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Delta Kappa Epsilon

Delta Kappa Epsilon (???; also pronounced D-K-E or "Deke") is a fraternity

Fraternity

A fraternity is a brotherhood, though the term usually connotes a distinct or formal organization. An organization referred to as a fraternity may be a:...
founded at Yale College

Yale College

Yale College was the official name of Yale University from 1718 to 1887. The name now refers to the undergraduate part of the university. Each undergraduate student is assigned to one of 12 residential colleges....
in 1844 by 15 men of the sophomore class who, upon hearing that some but not all of them had been invited to join the two existing societies (Alpha Delta Phi

Alpha Delta Phi

Alpha Delta Phi is the fourth oldest Greek-letter fraternities and sororities in the United States and Canada. Today the name refers to both an all-male fraternity that was founded in 1832 by Samuel Eells at Hamilton College in Clinton, Oneida County, New York, New York and the Alpha Delta Phi Society, which broke off from the fraternity in...
and Psi Upsilon

Psi Upsilon

Psi Upsilon is the fifth oldest Fraternities and sororities in the United States, founded at Union College in 1833. It has chapters at colleges and universities throughout North America....
), instead elected to form their own fraternity. These men sought to establish a fellowship "where the candidate most favored was he who combined in the most equal proportions the gentleman

Gentleman

The term gentleman , in its original and strict signification, denoted a man of good family, analogous to the Latin generosus . In this sense the word equates with the French gentilhomme , which latter term was in Great Britain long confined to the peerage....
, the scholar, and the jolly good fellow."

Founding and history
In the spring of 1844, due to undergraduate politics and a division in the Sophomore class, a number of men of high character and scholastic attainment did not receive bids from the two societies--Alpha Delta Phi
Alpha Delta Phi

Alpha Delta Phi is the fourth oldest Greek-letter fraternities and sororities in the United States and Canada. Today the name refers to both an all-male fraternity that was founded in 1832 by Samuel Eells at Hamilton College in Clinton, Oneida County, New York, New York and the Alpha Delta Phi Society, which broke off from the fraternity in...
and Psi Upsilon
Psi Upsilon

Psi Upsilon is the fifth oldest Fraternities and sororities in the United States, founded at Union College in 1833. It has chapters at colleges and universities throughout North America....
. So unfair, in fact, were the selections that some men who did receive bids promptly rejected them. There arose a feeling of such injustice that fifteen men resolved to form their own society, one which would be more fraternal in nature and less restricted to the limited (and, as they saw it, unfair) membership criteria of their rivals.

This new society was founded June 22, 1844, in room number 12 Old South Hall, Yale College, New Haven, Connecticut
Connecticut

Connecticut is a U.S. state located in the New England region of the northeastern United States. The state borders New York to the west and south , Massachusetts to the north, and Rhode Island to the east....
. At this meeting, the Fraternity's secret and open Greek mottos were devised. The open motto is "Kerothen Philoi Aei" ("Friends from the Heart, Forever"). The pin and secret handshake were also devised. The DKE pin shows the Greek letters D?? on a white scroll upon a black diamond with gold rope trim and a star in each corner. DKE's heraldic colours are azure (blue), or (gold), and gules (crimson) and its flag is a triband of those colours with a left-facing rampant lion in the middle.

The fifteen founders were: William Woodruff Atwater, Dr. Edward Griffin Bartlett, Frederic Peter Bellinger, Jr., Henry Case, Colonel George Foote Chester, John Butler Coyngham, Thomas Isaac Franklin, William Walter Horton, The Honorable William Boyd Jacobs, Professor Edward Van Schoonhoven Kingsley, Chester Newell Righter, Dr. Elisha Bacon Shapleigh, Thomas Du Bois Sherwood, Orson William Stow, and Albert Everett Stetson.

This first Chapter was denoted Phi chapter and is the only fraternity at Yale that has never gone inactive.

Within three years of the founding at Yale, chapters were founded at Bowdoin
Bowdoin College

Bowdoin College , founded in 1794, is a private Liberal arts colleges in the United States located in the coastal New England town of Brunswick, Maine, Maine....
, Princeton University
Princeton University

Princeton University is a private university university located in Princeton, New Jersey, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League and has the largest per-student Financial endowment in the world....
, Colby College
Colby College

Colby College, founded in 1813, is an American private university Liberal arts colleges in the United States located on Mayflower Hill in Waterville, Maine....
, and Amherst College
Amherst College

Amherst College is a private university Liberal arts colleges in the United States in Amherst, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1821, it is the third oldest college in List of colleges and universities in Massachusetts, and has been coeducational since 1975....
. Since that time, DKE has grown to over 64 chapters and has initiated over 85,000 members across North America.

DKE is inextricably linked to the history of the United States of America
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
, as its members have included five of forty-three Presidents of the United States
President of the United States

The President of the United States is the head of state and head of government of the United States and is the highest political official in the United States by influence and recognition....
: Rutherford B. Hayes
Rutherford B. Hayes

Rutherford Birchard Hayes was an Politics of the United States, Law of the United States, Military of the United States and the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States ....
, Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt , also known as T.R., and to the public as Teddy, was the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States....
, Gerald Ford
Gerald Ford

Gerald Rudolph Ford, Jr. was the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States, serving from 1974 to 1977, and the List of Vice Presidents of the United States Vice President of the United States serving from 1973 to 1974....
, George H. W. Bush
George H. W. Bush

George Herbert Walker Bush served as the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States from 1989 to 1993. Bush held a variety of political positions prior to his presidency, including Vice President of the United States in the administration of Ronald Reagan and Director of Central Intelligence under Gerald R....
, and George W. Bush
George W. Bush

George Walker Bush served as the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States from 2001 to 2009. He was the 46th List of Governors of Texas from 1995 to 2000 before being United States presidential inauguration as President on January 20, 2001....
. Another way to look at this impact, is that five of the most recent 25 US Presidents (20%) were Dekes (at the time of George W. Bush's election). Additionally, the most presidents to come from any other fraternity is only 2, compared to DKE's five presidents.

Some might argue that Franklin Delano Roosevelt would be the 6th US President that was a DKE. FDR was a member of the Alpha Chapter of DKE at Harvard, also known as the "Dickey Club." However the Alpha Chapter derecognized by DKE International due to the chapter's stance on dual membership with other fraternities. Here is a detailed explanation of Harvard's complex club system: The Porcellian Club
Porcellian Club

The Porcellian Club is a male-only final club at Harvard University, sometimes called the Porc or the P.C. The year of founding is usually given as 1791, when a group began meeting under the name "the Argonauts," or as 1794, the year of the roast pig dinner at which the club, known first as "the Pig Club" was formally founded....
was the loftiest of Harvard's "final" clubs. The selection process was rigidly hierarchical. First you had to get into the Institute of 1770, the oldest and largest club. If you were among the first 70 or 80 of the 100 sophomores accepted, you were taken into Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity ("the Dickey"). Then you might join a "waiting" club, and at last a final club like Porcellian or A.D. Club
A.D. Club

The A.D. Club is a final club established at Harvard University in 1836, the continuation of a chapter of the Alpha Delta Phi Fraternities and sororities existing as an honorary chapter until 1846, and then as a regular chapter until the late 1850s....
. Your chances improved if you were a "legacy," i.e., related to a member.

During the Civil War
American Civil War

The American Civil War , also known as the War Between the States and several Naming the American Civil War, was a civil war in the United States....
, the first Union
Union (American Civil War)

During the American Civil War, the Union was a name used to refer to the Federal government of the United States of the United States, which was supported by the twenty-three states which were not part of the secession attempt by the 11 states that formed the Confederate States of America....
officer killed in battle was a Deke, Theodore Winthrop of Phi. Six weeks after Robert E. Lee
Robert E. Lee

Robert Edward Lee , was a career United States United States Army officer , an engineer, and among the most celebrated generals in American history....
's surrender at Appomattox, Virginia
Appomattox, Virginia

Appomattox is a town in Appomattox County, Virginia, Virginia, United States. The population was 1,761 at the United States Census, 2000. It is the county seat of Appomattox County, Virginia....
Philip Spence of Zeta commanded Confederate
Confederate States of America

The Confederate States of America formed as the government set up from 1861 to 1865 by eleven Southern United States U.S. state of the United States of America that had declared their secession from the U.S....
troops in their last organized battle of the war.

