{"id":159,"date":"2020-09-06T22:09:45","date_gmt":"2020-09-07T02:09:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/sigmachi\/?page_id=159"},"modified":"2021-01-11T14:07:55","modified_gmt":"2021-01-11T19:07:55","slug":"alumni","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/sigmachi\/alumni\/","title":{"rendered":"Alumni"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Notable Wabash Sigs:<\/strong><br>W. Parrish Fuller \u00b415- Significant Sig and donated the Arboretum<br>Dr. Ray Ehrensberger \u00b429- Significant Sig<br>Galan Dutch Freise &#8217;48 &#8211; Significant Sig<br>Dr. Paul R. Honan, MD &#8217;43- Significant Sig<br>William Thompson\u00a0&#8217;48- Significant Sig<br>Tom Florsheim &#8217;53 &#8211; Floesheim shoes<br>Rem Johnston &#8217;55 &#8211; Long time athletic booster<br>Barney\u00a0Hollet \u00b437- Trustee and\u00a0stadium named in his honor<br>Fran Hollett \u00b485- Honorary alumnus<br>Fred Ruebeck &#8217;61 &#8211; Trustee<br>Tom Emmick &#8217;62\u00a0 -Trustee<br>Tim Werbe &#8217;65 &#8211; Wabash Hall of Fame (Basketball)<br>Peter Kennedy &#8217;68 &#8211; Trustee<br>Fred Wilson &#8217;69 &#8211; Trustee<br>Mark Dewart \u00b474- Previous President of the National Association of Wabash Men<br>Chris Denari &#8217;83 &#8211; Voice of the Pacers and Fever<br>Rev. John Olmer &#8217;84 &#8211; Local minister<br>Mike Rapierv\u00a0\u00b487\u00a0&#8211; Owner of Liberty Paper Products LLC<br>Todd Rokita &#8217;92 &#8211; Former U.S. Representative, Indiana Attorney General <br>John Haug &#8217;00 &#8211; VP and CFO,\u00a0Eli Lilly<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Famous Sigs<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Sports<\/strong>:<br>Bill Buckner, USC 1972.&nbsp; MLB<br>Drew Brees, Purdue 2001.&nbsp; NFL<br>Bob Griese, Purdue 1967.&nbsp; NFL<br>Jay Wright, Bucknell 1983.&nbsp; Head coach at Villanova (NCAAB)<br>Mike Ditka, Pittsburgh 1961.&nbsp; NFL<br>Urban Meyer, Cincinnati 1986.&nbsp; Head coach at Ohio State&nbsp;(NCCAF)<br>Billy Packer, Wake Forest 1962.&nbsp; CBS Sportscaster<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Politics:<\/strong><br>Grover Cleveland, U.S. President<br>Barry Goldwater, Arizona 1932. U.S. Senator, AZ<br>Lamar Alexander, Vanderbilt 1962. Governor of TN<br>Jon Huntsman, Jr., Utah 1983. Governor of UT<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Entertainment:<\/strong><br>Luke Bryan, Georgia Southern 1999. Country Singer                                                                            George Ade, Purdue 1887. American writer and columnist<br>Warren Beatty, Northwestern 1959. Actor<br>Woody Harrelson, Hanover 1983. Actor<br>David Letterman, Ball State 1969. Television host<br>Brad Pitt, Missouri 1986. Actor<br>Tom Selleck, USC 1967. Actor<br>John Wayne, USC 1929. Actor                                                                                                                                                         <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jim Caviezel, University of Washington 1990. Actor (Jesus was a Sigma Chi!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Business:<\/strong><br>Kenneth &#8220;Bud&#8221; Adams, Kansas 1944. Owner of Tennessee Titans (NFL)<br>Jon Huntsman, Sr., Penn 1959. Founder, Huntsman Corp.<br>J. Willard Marriott, Jr., Utah State 1954. President of Marriott International<br>Bob McNair, South Carolina 1958. Owner of Houston Texans<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"273\" height=\"273\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/sigmachi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/45\/2020\/09\/todd-rokita.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"164\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/sigmachi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/45\/2020\/09\/todd-rokita.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/sigmachi\/?attachment_id=164\" class=\"wp-image-164\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/sigmachi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/45\/2020\/09\/todd-rokita.jpg 273w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/sigmachi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/45\/2020\/09\/todd-rokita-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/sigmachi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/45\/2020\/09\/todd-rokita-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 273px) 100vw, 273px\" \/><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">Todd Rokita &#8211; Wabash Sig &#8217;92<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/sigmachi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/45\/2020\/09\/chris-denair-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"163\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/sigmachi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/45\/2020\/09\/chris-denair-scaled.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/sigmachi\/?attachment_id=163\" class=\"wp-image-163\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/sigmachi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/45\/2020\/09\/chris-denair-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/sigmachi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/45\/2020\/09\/chris-denair-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/sigmachi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/45\/2020\/09\/chris-denair-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/sigmachi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/45\/2020\/09\/chris-denair-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/sigmachi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/45\/2020\/09\/chris-denair-2048x1152.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/sigmachi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/45\/2020\/09\/chris-denair-685x385.jpg 685w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/sigmachi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/45\/2020\/09\/chris-denair-2000x1125.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">Chris Denari &#8211; Wabash Sig &#8217;83<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Notable Wabash Sigs:W. Parrish Fuller \u00b415- Significant Sig and donated the ArboretumDr. Ray Ehrensberger \u00b429- Significant SigGalan Dutch Freise &#8217;48 &#8211; Significant SigDr. Paul R. Honan, MD &#8217;43- Significant SigWilliam Thompson\u00a0&#8217;48- Significant SigTom Florsheim &#8217;53 &#8211; Floesheim shoesRem Johnston &#8217;55 &#8211; Long time athletic boosterBarney\u00a0Hollet \u00b437- Trustee and\u00a0stadium named in his honorFran Hollett \u00b485- Honorary &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/sigmachi\/alumni\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Alumni<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":173,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-159","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/sigmachi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/sigmachi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/sigmachi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/sigmachi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/173"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/sigmachi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/sigmachi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":251,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/sigmachi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/159\/revisions\/251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/sigmachi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}