Famous Du Men

Stephen J. Field, Williams 1837, US Supreme Court Justice
James A. Garfield, Williams 1856, second fraternity man to become President of the United States
Justin L. Morrill, Middlebury 1860, United States Senator from Vermont and author of the land grand college act
Rossiter Johnson, Rochester 1863, historian and novelist
Daved Starr Jordan, Cornell 1872, first president of Stanford University
Daniel S. Lamont, Union 1872, Secretary of War
George W. Goethals, Manhattan 1877, General United States Army, chief engineer during the building of the Panama Canal
Otto M. Eidlitz, Cornell 1881, contractor and civic investigator
Charles Evans Hughes, Colgate and Brown 1881, Governor of New York, U.S. Vice President, Secretary of State and Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
Alexander D. Noyes, Amherst 1883, financial editor of the New York Times
Charles G. Dawes, Marietta 1884, Vice President of the United States and Ambassador to Great Britain
Fenton W. Booth, DePauw 1892, dean of Harvard Law
Rupert Hughes, Western Reserve 1982, historian and novelist
Stephen Crane, Lafayette and Syracuse 1894, journalist and author of Red Badge of Courage
Alfred J.P. Sloan, Jr., Technology 1895, chairman of the board of General Motors
Arthur M. Hyde, Michigan 1899, United States Secretary of Agriculture
Harry Emerson Fosdick, Colgate 1900, theologian Harry Carey, New York 1902, early western movie actor William B. Greeley, Stanford and California 1901, chief forester, U.S. Forest Service
Charles F. Kettering, Ohio State 1904, founder of the Sloan-Kettering Institute
Arthur H. Vandenberg, Michigan 1904, Senator from Michigan
Wallace T. Holliday, Western Reserve 1905, president of Standard Oil of Ohio John Wesley Coombs, Colby '06, World Series pitcher with the Philidelphia A's
J. Arthur Clark, Toronto 1906, president of Canadian Bar Association
Robert H. Lord, Harvard and Northwestern 1906, technical adviser to the 1918 Versailles Peace Conference
William A. Mather, McGill 1908, president of Canadian Pacific Railroad
Joyce Kilmer, Rutgers 1909, poet and battefield reporter
Clarence Francis, Amherst 1910, president of General Foods Ralph N. Good, Colby 1910, Major League Baseball player, Boston Nationals
Albert W. Hughes, Colgate 1911, president of J.C. Penney
W. Randolph Burgess, Brown 1912, ambassador to NATO
Joseph P. Kennedy, Harvard 1912, ambassador to Great Britain and father of two Senators and a President
Paul H. Douglas, Bowdoin 1913, Senator from Illinois
Sumner T. Pike, Bowdoin 1913, president of the Atomic Energy Commission
James B. Conant, Harvard 1914, president of Harvard
John L. Keddy, Hamilton 1915, curator of the Smithsonian Institute
Thomas B. McCabe, Swarthmore 1915, president of Scott Paper and chairman of the Federal Reserve Board
Laurens Hammond, Cornell 1916, inventor of the pipeless organ
David Burpee, Cornell 1917, president of Burpee Seed Company
Morse G. Dial, Cornell 1919, chairman Union Carbide
Kenneth B. Keating, Rochester 1919, Senator of New York
Lester Pearson, Toronto 1919, Prime Minister of Canada and president of the United Nations General Assembly
David E. Lilienthal, DePauw 1920, president of the Atomic Energy Commission
Kenneth L. "Tug" Wilson, Illinois 1920, chairman of U.S. Olympic Committee
Leland Stowe, Wesleyan 1921, columnist and 1930 Pulitzer Prize winner
Arnold O. Beckman, Illinois 1922, inventor of the pH-meter and founder of Beckman Instruments
Linus C. Pauling, Oregon State 1922, winner of two Nobel Prizes in chemistry and the only man ever to win two single-handedly
E.P. Taylor, McGill 1922, chairman of Canadian Breweries and president of Argus Corp.
William E. Robinson, New York 1923, chairman of Coca-Cola Company
Herbert Brownell, Nebraska 1924, U.S. Attorney General
Arnold Bernhard, Williams 1925, founder of the investment news organization ValueLine
Clifford P. Case, Rutgers 1925, Senator from New Jersey
Charles F. White, Bucknell 1925, president of M&M Candy Company
General David M Shoup, DePauw 1926, commandant, U.S. Marine Corps and Congressional Medal of Honor winner
Edgar Bergen, Northwestern 1927, ventriloquist and entertainer
James S. Mc Donnell, Technology 1929, chairman, McDonnell-Douglas
Winston L. Prouty, Lafayette 1930, Senator from Vermont
Foy D. Kohler, Ohio State 1931, ambassador to the U.S.S.R Edward W. Carter, UCLA '32, chairman emeritus, Carter, Hawley, Hale (Nieman-Marcus, WaldenBooks)
Hedley W. Donovan, Minnesota 1934, editor of TIME Magazine
Drew Middleton, Syracuse 1935, London correspondent, The New York Times
Robert T. Stafford, Middlebury 1935, Senator from Vermont
Semon E. Knudsen, Technology 1936, President of Ford Motor Company
Austin H. Kiplinger, Cornell 1939, publisher of the Kiplinger Letter
Heywood Hale Broun, Swarthmore 1940, editorialist and author
Charles L. Brown, Virginia 1943, chairman, AT&T
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cornell 1944, editorialist and author ("Breakfast of Champions")

