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Helmut Beck-Broichsitter

After the war Beck-Broichsitter founded the "Bruderschaft" (Fraternity) in 1949 of former officers of the Wehrmacht.


Allen Martin

Martin is affiliated with Dunamis Outreach Ministries Worldwide International, Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity, NFBPA (National Forum for Black Public Administrators), Eastern Michigan Black Alumni Association, Detroit Public Schools Drug Free and Community Advisory Committee and the Michigan Association of Youth Serving Agencies.

American Pie Presents: Beta House

John White stars as Erik Stifler, a college freshman who pledges the Beta House fraternity led by his cousin, Dwight Stifler (Steve Talley).

Beasley Reece

Beasley also attended La Vega High School in Waco, Texas and is a member of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity.

Bruce Abel

He is a National Patron of Delta Omicron, an international, professional music fraternity.

Corps Altsachsen Dresden

Albrecht was one of the founders of the International Polar Motion Service, predecessor to the International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service, and one of the co-founders of the fraternity in 1861.

Curtis M. Loftis, Jr.

While at USC, he was twice elected president of the Student Senate and was a member, and president, of the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity.

Dan Geer

Geer received a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT, where he was a member of the Theta Deuteron charge of Theta Delta Chi fraternity.

Dan K. Moore

Born in Asheville, North Carolina, Moore earned undergraduate and law degrees from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where he was a member of the Pi Kappa Phi fraternity.

Dave Albritton

Both were born in Alabama, Albritton in Danville and Owens in nearby Oakville; both attended East Technical High School in Cleveland, Ohio; both attended the Ohio State University; both were members of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity; both competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics.

Delta Epsilon Psi

Delta Epsilon Psi (ΔΕΨ) is a South Asian interest social and service fraternity located in the United States.

Eberhard Zahn

Zahn was a member of Corps Austria - a student duelling fraternity located in Frankfurt am Main - from the time of his admission in 1930 until his death in 2010.

Foster Friess

As a student, he served as president of Chi Phi Fraternity, enrolled in the Reserve Officers' Training Corps, and was named one of the "ten most outstanding senior men".

François Clemmons

He is a member of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, the national fraternity for men in music, of which Fred Rogers was also a member.

George H. Cannon

While at the University of Michigan he became a member of the Sigma Chi fraternity.

George Hugo Boldt

Judge Boldt was a lifelong member of the Sigma Chi fraternity and even served as a Grand Trustee for 6 years, 1957-1963.

George J. Trautman, III

Lieutenant General Trautman earned a B.S. in Biology from Pennsylvania State University where he was a member of the Sigma Tau Gamma fraternity.

Gilbert J. Sullivan

While a student he was a varsity quarterback in football and was a member of Omicron Delta Kappa, T.I.L.K.A., the Z Society, the Raven Society, and Sigma Alpha Epsilon social fraternity.

Harry Falkenau

He also joined both the Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity and the Irving Literary Society.

J. Reilly Lewis

In 2010, Dr. Lewis was inducted in Washington, D.C. as a National Patron of Delta Omicron, an international, professional music fraternity.

Jerry Speyer

At Columbia University, he majored in German literature and joined Zeta Beta Tau, a Jewish fraternity.

Jignas

His superlative performance at the schooling age of 14 while studying class IX in Second South Asian Archery championship held in Jamshedpur has brought fame to the entire Krishna district of Andhra Pradesh archery fraternity and also to Volga Archery academy under international coach Lenin, who died in an accident while travelling back home along with

John Harmon Charles Bonté

Lincoln Steffens, in his autobiography, reports a humorous incident when he and his fraternity brothers were invited to the Bonté house to be fed some chickens that they didn't quite steal from the Bonté henhouse.

Jon Rauch

He was also a member of the social fraternity Sigma Phi Epsilon, KY Zeta Chapter.

Kappa Sigma

William Grigsby McCormick, George Miles Arnold, John Covert Boyd, Edmund Law Rogers Jr. and Frank Courtney Nicodemus established the fraternity based on the traditions and of the ancient order in Bologna.

Kappa Theta Pi

Kappa Theta Pi was founded on January 10, 2012 in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and is the University of Michigan's first and only startup technology fraternity.

