List of Alpha Delta Phi members

The list of Alpha Delta Phi members includes initiated and honorary members of Alpha Delta Phi.

Notable alumni

Athletics

• Bernie Bierman - University of Minnesota, 1915, athlete, University of Minnesota football coach[1]
• Andy Enfield - Johns Hopkins University, 1991, head basketball coach at University of Southern California
• Jean Fugett - Amherst College, 1972, tight end, Dallas Cowboys 1972-1975, Washington Redskins 1976-1979
• Jeremy Glick - University of Rochester, 1993, one of several passengers believed to have counterattacked the hijackers of United Airlines Flight 93, on September 11, 2001; US National Collegiate Judo champion in 1993; president of the Rochester Chapter; business executive with Vividence, a San Mateo e-consulting company
• Otto Graham - Northwestern University, 1944, Pro Football Hall of Fame quarterback; in 1999, he was ranked number 7 on The Sporting News' list of the 100 Greatest Football Players, the highest-ranking player who had played in the AAFC[1]
• Terry Gurnett - University of Rochester, 1977, as head coach of women's soccer, won 400 Division III games, setting a record[2]
• Walter A. Haas, Jr. - University of California, 1937, former owner of Oakland Athletics; Honorary Chairman of Levi Strauss & Co.[1]
• Jackie Jensen - University of California, 1949, athlete, former Major League Baseball outfielder[1]
• Miller Pontius - University of Michigan, 1914, All Big-9 (Western Conference) tackle in 1912; All-American in 1913; first baseman and captain of the 1914 baseball team (two-year letterman); Assistant Football Coach, University of Tennessee and University of Michigan
• Richard Rifenburg - University of Michigan, 1949, All-American End, University of Michigan (1948); drafted by the Philadelphia Eagles and New York Yankees (chose baseball but suffered a knee injury); signed and played one year with the Detroit Lions; sideline reporter for Buffalo Bills; sports radio host and University of Buffalo play-by-play announcer for WBEN
• Bill Smith - Hamilton College, 1980, General Manager of the Minnesota Twins
• Neil Snow - University of Michigan, 1902, Michigan's second All-American football player; earned 10 varsity letters (football - 4, baseball - 4, track - 2); named the first ever Rose Bowl MVP in the 1902 defeat of Stanford, 49-0; named to the Michigan All-Time Football Team
• Frank Steketee - University of Michigan, 1922, half-back, punter, and kicker for the 1918, 1920, and 1921 University of Michigan football teams; first freshman to be named All-American in Michigan football history; also lettered in hockey, golf and swimming
• Francis "Fay" T. Vincent - Williams College, 1960, former Commissioner, Major League Baseball[1][3]

Business and finance

• Colin Angle - Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1989, founder and CEO of iRobot Corporation[1]
• Edwin Booz - Northwestern University, 1914, founder of Booz Allen Hamilton and Booz & Company
• David Culver - McGill University, 1946, Chairman and CEO emeritus of Alcan Aluminum Ltd.
• Bill Downe -University of Toronto, 1980, CEO of the Bank of Montreal
• John S. Dyson - Cornell University, 1965, former Deputy Mayor of New York City; Commissioner of Commerce; Cornell University Board of Trustees
• Eran Egozy - Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1995, founder and CTO of Harmonix Music Systems
• Henry Clay Folger - Amherst College, 1879, President of Standard Oil; founder of the Folger Shakespeare Library
• William Russell Grace - Columbia University, 1900, founder of W. R. Grace and Company
• Malcolm Knight - University of Toronto, 1967, Deputy Governor of the Bank of Canada, General Manager of the International Bank of Settlements
• David Packard - Stanford University, 1934, founder of the Hewlett-Packard Computer Corporation
• John A. Pollock - University of Toronto, 1959, former owner of CTV Television Network, President of Electrohome, Chancellor of Wilfrid Laurier
• Charles H. Percy - University of Chicago, 1941, US Senator; Chairman of Bell and Howell Corporation
• John D. Rockefeller, Jr. - Brown University, 1897, Director of Standard Oil and US Steel; philanthropist
• David Solomon- Hamilton College, 1984[4], named future CEO of Goldman Sachs [5]
• Allan Sproul - University of California, 1919, Director of Kaiser Aluminum
• Walter C. Teagle - Cornell University, 1900, President of Standard Oil
• Grant Tinker - Dartmouth College, 1949, President of NBC
• Gerald B. Zornow - University of Rochester, 1937, Chairman of Eastman Kodak

Clergy

• Bishop Theodore B. Lyman - Hamilton College, 1837[1]
• Father Thomas Merton - Columbia University, 1938
• Bishop Herbert Shipman - Colgate University, 1890

