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If there is anything the general public knows about DKE, it is the names of some of the Fraternity's members. DKE is a small fraternity as fraternities go. What is exceptional about prominent DKE alumni is not that there are so many of them, but that they represent such a large percentage of the membership. Here are just a few... 


     •     Presidents of the United States
     •     Rutherford B. Hayes, Delta Chi 
     •     Theodore Roosevelt, Alpha 
     •     Gerald R. Ford, Omicron 
     •     George H. W. Bush, Phi 
     •     George W. Bush, Phi 


     •     Vice Presidents of the United States 
     •     Theodore Roosevelt, Alpha 
     •     Gerald R. Ford, Omicron 
     •     George H. W. Bush, Phi 
     •     J. Danforth Quayle, Psi Phi 


     •     Sitting State Governors
     •     George Pataki, New York
     •     Mike Foster, Zeta Zeta, Louisiana
     •     Tony Knowles, Phi, Alaska
     •     Don Siegelman, Psi, Alabama


     •     106th U. S. Congress
     •     Senator Ted Stevens, Theta Rho, Alaska
     •     Congressman Cass Ballenger, Sigma, North Carolina
     •     Congressman Pete Stark, Sigma Tau, California


     •     Newspaper Publishers & Editors
     •     Whitelaw Reid, Kappa, Editor-in-chief, New York Tribune
     •     William Randolph Hearst, Alpha, Publisher,  Hearst Newspapers
     •     Otis Chandler, Sigma Rho, Publisher,  Los Angeles Times
     •     Richard J. V. Johnson, Omega Chi, Publisher, Houston Chronicle
     •     Eugene Pulliam, Psi Phi, Publisher, Indianapolis Newspapers, Inc.
     •     Rance Craine, Psi Phi, Publisher, Crain Communications


     •     Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court 
     •     John Hessin Clarke, Beta Chi 
     •     Harold H. Burton, Theta 
     •     Potter Stuart, Phi 


     •     Other Famous Dekes 
     •     William Simon, Rho - Former Secretary of the Treasury 
     •     John F. Akers, Phi - Past President of I.B.M. 
     •     Mario Garcia Menocal, Delta Chi - President of the Republic of Cuba 
     •     Charles Ives, Phi - Pulitzer Prize winner in Music 
     •     Yuan Schikau, Phi - Prime Minister of the Chinese Empire 
     •     Henry Cabot Lodge, Alpha - Senate Majority Leader 
     •     Rear Admiral Sidney W. Souers, Kappa - first director of the C.I.A. 
     •     Melvil Dewey, Sigma - devised the Dewey Decimal System 
     •     Charles A. Ellis, Gamma Phi - designed the Golden Gate Bridge 
     •     Robert A. Peary, Theta - first man to reach the North Pole 
     •     Alan Bean, Omega Chi - Apollo astronaut, walked on the moon 


     •     Business Founders, Presidents, and Chairmen 
     •     J. Pierpont Morgan, Alpha - financier 
     •     Irving H. Chase, Phi - Chase Manhattan Bank 
     •     Dean Witter, Jr., Phi - Dean Witter & Co. 
     •     Edward Bausch, Beta Phi - Bausch & Lomb Opticals 
     •     William W. Wrigley, Phi - Wrigley's Gum 
     •     Howard Heinz, Phi - Heinz 57 Varieties 
     •     Howard Johnson, Phi - Howard Johnson Motor Inns 
     •     James M. Gamble, Lambda - Proctor and Gamble 
     •     Herb Kelleher, Gamma Phi - Southwest Airlines
     •     Fred Smith, Phi - Federal Express


     •     Prominent Sporting Figures 
     •     Paul Brown, Kappa - coach of Cleveland Browns and owner of Cincinnati Bengals 
     •     Thomas W. Landry, Omega Chi - coach of Dallas Cowboys 
     •     Joe Paterno, Upsilon - Penn State football coach 
     •     George Steinbrenner, Epsilon - owner of the New York Yankees 
     •     Don Schollander, Phi - won four gold medals in swimming in 1964 Olympics 
     •     Calvin Hill, Phi - Yale football star 
     •     Hugh Culverhouse, Psi - owner of Tampa Bay Buccaneers 
     •     A. Bartlett Giamatti, Phi - Commissioner of Major League Baseball 


     •     In the Entertainment World 
     •     Dick Clark, Phi Gamma - hosted American Bandstand 
     •     Harry Hamlin, Theta Zeta - actor 
     •     Cole Porter, Phi - composer 
     •     Jonathan Winters, Lambda - comedian and writer 







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