List of Theta Delta Chi members

This is a list of prominent members of the Theta Delta Chi fraternity. Names are listed followed by the school attended and the graduation year.^[1]

Arts

John Brougham, New York Graduate 1857, 19th century actor, dramatist, and orator
Fitz James O'Brien, New York Graduate 1857, New York Literary Bohemian, science fiction pioneer
Robert Frost, Dartmouth 1896, four time Pulitzer Prize winning poet

Alexander Woollcott, Hamilton 1896, drama critic NY Times, Herald-Tribune, Sun.
Norman H. Hackett, Michigan 1898, actor
Bellamy Partridge, Hobart 1900, author of County Lawyer
Donald Parson, Harvard 1905, author Portraits of Keats Grass Flowers
Stanton Griffis, Cornell 1910, former Chairman of Board of Paramount Pictures and Madison Square Garden
Arthur Hornblow, Jr., Dartmouth 1915, film producer Paramount and MGM
Eric Johnston, Washington 1917, President of US Chamber of Commerce, Motion Picture Association of America
Pat Ballard, Penn 1922, composer of the #1 song of 1954 "Mr. Sandman"
Frank Thomas, Stanford 1933, Thumpers (Bambi) creator
John Dunning, UCLA 1939, film editor, Oscar winner for Ben Hur
Tad Mosel, Amherst 1944, Pulitzer Prize for All the Way Home
Gardner McKay, Cornell 1953, actor, drama critic
John Nichols, Hamilton 1962, author The Milagro Bean Field War The Sterile Cuckoo
Joseph J. Ellis, William and Mary 1965, author Founding Brothers, American Sphinx, His Excellency
James Woods, MIT 1969, actor
Kary Antholis, Bowdoin 1984, documentary producer
William H. Joyner, William and Mary 1984, opera singer
Chip Esten, William and Mary 1987, actor/comedian, Whose Line Is It Anyway?
Sendhil Ramamurthy, Tufts 1996, actor from Heroes

Medicine

Frank Lahey, Harvard 1904, Founder of Boston's Lahey Clinic
Oliver Beahrs, Berkeley 1937, Head Surgery at the Mayo Clinic
Park Dietz, Cornell 1970, Renowned Forensic Psychologist

Public Life

Allen Beach, Union 1849, Lt. Governor of New York, Secretary of State of New York
John C. Nicholls, William and Mary 1853, Georgia (Rep.)
William D. Bloxham, William and Mary 1854, Governor of Florida
Clement Hall Sinnickson, Union 1855, New Jersey (Rep.)
Frederick George Bromberg, Harvard 1858, Alabama (Rep.)
John Hay, Brown 1858, Abraham Lincoln's secretary, Secretary of State
Henry J. Spooner, Brown 1860, Rhode Island (Rep.)
William W. Thomas, Jr., Bowdoin 1860, US Minister (Ambassador) to Norway and Sweden
Henry R. Gibson, Hobart 1862, Tennessee (Rep.)
Daniel N. Lockwood, Union 1865, New York (Rep.)
John Bayard McPherson, Princeton 1866, Judge, US Court of Appeals
Hosea M. Knowlton, Tufts 1867, Chief Prosecutor in Lizzie Borden case, Attorney General of Massachusetts ^[2]
John W. Griggs, Lafayette 1868, Governor of New Jersey, Attorney General
Nathan F. Dixon, III, Brown 1869, US Senator from Rhode Island
John Bellamy, Virginia 1875, Senator North Carolina
Walter R. Stiness, Brown 1877, Rhode Island (Rep.)
James McLachlan, Hamilton 1878, California (Rep.)
Thomas B. Kyle, Dartmouth 1880, Ohio (Rep.)
Frederick C. Stevens, Bowdoin 1881, Minnesota (Rep.)
Daniel J. McGillicuddy, Bowdoin 1881, Maine (Rep.)
John A. Dix, Cornell 1883, Governor of New York
Gonzalo de Quesada, CCNY 1888, architect of Cuban Independence Movement (statue at Havana Park)

