The Ivy Club
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The Ivy Club, founded in 1879, was the first eating club at Princeton University, in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The members of each class are selected through bicker, a series of 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." 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 [1].
Beginning in the summer of 2007, the club will undergo 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. The renovation will include the addition of a two-story Great Hall, and an underground Crypt to provide additional study space.
[edit] Notable alumni
- 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 from Maryland
- Rodman Wanamaker – Founder of the Professional Golfers Association (PGA)
- Booth Tarkington – Pulitzer Prize winning novelist
- Arthur Krock –Four-time Pulitzer Prize winning journalist
- John Gilbert Winant –Governor of New Hampshire
- Hobey Baker – World War I fighter pilot, only member of Hockey Hall of Fame and U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame
- John Marshall Harlan II – Associate Justice, United States Supreme Court
- Laurance Rockefeller – venture capitalist, philanthropist and environmentalist
- John Rawls – Preeminent American political philosopher, author of Theory of Justice, originator of idea of the original position.
- Richard B Fisher – Philanthropist and former Chairman, Morgan Stanley
- Blair Lee III – Governor of Maryland
- James A. Baker III – Chief of Staff for Ronald Reagan; Secretary of Treasury and Secretary of State for George H. W. