Cap and Gown Club

Cap and Gown Club

Cap and Gown Club, founded in 1891, is an eating club at Princeton University, in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. Members are selected through a selective process called bicker. It was the first eating club to accept women.

Club History

Cap is located at 61 Prospect Avenue between Cloister Inn and Cottage. It is the only Princeton eating club to stay in the same geographic location for its entire existence. Three Cap clubhouses have occupied this location. The first was completed in 1892. In 1895 when the club outgrew this clubhouse, the structure was moved across the street, and William Ralph Emerson was commissioned to design the second clubhouse (completed in 1896). Ten years later, Cap was ready to expand again. The Emerson building was moved away, and Raleigh Gildersleeve designed the clubhouse that Cap still occupies today.

Notable alumni

*Donald Rumsfeld (U.S. Secretary of Defense), class of 1954
*Margaret Whitman (president and CEO of eBay, Inc.), class of 1977
*Brooke Shields (actress), class of 1987
*Dean Cain (actor), class of 1988
*Chris Young (Major League Baseball pitcher), class of 2002
*Adriana Diaz (Miss New York Teen USA 2003, Miss New York USA 2006), class of 2006

External links

* [http://www.princeton.edu/~capgown/ Cap and Gown Club]

References

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