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==Notable members== {{main|List of Delta Upsilon members}} [[File:Juan_Manuel_Santos_and_Lula_(cropped).jpg|thumb|left|Former President of Colombia Juan Manuel Santos Calderón, is a Delta Upsilon member from the fraternity's University of Kansas chapter.]] The fraternity's membership roster includes [[United States President]] [[James A. Garfield]] (Williams 1856), Chief Justice of the [[United States Supreme Court]] [[Charles Evans Hughes]] (Colgate and Brown 1881), [[United States Senator]]-Vermont [[Justin S. Morrill]] (Middlebury 1860), former Commander in Chief of the US Central Command [[Tommy Franks]] (Texas 1963), author [[Stephen Crane]] (Lafayette and Syracuse 1894), author [[Kurt Vonnegut Jr.]] (Cornell 1944), former chairman and CEO of [[Walt Disney Co.]] [[Michael D. Eisner]] (Denison 1964), and [[Nobel Prize]] recipients [[Charles Dawes]] (Marietta 1884), [[Christian B. Anfinsen]] (Swarthmore 1937), and [[Edward C. Prescott]] (Swarthmore 1962).<ref name="bnine">{{cite book |last=Anson |first=Jack |date=1991 |title=Baird's Manual of American College Fraternities |publisher=Baird's Manual Foundation |isbn=0963715909 }}</ref><ref name="six" /> Notable Canadian DUs include [[Canadian Prime Minister|Prime Minister]] and Nobel Prize recipient [[Lester B. Pearson]] (Toronto 1919), actor [[Alan Thicke]] (Western Ontario 1967), Alberta premier [[E. Peter Lougheed]] (Alberta 1959), Ontario premier [[John P. Robarts]] (Western Ontario 1939), and [[Minister of Foreign Affairs (Canada)|Minister of Foreign Affairs]] [[David Emerson]] (Alberta 1964).<ref name="bnine" /> The former [[President of Colombia]], [[Juan Manuel Santos Calderón]] (Kansas 1973), was initiated into Delta Upsilon as an undergraduate student at the [[University of Kansas]] and credits the fraternity in helping form his political ideals.<ref name="lj">{{cite news |last=Rothschild |first=Scott |date=24 September 2012 |title=Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos recalls years at KU, discusses importance of diplomacy |url=http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2012/sep/24/colombian-president-juan-manuel-santos-returns-ku-/ |newspaper=Lawrence Journal-World |location=[[Lawrence, KS]] |access-date=15 December 2014 }}</ref> Delta Upsilon member [[Linus Pauling]] (Oregon State 1922) is a member of a small group of individuals who have been awarded more than one [[Nobel Prize]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://scarc.library.oregonstate.edu/coll/pauling/awards/1922h.1.html |title=Delta Upsilon Fraternity, Certificate of Membership |website=oregonstate.edu |publisher=Oregon State University Libraries - Linus Pauling Collection |access-date=15 December 2014}}</ref> Two Delta Upsilon fraternity members, [[Alfred P. Sloan]] (Technology 1895) and [[Charles F. Kettering]] (Ohio State 1904), joined together in 1945 to found the [[Sloan-Kettering Institute]], which is now part of the world's oldest and largest private cancer research facility, the [[Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center]].<ref name="bnine" /> Another Delta Upsilon member, [[Thomas Rowe Price, Jr.]] (Swarthmore 1919) popularized [[growth stock]] investing and founded the multibillion-dollar investment firm [[T. Rowe Price]], based in [[Baltimore, Maryland]].
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