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Sigma Nu Fraternity
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: Love, Honor, Truth |
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: Snus, Snakes, Sig Nus |
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Major General Francis H. SmithFrancis H. Smith October 18, 1812 - March 21 1890) was an American military figure who was born in Norfolk, Virginia and died in Lexington, Virginia....
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Over 219,000 Initiates |
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White Rose (The Classic Five-Petaled, wild, white English Florabunda) |
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The Delta |
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Sigma Nu (
ΣΝ) is an undergraduate social college fraternity with chapters in the United States and Canada. Sigma Nu was founded in 1869 by three cadets at the
Virginia Military InstituteThe Virginia Military Institute , located in Lexington, Virginia, is the oldest state-supported military college and one of six senior military colleges in the United States. Unlike any other state military college in the United States, all VMI students are military cadets. VMI offers cadets a...
in
LexingtonLexington is an independent city within the confines of Rockbridge County in the Commonwealth of Virginia. The population was 6,867 at the 2000 census. Lexington is about 55 minutes east of the West Virginia border and is about 50 miles north of Roanoke, Virginia. It was first settled in 1777.It...
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. Founders
James Frank HopkinsJames Frank Hopkins was a Confederate Army volunteer and founder of the Sigma Nu fraternity at the VMI.- Civil War :At the out break of the civil war the Hopkins family moved to Arkansas Post near Little Rock...
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Judge Greenfield QuarlesGreenfield Quarles was one of the founders of Sigma Nu fraternity.Born in Christian County, Kentucky, April 1, 1847. Greenfield Quarles entered the Confederate service at the age of 16 as an aide to his uncle General William A. Quarles. He served until he was captured during the Second Battle of...
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James McIlvaine RileyJames McIlvaine Riley entered the Virginia Military Institute in the fall of 1866. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Riley was always a favorite with classmates, and was a good public speaker and athlete. He was a member of VMI's first baseball team in the fall of 1866, playing second base and...
formed Sigma Nu shortly after Hopkins witnessed what he considered a
hazingHazing is at term used to describe various ritual and other activities involving harassment, abuse or humiliation used as a way of initiating a person into a group....
ritual by upperclassmen at the Virginia Military Institute. Sigma Nu's existence remained secret until the founders publicly announced their new society on the first day of January 1869, the accepted birth date of Sigma Nu Fraternity.
The Fraternity's values are summarized as an adherence to the principles of brotherly Love, Truth, and Honor. Because of its military heritage, Sigma Nu retains many military trappings in its chapter ranks and traditions, and places much importance on the concept of personal honor. Today, Sigma Nu honors its founders' integrity as the basis of its strictly enforced ban on hazing. Sigma Nu is one third of the Lexington Triad along with
Kappa Alpha OrderKappa Alpha Order is a social fraternity and fraternal order. Kappa Alpha Order has 124 active chapters, 3 provisional chapters, and 2 commissions...
and
Alpha Tau OmegaATΩ is an American Leadership fraternity that annually ranks among the top ten national fraternities for number of chapters, and total number of members. ATO has more than 250 active and inactive chapters with more than 200,000 members and more than 6,500 active undergraduate members...
, all of which were founded in Lexington.
History
Sigma Nu's history began in the period following the
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, when a
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veteran from
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enrolled at the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington Virginia. That cadet was James Frank Hopkins, and it is to him and two of his classmates that Sigma Nu owes its existence. When Hopkins enrolled at VMI, the South was in a state of turmoil, only beginning to recover from its devastating military defeat. VMI was recognized for its civil engineering program at a time when the South needed engineers to repair its bridges, railroads and general infrastructure. At the Institute, cadets suffered from the aftermath of war and its disruption of 19th Century home life. No less insufferable was the institutional system of physical harassment imposed on lower classmen by their own upper classmen.
Hopkins had experienced military subservience during the war, and was willing to tolerate a reasonable amount of constraint intended to induce discipline. However, Hopkins was unwilling to accept any amount of hazing, as then tolerated at VMI, in the name of his Christian faith. "Not one ounce of hazing" was he willing to suffer and he was doggedly adamant to eliminate it.
Two classmates and close friends who were also unhappy with the hazing situation soon joined Hopkins. They were Greenfield Quarles, from Mississippi, a
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by birth, and James McIlvaine Riley from
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. These three men began a movement to completely abolish the hazing system at VMI. Their efforts climaxed on a moonlit October night in 1868, presumably following Bible study at the superintendent's home, when the three met at a limestone outcropping on the edge of the VMI parade ground. Hopkins, Quarles and Riley clasped hands on the Bible and made a solemn pledge to form a new brotherhood.
The vows taken by these three Founders bound them together to oppose hazing at VMI and encouraged the application of the Principle of Honor in all their relationships. That the founders should adopt Honor as a guiding principle was a natural move since a rigid code of Honor was already an established tradition of the VMI
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. The Honor system at VMI required each cadet to conform to the duty imposed by his conscience that each act be governed by a high sense of honor.
The Founders of Sigma Nu
- James Frank Hopkins
James Frank Hopkins was a Confederate Army volunteer and founder of the Sigma Nu fraternity at the VMI.- Civil War :At the out break of the civil war the Hopkins family moved to Arkansas Post near Little Rock...
(1845–1913)
- Judge Greenfield Quarles (1847–1921)
- James McIlvaine Riley
James McIlvaine Riley entered the Virginia Military Institute in the fall of 1866. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Riley was always a favorite with classmates, and was a good public speaker and athlete. He was a member of VMI's first baseball team in the fall of 1866, playing second base and...
(1849–1911)
Announcement
Although the Sigma Nu Fraternity began in October 1868, its existence was kept secret until the founders publicly announced their new society on the first day of January 1869, the accepted birth date of Sigma Nu. In those days the Institute did not close for "breaks" as we know them. It suspended classes only for the day on such occasions as Christmas and New Year's Day.
The fraternity's spiritual birth, however, actually occurred in 1866, the year the Founders entered VMI, when Hopkins first rebelled against hazing at the Institute. Still, the Founders did not create Sigma Nu with any feeling of animosity toward others; rather they were prompted by the impulses of sympathy and affection for all people, which underlie abiding peace and contentment. They had experienced enough hate and destruction all during and after the War. They wanted to end all abuses, and they knew it would not come easily. It was never an issue of who won or lost the War. It was only an issue of winning the peace.
The new fraternity needed an identifying symbol, and Founder Hopkins designed a badge for the members to wear on their uniforms. That badge was patterned after the White Cross of the French
Légion d'honneur, which was worn on the uniform of a favorite professor of Hopkins. The badge was first introduced in the spring of 1869. Keeping with the Founders' decree, the Badge has remained unchanged ever since, except in size and the raised center. Even today, the collegiate Commander's Badge, and the Badge of the Grand Officers remain identical to Hopkins' original badge. When the first slate of Officers was chosen, Riley, the most popular, was elected Commander and Hopkins the Lieutenant Commander. Typically, Hopkins, the epitome of humbleness, was delighted that "Mac" Riley was chosen leader. It gave Hopkins "the doer", thinker, planner, along with Quarles who had similar talent, more of an opportunity to concentrate on solidifying Alpha before he graduated in 1870. By the 1869 commencement, the group had grown to fifty-one members.
Expansion
Expansion began for Sigma Nu in 1870 after the graduation of the Founders, when the mother chapter at VMI, known as Alpha Chapter, approved the establishment of a chapter at the University of Virginia. In addition, many of the graduating Brothers from VMI were given charters that they could grant to collegiate chapters near where they settled. Many of these chapters would not survive, as a number of states passed anti-fraternity laws during the decade.
Sigma Nu established a chapter at North Georgia Agricultural College in 1881, soon after Georgia's law was repealed. One of the men instrumental in the chartering of the North Georgia chapter was John Alexander Howard, who had graduated two years previously but nonetheless took an interest in the new society. A journalist by trade, Howard read widely and in his reading discovered
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, which prompted him to examine shortcomings in Sigma Nu. At this time Sigma Nu was still using the Roman numeral designation for chapters. Howard felt that the fraternity should adopt a Greek-letter designation according to the founding date of the chapter. Thus, his own chapter at North Georgia became Kappa, while VMI's chapter would be known as Alpha. Another contribution was the founding of
The Delta, the fraternity's international magazine. He selected the magazine's title to symbolize the geographic relationship of the three existing chapters of the fraternity at that time, Alpha, Lambda (at
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) and Kappa. The first edition of
The Delta was published in April 1883 and contained sixteen pages.
First National Convention
The year following the publication of The Delta witnessed another important milestone for Sigma Nu. That event was the First National Convention, which met at the
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Hotel in
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, July 9 to July 10 1884. The person responsible for the First National Convention was Isaac P. Robinson (Lambda, Washington and Lee). Robinson felt that a meeting of alumni and collegiate representatives was imperative because of a need to update the constitution, revise procedures and coordinate efforts. The Sigma Nu convention later became known as Grand Chapter. It is held every two years and serves as the legislative body of the General Fraternity.
Another event in 1884 which had a major impact upon the Fraternity was the establishment of Nu Chapter at the
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. During the first fifteen years of its existence, Sigma Nu was primarily a Southern fraternity, and the decision to establish Nu Chapter was to be the first step in a radical expansion program. Nu chapter was to open the west and north for Sigma Nu. Eugene L. Alford of Lambda was instrumental in the founding of Nu Chapter.
Two charter initiates of Nu who became very influential in Sigma Nu in later years were Perlee Rawson Bennett and Grant Woodbury Harrington. Bennett served the fraternity as Grand Recorder for many years and in 1890 was elected
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. He presided over the Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, and Tenth Grand Chapters. Harrington became editor of The Delta and Grand Recorder. For eight years (1886–1894) he had almost total responsibility for the administration of the fraternity. Other early members of Nu Chapter were the Sears brothers, William H. Sears, Clarence H. Sears and Walter James Sears, who also became influential in Sigma Nu affairs. Their brother, Lorin Beecher Sears, attended
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where no chapter of Sigma Nu existed at the time. Walter was so interested in having Lorin initiated into the Fraternity that he entered Ohio State University, founded Beta Nu and became its first initiate; Lorin became its second. Walter Sears devoted much of his lifetime to Sigma Nu, but his name will be remembered best for his beautiful prose work, "The Creed of Sigma Nu."
The Move West
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opened in 1891. Among its first students was Carl Lane Clemans, who had founded Chi Chapter at
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in
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. Clemans was determined to open a chapter on the West Coast, and he recruited enough men to charter Beta Chi Chapter at Stanford in November 1891. Beta Chi's fame soon spread to
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, and Clemans went there to help organize Beta Psi in February 1892.
Sigma Nu opened the Northwest to Greek letter organizations when Gamma Chi was chartered at the
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in 1895, earning the Fraternity kudos throughout the Greek community for its "Northwest conquest." For almost four years Sigma Nu was the only college fraternity in the Northwest, having been the first to establish a chapter not only in the State of
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, but also
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and
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.
Beta Iota at
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was chartered by Walter James Sears in 1892. Three years later Beta Iota initiated Albert Hughes Wilson, to whom Sigma Nu owes a great debt. "Bert" Wilson served as Regent, but his most noteworthy achievement was in expansion. Wilson established more chapters than any other member of the Fraternity, thirty-two in all, and he is generally credited with helping develop Sigma Nu into a geographically representative organization. Brother Wilson was the exemplar of inter-fraternity spirit. As an aside, it should be noted that Brother Wilson C. Morris (Beta Iota,
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) is given credit by
Sigma Tau GammaSigma Tau Gamma Fraternity or "Sig Tau" is a U.S. all-male college social fraternity founded on June 28, 1920 at University of Central Missouri . The fraternity was born out of the desires and aspirations of seventeen men in the belief that all men are social creatures and that friendships of...
men's fraternity as being the driving force behind its founding, while the collegiate Brothers of Delta Theta Chapter at
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(now at Knox College) assisted greatly with the founding of
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women's fraternity.
