Famous Greeks

[MafiaCSUS]

Carroll O'Conner R.I.P.

[SLOTheta]

Jimmy Buffet was also a Kappa Sigma..hence their Marguritaville Parties...

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*Nancy*
*Kappa Alpha Theta*
*Cal Poly- San Luis Obispo*

[SLOTheta]

Actress Rue McClanahan is indeed a a Kappa Alpha Theta

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*Nancy*
*Kappa Alpha Theta*
*Cal Poly- San Luis Obispo*

[SLOTheta]

Theta Seems to be left out!
Famous Thetas Include:

Sheryl Crow- Recording Artist
Amy Grant- Grammy Award-Winning Singer
Kerri Strugg-Olympic Gymnast -Gold Medalist
Marlo Thomas- Actress/Women & Children's Advocate
Nancy Kassebaum- Former U.S. Senator
Julie Moran- Broadcast Journalist
Laura Bush- First Lady
Jenna Bush
Lynn Cheney- Former Chairman, National Endowment of the Humanities/ Author/Co-host of Crossfire

Betty Crocker- the famous recipe queen that we all know and love

Rue McClanahan- Actress/"Blanche" on Golden Girls

Joan Ganz Cooney- co-founder of Children's Television Workshop and creator of Sesame Street
Tillie Kidd Fowler- US Representative
Barbara Hackman Franklin- secretary of commerce in the Bush administration

Melinda French Gates- Microsoft's general manager of personal productivity products

Patricia Gifford- Superior Court Judge

Nancy Hanks- National Endowment for the Arts chairperson, 1969-77

Susan Molloy Hubbard- head of the National Cancer Institute's International Cancer Info Center

Susie Souders Obrecht- publisher and president of Time Publishing Group, Inc.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings- Pulitzer Prize-winning author

Adelaide MacDonald Sinclair- chairman of UNICEF, 1946-66

Vivian Drenckhahn- advisor to World Health Organization, 1952-63

Mary Louise Epperson Smith- first woman to chair Repblican National Committee

Susan Insley- head of Honda's administrative and corporate groups

Helen Hull Jacobs- tennis champion
Nancy Landon Kassebaum US Senator

Betty Crocker the famous recipe queen that we all know and love
Rue McClanahan Actress/"Blanche" on Golden Girls


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*Nancy*
*Kappa Alpha Theta*
*Cal Poly- San Luis Obispo*

[This message has been edited by SLOTheta (edited June 22, 2001).]

[Corbin Dallas]

He's not really "famous" really, but I just saw this in a copy of my school's alumni magazine. Brother Robert Wilkins, '86 (I think) was on CNN, talking with Greta Van Susteren, on her show. He's also been on CourTV, and a couple other shows. He's a lawyer in Washington DC, and specializes in racial profiling. I looked for the post on famous black people in NIC fraternities, and NPC sororities to post this there, but couldn't find it. Like I said, he's not real famous, but he's been on (inter)national TV several times, and he's a brother from my chapter, so i think it's pretty cool.

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Steve Corbin
Lambda Chi Alpha
Theta Kappa Chapter
Rose-Hulman Inst. of Tech.

[Tom Earp]

Just to name a few LXA:

Bill Dillard-Dept Store
Murry Lincoln-Founder of C.A.R.E.
John Reed Chairmen of Citicorp
Glen King-Discovered Vitamin C
Rick Pitino
Larry Brown
Henry Iba
Billy Williams-BB Hall of fame
Fergie Jenkins-" " " "
Will Geer
Paul Harvey
Robert Urich
John Tesh
Harry Blackman-US Supreme Court
Harry S Truman
Just to name a few!

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Tom Earp LX Z#1
Pittsburg State U. (Kansas)

[queequek]

Some famous Theta Delts:

Robert Frost - four times Pulitzer Price winning poet

Frank Thomas - creator of Thumpers character(Bambi, Disney)

Gonzalo de Quesada - first Cuban Minister to US, his statue was built in the park of Havana, Cuba

Alexander Holley - engineer of Bessemer Steel, his statue is in Central Park, NYC

Raymond Hood - architect of Rockefeller Center, Chicago Tribune, creator of modern skycrappers

Walter O'Malley - the "rebel", the former owner of Yankees, then moved to LA to own LA Dodgers (yeah, people in NYC hate him so much)

Benjamin Abruzzo - crewmember of Double Eagle II, the first transatlantic balloon flight

Charles Tillinghast - first president of TWA (trans world airlines)

Elmer Capen - former president of Tufts U.

