Famous Greeks... or are they???

Originally posted by AOII*Azra-elle

ETA: I haven't heard if Michelle Kwan is or not. I know that with figure skating, training, choreography, endorsements, practice, practice, practice, and competitions and trying to keep up in school probably not. I'll do some digging and try and find out!

http://www.greekchat.com/gcforums/sh...0&pagenumber=9

Michelle Kwan is not a Gamma Phi Beta from UCLA.

[Imperial1]

Originally posted by Honeykiss1974
The Junk Yard Dog (RIP) was a member of Groove Phi Groove.

Who's that? The guy that played for the Raptors? WHEN DID HE PASS?!?!?!?!

Imperial1

[Honeykiss1974]

Originally posted by Imperial1
Who's that? The guy that played for the Raptors? WHEN DID HE PASS?!?!?!?!

Imperial1

He was an 80's wrestler. Around the same time as Andre The Giant and the rest of them.

[preciousjeni]

Originally posted by Pike1483
here's all our famous Pikes:

http://pikes.org/webpp.html

A few include Tim McGraw, Jon Stewart, and Ted Koppel. We've also got tons of business leaders including Col. Sanders and the founder of Chick-fil-a. Almost a monopoly on the fried chicken industry!

Hijack

When I was 11 or 12, Truett Cathy found my riding boots when I lost them at Camp Winshape. When I went to his office to pick them up, he gave me like a million free sandwich cards. He's a very sweet man and a devoted Christian.

/Hijack

I wonder if people actually read this thing from the beginning?

It's amazing the kind of information you can get just by taking the time to read it from the beginning.

And then it'll be repeated 32452903487239847 times by people who don't read threads from the beginning.

Just a thought.

[Imperial1]

Originally posted by Honeykiss1974
He was an 80's wrestler. Around the same time as Andre The Giant and the rest of them.

Wait, I think I remember him too! I really liked his wrestling character.

Imperial1

[Pike1483]

Originally posted by preciousjeni
Hijack

When I was 11 or 12, Truett Cathy found my riding boots when I lost them at Camp Winshape. When I went to his office to pick them up, he gave me like a million free sandwich cards. He's a very sweet man and a devoted Christian.

/Hijack

Awesome! Always good to hear about Brothers that are good people and good Christians! Congrats on all the Free Sandwiches! I think it would be awesome if Pikes got a Chick-fil-a discount or something for being his Brother! Don't see that happening, though, and can't say I blame him, there are a lot of us out there.

[GammaButterfly]

Originally posted by TexasOphiA
Oprah is a honorary member of Omega Phi Alpha

WOW! Now that IS cool!

Dominique Dawes is a member of Gamma Phi Delta Sorority, Inc.

[lyrelyre]

I have read the entire post but it was a long time ago. I'm sorry if this has already been said: Trista Rehn-Sutter (from the bachelor and the bachelorette) is an Alpha Chi Omega.

[Sister Havana]

Originally posted by lyrelyre
I have read the entire post but it was a long time ago. I'm sorry if this has already been said: Trista Rehn-Sutter (from the bachelor and the bachelorette) is an Alpha Chi Omega.

From the IU chapter.

[hoosier]

I'd never heard of Truett Cathey being a college graduate.

Is he an honorary initiate of PiKA?

[kristi]

I've heard things about Laurie Hickson Smith (Trading Spaces) being KKG -- any info regarding her?

[Pike1483]

Originally posted by hoosier
I'd never heard of Truett Cathey being a college graduate.

Is he an honorary initiate of PiKA?

Yep, Truett Cathey is an honorary initiate of Pi Kappa Alpha, and in our fraternity, that makes him a full-blown Brother. Check out: http://pikes.org/wppcath.html for more info on him.

[AOIIalum]

Originally posted by kristi
I've heard things about Laurie Hickson Smith (Trading Spaces) being KKG -- any info regarding her?

Laurie is a Kappa from Texas. She confirmed it in the DG ep during season 2, and sang a little bit of a Kappa Rush song from her chapter.

[PSUSigKap]

According to www.imdb.com Robin Weisman who played the little girl in "3 Men and a Little Lady" is a Delta Phi Epsilon.

