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09-01-2004, 06:39 AM
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Ones I can think of:
About half the 1980 US Olympic team that beat Russia (including Mike Eruzione and Jim Craig)
Keith Tkachuk
Tony Amonte
Chris Drury
Mike Grier
Tom Poti
Rick Dipietro
Jason Alexander (George on Seinfeld)
Howard Stern
Bill O'Reilly
Julianne Moore
Martin Luther King got his doctorate from the school
It's early, that's all I can think of right now.
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09-01-2004, 06:54 AM
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Quote:
Originally posted by Sister Havana
From the IU website, famous Indiana University Alumni:
Mark Spitz, ’72, nine-time Olympic gold medalist
Senator Evan Bayh (D - Indiana)
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Famous Phi Psis from Indiana University
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09-01-2004, 07:24 AM
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From UCF:
Daunte Culpepper, Quarterback, Minnesota Vikings
Ericka Dunlap, Miss America 2004
Eduardo Sanchez, Daniel Myrick, Gregg Hale, Robin Cowie and Michael Monello - Creators of "The Blair Witch Project"
Cari Coats, former vice president, Orlando Magic, RDV Sports
George Kalogridis, president, Disneyland
Rick Walsh, senior vice president, Darden Restaurants, Inc.
Marla Weech, anchor, WFTV-Channel 9, Orlando
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09-01-2004, 08:24 AM
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There is only 1 from my school, that I am aware of..
Plymouth State University (was College when he graduated):
Ed Carroll, meterologist from CBS 4 in Boston
http://cbs4boston.com/bios/local_bio_052120833/
He's also a Kappa Delta Phi brother.
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09-01-2004, 09:22 AM
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Quote:
Originally posted by ZTAngel
From UCF:
Daunte Culpepper
Ericka Dunlap, Miss America 2004
Eduardo Sanchez, Daniel Myrick, Gregg Hale, Robin Cowie and Michael Monello - Creators of "The Blair Witch Project"
errr...that's all I can think of off the top of my head
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God Bless Central Florida... not bad for only being around for 40 years!
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09-01-2004, 11:01 AM
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Seriously, Joel. WTH do you get this information? Nowhere in any information I've found said Iowa State denied GWC admission. And can you post anything without always facking editorializing? Jaysus.
Some more famous Iowa State Alumni:
Carrie Chapman Catt (also a member of Pi Beta Phi)
Henry Wallace
Mallory from Real World Paris (only for a semester, though)
Cael Sanderson
Dan Gable
Fred "The Mayor" Hoiberg
Robert L. Bartley (editor of The Wall Street Journal, also a Sigma Phi Epsilon)
Mildred Day (co-creator of the recipe for Rice Krispie Treats)
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Or maybe a jamboree.
Or possibly even a shindig or lollapalooza.
Perhaps it'll be a hootshinpaloozaree. I don't know.
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09-01-2004, 11:19 AM
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This is right from The University of Guelph website.
Notable Guelph Alumni
1906: Harvey R. MacMillan,
built the global forestry business MacMillan Bloedel
1910: Francis (Frank) Schofield, veterinarian, recipient of the Republic of Korea Median and the Order of Merit
1931: John Kenneth Galbraith, Harvard University economist, recipient of the Order of Canada
1950: Ken Murray, CEO J.M. Schneider Inc. (retired), recipient of the Order of Canada
1952: Jean Steckle, recipient of the UN Medal (1995) for career work with the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization in West Africa
1956: Lorna Milne, Canadian senator
1957: Suzanne Francis, with pairs skating partner Wallace Distelmayer, the first to perform the death spiral in competition; world and Olympic bronze medalists, 1948
1966: Lyle Vanclief, federal minister of agriculture
1968: Roberta Bondar, female Canadian astronaut, payload specialist 1992 shuttle Discovery
1971: Donald Ziraldo, founder and CEO Inniskillin Wines
Jane Urquhart, author, recipient of Canadian Governor-Generals' Award for fiction
1977: Peter Vaughan, CEO Canadian Medical Association
Vandanah Shiva, Director of India's Research Foundation of Science and Technology
1978: Brian Evans, Canada's chief veterinary officer
1982: Helen Murphy, senior vice-president, Polygram International, New York
1994: Mike O'Shea, Canadian Football League rookie of the year (1993, Hamilton Tiger-Cats)
David Urban, internationally exhibiting painter
1997: Cassie Campbell, Captain, 2002 Olympic gold-medal Canadian women's national hockey team
1998: Marty Beecroft, recipient of 2000 Genie Award
1999: Nancy Sweetnam, purchasing coordinator, Quaker Oats Co. of Canada
2001: Alison Bachlet, one of eleven Canadian Rhodes Scholars (2001)
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09-01-2004, 11:28 AM
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Notable U of T Alum: What Rob said (Rob, wasn't Pearson Greek? I'm pretty sure the Canadian Greeks site said that he was a DU)
Notable Queen's Alum include (this list only includes those in Arts and Science. Commerce, Engineering, Law and Meds not included):
Wendy Crewson (actress)
Dean Armstrong (actor, on TV's Queer as Folk)
Michael Ondaatje (author of books such as The English Patient...he did his undergrad at U of T)
Robertson Davies (author of books such as Fifth Business and Tempest-Tost--did not graduate)
Ashleigh Banfield (news anchor)
Jeffrey Simpson (newspaper columnist)
Jimm Cuddy of Blue Rodeo
Rob Baker of the Tragically Hip
The rest of the list is found here: http://www.queensu.ca/artsci/alumni/notablealumni.html
A name not listed up there is Gemma Zamprogna, who played Felicity on The Road to Avonlea. Also, Rachel Blanchard of tv's 7th Heaven apparently spent a year at Queen's before heading to LA.
