Famous Greeks... or are they???

[Betarulz!]

Originally posted by AggieSigmaNu361


Also, to add to the whole sorority pin on the flag on the moon urban legend, one of my HS buddies was a Phi Delt at UTSA, and he told me that Neil had his Phi Delt badge on the bottom of his boot when he exited the lunar lander, so the first thing that touched the moon was his Phi Delt badge. Again, i'm not saying i believe this, but it's just another funny little urban legend.

Kitso
KS 361

Because I've kept hearing things about GLO pins and Neil Armstrong, and because I worked this summer at the Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center - home to the world's most extensive collection of space flown artifacts, I decided to ask some real experts (those who know even more than I do )

Max Ary, who was CEO of the Cosmosphere as well as being one of the nations foremost experts on space history, told me that no pins would have flown in the first place aboard Apollo missions, particularly in the Lunar Module. Obviously a lot of possibility of it snagging on something or floating in to the circuits and what not. And many of the astronauts on the lunar surface were afraid of the possibility of putting a hole in the foil thin exterior of the LM. Gene Cernan, a FIJI and the last man to walk on the moon talks about this fraility of the LM in his book The Last Man on the Moon.

Now it was fairly common for astronauts to smuggle aboard contraband, but as for putting his pin on his boot, I see two things wrong with this, first being the rigidity of the bottom of the boot, the second: facing the possibility of puncturing his space suit seems out of character for any astronaut, let alone Neil Armstrong. Almost all of the accounts of Armstrong that I have read have said that he was quiet, meticulous and by no means a troublemaker, and that as a civilian pilot, he didn't fit the typical "fighter jock" image.

I doubt this will put to rest any of these urban legends but at least all of you are informed.

[orchid2]

-Heather Whitestone, former Miss America, is on an AOPi composite at my school from the early nineties... but I don't think she was ever initiated.

-Julia Roberts is an honorary Phi Mu.

-Anybody ever watch "Ghostwriter" as a kid? (PBS mystery show) I've read that two of the actresses, Blaze Berdahl (Lenni) and Tram-Anh Tran (Tina) are both Pi Beta Phi's, one at NYU and the other at Penn State.

I can't think of any more right now!

[AKA2D '91]

Originally posted by sweet-n-rho
I was trying to be modest on my first thread but since everyone else listed all of there famous people you know I have to represent for my Sigma Gamma Rho Sorors.


Soror Lindy Corrine Claiborne Boggs-First female U.S. Representative from Louisiana, 1st Woman to Chair National Convention of Major American Political Party

Which chapter did she pledge?

[phikappapsiman]

Originally posted by ChiOJenn78
Ok, I have a question-was JFK Jr. a greek? Because one of my patients was watching E! today while I was in their room, and it was the True Story show and it was on JFK Jr.-and I caught something about him joining a fraternity while in college. Anyone know about this?

Normallly, I would wait for Brother Josh from SDSU to answer this, but John F. Kennedy Jr. was a member of Phi Kappa Psi fraternity at Brown University back in the early 1980's...

[AlphaSigLana]

Ok this is beginning to be embarressing-- there are no famous alum from ASA. Also on the thread about what chapter do you want on your campus no one has said they want ASA. So i think I am going to pretend not to be an ASA since no one seems to like us!

[anniesigkap]

Ok, sorry if I am repeating this but everyone claims their pin is on the moon but has no proof. Sigma Kappa though has proof that our badge has been in space.

From our pledge book:

"Rhea Seddon, Lambda, is a mission specialist for NASA. Her first flight into space was aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery in 1985. She took her Sigma Kappa badge on her flight into space."

It might not be on the moon but it has been out there!!

Just to prove Sigma Kappas are out of this world!!

sorry if this is corny

[DWAlphaGam]

Originally posted by AggieSigmaNu361


I also don't know if this is another thread (i'm sure one of my brothers mentioned it) but the star of the Indiana Jones movies, Harrison Ford is a Sigma Nu.

Sigma Nu's watching the movies will always catch the irony of Indy's supposed dislike of snakes, since the snake is prevalent in Sigma Nu symbols.

