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ΔKE Descendants

Chairman’s Letter

Reflections on a Life in ΔKE

ΔKE Supreme Court

Justices

Canadian Chapters Deke Businesses: Crossing Our Paths Every Day ∆KE Strengthen

PROMINENT MEN of ∆KE

Faces of ΔKE Today

ften cited for producing famous politicians, Delta Kappa Epsilon can also claim an equal or even more amazing impact in the business world. Many world leading corporations offering a wide range of consumer, business and industrial products have been founded by Dekes or led and shaped by Chairmen, CEOs or high level executives who are members of our fraternity. Indeed, it is truly difficult for any of us to make it through a day without benefitting from a product or service of these enterprises.

Henry P. Thayer, Pi-Dartmouth, Hays Clark, Delta Chi-Cornell; William H. Morton, Pi – Dartmouth; Edward Bausch, Beta Phi-Rochester; August Belmont Jr., Alpha-Harvard; William Bartholomay, Delta Epsilon; Walter James McNerney, Phi-Yale; Howard S. Borden, Phi-Yale; Frederick N. Schwartz, Gamma Phi-Wesleyan; Paul Brown, Kappa-Miami; Rance Crain, Psi Phi-DePauw; Alfred S. Bloomingdale, Upsilon-Brown; Fred Smith, Phi-Yale; Donald G. Fisher, Theta Zeta-Cal Berkeley; Owen D. Young, Sigma Tau-M.I.T.; Howard Heinz, Phi-Yale; William Randolph Hearst, Alpha-Harvard; Howard Johnson, Phi-Yale; Herbert F. Perkins, Phi-Yale; John F. Akers, Phi-Yale; John Morgan Jr., Alpha-Harvard; Harding Bancroft, Epsilon-Williams; James M. Gamble, Lambda– Kenyon; Andrew McNally III, Phi-Yale; Herb Kelleher, Gamma Phi–Wesleyan; Hugh Culverhouse, Psi-Alabama; Walter Hoving, Upsilon-Brown; Frank Batten, Eta-Virginia; William W. Wrigley, Phi-Yale; Joseph C. Wilson, Beta Phi-Rochester; John Magee, Theta-Bowdoin; Edwin Ducayet, Sigma Tau-M.I.T.; L. Paul Bremer III, Tau-Hamilton; Tom Wright, Alpha Phi-Toronto; Dean Witter Jr., Phi-Yale; Kenneth L. Wolfe, Phi-Yale; Harvey S. Bissell, Rho-Lafayette; Herbert F. Perkins, PhiYale; Adrian R. Fisher, Phi Chi-Rutgers; Roger Deromedi, Gamma-Vanderbilt; Terrence Adderley, Omicron-Michigan; Andrew Molson, Zeta-Princeton; Caleb A. MacDonald, Delta Chi-Cornell; Lauren S. “Larry” Williams, Phi-Yale; David L. Calhoun, Sigma Alpha-Virginia Tech; A. Charles Baillie, Alpha Phi-Toronto; James H. Evans, Iota-Centre; J. David Grissom, Iota-Centre; Gerald Trautman, Sigma Rho-Stanford; Robert J. Thorne, Delta Chi-Cornell; George C. Dodge, Mu-Colgate; Tracy C. Drake, Psi Omega-Rensselaer Polytechnic; Edwin J. Ducayet, Sigma Tau-M.I.T; Peter Grauer, Beta-North Carolina , Merrill B. Sands, Phi-Yale; Louis F. Polk Jr., Phi-Yale.

Impact of ΔKE

Deke-Led businesses

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ΔKE’s

• Politics & Government • Business & Finance • Arts & Education • Explorers, Scientists, & Inventors • Nobel Prize Winners • Medal of Honor Recipients • Sports • Entertainment Industry • Written Word

FoundingBartlett’s memories

Today’s Founding Founders

The Deke Foundation

Grand ΔKE Houses

The Conventions of ΔKE

Dick Clark & Phi Gamma

SPECIAL PULLOUT INSERT 175 YEARS OF ΔKE - A TIMELINE The Greatness of ΔKE • Gerald Ford on ΔKE • Brothers in ΔKE poem William Randolph Hearst, Alpha-Harvard, assumes control of the San Francisco Chronicle, and begins to build one of the largest media empires in U.S. history. Yale’s Old South Hall

ΔKE Presidents

DKE’s first convention is held, in New Haven.

1844

US Civil War. DKE sends more than 1,500 Brothers into service, nearly two thirds of her living members. 1861-1865

The first fraternity lodge in North America is built, the DKE Lodge at Kenyon College.

1850

Yung Wing, the first Chinese student to graduate from a U.S. university, was initiated as a member of Phi Chapter at Yale University. Brother Yung was highly honored as one of the pioneers of modern education in China and around the world.

Charles Taylor, Omicron-Michigan, Lieutenant in the PA Volunteers, is killed at the Battle of Gettysburg. He is honored with a monument for his heroic actions at the Battle of the Wheatfield.

Robert Todd Lincoln, oldest son of President Lincoln, joins DKE at Harvard. Legend has it that he wrote his father for permission to join DKE, and it was granted by the President.

1860 Theodore Winthrop, PhiYale, is the first Union officer killed in the Civil War (Battle of Big Bethel).

DKE expands rapidly, opening chapters at Bowdoin, Princeton, Colby, and Amherst within two years of our founding. By 1851 DKE has four southern chapters, including the first fraternity chapters in Alabama, Virginia, Mississippi and North Carolina, earning DKE the reputation as “The Southerner’s Fraternity.”

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The DKE Club of NYC is established.

1870

1880 Rutherford B. Hayes is sworn in as the 19th U.S. President. Hayes is an honorary member of DKE in recognition of his four sons who were Dekes at Delta Chi-Cornell.

Frederick Thayer, AlphaHarvard, invents the catcher’s mask.

Melvil Dewey, Sigma-Amherst, creates the Dewey Decimal System for the “Classification and subject index for cataloguing and arranging the books and pamphlets of a library.”

The first Delta Kappa Epsilon Quarterly is published. Its name is changed to The Deke Quarterly in 1947.

Theodore Roosevelt, Alpha-Harvard, is sworn in as the 26th President of the United States of America.

In a sensational trial involving a multiple axe-murder, Lizzie Borden is found not guilty of killing her father and stepmother. Borden’s attorney is Andrew J. Jennings, Upsilon-Brown. Owen Wister, AlphaHarvard, publishes The Virginian, the first “Cowboy” novel. It launches the TV series 50 years later. Wister dedicates his book to his good friend Theodore Roosevelt.

The Shant opens in Ann Arbor, where it serves until 2017 as a meeting place for our Omicron chapter at Michigan.

Philip Brent Spence, Zeta-Princeton, is the last Confederate commander to surrender, six weeks after Appomattox.

The Dallas Cowboys win Super Bowl VI. The Cowboys are coached by Tom Landry, Omega Chi-Texas. Landry’s Cowboys also win Super Bowl XII. Landry coached the Cowboys to 250 wins, and is in the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

Timeline

1844 — 2019

Hearst Castle

DKE is founded at Yale University by 15 sophomores. For membership qualifications, they decide “That candidate most favored is he who combines in the most equal proportions the gentleman, the scholar, and the jolly good fellow.” The open motto is “From the Heart, Friends Forever.”

1890

President Theodore Roosevelt, Alpha-Harvard, wins the 1906 Nobel Peace Peyton C. March, Prize for negotiating the end Rho-Lafayette, of the Russo-Japanese War. is named Army Chief of Staff. He supervises the demobilization of the Army after WW1. 1920 DKE Havana cigar box

Mario Garcia Menocal, Delta Chi-Cornell, is elected as Cuba’s third president. The 1920 DKE Convention is held in Havana with Brother Menocal as host.

1900

The Planet Pluto is named posthumously after physicist Percival Lawrence Lowell (“PL”), Alpha-Harvard, for his work leading to the discovery of Pluto. Bill Tilden, Delta KappaU Penn is the greatest tennis player of his era, winning 14 majors including six consecutive US Opens in the 1920’s. Brother Tilden is elected to the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1959.

1910

1920

Walter Camp, Phi-Yale, coaches Harold Hitz Yale to the Burton, Thetanational football Bowdoin, is championship, the named to be an first of three he Associate Justice would win. Camp of the Supreme becomes known Court of the as the “Father United States. of American Football.”

Time Magazine is co-founded by Briton Hadden, Phi-Yale and Henry Luce. Hadden’s contemporaries consider him the “Presiding Genius” of the Magazine.”

Three consecutive Presidents of Amherst College are Dekes, Stanley King (1932-46), Charles Cole (1946-60), Calvin Plimpton (1960-71). Lt. Gen. Price J. Montague of the Canadian Army, Alpha PhiToronto, is the highest Larry Kelley, ranking Phi-Yale, is named Deke America’s best college during football player, the World War second time the II. award was given out, and the first year it was called the Heisman Trophy.

1930

Rear Adm. Sidney Souers, Kappa-Miami, is appointed as the first Director of the CIA.

Belmont Race Track is opened by August Belmont, Jr., Alpha-Harvard.

Robert E. Peary, ThetaBowdoin, is the first to reach the North Pole.

John Hessin Clarke, Beta Chi-Case Western Reserve, is appointed by President Wilson as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court.

WWI Fighter Ace Harvey Weir Cook, Psi PhiDePauw, receives the Distinguished Service Cross for heroism in action. The Indianapolis Airport is named after Brother Cook.

Samuel F.B. Morse, Phi-Yale, purchases coastal property in California, where he later develops and builds Pebble Beach, Spyglass Hill and Cypress Point Golf Clubs.

1940

The Golden Gate Bridge opens. Lead structural designer is Charles Ellis, Gamma PhiWesleyan.

Hank Luisetti, Sigma Rho-Stanford, becomes the first college basketball player to score 50 points in a game. He is a 3-time All American and twice Player of the Year, and is later elected to the College Basketball Hall of Fame. Luisetti revolutionizes the game by inventing the running onehanded shot.

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Dick Clark, Phi Gamma-Syracuse, begins hosting American Bandstand on TV. Brother Clark becomes one of the most widely known television personalities in history, winning 4 Emmy Awards and being elected to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

John Enders, Phi-Yale, receives the Nobel Prize in Medicine. Cole Porter, Phi-Yale, Brother Enders wins the first Tony is called the Award for Best Musical “Father of for Kiss Me Kate. Modern Porter is the greatest Vaccines,” and songwriter of his is Time’s “Man generation, producing of the Year” in dozens of hits in the 1961. 1920’s and 1930’s.

Paul G. Osborn, Pi-Dartmouth, becomes the first American to be killed by enemy fire after the entry of the United States into World War I. A total of 155 Dekes are lost in the War to End all Wars.

William Boyd Jacobs, the last surviving founder of DKE, dies. DKE becomes an International Fraternity, when the Alpha Phi chapter is chartered at the University of Toronto.

Harvey Cushing, Phi-Yale, wins the Pulitzer Prize for Biography. Brother Cushing is most famous as the “Father of Modern Neurosurgery.”

William Mercer (Bill) Henderson, Zeta Zeta-LSU, rejoins the DKE staff after WWII. Bill leads the revival of DKE and our many inactive chapters, and serves as Traveling Secretary and Executive Director for 30 years.

Alan Bean, Omega Chi-Texas, becomes the fourth man to walk on the moon. As part of the Apollo 12 mission, Brother Bean brings two Deke flags with him to the Moon. He donates one of those flags to the International Fraternity in 2014.

Potter Stewart, Phi-Yale, is sworn in as Supreme Court Justice, replacing Harold Burton, Theta-Bowdoin. Brother Stewart pens one of the most quoted lines from a Supreme Court opinion. Regarding pornography, he said although he could not define it, “I know it when I see it.”

1950 Dean Acheson, Phi-Yale, becomes the 51st Secretary of State, and is a key architect of the Marshall Plan and Truman Doctrine. Acheson also wins the Pulitzer Prize and Presidential Medal of Honor.

Thomas O. Paine, UpsilonBrown, becomes the third Administrator of NASA. During his tenure, the first seven Apollo missions are flown, including the first moon landing.

1960 R. Sargent Shriver, Phi-Yale, is appointed by President Kennedy to become the first Director of the Peace Corps.

The Cleveland Browns win the first of their four NFL championships. The Browns are owned and coached by Paul Brown, KappaMiami. The Browns are the only professional sports franchise to be named after a person.

Fred Smith, Phi-Yale founds FedEx.

1970 Ray Reynolds Graves, Alpha Chi-Trinity, is elected as Brother Beta by his Brothers at DKE’s Trinity chapter in April, 1966. Brother Graves is believed to be DKE’s first African American chapter president. He goes on to become a U.S. Bankruptcy Judge in Detroit, MI.

Don Schollander, Phi-Yale, wins four Gold Medals and sets three world records in swimming at the 1964 Summer Olympics held in Tokyo. He is in the U. S. Olympic Hall of Fame.

George Roy Hill, Phi-Yale, wins the Oscar for Best Director for The Sting. He also directs Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.

Herb Kelleher, Gamma PhiWesleyan, and Rollin King, Beta Chi-Case Western Reserve, found Southwest Airlines.

George H. W. Bush, Phi-Yale, is sworn in as the 41st President of the United States and J. Danforth Quayle, Psi Phi-DePauw, is sworn in as the 44th Vice President.This is the first and only time that a sitting President and Vice President were members of the same Fraternity. Brother Bush is sworn in by Justice Potter Stewart, also a Yale Deke.

Robert Trent Jones, The New York Yankees win their 18th Delta Chi-Cornell, is World Series.The Yanks elected to the World had been in a prolonged Golf Hall of Fame, for his work as one slump when George of golf ’s greatest M. Steinbrenner bought the team designers of golf in 1972. Under owner Steinbrenner, courses. Epsilon-Williams, the Yanks would go on to win six more World Series

Gerald R. Ford, Omicron-Michigan, is sworn in as the 38th President of the United States.

The NCAA reinstates 112 wins for Joe Paterno, UpsilonBrown, making him the winningest football coach in NCAA history.

Matt Stover, Alpha Omega-Louisiana Tech, scores 10 of Baltimore’s 34 points in their victory over the Giants in Super Bowl XXXV. Brother Stover had 2 FG and 4 PAT.

Jim Allison, Omega Chi-Texas, wins the Nobel Prize for Medicine, for his work in fighting cancer through immunology. George W. Bush, Phi-Yale, is sworn in as the 43rd President of the United States.

William E. Simon, Rho-Lafayette, is appointed as Secretary of the Treasury, a position he holds until 1977.

1980

Bob Pettit, Zeta Zeta-LSU, is named to the NBA Hall of Fame. He is the first player ever to reach 20,000 points, and is twice named the league’s MVP.

Mark McClung, Delta PhiAlberta, is named the first Director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS).

Smash TV series Hill Street Blues premieres on ABC. Creator and Producer is David Milch, Phi-Yale.

1990 Craig McCaw, Sigma Rho-Stanford, purchases the wireless operations from MCI Corp. for $122 million and changes the name of the company to McCaw Cellular Communications, eventually known as Cellular One.

J. Lucian Smith, Chi-Mississippi, becomes President of Coca-Cola. John Akers, Phi-Yale, becomes CEO of IBM. People magazine He serves as CEO until names Harry 1993, leading IBM’s Hamlin, Theta entry into personal Zeta-Cal, as its computers. “Sexiest Man Alive.”

Roger K. Deromedi, GammaVanderbilt, becomes CEO of Kraft Foods.

