List of Acacia brothers

The list of Acacia brothers includes initiated and honorary members of Acacia.

Notable alumni

Politics and government

Sports

  • Chester L. Brewer, Missouri 1911 - past head football coach at both Missouri and Michigan State; past Athletic Director of Missouri; Homecoming originator
  • Thomas E. Jones, Wisconsin 1913 - Hall of Fame track coach
  • John L. Griffith, Illinois 1921 - past commissioner of what is now the Big Ten Conference
  • Edwin Weir, Nebraska 1925 - Hall of Fame college football player
  • Addison 'Kayo' Exum Warren, North Carolina 1927 - professional and collegiate boxer
  • Jack van Bebber, Oklahoma State 1931 - Olympic wrestler
  • Calvin Griffith, George Washington 1935 - owner of Washington Senators / Minnesota Twins
  • Arthur L. Valpey, Michigan 1936 - head football coach of Harvard and UConn
  • Thomas "Tommy" James, Ohio State 1942 - professional football player, Cleveland Browns
  • Dee Andros, Oklahoma 1948 - head football coach and athletic director, Oregon State
  • Gene Conley, Washington State 1949 - professional baseball player and basketball player
  • Roger Nelson, Oklahoma 1951 - Canadian Football Hall of Fame
  • Richard ‘Dick’ Farley, Indiana 1951 - star IU basketball player for the 1953 National Championship team; NBA player
  • David 'Wes' Santee, Kansas 1952 - Olympic runner
  • Clive A. Follmer, Illinois 1953 - 1953 Big 10 Athlete of the Year; professional baseball player
  • Frank Allen Indiana 1956 - former IU Athletic Director
  • Paul Coward, Purdue 1956 - All-America soccer player
  • Ron Fairly, USC 1957 - professional baseball player and broadcaster
  • Tony Crosby, Texas 1963 - star kicker/halfback for UT's 1963 National Championship football team
  • Pat Jones, Oklahoma State - Head Football Coach at Oklahoma State; Assistant Coach of Miami Dolphins
  • Gary Patterson, Kansas State 1980 - current Head Football Coach at TCU

Business

  • Herbert A. Kern, Minnesota 1914 - founder of Chicago Chemical Company, later changed to Nalco
  • Lewis H Wentz, Oklahoma 1927 - oil businessman
  • J. Dennis Bassett, Kansas State 1956 - President of Worldwide Poultry / Cargill Co.
  • Robert Pfahl, Cornell 1958 - VP of iNEML; recipient of Electronic Goes Green Award
  • Edgar H. Grubb, Penn State 1959 - Executive VP and CFO of Transamerica Corp.
  • Leonard ‘Lee’ Kearney, Oregon State 1959 - Senior Executive of Peter Kiewit Sons' Construction
  • Robert Forney, Indiana 1960 - former President of Chicago Stock Exchange; current President and CEO of the Global Foodbanking Network
  • David Baum, Indiana 1961 - President of SSI Technologies Inc.
  • Dennis Chookaszian, Northwestern 1962 - Chairman and CEO of CNA Insurance Companies; professor at University of Chicago Booth School of Business
  • Kriss Cloninger III, Texas 1966 - President and CEO of Aflac
  • John F. Hoffner, Purdue 1966 - Executive VP and CFO of Jack in the Box Inc.
  • Edward S. Knight, Texas 1971 - Executive VP and General Counsel of NASDAQ Stock Market, Inc.
  • William H Strong, Purdue 1971 - Vice Chairman of Morgan Stanley
  • Andy Westlund, Oregon State 1971 - VP of Global Logistics at Amazon.com
  • Ronald Kase, Purdue 1978 - venture capitalist, NEA
  • David A. Evans, Rensselaer 1979 - inventor of high capacity tantalum capacitor; President of Evans Capacitor Company
  • William D. Stock, Rensselaer 1983 - founder and CEO of Power Stop, L.L.C.
  • Erik B. Pedersen, Minnesota 1984 - private businessman; Target Corporation, US Bank.
  • Cameron Herold, Carleton 1988 - private businessman; former COO of 1-800-GOT-JUNK?; author; entrepreneurial coach [1]