John H. Bartlett, Dartmouth 1894, Governor of New Hampshire
Joseph Irwin France, Hamilton 1895, US Senator from Maryland
Rollin B. Sanford, Tufts 1897, New York (Rep.)
James A. Hamilton, Rochester 1898, New York Secretary of State ^[3]
Harlan W. Rippey, Rochester 1898, US District Court Judge/New York Court of Appeal Judge
Earle S. Warner, Hobart 1902, New York Supreme Court Justice
Arthur W. Coolidge, Tufts 1903, Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts
William F. Love, Rochester 1903, New York Supreme Court Justice
Frank Henry Buck, Berkeley 1907, California (Dem.)
Hans Schoenfeld, George Washington 1907, US Minister to Finland
Maurice E. Crumpacker, Michigan 1909, Oregon (Rep.)
Allen J. Furlow, Michigan 1916, Minnesota (Rep.)
Eric Johnston, Washington 1917, US Chamber of Commerce President
Irving M. Ives, Hamilton 1919, Senator New York
Arthur Kelly, Toronto 1920, Justice of the Supreme Court of Ontario
Louis P. Beaubien, McGill 1925, Senator of Canada from Quebec
Lane Dwinell, Dartmouth 1928, Governor of New Hampshire
Herman T. Schneebeli, Dartmouth 1930,Pennsylvania (Rep.)
Philleo Nash, Wisconsin 1932, Presidential Adviser for Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman, led integration of US Armed Forces ^[4]
Henry P. Smith, Dartmouth 1933, New York (Rep.)

John W. Tuthill, William and Mary 1932, Ambassador to Brazil
Alvin M. Bentley, Michigan 1940, Michigan (Rep.)
John W. Brook, Toronto 1946, Justice of the Supreme Court of Ontario
Donald R. Steele, Toronto 1946, Justice of the Supreme Court of Ontario
Richard Holland, Toronto 1947, Justice of the Supreme Court of Ontario
Edward Saunders, Toronto 1949, Justice of the Supreme Court of Ontario
Robert L. Leggett, Berkeley 1948, California (Rep.)
Thomas R. Pickering, Bowdoin 1953, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations
Jerry Lewis, UCLA 1956, California (Rep.)
Wesley C. Uhlman, Washington 1956, Mayor of Seattle
Hugh Rodham, Penn State 1972, Public Defender and Brother of Hillary Rodham Clinton^[5]
Bruce Rauner, Dartmouth 1978, Governor of Illinois
Michael K. Powell, William and Mary 1985, Chairman of the US Federal Communications Commission

Education

George W. Smith, Hobart 1857, President of Trinity College (Connecticut)
Elmer H. Capen, Tufts 1860, President of Tufts University
William Leslie Hooper, Tufts 1877, Acting President of Tufts University ^[6]
Albert W. Smith, Cornell 1878, Dean of Cornell Law School
Frederick W. Hamilton, Tufts 1880, President of Tufts University ^[6]
Ernest W. Huffcut, Cornell 1884, Dean of Cornell Law School, Legal Advisor to New York Governor Charles Evans Hughes
Frederick C. Ferry, Williams 1891, President of Hamilton College
Alexander Meiklejohn, Brown 1893, President of Amherst College
Guy S. Ford, Wisconsin 1895, President of University of Minnesota, Phi Beta Kappa
Hollis Godfrey, Tufts 1895, President of Drexel University
Samuel P. Capen, Tufts 1898, President of the University of Buffalo
Frank E. Compton, Wisconsin 1898, Creator of Compton's Encyclopedia
Winfred F. Smiter, Bowdoin 1899, President of Johns Hopkins University
Edmund Ezra Day, Dartmouth 1905, President of Cornell University
Chauncey S. Boucher, Michigan 1909, President of University of West Virginia/Chancellor of the University of Nebraska
Robert E. Doherty, Illinois 1909, President of Carnegie Mellon University
Erwin Schell, MIT 1912, Dean of MIT Department of Business and Engineering
John H. Williams, Brown 1912, First Dean of Harvard Graduate School of Public Administration (now Kennedy School of Government)
Leonard Carmichael, Tufts 1921, President of Tufts University, Secretary of Smithsonian
Alvin D. Chandler, William and Mary 1922, President of College of William and Mary
Francis H. Horn, Dartmouth 1930, President of the University of Rhode Island
Norman Topping, Washington 1930, Chancellor of the University of Southern California
Robert V. Schnabel, Bowdoin 1944, President of Valparaíso University
Julian Gibbs, Amherst 1946, President of Amherst College
W. Lawrence Gulick, Hamilton 1952, President of Saint Lawrence University
Richard M. Freeland, Amherst 1963, President of Northeastern University
Kenneth Greene, Tufts 1965, Interim Provost of Farleigh Dickinson University, College at Florham

Scholarship

William Leete Stone, Jr., Brown 1858, historian
Stephen M. Babcock, Tufts 1886, inventor of the Babcock Centrifuge (butterfat testing)
Henry Crampton, CCNY 1893, paleontologist and evolutionary biologist
Herbert E. Bolton, Wisconsin 1895, President of the American Historical Association
Carlos Baker, Dartmouth 1932, Hemingway biographer, scholar of Princeton University

