Famous D3 Alumni

[Ron Boerger]

It's not that I wasn't smart enough or motivated enough to make a blank thread with "Famous D3 Alumni" at the top 

Thanks for the effort though Ron.

No worries, Keith, you'd just made the comment in several places so I thot I'd throw one out here.  If it dies a dismal death you can always start up a whole "D3 Alumni" board with threads organized in whatever fashion you want.   

And now that I look back at my list, some of the people I listed (like the tennis players and Davey Johnson) weren't D3 alumni at all, they date back to scholarship days.  Bad Ron!!

[union89]

Union College has ex US presidents and such, but my favorite is 1989 classmate:

Chris Sheridan, Executive Producer, 'Family Guy' (TV Show)...Club Rugby player.

[K-Mack]

And now that I look back at my list, some of the people I listed (like the tennis players and Davey Johnson) weren't D3 alumni at all, they date back to scholarship days.  Bad Ron!!

Yeah, that's another thing. I think we're probably better off just going with famous alumni of current D3 schools. Rod Marinelli may have gone to the old Cal Lutheran, but today's D3 fans still think that's cool, no?

I think if we were to get up to speed on this, surfing the ATN thread around pages 45-48 would be a start ... although since then we have dropped famous people on there from time to time. If someone really doesn't feel like working today, you could skim the whole thing.

[K-Mack]

These are famous people from a NOW D3 school.  They were not D3 in their day...

I say keep 'em coming.

OshDude knows way too much. Wow.

['gro]

Union College has ex US presidents and such, but my favorite is 1989 classmate:

Chris Sheridan, Executive Producer, 'Family Guy' (TV Show)...Club Rugby player.

Come on Union89... Chester A. Arthur?, he was president for like 9 months, the guy in the movie Dave served longer than that!

p.s. Comedy director Bobby Farelley (Something about Mary) went to RPI.  Still waiting for a movie about life in Troy.

[union89]

Union College has ex US presidents and such, but my favorite is 1989 classmate:

Chris Sheridan, Executive Producer, 'Family Guy' (TV Show)...Club Rugby player.

Come on Union89... Chester A. Arthur?, he was president for like 9 months, the guy in the movie Dave served longer than that!

p.s. Comedy director Bobby Farelley (Something about Mary) went to RPI.  Still waiting for a movie about life in Troy.

Isn't the picture of James Brown under your name taken after a night out in Troy??

C'mon man....we have a statue of Chet in the middle of campus and everything.....

[BoBo]

Union College has ex US presidents and such, but my favorite is 1989 classmate:

Chris Sheridan, Executive Producer, 'Family Guy' (TV Show)...Club Rugby player.

Come on Union89... Chester A. Arthur?, he was president for like 9 months, the guy in the movie Dave served longer than that!

I think Chester A. Arthur is more famous for being part of the plot of Die Hard 3!!   

[OshDude]

These are famous people from a NOW D3 school.  They were not D3 in their day...

I say keep 'em coming.

OshDude knows way too much. Wow.

Not so. If you gave me a test on all the ones I provided, I'd maybe get 70%. I Wiki'ed the rest, especially Coe among several others. It's just one of those things that's always interested me. Wish I knew why. Pretty pointless crap taking up room in my brain.

[Schwami]

A special Monon Bell edition:

DePauw - Vice President "Dannie" Quayle (he's no John F. Kennedy)

Wabash - Vice President Thomas Riley Marshall (Woodrow Wilson's Vice President; he could spell, and he had his priorities straight, as demonstrated by his well-known quote: "What the country needs is a really good five cent cigar")

[Breckenridgebear]

Other Depauw Alumni:

Ford Frick - Major League Baseball Commissioner (1951-65)
James P. Goodrich - Governor of Indiana (1917-21)
Jimmy Ibbotson - longtime member of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
John Jakes - novelist
Vernon Jordan Jr. - noted broker and executive, former president of the National Urban League, personal friend and advisor to Bill Clinton
Andrew Madsen - President of Darden Restaurants, which includes the Olive Garden chain
Major Reuben Webster Millsaps - Founder of Millsaps College in Mississippi
Bill Rasmussen - founder of ESPN
Scott Rasmussen - Co-founder of ESPN and founder of Rasmussen Reports
Joseph P. Allen - NASA Space Shuttle Astronaut

[TigerOldSchool]

In addition to the Pres-Elect spending two years at Oxy - here's a few others...

Way Back - 60's and before
Jack Kemp, Politician/NFL QB
Robinson Jeffers, US poet laureate
Sammy Lee, Olympic gold medalist 2x
Jim Mora Sr, NFL coach
Ron Botchan, NFL ref
Jim Tunney, NFL ref

Less Back - 70's, 80's and 90's
Vance Mueller, NFL player 5 yrs - one of the great RBs in D3 history
Terry Gilliam, actor/artist original Monty Python member
Patt Morrison, NPR host
Howard Ahmanson, super rich guy ie Ahmanson Theatre
Bob Ike, horse racing analyst - maybe the greatest sciac basketball player (think Gasol)
Dave Hodges, D3 All-Amer LB and Captain of USA Rugby
Alphonso Bell, Congressman
Jon Finsteun, D3 All-Amer WR - Geophysicist
Todd Garner - Producer, of many of the movies you've seen in the past 15 yrs
Olin Browne - PGA golfer

and along with Obama
Ben Affleck, Actor - must have began making big money, did not graduate
Luke Wilson, Actor - see above

[TigerOldSchool]

In addition to the Pres-Elect spending two years at Oxy - here's a few others...

Way Back - 60's and before
Jack Kemp, Politician/NFL QB
Robinson Jeffers, US poet laureate
Sammy Lee, Olympic gold medalist 2x
Jim Mora Sr, NFL coach
Ron Botchan, NFL ref
Jim Tunney, NFL ref

Less Back - 70's, 80's and 90's
Vance Mueller, NFL player 5 yrs - one of the great RBs in D3 history
Terry Gilliam, actor/artist original Monty Python member
Patt Morrison, NPR host
Howard Ahmanson, super rich guy ie Ahmanson Theatre
Bob Ike, horse racing analyst - maybe the greatest sciac basketball player (think Gasol)
Dave Hodges, D3 All-Amer LB and Captain of USA Rugby
Alphonso Bell, Congressman
Jon Finsteun, D3 All-Amer WR - Geophysicist
Todd Garner - Producer, of many of the movies you've seen in the past 15 yrs
Olin Browne - PGA golfer

and along with Obama
Ben Affleck, Actor - must have began making big money, did not graduate
Luke Wilson, Actor - see above

How could I forget Sam Farmer, LA Times feature sports writer and author, with whom I shared many a class.

[OshDude]

Terry Gilliam, actor/artist original Monty Python member

+1

Ben Affleck, Actor - must have began making big money, did not graduate

Oops, -1 ... par in Hollywood isn't bad .

[TigerOldSchool]

true true, osh.... but Hollywood is only 8 miles from Eagle Rock, bound to be one or two actors get lost along the way.

[Knightstalker]

While not famous, here is a Cortland State grad, who has done pretty good.