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Scroll and Key
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.
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,...
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Robert Sargent Shriver III
Robert Sargent "Bobby" Shriver III (born April 28, 1954) is an American activist, attorney, journalist and a Democratic member of the Santa Monica City Council in Santa Monica, California.
He was born in Chicago, Illinois, to Eunice Kennedy Shriver ...
Theodore Runyon
Theodore Runyon (October 29, 1822 – January 27, 1896) was a United States politician, diplomat, and Civil War brigadier general in the Union army.
Theodore Runyon was born in Somerville, New Jersey of Huguenot descent. He was a direct descendant of...
Year of membership:
- 1842
Carter Harrison, Sr.
Carter Henry Harrison (February 15, 1825 - October 28, 1893) was a U.S. Representative from Illinois.
Born near Lexington, Kentucky, Harrison was educated by private tutors.He was graduated from Yale College in 1845.Traveled and studied in Europe...
Year of membership:
- 1845
Randall L. Gibson
Randall Lee Gibson (September 10, 1832 – December 15, 1892) was a U.S. Senator and a member of the House of Representatives from Louisiana. He was also an brigadier general in the Confederate States Army, a regent of the Smithsonian Institution, and...
Year of membership:
- 1853
George Shiras, Jr.
George Shiras, Jr. (January 26, 1832 – August 2, 1924) was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States who was nominated to the Court by Republican President Benjamin Harrison. At that time, he had 37 years of private legal...
Year of membership:
- 1853
John Dalzell
John Dalzell (April 19, 1845 – October 2, 1927) was a U.S. Representative from the state of Pennsylvania.
John Dalzell was born in New York City. He moved with his parents to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1847.
He attended the common schools and the...
Year of membership:
- 1865
Edward Salisbury Dana
Edward Salisbury Dana (November 16, 1849–June 16, 1935) was an American mineralogist and physicist. He made important contributions to the study of minerals, especially in the field of crystallography.
E. S. Dana was the son of the geologist and...
Year of membership:
- 1871
Fred Dubois
Fred Thomas Dubois (May 29, 1851 in Palestine, Illinois – February 14, 1930 in Washington, D.C.) 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...
Year of membership:
- 1872
Henry deForest
Henry Wheeler De Forest (1855-1938) 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.
Year of membership:
- 1876
George Edgar Vincent
George Edgar Vincent (March 21, 1864 – 1941) was an American sociologist and university president, born at Rockford, Ill., the son of Bishop John H. Vincent. After graduating at Yale in 1885 he engaged in journalistic and literary work. In 1888 he...
Year of membership:
- 1885
James Gamble Rogers
James Gamble Rogers (March 3, 1867 — October 1, 1947) was an American architect best known for his academic commissions at Yale University, Columbia University, Northwestern University, and elsewhere.
Rogers was born in Bryan Station, Kentucky, to...
Year of membership:
- 1889
Herbert Parsons
Herbert Parsons (October 28, 1869 - September 16, 1925) was a U.S. Representative from New York.
Born in New York City, Parsons attended private schools in New York City, St. Paul's School, Concord, New Hampshire, Yale University, the University of...
Year of membership:
- 1890
Harvey Cushing
Harvey Williams Cushing, M.D. (April 8, 1869 - October 7, 1939) was an American neurosurgeon and a pioneer of brain surgery. He is widely regarded as the greatest neurosurgeon of the 20th century and often called the "father of modern neurosurgery"....
Year of membership:
- 1891
William Nelson Runyon
William Nelson Runyon (March 5, 1871 – November 9, 1931) 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...
Year of membership:
- 1892
Frank Polk
Frank Lyon Polk (September 13, 1871 — February 7, 1943) was a prominent lawyer and a name partner of the law firm today known as Davis Polk & Wardwell. He graduated from Yale College (B.A., 1894) and Columbia University Law School (LL.D., 1897). He...
Year of membership:
- 1894
Allen Wardwell
Allen Wardwell (1873–1953), 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.