Mike Babcock, Tau Alpha-McGill, coaches the Canadian men’s hockey team to the Olympic Gold Medal. He also coaches the 2010 Gold Medal team, and wins the 2008 Stanley Cup with the Red Wings. Brother Babcock is currently head coach of the Maple Leafs.

2000 Terry Stewart, Phi Chi-Rutgers, is named as CEO of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, OH. A Bartlett Giamatti, Phi-Yale, is named Commissioner of Major League Baseball. He previously served as President ofYale University. He is succeeded asYale President by another Deke, Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.

Kyle Young, LambdaKenyon, becomes CEO of the Country Music Hall of Fame, a position he still holds.

James McNerney, Phi-Yale, is named Chairman, President and CEO of Boeing, the largest manufacturer of commercial jetliners and military aircraft.

Ben Paterson, Delta Delta-Chicago, wins the Ellis Marsalis International Jazz Piano Competition, the top award in the field of jazz piano.

2010

Mad Men premieres on AMC. In 8 seasons as a hit series, Mad Men stars two Deke Brothers, Bryan Batt, Tau Lambda-Tulane, as Sal Romano and Harry Hamlin, Theta Zeta-Cal, as Jim Cutler. Additionally, one of the show’s main characters, Pete Campbell, plays a Deke. “Garden and Glass,” a museum of Dale Chihuly glass art works, opens next to the Space Needle in Seattle and quickly becomes a top attraction. Chihuly, Kappa EpsilonWashington, is the world’s leading pioneer in glass art.

2019

Brett M. Kavanaugh, PhiYale, is sworn in as an Associate Justice to the United States Supreme Court. Kavanaugh becomes DKE’s fourth Supreme Court Justice, more than any other fraternity.

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ΔKE Music & Song

175th Anniversary Corporate Sponsors

Lion Trophy

Honor Roll Brothers

Presidents Bush: The Human Side

Historical Chapter Roll

PUBLISHED BY Delta Kappa Epsilon International 3001 Plymouth Road, Suite 205 Ann Arbor, MI 48105 (734) 302-4210 www.dke.org ΔKE BOARD OF DIRECTORS Michael Peters, Delta Delta 1990, Chairman Peter Tripp, Phi Gamma 1993, Vice Chairman Ross Wigle, Alpha Phi 1979, Treasurer Charles Jones, Eta 1956, Honorary President Craig Lengyel, Gamma 1989, Honorary President Neilson Brown, Beta 1967 Cory Crenshaw, Tau Lambda 2001 Semmes Favrot, Psi 1992 Bob Green, Eta 1969 Carl Haynes, Beta Tau 2019 Dan Johnson, Sigma Alpha 1977 Stan McMillan, Gamma 1989 John McNeil, Psi 1979 Greg Miarecki, Delta Delta 1994 Mason Morjikian, Lambda 1988 Kevin O’Bryon, Tau Lambda 1977 Terry Stewart, Phi Chi 1969 ΔKE HQ STAFF Executive Director: Doug Lanpher, Gamma 1977 Associate Executive Director: Mike Hilts, Gamma 1976 Archivist & Historian: Grant Burnyeat, Phi Alpha 1965 Director of Health & Safety Initiatives: Trey Robb Director of Chapter Services: Craig Dick, Phi Alpha 2016 Director of Alumni Services: Turner Spears, Lambda Tau 2016 Chapter Consultant: Garrett Hybarger, Delta 2018 Chapter Consultant: Torrey Talifer, Omicron 2018 Chapter Consultant: Jack Morton, Delta 2019 DEKE QUARTERLY STAFF Publisher: Doug Lanpher, Gamma 1977 Co-editor: Robert Alvis, Gamma 1974 Co-editor: Kevin Cuneo, Gamma 1977

ΔKE Strategic Plan Update

History of the DKE Club of New York

E DITO R’S NOT E The DEKE Quarterly editors and all of ΔKE would like to express our deep gratitude for the substantial assistance provided by Grant Burnyeat, Phi Alpha 1965, ΔKE Archivist & Historian, in the crafting of this Anniversary Edition. His considerable research in the recent months as well as his past efforts to create the “This Day in DKE History” series formed the basis for many of the articles. We encourage all Brothers to check out www.facebook.com/TDIDEKEH for great nuggets about ΔKE’s wonderful history.

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Brothers, Friends, and Parents, There was likely a time – maybe during a study break, a tailgate, or a commercial during the game – where you and your buddies were sitting around and came up with a great idea. A momentous idea. Why had no one thought of this fantastic idea before? And then study break was over, the game started, the commercial was over. Nothing ever came of that great idea. In fact, that’s probably happened to you more than once. Executing on that great idea is a lot of work. It’s difficult. It takes perseverance. What if that great idea, that you and 14 of your buddies had, was to start a fraternity? That’s what Edward Bartlett and his buddies did 175 years ago. While doing it today would add even more complexity and difficulty, doing it 175 years ago was an exercise in dedication, friendship, brotherhood, and certainly perseverance. As Dekes, we are fortunate that the 15 young men meeting in No. 12 Old South Hall that day successfully executed on their idea. And we are equally fortunate that generations of young men have entered that brotherhood and passed along that legacy to the young men who wear our diamond pin on campuses across North America today. That these, and future generations of young men, have this opportunity is in large part thanks to the hundreds of volunteers, donors, and parents who support DKE every day. The following pages make clear why DKE has this support: the impact of our fraternity does not end at graduation but extends to our life-long brothers who shape our nations and the world (and even the moon!). Our path to the next 175 years, and even simply the next 15 or 25 years, will only be assured if this support and impact not simply continues but grows significantly. You can help by supporting DKE financially, by volunteering, and by encouraging young men entering college to seek out their own diamond pin. And most importantly, extend a thank you to our professional staff, the board, and the volunteers of the local alumni associations and house corporations. Each plays an important role in ensuring that DKE exists tomorrow let alone years from now. So the next time you sit around with your buddies let your great idea be about how you can support DKE. That’s an easy idea to execute.

In the Bonds,

Michael Peters Delta Delta – University of Chicago ’90 Chairman, Delta Kappa Epsilon International

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Personal Reflections on a Life In ΔKE

’ve spent a lot of time in the past few months preparing for our 175th Anniversary, thinking and writing and speaking about DKE, our amazing history, and the astonishing global impact DKE has had in the years since our founding. It’s been a lot of fun, and has given me an even greater appreciation for the opportunity I’ve had to be associated with such an outstanding brotherhood. Reflecting on DKE like this has also caused my mind to do a little detour into my own personal experience with DKE and how my membership has impacted my life. My Deke experience started even before I joined, because the night before I pledged, I called my dad to tell him I was joining a fraternity (he and I had never discussed fraternities). He asked me which one, and when I said DKE, his first words were “Your Uncle Murray was a Deke!” This was incredibly moving to me because I was Murray’s namesake (it’s my middle name), he was my Godfather, and was always my favorite uncle when I was a kid, but he had just passed away the previous summer. He had been a Deke at Phi Epsilon - Minnesota, and a Big Ten champion swimmer. So right from the beginning, although I was sad not to have been able to share the fraternal bond with my Uncle Murray, I felt proud about going DKE. I also found out and thought it was pretty cool that the Vice President at the time, Gerald Ford, was a Deke. For me and my 16 pledge brothers, March 17th of this year was a milestone of sorts, as it marked the 45th anniversary of our initiation into the Gamma Chapter at Vanderbilt in 1974. Seventeen young guys from all over the south, midwest, and east coast (no westerners in our group), thrown together

into one pretty darn wacky amalgamation of personalities, backgrounds, temperaments and perspectives. I was already friends with two of my pledge brothers, Dave (“Squeaks”) Mueller and Craig (“Flex”) Yeager, who were both residents of the third floor of Kissam Hall, like I was. But the other 14 were complete strangers, until, that is, we began the crucible of our six-week pledge program. Without that pledging experience (under the tutelage of Pledge Trainer Clay Swindell, an outstanding and highly respected member of the senior class), it’s unlikely that I ever would have had the chance to become friends with many of my other pledge brothers, if any at all. What an unbelievable experience those six weeks were. They say that pledging is a bonding experience, and from my experience, I agree with that 100%. I enjoyed getting to know each of my fellow freshmen, and the active brothers as well. I enjoyed learning Deke history, the names of the other chapters, and the Deke songs. I still remember to this day quizzing each other in our dorms, and singing the songs over and over as we prepared for our Monday line-ups. Leighton Aiken, invariably in jock clothes because he was coming straight to the chapter house from lacrosse practice, always had to field the first question because we lined up alphabetically. He was a good pledge and usually handled it, but if anyone missed a question, another of us was always there to back him up. I can still tell you the full name and hometown of most of our pledge brothers and Gamma’s active brothers. Well, maybe I’m a little rusty on some of their middle names. There was no hazing - even then I guess our Gamma chapter understood there was no need to haze kids in

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Doug Lanpher shown through the years – with his Deke brothers at Vanderbilt, and a memorable Lion’s March at a Deke Convention.

order to “prepare” them for membership or to help them bond. down to the business side of the fraternity, we did it. I always We had a lot of colorful nicknames in our chapter, as I’m felt as if DKE was a home away from home for me. Many, many sure a lot of our chapters did, and I hope that tradition is great times, lots of laughs, a lot of learning together, and an still a thing in college today. Mine was “Butch,” we had a incredibly close bond of friendship. “Cyclone” -- or “Clone” for short (Bill Roberts - his Arkansas In the 45 years since being initiated into DKE, these men high school football team was the Cyclones), an “FDR” (for Fat became and still are my closest friends. We don’t get together Dan Richardson), a “Sheik” and a “Turk” often enough, but when we do, it’s as if no (origins unknown) and a “Parrot” (Rich time has passed. I’d do anything for these For me, DKE was the Klein - because he sounded like one when guys and more importantly, I know for a he was complaining about something, medium for a tremendous fact they’d do the same for me (they’ve which he always was, and still is, by the it). I have the utmost respect for amount of personal growth. proven way), and a few I can’t reprint here. my fraternity brothers and the men they Age 18-21 is a time for The friendships I made throughout my have become and the things they have Deke experience in college started with young men to learn about accomplished. that pledge program, and continue to And having the opportunity to work for themselves as it is, and this day. We’ve lost touch with several of DKE right out of college, and again over the our pledge brothers, unfortunately, but a there’s no better place to do past nine years, has been rewarding. If I core group of us is still close. Then in the can help in some way to provide leadership that than in a fraternity. following three years, classes ahead of us to our current undergraduates so that would graduate, but the incoming pledge they can experience the same growth and classes that came after us only added to rewards from their Deke membership that I the character of our chapter, and enduring new friendships did, then it will be very fulfilling. were made. When I told a new acquaintance recently about the job that But it’s not just the friendships. For me, DKE was also the I do, he said it sounds like a very “righteous” undertaking. medium for a tremendous amount of personal growth. Age 18I was honored to have him describe it that way, just as I am 21 is a time for young men to learn about themselves as it is, honored each day to be able to help advance the great cause and there’s no better place to do that than in a fraternity. I was that DKE is. a somewhat introverted kid coming out of high school in my I have a deep sense of appreciation and gratitude for DKE, small Ohio town, and getting into DKE opened me up to a great and what it has meant in my life as a source of personal growth group of other kids with whom I could feel really comfortable, and enrichment, and I know I will feel that way forever. I hope and not have to try to be someone else. We all accepted each our readers feel much the same — each in your own personal other for who we were as individuals, and we enjoyed the way, of course — but if every Deke feels equally rewarded by diversity of personalities. We always thought our diversity his Deke membership as I do, I know we have a bright future made us closer. ahead of us - another 175 years, perhaps? I gained a ton of confidence from being in DKE, helping out as a chapter officer, being able to contribute in small and large ways, collaborating with my Deke brothers on chapter issues, In the Bonds of ΔKE, handling problems together, playing IM’s, taking trips together. We really were running a small business. Don’t get me wrong, there was a lot of ribbing each other but it was always done in a brotherly way and in good fun, and when it was time to get Doug Lanpher

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motto ever since: “Gentlemen, Scholars, and Jolly Good Fellows.” What these 15 men launched when they formed ΔKE is a brotherhood that has soared way beyond their imaginations, and has had an incredibly consequential impact on society in America, Canada, and beyond. Indeed, the characteristics which give ΔKE its special stature among fraternities can be traced back to the ideals of our founders. America was still a young country when ΔKE was founded; only 68 years had elapsed since the Declaration of Independence, and only 56 years since the Constitution was ratified. Most of our founders were two years old when Jefferson and Adams died, and were 12-year old boys when James Madison died. BY DOUG LANPHER, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR But the country was expanding These are the words of Edward rapidly in population, size, and Griffin Bartlett, one of ΔKE’s economic complexity. America’s founders, writing almost 40 population grew 36% in the 1840s, years after he and 14 other Yale The characteristics which give ΔKE its another 36% in the 1850s, and 22% sophomores banded together to special stature among fraternities can in the 1860s. create a new breed of fraternity As America grew, so grew - one that did not exist in 1844. be traced back to the ideals of ΔKE. After our founding at Yale, The fraternity that he and the our founders. the original members, who had others envisioned was one which no intention of forming other encouraged the development of the “branches,” were surprised to well-rounded man, beyond literary discover how quickly the word spread about this new fraternity and oratorical skills. They wanted to associate freely with other they had started. Four new chapters opened within two years, young men of “congenial temperament.” and by 1854, there were 18. ΔKE grew in the northeast primarily, ΔKE’s founders believed that what defines a man is the strength but also in the south. A few of Phi’s original members were of his character. Furthermore, the principle of what defines ΔKE southerners, and that was a contributing factor to ΔKE’s growth. as a fraternity is that our members are well rounded and must In 1847 ΔKE was the first fraternity below the Mason Dixon Line, be attracted to each other in friendship, not just in the accrual with the Gamma Chapter at the University of Nashville. More of academic honors. This was the added element. They felt such southern chapters followed soon thereafter, and ΔKE became the a society would create a stronger bond and a more meaningful first fraternity to open chapters in Alabama, Virginia, Mississippi, experience for the brothers who came together in this spirit. In fact, and North Carolina. Finally, ΔKE moved west in 1852 with new their requirement that members must be bound by friendship led chapters at Miami and Kenyon in Ohio. At Kenyon, Dekes built them to create ΔKE’s official motto, Kerothen Philoi Aei, translated the first fraternity lodge in America, (The Lodge) in 1854. The as “From the Heart, Friends Forever.” first tomb-style fraternity structure ever built also was also a Deke Bartlett goes on to say, when considering the merits of a potential building, at Yale. Tombs became popular as fraternity meeting halls, member, “the candidate most favored was he who combined in the particularly in the northeast. most equal proportions, the gentleman, the scholar, and the jolly But as America grew, the divide between north and south became good-fellow.” This phrase has formed the basis of our unofficial

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here was one circumstance not counted upon by us at the time which fixed the determining characteristic of Delta Kappa Epsilon. The little band of its founders had gathered without definite design, simply because mutual attraction had drawn together young men of congenial temperament. It was this that had proved stronger than the inducements of the junior societies, which would otherwise have severed us; it was this that, controlling our plans, made Delta Kappa Epsilon from its institution somewhat different from the other “societies” of Yale, and, beyond others, a “fraternity.”

