Usc notable alumni12/3/2023 ![]() ![]() The question is do they revive, do they regain? Poor organizations don’t. “No institution that lasts over 125 years doesn’t have some bare patches or down cycle. "That's what inspired me, was to dream really big."Īnd yet even a valued organization like Alpha Upsilon hits "some rough patches", as Gene calls them. "It was just a dream machine," he says of the house. ![]() "Those four years are this amazing time," he says, "if you let it happen, your dreams and aspirations are unbounded.” “You really can’t help but get caught up in this incredible unboundedness of goals and aspirations,” Sean says. "The culture of excellence that flows through that building is really amazing and hard to describe.” He's also held leadership roles at Expedia, Starbucks and more. Sean won his award in 2018 after running senior housing company "A Place for Mom." After the company was sold inĢ017, Sean took the helm at Blue Nile, making it the world's largest online jeweler. “There’s definitely something in the water," Sean said about the legacy of leadership at AU. He's one of the most recent Significant Sigs and one of the youngest from our chapter to ever receive the Significant Sig award. "You really feel it and live it from the very first day you walk in as a prospective pledge," says Sean Kell, Class of 1991. When alums become "meaningfully involved" in the fraternity, Gene says, “Sigma Chi is better for it. One of those undergrads called Gene years later to thank him for that talk, and said it was one of the reasons he, like Gene, became a lawyer and later a District Attorney - fighting for right vs wrong. “What we don’t understand is how many people lives we’ll touch.” He tells the story of a talk he gave to the chapter years ago about the difference between right and wrong, and how each of us have that choice every day. Yet his Sigma Chi involvement remains central to his life. He's been a leading lawyer nationally and internationally, primarily for Ernst and Young. He's been a chapter advisor at three schools (UCLA, Cal State Long Beach and USC), House Corporation President and Vice President, and continues in leadership roles for our fraternity and our chapter. Spring of 1967 before graduating in 1970. The chapter has done a good job of perpetuating its quality over the decades, says our most recent Constantine Sig We even have Grand Consuls Keith Sorensen and Craig Nason, affectionately known as "Blinky" to us.īut the real value is the intangible at Alpha Upsilon. Sure, there are famous names like actors Tom Selleck, John Wayne, Ted McGinley and Buster Crabbe, professional sports names like Mike Holmgren, Bobby Valentine and Bill Buckner, plus many more.Īnd there are leaders of corporations with household names. ![]()
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