Famous Delta Upsilon Alumni

Politics and Government

• Stephen J. Field (Williams 1837): US Supreme Court Justice
• James Abram Garfield (Williams 1856): President of the United States
• Justin L. Morrill (Middlebury 1860): US Senator for Vermont; Author of the Land Grant College Act
• W.H.H. Miller (Hamilton 1861): Attorney General of the United States
• Daniel S. Lamont (Union 1872): US Secretary of War
• George W. Goethals (Manhattan 1877): General of the US Army; Chief Engineer during the building of the Panama Canal
• Otto M. Eidlitz (Cornell 1881): Contractor and Civic Investigator
• Charles Evans Hughes (Colgate and Brown 1881): Governor of New York; Vice President of the United States; US Secretary of State; Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court
• Charles G. Dawes (Marietta 1884): Vice President of the United States; Ambassador to Great Britain; Winner of the Nobel Prize for Peace
• Arthur M. Hyde (Michigan 1899): US Secretary of Agriculture
• William B. Greeley (Stanford and California 1901): Chief Forester, US Forest Service
• Arthur H. Vandenberg (Michigan 1904): US Senator for Michigan
• J. Arthur Clark (Toronto 1906): President of the Canadian Bar Association
• Robert H. Lord (Harvard and Northwestern 1906): Adviser to the 1918 Versailles Peace Conference
• Amos J. Peaslee (Swarthmore 1907): US Ambassador to Australia
• W. W. Randolph Burgess (Brown 1912): US Ambassador to NATO
• Joseph P. Kennedy (Harvard 1912): US Ambassador to Great Britain; father of two US Senators and a US President
• James B. Conlan (Harvard 1913): US Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany
• Paul H. Douglas (Bowdoin 1913): US Senator for Illinois
• Sumner T. Pike (Bowdoin 1913): President of the US Atomic Energy Commission
• John L. Keddy (Hamilton 1915): Curator of the Smithsonian Institute
• Matthew W. Hill (Washington 1917): Chief Justice of the Washington State Supreme Court
• Kenneth B. Keating (Rochester 1919): US Senator for New York; US Ambassador to India; US Ambassador to Israel; Brigadier General of the United States Army
• Lester B. Pearson (Toronto 1919): Prime Minister of Canada; President of the United Nations General Assembly; Winner of the Nobel Prize for Peace
• David E. Lilienthal (DePauw 1920): President of the US Atomic Energy Commission
• Herbert Brownell (Nebraska 1924): US Attorney General
• Clifford P. Case (Rutgers 1925): US Senator for New Jersey
• Francis H. Russell (Tufts 1926): US Ambassador to Indonesia
• General David M. Shoup (DePauw 1926): Commandant of the US Marine Corps; Winner of the Congressional Medal of Honor
• John M. Matthias (Ohio State 1928): Justice of the Ohio Supreme Court
• Frank R. Kenison (Dartmouth 1929): Chief Justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court
• Winston L. Prouty (Lafayette 1930): US Senator for Vermont
• Foy D. Kohler (Ohio State 1931): US Ambassador to the USSR
• William H. Avery (Kansas 1934): Governor of Kansas
• Joseph L. Fisher (Technology 1935): US Congressman for Virginia
• Robert T. Stafford (Middlebury 1935): US Congressman for Vermont; US Senator for Vermont
• George R. Hunter (Manitoba 1937): Member of Canadian Parliament
• William C. O'Neill (Marietta and Ohio State 1938): Governor of Ohio
• John P. Roberts (Western Ontario 1939): Premier of Ontario
• F. Ray Keyser, Jr. (Tufts 1950): Governor of Vermont
• Dr. G. William Whitehurst (Washington and Lee 1950): US Congressman for Virginia
• William H. Brown, Jr. (Swarthmore 1951): Parliamentarian in the United States House of Representatives
• John B. Conlan (Northwestern 1951): US Congressman for Arizona
• Alan J. Dixon (Illinios 1951): US Senator for Illinois
• E. Peter Lougheed (Alberta 1952): Premier of Alberta
• Ronald A. Irwin (Western Ontario 1957): Canadian Minister of Indian Affairs
• Thomas E. Morgan (Lafayette 1958): US Congressman for Pennsylvania
• John S. Herrington (Stanford 1961): US Energy Secretary
• N. Lloyd Axworthy (Manitoba 1963): Member of Canadian Parliament; Minister of Foreign Affairs
• Micheal D. Barnes (North Carolina 1965): US Congressman for Maryland
• Anthony J. Moffat Jr. (Syracuse 1966): US Congressman for Connecticut
• Paul R. Ford (Middlebury 1967): Director of Amnesty International
• Les Aspin Jr. (Marquette 1970): US Congressman for Wisconsin; US Secretary of Defense

