First Name | Last Name | Year | Bio | Source | Categories | |
Robert | Aitken | Rennaissance. Was father to one of the early undergraduate members | Director of Lick Observatory, a leading UC Berkeley scientist, one of the top astronomers in the world | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Grant_Aitken | Academics | |
George | Anderson | 1936 | Cal’s best track man from the 30s. Jesse Owens beat him, keeping him out of the 1936 olympics | Athlete | ||
Larkin "Bum" | Bailey | WWI Vet, played for Golden Bears Baseball, SigEp Grand Chapter President in 1949-50. Order of the Golden Heart. Larkin Bailey/Babe Fly cup awarded in his honor to any brother who attends 15 conclaves | Athlete, SigEp | |||
Spencer | Benbow | 1929 | Superintendent of Oakland Public Schools | Academics | ||
Clarence | Betz | Tilicum/Theta Upsilon Omega brother, 1929 | Volunteer who helped Cal Alpha when times were at their worst during the 1950s | SigEp | ||
Reginald | Biggs | 1922 | President of Emporium Capwell until merger with Macy’s | https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=OT19370429.1.9&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN-------- | Business | |
Herbert | Blunck | 1925 | Vice President of Hilton Hotels, SigEp Citation | https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1992/12/29/herbert-blunck-hotel-executive-dies/afb46f45-812b-4b93-b2da-8fdb4620e756/ | Business | |
Dan | Broukhim | 2006 | Founder of FabFitFun Subscription service | Business | ||
Orville | Caldwell | 1918 | Silent Film star, First Deputy Mayor of Los Angeles from 1942-1951. In response to an influx of migration of African Americans to LA during WWII, proposed a ban on African American immigration into California | Actor, Politics | ||
Hubert | Caldwell | 1929 | 1928 Gold Medalist in Crew | Athlete | ||
Leland | Cerruti | 1925 | Reported mafia don (according to Look Magazine…never proven), Founder of Cerruti Motors Group that sold Packard and General Motors cars in the Santa Clara Valley | Business | ||
Sam | Chapman | 1938 | All American Football Player, Pro Baseball player for Philadelphia Athletics | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Chapman | Athlete | |
James | Corley | 1925 | UC Vice President of Government Relations and Special Projects, Berkeley City Councilmember, Grand Chapter President from 1937-40, Order of the Golden Heart, may have traveled for the fraternity in the 1920s | http://texts.cdlib.org/view?docId=hb1199n68c;NAAN=13030&doc.view=content&chunk.id=div00021&toc.depth=1&brand=oac4&anchor.id=0 | Politician, SigEp | |
David | DeVarona | Tilicum/Theta Upsilon Omega brother, 1939 | Football with Chapman and McAteer, All conference and All American. Also part of Cal Crew | Athlete | ||
Jesse | Diaz | 1997 | Past SigEp Regional Director | SigEp | ||
Bruce | Dunwoody | 1948 | SVP of Bethlehem Steel | Business | ||
Walter | Escherich | 1918 | Founded the Eschrich Brothers Construction Company in Los Angeles | Business | ||
George | Federoff | 1967 | US Naval Intelligence, First Exec Secretary of UC Rally Comm, past SigEp staff | Military, UC Berkeley, SigEp | ||
John | Finger | 1931 | Attorney and President of the California Bar | Law | ||
Dan | Ford | 1968 | Producer for NBC tv | Entertainment | ||
Steve | Ganz | 1986 | ASUC President 1986 | UC Berkeley | ||
Elmer | Gerken | 1927 | Cal Track star | Athlete | ||
The four | Gill Brothers | Tilicum/Theta Upsilon Omega brothers from 1928-1932 | Football players at Cal | Athlete | ||
Stuart | Gould | 50s and 60s | All conference in 440 yard dash, one of the top quarter milers in the country | Athlete | ||
Michael | Green | 50s and 60s | Senior Staff Engineer at the Lawrence Berkeley Lab, Historian of SigEp national fraternity, long time Cal Alpha volunteer, Order of the golden heart | SigEp, Academics | ||
Bert | Griffen | Tilicum/Theta Upsilon Omega brother, 1927 | Football | Captain and All Conference on the Cal Football Team | Athlete | |
Tom | Hobday | 1964 | Partner and manager of the largest insurance firm in the central valley and later chief fundraiser for the UC Medical Center at Davis, noted philanthropist | https://www.sierrasun.com/news/obituaries/obituary-thomas-tom-hobday/ | Business | |
Gordon H | Huber | 1927 | President of Huber paper, union paper company, and Bay Area Philanthropist, All conference player on cal football team | Athlete, Business | ||
Frank | Isola | 1968 | President of one of the Franklin Mutual Funds | Business | ||
