Since 1827, a Tradition of Distinction
For almost two hundred years the members of Delta Phi have been dedicated to the highest standards of friendship, literature, and morality. Membership in Delta Phi has always been a mark of excellence, achievement, and strong character. We celebrate the accomplishments of brothers current and past, and dedicate ourselves to the best virtues and true merits of Delta Phi.
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Business & Finance |
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| Halsey M. Minor | Ρ |
University of Virginia
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1983 | Founder of CNET.com, $1 billion media and internet technology firm. Chairman of the Board; CEO (1992-2000). | |||
| Christopher B. Galvin | Ρ |
University of Virginia
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1973 | Chairman of the Board and CEO Motorola, Inc. | |||
| Willard G. Rouse, III | Ρ |
University of Virginia
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1966 |
Successful real estate developer; pioneered the “Festival Marketplace” concept exemplified by Baltimore
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| Robinson Kendall Nottingham | Ξ |
Johns Hopkins University
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1956 |
Chairman of Board of Directors of American Life Insurance Company (1989-), CEO for Japan and Korea; American International Group, Inc. (1986-1989), Board of Directors AIG Overseas Fin. Inc. (Japan), Member WorldBoard of Governors U.S.O. (1987-), President U.S.O. Coun., Tokyo, (1987-1989).
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| Raymond E. Joslin | Σ |
Trinity College
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1956 |
Cable television pioneer and entrepreneur. Oversaw the Hearst Corporation
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| James A. Carrigg | A |
Union College
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1951 |
Chairman, President, and CEO of NY Electric & Gas Corporation
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| William Polk Carey | Η |
University of Pennsylvania
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1951 |
Founder of WP Carey & Co., a $1 billion corporate real estate investment bank. Significant benefactor to the St. Elmo Foundation and numerous other philanthropic causes.
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| Edgar Miles Bronfman, Sr. | Υ |
Williams College
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1947 |
CEO of Seagrams, Inc., President, World Jewish Congress, Philanthropist, Winner, Presidential Medal of Freedom.
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| Jules L. Plangere, Jr. | Ε |
Rutgers University
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1944 |
Newspaper Executive. Chairman of New Jersey Press Inc., namesake of the Jules L. Plangere Jr. Center for Communication and Instructional Technology (CCIT) at Monmouth University ($5 million dollar gift)
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| Paul Winfrey Adams | Σ |
Trinity College
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1931 |
President of The Norden Labs Corp, which was famed for developing the Norden Bomb Sight, Trustee of Trinty College.
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| George Stewart Davison | Λ |
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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1922 |
President of Gulf Refining Company and other subsidiaries of Gulf Oil Corporation (1911-1929), Vice-President Gulf Oil Corporation, President of American Society of Civil Engineers.
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| Lucius Douglas Tompkins | E |
Rutgers University
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1907 |
President of General Rubber Company, Director of United States Rubber Company.
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| Laurence Jerome Conger | Π |
Cornell University
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1903 |
President of the Smith-Corona Typewrite Company(1915-1926)
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| John Lowry, Jr. | Γ |
New York University
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1902 |
CEO of Lowry Construction, builders of Radio City Music Hall, RKO Building, Museum of Modern Art, IBM, World Trade Headquarters
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| Henry Pomeroy Davison | Γ |
New York University
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1901 |
President of Liberty National Bank (1899-1902), Vice-President of First National Bank (1902), Partner of J.P. Morgan & Company (1922), Director of many corporations including New Jersey and New York Railroad Company, and BankersTrust Company, Chairman of Governing Board of World League of Red Cross Societies (1917-1919), Recipient of Knight of the Order of the Crown of Italy and Commander of the French Legion of Honor.
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| Ogden Trevor McClurg | O |
Yale University
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1899 |
Bookseller and Publisher, A.C. McClurg & Company (1911-1923)
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| Leonard Augustus Yerkes | H |
University of Pennsylvania
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1898 |
President of DuPont Rayon Company and DuPont Cellophane Company, Director of du Pont de Nemours Company.