[collme83]

Originally posted by dubyuhnellpiphi
pi phi has a bunch... i will just tell you the MOST famous ones... remember there are MANY more

Sally Field
Carrie Chapman Catt (suffragist extrodinare)
Faye Dunaway
Susan Lucci
Grace Coolidge (thanks to her, pi phi is the ONLY sorority in the smithsonian... check her dress in hall of inauguration gowns and you will see the wonderful pi phi badge)
Mrs. Parker (check parker pens for the arrow!)
Mrs. Wrigley (the gum package has what on it? yeah, that would be an arrow!)
Elizabeth Shue
Tracy Ruiz (gold medal swimmer)
Marilyn Horne (opera singer)

NOTE: some of the confusion about delta burke could be because of the fact that Suzanne Sugarbaker (her character on designing women) was a pi phi on the show

ok... enough about the pi phis... for now at least

Jennifer Gardner (ALIAS & the most recent "13 going on 30" )is also a Pi Phi...she was in the ARROW (pi phi mag/newsletter) a month or so back WHOO!

pi phi love,
...colleen*

[piphiarrow234]

Originally posted by dubyuhnellpiphi
pi phi has a bunch... i will just tell you the MOST famous ones... remember there are MANY more

Sally Field
Carrie Chapman Catt (suffragist extrodinare)
Faye Dunaway
Susan Lucci
Grace Coolidge (thanks to her, pi phi is the ONLY sorority in the smithsonian... check her dress in hall of inauguration gowns and you will see the wonderful pi phi badge)
Mrs. Parker (check parker pens for the arrow!)
Mrs. Wrigley (the gum package has what on it? yeah, that would be an arrow!)
Elizabeth Shue
Tracy Ruiz (gold medal swimmer)
Marilyn Horne (opera singer)

NOTE: some of the confusion about delta burke could be because of the fact that Suzanne Sugarbaker (her character on designing women) was a pi phi on the show




Well as much as i love to have lots of Fam. Pi beta phis...
Mrs. Parker, MRs. Wigley are NOT pi beta phi's
And i LOVE Jennifer Garner and shes a Pi Phi!!!
but also Wendie Malick (nina from Just shoot me) is a pi phi

[D_Chi_Zinni]

I heard one time that the members of the band Cake, were all delta chi's ??? I dont know if anyone could figure that out?

[IowaStatePhiPsi]

Originally posted by OohTeenyWahine
I wonder if people actually read this thing from the beginning?

It's amazing the kind of information you can get just by taking the time to read it from the beginning.

And then it'll be repeated 32452903487239847 times by people who don't read threads from the beginning.

Just a thought.

Doing so before I post.

[IowaStatePhiPsi]

Originally posted by teke643
Edward Droste he co-founded a little restaurant called Hooters.

He's an alum from your Iowa State chapter and he just financed the entire chapterhouse renovation for TKE at Iowa State.

[GeekyPenguin]

Originally posted by piphiarrow234
Grace Coolidge (thanks to her, pi phi is the ONLY sorority in the smithsonian... check her dress in hall of inauguration gowns and you will see the wonderful pi phi badge)

There's also a KKG badge in the Smithsonian in the exhibit on first ladies...I'm not sure whom it belongs to, but I'm betting one of the GC KKGs does.

[lyrelyre]

All of the NPC badges are in the Smithsonian

[IowaStatePhiPsi]

Originally posted by DeltAlum
Martin C Jischke, President Iowa State University

Bleck! I feel sorry any fraternity has to call him a brother. Ask anyone who remembers when he was president of Iowa State, or anyone at Purdue where he's destroying things now- not a very nice guy.

Our current Universiy President, Gregory Geoffroy, is a TKE and goes out of his way with courtesy to the student body, student organizations and the greek community- a 180 turn-around from the dark days of Jischke.

[Xylochick216]

Originally posted by lyrelyre
All of the NPC badges are in the Smithsonian

I thought this was just a rumor. I've looked and haven't seen then. Does anyone know if they are really there, and if so, where?

I know our new member manual says that our badge was boted most beautiful and is on display and that ours is on the moon, but those have been said to just be rumors. If they are, I wish they'd take them out of the manual.

[HotDamnImAPhiMu]

OK. To clear this up again:

(1) your badge is not on the moon. There are no badges actually on the moon.
(2) Your badge may well have gone into *space.* I know Sigma Kappa had a badge go into space, and -- which shuttle was it that burned on reentry? -- a GPhiB recently was IN space.

Where're you getting this "our badge was voted the most beautiful" business? Who voted? Where? When?

