OT: who is the most prominent SU grad (non sports related)?

[Bayside44]

Senator Warren Rudman

Bo-ring...

 

[dasher]

Bo-ring...

What????? D'Amato was Mr excitement. Have you ever read Graham Rudman. You can't put it down!!!!

 

[Bayside44]

What????? D'Amato was Mr excitement. Have you ever read Graham Rudman. You can't put it down!!!!

Phil Gramm made dull an art form.

 

[Cusefan0307]

Arthur Rock

 

[realorange]

My vote goes to CTO

But she is sports related.

 

[Eric15]

Sean O'Keefe (MPA Maxwell School 1978): former Staff Director of the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee, Controller and Chief Financial Officer of the Department of Defense, Secretary of the Navy, Deputy Director OMB, Administrator of NASA, Chancellor LSU, and Chairman of the Board of EADS (Airbus) North America. In November he returned to the Hill as Distinguished Senior Adviser and Professor in SU's Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).

He's an unbelievably impressive guy - he spoke to my Maxwell class back in 2007. He survived the plane crash that killed Alaska Senator Ted Stevens a few years ago.

 

[Eric15]

Joe Biden is the Vice President of the United States.

Good call - I was going to say either Biden or Sir Mawn Wilson.

 

[cto]

Funny story, somewhat related...

When I was given SU's Arents Award 10 years ago, the other recipients that evening were Joe Biden, Ted Koppel and Mike Tirico. I assumed half the audience was wondering "Who's that woman up there with all those famous guys?"

 

[rrlbees]

Funny story, somewhat related... When I was given SU's Arents Award 10 years ago, the other recipients that evening were Joe Biden, Ted Koppel and Mike Tirico. I assumed half the audience was wondering "Who is that woman up there with all those famous guys?"

I know I was wondering that.

 

[jekelish]

Good call - I was going to say either Biden or Sir Mawn Wilson.

Sir Mawn Wilson, good call. How many other SU grads have been knighted?

 

[orange79]

Sir Mawn Wilson, good call. How many other SU grads have been knighted?

Probably not the 'knighted' you were thinking of, but this guy was knighted by Queen Beatrix of Netherlands.

 

[jekelish]

Probably not the 'knighted' you were thinking of, but this guy was knighted by Queen Beatrix of Netherlands.

You had to go and ruin my hilarious joke with actual facts, didn't you.

 

[orange79]

You had to go and ruin my hilarious joke with actual facts, didn't you.

It's what I do.

 

[pfister1]

Lexington Steele.

Another HOFer

 

[Briancuse]

In what context would you use prominent? Are we talking the top of their field, because then I would go with Dick Clark or Marv Albert, I would say Biden, but he didn't go to Su undergrad. I would put Eileen Collins in the mix as well.

 

[SBU72]

My vote goes to CTO

Mine too, considering the company she was with a few years ago.

CTO "Funny story, somewhat related...

When I was given SU's Arents Award 10 years ago, the other recipients that evening were Joe Biden, Ted Koppel and Mike Tirico. I assumed half the audience was wondering "Who's that woman up there with all those famous guys?"

I knew she could give the answer, I just didn't know she was it!

 

[JOC44]

Sir Mawn Wilson, good call. How many other SU grads have been knighted?

Prince Tyson Gulley

 

[JarHeadJim]

Fab Melo!

 

[KingOnuaku]

Yes. How much of it did you watch? I also watched the West Wing. I also watched sports night. I also watched a few good men. If you don't know that he has amazing talent, I can't help you.

I am an aspiring screenwriter. Sorkin certainly has talent, but his style of dialogue is not for everyone. His characters are always sharp-witted and silver-tongued, and consequently often quite unrealistic.

I find most of his work rather pretentious.

 

[Shark58]

Probably not the 'knighted' you were thinking of, but this guy was knighted by Queen Beatrix of Netherlands.

I've done business with 1 person on that list, and fooled around with the daughter of another

 

[Shenexon]

I think the Dalai Lama received an honorary degree...do we get to claim him as an alumnus?

 

[orange79]

I think the Dalai Lama received an honorary degree...do we get to claim him as an alumnus?

Yes, we do. My avatar says so.

 

[OrangeXtreme]

I think the Dalai Lama received an honorary degree...do we get to claim him as an alumnus?

Big hitter, the Lama.

 

[dasher]

I am an aspiring screenwriter. Sorkin certainly has talent, but his style of dialogue is not for everyone. His characters are always sharp-witted and silver-tongued, and consequently often quite unrealistic.

I find most of his work rather pretentious.

My roommate is a screenwriter in hollywood. Tough business. He has 4 movies. The production team for his next movie just produced in order, Nebraska, Silver lining playbook and American hustle. This, after all this time is his first trip to the big time. One of his movies, what we did that night, one of the characters is based on me. while filming, that guy slept with Tara Reid. In real life, I did not. Also, in real life, sorkin is pretentious. But he is a rare talent.

 

[Shenexon]

Big hitter, the Lama.

How many others on the list have been reincarnated? I think that's quite impressive...