In the election of 1876, the Republican Party
Republican Party (United States)

The Republican Party is one of the two major party contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Democratic Party . It is often called the Grand Old Party or the GOP....
chose between two Dekes, nominating Hayes rather than rival and fellow DKE James G. Blaine
James G. Blaine

James Gillespie Blaine was a United States House of Representatives, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, United States Senate from Maine, two-time United States Secretary of State, and champion of the Half-Breed ....
, who later served two administrations as Secretary of State and who authored the Fourteenth Amendment
Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution

The Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is one of the post-American Civil War Reconstruction Amendments that was first intended to secure the rights of former Slavery in the United States....
; Blaine also ran unsuccessfully for President.
During the Spanish-American War
Spanish-American War

The Spanish?American War was an armed military conflict between Spain and the United States that took place between April and August 1898, over the issues of the liberation of Cuba....
, the first American officer to be killed was a Deke, Surgeon John B. Gibbs (Rutgers), and his brother in DKE J. Frank Aldritch (DePauw University
DePauw University

DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana, USA, is a private, national Liberal arts colleges in the United States with an enrollment of approximately 2,400 students....
) died when the USS Maine
USS Maine (ACR-1)

United States Navy ships Maine , the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for the state of Maine, was a 6,682-ton second-class pre-dreadnought battleship originally designated as Armored Cruiser #1....
was sunk. In this same war, Deke Theodore Roosevelt distinguished himself and started on his path to the Presidency.

The fraternity's membership has also included dozens of American and Canadian politicians, businessmen, sports figures, and artists who have achieved iconic status, including among many others J.P. Morgan, Jr., William Randolph Hearst
William Randolph Hearst

William Randolph Hearst I was an United States History of American newspapers Business magnate and leading newspaper publisher. The son of self-made millionaire George Hearst, he became aware that his father received a northern California newspaper, The San Francisco Examiner, as payment of a gambling debt....
, Cole Porter
Cole Porter

Cole Albert Porter was an American composer and songwriter from Peru, Indiana, Indiana.His works include the musical comedies Kiss Me, Kate , Fifty Million Frenchmen, DuBarry Was a Lady and Anything Goes, as well as songs like "Night and Day ", "I Get a Kick out of You", "Well, Did You Evah!", "Two Little Babes In The Wood"...
, Henry Cabot Lodge
Henry Cabot Lodge

This article is about Henry Cabot Lodge , a U.S. politician in the early twentieth century.Henry Cabot Lodge was an United States statesman, a United States Republican Party politician, and a noted historian....
, Dick Clark
Dick Clark (entertainer)

Richard Wagstaff "Dick" Clark is an American television, radio personality, game show host and businessman; he served as chairman and CEO of Dick Clark Productions, which he has sold part of in recent years....
, Tom Landry
Tom Landry

Thomas Wade Landry was an American football player and coach. He is legendary for his successes as the coach of the Dallas Cowboys. He is ranked as one of the greatest and most innovative coaches in NFL history....
, and George Steinbrenner
George Steinbrenner

George Michael Steinbrenner III is an United States billionaire businessman, and owner and the former principal executive of Major League Baseball's New York Yankees....
. Deke flags have been carried to the North Pole
North Pole

The North Pole, also known as the Geographic North Pole or Terrestrial North Pole is, subject to the caveats explained below, defined as the point in the northern hemisphere where the Earth's axis of rotation meets the Earth's surface....
by its discoverer, Admiral Robert Peary
Robert Peary

Robert Edwin Peary was an United States explorer who claimed to have been the first person, on April 6, 1909, to reach the geographic North Pole....
(Theta), and to the Moon
Moon

The Moon is Earth's only natural satellite and the List of natural satellites by diameter satellite in the Solar System. The average centre-to-centre distance from the Earth to the Moon is km, about thirty times the diameter of the Earth....
by astronaut Alan Bean
Alan Bean

Alan LaVern Bean is a former NASA astronaut and became List of people who have walked on the Moon#People who have walked on the Moon at the age of thirty-seven years in November 1969....
(Omega Chi).

Delta Kappa Epsilon administers a charitable organization called the Rampant Lion Foundation. As well, DKE has championed an organization call ROAR
Restore Our Associational Rights

Restore Our Associational Rights, Inc. was an organization formed by United States college Fraternities and sororities to pursue legislation that would protect them from action by college administrations stifling students' right of association....
, which stands for Restore Our Associational Rights. ROAR campaigns for the freedom of fraternities and Greek organizations in general to operate without interference and discrimination from university administrations or others.

Traditionally an Eastern Seaboard fraternity, DKE's Yale chapter had an early reputation as a Southerner's fraternity. Many wealthy plantation owners sent their sons to Yale where they joined DKE. Two of the original founders were from the South and 13 out of 38 members of 1845 and 1846 were from the South. DKE's first chapter in the South was Gamma chapter founded in 1847 (Vanderbilt University

Vanderbilt University

Vanderbilt University is a private university research university in Nashville, Tennessee, Tennessee, United States. Founded in 1873, the university is named for ship transport and rail transport magnate Cornelius Vanderbilt, who provided Vanderbilt its initial United States dollar1 million endowment despite having never been to the Southern...
) followed by Psi chapter at the University of Alabama

University of Alabama

The University of Alabama is a state university coeducational university located in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, Alabama, United States. Founded in 1831, UA is the flagship university of the University of Alabama System....
in the same year.

Delta Kappa Epsilon's first West Coast chapter was founded at the University of California, Berkeley

University of California, Berkeley

The University of California, Berkeley is a public university research university located in Berkeley, California, California, United States. The oldest of the ten major campuses affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley offers some 300 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in a wide range of disciplines....
on Halloween

Halloween

Halloween is a holiday celebrated on October 31. It has roots in the Celtic mythology of Samhain and the Christian holy day of All Saints. It is largely a Secularity celebration, but some Christians and Paganism have expressed strong feelings about its religious overtones....
night, 1876. DKE is the fourth fraternity at the prestigious institution. Their rival, Stanford University

Stanford University

Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private university research university located in Stanford, California, California, United States....
, followed suit in 1901.

Delta Kappa Epsilon became an international fraternity with the addition of the Alpha Phi chapter in 1898 at the University of Toronto

University of Toronto

The University of Toronto is a public university research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, situated a mile north of the city's Financial District, Toronto on grounds that surround Queen's Park ....
, Canada.

DKE has a club in New York. was founded in 1885 and is currently in residence at the Yale Club of New York City

Yale Club of New York City

The Yale Club of New York City, commonly called the Yale Club, is a gentlemen's club in Midtown Manhattan Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States Its membership is restricted almost entirely to alumni and faculty of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, Connecticut....
. The club is a rare survivor of the fraternity clubs that once proliferated at the turn of the century and then folded.

