Famous People in Your Fraternity/Sorority

[silverbluesky]

Hazel Rutherford McCuaig, daughter of the first premier of Alberta Alexander Rutherford, was a Pi Phi.

(She was also, I'm told, a strong advocate for Greek life at UAlberta but the only sources I have for that are anecdotes so feel free to take it with a grain of salt.)

[PKT4LIFE]

The US Senator Mitch McConnell. Ha!

[Shellfish]

Not my sorority, but it was fun to read that Dorcas Reilly, the inventor of that green bean casserole that probably everyone's eaten at one time or another, was an ASA: http://www2.philly.com/philly/obitua...-20181023.html.

This article is also interesting because it shows her original notes from the testing process.

[SigmaCat]

Nada Bakos and Crystal Eastman are AOII.

[Sister Havana]

I think her younger daughter, Olivia Jade, joined USC Kappa too.

[ChioLu]

Millionaire YouTubers, Brooklyn and Bailey McKnight, both joined Chi Omega at Baylor.
And of course, their recruitment journey is on YouTube:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2UhBtwZd7W0

[Cheerio]

Originally Posted by ChioLu

Millionaire YouTubers, Brooklyn and Bailey McKnight, both joined Chi Omega at Baylor.
And of course, their recruitment journey is on YouTube:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2UhBtwZd7W0

What did we of the early PEOPLE magazine generation do in the week between issues?

[wildcatfan]

Now that the 2020 election is (already) heating up, here are three democratic presidential candidates with greek affiliations: Kamala Harris, Alpha Kappa Alpha, Elizabeth Warren, Kappa Alpha Theta, and Kirsten Gillibrand, Kappa Kappa Gamma.

This site has a rather extensive list of greek women that have served in the United States Senate: https://www.franbecque.com/female-se...-2017-edition/ At the top of the page, there are also multiple headings to click for other groupings of famous sorority women.
Looking through some of the other lists, I see that Ruth Bader Ginsburg was a member of AEPhi, and my own Kansas governor Laura Kelly was a KU Pi Phi.

[LaneSig]

Can anyone help with this one? Linda Ellerbee was a reporter for NBC, and appeared in several of their online news magazines. Younger GCers will know her from Nick News on Nickelodeon.

In her autobiography, "And So It Goes", she mentions that she joined a sorority at Vanderbilt. This was in the early 60s, as she dropped out of Vandy in '64 to get married. I've tried to look it up, but have never found the answer.

BTW, if you can get a hold of a copy of "And So It Goes", it is great reading. Especially what it was like to be a female reporter in the early '70s.

[nyapbp]

Originally Posted by LaneSig

In her autobiography, "And So It Goes", she (Linda Ellerbee) mentions that she joined a sorority at Vanderbilt. This was in the early 60s, as she dropped out of Vandy in '64 to get married. I've tried to look it up, but have never found the answer.

She likely would have been initiated as Linda Jane Smith. I checked the Pi Phi database and could not find her. Alas, if she resigned her membership she would not be in the database members can check.

[navane]

Originally Posted by nyapbp

She likely would have been initiated as Linda Jane Smith. I checked the Pi Phi database and could not find her. Alas, if she resigned her membership she would not be in the database members can check.

She does not appear the the Gamma Phi Beta database either. Gamma Phi Beta was at Vanderbilt from 1924-1998.

[honeychile]

Alpha Delta Pi hadn't chartered its Vanderbilt chapter at that time.

[jemi422]

There's a Linda Smith on the AOII pages in the 1963 Vandy yearbook .

[ChioLu]

Sophia Umansky, daughter of RHoBH Kyle Richards is a KKG. On her instagram, she says she lives in D.C., and thru a little more digging, it looks like she goes to George Washington University.
This is her dorm room: https://www.bravotv.com/the-real-hou...glam-dorm-room

Side note: someone I follow on Twitter retweeted a post from her mom, saying that Sophia had a 106 degree temperature and is in the hospital. Prayers for her.

Another daughter, Alexia Umansky, is an Alpha Phi at Arizona (now alumna).

Kyle’s oldest daughter, Farrah Aldjufrie (from her 1st marriage), started at NYU in 2006, then transferred (2008) & graduated at USC, but I haven’t found a sorority affiliation.

Kyle’s youngest daughter, Portia Umansky, was born in 2008, so she won’t be starting college until at least 2026.

According to IMDb (as I don’t watch the show), all of her daughters have appeared many times on RHoBH.

[andthen]

Originally Posted by ChioLu

Sophia Umansky, daughter of RHoBH Kyle Richards is a KKG. On her instagram, she says she lives in D.C., and thru a little more digging, it looks like she goes to George Washington University.
This is her dorm room: https://www.bravotv.com/the-real-hou...glam-dorm-room

Side note: someone I follow on Twitter retweeted a post from her mom, saying that Sophia had a 106 degree temperature and is in the hospital. Prayers for her.

Another daughter, Alexia Umansky, is an Alpha Phi at Arizona (now alumna).

Kyle’s oldest daughter, Farrah Aldjufrie (from her 1st marriage), started at NYU in 2006, then transferred (2008) & graduated at USC, but I haven’t found a sorority affiliation.

Kyle’s youngest daughter, Portia Umansky, was born in 2008, so she won’t be starting college until at least 2026.

According to IMDb (as I don’t watch the show), all of her daughters have appeared many times on RHoBH.

Also to add, I remember hearing Kyle's sister Kim, saying that her youngest daughter (I believe her name was Kimberly) who had previously appeared on the show with Kim was also a KKG.