Notable Members of Phi Beta Kappa
The campus of UND in Grand Forks is surely one of few campuses to have
so many buildings named after its own charter members:
- George Abbott
- William Bek
- Melvin Brannon
- Arthur Leonard
- Frank McVey
- Vernon Squires
And the number of halls named after Phi Beta Kappa members is increasing.
In 1995 O'Kelly Hall was named for honorary member Dean Emeritus Bernard
O'Kelly.
Members of Phi Beta Kappa are also well represented in the history of
national government and society up through the current day:
- Presidents Bill Clinton, George Bush, William Howard Taft, Theodore Roosevelt,
Chester A. Arthur, John Quincy Adams, and 11 others as honorary members
- Chief Justice Rehnquist and Justices Ginsberg, Souter, and Stevens
- American Red Cross president Elizabeth Dole
- authors Michael Crichton, James A. Michener, and John Updike
- composer Stephen Sondheim
- film director Francis Ford Coppola
- coach Marv Levy
- NFL quarterback Peyton Manning
- other historical figures: Chief Justice John Marshall, Jane Addams, Alexander
Graham Bell, Pearl Buck, Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain), W. E. B. DuBois,
Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry James, Helen Keller, Helen Wills Moody, Samuel
F. B. Morse, Paul Robeson, George Santayana, William Henry Seward, Booker
T. Washington, Daniel Webster, Eli Whitney, Benazir Bhutto, Jonas Salk,
Rita Dove, Cyrus McCormick, Charles Evan Hughes, and Henry W. Longfellow.
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