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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
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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