Delta Kappa Epsilon is a North American college fraternity.It was established on June 22, 1844, at Yale College in New Haven, Connecticut. Following is a list of some of notable members of Delta Kappa Epsilon.
Academia
James Barr Ames, Alpha – 2nd Dean of Harvard Law School James R. Angell, Omicron – president of Yale University Wilder Dwight Bancroft, Alpha – chemistry professor at Cornell University Bruce D. Benson, Delta Chi – president of the University of Colorado Arthur Pierce Butler, Alpha – co-founder and headmaster of Morristown School Charles W. Cole, Sigma – president of Amherst College; United States Ambassador to Chile Archibald Cary Coolidge, Alpha – first director of the Harvard University Library from 1910 to 1928 Melvil Dewey, Sigma – librarian, founder of the Columbia University School of Library Service, devised the Dewey Decimal System Gregory L. Fenves. Delta Chi – president of Emory University and the University of Texas Arthur Twining Hadley, Phi – president of Yale University Ernest Martin Hopkins, Pi – president of Dartmouth College Charles Loring Jackson, Alpha – organic chemist, professor, and chairman of the Division of Chemistry at Harvard University Harry Pratt Judson – president of the University of Chicago Martin Kellogg, Phi – president of the University of California at Berkeley Stanley King, Sigma – president of Amherst College George Edwin MacLean – president of the University of Iowa and chancellor of the University of Nebraska Walter A. McDougall, Sigma – professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania; recipient of the 1985 Pulitzer Prize for Biography Robert J. McMullen, Iota – president of Centre College Cyrus Northrop, Phi – president of the University of Minnesota Calvin Plimpton, Sigma – president of Amherst College and American University of Beirut Ira Remson – president of Johns Hopkins University Benno C. Schmidt Jr., Phi – president of Yale University Kenneth C. M. Sills – president of Bowdoin College William Codman Sturgis, Alpha – mycologist and dean of the School of Forestry at Colorado College Kent Syverud – president of Syracuse University Ezra Ripley Thayer, Alpha – Dean of Harvard Law School George Edgar Vincent, Phi – president of the University of Minnesota Francis Amasa Walker, Sigma – president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Barrett Wendell, Alpha – professor of English at Harvard University, known for writing a series of textbooks Justin Winsor, Alpha – librarian, historian, first president of the American Library Association Francis Woodman, Alpha – co-founder and headmaster of Morristown School
Architecture
Frederick H. Brooke, Phi – architect Walter Cook, Alpha – architect with Babb, Cook & Willard Charles Allerton Coolidge, Alpha – architect Bowdoin B. Crowninshield, Alpha – naval architect who specialized in racing yachts Robert Trent Jones, Delta Chi – golf course architect Herbert Leeds, Alpha – yachtsman and golf course architect William Winthrop Kent, Alpha – architect Henry Chapman Mercer, Alpha – tilemaker and designer of Fonthill, the Moravian Pottery and Tile Works and the Mercer Museum; curator of American and prehistoric archaeology of the University of Pennsylvania Museum Robert Swain Peabody, Alpha – architect J. Pickering Putnam, Alpha – architect Arthur Rotch, Alpha – architect Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes, Alpha – architect Richard Clipston Sturgis, Alpha – architect Edmund M. Wheelwright, Alpha – architect James Bosley Noel Wyatt, Alpha – architect
Art
Francis Brooks Chadwick, Alpha – painter Dale Chihuly, Kappa Epsilon – glass artist Frederic Crowninshield, Alpha – painter Ralph Wormeley Curtis, Alpha – painter and graphic artist Augustus C. Gurnee, Alpha – socialite and art patron Lawren Harris, Alpha Phi, – artist and member of the Group of Seven Troy Kinney, Phi – artist Edward Simmons, Alpha – painter William A. Slater, Alpha – art collector who established the Slater Memorial Museum Edward Perry Warren, Alpha – art collector Charles Goddard Weld, Alpha – art collector who made major contributions to Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the Peabody Essex Museum