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| John Whitridge | N |
Lehigh University
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1897 |
President of Armstrong Stove & Manufacturing Company (1922)
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| John Wycoff Mettler | E |
Rutgers University
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1895 |
Businessman, Founder and President of Interwoven Stocking Company (1905-1952)
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| Philip Stockton | Z |
Harvard University
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1894 |
Financier, President of First National Bank of Boston (1910- 1934), Director of numerous important corporations including American Telephone and Telegraph Company and General Electric Company.
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| John Francis Havemeyer | O |
Yale University
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1893 |
President of Havoline Oil Company, President of Concrete Steel Company.
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| Edward Boteler Passano | N |
Lehigh University
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1890 |
President Waverly Press Inc. (1907-1927), President Williams & Wilkins Company, printers and publishers of scientific books.
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| Arthur J. Baldwin | Π |
Cornell University
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1889 |
President Hill Publishing Company (later McGraw-Hill Company), Vice-President McGraw-Hill Company, President of National Publishers Association.
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| Herbert Howard Rice | B |
Brown University
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1888 |
President and General Manager Cadillac Motor Car Company (1921-1925), Assistant to President General Motors Corporation (1925-1930), Treasurer and Vice-President General Motors Corporation (1916-1921), PresidentWaverley Company(1908-1916), President Sweet Oil Refinery Company, Chairman Alaska-Pacific Highway Commission (1930).
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| Benjamin Franklin Jones, Jr. | H |
University of Pennsylvania
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1888 |
Chairman of the Board Jones & Laughlin Steel Company (1923-1928), President of Jones & Laughlin Steel Company (1902-1923).
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| Robert Swain Perry | N |
Lehigh University
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1887 |
Inventor and Manufacturer, President of the National Bauxite Company.
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| John Pierpont Morgan, Jr. | Z |
Harvard University
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1886 |
Financier, President of J.P. Morgan & Company, Director of numerous important corporations including United States Steel Corporation and Aetna Insurance Company, Trustee of numerous important organizationsincluding the Metropolitan Museum of Art, American Museum of Natural History, and New York Public Library, the Greatest Financier of his Day, acted as agent of Allied governments in floating large loans in U.S. during World War I, Defender of The America
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| John Jacob Astor, III | Z |
Harvard University
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1885 |
Financier, Philanthropist. Built Astoria Hotel, which joined with Waldorf Hotel, (Waldorf-Astoria). Died on the Titanic in 1912. At the time of his death he was the wealthiest man in the world.
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| Henry Sleeper Harper | Δ |
Columbia University
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1884 |
Publisher, Survivor of the Titanic.
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| John Bancroft Devins | Γ |
New York University
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1879 |
Editor-in-Chief, New York Observer, Editor and Proprietor of New York Observer (1905-1911).
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| Charles Scribner | Θ |
Princeton University
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1874 |
Publisher, President of Charles Scribner & Co.
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| Haley Fiske | E |
Rutgers University
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1870 |
Executive, Social Reformer, Created Unemployment Insurance, Started Private Mortgage Insurance in the United States, President of Metropolitan Life Insurance Company (1919 -1929), at the time the largest life insurance company inthe world and the first company to exceed $2 billion in assets.
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| William H. Nichols | Γ |
New York University
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1869 |
CEO Allied Chemicals, CEO General Chemical Company (1907-1920), President Nichols Chemical Company (1890-1918), Director of Corn Exchange Bank, Director of Title Guarantee & Trust Company, Vice-CEOof PolytechnicInstitute of Brooklyn, Chairman of Committee on Chemicals of the Council of National Defense (1917), Incorporator of the American Chemical Society and President (1918-1919), President of Society Chemical Industry (1904-1905), Widely Decorated by various European Governments.
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| Robert Fulton Cutting | Δ |
Columbia University
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1868 |
Financier, Civic Leader, Philanthropist. President of Cooper Union. Founder and President of the Citizens Union.
