Notable Alumni
There are a large number of Gamma Epsilon Beta’s who have continued their success into the professional world at these companies: PriceWaterhouseCoopers, KPMG, National Instruments, Henderson Engineers, US Bank, Cargill, Colgate Palmolive, Deloitte, Perceptive Software, Koch Industries, Farmland Foods, State Street, Hallmark, Thomson Reuters, Polsinelli Shughart, Turner Construction, JE Dunn. Below are notable alumni from our chapter and other chapters.
Gamma Epsilon Chapter Alumni
| John J Rhodes | 1938 | Former House Minority Leader |
| Warren Staley | 1965 | Chairman and CEO of Cargill Inc |
| DeLoss Dodds | 1959 | Athletic Director of the University of Texas |
| Jeff Jones | Vice President Project Management of Simon Property Group | |
| Christopher Miller | President/CEO of Gammon Miller | |
| Tyler Bachman | Vice President – Commercial Banking US BANK | |
| Scott Cusick | Product Development Manager at Farmland Foods | |
| Kevin Lewis | Vice President at Henderson Engineers | |
| Mike Serpan | Vice President BD at Convergys |
| Rob Exline | President & CEO at Exline, INC | |
| David H. Severson | Vice President at North American Co |
Beta Theta Pi National Alumni
Business
| John Edward Anderson | UCLA 1940 | Founder of Topa Equities, Ltd., namesake of UCLA Anderson School of Management |
| Bill Bowerman | Oregon 1933 | Founder of Nike, Inc. |
| Hank Barnette | West Virginia 1956 | CEO of Bethlehem Steel |
| Donald Bren | Washington 1955 | Billionaire, Owner of The Irvine Company |
| Chris DeWolfe | Washington 1988 | CEO of Myspace.com |
| Douglas Clayton | Cornell 1982 | CEO of Leopard Capital |
| Arthur Collins | Miami University 1969 | CEO of Medtronic 2002–2008 |
| Bill Cook | Northwestern 1953 | Billionaire founder of the Cook Group |
| Dave Coulter | Carnegie Mellon 1971 | former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of BankAmerica Corporation |
| Weldon “Hoot” Gibson | Longtime executive at SRI International | |
| William C. Glaub | Knox College 1971 | Chairman and CEO Chrysler Canada |
| Richard Heckert | Miami University 1944 | former DuPont CEO |
| David Holl | Clemson University 1982 | President and CEO Mary Kay |
| Joel Hyatt | Dartmouth 1972 | Founder Hyatt Legal Services |
| Shahid Khan | Illinois at Urbana–Champaign 1971 | Owner of Illinois autoparts company Flex-N-Gate and owner of the Jacksonville Jaguars |
| Donald Peterson | Washington 1946 | Former CEO Ford Motor Company |
| Dan Irwin | Ohio State University 1983 | Part Owner Buffalo Bills |
| Samuel Laws | Miami University 1848 | Inventor of the ticker tape machine |
| Kenneth Lay | Missouri 1967 | Former chairman and CEO of Enron |
| R. Conrad Leslie | Miami University 1949 | World renowned crop analyst |
| Matthew Matsudaira | Washington 2001 | CEO of Wedcoupon |
| Derek Mattson | “University of Utah 1987″ | Founder & CEO of Vehix |
| J. Bart McCollum | Washington University in St. Louis 2002 | COO of AmeriFlex |
| Cruse Watson Moss | Ohio University 1948 | Former Executive Vice President of Kaiser-Jeep, Former Vice President of American Motors |
| J. C. Nichols | Kansas 1902 | Real Estate |
| George Nolen | Virginia Tech 1978 | CEO of Siemens |
| Bruce A. Nordstrom | Washington 1955 | Former chairman and CEO of Nordstrom |
| Blake W. Nordstrom | Washington 1982 | Current Chairman and CEO of Nordstrom |
| Everett W. Nordstrom | Washington 1923 | Former chairman and CEO of Nordstrom |
