Skull and bones sued by Geronimo relative + huge secret society roundup.
The great-grandson of Apache warrior Geronimo argues in a lawsuit that a secretive society at Yale University holds the remains of his great-grandfather.Harlyn Geronimo has sued Yale and the society -- the Order of Skull and Bones -- to try to recover the remains.
"I think what would be important is that the remains of Geronimo be with his ancestors," he said.
I know for a fact that Scroll and Key exists in Princeton. I lived in Princeton for a year, there was talk of being "tapped for scroll and key". Fraternities and secret societies were banned from Princeton from the middle of the nineteenth century until the 1980s. They still exist, but are not officially recognized by the university. Not that it matters! Princeton instead uses private "eating clubs". Princeton undergraduates currently have their choice of ten eating clubs.[2] Five clubs—Cap and Gown Club, Princeton Tower Club, The Ivy Club, Tiger Inn, and University Cottage Club, —are selective, choosing their members through a process called "bicker." Five clubs - Cloister Inn, Princeton Charter Club, Colonial Club, Quadrangle Club, and Terrace Club - are non-selective. These clubs' members are chosen through a lottery process called "sign-in." While nearly three-quarters of upperclassmen (third- and fourth-year students) at Princeton take their meals at the eating clubs, the clubs are private institutions and are not officially affiliated with Princeton University. This link I found from the Princeton alumni magazine proves my point."While you are proofreading these drafts of VIP's check up on what eating club " Henry Ford II ' 56 " joined. What alumni magazine am I reading? Wasn't he in Fence Club and Scroll and Key". Wolf's Head
Wolf's Head Society is an undergraduate senior or secret society at Yale University, New Haven, CT. WHS is recomposed annually of sixteen junior year Yale College students. Females have been tapped and have joined since 1992.[1] Undergraduate members spend their senior year as a delegation answerable to the graduate body, composed of past members, known as the Phelps Association. The society was founded when fifteen members of the Yale Class of 1884 choose to abet the incorporation by the Phelps Trust Association of The Third Society, later known as Wolf's Head Society, in 1883. Over 300 alumni with the rising seniors sought to counter the dominance of Skull and Bones in undergraduate and university affairs.[2] The incorporation defeated the last attempt to abolish undergraduate secret societies at Yale, and continued the tradition of founding a society if enough potential members thought they had been overlooked by the extant groups. Bones had been organized in 1832 after a dispute over selections for Phi Beta Kappa awards; likewise, Scroll and Key, the second society at Yale, was organized in 1841 after a dispute over elections to Bones.Book and Snake
The Society of Book and Snake is the fourth oldest secret society at Yale University. Book and Snake was founded at the Sheffield Scientific School in 1863 as a three-year society bearing the Greek letters Sigma Delta Chi [1]. As other "Sheff" societies, it was once residential and maintained a separate residential building (or "Hall") built in 1888. Each year Book and Snake taps 16 new members, which is also in contrast to the others, most of which tap fifteen. Members are said to be leaders in different activities on campus and representative of Yale's academic, athletic, artistic and social scenes. Book & Snake's reputation is "progressive" in its membership selection, in contrast to reputed "conservative" criteria considered by other societies. B&S became a Yale senior society in 1933, and was the first senior secret society at Yale to accept minorities and women. (However, Manuscript claims the first female tap, while another former "Sheff" secret society, St. Anthony Hall, as a three-year society, was able to tap female sophomores after Yale College became co-ed in 1969; moreover, the Elihu Club tapped a Native American in 1909.)
Like other landed Yale societies, Book and Snake owns its own meeting hall, or "tomb." As is traditional with the meeting places of Yale societies, the building is windowless and available only to the current members and alumni; parties have been held that include friends of members, however. Inside the tomb, each alumnus customarily leaves his or her own pewter or glass tankard with his/her name inscribed, hung on hooks in their dining area for their use whenever they return, making tangible a display of the generations that have come before. It is said that when a member is deceased, his or her tankard is symbolically destroyed by breaking or piercing the glass or metal bottom of the tankard.
