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Yale University
Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...
, in New Haven, Connecticut
New Haven, Connecticut
New Haven is the second-largest city in Connecticut and the sixth-largest in New England. According to the 2010 Census, New Haven's population increased by 5.0% between 2000 and 2010, a rate higher than that of the State of Connecticut, and higher than that of the state's five largest cities, and...
. It is the wealthiest and second oldest Yale secret society. Each year, the society admits fifteen rising seniors to participate in its activities and carry on its traditions.
History
John Addison Porter
John Addison Porter was an American Professor of Chemistry. He was born in Catskill, New York and died in New Haven, Connecticut...
, with aid from several members of the Class of 1842 and a member of the Class of 1843, Wiliam Kingsley, after disputes over elections to Skull and Bones Society. Porter, William Kingsley, Enos Taft, Samuel Perkins, Homer Sprague, Lebbeus Chapin, George Jackson, Calvin Child, Charlton Lewis, and Josiah Harmer were among the society's first members. Theodore Runyon
Theodore Runyon
Theodore Runyon was a United States politician, diplomat, and Civil War brigadier general in the Union army.-Biography:...
, Issac Hiester
Isaac Ellmaker Hiester
Isaac Ellmaker Hiester was an American political leader of the nineteenth Century. He was a member of the Hiester Family political dynasty. He was the son of William Hiester and cousin of Hiester Clymer....
and Leonard Case were also early members from the Class of 1842. William Kingsley, the namesake of the alumni organization, was a member of the Class of 1843. Initially, members met in ornately decorated rented rooms that burned down in December 1842, forcing them to relocate.
The society is one of the reputed "Big Three" societies at Yale, along with Skull and Bones and Wolf's Head Society
Wolf's Head (secret society)
Wolf's Head Society is an undergraduate senior or secret society at Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA. Membership is recomposed annually of fifteen or sixteen Yale University students, typically juniors from the college...
. In the initial years after Scroll and Key's founding, Skull and Bones held a more prominent role in Yale social circles. A 1871 publication on the Yale social scene by Lyman Hotchkiss Bagg wrote that "up until as recent a date as 1860, Keys had great difficulty in making up its crowd, rarely being able to secure the full fifteen upon the night of giving out its elections." However, as Bagg continued to relate, the society was on the upswing: "the old order of things, however, has recently come to an end, and Keys is now in possession of a hall far superior...not only to Bones hall, but to any college-society hall in America."
Members of the Yale classes of '55 and '56 published the sophomoric
Sophomoric humor
Sophomoric humor refers to juvenile, puerile, and base comedy that would normally be expected from an adolescent. It is used to refer to a type of comedy that often includes bathroom humor and gags that are based on and appeal to a silly sense of immaturity...
"Inside Eli, or How to Get On at Yale," a pamphlet that provided current students with the authors' "collective wisdom about how Yale really worked". In it, they note that "Scroll and Key is probably the leading society in the eyes of the average Yale man. It always has many of the more distinguished class wheels. Its members are generally pleasant, civilized, and intelligent. They are the Yale ideal," they joked.
The society went "coed" in 1989, a move that distanced some of the older alumni from the society but saw the return of many more who opposed the male-only admissions policy. Chief among them was Yale President Bartlett Giamatti who "loved" the society, but vowed "never to visit again unless women were admitted".
In addition to financing its own activities, "Keys" has made significant donations to Yale over the years. The John Addison Porter Prize, awarded annually by Yale since 1872, and in 1917 the endowment for the founding of the Yale University Press
Yale University Press
Yale University Press is a book publisher founded in 1908 by George Parmly Day. It became an official department of Yale University in 1961, but remains financially and operationally autonomous....
, which has funded the publication of The Yale Shakespeare and sponsored the Yale Younger Poets Series, are gifts from Keys. The society has also endowed a number of professorships and continues to fund multiple undergraduate prizes for students of Yale College.
Mark Twain
Mark Twain
Samuel Langhorne Clemens , better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist...
was admitted to the society in 1868 as an honorary member.
Traditions
- At the close of Thursday and Sunday sessions, members are known to sing the "TroubadourTroubadourA troubadour was a composer and performer of Old Occitan lyric poetry during the High Middle Ages . Since the word "troubadour" is etymologically masculine, a female troubadour is usually called a trobairitz....
" song on the front steps of the Society's hall, a remnant of the tradition of public singing at Yale. - In keeping with the practice of adopting secret letters or symbols such as Skull and BonesSkull and BonesSkull and Bones is an undergraduate senior or secret society at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. It is a traditional peer society to Scroll and Key and Wolf's Head, as the three senior class 'landed societies' at Yale....
' "322" and the Pundits' "T.B.I.Y.T.B," Scroll and Key is known to use the letters "C.S.P.,C.C.J.". - Members of the society sign letters to each other "yours in truth", as opposed to Skull and Bones' "yours in 322".
- Outside of its tap-related activities, the society has been known to hold two major annual event called "Z.S.", one per term. It is not known what happens at these events or what the mysterious letters stand for.
Membership
Scroll and Key taps annually a delegation of fifteen, composed of men and women of the junior class, to serve the following year. Membership is offered to a diverse group of highly accomplished juniors, specifically those who have “achieved in any field, academic, extra-curricular, or personal.” Delegations frequently include editors of the Yale Daily NewsYale Daily News
The Yale Daily News is an independent student newspaper published by Yale University students in New Haven, Connecticut since January 28, 1878...
and other publications, talented artists and musicians, social and political activists, athletes of distinction, entrepreneurs, and high achieving scholars.
Architecture
The society's "building" was designed in the Moorish RevivalMoorish Revival
Moorish Revival or Neo-Moorish is one of the exotic revival architectural styles that were adopted by architects of Europe and the Americas in the wake of the Romanticist fascination with all things oriental...
style by Richard Morris Hunt
Richard Morris Hunt
Richard Morris Hunt was an American architect of the nineteenth century and a preeminent figure in the history of American architecture...
and constructed in 1869. A later expansion was completed in 1901. Architectural historian Patrick Pinnell includes an in-depth discussion of Keys' building in his 1999 history of Yale's campus, relating the then-notable cost overruns associated with the Keys structure and its aesthetic significance within the campus landscape. Pinnell's history shares the fact that the land was purchased from another Yale secret society , Berzelius (at that time, a Sheffield Scientific School
Sheffield Scientific School
Sheffield Scientific School was founded in 1847 as a school of Yale College in New Haven, Connecticut for instruction in science and engineering. Originally named the Yale Scientific School, it was renamed in 1861 in honor of Joseph E. Sheffield, the railroad executive. The school was...
society).
Regarding its distinctive appearance, Pinnell noted that "19th century artists' studios commonly had exotic orientalia lying about to suggest that the painter was sophisticated, well traveled, and in touch with mysterious powers; Hunt's Scroll and Key is one instance in which the trope got turned into a building." Later, undergraduates described the building as a "striped zebra Billiard Hall" in a supplement to a Yale Yearbook. More recently, it has described as being one of "the nicest building in all of New Haven.".
Notable members
| Name | Yale Class | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Cord Meyer, Jr. | 1943 | Central Intelligence Agency; United World Federalists |
| Frank Polk Frank Polk Frank Lyon Polk was a prominent United States lawyer and a name partner of the law firm today known as Davis Polk & Wardwell.-Biography:... |
1894 | Davis Polk & Wardwell; (acting) Secretary of State, managed conclusion to World War I |
| Dean Acheson Dean Acheson Dean Gooderham Acheson was an American statesman and lawyer. As United States Secretary of State in the administration of President Harry S. Truman from 1949 to 1953, he played a central role in defining American foreign policy during the Cold War... |
1915 | 51st Secretary of State |
| Cyrus Vance Cyrus Vance Cyrus Roberts Vance was an American lawyer and United States Secretary of State under President Jimmy Carter from 1977 to 1980... |
1939 | 57th Secretary of State; Secretary of the Army; Chairman, Federal Reserve Bank of New York. |
| Theodore Runyon Theodore Runyon Theodore Runyon was a United States politician, diplomat, and Civil War brigadier general in the Union army.-Biography:... |
1842 | Envoy, then Ambassador, Germany; Battle of Bull Run |
| Sargent Shriver Sargent Shriver Robert Sargent Shriver, Jr., known as Sargent Shriver, R. Sargent Shriver, or, from childhood, Sarge, was an American statesman and activist. As the husband of Eunice Kennedy Shriver, he was part of the Kennedy family, serving in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations... |
1938 | Peace Corps; 1972 Democratic Vice-Presidential Candidate, Presidential Medal of Freedom Presidential Medal of Freedom The Presidential Medal of Freedom is an award bestowed by the President of the United States and is—along with thecomparable Congressional Gold Medal bestowed by an act of U.S. Congress—the highest civilian award in the United States... |
| Allen Wardwell Allen Wardwell Allen Wardwell , was a banking law expert, vice president of the American-Russian Chamber of Commerce in 1929, and a name partner of the law firm today known as Davis Polk & Wardwell.... |
1895 | Russian War Relief, Davis Polk & Wardwell Davis Polk & Wardwell Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP is an international law firm. The firm employs more than 800 attorneys worldwide and is headquartered in New York City. The firm represents many of the world's largest companies and leading financial institutions, and is best known for its corporate and litigation... ; Bank of New York Bank of New York The Bank of New York was a global financial services company established in 1784 by the American Founding Father Alexander Hamilton. It existed until its merger with the Mellon Financial Corporation on July 2, 2007... ; Vice-President, American-Russian Chamber of Commerce. |
| John Enders | 1919 | shared 1954 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine |
| William C. Bullitt | 1912 | US Ambassador, France, '36-'41, first US Ambassador, Soviet Russia, '33-'36. |
| Huntington D. Sheldon Huntington D. Sheldon Huntington Denton "Ting" Sheldon served as the Director of the Office of Current Intelligence of the US Central Intelligence Agency from 1951 to 1961, serving under Presidents Truman, Eisenhower, and Kennedy. Sheldon was the second Director of the OCI, and developed it into a major Office... |
1925 | Central Intelligence Agency; Director of the Office of Current Intelligence; President, Petroleum Corporation of America. |
| Warren Zimmermann Warren Zimmermann Warren Zimmermann was a diplomat, humanitarian and the last US ambassador to Yugoslavia before its disintegration into civil war.-Background:... |
1956 | US Ambassador, Yugoslavia, 1989–1992; author of book about the causes of Yugoslavia's dissolution. |
| Roscoe S. Suddarth Roscoe S. Suddarth Roscoe Seldon "Rocky" Suddarth is an American career diplomat. Suddarth was a Foreign Service Officer and served as United States Ambassador to Jordan from 1987 to 1990... |
1956 | President, Middle East Institute; US Ambassador to Jordan; American Iranian Council. |
| Lewis Sheldon Lewis Sheldon Lewis Pendleton Sheldon was an American athlete who competed in jumping events in the late 19th century and early 20th century. He participated in Athletics at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris and won bronze medals in triple jump and standing high jump, as well as fourth place in the standing... |
1895 | US Peace Commission, Paris Peace Conference, 1918; Olympic medalist, track and field. |
| Raymond R. Guest Raymond R. Guest Commander Raymond Richard Guest OBE Commander Raymond Richard Guest OBE Commander Raymond Richard Guest OBE (November 25, 1907 – December 31, 1991 was an American businessman, thoroughbred race horse owner and polo player. He was United States Ambassador to Ireland.-Biography:... |
1931 | US Ambassador, Ireland; Special Assistant to Secretary of Defense, 1945–47; horse breeder; polo Polo Polo is a team sport played on horseback in which the objective is to score goals against an opposing team. Sometimes called, "The Sport of Kings", it was highly popularized by the British. Players score by driving a small white plastic or wooden ball into the opposing team's goal using a... Hall of fame. |
| Thomas Enders | 1953 | Ambassador, Spain '83-'86, Assistant Sec. of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs, Ambassador to the European Union '79-'81, Ambassador to Canada, '76-'79; Salomon Brothers |
| A. Bartlett Giamatti A. Bartlett Giamatti Angelo Bartlett "Bart" Giamatti was the president of Yale University and later the seventh Commissioner of Major League Baseball. Giamatti negotiated the agreement that terminated the Pete Rose betting scandal by permitting Rose to voluntarily withdraw from the sport, avoiding further... |
1960 | 16th Yale University president; National League National League The National League of Professional Baseball Clubs, known simply as the National League , is the older of two leagues constituting Major League Baseball, and the world's oldest extant professional team sports league. Founded on February 2, 1876, to replace the National Association of Professional... president, MLB Commissioner |
