basketball player for the 1953 National Championship team; NBA player David 'Wes' Santee, Kansas 1952 - Olympic runner Ron Fairly, USC 1957 - professional baseball player and broadcaster Tony Crosby, Texas 1963 - star kicker/halfback for UT's 1963 National Championship football team Pat Jones, Oklahoma State - Head Football Coach at Oklahoma State; Assistant Coach of Miami Dolphins Gary Patterson, Kansas State 1980 - current Head Football Coach at TCU Business Lewis H Wentz, Oklahoma 1927 - oil businessman Dennis Chookaszian, Northwestern 1962 - Chairman and CEO of CNA Insurance Companies; professor at University of Chicago Booth School of Business David A. Evans, Rensselaer 1979 - inventor of high capacity tantalum capacitor; President of Evans Capacitor Company Higher education Roscoe Pound, Nebraska 1905, Harvard 1913 - educator; Bushnell Hall at KSU dedicated in his name Albert B Storms, Iowa State 1909 - President of Iowa State University Walter Williams, Missouri 1909 - President of University of Missouri; founder of Missouri School of Journalism Raymond A. Pearson, Iowa State 1924 - President of Iowa State University Stratton D Brooks, Missouri 1925 - President of University of Oklahoma (1912) and University of Missouri (1923) Claude R. Sowle, Northwestern 1947 - past President of Ohio University L. Dennis Smith, Indiana 1956 - President Emeritus, University of Nebraska J Thomas Forbes, Indiana 1990 - CEO, IU Alumni Association at Indiana University Science William F. Durand, Stanford 1904 - NASA pioneer Wallace E Pratt, Kansas 1907- pioneer in the petroleum field Alexander Wetmore, Kansas 1912 - ornithologist Karl M. Dallenbach, Cornell 1913 - psychologist Harold E. Edgerton, Nebraska 1924 - pioneer in the electronic flash, pertaining to photography Lloyd Berkner, Minnesota 1926 - physicist James E. Webb, North Carolina 1927 - high-ranking NASA official in the 1960s Jack Kilby, Illinois 1942 - Nobel Prize laureate in physics; inventor of the integrated circuit Laurence H. Snyder, Oklahoma 1949 - pioneer in genetics George J. Marrett, Iowa State 1957 - test pilot for USAF and Hughes Aircraft Company; author of four non-fiction books on aviation Arts and entertainment Arthur H Carhart, Iowa State 1916 - early conservationist and writer Edward Everett Dale, Harvard 1917 - historian, writer Jack Collom, Colorado A&M 1952 - poet, writer, teacher Philip Bobbitt, Texas 1965 - author and constitutional theorist Scott Houston, Indiana 1980 - public television personality; public speaker; known as "Piano Guy" Mark Edward Smith, Missouri - actor and vocalist;