The Order of St. Anthony
St. Anthony Hall, also known as Saint Anthony Hall and The Order of St. Anthony, is a national college literary society formerly known as the Fraternity of Delta Psi (ΔΨ). Their patron, Anthony of Egypt is often depicted with his Tau Cross, the symbol has been used to embellish the architecture of some St. A's chapter houses. St. Anthony also became a swineherd, hence Hall members sentimentally regard the pig, one of the Saint's 'attributes', as an informal mascot. However the fraternity has never had any religious affiliation; the inspiration provided by this ascetic saint (and his pig) is solely thematic.Elihu
Elihu, founded in 1903, is the sixth oldest secret society at Yale University, New Haven, CT. While similar to Skull and Bones, Scroll and Key and Wolf's Head societies in charter and function, Elihu favors privacy over overt secrecy. To this end, Elihu is the only society whose building, located at 175 Elm Street, has windows, though they are shaded. Like the other societies, the organization's building is closed to non-members. Elihu is likely the very first society to have tapped an undergraduate from an ethnic minority, Henry Roe Cloud, a Native American who graduated in 1910, in keeping with a reputation for diversity. It was also one of the first senior societies to tap women.
Manuscript Society
Founded in 1952, Manuscript is the second youngest of Yale's landed secret societies; that is, its alumni trust owns its building, or "tomb". Manuscript was the first of the landed, "above-ground" societies to tap women. Each delegation is elected by a consensus of Manuscript alumni, trustee members, and others, unlike other secret societies, where undergraduate members shoulder more of the burden of selecting, recruiting and initiating their replacements.[1] Toward the end of each junior year, 15 undergraduates are "tapped" to be inducted into the society, which meets twice weekly for dinner and discussion (once per week with undergraduates only, once with alumni, honorary members and invited guests).Mace and Chain
Mace and Chain is the youngest "landed" secret society at Yale University. The society was founded in 1956 (four years after Manuscript), became inactive in the 1960s, and was revived in the 1990s. In 2001, it acquired a regular meeting place (called a "tomb" - a 180-year old house in downtown New Haven).[1] Like other societies at Yale, Mace and Chain conducts meetings on Thursday and Sunday evenings. The name Mace and Chain is rooted in discussions amongst the founders about chivalry, and the society has traditions of rotating student leadership each week and allowing each new "delegation" (new senior class) to lay out new ground rules every year.[1]Sphinx
The Sphinx is the oldest of the eight senior societies at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, and is now one of the oldest all-male secret societies in the nation. Sphinx was founded as a class society by 14 Dartmouth juniors in 1886. The Sphinx Tomb, constructed in 1903 on East Wheelock Street, was designed by Manchester, New Hampshire, architect William M. Butterfield and reflects the Egyptian Revival architectural style popular during the mid-nineteenth century. The interior of the Sphinx was replaced after a fire started in the building's furnace destroyed it in 1929.Order of Gimghoul
The Order of Gimghoul is a collegiate secret society headquartered at Hippol (or Gimghoul) Castle in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.[1][2] The order was founded in 1889 by Robert Worth Bingham, Shepard Bryan, William W. Davies, Edward Wray Martin, and Andrew Henry Patterson, who were University of North Carolina students at the time.[3] The society is open to "notable" male students (rising juniors and higher), and faculty members by invitation. The society centers itself around the legend of Peter Dromgoole, a student who mysteriously disappeared from campus in 1833.[4][5] The founders originally called themselves the Order of Dromgoole, but later changed it to the Order of Gimghoul, "in accord with midnight and graves and weirdness," according the archives.[3]
Tradition has it that the order held to the "Dromgoole legend and the ideals of Arthurian knighthood and chivalry." From all accounts, the order is social in nature, and has no clandestine agenda. Membership is closed and information about the order is strictly confidential as is access to archives less than 50 years old.[3]