| Paul Mellon Paul Mellon Paul Mellon KBE was an American philanthropist, thoroughbred racehorse owner/breeder. He is one of only five people ever designated an "Exemplar of Racing" by the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame... |
1929 | philanthropist |
| Robert R. McCormick Robert R. McCormick Robert Rutherford "Colonel" McCormick was a member of the McCormick family of Chicago who became owner and publisher of the Chicago Tribune newspaper... |
1903 | Chicago Tribune Chicago Tribune The Chicago Tribune is a major daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, and the flagship publication of the Tribune Company. Formerly self-styled as the "World's Greatest Newspaper" , it remains the most read daily newspaper of the Chicago metropolitan area and the Great Lakes region and is... ; Kirkland & Ellis Kirkland & Ellis Kirkland & Ellis LLP is an international law firm with headquarters in Chicago, known for its profitability and its litigation, bankruptcy, intellectual property and private equity departments. Kirkland & Ellis is currently ranked as the ninth most prestigious law firm in the United States by... |
| Henry deForest Henry deForest Henry Wheeler De Forest was an American railroad executive.He was chair of the executive committee of the Southern Pacific Railroad from 1925 to 1928, and chair of its board of directors from 1929 to 1932.... |
1876 | Southern Pacific Railroad |
| Fareed Zakaria Fareed Zakaria Fareed Rafiq Zakaria is an Indian-American journalist and author. From 2000 to 2010, he was a columnist for Newsweek and editor of Newsweek International. In 2010 he became Editor-At-Large of Time magazine... |
1986 | Editor, Newsweek International and host of CNN show |
| J. Peter Grace J. Peter Grace Joseph Peter Grace was a multimillionaire American industrialist and conglomerateur of Irish Catholic heritage. He was president of the diversified chemical company, ' for 48 years, making him the longest reigning CEO of a public company.Born in Manhasset, New York, he succeeded his father, Joseph... |
1936 | W. R. Grace & Co. |
| Cornelius Vanderbilt III Cornelius Vanderbilt III Cornelius Vanderbilt III was a distinguished American military officer, inventor, engineer, and yachtsman, and a member of the prominent American Vanderbilt family.-Biography:... |
1895 | Vanderbilt heir. |
| James Stillman Rockefeller James Stillman Rockefeller James Stillman Rockefeller was a member of the prominent U.S. Rockefeller family.-Personal life:A paternal grandson of William Rockefeller, his maternal grandfather James Stillman and uncle James Alexander Stillman served as president of the National City Bank of New York, now Citibank... |
1924 | President and Chairman, The First National City Bank of New York; Olympic gold medal for crew |
| Brewster Jennings Brewster Jennings Benjamin Brewster Jennings was a founder and president of the Socony-Vacuum company, which became, in 1955, the Standard Oil Company of New York , which would later become Mobil Oil, and then merged to become part of ExxonMobil.-Early life and family:Jennings was born in 1898 to Oliver Gould... |
1920 | Founder and President of the Socony Mobil Oil Company Standard Oil of New York; president, Memorial Center for Cancer and Allied Diseases and Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research |
| Gilbert Colgate Gilbert Colgate Gilbert Colgate, Jr. was an American bobsledder who competed in the 1930s. He won the bronze medal in the two-man event at the 1936 Winter Olympics in Garmisch-Partenkirchen.... |
1883 | President and Chairman of Colgate & Co. |
| Benjamin Brewster Benjamin Brewster (financier) Benjamin Brewster was an American industrialist, financier, and one of the original trustees of Standard Oil.-Early life:... |
1929 | Director, Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey (later Exxon). |
| Seymour H. Knox Seymour H. Knox I This article is about the Buffalo merchant and businessman; see Seymour Knox for other people with this name.Seymour Horace Knox I , was a Buffalo, New York businessman who made his fortune in five-and-dime stores... |
1920 | American retailer, F. W. Woolworth Company. |
| Donald R. McLennan Donald R. McLennan Donald Roderick McLennan was born in Duluth, Minnesota, son of William Lillingston McLennan and Julia MacLeod. He was the co-founder of the insurance brokerage firm Burroughs, Marsh & McLennan in 1905, which was renamed Marsh & McLennan in 1906 after the retirement of Mr. D. W. Burroughs... |
1931 | Founder and Chairman, insurance brokerage firm Marsh & McLennan |
| Stone Phillips Stone Phillips Stone Stockton Phillips is an American television reporter and correspondent. He is the former co-anchor of Dateline NBC, a newsmagazine TV show. He also has worked as a substitute anchor for NBC Nightly News and Today and as a substitute moderator on Meet the Press. He is known for his clear... |
1977 | Dateline NBC |