Lambda Lambda Lambda

Inspired by movies like Revenge of the Nerds and National Lampoon's Animal House, Lambda Lambda Lambda is a small co-ed social fraternity, unaffiliated with Greek Life, dedicated to the enjoyment and enrichment of pop culture and to the brotherhood of its members.

Lambdas

Lambda Phi Epsilon, a nationally recognized Asian-interest fraternity based in the United States

Lambda Upsilon Lambda, a nationally recognized Latino-interest fraternity based in the United States

Landsmannschaft Schottland

The Landsmannschaft Schottland ("Scotland") is a German fraternity - not to be confused with the American variety - situated in Tübingen, a student city in southern Germany.

LeRon Ellis

LeRon Ellis made local headlines at the start of his sophomore year when became the first African American inducted into the University of Kentucky's Kappa Alpha fraternity.

Midget professional wrestling

The hardcore wrestling troupe the Half Pint Brawlers simulated sex, used staple guns as weapons, and performed using other hardcore antics in January 2008 during a Delta Upsilon fraternity event at Northwestern University.

Nelson Adams

He was listed in Who’s Who in American Colleges and Universities while attending Howard University, and is a member of the Omega Psi Phi fraternity, and a Life Scout of the Boy Scouts of America.

Oath of the Peach Garden

Liu Bei, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei took an oath of fraternity in a ceremony in the Peach Garden (believed to be in present-day Zhuozhou, Hebei), and became sworn brothers from then on.

Percy Jewett Burrell

Burrell served as the sixth supreme (national) president of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Fraternity from 1907 to 1914, and along with fraternity founder Ossian E. Mills has been credited by fraternity historians with encouraging the early expansion of and formulating the basic philosophies and spiritual values espoused by the fraternity.

Phi Sigs

Phi Sigma Epsilon (ΦΣΕ) Men's Social Fraternity, which merged into Phi Sigma Kappa in 1985

Pi Kappa Chi

Pi Kappa Chi is a professional fraternity which promotes the Doctor of Chiropractic and the chiropractic profession.

Quaestor

In the United States, the Sigma Chi Fraternity and the Kappa Delta Rho Fraternity currently uses the Officer title quaestor as their treasurer's name as he oversees the financial obligations of the Fraternity.

Saturnino Ador-Dionisio

He is a graduate of the University of the Philippines College of Medicine (Class of 1935) and is one of the founding fathers of its first medical fraternity, the Mu Sigma Phi.

Seymour W. Terry

Terry was a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity from the fraternity's first chapter at the University of Arkansas.

Sounds of The Four Tops

Peterkin choreographed routines for competition as part of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity, Delta Psi chapter.

St. John's Day, Masonic feast

The guild of masons and carpenters attached to Cologne Cathedral was known as the Fraternity of St. John the Baptist.

Stan Albeck

He is a member of the Sigma Chi Fraternity, as well as a Significant Sig and a member of their Significant Sig Hall of Fame.

Steve Moertel

After graduating in the top 60% of his high school class, Moertel went on to Purdue, where he joined Alpha Gamma Rho fraternity and studied agronomy.

Symphonic Songs for Band

The work was commissioned for the National Intercollegiate Band by Kappa Kappa Psi and Tau Beta Sigma, national honorary band fraternity and sorority, as part of the two organizations' commissioning program.

Thomas Bedingfeld

There he became acquainted with George Pickering and James Ellis, who, together with Mr. Davidson's sons, formed a literary fraternity not very common in a lawyer's office.

Tim Leavitt

He graduated from Fort Vancouver High School, then attended Clark College and Washington State University, where he received a masters degree in environmental engineering and was a member of Alpha Kappa Lambda Fraternity.

Tracy Mattes

In 2009 Tracy was inducted into the World Sports Humanitarian Hall of Fame, joining an elite fraternity of past inductees such as Tennis great Arthur Ashe, Olympian Jesse Owens, Gymnast Mary Lou Retton, Major League Baseball pioneer Jackie Robinson, soccer great Pelé and the Harlem Globetrotters.

Walt Singer

Singer attended Syracuse University, where he was a member of the Sigma Alpha Mu fraternity.

Walter Clore

While majoring in horticulture, Walter Clore also lettered in football as a lineman and was president of the agricultural fraternity Alpha Gamma Rho and elected to honorary membership to another agricultural fraternity Alpha Zeta.


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