[IowaStatePhiPsi]

Originally posted by Mystic Cat32
Believe it or not...Mr. Roger's(Mr. Roger's Neighborhood) is Greek...He became a brother in Phi Mu Alpha during college...He was also in the Marine Corp and was an ordained minister...Must have been interesting...Mystic Cat32

Anyone know if his brother, Dr. Roger, PhD, retired professor of University of Iowa, is a greek?

[HotDamnImAPhiMu]

PS - not to say I think ours is. It certainly holds first place in my heart but as for most beautiful sorority badge, I think I'd have to include on the list...

KD's diamond
ADP's diamond
KAQ's triangle
SSS's triangle
SK's triangle
SSS's triangle
KKG's key
PBF's arrow


though I love the badges that are the org's secret letters on top of each other (like CW, AF, AGD, AOP) because they're so symbolic.

[ADPiSAI]

I was reading an article in the newest issue of Elle about Campbell Brown, the news anchor... It said that she was involved in the "sorority scene at Louisiana State" for two years before transferring to Regis College. Anyone know her affiliation?

[IowaStatePhiPsi]

reading about all the things about Kappa Alpha Theta makes me glad they're the neighbors to Phi Psi at Iowa State.

And Katie Couric a Tri-Delt- you can tell by her personality.

[Xylochick216]

Originally posted by HotDamnImAPhiMu
OK. To clear this up again:

(1) your badge is not on the moon. There are no badges actually on the moon.
(2) Your badge may well have gone into *space.* I know Sigma Kappa had a badge go into space, and -- which shuttle was it that burned on reentry? -- a GPhiB recently was IN space.

Where're you getting this "our badge was voted the most beautiful" business? Who voted? Where? When?

I know I heard all during our new member period that ours was voted most beautiful, but somehow I think it's just a rumor. I have no clue who would have voted or anything, because I think every badge is the most beautiful to its own members. I just wish that our nationals or someone would stop circulating the badge on the moon and the most beautiful badge rumors.

[cash78mere]

Originally posted by Xylochick216
I know I heard all during our new member period that ours was voted most beautiful, but somehow I think it's just a rumor. I have no clue who would have voted or anything, because I think every badge is the most beautiful to its own members. I just wish that our nationals or someone would stop circulating the badge on the moon and the most beautiful badge rumors.

there's several threads on this topic somewhere on GC.

our nationals does NOT circulate these rumors, chapters do. i got a letter and photocopy of an article about the space trip FROM nationals and i guarantee there's no pin of ours on the moon. it's the sisters who need to stop spreading this crap because they just sound ignorant doing it.

(not an attack on you--i get heated when the moon thing gets brought up--check some of my other posts )

[aphibeach]

Alpha Delta Pi and Alpha Phi both claim Sandra Bullock as part of their chapter.....it's unclear which she joined but she dropped out of school (East Carolina University) with one semester left to go

[sageofages]

Originally posted by cash78mere
there's several threads on this topic somewhere on GC.

our nationals does NOT circulate these rumors, chapters do. i got a letter and photocopy of an article about the space trip FROM nationals and i guarantee there's no pin of ours on the moon. it's the sisters who need to stop spreading this crap because they just sound ignorant doing it.

(not an attack on you--i get heated when the moon thing gets brought up--check some of my other posts )

Ok OK...chiming in here..and perhaps shedding some light on this discussion.

IN YEARS PAST...LONG LONG AGO, in a jewelry manufacturing facility of distant memory.....

Jewelry companies would VOTE (or however they decide) which badge the jewelers of the moment thought was most "artistic, beautiful....easy to make and thus most profitable" or whatever. Generally a different badge would be selected easy year . SO, perhaps ALL of our badges were the most beautiful to some gold pouring person at some time. What matters most is that they are the most beautiful to EACH OF US

[polarpi]

Originally posted by aphibeach
Alpha Delta Pi and Alpha Phi both claim Sandra Bullock as part of their chapter.....it's unclear which she joined but she dropped out of school (East Carolina University) with one semester left to go

I've never heard that one! Interesting....if this IS true, she's never been listed on a "famous alum" list

[aey4l]

Originally posted by DeltAlum
Hmmm...

I've heard this "pin on the flag on the moon" thing over and over again.

I'm wondering if Neil Armstrong had several wives, or his one wife belonged to eight or ten sororities?

