| Name |
Original chapter |
Notability |
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| George Banta |
Alpha (1917^) |
Founder of the George Banta Company (later known as Banta Corporation). Also, he developed the Phi Delta Theta fraternity (serving as its first president) and Delta Gamma women's fraternity and was an advocate of collegiate Greek life. He served as the mayor of Menasha, Wisconsin in 1892, 1895, and in 1902–1903. With Emily Butterfield, he created the Fraternity's coat-of-arms (adopted in 1910) based on designs compiled by a committee chaired by Paul E. Batzell, a 1907 initiate of Syracuese University's Theta Chapter.). As of 1917, he also published The Sinfonian. |
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| Andrew Carnegie |
Alpha (1917^) |
Founder of Pittsburgh's Carnegie Steel Company which later became United States Steel. Philanthropist. Namesake of Carnegie-Mellon University, Carnegie Hall, and numerous libraries |
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| George Eastman |
Alpha Nu (1927^) |
Founded Eastman Kodak Company, invented the roll of film, namesake of Eastman School of Music |
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| Julius Fleischmann |
Alpha Alpha (1914) |
Heir to the Fleischmann Yeast Company. Part-owner of Cincinnati Reds. Patron of the arts. Mayor of Cincinnati, 1900–1905 |
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| Henry Clay Frick |
Alpha (1917^) |
An American industrialist, financier, and art patron. He founded H. C. Frick & Company, was chairman of the Carnegie Steel Company, and played a major role in the formation of the giant U.S. Steel steel manufacturing concern. He also financed the construction of the Pennsylvania Railroad and the Reading Company, and owned extensive real estate holdings in Pittsburgh and throughout the state of Pennsylvania. He later built the historic neoclassical Frick Mansion (now a landmark building in Manhattan) and at his death donated his extensive collection of old master paintings and fine furniture to create the celebrated Frick Collection and art museum. Associated with the infamous Johnstown Flood. |
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| Major Henry Lee Higginson |
Alpha (1915^) |
Survivor of the Battle of Aldie, Extraordinary Philanthropist, served as President of the Boston Music Hall and as trustee of the New England Conservatory of Music. Founder of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, 1881. Founder, Boston's bohemianistic Tavern Club). |
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| Otto H. Kahn |
Alpha (1917^) |
Investment Banker, Collector, Philanthropist, and Patron of the Arts. He was the builder of Oheka Castle, the second largest private home in the United States. Kahn served as Chairman of the National Music Week Committee of the National Bureau for the Advancement of Music in the 1920s. |
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| Harvey S. Mudd |
Beta Psi (1941) |
A mining engineer and founder, investor, and president of Cyprus Mines Corporation, a Los Angeles-based international enterprise that operated copper mines on the island of Cyprus. He is the namesake of Harvey Mudd College, a science and engineering college in Claremont, California. He was an active supporter of the arts in the Los Angeles area. |
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| Charles M. Schwab |
Alpha (1917) |
Industrialist, American steel magnate. Under his leadership, Bethlehem Steel became the second largest steel maker in the United States, and one of the most important heavy manufacturers in the world. |
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| Henry Z. Steinway |
Alpha Alpha (1962) |
Philanthropist, heir to Steinway piano manufacturing legacy (served as President of Steinway & Sons, 1955–1977), the great-grandson of Heinrich Engelhard Steinway (the German immigrant "before the ampersand in Steinway & Sons"). Awarded the National Medal of Arts in 2007. Mr. Steinway was also the founding president of the Museum of Making Music in Carlsbad, California. |
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