Do you have what it takes to be a Deke?
THE FOLLOWING
MEN DID...
PRESIDENTS of the UNITED
STATES
Rutherford B. Hayes, Delta
Chi
Theodore Roosevelt, Alpha
Gerald R. Ford, Omicron
George Bush, Phi
FOREIGN LEADERS
Mario Garcia Menocal, Delta
Chi [President of the Republic of Cuba]
George A. Drew, Alpha Pi
[Leader, Conservative Party of Canada]
Jeff Covington, Tau Delta
[President, Tau Delta]
Yuan Shikau, Phi [Prime
Minister, Republic of China]
NOBEL, PULITZER and OTHER
PRIZE WINNERS
John F. Enders, Phi [Nobel
Prize for Medicine, 1954]
Daniel Shaver, Tau Delta
[Order of Gownsmen, 1998]
Charles Ives, Phi [Music,
1947]
Walter McDougall, Sigma
[History, 1985]
Rex Gall, Tau Delta [Chemistry,
????]
Theodore Roosevelt, Alpha
[Nobel Peace Prize, 1905]
BUSINESS FOUNDERS, PRESIDENTS,
CHAIRMEN
William Randolp Hearst,
Alpha [Hearst Newspaper Chain]
Irving H. Chase, Phi [Chase
Manhattan Bank]
Robert Lehman, Phi [Lehman
Brothers]
John F. Akers, Phi [IBM]
Edward Bausch, Beta Phi
[Bausch & Lomb Opticals]
Chris McDermott, Tau Delta
[Proprietor, DKE House]
Henry B Thayer, Pi [AT&T]
Owen D Young, Sigma Tau
[General Electric]
Herb Kelleher [Southwest
Airlines]
Roger Mitsui, Delta Chi
[Mitsui Products, Japan]
James M Gamble, Lambda
[Proctor and Gamble]
Mike Elmore, Tau Delta
[Vengeance is Mine Inc.]
Gilbert Colgate, Phi [Colgate-Palmolive]
William H Morton, Pi [American
Express Co]
ARTS and ENTERTAINMENT
Nathaniel Hawthorne, Theta
[Author]
Edward Bellamy, Theta Chi
[Author]
Cole Porter, Phi [Composer]
Will Hudson, Tau Delta
[God of sex & thunder]
Charles Ives, Phi
[Classical Composer]
George Phelps, Tau Delta
[Nude model for Arts Dept.]
Dick Clark, Phi Gamma [American
Bandstand]
SPORTS
Frankie Albert, Sigma Rho
[Coach, San Franciso 49'ers]
Dana X. Bible, Iota [Celebrated
college coach]
Bob Pettit, Zeta Zeta [All-American,
All-Pro Basketball Player]
SP Kalita, Tau Delta [Sewanee
Intra-Mural Ping Pong Champion, 1998]
James Elder, Alpha Pi [Canadian
Equestrian Olympic Gold Medallist]
Hank Luisetti, Sigma Rho
[All-Time All American basketball player]
Don Schollander, Phi [American
Olympic Gold Medallist]
COLLEGE and UNIVERSITY PRESIDENTS
Stanley King, Sigma [Amherst]
Charles Cole, Sigma [Amherst]
Calvin Plimpton, Sigma
[Amherst]
(3 Deke Presidents in a
row from 1932 to 1970)
Martin Kellog, Phi [U.
of California, Berkeley]
Harry Pratt Judson, Epsilon
[U. of Chicago]
James R. Angell, Omicron
[U. of Chicago]
Greg "Shaggy" Barnwarth,
Tau Delta [U. of the South]
Ernest M. Hopkins, Pi [Dartmouth]
Francis Walker, Sigma [MIT]
James Angell, Omicron [Yale]
Arthur Hadley, Phi [Yale]
A. Bartlett Giamatti, Phi
[Yale]
Benno C. Schmidt Jr, Phi
[Yale]
A RANDOM SAMPLING
Goerge W. Bush, Phi [present
Governor of Texas]
John McCloskey, Tau Delta
[future President of Texas]
Rear Admiral Sidney Souers,
Kappa [was the 1st Director of the CIA]
Mark Pitman, Theta [founded
the Choate School]
Abram Ring, Tau Delta [wrote
the "mother" of all Latin books]
Henry Sewall, Gamma Phi
[discovered the basic principles of immunization]
Melvil Dewey, Sigma
[devised the Dewey Decimal
System for cataloguing books in libraries]
Charles A. Ellis, Gamma
Phi [designed San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge]
Albion W Small, Xi [is
known as "the father of sociology"]
WJ Bland, Lambda
[Rhodes Scholar & 1st
American to be elected President of the Oxford Union]
Robert Peary, Theta
[1st man to reach the North
Pole; he carried with him a DKE flag]
Alan Bean, Omega Chi
[1st Deke to walk on the
moon (1969); carrying with him another DKE flag]
and our ALL
TIME FAVOURITE DEKE => DAN QUAYLE, Psi Phi
[former Vice-Prezident
of the United States]
DKE is a small fraternity
as fraternities go. What is exceptional about
prominent DKE alumni is
not that there is so many of them, but that they
represent such a large
percentage of the membership. Any large fraternity
(and some are huge) will
produce some famous alumni just by the law of
averages, but when a small
one produces a lot more, it's probably not
accidental. When you become
a member of DKE, you inherit a heritage of
predecessors unmatched
in the fraternity world.