| John Opel | Westminster 1948 | Former President of IBM |
| Sam Palmisano | Johns Hopkins 1973 | CEO of IBM |
| John H. Patterson | Miami University 1867 | Founder National Cash Register |
| Marvin Pierce | Miami University 1916 | President McCall Corporation and father of Barbara Bush |
| Mitchell P. Rales | Miami University 1978 | Billionaire, Founder of Danaher Corporation |
| Steven M. Rales | DePauw 1973 | Billionaire, Founder of Danaher Corporation |
| Steven Rogel | Washington 1965 | CEO of The Weyerhaeuser Company |
| William C. Short | Washington University in St. Louis 2002 | President and CEO of AmeriFlex |
| Frank Shrontz | Idaho 1954 | Past Chairman and CEO of The Boeing Company |
| Jeffrey Skilling | Southern Methodist 1975 | former CEO of Enron |
| Kenneth A. Spencer | Kansas 1921 | Founder, President, and CEO of Spencer Chemical Company |
| Warren Staley | Kansas State 1965 | Chairman and CEO of Cargill |
| G. Kennedy Thompson | North Carolina 1973 | CEO Wachovia, 2000–2008, Board Member of Hewlett-Packard |
| James R. Ukropina | Stanford 1937 | Board Member Lockheed Martin/ Directions LLC, CEO |
| N. T. Veatch | Kansas 1902 | Co-Founder and CEO of Black and Veatch |
| Sam Walton | Missouri 1940 | Founder of Wal-Mart |
| Justin Dart | Northwestern 1929 | Founder of Dart Industries |
| Fred Wilson | MIT 1983 | Venture capitalist and prominent blogger |
| James Wilson | Southern California 1957 | International Grocery Store Mogal |
| John D. Zeglis[9] | University of Illinois 1969 | Former Chairman and CEO of AT&T Wireless |
Sports
| Brian Job | Stanford | Olympic Medalist in Swimming |
| Frankie Baumholtz | Ohio 1941 | Professional basketball and Major League baseball player |
| Inaki Gomez | University of British Columbia 2010 | Canadian Summer Olympic Team Member, London 2012 |
| Earl “Red” Blaik | Miami University 1918 | Head football coach, Army |
| Matt Borland | GMI-EMI 1994 | NASCAR Crew Chief for Ryan Newman, Dale Jarrett |
| Mike Brown | Dartmouth 1957 | President & GM, Cincinnati Bengals |
| Dave Brundage | Oregon State 1986 | Baseball Minor League Player and Coach |
| Guy Chamberlin | Nebraska 1916 | College and Pro Football Hall of Famer |
| Don Cohan | Adelphi 1951 | Olympic Bronze Medalist, Sailing, 1972 |
| Thomas C. Hansen | Washington 1976 | Current Pac-10 Conference Commissioner |
| Peter Cipollone | California 1994 | Olympic Gold Medalist, Rowing, 2004 |
| Eddie Collins | Columbia 1907 | Baseball Hall of Famer |
| Don Coryell | Washington 1947 | Retired San Diego Chargers Coach |
| DeLoss Dodds | Kansas State 1959 | Athletic Director of The University of Texas at Austin |
| Bobby Douglass | Kansas 1969 | Quarterback, Chicago Bears |
| Gene L. (Red) Estes | Oregon 1959 | Head Track & Field Coach, Fresno State |
| Max Falkenstien | Kansas 1947 | Legendary Kansas Jayhawks Radio Personality |
| Jay Fiedler | Dartmouth 1994 | Football |
| Dow Finsterwald | Ohio 1952 | Professional Golfer |
| Ken Forsch | Oregon State 1969 | Baseball |
| Gail Goodrich | UCLA 1965 | Basketball |
| Dan Guerrero | UCLA 1974 | UCLA Athletic Director |
| Ed Hamm | Georgia Tech 1928 | Gold Medal Long Jump 1928 Olympics |
| William Koch | MIT 1962 | Skipper and Champion America’s Cup |
| Cawood Ledford | Centre College | Legendary University of Kentucky Basketball Commentator |
| Jerry Lucas | Ohio State 1962 | Basketball |
| Larry MacPhail | Beloit 1910 | Brooklyn Dodgers Owner/GM; Hall of Fame/Introduced night games |