The Sigma Chi

Sigma Chi

Sigma Chi is one of the largest and oldest all-male, college, greek alphabet social fraternities and sororities and a secret society. Sigma Chi was founded on June 28, 1855 at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio when members split from Delta Kappa Epsilon....
Fraternity was founded in 1855 when twelve members of the Miami University

Miami University

Miami University is a coeducational public university founded in 1809 and is one of the eight original Public Ivys. The University is located in the college town of Oxford, Ohio with its primary focus on educating undergraduates....
chapter of DKE (Kappa Chapter) split evenly over a debate on the office of Poet in the Erodelphian Literary Society. Six Deke members, led by Benjamin Piatt Runkle

Benjamin Piatt Runkle

Benjamin Piatt Runkle, was one of the original seven founders of Sigma Chi fraternities and sororities, as well as a colonel in the Union Army during the American Civil War....
, rescinded their membership and later founded Sigma Chi because they refused to vote for a brother Deke simply because he was a Deke. The leader of the former Dekes was future Ambassador Whitelaw Reid

Whitelaw Reid

Whitelaw Reid was a United States politician and newspaper editor, as well as the author of a popular history of Ohio in the Civil War.Born on a farm near Xenia, Ohio, Reid attended Xenia Academy and went on to graduate from Miami University with honors in 1856....
. Frank Baird, a former Deke, had a hand in creating the Sigma Chi "White Cross" badge along with the founders of Sigma Chi. He was known as an artist on campus and assisted his former Deke brothers.

Alumni

DKE counts many political, business, sports, education, science, and arts leaders. Listed is a sample of some famous Dekes.

Presidents of the United States

19th President, Rutherford B. Hayes
Rutherford B. Hayes

Rutherford Birchard Hayes was an Politics of the United States, Law of the United States, Military of the United States and the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States ....
, Delta Chi
26th President, Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt , also known as T.R., and to the public as Teddy, was the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States....
, Alpha
38th President, Gerald R. Ford, Omicron
41st President, George H. W. Bush
George H. W. Bush

George Herbert Walker Bush served as the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States from 1989 to 1993. Bush held a variety of political positions prior to his presidency, including Vice President of the United States in the administration of Ronald Reagan and Director of Central Intelligence under Gerald R....
, Phi
43rd President, George W. Bush
George W. Bush

George Walker Bush served as the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States from 2001 to 2009. He was the 46th List of Governors of Texas from 1995 to 2000 before being United States presidential inauguration as President on January 20, 2001....
, Phi

Vice Presidents of the United States

Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt , also known as T.R., and to the public as Teddy, was the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States....
, Alpha
Gerald R. Ford, Omicron
George H. W. Bush
George H. W. Bush

George Herbert Walker Bush served as the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States from 1989 to 1993. Bush held a variety of political positions prior to his presidency, including Vice President of the United States in the administration of Ronald Reagan and Director of Central Intelligence under Gerald R....
, Phi
J. Danforth Quayle
Dan Quayle

James Danforth "Dan" Quayle is an United States politician and was the List of Vice Presidents of the United States Vice President of the United States, serving under George H....
, Psi Phi

Justices of the United States Supreme Court

Harold H. Burton, Theta
John Hessin Clarke
John Hessin Clarke

John Hessin Clarke was an United States lawyer and judge who served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States of the United States Supreme Court from 1916 to 1922....
, Beta Chi
Potter Stewart
Potter Stewart

Potter Stewart was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court of the United States Supreme Court. On the Court, he made major contributions to criminal justice reform, civil rights, access to the courts, and fourth amendment jurisprudence, among other areas....
, Phi

Newspaper publishers and editors

Otis Chandler
Otis Chandler

Otis Chandler was best known as the publisher of the Los Angeles Times between 1960 and 1980. His family had owned the newspaper since Harrison Gray Otis founded the company in 1882....
, Sigma Rho, Publisher, Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times

The Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper published in Los Angeles, California and distributed throughout the Western United States. It is the second-largest metropolitan newspaper in the United States and the fourth-most widely distributed newspaper in the United States....
Norman Chandler
Norman Chandler

Norman Chandler was the publisher of the Los Angeles Times from 1945 to 1960, and largely responsible for the success of the newspaper....
, Sigma Rho, Publisher, Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times

The Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper published in Los Angeles, California and distributed throughout the Western United States. It is the second-largest metropolitan newspaper in the United States and the fourth-most widely distributed newspaper in the United States....
Rance Craine, Psi Phi, Publisher, Crain Communications
William Randolph Hearst
William Randolph Hearst

William Randolph Hearst I was an United States History of American newspapers Business magnate and leading newspaper publisher. The son of self-made millionaire George Hearst, he became aware that his father received a northern California newspaper, The San Francisco Examiner, as payment of a gambling debt....
, Alpha, Publisher, Hearst Newspapers
Richard J. V. Johnson, Omega Chi, Publisher, Houston Chronicle
Houston Chronicle

The Houston Chronicle is the largest daily newspaper in Texas, United States. As of March 2008, it is the ninth-largest newspaper by circulation in the United States....
Eugene Pulliam, Psi Phi, Publisher, Indianapolis Newspapers, Inc.
Whitelaw Reid
Whitelaw Reid

Whitelaw Reid was a United States politician and newspaper editor, as well as the author of a popular history of Ohio in the Civil War.Born on a farm near Xenia, Ohio, Reid attended Xenia Academy and went on to graduate from Miami University with honors in 1856....
, Kappa, Editor-in-chief, New York Tribune
New York Tribune

The New York Tribune was an American newspaper, first established by Horace Greeley in 1841, which was long considered one of the leading newspapers in the United States....
James C. Quayle
James C. Quayle

James Cline Quayle was an United States newspaper publisher and businessman who owned several newspapers in the United States including the Huntington Herald-Press in Indiana and the Wickenburg Sun in Arizona....
, Psi Phi, Chairman, Huntington Newspapers, Inc
Briton Hadden
Briton Hadden

Briton Hadden was the co-founder of Time Magazine with his Yale University classmate Henry Luce. He was Time's first editor and the inventor of its revolutionary writing style, known as Timestyle....
, Phi, Co-Founder of Time Magazine

Agency heads

Rear Admiral Sidney W. Souers, Kappa - first director of the Central Intelligence Agency
Central Intelligence Agency

The Central Intelligence Agency is a civilian intelligence agency of the Federal government of the United States. It is the successor of the Office of Strategic Services formed during World War II to coordinate espionage activities between the branches of the US military services....
Sargent Shriver
Sargent Shriver

Robert Sargent Shriver, Jr. is an United States of America Democratic Party politician and activist. Known as "Sargent," Shriver is best-known as part of the Kennedy political family, the driving force behind the creation of the Peace Corps, and the Democratic Party's United States presidential election, 1972 vice President of the United St...
, Phi - First Director of the Peace Corps
Peace Corps

The Peace Corps was established by Executive order 10924 on March 1, 1961, and authorized by United States Congress on September 22, 1961, with passage of the Peace Corps Act ....

Businessmen

John F. Akers, Phi - Past President of I.B.M.
Tee Baur, Beta - Steak N Shake
Steak n Shake

Steak n Shake is a diner-style List of restaurant chains located throughout the Midwestern and U.S. Southern states United States. Typical restaurant locations have both a drive-through and front-window service, resulting in an atypical mix of fast-food to-go service and diner-style sit-down service....
Edward Bausch, Beta Phi - Bausch & Lomb
Bausch & Lomb

Bausch & Lomb is an United States company based in Rochester, Monroe County, New York, is one of the world's leading suppliers of eye health products, such as contact lenses and lens care products today....
Opticals
Alfred R. Berkeley III Eta - Former NASDAQ
NASDAQ

The NASDAQ is an United States stock exchange. It is the largest Electronic trading screen-based Stock trading market in the United States....
president
Lawrence Bossidy
Lawrence Bossidy

Lawrence A. Bossidy is a businessman and author. He is a retired CEO of AlliedSignal , and has also spent more than 30 years rising into executive power at General Electric....
, Mu - Chairman of Honeywell
Honeywell

Honeywell is a major United States multinational corporation list of conglomerates company that produces a variety of consumer products, engineering services, and aerospace systems for a wide variety of customers, from private consumers to major corporations and governments....
Irving H. Chase, Phi - Chase Manhattan Bank
Chase Manhattan Bank