| Peter H. Dominick Peter H. Dominick Peter Hoyt Dominick was a politician and lawyer from Colorado. A member of the Republican Party, he served in the United States Senate from 1963 to 1975. His uncle, Howard Alexander Smith, was a U.S. Senator from New Jersey from 1944 to 1959.Born in Stamford, Connecticut, Dominick graduated from St... |
1937 | US Senator 1962-1974 (Colorado); US Congressman, 1960–1962; US Ambassador, Switzerland. |
| Gideon Rose Gideon Rose Gideon Rose is the Editor of Foreign Affairs, and served on the National Security Council during the Clinton Administration. He has been educated at the Horace Mann School, Yale University, where he was a member of Scroll and Key Society, and Harvard University.In 1985, Rose was appointed assistant... |
1985 | Foreign Affairs |
| Philip B. Heymann Philip B. Heymann Philip B. Heymann is a former Deputy Attorney General in the Clinton administration and currently a law professor at Harvard Law School. He has been known as an active critic of the George W... |
1954 | Watergate Special Prosecutor, Deputy US Attorney General; Professor, Harvard Law School. |
| Joseph M. Patterson | 1901 | Founder, New York Daily News New York Daily News The Daily News of New York City is the fourth most widely circulated daily newspaper in the United States with a daily circulation of 605,677, as of November 1, 2011.... ; manager, Chicago Tribune Chicago Tribune The Chicago Tribune is a major daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, and the flagship publication of the Tribune Company. Formerly self-styled as the "World's Greatest Newspaper" , it remains the most read daily newspaper of the Chicago metropolitan area and the Great Lakes region and is... |
| George Edgar Vincent George Edgar Vincent George Edgar Vincent was an American sociologist and university president, born at Rockford, Illinois, the son of Bishop John H. Vincent. After graduating at Yale in 1885 he engaged in journalistic and literary work. In 1888 he became associated with the Chautauqua system as vice principal, and... |
1885 | President of the University of Minnesota University of Minnesota The University of Minnesota, Twin Cities is a public research university located in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota, United States. It is the oldest and largest part of the University of Minnesota system and has the fourth-largest main campus student body in the United States, with 52,557... ; President of the Rockefeller Foundation Rockefeller Foundation The Rockefeller Foundation is a prominent philanthropic organization and private foundation based at 420 Fifth Avenue, New York City. The preeminent institution established by the six-generation Rockefeller family, it was founded by John D. Rockefeller , along with his son John D. Rockefeller, Jr... |
| Ethan A. H. Shepley | 1918 | Chancellor, Washington University in St. Louis. |
| Robert D. Orr Robert D. Orr Robert Dunkerson Orr was an American political leader and the 45th Governor of Indiana from 1981 to 1989. He was a member of the Republican Party.-Early life:... |
1940 | Governor of Indiana; US Ambassador, Singapore. |
| Joseph Medill McCormick | 1900 | U.S. Senate '19-'24, Publisher, Chicago Tribune. |
| James C. Auchincloss James C. Auchincloss James Coats Auchincloss was an American businessman and Republican Party politician who represented in the United States House of Representatives from 1943–1965.... , |
1908 | Representative, US Congress 1943-1965, Governor of the NYSE., US Military Intelligence WWI. |
| Herbert Parsons Herbert Parsons Herbert Parsons was a U.S. Representative from New York.Born in New York City, Parsons attended private schools in New York City, St... |
1890 | US Congress '04-'10; leading supporter of League of Nations. |
| Fred Dubois Fred Dubois Fred Thomas Dubois was a controversial American politician who served two terms in the United States Senate from Idaho. He was best-known for his opposition to the gold standard and his efforts to disenfranchise Mormon voters.... |
1872 | First US Senator from Idaho 1891-1897, resigned, re-elected 1901-1907; Opponent of gold standard; Engineered statehood for Idaho. |
| Richardson Dilworth Richardson Dilworth Richardson K. Dilworth was an American Democratic Party politician, born in the Pittsburgh area, who served as the 91st Mayor of Philadelphia from 1956 to 1962.-Education and early career:... |
1921 | Mayor of Philadelphia 1955-1962. |
| John Hay Whitney John Hay Whitney John Hay Whitney , colloquially known as "Jock" Whitney, was U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom, publisher of the New York Herald Tribune, and a member of the Whitney family.-Family:... |