Education

• Joseph S. Ames - Johns Hopkins Chapter, 1886, President of Johns Hopkins University[1]
• J. Seelye Bixler - Amherst Chapter, 1916, President of Colby College
• G. Armour Craig - Amherst Chapter, 1937, President of Amherst College
• Charles William Eliot - Harvard Chapter, 1853, President of Harvard University
• John Robert Evans, Toronto Chapter, 1952, Rhodes Scholar; President of University of Toronto, Founder of McMaster University Medical School, Chairman of Rockefeller Foundation
• William Watts Folwell - Geneva Chapter, 1857, President of the University of Minnesota
• Louis Agassiz Fuertes - Cornell Chapter, 1897, naturalist and artist
• Claude Fuess - Amherst Chapter, 1905, 10th Headmaster of Phillips Academy
• Richard Glenn Gettell - Amherst Chapter President, 1932-1933, President of Mount Holyoke College (1957-1968)
• Daniel Coit Gilman - Yale Chapter, 1852, President of Johns Hopkins University
• Emory William Hunt - Rochester Chapter, 1884, President of Denison University; President of Bucknell University
• Harry Burns Hutchins - Peninsular Chapter, 1871, President, University of Michigan (1897–1898, 1910–1920), Dean, University of Michigan School of Law (1895–1897, 1898–1910), appointed to the inaugural faculty of the Cornell University School of Law (1887–1896)
• Robert Hutchins - Yale Chapter, 1921, President of the University of Chicago
• Har Barry Mills - Bowdoin Chapter, 1972, President of Bowdoin College
• Andrew Van Vranken Raymond - Union Chapter, 1875, President of Union College
• Benjamin Rush Rhees - Amherst Chapter, 1883, President, University of Rochester, (1900–1935)[6]
• Henry Wade Rogers - Peninsular Chapter, 1874, Dean, University of Michigan School of Law, President, Northwestern University, Dean, Yale Law School
• Eugene V. Rostow - Yale Chapter, 1933, Dean of Yale Law School; adviser to the United States Department of State
• Michael S. Roth - Wesleyan University, 1978, President of Wesleyan University
• Peter H. Russell - University of Toronto, 1955, Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Toronto, Principal of Innis College
• Charles Taylor - McGill University, 1952, philosopher; Rhodes Scholar; recipient of the Templeton Prize and the Kyoto Prize
• David Truman - Amherst Chapter, 1921, President of Mount Holyoke College; Provost of Columbia University
• Ronald Lampman Watts - Toronto Chapter, 1952, Rhodes Scholar; President of Queen's University
• Edwin Willits - Peninsular Chapter, 1855, President, State Agricultural College (now Michigan State University) (1885–1889)

Entertainment

• Macdonald Carey - University of Wisconsin–Madison, 1935, actor[1]
• Stephen Collins - Amherst College, actor, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, 7th Heaven
• Caleb Deschanel - Johns Hopkins University, 1966, Academy Award-nominated cinematographer
• Monica Louwerens - Wesleyan University, 1995, actress and Miss America contestant
• Fredric March - University of Wisconsin–Madison, 1920, actor
• Chris Miller - Dartmouth College, 1963, co-screenwriter, National Lampoon's Animal House
• Hayden Schlossberg - University of Chicago, 2000, co-screenwriter, Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle and Scary Movie 3 (rewrite)
• Ben Stein - Columbia University, 1966, actor and author
• Raymond Joseph Teller - Amherst College, 1969, actor and magician; part of Penn & Teller
• Franchot Tone - Cornell University, 1927, actor
• Monty Woolley - Yale University, 1911, actor