Chase is the consumer and commercial banking division of JPMorgan Chase. The bank was known as Chase Manhattan Bank until it merged with JPMorgan in 2000....
James B. Colgate, Mu - Colgate-Palmolive
Colgate-Palmolive

Colgate-Palmolive Company is an United States diversified multinational corporation focused on the production, distribution and provision of household, health care and personal products, such as soaps, detergents, and oral hygiene products ....
Angus R. Cooper, Psi - Cooper T. Smith
Evan Fawkes, Iota - Waldersteed Hotel Chain
Don Fisher
Don Fisher

Donald Raymond Fisher was a Major League Baseball pitcher who appeared in two games for the San Francisco Giants in 1945. The 29-year-old rookie was a native of Cleveland, Ohio....
, Theta Zeta - Founder and Past Chairman of Gap Inc.
James Gamble
James Gamble

James Norris Gamble was a United States of America-based Ireland soapmaker and industrialist. He was the co-founder and co-eponym of Procter & Gamble in 1837, along with William Procter ....
, Lambda - Procter & Gamble
Procter & Gamble

Procter & Gamble Co. is a Fortune 500, United States multinational corporation headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio, that manufactures a wide range of Fast moving consumer goods....
Philip H. Geier, Jr., Mu - CEO of Interpublic Group from 1980-2000
Howard Heinz, Phi - H. J. Heinz Company
H. J. Heinz Company

H. J. Heinz Company , commonly known as Heinz, famous for its "57 Varieties" slogan, is an American processed-food product company with its world headquarters in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania....
Walter Hoving
Walter Hoving

Walter Hoving was a Sweden-born United States businessman, best known as the sometimes imperious, always self-confident, head of Tiffany & Company from 1955 to 1980....
, Upsilon - Tiffany & Co.
Tiffany & Co.

Tiffany & Co. is a United States jewellery and Silver company founded by Charles Lewis Tiffany and Teddy Young in New York City in 1837 as a "stationery and fancy goods emporium."...
Howard B. Johnson, Phi - Howard Johnson's
Howard Johnson's

Howard Johnson's is a restaurant chain of restaurants and hotels, located primarily throughout the United States and Canada. The name is derived from the founder of the original company, Howard Deering Johnson, who started the initial chain of restaurants and motels....
and Ground Round
Ground Round

Ground Round Grill & Bar, an American casual dining restaurant, was founded in 1969 by Howard Johnson's. As of July 28, 2004 Ground Round is owned by Independent Owners Cooperative, a group of 48 franchisee owners....
Herb Kelleher
Herb Kelleher

Herbert D. Kelleher is the co-founder, and former chairman and CEO of Southwest Airlines .Kelleher was born and raised in Haddon Heights, New Jersey, where he graduated from Haddon Heights High School....
, Gamma Phi - Southwest Airlines
Southwest Airlines

Southwest Airlines Co. is an American low-cost carrier airline with its largest focus city at Las Vegas, Nevada' McCarran International Airport....
Craig McCaw
Craig McCaw

Craig McCaw is the second of four sons of Marion and John Elroy McCaw. The Seattle-area businessman and entrepreneur achieved success as a pioneer in the cellular phone industry....
, Sigma Rho - McCaw Communications, cellular telephones
John Pierpont Morgan, Jr., Alpha - financier
Barry W. Ridings, Mu - Managing Director of Lazard Freres & Co.
Fred Smith
Fred Smith

Fred, Frederic, or Frederick Smith may refer to:*Fred Smith , North Carolina legislator and attorney*Fred Smith , bassist for the 1970s proto-punk band Television...
, Phi - FedEx
FedEx

FedEx Corporation , originally known as FDX Corporation, is a logistics services company, based in the United States. The name "FedEx" is a syllabic abbreviation of the name of the company's original air division, Federal Express, which was used until 2000....
Dean Witter
Dean Witter

Dean Witter may refer to:* Dean G. Witter * Dean Witter Reynolds ...
, Jr., Phi - Dean Witter Reynolds
Dean Witter Reynolds

Dean Witter Reynolds was an United States stock brokerage catering to the middle class. In 1997, it merged with the Morgan Stanley to form Morgan Stanley Dean Witter....
(Now part of Morgan Stanley
Morgan Stanley

Morgan Stanley is a global financial services provider headquartered in New York City, New York, United States. It serves a diversified group of corporations, governments, financial institutions, and individuals....
)
William Wrigley III
William Wrigley III

William Wrigley III, known as William Wrigley, was President of the Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company, founded by his grandfather William Wrigley, Jr....
, Phi - Wrigley Company
Joseph Wilson
Joseph Wilson

Joseph Wilson or Joe Wilson may refer to:People*Joseph Bearwalker Wilson, Shamanist and Founder of the 1734 tradition of witchcraft...
, Beta Phi - Xerox
Xerox

Xerox Corporation is a global document management company which manufactures and sells a range of color and black-and-white Computer printer, multifunction systems, photo copiers, digital production printing presses, and related consulting services and supplies....
Theodore J. Forstmann
Theodore J. Forstmann

Theodore J. Forstmann is one of the founding partners of Forstmann Little & Company, a private equity firm. He is unmarried but in the late 1990s, he adopted two South African boys, Everest and Siya , after traveling to the country to meet with Nelson Mandela....
, Phi - financier, subject of the book and movie Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco
Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco

Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco is a 1990 book about the leveraged buyout of RJR Nabisco, written by investigative journalism Bryan Burrough and John Helyar....
William W. Crocker, Phi - Crocker National Bank
Crocker National Bank

Crocker National Bank was a United States bank headquartered in San Francisco, California. It was acquired by and merged into Wells Fargo Bank in 1986....
Robert Lehman
Robert Lehman

Robert Lehman was an United States banker....
, Phi - Lehman Brothers
Lehman Brothers

Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. was a global financial services corporation that, until declaring bankruptcy in 2008, did business in investment banking, Stock and Bond sales, market research and stock trading, investment management, private equity, and private banking....

Political figures

Dean G. Acheson
Dean Acheson

Dean Gooderham Acheson was an American statesman and lawyer; as United States Secretary of State in the administration of President Harry S. Truman during 1949?1953, he played a central role in defining American foreign policy during the Cold War....
, Phi - Secretary of State
United States Secretary of State

The United States Secretary of State is the head of the United States Department of State, concerned with foreign affairs. The Secretary is a member of the President's United States Cabinet and the highest-ranking cabinet secretary both in United States presidential line of succession and United States order of precedence....
under Harry S. Truman
Harry S. Truman

Harry S. Truman was the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States . As the List of Vice Presidents of the United States Vice President of the United States, he succeeded Franklin D....
, Architect of Cold War
Cold War

The Cold War was the continuing state of conflict, tension and competition that existed between a number of world powers, including the United States, the Soviet Union, People's Republic of China, France, United Kingdom and those countries' respective allies from the mid-1940s to the early 1990s....
Foreign Policy
Nathaniel Banks, Sigma - Speaker
Speaker of the United States House of Representatives

The Speaker of the United States House of Representatives is the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives. The current Speaker is Nancy Pelosi, a Democratic Party representing California's 8th congressional district....
of the United States House of Representatives
United States House of Representatives

The United States House of Representatives, commonly referred to as "the House", is one of the bicameralism of the United States Congress; the other is the United States Senate....
Albert J. Beveridge
Albert J. Beveridge

Albert Jeremiah Beveridge was an American historian and United States Senator from Indiana.He was born in Ohio and his parents moved to Indiana soon after his birth, and his boyhood was one of hard work....
, Psi Phi - US Senator, Indiana
Indiana

The State of Indiana was the 19th U.S. state admitted into the union. It is located in the Midwestern United States of the United States of America....
James G. Blaine
James G. Blaine

James Gillespie Blaine was a United States House of Representatives, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, United States Senate from Maine, two-time United States Secretary of State, and champion of the Half-Breed ....
, Theta - Speaker
Speaker of the United States House of Representatives