Business
Rodolphe L. Agassiz, Alpha – polo player and chairman of the board of the Calumet and Hecla Mining Company John F. Akers, Phi – past president of IBM Frederick Lothrop Ames, Alpha – co-founder of General Electric, vice president of the Old Colony Railroad, and director of the Union Pacific Railroad William Henry Baldwin Jr., Alpha – president of the Long Island Rail Road Edward Bausch, Beta Phi – president of Bausch & Lomb Opticals August Belmont Jr., Alpha – finacier and head of the Interborough Rapid Transit Company Alfred R. Berkeley III Eta – former Nasdaq president Roland Betts, Phi – founder, chairman and CEO of Chelsea Piers James Cunningham Bishop, Alpha – banker and officer of the Welsbach Street Illuminating Company Alfred Bloomingdale, Upsilon – founder of Diners Club International Matthew Borden, Phi – industrialist Lawrence Bossidy, Mu – chairman of Honeywell Charles Sterling Bunnell, Phi – director of CitiBank Dave Calhoun, Sigma Alpha – president and CEO Boeing James Boorman Colgate, Mu – founder and president of the New York Gold Exchange Frederic Adrian Delano, Alpha – first vice chairman of the Federal Reserve and president of the Wheeling and Lake Erie Railroad, the Wabash Pittsburgh Terminal Railway, and the Wabash Railroad Donald Fisher, Theta Zeta – founder and past chairman of Gap Inc. Theodore J. Forstmann, Phi – financier, subject of the book and movie Barbarians at the Gate Amos Tuck French, Alpha – member of the New York Stock Exchange and vice-president of the Manhattan Trust Company James Gamble, Lambda – co-founder of Procter & Gamble William A. Gaston, Alpha – president of the Boston Elevated Railway and National Shawmut Bank Rutherford P. Hayes, Delta Chi – banker, developer, and librarian Webb Hayes, Delta Chi – co-founder the forerunner of Union Carbide; Private Secretary to the President Henry J. Heinz, Phi – founder of Heinz Walter Hoving, Upsilon – chairman of Tiffany & Co. George Ward Holdrege, Alpha – general manager Burlington and Missouri River Railroad Company Herb Kelleher, Gamma Phi – co-founder and CEO of Southwest Airlines Thomas W. Lamont, Alpha – vice president of First National Bank Robert Lehman, Phi – banker and head of Lehman Brothers Craig McCaw, Sigma Rho – founder of McCaw Communications George H. Mifflin, Alpha – president of Houghton Mifflin J. P. Morgan Jr., Alpha – banker and finance executive Vasant Narasimhan, Delta Delta – CEO of Novartis Henry T. Oxnard, Alpha – founder and president of the American Beet Sugar Company Bradley Palmer, Alpha – lawyer involved with the creation of Gillette Safety Razor Co., the International Telephone & Telegraph Corporation, and the United Fruit Company Frederick H. Rindge, Alpha – real estate developer and founder of present-day Malibu, California Charles Robert Sanger, Alpha – professor of chemistry at Harvard University George R. Sheldon, Alpha – banker, finacier, and a leading force in the Trust Company of America Frederick W. Smith, Phi – founder and chairman of FedEx James J. Storrow, Alpha – partner of Lee, Higginson & Co.; president of General Motors Nash Motors; president of the Boy Scouts of America Oscar Tang, Phi – financier and philanthropist Robert J. Thorne, Delta Chi – president of Montgomery Ward Hamilton McKown Twombly, Alpha – co-founder of the American Sulphur Company, later the Union Sulphur Company; financial advisor to William Henry Vanderbilt August H. Vogel, Alpha – vice-president of Pfister & Vogel Fiske Warren, Alpha – president of the S. D. Warren Paper Co., developer of single-tax colonies, and tennis champion Grinnell Willis, Alpha – textile merchant Joseph Wilson, Beta Phi – founder and president of Xerox Robert Winsor, Alpha – head of Kidder, Peabody & Company Dean Witter Jr., Phi – founder of Dean Witter & Co. (now part of Morgan Stanley) William Wrigley III, Phi – presidents of Wrigley Company
