Scroll and Key

Scroll and Key

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History

For ten years, the society tapped annually twelve members; thereafter, "Keys," as the group is known colloquially, thought best to follow the tradition of fifteen (and sometimes, more) undergraduate members established by "Bones" for a Yale senior or secret society delegation or cohort, [ see 1] sustained by Wolf's Head Society and further emulated by the other landed societies -- Elihu, Manuscript, Book and Snake, and Berzelius -- at the college.

Members meet Thursday and Sunday nights during their senior year in the Society's ornate, windowless "tomb", distinguished by alternating dark and light bands of stone, pattern-pierced stone window screens and ornate column capitals at the entrance. Late at night traditionally after their weekly meetings, "Keysmen" gather on their front steps to serenade College Street with their "Troubador" song. "Keys" co-educated in 1989.

Tax records show an endowment worth several million dollars more than that of its elder counterpart, Skull and Bones. [ [http://www.bear-left.com/original/2001/0506yale.html Endowment information] ] In addition to financing its own activities, "Keys" has made numerous donations to Yale over the years: the John Addison Porter Prize, awarded annually by Yale since 1872, and in 1917 an endowment for the Yale University Press which has funded the publication of The Yale Shakespeare and other scholarly works. George Parmly Day founded the Yale University Press.

Many "Keysmen" have been and would be considered members of the power elite. Membership has been defined by two differing and sometime overlapping demographics among the rising senior class: the leading architects, scientists, singers, and squash, crew or hockey athletes, and the descendants of the Mayflower families and families among Caroline Webster Schermerhorn Astor's "400."

Architecture

* 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." [ p.125, "Yale University" 1999 Princeton Architectural Press ISBN 1568981678 [http://books.google.com/books?id=alnup81pmkAC&pg=PA123&lpg=PA123&dq=patrick+pinnell+yale+anthony&source=web&ots=Mzn6w25dre&sig=KRPoISsYFKMPZl6SIOhSU_aDMtE Google books] .) Additional data at [http://www.facilities.yale.edu/Campus/Campus.asp Yale campus information] ]