The meeting place of the order, Hippol Castle, was built in 1924 at a cost of nearly $50,000.[6] Thirteen hundred tons of rough stone were used in its construction giving it the appearance of a castle.[7] It is located at the end of Gimghoul Road, not far from Old Chapel Hill Cemetery on campus near Carmichael Auditorium.[8] According to real estate records, the 2.15-acre (8,700 m2) site is owned by a non-profit corporation entitled the Order of the Gimghoul and has a taxable value of over $1 million.Seven Society
The Seven Society (founded 1905)[1] is the most secretive of the University of Virginia's secret societies. Members are only revealed after their death, when a wreath of black magnolias in the shape of a "7" is placed at the gravesite, the bell tower of the University Chapel chimes seven times at seven-second intervals on the seventh dissonant chord when it is seven past the hour, and a notice is published in the University's Alumni News, and often in the Cavalier Daily. [2] The most visible tradition of the society is the painting of the logo of the society, the number 7 surrounded by the signs for alpha (A), omega (Ω), and infinity (∞), and sometimes several stars, upon many buildings around the grounds of the University.[3]
There is no clear history of the founding of the society. There is a legend that, of eight men who planned to meet for a card game, only seven showed up,[4] and they formed the society. Other histories claim that the misbehavior of other secret societies, specifically the Hot Feet (later the IMP Society), led University President Edwin A. Alderman to call both the Hot Feet and the Z Society into his office and suggest that a more "beneficial organization" was needed.[1]
The only known method to successfully contact the Seven Society is to place a letter at the Thomas Jefferson statue inside the University's historic Rotunda (accounts differ on the exact placement of the letter, either on the base or in the crook of the statue's arm).[5]
Philanthropic gifts
The group contributes financially to the University, announcing donations with letters signed only with seven astronomical symbols in the order: Earth, Jupiter, Mercury, Mars, Neptune, Uranus, and Venus. Saturn is not included. The Society gives large monetary donations and scholarships to the University each year in quantities that include the number 7, e.g. $777 or $1,777. Significant past gifts to the University include the Seven Society Carillon in the UVA Chapel, donated in memory of deceased members of the society, and given with the request that there should be a toll of seven times seven bells on the passing of a member;[6] a memorial to past Seven Society members who gave their lives in World War I[7]; $17,777.77 for a loan fund in honor of University president John Lloyd Newcomb; the ceremonial mace carried in academic processions;[2] $10,777.77 in support of the re-establishment of Homecoming;[8] a plaque on the Rotunda honoring University students who died in the Korean War;[9] $7,077.77 to endow the Ernest Mead Fund for the Music Library;[10] $47,777.77 for the making of a film on the honor system;[11] and $1 million in support of the University's South Lawn Project.[12] Most recently, the society gave a $777,777.77 grant to fund the Mead Endowment, which awards grants to professors to teach their "dream classes."[13]
In addition to granting spontaneous gifts, the Seven Society sponsors an annual $7,000 graduate fellowship award for superb teaching.
Zeta Phi
The Zeta Phi Society was a fraternal organization founded at the University of Missouri (MU or Mizzou) in Columbia, Missouri in 1870. The society became a chapter of Beta Theta Pi in 1890. It is the oldest fraternity in continuous existence at the University and the first fraternity founded west of the Mississippi River.
Red Dragon Society
The Red Dragon Society is a secret society based at New York University, in New York, New York. It is one of the oldest student secret societies in the United States, along with Skull and Bones of Yale University[1] [2]. The Red Dragon has maintained its selective membership and is notorious for its secrecy since its founding in 1898.ANAK Society
The ANAK Society is the oldest known secret society and honor society based at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Founded in 1908, ANAK's purpose is "to honor outstanding juniors and seniors who have shown both exemplary leadership and a true love for Georgia Tech".[1] The society's name refers to Anak, a biblical figure said to be the forefather of a race of giants.Quill and Dagger
Quill and Dagger is a senior honor society at Cornell University. It is often recognized as one of the most prominent collegiate societies of its type, along with Skull and Bones of Yale University.[1][2] It has been called "the highest non-scholastic honor within the reach of undergraduates" at Cornell University.[3]Sachems and the Nacoms
Not much info, in Columbia University.