Headquarters established
Having active chapters in each section of the country, Sigma Nu was now in every sense a national fraternity. Expansion proceeded at an orderly rate, and by 1915 there was a need for centrally located administrative offices with full-time officers. Heretofore, the various Sigma Nu officers maintained their files and records at their own homes or places of business. Fire had once destroyed many of the fraternity's records, and there was a lack of coordination in general.
Following the Denver Grand Chapter in 1915, the High Council approved the establishment of the central administrative system first proposed by Regent Francis V. Keesling (Beta Chi, Stanford). The plan, adapted by Walter J. Sears, converted the High Council into a board of directors elected by the Grand Chapter; all executive and administrative duties previously exercised by members of the High Council and committees were lodged in a single official – the General Secretary (now Executive Director) – appointed by the High Council and subordinate to its direction.
Indianapolis was selected as the location of the fraternity's headquarters, and on November 1 1915 the General Offices were opened there temporarily in the Lemcke Annex before moving into the main building. Bixby Willis (Lambda, Washington and Lee), a past Grand Treasurer of Sigma Nu, was employed as the first General Secretary. In 1926 the central office was moved to the Illinois Building in Indianapolis.
Indianapolis served as the fraternity's headquarters for forty-two years, during which time fifty-five new chapters were added to the roster.
Deaths of the Founders
Founder James Riley, who had served ten years (1869–1879) as the fraternity's first Regent, died (entered "chapter eternal," as members of the fraternity refer to it) on May 6, 1911, in St. Louis, Missouri. Members of the Fraternity carried his remains to a burial plot purchased in Bellefontaine Cemetery by the St. Louis Alumni Chapter in fraternal affection for the Founder.
James Frank Hopkins died on December 15 1913, and he was buried in the village cemetery at Mabelvale, Arkansas beside his wife, Jennie Barclay Hopkins, a native Lexingtonian. In 1920 a memorial was dedicated at the gravesite. Greenfield Quarles, the only Founder still living at the time, offered a tribute to Alpha 1:
- "The love of our Brother for his fellow man was only excelled by his love of God. His example has instilled into the hearts of us all the principles which guide us now, and these principles will go down in future generations for all time. His life has been an inspiration to all youth. All that was mortal of Brother Hopkins lies buried here; but his immortal spirit will live forever."
Six months later, the last of the three Founders, Judge Greenfield Quarles, died at his home in
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, January 14 1921.
Return to Lexington
Even before Sigma Nu's first central office was organized in Indianapolis, some dreamed of the day when the Fraternity would have an appropriate shrine at Sigma Nu's birthplace, but it took nearly four decades before the first step was taken. That step was the appointment of a Headquarters Committee in 1954. It compared rent with ownership and ultimately recommended the latter in a college town where a Sigma Nu chapter thrived. Inevitably Sigma Nu history and tradition pointed to Lexington.
Regent James W. Bradley (Epsilon Epsilon, Oklahoma State) and his High Council took the historic step in 1957, purchasing without mortgage or lien a singularly appropriate property, a large home ideally suited for conversion and development. The land, conveniently located on the highest hill in the corporate limits of Lexington, Virginia, and on a seven-and-a-half-
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tract overlooking VMI and Washington and Lee University, enjoys the
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as a backdrop to the east and the
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to the west. The land was originally owned by the son of General Frances H. Smith, the first superintendent of VMI, who inspired Hopkins in the founding of Sigma Nu; the house, built by the grandson of Superintendent Smith, came to Sigma Nu directly from the Smith family.
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, a renowned Virginia architect and participant in the famous
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, was contracted to restore the building. The headquarters facility was occupied in 1958 and officially dedicated June 9, 1960.
Civil Rights era
Despite the progress, the 1950s and 1960s proved to be as tumultuous for the fraternity as they were for the United States as a whole. With many Sigma Nu chapters requesting to admit members who were not
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s or
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, the fraternity faced a dilemma. As with most national fraternities, Sigma Nu's founding documents and policies (including the charters it granted to individual chapters) had traditionally and explicitly barred non-white members and
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s. However, in recognition of the changing racial climate, some universities began to pressure the various fraternities to excise their racial qualifications.
When the issue was raised at the Grand Chapter (national convention) in 1962, many southern chapters threatened to leave the gathering if the racial language were changed; the fraternity voted against the proposal, and some chapters, e.g., Beta Chi, Stanford, left the national organization in protest.
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, for example, seceded in 1961 and became the local fraternity Sigma Nu Delta; although it returned for a few months under a "waiver with honor," it soon departed again and did not return until 1985. Sigma Nu eventually adopted the reforms suggested, and now counts members of many different backgrounds among its ranks.
In 1967 a national convention was held in Lexington, Virginia. At this convention there was a heated debate about the inclusion of potential members who are minorities. There was a clear division between northern and southern chapters. Civil rights won the day and Sigma Nu was changed to be more inclusive.
Sigma Nu centennial
On January 1 1969, Sigma Nu reached its one-hundredth anniversary. In the year that followed, it marked that event with a series of Centennial dinners at thirty-six locations throughout the country and with pilgrimages to the gravesites of the three Founders and the first editor of The Delta. Then on Sunday, June 15, a Centennial Convocation was held in Lexington. Two new wings of the Headquarters building were dedicated, one housing the Sigma Nu Museum and the other the Fraternity's Honor Library, later to be dedicated in tribute to former Executive Secretary Richard R. "Dick" Fletcher, who had long since earned the moniker "Mr. Sigma Nu".
Sigma Nu in its 100th year had come a long way from its founding. At the century mark it had issued 164 charters of which 143 chapters were alive and flourishing. Of the nine other truly national fraternities older than Sigma Nu, only three had more initiates. Sigma Nu owned 110 chapter houses providing living accommodations for more than 3,500 students. All this had been accomplished solely through the appeal of its principles without merger or honorary members. Every chapter had earned its own way by applying integrity in both purpose and method.
Sigma Nu celebrates its 125th year
Well into the fraternity's second century, Sigma Nu continued its growth. Today, the number of initiates is roughly 219,000 ; the number of chapters approaching 300. Many of the fraternity's chapters have initiated more than a 1,000 members, with a large number topping 1,500 and several exceeding 2,000. Most recent recharterings and new charters include University of Arkansas - Fort Smith (Nu Alpha), University of Arkansas (Gamma Upsilon), University of Central Florida (Mu Psi), Auburn University, among others.
Among the many significant achievements during the past decade has been the addition of adjacent properties in Lexington, Virginia, known as the Ethical Leadership Center, owned by the Sigma Nu Educational Foundation, Inc. Particularly noteworthy is Sigma Nu's inter fraternity leadership in risk reduction and risk management matters followed by the introduction of its unique LEAD Program, one of the most meaningful educational initiatives ever undertaken by a college fraternity. In addition the transfer of ownership of the Fraternity's Headquarters property, known as the Sigma Nu Headquarters Shrine, to the Sigma Nu Educational Foundation, Inc.
http://www.sigmanu.org/foundation/has enabled alumni gifts to assist in its restoration and preservation, so as to relieve the burden of upkeep on future generations of collegians.
Finally, in celebration of the fraternity's 125th anniversary, the foundation undertook construction of a third wing to the Headquarters Shrine as well as a Pathway of Honor of engraved bricks, which provides an opportunity to celebrate the life of each Sigma Nu. The Pathway of Honor will meander throughout the Lexington properties. A special "Pilgrimage to the Rock" was held at the 56th Grand Chapter held in Washington, DC, in August 1994.
Sigma Nu Educational Foundation, Inc.
In 1945, Brother William P. Yates (Beta Rho,
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), inspired the formation of the "Sigma Nu Inc., Educational Foundation" with a handsome bequest. Its name was changed in recent times to the "Sigma Nu Educational Foundation, Inc." The foundation has been instrumental in assisting collegiate members with financial aid supplements, and the General Fraternity in the development of the LEAD Program, (LEAD is an acronym for leadership, ethics, achievement, development). The Foundation continues to support the exclusively educational programs of the Fraternity.
Alumni
Famous Sigma Nu alumni have included men of note in the arts, media, politics, sports, and numerous other fields. Some of the most well known are listed below.
Performing arts, literature, and media
- T.J. Lowther (Epsilon Omicron)
- Actor, best known for his starring role as "Buzz" in "A Perfect World
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"
- Gregg Luskin (Kappa Eta)
- World renowned mashup DJ "Milkman
A milkman is a person, traditionally male, who delivers milk in milk bottles or cartons. Milk deliveries frequently occur in the morning and it is not uncommon for milkmen to deliver products other than milk such as eggs, cream, cheese, butter, yogurt or soft drinks...
"
- Bob Barker
Robert William "Bob" Barker is an American former television game show host. He is best known for hosting CBS' The Price Is Right from 1972-2007, making it the longest-running daytime game show in North American television history...
(Epsilon Beta)
- Emmy-winning host of "The Price is Right
The Price Is Right is a U.S. television game show that is currently owned by the FremantleMedia subsidiary of the RTL Group. It was created by Bob Stewart for Goodson-Todman Productions in the United States in 1956, and was significantly revamped by them in 1972...
" game showA game show is a type of television program in which members of the public or celebrities, sometimes as part of a team, play a game which involves answering questions or solving problems usually for money and/or prizes. On some shows contestants compete against other players or another team while...
from 1972 to 2007; has served as emcee for Miss UniverseMiss Universe is an annual international beauty contest run by the Miss Universe Organization.The contest was founded in 1952 by California clothing company Pacific Mills...
and Rose BowlThe Rose Bowl Game is an annual American college football bowl game, usually played on January 1 at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California for 95 years. When New Year's Day falls on a Sunday, the game is then played on the following Monday. The Rose Bowl is nicknamed "The Granddaddy of Them All"...
parade
- Andy Albert (Lambda Alpha)
- Lead singer of Holiday Parade
- Mark Schlabach
Mark Schlabach is an author and columnist for ESPN.com. Schlabach joined ESPN.com in July 2006 as a college football and college basketball columnist....
(Mu)
- College Football and Basketball Columnist on ESPN
ESPN is an American cable television network dedicated to broadcasting and producing sports-related programming 24 hours a day....
- Joe Buck
Joseph Francis "Joe" Buck is an American sportscaster and the son of sportscaster Jack Buck. He has won numerous Sports Emmy Awards for his play-by-play work with Fox Sports.-Education:...
(Beta Eta)
- Sportscaster
A sports commentator is a type of journalist on radio and/or television who specializes in reporting or commentating on sporting events...
on FoxThe Fox Broadcasting Company , commonly referred to as Fox , is an American television network owned by Fox Entertainment Group, part of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. Launched on October 9, 1986, from 2004 to 2009 Fox was the highest-rated broadcast network in the 18–49 demographic...
television network
- William Daniels
William David Daniels is an American actor and former president of the Screen Actors Guild . He is known for his performances as John Adams in 1776, as Mr. Feeny in ABC's Boy Meets World, the voice of KITT in Knight Rider, and winning two Emmy Awards for the role of Dr. Mark Craig in St...
(Gamma Beta)
- Emmy Award winning actor starred in The Graduate
The Graduate is a American comedy-drama film directed by Mike Nichols, based on the 1963 novel The Graduate by Charles Webb, who wrote it shortly after graduating from Williams College. The screenplay is by Calder Willingham and Buck Henry, who makes a cameo appearance as the hotel clerk...
and Boy Meets WorldBoy Meets World was an American television sitcom that chronicles the events and everyday life lessons of Cory Matthews, played by Ben Savage, who grows up from a young boy to a married man...