Dr. J. Robert Cade, Florida 1945, inventor of Gatorade
L. Gordon McCovern, Brown 1948, chairman, Campbell Soup
Richard F. McLoughlin, DePauw, 1950, president, Reader's Digest
Darrell K. Royal, Oklahoma 1950, University of Texas football coach
Alan J. Dixon, Illinois 1951, Senator of Illinios
Richard P. Simmons, Technology 1953, chairman, Allegheny Ludlum Steel
Harvey Kuenn, Jr., Wisconson 1954, baseball player and manager
William M. Crossin, Toronto 1955, president, Merle Norman Cosmetics
Noel P. Stookey, Michigan State 1955, fold singer and composer, "Paul" of Peter, Paul and Mary
John W. Rogers, Miami 1957, chairman and CEO, United Parcel Service

Michael K. White, California 1957, NFL Coach
Louis L. Holtz, Kent State 1958, head football coach, University of South Carolina; Former coach at Notre Dame.
Lawrence D. Downing, Iowa State 1958, organizer of the 1984 Olympics and Commissioner of Major League Baseball
Theodore R. Boehm, Brown 1960, chairman, 1987 Pan Am Games organizer committee
Richard D. Threlkeld, Ripon 1960, ABC News correspondent
John Herrington, Stanford 1961, U.S. Energy Secretary
Col. Frederick R. Hauck, Tufts 1962, NASA astronaut
Gerald T. Aaron, Wichita 1963, president, Pizza Hut
John H. Davidson, Denison 1963, actor, singer and comedian
Michael D. Eisner, Denison 1964, chairman and CEO of Disney
James D. Rodgers, Iowa 1965, head coach, Boston Celtics Angus S. King, Jr., Dartmouth 1966, Governor of the State of Maine
James A. Boeheim, Jr., Syracuse 1966, head basketball coach, Syracuse
Paul R. Ford, Middlebury 1967, director, Amnesty International
General, Tommy R. Franks; Texas 67'. In charge of Military operations in Afghanistan. Brewster H. Shaw, Wisconson 1967, NASA astronaut
Alan Thicke, Western Ontario 1967, actor songwriter
Terry Hart, Lehigh 1968, NASA astronaut

Thomas Stallkamp, Miami 1968, President of Daimler-Chrysler Corporation
Les Aspin, Jr., Marquette 1970, Congressman from Wisconsion
Randell Gregg, Jr., Alberta 1975, defenseman on four Stanley Cup champions William H. P. Faunce, Brown 1880, President of Brown University

Craig K. Bolerjack, Kansas State 1980, CBS sportscaster
Dino Mangiero, Rutgers 1980, football player - Kansas City Chiefs, Seattle Seahawks, New England Patriots
Thomas W. Darling, Syracuse 1981, silver medal in crew, '84 Olympics and crew member, Stars and Stripes, winner of the America's Cup
Ken Margerum, Stanford 1981, NFL Receiver
Stephen R. Walker, Iowa State 1984, host of "The Pet Department" - FOX TV

Chad G. Little, Washington State 1985, NASCAR Driver
Tom Burgess, Colgate 1986, football player - Ottowa, Saskatchewan, Winnipeg (CFL) Dr. Richard N. Cyert, Carnegie 1986, President of Carnegie-Mellon University
James A. Les, Bradley 1986, professional basketball player
Jonathan M. Frankel, Syracuse 1986, news correspondent - NBC Mark Whitycombe, Fresno 1988, football player - New York Giants, New York Jets, Pittsburgh Steelers, Cincinnati Bengals
Joseph P. Turton, Denison 1994, author - My Freshman Manual
David Frohnmayer, Oregon 2001, President of the University of Oregon