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| George Griswold Frelinghuysen | E |
Rutgers University
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1866 |
President of P. Ballantine & Sons Brewing Co. (at the time one of the largest breweries in the United States)
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| Tunis Garret Bergen | E |
Rutgers University
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1863 |
Noted Lawyer, Administrator, Executive; President of College Heights Land Company, President of Bogota City Railroad Company, President of Chapinero Railroad Company; President of Board of Education, Brooklyn; President, Board ofTrustees, Brooklyn Heights Seminary; New York State Commissioner of Charities.
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| John Neilson Carpender | E |
Rutgers University
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1863 |
President of Norfolk and New Brunswick Hosiery Company
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| John Bogart | E |
Rutgers University
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1853 |
Famous Engineer in hydroelectric development in United States and Canada. Brought Hydroelectricty to Niagara Falls and Tennessee River among other places. He prepared the plans for the first subway in NewYorkCity and for Tunnels under the Hudson River.
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| Alexander Cook Durbin | H |
University of Pennsylvania
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1849 |
Manufacturer, built the USS Monitor, the metal hulled ship of its class.
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| John Wesley Harper | Δ |
Columbia University
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1848 |
Publisher, President of Harper Brothers (later Harper & Row)
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| James Roosevelt | A |
Union College
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1846 |
Railroad President, Banker, Philanthropist, Father of United States President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
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| Robert Cambridge Livingston, Sr. | A |
Union College
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1829 |
Aided Morse in Establishing Telegraph.
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Government, Military & Public Policy |
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| George F. Will | Σ |
Trinity College
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1959 |
Pulitzer prize-winning political commentator, leading conservative political thinker and mainstay of television news and analysis programs. Almost as well known for equally passionate and insightful books on professional baseball.
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| Thomas B. Evans, Jr. | Ρ |
University of Virginia
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1950 |
United States Congress Representative from Delaware.
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| Daniel Baugh Brewster | Ξ |
Johns Hopkins University
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1941 |
United States Congress Representative from Maryland (1959-1963), United States Senator from Maryland (1963-1969).
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| Carl May Weideman | I |
University of Michigan
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1927 |
United States Congress Representative from Michigan (1933-1935).
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| Seymour Parker Gilbert | E |
Rutgers University
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1924 |
Under-Secretary of the United States Treasury (1921-1923), Assistant-Secretary of the United States Treasury (1920-1921), Agent-General for Reparation Payments to Germany (1924-1930), Partner J. P. Morgan &Company(1931-1938),Recipient of many foreign meritorious honors.
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| Percival Wood Clement | Σ |
Trinity College
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1920 |
Governor of Vermont (1919-1920)
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| Thomas Knight Finletter | H |
University of Pennsylvania
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1911 |
Assistant to Secretary of State (1941-1943), Consultant to United States Delegation to the United Nations (1945), First Secretary of the United States Air Force.
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| Clayton Douglas Buck | H |
University of Pennsylvania
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1909 |
Governor of Delaware (1929-1937), United States Senator from Delaware (1943-1949).
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| Stanley Forman Reed | Ρ |
University of Virginia
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1908 |
Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (1939-1952), Solicitor General of United States (1935-1938). Tried many of the most important cases arising from the New Deal legislation. Braved vicious publicopinion inthe South for voting in favor of ending segregation in Brown v. Board of Education (1954).
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| Herbert Clairborne Pell, Jr. | Δ |
Columbia University
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1907 |
United States Congress Representative from New York (1919-1921), Minister to Hungary.
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| Thomas Woodnutt Miller | O |
Yale University
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1907 |
United States Congress Representative from Delaware (1915-1917), Secretary of State of Delaware (1913-1915), Incorporator of the American Legion, National Commander of American Legion, Founded the Nevada State ParkSystem(1935),Chairman of Nevada State Park System (1935-1937, 1952-1959, 1967-1972).
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| Lawrence Lanier Winslow | Δ |
Columbia University
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1904 |
Under Secretary of War (1917-1919).
