Alumni

  • For 175 years now Delta Upsilon has been tranforming the lives of thousands of men. There have been many DU's who have excelled in their repective fields. Such men have aquired the title of 'Notable DU's'. Here are just a few of the hundreds of Notable DU's

     

    Polittics and Government

     

    James A. Garfield, Williams 1856
    20th President of the United States

    George W. Goethals, Manhattan 1877
     US Army General, chief engineer during the building of the Panama Canal

    Charles Evans Hughes, Colgate and Brown 1881
    Governor of New York, Secretary of State, and Chief Justice of the United States

    Charles G. Dawes, Marietta 1884
    Vice President of the United States and Ambassador to Great Britain; winner of the Nobel Prize for peace 

    Lester B. Pearson, Toronto '19
    Prime Minister of Canada and President of the United Nations General Assembly; Nobel Prize winner for Peace 

    George S. Welch, Purdue '41
    Shot down the first Japanese aircraft of the Pacific War on Dec 7, 1941.  WWII triple air ace in three different fighter aircraft

    Tommy R. Franks, Texas '67
    Commander in Chief of US Central Command, General in the US Army

    Sports

    Leland MacPhail, Swarthmore '39
    President, National League Baseball and GM of the New York Yankees

    Dr. J. Robert Cade, Florida '45
    Inventor of Gatorade

    Louis L. Holtz, Kent State '58
    Legendary college football coach

    Galen S. Hall, Penn State '62
    Former head football coach, University of Florida 

    Chad G. Little, Washington State '85
    NASCAR Driver and Commentator

    Education

    David Starr Jordan, Cornell 1872
    First President of Stanford University, President of Indiana University

    Dr. Arthur K. Smith, Jr., Houston '59
    President & Chancellor of the University of Houston

    Selamawi Asgedom, Harvard '99
    Noted motivational speaker and author

    David Frohnmayer, Oregon '01
    President of the University of Oregon

    Entertainment

    Harry Carey, New York '02
    Early western movie actor

    Alan Thicke, Western Ontario '67
    Actor and songwriter

    Jason Lewis, San Diego State
    Actor
    Literature and Publishing
    Leland Stowe, Weslayen '21
    Columnist and 1930 Pulitzer Prize winner
    Business