List of St. Anthony Hall members
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Founders of Alpha Chapter of St. Anthony Hall (Columbia College + N.Y.U.), January 17, 1847
Baird's Manual of American College Fraternities
Baird's Manual of American College Fraternities is a compendium of fraternities and sororities in the United States and Canada first published in 1879. It covers national and international general , professional, and honor fraternities, including defunct organizations, with an overview of each...
ISBN 0-9637159-0-9, two founding members are cited:
- Edward Forbes Travis
- Charles Arms Budd (N.Y.U. 1850), medical doctor http://books.google.com/books?id=YlOUBad4ht8C&pg=PA87&lpg=PA87&dq=charles+arms+budd&source=web&ots=GIiaHcJhKN&sig=hn8Os48yqlZ94fcZmggSBtMcsMM
According to the 1st edition (1879) of Baird's http://www.answers.com/topic/baird-s-manual-of-american-college-fraternities-1879), there are four founding members cited, with Charles Budd the only name in common.
- Charles Arms Budd
- William Myn Van Wagenen (Columbia College)
- John Hone Anthon (Columbia College), leader of the Apollo Hall DemocracyApollo Hall DemocracyApollo Hall Democracy was a Democratic New York City political group opposed to the corruption of Tammany Hall.Apollo Hall Democracy was a Democratic reform movement founded in the early 1870s by New York State Senator James O'Brien as a response to the corruption of Boss Tweed controlled Tammany...
, a political group that worked to bring Boss TweedBoss TweedWilliam Magear Tweed – often erroneously referred to as William Marcy Tweed , and widely known as "Boss" Tweed – was an American politician most notable for being the "boss" of Tammany Hall, the Democratic Party political machine that played a major role in the politics of 19th century...
of Tammany HallTammany HallTammany Hall, also known as the Society of St. Tammany, the Sons of St. Tammany, or the Columbian Order, was a New York political organization founded in 1786 and incorporated on May 12, 1789 as the Tammany Society...
to justice. - Samuel F. Barger (Columbia College), Lawyer and railroad director and financier associated with the Vanderbilts.http://www.bartleby.com/197/pages/page17.htmlhttp://www.coxrail.com/database/AutoOccur.asp?strAuto=73
The discrepancy appears to arise from editorial decisions by Baird's. Another source provides similar data http://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC29129087&id=XzUdKGbC4uwC&pg=RA4-PA178&lpg=RA4-PA178&dq=delta+psi. A complete listing of the chapter membership in its first few years may be found in an 1881 edition of a Columbia College directory http://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC38011776&id=cxATAAAAIAAJ&pg=RA1-PA29&lpg=RA1-PA29&dq=delta+psi.
The book "A Tour Around New York" contains contemporaneous sketches of life and associates a number of Columbia College Students including Barger, Anthon, Col. H.S. Olcott (listed below under "Other 19th C.) and Stewart L. Woodford (listed below in Congress). http://books.google.com/books?id=u1ilSrXcmvQC&pg=RA3-PA26&lpg=RA3-PA26&dq=samuel+f+barger&source=web&ots=fbdEHqNwBM&sig=peubftgFfALztCVwXmvxPeGI3y8
The 1889 "Catalogue of the Members of the Fraternity of Delta Psi" has been scanned by Google. It lists Samuel W. Barger as a founding member and a lawyer. http://books.google.com/books?id=gNxBAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA3&lpg=PA3&dq=william+myn+van+wagenen+barger&source=web&ots=aQ4wnlBBm-&sig=N9bRfOVi7JYv9BGjqQIEYdfri5Y&hl=en
Diplomacy, National Security
- John Baptiste BernadouJohn BernadouJohn Baptiste Bernadou was an officer in the United States Navy during the Spanish-American War. Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Bernadou graduated from the Naval Academy in 1880. He was promoted ten numbers for gallantry in action while commanding at the First and Second Battle of Cardenas,...
(14 November 1858–2 October 1908), officer in the United States Navy during the Spanish-American War. Namesake of the destroyer USS Bernadou (DD-153)USS Bernadou (DD-153)USS Bernadou was a Wickes class destroyer in the United States Navy during World War II. She was named for Commander John Bernadou....
http://books.google.com/books?id=gNxBAAAAIAAJ - Major General William Phillips Biddle (15 December 1853—25 February 1923), 11th Commandant, United States Marine Corps. http://books.google.com/books?id=gNxBAAAAIAAJ
- Cecil ClayCecil ClayCecil Clay was captain of Company K in the 58th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry Regiment in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Early life:...
(Feb 13, 1842 – Sept 23, 1903) Medal of Honor RecipientMedal of HonorThe Medal of Honor is the highest military decoration awarded by the United States government. It is bestowed by the President, in the name of Congress, upon members of the United States Armed Forces who distinguish themselves through "conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his or her...
, captain of Company K in the 58th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry Regiment in the Union ArmyUnion ArmyThe Union Army was the land force that fought for the Union during the American Civil War. It was also known as the Federal Army, the U.S. Army, the Northern Army and the National Army...
during the American Civil WarAmerican Civil WarThe American Civil War was a civil war fought in the United States of America. In response to the election of Abraham Lincoln as President of the United States, 11 southern slave states declared their secession from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America ; the other 25...
. http://books.google.com/books?id=gNxBAAAAIAAJ - Robert P. De VecchiRobert P. De VecchiRobert P. DeVecchi is currently President Emeritus of the International Rescue Committee.Born in New York City, he graduated Yale University in 1952, then served for two years on active duty with the United States Air Force and in 1956 received an M.B.A. from Harvard University. He served as a...
, founder International Rescue CommitteeInternational Rescue CommitteeThe International Rescue Committee is a leading nonsectarian, nongovernmental international relief and development organization based in the United States, with operations in over 40 countries... - John T. DowneyJohn T. DowneyJohn T. 'Jack' Downey was a CIA operative who was held captive in China for twenty years.-Early life:Originally from New Britain, Connecticut, Downey graduated from The Choate School and in 1951 Yale University....
, Judge, former CIA flyer imprisoned in China for over two decades - Fleet Admiral William Frederick "Bull" Halsey, Jr., GBE USN (October 30, 1882 – August 16, 1959), U.S. naval officer and the commander of the U.S. Third Fleet during much of the Pacific War against Japan. After joining and for the rest of his life, he carried the St. Anthony Hall emblem on his watch chain.http://www.stat.virginia.edu/maurer1.html and p. 26, Bull Halsey, by Elmer Belmont Potter ISBN 0-87021-146-3
- Vance McCormick, Appointed chair of the American delegation at the Treaty of VersaillesTreaty of VersaillesThe Treaty of Versailles was one of the peace treaties at the end of World War I. It ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers. It was signed on 28 June 1919, exactly five years after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. The other Central Powers on the German side of...
in 1919, under President Woodrow WilsonWoodrow WilsonThomas Woodrow Wilson was the 28th President of the United States, from 1913 to 1921. A leader of the Progressive Movement, he served as President of Princeton University from 1902 to 1910, and then as the Governor of New Jersey from 1911 to 1913...
. Member of the Yale CorporationYale CorporationThe Yale Corporation, sometimes, and more formally, known as The President and Fellows of Yale College, is the governing body of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.The Corporation comprises 19 members:...
1913-1936. - Elwell Stephen OtisElwell Stephen OtisElwell Stephen Otis was a United States of America General who served in the Philippines late in the Spanish-American War and during the Philippine-American War.-Biography:...
(1838 - 1909), U.S. Army general who served in the Philippines late in the Spanish-American WarSpanish-American WarThe Spanish–American War was a conflict in 1898 between Spain and the United States, effectively the result of American intervention in the ongoing Cuban War of Independence...
and during the Philippine-American WarPhilippine-American WarThe Philippine–American War, also known as the Philippine War of Independence or the Philippine Insurrection , was an armed conflict between a group of Filipino revolutionaries and the United States which arose from the struggle of the First Philippine Republic to gain independence following...
. - John A. 'Jack' ShawJohn A. ShawJohn A. "Jack" Shaw served as Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for International Technology Security and in a variety of other senior U.S. Government positions. Prior to his appointment by former Defense Secretary Rumsfeld, Shaw was President and CEO of the American Overseas Clinics Corporation...
, Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for International Technology Security during the first George W. Bush Administration. - S. Frederick StarrS. Frederick StarrStephen Frederick Starr is the founder and Chairman of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute. He is also a noted musician.-Academic career:...
, founder and Chairman of the Central Asia-Caucus Institute, and cofounder of the Louisiana Repertory Jazz Ensemble, dedicated to performing pre-1930 jazz New Orleans jazz. - Edward Stettinius Jr., (UVA Chapter). Administrated the Lend-Lease ProgramLend-LeaseLend-Lease was the program under which the United States of America supplied the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, China, Free France, and other Allied nations with materiel between 1941 and 1945. It was signed into law on March 11, 1941, a year and a half after the outbreak of war in Europe in...
, through which Pan Am Airways made millions (see listing for Juan Terry Trippe under business section below). Stettinius served as Secretary of StateSecretary of StateSecretary of State or State Secretary is a commonly used title for a senior or mid-level post in governments around the world. The role varies between countries, and in some cases there are multiple Secretaries of State in the Government....
from 1944 to 1945 under Presidents Roosevelt and Truman.. - Strobe TalbottStrobe TalbottNelson Strobridge "Strobe" Talbott III is an American foreign policy analyst associated with Yale University and the Brookings Institution, a former journalist associated with Time magazine and diplomat who served as the Deputy Secretary of State from 1994 to 2001.-Early life:Born in Dayton, Ohio...
, former Deputy Secretary of State, President of the Brookings InstitutionBrookings InstitutionThe Brookings Institution is a nonprofit public policy organization based in Washington, D.C., in the United States. One of Washington's oldest think tanks, Brookings conducts research and education in the social sciences, primarily in economics, metropolitan policy, governance, foreign policy, and...