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| Ulysses Simpson Grant, III | Δ |
Columbia University
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1898 |
United States Army General, Grandson of United States President Ulysses S. Grant. Constructed the first swimming pool inside the White House for President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
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| Charles Browne | H |
University of Pennsylvania
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1896 |
Mayor of Princeton, New Jersey (1914-1922).
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| Peter Gansevoort Ten Eyck | Λ |
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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1894 |
United States Congress Representative from New York (1913-1915; 1921-1923).
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| Albert Cabell Ritchie | Ξ |
Johns Hopkins University
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1893 |
Governor of Maryland (1920-1935); Four Terms
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| James Wallace Beardsley | Π |
Cornell University
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1891 |
Engineer, in Charge of Harbor Work with United States Corps of Engineers (1900-1902), Director of Public Works of the Philippines (1905-1908).
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| Regis Henri Post | Z |
Harvard University
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1891 |
New York State Assemblyman from 1899 to 1900, Appointed Governor of Puerto Rico in 1907 by President Theodore Roosevelt
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| Drury Walls Cooper | E |
Rutgers University
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1890 |
Mayor of New Brunswick, New Jersey (1905-1907), Major Benefactor of Douglass College.
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| William Cameron Forbes | Z |
Harvard University
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1889 |
Diplomat, Governor-General of the Philippines (1909-1913), U.S. Ambassador to Japan (1930-1932).
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| Richard Olney, Jr. | B |
Brown University
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1888 |
United States Congress Representative from Massachusetts (1915-1921).
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| John Dyneley Prince | Δ |
Columbia University
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1887 |
Acting Governor of New Jersey (1912), President of New Jersey Senate (1917-1922).
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| John Joseph Blandin | Ξ |
Johns Hopkins University
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1886 |
Highest ranking officer killed as a result of the explosion of the U.S.S. Maine in Havana Harbor, the incident that lit the fuse to the Spanish-American War.
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| Franklin Eli Brooks | B |
Brown University
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1881 |
United States Congress Representative from Colorado (1903-1907).
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| John Gray Evans | A |
Union College
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1880 |
Governor of South Carolina (1894-1897).
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| Joseph Eugene Ransdell | A |
Union College
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1880 |
United States Congress Representative from Louisiana (1899-1913), United States Senator from Louisiana (1913-1931).
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| Henry Granville Sharpe | E |
Rutgers University
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1875 |
United States Army General and Author, Quartermaster General, U.S. Army (1916) and Major General (1918).
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| Ernest Howard Crosby | Γ |
New York University
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1872 |
Founder of the Anti-Imperialism League and other progressive social causes at the turn of the century. Proponent of non-violence and noted author; reform colleague of Mark Twain, Leo Tolstoy and Dan Beard.Penned the famous poem about the nature of brotherhood, ”No one could tell me where my soul might be; I searched for God, but He eluded me; I sought my brother out and found all three.”
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| Garret Augustus Hobart | E |
Rutgers University
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1863 |
Vice President of the United States (1897-1899)
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| Charles King | Δ |
Columbia University
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1861 |
United States Army General and Author, brigadier general of volunteers in Spanish-American War; served under General Lawton in Philippines (1899).
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| Garret Dorset Wall Vroom | E |
Rutgers University
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1859 |
Mayor of Trenton, New Jersey (1881-1884).
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| John Mosher Bailey | A |
Union College
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1858 |
United States Congress Representative from New York (1877-1881).
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| Sydenham B. Alexander | K |
University of North Carolina
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1857 |
Inspector general on the staff of Maj. Gen. Robert F. Hoke for the Confederate States of America. Following the war he was elected to the U.S. House in 1890 and served in the 52nd and 53rd Congresses
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| David Miller DeWitt | E |
Rutgers University
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1856 |
United States Congress Representative from New York (1873-1875).
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| George Frederick Seward | A |
Union College
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1856 |
Noted diplomat who served as Minister to China (1876-1879) and Minister to Korea (1867) and was President of the Fidelity and Casualty Company. He was also nephew of U.S. Sect. of State William Henry Seward, whobrokerd the purchase of Alaska.