1926 | U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom, publisher of the New York Herald Tribune New York Herald Tribune The New York Herald Tribune was a daily newspaper created in 1924 when the New York Tribune acquired the New York Herald.Other predecessors, which had earlier merged into the New York Tribune, included the original The New Yorker newsweekly , and the Whig Party's Log Cabin.The paper was home to... , major philanthropist to Yale University Yale University Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States... , and during his college years coined the phrase "crew cut Crew cut A crew cut is a type of haircut in which the hair on the top of the head is cut relatively short, graduated in length from the longest hair at the front hairline to the shortest at the back of the crown. The hair on the sides and back of the head is usually tapered short, semi-short or medium. A... ". |
| Frederick B. Dent Frederick B. Dent Frederick Baily Dent was the United States Secretary of Commerce from February 2, 1973, to March 26, 1975.Dent was born in Cape May, New Jersey. He served in the United States Navy from 1943-1946. From 1958-1972 and 1977-1988, he was president of Mayfair Mills in Arcadia, South Carolina. He was... |
1944 | US Secretary of Commerce. |
| John Dalzell John Dalzell John Dalzell was a U.S. Representative from the state of Pennsylvania.-Biography:John Dalzell was born in New York City. He moved with his parents to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1847.... |
1865 | US Congress |
| Wayne Chatfield-Taylor Wayne Chatfield-Taylor Wayne Chatfield-Taylor was Under Secretary of Commerce and Assistant Secretary of the Treasury under President Franklin D. Roosevelt.... |
1916 | President, Export-Import Bank; Undersecretary of Commerce; Assistant Secretary of the Treasury. |
| William Nelson Runyon William Nelson Runyon William Nelson Runyon was a Republican who served as Acting Governor of New Jersey from 1919 to 1920.Runyon was born in Plainfield, New Jersey. He was a lawyer, then a member of New Jersey General Assembly from Union County, New Jersey from 1915 to 1917. Runyon served in the New Jersey Senate... |
1892 | acting Governor of New Jersey (May 1919 - Jan 1920) |
| Newbold Morris Newbold Morris Newbold Morris was an American politician, lawyer, president of the New York City Council, and two-time candidate for mayor of New York City.... |
1925 | New York lawyer and politician |
| Randall L. Gibson Randall L. Gibson -External links:*... |
1853 | US Senator 1883-1892 (Louisiana); US Representative, 1872–1882; Brigadier-General in the Confederate States Army; President, Tulane University. |
| Mortimer R. Proctor Mortimer R. Proctor Mortimer Robinson Proctor , known as Mortimer R. Proctor, was an American politician from Vermont. He served as the 66th Governor of Vermont from 1945 to 1947, and as the 60th Lieutenant Governor of Vermont from 1941 to 1945... |
1912 | Governor of Vermont, 1945–47. |
| Frederic A. Potts Frederic A. Potts Frederic Augustus Potts was an American businessman and Republican party politician who was the Republican nominee for Governor of New Jersey in 1880.... |
1926 | Chairman, Philadelphia National Bank; New Jersey Senate; Republican candidate, New Jersey Governor |
| Carter Henry Harrison Carter Harrison, Sr. Carter Henry Harrison, Sr. was an American politician who served as mayor of Chicago, Illinois from 1879 until 1887; he was subsequently elected to a fifth term in 1893 but was assassinated before completing his term. He previously served two terms in the United States House of Representatives... |
1845 | Mayor of Chicago, five terms 1879-93; US Representative, 1875–79; cousin of President William Henry Harrison. |
| George Shiras Jr. | 1853 | U.S. Supreme Court Justice |
| Harvey Cushing Harvey Cushing Harvey Williams Cushing, M.D. , was an American neurosurgeon and a pioneer of brain surgery, and the first to describe Cushing's syndrome... |
1891 | Neurosurgeon considered father of brain surgery |
| Dickinson W. Richards Dickinson W. Richards Dr. Dickinson Woodruff Richards, Jr. was an American physician and physiologist. He was a co-recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1956 with André Cournand and Werner Forssmann for the development of cardiac catheterization and the characterisation of a number of cardiac... |
1917 | 1956 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine |
| Benjamin Spock Benjamin Spock Benjamin McLane Spock was an American pediatrician whose book Baby and Child Care, published in 1946, is one of the biggest best-sellers of all time. Its message to mothers is that "you know more than you think you do."Spock was the first pediatrician to study psychoanalysis to try to understand... |
1925 | Baby & Child Care |
| Edward Salisbury Dana Edward Salisbury Dana Edward Salisbury Dana was an American mineralogist and physicist. He made important contributions to the study of minerals, especially in the field of crystallography.-Life and career:... |
1871 | American mineralogist. |