In any event, I'm surprized Apollo XI ever got off the ground with that many sorority badges on board.

I'm pretty positive that she was an AXO but have been told from nationals people that the badge thing on the moon is an urban legend. There's nothing on the flag on the moon.

[wanderersarah]

We've had a few notable members of Sigma Psi, but the most famous are:

Martha Powers (1963) - Novelist

Florence Ellinwood Allen (1902)- Suffragist, First Women Elected to a Judicial Position in the U.S. , First Female State Supreme Court Justice (Ohio), First Women Appointed a Federal Bench
Can you tell I'm proud of her?
To read more about her: http://www.law.stanford.edu/library/...apers/flo.html

[lyrica9]

Originally posted by aphibeach
Alpha Delta Pi and Alpha Phi both claim Sandra Bullock as part of their chapter.....it's unclear which she joined but she dropped out of school (East Carolina University) with one semester left to go

i'm such a nerd, but i searched for the answer because i didn't think sandy was in a sorority. and she wasn't.
from an interview with her:

Were you into the fraternity/sorority scene when you were in college?

I was a little sister for the worst fraternity in the school that's now been condemned.

Tell me a nightmare frat party story.

I only have one. This guy that I really liked and I were drinking 'Shake Em Ups' which is Thunderbird and grapefruit juice. I don't remember anything that happened and apparently I was sick in front of him, on him, and beside him. He had to drag me to my dorm room and I didn't hear from him for a week. I was like, "This is just the worst" and then he called me and we dated almost two years.

full article here http://www.dennishensley.com/SandraBullock.htm

[bonelifer]

MysticCat I mean nothing by this but you should have Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Nationals call the Professional Fraternity Association and rescend their membership, and also they should change their joint-statement with Kappa Kappa Psi, since the last paragraph is as quoted

PHI MU ALPHA is neither an honor nor a recognition society. We are an active professional fraternity as defined by the Professional Fraternity Association of which we are participating members.

Originally posted by MysticCat81
[My Broken Record]

While I gladly claim brotherhood with the late Fred Rogers, I have to say it again...

Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia is a social fraternity for men in music, not a professional fraternity.

[/My Broken Record ]

[bluefish81]

Originally posted by HotDamnImAPhiMu
PS - not to say I think ours is. It certainly holds first place in my heart but as for most beautiful sorority badge, I think I'd have to include on the list...

KD's diamond
ADP's diamond
KAQ's triangle
SSS's triangle
SK's triangle
SSS's triangle
KKG's key
PBF's arrow


though I love the badges that are the org's secret letters on top of each other (like CW, AF, AGD, AOP) because they're so symbolic.

Theta's badge is kite shaped, not a triangle. Thanks for including it on your list though!

[UCLAblondeGPhiB]

whew... I just joined GC, and I have to do some Gamma Phi representin':

Originally posted by SigKapQueen Originally posted by SigKapQueen
does anyone know if MICHELLE KWAN, famous figure skater, went greek, cuz on the clemson NPC website they said she went GAMMA PHI BETA. just want to know if any other people would know.

I was told when I was a freshman (joined in fall/01) that Michelle Kwan went through informal spring rush in 2001, got bids from all the houses she visited, but didn't join a house. She had a good friend in Gamma Phi who was a senior when I was a freshman, and apparently (probably exaggerated) she was told by Michelle that the only house she was seriously considering was ours, but she decided she was going to redouble her efforts for the Olympics. From what I've heard, she hasn't graduated UCLA; perhaps she's transferred, or just hasn't completed the units yet.

Originally posted by HotDamnImAPhiMu
OK. To clear this up again:

(1) your badge is not on the moon. There are no badges actually on the moon.
(2) Your badge may well have gone into *space.* I know Sigma Kappa had a badge go into space, and -- which shuttle was it that burned on reentry? -- a GPhiB recently was IN space.

Gamma Phi Beta Alum Laurel Blair Salton Clark was one of the astronauts who died on the Columbia over a year ago.




Other Famouse Gamma Phis:

Donna Wolf Steigerwaldt - President of Jockey International

Cloris Leachman, - Actress

Joan and Jayne Knoerzer - Doublemint twins

Kelli McCarty - Miss USA 1991, also stars in the soap opera Passions

Jesse Wilson Sayre - daughter of Woodrow Wilson, had first ever White House wedding

Margaret Woodrow Wilson: daughter of President Woodrow Wilson