Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity
Alumni of Distinction and Achievement
From Other Chapters

The following brothers are representative of those men initiated into Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity at many different chapters who went on to make important contributions to American society. It is not all-inclusive but simply suggestive of the quality of our members.

Arts & Letters

• John Astin (Johns Hopkins), stage, film, and television actor (Addams Family)
  
• Evan S. Connell (Kansas), novelist and essayist
  
• Joseph Flummerfelt (DePauw), international choral director; Westminster Choir College; New York Philharmonic; Spoleto Festival
  
• Peter Graves (Minnesota), film and TV actor (Mission Impossible, A&E's "Biography")
  
• Ron Hansen (Creighton), novelist and university writer in residence
  
• Edward Herrmann (Bucknell), stage, film, TV actor and host (Franklin & Eleanor, Lost Boys, TV Commercials, PBS dramas)
  
• Edward Everett Horton (Columbia), late actor
  
• Frank Morgan (Cornell), late actor, "The Wizard of Oz"
  
• Tom Parker, screenwriter (Flintstones, Richie Rich)
  
• Buddy Rogers (Kansas), late movie actor (Wings)
  
• Roy Scheider (Franklin & Marshall), actor (Jaws, All That Jazz, Blue Thunder, 2010)
  
• James Thurber (Ohio State), late author, playwright, and comic artist
  
• Frederick Jackson Turner (Wisconsin), historian
  
• Sylvester "Pat" Weaver (Dartmouth), pioneering televison executive, creator of NBC's "Today" and "Tonight" shows
  
• James Whitcomb Riley (DePauw), the late "The Hoosier Poet," whose Indianapolis residence is next door to the Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity Headquarters in Indianapolis
  
• Paul Winter (Northwestern), musician, leader of "The Paul Winter Consort"

Athletics

• Emil Bavasi (DePauw), retired president of Los Angeles Dodgers; founder of San Diego Padres
  
• Terry Bowden (Florida State), head football coach, Auburn University
  
• Walter Byers (Iowa), retired executive director, NCAA
  
• Charles Feeney (Dartmouth), late president of Major League Baseball's National League
  
• Ford Frick (DePauw), late commissioner of major league baseball
  
• Nile Kinnick (Iowa), late All America football player and Heisman Trophy winner, who as a Navy pilot lost his life in the early days of World War II; Iowa Stadium bears his name.
  
• "Tex" Schram (Texas), founder and former president, Dallas Cowboys; NFL Hall of Fame
  
• Dick Tomey (DePauw), head football coach, University of Arizona.
  
• George Yardley (Stanford), NBA Hall of Fame; engineering executive

Education

• Detlev Bronk (Swarthmore), late biophysicist, president of Rockefeller University
  
• David C. Hardesty, Jr.(West Virginia), president, West Virginia University
  
• Rev. John Schlegel, S.J. (Creighton), president, University of San Francisco
  
• Charles Vest (West Virginia), president, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Journalism/Media/Publishing

• Michael R. Bloomberg (Johns Hopkins), president, Bloomberg Business News
  
• Seymour Hersch (Chicago), journalist and author; Pulitzer Prize winner

Politics and Government Service

• Gen. Tasker H. Bliss (Bucknell), late delegate to 1919 Peace Conference
  
• Pierce Butler (Carleton), late associate justice, U.S. Supreme Court
  
• Paul D. Coverdell (Missouri), U.S. Senator (Georgia)
  
• John W. Davis (Washington & Lee), late attorney and statesman, Democratic nominee for presidency in 1924; Ambassador to the Court of St. James'; foremost American lawyer of his generation
  
• William O. "Wild Bill" Donovan (Columbia), most decorated American soldier of World War I; later America's chief spymaster; founder of the Office of Strategic Services -- the World War II predecessor of the CIA
  
• Brig. General William L. "Billy" Mitchell (Columbian), father of the U.S. Air Force
  
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• Woodrow Wilson (Virginia), U.S. President (1913-1921)