The Scroll and Key Society is a senior or secret society, founded in 1841 at Yale University, in New Haven, Connecticut. It is the second oldest Yale secret society. [edit] History Scroll and Key was established by John Porter, 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, the oldest society at Yale. Porter, William Kingsley, Enos Taft, Samuel Perkins, Homer Sprague, Lebbeus Chapin, George Jackson, Calvin Child, Charlton Kewis, and Josiah Harmer were among the society's first members.[1][2]Theodore Runyon, Issac Heister 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. In addition to financing its own activities, "Keys" has made significant donations to Yale over the years, among them the John Addison Porter Prize, awarded annually by Yale since 1872, and in 1917 the endowment for the founding of the Yale University Press, which has funded the publication of The Yale Shakespeare and sponsored the Yale Younger Poets Series. The society has been "coed" since 1989. [edit] Architecture  Facade displaying Moorish gate and patterned forecourt. - Richard Morris Hunt. (1869-70, Moorish- or Islamic-inspired Beaux-Arts.) 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 secret society, Berzelius.
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."[3] [edit] Notable members | Name | Year tapped | Known for | | Cord Meyer, Jr. | 1943 | Central Intelligence Agency; United World Federalists[4] | | Frank Polk | 1894 | Davis Polk & Wardwell; (acting) Secretary of State, managed conclusion to World War I[4] | | Dean Acheson | 1915 | 51st Secretary of State[4] | | Cyrus Vance | 1939 | 57th Secretary of State; Secretary of the Army; Chairman, Federal Reserve Bank of New York. [4] | | Theodore Runyon | 1842 | Envoy, then Ambassador, Germany; Battle of Bull Run[4] | | Sargent Shriver | 1938 | Peace Corps; 1972 Democratic Vice-Presidential Candidate, Presidential Medal of Freedom[4] | | Allen Wardwell | 1895 | Russian War Relief, Davis Polk & Wardwell; Bank of New York; Vice-President, American-Russian Chamber of Commerce.[4] | | John Enders | 1919 | shared 1954 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine[4] | | William C. Bullitt | 1912 | US Ambassador, France, '36-'41, first US Ambassador, Soviet Russia, '33-'36.[4] | | Huntington D. Sheldon | 1925 | Central Intelligence Agency; Director of the Office of Current Intelligence; President, Petroleum Corporation of America.[4] | | Warren Zimmermann | 1956 | US Ambassador, Yugoslavia, 1989-1992; author of book about the causes of Yugoslavia's dissolution.[4] | | Roscoe S. Suddarth | 1956 | President, Middle East Institute; US Ambassador to Jordan; American Iranian Council.[4] | | Lewis Sheldon | 1895 | US Peace Commission, Paris Peace Conference, 1918; Olympic medalist, track and field.[4] | | Raymond R. Guest | 1931 | US Ambassador, Ireland; Special Assistant to Secretary of Defense, 1945-47; horse breeder; polo Hall of fame.[4] | | 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 [4] | | A. Bartlett Giamatti | 1960 | 16th Yale University president; National League president, MLB Commissioner [5] | | Paul Mellon | | philanthropist [5] | | Robert McCormick | 1903 | Chicago Tribune; Kirkland & Ellis[4] | | Henry deForest | 1876 | Southern Pacific Railroad[4] | | Fareed Zakaria | 1986 | Editor, Newsweek International and host of CNN show | | J. Peter Grace | 1936 | W. R. Grace & Co.[6] | | Cornelius Vanderbilt III | 1895 | Vanderbilt heir.[7] | | James Stillman Rockefeller | | President and Chairman, The First National City Bank of New York; Olympic gold medal for crew, 1924[4] | | Brewster Jennings | 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[4] | | Gilbert Colgate | 1883 | President and Chairman of Colgate & Co.[4] | | Benjamin Brewster | 1929 | director, Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey (later Exxon).[4] | | Seymour H. Knox | 1920 | American retailer, F. W. Woolworth Company.[4] | | Donald R. McLennan | 1931 | Founder and Chairman, insurance brokerage firm Marsh & McLennan[4] | | Stone Phillips | 1977 | Dateline NBC[4] | | Peter H. Dominick | 1937 | US Senator 1962-1974 (Colorado); US Congressman, 1960-1962; US Ambassador, Switzerland. [4] | | Gideon Rose | 1987 | Foreign Affairs[4] | | Philip B. Heymann | 1954 | Watergate Special Prosecutor, Deputy US Attorney General; Professor, Harvard Law School.