Robert “Skinny” | Johnson | 1928 | Ran Track at Berkeley and was a Member of Big C. He was an Assistant to the President of the University under Robert Gordon Sproul, Clark Kerr, and Harry Wellman (A SigEp from Oregon State). Long time Cal Alpha Volunteer into his late 80s | Academics, SigEp | ||
Milton | Kaye | 1923 | Brigadier General of the Air Force | Military | ||
Eugene | McAteer | 1937 | All American Football Player, CA state Senator, San Francisco Supervisor, and SF mayoral candidate | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Eugene_McAteer | Athlete, politician | |
Melvin | Mott | Early 1940s | Professor at Cal | Academics | ||
C Norman | Peterson | 1927 | President and Founder of Peterson Construction Company that built most of the bay area freeways | Business | ||
Samuel | Pleasants | Tilicum/Theta Upsilon Omega brother, 1914 | Arch Officer of TUO national fraternity from 1936 to 1938 | SigEp | ||
Walter | Plunkett | 1923 | Academy Award Winning Costume Designer, denied SigEp Citation because couldn’t make it to conclave | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Plunkett | ||
Harold J | Powers | 1925 | Lt. Governor of California, president pro tempore of the Senate, Ca State Senator | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_J._Powers | Politics | |
Alva | Ragan | 1927 | Cal Track Coach | https://oac.cdlib.org/view?docId=hb4v19n9zb&chunk.id=div00062&brand=calisphere&doc.view=entire_text | Athlete | |
Alex | Randolph | 2005 | Former Trustee of San Francisco City College | Politics | ||
George | Reed | 1925 | He was one of th best all around athletes at Cal during the 1920’s. He played football, boxed, and swam for Cal. He had to give up boxing because it interfered with his studies | Athletics | ||
Maurice/Maury | Reed | Tilicum/Theta Upsilon Omega brother, 1927 | One of the founders of Mason McDuffie Real Estate, Instructor of first real estate courses at Cal | https://digitalassets.lib.berkeley.edu/roho/ucb/text/bakar_gerson.pdf | Business, Academics | |
Roy (Wrong Way) | Riegels | 1929 | 1929 Rose Bowl ran wrong way, MVP, Captain of the Cal Football Team in 1930 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Riegels | Athletics | |
C Lewis | Robertson | 1915 | First Member of SigEp to die in World War I while fighting for france | Military | ||
Carlo | Rodes | 2004 | Associate General Counsel, Meta | Law | ||
Gaelen | Rowell | 1963 | Noted naturalist and world famous photographer | Art | ||
Robert | Ryan | 1925 | SoCal Banker, SigEp District Governor and helped found California Beta and raise money for its house in 1928, SigEp Grand Chapter President from 1946-47, Order of the Golden Heart | SigEp | ||
Alvin | Rydlander | 1928 | 1928 Gold Medalist in Crew | Athlete | ||
Arthur | Sampson | 1918 | Professor of Forestry and head of the UC Berkeley School of Forestry | http://texts.cdlib.org/view?docId=hb238nb0d8;NAAN=13030&doc.view=frames&chunk.id=div00028&toc.depth=1&toc.id=&brand=oac4 | Academics | |
Marco | Santori | 2004 | Chief Legal Officer of Kraken Digital Asset Exchange | Law | ||
Howard Sr. | Schirmer | 1923 | Master Engineer, worked on Empire State Building, the George Washington Bridge, the Poesy Tube, The Golden Gate Bridge, the San Francisco Bay Bridge, Richmond San Rafael Bridge, and numerous high rise buildings in San Francisco, Senior Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers. Started the Tulsa Title Company and was a cattle breeder. Member of the SigEp Foundation. Served as Grand President in 1948-49 and awarded the Order of the Golden Heart | Business, SigEp | ||
Howard A Jr | Schirmer | 1963 | World Famous Engineer, president of CH2M Hill, COO of Dames and Moore, President and Owner of Transnational Associates Inc | https://ce.berkeley.edu/alumni/academy/1751 | Business | |
Karl | Shattuck | 1914 | Best hammer thrower in US but couldn’t afford to travel to trials on east coast for 2016 olympics |
|
Athlete | |
Eric | Stanford | 1925 | Vice President of White House Department Stores | Business | ||
Richard | Stumm | 1922 | President of Consolidated Pipe and Supply Company in Los Angeles | Business | ||
Rod | Thomas | 1957 | Senior Manager of the Idaho National Laboratory | Government | ||
Felton | Turner | Tilicum/Theta Upsilon Omega brother, 1928 | Bay Area Pioneer aviator | |||
Ralph | Udick | 1960 | Coxswain for cal crew (national champs), missed the 1960 olympic games by one seat and, as a result, had to spend five days in jail for speeding | Athlete | ||
Jay | Willis | 2009 | Lawyer and Journalist who serves as Editor in Chief of Balls and Strikes | https://ballsandstrikes.org/contributors/ | Journalism |