Allen Wardwell graduated from Yale University in 1895...
Year of membership:
- 1895
Lewis Sheldon
Lewis Pendleton Sheldon (June 9, 1874 - February 18, 1960) 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...
Year of membership:
- 1895
Cornelius Vanderbilt III
Cornelius Vanderbilt III (September 5, 1873 – March 1, 1942) was a distinguished American military officer, inventor, engineer, and yachtsman, and a member of the prominent American Vanderbilt family.
Called "Neily" by his close friends, he was the...
Year of membership:
- 1895
William Adams Delano
William Adams Delano (January 21, 1874 – January 12, 1960) was a prominent American architect, a partner with Chester Holmes Aldrich in the firm of Delano & Aldrich that worked in the Beaux-Arts tradition for elite clients in New York City and Long...
Year of membership:
- 1895
Joseph M. McCormick
Joseph Medill McCormick (May 16, 1877 - February 25, 1925), known as Medill, was a Representative and a Senator from Illinois. He was the brother of Robert Rutherford McCormick, grandson of Joseph Medill, and son of Robert Sanderson McCormick.
Born...
Year of membership:
- 1900
Joseph Medill Patterson
Joseph Medill Patterson (January 6, 1879 – May 26, 1946) was an American journalist and publisher, grandson of publisher Joseph Medill, founder of the Chicago Tribune and a mayor of Chicago, Illinois.
His younger sister was publisher Cissy Patterson...
Year of membership:
- 1901
Robert R. McCormick
Robert Rutherford "Colonel" McCormick (July 30, 1880 – April 1, 1955) was a Chicago newspaper baron and owner of the Chicago Tribune. A leading isolationist, opponent of United States entry into World War II and of the increase in Federal power...
Year of membership:
- 1903
James C. Auchincloss
James Coats Auchincloss (January 19, 1885 in New York City – October 2, 1976 in Alexandria, Virginia) was an American businessman and Republican Party politician who represented New Jersey's 3rd congressional district in the United States House of...
Year of membership:
- 1908
William Bullitt
William Christian Bullitt, Jr. (January 25, 1891 – February 15, 1967) was an American diplomat, journalist, and novelist. Although in his youth he was considered something of a radical, he later became an outspoken anticommunist.
Bullitt was born to...
Year of membership:
- 1912
Mortimer R. Proctor
Mortimer Robinson Proctor (May 30, 1889 – April 28, 1968), known as Mortimer R. Proctor, was an American politician from Vermont. He served as Governor of Vermont from 1945 to 1947, and as lieutenant governor of Vermont from 1941 to 1945.
He was the...
Year of membership:
- 1912
Cole Porter
Cole Albert Porter (June 9, 1891 – October 15, 1964) was an American composer and songwriter. His works include the musical comedies Kiss Me, Kate, Fifty Million Frenchmen, DuBarry Was a Lady and Anything Goes, as well as songs like "Night and Day",...
Year of membership:
- 1913
Dean Acheson
Dean Gooderham Acheson (April 11, 1893 – October 12, 1971) was an American statesman and lawyer; as United States Secretary of State in the administration of President Harry S. Truman during 1949–1953, he played a central role in defining American...
Year of membership:
- 1915
Wayne Chatfield-Taylor
Wayne Chatfield-Taylor (b. December 19, 1893, d. November 22, 1967) was Under Secretary of Commerce and Assistant Secretary of the Treasury under President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
The son of author Hobart Chatfield-Taylor and grandson of Senator...
Year of membership:
- 1916
Dickinson W. Richards
Dr. Dickinson Woodruff Richards, Jr. (October 30, 1895 – February 23, 1973) 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...
Year of membership:
- 1917
Ethan A.H. Shepley
Ethan Allen Hitchcock Shepley (1896 – 1975) was the Chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis from 1953 until 1961.