| George Roy Hill George Roy Hill George Roy Hill was an American film director. He is most noted for directing such films as Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and The Sting, which both starred the acting duo Paul Newman and Robert Redford... |
1943 | 1974 Academy Award for Directing, The Sting |
| Cole Porter Cole Porter Cole Albert Porter was an American composer and songwriter. Born to a wealthy family in Indiana, he defied the wishes of his domineering grandfather and took up music as a profession. Classically trained, he was drawn towards musical theatre... |
1913 | entertainer, song writer |
| James Gamble Rogers James Gamble Rogers James Gamble Rogers was an American architect best known for his academic commissions at Yale University, Columbia University, Northwestern University, and elsewhere.... |
1889 | collegiate Gothic architecture Architecture Architecture is both the process and product of planning, designing and construction. Architectural works, in the material form of buildings, are often perceived as cultural and political symbols and as works of art... , favored architect Architect An architect is a person trained in the planning, design and oversight of the construction of buildings. To practice architecture means to offer or render services in connection with the design and construction of a building, or group of buildings and the space within the site surrounding the... of Edward Harkness Edward Harkness Edward Stephen Harkness was an American philanthropist. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio, one of four sons to Stephen V. Harkness, a harness-maker who invested in the forerunner of Standard Oil, John D. Rockefeller's oil company. Harkness inherited a fortune from his father... and designed many of Yale's buildings |
| Garry Trudeau Garry Trudeau Garretson Beekman "Garry" Trudeau is an American cartoonist, best known for the Doonesbury comic strip.-Background and education:... |
1970 | Cartoonist |
| Dahlia Lithwick Dahlia Lithwick -External links:*... |
1990 | Editor at Newsweek Newsweek Newsweek is an American weekly news magazine published in New York City. It is distributed throughout the United States and internationally. It is the second-largest news weekly magazine in the U.S., having trailed Time in circulation and advertising revenue for most of its existence... and Slate Slate Slate is a fine-grained, foliated, homogeneous metamorphic rock derived from an original shale-type sedimentary rock composed of clay or volcanic ash through low-grade regional metamorphism. The result is a foliated rock in which the foliation may not correspond to the original sedimentary layering... |
| Peter Beinart Peter Beinart -Early life and education:Beinart was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the son of South African immigrants. His mother, Doreen, works at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, and his father, Julian Beinart, is a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His stepfather is theatre... |
1993 | Editor of The New Republic The New Republic The magazine has also published two articles concerning income inequality, largely criticizing conservative economists for their attempts to deny the existence or negative effect increasing income inequality is having on the United States... |
| Ari Shapiro Ari Shapiro Ari Shapiro is an American radio journalist who grew up in Portland, Oregon. He currently is White House correspondent for National Public Radio . He is also a frequent guest host of Morning Edition and other NPR programs.- Family and education :Ari Shapiro is the son of database researcher Dr.... |
2000 | White House Corespondent for National Public Radio |
| William Adams Delano William Adams Delano William Adams Delano , an American architect, was a partner with Chester Holmes Aldrich in the firm of Delano & Aldrich. The firm worked in the Beaux-Arts tradition for elite clients in New York City, Long Island and elsewhere, building townhouses, country houses, clubs, banks and buildings for... |
1895 | Award-winning Architect; designed many of Yale buildings. |
| Tom Perriello Tom Perriello Thomas Stuart Price "Tom" Perriello is the former U.S. Representative for , serving from 2009 until 2011. He is a member of the Democratic Party. The district includes much of Southside Virginia and stretches north to Charlottesville.... |
1995 | Former U.S. Congressman, Democrat who represented Virginia's 5th congressional district |
| Calvin Trillin Calvin Trillin Calvin Marshall Trillin is an American journalist, humorist, food writer, poet, memoirist and novelist.-Biography:Trillin attended public schools in Kansas City and went on to Yale University, where he served as chairman of the Yale Daily News and was a member of Scroll and Key before graduating... |
1957 | American writer |