Leonard Carmichael - former president of Tufts U.

Alvin Chandler - former president of College William and Mary

Francis Horn - former president of University of RI

Julian Gibbs - former president of Amherst College

Wilfred Smiter - former president of John Hopkins U.

S. Emory Thompson - publisher of the Chicago Times

etc (I don't think I should mention all names ---> too much work)

If you still need all names, email me queequek@iastate.edu

GO GREEKS!

[TechADPI]

We can't forget about Alpha Delta Pi!
Here are just a few distinguished Adelphean women:

Deanna Carter- Country Singer
Danica McKeller- 'Winnie' from The Wonder Years
Jean Smart- 'Charlene' on Designing Women
Bobbi Eakes- 'Macy Forrester' on The Bold and the Beautiful
Nancy Lee Bradely- Miss Kentucky 1998
Kami Tice- Miss Arkansas 1998
Holly Mills- Miss Texas 1998 and 4th runner up in Miss USA 1998
Kristin Crawford- Started National GRADD(Group Rides and Designated Drivers)
Kathy Lambert- Washington House of Reps.
Gracia Yancey Backer- Missouri House of Reps.
Dr. Cornelia Burwell Wilbur, MD- Psychiatrist in the famous "Sybill" split-personality case.

The list goes on and on. Way to go ADPi!!

[Sigmagirl43]

I once heard somewhere that every U.S president, except for 5, were members of a fraternity? That seems like a lot to me,Has anyone else heard that?

[DeltAlum]

Actually, I think it's all but four.

[AngelPhiSig]

Famous Phi Sigs:
(Just to name a few)
Marian S Rosen- The youngest woman attorney admittend to practice before the US Supreme Court.
Eve Abbot- Broadway actress
Ima Phillips- Founder of the Theta Chapter and creator of Guiding Light, the longest running program in history
Sylvia F Porter- NY Post Daily Colmnist, the only woman syndicated financia columnist in the nation.

Just to name a few...

Rumour: The woman from Win Ben Steins Money... I forget her name, there is a Phi Sig chapter at her school...

Soon to be: ME hehe... Congresswoman... lol


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Phi Sigma Sigma - Gamma Gamma
Tau Beta Sigma - Delta Omicron

[gammazetagrl]

Danica McKellar (Winnie on Wonder Years)-Alpha Delta Pi from the UCLA chapter...I met her through my cousin who is a sister of hers.

[AngelPhiSig]

Question, I was watching the Real World Hawaii, and remembered that at one time I saw Amaya wearing a Kappa shirt (it was blurred out, but you could make out that it said Kappa Kappa Gamma) so Im guessing shes one? Any Kappa's opinions?

Originally posted by AngelPhiSig:
Question, I was watching the Real World Hawaii, and remembered that at one time I saw Amaya wearing a Kappa shirt (it was blurred out, but you could make out that it said Kappa Kappa Gamma) so Im guessing shes one? Any Kappa's opinions?

Amaya was a member of the Kappa Kappa Gamma chapter at UCLA.

If you sift through the old posts, there are TONS of opinions regarding Amaya's Greek affiliation under "Real World Greeks".

[SAEalumnus]

Originally posted by Sigmagirl43:
I once heard somewhere that every U.S president, except for 5, were members of a fraternity? That seems like a lot to me,Has anyone else heard that?

Originally posted by DeltAlum:
Actually, I think it's all but four.

From what I've heard the actual statistic is all but two US Presidents since 1825 have been Greek. I was curious as to who was what, so I did a little research. I'm nowhere near done, but you can see what I've come up with so far at: http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/...ML/001938.html . I hope that helps.

[This message has been edited by SAEactive (edited July 01, 2001).]