. Yale CorporationYale CorporationThe Yale Corporation, sometimes, and more formally, known as The President and Fellows of Yale College, is the governing body of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.The Corporation comprises 19 members:...
member, 1976-1982.
Business and Industry
- Henry Becton, namesake of Henry P. Becton Regional High SchoolHenry P. Becton Regional High SchoolHenry P. Becton Regional High School is an American four-year comprehensive public high school serving students in ninth through twelfth grades from two relatively small communities in Bergen County, New Jersey, operating as part of the Carlstadt-East Rutherford Regional School District. Students...
, son of Becton DickinsonBecton DickinsonBecton, Dickinson and Company , is an American medical technology company that manufactures and sells medical devices, instrument systems and reagents. Founded in 1897 and headquartered in Franklin Lakes, New Jersey, BD does business in nearly 50 countries and has 28,803 employees worldwide. In...
co-founder Maxwell Becton, retired Vice Chairman of the Board, Yale Benefactor: Becton Hall. Also see http://www.library.yale.edu/science/library/engdirections.html
- George Herbert Walker IVGeorge Herbert Walker IVGeorge Herbert Walker IV is the Chairman and CEO of Neuberger Berman. Formerly a Partner and Managing Director at Goldman Sachs, Walker was recruited to rival investment bank, Lehman Brothers, to head its Investment Management Division, of which Neuberger was a part...
, Managing Director, Lehman Brothers (and second cousin to U.S. President George W. Bush) - Martin W. ClementMartin W. ClementMartin W. Clement was the 11th president of the Pennsylvania Railroad .He attended Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, ....
, President, Pennsylvania Railroad Company from 1935 to 1948. - Robert Habersham ColemanRobert Habersham ColemanRobert Habersham Coleman was an iron processing and railroad industrialist and owner of extensive farmland in Pennsylvania. He was the fourth- and last-generation scion of a family which controlled Cornwall Iron Furnace, in Cornwall, Pennsylvania, a major coal-burning ironmaking facility that was...
, the Gilded Age "Coal King", scion of the family that owned the Cornwall Iron FurnaceCornwall Iron FurnaceCornwall Iron Furnace is a designated National Historic Landmark that is administered by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission in Cornwall, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania in the United States. The furnace was a leading Pennsylvania iron producer from 1742 until it was shut down in 1883... - Harry B. Combs, aviation pioneer, oversaw creation of the Air Traffic ControlAir traffic controlAir traffic control is a service provided by ground-based controllers who direct aircraft on the ground and in the air. The primary purpose of ATC systems worldwide is to separate aircraft to prevent collisions, to organize and expedite the flow of traffic, and to provide information and other...
system. - Colonel William K. LanmanWilliam K. LanmanColonel William Kelsey Lanman Jr., was a notable benefactor of Yale University. He served as an aviator in the United States Marine Corps from 1935 to 1955, and later took up real estate and investment management....
, aviator, benefactor - Craige Lippincott, 19th c. principal in the Lippincott Family publishing dynastyLippincott Williams & WilkinsLippincott Williams & Wilkins is an academic and professional medical publisher owned by Wolters Kluwer group. It publishes textbooks, various electronic media, and over 275 journals and newsletters in the health-care field. Publications are aimed at physicians, nurses, clinicians, and students...
, (since sold to a German company).http://books.google.com/books?id=gNxBAAAAIAAJ - Cord Meyer, Sr., financier, father of Cord Meyer, Jr. (a Scroll and KeyScroll and KeyThe Scroll and Key Society is a secret society, founded in 1842 at Yale University, in New Haven, Connecticut. It is the wealthiest and second oldest Yale secret society...
member). Father-in-law of Mary Pinchot MeyerMary Pinchot MeyerMary Eno Pinchot Meyer was an American socialite, painter, former wife of Central Intelligence Agency official Cord Meyer and intimate friend of United States president John F. Kennedy, who was often noted for her desirable physique and social skills...
, murdered mistress of President John F. Kennedy. Cord Meyer, Sr. was a trustee of St. Anthony Hall when its endowment was created in 1925. - Juan Terry Trippe, aviation pioneer, founder of Pan Am, Yale CorporationYale CorporationThe Yale Corporation, sometimes, and more formally, known as The President and Fellows of Yale College, is the governing body of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.The Corporation comprises 19 members:...
member, 1949. A review of a Trippe biography "THE CHOSEN INSTRUMENT. Pan Am, Juan Trippe, The Rise and Fall of an American Entrepreneur Simon & Schuster said "Delta Psi was almost as influential as old Eli (referring to Yale). Mr. Trippe's wife, Betty, was the sister of Edward Stettinius Jr., a fraternity brother from the University of Virginia."http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9803E2D91239F93AA15754C0A964948260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=print - Reuben Buck Robertson, Jr., former director of B. F. Goodrich and Procter & GambleProcter & GambleProcter & Gamble is a Fortune 500 American multinational corporation headquartered in downtown Cincinnati, Ohio and manufactures a wide range of consumer goods....
, onetime (during the Korean war) member of the Wage Stabilization Board and former (1955-57) Deputy Secretary of DefenseUnited States Deputy Secretary of DefenseThe Deputy Secretary of Defense is the second-highest ranking official in the Department of Defense of the United States of America. The Deputy Secretary of Defense is appointed by the President, with the advice and consent of the Senate...
. Time magazine obituary at http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,826170,00.html - Edward Ryerson, Yale CorporationYale CorporationThe Yale Corporation, sometimes, and more formally, known as The President and Fellows of Yale College, is the governing body of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.The Corporation comprises 19 members:...
member 1932-44. President of the steel service center Joseph T. Ryerson and Son, Inc. and Chairman of the board from 1940 until his retirement in 1953 of both Inland Steel and his original company. Namesake of one of two remaining straight-deck bulk carriers still part of the American fleet on the Great Lakes. http://www.boatnerd.com/pictures/fleet/ryerson.htm - Alan Magee Scaife, Philanthropist, namesake of University of Pittsburgh Medical SchoolUniversity of PittsburghThe University of Pittsburgh, commonly referred to as Pitt, is a state-related research university located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. Founded as Pittsburgh Academy in 1787 on what was then the American frontier, Pitt is one of the oldest continuously chartered institutions of...
building. Yale CorporationYale CorporationThe Yale Corporation, sometimes, and more formally, known as The President and Fellows of Yale College, is the governing body of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.The Corporation comprises 19 members:...
member 1957-1958. Father of Richard Mellon ScaifeRichard Mellon ScaifeRichard Mellon Scaife is an American newspaper publisher and billionaire. Scaife owns and publishes the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. With $1.2 billion, Scaife, a principal heir to the Mellon banking, oil, and aluminum fortune, is No...
and Cordelia Scaife. Involvement in OSSOffice of Strategic ServicesThe Office of Strategic Services was a United States intelligence agency formed during World War II. It was the wartime intelligence agency, and it was a predecessor of the Central Intelligence Agency...
described at http://www.politicalfriendster.com/showConnection.php?id1=2507&id2=3280. - Frederick Ferris ThompsonFrederick Ferris ThompsonFrederick Ferris Thompson was a prominent American banker.-Biography:Born in New York City on June 14, 1836 to John and Electa Thompson, Frederick grew up in a life of luxury. He attended Williams College from 1852 to 1854, and was a member of St. Anthony Hall, but left to go abroad at his...
(1836 - 1899), prominent American banker. Helped found with his father and his brother Samuel the bank that survives to this day as CitibankCitibankCitibank, a major international bank, is the consumer banking arm of financial services giant Citigroup. Citibank was founded in 1812 as the City Bank of New York, later First National City Bank of New York...
, and with Jon and Samuel Thompson formed the Chase National Bank, named after their friend and U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Salmon P. ChaseSalmon P. ChaseSalmon Portland Chase was an American politician and jurist who served as U.S. Senator from Ohio and the 23rd Governor of Ohio; as U.S. Treasury Secretary under President Abraham Lincoln; and as the sixth Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court.Chase was one of the most prominent members...
which survives to this day as JP Morgan Chase. - Henry R. TowneHenry R. TowneHenry Robinson Towne was an American mechanical engineer and businessman.-Early life:Henry R. Towne was the son of John Henry and Maria T. Towne. He attended the University of Pennsylvania from 1861 to 1862, where he was a member of St. Anthony Hall, but did not complete a degree...
, mechanical engineer and businessman (co-founder with Pin tumbler lockPin tumbler lockThe pin tumbler lock is a lock mechanism that uses pins of varying lengths to prevent the lock from opening without the correct key...
inventor Linus Yale, Jr.Linus Yale, Jr.Linus Yale, Jr. was an American mechanical engineer and manufacturer, best known for his inventions of locks, especially the cylinder lock. His locks are still widely distributed in today’s society, and constitute a majority of personal locks and safes. Linus Yale, Jr. was born in Salisbury, NY....
of the company Yale & Towne Lock Co.), one of the first engineers to see management as a new social role for engineers in his influential book "The Engineer as Economist."http://books.google.com/books?id=gNxBAAAAIAAJ - Frederick William VanderbiltFrederick William VanderbiltFrederick William Vanderbilt was a member of the Vanderbilt family. He was a director of the New York Central Railroad for 61 years, and also a director of the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad and of the Chicago and North Western Railroad.-Biography:A son of William Henry Vanderbilt, Frederick...
, philanthropist, Director New York Central RailroadNew York Central RailroadThe New York Central Railroad , known simply as the New York Central in its publicity, was a railroad operating in the Northeastern United States... - H. Walter WebbH. Walter WebbHenry Walter Webb was a journalist and United States Ambassador to Brazil. Webb was a railway executive for the New York Central Railroad under Cornelius Vanderbilt and Chauncey Depew.-Biography:He was born in 1856 to James Watson Webb....
