Distinguished Alumni

Leaders in Athletics
  • Peyton Manning (Inducted 1997 - University of Tennessee) NFL Quarterback for the Indianapolis Colts.
  • Arnold Palmer (Inducted 1964 - Wake Forest University) Professional Golfer.
  • Joe Paterno (Inducted 1976 - Pennsylvania State University) Football Coach.
  • Gaylord Perry (Inducted 1978 - Campbell University) Professional Baseball Player and Cy Young Award winner.
  • James E. Perry (Inducted 1978 - Campbell University) Professional Baseball Player and two-time winner of Cy Young Award.
  • Homer Rice (Inducted 1981 - Georgia Tech University) Football Coach and Athletic Director.
  • Tubby Smith (Inducted 2001 - University of Kentucky) Men’s Basketball Coach.

Leaders in Business

  • Herman Cain (Inducted 1990 - University of Nebraska, Omaha) Former President and CEO of Godfather's Pizza.  Named One of America's Top 25 Executives by Black Enterprise Magazine in 1988.
  • S. Truett Cathy (Inducted 1982 - Georgia State University) President and co-founder of Chick-Fil-A.
  • Robert S. Jepson, Jr. (Inducted 1963 - University of Richmond) Chairman of the board and CEO of three corporations and a California winery, director of four other companies, and founder of the Jepson School of Leadership Studies at the University of Richmond.
  • Fred Smith (Inducted 1979 - Rhodes College) Founder, Chairman, President and CEO of the FEDEX Corporation.
  • Hatton C. Smith (Inducted 1994 - Washington and Lee University) President of Royal Cup Coffee.
  • S. Robson Walton (Inducted 1965 - University of Arkansas) Chairman of Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.

Leaders in Education
  • Warren Bennis (Inducted 2003 - University of Southern California) Professor, author and adviser to four U.S. Presidents and more than 150 CEOs.
  • Barry Chapman Bishop (Inducted 1953 - University of Cincinnati) One of the first Americans to climb in the Himalayas. Former Executive Vice-Chair of Research of the National Geographic Society.
  • James MacGregor Burns (Inducted 1993 - University of Maryland, College Park) Presidential biographer, authority on leadership studies and scholar at the James MacGregor Burns Academy of Leadership at the University of Maryland, College Park. He received a Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award in 1971.
  • Joe Clark (Inducted 1997 - Plattsburgh State) Educator and Motivational Speaker.
  • Howard Gardner (Inducted 1998 - SUNY Plattsburgh) Author of Theories of Multiple Intelligences and An Anatomy of Leadership.
  • Susan Komives (Inducted 1978 - Denison University) Professor of Higher Education in the College Student Personnel Program in the Department of Counseling and Personnel Services at the University of Maryland, College Park.
  • Dr. Michael Lomax (Inducted 2000 - Dillard University) President and CEO of the United Negro College Fund, he served for seven years as president of Dillard University.
  • James Loewen (Inducted 1997 - SUNY Plattsburgh) Teacher, Scholar, Civil Rights Activist; Author of Lies My Teacher Told Me.
  • Kenneth Ruscio (Inducted 1975 - Washington and Lee University) President of Washington and Lee University.
  • John Thelin (Inducted 2000 - University of Kentucky) Professor of Higher Education and President of the Association for the Study of Higher Education.
  • Cornel West (Inducted 1998 - SUNY Plattsburgh) Harvard Professor of African American History and Philosophy.

Leaders in Entertainment
  • Rockwell Blake (Inducted 1988 - SUNY Plattsburgh) Internationally-known Opera Singer ('bel canto'), Knighted by the Italian government in 1993.
  • Bennett Cerf (Inducted 1967 - Florida Southern College) Chairman of the Board of Random House Publishing, publisher, humorist, columnist, and author.
  • Tom Chapin (Inducted 1992 - SUNY Plattsburgh) Composer and performer of children's music and former host of PBS' "National Geographic Explorer."
  • Pat Conroy (Inducted 1997- Auburn University at Montgomery) Author of Prince of Tides, Lords of Discipline, and The Great Santini.
  • Sheryl S. Crow (Inducted 1983 - University of Missouri-Columbia) Singer/Songwriter and winner of nine Grammy Awards.
  • Jean-Michael Cousteau (Inducted 1996 - SUNY Plattsburgh) Emmy Award- winning executive producer of Cousteau Films, eloquent environmentalist
  • James Dickey (Inducted 1970 - University of South Carolina) Former Poet Laureate of South Carolina.
  • Susan Faludi (Inducted 1996 - SUNY Plattsburgh) Pulitzer prize-winning journalist and author of Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women.
  • Bob Hope (Inducted 1964 - Tulane University) Radio, stage, TV and film star, distinguished entertainer and philanthropist.
  • Betty Mahmoody (Inducted 1992 - Ferris State University) Author of Not Without My Daughter and scriptwriter for the movie starring Sally Field.