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| Cushman Kellogg Davis | I |
University of Michigan
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1856 |
Governor of Minnesota (1874-1876), United States Senator from Minnesota (1887-1900), Peace Commissioner to Paris (1898).
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| Wells Thompson | K |
University of North Carolina
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1856 |
President of Texas State Senate (1870-1872), Lieutenant- Governor of Texas (1877-1880), originally elected in 1870 but was not allowed to qualify by United States Military Government.
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| DeWitt Ten Broeck Reiley | E |
Rutgers University
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1855 |
Mayor of New Brunswick, New Jersey (1879- 1881)
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| George Cochrane Hazelton | A |
Union College
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1855 |
United States Congress Representative from Wisconsin (1877-1883).
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| Benjamin Platt Carpenter | A |
Union College
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1854 |
Governor of Montana Territory (1884-1885).
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| Philip Sidney Post | A |
Union College
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1854 |
United States Congress Representative from Illinois (1887-1895), Recipient of the Congressional Medal of Honor (1893).
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| Alfred Alexander Woodhull | Θ |
Princeton University
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1853 |
Military surgeon in the Union Army. Woodhull was a widely recognized author in the field of medicine, and achieved the rank of brigadier general
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| Charles M. Voorhis | E |
Rutgers University
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1851 |
United States Congress Representative from New Jersey (1879-1881).
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| Henry Augustus Reeves | A |
Union College
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1851 |
United States Congress Representative from New York (1869-1871).
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| Daniel Myers Van Auken | A |
Union College
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1851 |
United States Congress Representative from Pennsylvania (1866-1871).
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| Allen Wright | A |
Union College
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1850 |
Noted Clergyman and Full-blooded Choctaw Indian, Twice Governor of Choctaw Indian Nation, Commissioner of the United States and Choctaw Nation Peace Treaty (1866), Chose the Name “Oklahoma” for the Territory and the State. Translated the Bible into Choctaw.
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| William Lounsberry | E |
Rutgers University
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1848 |
United States Congress Representative from New York (1879-1881).
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| George Craig Lulow | E |
Rutgers University
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1847 |
Governor of New Jersey (1881-1884).
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| Martin Brimmer | Z |
Harvard University
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1846 |
United States Congress Representative from Massachusetts.
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| Daniel Bookstaver | E |
Rutgers University
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1846 |
Mayor of Syracuse, New York (1863).
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| George Henry Sharpe | E |
Rutgers University
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1845 |
Civil War General and Hero, Lawyer, Politician, Coordinated the Union intelligence effort critical to the victory at Gettysburg. Was present at Lee’s surrender.
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| Nathaniel Whittaker Voorhees | E |
Rutgers University
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1845 |
Secretary of New Jersey State Senate (1875, 1876, 1879), father of New Jersey Governor, Foster M. Voorhees
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| Samuel Sullivan Cox | B |
Brown University
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1844 |
United States Congress Representative from Ohio (1857-1865) and New York (1869-1883), Speaker Pro Tem of the House of Representatives (1876).
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| John Winthrop Chanler | Δ |
Columbia University
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1843 |
United States Congress Representative from New York (1863-1869).
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| Robert Benjamin Hilton | B |
Brown University
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1841 |
Elected Member of United States Congress; Representative (1861); never took office due to war. Member of Congress of the CSA.
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| William Gaston | B |
Brown University
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1838 |
Mayor of Boston (1871-1872), Governor of Massachusetts (1874).
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| Joseph G. Masten | A |
Union College
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1827 |
Mayor of Buffalo, New York (1843-1846).
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Ministry |
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| Philip M. Rhinelander | Δ |
Columbia University
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1882 |
Episcopal Bishop of Pennsylvania (1911 - 1923)
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| Henry Yates Satterlee | Δ |
Columbia University
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1860 |
First Episcopal Bishop of Washington D.C., Conceived, planned and began contruction of the Washington National Cathedral.