, and was the voice of "KITTKITT is the short name of two fictional characters from the adventure TV series Knight Rider. While having the same acronym, both KITTs are two different entities: one known as the Knight Industries Two Thousand, which appeared in the original TV series Knight Rider, and the other as the Knight...
" in the television show Knight Rider.
- Harrison Ford
Harrison Ford is an American film actor and producer. Ford is best known for his performances as Han Solo in the original Star Wars trilogy and as the title character of the Indiana Jones film series...
(Zeta Tau - Ripon CollegeRipon College is a liberal arts college in Ripon, Wisconsin, USA. It was founded in 1851, but its first class of students did not enroll until 1853. As of fall 2007, Ripon College's student body stood at around 1000.- History :...
)
- Actor in films such as the Star Wars
Star Wars is an epic space opera franchise initially conceived by George Lucas. The first film in the franchise was originally released on May 25, 1977, by 20th Century Fox, and became a worldwide pop culture phenomenon, spawning two immediate sequels, released at three-year intervals...
and Indiana JonesDr. Henry Walton "Indiana" Jones, Jr. is a fictional adventurer, OSS agent, professor of archaeology, and the protagonist of the Indiana Jones franchise. George Lucas created the character in homage to the action heroes of 1930s film serials...
series
- Brett Haber
Brett Haber is an American sportscaster. He is currently the Sports Director for WUSA-TV, the CBS affiliate in Washington, DC. In the mid-1990s he was an anchor on ESPN's flagship news program SportsCenter....
(Delta Beta)
- Former ESPN SportsCenter Anchor, Currently Sports Anchor for WUSA-TV in Washington, DC and Commentator for Tennis Channel
- Sean Hampton
Sean Hampton is an American actor.Born in Ocala, Florida, Sean was the youngest of the 5 children of a Dentist father and a professional model mother. After graduating high school Sean enrolled at Stetson University to pursue a career in law...
(Delta Mu)
- Film and Television Actor
- Zane Grey
Zane Grey was an American author best known for his popular adventure novels and stories that presented an idealized image of the rugged Old West...
(Beta Rho)
- Western novelist (Riders of the Purple Sage
Riders of the Purple Sage is Zane Grey's best-known novel. Originally published in 1912, it was one of the earliest works of Western fiction and played a significant role in popularizing that genre.- Plot in a paragraph :...
)
- Dave Guard
Dave Guard , was an American folk singer, songwriter, arranger and recording artist. Along with Nick Reynolds and Bob Shane, he was one of the founding members of The Kingston Trio....
(Beta Chi)
- Guitar player who helped form the Kingston Trio. The Kingston Trio won the 1959 Grammy for best folk
The term folk music originated in the 19th century as a term for musical folklore. It has been defined in several ways; as music transmitted by word of mouth, music of the lower classes, music with no known composer...
performance.
- Doug Ying (Delta Phi)
- Author of critically acclaimed 2007 novel, "The Jone Dome". Other works include "Strange Fisherman", "Nice Eating Disorder", and "Short Haircut".
- William Inge
William Motter Inge was an American playwright and novelist, whose works typically feature solitary protagonists encumbered with strained sexual relations. In the early 1950s, he had a string of memorable Broadway productions, and one of these, Picnic, earned him a Pulitzer Prize...
(Nu)
- Noted poet and playwright. Earned a Pulitzer Prize for Drama
The Pulitzer Prize for Drama was first awarded in 1918.From 1918 to 2006, the Drama Prize was unlike the majority of the other Pulitzer Prizes: during these years, the eligibility period for the drama prize ran from March 2 to March 1, to reflect the Broadway 'season' rather than being the calendar...
in 1953 for his play Picnic. Also won an Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay in 1961 for Splendor in the GrassSplendor in the Grass, an American movie from 1961, tells a story of sexual repression, love, and heartbreak. Written by William Inge, who appears briefly as a Protestant clergyman, the film was directed by Elia Kazan.-Inspiration:...
.
- Tom Johnson
Wyatt Thomas Johnson is an American journalist and media executive, best known for serving as president of Cable News Network during the 1990s and, before that, as publisher of the Los Angeles Times newspaper...
(Mu)
- President of CNN
Cable News Network, almost always referred to by its initialism CNN, is an U.S. cable news network founded in 1980 by Ted Turner. Upon its launch, CNN was the first network to provide 24-hour television news coverage, and the first all-news television network in the United States...
; has also served as President and CEO of the Los Angeles TimesThe Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper published in Los Angeles, California since 1881. It is 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...
.
- Andy Luckey
Andrew A. Luckey is an American Writer, Director and Producer, primarily of animated works. He also writes and illustrates children's books and Bible studies....
(Iota Upsilon)
- Producer of animated television programs including Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are a fictional team of four mutant turtles, who were trained by a giant, talking rat sensei, Master Splinter, in the art of Ninjitsu...
; children's book author.
- Curt Menefee
Curt Menefee , is an American sportscaster who is the host of the Fox network's NFL show Fox NFL Sunday. His co-hosts are Jimmy Johnson, Terry Bradshaw, Howie Long, and Michael Strahan....
(Beta Epsilon)
- Fox NFL Football Sunday Show Host.
- Al Michaels
Alan Richard "Al" Michaels is an American television sportscaster. Now employed by NBC Sports after nearly three decades with ABC Sports, Michaels is one of the most prominent members of his profession...
(Zeta Upsilon, Eta Kappa)
- Play by play sportscaster for NBC
The National Broadcasting Company is an American television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices in Burbank,California...
's Sunday Night FootballNBC Sunday Night Football is a weekly television broadcast of Sunday evening National Football League games on NBC that began airing on Sunday, August 6, 2006 with the pre-season opening Hall of Fame Game. Al Michaels serves as the play-by-play announcer, with Cris Collinsworth providing color...
; formerly announced ABCThe American Broadcasting Company is an American television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. It first broadcast on television in 1948...
's Monday Night FootballMonday Night Football is a live television broadcast of the National Football League. Originally airing on the ABC network from to , Monday Night Football was the second longest running prime time show on American broadcast network television and one of the highest-rated, particularly among male...
from 1986 until it ended in 2005; one of only two men to have hosted the broadcast of the championships of the four major American pro sports (NFL, MLB, National Basketball AssociationThe National Basketball Association is a professional basketball league, composed of thirty teams in North America . It is an active member of USA Basketball , which is recognized by the International Basketball Federation as the National Governing Body for basketball in the United States...
, NHL)
- Glenn Miller
Glenn Miller , was an American jazz musician, arranger, composer, and band leader in the swing era. He was one of the best-selling recording artists from 1939 to 1942, leading one of the best known "Big Bands"...
(Gamma Kappa)
- Leader of the Glenn Miller Orchestra
The Glenn Miller Orchestra was originally formed in 1937 by Glenn Miller. It was arranged around a clarinet and tenor saxophone playing melody, while three other saxophones played the harmony...
, received the GRAMMY Hall of Fame AwardThe Grammy Hall of Fame Award is a special Grammy award established in 1973 to honor recordings that are at least twenty-five years old and that have "qualitative or historical significance"...
in 1983 (In the Mood) and 1991 (Moonlight Serenade).
- Tom Poston
Thomas Gordon "Tom" Poston was an American television and film actor. He starred on television in a career that began in 1950...
(Epsilon)
- Won 1959 Emmy as best supporting actor in a comedy series for The Steve Allen Show
Steve Allen , born Stephen Valentine Patrick William Allen, was an American television personality, musician, actor, comedian, and writer. Though he got his start in radio, Allen is best-known for his television career. He first gained national attention as a guest host on Arthur Godfrey's Talent...
. Featured in To Tell the TruthTo Tell the Truth is an American television game show created by Bob Stewart and produced by Goodson-Todman Productions that has aired intermittently in various forms since 1956 on both networks and in syndication. Along with The Price Is Right, it is one of two game shows in the United States to...
, Mork and MindyMork & Mindy is an American sitcom broadcast from 1978 until 1982 on ABC. The series starred Robin Williams as Mork, an alien who comes to Earth from the planet Ork in a large egg-shaped space ship, and Pam Dawber as Mindy McConnell, his human friend, roommate, and later, wife after they married in...
, and NewhartNewhart is a television situation comedy starring comedian Bob Newhart and actress Mary Frann as an author and his wife who owned and operated a historic inn located in a small, rural Vermont town that was populated by eccentric characters. The show aired on the CBS network from October 25, 1982 to...
. He received best supporting actor Emmy nominations in 1984, 1986, and 1987.
- Burton Rascoe
Burton Rascoe , was an American journalist, editor and literary critic of the New York Herald Tribune.Born in Fulton, Kentucky, Rascoe grew up in Shawnee, Oklahoma. From 1911 until 1913, he attended the University of Chicago where he joined Sigma Nu...
(Gamma Rho)
- Editor and literary critic.
- Michael Biehn
Michael Connell Biehn is an American actor. He is best known for his roles in James Cameron's science fiction-action films The Terminator, Aliens, and The Abyss. He has also acted in other genres in such films as Tombstone, The Rock, and Planet Terror...
(Epsilon Alpha)
- Actor in films such as The Terminator
The Terminator is a 1984 science fiction action film directed and co-written by James Cameron and distributed by the independent film studio Orion Pictures. It features Arnold Schwarzenegger as The Terminator, Linda Hamilton as Sarah Connor and Michael Biehn as Kyle Reese. The film was followed by...
, AliensAliens is a 1986 science fiction action film directed by James Cameron and starring Sigourney Weaver, Carrie Henn, Michael Biehn, Lance Henriksen, and Bill Paxton. A sequel to the 1979 film Alien, Aliens is set fifty-seven years after the first film and is regarded by many film critics as a...
, and Planet TerrorPlanet Terror is a American action/horror/sci-fi/thriller written and directed by Robert Rodriguez, about a group of people attempting to survive an onslaught of zombie-like creatures as they feud with a military unit, including a go-go dancer searching for a way to use her "useless talents." The...
- Paul Rudd
Paul Stephen Rudd is an American actor and screenwriter.-Early life:Rudd was born in Passaic, New Jersey, the son of Jewish immigrants from England; his family's original surname was "Rudnitzky"...
(Nu)
- Actor in films such as Anchorman, The 40-Year-Old Virgin
The 40-Year-Old Virgin is a comedy film written and directed by Judd Apatow and co-written by the film's lead star, Steve Carell, though the film itself features a great deal of improvised dialogue...
, Clueless, and The Shape of ThingsThe Shape of Things is a play by American author and film director Neil LaBute and a 2003 American movie. It premièred at the Almeida Theatre, London in 2001 with Paul Rudd as Adam, Rachel Weisz as Evelyn, Gretchen Mol as Jenny and Fred Weller as Phillip. The play was directed by LaBute himself...
- Josh Saviano
Joshua David Saviano is an American lawyer and former actor who played Kevin Arnold's best friend, Paul Joshua Pfeiffer, in the situation comedy The Wonder Years.-Biography:...
(Beta Alpha)
- Actor; played Paul Pfeiffer on the sitcom The Wonder Years
The Wonder Years is an American television dramedy created by Carol Black and Neal Marlens. It ran for six seasons on ABC, from 1988 through 1993. The pilot aired on January 31, 1988 after ABC's coverage of Super Bowl XXII....
- Murray Silver (Eta Gamma)
- Author and filmmaker, "Great Balls of Fire: The Uncensored Story of Jerry Lee Lewis"
- John Shrader
John Shrader is an American sports broadcaster, currently working for Comcast SportsNet Bay Area.He was a sports anchor and fill in host for KNBR , San Francisco, known locally as "The Sports Leader." In addition to his regular duties, Shrader was a sideline reporter for the San Francisco 49ers...
