Notable Members
The fraternity's membership roster includes United States President James A. Garfield (Williams 1856), Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court Charles Evans Hughes (Colgate and Brown 1881), United States Senator-Vermont Justin S. Morrill (Middlebury 1860), Canadian Prime Minister and Nobel Prize winner Lester B. Pearson (Toronto 1919), President of Colombia Juan Manuel Santos (Kansas 1973), former Commander in Chief of the US Central Command Tommy Franks (Texas 1963), Actor Alan Thicke (Western Ontario 1967), Author Stephen Crane (Lafayette and Syracuse 1894), Author Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (Cornell 1944), former Chairman and CEO of Walt Disney Co. Michael D. Eisner (Denison 1964), and Nobel Prize winners Charles Dawes (Marietta 1884), Christian B. Anfinsen (Swarthmore 1937), and Edward C. Prescott (Swarthmore 1962).
Linus Pauling (Oregon State 1922) is a member of a small group of individuals who have been awarded more than one Nobel Prize, one of only two people to receive them in different fields (the other was Marie Curie) and the only person in that group to have been awarded each of his prizes without having to share it with another recipient.
Two Delta Upsilon fraternity members, Alfred P. Sloan (Technology 1895) and Charles F. Kettering (Ohio State 1904), joined together in 1945 to found the Sloan-Kettering Institute, which is now part of the world's oldest and largest private cancer research facility, the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.
NCAA Division I basketball coach Jim Boeheim of Syracuse University is also an alumnus of Delta Upsilon's Syracuse Chapter. Along with being inducted into the Hall of Fame with over 800 wins and the 2003 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament championship, Boeheim continues to be one of the leading advocates in the Coaches vs. Cancer Classic (a cancer survivor himself).
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