Leaders in Government Service
  • George W. Ball (Inducted 1964 - American University) Assistant Secretary Of State under Lyndon Johnson. Recipient of the French Legion of Honor and the U.S. Medal of Freedom.
  • Haley Barbour (Inducted 1972 - University of Mississippi) Governor of Mississippi and Chairman of the Republican Governors Association. Also served as the Chair of the Republican National Committee.
  • Birch E. Bayh (Inducted 1965 - Purdue University) Former United States Senator from Indiana.
  • Griffin Bell (Inducted 2007 - Mercer University) Former Attorney General of the United States.
  • Steve Beshear (Inducted 1965 - University of Kentucky) Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Also served as the state's Attorney General and Lieutenant Governor.
  • Joseph R. Biden, Jr. (Inducted 1981 - University of Delaware) Former United States Senator and current Democratic Vice President Elect of the United States.
  • Michael Bloomberg (Inducted 1964 - Johns Hopkins University) Mayor of New York City.
  • George H. W. Bush (Inducted 1997 - Harding University) Former President and Vice President of the United States.
  • Jimmy Carter (Inducted 1972 - Georgia State University) Former United States President and former Governor of Georgia.
  • Lauro Cavazos (Inducted 1981 - Texas Tech University) Former United States Secretary of Education.
  • Elaine Chao (Inducted 1996 - SUNY Plattsburgh) United States Secretary of Labor and Past President of United Way.
  • Shirley Chisholm (Inducted 1990 - SUNY Plattsburgh) Former Congresswoman and candidate for the Democratic Presidential nomination.
  • Raymond Chretien (Inducted 1996 - SUNY Plattsburgh) Former Prime Minister of Canada.
  • Winston S. Churchill III (Inducted 1990 - Florida Southern College) Statesman, author, journalist, and parliamentarian. Member of the British Parliament.
  • Hillary R. Clinton (Inducted 2000 - Alfred University) United States Senator for New York and former First Lady of the United States.
  • Joycelyn Elders (Inducted 1996 - SUNY Plattsburgh) Former United States Surgeon General. 
  • Gerald R. Ford (Inducted 1984 - Florida Southern College) 38th President of the United States.
  • James R. Fulbright (Inducted 1965 - Virginia Tech) Former President of the University of Arkansas as well as Congressman, Senator, and United States delegate to the United Nations.
  • Tim Kaine (Inducted 1978 - University of Missouri) Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia and Chairman of the Democratic National Committee. Also served as the Lieutenant Governor and Mayor of Richmond, Virginia.
  • Christopher Kraft (Inducted 1965 - Virginia Tech University) NASA Flight Director for the Mercury and Gemini Space Programs.
  • Madeleine M. Kunin (Inducted 1989 - SUNY Plattsburgh) Governor of Vermont for three terms and United States Ambassador to Switzerland.
  • George McGovern (Inducted 1981 - American University) Former United States Senator from South Dakota.  The Democratic Nominee for President in 1972.
  • Walter Mondale (Inducted 1981 - University of South Carolina) United States Vice President from 1976-80.
  • Naomi E. Morris (Inducted 1983 - Campbell University) Chief Judge, North Carolina Court of Appeals and Editor of the North Carolina Law Review.
  • F. Story Musgrave (Inducted 1984 - University of Kentucky) NASA Astronaut in SKYLAB Program.
  • Louis F. Powell (Inducted 1928 - Washington and Lee University) Former United States Supreme Court Justice.
  • Franklin D. Roosevelt (Inducted 1940 - University of Maryland, College Park) Elected President of the United States to four terms.
  • Dean Rusk (Inducted 1930 - Davidson College) United States Secretary of State under John F. Kennedy (ODK Circle President as an undergraduate at Davidson).
  • Madame Jihan Sadat (Inducted 1985 - University of South Carolina) International Stateswoman and champion of women's rights.
  • Mark Sanford (Inducted 1981 - Furman University) Governor of South Carolina. Formerly served as U.S. Representative and Chair of the Republican Governors Association.
  • Margaret Thatcher (Inducted 1995 - Harding University) Former Prime Minister of Great Britain.
  • Richard Thornburgh (Inducted 1996 - University of Pittsburgh) Former United State Attorney General and former Governor of Pennsylvania.
  • Stansfield Turner (Inducted 1992 - University of Maryland, College Park) Former Directory of the Central Intelligence Agency and Commander of the United States Navy 2nd Fleet.
  • Wernher Von Braun (Inducted 1961 - Grove City College) Nuclear Physicist and member of the NASA Special Committee for Space Technology.
  • Sarah Weddington (Inducted 1995 - SUNY Plattsburgh) Texas legislator who won her first Supreme Court case in the landmark Roe vs. Wade decision.

Leaders in Journalism and the Mass Media
  • Ann Compton (Inducted 2006 - University of Maryland, College Park) ABC News Correspondent.
  • Walter Cronkite (Inducted 1979 - Florida Southern College) Award-winning news commentator and correspondent.
  • Joe Johns (Inducted 1979 - Marshall University) Correspondent for CNN.
  • Roger Mudd (Inducted 1966 - Washington and Lee University) News commentator and correspondent for CBS and NBC.
  • Cokie Roberts (Inducted 1995 - University of Akron) Award-winning broadcast journalist on Nightline and Good Morning America.
  • Susan Rook (Inducted 1994 - East Tennessee State University) Former CNN World News and Prime News reporter, co-anchor, and panelist during the 1992 Presidential Debates.
  • George F. Will (Inducted 1993 - Washington and Lee University) Pulitzer prize-winning conservative newspaper columnist, journalist, and author.

Leaders in Medicine
  • Michael Debakey (Inducted 1967 - Baylor University) Internationally-known cardiologist.
  • Joseph I. Goldstein (Inducted 1961 - Washington and Lee University) Recipient of the 1986 Nobel Prize in Medicine (with Michael S. Brown).
  • Jonas E. Salk (Inducted 1954 - University of Pittsburgh) Discoverer of the Polio Vaccine.
 

      


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