Higher education

  • Roscoe Pound, Nebraska 1905, Harvard 1913 - educator; Bushnell Hall at KSU dedicated in his name
  • Albert B Storms, Iowa State 1909 - President of Iowa State University
  • Walter Williams, Missouri 1909 - President of University of Missouri; founder of Missouri School of Journalism
  • Arthur Simeon Watts, Ohio State 1911 - educator; Watts Hall is dedicated in his name at Ohio State
  • Leland David Bushnell, Kansas State 1913 - educator; Bushnell Hall at KSU is dedicated in his name
  • Audrey A. Potter, Kansas State 1920 - educator in the field of engineering; buildings are dedicated in his name at Purdue and Purdue-Calumet
  • Ernest H. Hahne, Nebraska 1921 - past President of Miami University (Ohio); Hahne Hall is dedicated in his name
  • Bland L. Stradley, Ohio State 1921 - educator; Stradley Hall is dedicated in his name at Ohio State
  • Raymond A. Pearson, Iowa State 1924 - President of Iowa State University
  • Stratton D Brooks, Missouri 1925 - President of University of Oklahoma (1912) and University of Missouri (1923)
  • Samuel Justus McKinley, Harvard 1928 - past President of Emerson College, Boston
  • Burton W. Gorman, Indiana 1930 - educator; the Burton W. Gorman Teaching Award is dedicated in his name
  • William L. Henning, Wisconsin 1931 - educator; Henning Building is dedicated in his name at Penn State
  • Charles E. MacQuigg, Cornell 1935 - educator; MacQuigg Hall is dedicated in his name at Ohio State
  • Robert E. Vivian, USC 1947 - educator; Vivian Hall is dedicated in his name at USC
  • Claude R. Sowle, Northwestern 1947 - past President of Ohio University
  • L. Dennis Smith, Indiana 1956 - President Emeritus, University of Nebraska
  • Kenneth L. Schwab, Purdue 1966 - President, Centenary College

Science

  • William F. Durand, Stanford 1904 - NASA pioneer
  • Wallace E Pratt, Kansas 1907- pioneer in the petroleum field
  • Wheeler P. Davey, Penn State 1910 - X-ray pioneer; Davey Lab is dedicated in his name at Penn State
  • Alexander Wetmore, Kansas 1912 - ornithologist
  • Karl M. Dallenbach, Cornell 1913 - psychologist
  • Emmett B. Carmichael, Colorado 1918 - chemist
  • Harold E. Edgerton, Nebraska 1924 - pioneer in the electronic flash, pertaining to photography
  • Lloyd Berkner, Minnesota 1926 - physicist
  • Theodore P. Hall, Syracuse 1927 - pioneer in airplane design
  • James E. Webb, North Carolina 1927 - high-ranking NASA official in the 1960s
  • Jack Kilby, Illinois 1942 - Nobel Prize laureate in physics; inventor of the integrated circuit
  • Laurence H. Snyder, Oklahoma 1949 - pioneer in genetics
  • George J. Marrett, Iowa State 1957 - test pilot for USAF and Hughes Aircraft Company; author of four non-fiction books on aviation
  • David Fischell, Cornell 1972 - biomedical engineer; inventor of the heart stent

Arts and entertainment

  • Arthur H Carhart, Iowa State 1916 - early conservationist and writer
  • Edward Everett Dale, Harvard 1917 - historian, writer
  • John Mel Hickerson, Iowa 1920 - author
  • Paul E. Barr, Indiana 1928 - artist and painter
  • Harry H. Lunn, Michigan 1951 - photographer and collector
  • James ‘Jim’ Hamil, Kansas 1958 - artist and painter
  • Philip Bobbitt, Texas 1965 - author and constitutional theorist
  • Scott Houston, Indiana 1980 - public television personality; public speaker; known as "Piano Guy"
  • Ed Ulbrich, Illinois 1984 - film visual effects producer; The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Fight Club
  • Mark Edward Smith, Missouri - actor and vocalist; Avatar and X-Men Origins: Wolverine
  • Nic Pizzolatto, LSU - creator and writer of the TV series True Detective
  • William Q Singleton, a.k.a. Bill Andrew Quinn, Missouri 1981 - Host The Bill Quinn Radio Hour x 2!, v/o actor: GEICO, Coke, CitiBank

Miscellaneous or multiple

  • Walter Elmer Ekblaw, Illinois 1907 - originator of "Homecoming"
  • Reid T. Muller, Rensselaer 1980 - MD, FACC, FACP, FCCP; Colonel, US Air Force; heart specialist
  • Hiram Bingham III, Yale 1915 - explorer; discovered Machu Picchu; US Senator
  • H. L. 'Tom' Sebring, Kansas State 1920 - judge for the Nuremberg Trials; head football coach at the University of Florida
  • David P. Osborne, Penn State 1935 - naval surgeon; performed the JFK autopsy; worked on LBJ
  • Clifton Hillegass, Nebraska 1938 - creator of CliffsNotes
  • Frank S. Land, Missouri - founder of DeMolay'

References

  1. ↑ http://www.speakers.ca/speakers/cameron-herold/
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