Sports

• Kenneth L. "Tug" Wilson (Illinois 1920): Chairman of the US Olympic Committee
• Andrew Currie (Manitoba 1935): Professional Football Player for Regina Roughriders; Canadian Football League Hall of Famer
• Leland S. MacPhail (Swarthmore 1939): President of National League Baseball; General Manager of the New York Yankees
• Dr. J. Robert Cade (Florida 1945): Inventor of Gatorade
• Frank R. Burns (Rutgers 1949): Head Football Coach for Rutgers University
• Darrell K. Royal (Oklahoma 1950): Head Football Coach for the University of Texas
• Harvey Kuenn Jr. (Wisconsin 1954): Professional Baseball Player and Manager
• Louis L. Holtz (Kent State 1958): Head Football Coach of the University of Notre Dame
• Peter V. Ueberroth (San Jose 1959): Organizer of the 1984 Summer Olympics; Commissioner of Major League Baseball
• Theodore R. Boehm (Brown 1960): Chairman of the 1987 Pan Am Games Organizing Committee
• Galen S. Hall (Penn State 1962): Head Football Coach of the University of Florida
• Peter Gogolak (Cornell 1964): Professional Football Player for the New York Giants
• Clark E. Graebner (Northwestern 1965): Professional Tennis Player
• James D. Rodgers (Iowa 1965): Head Coach of the Boston Celtics
• James A. Boeheim Jr. (Syracuse 1966): Head Coach for Syracuse Basketball
• Thurman Munson (Kent State 1969): Professional Baseball Player for the New York Yankees
• John J. Ebersole (Penn State 1970): Professional Football Player for the New York Jets
• James H. Sundberg (Iowa 1973): Professional Baseball Player for the Texas Rangers
• Randolph C. Gradishar (Ohio State 1974): Professional Football Player for the Denver Broncos
• Mark VanEeghen (Colgate 1974): Professional Football Player for the Oakland Raiders
• Randell Gregg Jr. (Alberta 1975): NHL Defenseman on four Stanley Cup Champions
• Thomas W. Darling (Syracuse 1981): Silver Medalist in Crew at 1984 Olympics; Crew Member of Stars and Stripes, Winner of the America's Cup
• James A. Les (Bradley 1986): Professional Basketball Player

Education

• David Starr Jordan (Cornell 1872): First President of Stanford University
• Fenton W. Booth (DePauw 1892): Dean of Harvard Law
• Harry Emerson Fosdick (Colgate 1900): Theologian; Author; Educator
• James B. Conant (Harvard 1914): President of Harvard
• Homer W. Davis (Hamilton 1916): President of Athens College, Athens, Greece
• Dr. Gordon P. Eaton (Wesleyan 1951): President of Iowa State University
• Dr. Richard A. Kenyon (Clarkson 1954): President of Tri-State University
• Stanley O. Ikenberry (Illinois 1956): Chancellor and President of the University of Illinois System
• Dr. James B. Holderman (Denison 1958): President of the University of South Carolina
• Dr. Paul J. Olscamp (Western Ontario 1958): President of Bowling Green State University
• Dr. John E. Brown (Kansas 1961): President of Coe College
• Dr. William H. Mobley (Denison 1963): President of Texas A&M University
• Melvin A. Eggers (Syracuse 1976): Chancellor of Syracuse University
• Dr. Richard N. Cyert (Carnegie 1986): President of Carnegie-Mellon University

Entertainment

• Edgar J. Bergen (Northwestern 1927): Ventriloquist; Entertainer
• George A. "Banana George" Blair (Miami 1937): Champion Barefoot Water-Skier; Businessman; Entertainer
• Anthony H. Sargent (Washington and Lee 1955): News Correspondent for CBS News
• Noel P. Stookey (Michigan State 1955): Folk Singer and Composer; "Paul" of Peter, Paul and Mary
• Ronald H. Husmann (Northwestern 1959): Broadway and Screen Actor and Producer
• Richard D. Threlkeld (Ripon 1960): ABC News Correspondent
• John H. Davidson (Denison 1963): Actor; Singer; Comedian
• Alan Thicke (Western Ontario 1967): Actor; Songwriter
• Stephen R. Walker (Iowa State 1984): Host of "The Pet Department" on FOX TV
• Jonathan M. Frankel (Syracuse 1986): News Correspondent for NBC

Literature and Publishing

• William Bross (Williams 1838): Editor of the Chicago Tribune
• Rossiter Johnson (Rochester 1863): Historian; Novelist
• Rupert Hughes (Western Reserve 1892): Historian; Novelist
• Stephen Crane (Lafayette and Syracuse 1894): Journalist and Author; Red Badge of Courage
• Joyce Kilmer (Rutgers 1909): Poet and Battlefield Reporter
• Leland Stowe (Wesleyan 1921): Columnist; 1930 Pulitzer Prize Winner
• Hedley W. Donovan (Minnesota 1934): Editor-In-Chief of TIME Magazine
• Drew Middleton (Syracuse 1934): Syndicated Columnist and London Correspondent for The New York Times
• Robert Letts Jones (Stanford 1935): President of Copley Newspapers
• Austin H. Kiplinger (Cornell 1938): Publisher of the Kiplinger Letter
• Dwight E. Sargent (Colby 1939): Editorialist and Editor of the New York Herald Tribune
• Heywood Hale Broun (Swarthmore 1940): Editorialist and Author
• Donal Dinwiddle (Virginia 1940): Editor-In-Chief of Popular Mechanics Publishing Company
• Buert R. Servaas (Indiana 1941): President of The Saturday Evening Post
• Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (Cornell 1944): Editorialist and Author
• Richard F. McLoughlin (DePauw 1950): President of Reader's Digest
• Donald Axinn (Middlebury 1951): Poet and Author
• Richard A. Moran (Rutgers 1972): Author
• Joseph P. Turton (Denison 1994): Author of My Freshman Manual