(Delta Eta)
- Sportscaster, Comcast SportsNet Bay Area
- Shadoe Stevens
Shadoe Stevens was the host of American Top 40, heard by an estimated one billion people in 120 countries from 1988 to 1995...
(Epsilon Kappa)
- Host of ABC
The American Broadcasting Company is an American television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. It first broadcast on television in 1948...
radio's American Top 40American Top 40 is an internationally-syndicated, independent radio program created by Casey Kasem, Don Bustany, Tom Rounds and Ron Jacobs. Originally a production of Watermark Inc...
; voice of Hollywood SquaresThe Hollywood Squares is an American television comedy and game show in which two contestants play tic-tac-toe to win money and prizes. The "board" for the game is a 3 × 3 vertical stack of open-faced cubes, each occupied by an entertainer seated at a desk and facing the contestants...
.
- Boyd Tinsley
Boyd Calvin Tinsley is an American violinist and mandolinist who performs as a member of the Dave Matthews Band. Within the band, Tinsley has collaborated in writing songs, harmonized and sung backing vocals....
(Beta)
- Violinist of Dave Matthews Band
Dave Matthews Band, sometimes shortened to DMB, is an American band formed in Charlottesville, Virginia in 1991. Founding members include singer-songwriter and guitarist Dave Matthews, bassist Stefan Lessard, violinist Boyd Tinsley, and drummer Carter Beauford. Founding-member saxophonist LeRoi...
fame.
- Chip Arndt
Chip Arndt is an American gay activist, best known as a winner of The Amazing Race 4 in 2003 with former partner Reichen Lehmkuhl. The team was the first out gay couple to win a reality television competition...
- Amazing Race 4 winner, ex-husband of Reichen Lehmkuhl
Reichen Lehmkuhl, , is an American former reality show winner, male model, and occasional actor...
.
- Aaron Yoo
Aaron Yoo is an American actor. He starred in the 2007 films Disturbia and American Pastime, the 2008 films 21 , Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist, The Wackness, and Labor Pains, and had a role in the 2009 reboot of Friday the 13th.His stage credits include the premiere of Christopher Shinn's...
(Beta Rho)
- Actor in films such as 21 and Disturbia
Disturbia is a American thriller film directed by D.J. Caruso and executive produced by Ivan Reitman. It is an updated version of Alfred Hitchcock's classic film Rear Window...
.
- Adam Duritz
Adam Fredric Duritz is an American musician and record producer. He is the lead singer and founding member of the rock band Counting Crows...
(Zeta Xi)
- Founding member and lead singer of the rock band Counting Crows
Counting Crows is a rock band originating from Berkeley, California. The group gained popularity in 1994 following the release of its debut album August and Everything After, which featured the hit single "Mr. Jones". The band's influences include Van Morrison, R.E.M., Mike & The Mechanics,...
.
- David Anspaugh
David Anspaugh is an Emmy Award-winning American television and film director.Born in Decatur, Indiana, Anspaugh studied at Indiana University and the USC School of Cinematic Arts, after which he taught high school in Colorado...
(Beta Eta)
- Emmy-winning producer of Hill Street Blues
Hill Street Blues is a serial police drama that was first aired on NBC in 1981 and ran for 146 episodes on primetime into 1987. Reruns are currently being aired on AmericanLife TV Network on weekday nights in the United States, and on weekday afternoons on digital network More 4 in the United Kingdom...
, St. ElsewhereSt. Elsewhere is a U.S. drama television series that originally ran on NBC from October 26, 1982 to May 25, 1988. The series is set at St. Eligius, a decaying urban teaching hospital in Boston's South End neighborhood. The hospital's nickname, "St...
and Miami ViceMiami Vice is an American television series produced by Michael Mann for NBC. The show became noted for its heavy integration of music and visual effects to tell a story. The series starred Don Johnson and Phillip Michael Thomas as two Metro-Dade Police Department detectives working undercover in...
; Also an acclaimed director of such films as HoosiersHoosiers is a 1986 film about a small-town Indiana high school basketball team that wins the state championship.The story is set during 1951, when all high schools in Indiana, regardless of size, competed in one state championship tournament...
, RudyRudy may refer to:People* Rudolph, a male first name* Daniel "Rudy" Ruettiger, a motivational speaker and the inspiration for the film Rudy* Rudy Giuliani, a former mayor of New York City and 2008 US presidential candidate...
, The Fresh Horses, The Game of Their Lives, MoonlightMoonlight is the light that comes to Earth from the Moon. This light does not originate from the Moon, but is actually reflected sunlight. In many legends and fantasy games, moonlight is an important part of magical processes .- Illumination :The intensity of moonlight varies greatly depending on...
and ValentinoValentino Clemente Ludovico Garavani, best known as Valentino is an Italian fashion designer and founder of the Valentino SpA brand and company...
.
- Terry Kiser
Terry Kiser is an American actor, mostly known for his portrayal of the dead title-character in the comedy Weekend at Bernie's, and its sequel, Weekend at Bernie's II....
(Nu)
- Best known for his portrayal of the dead title-character in the comedy Weekend at Bernie's
Weekend at Bernie's is a 1989 American motion picture comedy directed by Ted Kotcheff. It is a black comedy starring Andrew McCarthy and Jonathan Silverman as a couple of young insurance executives who discover their boss is deceased...
, and its sequel, Weekend at Bernie's IIWeekend at Bernie's II is a comedy film released in 1993 by TriStar Pictures and was the sequel to the 1989 comedy Weekend at Bernie's.- Plot :...
.
- Neil Flynn
Neil Richard Flynn is an American actor and comedian, best known for his role as Janitor in the sitcom Scrubs.-Early life:Flynn was born in the south side of Chicago, Illinois and moved to Waukegan, Illinois at an early age...
(Zeta Phi)
- American actor and comedian, best known for his role as Janitor in the sitcom Scrubs
Scrubs is an American comedy-drama created in 2001 by Bill Lawrence and produced currently by ABC Studios. The show follows the lives of several employees of Sacred Heart, a teaching hospital. It features fast-paced dialogue, slapstick, and surreal vignettes presented mostly as the daydreams of the...
.
- Eli Young Band
The Eli Young Band is an American country music band based in Denton, Texas. The band is composed of Mike Eli , James Young , Jon Jones , and Chris Thompson . The band released its self-titled debut album in 2005 on the independent Carnival label, followed by Level in 2006...
(Zeta Omicron)
- Country Band from texas. All members - Mike Eli, Jon Jones, Chris Thompson, and James Young - are in the fraternity.
- Jeff Wood (singer)
Jeffrey Scott "Jeff" Wood is an American country music artist. Wood was signed to a publishing contract in 1994, writing songs for other country artists, including "Cowboy Love", a Top 5 hit for John Michael Montgomery in 1996...
(Epsilon Epsilon)
- Country music artist
Political figures
- Gerry L. Alexander
Gerry L. Alexander is the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the U.S. state of Washington. He was elected to the court in 1994 and re-elected in 2000. Following this election, his colleagues elected him to a four-year term as chief justice. He was re-elected as chief justice in 2004 and...
(Gamma Chi)
- Current Chief Justice of the Washington State Supreme Court
- Tucker Eskew
Tucker Eskew is a Republican political consultant in the United States who served as "chief of staff and permanent companion on the campaign trail" to Sarah Palin. He is the founding partner of the Eskew Strategy Group, an Alexandria based Republican communications firm. In 2005, he merged the...
(Beta Omnicron)
- Chief campaign consultant to Sarah Palin
Sarah Louise Palin is an American politician who served as Governor of Alaska from 2006 until her resignation in 2009 and was the Republican candidate for Vice President of the United States in 2008....
- Ed Schafer (Epsilon Kappa)
- Former United States Secretary of Agriculture
The United States Secretary of Agriculture is the head of the United States Department of Agriculture. The current secretary is Tom Vilsack, who was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on 20 January 2009. The position carries similar responsibilities to those of agriculture ministers in other...
- Trent Lott
Chester Trent Lott Sr. is a former United States Senator from Mississippi. He has served in numerous leadership positions in both the House of Representatives and the Senate, including House Minority Whip, Senate Majority Leader, Senate Minority Leader, and Senate Minority Whip...
(Epsilon Xi)
- Former U.S. Senator
The United States Senate is the upper house of the bicameral United States Congress, the lower house being the House of Representatives. The composition and powers of the Senate and the House are established in Article One of the U.S. Constitution . Each U.S state is represented by two senators,...
(1989-2007) (RThe Republican Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Democratic Party. Founded by anti-slavery expansion activists in 1854, it is often called the Grand Old Party or the GOP, despite being the younger of the two major parties. In the U.S...
— MississippiMississippi is a state located in the Southern United States. Jackson is the state capital and largest city. The state's name comes from the Mississippi River, which flows along its western boundary, and takes its name from the Ojibwe word misi-ziibi . The state is heavily forested outside of the...
).
- Howard Baker, Sr.
Howard Henry Baker Sr., born January 12, 1902, was a United States Representative from Tennessee from 1951 until his death on January 7, 1964. He was a member of the Republican Party.-Biography:...
(Epsilon Eta)
- Member of the United States House of Representatives
The United States House of Representatives, commonly referred to as the "House," is the lower house of the bicameral United States Congress, the upper house being the United States Senate. The composition and powers of the House and the Senate are established in Article One of the Constitution...
(1951–1964) (R — Tennessee)
- Allen Bares
Allen Ray Bares, Sr. was a Lafayette lawyer who served as a conservative Democrat in both houses of the Louisiana State Legislature between 1972 and 1992. He is particularly remembered for his strong support of the anti-abortion cause and the Boy Scouts of America...
- Member of both houses of the Louisiana State Legislature
The Louisiana State Legislature is the state legislature of the U.S. state of Louisiana. It is bicameral body, comprising the lower house, the Louisiana House of Representatives with 105 representatives, and the upper house, the Louisiana Senate with 39 senators...
(1972–1992) (D — Louisiana)
- Bob Graham
Daniel Robert "Bob" Graham is an American politician. He was the governor of Florida from 1979 to 1987 and a United States Senator from that state from 1987 to 2005...
(Epsilon Zeta)
- Governor of Florida (1978–1986); U.S. Senator
The United States Senate is the upper house of the bicameral United States Congress, the lower house being the House of Representatives. The composition and powers of the Senate and the House are established in Article One of the U.S. Constitution . Each U.S state is represented by two senators,...
(1986–2005) (DThe Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party. It is the oldest political party in continuous operation in the United States and it is one of the oldest parties in the world. In the U.S...
— FloridaFlorida is a state located in the southeastern region of the United States, bordering Alabama to the northwest and Georgia to the north. It was the 27th state admitted to the United States...
).
- George J. Mitchell
George John Mitchell, Jr., GBE is the American special envoy to the Middle East for the Obama administration. A Democrat, Mitchell was a United States Senator who served as the Senate Majority Leader from 1989 to 1995...
(Delta Psi)
- Former Senate Majority leader and current chairman of DLA Piper
DLA Piper is one of the largest law firms in the world and it is the only firm with more than 3,500 lawyers in North America and Europe. DLA Piper is a legal services organization whose members and affiliates are separate and distinct legal entities....
- Lloyd Bentsen
Lloyd Millard Bentsen, Jr. was a four-term United States senator from Texas and the Democratic Party nominee for Vice President in 1988 on the Michael Dukakis ticket. He also served in the House of Representatives from 1949 to 1955. In his later political life, he was Chairman of the Senate...