| Steve Marino | UVA 2002 | Professional Golfer |
| Scott McCarron | UCLA 1989 | Professional Golfer |
| David Edward “Chip” Reese | Dartmouth | Professional Poker Player |
| Jamey Rootes | Clemson 1988 | Former GM Columbus Crew Major League Soccer and current President for Houston Texans |
| Edward P. Roski | Southern California 1968 | Owner Los Angeles Kings Hockey Team/Realtor |
| Mike Schmidt | Ohio 1971 | Major League Slugger, Baseball Hall of Famer |
| Bill Stoneman | Idaho 1966 | G.M., Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, 1999–2007. MLB Baseball Player. |
| Eran Horodniceanu | George Washington 1998 | George Washington Women’s Basketball Coach |
| John T. Smith | Professional Wrestler | |
| Stan Smith | Southern California 1969 | Professional Tennis |
| Bill Veeck | Kenyon 1936 | Major League Baseball franchise owner |
| Rick Volk | Michigan 1967 | Miami Dolphins |
| John Wooden | Purdue 1932 | Legendary UCLA Basketball Coach |
| Brian J. White | Dartmouth 1995 | New England Patriots |
| John Greer | University of Nevada Las Vegas 2000 | All-conference football player, drafted by Seattle Seahawks |
Government & Politics
| Schuyler Colfax | DePauw 1844 | U.S. Vice President |
| Joe Allbaugh | Oklahoma State 1974 | Former Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) |
| Albert Beach | Kansas 1905 | Mayor of Kansas City, MO |
| Michael Bennet | Wesleyan | United States Senator from Colorado |
| William Borah | Kansas 1884 | Senator from Idaho and Chairman of Senate Foreign Relations Committee |
| Joseph W. Byrns, Sr. | Vanderbilt 1890 | former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives |
| Chuck Colson | Brown 1953 | Watergate conspirator |
| William S. Cowherd | Missouri 1881 | former Democratic mayor of Kansas City, Missouri in 1892–1893, Congressman from Missouri in 1897–1905 |
| William B. Cravens | Missouri 1893 | former U.S. Representative from Missouri |
| Thomas T. Crittenden, Jr. | Missouri 1882 | former mayor of Kansas City, Missouri from 1908–1909 |
| Donald Dawson | Missouri 1932 | former aide to President Truman, Curator of the Truman Presidential Library |
| David Dewhurst | Arizona | 41st and current Lieutenant Governor of Texas |
| Robert Docking | Kansas 1946 | Governor of Kansas |
| Ozro J. Dodds | Miami University 1861 | US House of Representatives 1872–74 |
| William O. Douglas | Whitman 1920 | United States Supreme Court Justice |
| Joseph Rucker Lamar | Bethany 1877 | United States Supreme Court Justice |
| John Marshall Harlan | Centre 1850 | United States Supreme Court Justice |
| Robert Ellsworth | Kansas 1946 | US House of Representatives, Nixon Campaign Director, Deputy Secretary of Defense, Advisor to President Nixon, and Representative to NATO |
| W. Mark Felt | Idaho 1935 | Exposed the Nixon administrations’ corruption as “Deep Throat“ |
| David R. Francis | Washington, St. Louis 1870 | Mayor of St. Louis, Governor of Missouri, Secretary of the Interior, Ambassador to Russia, President of Louisiana Purchase Exposition |
| Richard Gephardt | Northwestern 1962 | Former United States House Minority Leader |
| John Brown Gordon | Georgia 1854 | Major General in CSA, U.S. Senator, and Governor of Georgia |
| H. R. Haldeman | UCLA 1948 | President Nixon’s Chief of Staff |
| Michael Harcourt | British Columbia 1963 | Premier of British Columbia |
