerous feature stories in Ebony and Emerge magazines, Chicago Tribune newspaper, Chicago Sun Times newspaper, and the Washington Post. She was also featured on the Oprah Winfrey Show, and Nightline with Ted Koppel. She received an Emmy award in 1996 for her WBBM-TV's ongoing series of first person stories on living with AIDS.

Stephanie Tubbs-Jones is a Congresswoman in the United States House of Representatives for the 11th District of Ohio.

Barbara Watson was first African American woman to serve as chief of a State Department bureau. She became Administrator of the Bureau of Security and Consular Affairs on July 31, 1968, served until December 31, 1974, and was re-appointed on April 7, 1977. On August 17 of that year, she became Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affairs.

[blue_n_orange]

This is a long AND old thread, but I'm posting this anyways.

Famous Kappas:
Kate Spade
Ashley Judd
Jane Pauley
Nancy O'Dell
Candice Bergen
Mrs. Campbell (fleur-de-lis on the soup cans!)
Kate Jackson

There are many more, but it's late (or early). Also, someone said before (way before) that Will Ferrell was a Delta Tau Delta. He isn't. He's a TKE. He wears a TKE jersey many times while playing a frat boy on SNL and he gave a tour of a TKE frat house on an Mtv special for "Old School."

And I'm pretty sure the KKG pin has never been to the moon. If the pin-on-the-moon claim (Tri-Delt's pin) is a rumor, there are a heck of a lot of people still spreading them (it's in the UF recruitment guides all the time).

[CasperDU173]

DU has quite a few famous alumni:

James Abram Garfield Williams 1856, President of the US

Charles Evans Hughes, Colgate and Brown 1881, Governor of New York, Secretary of State, and Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court

Charles G. Dawes, Marietta 1884, Vice President of the United States and Ambassador to Great Britain; winner of the Nobel Prize for peace

Joseph P. Kennedy, Harvard '12, Ambassador to Great Britain, father of two Senators and a President

Lester B. Pearson, Toronto '19, Prime Minister of Canada and President of the United Nations General Assembly; Nobel Prize winner for Peace

Hugh E. Rodham, Pennsylvania State '35, Father of First Lady Hillary Rodham-Clinton

Justin "Sam" Barry, Iowa '26, Founder New York Knicks, NBA Hall of Fame coach

Leland S. MacPhail, Swarthmore '39, President, National League Baseball and GM of the New York Yankees

Dr. J. Robert Cade, Florida '45, Inventor of Gatorade

Louis L. Holtz, Kent State '58, Head football coach, University of South Carolina

Peter V. Ueberroth, San Jose '59, Organizer of the 1984 Summer Olympics and Commissioner of Major League Baseball

James A. Boeheim, Jr., Syracuse '66, Head coach, Syracuse basketball, and the winner of the 2003 NCAA National Championship

Fenton W. Booth, DePauw 1892, Dean of Harvard Law

Stephen Crane, Lafayette and Syracuse 1894, Journalist and author; Red Badge of Courage

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cornell '44, Editorialist and author

Michael R. Hallman, Michigan '67, Past President and Chief Operating Officer of Microsoft, past President & CIO of Boeing Computer Services, past Vice President of Field Operations for IBM. Brother Hallman currently serves on the boards of directors of Intuit, InFocus Corporation, Network Appliance Corporation, and two wholly owned subsidiaries of Fujitsu Ltd.

John J. Bello, Tufts '68, Founder of SOBE Beverage Company, President of NFL Properties from 1986-93

Douglas Lebda, Bucknell '92, Founder and CEO of LendingTree.com

Linus C. Pauling, Oregon State '22, Winner of two Nobel Prizes ; chemistry and peace

There is a list of more at: http://www.deltau.org/fraternity/history/famous.html
I think that DU boasts one of the greatest list of alumni who have went on to hold prominent positions throughout this country.

[DeltAlum]

Again,

http://www.delts.org/info/alumni.shtml