(1856-1900) son of Gen. James Watson WebbJames Watson WebbGeneral James Watson Webb was a United States diplomat, newspaper publisher and a New York politician in the Whig and Republican parties.-Biography:...
, a distinguished journalist who was at one time ambassador of the United States to Brazil. H.W. Webb was a railway executive for the New York Central RailroadNew York Central RailroadThe New York Central Railroad , known simply as the New York Central in its publicity, was a railroad operating in the Northeastern United States...
under Cornelius VanderbiltCornelius VanderbiltCornelius Vanderbilt , also known by the sobriquet Commodore, was an American entrepreneur who built his wealth in shipping and railroads. He was also the patriarch of the Vanderbilt family and one of the richest Americans in history...
and Chauncey DepewChauncey DepewChauncey Mitchell Depew was an attorney for Cornelius Vanderbilt's railroad interests, president of the New York Central Railroad System, and a United States Senator from New York from 1899 to 1911.- Biography:...
. - Joseph H. Williams, Williams CompaniesWilliams CompaniesThe Williams Companies, Inc. is an energy company based in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Its core business is natural gas exploration, production, processing, and transportation, with additional petroleum and electricity generation assets...
Honorary Director. Chairman and CEO 1979-1994. Yale CorporationYale CorporationThe Yale Corporation, sometimes, and more formally, known as The President and Fellows of Yale College, is the governing body of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.The Corporation comprises 19 members:...
member, 1977. - Benjamin J. Jardim, Dorm Donkey, Inc. Founder and CEO 2011-Present. Epsilon 2009.
Journalism
- Charles KuraltCharles KuraltCharles Kuralt was an American journalist. He was most widely known for his long career with CBS, first for his "On the Road" segments on The CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite, and later as the first anchor of CBS News Sunday Morning, a position he held for fifteen years.Kuralt's "On the Road"...
(d.1997), award-winning journalist, writer - George Crile IIIGeorge Crile IIIGeorge Crile III was an U.S. American journalist most closely associated with his three decades of work at CBS News.-Personal:...
(d. 2006) journalist most closely associated with his three decades of work at CBS News. Author of 'Charlie Wilson’s War', the basis of an eponymous Tom Hanks/Mike Nichols film released in 2007 by Universal StudiosUniversal StudiosUniversal Pictures , a subsidiary of NBCUniversal, is one of the six major movie studios.... - John LahrJohn LahrJohn Lahr is an American theater critic, and the son of actor Bert Lahr. Since 1992, he has been the senior drama critic at The New Yorker magazine.-Biography:...
, senior theater critic, the New YorkerThe New YorkerThe New Yorker is an American magazine of reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons and poetry published by Condé Nast... - Lewis H. LaphamLewis H. LaphamLewis H. Lapham is an American writer. He was the editor of the American monthly Harper's Magazine from 1976 until 1981, and from 1983 until 2006. He also is the founder of the eponymous publication about history and literature entitled Lapham's Quarterly. He has written numerous books on...
, editor of Harper's MagazineHarper's MagazineHarper's Magazine is a monthly magazine of literature, politics, culture, finance, and the arts, with a generally left-wing perspective. It is the second-oldest continuously published monthly magazine in the U.S. . The current editor is Ellen Rosenbush, who replaced Roger Hodge in January 2010...
until 2006 - Michael Lewittes, journalist, entertainment industry pundit
- Jay (James F.) CarneyJay CarneyJames "Jay" Carney is an American journalist and President Barack Obama's second White House Press Secretary. Prior to his appointment as Press Secretary, replacing Robert Gibbs, he was director of communications to Vice President Joe Biden...
, Time Inc. Washington Bureau Chief - Loudon Wainwright, Jr., Editor of Life Magazine
- George Whipple III, New York 1 entertainment reporter http://www.college.columbia.edu/cct/win99/56.html
- Naomi WolfNaomi WolfNaomi Wolf is an American author and political consultant. With the publication of The Beauty Myth, she became a leading spokesperson of what was later described as the third wave of the feminist movement.-Biography:...
, writer, political consultant, feminist - Jonathan YardleyJonathan YardleyJonathan Yardley is a book critic at The Washington Post, and at one time of the Washington Star. In 1981 he received the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism.-Background and education:...
, Pulitzer PrizePulitzer PrizeThe Pulitzer Prize is a U.S. award for achievements in newspaper and online journalism, literature and musical composition. It was established by American publisher Joseph Pulitzer and is administered by Columbia University in New York City...
-winner, book critic of the Washington Post - Peter GammonsPeter GammonsPeter Gammons is an American sportswriter, media personality, and a recipient of the J. G. Taylor Spink Award for outstanding baseball writing, given by the BBWAA.-Education:...
, ESPNESPNEntertainment and Sports Programming Network, commonly known as ESPN, is an American global cable television network focusing on sports-related programming including live and pre-taped event telecasts, sports talk shows, and other original programming....
commentator
Media & Entertainment
- Alex GibneyAlex GibneyAlex Gibney is an American documentary film director and producer. In 2010, Esquire magazine said Gibney "is becoming the most important documentarian of our time."...
, Oscar-, Emmy- and duPont-Columbia-award winning film directorFilm directorA film director is a person who directs the actors and film crew in filmmaking. They control a film's artistic and dramatic nathan roach, while guiding the technical crew and actors.-Responsibilities:...
and producer. - Dave Hemingson, Writer/Executive Producer of Two Dreadful Children, upcoming Fox animated comedy; Creator/executive producer of Kitchen ConfidentialKitchen ConfidentialKitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly is a New York Times bestselling non-fiction book written by American chef Anthony Bourdain....
; previously worked on American Dad and Family GuyFamily GuyFamily Guy is an American animated television series created by Seth MacFarlane for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series centers on the Griffins, a dysfunctional family consisting of parents Peter and Lois; their children Meg, Chris, and Stewie; and their anthropomorphic pet dog Brian...
for FOX and NBC's Just Shoot Me!Just Shoot Me!Just Shoot Me! is an American television sitcom that aired for seven seasons on NBC from March 4, 1997 to August 16, 2003, with 148 episodes produced. The show was created by Steven Levitan, the show's executive producer.-Description:...
. - Peter C. Johnson, Singer/songwriter of the post-Club 47 music scene (Cambridge, MA) in the late 1960s/1970s, part of the musical community comprising James MontgomeryJames MontgomeryJames Montgomery was a British editor, hymnwriter and poet. He was particularly associated with humanitarian causes such as the campaigns to abolish slavery and to end the exploitation of child chimney sweeps....
, Bonnie RaittBonnie RaittBonnie Lynn Raitt is an American blues singer-songwriter and a renowned slide guitar player. During the 1970s, Raitt released a series of acclaimed roots-influenced albums which incorporated elements of blues, rock, folk and country, but she is perhaps best known for her more commercially...
, Chris SmitherChris SmitherChris Smither is an American folk/blues singer, guitarist, and songwriter. His music draws deeply from the blues, American folk music, modern poets and philosophers.-Early life, influences and education:...
, The CarsThe CarsThe Cars are an American rock band that emerged from the early New Wave music scene in the late 1970s. The band consisted of lead singer and rhythm guitarist Ric Ocasek, lead singer and bassist Benjamin Orr, guitarist Elliot Easton, keyboardist Greg Hawkes and drummer David Robinson...
, Patty LarkinPatty LarkinPatty Larkin is a Boston-based singer-songwriter. redefines the boundaries of folk-urban pop music with her inventive guitar wizardry and uncompromising vocals and lyrics...
and Bill MorrisseyBill MorrisseyBill Morrissey was an American folk singer/songwriter from New Hampshire. Many of his songs reflect the harsh realities of life in crumbling New England mill towns.-Career:Morrissey was born in Hartford, Connecticut...
. - Jeff MacNellyJeff MacNellyJeffrey Kenneth MacNelly was a three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist and the creator of the popular comic strip Shoe.-Early life:...
, three-time Pulitzer Prize winning editorial cartoonist. - Sarah Pillsbury, Emmy- and Oscar-, winning documentarian, film directorFilm directorA film director is a person who directs the actors and film crew in filmmaking. They control a film's artistic and dramatic nathan roach, while guiding the technical crew and actors.-Responsibilities:...
and producer.http://www.hollywood.com/celebrity/Sarah_Pillsbury/190837#awards - Eric ShansbyEric ShansbyEric Shansby, commonly known as Shansby, is a cartoonist and illustrator for various American periodicals, including the Washington Post. His cartoons appear weekly next to humorist Gene Weingarten's "Below The Beltway" column. Shansby is from Silver Spring, Maryland. He studied philosophy at Yale...
, cartoonist for various American periodicals, including the Washington Post. His cartoons appear weekly next to humorist Gene Weingarten'sGene WeingartenGene Weingarten is a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist known for both his serious and humorous work...
"Below The Beltway" column.
Politicians and Lawmakers
- Robert Adams Jr. Republican Representative from Pennsylvania 1893-1906 and United States Minister to Brazil (1889-1890) http://books.google.com/books?id=gNxBAAAAIAAJ
- Joseph Wright Alsop Republican Connecticut State Representative 1907-1909, State senate 1909-1913 http://politicalgraveyard.com/group/delta-psi.html
- Charles F. Bachman Republican West Virginia State Delegate 1957-1960 http://politicalgraveyard.com/group/delta-psi.html
- Joseph W. Bailey Democratic Representative from Texas 1891-1901, House minority leader 1897-1899, United States Senate 1901-1913
- Risden Bennett Democratic Representative from North Carolina 1883-1887
- Thomas Clendinen CatchingsThomas C. CatchingsThomas Clendinen Catchings was a U.S. Representative from Mississippi.-Biography:Born near Brownsville, Mississippi, Catchings was tutored at home....