Lester C. Thurow, Williams 1960, Dean of the MIT Sloan School of Management
William A. McClung, Williams 1966, literary and architectural historian
C. Evan Stewart, Cornell 1974, Cornell Board of Trustees, Chair of Cornell University Council, Lawyer in New York, historian
Michael K. Powell, William and Mary 1985, Rector of The College of William and Mary 2006

Military

William Lamb, William and Mary 1853, Civil War "Hero of Fort Fisher"
Henry Goddard Thomas, Bowdoin 1858, Brigadier General U.S. Army first regular officer to command United States Colored Troops
Benjamin P. Lamberton, Dickinson 1862, Admiral U.S. Navy
Eben Swift, Dickinson 1874, Major General U.S. Army
Arthur Japy Hepburn, Dickinson 1896, Admiral Commander in Chief of the U.S. Fleet
Donald B. MacMillan, Bowdoin 1897, Arctic explorer, Rear Admiral, U.S.N.
Raymond W. Bliss, Tufts 1910, former Surgeon General of the U.S. Army
Silas B. Hays, Iowa State 1924, former Surgeon General of the United States Army
Robert W. Manss, Michigan 1930, Judge Advocate General of the U.S. Air Force
Robert Lee Scott, Jr., Arizona State 1932, U.S. General
Rudolf F. Peksens, Tufts 1966, Brigadier General U.S. Air Force

Architecture

John William Merrow, Dartmouth 1897
Raymond M. Hood, Brown 1902, Rockefeller Center and Chicago Tribune

Business

Howard Melville Hanna, Union 1859, President of M.A. Hanna Co. and Globe Iron Works
Edward Oziel Graves, Hobart 1864, Chief of US Bureau of Engraving, Founder/President of Washington Mutual
James R. Mellon, Washington and Jefferson 1865, President of Ligonier Valley Railroad
Frank Anderson Merrick, Lehigh 1891, President of Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company
Eugene Grace, Lehigh 1899, Chairman of the Board of Bethlehem Steel
J. Frank Drake, Dartmouth 1902, Chairman of the Board of Gulf Oil Corporation
Harvey Dow Gibson, Bowdoin 1902, President of the Manufacturers Trust Co
Stanton Griffs, Cornell 1910, Chairman of the Board of Madison Square Garden
Willard H. Dow, Williams 1919, President of Dow Chemical Corporation
Leo D. Welch, Rochester 1919, Chairman of the Board of Standard Oil
Myford Irvine, Stanford 1921, landholder in California, City of Irvine named after him
George L. Smith, Columbia 1925, President of Kinney Shoe Company
Dwight Follett, Illinois 1925, President of Follett Corporation
William H. Elliot, William and Mary 1928, President of Border Corporation
Charles C. Tillinghast Jr., Brown 1932, President of TWA, Chancellor of Brown University
Karl J. Neer, Illinois 1933, President of Neer Oil Company
James W. Kerr, Toronto 1937, President of TransCanada Pipelines
William Edwards, Michigan 1939, President of Hilton Hotels
Edwin A. Gee, George Washington 1941, CEO International Paper
Charles K. Fletcher, Jr., Stanford 1950, Chairman of the Home Federal Saving Assoc
Mark H. McCormack, William and Mary 1950, CEO International Management Group
William J. Henry, William and Mary 1963, President Time Life Books, Inc.
Peter F. Volanakis, Dartmouth 1977, President and COO of Corning Incorporated
John Antonelli, Rochester 1980, Director of Operations of Starbucks
Jack D. Furst, Arizona State 1981, Partner of Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst Inc.
Michael R. Burns, Arizona State 1980, Vice Chairman of Lionsgate
Steve Rendle, Washington 1982, President and CEO of VF_Corporation
Michael J. Saylor, MIT 1987, Founder MicroStrategy
Michael C. McPhee, VCU 1989, Executive, Technologist & Real Estate Mogul
Tom First, Brown 1989, Co-founder of Nantucket Nectars
Tom Scott, Brown 1989, Co-founder of Nantucket Nectars
Fernando Poma, Cornell 1994, Managing Director of Real Hotels & Resorts

Engineering & Science

Alexander Lyman Holley, Brown 1853, Bessemer Steel, statue in Washington Square, NYC
Frederick Vernon Coville, Cornell 1887, Botanist, Founder of the United States National Arboretum
William Henry Brewer, Yale 1889, Botanist, Chair of Agriculture at Yale
Charles Hook Tompkins, George Washington 1906, Founder of Charles H. Tompkins Construction Company
Dan Geer, MIT 1972, computer security specialist
Frank Anthony Gulla, MIT 1974, Assistant Professor, Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
Peter Diamandis, MIT 1983, space flight entrepreneur
Jonathan Goldstick, MIT 1980, marine engineer - CH2M Hill