The Speaker of the United States House of Representatives is the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives. The current Speaker is Nancy Pelosi, a Democratic Party representing California's 8th congressional district....
of the United States House of Representatives
United States House of Representatives

The United States House of Representatives, commonly referred to as "the House", is one of the bicameralism of the United States Congress; the other is the United States Senate....
, presidential candidate, Secretary of State
Secretary of State

Secretary of State is a commonly used title for a member of government. The role varies between countries, and in some cases there are multiple Secretaries of State in the government....
under James Garfield
James Garfield

James Abram Garfield was the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States. James A. Garfield assassination, two months after being shot and six months after his inauguration, made his tenure the second shortest in United States history....
and Chester Arthur.
Gaston Caperton
Gaston Caperton

William Gaston Caperton III was twice elected as governor of the U.S. state of West Virginia and served from 1989 until 1997. He is currently the president of the College Board, which administers the nationally-recognized SAT and Advanced Placement Program tests....
, Beta - Governor
Governor

A governor is a governing official, usually the Executive of a non-sovereign level of government, ranking under the head of state. In federations, a governor may be the title of each appointed or elected politician who governs a constitutive state....
of West Virginia
West Virginia

West Virginia is a U.S. state in the Appalachian, Upland South, and Mid-Atlantic States regions of the United States, bordered by Virginia on the southeast, Kentucky on the southwest, Ohio on the northwest, and Pennsylvania and Maryland on the northeast....
1989-1997
John Chafee
John Chafee

John Lester Hubbard Chafee was an United States politician. He served as an officer in the United States Marine Corps, as List of Governors of Rhode Island, as the United States Secretary of the Navy, and as a United States Senate....
, Phi - Secretary of the Navy
United States Secretary of the Navy

The United States Secretary of the Navy is the civilian head of the United States Department of the Navy. The position was a member of the President of the United States United States Cabinet until 1947, when the Navy, Army, and newly created Air Force were placed in the United States Department of Defense and the Secretary of the Navy was...
, Governor
List of Governors of Rhode Island

Party Affiliation...
of Rhode Island
Rhode Island

Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, more commonly referred to as Rhode Island , is a U.S. state in the New England region of the United States....
, U.S. Senator
United States Senate

The United States Senate is the upper house of the Bicameralism United States Congress, the lower house being the United States House of Representatives....
Royal S. Copeland
Royal S. Copeland

For the Canadian football player of the same name see Royal Copeland .Royal Samuel Copeland was an American academic, homeopathy physician, and politician who held elected offices in both Michigan and New York ....
, Omicron - U.S. Senator
United States Senate

The United States Senate is the upper house of the Bicameralism United States Congress, the lower house being the United States House of Representatives....
of New York
New York

The State of New York is a U.S. state in the Mid-Atlantic States and Northeastern United States regions of the United States and is the nation's List of U.S....
1923-1938
Mark Dayton
Mark Dayton

Mark Brandt Dayton was a Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party U.S. Senator from Minnesota who served from 2001 to 2007 in the 107th United States Congress, 108th United States Congress, and 109th United States Congress....
, Phi, U.S. Senator, Minnesota
Minnesota

Minnesota is a U.S. state in the Midwestern United States of the United States. The twelfth largest state by area in the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with just over five million residents....
George A. Drew, Alpha Phi - Premier of Ontario
Premier of Ontario

The Premier of Ontario is the first minister Minister of the Crown for the Canada Provinces of Canada of Ontario. The Premier is appointed as the province's head of government by the Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, and presides over the Executive Council of Ontario, or Cabinet ....
, leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada
Progressive Conservative Party of Canada

The Progressive Conservative Party of Canada was a Canada political party with a centre-right stance on economic issues and a centrism stance on social issues....
, Leader of the Opposition
Murphy J. "Mike" Foster, Zeta Zeta - two-term Governor
List of Governors of Louisiana

This is a list of the governors of Louisiana, from acquisition by the United States in 1803 to the present day; for earlier governors of Louisiana see List of colonial governors of Louisiana....
of Louisiana
Louisiana

The State of Louisiana is a U.S. state located in the U.S. Southern States of the United States of America. Its capital is Baton Rouge and largest city is New Orleans....
Gordon Gray
Gordon Gray

Gordon Gray was an official in the government of the United States during the administrations of Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower associated with defense and national security....
, Beta - Assistant secretary of war under Harry Truman
Lister Hill, Psi - U.S. Senator of Alabama
Alabama

Alabama is a state located in the Southern United States of the United States of America. It is bordered by Tennessee to the north, Georgia to the east, Florida and the Gulf of Mexico to the south, and Mississippi to the west....
1938-1969
Tony Knowles
Tony Knowles (politician)

Anthony Carroll Knowles is an United States Democratic Party politician and businessman who served as Governor of Alaska from December 1994 to December 2002....
, Phi, two-term Governor
List of Governors of Alaska

File:Palin In Carson City On 13 September 2008.jpgThe Governor of Alaska is the head of the executive branch of Alaska's government and the commander-in-chief of the U.S....
of Alaska
Alaska

Alaska is the largest U.S. state of the United States by area; it is situated in the northwest extremity of the North American continent, with Canada to the east, the Arctic Ocean to the north, and the Pacific Ocean to the west and south, with Russia further west across the Bering Strait....
Robert Todd Lincoln
Robert Todd Lincoln

Robert Todd Lincoln was an United States lawyer and politician, and the first son of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd Lincoln. Born in Springfield, Illinois, United States, he was the only one of Lincoln's four sons to live past his teenage years....
, Alpha - Secretary of War
United States Secretary of War

File:Swearing in of Secretary Dwight Davis.jpgThe Secretary of War was a member of the United States President of the United States United States Cabinet, beginning with George Washington's administration....
, son of Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln was the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States. He successfully led the country through its greatest internal crisis, the American Civil War, preserving the Union and ending slavery....
Bob Livingston
Bob Livingston

Robert Linlithgow Livingston Jr. , is a Washington, D.C.-based lobbyist and a former Republican Party U.S. Representative from Louisiana. He was chosen as Newt Gingrich's successor as Speaker of the United States House of Representatives late in 1998, but chose instead to withdraw and retire because, after denouncing then President Bill Cli...
, Tau Lambda - United States House of Representatives
United States House of Representatives

The United States House of Representatives, commonly referred to as "the House", is one of the bicameralism of the United States Congress; the other is the United States Senate....
, Louisiana
Louisiana

The State of Louisiana is a U.S. state located in the U.S. Southern States of the United States of America. Its capital is Baton Rouge and largest city is New Orleans....
Henry Cabot Lodge
Henry Cabot Lodge

This article is about Henry Cabot Lodge , a U.S. politician in the early twentieth century.Henry Cabot Lodge was an United States statesman, a United States Republican Party politician, and a noted historian....
, Alpha - Senate Majority Leader
Russell B. Long
Russell B. Long

Russell Billiu Long was an United States politician who served in the United States Senate as a United States Democratic Party from Louisiana from 1948 until 1987....
, Zeta Zeta - Senate Majority Whip, Democrat from Louisiana
Nicholas Longworth
Nicholas Longworth

Nicholas Longworth IV was a prominent United States politician in the United States Republican Party during the first few decades of the 20th century....
, Alpha - Speaker
Speaker of the United States House of Representatives

The Speaker of the United States House of Representatives is the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives. The current Speaker is Nancy Pelosi, a Democratic Party representing California's 8th congressional district....
of the United States House of Representatives
United States House of Representatives

The United States House of Representatives, commonly referred to as "the House", is one of the bicameralism of the United States Congress; the other is the United States Senate....
Mario García Menocal
Mario García Menocal

Mario Garc?a Menocal was the third President of Cuba, from 1913 to 1921....
, Delta Chi - President
List of Presidents of Cuba