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| James Petigru Boyce | B |
Brown University
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1846 |
Founded the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.
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| William Edmond Armitage | Δ |
Columbia University
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1846 |
Episcopal Bishop of Wisconsin (1870-1873)
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| Howard Crosby | Γ |
New York University
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1841 |
American Presbyterian Clergyman and Author; Founder, Young Mens Christian Association (Y.M.C.A.); Founder of the Society for the Prevention of Crime (1877), Chancellor of New York University (1871-1883).
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| Edmund Hamilton Sears | A |
Union College
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1832 |
Unitarian Minister and author of many famous hymns including It Came Upon A Midnight Clear, one of the most popular Christmas carols of all time.
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Academia |
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| Louis Faugeres Bishop, Jr. | E |
Rutgers University
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1984 |
Founder of the American College of Cardiology
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| Richard E. Hoover | Y |
Penn State University
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1962 |
President of Hastings College
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| Willard Finley Enteman, II | U |
Williams College
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1956 |
Dean of Students at Union College; President of Bowdoin College.
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| Paul E. Torgersen | N |
Lehigh University
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1950 |
President Virginia Polytechnic Institute (Virginia Tech).
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| George Michael Low | Λ |
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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1943 |
President of Rensselear Polytechnic Iinstitute (1976-1984) Aerospace Pioneer. Chief of Manned Space Flight. In this capacity, he was closely involved in the planning of Projects Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo. Named as Manager of the Apollo Spacecraft Program Office by President Nixon. Under his direction, eight Apollo flights were successfully flown. Among these missions were Apollo 8, the first manned lunar orbital flight (Dec. 1968) (the plan for which was initiated by GML), and Apollo 11, the first manned lunar landing (July 1969). Later as Acting Administrator, negotiation space agreement with the Soviet Union, which lay the foundation for the Apollo-Soyuz flight in 1975, and other joint space projects.
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| Terris Moore | U |
Williams College
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1926 |
President of University of Alaska (1949-1953), President of Boston Museum of Science (1945-1948), Explorer American Expedition (Sikong Expedition) which explored, mapped and determined altitude and made first ascentof Mt.Minya Konka; Tibet and China, also member of various expeditions which made other 1st ascents, Fellow; Royal Geographic Society.
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| Allan Nevins | T |
University of Illinois
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1925 |
Educator and Author, Two Pulitzer Prizes, Editorial writer for many major newspapers, professor or visiting professor/scholar to many institutions including Columbia (1931-1958), Cornell (1927-1928), Cal Tech (1937-1938),and Oxford (1940-1941, 1964-1965), Trustee at the Smithsonian Institution (1969-1971), President of American Historical Association, President of the American Academy Arts and Letters (1966- 1968), Recipient Pulitzer Prize for Biography (1932 and 1937), numerous other important awards including Gold Medal for History and Biography from the National Institute from Arts and Letters (1957) and the Golden Plate Award from the American Academy of Achievement (1966).
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| Harvey Nathaniel Davis | B |
Brown University
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1897 |
President of the Stevens Institute of Technology.
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| William Anthony Granville | O |
Yale University
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1896 |
Educator and Author, President of Gettysburg College.
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| Philip Milledoler Brett | E |
Rutgers University
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1888 |
Lawyer, Acting President of Rutgers University (1930-1931).
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| John Whitridge Williams | Ξ |
Johns Hopkins University
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1885 |
Physician, Writer, and Educator, One of the Chiefs of Johns Hopkins Hospital (1899-1931), Dean of Johns Hopkins Medical School (1911-1923), President of American Gynecological Association (1913-1914), President of American Association for the Study and Prevention of Child Mortality (1914-1916).
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| Charles Backman McMurray | A |
Union College
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1883 |
Acting President of Union College (1922-1923).
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| Herman Carey Bumpus | B |
Brown University
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1882 |
President of Tufts College (1914-1919).
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| Robert Henry Ferguson | B |
Brown University
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1881 |
President of Los Angeles University (now UCLA - 1891-1893).
