Famous Greeks... or are they??? - Page 5

EagleChick19 · #**161** 07-16-2002, 10:51 AM

Wow! I couldn't believe that Benjamin Bratt is an alum of Lambda Chi Alpha! I loved him in Law & Order!!

UF56 · #**162** 07-16-2002, 11:54 AM

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Originally posted by princess781
Thanks for the post about Tim McGraw. I knew he was in a fraternity but I never knew which one. Does anyone know if Kenny Chesney was ever in a fraternity? He said in an interview about playing in houses, but he never mentioned that he was a member. Hmmm... Those are two men I would mix with anyday! Haha!

I totally agree!!! Kenny Chesney is soooo HOT!!!

Here is one that I found that no one else has mentioned.....

Jill Arrington was a DG at the University of Miami, Florida.

She covers football for CBS

ZTAMiami · #**163** 07-16-2002, 12:01 PM

Arrington?

Is that her maiden name?

33girl · #**164** 07-16-2002, 12:06 PM

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Originally posted by EagleChick19
Wow! I couldn't believe that Benjamin Bratt is an alum of Lambda Chi Alpha! I loved him in Law & Order!!

Damn, if you Lambda Chi's are anywhere near as hot as Benjamin Bratt you can come visit me anytime.

UF56 · #**165** 07-16-2002, 12:17 PM

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Originally posted by ZTAMiami
Arrington?

Is that her maiden name?

Yeah that's her maiden name....her dad was also the quarterback for the Eagles in 1970-1974...

She covers a lot of college football, does the field interviews...I know that everytime CBS covers a UF game she is here.

Corbin Dallas · #**166** 07-16-2002, 12:29 PM

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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 · #**167** 07-16-2002, 12:45 PM

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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 · #**168** 07-18-2002, 12:17 AM

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 · #**169** 07-18-2002, 01:05 AM

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

CarolinaDG · #**170** 07-18-2002, 01:17 AM

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 · #**171** 07-18-2002, 11:12 AM

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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 · #**172** 07-18-2002, 11:15 AM

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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 · #**173** 08-18-2002, 04:54 PM

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 · #**174** 08-18-2002, 05:02 PM

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!

#**175** 08-18-2002, 07:04 PM

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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! · #**176** 08-18-2002, 08:09 PM

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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

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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 · #**177** 08-18-2002, 08:30 PM

-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 · #**178** 08-18-2002, 08:42 PM

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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 · #**179** 08-18-2002, 08:54 PM

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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 · #**180** 08-18-2002, 11:15 PM

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 · #**181** 08-18-2002, 11:31 PM

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 · #**182** 08-19-2002, 02:13 PM

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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 · #**183** 08-19-2002, 03:54 PM

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 · #**184** 08-19-2002, 08:31 PM

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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 · #**185** 08-19-2002, 08:54 PM

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 · #**186** 08-20-2002, 09:41 AM

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

SigmaKappaKelly · #**187** 08-20-2002, 06:40 PM

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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

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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.

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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 · #**188** 08-20-2002, 09:19 PM

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 · #**189** 08-20-2002, 10:14 PM

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

PSUSigKap · #**190** 08-20-2002, 10:37 PM

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

SoCalGirl · #**191** 08-20-2002, 11:00 PM

Sorry ladies.

Mrs. Geisel/Seuss is not a Sigma. That's according to Nationals.

I wish she was. She lives in San Diego and is always giving $$$$ away. The UCSD library is named after her husband.

I'd be stoked to have her in our alumnae chapter!

I wonder if she's in a sorority or if she even went to college. What a triumph it'd be to initiate her as an almuna.

sphinxpoet · #**192** 08-21-2002, 11:02 AM

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Originally posted by nube one
Short list of famous Alphas (Alpha Phi Alpha)
Martin Luther king Jr.- Civil Rights Leader
Thurgood Marshall- Former Supreme Court Justice
Paul Robeson-Orator, Actor, Singer, Activist
W.E.B. DuBois-Author Civil & Human Rights activist
Lenny Wilkens-"winningest coach" in NBA
Stuart Scott-ESPN Anchor
Jesse Owens-1936 gold medalist
"Fritz" Pollard-First NFL Coach (1929)
Duke Ellington-Jazz Musician, Pre-eminent American composer
David Dinkins-Former mayor of NYC (first black)
Cornel West-philosopher-Harvard prof.