Democratic Representative from Mississippi 1885-1900 - Joseph S. ClarkJoseph S. ClarkJoseph Sill Clark, Jr. was a U.S. lawyer and Democratic Party politician in the mid-20th century. He served as the mayor of Philadelphia from 1952 until 1956, and as a United States Senator from Pennsylvania from 1957 until 1969...
United States Senator from Pennsylvania 1957-1969 - Ernest Cluett United States Representative from New York 1937-1943
- Thomas C. CoffinThomas C. CoffinThomas Chalkley Coffin was a United States Representative from Idaho. Coffin served as a Democrat in the House from 1933 to 1934....
Democratic Representative from Idaho 1933-1934 - Lawrence CoughlinLawrence CoughlinRobert Lawrence Coughlin was an American lawyer and Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.-Early life and education:...
Republican Representative from Pennsylvania 1969-1991 - Charles Schuveldt DeweyCharles S. DeweyCharles Schuveldt Dewey was a U.S. Representative from Illinois.Born in Cadiz, Ohio, Dewey moved in infancy to Chicago, Illinois.He attended public schools and St. Paul's School, Concord, New Hampshire....
Republican Representative from Illinois 1941-1942, as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the 1920s, he was responsible for the redesign and downsizing of U.S. paper currency.http://politicalgraveyard.com/group/delta-psi.html http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/csdewey.htm He was the father of Yale Berzelius Secret SocietyBerzeliusBerzelius is a secret society at Yale University named for the Swedish scientist Jöns Jakob Berzelius, considered one of the founding fathers of modern chemistry...
member A. Peter DeweyA. Peter DeweyAlbert Peter Dewey , shot by accident by Viet Minh troops on September 26, 1945. Dewey was the first American fatality in French Indochina, killed in the early aftermath of World War II. ....
, the first American to be killed in the Vietnam War, in 1945. - Charles James FaulknerCharles James FaulknerCharles James Faulkner was a United States Senator from West Virginia and the son of Charles James Faulkner, a U.S. Representative from Virginia and West Virginia. Born on the family estate, "Boydville," near Martinsburg, Virginia , he accompanied his father, who was U.S...
Democratic United States Senator from West Virginia 1887-1899 - Hamilton Fish IIHamilton Fish IIHamilton Fish II was an American lawyer and politician.-Life:He was the son of Julia Ursin Niemcewicz Kean and Hamilton Fish. He graduated from Columbia College of Columbia University, where he was a member of St...
Republican Representative from New York 1909-1911 - Albert Taylor Goodwyn, Populist PartyPopulist Party (United States)The People's Party, also known as the "Populists", was a short-lived political party in the United States established in 1891. It was most important in 1892-96, then rapidly faded away...
Representative from Alabama 1895-1896 - John A. Lile Democratic Delegate, West Virginia House of Delegates 1953-1958 http://politicalgraveyard.com/group/delta-psi.html
- Charles Henry MartinCharles Henry MartinCharles Henry Martin was an American Army officer and later politician in the state of Oregon. A native of Illinois, he had a 40-year career in the military including serving in conflicts from the Spanish-American War to World War I before retiring as a major general. A Democrat, he was the U.S...
Democratic Representative from Oregon 1931-1935. Governor of Oregon 1935-1939 - John Murry MitchellJohn M. MitchellJohn Murry Mitchell was a U.S. Representative from New York.Born in New York City, Mitchell attended Leggett's School at New York City.He was graduated from Columbia College, New York City, where he was a member of St...
Republican Representative from New York 1896-1899 - Hernando MoneyHernando MoneyHernando DeSoto Money was an American politician from the state of Mississippi.-Biography:Money was born in Holmes County, Mississippi. He was named after the Spanish explorer Hernando De Soto. Early in his life, he moved with his family to Carrollton, Mississippi...
Democratic Representative from Mississippi 1875-1885 - Edward de Veaux MorrellEdward de Veaux MorrellEdward de Veaux Morrell was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.Morrell was born in Newport, Rhode Island. He attended private schools and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia, where he was a member of St. Anthony Hall, in 1885...
Republican Representative 1899-1906. - James B. Murray Democratic Delegate, Virginia House of Delegates 1974-1982 http://dela.state.va.us/dela/MemBios.nsf/735bd5cd47938ad585256c23006d3f8a/e4ef4e14c8ea301085256b35005fcf1a?OpenDocument
- Truman Newberry Republican United States Senator from Michigan 1919-1922, Secretary of the Navy 1908-1909
- James Breck PerkinsJames Breck PerkinsJames Breck Perkins was an American historian, a United States Congressman, and a writer.He was born in St. Croix Falls, Wisconsin, and graduated at the University of Rochester, where he was a member of St. Anthony Hall, in 1867...
Representative from New York 1901-1910, historian - William S. ReyburnWilliam S. ReyburnWilliam Stuart Reyburn was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.Reyburn was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to John E. Reyburn and Margretta . He married Georgie Fontaine Maury, of Washington, June 10, 1911. He graduated from Yale University in 1904,...
Republican Representative from Pennsylvania 1911-1913 - Andrew W. Roraback Republican Connecticut State Senate 2000-present, Connecticut General Assembly 1994-2000
- Francis W. SargentFrancis W. SargentFrancis William Sargent was the 64th Governor of Massachusetts from 1969 to 1975. Born in 1915 in Hamilton, Massachusetts, he was known for his sharp wit and self-deprecating manner...
64th governor of Massachusetts. - Willard Saulsbury, Jr.Willard Saulsbury, Jr.Willard Saulsbury, Jr. was an American lawyer and politician from Wilmington, in New Castle County, Delaware. He was a member of the Democratic Party who served as U.S. Senator from Delaware and President pro tempore of the U.S...
Democratic United States Senator from Delaware 1913-1919, Senate President pro tempore 1915-1919 - Walter Sillers Democratic member, Mississippi State House of Representatives 1916-44; Speaker of the Mississippi State House of Representatives, 1944 http://politicalgraveyard.com/group/delta-psi.html
- Daniel French Slaughter, Jr.D. French Slaughter, Jr.Daniel French Slaughter, Jr. was an American politician.-Early life and education:Daniel Slaughter Jr. was born in Culpeper, Virginia and attended public schools in Culpeper County. He attended Virginia Military Institute and graduated in 1953 with a B.A. and LL.B...
Republican Representative from Virginia 1985-1991 - James Slayden Democratic Representative from Texas 1897-1918
- Gerry StuddsGerry StuddsGerry Eastman Studds was an American Democratic Congressman from Massachusetts who served from 1973 until 1997. He was the first openly gay member of Congress in the U.S. In 1983 he was censured by the House of Representatives after he admitted to having had an affair with a 17-year-old page in...
Democratic Representative from Massachusetts 1973-1996 - William V. SullivanWilliam V. SullivanWilliam Van Amberg Sullivan was a United States Representative and Senator from Mississippi.-Biography:Born near Winona, Mississippi, he attended the common schools in Panola County and the University of Mississippi at Oxford, where he was a member of St. Anthony Hall...
Democratic Representative from Mississippi 1897-May 31, 1898. Resigned May 31, 1898 until elected to the U.S. Senate to fill vacancy, served until 1901 - John Tunney Democratic Representative from California 1965-1970. United States Senator 1970-1976. He was the inspiration for Robert Redford's character in the film The CandidateThe Candidate (1972 film)The Candidate is a 1972 American film starring Robert Redford. Its themes include how the political machine corrupts. There are many parallels between the then-recent 1970 California Senate election between John V. Tunney and George Murphy; however, Redford's character Bill McKay is a political...
. - J. Mayhew WainwrightJ. Mayhew WainwrightJonathan Mayhew Wainwright was a U.S. Representative from New York.-Biography:Born in New York City, Wainwright was graduated from Columbia College and Columbia School of Political Science in 1884, and from Columbia Law School in 1886. He was admitted to the bar the same year and practiced in New...
Representative from New York 1923-1931 - Malcolm WallopMalcolm WallopMalcolm Wallop was a Republican politician and former three-term United States Senator from Wyoming.-Early years:...
Republican United States Senator from Wyoming 1977-1995 - Richard Smith WhaleyRichard S. WhaleyRichard Smith Whaley was a U.S. Representative from South Carolina, and chief justice of the United States Court of Claims....
Democratic Representative from South Carolina 1913-1921 - Hugh L. WhiteHugh L. WhiteHugh Lawson White was an American politician from Mississippi and a member of the Democratic Party. He served two non-consecutive terms as Governor of Mississippi .-Biography:...
Democratic Governor of Mississippi from 1936-1940, 1952-1956 - William Madison WhittingtonWilliam Madison WhittingtonWilliam Madison Whittington was a Democratic politician from Mississippi. Whittington was a Representative to the 69th United States Congress in 1925, and the twelve succeeding Congresses ....
(b. 1878 d. August 20, 1962), Democratic Representative from Mississippi 1925-1951. - Stewart L. WoodfordStewart L. WoodfordStewart Lyndon Woodford was an American politician.-Life:He studied at Yale University and Columbia College . At the latter he graduated in 1854 and was a member of St. Anthony Hall...
Lieutenant Governor of New York 1867-1868. Republican Representative from New York 1873-1874
Law and the Judiciary
- Fred Graham, chief anchor and managing editor of Court TVCourt TVtruTV is an American cable television network owned by Turner Broadcasting, a subsidiary of Time Warner. The network launched as Court TV in 1991, changing to truTV in 2008...
. - J. Harvie Wilkinson III, Federal Judge, Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals.
Athletics
- Bill CarrBill CarrWilliam Arthur Carr was an American athlete, a double Olympic champion in 1932.Born in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, Carr studied at Mercersburg Academy and the University of Pennsylvania, where he was coached by 1904 Olympian Lawson Robertson...
