Famous Greeks... or are they???

[Corbin Dallas]

Originally posted by thetakates


He graduated, but I heard at least one semester he didnt make grades. Sorry if I implied that he failed out. But I know he was not a student at all. He always jokes about it on his show.

One of my bro's dad was an active Sig when Letterman was there, and even went on a double date with my bro's mom, letterman, and his girlfriend at the time.

[Dionysus]

Originally posted by gamma_girl52
Well, Gamma Sig doesn't have any celeb members (to my knowledge) like you all do. But when people ask I like to tell them about Mrs. Barbara Bush and Mae Jemison, who are honoraries.

I'm pretty sure you do. Matter of fact I wouldn't be surprised if there were more famous APO/GSS than other types of GLOs since we're bigger, co-ed, and non-selective. We just don't know who they are.

[Mooch279]

two of the members in EVE 6 are Lambda Chi's.

a couple of years ago they did a concert in D.C. and some of my brothers went and held their letters up in the crowd and they got invited back stage and the band signed their letters.

[TKEmz894]

Ron Jeremy(Porn Star) is a TKE!!!!! That is the s#it.......

[CarolinaDG]

I can definitely vouch for Leeza Gibbons as tri-delt (she went to my school) and I always thought that Tiffany Amber-Thiesson and Delta Burke WERE ZTA's...


Anyway, here's the DG list:
Patricia Heaton
Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Christine Lahti
Joan Lunden
Donna Mills
Holly Shand (Road Rules)
Julia Sweeney
Well, I'm tired of typing, but here's the site:
http://www.deltagamma-msu.com/alumni.html

[thetakates]

Originally posted by Sweetums
Killarney Rose,

I know for sure that Lisa Ling wasn't Greek. She's very public about the fact that she wasn't very involved in campus life at USC.

Yeah, she was on Channel One while in college wasnt she? Makes it hard to be involved in Greek Life I remember watching her in Junior High! lol....

[thetakates]

Originally posted by Corbin Dallas


One of my bro's dad was an active Sig when Letterman was there, and even went on a double date with my bro's mom, letterman, and his girlfriend at the time.

That is so cool! I know in my area of Indianapolis is where Daves mom lives now. (Carmel area) and she had her birthday party at the Classic Kitchen in Noblesville. That is where my parents live... People have his mom sitings all the time around there. SHe is a super lady from what I have heard.

[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?

[S_A_I]

I don't know if it's already been posted (this is a long thread!!) but Ashley Judd was in Kappa Kappa Gamma. E! had a program about her and in one of her home clips she was wearing a letter shirt!

Originally posted by Optimist Prime
I think this was on another thread, but...Steven Speilberg is a Theta Chi and puts stuff into his movies. The prevalling story is that he hated his chapter, or did not have the best time there as got made fun of for having the camera all the time. Who knows. But must love the fraternity in general as puts it in his movies. Whats neat is that when I was little kid pretending to be indianna jones, i never thought that the director who made those films would one day be my brother, and throw up little acknowledgements to me in the movies I loved. Or that I would thinking of being a director like him. That is so cool. To me, i guess you guys wouldn't care.

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.

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

[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!