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the notable success and self-confidence of our members, and the too great to resolve politically, so the nation erupted into a Civil men with whom they associated. The attraction ΔKE held for War in April, 1861. Days before the war started, Gamma Chapter’s young men at other colleges of high regard was very strong. ΔKE Brother Iota (Corresponding Secretary) wrote letters to the other expanded to 51 schools by 1901, but added only four more in the southern chapters pleading with them not to let the looming next 11 years, to 55 by 1912 (numbers reflect closed chapters). conflict disrupt good brotherly relations between them and the The roster of schools added during these years is impressive not northern chapters of ΔKE. But the war was all encompassing, and it in the sheer numbers, but rather in its geographic diversity. Even hit ΔKE harder than the other fraternities, because we were so well more so in the astonishing quality of the institutions -- great established in the south. So devastating was this war, in fact, that private schools such as MIT, Penn, nearly two out of every three living Tulane, Stanford, and Trinity, Dekes served for their respective plus many of the great public and Armies, 725 for the Confederacy and land grant institutions such as 817 for the Union. That is 162 more Minnesota, Illinois, Wisconsin, men than the next two fraternities Texas, and Washington. This combined. Every notable battle extension to highly regarded involved Dekes. Of the 80 men who universities became a hallmark of had been initiated at Beta-North what differentiated ΔKE from other Carolina by April, 1861, 18 were fraternities and it continues to killed in the Civil War. The first this day. But it also foreshadowed Union officer to be killed in action a doctrine which may not have was a Deke; the last Confederate served ΔKE well in future years General to surrender was a Deke. (more on that later in our story). Robert Todd Lincoln, President Also important to mention, Lincoln’s son and a Harvard Deke, during this time, ΔKE became an served on General Grant’s staff. international fraternity, adding Immediately after the war, chapters at Toronto (1898) and putting regional divisions aside, McGill (1900). ΔKE got back to the essence of And what a legacy the fraternity our brotherhood, the mending of started to build, producing class the terrible wounds of the war. At after class of men graduating the first convention after the Civil into the world, whose destiny it War, in 1866, understandably no was to have a major impact on southern chapters attended, but the American and now Canadian following resolution was passed by society, arts, business, medicine, the delegates: ΔKE’s founders believed that what law, athletics, government, science, “Resolved, that we as a defines a man is the strength of his entertainment, and any other convention, rejoice at the restored political and civil relations of our character. Furthermore, the principle imaginable field. They would build, create, teach, discover, and innovate common government, and that we of what defines ΔKE as a fraternity is their way into history, bringing welcome back with undiminished respect and admiration to ΔKE, regard the Southern Chapters of our that our members are well rounded making her the uncontested leader Fraternity, and earnestly desire and and must be attracted to each other in the world of Greek fraternities, request that they renew their former relations with the Fraternity at the in friendship, not just in the accrual in influence and stature if not in size. Because even though small (by earliest possible moment.” of academic honors. now Sigma Chi - founded 11 years The post war years were a time for after ΔKE - had 83 chapters to our colleges to reopen (many Southern 55), ΔKE’s influence had grown far schools closed, some for good), and beyond the proportion of our size. ΔKE had evolved into a small for Americans to put their lives back together. Although the focus was but elite institution, an identity that follows us to this day. on rebuilding our existing chapters, it’s a little surprising that five years The astonishing achievements of ΔKE members in the 175 years after the Civil War ended, nine new chapters had been established, at of our existence should be chronicled and celebrated. great universities such as Wesleyan, Rensselear Polytechnic Institute, Every important aspect of society has been influenced by Chicago, Syracuse, DePauw, and Western Reserve. Dekes. We’ve defended our countries in war; we’ve ended wars; we In 1876 ΔKE expanded to the west coast at UC-Berkeley, and probably even helped start one (but that’s another story). Teddy amazingly, that chapter survived with no other chapter closer than Roosevelt became famous as a “Rough Rider” in the SpanishCleveland (and Chicago briefly), until 1901, when Sigma RhoAmerican war, and after losing a close Deke friend in that war, he Stanford was chartered. That is resilience. Our third west coast came home and planted two trees on the lawn of the Deke House chapter, UCLA, didn’t open until 1932. at Cornell in his honor; trees which still stand proud and strong, And through those early years of growth, the seeds of what 80 feet tall. One hundred fifty five Dekes died in WWI, including was to come were planted. The “branches,” or chapters, were the first American killed by enemy fire; over 6,000 Dekes served established at very high caliber schools, which was not a strategic in WWII, with over 300 were killed. On December 8, 1941, ΔKE’s decision by our early members. The fraternity grew and evolved Vanderbilt chapter declared war on Japan (and is likely still at war not by a grand plan or a proactive growth strategy, but through

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Representatives, Members of Canadian Parliament, the current Governor of Florida. At least eight airports are named after our members (including Bush Intercontinental in Houston, Gerald Ford Airport in Grand Rapids, Indy and Anchorage airports); we’ve started airlines and we invented the overnight package delivery service. The guy who wrote “On Wisconsin!” and other collegiate fight songs was a Deke. One of the driving forces behind ABC’s Wide World of Sports was a Deke. The foot size measuring device used at shoe stores was invented by a Deke. NASA’s first seven Apollo flights were directed by a Deke from Brown. We’ve had countless college presidents including three in a row at Amherst, two in a row at Yale, and currently at UT-Austin and CU-Boulder (both Cornell Dekes). Where big things were happening and major decisions being made, Dekes have been there, right in the middle. Dekes earned the reputation as part of On D-Day a Deke soldier, Donald Brierre, Tau Lambda-Tulane, the establishment, but not necessarily “of” stands behind Eisenhower (center, behind Ike’s hand). the establishment. Dekes have always been known, even to this day, as men who never took themselves too seriously, kept their egos in check, but got with that country). A Tulane Deke soldier stands with Eisenhower the job done. Remember that we are jolly good fellows! In 1956, a in the famous photo of him exhorting his troops before D-Day. Newsweek article about trends in corporate hiring, said “Industry Every chapter lost at least one man in that war. flesh merchants shy away from ‘the bookworm,’ ‘the man who lacks Twenty five Dekes from 15 chapters paid the ultimate sacrifice in forcefulness,’ and the ‘oddball.’ ‘We’d rather have a Deke than a Phi Vietnam. Beta Kappa,’ they repeat.” We’ve won Oscars, Pulitzers, Emmys, Tonys, Nobel Prizes, But while in the first half century or so it was not a conscious Rhodes Scholarships (five in 1922 alone), World Series, Stanley strategy to be conservative in our growth, in the latter 1800’s, and Cups, Super Bowls; we’ve been MVP’s, hall of famers, first round for at least the next century, slow, cautious expansion became draft choices, and college football national champions. We’ve won the governing philosophy of ΔKE, and it became a hallmark of our Presidential Medals of Honor, Olympic Gold Medals, Heisman evolution, forever defining ΔKE’s place in the fraternity world. Trophies, US tennis Opens, we’ve built and designed legendary golf ΔKE’s governance decisions were originally made at Conventions. courses, we’ve written books, made movies. Delegates met every other year, considering matters of importance One of the first college football coaches to use the forward to decide how ΔKE pass (1906) was a Deke; he’s in should proceed. In the College Football Hall of Fame’s At least eight airports are named those free-wheeling “Pioneer” section. We had a WWI ace days of limited pilot; we have a Gettysburg monument. after our members, including Bush government and rapid We brought Rock and Roll to TV, every Intercontinental in Houston and growth, few decisions week AND on New Year’s Eve; Dekes needed to be made Gerald Ford Airport in Grand Rapids. have run Major League Baseball, Halls other than whether to of Fame (Rock and Roll AND Country grant charters to new Music); we have a Brass Note on schools, so a direct the Walk of Fame on Beale Street in democracy worked well. Memphis (not too far from Elvis’), we’ve started famous music In 1887, however, as the demands of operating an organization festivals, we’ve run magazines and newspapers, been CEO’s of with over 30 active chapters became more complex, ΔKE decided major firms like Kraft, Boeing, Coca Cola, US Tobacco, Xerox, to move to a system similar to representative government. The Union Pacific, AT&T, Bloomberg, and IBM. Council was formed. Initially, it consisted of delegates from five We’ve been to both poles (first man to North Pole) and the chapters, eventually expanding to include one delegate from every Moon. We’ve designed bridges and sports arenas. Dekes owned the chapter. Yankees, Braves and Tampa Bay Buccaneers. We’ve been spies, FBI The Council existed in this form for 85 years, until 1972, when agents, ambassadors, and diplomats (three secretaries of state). the Fraternity moved to a 15-man Board of Directors model. Companies whose names you recognize instantly were Throughout ΔKE’s history, we’ve never had a strong “central founded by Dekes, including FedEx. Miami University has government” philosophy; our management structure has from ten campus buildings or places named after Dekes. Five the beginning been decentralized, providing local chapters with presidents (next closest fraternity has two), four Supreme Court much autonomy. In recent years this has begun shifting in the justices, three Speakers of the House, fifty or more governors, other direction out of necessity, as demands of operating a modern (including territorial governors before statehood). Senators,

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mid-1900s, in fact for most of the 20th Century, ΔKE’s influence fraternity became more continued to grow and we enjoyed our reputation and position of complex and fraught leadership among the fraternities. Alumni associations were being with insurance and created with well-attended alumni events held in many cities. legal implications. Dekes were graduating and becoming astonishingly prominent in One primary North America and beyond. Peary’s trip to the Pole captivated the responsibility for the world, Hearst’s newspapers wielded strong clout across the land, governing Council but it was Teddy Roosevelt whose force of personality dominated was to determine the public image of the brash young country. Roosevelt was a ΔKE’s strategic direction, proud Harvard Deke, and invited many Deke members to serve including growth. From its in important roles in his administration. (Presidents Ford and very earliest days, it had a heavy both Bushes would follow in TR’s footsteps in this regard; all three bias toward eastern schools, had many Dekes working for them.) Other Dekes in Congress private schools, and a few well served as Roosevelt’s close advisors, such as Henry Cabot Lodge of regarded state universities, with Massachusetts. bias against most universities in ΔKE staged the first convention of any fraternity held outside the the Midwest, Southwest, Great U.S. by meeting for five days in Havana in 1920. And our young Plains, and northwest. Really, a bias Canadian presence, begun in 1898, started to exert itself on the against almost any growth at all. ΔKE scene. Our 1923 convention was held in Montreal on the 25th ΔKE’s historical records contain dozens anniversary of our entry into Canada. of petitions submitted by student groups at various In the publishing world, Dekes were editors or publishers of high quality universities, wanting to establish Deke chapters, magazines such as Time, US News & World Report, Life, Reader’s who were repeatedly turned down. The minutes of conventions Digest, Cosmopolitan, Newsweek, Harpers, Field & Stream, and and Deke Council meetings from those years are littered with Parents. Newspaper empires, besides Hearst’s, founded by or run comments such as, “It was thought best not to pursue the by Dekes included the Chandlers in LA, Crain in Chicago, Pulliam opportunity to start a new chapter at XYZ University.” in Indianapolis, and Sifton in Canada. Choate School’s founder was The Council believed those schools to be not up to the standards a Deke. Dekes were big on Wall Street (Morgan, Chase, Crocker, of ΔKE. A great majority of these are schools at which most Dekes Lehman to name a few), Fifth Avenue (Tiffany and Bloomingdale), would be proud to have a chapter today. Rejections included and Madison Avenue (Ted Bates Washington University in Advertising). It’s widely accepted St. Louis (ΔKE said no, even that the TV series Mad Men though the Chancellor of the Deke alumni became known as the was based - at least in part - on school was a Deke and was “Fathers” of American Football, Sociology, ΔKE alumnus Ted Bates and his “heartily in favor” of expansion) Modern Neurosurgery, Modern Vaccines, creative genius Rosser Reeves, and Georgetown University who informed us that “M&M’s (even though President and of all things, the Credit Card. melt in your mouth, not in your Theodore Roosevelt wrote the hand.” Deke alumni became Council “strongly urging” it to known as the “Fathers” of act on the opportunity). The American Football, Sociology, Council unanimously rejected Modern Neurosurgery, Modern Vaccines, and of all things, the the Georgetown bid in spite of the President’s encouragement. Just Credit Card. Yes, a Deke is to thank for the popularization of the a few of the many other schools where we could have expanded to credit card, Alfred Bloomingdale of Diner’s Club fame. include Oregon, Boston University, University of Miami, Clemson, One of the best developments in this era was ΔKE’s affiliation Lehigh, Florida, Purdue, Nebraska, Carnegie & Mellon, and the list with the Yale Club of New York City, which began in 1932. Dekes goes on. can enjoy the benefits of belonging to one of Manhattan’s finest Looking back on documents which survive from this period, it private clubs, something no other fraternity can match. The is easy to discern why the leadership decided to go slow; this was Fraternity’s headquarters were established in New York City, and openly discussed and documented -- they thought that things were a Yale Deke, Jimmy Hawes, was named its first Secretary and going well enough and it would be smarter to maintain our existing traveling consultant. He was succeeded in the early 1930s by Dutch chapters than to open new ones. Complacency for sure, and Elder from Williams, then followed in the role by Bill Henderson, perhaps a little arrogance crept in -- or more than a little. back from the Second World War after serving in the Navy, to take Was it opportunity lost or preservation of ΔKE’s elite status to the reins. Many Deke chapters had closed or were experiencing maintain our image? By following a cautious growth policy, did low membership, so Bill’s focus was on rebuilding ΔKE after the we cross over into an elitist attitude, thereby robbing ΔKE of the War. Bill’s impact on ΔKE was enormous; almost any Deke from the opportunity to expand its influence to many more schools of high 1950s through the mid-1970s remembers Bill, and the Fraternity’s academic standing? top alumni award is named after him. This debate over growth still has advocates on both sides. It is ΔKE went through ups and downs, as all fraternities did, in the a critical debate, one still considered even today as we ponder the next several decades, with the early ’60s being a positive time for future direction of ΔKE. If the adage is true that those who do not us, not so in the late ’60s and early ’70s because of the Vietnam War learn from the past are condemned to repeat it, ΔKE should study and the cultural upheaval that went with it, when fraternities were this period in our history and assess the impact that it had on ΔKE’s a symbol of “The Establishment.” development, and how it should influence our future strategy. 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every other field, so far beyond our size? ’70s, especially in the smaller private schools where ΔKE once It cannot be coincidence; the laws of chance would not account flourished. Bowdoin, Colby, Middlebury, and Williams banned for one small band of brothers to be so influential for so long. Greek life, causing our second, fourth, 19th, and 21st chapters We can speculate that it goes all the way back to the founding of to fold; Amherst followed suit in 2015, and our fifth chapter, our fraternity and the ideals in which our Founders believed. They Sigma, went by the boards. Perhaps not outright bans but hostile were rebelling against an entrenched system at Yale, where the administration attitudes toward fraternities at other northeast established societies were good at college politics and accruing the schools restrict the opportunities in that region. greatest number of honors to themselves and their members, but In the 35 years from 1974-2009, three out of six U.S. presidents were not taking the human factor into consideration. ΔKE’s founders were Dekes. Dan Quayle (Psi Phi-DePauw) was Vice President in - as we see in their written histories - strove very consciously to the George H.W. Bush administration, marking the only time in US admit men into the fraternity only if they were of good nature and history a sitting President and Vice President were from the same possessed compatible fraternity. personalities, in addition to ΔKE has had some great the qualities of scholarship characters along the way in and high achievement. They modern times, men such sought not the accrual of as Charlie Blaisdell (Pihonors, but instead, sought Dartmouth), who lived 102 men of high quality who consequential years from would go on to honor ΔKE 1915-2018, was a great ΔKE each in his own way. leader in the 1970s, and Credit goes to the recruited a team of what he Founders of ΔKE for called his “Young Guns” to creating a brotherhood help rebuild and re-energize which has stood the test ΔKE; Mike Michaels (Rhoof time, because the ideals Lafayette), ΔKE’s “Happy upon which they founded Warrior” Board Chairman ΔKE have been instilled in the 1980s, and Duncan in the hearts of thousands Andrews (also Rho), our of members, spread out Executive for about six over 110 total chapters in years. Jim Bishop, Yale Deke, two vast countries, for 175 renewable energy pioneer, years. Those ideals include and an accomplished sailor, intellectual excellence, led the ΔKE Board for many honorable friendship and years and had a major impact useful citizenship, a spirit of on the Fraternity; ΔKE recently It cannot be coincidence; the laws tolerance and respect for the lost Jim as well. The current rights and views of others, and Board is led by Michael Peters of chance would not account for the maintenance of gentlemanly (Chicago) who followed in the one small band of brothers to be so dignity, self-respect and morality footsteps of Sam Heffner (RPI) in all circumstances. All that, and Stan McMillan (Vanderbilt); influential for so long. combined with a union of stout Stan was the fraternity’s hearts and kindred interests. Chairman during a tumultuous This brings to mind once again the words of one of our Founders, time from 2008-2013, and was instrumental in steering the ΔKE ship Edward Griffin Bartlett, when reflecting back on the start of ΔKE: through some troubled waters while implementing the transition to a new management team. “Founded as Delta Kappa Epsilon was, we naturally made The current fraternity is composed of 51 chapters and 14 our elections on the basis upon which we had come together, colonies. Eight of those chapters and colonies are in Canada. ΔKE and the early members - not invariably the best, and never poor, attempted expansion to the United Kingdom in 2015 but was not students - were always a companionable crowd. Such was Delta successful, and ended the experiment. Kappa Epsilon from the start, adopting, without formulating the Today’s college environment is changing rapidly, as are the principle, that he lived his life best, who, helpful to his fellows, expectations of the students. But some things have remained enjoyed it most himself. constant for 175 years. When today’s Deke members are surveyed It is probably just that lack, in the selection of members, of all about what they feel are the benefits of joining ΔKE, the words inflexible rules but one - that the candidate must be a gentleman that are used most frequently are Brotherhood, Bonds, Lifelong in the best sense of the word, to which Delta Kappa Epsilon owed, Friendships, Connections, Networking, Alumni, and History. We and by which, if at all, she deserved her success. suspect most alumni would volunteer similar words and phrases in We built better than we knew, when we founded the answer to that question. brotherhood to which good fellowship has ever been a passport It is difficult to ascertain exactly what it is about Delta Kappa not less requisite than learning, where songs have been written Epsilon that caused us to have such outsized impact on nearly as often as essays, and where the candidate most favored was he every aspect of society, for such a long period of time. What is the who combined in the most equal proportions the gentleman, the undefinable factor that created the conditions where ΔKE would scholar, and the jolly good-fellow.” produce captains of industry, law, entertainment, medicine and