Government and military

• Hon. John Black Aird - University of Toronto, 1945, Lieutenant Governor of Ontario; Canadian Senator[1]
• Taul Bradford - University of Alabama, 1852, US House of Representatives, Alabama (1875-1877)
• Richard R. Burt - Cornell University, 1969, US Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany from 1985 to 1989; US Chief Negotiator in the Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START) with the former Soviet Union
• Reuven Carlyle - University of Massachusetts Amherst, 1987, Washington State Representative
• Michael N. Castle - Hamilton College, 1961, Governor of Delaware; US Congressman
• Joshua Chamberlain - Bowdoin College, 1852, hero of the Battle of Gettysburg; received Confederate surrender at Appomattox Courthouse; Medal of Honor; Governor of Maine; President of Bowdoin College
• Salmon P. Chase - Dartmouth College, 1826, Secretary of the Treasury under President Abraham Lincoln; Chief Justice of the United States
• Joseph H. Choate - Harvard University, 1852, Ambassador to Great Britain
• Bainbridge Colby - Williams College, 1890, Secretary of State; founder of Progressive Party
• Gordon Gale Crean - University of Toronto, 1937, Canadian Ambassador to Italy, Yugoslavia, and West Germany
• Dwight F. Davis - Harvard University, 1900, Secretary of War; donor of the Davis Cup
• William R. Day - University of Michigan, 1870, Secretary of State
• Charles S. Fairchild - Harvard University, 1863, Secretary of the Treasury
• James Rudolph Garfield - Williams College, 1885, Secretary of the Interior
• George Reginald Geary - University of Toronto, 1896, Minister of Justice, Mayor of Toronto, Member of Canadian Parliament
• James George - University of Toronto, 1940, Rhodes Scholar, Diplomat, Political and Environmental Activist
• Colin W. G. Gibson - University of Toronto, 1915, Canadian Secretary of State, President of Alpha Delta Phi International
• Alastair W. Gillespie - McGill University, 1948, Member of Canadian Parliament; Minister of Industry, Trade and Commerce (Canada)
• Frederick H. Gillett - Amherst College, 1874, Speaker of the US House of Representatives
• Alger Hiss - Johns Hopkins University, 1926, clerk to fellow fraternity alumnus Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.; influential US State Department official; convicted of perjury in House Un-American Activities Committee investigation into communist spying
• Edward M. House - Cornell University, 1881, politician, Presidential adviser and diplomat
• Otto Kerner Jr. - Brown University, 1930, Governor of Illinois
• William H. Luers - Hamilton University, 1953, US Ambassador to Czechoslovakia and Venezuela
• William Luther - University of Minnesota, 1967, US Congressman
• Michael Meighen - McGill University, 1960, Canadian Senator
• William Henry Moore - University of Toronto, 1894, Member of Canadian Parliament
• George Washington Shonk - Wesleyan University, 1873, Founding Member of Theta Nu Epsilon, US House of Representatives, Pennsylvania (1891-1893)
• Sir Leonard Outerbridge - University of Toronto, 1911, Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland, Companion of the Order of Canada
• Charles H. Percy - University of Chicago, 1941, US Senator
• Thomas C. Reed - Cornell University, 1956, 11th Secretary of the Air Force; author of At the Abyss: An Insider's History of the Cold War
• Franklin D. Roosevelt - Harvard University, 1904, President of the United States
• Theodore Roosevelt - Harvard University, 1880, President of the United States
• Jacob H. Sharp - University of Alabama, 1853, Brigadier General, Army of Tennessee, Confederate States Army
• Henderson M. Somerville - University of Alabama, 1856, President of the Board of General Appraisers, Alabama Supreme Court Justice
• Henry E. Tremain - Manhattan/City College of NY, 1860, Civil War Medal of Honor recipient, author, lawyer
• Fred Upton - University of Michigan, 1975, US House of Representatives, Michigan's 4th congressional district (1986–1990), US House of Representatives, Michigan's 6th congressional district (1990–present)
• John S. Wold - Union College, 1938, US Congressman, oil man, and philanthropist

Law and judiciary

• Samuel Blatchford - Columbia University, 1837, Justice, US Supreme Court[1]
• Henry Billings Brown - Yale University, 1856, Justice, US Supreme Court
• Salmon P. Chase - Dartmouth College, 1826, Chief Justice, US Supreme Court
• William R. Day - University of Michigan, 1870, Justice, US Supreme Court
• William S. Groesbeck - Miami University, US Representative
• Oliver Wendell Holmes - Harvard University, 1861, Justice, US Supreme Court
• John Jay - Columbia University, 1836, abolitionist and grandson of John Jay, first Chief Justice of US Supreme Court
• Dana Porter - University of Toronto, 1921, Chief Justice of Ontario
• Ian Scott - University of Toronto, 1955, Canadian politician, Attorney General of Ontario
• George Shiras, Jr. - Yale University, 1853, Justice, US Supreme Court
• Harlan Fiske Stone - Amherst College, 1894, Chief Justice, US Supreme Court