This article list the Presidents of Cuba from 1902 until the present day:...
of the Republic of Cuba
Cuba

The Republic of Cuba is a country in the Caribbean. It consists of the island of Cuba , the island of Isla de la Juventud, and several adjacent small islands....
J. Danforth Quayle
Dan Quayle

James Danforth "Dan" Quayle is an United States politician and was the List of Vice Presidents of the United States Vice President of the United States, serving under George H....
- Vice-President of the United States (1989-1993)
Yuan Shikau, Phi - Prime Minister, Chinese Empire
William Simon
William Simon

William Simon may refer to:* William E. Simon - former Secretary of Treasury of the U.S.* William H. Simon - Columbia Law School professor...
, Rho - Secretary of the Treasury
United States Secretary of the Treasury

The United States Secretary of the Treasury is the head of the United States Department of the Treasury, concerned with finance and monetary matters, and, until 2003, some issues of national security and defense....
Ted Stevens
Ted Stevens

Theodore Fulton Stevens is a former senior United States United States Senate from Alaska, who served from December 24, 1968 until January 3, 2009....
, Theta Rho, U.S. Senator, Alaska
Alaska

Alaska is the largest U.S. state of the United States by area; it is situated in the northwest extremity of the North American continent, with Canada to the east, the Arctic Ocean to the north, and the Pacific Ocean to the west and south, with Russia further west across the Bering Strait....
Robert Taft, Jr.
Robert Taft, Jr.

Robert Taft was a member of the Taft family who served as a United States Republican Party United States House of Representatives from Ohio between 1963 and 1965, as well as between 1967 and 1971....
, Phi - Republican
Republican Party (United States)

The Republican Party is one of the two major party contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Democratic Party . It is often called the Grand Old Party or the GOP....
Senator from Ohio
Ohio

Ohio is a Midwestern United States U.S. state of the United States. As part of the Great Lakes region , Ohio has long been a cultural and geographical crossroads in North America....
, author of modern Labor Law
John De Witt Warner
John De Witt Warner

John De Witt Warner served as a Congressman for the 13th District of New York State from 1891-1895.Born on a farm in the town of Reading, New York, Warner moved with his parents to Big Stream , New York, and in 1860 settled in Rock Stream, New York....
, Delta Chi - United States House of Representatives
United States House of Representatives

The United States House of Representatives, commonly referred to as "the House", is one of the bicameralism of the United States Congress; the other is the United States Senate....
, New York
New York

The State of New York is a U.S. state in the Mid-Atlantic States and Northeastern United States regions of the United States and is the nation's List of U.S....
Richard Taff Wren, Psi - Georgia
Georgia (U.S. state)

Georgia is a U.S. state in the United States and was one of the original Thirteen Colonies that revolted against United Kingdom rule in the American Revolution....
State Senator
Thomas F. Eagleton, Sigma - U.S. Democratic Senator Missouri
Missouri

Missouri is a U.S. state in the Midwestern United States of the United States bordered by Iowa, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska....
, VP Candidate 1972
George Pataki
George Pataki

George Elmer Pataki is an United States politician who was the 53rd Governor of New York of New York serving three consecutive four-year terms from January 1, 1995 until December 31, 2006....
, Phi, Governor New York
New York

The State of New York is a U.S. state in the Mid-Atlantic States and Northeastern United States regions of the United States and is the nation's List of U.S....
Don Siegelman
Don Siegelman

Donald Eugene Siegelman , American, was a longtime Alabama politician of the Democratic Party . He was the Governor of Alabama for one term from 1999 to 2003....
, Psi, Governor Alabama
Alabama

Alabama is a state located in the Southern United States of the United States of America. It is bordered by Tennessee to the north, Georgia to the east, Florida and the Gulf of Mexico to the south, and Mississippi to the west....
Michael M. Wood
Michael M. Wood

Michael Melville Wood was confirmed as the United States Ambassador to Sweden by the United States Senate on May 26, 2006, after being nominated by George W....
, Phi - U.S. Ambassador to Sweden
Clark T. Randt, Jr.
Clark T. Randt, Jr.

Clark T. Randt, Jr. was the Ambassadors from the United States to the People's Republic of China from July 23, 2001 to January 20, 2009, making him the longest-serving U.S....
, Phi - longest serving U.S. Ambassador of China
Robert Bacon
Robert Bacon

Robert Bacon was an United States statesman and diplomat. He served as United States Secretary of State from January to March 1909.Born in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, to William Benjamin Bacon and Emily Crosby Low, he was graduate of Harvard University, where he was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon....
, Alpha - US Secretary of State
Peter Schabarum, Theta Zeta - Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, First District (1972-1991)

Sports and entertainment

Jack Agrios
Jack Agrios

Jack N. Agrios, Order of Canada is a Canada lawyer.Born in Edmonton, Alberta, he received a Bachelor of Arts in 1959 and a Bachelor of Laws in 1960 from the University of Alberta....
, Delta Phi - Chairman of the IAAF World Championships in Athletics Committee 2001
William Bartholomay, Delta Epsilon - Former owner of the Atlanta Braves
Atlanta Braves

The Atlanta Braves are a professional baseball based in Atlanta, Georgia. The Braves are a member of the National League East of Major League Baseball's National League....
Dana X. Bible
Dana X. Bible

Dana Xenophon Bible was a highly successful college football head coach. He is most well known for his excellent coaching at Texas A&M University, University of Nebraska, and University of Texas....
, - College Football head coach at University of Texas, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Texas A & M, Louisiana State University
Louisiana State University

Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, generally known as Louisiana State University or LSU, is a state university, coeducational, Level l Research University located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Louisiana and the main campus of the Louisiana State University System....
and Mississippi College
Mississippi College

Mississippi College, also known as MC, is a private Christian university located in Clinton, Mississippi. Mississippi College comprises the main campus in Clinton, as well as satellite campuses in Brandon and Madison, Mississippi, and the Mississippi College School of Law in Jackson, Mississippi....
Clinton W. Blume, Mu - pitcher New York Giants
San Francisco Giants

The San Francisco Giants are a Major League Baseball team based in , that currently play in the National League West. One of the oldest of the MLB teams, the Giants hold the distinction of having won the most games of any team in the history of organized sports....
, 1922 World Series
1922 World Series

In the 1922 World Series, the San Francisco Giants beat the New York Yankees in five games By now, the term "World Series" was being used frequently, as opposed to "World's Series"....
, President, Real Estate Board of New York, 1955
Paul Brown
Paul Brown

Paul Eugene Brown was a Coach in American football and a major figure in the development of the National Football League. A seminal figure in football history, Brown is considered the "father of the modern offense," with many claiming that he ranks as one of if not the greatest of football coaches in history....
, Kappa - Hall of Fame Football Coach & Founder of the Cleveland Browns
Cleveland Browns

The Cleveland Browns are a professional American football team based in Cleveland, Ohio, Ohio. They play in the AFC North division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League ....
and owner of the Cincinnati Bengals
Cincinnati Bengals

The Cincinnati Bengals are a professional American football team based in Cincinnati, Ohio, Ohio. It is currently a member of the AFC North of the American Football Conference in the National Football League ....
Walter Camp
Walter Camp

Walter Chauncey Camp was a sports writer and American football coach known as the "Father of American Football". With John Heisman, Amos Alonzo Stagg, Glenn Scobey Warner, Fielding H....
, Phi - Father of American Football
Dick Clark
Dick Clark (entertainer)

Richard Wagstaff "Dick" Clark is an American television, radio personality, game show host and businessman; he served as chairman and CEO of Dick Clark Productions, which he has sold part of in recent years....
, Phi Gamma - hosted American Bandstand
American Bandstand

American Bandstand is a television show that aired in various versions from 1952 to 1989, hosted from 1957 until its final season by Dick Clark , who also served as producer....
Billy Crudup
Billy Crudup