| Charles Henry Hardin | Miami University 1841 | Former Governor of Missouri |
| Mark O. Hatfield | Willamette 1943 | Former United States Senator and Governor of Oregon |
| Bob Packwood | Willamette 1954 | Former United States Senator |
| Denny Smith | Willamette 1961 | Former Member of Congress |
| David Karnes | Nebraska 1971 | Former United States Senator |
| James P. Kem | Missouri 1910 | United States Senate from Missouri, 1947 to 1953 |
| Peter D. Kinder | Missouri 1976 | Lt. Governor of Missouri |
| Stephen N. Limbaugh, Sr. | Missouri 1951 | U.S. Federal District Court Judge and former president of the Missouri Bar Association |
| Horace Lurton | Cumberland 1867 | United States Supreme Court Justice |
| Richard Lugar | Denison 1954 | United States Senator |
| Ray Mabus | Mississippi 1969 | Former Governor of Mississippi 1988–92; Secretary of the Navy, 2009–Present |
| James G. Martin | Davidson 1957 | House of Representatives and Governor of North Carolina |
| Henry M. Mathews | West Virginia 1857 | Former Governor of West Virginia |
| Arch A. Moore, Jr. | West Virginia 1951 | Former Governor of West Virginia |
| Oliver P. Morton | Miami 1847 | Civil War Governor of Indiana, and instigator of the DePauw, Indiana and Wabash Chapters |
| John Mutz | Northwestern 1957 | Lieutenant Governor of Indiana, president of Lilly Endowment |
| Bill Nelson | Florida 1964,Yale 1965 | former Representative, currently United States Senator |
| Don Nickles | Oklahoma State 1971 | Former United States Senator |
| Guy B. Park | Missouri 1896 | governor of Missouri |
| William Perry | Stanford 1949 | Former Secretary of Defense |
| David Peterson | Western Ontario 1966 | Premier of Ontario |
| Bill Phelps | Missouri 1956 | attorney and US Representatives Missouri |
| Thomas L. Rubey | Missouri 1885 | U.S. Representative from Missouri |
| Kimbrough Stone | Missouri 1895 | judge of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit |
| John J. Rhodes | Kansas State 1938 | Former House Minority Leader |
| Charlie Rose | Davidson 1961 | Former Representative |
| Angelo C. Scott | Kansas 1877 | Founder of the Oklahoma City Times and president, Oklahoma A&M University |
| Charles Frederick Scott | Kansas 1881 | Regent, Kansas State Senator, and Member of Congress |
| Frank E. Smith | Mississippi | Former Mississippi Congressman |
| Bertrand Snell | Amherst 1894 | Former minority leader, U.S. House of Representatives |
| Zack Space | Kenyon 1983 | Representative from Ohio |
| Mike Synar | Oklahoma 1972 | Former Representative |
| John Turner | British Columbia 1952 | Former Prime Minister of Canada |
| Willis Van Devanter | DePauw 1881 | United States Supreme Court Justice |
| John Warner | Washington & Lee 1950 | Former United States Senator and Secretary of the Navy |
| Kenneth S. Wherry | Nebraska 1914 | Former United States Senator and Minority Leader |
| Durbin Ward | Miami University 1843 | Civil War General and United States Attorney |
| Richard A. Waterfield | Oklahoma State University | State Representative from Canadian, Texas |
| Jamie Whitten | Mississippi | Former Mississippi Congressman |
| Wendell Willkie | Indiana 1916 | 1940 Republican Party Nominee for President |
| William T. Haines | Maine 1876[4] | Former Governor of Maine 1913-1915 |
| Robert J. Dold | Denison 1991 | U.S. Representative from Illinois |
| Charles Wesley Leffingwell | Editor of The Living Church magazine, Episcopal priest and educator |