First of all, servants of all, we shall transcend all!

BRo forgot Hubert Horatio Humphry - Former Vice President of the United States

Optimist Prime · #**193** 08-21-2002, 12:06 PM

I just relized something. When I get famous it will be hard to prove who I am because I will most likely use an assumed name.

Opie25 · #**194** 08-21-2002, 02:42 PM

Let's see...famous Phi Delts... Here are a few:

Neil Armstrong (Astronaut)
F. Story Musgrave (Astronaut)
Lou Gehrig (Baseball)
Benjamin Harrison (US President)
Adlai Stevenston (US VP)
James Baker (Frmr. Sec. of State)
Bill Bixby (Actor) that's right the HULK!
Dirk Benedict (Actor) Face from the A Team
Tim Conway (Actor/Comedian)
Robert Ebert (Critic)
Hank Ketchum (Creator Dennis the Mennace)
Sam Nun (Politician)
But Reynolds (Actor)
Bob Scheifer (CBS News)
Frank Loyd Wright (Architect)
J. Willard Marriot (founder of Mattiot)
John McLarmore (founder of Burger King)

You can find more at: http://www.phideltatheta.org/

look under our fraternity, then famous Phi's

Also, as far as the Armstrong thing goes (it has been discussed in a couple of other posts). I do not know if he did leave a Phi Delt and/or Alpha Chi Badge on the moon but I have heard that at several different times.

I do know that in our General Headquarters Meuseum that there is a Phi Delt Bade and a small Phi Delt flag (like the US flag the astronauts wear on their space suits) in a display, along with that is a letter from and signed by Armstron himself. It states something like, " I herby donate this badge and flag, that I carried to the moon on the Appolo landing, with the date and signature of Armstrong." So, I don't know if that clears anything up or adds more mystery to it. I think I have a pic of it somewhere I will look tonight and see and maybe scan it in this week.

This convo actually leads me to open a new thread. What are other organizations Urban Legends? Wheter it be unconfirmed membership of certain "famous" people or the Armstrong moon badge story? I will try to start a new thread and get some interesting disuccsion going.

Thanks!

o.p.i.e.

DeltAlum · #**195** 09-02-2002, 07:04 PM

I was just watching the US Open Tennis Championship coverage, and went back to check the Delt webpage. Bill MacAtee, the studio anchor is a Delt.

I thought I'd seen that before, but wasn't sure.

IowaHawkeye · #**196** 10-16-2002, 11:02 AM

I was watching O-town's "Making the Band" yesterday on MTV and Trevor, one of the members, was wearing PKF letters. supposedly he goes to Cal State fullerton.

honeychile · #**197** 10-16-2002, 12:31 PM

Francine Neff, first woman treasurer of the USA, was an ADPi (they gave everyone who attended a convention a dollar bill with her signature). There's more, but I can't access the list from work

.

I heard that Steve Martin was a Delt, and that JFK was a Phi Kappa Theta.

honeychile

GeekyPenguin · #**198** 10-16-2002, 12:51 PM

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Originally posted by kristiAZD

Steve,
Don't forget about Dr. Seuss!! I am forever being reminded of that by my boyfriend.

Ditto to that...those boys love their Dr. Seuss!

DeltAlum · #**199** 10-16-2002, 12:52 PM

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Originally posted by honeychile
I heard that Steve Martin was a Delt
honeychile

While it's possible, he's not listed on our webpage, and it's the first time I've heard of it.

I guess for comic relief, we'll stick with Drew Carey and David Schwimmer among others.

MsVixen · #**200** 10-16-2002, 02:42 PM

the only one i know is that lucy lui is a CHI OMEGA