Alpha Theta of Theta Nu Epsilon in 1917
QEBH at Tap Day 2006
Skull and Bones
Skull and Bones is a secret society based at Yale University (but not on Yale land)[1], in New Haven, Connecticut. The society's alumni organization, which owns the society's real property and oversees the organization's activity, is the Russell Trust Association, and is named after General William Huntington Russell[2], founding member of the Bones' organization along with fellow classmate Alphonso Taft. In conversation, the group is known as "Bones", and members have been known as "Bonesmen".[3]
In the 2004 U.S. Presidential election, both the Democratic and Republican nominees were members. George W. Bush writes in his autobiography, "[In my] senior year I joined Skull and Bones, a secret society; so secret, I can't say anything more."[4] When asked what it meant that he and Bush were both Bonesmen, former Presidential candidate John Kerry said, "Not much because it's a secret."The certain existence of societies without physical real property (Sage and Chalice) suggests that there may be any number of unknown secret societies at Yale. Certainly there have been many which did not last long enough to leave any significant records. Indeed, the Yale Rumpus has in recent years published names of students it believes are in various secret societies.[46] According to the Rumpus, in addition to the secret societies listed in this wikipedia page, numerous other societies (including "Spade and Grave," "Truth and Courage," "Ceres Athena," "St. Elmo's," "Gryphon," "Fork and Knife," "Ink and Needle," etc.) are either active or have been active recently. Many of these societies are called "underground" societies, given their lack of physical space. They typically meet in off campus apartments, fraternity common rooms, classrooms, and other available spaces. Some groups have enough resources to rent a permanent meeting space. These societies vary in age; some were founded in the 19th, 20th, or the 21st century. Given the extracurricular zeal and competition for society spots evident in the Yale student body culture, a definitive list of secret societies that exist on the campus (or on any campus) can change year by year. While newer societies may appear trivial to the outside observer, it is important to note that yesterday's "underground" society can become tomorrow's landed society (as the example of Mace and Chain proves) and that even young societies can draw in prominent members (see Sage and Chalice).The secret society tendency for mortuary-themed concepts, and the prevalence of Yale men in the creation of the U.S. intelligence community[47] is often suggested to be why the term "spook" (an undergraduate society member) became a colloquialism for a spy. For more on Yale secret society members' influences on intelligence agencies, see the discussion in the article on Skull & Bones.
Phi Beta Kappa
Phi Beta Kappa, originally a secret student group akin to contemporary fraternities, held meetings devoted to debate and literature, was inactive at Yale from 1871–1884. Anti-Masonic agitation in the 1820s prompted discussion of the secrecy shrouding Phi Beta Kappa. Associated with Phi Beta Kappa's reorganiztion in 1881, secrecy disappeared as a practice among all chapters, quelling rivalry with social fraternities.U.S. Presidents Share a Phi Beta Kappa Connection
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Name  | Year Established | Type | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jefferson Society | 1825 | No longer secret | Active |
| Philomathean Society[34] | 1849 | Semisecret | Inactive |
| Eli Banana[35] | 1878 | Semisecret | Active |
| T.I.L.K.A. | 1889 | Semisecret | Active |
| Z Society | 1892 | Semisecret | Active |
| IMP Society (Hot Feet) | 1902 | Semisecret | Active |
| Seven Society[36] | 1905 | Secret | Active |
| Purple Shadows[37] | 1963 | Secret | Active |
| P.U.M.P.K.I.N. Society[25][38] | ca. 1967 | Secret | Active |
| Rotunda Burning Society[33][31] | betw. 1974 and 1993 | Secret | Active |
| 21 Society[27][28] | 1999 | Secret | Active |
| Sons of Liberty[29] | bef. 2008 | Secret | Active |
How the Secret Societies Got that way.
These are just the ones that have some public information. With all these alliances, should we wonder why government runs the way it does? This type of structure will not allow "change".
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That round sure makes you wonder about hearing terms containing reference to societies, like "Wolf at the door" in some politician's evening soundbite!
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