Zeta Phi - Notable Alumni

Notable Alumni

Business

• Shawn Askinosie '83, chocolate maker and founder of Askinosie Chocolate
• Ralph W. Babb '71, Chairman and CEO, Comerica
• Thomas M. Begel ’64, chairman & CEO, Pullman-Peabody Company
• William E. Cornelius ’53, president & CEO, Union Electric Company
• Harry M. Cornell Jr. '50, president and CEO of Leggett & Platt
• Harold S. Hook '53, chairman, American General Corporation
• Kenneth Lay '64, former chairman and CEO of Enron
• Robert A. Maxwell '63, vice president, HBO
• William Morgan '63, founder of Kinder Morgan energy company
• Raymond F. O'Brien '48, chairman, Consolidated Freightways
• Sam Walton '40, founder and chairman of Wal-Mart
• Phillip J. Yeckel '33, founder, Hidden Valley Ranch

Education

• Thomas Swain Barclay '15, professor of political science at Stanford University
• Andrew W. McAlester, physician and Dean of the Medical School at the University of Missouri and namesake for McAlester Hall and Arboretum
• Col. Charles R. Stribling III ’49, president, Missouri Military Academy (ret.)
• Timothy M. Wolfe, 80, president of the University of Missouri System

Entertainment

• Steve Cash '68, musician in the Ozark Mountain Daredevils and composer of hits "Jackie Blue" and "If You Wanna Get to Heaven"
• Greg Cromer '93, actor
• Daniel Lindsay '01, Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker
• Greg Warren '91, comedian

Government

• Matt Bartle '87, Missouri state politician
• William S. Cowherd 1881, former Democratic mayor of Kansas City, Missouri in 1892-1893 and member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Missouri in 1897-1905
• William B. Cravens 1893, former member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Missouri
• Thomas T. Crittenden, Jr. 1882, former mayor of Kansas City, Missouri from 1908-1909
• Gen. Donald Dawson '32, former aide to President Truman, Curator of the Truman Presidential Library
• M. Fowler Hamilton '31, Rhodes scholar and founder of Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton law firm. Also served as director of the Agency for International Development in the Justice Department during the Kennedy administration
• Darwin Hindman '55, mayor of Columbia, Missouri
• James P. Kem '10, U.S. Senator from Missouri, 1947 to 1953
• Peter D. Kinder '76, politician from Missouri
• Stephen N. Limbaugh, Sr. '51, U.S. Federal District Court Judge and former president of the Missouri Bar Assoc.
• Guy B. Park 1896, governor of Missouri
• Bill Phelps '56, attorney and former Lieutenant governor of Missouri
• Thomas L. Rubey 1885, former member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Missouri
• Kimbrough Stone 1895, judge of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit
• Robert F. Walker 1891, attorney general of Missouri
• Charles Yeater 1880, former Governor-General of the Philippines

Humanitarianism/Activism

• R. Crosby Kemper Jr. '50, philanthropist and businessman who transformed City Center Bank into United Missouri Bank in Kansas City and is the namesake of the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art

Journalism

• Byron Calame '61, journalist and former editor of the Wall Street Journal and New York Times
• Thomas Franklin Fairfax Millard 1884, American journalist, newspaper editor, founder of the China Weekly Review, author on topics of the Far East and first American political adviser to the Chinese Republic; was also a war correspondent for the New York Herald during the Spanish-American War, the Boer War, the Boxer Uprising, the Russo-Japanese War and the Second Sino-Japanese War
• Edgar Snow '28, journalist renowned for his coverage of the Chinese Communist revolution

Military

• Floyd Bruce Cramer 1898, Spanish-American War veteran and namesake of Cramer Hall
• Gen. Enoch Crowder 1886, United States Military World War I general

Athletics

• Gary Barnett '69, former head football coach, Northwestern University and the University of Colorado
• Harry Ice, a record setting halfback for the University of Missouri Tigers football team
• Gus Otto '65, former NFL player for the Oakland Raiders
• Norm Stewart '56, basketball coach, University of Missouri (initiated as an alumnus)