re: Each SEC school&#39;s most distinguished Alumnus or Alumna...(Spinoff thread)

Posted by atlau

Member since Oct 2012

5264 posts

Posted on 1/29/15 at 5:13 pm to tigerbait2010

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Richard Marcinko. Founder of Seal Team 6.

Didn't realize that.

Got to think Tim Cook is up there with the most famous from any school.

Other notables from AU:

Octavia Spencer - Oscar award winning actress
Ace Atkins - author
Don Logan - Former CEO of Time, Inc, and former chairman of Time Warner Cable
Joe Forehand - Chairman, Accenture
Charles Barkley - One time Alabama gubernatorial candidate

Posted by MetryTyger

Metro NOLA, LA

Member since Jan 2004

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Posted on 1/29/15 at 5:14 pm to DriveByBBQ

Besides the ones alresdy mentioned, there are: Maxim Faget - early designer of NASA Saturn space exploration rockets and programs;
Edwin Newman - network newscaster
Hubert Humphrey - US Vice President
Bill Conti - Academy award winning composer ('Gonna Fly Now'-Rocky theme, Falcon Crest,, Dynasty, Dallas etc.)
Joanne Woodward, Elizabeth Ashley -actors,
James Carville, political strategist, Band of Brothers author...

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Posted by GeorgeReymond

Buckhead

Member since Jan 2013

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Posted on 1/29/15 at 5:23 pm to tigerbait2010

True

Flores is ridiculous but left him off & other O&G guys (Cook's, Taylor's, Bernhards, etc) because I figured the common folk had unlikely heard of them or their companies. But also, for example, Anadarko VP & the CEO/founder of Houston Energy are LSU grads too.

This post was edited on 1/29/15 at 5:28 pm

Posted by Irons Puppet

Birmingham

Member since Jun 2009

25901 posts

Posted on 1/29/15 at 5:43 pm to atlau

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Richard Marcinko. Founder of Seal Team 6.

The following Military Leaders hold degrees from Auburn:

General Richard B Myers (former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff)
General Carl E Mundy (Former Commandant of the Marine Corps)
General Lloyd Austin (current Commander of CENTCOM)
ADM Michael S Rogers (current Director of the NSA)

Posted by tigerbait2010

PNW

Member since May 2006

29146 posts

Posted on 1/29/15 at 5:46 pm to GeorgeReymond

Yeah, I figured if Ole Miss' random Rhodes Scholars qualified, our boat load of petroleum CEO's qualify too

John Barnidge and Kevin Langely are two names rarely mentioned

Posted by CGSC Lobotomy

Member since Sep 2011

79988 posts

Posted on 1/29/15 at 6:10 pm to tigerbait2010

James Earl Rudder
James Hollingsworth
Patrick Gamble
Lowery Mays
H.B. Zachry
Roland Martin
Kevin Smith (NFL CB)
Gary Kubiak
George Moore
Eugene Stallings

To name a few

Posted by LegendOfCobb

Athens of the West

Member since Jun 2014

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Posted on 1/29/15 at 6:17 pm to MetryTyger

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Maxim Faget - early designer

Hehe I'm a child

Posted by randomways

North Carolina

Member since Aug 2013

12988 posts

Posted on 1/29/15 at 6:19 pm to John Redcorn

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That was good!

Just so we're clear, I grew up in an OM-heavy family, so it's all in loving jest.

Posted by KCM0Tiger

Kansas City, MISSOURI

Member since Nov 2011

15512 posts

Posted on 1/29/15 at 6:31 pm to beaver

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Auburn's had six astronauts including Ken Mattingly (Played by Gary Sinise in Apollo 13)

Wow, Alabama sucks so bad that you convinced 6 men to leave the face of Earth

Posted by Irons Puppet

Birmingham

Member since Jun 2009

25901 posts

Posted on 1/29/15 at 6:43 pm to KCM0Tiger

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Auburn's had six astronauts including Ken Mattingly (Played by Gary Sinise in Apollo 13)

Wow, Alabama sucks so bad that you convinced 6 men to leave the face of Earth

It sucks so bad, they even build the Rockets to get them there in Alabama.

Posted by tigerbait2010

PNW

Member since May 2006

29146 posts

Posted on 1/29/15 at 8:04 pm to CGSC Lobotomy

Rita Leblanc is an Aggie grad, and she just lost her ownership rights to the Saints

Posted by scrooster

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Member since Jul 2012

37593 posts

Posted on 1/29/15 at 8:13 pm to CockInYourEar

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We have some good one here to choose from.

Hootie and the Blowfish...all of them.

or

William "Hootie" Johnson 1953 chairman of the executive committee of Bank of America and former chairman of the Augusta National Golf Club

Robert C. McNair 1958 owner of NFL franchise Houston Texans

Larry Kellner 1981 chairman of the board and CEO of Continental Airlines

Jacob Shuford 1974 admiral and current president of the United States Naval War College, Newport, Rhode Island, 2004 to present

Glenn Tilton 1970 chairman, president, and chief executive officer of United Airlines

How about Darla Moore (Rainwater), Gary M. Parsons (XM Radio), Buck Mikel (Fluor Daniel), David Holl (Mary Kay) ...

I mean honestly, our Distinguished Service Award Winners are like the who's who of American Business.

But then, we do have the #1 International Business School and probably the finest Business School in the South.

https://mooreschool.sc.edu/alumni/distinguishedalumniserviceawards.aspx