- Owl Club (Harvard)
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The Owl Club is a men's only final club at Harvard College, founded in 1896. Its clubhouse is located at 30 Holyoke Street in Cambridge, in close proximity to Lowell House.
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The Owl Club
The Owl Club is one of eight final clubs at Harvard, including the Porcellian Club; the A.D. Club; the Fly Club; the Delphic Club; the Phoenix SK Club; the Fox Club; and the Spee Club. The club participates in "punch season" every fall with the other final clubs and elects sophomores and juniors to become members.
Early history
The Owl Club was founded in 1896 by Reginald Mansfield Johnson, Malcolm Scollay Greenough, Jr., Frazier Curtis, Preston Player, Charles Clifford Payson, Austen Fox Riggs, and Dudley Hall Bradlee, Jr. It originally went under the name Αvλòζχαι’‘Εχπωμα (meaning the Pipe and Mug), or Alpha Epsilon.
In 1901, land on the corner of Holyoke Street and Holyoke Place was purchased. In 1905, architect James Purdon of Purdon and Little drew up plans for the Georgian clubhouse, and on June 24 of that year the cornerstone of the present clubhouse was laid. The new building was formally opened on March 24, 1906, the tenth anniversary of the Club.
In 1916, it was voted officially to change the name from “Phi Delta Psi Club” to “The Owl Club”. The club had become informally known as the Owl as an abbreviation of its Greek name, Αvλòζχαι’‘Εχπωμα.
Notable members
- Christopher Wojcik '96 — Current Head Coach of Harvard University Men's Lacrosse Team, former dual captain of Harvard University Men's Lacrosse and Soccer teams.
- Roger Irving Lee '02 — physician, inventor of the Lee-White method of measuring blood coagulation, President of the American Medical Association
- Edward B. Cole ' 02 — United States Marine Corps Major, expert on machine guns, casualty at the Battle of Belleau Wood[1]
- Harry Elkins Widener '07 — Benefactor and namesake, Widener Library of Harvard University; casualty on the wreck of the RMS Titanic ocean liner.[2]
- George Minot '08 — winner of the 1934 Nobel Prize in Medicine
- Robert Woods Bliss '10 — U.S. Ambassador to Sweden, U.S. Ambassador to Argentina, founder of Dumbarton Oaks
- Hanford MacNider '11 - United States Diplomat and United States Army General
- Bobby Jones, '24 — Amateur golfer and winner of the Grand Slam in 1930; Founder of Augusta National Golf Club and the Masters Tournament.[3]
- Theodore Roosevelt III, '36 — Grandson of President Theodore Roosevelt.
- Robert G. Stone, Jr., '45 — Former Chairman of the Harvard Corporation.[4]
- Galen L. Stone, '43 - '46 — U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Cyprus.
- J. William Middendorf, III, '47 — U.S. Secretary of the Navy under Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford from 1974 to 1977; U.S. Ambassador to the Netherlands and Organization of American States.[5]
- Edward M. Kennedy, '54 - '56—U.S. Senator from Massachusetts.[6]
- Richard Darman, '64 — Director of the Office of Management and Budget under President George H.W. Bush.
- Ford M. Fraker, '71 — U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia under President George W. Bush.
- Hassan Nemazee, '72 — U.S. Ambassador to Argentina under President Bill Clinton.
- Thomas Mesereau, '73 — Trial lawyer.
- David L. Weinberg, '74; Richard M. Cashin, '75; Alan W. Shealy, '75; Christopher R. Wood, '75 — Members of 1976 U.S. Olympic Crew Team.
- Andrew D. Cadiff, '77 — Director, Chasing Liberty; Producer, Home Improvement and Growing Pains.
- John M. Bridgeland, '82 — Director, USA Freedom Corps; Director of Domestic Policy Council.
- Thomas S. Strickler, '84 — Co-Founder, Endeavor Talent Agency.
- Larry Scott '86 - Commissioner, Pac-12[7]
- Charles Veley, '87 — World's most-traveled man.[8]
- David M. Forst, '98 — Oakland Athletics Assistant General Manager.[9]
References
- ^ Howe, Mark Anthony De Wolfe (1922). Memoirs of the Harvard Dead in the War Against Germany, Vol 3. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. http://books.google.com/?id=nG4vAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA271&dq=edward+ball+cole#v=onepage&q=edward%20ball%20cole&f=false.
- ^ "Widener's Wish Fulfilled". The New York Times. 4 October 1912. http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9A07E5DE133CE633A25757C0A9669D946396D6CF.
- ^ Curt Sampson (2005). The Slam: Bobby Jones and the Price of Glory. Harvard University Press. http://books.google.com/books?id=BrRVY71mDDkC&pg=PA75&lpg=PA75&dq=bobby+jones+owl&source=bl&ots=ZmAGO3-cuJ&sig=eaZHHJ0UYIb3YnGsODj-QhDpFVo&hl=en&ei=z4dSTKehA8KBlAem3-DXBQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBUQ6AEwADgK#v=onepage&q&f=false.
- ^ "Robert G. Stone Jr. '45-'47, Who Led Panel That Picked Summers as Chief, Dies at Age 83", The Harvard Crimson, Thursday, April 20, 2006
- ^ Student Council of Harvard College (1915). Harvard University Register, vol 42. http://books.google.com/books?id=it8TAAAAIAAJ&dq=middendorf+owl+club&q=middendorf#v=onepage&q&f=false.
- ^ "Sorry Clubbie", The Harvard Crimson, Wednesday, May 26, 1965
- ^ http://www.pac-12.org/ABOUT/Staff/LarryScott.aspx
- ^ "Charles Veley". http://www.charlesveley.com/. Retrieved 8 May 2011.
- ^ "Oakland Athletics Executive Bios". http://mlb.mlb.com/oak/team/exec_bios/forst_david.jsp. Retrieved 8 May 2011.
- Owl Club of Harvard College, Membership Directory, 1998, Puritan Press, New Hampshire
- "OWL CLUB, INC., THE., Summary Screen", The Commonwealth Of Massachusetts, William Francis Galvin, Secretary Of The Commonwealth, Corporations Division
Further reading
- Burggraf, Charles H., The Owl club; a comedy drama in three acts, satirizing secret societies, Albany, OR: Smiley, printer, 1900.
- Owl Club of Harvard College: founded in 1896, Crimson Printing Co., 1966
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