, 1932 Summer Olympics1932 Summer OlympicsThe 1932 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the X Olympiad, was a major world wide multi-athletic event which was celebrated in 1932 in Los Angeles, California, United States. No other cities made a bid to host these Olympics. Held during the worldwide Great Depression, many nations...
2X Gold Medalist in Track and Field for the USA - Britton ChanceBritton ChanceBritton Chance was the Eldridge Reeves Johnson University Professor Emeritus of Biochemistry and Biophysics, as well as Professor Emeritus of Physical Chemistry and Radiological Physics at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.At the 1952 Summer Olympics, Chance won a gold medal in...
, 1952 Summer Olympics1952 Summer OlympicsThe 1952 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XV Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event held in Helsinki, Finland in 1952. Helsinki had been earlier given the 1940 Summer Olympics, which were cancelled due to World War II...
Gold medalist in Yachting for the USA, bio-chemist and bio-physicist http://www.icasinc.org/bios/chance.html - Anson DorranceAnson DorranceAnson Dorrance is the head coach of the women's soccer program at the University of North Carolina. He has one of the most successful coaching records in the history of athletics. Under Dorrance's leadership, the Tar Heels have won 20 of the 28 NCAA Women's Soccer Championships...
, soccer coach, National Soccer Hall of Fame - Thomas Truxton Hare (1878 - 1956), 1900 Olympics, Gold Medal in tug of war event, Silver Medal for the hammer throw. 1904 Olympics, Bronze Medal in the Decathlon. Football All-American Team all four undergraduate years. Elected Football Hall of FameCollege Football Hall of FameThe College Football Hall of Fame is a hall of fame and museum devoted to college football. Located in South Bend, Indiana, it is connected to a convention center and situated in the city's renovated downtown district, two miles south of the University of Notre Dame campus. It is slated to move...
in 1951. Professional career: Managing Director, Bryn Mawr Hospital and other philanthropy.http://www.archives.upenn.edu/histy/people/1800s/hare_thos_truxtun.html - Wendell MottleyWendell MottleyWendell Adrian Mottley educated at Queen's Royal College is a Trinidad and Tobago economist, politician and athlete...
, 1964 Summer Olympics1964 Summer OlympicsThe 1964 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XVIII Olympiad, was an international multi-sport event held in Tokyo, Japan in 1964. Tokyo had been awarded with the organization of the 1940 Summer Olympics, but this honor was subsequently passed to Helsinki because of Japan's...
Silver Medalist 400m, Bronze Medalist 4x400m relay (and later, a government minister) for Trinidad and Tobago. Mottley was the first person of color to join St. Anthony Hall, at Yale in 1961. - Mary O'Connor, 1980 Summer Olympics1980 Summer OlympicsThe 1980 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXII Olympiad, was an international multi-sport event celebrated in Moscow in the Soviet Union. In addition, the yachting events were held in Tallinn, and some of the preliminary matches and the quarter-finals of the football tournament...
Yale member of Olympic Rowing Eight. Team did not compete due to U.S. boycott1980 Summer OlympicsThe 1980 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXII Olympiad, was an international multi-sport event celebrated in Moscow in the Soviet Union. In addition, the yachting events were held in Tallinn, and some of the preliminary matches and the quarter-finals of the football tournament...
. - Anne Warner, 1976 Summer Olympics1976 Summer OlympicsThe 1976 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXI Olympiad, was an international multi-sport event celebrated in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, in 1976. Montreal was awarded the rights to the 1976 Games on May 12, 1970, at the 69th IOC Session in Amsterdam, over the bids of Moscow and...
First Yale College female undergraduate to win an Olympic Medal (Bronze, rowing) http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:LHO8-FeZU4AJ:www.yale.edu/rowing/lt_history.html+yale+gold+medal+anne+warner&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=ushttp://www.yalealumnimagazine.com/issues/2004_07/jacobson.html - Charles Thomas ScottCharlie ScottCharles Thomas Scott is an American former professional basketball player. He played two seasons in the now-defunct American Basketball Association and eight seasons in the National Basketball Association .A 6'5" guard/forward from the Laurinburg Institute...
, 1968 Summer Olympics1968 Summer OlympicsThe 1968 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XIX Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event held in Mexico City, Mexico in October 1968. The 1968 Games were the first Olympic Games hosted by a developing country, and the first Games hosted by a Spanish-speaking country...
Gold Medalist. Former professional basketball player who set the American Basketball Association record for highest scoring average in one season (34.6 points per game). Scott was the first person of color to join a fraternity at the University of North Carolina, in 1967. http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FB0710FC3A5F137A93C4AB1789D85F438685F9 - Josh WestJosh WestJoshua "Josh" West is a British rower.-Early life:West is Jewish, was born in Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States. His mother is American, and his father is British.-Rowing career:...
(born 25 March 1977.) Member of the British National Rowing Team who won two silver medals (2002 & 2003) with the British Four and one bronze medal (2007) with the British Eight at the World Rowing ChampionshipsWorld Rowing ChampionshipsThe World Rowing Championships is an international rowing regatta organized by FISA . It is a week long event held at the end of the northern hemisphere summer and in non-Olympic years is the highlight of the international rowing calendar.The first event was held in Lucerne, Switzerland in 1962...
. Represented Great BritainGreat BritainGreat Britain or Britain is an island situated to the northwest of Continental Europe. It is the ninth largest island in the world, and the largest European island, as well as the largest of the British Isles...
at the 2008 Olympics, winning a Silver in Rowing Eight. - Christopher O'Loughlin, 1992 Summer Olympic-fencing, Penn chapter, 1989
The Arts and Architecture
- Courtlandt BryanCourtlandt BryanCourtlandt Dixon Barnes Bryan , better known as C. D. B. Bryan, was an American author and journalist.-Biography:...
, better known as C. D. B. Bryan. American author and journalist. Writer of the novel Friendly Fire (1976). - J. Cleaveland CadyJ. Cleaveland CadyJ Cleaveland Cady was a New York-based architect whose most familiar surviving building is the south range of the American Museum of Natural History on New York's Upper West Side...
19th Century American Architect, designer of the American Museum of Natural HistoryAmerican Museum of Natural HistoryThe American Museum of Natural History , located on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City, United States, is one of the largest and most celebrated museums in the world...
on New York's Upper West SideUpper West SideThe Upper West Side is a neighborhood in the borough of Manhattan, New York City, that lies between Central Park and the Hudson River and between West 59th Street and West 125th Street...
, the now demolished Metropolitan OperaMetropolitan OperaThe Metropolitan Opera is an opera company, located in New York City. Originally founded in 1880, the company gave its first performance on October 22, 1883. The company is operated by the non-profit Metropolitan Opera Association, with Peter Gelb as general manager...
House, and his own St. A's Trinity College 'Epsilon Chapter' house (1878), a commission of fellow chapter alumni member Robert Habersham ColemanRobert Habersham ColemanRobert Habersham Coleman was an iron processing and railroad industrialist and owner of extensive farmland in Pennsylvania. He was the fourth- and last-generation scion of a family which controlled Cornwall Iron Furnace, in Cornwall, Pennsylvania, a major coal-burning ironmaking facility that was...
(listed above). Further chapter house data under architecture section of St. Anthony HallSt. Anthony HallSt. Anthony Hall, also known as Saint Anthony Hall and The Order of St. Anthony, is a national college literary society also known as the Fraternity of Delta Psi at colleges in the United States of America. St...
. - Max Forrester Eastman (January 4, 1883–March 25, 1969), socialist American writer and patron of the Harlem Renaissance, later known for being an anti-leftist.
- John EatonJohn Eaton (pianist)For other people named John Eaton, see John Eaton ."John Eaton is a musician, historian, educator and interpreter of jazz and American popular music. He graduated from Yale University, where he was a member of literary society St. Anthony Hall...
, jazz pianist, originator of series "John Eaton Presents The American Popular Song" on national public television. - William Palmer, partner with Henry HornbostelHenry HornbostelHenry Hornbostel was an American architect.He designed more than 225 buildings, bridges, and monuments in the United States; currently 22 are listed on the National Register of Historic Places....
and Eric Fisher Wood, in the firm of Wood, Palmer and Hornbostel. (Erected Columbia University Chapter House added in 1996 to National Register of Historic Places a building #96000484. http://www.nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com/NY/New+York/state3.html) - S. Lane FaisonS. Lane FaisonS. Lane Faison was an art history professor at Williams College. Faison headed the art history department at Williams from 1940 to 1969 and remained on the full-time faculty until 1976. Several of his students went on to direct major museums including Earl A. Powell III of the National Gallery of...
, Art history professor who headed the art history department at Williams CollegeWilliams CollegeWilliams College is a private liberal arts college located in Williamstown, Massachusetts, United States. It was established in 1793 with funds from the estate of Ephraim Williams. Originally a men's college, Williams became co-educational in 1970. Fraternities were also phased out during this...
from 1940 to 1969, several of whose students went on to direct major museums including Earl A. 'Rusty' Powell III of the National Gallery of ArtNational Gallery of ArtThe National Gallery of Art and its Sculpture Garden is a national art museum, located on the National Mall between 3rd and 9th Streets at Constitution Avenue NW, in Washington, DC...
in Washington DC, Glenn D. LowryGlenn D. LowryGlenn D. Lowry is the current Director of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. He became the sixth director of the Museum in 1995 and heads a staff of around 750 people...
of the Museum of Modern ArtMuseum of Modern ArtThe Museum of Modern Art is an art museum in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, on 53rd Street, between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. It has been important in developing and collecting modernist art, and is often identified as the most influential museum of modern art in the world...
in New York and Thomas KrensThomas KrensThomas Krens is the former director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation in New York City, and currently the Guggenheim's Senior Advisor for International Affairs, overseeing the completion of the Frank Gehry-designed Guggenheim Abu Dhabi...
of the Guggenheim MuseumSolomon R. Guggenheim MuseumThe Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum is a well-known museum located on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City, United States. It is the permanent home to a renowned collection of Impressionist, Post-Impressionist, early Modern, and contemporary art and also features special exhibitions...
in New York. Mr. Faison spent the early part of his career in the fields of Austria and Germany as World War II was ending, helping to dismantle the Nazi network of looted artLooted artLooted art has been a consequence of looting during war, natural disaster and riot for centuries. Looting of art, archaeology and other cultural property may be an opportunistic criminal act, or may be a more organized case of unlawful or unethical pillage by the victor of a conflict."Looted art"...