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THE ORIGINS OF DELTA KAPPA EPSILON and HOW IT ALL BEGAN

“Founded as Delta Kappa hen the Epsilon was, we naturally made first Deke our elections on the basis upon Quarterly which we had come together,” was Bartlett remembered. He noted published that the early members were in January of 1883, Edward always a companionable crowd. Bartlett, one of the founders “Such was Delta Kappa Epsilon of Delta Kappa Epsilon, wrote from the start, adopting, without a fascinating story of his formulating the principle, memories of the fraternity’s that he who lived his life best, earliest days. As he wrote, he helpful to his fellows, enjoyed it said he held in his hands a Dr. Edward G. Bartlett Hon. William Boyd Jacobs most himself.” worn little book whose cover He described the first was marred and scratched; initiations as “elaborate, (but) the pages within yellowed contained no buffoonery, with age. Besides Bartlett’s and were, as we thought, own signature, the book very impressive. Our literary contained the name of ΔKE’s exercises were always a great other 14 founders – William feature and very spirited.” Woodruff Atwater, Frederic The first meeting of the group Peter Bellinger Jr., Henry Case, Col. George Foote Chester remained sharply etched in George Foote Chester, John Bartlett’s mind. “We came at the Butler Coyngham, Thomas appointed time and found the Isaac Franklin, William Walter room without a chair, table, lamp, Horton, William Boyd Jacobs, or other article of furniture. … So Edward Van Schoonhoven we held a standing session, nothing Kinglsey, Chester Newell was tabled, and for dispatch of Righter, Elisha Bacon Shapleigh, business the meeting was a model.” Thomas Du Bois Sherwood, Prof. Edward V. S. Kinsley Dr. Elisha B. Shapleigh The founders had, at first, no Albert Everett Stetson and idea of propagating chapters, Orson William Stow. Bartlett said, but the fraternity proved popular and applications were Nearly 40 years had passed since the beginning, but Bartlett received for charters for “branches.” “These were granted to bodies still remembered the boyish expressions of his 14 Yale of friends associated like ourselves,” he wrote, and he mentioned that classmates – then in their second year of study. Each one had Brother Shapleigh was largely responsible for the Theta Chapter at shown talent in various academic disciplines, but, because Bowdoin College. Bartlett visited the campus with Shapleigh and was of petty politics, they were denied election to existing honor favorably impressed with the men who had sought a charter in ΔKE. societies. Bartlett recalled that Chester, more than the others, “We built better than we knew,” Bartlett wrote, “when we was responsible for the founding of ΔKE. As they gathered as a founded the brotherhood to which good fellowship has ever been group, Bartlett wrote: “We found, on talking matters over with a passport not less requisite than learning, where glees have each other, that several among us had independently conceived been written as often as essays, and where the candidate most the idea of a new Junior Society. But Chester was at least one favored was he who combined in the most equal proportions the of the first who had planned such an association.” As they gentleman, the scholar, and the jolly good-fellow.” discussed the pros and cons, “It was Chester who most strongly Bartlett wrote that the founders took a deep interest in the urged the new departure.” Fraternity’s welfare, not because they had planned for it an So, it was resolved at a preliminary meeting held at No. 12 Old elaborate future, but because it had been the nucleus within South Hall on June 22, 1844 to start a new society. “During the which were comprised the dearest memories of Yale. “In the first week in July, 1844, the written articles now before me were selection of members, all rules were inflexible but one – that the drawn and signed, which bound us in preliminary organization,” candidate must be a gentleman in the best sense of the word, to Bartlett wrote. Unfortunately, the tattered book he referenced which Delta Kappa Epsilon owed and deserved her success.” has been lost.

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FOUNDING FATHERS of TODAY’S ΔKE CHAPTERS A THROWBACK to the ORIGINAL 15

he founding fathers of new DKE chapters of recent years share so many qualities with Delta Kappa Epsilon’s original 15 founders. The modern founders are young, talented, diverse, and dissatisfied with some of the conditions of Greek life on their campuses. Yet they love their schools, which is why they want to make a difference and improve the quality of life. Sound familiar? William Woodruff Atwater and his brothers would be pleased with today’s young DKE founders. Gabe Gonzalez “At Missouri, we had a large group of guys from all over the country,” said Daniel Noonan, a founding father at Pi Alpha. “We learned about DKE and reached out to Doug Lanpher and the headquarters. Doug was very receptive and within a short time we were off and running.” Today, just four years later, Pi Alpha is a solid DKE chapter whose membership ranges between 70 and 80 brothers. Andrew Fenstermacher, a founder of the Gamma Iota chapter at Gannon University, tells a similar story. “Our group numbered 14 and we were looking for something different than what Gannon’s Greek system offered,” Festermacher recalled. “When we started out in 2012, we were a group in search of a brotherhood that cared about academics, values and having fun. We felt we’d struck the mother lode when we connected with DKE.” Again, they reached out to Lanpher and his staff who responded within a day. “Doug hooked us up with a local Deke alumnus and our journey took off,” he said. “The thing I’m most proud of is that nobody ever lost their enthusiasm for DKE – not then or now.” Nick DeFalco, a founding father of Chi Beta at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, said that once his fledgling group connected with DKE, the experience became amazing. “Right away, Doug Lanpher came down to our school and saw that we had potential,” DeFalco said. “Our chapter didn’t have rich history like some of the other fraternities on campus, so we were out to make a name for ourselves – a good name. We got involved

in the community, were dependable neighbors to the families that lived near us, and we became leaders on campus,” DeFalco said. “It all happened pretty quickly. We attended Deke Conventions and tried to live up to the spirit of DKE.” DeFalco said when he started at UNCW, he never envisioned having such an amazing experience. “It’s all been so great and now I can’t imagine my life without DKE,” he said. Gabe Gonzalez recalls sitting up at night with his friends in the University of Illinois’ Blaisdell Hall, dreaming of starting their own fraternity. “It wasn’t easy because we had to start from scratch, but we kept at it,” he said. “We had an assortment of interesting Dan Noonan individuals and I would say without question that we formed the most diverse fraternity on campus.” Mac Brewer Gonzalez said the group sent an email to Lanpher the first night and he visited campus within a week. Eventually, they connected with several Delta Pi alums, as the chapter had not been active in many years. That all changed over the next two years. Ted St. George, of RPI, will always remember a lunch he and his group of 17 had with Deke alumni who attended Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute some 60 years before. “They lit a fire in us with their enthusiasm for DKE. And they were all still so close with each other after all those years. It inspired us carry on the DKE name at RPI.” Mac Brewer will always treasure the spring of 2015 when he joined a group of more than 50 young men at University of South Carolina. “Our goal was to build a really special fraternity, and then we learned about the Delta chapter that came before us,” Brewer said. “Every brother was killed in the Civil War, and the chapter ceased operations. We started digging through the records in the library, and what we discovered inspired us and convinced us DKE was the right fit.” It’s clear the modern DKE founders share a love for their chapters that compares favorably with the imagination and courage shown by those 15 visionaries back in 1844 at Yale.

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THE

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elta Kappa Epsilon takes great pride in the fact that five of our members advanced to the presidency of the United States. This is more than any other fraternity – by far. Each man made his mark while in office, adding to the rich tradition of Dekes mastering the most difficult of challenges.

Rutherford B. Hayes 1822-1893 Rutherford B. Hayes, Delta Chi (Honorary), served as the 19th President of the United States. Hayes brought dignity, honesty, and moderate reform to the office after surviving one of the most fiercely disputed elections in U.S. history. Hayes’ heroism during the Civil War is well documented, as he was wounded five times in battles before rising to the rank of brevet major general. While he was in the army, his friends and supporters back in Cincinnati, Ohio, promoted him for a run for the House of Representatives. Hayes accepted the nomination but refused to campaign,

saying, “an officer fit for duty who at this crisis would abandon his post to campaign for office ought to be scalped!” Following his term in Congress, Hayes was elected to serve three terms as Ohio’s governor. Drafted by his Republican colleagues to run for president in 1876, Hayes lost the popular vote to Democrat Samuel J. Tilden. But he won an intensely disputed electoral college vote after a Congressional commission awarded him 20 contested electoral votes. The result became known as the Compromise of 1877, in which Democrats acquiesced to Hayes’ election on the condition that he withdraw remaining U.S. troops protecting Republican office holders in the South, thus officially ending the Reconstruction era. The father of eight children, Hayes had been educated at Kenyon College, graduating in 1838, which pre-dated the founding of DKE. But when four of his sons pledged DKE at Delta Chi-Cornell, the fraternity’s leaders decided to extend an offer to Hayes to become an honorary member of Delta Kappa Epsilon. He gladly accepted, becoming the first Deke to serve in the White House. Hayes and his wife Lucy were known for their policy of keeping an alcohol-free White House, giving rise to her nickname “Lemonade Lucy.” Newspaper reporters joked that at White House dinners “water flowed like wine.” When his first term ended, Hayes lived up to his promise to head back to Ohio after four years to resume a quiet life. “He left with his dignity fully intact and the nation in better condition than when he had arrived,” Hayes’ vice-president William Wheeler said.

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Theodore Roosevelt 1858-1919 Theodore Roosevelt, Alpha 1880, was only 43 years old when he ascended to the White House upon the assassination of William McKinley in 1901. As the 26th President, Roosevelt brought new excitement and power to the office, as he vigorously led Congress and the American Public toward progressive reforms and a strong foreign policy. Roosevelt had the view that the President as “a steward of the people” should take whatever action necessary for the public good unless expressly forbidden by law or the Constitution. “I did not usurp power,” he wrote, “but I did greatly broaden the use of executive power.” Frail and sickly as a child, he developed a program of gymnastics and weightlifting as a teenager to build up his strength. Elected to New York’s state assembly at 23, Roosevelt

served until 1884 when his mother and wife died on the same day. He spent the next two years working on a ranch he owned in the Badlands of the Dakota Territory. Upon returning to New York, he married Edith Kermit Carow, his childhood sweetheart, and they would raise six children. Upon the breakout of the Spanish-American War in 1898, he became colonel of the First U.S Volunteer Calvary, known as the “Rough Riders.” In Cuba, Roosevelt led the Rough Riders in a brave, costly uphill charge in the Battle of San Juan. Upon his return, the Republican political machine threw its support behind Roosevelt, helping him to become New York’s governor. McKinley named Roosevelt as his running mate in 1900, and he won in a landslide for a second term. Roosevelt’s “Square Deal” in office battled large industrial trusts, which he believed threatened to restrain w w w.d ke.o rg

trade. He also used his executive power to further his passion for conservationism, setting aside almost 200 million acres for national forests, reserves and wildlife refuges. Roosevelt prepared the U.S. for an expanded role on the world stage. He helped Panama secede from Colombia in order to facilitate the beginning of the construction of the Panama Canal. Throughout his life, Roosevelt was a dedicated Deke who once planted trees in front of the Cornell chapter house in memory of a DKE brother who had fought alongside him. Roosevelt’s image was immortalized alongside three other U.S. presidents on Mt. Rushmore.

Gerald R. Ford, 1913-2006 Gerald R. Ford, Omicron 1935, restored prestige and honor to the U.S. Presidency when he became the nation’s 38th president in 1974. Ford took the oath of office on the day Richard Nixon resigned as president, prompting Ford to say, “I assume the presidency under extraordinary circumstances. This is an hour of history that troubles our minds and hurts our hearts.” It was indeed a difficult time, but Ford, the rock-solid Midwesterner, proved equal to the task. During his years at the University of Michigan, Ford had been a dedicated Deke brother who helped pay his dues by washing dishes in the kitchen at Omicron. After growing up in nearby Grand Rapids, Ford became a star center and linebacker on the Wolverines football team. Michigan went undefeated during Ford’s sophomore and junior seasons, and he won AllAmerica honors. In his senior year, the Wolverines stumbled badly, winning only two games, and Ford became embroiled in a controversy over the athletic director’s decision to not allow Willis Ward, the only African American player on the squad, to play in the game against Georgia Tech. Ford actually quit the team, but Ward, his roommate during road games, convinced him to return. Ward went on to become a respected judge, and the two men remained close friends for the rest of their lives. Ford coached football while attending law school at Yale and later served with honor during World War II. When he returned to Grand Rapids after the war, local Republicans urged him to run for Congress. Ford would serve in the House until Nixon tapped him as vice-president in 1973. In the aftermath of the Watergate scandal, Ford faced numerous challenges as he tried to revive a depressed economy, chronic energy shortages, and cope with many difficult situations overseas. Ford lost a close election in 1976 to

Jimmy Carter, but he had pulled the nation through one of its most difficult periods. Throughout his nearly three decades in Washington, Ford remained a loyal DKE brother who regularly attended special reunions at Omicron’s Shant. Shortly before his death, Ford sent a check to the DKE Headquarters for his annual dues. The Deke Quarterly ran a photograph of Ford’s check with the challenge: “He found the time. Did you?” In addition to being one of America’s most respected presidents, Jerry Ford was the quintessential DKE brother.