William Gaither "Billy" Crudup is an United States Tony Award-winning actor of film and theatre. He is well known for his roles as guitarist Russell Hammond in Almost Famous, Will Bloom in Big Fish, and Ashitaka in Princess Mononoke....
, Beta - actor
Hugh Culverhouse
Hugh Culverhouse

Hugh Franklin Culverhouse, Sr. was the longtime owner of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers of the National Football League....
, Psi - owner of Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Tampa Bay Buccaneers

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers are aprofessional American football team based in Tampa, Florida. They are currently members of the NFC South of the National Football Conference in the National Football League ....
Michael Eben - former Toronto Argonauts player
James Elder, Alpha Phi - Olympic Gold Medalist Equestrian Team (1968)
Justice
Justice

Justice is the concept of morality rightness based on ethics, rationality, law, natural law, fairness and equity."...
George A. Gale - former Chief Justice of Ontario
Ontario

Ontario is a Provinces and territories of Canada located in the Central Canada part of Canada, the largest by population and second largest, after Quebec, in total area....
Marcus Giamatti
Marcus Giamatti

Marcus Giamatti is an United States actor....
- actor
A. Bartlett Giamatti
A. Bartlett Giamatti

Angelo Bartlett "Bart" Giamatti was the President of Yale University, and later, the seventh Commissioner of Baseball. Giamatti agreed to the deal that terminated the Major League Baseball Scandals#1980s Pete Rose betting scandal by permitting Rose to voluntarily withdraw from the sport, avoiding further punishment....
, Phi - Commissioner of Major League Baseball
Major League Baseball

Major League Baseball is the highest level of play in American professional baseball. Specifically, Major League Baseball refers to the organization that operates the National League and the American League, by means of a joint organizational structure that has developed gradually between them since 1903 ....
Harry Hamlin
Harry Hamlin

'Harry Robinson Hamlin' is an United States film and television actor, known for his role as Perseus in the 1981 fantasy film Clash of the Titans, and as Michael Kuzak in the acclaimed legal drama series L.A....
, Theta Zeta - actor
Steve Hansen
Steve Hansen

Steve Hansen is a rugby union coach. He was the head coach of the Wales national rugby union team. He became the ninth Welsh coach in 13 years, after Graham Henry parted company with the Welsh Rugby Union in 2002....
, Phi Gamma - Board Member (The Scorpion Lounge)
Haygood Hardy - Pianist and Composer
Lawren Harris
Lawren Harris

Lawren Stewart Harris, Order of Canada was a Canadian painter. He was born in Brantford, Ontario and is best known as a member the Group of Seven who pioneered a distinctly Canadian painting style in the early twentieth century....
, Alpha Phi, - Canadian artist and member of the Group of Seven
Group of Seven

Group of Seven can refer to:*G8 - the group of seven industrially advanced nations .*Group of Seven - a group of Canadian landscape artists....
James Eugene Hasser, III, Psi - Quarterback at the University of Alabama
Calvin Hill
Calvin Hill

Calvin G. Hill is a retired American football running back who had a 12-year National Football League career from 1969 to 1981. He played for the Dallas Cowboys, Washington Redskins and Cleveland Browns....
, Phi - Professional Football Player for the Dallas Cowboys
Dallas Cowboys

The Dallas Cowboys are a professional American football team in the National Football Conference East Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League ....
, the Washington Redskins
Washington Redskins

The Washington Redskins are a professional American football team based in the Washington, D.C. area. The team plays at FedExField in Landover, Maryland, Maryland, which is in Prince George's County, Maryland....
, and the Cleveland Browns
Cleveland Browns

The Cleveland Browns are a professional American football team based in Cleveland, Ohio, Ohio. They play in the AFC North division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League ....
.
Charles Ives
Charles Ives

Charles Edward Ives was an American musical modernism composer. He is widely regarded as one of the first American composers of international significance....
, Phi - composer
Robert Trent Jones
Robert Trent Jones

Robert Trent Jones, Sr. was a golf course architect who designed about 500 golf courses in at least 40 US states and 35 other countries all around the world....
, Delta Chi - Famed Golf Course Designer
Robert J. Kelleher
Robert J. Kelleher

Robert J. Kelleher is a former professional tennis player and official, inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 2000, and a United States federal judge....
, Epsilon - Hall of Fame tennis player and official
Troy Kinney
Troy Kinney

Troy Kinney was a notable United States artist, etching, and author.Troy Kinney was most notable for his works portraying nudes, and dance performers, including Ruth St....
, artist
Thomas W. Landry
Tom Landry

Thomas Wade Landry was an American football player and coach. He is legendary for his successes as the coach of the Dallas Cowboys. He is ranked as one of the greatest and most innovative coaches in NFL history....
, Omega Chi - coach of Dallas Cowboys
Dallas Cowboys

The Dallas Cowboys are a professional American football team in the National Football Conference East Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League ....
Angelo "Hank" Luisetti
Hank Luisetti

Angelo "Hank" Luisetti was a college men's basketball player and one of the great innovators of the game. In an era that featured the traditional two-handed set shot, Luisetti developed the running one-handed shot....
, Sigma Rho - one of the most famous college basketball
College basketball

College basketball most often refers to the American basketball competitive governance structure established by the National Collegiate Athletic Association ....
players of all time
Michael Macari, Epsilon Rho - Film Producer
Film producer

A film producer is someone who creates the conditions for making film. The producer initiates, co-ordinates, supervises and controls matters such as fund-raising, hiring key personnel and arranging for distributors....
(The Ring
The Ring (2002 film)

The Ring is a 2002 in film United States remake of the 1998 Japanese J-horror Ring . Both films are based on the novel Ring by K?ji Suzuki....
)
Donald S. MacDonald, former Canadian Minister of Finance, and High Commissioner to the United Kingdom
Joe McDonald
Joseph G. McDonald

Joe McDonald is a professional United States sportswriter, who is the Managing Editor of New York Sportscene magazine and also covers the New York Mets, New York Yankees, New York Rangers and U.S....
, Iota Mu - sports writer
Joe Paterno
Joe Paterno

Joseph Vincent Paterno , nicknamed JoePa, is the head coach of Pennsylvania State University Penn State Nittany Lions team, a position he has held since 1966....
, Upsilon - Penn State
Pennsylvania State University

The Pennsylvania State University is a Commonwealth System of Higher Education, Land-grant university, space grant college public research university located in State College, PA, Pennsylvania, United States....
football coach
David Milch
David Milch

David S. Milch is an American screenwriter and television producer. He has created several television shows, including NYPD Blue and Deadwood ....
, Phi - writer and producer
Bob Pettit
Bob Pettit

Robert E. Lee "Bob" Pettit is a retired American professional basketball player. He played 11 seasons in the National Basketball Association, all with the Atlanta Hawks ....
, Zeta Zeta - National Basketball Association
National Basketball Association

The National Basketball Association is North America's premier professional men's basketball league, composed of thirty teams: twenty-nine in the United States and one in Canada....
All star
National Basketball Association All-Star Game

The National Basketball Association staged its first All-Star Game in the Boston Garden on March 2, 1951. From that year on, the game has matched the best players in the Eastern Conference with the best players in the Western Conference ....
and hall of famer
Basketball Hall of Fame

The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame honors exceptional basketball players, all-time great coaches, Referee#basketball, executives, and other major contributors to the game....
.
Cole Porter
Cole Porter

Cole Albert Porter was an American composer and songwriter from Peru, Indiana, Indiana.His works include the musical comedies Kiss Me, Kate , Fifty Million Frenchmen, DuBarry Was a Lady and Anything Goes, as well as songs like "Night and Day ", "I Get a Kick out of You", "Well, Did You Evah!", "Two Little Babes In The Wood"...
, Phi - composer
Root Boy Slim
Root Boy Slim