(Upsilon)
- Former Senator from Texas
Texas is the second-largest U.S. state in both area and population, and the largest state in the contiguous United States.The name had wide usage among native Americans, meaning "friends" or "allies"...
, Vice Presidential candidate in 1988, and former United States Secretary of the TreasuryThe 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. This position in the Federal Government of the United States is analogous to the...
.
- Jim Gibbons
Jim Gibbons may refer to:*Jim Gibbons , Republican governor of Nevada*Jim Gibbons , Irish Fianna Fáil politician and government minister...
(Delta Xi)
- Current Governor of Nevada
- Jim Newberry
Jim Newberry was elected Mayor of Lexington, Kentucky on November 7, 2006, and was sworn into office on December 31, 2006. He defeated incumbent Teresa Isaac in his second attempt for political office. He previously had run for the Democratic nomination for the Sixth Congressional District of...
(Gamma Iota)
- Current Lexington, Kentucky
Lexington is the second-largest city in Kentucky and the 65th largest in the United States. Known as the "Thoroughbred City" and the "Horse Capital of the World", it is located in the heart of Kentucky's Bluegrass region...
Mayor
- Bill Baarsma
Bill Baarsma is the mayor of Tacoma, Washington. He was elected mayor in 2002. Prior to his election, he taught business and public administration at the University of Puget Sound. He served on the Tacoma City Council from 1992 to 1999. He has also served on two Tacoma charter review commissions,...
(Zeta Alpha)
- Current Tacoma, Washington
Tacoma is a mid-sized urban port city in and the county seat of Pierce County, Washington, United States. The city is on Washington's Puget Sound, southwest of Seattle, northeast of the state capital, Olympia, and northwest of Mount Rainier National Park...
Mayor
- Robert E. Armstrong
Robert E Armstrong was a former mayor of Fort Wayne, Indiana, former councilman of Allen County, Indiana and former athletic director of Snider High School.-Education:...
(Beta Eta)
- Former Fort Wayne, Indiana
Fort Wayne is a city in the U.S. state of Indiana and the county seat of Allen County. As of 2008, the city had an estimated population of 251,591, ranking it the 73
rd largest city in the nation. It is the second largest city in Indiana, after Indianapolis...
Mayor (1975-1979)
- Ed Bryant
Edward Glenn Bryant, usually known as Ed Bryant, , American politician, is a former Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from Tennessee . Born in Jackson, Tennessee, he earned his B.A. in 1970 and J.D. in 1972, both from the University of Mississippi. As a student he was...
(Epsilon Xi)
- Former U.S. Congressman from Tennessee
Tennessee is a state located in the Southeastern United States. According to the 2008 census, it has a population of 6,214,888, an increase of nearly 9.5% since 2000. Tennessee is the 14th fastest growing state in the US and is ranked 17th by population. It is ranked 36th by total land area. In...
1994-2002, U.S. Senate candidate in 2002, 2006.
- Roger Wicker
Roger Frederick Wicker is an American politician from the state of Mississippi. A Republican, he has been Mississippi's junior U.S. Senator since December 2007...
(Epsilon Xi)
- Member of the United States House of Representatives
The United States House of Representatives, commonly referred to as the "House," is the lower house of the bicameral United States Congress, the upper house being the United States Senate. The composition and powers of the House and the Senate are established in Article One of the Constitution...
(1995–2007), Member of the United States SenateThe United States Senate is the upper house of the bicameral United States Congress, the lower house being the House of Representatives. The composition and powers of the Senate and the House are established in Article One of the U.S. Constitution . Each U.S state is represented by two senators,...
(2007–present) (R — Mississippi)
- Norm Dicks (Gamma Chi)
- Member of the United States House of Representatives
The United States House of Representatives, commonly referred to as the "House," is the lower house of the bicameral United States Congress, the upper house being the United States Senate. The composition and powers of the House and the Senate are established in Article One of the Constitution...
(1976–present) (D — Washington)
- Jody Powell (Eta Gamma)
- Former President Jimmy Carter
James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr. served as the 39th President of the United States from 1977 to 1981 and was the recipient of the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize, the only U.S. President to have received the Prize after leaving office...
's Press secretaryA press secretary or press officer is a senior advisor who provides advice on how to deal with the news media and, using news management techniques, helps their employer to maintain a positive public image and avoid negative media coverage....
- Clarence M. Kelley
Clarence M. Kelley was a public servant and former director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.Clarence Kelley was born in Kansas City, Missouri in 1911. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Kansas in 1936 as a proud member of Sigma Nu fraternity. He then continued...
(Nu)
- Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is an agency of the United States Department of Justice that serves as both a federal criminal investigative body and an internal intelligence agency. The FBI has investigative jurisdiction over violations of more than 200 categories of federal crime...
from July 9 1973 through February 23 1978
- Herman E. Talmadge (Mu)
- Governor of Georgia (1949–1955); U.S. Senator
The United States Senate is the upper house of the bicameral United States Congress, the lower house being the House of Representatives. The composition and powers of the Senate and the House are established in Article One of the U.S. Constitution . Each U.S state is represented by two senators,...
(1957–1981) (DThe Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party. It is the oldest political party in continuous operation in the United States and it is one of the oldest parties in the world. In the U.S...
— Georgia).
- Eugene Talmadge
Eugene Talmadge was a Democratic politician who served as governor of Georgia from 1933 to 1937 and again from 1941 to 1943. Elected to another term in 1946, he died before taking office. To date only Joe Brown and Eugene Talmadge have been elected four times as Governor of Georgia.Talmadge was...
(Mu)
- Governor of Georgia (1933–1937 and 1941–1943; elected in 1946 but did not serve)
- Joe Trippi
Joe Trippi is a long-time American Democratic campaign worker and consultant. A mainstay in presidential politics, Trippi has worked on the presidential campaigns of Edward Kennedy, Walter Mondale, Gary Hart, Dick Gephardt, and most recently John Edwards...
(Zeta Iota)
- Campaign manager
In representative democracies, electoral campaigns larger than a few individuals generally include a campaign manager, either paid or volunteer, whose role is to coordinate the campaign's operations such as fundraising, advertising , polling , getting out the vote , and other activities...
for U.s. presidential candidate Howard DeanHoward Brush Dean III is an American politician and physician from the U.S. state of Vermont. He served six terms as Governor of Vermont and ran unsuccessfully for the 2004 Democratic Presidential nomination...
in 2004; worked on other Democratic campaigns from the 1980s onward
- Tom Coburn
Thomas Allen "Tom" Coburn, M.D. , is an American politician, medical doctor, and ordained deacon. A member of the Republican Party, he currently serves as the junior U.S. Senator from Oklahoma.Coburn was elected to the U.S...
(R — OklahomaOklahoma is a state located in the South Central region of the United States of America. With an estimated 3,617,316 residents in 2007 and a land area of 68,667 square miles , Oklahoma is the 28th most populous and 20th-largest state...
) (Epsilon Epsilon)
- U.S. Senator from Oklahoma
Oklahoma is a state located in the South Central region of the United States of America. With an estimated 3,617,316 residents in 2007 and a land area of 68,667 square miles , Oklahoma is the 28th most populous and 20th-largest state...
- Michael D. Antonovich
Michael Dennis Antonovich is a Republican member of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors...
(Eta Phi)
- Supervisor
A supervisor, foreperson, team leader, overseer, cell coach, facilitator, or area coordinator is a manager in business. The US Bureau of Census has four hundred titles under the supervisor classification....
of the 5th District for Los Angeles County
- E. Clay Shaw Jr.
Eugene Clay Shaw Jr. is an American politician who was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from 1981 until 2007. He represented the 22nd District of Florida until he was defeated by Ron Klein in the 2006 midterm election.- Years prior to Congress:Shaw was born in...
(Delta Mu)
- Former Republican
The Republican Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Democratic Party. Founded by anti-slavery expansion activists in 1854, it is often called the Grand Old Party or the GOP, despite being the younger of the two major parties. In the U.S...
member of the United States House of RepresentativesThe United States House of Representatives, commonly referred to as the "House," is the lower house of the bicameral United States Congress, the upper house being the United States Senate. The composition and powers of the House and the Senate are established in Article One of the Constitution...
from 1981-2006, representing the 22nd District of FloridaFlorida is a state located in the southeastern region of the United States, bordering Alabama to the northwest and Georgia to the north. It was the 27th state admitted to the United States...
.
- Jarret Gibbons (Kappa Delta)
- Member of the U.S. House of Representatives, Pennsylvania
- Other former United States Senators
- Quentin N. Burdick
Quentin Northrup Burdick was a United States Senator from North Dakota from August 8, 1960 until his death in 1992. Prior to that he had served in the United States House of Representatives from January 3, 1959 to August 8, 1960. He was the son of NPL North Dakota Congressman Usher L...
(D — North DakotaNorth Dakota is a state located in the Midwestern region of the United States of America; on the Canadian border halfway between the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. North Dakota is the 19th largest state by area in the U.S.; it is the 3
rd least populous, with just over 641,481 residents as...
) (Gamma Tau)
- Alan Cranston
Alan MacGregor Cranston was an American journalist and Democratic Senator from California.-Education:Cranston earned his high school diploma from the old Mountain View High School...
(D — CaliforniaCalifornia is the most populous state in the United States, and the third largest by area. California is the second most populous sub-national entity in the Americas, behind only São Paulo, Brazil...
) (Beta Chi)
- Walter F. George
Walter Franklin George was an American politician from the state of Georgia. He was a long-time United States Senator and was President pro tempore. He was a Democrat.-Early years:...
(D — Georgia) (Eta)
- Clifford P. Hansen (R — Wyoming
Wyoming is a state in the Western United States. The majority of the state is dominated by the mountain ranges and rangelands of the Rocky Mountain West, while the easternmost section of the state includes part of a high elevation prairie region known as the High Plains. While the tenth largest...
) (Epsilon Delta)
- James A. McClure
James Albertus "Jim" McClure is an American politician from the state of Idaho, most notably serving as a Republican in the U.S. Senate....
(R — IdahoIdaho is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States of America. The state's largest city and capital is Boise. Residents are called "Idahoans." Idaho was admitted to the Union on 3 July 1890 as the 43rd state....
) (Delta Omicron)
- Steve Symms
Steven Douglas Symms was a four-term congressman and two-term U.S. senator from Idaho. He was among the most conservative members of the Republican Party...
(R — IdahoIdaho is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States of America. The state's largest city and capital is Boise. Residents are called "Idahoans." Idaho was admitted to the Union on 3 July 1890 as the 43rd state....
) (Delta Omicron)
Sports figures
- Felix "Doc" Blanchard (Psi)
- Three time All-America
An All-American "team" is an honorary sports team composed of outstanding amateur players—those considered the best players of a specific season for each team position—who in turn are given the honorific All-America and typically referred to as All-American athletes, or simply...
n and 1945 Heisman trophyThe Heisman Memorial Trophy Award , named after the former college football coach John Heisman, is awarded annually by the Heisman Trophy Trust to the most outstanding player in collegiate football...
winner for ArmyThe United States Military Academy at West Point is a four-year coeducational federal service academy located at West Point, New York. Established in 1802, USMA is the oldest of the United States's five service academies. The military garrison at West Point was occupied in 1778 and played a key...
(after joining Sigma Nu at UNCThe University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is a public research university located in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States. The university is the oldest in, and flagship of, the University of North Carolina system...
)
- John Bitove
John I. Bitove, is a Canadian businessman and sportsman. He is the controlling shareholder through Obelysk, of Priszm, Scott's Real Estate Investment Trust and Canadian Satellite Radio...