[4] | | Joseph M. Patterson | 1901 | founder, New York Daily News; manager, Chicago Tribune[7] | | George Edgar Vincent | 1885 | President of the University of Minnesota; President of the Rockefeller Foundation[7] | | Ethan A. H. Shepley | 1918 | Chancellor, Washington University in St. Louis.[4] | | Robert D. Orr | 1940 | Governor of Indiana; US Ambassador, Singapore.[4] | | Joseph Medill McCormick | 1900 | U.S. Senate '19-'24, Publisher, Chicago Tribune.[4] | | James C. Auchincloss, | 1908 | Representative, US Congress 1943-1965, Governor of the NYSE., US Military Intelligence WWI.[4] | | Herbert Parsons | 1890 | US Congress '04-'10; leading supporter of League of Nations.[4] | | Fred Dubois | 1872 | First US Senator from Idaho 1891-1897, resigned, re-elected 1901-1907; Opponent of gold standard; Engineered statehood for Idaho.[4] | | Richardson Dilworth | 1921 | Mayor of Philadelphia 1955-1962.[8] | | Frederick B. Dent | 1944 | US Secretary of Commerce.[4] | | John Dalzell | 1865 | US Congress[4] | | Wayne Chatfield-Taylor | 1916 | President, Export-Import Bank; Undersecretary of Commerce; Assistant Secretary of the Treasury.[5] | | William Nelson Runyon | 1892 | acting Governor of New Jersey (May 1919 - Jan 1920)[4] | | Newbold Morris | 1925 | New York lawyer and politician[4] | | Randall L. Gibson | 1853 | US Senator 1883-1892 (Louisiana); US Representative, 1872-1882; Brigadier-General in the Confederate States Army; President, Tulane University.[4] | | Mortimer R. Proctor | 1912 | Governor of Vermont, 1945-47.[4] | | Frederic A. Potts | 1926 | Chairman, Philadelphia National Bank; New Jersey Senate; Republican candidate, New Jersey Governor[4] | | Carter Henry Harrison | 1845 | Mayor of Chicago, five terms 1879-93; US Representative, 1875-79; cousin of President William Henry Harrison.[4] | | George Shiras Jr. | 1853 | U.S. Supreme Court Justice[4] | | Harvey Cushing | 1891 | neurosurgeon considered father of brain surgery[7] | | Dickinson W. Richards | 1917 | 1956 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine[4] | | Benjamin Spock | 1925 | Baby & Child Care[5] | | Edward Salisbury Dana | 1871 | Leading American mineralogist.[4] | | George Roy Hill | 1943 | 1974 Academy Award for Directing, The Sting[4] | | Cole Porter | | entertainer, song writer[9] | | James Gamble Rogers | 1889 | collegiate Gothic architecture, favored architect of Edward Harkness and designed many of Yale's buildings[7] | | Garry Trudeau | 1970 | cartoonist [5] | | William Adams Delano | 1895 | Award-winning Architect; designed many of Yale buildings.[4] | [edit] See also [edit] References - ^ "Change in Skull and Bones, Famous Yale Society Doubles Size of its House - Addition a Duplicate of Old Building", September 13, 1903, New York Times
- ^ "Yale Alumni Magazine: Old Yale". Yalealumnimagazine.com. http://www.yalealumnimagazine.com/issues/2004_09/old_yale.html. Retrieved 2008-10-18.
- ^ Pinnell, Patrick (1999). The Campus Guide: Yale University. Princeton Architectural Press. pp. 125. ISBN 1568981678. OCLC 9781568981673. http://books.google.com/books?id=alnup81pmkAC&pg=PA123&lpg=PA123&dq=patrick+pinnell+yale+anthony&source=web&ots=Mzn6w25dre&sig=KRPoISsYFKMPZl6SIOhSU_aDMtE. Retrieved 2008-11-10.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap aq ar as at Giamatti, A. Bartlett (1978). History of Scroll and Key, 1942-1972. The Scroll and Key Society.
- ^ a b c d e "YALE'S GREAT OAK SEES 'TAP DAY' AGAIN; Senior Societies Return to the ... - Article Preview — The New York Times". Query.nytimes.com. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9503EEDC1338E633A25752C2A9639C946496D6CF. Retrieved 2008-10-17.
- ^ "J. Peter Grace — Business Executive, leading Catholic layman, Advisor to three U.S. Presidents — dies at age 81. | Government > Government Bodies & Offices from AllBusiness.com". Allbusiness.com. http://www.allbusiness.com/government/government-bodies-offices-heads/7119633-1.html. Retrieved 2008-10-17.
- ^ a b c d e HP-Time.com Monday, May. 31, 1926 (May. 31, 1926). "Wedlock — TIME". Time.com. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,729273-6,00.html. Retrieved 2008-10-17.
- ^ "Tap Day Exercises are held at Yale". New York Times. May 20, 1921. http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9A0CE4DE1F3FEE3ABC4851DFB366838A639EDE. Retrieved 2008-11-10.
- ^ Robbins, Alexandra (2002). Secrets of the Tomb: Skull and Bones, the Ivy League, and the Hidden Paths of Power. Back Bay Books. ISBN 0316735612. OCLC 978-0316735612.
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