. - Robert Silliman HillyerRobert HillyerRobert Silliman Hillyer was an American poet.-Life:He was born in East Orange, New Jersey. He attended Kent School in Kent, Connecticut and graduated from Harvard in 1917, after which he went to France and volunteered with the S.S.U. 60 of the Norton-Harjes Ambulance Corps serving the Allied...
American poet, regarded as a kind of villain by Ezra Pound scholars who associate him with his 1949 attacks on The Pisan Cantos in the Saturday Review of Literature which sparked the Bollingen Controversy. Hillyer was identified with the Harvard AesthetesHarvard AesthetesThe Harvard Aesthetes is a name given to a group of poets attending Harvard University in a period roughly between 1912 and 1919. It includes:*Malcolm Cowley *E. E. Cummings *S...
grouping. - Frank Howell Holden (d. 1937), trained at Chicago Manual Training School, MITMassachusetts Institute of TechnologyThe Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT has five schools and one college, containing a total of 32 academic departments, with a strong emphasis on scientific and technological education and research.Founded in 1861 in...
, and Ecole des Beaux-ArtsÉcole des Beaux-ArtsÉcole des Beaux-Arts refers to a number of influential art schools in France. The most famous is the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, now located on the left bank in Paris, across the Seine from the Louvre, in the 6th arrondissement. The school has a history spanning more than 350 years,...
under Marcel LambertMarcel LambertMarcel Joseph Aimé Lambert, was a Canadian politician and Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons .Lambert was born in Edmonton to a French-Canadian father and a Belgian mother...
. Associated with architects Robert Kohn and Charles Butler. Member AIAAmerican Institute of ArchitectsThe American Institute of Architects is a professional organization for architects in the United States. Headquartered in Washington, D.C., the AIA offers education, government advocacy, community redevelopment, and public outreach to support the architecture profession and improve its public image...
, Architectural League of New YorkArchitectural League of New YorkThe Architectural League of New York is a non-profit organization "for creative and intellectual work in architecture, urbanism, and related disciplines"....
, Society of Beaux-Arts Architects, and Century AssociationCentury Association__notoc__The Century Association is a private club in New York City. It evolved out of an earlier organization – the Sketch Club, founded in 1829 by editor and poet William Cullen Bryant and his friends – and was established in 1847 by Bryant and others as a club to promote interest in...
.http://www.sah.org/oldsite06012004/aame/bioh.html - William Hamilton Russell, (1856-1907), Partner in Clinton & Russell, founded in 1894 in New York City and responsible for numerous buildings there including the Beaver Building, Mecca Masonic Temple, better known as New York City CenterNew York City CenterNew York City Center is a 2,750-seat Moorish Revival theater located at 131 West 55th Street between 6th and 7th Avenues in Manhattan, New York City. It is one block south of Carnegie Hall...
, and The LanghamThe LanghamThe Langham is an apartment building in Manhattan, New York City, United States, located along Central Park West. After the site stood idle for more than 15 years, the building was constructed between 1905 and 1907. Built at a cost of US $2 million, the structure included modern amenities, such as...
Apartments. Many of the structures they designed were in a Neo-Italian Renaissance style. Upon graduation in 1887, Russell became a protege of his great uncle, James Renwick, Jr.James Renwick, Jr.James Renwick, Jr. , was a prominent American architect in the 19th-century. The Encyclopedia of American Architecture calls him "one of the most successful American architects of his time".-Life and work:Renwick was born into a wealthy and well-educated family...
, prestigious master architect whose firm designed the first St. A's Alpha Chapter house at 25 East 28th Street, New York in 1878, the same year Renwick completed his best-known triumph St. Patrick's Cathedral, New YorkSt. Patrick's Cathedral, New YorkThe Cathedral of St. Patrick is a decorated Neo-Gothic-style Roman Catholic cathedral church in the United States...
. It is likely Russell contributed work to both his fraternity's first chapter house as well as the cathedral during his apprenticeship with Renwick. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CEEDF1031F931A3575AC0A966958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=1 An article in 1987 in the New York Times asserted that Russell was actually responsible (while in Renwick's firm) for the building. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0DE2DF143DF934A1575AC0A961948260 - Charles Green ShawCharles Green ShawCharles Green Shaw was an American painter and writer.A significant figure in American abstract art, Shaw enjoyed a varied career as a writer and illustrator, poet, modernist painter, and collector. Born to a wealthy family and orphaned at a young age, Charles and his twin brother were raised by...
(1892 - 1974), significant figure in American abstract art. Writer, illustrator, poet, modernist painter, collector. Shaw's archives in the Smithsonian Institution contain correspondence with Adele Astair, Clarence and Ruby DarrowClarence DarrowClarence Seward Darrow was an American lawyer and leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union, best known for defending teenage thrill killers Leopold and Loeb in their trial for murdering 14-year-old Robert "Bobby" Franks and defending John T...
, F. Scott FitzgeraldF. Scott FitzgeraldFrancis Scott Key Fitzgerald was an American author of novels and short stories, whose works are the paradigm writings of the Jazz Age, a term he coined himself. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. Fitzgerald is considered a member of the "Lost...
, John D. GrahamJohn D. GrahamJohn D. Graham was a Ukrainian-born American Modernist / figurative painter.He was born Ivan Gratianovitch Dombrowsky in Kiev, Ukraine...
, Anita and John LoosAnita LoosAnita Loos was an American screenwriter, playwright and author.-Early life:Born Corinne Anita Loos in Sisson, California , where her father, R. Beers Loos, had opened a tabloid newspaper for which her mother, Minerva "Minnie" Smith did most of the work of a newspaper publisher...
, H. L. MenckenH. L. MenckenHenry Louis "H. L." Mencken was an American journalist, essayist, magazine editor, satirist, acerbic critic of American life and culture, and a scholar of American English. Known as the "Sage of Baltimore", he is regarded as one of the most influential American writers and prose stylists of the...
, Robert C. OsbornRobert C. OsbornRobert Chesley Osborn was an American satiric cartoonist, illustrator and author.-Pre-World War II Career:Osborn was born October 26, 1904, in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. He entered the University of Wisconsin in 1923, then transferred to Yale in 1923. At Yale, together with Dwight Macdonald, Wilder...
, Cole PorterCole PorterCole Albert Porter was an American composer and songwriter. Born to a wealthy family in Indiana, he defied the wishes of his domineering grandfather and took up music as a profession. Classically trained, he was drawn towards musical theatre...
, Carl Van VechtenCarl van VechtenCarl Van Vechten was an American writer and photographer who was a patron of the Harlem Renaissance and the literary executor of Gertrude Stein.-Biography:...
and Walter WinchellWalter WinchellWalter Winchell was an American newspaper and radio gossip commentator.-Professional career:Born Walter Weinschel in New York City, he left school in the sixth grade and started performing in a vaudeville troupe known as Gus Edwards' "Newsboys Sextet."His career in journalism was begun by posting...
.http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/findingaids/shawchar.htm - Dick Voigt, founder and manager of Eli's Chosen SixEli's Chosen SixEli's Chosen Six was the ensemble that appeared in the influential 1959 concert film Jazz On A Summer's Day playing Dixieland as they drove around Newport in a convertible jalopy. It was a famous Yale College Dixieland band of the 1950s that played the boisterous trad-jazz style of the day...
, the Yale undergraduate Dixieland band of the 1950s. The band included the later-legendary trombonist Roswell RuddRoswell RuddRoswell Rudd is a Grammy Award-nominated American jazz trombonist and composer....
, performed at Carnegie Hall, recorded for Columbia Records and appeared at many top jazz clubs around the country. After Yale, Dick performed in combos led by Wild Bill DavisonWild Bill DavisonWild' Bill Davison was a fiery jazz cornet player who emerged in the 1920s, but did not achieve recognition until the 1940s...
, Vic Diskenson, Bob Wilbur, Henry GoodwinHenry GoodwinHenry Goodwin may refer to:*Henry C. Goodwin , U.S. Representative from New York*Henry B. Goodwin , Swedish photographer of German descent*Henry Goodwin Smith, U.S. theologian...
, J.C. Higginbottom and Doc Cheatham.
Clergy
- E. Otis CharlesOtis CharlesBishop E. Otis Charles is a retired American bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Utah.- Career :...
(b. 1926, retired bishopBishopA bishop is an ordained or consecrated member of the Christian clergy who is generally entrusted with a position of authority and oversight. Within the Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox Churches, in the Assyrian Church of the East, in the Independent Catholic Churches, and in the...
of the Episcopal Diocese of UtahEpiscopal Diocese of UtahThe Episcopal Diocese of Utah is a diocese of the Episcopal Church in the United States, encompassing the state of Utah, less that part of the Four Corners region which is in the Navajoland Area Mission. It includes a small part of northern Arizona. In 1867, the Episcopal Church was the first...
. Dean of the Episcopal Divinity SchoolEpiscopal Divinity SchoolThe Episcopal Divinity School is a seminary of the Episcopal Church based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Known throughout the Anglican Communion for prophetic teaching and action on issues of civil rights and social justice, its faculty and students have been directly involved in many of the social...
in 1985. After his retirement in 1993, Charles publicly came outComing outComing out is a figure of speech for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people's disclosure of their sexual orientation and/or gender identity....
as a gay manGayGay is a word that refers to a homosexual person, especially a homosexual male. For homosexual women the specific term is "lesbian"....