Ethan Allen Hitchcock Shepley, a descendent of early American revolutionary Ethan Allen, was born in St. Louis in 1896. His...
Year of membership:
- 1918
John Franklin Enders
John Franklin Enders (February 10, 1897 – September 8, 1985) was an American medical scientist and Nobel laureate. Enders had been called "The Father of Modern vaccines."
Enders was born in West Hartford, Connecticut and was educated at the Noah...
Year of membership:
- 1919
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 (1861 Russell, Saint Lawrence County, New York-1915), was a Buffalo, New York businessman who made his fortune in...
Year of membership:
- 1920
Brewster Jennings
Benjamin Brewster Jennings (June 9, 1898 – October 2, 1968) was a founder and president of the Socony-Vacuum company, which became, in 1955, the Standard Oil Company of New York (Socony), which would later become Mobil Oil, and then merged to become...
Year of membership:
- 1920
Richardson Dilworth
Richardson Dilworth (1898 – 1974), was an American Democratic Party politician, born in the Pittsburgh area, who served as the 116th Mayor of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from January 2, 1956 until his resignation on February 12, 1962 to run for...
Year of membership:
- 1921
James Stillman Rockefeller
James Stillman Rockefeller (June 8, 1902 - August 10, 2004) was a member of the prominent U.S. Rockefeller family.
A paternal grandson of William Rockefeller, his maternal grandfather James Stillman and uncle James Alexander Stillman served as...
Year of membership:
- 1924
Huntington D. Sheldon
Huntington Denton "Ting" Sheldon (February 14, 1903 – May 19, 1987) 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....
Year of membership:
- 1925
Newbold Morris
Newbold Morris (February 2, 1902 - March 30, 1966) was an American politician, lawyer, president of the New York City Council, and two-time candidate for mayor of New York City.
Born Augustus Newbold Morris in New York City, Newbold Morris, who...
Year of membership:
- 1925
Benjamin Spock
Benjamin McLane Spock (May 2, 1903 – March 15, 1998) was an American pediatrician whose book Baby and Child Care, published in 1946, is one of the biggest best-sellers of all time. Its revolutionary message to mothers was that "you know more than...
Year of membership:
- 1925
John Hay Whitney
John Hay Whitney (27 August 1904 – 8 February 1982), 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.
Born on August 27, 1904, in Ellsworth...
Year of membership:
- 1926
H. C. Potter
Henry Codman Potter II (November 13, 1904 - August 31, 1977) was an American theatrical producer/director and a motion picture director.
H.C. Potter was born in New York City, the grandson of the Right Rev. Henry Codman Potter, Episcopal Bishop of...
Year of membership:
- 1926
Paul Mellon
Paul Mellon KBE (June 11, 1907 – February 1, 1999) 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. He was...
Year of membership:
- 1929
Raymond R. Guest
Commander Raymond Richard Guest OBE (November 25, 1907 – December 31, 1991 was an American businessman, thoroughbred race horse owner and polo player.
He was the son of Freddie Guest, a British Cabinet minister and his American wife, Amy Phipps,...
Year of membership:
- 1931
Donald R. McLennan
Donald Roderick McLennan (October 27, 1873 – October 14, 1944), born in Duluth, Minnesota, son of William Lillingston McLennan and Julia MacLeod, was the co-founder of the insurance brokerage firm Burroughs, Marsh & McLennan in 1905, which was...
Year of membership:
- 1931
Tracy Barnes
Charles Tracy Barnes (August 2, 1911 – February 18, 1972) was a senior staff member at the United States' Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), serving as principal manager of CIA operations in the 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état and the 1961 Bay of Pigs...
Year of membership:
- 1932
Robert F. Wagner, Jr.
Robert Ferdinand Wagner, Jr., usually known as Robert F. Wagner, Jr. (April 20, 1910 – February 12, 1991) served three terms as the mayor of New York City, from 1954 through 1965.
He was born in Manhattan, the son of United States Senator Robert F....