(Beta Eta)
- Founder and co-owner of the Toronto Raptors
The Toronto Raptors are a professional basketball team based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. They are part of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference in the National Basketball Association . The team was established in 1995, along with the Vancouver Grizzlies, as part of the NBA's expansion...
. Current owner of Canadian Satellite Radio XM Canada and PriszmPriszm LP is the largest operator of Canadian fast food restaurants. The Priszm Income Fund , an income trust, owns 60.2% of Priszm; the remainder is owned by John Bitove....
- Paul "Bear" Bryant (Theta)
- Coached several college football
College football is American football played by teams of student athletes fielded by American universities, colleges, and military academies. It was the venue through which American football first gained popularity in the United States...
teams (most notably, his alma mater AlabamaThe University of Alabama is a public coeducational university located in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA. Founded in 1831, UA is the flagship university of the University of Alabama System. Within Alabama, it is often called "the Capstone"...
) for a career record of 323-85-17
- Jeff Cohen
Jeff Cohen was an All-American basketball player at The College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia during his senior season in 1960-61. He was selected as the 14th pick in the second round of the 1961 NBA Draft by the Chicago Packers .At William & Mary, Cohen played his way into the NCAA...
(?)
- All-American basketball
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of 5 players try to score points against one another by placing a ball through a
10 foot high hoop under organized rules...
player for The College of William & Mary in 1960-61. Was drafted by the Chicago Packers (modern day Washington WizardsThe Washington Wizards are a professional basketball team based in Washington, D.C., previously known as Washington Bullets. They play in the National Basketball Association .-Early years:...
) as the 23rd overall pick in the 1961 NBA DraftThe 1961 NBA Draft was the first draft participation for the then-expansionist Chicago Zephyrs . Names with asterisk had been inducted into Hall of Fame.-Round one:-Round two:-Round three:...
- Bobby Dodd
Robert Lee Dodd was an American college football coach at Georgia Tech. He was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame as a player and coach, something that only three people have accomplished....
(Epsilon Eta)
- Coached Georgia Tech
The Georgia Institute of Technology, commonly called Georgia Tech, Tech, and GT, is a public, coeducational research university in Atlanta, Georgia in the United States...
Yellow JacketsThe Yellow Jackets is the name used for all of the intercollegiate athletic teams that play for the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia. The teams have also been nicknamed the Ramblin' Wreck, Engineers, Blacksmiths, and Golden Tornado. There are 8 men's and 7 women's teams that...
football team to 165-64-8 record; All-American quarterback for TennesseeThe University of Tennessee , sometimes called the University of Tennessee, Knoxville is a public land-grant university headquartered at Knoxville...
; one of only two men in the College Football Hall of FameThe College Football Hall of Fame, located in South Bend, Indiana, USA, is a hall of fame and museum devoted to college football. It is situated in the renovated downtown district, near convention centers and not far from the campus of Notre Dame...
as both a coach and a player
- Walt Dropo
Walter Dropo , nicknamed "Moose", is a former Major League Baseball first baseman and right-handed batter who played with the Boston Red Sox , Detroit Tigers , Chicago White Sox , Cincinnati Redlegs , and Baltimore Orioles 1959-61).-Youth:Dropo's parents emigrated from Mostar, Yugoslavia Walter...
(Epsilon Phi)
- American League
The American League of Professional Baseball Clubs, or simply the American League , is one of two leagues that make up Major League Baseball in the United States and Canada. It developed from the Western League, a minor league based in the Great Lakes states, that eventually aspired to major league...
rookieRookie is a term for a person who is in his or her first year of play of their sport and has little or no professional experience. The term also has the more general meaning of anyone new to a profession, training or activity Rookie is a term for a person who is in his or her first year of play of...
of the year in 1950; played twelve seasons for the Red Sox
- Jason Glushon (Xi)
- Professional Baseball Player
- Ryan Lee Covert (Xi)
- Professional Lacrosse Player
- Dallas Green
George Dallas Green is a former pitcher, manager, and executive in Major League Baseball. After playing for the Phillies and three other teams, he went on to manage the Phillies, the New York Yankees, and the New York Mets, and managed the Phillies when they won their first World Series title in...
(Delta Kappa)
- Major League baseball
Major League Baseball is the highest level of play in North 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...
player; manager of Chicago CubsThe Chicago Cubs are an American professional baseball team based in Chicago, Illinois. They are members of the Central Division of Major League Baseball's National League. They are one of two Major League clubs based in Chicago , the Cubs are also one of the two remaining charter members of the...
and New York MetsThe New York Mets are a professional baseball team based in the borough of Queens in New York City, New York. The Mets are a member of the East Division of Major League Baseball's National League....
; managed 1980 Philadelphia PhilliesThe Philadelphia Phillies are a Major League Baseball team based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and are the defending World Series champions. They are the oldest continuous, one-name, one-city franchise in all of professional American sports, dating to 1883. The Phillies are a member of the Eastern...
to first World SeriesThe World Series has been the annual championship series of the highest level of professional baseball in the United States and Canada since 1903, concluding the postseason of Major League Baseball...
title
- Al Groh
Al Groh is the head coach of the University of Virginia football team and the former head coach of the New York Jets of the NFL. He is a two-time Atlantic Coast Conference Coach of the Year, winning the award in 2002 and 2007...
(Beta)
- Former head coach of the New York Jets
The New York Jets are a professional American football team based in the Northeastern New Jersey part of the tri-state New York metropolitan area. They are members of the Eastern Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League . The team plays its home games in East...
, current head coach of the University of VirginiaThe University of Virginia is a public research university located in Charlottesville, Virginia, founded by Thomas Jefferson...
football team.
- Giles Tucker (Lambda Pi)
- [Football Player] Former All-American from Howell, Michigan; 160-lb nose guard; Highest National Average (15 Sacks/Game).
- John Hadl
John Willard Hadl is a former professional American football player.After playing halfback on both offense and defense at the University of Kansas as a sophomore, Hadl played quarterback for his last two years at Kansas, and was selected as the school's Player of the Century...
(Nu)
- A professional American football
American football, known in the United States and Canada simply as football, and often as Gridiron or Tackle football outside North America, is a competitive team sport known for combining strategy with physical play. The objective of the game is to score points by advancing the ball into the...
player who is now an associate athletic directorAthletic director is a position at many American colleges and universities, as well as in larger high schools and middle schools, which oversees the work of the coaches and related staff involved in intercollegiate or interscholastic athletic programs. At some colleges, the athletic director may...
in the University of Kansas (Jayhawks) athletic departmentThe sports teams at the University of Kansas are known as the Jayhawks. They participate in the NCAA's Division I and in the Big 12 Conference...
.
- Derrick Hall
Derrick Hall was named President of the Arizona Diamondbacks on Sept. 6, 2006, officially taking the day-to-day lead of the organization after having served as Executive Vice President; Senior Vice President, Marketing and Communications; and Senior Vice President, Communications since joining the...
(Zeta Upsilon)
- Current President of the Arizona Diamondbacks
The Arizona Diamondbacks are a professional baseball team based in Phoenix, Arizona. They play in the West Division of Major League Baseball's National League. From 1998 to the present, they have played in Chase Field...
.
- Dick Howser
Richard Dalton Howser was an American Major League Baseball shortstop, coach and manager.-Playing career:...
(Zeta Zeta)
- The Sporting News American League Rookie of the Year in 1961; managed the Kansas City Royals
The Kansas City Royals are a Major League Baseball team based in Kansas City, Missouri. The Royals are a member of the Central Division of Major League Baseball's American League. From to the present, the Royals have played in Kauffman Stadium...
to first World SeriesThe World Series has been the annual championship series of the highest level of professional baseball in the United States and Canada since 1903, concluding the postseason of Major League Baseball...
title
- Lindy Infante
Lindy Infante was head coach of the Green Bay Packers from 1988 to December 22, 1991 and of the Indianapolis Colts from 1996 to 1997...
(Epsilon Zeta)
- Green Bay Packers
The Green Bay Packers are a professional American football team based in Green Bay, Wisconsin. They are members of the North Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League and are the third-oldest franchise in the NFL.The Packers are the last vestige of "small town...
head coachA head coach, senior coach or manager is a professional at training and developing sports men and women. They typically hold a more public profile and are paid more than other coaches...
1988–1991
- Chet Jastremski (Beta Eta)
- 1964 Olympic Bronze
Bronze is a metal alloy consisting primarily of copper, usually with tin as the main additive, but sometimes with other elements such as phosphorus, manganese, aluminium, or silicon. It was particularly significant in antiquity, giving its name to the Bronze Age...
Medalist; made the cover of Sports IllustratedSports Illustrated is an American sports magazine owned by media conglomerate Time Warner. It has over 3 million subscribers and is read by 23 million adults each week, including over 18 million men, 19% of the adult males in the United States. It was the first magazine with circulation over one...
; member of the swimming hall of fame
- Hayes Alan Jenkins
Hayes Alan Jenkins , an American figure skater, led men's skating for 4 years, 1953-56. He won four consecutive World Figure Skating Championships from 1953 to 1956. He also won the gold medal in the 1956 Winter Olympics, after placing 4th in the 1952 Winter Olympics. His brother David Jenkins...
(Gamma Beta)
- Olympic
The Olympic Games are a major international event of summer and winter sports, in which thousands of athletes compete in a wide variety of events. The Games are currently held every two years, with Summer and Winter Olympic Games alternating. Originally, the ancient Olympic Games were held in...
figure skatingFigure skating is a Olympic sport in which individuals, pairs, or groups perform spins, jumps, footwork and other intricate and challenging moves on ice. Figure skaters compete at various levels from beginner up to the Olympic level , and at local, national, and international competitions...
Gold Medalist, 1956
- Norm Johnson
Norman Douglas "Norm" Johnson is a former professional American football placekicker who played for 18 seasons in the National Football League. During that time, he played for the Seattle Seahawks , Atlanta Falcons , Pittsburgh Steelers , and the Philadelphia Eagles...
(Epsilon Pi)
- Ranks fifteenth all time in points scored in NFL history
- Stan Jones
Stanley Paul Jones is a former American football guard and defensive tackle in the National Football League for the Chicago Bears and the Washington Redskins...
(Delta Phi)
- NFL Hall of Famer
- Guy Lewis
Guy Vernon Lewis II is a former NCAA basketball coach who led the University of Houston Cougars program for 30 years from 1956-86.-University of Houston:...
(Zeta Chi)
- University of Houston Basketball coach with 27 straight winning seasons
- Tommy McDonald
Thomas Franklin McDonald is a former professional American football wide receiver in the National Football League.McDonald attended Roy High School in Roy, NM, his freshman year and moved to Albuquerque where he graduated from Highland High School.He excelled as a running back at the University of...
(Delta Epsilon)
- Member of both NFL and College Halls of Fame.
- Archie Manning
Elisha Archibald "Archie" Manning III is a former American football quarterback in the National Football League. He is the father of current Indianapolis Colts starting quarterback Peyton Manning, current New York Giants starting quarterback Eli Manning, and former Ole Miss receiver, Cooper...
(Epsilon XI)
- Professional quarterback
Quarterback is a position in American and Canadian football. Quarterbacks are members of the offensive team and line up directly behind the center, in the middle of the offensive line. Quarterbacks are the leaders of the offensive team, responsible for calling the play in the huddle...
for the New Orleans SaintsThe New Orleans Saints are a professional American football team based in New Orleans, Louisiana. The Saints play in the South Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League ....
- Eli Manning
Elisha Nelson "Eli" Manning is an American football quarterback for the New York Giants of the National Football League. He is the younger brother of NFL quarterback Peyton Manning and the son of former NFL quarterback Archie Manning...