Root Boy Slim [] Asheville, North Carolina; was an American singer-songwriter who attended Yale University, and afterward settled in the suburbs of Washington, D.C., gaining fame as the frontman for the band "Root Boy Slim and the Sex Change Band"....
, Phi - rock singer
Don Schollander
Don Schollander

Donald Arthur Schollander is a former Olympic swimming for the United States....
, Phi - won four gold medals in swimming in the 1964 Summer Olympics
1964 Summer Olympics

The 1964 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XVIII Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event held in Tokyo, Japan in 1964....
Dr. Charles Snelling - former Canadian Olympian
George Steinbrenner
George Steinbrenner

George Michael Steinbrenner III is an United States billionaire businessman, and owner and the former principal executive of Major League Baseball's New York Yankees....
, Epsilon - owner of the New York Yankees
New York Yankees

The New York Yankees are a professional baseball based in the Borough of the Bronx, in New York City, New York and are a member of the American League East of Major League Baseball's American League....
Matt Stover
Matt Stover

For the science fiction and fantasy author, see Matthew StoverJohn Matthew Stover is an American Football placekicker who is currently a free agent in the National Football League....
, Alpha Omega - Placekicker for the Baltimore Ravens
Baltimore Ravens

The Baltimore Ravens are a professional American football team based in Baltimore, Maryland. They compete in the AFC North of the American Football Conference in the National Football League ....
of the National Football League
National Football League

The National Football League is the Major North American professional sports leagues American football Sports league in the United States. It is an unincorporated 501#501.28c.29.286.29 association controlled by its members....
.
Patrick Turner - former Canadian Olympian
Jonathan Winters
Jonathan Winters

Jonathan Harshman Winters III is an United States comedian, actor, and former United States Marine Corps drill instructor....
, Lambda - comedian and writer
Frankie Albert
Frankie Albert

Frank Cullen "Frankie" Albert was a quarterback in the National Football League.Frankie Albert, who was born in Chicago, started at Glendale High School, Glendale, California and at Stanford University where he was coached by T formation apostle Clark Shaughnessy....
, Sigma Rho - football player, invented bootleg play, Coach San Francisco 49ers
San Francisco 49ers

The San Francisco 49ers are a professional American football team. The team plays its home games in , while the club's headquarters and practice facility are located in Santa Clara, California....
James Russell
James Russell

James T. Russell is an United States inventor. He earned a Bachelor of Arts in physics from Reed College in Portland, Oregon in 1953. He joined General Electric's nearby labs in Richland, Washington, Washington, where he initiated many types of experimental instrumentation....
, Tau - Pole Vaulter, 2 Time NESCAC Champion.
Sebastian Bea, Theta Zeta - Crew, Olympic Silver Medalist 2000 Men's Pair w/o Coxswain (2-)
Boris Zelkin, Mu - Emmy Award
Emmy Award

The Emmy Award, also known as the 'Emmy', is a television production award, similar in nature to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment, and is considered the television equivalent to the Academy Awards....
winning composer

Military

Lieutenant General
Lieutenant General

Lieutenant General is a military rank used in many countries. The rank traces its origins to the Middle Ages where the title of Lieutenant General was held by the second in command on the battlefield, who was normally subordinate to a Captain General....
Price J. Montague

Other famous Dekes

Alan Bean
Alan Bean

Alan LaVern Bean is a former NASA astronaut and became List of people who have walked on the Moon#People who have walked on the Moon at the age of thirty-seven years in November 1969....
, Omega Chi - Apollo
Project Apollo

The Apollo program was a human spaceflight program undertaken by NASA during the years 1961?1975 with the goal of conducting manned moon landing missions....
astronaut
John Baham, Zeta Zeta - Astronaut
Edward Bellamy
Edward Bellamy

Edward Bellamy was an United States author and socialist, most famous for his utopia novel, Looking Backward, set in the year 2000....
, Theta Chi - author
Ernest Borgnine
Ernest Borgnine

Ermes Effron Borgnino , better known by his stage name Ernest Borgnine, is an United States Golden Globe, BAFTA and Academy Award-winning actor....
, Lamba - screenwriter and actor
Kevin Caliva Jr., Zeta Zeta - College Graduate Founding Member of the Vincennes Club of New Orleans.
Dale Chihuly
Dale Chihuly

Dale Chihuly is an American Glass art and entrepreneur....
, Kappa Epsilon - World Renowned Glass Artist
Sutemi Chinda, Psi Phi - Secretary of State of the Empire of Japan (The Washington DC Cherry trees were presented by him and his wife on behalf of the people of Japan in 1912)
Melvil Dewey
Melvil Dewey

Melville Louis Kossuth Dewey was an American librarian and educator, and the inventor of the Dewey Decimal Classification system of library classification....
, Sigma - devised the Dewey Decimal System
Charles A. Ellis, Gamma Phi - designed the Golden Gate Bridge
Golden Gate Bridge

The Golden Gate Bridge is a suspension bridge bridge spanning the Golden Gate, the opening of the San Francisco Bay onto the Pacific Ocean. As part of both U.S....
Paul M. Hebert
Paul M. Hebert

Paul Macarius Hebert was the longest serving Dean of the LSU Law School , serving in that role with brief interruptions from 1937 until his death in 1977....
, Zeta Zeta - Judge United States Military Tribunals in Nuremberg
Nuremberg Trials

The Nuremberg Trials were a series of trials, or tribunals, most notable for the prosecution of prominent members of the political, military, and economic leadership of Nazi Germany after its defeat in World War II....
Baron Seijiro Hirai, Psi Omega - President, Japanese Railways

Robert E. Peary, Theta - first man to reach the North Pole

North Pole

The North Pole, also known as the Geographic North Pole or Terrestrial North Pole is, subject to the caveats explained below, defined as the point in the northern hemisphere where the Earth's axis of rotation meets the Earth's surface....

Robert Paul Hastings, Alpha - Director of the Hastings College of Law, San Francisco in 1885-1890
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American novelist and short story writer.Nathaniel Hathorne was born in 1804 in the city of Salem, Massachusetts to Nathaniel Hathorne and Elizabeth Clarke Manning Hathorne....
, Theta - author
Calvin Plimpton
Calvin Plimpton

Calvin Hastings Plimpton was an American physician and educator, who served as president of Amherst College and American University of Beirut. He is known for appointing a commission in 1970 whose findings resulted in the admission of women to Amherst in 1975....
, Sigma - President of Amherst College
Amherst College

Amherst College is a private university Liberal arts colleges in the United States in Amherst, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1821, it is the third oldest college in List of colleges and universities in Massachusetts, and has been coeducational since 1975....
and American University of Beirut
American University of Beirut

The American University of Beirut is a private, independent university in Beirut, Lebanon. It was founded as the Syrian Protestant College by United States missionary Daniel Bliss in 1866....
Yung Wing
Yung Wing

Yung Wing . Born in Zhuhai in Guangdong province, he studied in Robert Morrison 's missionary schools as a boy where Tong King-sing was a classmate....
, Phi - Chinese Diplomat to the United States. Founder of the Chinese Educational Mission in 1872.
Chung Mun Yew, Phi - Director of Chinese Railroads
Liang Tun Yen, Phi - Secretary of State, Chinese (Qing Dynasty) Empire
Sal Capizzi, Theta Chi-Astronaut
Tom Bacon, Tau- Nutritionist/conditioning coach for James Russell, 3 Time NESCAC pole vault champion

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External links and references

All factual information can be found and verified in the Library of Congress book: "A Century and a Half of DKE" The Illustrated History of Delta Kappa Epsilon. Copyright 1997. Edited by Duncan Andrews (Rho, 1957), Published by Heritage Publishers, Inc ISBN 0-929690-33-8 Libray of Congress Number 97-70228 Book information assessable online at www.loc.gov