Notable members

* Raymond R. Guest (1931) - US Ambassador, Ireland; Special Assistant to Secretary of Defense, 1945-47; horse breeder; polo Hall of fame. [http://www.smokershistory.com/IHR.htm]
* James R. Sheffield - US Ambassador to Mexico [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,729273-6,00.html]
* Peter Liguori - President & CEO, FX Networks; President, FOX. [http://216.239.59.104/search?q=cache:DiRBvoGbhqoJ:www.ctrl.org/boodleboys/boodleboysgphx/Scroll_%26_Key.xls+%22scroll+and+key%22+tala&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=uk]
* C.Tracy Barnes (1932) - Central Intelligence Agency; Bay of Pigs [http://216.239.59.104/search?q=cache:DiRBvoGbhqoJ:www.ctrl.org/boodleboys/boodleboysgphx/Scroll_%26_Key.xls+c.+tracy+barnes+scroll+and+key&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=4&gl=uk]
* J. Peter Grace (1936) W. R. Grace & Co. [http://www.allbusiness.com/government/government-bodies-offices-heads/7119633-1.html]
* Cord Meyer, Jr. (1943) - Central Intelligence Agency; United World Federalists [http://216.239.59.104/search?q=cache:DiRBvoGbhqoJ:www.ctrl.org/boodleboys/boodleboysgphx/Scroll_%26_Key.xls+c.+tracy+barnes+scroll+and+key&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=4&gl=uk]
* Frank Polk (1894) - Davis Polk & Wardwell; (acting) Secretary of State, managed conclusion to World War I [http://216.239.59.104/search?q=cache:DiRBvoGbhqoJ:www.ctrl.org/boodleboys/boodleboysgphx/Scroll_%26_Key.xls+c.+tracy+barnes+scroll+and+key&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=4&gl=uk]
* 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 [http://216.239.59.104/search?q=cache:DiRBvoGbhqoJ:www.ctrl.org/boodleboys/boodleboysgphx/Scroll_%26_Key.xls+c.+tracy+barnes+scroll+and+key&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=4&gl=uk]
* Cornelius Vanderbilt III (1895) - Vanderbilt heir. [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,729273-6,00.html]
* Seymour H. Knox I (1920) - American retailer, F. W. Woolworth Company; founder, Buffalo Sabres. [http://216.239.59.104/search?q=cache:DiRBvoGbhqoJ:www.ctrl.org/boodleboys/boodleboysgphx/Scroll_%26_Key.xls+%22scroll+and+key%22+tala&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=uk]
* Donald Dell - Captain, U.S. team, Davis Cup; founder, ProServ. [http://216.239.59.104/search?q=cache:DiRBvoGbhqoJ:www.ctrl.org/boodleboys/boodleboysgphx/Scroll_%26_Key.xls+%22scroll+and+key%22+tala&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=uk]
* Henry deForest (1876) Southern Pacific Railroad [http://www.freebase.com/view/en/henry_deforest?domain=%2Fuser%2Frobert%2Fyale_university]
* Gilbert Colgate (1883), President and Chairman of Colgate & Co. [http://www.smokershistory.com/lazard.htm]
* Charles D. Dickey (1916) - Brown Brothers Harriman, Morgan Guaranty Trust. [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9503EEDC1338E633A25752C2A9639C946496D6CF]
* Moses Taylor - banker, railroad baron, wealthiest man in America. [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,729273-6,00.html]
* Juan Trippe - founder Pan American World Airways [http://216.239.59.104/search?q=cache:DiRBvoGbhqoJ:www.ctrl.org/boodleboys/boodleboysgphx/Scroll_%26_Key.xls+%22scroll+and+key%22+tala&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=uk]
*Joseph M. Patterson (1901)- founder, "New York Daily News"; manager, "Chicago Tribune" [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,729273-6,00.html]
* George Edgar Vincent (1885) - President of the University of Minnesota; President of the Rockefeller Foundation [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,729273-6,00.html]
* Leonard Case (1842) - Founder of Case Western Reserve University [http://216.239.59.104/search?q=cache:DiRBvoGbhqoJ:www.ctrl.org/boodleboys/boodleboysgphx/Scroll_%26_Key.xls+%22scroll+and+key%22+tala&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=uk]
* James C. Thomson (1953) - historian, journalist and East Asia specialist. [http://216.239.59.104/search?q=cache:DiRBvoGbhqoJ:www.ctrl.org/boodleboys/boodleboysgphx/Scroll_%26_Key.xls+%22scroll+and+key%22+tala&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=uk]
* Richard Pearce (1965) - American film and TV director; South Pacific, CSI: Miami; Law & Order.
*Richardson Dilworth, (1921) Mayor of Philadelphia 1955-1962. [http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9A0CE4DE1F3FEE3ABC4851DFB366838A639EDE]
* Newbold Morris (1925) - New York laywer and politician [http://216.239.59.104/search?q=cache:DiRBvoGbhqoJ:www.ctrl.org/boodleboys/boodleboysgphx/Scroll_%26_Key.xls+%22scroll+and+key%22+tala&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=uk]
* Wayne Chatfield-Taylor (1916) - President, Export-Import Bank; Undersecretary of Commerce; Assistant Secretary of the Treasury. [http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9503EEDC1338E633A25752C2A9639C946496D6CF]
*Harvey Cushing (1891) - neurosurgeon considered father of brain surgery [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,729273-6,00.html]
* Robert Shriver - Baltimore Orioles [http://216.239.59.104/search?q=cache:DiRBvoGbhqoJ:www.ctrl.org/boodleboys/boodleboysgphx/Scroll_%26_Key.xls+c.+tracy+barnes+scroll+and+key&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=4&gl=uk]
*James Gamble Rogers - (1889) collegiate Gothic architecture, favored architect of Edward Harkness [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,729273-6,00.html]
*Cole Porter - entertainer [pp. 60,Secrets Of The Tomb..., Alexandra Robbins, pp. 61, Little, Brown and Company,Boston, New York and London, 2002]
*Dean Acheson - 51st United States Secretary of State [(see 27)]
*Paul Mellon - philanthropist [ (see above)]
*Benjamin Spock - pediatrician [ (see above) ]
*Gary Trudeau - cartoonist [ (see above) ]
*A. Bartlett Giamatti - 16th Yale University president [ (see above) ]

References

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ee also

*Collegiate secret societies in North America

External links

* [http://www.mail-archive.com/ctrl@listserv.aol.com/msg61156.html Secret societies swimming in cash, IRS reports show]
* [http://www.yalealumnimagazine.com/issues/2004_09/old_yale.html How the Secret Societies Got That Way]


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