, the first Christian bishop ever to take such a step. - Right Reverend William Croswell DoaneWilliam Croswell DoaneThe Right Reverend William Croswell Doane was the 1st Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Albany in the United States. He was bishop from 1869 until his death in 1913. As a student at Burlington College, New Jersey , he was a founding member of a chapter of the college society St...
(1832 - 17 May 1913), 92nd Bishop of the American Church and 1st Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of AlbanyEpiscopal Diocese of AlbanyThe Episcopal Diocese of Albany is part of Province 2 of the Episcopal Church.-History:The Church of Englandarrived in 1674 with a chaplain assigned to the British military garrison at Albany, New York. In 1704 the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel sent two missionaries to the Mohawk...
, from 1869 until his death in 1913. Founding member of Delta Chapter at Burlington (NJ) College founded by his father, Bishop George Washington DoaneGeorge Washington DoaneGeorge Washington Doane was a United States churchman, educator, and bishop in the Episcopal Church for the Diocese of New Jersey.-Biography:Doane was born in Trenton, New Jersey...
. (Chapter transferred to Penn within several years. College no longer extant). http://www.archives.upenn.edu/histy/features/frats/deltapsi.htmlhttp://anglicanhistory.org/usa/wcdoane/glrichardson.html - Justin Dewey Fulton (1828-1901), founding member and first initiate, in 1851, of the Iota Chapter at the University of RochesterUniversity of RochesterThe University of Rochester is a private, nonsectarian, research university in Rochester, New York, United States. The university grants undergraduate and graduate degrees, including doctoral and professional degrees. The university has six schools and various interdisciplinary programs.The...
(chapter defunct), Abolitionist, Baptist minister in Boston whose crusade against "Rome" (i.e. Catholicism) began with a book published in the 1850s during the Know-Nothing movement. http://etext.virginia.edu/railton/yankee/cycath2.html - Charles Betts GallowayCharles Betts GallowayCharles Betts Galloway was an American Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, elected in 1886.He was born in Kosciusko, Mississippi. His ancestor was Richard Galloway, who came from England in 1670 and settled in Lord Baltimore's province. From there the family branched into...
http://books.google.com/books?id=bQYTAAAAIAAJ&q=%22delta+psi%22&dq=%22delta+psi%22&lr=&pgis=1, (1 September 1849- May 12, 1909), prominent pulpit orator and Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, SouthMethodist Episcopal Church, SouthThe Methodist Episcopal Church, South, or Methodist Episcopal Church South, was the so-called "Southern Methodist Church" resulting from the split over the issue of slavery in the Methodist Episcopal Church which had been brewing over several years until it came out into the open at a conference...
, elected in 1886. New York Times obituary http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=1&res=9403E4D8153EE733A25750C1A9639C946897D6CF&oref=slogin - Robert Fisher Gibson, Jr., former Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of VirginiaEpiscopal Diocese of VirginiaThe Diocese of Virginia is a diocese of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America encompassing 38 counties in the northern and central parts of the state of Virginia. The diocese was organized in 1785 and is one of the Episcopal Church's nine original dioceses. However, the diocese has...
. Outspoken leader in the ecumenical movement, in the mid-1960s chairman of the Consultation on Church UnionConsultation on Church UnionThe Consultation on Church Union was an effort towards church unity in the United States, that began in 1962 and in 2002 became the Churches Uniting in Christ...
, which developed a plan to merge eight major Protestant denominations into a 24-million-member church. He also supported the movement to admit women to the governing bodies of Episcopal parishes. Obituary http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CE3D81E3CF936A1575AC0A966958260 - Mark Hollingsworth, Jr.Mark Hollingsworth, Jr.Mark Hollingsworth, Jr. was elected the 11th bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Ohio on November 15, 2003, and consecrated on April 17, 2004 in Cleveland....
, 11th bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of OhioEpiscopal Diocese of OhioThe Episcopal Diocese of Ohio is the diocese of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America in the northern half of the state of Ohio.The see city is Cleveland, home of Trinity Cathedral, the cathedral of the diocese. Mark Hollingsworth, Jr...
. Founder of Epiphany at Sea, a program taking inner-cityInner cityThe inner city is the central area of a major city or metropolis. In the United States, Canada, United Kingdom and Ireland, the term is often applied to the lower-income residential districts in the city centre and nearby areas...
middle schoolMiddle schoolMiddle School and Junior High School are levels of schooling between elementary and high schools. Most school systems use one term or the other, not both. The terms are not interchangeable...
students to sea on traditional fishing schooners. - David Eliott Johnson (1933-1995), former Bishop of Episcopal Diocese of MassachusettsEpiscopal Diocese of MassachusettsEpiscopal Diocese of MassachusettsThe Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts is one of the nine original dioceses of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America....
, the largest Episcopal diocese in the country. During his tenure Bishop Barbara Clementine HarrisBarbara Clementine HarrisBarbara Clementine Harris was the first woman ordained a bishop in the Anglican Communion.-Education:...
became the first woman in the church's history to be consecrated as a suffragan bishop. Obituary http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=990CE4D7143AF934A25752C0A963958260 - Henry Steel OlcottHenry Steel OlcottColonel Henry Steel Olcott was an American military officer, journalist, lawyer and the co-founder and first President of the Theosophical Society....
(1832-1907), founder and first president of the Theosophical SocietyTheosophical SocietyThe Theosophical Society is an organization formed in 1875 to advance the spiritual principles and search for Truth known as Theosophy. The original organization, after splits and realignments has several successors...
. First prominent person of Western descent to make a formal conversion to BuddhismBuddhismBuddhism is a religion and philosophy encompassing a variety of traditions, beliefs and practices, largely based on teachings attributed to Siddhartha Gautama, commonly known as the Buddha . The Buddha lived and taught in the northeastern Indian subcontinent some time between the 6th and 4th...
.http://www.answers.com/topic/baird-s-manual-of-american-college-fraternities-1879-delta-psi - Arthur E. Walmsley, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of ConnecticutEpiscopal Diocese of ConnecticutThe Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut is a diocese of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America, encompassing the entire state of Connecticut. It is one of the nine original dioceses of the Episcopal Church and one of seven New England dioceses that make up Province 1.Its first bishop,...
from 1979-1993. Active in defining issues faced by the Episcopal Church - posture vis a vis Vietnam War, revision of the Book of Common PrayerBook of Common PrayerThe Book of Common Prayer is the short title of a number of related prayer books used in the Anglican Communion, as well as by the Continuing Anglican, "Anglican realignment" and other Anglican churches. The original book, published in 1549 , in the reign of Edward VI, was a product of the English...
, ordination of women and gays, selection of the first woman bishop. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E0CE4D71F3AF935A25750C0A964958260
Other 19th Century
- Ernest Kempton Adams, member of the Yale Chapter, scientist and wealthy namesake of fund established 1905 at Columbia University to bring distinguished European theoretical physicists and other scientists as visiting lecturers: Vilhelm Bjerknes 1905, Hendrik LorentzHendrik LorentzHendrik Antoon Lorentz was a Dutch physicist who shared the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physics with Pieter Zeeman for the discovery and theoretical explanation of the Zeeman effect...
1906, Max PlanckMax PlanckMax Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck, ForMemRS, was a German physicist who actualized the quantum physics, initiating a revolution in natural science and philosophy. He is regarded as the founder of the quantum theory, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1918.-Life and career:Planck came...
1909, Wilhelm WienWilhelm WienWilhelm Carl Werner Otto Fritz Franz Wien was a German physicist who, in 1893, used theories about heat and electromagnetism to deduce Wien's displacement law, which calculates the emission of a blackbody at any temperature from the emission at any one reference temperature.He also formulated an...
1913, Charles P. Olivier, Niels BohrNiels BohrNiels Henrik David Bohr was a Danish physicist who made foundational contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum mechanics, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922. Bohr mentored and collaborated with many of the top physicists of the century at his institute in...
, Raymond DodgeRaymond DodgeRaymond Dodge was an American experimental psychologist. He was educated at Williams College and the University of Halle. In 1896 he was appointed professor of philosophy at Ursinus College...
et al. http://www.science.uva.nl/research/itf/Annual_Reports/ITFA_Annual_Report_1999.pdf Also the Ernest Kempton Adams Precision Laboratory at Columbia University. http://www.answers.com/topic/columbia-university-physics-department - James Brander Matthews (1852 - 1929), writer and educator. Matthews was the first U.S. professor of dramatic literature. From 1892 to 1900 he was professor of literature at Columbia, and thereafter held the chair of dramatic literature. His influence was such that a popular pun claimed that an entire generation had been "brandered by the same Matthews."
- William Gibbs McNeil Whistler, entered Columbia 1853 but did not graduate, also attended Trinity College Hartford. Settled in London ca. 1868, Member of the College of Surgeons of England and Royal College of PhysiciansRoyal College of PhysiciansThe Royal College of Physicians of London was founded in 1518 as the College of Physicians by royal charter of King Henry VIII in 1518 - the first medical institution in England to receive a royal charter...
. His brother, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, painted several portraits of him including Portrait of Dr William McNeill Whistler; Portrait of Dr Whistler, No. 2; Portrait studies of the artist, his brother Dr Whistler, and others.http://www.whistler.arts.gla.ac.uk/correspondence/namesearchlist.asp?surname=whistler&firstname=williamhttp://books.google.com/books?id=cxATAAAAIAAJ&pg=RA1-PA29&lpg=RA1-PA29&dq=samuel+f+barger&source=web&ots=Tcg4JCebq-&sig=-wGxfcHYonJ9RESGEO4FHtFqEKw#PRA1-PA29,M1 - Stuyvesant Fish MorrisStuyvesant Fish MorrisStuyvesant Fish Morris I was an American physician and the progenitor of Manhattan's prominent family of physicians....