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09-01-2004, 12:04 PM
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Quote:
Originally posted by ISUKappa
Mildred Day (co-creator of the recipe for Rice Krispie Treats)
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Oooh, you put me in a Krispy Treat state of mind!
I always kind of wondered where that recipe came from. So simple, yet so perfect and yummy
I think I'll make a tray so the kids (and I) can have a nice snack when they get home.
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09-01-2004, 12:16 PM
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Famous University of Oklahoma alumni:
James Garner (originally James Bumgarner) - actor
J.C. Watts - former U.S. congressman
Ross Swimmer - past Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation (and an Alpha Sig!)
Joe Smalley - former speaker of the Oklahoma state assembly and later state senator. (Another Alpha Sig.)
Bart Conner
Kerri Strug
Billy Sims
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09-01-2004, 12:28 PM
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09-01-2004, 12:48 PM
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Quote:
Originally posted by KillarneyRose
Oooh, you put me in a Krispy Treat state of mind!
I always kind of wondered where that recipe came from. So simple, yet so perfect and yummy
I think I'll make a tray so the kids (and I) can have a nice snack when they get home.
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Hee! I do what I can.
Who knew that three innocuous ingredients could be such a fabulous thing?
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It's gonna be a hootenanny.
Or maybe a jamboree.
Or possibly even a shindig or lollapalooza.
Perhaps it'll be a hootshinpaloozaree. I don't know.
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09-01-2004, 01:30 PM
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MU RAH RAH
Notable Marquette alumni (not including men who have just coached here or eaten lunch on campus like all of the Democratic Presidential Candidates this year, or gotten honorary degrees, like Martin Sheen for his involvement with the Catholic Worker Movement):
Joseph McCarthy, Senator (more infamous than anything)
Gail Collins, editorial page editor for the NY Times
Steve Rushin, columnist for SI
Bob Harlan, president of the Green Bay Pakcers
Darren Jackson, CFO and VP of Best Buy
Wayne Sanders, former chairman of Kimberly-Clark
John Stollenwerk, president and CEO of Allen-Edmonds
Edward Brannen, past chairman of Sears Roebuck
Richard Burke, founder of Trek Bicycle
Rudolf "Rudy" Perpich, Governor of Minnesota, Democrat
Donald A. Manzullo, U. S. Representative, Republican
George Andrie, acclaimed Dallas Cowboys player
Don Kojis, two-time NBA All-Star
Maurice Lucas, won 1977 NBA Championship with Portland
Ralph Metcalfe, US Olympian, U. S. Representative
Tom Keegan, Author, Journalist, Radio Personality
Chris Farley, the late actor
Les Aspin, Sec of Defense under Clinton (he was a DU)
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09-01-2004, 01:45 PM
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Among many, many others -- the University of Wisconsin, those who attended (although not all for undergrad):
Joan Cusack
Lorraine Hansbury (who wrote "Raisin in the Sun")
bell hooks
Steve Miller (of the Steve Miller Band)
Joyce Carol Oates
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (who wrote "The Yearling")
Butch Vig, the music producer
Eudora Welty
Frank Lloyd Wright
Bud Selig
Dick Cheney (LOL, I was surprised to find this out)
Robert M. La Follette
current Wisconsin senators Herb Kohl and Russ Feingold
Tommy Thompson, U.S. secretary of Health and Human Services
Greta Van Susteren
Abraham Maslow (anybody who's studied psych knows the "heirarchy of needs" pyramid )
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09-01-2004, 02:18 PM
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The Indigo Girls graduated from Emory one and two years before I did.
And Kenneth Cole, though I'm not sure when.
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