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 Adam Friedman
Colgate, '89
After Prison Transformation-Helping ex-inmates re-enter society
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William L. Gray, Jr.
TCU, 1970
 
30 years Wall Street experience – Chairman of the F...
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Gene White & Roger Schroder
Franklin '58

Phi Delt Hoosier Legends - Franklin College Phis, Gene Wh...
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Stephen J. "Tio" Kleberg
Texas Tech University, 1969

From the King Ranch to the board...
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  C. Ritter Collett
Ohio University ’42
Gehrig Award Committe
e Chairman and author o...
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Cal State-Northridge '67
" Supporting Phi Delta Theta is a really personal thing for me. ...
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Bob Schieffer
TCU '59

Brother Schieffer is anchorman and moderator for "Face the Nation," an...
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John Cooper
UCLA '58
Brother Cooper wants to pass along what he received from Phi Delta Theta.

John...
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Pete Ippel
Cornell University, 2002

Paying It Forward. - “What I would like to...
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Kyle Bailey
Tampa '95

  A passion for investing in the lives of students. 

Kyle Baile...
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F. Story Musgrave
Syracuse '58

Famous Phi Astronaut - Convention Presenter - Franklin Story Musgrave...
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Thomas Eakin
Denison '56

A Brother's Generosity - Brother Eakin has made more gifts ...
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Mark Ochsenbein
Eastern Kentucky '77

President of the General Council - Brother Ochsenbein leads Phi D...
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Dr. Larry G. Baratta
Tampa '81

Raymond L. Gardner Alumnus of the Year - Dr. Larry Baratta awarded for ...
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John H. Tyson
Arkansas '75

CEO of Tyson Foods Inc. - Brother Tyson receives Phi Delta Theta's 2008 Nan...
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Ralph Wilson
Virginia '40

NFL Hall of Fame - Brother Wilson, Owner of the Buffalo Bills, Elected to t...
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Jerry Felmley
Illinois '54
 
Phi Delta Theta is "not just a 4-year experience; it is...
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Bruce Clayton
Colgate ‘89

“Phi Delta Theta has given me a connection to something bigg...
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Tom Van Dyke
Kansas ‘60

 Early Scholarship Recipient - 29-year donor.

A twe...
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Brian and Susannah Malison
Tampa ’94
 
"We wanted our planned giving to re...
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Bill Dean
Texas Tech '60

Lauro F. Cavazos Award - Former Editor of The Scroll and his wife honored at ...
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Bob Smith
Maryland '63

Brother Smith and wife honored for fully endowing a scholarship for the Marylan...
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Jerry Novario
Ohio '43

"Phi Delta Theta is the best fraternity. It was when I was in school and i...
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Michael Bidwill
St. Louis '87

President of the Arizona Cardinals - Brother Bidwill helped lead the Car...
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Mark Hurd
Baylor '79

CEO - Brother Hurd helps HP to Go far by increasing growth and profitability to m...
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Don Bornhorst
Eastern Kentucky '87

Senior VP of Delta Connect - A leader in the airline industry guide...
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J. Eddy G. Craig Jr.
website_photo_craigs.jpgJ. Eddy G. Craig, Jr.
Colorado College ’54
Now residing in rural Basye, Virginia, J. Eddy G. Craig Jr., Colorado College ’54, has come up with a creative way to stay connected with Phi Delta Theta and his Colorado Beta brothers.  Every year, through his gifts to the Phi Delta Theta Foundation, he provides personalized bricks to honor or memorialize those with whom he shared his undergraduate Phi Delt experience.  He looks at a list of the names of these men each December, reliving memories as he determines who he will honor with a brick that year. 
“In selecting the names for whom I wish to donate, it reconnects me with that individual that I met 50 or 60 years ago,” Craig said. He has been working his way down the list of names since the brick program began in 1998 to commemorate his brothers and support Phi Delta Theta.
 “I have my fingers crossed in the hope that maybe somebody to whom I had given a brick would turn around and say, ‘Gee. I remember old Tom or George and I think I’ll donate money in his honor,’” Craig said.
Contributing to Phi Delta Theta is important to Craig because the Fraternity helped shape who he is today.  “Phi Delta Theta means a lot to me. They took a little country boy from Texas and gave me a sense of being and belonging.”
Phi Delta Theta also gave Craig a family away from home.  In appreciation of this he honored his former housemother with a memorial brick and donated a brick in the name of a brother from his pledge class that he saw as both a friend and a mentor.  Craig has donated bricks in the name of men he admired, like the chapter president he looked up to as a Phikeia, but also in the name of brothers he may not have been particularly close to.  “I give bricks to people I might not even have gotten along with because we are still connected in the Bond and I really value that,” Craig said. 
The relationships he formed with all the members of Colorado Beta provided Craig some of his favorite college memories. 
“The best part was the enjoyment of getting to know guys from different backgrounds, different parts of the country, different everything from me,” Craig said.  “My dad once told me the most important thing you’re going to come away with from college is your relationships. Hopefully you’ll get a good education, but you’ll get to figure out how to get along with folks you normally wouldn’t have had associations.  I think that’s the most important thing I came away with.”
 
Pictured above are Judy and Eddy Craig.
Brother Craig's own brick is below:

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Learn how to get your own brick in the Sesquicentennial Courtyard.

 
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