George H.W. Bush, 1924-2018 George H.W. Bush, Phi 1948, lived an extraordinary life in which he served his country on so many levels. Before becoming America’s 41st president in 1989, Bush had been one of the nation’s youngest military heroes. The day he turned 18 in 1942, he enlisted in the U.S. Navy. Upon graduating from Phillips Academy, he became a naval aviator and 10 months later would become the youngest American up to that time to be commissioned as a pilot. He would fly 58 combat missions and in 1944 would take part in one of the largest air battles of the war – the Battle of the Philippine Sea. In September

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marriage lasted 73 years, Bush also raised five children, including George W. Bush, a DKE brother who would also go on to serve as president.

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of that year, during an attack of Japanese installations in Chichijama, Bush’s plane was hit by flak and the engine caught fire. Even as flames cut through the craft, Bush completed the attack, releasing bombs over the target, scoring several damaging hits. Moments later, Bush bailed out of the burning plane and was rescued four hours later as he kept afloat in an inflated raft on the choppy Pacific. After the war, Bush enrolled at Yale and pledged DKE. He was a respected leader in the chapter from the start and briefly served as Phi president. Determined to get on with his life, Bush graduated Phi Beta Kappa in two and a half years with a degree in economics. He headed out to West Texas, his wife Barbara and young son George in tow, where he entered the oil business. Bush earned success and an impressive fortune in the offshore oil drilling business. Beginning in 1967, he would serve in the U.S. Congress and later served as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations. Next, he headed to China as special envoy and was later appointed Director of the CIA. From 1981-89, he served as Vice President under Ronald Reagan, and himself was elected president in 1988. During his term in the White House, there would be significant accomplishments in foreign policy, including an agreement with the Soviet Union to reduce the number of nuclear weapons. In 1991, under Bush’s leadership, Allied forces invaded Iraq, following that country’s invasion of Kuwait. The first Gulf War took but a little more than four weeks, and the coalition victory greatly increased U.S. prestige abroad. A dedicated husband and family man, whose

George W. Bush, Phi 1968, was transformed into a wartime president by the September 11, 2001 airborne terrorist attacks on New York’s World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and the thwarted flight against the Capitol or White House. The attacks put on hold many of the 43rd president’s hopes and plans. Bush’s father, George H.W. Bush, put it best when he said his son “faced the greatest challenge of any president since Abraham Lincoln.” George W. Bush, who was born in New Haven, Connecticut, but who grew up in West Texas, once dreamed of becoming the Commissioner of Baseball. That’s when he was serving for five years as managing partner of the Texas Rangers. Eventually, Bush turned his $800,000 investment in the Rangers into a $15 million profit when he sold his interest to run for governor of Texas, an office he held from 1995 until 2000. Bush advanced to the White House in 2001 after narrowly defeating Al Gore in the 2000 presidential election. When the terrorists struck on September 11th, Bush delivered a powerful address from the Oval Office, promising a strong response to the attacks. He visited Ground Zero and met with firefighters, police officers, and volunteers. Speaking through a megaphone, while standing on a heap of rubble, Bush told the workers, “I can hear you. The rest of the world hears you.” Shortly thereafter, Bush announced a global war on terror. He assembled a coalition to invade Afghanistan and Iraq. Bush’s steady leadership during those years led to a second term as president. At his inauguration for his second term Bush set the theme for the next four years: “At this second gathering, our duties are defined not by the words I use, but by the history we have seen together. For half a century, America defended our own freedom by standing watch on distant borders. After the shipwreck of communism came years of relative quiet -- and then there came a day of fire. There is only one force of history that can break the reign of hatred and resentment, and expose the pretensions of tyrants, and reward the hopes of the decent and tolerant, and that is the force of human freedom. We are tested but not weary. We are ready for the greatest achievements in the history of freedom.” As a collegian, Bush, who served as president of Yale’s Phi chapter, was an enthusiastic Deke who has remained in touch for years with many of his fraternity brothers. He followed in the footsteps of his father, who had also served briefly as president of Phi during his years at Yale.

Vice President Dan Quayle From 1989 to 1993, when Dan Quayle served as George H.W. Bush’s Vice President, the nation rested in the capable hands of two DKE brothers. Quayle, only 42 when he became the 44th Vice President of the U.S., comes from a rich line of Dekes. Eugene C. Pulliam, his grandfather, and James C. Quayle, his father, both preceded Dan as members of DKE’s Psi Phi Chapter at DePauw University. Dan Quayle graduated in 1969 from DePauw after starring on the golf team for three years and served in the U.S. Congress (1977-81) and as Indiana’s Senator (1981-89).

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A CENTURY OF DEKE SERVICE CONTINUES ON THE

SUPREME COURT

FOUR ΔKE BROTHERS AND THEIR IMPACT ON THE HIGHEST COURT IN THE LAND

n the last 100 years, four brothers in DKE served on the U.S. Supreme Court. They brought a sense of fairness, common sense and honor to the deliberations of the nation’s highest court.

JOHN HESSIN CLARKE, BETA CHI 1877, had a distinguished

background in several different fields before he was appointed to the Supreme Court in 1916. Born in New Lisbon, Ohio, Brother Clarke pledged DKE at Western Reserve College, where he also made Phi Beta Kappa. After practicing law for two years, he purchased a half interest in the Youngstown Vindicator newspaper, where on the editorial pages he opposed the growing power of corporate monopolies. Clarke was so opposed to the presidential nomination of William Jennings Bryan in 1896 that he left the Democratic Party and became a Republican. During an unsuccessful run for the U.S. Senate, Clarke impressed President Woodrow Wilson, who believed the Ohioan’s intelligence and good sense made him a strong candidate for a judgeship on the federal bench. Clarke proved so effective in that capacity that he was nominated by Wilson to the Supreme Court in 1916. During his six years on the bench, Clarke demonstrated an affinity for legal realism in his opinions. He often voted with Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. and Louis Brandeis, usually in dissent from the conservative majority dominant on the Court at that time. As a Progressive, he supported the power of both national and state authorities to regulate the economy, particularly with regard to regulating child labor. In 1922, Clarke resigned from the Supreme Court

to devote much of his energy to the passage of the League of Nations. In fact, he succeeded Wilson as the leader of the campaign for the League of Nations. Eventually, that campaign failed, but Clarke remained active in the nation’s political affairs for the rest of his life.

HAROLD HITZ BURTON, THETA 1910, was an American politician and lawyer who went on to a distinguished career in the U.S. Supreme Court. He served as the 45th mayor of Cleveland and, later, as a U.S. Senator from Ohio before President Harry S. Truman appointed him to the court in 1945. Brother Burton attended Bowdoin College where he pledged DKE and roomed with Owen Brewster, a Deke brother who went on to serve as a U.S. Senator from Maine. Burton, whose second cousin was J. Edgar Hoover, moved to Cleveland after college where he practiced law. Later, in World War I, Burton rose to the rank of captain and was decorated several times for bravery. In the late 1920s, he joined the Republican party and started his political career. In 1935, he was elected mayor of Cleveland and five years later as a U.S. Senator. Truman, impressed by Burton’s performance on the committee for the National Defense Program during World War II, appointed him to the Supreme Court in September 1945. “I wanted a man who was universally respected by Democrats and Republicans, and Harold Burton filled the bill,” Truman said. Burton was confirmed by the Senate in one day and would serve with honor for the next 13 years. Well-liked by his colleagues, Burton helped ease tensions on the court where he was respected for his knowledge of the law and sound judgment. Burton’s major

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contribution on the Court came in the area of racial relations. An active member on the NAACP from 1941-45, he was a dependable vote for civil rights. Burton voted to undermine the “separate but equal” doctrine in Plessy vs. Ferguson, saying that it was unconstitutional in practically every way. Usually a centrist on the Court, Burton mostly favored judicial restraint. His well-written decisions and hard work earned him the respect of his colleagues. Burton’s service as an Associate Justice was cut short when be developed Parkinson’s disease. He resigned in 1957, though he continued to serve for one more year at the request of President Dwight Eisenhower until a suitable replacement could be found.

POTTER STEWART, PHI 1937, proved to be the ideal successor to Harold Burton. Considered the “quintessential Eisenhower Republican,” Brother Stewart spent 23 years as an Associate Justice on the Supreme Court. Often a dissenting vote on the Earl Warren Court, Stewart, for the second half of his tenure, was at the decisive center of the Warren Burger Court. Stewart came from an influential Cincinnati family that excelled in politics and the law. His father, a respected lawyer who would go on to serve nine years as the city’s mayor, eventually became a judge on Ohio’s Supreme Court. His Deke brothers at Yale would remember Stewart’s deep interest in journalism and how he thrived as chairman of the Yale Daily News. Stewart, who also worked for two summers as a reporter on a Cincinnati newspaper, said his experiences in journalism taught him to have an economy of words. After law school at Yale and a year of studying international law at England’s Cambridge University, Stewart practiced for two years in New York City before World War II erupted. A naval lieutenant, Stewart served aboard oil tankers during the war, returning to Cincinnati after peace was restored. He joined a leading law firm and also went on to serve two terms on City Council and later for two years as Cincinnati’s vice-mayor. Even though Sen. Robert Taft had been a longtime family friend, Stewart threw his support behind Dwight Eisenhower during the 1952 Republican presidential campaign. Two years later, Stewart, then only 39, was appointed to the federal bench. Four years after that, Eisenhower appointed him to the Supreme Court. Stewart hated

labels such as “liberal” and “conservative,” telling reporters that he thought of himself only as a lawyer. Stewart was known for his respect for the First Amendment and he resisted government officiousness. In his writings, Stewart often preferred a pithy phrase to a long philosophical opinion. When asked for his opinion about a 1964 obscenity case, which dealt in part with pornography, Stewart famously said, “I know when I see it.” He later noted that those words would likely appear on his tombstone, but Potter Stewart is primarily remembered as pillar of the Supreme Court.

BRETT KAVANAUGH, PHI 1987, is the newest addition to the Supreme Court. As a young lawyer fresh out of Yale Law School, Kavanaugh served a clerkship for Chief Justice William Rehnquist and for Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy. Kavanaugh, who was raised in Bethesda, Maryland, also earned a one-year fellowship in 1992 with the U.S. Solicitor General, Kenneth Starr. He worked on the same staff with fellow high school alumnus Neil Gorsuch, whom he would follow on the Supreme Court. Starting in July 2003, Kavanaugh served as Assistant to the President and White House Staff Secretary in George W. Bush’s administration. In that position, he was responsible for coordinating all documents going to and from the president. In 2006, President Bush nominated Kavanaugh to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. While on the federal bench, Kavanaugh wrote 13 opinions that were adopted by the Supreme Court, while only one was rejected. Following Anthony Kennedy’s resignation from the Court in 2018, Kavanaugh was selected by President Donald Trump to succeed him. Kavanaugh survived a grueling confirmation hearing and joined the Court on October 9, 2018. Since that time, he has joined Chief Justice John Roberts as a swing vote in declining to hear a case brought by the states on Louisiana and Kansas, which sought to block women from choosing to receive Medicaid-funded medical care from Planned Parenthood clinics. Though he has mostly sided with the conservative justices on key votes, Kavanaugh has also sided twice with Roberts and the liberal justices in controversial cases. “Kavanaugh has shown that he will follow his own mind and not be swayed all the time by his conservative colleagues,” The New York Times reported earlier this year. w w w.d ke.o rg

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PROMINENT MEN of ∆KE ΔKE IS, AFTER ALL, ABOUT ITS PEOPLE. WE HAVE ASSEMBLED A FEW OF THE BROTHERS WHO WERE AND ARE PROMINENT IN THEIR FIELDS. MOST ARE WELL KNOWN BUT SOME MAY BE “FORGOTTEN GREATS OF ΔKE.”

POLITICS & GOVERNMENT Dekes have proudly served their governments as national leaders in the United States and Canada. Here are a few who made their marks.

DONALD S. MACDONALD, ALPHA PHI 1953, known as “Thumper” to his legion of friends and admirers because he had big feet, was first elected in 1962 to the Canadian House of Commons, joined the Cabinet of the Liberal Government six years later and served as President of the Privy Council; Minister of National Defence; Minister of Energy, Mines and Resources; and Minister of Finance. In 1982, he was appointed Chairman of the Royal Commission on the Economic Union and development Prospects for Canada. Brother Macdonald always answered the call when Prime Ministers Lester B. Pearson and Pierre Donald S. Macdonald Trudeau

asked him to serve. When he chaired what would become known as “The Macdonald Commission,” Brother Macdonald was responsible for innovative policy recommendations including the early framework that led to the NAFTA agreement. Subsequently appointed by the Right Honourable Brian Mulroney to serve as Ambassador to Great Britain and Northern Ireland, he played a critical role in serving Canada’s interests during the creation of the European Union.

HENRY CABOT LODGE, ALPHA 1872, a close friend of Theodore Roosevelt, served as the powerful Majority Leader during his 31 distinguished years in the senate. A staunch conservative, he led the fight for AfricanAmericans to win the right to vote. Lodge advocated for U.S. Henry Cabot Lodge entry into World

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War I, during which time he served as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Brother Lodge opposed President Woodrow Wilson’s campaign for the U.S. to join the League of Nations, even though he supported William Howard Taft’s campaign for a second term, which badly hurt Taft’s opponent, Teddy Roosevelt, the friendship between the two DKE brothers resumed after the election, which Wilson won.

RUSSELL LONG, ZETA ZETA 1940, held many influential posts during his 39 years in the U.S. Senate. The son of the fabled Louisiana political icon, Huey Long, Russell Long won his first election to the senate at the age of 29. Brother Long wielded immense clout during his tenure, and the Wall Street Journal once called him “the fourth branch of government.” He was voted the most effective chairman by his colleagues, who also called him the most effective debater. While chairing the Senate Finance Committee for 15 years, he led the fight to approve many of Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society programs. In 1966, at the request of thenNFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle, Long and Congressman Hale Boggs used their influence to pass legislation that allowed the merger of the American Football

League and the National Football League. For their efforts, Rozelle awarded the next NFL expansion franchise to New Orleans.

LISTER HILL, PSI 1914, distinguished himself during his 31 years in the Senate, leading the drive for important legislation such as the Rural Telephone Act, the Rural Housing Act, the Vocational Education Act, and the National Defense Education Act. In 1954, Brother Hill signed “The Southern Manifesto,” which condemned the Supreme Court’s decision in Brown vs. Board of Education, ordering school desegregation.

STUART SYMINGTON, PHI 1923, was known for his steadfast courage during his 23 years in the Senate. Shortly after he took office in 1953, Symington emerged as a prominent critic of Sen. Joseph McCarthy, who had accused so many of being Communists. The first U.S. Secretary of the Air Force, appointed right after World War II, Symington, known for his brilliant mind, was said by Harry Truman to “have good sense and the guts of a cat burglar.” Truman backed Symington for president in 1960, but Symington eventually dropped out of the race and threw his support to his friend and colleague, John F. Kennedy.

Stuart Symington During the campaign, Symington refused to speak to any segregated audiences, and during the Cuban Missile Crisis, he was a key adviser to JFK, who called him “the brightest man in the senate.”

TED STEVENS, THETA RHO 1947, was a highly-decorated pilot in World War II who won numerous medals, including the Distinguished Flying Cross. A self-made man, he returned to college after the war to get his law degree from Harvard. Though born in Indiana, Brother Stevens joined a law firm in Fairbanks, Alaska, and pushed hard for Alaska to win statehood, which it did in 1958. A decade later, he began his 42-year career in the Senate rising to pro tempore of the Senate and becoming an influential advisor to Presidents Nixon and Reagan. In 2000, he was named “Alaskan of the Century.”

