Head Football Coach at Virginia Tech

            Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University 1967

Terry Bowden

Head Football Coach at the University of North Alabama

            Auburn University 1994

Paul “Bear” Bryant

            Football Coach

            University of Kentucky 1949

Wilber Hutsell

            Head Track Coach & Field Coach & Hall of Famer

            Auburn University 1928

Archie Manning

NFL legendary Quarterback

President of the National Football Foundation

University of Mississippi 1970

Peyton Manning 

NFL Quarterback for the Indianapolis Colts

University of Tennessee 1997
Arnold Palmer 

Professional Golfer

Wake Forest University 1964
Gaylord Perry 

Professional Baseball Player and Cy Young Award winner

Campbell University 1978
James E. Perry 

Professional Baseball Player and two-time winner of Cy Young Award

Campbell University 1978
Homer Rice 

Head Football Coach and Athletic Director

Georgia Tech University 1981

Adolph Rupp

            Head Men’s Basketball Coach

            University of Kentucky 1937

Steve Spurrier

            Head Football Coach and Heisman Trophy Winner

            University of Florida 1991

Pat Sullivan

            Head Football Coach and Heisman Trophy Winner

            Auburn University 1971

Tubby Smith 

Men’s Basketball Coach

University of Kentucky 2001

Herman Cain

Former President and CEO of Godfather's Pizza, Named One of America's Top 25 Executives by Black Enterprise Magazine in 1988 

University of Nebraska, Omaha 1990
S. Truett Cathy 

President and Co-Founder of Chick-Fil-A

Georgia State University 1982

Robert S. Jepson, Jr. 

Chairman and CEO of Jepson Associates, Inc.

Founder of the Jepson School of Leadership Studies at the University of Richmond 

University of Richmond 1963

Fred Smith 

Founder, Chairman, President and CEO of the FEDEX Corporation.

Rhodes College 1979
Hatton C. Smith 

President of Royal Cup Coffee

Washington and Lee University 1994
S. Robson Walton 

Chairman of Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.

University of Arkansas 1965

LEADERSHIP IN EDUCATION

Warren Bennis 

Professor, author and advisor to four U.S. Presidents and more than 150 CEOs

University of Southern California 2003
Barry Chapman Bishop 

One of the first Americans to climb in the Himalayas

Former Executive Vice-Chair of Research of the National Geographic Society

University of Cincinnati 1953

James MacGregor Burns 

Presidential biographer, authority on leadership studies, Scholar at the James MacGregor Burns Academy of Leadership at the University of Maryland

Recipient of a Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award in 1971 

University of Maryland, College Park 1993
Joe Clark 

Educator and Motivational Speaker

Plattsburgh State 1997 

Author of Theories of Multiple Intelligences and An Anatomy of Leadership, Recipient of a MacArthur Prize Fellowship in 1981

SUNY Plattsburgh 1998

Susan Komives 

Professor of College Student Affairs at the University of Maryland, Former president of the American College Personnel Association

Denison University 1978
Dr. Michael Lomax 

President and CEO of the United Negro College Fund, Former president of Dillard University

Dillard University 2000
James Loewen 

Teacher, Scholar, Civil Rights Activist

Author of Lies My Teacher Told Me

SUNY Plattsburgh 1997
Kenneth Ruscio 

President of Washington and Lee University

Washington and Lee University 1975
John Thelin 

Professor of Higher Education, President of the Association for the Study of Higher Education

University of Kentucky 2000
Cornel West 

Harvard Professor of African American History and Philosophy

SUNY Plattsburgh 1998

LEADERS IN ENTERTAINMENT