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| William Henry Steele Demarest | E |
Rutgers University
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1881 |
Clergyman, President of Rutgers University (1906-1924).
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| John Cadwalader | H |
University of Pennsylvania
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1858 |
President of the Trust Company of North America (1889- 1897), Director and President of the Academy of Natural Sciences.
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| Theodore Sanford Doolittle | E |
Rutgers University
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1855 |
Educator, Acting President of Rutgers College (1889-1891), Vice-President of Rutgers College, Saviour of the Rutgers Fraternity System.
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| Archibald A. E. Taylor | Θ |
Princeton University
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1854 |
President of University of Wooster (1873-1883).
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| James Ryland Kendrick | B |
Brown University
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1839 |
President of Vassar College (1885-1886).
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| Matthew Meigs | A |
Union College
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1833 |
President of the College of Delaware.
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| John Jay Hyde | A |
Union College
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1832 |
Champion of the American Collegiate Fraternity System.
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| William Wilson | A |
Union College
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1827 |
President of College of Cincinnati, Bishop in Episcopal Church.
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| Silas Totten | A |
Union College
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1827 |
President of Iowa University, President of Trinity College.
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Athletics |
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| Glen Seward Foster, II | B |
Brown University
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1949 |
Olympic Bronze Medalist, Yachting (1972 - Munich, Tempest class).
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| Lawrence Abercromby Brown | H |
University of Pennsylvania
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1919 |
Track Star, World Record Holder in 1000 Yards, One Mile Relay, Two Mile Relay, 1600 Meter Relay, and 500 Yard dash, Member of the United States Olympic Team (1924), Broke \American 800 Meter Record at the Olympic Trials in1924
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| Curtis P. Stevens | Λ |
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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1918 |
Olympic Gold Medallist in Bobsledding (1932), former record holder. Gained national notoriety by heating his sled blades just before his gold-medal winning run.
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| William Wallace Wade | B |
Brown University
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1913 |
Member of the College Football Hall of Fame (elected 1955)
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| Wallace Ford Johnson | H |
University of Pennsylvania
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1907 |
Member of winning Davis Cup tennis team from England (1913), Runner-up against McLaughlin in National Championships (1912), Runner-up against the great Bill Tilden (1921).
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| David Lewis Fultz | B |
Brown University
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1895 |
Professional Baseball Player; Philadelphia (NL) (1898-1899), Baltimore (NL) (1899), Philadelphia (AL) (1901-1902), New York (AL) (1903-1905), Led American League in Runs in 1902 with 109. Football Coach atMissouriState (1899-1900), Baseball Coach at Brown (1900-1901), Football Coach at Lafayette (1903), Baseball Coach at United States Naval Academy (1907-1909), Baseball Coach at Columbia (1910-1911), President of International Baseball League (1919).
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| Guy Lowell | Z |
Harvard University
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1890 |
Yachtsman; Defender of Presidents Cup (1913), Challenger for Emperors Cup (1911), Sole Trustee of Lowell Observatory. Architect; Designed buildings at Harvard, Boston Museum of Fine Arts and New York CountyCourt House among others, Director Red Cross Department of Military Affairs, Highly Decorated by Italian Government including Order Crown of Italy, As a student he was Intercollegiate Champion in the Mile Run.
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| Richard A. Tuggle | Ρ |
University of Virginia
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1966 |
Acclaimed Screenwriter/Director. Screenwriter of Escape from Alcatraz (1979), Screenwriter/Director of Out of Bounds(1986), Screen Writer/Director of Tightrope (1994).
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| Peter O. Lawson-Johnston | Ρ |
University of Virginia
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1947 |
Chairman & Director, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation (operates the famed New York City Museum designed by Frank Lloyd Wright) and other charities, Director, National Review, Inc.