Sport

Edward Marsh, Lehigh 1894, gold medalist 1900 Olympics – rowing
William Wilson Talcott, Michigan 1901, Quarterback of team inspiring "The Victors"
Harold A. Fisher, CCNY 1902, College Basketball Hall of Fame Member, author of first college basketball rules
Edward Lindberg, Tufts 1909, gold and bronze medalist at the 1912 Olympics - track
Wally Snell, Brown 1913, player Boston Red Sox
Clarence P. Houston, Tufts 1914, President of NCAA
Leon Tuck, Dartmouth 1915, silver medalist 1920 Olympics – hockey
Stanley Lomax, Cornell 1923, radio sports broadcaster
Jackson Keefer, Brown 1925, All-American 1924, 1925, early NFL player Providence Steam Roller 1926, Dayton Triangles 1928
Walter Francis O'Malley, Pennsylvania 1926, owner of Brooklyn/LA Dodgers
William F. McAfee, Jr., Michigan 1929, player Chicago White Sox
John W. Allyn, Lafayette 1939, owner of Chicago White Sox
Donald Canham, Michigan 1941, University of Michigan Athletic Director
Harry Dalton, Amherst 1950, Executive VP Milwaukee Brewers
William P. Ficker, Berkeley 1950, Winner of America's Cup Race
Benjamin L. Abruzzo, Illinois 1952, Crewmember of "Double Eagle II" (first trans-Atlantic balloon flight)
Mark Donohue, Brown 1959, Indianapolis 500 Winner
Darrin Nelson, Stanford 1981, Stanford All-American, player Minnesota Vikings
Jeffrey L. Ballard, Stanford 1982, baseball player for Baltimore Orioles
Chuck Muncie, Berkeley 1975, player New Orleans Saints and San Diego Chargers
James Lofton, Stanford 1978, NFL wide receiver, 2004 NFL Hall of Fame Inductee
Garin Veris, Stanford 1985, player New England Patriots and San Francisco 49ers
John Brody, Tufts 1995, Major League Baseball Senior VP of Corporate Sales and Marketing
Sean Morey, Brown 1999, player New England Patriots, Philadelphia Eagles, Pittsburgh Steelers, Arizona Cardinals 1999–present
Chas Gessner, Brown 2003, player New England Patriots, Tampa Bay Buccaneers 2003–present
Nick Thompson, Wisconsin 2004, MMA fighter, Bodog Fight, UFC, EliteXC
Zak DeOssie, Brown 2007, player 2007 4th round draft pick New York Giants

Clergy

Rt. Rev. John H. D. Wingfield, William and Mary 1853, Bishop of North Carolina
Rt. Rev. A. M. Randolph, William and Mary 1855, Bishop of Virginia
Henry Christopher McCook, Washington and Jefferson 1859, Presbyterian clergyman, naturalist, and prolific author on religion, history, and nature
David Gregg, Washington and Jefferson 1865, Presbyterian clergyman, pastor of Park Street Church
Rev. Franklin Clark Fry, Hamilton 1921, President of the Lutheran Church of America
Rt. Rev. Robert C. Rusack, Hobart 1947, Bishop of Los Angeles

References

^ Unless otherwise cited, the referenced alumni can be found in: Ed. McCready, Adam (2004). The Theta Delta Chi Membership Handbook. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Cambridge Offset Printing.
^ Maxwell, W. J (1900). Greek Letter Men of Boston. College Bk. Co.
^ "Theta Delta Chi Political Members". 2008.
^ "Philleo Nash (1909–1987)". 1988. JSTOR 680770. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
^ "The Pillars of Prospect: Sigma Phi Sigma/Theta Delta Chi Alumni Association" (PDF). May 2008. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 29, 2008. Retrieved 2008-10-20. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
^ ^a ^b Chi, Theta Delta (1911). Sixth Catalogue of ΘΔΧ. Retrieved 2009-06-15.

[alumni-1] Unless otherwise cited, the referenced alumni can be found in: Ed. McCready, Adam (2004). The Theta Delta Chi Membership Handbook. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Cambridge Offset Printing.

[Knowlton-2] Maxwell, W. J (1900). Greek Letter Men of Boston. College Bk. Co.

[hamilton-3] "Theta Delta Chi Political Members". 2008.

[nash-4] "Philleo Nash (1909–1987)". 1988. JSTOR 680770. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)

[pillarsofprospect-5] "The Pillars of Prospect: Sigma Phi Sigma/Theta Delta Chi Alumni Association" (PDF). May 2008. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 29, 2008. Retrieved 2008-10-20. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)

[Sixth_Catalogue_of_Theta_Delta_Chi-6] Chi, Theta Delta (1911). Sixth Catalogue of ΘΔΧ. Retrieved 2009-06-15.

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