Literature and journalism

• Samuel Hopkins Adams - Hamilton College, 1891, author[1]
• Debby Applegate - Amherst, 1989, Pulitzer Prize winner for Biography in 2007
• John Perry Barlow - Wesleyan University, 1969, poet, essayist; co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation[7]
• Philip Barry - Yale University, 1918, author
• Francis Bellamy - University of Rochester, 1876, author of the original Pledge of Allegiance
• Stephen Vincent Benét - Yale University, 1919, poet
• Chris Cuomo - Yale University, 1992, television journalist for CNN
• Michael de Pencier - Toronto Chapter, 1957, Chairman of Key Publishers Company Limited
• Richard Ghormley Eberhart - University of Minnesota, 1926, poet
• David Eisenhower - Amherst College, 1970, author of Eisenhower at War
• John C. Farrar - Yale University, 1918, poet, publisher
• William Randolph Hearst - Harvard University, 1885, publisher
• Elijah Kellogg - Bowdoin College, 1840, minister, author of popular adventure books for children and Spartacus to the Gladiators at Capua
• Pagan Kennedy - Wesleyan University, 1984, author, pioneer of the 1990s zine movement
• James Russell Lowell - Harvard University, 1838, poet, critic, editor, and diplomat
• Henry Luce - Yale University, 1920, publisher; founder of Time–Life
• Robert Ludlum - Wesleyan University, 1951, novelist
• Hamilton W. Mabie - Williams College 1867, essayist
• Jack McClelland - University of Toronto, 1944, publisher, President of McClelland and Stewart, Officer of the Order of Canada
• Col. Robert R. McCormick - Yale University, 1903, editor and publisher of the Chicago Tribune
• Chris Miller - Dartmouth College, 1961, co-author of National Lampoon's Animal House
• P. J. O'Rourke - Miami University, author
• Daniel Pearl - Stanford University, 1985, journalist WSJ editor and victim of terrorism
• Ben Stein - Columbia University, 1966, author, humorist
• George Templeton Strong - Columbia University, 1838, prolific diarist
• Tristan Taormino - Wesleyan University, 1993, feminist, sex-positive author, editor, educator, and activist
• Scott Turow - Amherst College, 1970, novelist
• Thornton Wilder - Yale University, 1920, author and playwright

Science and engineering

• Frederick Madison Allen - University of California, 1902, pioneer in diabetes[1]
• Farrington Daniels - University of Minnesota, 1910, pioneer in solar energy; Chairman, Chemistry at University of Wisconsin–Madison
• Michael Gazzaniga - Dartmouth College, 1961, founder of the field of cognitive neuroscience
• Stephen Irwin - University of Toronto, 1961, architect
• William H. Masters - Hamilton College, 1938, researcher of human sexuality
• Theodore Luqueer Mead - Cornell University, 1877, naturalist, entomologist and horticulturist
• James Fraser Mustard - University of Toronto, 1951, scientist, Co-Founder and Dean of McMaster Faculty of Medicine
• Colonel Steven R. Nagel - University of Illinois, 1969, NASA astronaut; Space Shuttle Discovery, Space Shuttle Challenger, Space Shuttle Atlantis, Space Shuttle Columbia
• Kenneth Ouriel - University of Rochester, 1977, vascular surgeon and Chief of Surgery at the Cleveland Clinic[8][9]
• Augustus Post - Amherst College, 1895, aviation and automotive pioneer, founder of American Automobile Association
• Louis Ridenour - University of Chicago, 1932, developer of radar, adviser to President Eisenhower
• Pedro A. Sanchez - Cornell University, 1962, soil scientist, 2002 World Food Prize laureate, 2004 MacArthur Fellow.
• Daniel M. Tani - Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1984, NASA astronaut, Space Shuttle Endeavour, International Space Station
• Josiah Whitney - Yale University, 1839, California State Geologist; namesake of the highest peak in the continental US, Mt. Whitney

References

Many of alumni noted here are listed on the fraternity's website.[1]

1. The Alpha Delta Phi Fraternity: Notable Alumni, retrieved 2016-08-17)
2. "Women's Soccer Coaches". University of Rochester Athletics. 2009-11-13. Archived from the original on 2009-09-25. Retrieved 2009-11-13. Terry Gurnett has enjoyed phenomenal success as Rochester’s coach for the past 31 years. He is the all-time leader in wins among Division III women’s soccer coaches and is third all-time in wins among women’s soccer coaches on all levels of NCAA competition.
3. "The Alpha Delta Phi Fraternity: Among Our Brotherhood". Alpha Delta Phi. 2009-11-05. Archived from the original on 2009-09-24. Retrieved 2009-11-05.
4. "Scholarships, Fellowships, Prizes & Internship Support - Index - Hamilton College". Retrieved 2018-08-03.
5. "Who Is David Solomon? Meet the New CEO of Goldman Sachs". Fortune. Retrieved 2018-08-03.
6. "Past Presidents". Alpha Delta Phi. Archived from the original on 15 February 2015. Retrieved 15 February 2015.
7. "Alpha Delta Phi Society Notable Alumni". Retrieved 2007-04-11.
8. DENISE GRADY (March 18, 2004). "After Unusual Fatality, Transplant Expert Revives Career". The New York Times. Retrieved 2009-09-22.
9. Ouriel, Kenneth (September 26, 2005). Complications In Endovascular Therapy. Informa HealthCare. pp. 472 pages. ISBN 978-0-8247-5420-4. Archived from the original on September 29, 2011.