(Epsilon Xi)
- Quarterback for the New York Giants
The New York Giants are a professional American football team based in East Rutherford, New Jersey. The team plays its home games at Giants Stadium, which also serves as its headquarters, and trains at an adjacent practice facility within the Meadowlands Sports Complex...
, Super Bowl XLIISuper Bowl XLII was an American football game that featured the National Football Conference champion New York Giants and the American Football Conference champion New England Patriots to decide the National Football League champion for the 2007 season...
.
- Mike McCormack (Nu)
- NFL Hall of Famer
- Wayne Munn
Wayne Munn was a professional wrestler and collegiate football player from the University of Nebraska.-Wrestling career:His fame as a footballer attracted the attention of wrestling star, Ed Lewis and promoters Toots Mondt and Billy Sandow, who prematurely pushed Munn as the next big star in the...
(Delta Eta)
- World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion in 1925
- Rick Neuheisel
Richard Gerald “Rick” Neuheisel, Jr. is the head coach of the UCLA Bruins college football team....
(Epsilon Pi)
- UCLA Head Football Coach; former Offensive coordinator for the Baltimore Ravens
The Baltimore Ravens are a professional American football team based in Baltimore, Maryland. They compete in the AFC North Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League...
- Orval Overall
Orval Overall was an American right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball during the early 1900s.-Biography:...
(Beta Psi)
- MLB Pitcher for the Cincinnati Reds
The Cincinnati Reds are a Major League Baseball team based in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. They are members of the Central Division of the National League....
and the Chicago CubsThe Chicago Cubs are an American professional baseball team based in Chicago, Illinois. They are members of the Central Division of Major League Baseball's National League. They are one of two Major League clubs based in Chicago , the Cubs are also one of the two remaining charter members of the...
; 2.23 Lifetime ERA.
- Pat Riley
Patrick James "Pat" Riley is a former American National Basketball Association player and coach and the current team president of the Miami Heat. Widely regarded as one of the greatest NBA coaches of all time, Riley has served as the head coach of five championship teams and an assistant coach to...
(Gamma Iota)
- NBA
The National Basketball Association is a professional basketball league, composed of thirty teams in North America . It is an active member of USA Basketball , which is recognized by the International Basketball Federation as the National Governing Body for basketball in the United States...
head coach for Los Angeles LakersThe Los Angeles Lakers are a National Basketball Association team based in Los Angeles, California. The Lakers play their home games at Staples Center, which they share with their fellow NBA rival, the Los Angeles Clippers, and their sister team, the Los Angeles Sparks of the WNBA...
, New York KnicksThe New York Knickerbockers, known familiarly as the Knicks, are a professional National Basketball Association team based in New York City, and the most valuable franchise in the league, valued at $608 million...
, and currently the Miami HeatThe Miami Heat are a professional basketball team based in Miami, Florida, United States. The team is a member of the Southeast Division in the Eastern Conference of the National Basketball Association . They play their home games at American Airlines Arena...
; served as head coach for five NBA championship teams, and as a player or assistant coach on two more.
- John "Button" Salmon (Epsilon Alpha)
- Student Body President, baseball catcher and football quarterback at the University of Arizona
The University of Arizona is a land-grant and space-grant public institution of higher education and research located in Tucson, Arizona, United States. The University of Arizona was the first university in the state of Arizona, founded in 1885...
in 1926. He was fatally wounded in car a accident, and on his deathbed told Pop McKaleJames Fred "Pop" McKale was a former multiple sport college athlete, coach and athletic director. He had a lifetime commitment to athletics, which started at Albion College in 1906. McKale was named a two-time All-State athlete in both football and baseball at Albion. He helped the football team...
, the athletic director to tell the football team to "Bear Down"Bear Down" is the official motto of the University of Arizona , located in Tucson, Arizona. It is the inspiration for "Bear Down, Arizona!," the unofficial fight song of the school's Arizona Wildcats. The official fight song is "Fight! Wildcats! Fight!" written by Douglas Holsclaw.-History:The...
," which has since become the school's motto and was uttered two years before Knute Rockne's "Win one for the Gipper."
- Roy Skinner (Zeta Theta)
- Vanderbilt University Basketball coach (1961-1976); winningest coach in school history. Integrated the Southeastern Conference
The Southeastern Conference is a college athletic conference headquartered in , which operates in the southeastern part of the United States. It participates in the NCAA's Division I in athletic competitions; for football, it is part of the Division I Football Bowl Subdivision...
(SEC) basketball by signing the first black player, Perry Wallace.
- Frank Solich
Frank Solich is the head football coach of the Ohio Bobcats. He also was once a fullback and later the head coach for the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers.-Background:...
(Delta Eta)
- College football coach of Ohio Bobcats
Ohio University features 16 varsity sports teams called the Bobcats. The Bobcats compete in the Mid-American Conference in all sports. The Bobcats were a charter member of the Mid-American Conference in 1946 and are the only team still in the conference from the original 5 team league that...
and Nebraska CornhuskersThe Nebraska Cornhuskers is the name given to several sports teams of the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. The university is a member of the Big 12 Conference and competes in NCAA Division I, fielding 21 varsity teams in 14 sports:Early nicknames for the university's athletic teams included the...
; led Nebraska to the national championship game after the 2001 season; won three national titles as an assistant coach.
- Bill Stanfill
William Thomas Stanfill is a former defensive end for the Miami Dolphins, in the American Football League and then in the NFL...
(Mu)
- NFL All-Pro defensive end
Defensive End is the name of a defensive position in the sport of American and Canadian football.This position has designated the players at each end of the defensive line, but changes in formations have substantially changed how the position is played over the years...
for Miami DolphinsThe Miami Dolphins are a professional football team based in the Miami, Florida metropolitan area. They play home games at Land Shark Stadium, in the suburb of Miami Gardens. They are headquartered at the Miami Dolphins Training Facility in Davie, Florida. The Dolphins belong to the Eastern...
; college footballCollege football is American football played by teams of student athletes fielded by American universities, colleges, and military academies. It was the venue through which American football first gained popularity in the United States...
All-American and Outland TrophyThe Outland Trophy is awarded to the best United States college football interior lineman by the Football Writers Association of America. It is named after John H. Outland...
winner for Georgia BulldogsThe Georgia Bulldogs are the athletic teams of The University of Georgia. The Bulldogs compete in the Southeastern Conference. All Georgia athletic teams are known as the Bulldogs, and Uga the Bulldog, of whom Uga VII is the latest in a much-beloved lineage, is the official school mascot.Bulldog...
- Steve Stenstrom
Steve Stenstrom is a former professional American football quarterback.-College career:Stenstrom was the starting quarterback at Stanford University from 1991 to 1994, and still holds most of Stanford's passing records:*Total yards, career: 9,825*Total yards, season: 3,398 *Passing yards gained,...
(Beta Chi)
- Stanford quarterback and a Heisman trophy candidate
- Greg Swindell
Forest Gregory Swindell is a former left-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball who had a 17-year career from to...
(Upsilon)
- MLB — Houston Astros
The Houston Astros is a major league baseball team located in Houston, Texas. The Astros are a member of the Central Division. From 2000 to the present, the Astros have played their home games at Minute Maid Park . The Astros joined MLB under the name Colt .45s along with the New York Mets in...
; named to Baseball American's all time college all-star team
- Tommy Vardell
Thomas "Tommy" Arthur Vardell is a former professional American football fullback in the National Football League.-College Career:Tommy Vardell was a star running back for the Stanford Cardinal...
(Beta Chi)
- Cleveland Browns
The Cleveland Browns are an American football team based in Cleveland, Ohio. They play in the AFC North division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League . The original Cleveland Browns began play in 1946 as a charter member of the All-America Football Conference and...
running backA running back is the position of a player on an American or Canadian football team who usually lines up in the offensive backfield...
- Jerry Kramer
Gerald Louis "Jerry" Kramer is a former professional football player, author and sports commentator, best remembered for his 11-year NFL career with the Green Bay Packers as an offensive lineman. As a 6'3", 250 lb...
(Delta Omicron)
- Green Bay Packers
The Green Bay Packers are a professional American football team based in Green Bay, Wisconsin. They are members of the North Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League and are the third-oldest franchise in the NFL.The Packers are the last vestige of "small town...
Right GuardRight Guard is a brand of deodorant for men.The Gillette Company introduced Right Guard as the first aerosol antiperspirant in the early 1960s....
- Billy Vessels
Billy Vessels was an outstanding college football player and winner of the 1952 Heisman trophy, as well as a professional football player with the National Football League's Baltimore Colts and the Western Interprovincial Football Union's Edmonton Eskimos.- College football career :Vessels led the...
(Delta Epsilon)
- Winner of 1952 Heisman Trophy
The Heisman Memorial Trophy Award , named after the former college football coach John Heisman, is awarded annually by the Heisman Trophy Trust to the most outstanding player in collegiate football...
- Bill Yoast
William "Bill" Yoast is an American high school football coach best known for being featured in the 2000 film Remember the Titans. He was portrayed by veteran actor Will Patton.Yoast grew up in Florence, Alabama...
(Eta)
- Coach portrayed in Remember the Titans
Remember the Titans is an American sports drama, directed by Boaz Yakin and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer for Walt Disney Pictures, released in 2000. The film stars Denzel Washington as coach Herman Boone and Ryan Hurst as Gary Bertier. Remember the Titans centers on the American football team of...
- Dane brugler
Dane Brugler is the owner/operator of nfldraftsource.com, a website focused on the NFL Draft. He has also appeared on several radio shows, including 105.3 The Fan in Dallas.He also writes a weekly column in the Dallas Sports Page about the NFL Draft....
(Beta Iota)
- Owner/Operator of NFL Draft Source, has appeared on many sports radio show's in Dallas/Fort Worth area, as well as writing a NFL Draft
The NFL Draft is an annual two-day event in which the 32 NFL teams select new players from the NCAA college system. It is the NFL's most common source of player recruitment.-Venue:...
column for the Dallas Sports Page
Other famous members
- Daniel Amos
Aflac Incorporated is the largest provider of supplemental insurance in the United States, founded in 1955 and based in Columbus, Georgia. In the United States, Aflac underwrites a range of insurance policies, but is perhaps best known for its payroll deduction insurance coverage, which pay cash...
(Mu)
- CEO of AFLAC
Aflac Incorporated is the largest provider of supplemental insurance in the United States, founded in 1955 and based in Columbus, Georgia. In the United States, Aflac underwrites a range of insurance policies, but is perhaps best known for its payroll deduction insurance coverage, which pay cash...
Insurance
- Vance Brand (Gamma Kappa)
- Astronaut
An astronaut or cosmonaut is a person trained by a human spaceflight program to command, pilot, or serve as a crew member of a spacecraft....
— flew on ASTP, commanderCommander is a military rank which is also sometimes used as a military title depending on the individual customs of a given military service...
of STS-5STS-5 was a space shuttle mission by NASA using the Space Shuttle Columbia, launched November 11, 1982. This was the fifth space shuttle mission, and was also the fifth mission for the Space Shuttle Columbia.-Crew:-Mission parameters:*Mass:...
and STS-41B
- Marshall Criser
Marshall M. Criser, Jr. is an American corporate lawyer and university administrator. Criser was the eighth president of the University of Florida located in Gainesville, Florida, serving from 1984 to 1989....
(Epsilon Zeta)
- Eighth President
President is a title held by many leaders of organizations, companies, trade unions, universities, and countries. Etymologically, a "president" is one who presides, who sits in leadership...
of the University of FloridaThe University of Florida is a public land-grant, sea-grant, space-grant major research university located on a campus located in Gainesville, Florida, in the United States. The university traces its origins to 1853, and has continuously operated on its present Gainesville campus since the fall...