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THOMAS EAGLETON, SIGMA 1950, is still remembered for his brief stint as George McGovern’s presidential running mate in 1972, but it obscures what scholars have come to consider as a most productive 19 years in the Senate. Known for his liberal views and unshakable integrity, Brother Eagleton led the fight for legislation that denied funding for the bombing of Cambodia in 1973 and for the War Powers Act, which was intended to limit the ability of the president to take the country to war. Eagleton was respected on both sides of Lister Hill the aisle for his work with foreign relations, intelligence, defense, education, health care, and the environment. JOHN CHAFEE, PHI 1947, was in his third year at college when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941. Chafee immediately enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps and went on to fight in the battles at Guadalcanal and Okinawa. Recalled to fight in the Korean War, Brother Chafee emerged one of America’s most highlydecorated soldiers. Armed with his law degree from Harvard, he returned to his native Rhode Island and was elected mayor of Providence in the early 1950s. After serving as Secretary of the Navy from 196972, Brother Chafee served in the Senate for 14 years, fighting for the environment, gun control, and improved Robert Todd Lincoln health care.

CHRIS COONS, AMHERST 1985, worked hard in Ronald Reagan’s 1980 campaign for the presidency before switching from a Republican to a Democrat in 1985. Brother Coons was elected to the Senate in 2010. As a quiet but effective legislator, Coons has won the respect of his colleagues who appreciated his common sense and impressive work ethic.

GEORGE A. DREW, ALPHA PHI 1945, was a leading Canadian conservative politician once called the “North American Churchill,” and was known as the founder of the Progressive Conservative movement in Ontario. Brother Drew was born in Guelph in 1894, practiced law there for two decades, besides serving as mayor, and made master of the Ontario Supreme Court in 1929. He was elected leader of the provincial party in 1938, and in 1943 was elected 14th Premier of Ontario, serving until 1948. Entering federal politics, he won the Progressive Conservative leadership, navigating the party until 1956. Brother Drew went on to serve as Ambassador (Canadian High Commissioner) to the United Kingdom and the first Chancellor of the University of Guelph from 1965 to 1971.

ROBERT TODD LINCOLN, ALPHA 1864, was the son of Mary Todd and President Abraham Lincoln. Brother Lincoln served on the staff of Ulysses Grant, later becoming Secretary of War under James A. Garfield and Chester A. Arthur. Lincoln served as w w w.d ke.o rg

Ambassador to the United Kingdom and was president of the Pullman Palace Car Company.

JAMES G. BLAINE, THETA 1847, began his career in politics as a representative from Maine in the United States House of Representatives and was Speaker of the House from 1876 through 1875. Brother Blaine was elected to the United States Senate where he served until 1881 and twice served as Secretary of State. The Republican nominee for President in 1884, he lost to Grover Cleveland. Blaine and President Garfield were walking through the Sixth Street Station of the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad in Washington when Gordon Gray Garfield was shot by an assassin, Charles J. Guiteau. GORDON GRAY, BETA 1930, came from a family which included several heads of the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. Brother Gray received a law degree from Yale in 1933 and served with Omar Bradley’s European forces during World War Two. He was Secretary of the Army from 1949-50, President of University of North Carolina from 1950-55 and United States National Security Advisor from 1958-61. DEAN G. ACHESON, PHI 1915, defined United

Dean G. Acheson

States policies during the Cold War era. Brother Acheson had his hand in the preparation of the Marshall Plan, the Truman Doctrine and the creation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization serving as Secretary of State under President Truman. Earlier, Franklin Delano Roosevelt appointed Acheson Undersecretary of the Treasury in March 1933.

WILLIAM E. SIMON, RHO 1952, served as Vice

in DC for the Reagan years and the George Bush (41) and Clinton administrations. He was closely aligned with Newt Gingrich, and with him helped formulate and execute the Republicans’ successful 1994 strategy to retake the House. While in the Navy in 1962, Brother Livingston went to Cuba as part of the naval force which would enforce Kennedy’s blockade during the Missile Crisis.

President of Weeden & Co. before becoming a senior partner at Salomon Brothers, where he was a member of the seven-man Executive Committee of the firm. Brother Simon served as the Secretary of Willam E. Simon the Treasury form 1974 through 1977 under RON DESANTIS, PHI 2001, is the Presidents Nixon and incumbent Governor of Florida and is the Ford. In his business youngest governor in the United States. career he was known Prior to becoming Governor, Brother for the man who helped DeSantis served in the United States define the “leveraged House of Representatives. In his younger buy-out” popular in years, he was an the 1980s. By the late accomplished 1980s, Forbes magazine baseball player citied his net worth at who found his $300 million dollars. way to the Little Brother Simon served League World on boards of Xerox, Series. Brother Citibank, Halliburton, Dart, Kraft, United DeSantis also Technologies, the Heritage Foundation served as a United and Hoover Institute. He was treasurer States Navy and President of the United States JAG prosecutor Olympic Committee and chaired the U.S. and worked the Olympic Foundation. Guantanamo Bay detention camp SIDNEY SOUERS, KAPPA 1914, was detainees and was president of the Mortgage & Securities Ron Desantis later assigned to Company of New Orleans and founded “Seal Team One” the First Joint Stock Land Bank. Brother as legal advisor and deployed to Fallujah. Souers was a member of the New Orleans Port Authority and received his WHITELAW REID, KAPPA 1856, commission, lieutenant commander, worked for the New York Tribune under in the United States Naval Reserve in the famous newspaper man Horace 1929. After being called to active duty, he was later designated deputy chief of Naval Intelligence, with the rank of rear admiral. Brother Souers became the first Director of the Central Intelligence Agency in 1946 His last two assignments were as Executive Secretary, National Security Council and special consultant to the President on military and foreign affairs.

BOB LIVINGSTON, TAU LAMBDA 1966, served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1977-1999, and now heads up his own lobbying firm in Washington, D.C. As a prominent leader in the Republican Party, first as Appropriations Committee Chairman, then rising to the number two position in the House (Majority Leader), Brother Livingston was in the middle of the action

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Whitelaw Reid

PROMINENT MEN OF ∆KE Brother Shriver was part of the Kennedy family and the driving force behind the creation of the Peace Corps. He founded the Job Corps, Head Start, and other programs as the “architect” of the 1960s “War on Poverty.” Brother Shriver was Ambassador to France from 1969-70 and the Democratic Party’s nominee for vice president in 1972.

CLARK RANDT JR., PHI 1968, was a classmate of George W. Bush and the longest serving Ambassador to China and is fluent in Mandarin Chinese. Brother Randt started his career as first Secretary and Commercial Attaché to the U.S. Embassy. He practiced with the law firm of Shearman & Sterling in Hong Kong, where he headed the firm’s China practice.

R.Sargent Shriver Greeley, later purchasing the newspaper. During the Civil War Brother Reid was a reporter and was active for the battles of Shiloh and Gettysburg. He served as Ambassador to France before running for Vice President under Henry Harrison. In 1902, Brother Reid was appointed a special envoy at the Coronation of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra along with Brother J. Pierpont Morgan, Junior. His last assignment was as Ambassador to the United Kingdom.

R. SARGENT SHRIVER, PHI 1934, was a founding member of “America First Committee” with Yale Law Students Brothers Gerald Ford and Potter Stewart (Phi) to resist US involvement in World War II. However, he eventually served in the United States Navy and participated in the naval Battle of Guadalcanal. As the husband of Eunice Kennedy Shriver,

DONALD ENSENAT, PHI 1967, served as Ambassador to Brunei under Presidents George H.W. Bush and William Clinton and was a classmate of George W. Bush. Brother Ensenat was President and Chairman of the World Trade Center of New Orleans prior to serving Chief of Protocol at the United States Department of State.

MARK DAYTON, PHI 1969, was elected to the United States Senate in 2000 and became Governor of Minnesota in 2011. At Yale, he played varsity hockey and received a degree in psychology. Brother Dayton started in politics as an aid to Walter Mondale and Minnesota Governor Rudy Perpich, becoming head of the Department of Economic Development and then the Department of Energy and Economic Development.

BUSINESS & FINANCE It is literally impossible to go an entire day without engaging in some way with a business or monetary transaction that was influenced by a Deke. Some of those men you may or may not know about are profiled below. including the fabled Man o’ War, which his wife named for him when he was away serving in World War I. She called the horse “My Man o’ War,” later shortened to Man o’ War.

AUGUST BELMONT JR., ALPHA 1875, financed the construction of New York’s original subway system, and he is also credited with saving American thoroughbred horse racing after the repeal of New York’s racing law. He built New York’s Belmont Park and was one of the nation’s most successful horse breeders. In all, he bred 129 stakes winners,

J. PIERPONT MORGAN, JR, ALPHA 1886, inherited the

August Belmont Jr.

Guaranty Trust Bank when his father died in 1913 which became “Jack” Morgan’s base from which he build his

J. Pierpont Morgan. Jr. enterprise. Brother Morgan began to loan money, large sums of money, first was “just” $12 million dollars to Russia at the outbreak of WW1, followed by $500 million to France and Britain. Brother Morgan soon became Britain’s official purchasing agent. Collecting 1% on all the transactions he processed, his fortune was building on war financing and he found himself the target of an assassin. He was shot twice but recovered. Brother Morgan was a philanthropist, donating his London mansion so it could be the U.S. Embassy while being a famous yachtsman. He was commodore of the NY Yacht Club from 1919-1921, later building the then largest yacht in the U.S., Corsair IV in 1930, 343 feet long. It was the basis for the phrase “If you have to ask, you can’t afford it”

JOHN HAY WHITNEY, PHI 1926, was a descendant of the original Mayflower passengers. He followed his father’s legacy by attending Yale and joining DKE, where he coined the term “crew cut” for his hairstyle while on the Yale rowing team. John Hay Whitney Inheriting $20 million from his father, then later $80 million from his mother, Brother Whitney founded J. H. Whitney & Company in 1946, the oldest venture capital firm in the U.S. He was also involved in motion pictures, Broadway productions, race horses, and polo. His race horses entered the Kentucky Derby four times and he found himself on the cover of Time magazine w w w.d ke.o rg

as a polo player. Brother Whitney was appointed by Dwight Eisenhower as Ambassador to the UK in 1957. Jock was considered one of the 10 wealthiest men in the world in the 1970s.

FRED SMITH, PHI 1966, while a

Corporation (IBM). According to the company, he was the iconic IBM’er of his era. With a strong jaw and athletic bearing, the Boston native came to epitomize the upright corporate citizen in the conservative blue suit. Brother Akers joined IBM in 1960 after serving in the Navy as a carrier pilot, and quickly took to the company’s distinct culture. “We were very square,” he recounted in a 2010 interview. “We wore the blue suits, white shirts with button-down collars, striped ties, fedoras, and wingtip shoes.” That image came to stand for something: “The customers felt they could count on us.” Akers retired on April 1, 1993 after 33 years of service to IBM.

student at Yale, wrote an economics paper outlining “an overnight delivery service in a computer information age.” Though it is said he received a C on the paper, he founded Federal Express in 1973. The business initially serviced 25 cities with a fleet of 14 Falcon jets. In the tough early days, after a loan was denied, Brother Smith he took the company’s last $5000 to Las Vegas and turned it into $24,000 in order to pay the fuel bill. GILBERT COLGATE, PHI Among Brother Smith’s 1922,Brother Colgate was many accomplishments the great grandson of William are co-ownership of the Colgate, the founder of Washington Redskins, first Colgate-Palmolive Company. Gilbert Colgate choice for George W. Bush’s He won a bronze medal in Defense Secretary (twice the 1936 winter Olympics offered), chairman of the in the two man bobsled. In WW II Memorial project, and induction addition to serving as a director for Colgatein the International Air and Space Hall of Palmolive, he was chairman of the ColgateFame. Larson Aircraft Company. Colgate-Larsen Aircraft Corporation succeeded SpencerLarsen Aircraft Corporation and continued PETER GRAUER, BETA 1968, its work on novel-design small four-seat attended the University of North Carolina amphibian flying-boat. Later Brother and then Harvard Colgate engaged on subcontract work Business School. for other military aircraft building In 2001, Brother programs, especially after U.S. entry Grauer succeeded into World War II. Michael Bloomberg as Chairman of JAMES M. GAMBLE, LAMBDA Bloomberg L.P. 1824, began applying what he In addition to learned as an apprentice before Bloomberg, college, and started making soap he serves on after graduating from Kenyon. In the boards of 1837 he partnered several charitable with William Proctor organizations to form the huge including: company known Prostate Cancer today as Proctor & Foundation, Inner Gamble. One of his City Scholarship 10 children, James Fund, Big Apple Norris Gamble, was Peter Grauer Circus and Room the chemist who to Read. Brother devised the formula Grauer serves on the boards of McKinsey for Ivory Soap. & Company, Blackstone Group, and DaVita, Inc. Peter is a former trustee HERB KELLEHER, at the University of North Carolina and GAMMA PHI 1953, James Gamble active with several other boards at UNC. was an Olin Scholar at Wesleyan and held a Juris Doctor from New York University where JOHN F. AKERS, PHI 1956, served he was a Root-Tilden Scholar. In the as president, CEO and chairman 1960s, Brother Kelleher and one of his of International Business Machines 24 THE DEKE QUARTERLY | SUMMER 2019 • 175TH ANNIVERSARY ISSUE

Herb Kelleher law clients, Brother Rollin King devised a plan for a low cost air service which later became Southwest Airlines. The original plan to connect the Texas Triangle turned into a 20 billion dollar company. Brother Kelleher was installed as Chairman of the Board of Southwest Airlines in 1978 and appointed the full-time CEO and President in 1981, positions he held for 20 years. His outrageous personality created a corporate culture which made Southwest employees well known for taking themselves lightly but their jobs seriously. The company he founded and built has consistently been named among the most admired companies in America in Fortune magazine’s annual poll. Fortune has also called Brother Kelleher him perhaps the best CEO in America.

ROLLIN KING, DELTA CHI 1954, incorporated the Air Southwest Company in Texas in 1967 with Brother Herb Kelleher. Brother King was responsible for recruiting a board of directors, writing the business plan, and raising the money. King left Southwest Airlines in 2006, after which he engaged in consulting as the principal of Rollin King Associates from 1989 through 1995. JOSEPH C. WILSON, BETA PHI 1930, was a pioneer in “xerography” a technology patented in 1942. Haloid was the original name of Xerox, from the first copier, the Haloid’s Model A. When it became commercially accepted with the model 914 (it would copy on paper up to 9 by 14 inches) in 1959 Brother Wilson changed the name to Xerox. The word eventually became the go-to word to describe the act of making a copy. Xerox went on to grow into a multi-billion-dollar company.

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ARTS & EDUCATION Dekes have contributed to enriching society in many fields. These are a few from educators to artists.

JAMES R. ANGELL, OMICRON 1890,

Joseph Wilson Wilson’s dedication to research and technology saw the founding of the Palo Alto Research Center, where among other inventions the first prototype personal computer was developed.

HOWARD B. JOHNSON, PHI 1954, in 1957 arrived at the Howard Johnson Company his father started at the age of 24, fresh out of Harvard Business School. Brother Johnson was young with many accomplishments and had spent two years in the Navy. Since the age of five he had wanted to run the company his father had founded having attended his first board of directors meeting when he was twelve years old. Brother Johnson became chief executive and chairman in 1968 and four years later, inherited a turnkey 34-yearold conglomerate worth $80 million. At its peak the company was adding a new restaurant every nine days.

