- The Ivy Club
The Ivy Club, was founded in 1879 with
Arthur Hawley Scribner as its first head.cite news |first= |last= |authorlink= |coauthors= |title=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. |url=http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F10D16FC3E5513738DDDAD0894DF405B828FF1D3 |quote=Arthur Hawley Scribner, president of the publishing house of Charles Scribner's Sons, died of a heart attack In his sleep early ... |work=New York Times |date=July 4 ,1932 |accessdate=2008-07-24 ] It was the first eating club atPrinceton University . The members of each class are selected through "bicker", a series of ten interviews followed by discussions amongst the members.The Club is described by
F. Scott Fitzgerald in "This Side of Paradise " (1920) as "detached and breathlessly aristocratic." It has even occasionally entered its own boat into theHenley Royal Regatta , something ordinarily done by larger sports clubs or official university teams. In addition to offering waited meals to its members and functioning as a social facility, Ivy serves an academic role in the university community. Undergraduate members also host regular "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. [ [http://libweb.princeton.edu/libraries/firestone/rbsc/finding_aids/eat-club.html Eating Clubs Records, 1879-2005: Finding Aid ] ]Ivy's current clubhouse was designed in 1897 by the firm of
Cope & Stewardson . In 2007, the club began its most significant renovation to date. The expansion will add a second wing to the facility, changing the club's current L-shaped layout to a U. Designed byDemetri Porphyrios , the new wing will include a two-story Great Hall and acrypt to provide additional study space.Notable alumni
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Arthur Hawley Scribner - first head of the eating club
*James Hogue aka Alexis Indris Santana--Impostor who famously gained admission at Princeton by posing as self-taught orphan
*Woodrow Wilson –U.S. President , 1913-1921 (Associate Graduate Member)
*Blair Lee I –United States Senator fromMaryland
*Rodman Wanamaker – Arts Patron and Founder of theProfessional Golfers' Association of America (PGA)
*Booth Tarkington –Pulitzer Prize -winning novelist
*Arthur Krock –Four-timePulitzer Prize winningjournalist
*John Gilbert Winant –Governor ofNew Hampshire
*Hobey Baker –World War I fighter pilot , only member ofHockey Hall of Fame andU.S. Hockey Hall of Fame
*John Marshall Harlan II –Associate Justice ,United States Supreme Court
*Laurance Rockefeller –venture capitalist ,philanthropist andenvironmentalist
*John Rawls – Preeminent Americanpolitical philosopher , author of "Theory of Justice ", originator of idea of theoriginal position .
*Richard B Fisher – Philanthropist and former Chairman,Morgan Stanley
*Blair Lee III –Governor ofMaryland
*James A. Baker III – Chief of Staff forRonald Reagan ;Secretary of Treasury andSecretary of State forGeorge H. W. Bush
*Jim Leach – FomerU.S. Congressman fromIowa
*Saud bin Faisal bin Abdul Aziz –Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister
*Bill Ford – Chairman and CEO,Ford Motor Company
*Joshua B. Bolten – Chief of Staff and former Director ofOffice of Management and Budget underGeorge W. Bush
*Thomas F. Gibson – firstpolitical cartoonist of USA Today and Director of Communication underRonald Reagan
*Terdema Ussery – president and CEO of theDallas Mavericks professionalbasketball team
*Michael Lewis – author of "Moneyball" and "Liar's Poker"
*Frederick Hitz – Former Inspector General of theCentral Intelligence Agency
*A.B. Krongard – Executive Director of the CIA
*Lauren Bush – niece of George W. Bush
*Philip Bobbitt – Princeton Trustee, author of "The Shield of Achilles: War, Peace, and the Course of History"
*Leonard S. Coleman, Jr. – former President of theNational League External links
* [http://www.princeton.edu/~thevine Official Ivy Club Website]
* [http://etc.princeton.edu/CampusWWW/Companion/eating_clubs.html History and culture] of the clubs, at Princeton's official site.
* [http://www.jamesbradberry.com/Ivy.html Further information on the renovation] from the architect's website
* [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0DE3D91F3FF935A25756C0A96F958260 At Ivy Club, A Trip Back to Elitism ] from the New York Timesources
*cite book |title=The First Hundred Years of The Ivy Club |last=Rich |first=Frederic C. |authorlink= |coauthors= |year=1979 |publisher=The Ivy Club |location=Princeton, NJ |isbn=0-934756-00-7 |pages=
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