There was a chapter of Skull and Bones* on campus!



Special thanks to ArcBoyeee for finding this!

* - The super elite secret society that started at Yale and has had such high-profile members as: George H. W. Bush, George W. Bush, and John Kerry. Seeing as how this particular chapter was featured in the Agromeck, it was probably not as prominent as the one at Yale.

10/11/2010 12:09:43 AM

It only shows up in one Agromeck. No photos. That's it.

http://www.archive.org/stream/agromeck1917nort#page/n251/mode/2up

if you wanna dig around yourself. It's a nice resource.

[Edited on October 11, 2010 at 12:12 AM. Reason : link]

10/11/2010 12:11:34 AM

Sweet!

10/11/2010 12:12:52 AM

huh. it's weird a secret society would broadcast the names of their members in the school yearbook. Maybe someone bought a one page ad and put the names in there to out them as part of some sort of plot or scheme.

10/11/2010 7:11:08 AM

wikipedia disagrees with agromeck

someone who knows what's up should set it straight

Quote :

"The only chapter of Skull and Bones created outside Yale was a chapter at Wesleyan University in 1870. That chapter, the Beta of Skull & Bones, became independent in 1872 in a dispute over control over creating additional chapters; the Beta Chapter reconstituted itself as Theta Nu Epsilon.[9][10]"

also ^

Quote :

"Judy Schiff, Chief Archivist at the Yale University Library, has written: "The names of (S&B's) members weren't kept secret, that was an innovation of the 1970s, but its meetings and practices were. The secrecy seems to have attracted fascination and curiosity from the start.""

[Edited on October 11, 2010 at 7:28 PM. Reason : ^]

10/11/2010 7:27:36 PM

I'm pretty sure they weren't trying to hide the membership. George C. Cox has it listed under his entry as a Senior earlier in the book. The others probably do too but I happen to have his link handy from other research.

http://www.archive.org/stream/agromeck1917nort#page/38/mode/1up/search/chandler

10/11/2010 9:36:03 PM

you would

:-)

10/11/2010 11:22:59 PM

p 144. one of the company sponsors was "killed" by censorship - wonder what it was a picture of?

p 246. "we admit that this book is all" [picture of a dog] "but we hope you like it"

i like the pictures at the beginning, looks like state college used to be all green

lol at p263



[Edited on October 12, 2010 at 11:47 PM. Reason : still reading]

10/12/2010 11:33:48 PM

Pg 144 probably showed a bit of leg or a shoulder!

10/13/2010 2:23:03 AM

Quote :

"lol at p263"

hahaha

http://www.archive.org/stream/agromeck1931nort#page/358/mode/2up

The jokes on pg 358 are pretty funny.

[Edited on October 14, 2010 at 3:29 PM. Reason : a]

10/14/2010 3:17:01 PM