Business

• Alexander D. Noyes (Amherst 1883): Financial Editor of the New York Times
• Alfred J.P. Sloan Jr. (Technology 1895): Chairman of the Board for General Motors
• Wallace T. Holliday (Western Reserve 1905): President of Standard Oil of Ohio
• William A. Mather (McGill 1908): President of Canadian Pacific Railroad
• Clarence Francis (Amherst 1910): President of General Foods
• Albert W. Hughes (Colgate 1911): President of J.C. Penny
• Thomas B. McCabe (Swarthmore 1915): President of Scott Paper; Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board
• Winthorp H. Smith (Amherst 1916): Co-founder of Merrill, Lynch, Pierce, Fenner, and Smith
• David Burpee (Cornell 1917): President of Burpee Seed Company
• Morse G. Dial (Cornell 1919): Chairman of Union Carbide
• Edward P. Taylor (McGill 1922): Chairman of Canadian Breweries; President of the Argus Corporation
• William E. Robinson (New York 1923): Chairman of Coca-Cola Company
• James S. Schoff (Rochester 1923): Chairman of Bloomingdale's Department Stores
• Nelson Schaenan Sr. (Cornell 1923): Chairman of Smith Barney & Company
• Arnold Bernhard (Williams 1925): Founder of the investment news organization ValueLine
• Charles F. White (Bucknell 1925): President of M&M Candy Company
• Leslie M. Cassidy (Pennsylvania 1926): Chairman and CEO of Johns-Manville
• Earl B. Hathaway (Northwestern 1927): President of Firestone Tire and Rubber Company
• Trevor F. Moore (Toronto 1928): Vice President of Imperial Oil of Canada
• James S. McDonnell (Technology 1929): Chairman of McDonnell-Douglas
• Arthur V. Danner (Indiana 1930): President of Mobil Petroleum Company
• Leonard E. Root (Pacific 1932): President of Lockheed Missiles and Space Co.
• Edward W. Carter (UCLA 1932): Chairman Emeritus, Carter, Hawley, Hale (Nieman-Marcus, WaldenBooks)
• Dwane L. Wallace (Wichita 1933): Chairman of Cessna Aircraft Co.
• Semon E. Knudsen (Technology 1936): President of Ford Motor Company
• David M. Chenoweth (McGill 1938): Director and Executive Vice President of Molson Breweries Ltd
• Edward G. Harness (Marietta 1940): CEO of Proctor & Gamble
• Walter A. Fallon (Union 1940): President and CEO of Eastman Kodak
• Forwood C. Wiser Jr. (Northern Illinois 1942): President of Trans World Airlines
• Charles L. Brown (Virginia 1943): Chairman of AT&T
• L. Gordon McGovern (Brown 1948): Chairman of Campbell Soup
• John W. Amerman (Dartmouth 1953): Chairman and CEO of Mattel International
• Richard P. Simmions (Technology 1953): Chairman of Allegheny Ludlum Steel
• William M. Crossin (Toronto 1955): President of Merle Norman Cosmetics
• John P. Morgridge (Wisconsin 1955): President and CEO of Cisco Systems Inc.
• John W. Rogers (Miami 1957): Chairman and CEO of United Parcel Service
• Lawrence D. Downing (Iowa State 1958): President of the Sierra Club
• Gerald T. Aaron (Wichita 1963): President of Pizza Hut
• Steve Rowley (Ohio 1965): President of DAY-TIMERS Inc.
• Michael D. Eisner (Denison 1964): Chairman and CEO of Walt Disney Inc.
• Miles G. Bryant III (Arlington 1970): President and General Director of Chrysler of Mexico

Science and Technology

• Charles F. Kettering (Ohio State 1904): Founder of the Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research
• Laurens Hammond (Cornell 1916): Inventor of the pipeless organ
• Arnold O. Beckman (Illinois 1922): Inventor of the pH meter and Founder of Beckman Instruments
• Linus C. Pauling (Oregon State 1922): Winner of two Nobel Prizes - Chemistry and Peace
• Dr. Christian Boehmer Anfinsen Jr. (Swarthmore 1937): Winner of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry
• Dr. Augustus A. White III (Brown 1957): Chief Surgeon of Orthopaedics at Beth Israel Hospital in Boston
• Col. Frederick R. Hauck (Tufts 1962): NASA Astronaut
• Brewster H. Shaw (Wisconsin 1967): NASA Astronaut
• Terry Hart (Lehigh 1968): NASA Astronaut

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