Ivy Club
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The Ivy Club is the oldest eating club at Princeton University.[1] It was founded in 1879 with Arthur Hawley Scribner as its first head.[2] The members of each class are selected through the bicker process, a series of ten screening interviews, which are followed by discussions amongst the members as to whom of the remaining to admit.
The Club, as described by F. Scott Fitzgerald in This Side of Paradise (1920), is "detached and breathlessly aristocratic."[3] Current undergraduate members host regularly "Roundtable Dinners" featuring talks by faculty and alumni. The club was one of the last to admit women, resisting the change until Spring 1991 after a lawsuit had been brought against Ivy Club, Tiger Inn, and Cottage Club by student Sally Frank.[4]
Ivy's third and current clubhouse was designed in 1897 by the firm of Cope & Stewardson. In 2009, the club completed its most significant renovation to date. The expansion added a second wing to the facility, changing the club's original L-shaped layout to a U. Designed by Demetri Porphyrios, the new wing includes a two-story Great Hall and a crypt to provide additional study space.
See also
Notable alumni
The following is a list of some notable members of the Ivy Club:[5][6]
- Hobey Baker – World War I fighter pilot, member of the Hockey Hall of Fame and U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame
- James A. Baker III – Chief of Staff for Ronald Reagan; Secretary of Treasury and Secretary of State for George H. W. Bush
- Lem Billings – confidante and "first friend" of President John F. Kennedy who was Kennedy’s freshman-year roommate at Princeton
- Joshua B. Bolten – White House Chief of Staff and Office of Management and Budget director under George W. Bush
- Philip Bobbitt – constitutional law scholar and author of The Shield of Achilles: War, Peace, and the Course of History
- Lauren Bush-Lauren – fashion model and niece of George W. Bush
- Joey Cheek – speed skater who won gold and silver medals in the 2006 Winter Olympics and co-founder and president of Team Darfur
- Leonard S. Coleman, Jr. – president of the National League
- Frank Deford - author and sports commentator
- Richard B. Fisher – philanthropist and chairman of Morgan Stanley
- Bill Ford - Ford Motor Company
- Thomas F. Gibson – first political cartoonist of USA Today and Director of Communication under Ronald Reagan
- John Marshall Harlan II – Associate Justice, United States Supreme Court
- Frederick Hitz – Inspector General of the Central Intelligence Agency
- Arthur Krock – four-time Pulitzer Prize winning journalist
- A.B. Krongard – executive director of the CIA
- Jim Leach – U.S. Congressman from Iowa and chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities
- Blair Lee I – United States Senator from Maryland
- Blair Lee III – Governor of Maryland
- Michael Lewis – author of Moneyball and Liar's Poker
- Allan Marquand – logician whose Marquand diagram was a forerunner of the Karnaugh map
- Richard King Mellon – financier, banker, and philanthropist who led the urban renewal of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- John Rawls – political philosopher, author of A Theory of Justice, originator of the concepts of original position and veil of ignorance
- Laurance Rockefeller – venture capitalist, philanthropist and environmentalist
- Randall Rothenberg – president and CEO of the Interactive Advertising Bureau
- Saud bin Faisal bin Abdul Aziz – Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister
- Arthur Hawley Scribner – first head of the eating club and president of publisher Charles Scribner's Sons[2]
- Booth Tarkington – Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist
- Jim Thompson – OSS officer and Thai silk entrepreneur who famously and mysteriously disappeared in Malaysia in 1967
- Terdema Ussery – president and CEO of the Dallas Mavericks professional basketball team
- Rodman Wanamaker – arts patron, aviation pioneer, and founder of the Professional Golfers' Association of America (PGA)
- Woodrow Wilson – U.S. President, 1913–1921 (Associate Graduate Member)
- John Gilbert Winant – Governor of New Hampshire and U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom
References
- ^ Yazigi, Monique (May 16, 1999). "At Ivy Club, A Trip Back to Elitism". New York Times. Retrieved February 2, 2011.
- ^ a b "A. H. Scribner Dead. Headed Book Firm. Son of Founder of Noted Publishing House Is Victim of Heart Attack in His Sleep. Was Active for Princeton. Permanent President of His Class of '81 and an Organizer and First Head of the Ivy Club". New York Times. July 4, 1932. Retrieved 2008-07-24.
Arthur Hawley Scribner, president of the publishing house of Charles Scribner's Sons, died of a heart attack In his sleep early ...
{{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|coauthors=(help) - ^ Fitzgerald, Francis Scott (1920). This Side of Paradise. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. p. 49.
- ^ Eating Clubs Records, 1879–2005: Finding Aid
- ^ Constitution and Rules, Officers and Members of The Ivy Club. Princeton, NJ: The Ivy Club. 2001. pp. 48–106.
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- Rich, Frederic C. (1979). The First Hundred Years of The Ivy Club. Princeton, NJ: The Ivy Club. ISBN 0-934756-00-7.
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External links
- Official Ivy Club Website
- History and culture of the clubs, at Princeton's official site.
- Further information on the renovation from James Bradberry Architects website
- At Ivy Club, A Trip Back to Elitism from the New York Times