Entertainment
Frank Batten, Eta – founder of the Weather Channel Dick Clark, Phi Gamma – host of American Bandstand and Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve Billy Crudup, Beta – actor Marcus Giamatti, Theta – actor Harry Hamlin, Theta Zeta – actor Hagood Hardy, Alpha Phi – pianist and composer Howard Hawks, Delta Chi – film director, producer, and screenwriter Charles Ives, Phi – composer and recipient of the 1947 Pulitzer Prize for Music Michael Macari, Epsilon Rho – film producer Tex McCrary, Phi – radio and television personality, David Milch, Phi – writer and producer Cole Porter, Phi – composer Ryan Serhant, Tau – cast member of Million Dollar Listing New York Root Boy Slim, Phi – rock singer Chris Strouth, Phi Epsilon – musician, producer, writer, and filmmaker Ming Tsai, Phi – fusion cuisine chef, restaurateur, and Emmy Award-winning television personality Jonathan Winters, Lambda – comedian and writer Josh Zuckerman, Zeta – actor Ben Paterson, Delta Delta – jazz pianist
Government Wilson S. Bissell, Phi – United States Postmaster General Roy G. Finch – New York State Engineer and Surveyor Henry Clay Hall – chairman of the Interstate Commerce Commission; mayor of Colorado Springs, Colorado George H. Lyman, Alpha – Collector of Customs for the Port of Boston and chairman of the Massachusetts Republican Party Thomas Mott Osborne, Alpha – Warden of Sing Sing; commander of Portsmouth Naval Prison; mayor of Auburn, New York; New York Public Service Commission Hirai Seijirō, Psi Omega – president of the Imperial Government Railways Sargent Shriver, Phi – founder and first director of the Peace Corps Sidney W. Souers, Kappa – first director of the Central Intelligence Agency William L. Trenholm, Delta – United States Comptroller of the Currency; president of North American Trust Company
Law Brooks Adams, Alpha – lawyer, political scientist, and critic of capitalism Francis R. Appleton, Alpha – lawyer with Robbins & Appleton Peter Townsend Barlow, Alpha – New York City magistrate Charles P. Barnes – Chief Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court; Speaker of the Maine House of Representatives Norman L. Bassett – justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court Edmund L. Baylies, Alpha – lawyer; personal counsel to Cornelius Vanderbilt III; president of the Vanderbilt Hotel Corporation Charles F. Brown – judge of the New York Supreme Court, judge of the New York Court of Appeals, Secretary of New York State Harold H. Burton, Theta – justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, United States Senate, Mayor of Cleveland Mortimer W. Byers – chief judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York John Hessin Clarke, Beta Chi – justice of the Supreme Court of the United States Asa Bird Gardiner, Nu – New York County District Attorney George Alexander Gale, Alpha Phi – chief justice of Ontario Paul M. Hebert, Zeta Zeta – judge of United States Military Tribunals in Nuremberg James H. Hudson – associate justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court Samuel Furman Hunt – judge advocate general of Ohio, judge of the Superior Court of Cincinnati, president pro-tempore of the Ohio Senate James H. Hudson – justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court Brett Kavanaugh, Phi – justice of the Supreme Court of the United States James Truesdell Kilbreth, Alpha – lawyer, New York City Police justice, Court of Special Sessions justice, and Collector of the Port of New York Arno W. King – justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court Ira Lloyd Letts – judge of the United States District Court for the District of Rhode Island Edmund H. Lewis – justice of the New York Supreme Court and the Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals William Loring, Alpha – justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court