WILLIAM A. WRIGLEY III, PHI 1954, was president of the Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company, founded by his grandfather William Wrigley, Jr. from 1961 until 1999. While at Yale, he earned a varsity letter as manager of the Yale football team. Brother Wrigley inherited ownership of the Chicago Cubs in 1977 and was forced to sell the team to the Chicago Tribune in 1981 after his mother died leaving him with a massive estate tax bill. Wrigley lived by his mother’s family motto, “When your name is on the door, you’re obliged to watch the store.” He was a benefactor of the arts, enjoyed the American cinema, and was on the board at the University of Southern California’s School of Cinema Television.

was born into an education family. His father was President of University of Vermont and University Michigan and his grandmother was President of Brown University. Brother Angell became known as James R. Angell the founder of the “functionalist approach” to psychology. When appointed 14th president of Yale in 1921, he was the first non-Yale grad to hold the position since the 1700s and played a role in major physical expansions. After he retired from Yale in 1937, he went to work for the National Broadcasting Company.

BARTLETT GIAMATTI, PHI 1960, was a Renaissance scholar and a former Yale University president who also happened to love baseball. After graduating magna cum laude from Yale in 1960, Giamatti went on to Yale’s graduate school Bartlett Giamatti as a Woodrow Wilson fellow, obtaining a doctorate in comparative literature. He was hired the following year as an assistant professor at Princeton, and then after teaching a summer course at New York University, joined the Yale faculty as an assistant professor of English. Known to his friends as Bart, he was a man of wit and passion who was almost universally respected by everyone on Yale’s campus during his years as president of the university from 1978-86. His last job was as Major League Baseball commissioner. LYMAN ALDRICH, CHI 1966, is a businessman from Memphis who, in

1977, was instrumental in the success of the Memphis in May Festival. In 1977, Memphis was a little out of sorts and Lyman Aldrich not much of a destination for tourism or business. He pioneered the committee that developed Memphis such that it has become one of National Geographic’s top 20 must see destinations in the world. As featured in the summer of 2014 DEKE Quarterly, Brother Aldrich was awarded a “Brass Note” on the sidewalk of Beale Street, which is famous for the blues and over 30 entertainment and culinary attractions. w w w.d ke.o rg

DALE CHIHULY, KAPPA EPSILON 1965, learned how to melt and fuse glass while a student at University of Washington. Brother Chihuly’s works are considered to possess outstanding artistic merit in the field of blown glass, “moving it into the realm of large-scale sculpture”, while creating a bridge between decorative and fine arts that some art scholars have Dale Chihuly compared to Louis Tiffany. Although clearly a world renowned artist, he is a very successful entrepreneur. Chihuly Studios creates some 30 site specific pieces a year, ranging in price from $200,000 to millions. Chihuly, Inc’s reported estimated sales are well over $100 million. Brother Chihuly regularly has temporary exhibitions throughout the U.S. and many other countries with permanent exhibits in places such as the Toyama Museum in Japan and the Chihuly Garden and Glass exhibition in Seattle, the city’s top ranked tourist attraction. w w w.d ke.o rg

EXPLORERS, SCIENTISTS, & INVENTORS From the earth to the moon, and even in libraries, these Dekes have shaped the world in which we live. restore telemetry after the spacecraft was struck by lightning 36 seconds after launch, thus salvaging the mission. The Apollo 12 mission deployed several lunar surface experiments, and installed the first nuclear power generator station on the Moon to provide the power source. Brother Bean was also the spacecraft commander of Skylab 3 and resigned from NASA in 1981 to devote his time to being an artist. Each one of

venom of rattlesnakes, an observation pointing the way to the discovery of diphtheria antitoxin.

CHARLES F. BRUSH, OMICRON 1869, patented an electric generator for powering arc lights. By 1881, New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Montreal, Buffalo, San Francisco had installed the Brush arc light systems. The world’s first automatically operated wind turbine was built in 1888 by Brother Brush, who built a home in Cleveland that showcased many of his inventions and used the automatically operated wind turbine to produce the first home in Cleveland with electricity. The Charles F. Brush High School in Lyndhurst, Ohio, is named in his honor. The USS Brush (DD-745) was built in 1943 and was named for Brother Brush.

MELVIL DEWEY, SIGMA 1874, is

Robert Peary

ROBERT PEARY, THETA 1877, was the first person to reach the geographic North Pole. After Congressional recognition of his achievement, Brother Peary was given a Rear Admiral’s pension and the thanks of Congress by the special act of March 30, 1911. The liberty ship SS Robert E. Peary, the destroyer USS Peary, the cargo ship USNS Robert E. Peary, and the Knox-class frigate USS Robert E. Peary were named in his honor. The Peary-McMillan Arctic Museum at Bowdoin College honors Brother Peary and fellow Arctic explorer Donald B. MacMillan. The Deke pin of Brother Peary is prominently displayed at the Museum. The Deke flag that Brother Peary took to the North Pole is housed in the Smithsonian Museum in Washington D.C. On May 28, 1986, the U.S. Postal Service issued a 22¢ stamp to honor Brother Peary and Matthew Henson, who accompanied Peary to the North Pole.

Alan Bean his paintings, some of which command $500,000 contain some moon dust from his spacesuit. Brother was interred in Arlington National Cemetery on November 8, 2018 with a service which included a flyover, military band, carriage procession, and a gun salute.

HENRY SEWALL, GAMMA PHI 1876, is best remembered for his experiments of immunization to snake venom which laid the early foundations for the establishment of conceptions of antitoxic immunity. Brother Sewall was a Professor of Physiology at the University of Michigan Medical School and was a member of the ALAN BEAN, OMEGA CHI Medical Center Alumni 1955, had a distinguished Society Hall of Honor at that career as a Navy pilot prior to University. In his honor, the Henry Sewall being chosen as an astronaut. Henry Sewall Professor of He was the Lunar Module pilot Medicine is awarded each on Apollo 12, the second lunar landing in year. He founded the new Department of November 1969 on the Moon’s Ocean of Physiology at the University of Michigan. Storms. Brother Bean executed the famous While there, Brother Sewall demonstrated “Flight, try SCE to ‘Aux’” instruction to that pigeons could be immunized to the 26 THE DEKE QUARTERLY | SUMMER 2019 • 175TH ANNIVERSARY ISSUE

famous for his book, Classification and Subject Index for Cataloging and Arranging the Books and Pamphlets of a Library. The Dewey Decimal classification system was created by Brother Dewey in the years after graduation while he continued to work for Amherst Melvil Dewey College. Although best known for the decimal classification system that is used in most public and school libraries, he also developed the idea of a state library as controller of school and public library services within a state, the creation of hanging vertical files, and the concept of state traveling libraries and photograph collections. After Amherst College, Brother Dewey moved to Boston where he founded and became the editor of The Library Journal, which became an influential factor in the development of libraries in the U.S. and in the reform of their administration. Brother Dewey was one of the founders of the American Library Association and served as its President in 1891 and 1893. Late in life, Brother Dewey helped found the Lake Placid Club as a health resort, was an early promoter of winter sports in Lake Placid and was active in arranging for the 1932 Winter Olympics to be held there. Brother Dewey was always an active Deke, being appointed by the 1884 Convention to Chair the Committee on Symbolism and Ritual.

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NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS Can you imagine a Deke curing cancer? One of these Prominent Men of ∆KE is already very close. for only himself, Brother Enders stressed the collaborative nature of the effort. studies at Yale in 1918 to become a pilot He has been called “The Father of in the U.S. Air Force. After the First Modern Vaccines. World War Brother Enders returned to earn his degree. Following a brief foray into real estate, DR. JAMES ALLISON, he decided to enter the OMEGA CHI 1969, is the biomedical field with a Chair of the Department of focus on infectious diseases, Immunology, Director of the gaining a Ph.D. at Harvard. Parker Institute for Cancer In 1949, Brother Enders Research, and the Executive and two others reported Director of the Immunotherapy successful in vitro culture of Platform at MD Anderson an animal virus—poliovirus. Cancer Center. Brother The three received the 1954 Allison’s discoveries have led to Nobel Prize in Physiology or new cancer treatments for the Medicine “for their discovery deadliest cancers. He was one of the ability of polioviruses of the first to identify the T cell John F. Enders to grow in cultures of various receptor. A few years later he types of tissue”. That same discovered the T cell’s gas pedal. year Brother Enders began development Next, when no one else was even thinking of a measles vaccine and began trials on there would be such a thing, he identified 4,000 children in Nigeria. Seven years the T cell’s brakes, in the process opening later The New York Times announced the up a new vista in cancer treatment. Science measles vaccine effective. Refusing credit magazine named cancer immunotherapy

JOHN F. ENDERS, PHI 1920, left his

Dr. James Allison the “breakthrough of the year,” in 2013, citing Allison’s work in particular. In 2014, he was awarded the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences. In October of 2018, in recognition of groundbreaking work propelling the field of cancer immunotherapy, Dr. Allison was named one of the recipients of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. For such a highpowered scientist, Allison is surprisingly down-to-earth and plays harmonica in a garage band called The Checkpoints, composed of other immunologists..

MEDAL OF HONOR RECIPIENTS Delta Kappa Epsilon is honored to have in its Brotherhood, more Medal of Honor recipients than any other fraternity, regardless of size, 14 in all. Twelve of these awards took place during and after the Civil War. The two most recent recipients are profiled below:

DEMING BRONSON, KAPPA EPSILON 1916, majored in forestry at

by an artillery shell, but again refused to be evacuated and remained with his men all night. Bronson recovered from his injuries and was awarded the Medal of Honor in the office of President Hoover on November 19, 1929.

University of Washington and played on the Huskies football team. Brother Bronson joined the Army and served in France a first lieutenant with Company H of the 364th Infantry Regiment. On the first CAPTAIN RICHARD day of the Meuse-Argonne EUGENE FLEMING, Offensive he was wounded PHI EPSILON by a grenade but continued 1939, was Brother to fight and helped capture Beta during his time an enemy position. Shot in at University of the arm later that day, he Minnesota. Enlisting refused medical evacuation Deming Bronson in the Marine and remained with his unit Corps Reserve after through the night. The next morning, graduation, Brother Fleming fought after joining a company which was on the in the Battle of Midway. When his front line of an attack, he assisted in the squadron commander was shot capture of Eclisfontaine and an enemy down attacking a Japanese aircraft machine gun position. As the company carrier, Fleming took command of withdrew, he was wounded a third time the unit. Leaving his formation,

he dived to the perilously low altitude of 400 feet, exposing himself to enemy fire in order to score a hit on the ship. The following day Capt. Fleming led the second division of his squadron in a mass dive-bombing assault on the Mikuma destroyer. Putting his plane into an approach glide, he again dived low and succeeded in scoring a near-miss. His plane, hit by antiaircraft fire, caught fire. Unable to recover, Captian Fleming, crashed into the sea. In addition to the posthumous Medal of Honor, the USS Fleming was named in honor of Brother Fleming, and the South St. Paul Municipal Airport is named Richard E. Captain Richard Fleming Field. Eugene Fleming

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CALVIN HILL, PHI 1969,

SPORTS DKE is proud of all its great athletes, coaches and sportsmen who graced North America’s playing fields and press boxes over the years. Here’s a small sampling:

starred on top Yale football teams of the late 1960s before going on to a 12-year, hall of fame career as a running back in the NFL. He led the Dallas Calvin Hill Cowboys to a Super Bowl title as well as three NFC championships. Hill also starred for the Washington Redskins and later came out of retirement to help lead the Cleveland Browns deep into the playoffs in the late 70s and early 80s.

ROBERT TRENT JONES, DELTA CHI 1928, designed Paul Brown

PAUL BROWN, KAPPA 1929, who coached championship football teams at Ohio State and with the NFL’s Cleveland Browns, is credited with introducing more than a dozen innovations. He invented the draw play, the taxi squad, the face mask, and he is credited with integrating the NFL on a full-scale basis. In his last stop in coaching in Cincinnati, Brown took the expansion Bengals to a division title within three seasons.

the Anaheim Ducks to the Stanley Cup finals. In 11 seasons as head coach of the Detroit Red Wings, Babcock’s team won a Stanley Cup and ranked as one of the league’s top teams. Winner of more than 500 NHL games, he most recently built the Toronto Maple Leafs into a top contender.

HENDERSON “HARRY” VAN SURDAM, GAMMA PHI 1906, is a member of the College Football Hall of Fame who played, coached, officiated, and even composed music about the game he loved. He starred in Wesleyan’s backfield and later coached at Marietta College, the University of the South, and University of Texas at El Paso. Known as “the grand old man of DKE,” he served for many years as chairman of the Touchdown Club of New York and lived to be 100 years old.

WALTER CAMP, PHI 1882, was

Mike Babcock

MIKE BABCOCK, TAU ALPHA 1986, is widely recognized as one of the National Hockey League’s finest coaches. In his first season as a head coach in the NHL, he led

known as the “Father of College Football.” He headed numerous rules committees that developed the American game. He created the sport’s line of scrimmage and its Walter Camp system of downs. He ruled that each team should have 11 players. Following an all-star playing career at Yale, Camp coached the Bulldogs to three national championships.

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over 500 golf courses during an illustrious career that spanned more than 50 years. At the behest of Bobby Jones, he redesigned several holes at Augusta National, and also went on to design many of the world’s most famous courses. At a course in Africa, Robert Trent Jones he even found a way to chase away the lions that enjoyed lounging on his greens. President Dwight Eisenhower invited Jones to design a putting green at the White House and a special hole at Camp David.

TOM LANDRY, OMEGA CHI 1949, first gained fame as a valuable player for the New York Giants in the 1950s, but it was as a coach in the NFL that he became a Hall Tom Landry of Famer. Hired

PROMINENT MEN OF ∆KE 50 greatest players. At LSU, he led the Southeastern Conference in scoring for three straight seasons. Later, the 6-foot-

Hank Luisetti in 1960 to coach the NFL’s new Dallas expansion team, Landry would go on to lead the Cowboys for 28 seasons, wining multiple league titles and two Super Bowls. He invented the Flex defense and the 4-3 defense, leading the Cowboys to 250 wins.

HANK LUISETTI, SIGMA RHO 1938, helped revolutionize the game of basketball with his running, onehand shot that made speed and accuracy an essential part of the game. Until then, basketball was a slow, methodical, low-scoring game that many fans found Joe Paterno boring. But Luisetti singlehandedly changed all that. When his Stanford team went east to face the nation’s most famous college teams, Luisetti sparked upset after upset.

BILL TILDEN, DELTA KAPPA 1915, ranks with the greatest tennis players the world has ever seen. With his blazing speed and uncanny power, he dominated the sport throughout the 1920s. After a brilliant amateur career, he turned professional in 1930, at the age of 37, and for the next 15 years barnstormed throughout North America, dominating his opponents and helping to put tennis Bill Tilden on the map.

Don Schollander

JOE PATERNO, UPSILON 1950, owns the record for most victories by a college football coach. Paterno, who spent his entire 54-year coaching career at Penn State, including 40 as head coach, built the Nittany Lions into a national powerhouse, posting five undefeated seasons and winning two national championships. Paterno also donated millions to Penn State, where the library is named for him.

DON SCHOLLANDER, PHI 1968, won four gold medals and set three world records at the 1964 Olympics. He won another gold at the ’68 Olympics after leading Yale’s swim team to three NCAA championships. Named the top American amateur athlete in 1964, he was one of the first inductees into the U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame.

BOB PETTIT, ZETA ZETA 1954, was named one the National Basketball Association’s

Bob Pettit 9 Pettit became a superstar for the St. Louis Hawks, scoring 20,880 points during his 11-year NBA career, averaging 26.4 points per game.