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| Russell Wayne Baker | Ξ |
Johns Hopkins University
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1946 |
Pulitzer Prize winning columnist for the New York Times. Host of PBS
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| George Jenkins | H |
University of Pennsylvania
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1934 |
Art Director and Production Designer, Academy Award, Films: The Best Years of Our Lives, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, Enchantment, A Song is Born, Roseanna McCoy, The San Francisco Story, The Miracle Worker,Mickey One, Up the Down Staircase, Wait Until Dark, No Way to Treat a Lady, The Subject Was Roses, Me Natalie, The Angel Levine, Klute, The Pursuit of Happiness, 1776, The Paper Chase, The Parallax View, Funny Lady, Night Moves, All the Presidents Men (Academy Award for Production Design, 1976), Comes a Horseman, The China Syndrome, Starting Over, The Postman Always Rings Twice, Rollover, Sophies Choice.
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| John Powell | Ρ |
University of Virginia
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1920 |
American Composer, Bridged the Gap Between Folk and Classical; Noted for Folk Ballads and Dances, listed in Grove
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| George Macready | B |
Brown University
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1918 |
Actor, Film Villain Par Excellence, Films: Commandos Strike at Dawn, The Seventh Cross, Wilson, The Story of Dr. Wassell, The Conspirators, Follow the Boys, Soul of a Monster, Don Juan Quilligan, A Song toRemember, The Missing Juror, Counter-Attack, The Fighting Guardsman, My Name is Julia Ross, I Love a Mystery, The Monster and the Ape, Gilda, The Man Who Dared, The Walls Came Tumbling Down, The Bandit of Sherwood Forest, The Return of Monte Cristo, The Swordsman, Down To Earth, The Black Arrow, The Big Clock, The Gallant Blade, Coroner Creek, Beyond Glory, Alias Nick Beal, Knock on Any Door, Johnny Allegro, The Doolins of Oklahoma, The Nevadan, A Lady Without Passport, Fortunes of Captain Blood, The Desert Hawk, Rogues of Sherwood Forest, The Desert Fox, Tarzan
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| John Hurstmanceaux Colton, Jr. | Δ |
Columbia University
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1907 |
Dramatist who is best known as a co-author of Rain (1922), a dramatization of W. Somerset Maugham
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| James Hamilton Owens | X |
Johns Hopkins University
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1906 |
Pulitzer Prize Winning Editor; Editor Baltimore Evening Sun , Pulitzer Prize in Journalism-Editorial (1937) and Pulitzer Prize in Journalism-Meritorious Public Service (1947).
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| Frederick Sheperd Converse | Z |
Harvard University
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1890 |
Composer, Important Compositions include The Pipe of Desire which was the first American Opera performed at the Metropolitan, and his best known work The Mystic Trumpeter, extensively written up in Groves.
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| George Santayana | Z |
Harvard University
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1890 |
Poet, Philosopher, and Essayist; The Sense of Beauty (1896),The Life of Reason (5 vols., 1905-06), Winds of Doctrine (1913), Character and Opinion in the United States (1920), Soliloquies in England (1922),Skepticism andAnimalFaith (1923), Dialogues in Limbo (1925), Platonism and the Spiritual Life (1927), The Realm of Essence (1928), The Realm of Matter (1930), The Gentile Tradition at Bay (1931), The Last Puritan (1935), The Realm of Truth (1937), The Realm of Spirit (1940), and the autobiographical Persons and Places (1943).
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| Elliot Pendleton Schenck | Δ |
Columbia University
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1887 |
Composer, Compositions played by Boston, New York, and Chicago Symphony Orchestras. Conductor New York Symphony Summer Concerts (1899-1903).
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| Henry Rankin Poore | H |
University of Pennsylvania
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1883 |
American Painter, excelled in landscape and in figure and animal painting.
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| John Whetten Ehninger | Δ |
Columbia University
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1846 |
Noted Artist. Genre Painter and Illustrator.
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| Frederick W. Rhinelander | Δ |
Columbia University
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1845 |
President of Metropolitan Museum of Art (1902-1904).
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| Sanford Robinson Gifford | B |
Brown University
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1842 |
Noted artist of the Hudson River school.
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