(1984-1989)
- Richard C. Davis
Richard C. Davis is the founder, president and CEO of Trademark Properties, which he founded in 1990, in Charleston, South Carolina, U.S.A. He and his company specialize in "flipping" houses.-Flip This House:...
(Theta Zeta)
- CEO of Trademark Properties (subject of the TV show Flip This House
Flip This House is an American television series which airs on the A&E television network. Each episode spotlights the purchase and renovation of a single unit...
)
- Ronald Evans
Ronald Ellwin Evans, Jr. was a NASA astronaut. He was one of only 24 people to have flown to the Moon....
(Nu)
- NASA
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is an agency of the United States government, responsible for the nation's public space program. NASA was established by the National Aeronautics and Space Act on July 29, 1958, replacing its predecessor, the National Advisory Committee for...
astronautAn astronaut or cosmonaut is a person trained by a human spaceflight program to command, pilot, or serve as a crew member of a spacecraft....
and Pathfinder to the Stars who piloted Apollo 17Apollo 17 was the eleventh manned space mission in the NASA Apollo program. It was the first night launch of a U.S. human spaceflight and the sixth and final lunar landing mission of the Apollo program. The mission was launched at 12:33 a.m. EST on December 7, 1972, and concluded on December 19. It...
- Gary Fayard
Gary Fayard is currently the chief financial officer and executive vice president of The Coca-Cola Company. He has been with the company since 1994, and has been CFO since December 1999. He graduated from the University of Alabama....
(Theta)
- CFO of The Coca-Cola Company
The Coca-Cola Company is the world's largest beverage company, largest manufacturer, distributor and marketer of non-alcoholic beverage concentrates and syrups in the world and is one of the largest corporations in the United States. The company is best known for its flagship product Coca-Cola,...
- Robert L. Gernon
Robert Lawrence Gernon was born in Sabetha, Nemaha County, Kansas.He was a 1966 KU B-School major who studied law at Washburn University in Topeka, Kansas graduating in 1969....
(Nu)
- Kansas
Kansas is a state located in the Midwestern United States. It is named after the Kansas River which flows through it, which in turn was named after the Kansa tribe, who inhabited the area. The tribe's name is often said to mean "people of the wind" or "people of the south wind," although this was...
Supreme Court Justice 2003-2005
- Joe Gormon (Zeta Gamma)
- Former CEO and Chairman of TRW
TRW Incorporated was an American corporation involved in a number of businesses, mostly defense-related, but including automotive, aerospace and credit reporting.The credit reporting business, spun off in 1996, is now called Experian...
.
- V. Burns Hargis (Epsilon Epsilon)
- President, Oklahoma State University.
- Chet Huber
OnStar Corporation is a subsidiary of General Motors that provides subscription-based communications, in-vehicle security, hands free calling, turn-by-turn navigation, and remote diagnostics systems throughout the United States and Canada. OnStar services are only available currently on vehicles...
(Eta Mu)
- Current President of OnStar
OnStar Corporation is a subsidiary of General Motors that provides subscription-based communications, in-vehicle security, hands free calling, turn-by-turn navigation, and remote diagnostics systems throughout the United States and Canada. OnStar services are only available currently on vehicles...
- Dane Miller
Biomet, Inc. is a medical device manufacturer located in Warsaw, Indiana. The company specializes in reconstructive products for hips, knees and shoulders, fixation devices, orthopedic support devices, dental implants and operating room supplies.-History:...
(Eta Mu)
- Founder and former President of Biomet
Biomet, Inc. is a medical device manufacturer located in Warsaw, Indiana. The company specializes in reconstructive products for hips, knees and shoulders, fixation devices, orthopedic support devices, dental implants and operating room supplies.-History:...
- Neal Katyal
Neal Kumar Katyal is the Principal Deputy Solicitor General of the United States. Prof. Katyal was the Paul and Patricia Saunders Professor of National Security Law at Georgetown University Law Center and the lead counsel in the Supreme Court case Hamdan v...
(Delta Beta)
- Georgetown University Law Professor, main counsel for Hamdan v. Rumsfeld and argued the case before the U.S. Supreme Court
- Jack Katz
Jack Katz is the founder of the Panama Jack Company.Katz was a college football starting defensive lineman for the Florida Gators from 1962-1964. He was also an initiated member of Sigma Nu Fraternity at the U.of F.. Shortly after graduating from the University of Florida, he founded the Panama...
(Epsilon Zeta)
- Founder and President of Panama Jack clothing and sunglasses
- Donald Malarkey
Technical Sergeant Donald G. Malarkey was a non-commissioned officer with Easy Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, in the 101st Airborne Division of the United States Army during World War II...
(Gamma Zeta)
- Member of "Easy" Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment
The 506th Infantry Regiment is a unit assigned to the 4th Brigade Combat Team of the 101st Airborne Division. During World War II, the unit was designated the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment...
of the 101st Airborne DivisionThe 101st Airborne Division — the "Screaming Eagles"— is a U.S. Army modular infantry division trained for air assault operations. During World War II, it was renowned for action during the Normandy Landings and in the Battle of the Bulge...
, Portrayed in HBO's Band of Brothers
- Johnny L. Morris (Epsilon Beta)
- Founder and Owner of Bass Pro Shops
Bass Pro Shops is a privately held sports equipment and outdoor recreation goods store headquartered in Springfield, Missouri. The original Outdoor World store, referred to as the "Grand Daddy" is located at the corner of Sunshine and Campbell in Springfield...
outdoor retailer
- T. W. "Bill" Samuels, Jr. (Delta Alpha)
- CEO and chief distiller of Maker's Mark
Maker’s Mark is a handcrafted, small-batch bourbon whisky distilled in Loretto, Kentucky. It is sold in unusually-shaped squarish bottles, which are sealed with red wax. The distillery is located near Loretto, Kentucky. It offers tours, and is part of the American Whiskey Trail and the Kentucky...
Whiskey
- Charles R. Schwab
Charles Robert Schwab, Jr. is the founder and former CEO of the Charles Schwab Corporation.On the 2008 Forbes 400 list, Schwab is listed as the 55th richest person in the United States with a fortune of approximately $6.2 billion....
(Beta Chi)
- Founder, Chairman and CEO of Charles Schwab Corporation Retail Stock Brokerage
- General
A general officer is an officer of high military rank. The term or equivalent is used by nearly every country in the world. General can be used as a generic term for all grades of general officer, or it can specifically refer to a single rank that is simply called general.-All general officer...
Paul TibbetsPaul Warfield Tibbets, Jr. was a brigadier general in the United States Air Force, best known for being the pilot of the Enola Gay, the first aircraft to drop an atomic bomb in the history of warfare. The bomb, code-named Little Boy, was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima...
(Epsilon Zeta)
- Pilot
An aviator is a person who flies aircraft for pleasure or as a profession. The first recorded use of the term was in 1887 as a variation of the French 'aviation', from the latin 'avis', coined 1863 by G. de la Landelle in "Aviation ou Navigation Aérienne"...
of the Enola GayThe Enola Gay is the B-29 Superfortress bomber that dropped the first atomic bomb, code-named "Little Boy", to be used in war, by the United States Army Air Forces in the attack on Hiroshima, Japan on 6 August 1945, just before the end of World War II...
, the plane that dropped the first atomic bomb used in warfare on Hiroshimais the capital of Hiroshima Prefecture, and the largest city in the Chūgoku region of western Honshū, the largest island of Japan. It became the first city in history assaulted by nuclear armament when the United States of America dropped an atomic bomb on it on August 6, 1945, near the culmination...
in 1945
- T. Jeremiah Beam (Gamma Iota)
- 5th master distiller of Jim Beam
Jim Beam is a brand of bourbon whiskey. It is currently the best selling brand of bourbon in the world. Founded in 1795, the Jim Beam distillery has been family operated for seven generations. The brand was given the name “Jim Beam” in 1933 after Colonel James B. Beam, who rebuilt the business...
Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey
- Don Tyson (Gamma Upsilon)
- Chairman of Tyson Foods
Tyson Foods, org. is an American multinational corporation based in Springdale, Arkansas, that operates in the food industry. The company second is the world's largest processor and marketer of chicken, beef, and pork only behind Brazillian JBS S.A., and annually exports the largest percentage of...
- Herman B Wells
Herman B Wells was the 11th president of Indiana University. He served the university in a variety of capacities, most notably as president and as chancellor. He was pivotal in the development of Indiana University into a world class institution of higher learning.- Early life :Herman B Wells was...
(Beta Eta)
- President, Indiana University
Indiana University, founded in 1820 as the Indiana State Seminary and renamed the Indiana College in 1846, is a nine-campus university system in the state of Indiana...
- David O'Reilly
David O'Reilly may refer to:* David O'Reilly , Irish-born filmmaker and artist* David O'Reilly, BBC Northern Ireland presenter more commonly known as Rigsy* David J. O'Reilly, chairman of Chevron Corporation...
(Epsilon Beta)
- Chairman and Founder, O'Reilly Auto Parts
O'Reilly Auto Parts is a publicly traded chain of Auto Parts stores that started with one store in Springfield, Missouri in 1957. It has since grown to more than 3,300 stores in 38 states. The corporate headquarters of O'Reilly is located in Springfield....
- Daniel D. Reneau (Eta Zeta)
- President, Louisiana Tech University
Louisiana Tech University, located in Ruston, Louisiana is a coeducational public institution of higher learning with an enrollment of 10,950 students in the 08-09 year. Louisiana Tech was first instituted as the Industrial Institute and College of Louisiana in 1894, then as Louisiana Polytechnic...
- Jeff Tremaine
Jeff Tremaine is an American film and television producer/director, and, along with Johnny Knoxville and Spike Jonze, one of the creators of MTV's Jackass. He directed Jackass: The Movie, Jackass Number Two, and Jackass spinoff Wildboyz...
(Gamma Omicron)
- Director, Jackass
A jackass is a male donkey.Jackass may also refer to:In entertainment:* Jackass * Jackass: The Movie, 2002* Jackass Number Two, 2006 film* Jackass 2.5, a DVD release* Jackass: The Game, a video game...
, Jackass: The MovieJackass: The Movie is a 2002 American reality film directed by Jeff Tremaine with the tagline "Do not attempt this at home." It is a riskier and uncensored continuation of the stunts and pranks by the various characters of the MTV television series Jackass, which had completed its series run by...
, Jackass: Number TwoJackass Number Two is a 2006 comedy film. It is the sequel to Jackass: The Movie , both based upon the MTV series Jackass. Like its predecessor and the original TV show, the film is a compilation of stunts, pranks and skits with essentially no plot...
& more
- Richard Kinder
Richard Kinder is a billionaire from Missouri, and former president of Enron. Kinder partnered with Bill Morgan to form Kinder Morgan Energy Partners, a large energy and pipeline corporation....
(Rho)
- Founder, Kinder Morgan Energy Partners
- Former President of Enron
Enron Corporation was an American energy company based in Houston, Texas. Before its bankruptcy in late 2001, Enron employed approximately 22,000 and was one of the world's leading electricity, natural gas, pulp and paper, and communications companies, with claimed revenues of nearly $101 billion...
- Dr. John A. White (Gamma Upsilon)
- Chancellor, University of Arkansas
The University of Arkansas, often shortened to U of A or just UA, is a public co-educational land-grant research university. It is the flagship campus of the University of Arkansas System and is located in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Founded as Arkansas Industrial University in 1871, its present name...
- Bradley Wise Dunning(a.k.a. "Small Jimmy") (Theta)
- Manager, Cumberland Services University of Alabama
The University of Alabama is a public coeducational university located in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA. Founded in 1831, UA is the flagship university of the University of Alabama System. Within Alabama, it is often called "the Capstone"...
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