GEORGE STEINBRENNER, EPSILON 1952, owned the New York Yankees from 1973 until his death in 2010. During that time, the Yankees, which had been in a prolonged funk before Steinbrenner arrived, won seven World Series titles. Steinbrenner ran the Yankees with an iron first, firing 20 George Steinbrenner managers during his tenure, but the team hasn’t won as many games since he was in charge.

DANA X. BIBLE, IOTA 1912, reigned as one of America’s most famous college football coaches from 1913-1946. He served as head coach at Mississippi College, LSU, Texas A&M, Nebraska and Texas. He helped create the T formation and is credited with establishing Texas as a major college power, posting three Southwestern Conference championships and two Cotton Bowl victories. In all, his teams won 198 games. w w w.d ke.o rg

ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY Dekes have always been known to have a great time, as often as possible. The following Brothers have helped make that happen over the years

Isaac Tigrett

ISAAC TIGRETT, IOTA 1969, founded the first Hard Rock Café in London when he was only 22 years old. 20 years later, having sold Hard Rock, his partners included Disney, Chase Manhattan and Harvard when he launched the International House of Blues Entertainment Company. House of Blues opened multiple locations and concepts, including a 400 room House of Blues Hotel in Chicago, and became known as a premier live entertainment destination. Brother Tigrett stepped down from House of Blues but continues his philanthropic work, serving on several non-profit boards including the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York and funding a 500 bed specialty surgical hospital in Andhra Pradesh, India. As mentioned on the floor of the U.S. Senate, Brother Tigrett is to be commended for his worldwide contribution to American culture, blues, and rock and roll.

Charles Ives

CHARLES IVES, PHI 1898, was one of the first American composers of International renown and was one of the first to engage in a systematic program of experimental music, with musical techniques including polytonality, polyrhythmic, tone clusters, aleuronic elements, and quarter tones. At Yale, Brother Ives participated in a number of performances put on for the diversion of his fellow fraternity brothers. Later, one of his song books published in 1922 featured, among others, Son of a Gambolier, the air that is the basis of Son of a Deke. J. MILES DALE, PHI ALPHA 2003, was born in Canada and is a prominent film and television producer. In 2018, his movie, The Shape of Water, won the best picture Oscar. Brother Dale was introduced to the entertainment industry by his father, J.Miles Dale celebrated jazz musician Jimmy Dale, who was the music director for the Smothers Brothers Show and the Sonny and Cher Show. Besides films, he has produced several television hits including RoboCop, the FX Networks series The Strain, and the critically acclaimed TV movie All-American Girl: The Mary Kay Letourneau Story as well as the hit film Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle.

COLE PORTER, PHI 1913, was one of the major song writers for the Broadway musical stage in the 1930s. At Yale, Brother Porter sang in both the Yale Glee Club of which he was elected President in his senior year and in the Whiffenpoofs. While at Yale, Brother Porter wrote a number of student songs, including the football fight songs Bulldog Bulldog and Bingo Eli Yale. Cole went on to write many famous songs including

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Cole Porter I Get a Kick out of You, Night and Day, and I’ve Got You Under My Skin. Among his Broadway shows is the Tony Award winning Kiss Me Kate.

LOWELL THOMAS JR., PI 1946, traveled to the Far East with his father a prominent writer and broadcaster, after graduating from Yale. They had been invited by the Tibetan Government to make a film with the hope that their reports would push the U.S. Government to defend Tibet against a pending Chinese invasion. The film they made was later broadcast by CBS. The book about the event Out of This World, became a bestseller in 1950. In 1954, Brother Thomas and his wife flew a Cessna 180 around the world; the adventures even found him a spot on the TV show To Tell the Truth. Moving

Lowell Thomas Jr. to Alaska in 1958 he found his way into politics, serving as both a State Senator and then as Lieutenant Governor of Alaska.

TERRY STEWART, PHI CHI 1969, served as President, Chief Operating Officer and Vice Chairman of Marvel

PROMINENT MEN OF ∆KE drama series L.A. Law, playing attorney Michael Kuzak playing 1986 to 1991, during which time he was voted People magazine’s “Sexiest Man Alive” and received two Golden Globe nominations for Best Actor in a television series. For his recurring role as ad executive Jim Cutler on the AMC drama series Mad Men, Hamlin received a 2013 Primetime Emmy nomination for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series.

JOHN DAVID ISAACS SR., ETA 1869,

welcomes over 1 million visitors and has income of $40 million annually. In his forty one years with the nationally accredited museum, he has served in every key capacity with accomplishments including founding the museum’s education department, serving as editor of the Journal of Country Music and CMF Press, and building the museum’s award-winning record reissue label. Brother Young has been nominated for three Grammy awards and won one.

SCOTT SIMAN, GAMMA

was chief consulting 1976, was president of his engineer for the chapter at Vanderbilt, is a Southern Pacific and leading American country Muybridge’s photo Union Pacific Railways. music entertainment Brother Isaacs carried executive and the son of Terry Stewart out the first photographic experiments country music pioneer Si Siman. Brother with Eadweard Muybridge at Leland Siman signed the Dixie Chicks to their Entertainment Group in the 1990s. Stanford’s farm in Palo Alto to answer initial record deal and was appointed to When Marvel went public, he was named Mr. Stanford’s question whether all four as CNBC Marketing Executive of the horse’s hooves are off the ground at Year. Brother Stewart was appointed to the same time during a trot. On June his dream job, President and 11, 1878, Muybridge settled Chief Executive Officer of the matter with a single the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame photographic negative showing and Museum in Cleveland in Stanford’s horse airborne 1999, a position he held for 14 at the trot. Brother Isaacs years. He turned the nonprofit developed a trigger to set off museum into a solid institution each camera, and Muybridge and tourist draw that generates successfully photographed a $100 million annually for horse in fast motion using a the city of Cleveland. His series of 24 cameras. A bronze distinctions include the 48th plaque at Stanford University Annual Business Executive credits Brother Isaacs with of the Year by the Sales conceiving and developing Kyle Young & Marketing Executive the principle of making Association of Cleveland motion pictures. (2008), election into the Scott Siman Rutgers University Hall of Distinguished KYLE YOUNG, LAMBDA 1975, Alumni (2010), and being named as one is the chief executive officer of the the Academy of Country Music board of of “The Power 100” by Inside Business Country Music Hall of Fame, directing directors while senior vice president of magazine. Brother Stewart is now and managing all operations and Sony Music-Nashville. Later he served serving as a member of the DKE activities, including the museum, as President and Chairman of the Board Board of Directors. library, research, publications, of ACM. As a co-owner of RPM Music and teaching programs while Group, he helped develop a publishing HARRY HAMLIN, overseeing the programming, catalog that owns the rights to hit songs by THETA ZETA 1974, is an advertising, marketing, and Alan Jackson, Rascal Flatts, Montgomery American actor, author, finances. Brother Young Gentry, Maggie Rose, Band Perry, Luke and entrepreneur. Brother answered a newspaper ad in Bryan, Dierks Bentley, Scotty McCreery, Hamlin was president of DKE 1976 seeking ticket takers listing Sam Hunt, Kenny Chesney, and Old at University of California and the pay of $2.15 per hour with Dominion. Siman left RPM Entertainment graduated from Yale in 1974 with the perk of being surrounded by in 2014 to head up EMCo which oversees dual Bachelor of Arts degrees in music all day. During his tenure, the operations for Tim McGraw. Billboard drama and psychology. he’s guided the institution magazine named Siman one of their 2018 His first big break came through crosstown Power Players for his work with McGraw. in his role as Perseus in relocation, recession, the fantasy film Clash of floods, and a $100 million Editor’s note: Industry giant, Dick the Titans. More notably, expansion. The Country Clark, Phi Gamma 1951, is profiled in Harry Hamlin he appeared in the legal Music Hall of Fame a separate article of this issue. w w w.d ke.o rg

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WRITTEN WORD Dekes have always been able to tell it like it is. Here are a few from various fields who did so.

STANLEY WOODWARD, SIGMA 1907, is still

NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE, THETA (HONORARY),

Journalism and was inducted into the Advertising Hall of Fame in 2013

BRITON HADDEN, PHI 1920, was elected to the

staff of the Yale Daily News in 1917 and later served as considered, more than 50 the paper’s chairman. While years after his death, the at Yale Brother Hadden, with greatest American sports published his classmate Henry Luce, began editor of all time. In the first work in planning a publication to 1940s, on the old New 1828, the novel carry the news of the week, York Herald Tribune, he Fanshawe. Nathaniel Hawthorne They eventually founded assembled what may be Brother Time magazine in 1923. the finest sports staff in Hawthorne Brother Hadden was Time’s first editor Stanley Woodward American journalism history. consulted with Abraham and the inventor of its revolutionary It featured, among many Lincoln at the outset of the writing style, known as Timestyle. He was others, Red Smith, Joe Palmer, Civil War and wrote a book, Chiefly About considered one of the most influential and Roger Kahn. War Matters in 1862. Among his famous journalists of the twenties, a master works was The Scarlett innovator and stylist, and an iconic figure Letter, the first massTED BATES, PHI 1924, of the Jazz Age. produced book in America devoted his entire working life when published in 1850 and to advertising, founding his was followed with The House own agency, Bates Worldwide, of the Seven Gables in 1851. in 1940. Brother Bates was a leader in the development of integrated product, market, OWEN WISTER, ALPHA and consumer research. His 1882, began writing in agency’s use of television 1882 with a parody of Swiss set pattern and standards Family Robinson. Brother throughout the field. It is Wister loved the culture of widely accepted that the the American West, and after Ted Bates popular TV drama Mad Men a few trips West, dropped is based, at least in part on his law practice to become a Bates and his partner, Rosser Reeves. full- time writer. His most famous book, Brother Bates also served on the board The Virginian, is considered the basis of the Advertising Council, persuading of what we consider western cowboys. the networks of early television to carry Mount Wister, in the Grand Teton the council’s public service messages and National Part in Wyoming, is named in was inducted into the Advertising Hall of his honor. William Randolph Hearst Fame in 1981. RANCE CRAIN, PSI PHI 1960, became WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST, ALPHA EDWARD BELLAMY, THETA CHI president of Crain Communications, one 1885, was a businessman, newspaper 1868, is famous for his of the largest privately owned publisher, and politician known for utopian novel called business media companies in developing the nation’s largest newspaper Looking Backward, the world in 1974 following his chain and media company, Hearst 2000-1887, which father’s death and served until Communications. Brother Hearst created was a futuristic book 2017. Brother Crain began his a chain that numbered nearly 30 papers in set in the year 2000. celebrated career in the early major American cities at its peak. He later Published in January 1960s as a reporter for Advertising expanded to magazines, creating the largest 1888, the book captured Age in its Washington bureau newspaper and magazine business in the the public imagination and was named senior editor world. He was twice elected as a Democrat and catapulted Bellamy in 1965. He founded four of the to the U.S. House of Representatives and Rance Crain to literary fame. The Crain Communications influential ran unsuccessfully for President of the publisher could scarcely titles -- Pensions & Investments, United States, Mayor of New York City, and keep up with demand and within a Crain’s Chicago Business, Crain’s New Governor of New York. His life story was year had sold some 200,000 copies. By York Business, and Electronic Media the main inspiration for in Orson Welles’ the end of the 19th century it had sold and was Crain’s Chicago Business’s first film Citizen Kane. The Hearst Castle, more copies than all but one published editor-in-chief, handing out copies at train constructed on a hill overlooking the Pacific in America. Brother Bellamy’s novel stations and newsstands to publicize the Ocean near San Simeon, has been preserved motivated many people and inspired the newspaper. Brother Crain graduated from as a State Historical Monument and is “Bellamyite Movement.” Northwestern University’s Medill School of designated as a National Historic Landmark. 32 THE DEKE QUARTERLY | SUMMER 2019 • 175TH ANNIVERSARY ISSUE

THE GREATNESS SMALLER FORCE, GREATER ACCOMPLISHMENTS

OF BEING A DEKE 5

U.S. PRESIDENTS

MEMBERSHIP FOUGHT IN THE CIVIL WAR,

∆KE HAS ROUGHLY 1/8

1,542

THE AMOUNT OF INITIATES THAN THE LARGEST FRATERNITY

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THE AMOUNT OF CHAPTERS THAN THE LARGEST FRATERNITY

OVER 50 DEKES HAVE SERVED IN THE U.S. SENATE

MORE OLYMPIC GOLD MEDAL WINNERS THAN ANY OTHER FRATERNITY

60% OF ∆KE’S

MORE THAN ANY OTHER FRATERNITY OVER 140 DEKES HAVE SERVED IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OVER 50 DEKES HAVE SERVED AS STATE GOVERNORS

AND A TOTAL OF 162 MORE THAN THE NEXT TWO FRATERNITIES COMBINED

SUPREME COURT JUSTICES

MORE THAN ANY OTHER FRATERNITY

DEKES DISCOVERED THE NORTH POLE AND WALKED ON THE MOON

15 MEDAL OF HONOR WINNERS MORE THAN ANY OTHER FRATERNITY

The Timeline 1844 â&#x20AC;&#x201D;2019 STrengThen our BroTherhood and BondS now and Forever

I prize my experiences at the Deke House in Ann Arbor. The friendships I made there and later with Delta Kappa Epsilon Brothers from around the continent have served me in good stead. It is no coincidence that three presidents of the United States have been Dekes and that our flag was flown with the Stars and Stripes on the first expedition to the North Pole and a manned landing on the moon. The individual qualities that DKE seeks have certainly withstood the test of time and served us all in good stead.

Brother Gerald R. Ford, Omicron 1935

William Randolph Hearst, Alpha-Harvard, assumes control of the San Francisco Chronicle, and begins to build one of the largest media empires in U.S. history. Yale’s Old South Hall

DKE’s first convention is held, in New Haven.

1844

US Civil War DKE sends more than 1,500 Brothers into service, nearly two thirds of her living members. 1861-1865

The first fraternity lodge in North America is built, the DKE Lodge at Kenyon College.

1850

Charles Taylor, Omicron-Michigan, Lieutenant in the PA Volunteers, is killed at the Battle of Gettysburg. He is honored with a monument for his heroic actions at the Battle of the Wheatfield.

Robert Todd Lincoln, oldest son of President Lincoln, joins DKE at Harvard. Legend has it that he wrote his father for permission to join DKE, and it was granted by the President.

1860 Theodore Winthrop, PhiYale, is the first Union officer killed in the Civil War (Battle of Big Bethel).

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Hearst Castle

The DKE Club of NYC is established.

1880 Rutherford B. Hayes is sworn in as the 19th U.S. President. Hayes is an honorary member of DKE in recognition of his four sons who were Dekes at Delta Chi-Cornell.

Philip Brent Spence, Zeta-Princeton, is the last Confederate commander to surrender, six weeks after Appomattox.

Frederick Thayer, AlphaHarvard, invents the catcher’s mask.

Owen Wister, AlphaHarvard, publishes The Virginian, the first “Cowboy” novel. It launches the TV series 50 years later. Wister dedicates his book to his good friend Theodore Roosevelt.

The Shant opens in Ann Arbor, where it serves until 2017 as a meeting place for our Omicron chapter at Michigan.

1870

Melvil Dewey, Sigma-Amherst, creates the Dewey Decimal System for the “Classification and subject index for cataloguing and arranging the books and pamphlets of a library.”

The first Delta Kappa Epsilon Quarterly is published. Its name is changed to The Deke Quarterly in 1947.

Theodore Roosevelt, Alpha-Harvard, is sworn in as the 26th President of the United States of America.

In a sensational trial involving a multiple axe-murder, Lizzie Borden is found not guilty of killing her father and stepmother. Borden’s attorney is Andrew J. Jennings, Upsilon-Brown.