Year of membership:
- 1933
J. Peter Grace
Joseph Peter Grace (May 25, 1913 - April 19, 1995 ) was a multimillionaire American industrialist and conglomerateur of Irish Catholic extraction. Born in Manhasset, New York, he succeeded his father, Joseph Peter Grace, Sr. (1872-1950), as...
Year of membership:
- 1936
Peter H. Dominick
Peter Hoyt Dominick (July 7, 1915 – March 18, 1981) 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...
Year of membership:
- 1937
Sargent Shriver
Robert Sargent Shriver, Jr. (born November 9, 1915) is an American Democratic politician and activist. Known as "Sargent", Shriver is best known as part of the Kennedy family, the driving force behind the creation of the Peace Corps, and the...
Year of membership:
- 1938
Cyrus Vance
Cyrus Roberts Vance (March 27, 1917–January 12, 2002) was an American lawyer and civil servant. He served as the United States Secretary of State under President Jimmy Carter from 1977 to 1980. Prior to his service as Secretary of State, he held a...
Year of membership:
- 1939
Robert D. Orr
Robert Dunkerson Orr (November 17, 1917 - March 10, 2004) was an American political leader and Governor of Indiana from 1981 to 1989. He was a member of the Republican Party.
Orr was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, but was raised in Evansville, Indiana...
Year of membership:
- 1940
Cord Meyer
Cord Meyer, Jr. (November 10, 1920 – March 13, 2001) was an American Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) official.
Meyer's father, Cord Meyer Sr., was a diplomat and former real estate developer. His grandfather, also called Cord Meyer, was a property...
Year of membership:
- 1943
George Roy Hill
George Roy Hill (December 20, 1921 – December 27, 2002) 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....
Year of membership:
- 1943
John Lindsay
John Vliet Lindsay (November 24, 1921 – December 19, 2000) was an American politician,lawyer and broadcaster who was a U.S. Congressman, Mayor of New York City, candidate for U.S. President and regular guest host of Good Morning America substituting...
Year of membership:
- 1944
Frederick B. Dent
Frederick Baily Dent (born August 17, 1922, in Cape May, New Jersey) served from 1943 until 1946 in the United States Navy. From 1958 to 1972 he was the President of Mayfair Mills, Arcadia, South Carolina. He was the United States Secretary of...
Year of membership:
- 1944
Philip B. Heymann
Philip B. Heymann (born October 30, 1932) 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. Bush administration, particularly...
Year of membership:
- 1954
Warren Zimmermann
Warren Zimmermann (November 16, 1934 – February 3, 2004) was a diplomat, humanitarian and the last US ambassador to Yugoslavia before its disintegration into civil war.
Warren Zimmermann served in Moscow (1973-75 and 1981-84), Paris, Caracas and...
Year of membership:
- 1956
Calvin Trillin
Calvin (Bud) Marshall Trillin (born December 5, 1935 in Kansas City, Missouri) is an American journalist, humorist, food writer, poet, memoirist and novelist.
Trillin attended public schools in Kansas City and went on to Yale University, where he...
Year of membership:
- 1957
A. Bartlett Giamatti
Angelo Bartlett "Bart" Giamatti (April 4, 1938–September 1, 1989) was the President of Yale University, and later, the seventh Commissioner of Major League Baseball. Giamatti agreed to the deal that terminated the Pete Rose betting scandal by...
Year of membership:
- 1960
Austin Pendleton
Austin Pendleton (born 27 March 1940) is an American film, television, and stage actor, a playwright, and a theatre director and instructor.
Born in Warren, Ohio, Pendleton is a graduate of Yale University, where he was a member of Scroll and Key...
Year of membership:
- 1961
Richard Pearce
Richard Pearce (born January 25, 1943 in San Diego, California) is an American film director and producer. He prepped at St. Paul's School and then earned a B.A., English from Yale University in the Class of 1965. While in college, he was a...
Year of membership:
- 1965