Now, i'm not claiming this was done on purpose, Ford giving a shout out to Sigma Nu's everywhere, but i always give an extra chuckle at that part when watching his movies.

Kitso
KS 361

The rattlesnake is also one of Theta Chi's symbols, so I guess it's doing double-duty in that one.

[KDShannon]

some more for KD..

*Bonnie Dunbar- NASA astronaut and shuttle mission specialist
*Donna Stone Pesch- founder of the National Committee to Prevent Child Abuse, now known as Prevent Child Abuse America
*Cynthia Clark Wedel-first woman president of the National Council of Churches, who later became the second woman president of The World Council of Churches
*Marjorie Mehne Culmer-National President, Girl Scouts of the USA, elected 1957
*Ruth Johnson Colvin-founder and President of Literacy Volunteers of America
*Christine O' Grady Gregoire-Attorney General, State of Washington (present)
*Patricia Polito Miller-Co-owner/president of Vera Bradley Designs, recipient Ernst & Young's Entrepreneur of the Year award
*Mary Elizabeth Nickinson Chitty-editor of the Sewanee Review
*Lori Beecher- producer, NBC News
*Sarah James - Dateline NBC Correspondent
*Janet Marie Smith- architect who designed two Major League baseball parks--Camden Yards (Baltimore) and Olympic Stadium (Atlanta)
*Claudia Kennedy, Alpha Delta-Rhodes--United States Army's first female three-star general and highest ranking female officer in Army history (now retired)

Of course one of our founders- Julia Gardiner Tyler Wilson was the granddaughter of US President, John Tyler and daughter of President of William and Mary College in VA

[lifesaver]

Originally posted by AlphaSigLana
Ok this is beginning to be embarressing-- there are no famous alum from ASA. Also on the thread about what chapter do you want on your campus no one has said they want ASA. So i think I am going to pretend not to be an ASA since no one seems to like us!

I didnt mention it because we are already fortunate enough to have the beautiful, talented and awesome gals from ASA represented on our campus.

[33girl]

thanks lifesaver

OK maybe she is not famous in the movie star sense...but at our convention last month, the Recognition of Eminence Award (only 7 ASA's have received it) went to Cindy Ryan. Cindy is the first woman ever to be the chief counsel to the Drug Enforcement Administration. Plus, I met her and she's totally cool.


oh, and I had a letter published in TV Guide once. Does that count as fame?

[Optimist Prime]

He's not famous anymore because he's dead, but General Sherman was a Theta Chi.

[SigmaKappaKelly]

Originally posted by kristiAZD

Just a note, but Dr. Suess's wife was a Sigma Kappa! Often times Sig Eps and Sig Kaps have Xmas parties and watch "The Grinch that Stole Christmas", all Sig Kaps and Sig Eps know why [/B][/QUOTE]

My boyfriend and I had a discussion about this a few months ago and he told me that Dr. Suess's wife actually WASN'T a Sigma Kappa. That's what he was taught in his program since there has been so many rumors about it. Looks like this is another case like the pin on the moon.....will we ever know the truth? Probably not. [/B][/QUOTE]

I am almost 100 percent sure that Dr. Suess's wife is a Sigma Kappa. There are WAY too many similarities in the grinch for her not to be. And there is no way that it is just a coincidence. My Sigma sisters can back me up on that.

[HotDamnImAPhiMu]

AlphaSigLana: didn't ASA grow out of an educational society? Which means most ASAs were originally teachers... and if THAT doesn't make them some of the most important people on the planet, I don't know what does. :-)

Aside from that, some of the most influencial people in MY life have been housewives, students, secretaries..... just because you're not world-famous doesn't mean you don't make a world of difference. :-D

~ Jacquelyn.

[Optimist Prime]

Why don't you just ask Dr. Suess' wife what sorority she was in?

[PSUSigKap]

SigmaKappaKelly, i feel ya girl!!! there are too many coincidences for her not to be a sig kap. if she's not, i like to think she is. . .hahahah