Notable Alumni
The following notable alumni of Theta Tau are also members of the "Theta Tau Alumni Hall of Fame":
- Henry W. Coil - owner of Tilden-Coil Contractors and UC-Riverside benefactor
- Bill Douce - Chairman of Phillips Petroleum
- John W.F. "Jack" Dulles - author and historian
- Paul Endacott - collegiate basketball player and member of the Basketball Hall of Fame
- Joe Engle - astronaut and commander of Space Shuttle Discovery
- Harry Figgie, Jr. - author and Chairman of Figgie International
- Robert R. Gilruth - First director of NASA's Manned Spacecraft Center, now Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center
- John W. Harrelson - Chancellor of North Carolina State University
- Samuel Higginbottom - Chairman & President of Rolls-Royce and Columbia University Trustee
- Aelred J. Kurtenbach - Co-founder and Chairman of Daktronics Inc.
- Curtis LeMay - US Air Force General during World War II
- Charles Luckman - President of Lever Brothers, architect, and member of President Truman's Committee on Civil Rights
- Charles Morgan- Chairman of Acxiom Corporation
- Simon Ramo - Led the development of microwave and ICBM technology
- Roger R. Revelle - scientist and winner of the National Medal of Science
- Lloyd Reuss - President of General Motors
- Charles E. Spahr- President of Standard Oil of Ohio
- Cliff Stearns - US Congressman from Florida
- Maxwell R. Thurman - First four-star officer from NCSU, Vice Chief of Staff of the United States Army from 1983 to 1987, credited with the Army's "Be all you can be" slogan
- Robert J. Van de Graaff - inventor of the Van de Graaff Generator
- J.R. Van Pelt - President of Montana Tech, Michigan Tech, and founding director/curator of Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry
- Gus Vratsinas - Founder and Chairman of Vratsinas Construction Company
- William E. Wickenden - President of Case Western Reserve University and the American Society for Engineering Education
Other notable alumni:
- Harry Darby - US Senator from Kansas
- Roy Horstmann - Professional Football player, and All-American (Purdue University)
- Blake Ragsdale Van Leer - Dean of Engineering at NCSU, President of the Georgia Institute of Technology
- James Spann - Weatherman in Birmingham, AL for ABC 33/40
- Marty Jackley - Attorney General of South Dakota
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