, physician, nephew of Hamilton FishHamilton FishHamilton Fish was an American statesman and politician who served as the 16th Governor of New York, United States Senator and United States Secretary of State. Fish has been considered one of the best Secretary of States in the United States history; known for his judiciousness and reform efforts...
.http://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC38011776&id=cxATAAAAIAAJ&pg=RA1-PA29&lpg=RA1-PA29&dq=delta+psi - Henry Livingstone Breese, (or Livingston), associated with mercenary adventurer William Walker, self-proclaimed President of Nicaragua. Breese was killed in Nicaragua in 1857, the year Walker surrendered to the United States Navy and other opposed Central American armed forces backed by Cornelius VanderbiltCornelius VanderbiltCornelius Vanderbilt , also known by the sobriquet Commodore, was an American entrepreneur who built his wealth in shipping and railroads. He was also the patriarch of the Vanderbilt family and one of the richest Americans in history...
. - Edward Wanton Casey, Indian WarsIndian WarsAmerican Indian Wars is the name used in the United States to describe a series of conflicts between American settlers or the federal government and the native peoples of North America before and after the American Revolutionary War. The wars resulted from the arrival of European colonizers who...
. 1st Lieutenant, 22nd U.S. Infantry, killed in action January 6, 1891 at White River, South DakotaWhite River (South Dakota)The White River is a Missouri River tributary that flows through the U.S. states of Nebraska and South Dakota. The name stems from the water's white-gray color, a function of eroded sand, clay, and volcanic ash carried by the river...
(Wounded Knee MassacreWounded Knee MassacreThe Wounded Knee Massacre happened on December 29, 1890, near Wounded Knee Creek on the Lakota Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, USA. On the day before, a detachment of the U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment commanded by Major Samuel M...
). - Cyrus West FieldCyrus West FieldCyrus West Field was an American businessman and financier who, along with other entrepreneurs, created the Atlantic Telegraph Company and laid the first telegraph cable across the Atlantic Ocean in 1858.-Life and career:...
Businessman and financier who led the Atlantic Telegraph CompanyAtlantic Telegraph CompanyThe Atlantic Telegraph Company was a company formed in 1856 to undertake and exploit a commercial telegraph cable across the Atlantic ocean, the first such telecommunications link....
, the company that successfully laid the first telegraph cable across the Atlantic Ocean in 1858. - Hamilton Fish IIHamilton Fish II (Rough Rider)Hamilton Fish II, of the Rough Riders, a wealthy young New Yorker, was a Sergeant in the 1st United States Volunteer Cavalry Regiment, the Rough Riders, during the Spanish-American War. He is said to be the first American killed in the Battle of Las Guasimas, near Santiago, Cuba, on June 24, 1898...
, Sergeant, 1st U.S. Vol. Cavalry, killed in battle June 24, 1898, at Santiago, Cuba (Spanish-American WarSpanish-American WarThe Spanish–American War was a conflict in 1898 between Spain and the United States, effectively the result of American intervention in the ongoing Cuban War of Independence...
). Grandson of Hamilton FishHamilton FishHamilton Fish was an American statesman and politician who served as the 16th Governor of New York, United States Senator and United States Secretary of State. Fish has been considered one of the best Secretary of States in the United States history; known for his judiciousness and reform efforts...
, son of diplomat and banker Nicholas Fish. Not to be confused with Hamilton Fish II (died 1936)Hamilton Fish IIHamilton Fish II was an American lawyer and politician.-Life:He was the son of Julia Ursin Niemcewicz Kean and Hamilton Fish. He graduated from Columbia College of Columbia University, where he was a member of St...
. This H.F. charged San Juan Hill with the Rough RidersRough RidersThe Rough Riders is the name bestowed on the 1st United States Volunteer Cavalry, one of three such regiments raised in 1898 for the Spanish-American War and the only one of the three to see action. The United States Army was weakened and left with little manpower after the American Civil War...
and is said to be the first American killed in the battle. grandson, http://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/1998/spring/roosevelt-and-medal-of-honor-2.html, http://www.spanamwar.com/rrmcarty.htm - Arthur Melancthon Diggles, Major, U.S.V. (U.S. Volunteer Infantry), killed May 8, 1899 near San Ildefonso, Philippines (Spanish-American WarSpanish-American WarThe Spanish–American War was a conflict in 1898 between Spain and the United States, effectively the result of American intervention in the ongoing Cuban War of Independence...
). Maj. Diggles commanded eight companies of the 13th Minnesota Infantry. Contemporary account: http://books.google.com/books?id=8CMEelET9LYC&pg=RA33-PA585&lpg=RA33-PA585&dq=spanish+american+usv+diggles&source=web&ots=dsFwNyWuFs&sig=1RjDqXSQ_sSda1gJjxhRsZbO194#PRA33-PA588,M1, pp. 585-589. - 110 known deaths in the U.S. Civil War, representing ten Chapters on both sides.
Other 20th Century
- E. Digby BaltzellE. Digby BaltzellEdward Digby Baltzell was an American sociologist, academic and author.-Life and career:Baltzell was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to a wealthy Episcopalian family. "Digby" attended St. Paul's School, an Episcopal boarding school in New Hampshire. He attended the University of Pennsylvania,...
, sociologist and University of Pennsylvania professor, St. Anthony Hall Delta Chapter (University of Pennsylvania), commonly cited as originating the term WASP, or White Anglo-Saxon ProtestantWhite Anglo-Saxon ProtestantWhite Anglo-Saxon Protestant or WASP is an informal term, often derogatory or disparaging, for a closed group of high-status Americans mostly of British Protestant ancestry. The group supposedly wields disproportionate financial and social power. When it appears in writing, it is usually used to...
. - Worth David, Dean of Undergraduate Admissions at Yale 1972-1992 http://www.yalealumnimagazine.com/issues/96_07/admissions.html
- Max EastmanMax EastmanMax Forrester Eastman was an American writer on literature, philosophy and society, a poet, and a prominent political activist. For many years, Eastman was a supporter of socialism, a leading patron of the Harlem Renaissance and an activist for a number of liberal and radical causes...
, (January 4, 1883–March 25, 1969), socialist American writer and patron of the Harlem Renaissance, later known for being an anti-leftist. - Charles EdisonCharles EdisonCharles Edison was son of Thomas Edison to Mina, businessman, Assistant and then United States Secretary of the Navy, and served as the 42nd Governor of New Jersey.-Biography:...
Democratic Governor of New Jersey 1941-1944, son of the inventor, Thomas Alva Edison. http://politicalgraveyard.com/group/delta-psi.html - Eric GarcettiEric GarcettiEric Michael Garcetti is an American municipal politician. He is a member of the Los Angeles City Council. He serves as its President and represents the 13th District. He is the son of the former Los Angeles County District Attorney Gil Garcetti. He is a member of the Democratic Party.-Early...
, Los Angeles City Councilman, elected 2001, re-elected 2005. - Tinsley MortimerTinsley Mortimer-Early life:Mortimer was born in Virginia. and grew up in Richmond, VA. Her father is George Riley Mercer Jr., a real-estate investor, and her mother is Dale Mercer , an interior designer. Her paternal grandfather, George Riley Mercer Sr., founded Mercer Rug Cleansing in 1936...
and Phoebe Gubelmann, New York socialites.http://gawker.com/news/how-your-hegemony-gets-made/attention-tinsley-mortimer-your-frat-is-looking-for-you-273131.php - Amber Scott, motion picture actress. Portrayed Maggie Banning in Steven Spielberg's Hook (1991).
- Amy Solomon, first undergraduate woman to register at Yale College in 1969.http://www.yale.edu/opa/v29.n23/story4.html http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:KBG3Pg-A-xIJ:query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html%3Fres%3D9C0CEFD81F3DF93AA15757C0A966958260+amy+solomon+yale+coeducation&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=2&gl=us
- James Gustave (Gus) SpethJames Gustave (Gus) SpethJames Gustave Speth is an American environmental lawyer and advocate.-Biography:He was born in Orangeburg, South Carolina in 1942. He graduated summa cum laude from Yale University in 1964, attended Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar and graduated from Yale Law School, where he was a member of...
, Former Dean of the Yale Forestry School, co-founder of the Natural Resources Defense CouncilNatural Resources Defense CouncilThe Natural Resources Defense Council is a New York City-based, non-profit, non-partisan international environmental advocacy group, with offices in Washington DC, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Beijing...
. - Charles White WhittleseyCharles White WhittleseyLt. Colonel Charles White Whittlesey was an American Medal of Honor recipient who is notable for leading the "Lost Battalion" in the Argonne Forest during World War I.-Early life and education:...
(January 20, 1884 – Presumed date of death November 26, 1921), Medal of HonorMedal of HonorThe Medal of Honor is the highest military decoration awarded by the United States government. It is bestowed by the President, in the name of Congress, upon members of the United States Armed Forces who distinguish themselves through "conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his or her...
recipient who is notable for leading the "Lost BattalionLost Battalion (World War I)The Lost Battalion is the name given to nine companies of the United States 77th Division, roughly 554 men, isolated by German forces during World War I after an American attack in the Argonne Forest in October 1918. Roughly 197 were killed in action and approximately 150 missing or taken prisoner...
" in the Argonne Forest during World War IWorld War IWorld War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...
.http://www.worldwar1.com/dbc/whitt.htm - Anthony A. WilliamsAnthony A. WilliamsAnthony Allen "Tony" Williams is an American politician who served as the fifth mayor of the District of Columbia for two terms, from 1999 to 2007. He had previously served as chief financial officer for the District, managing to balance the budget and achieve a surplus within two years of...
, Mayor of Washington, D.C. 1999-2007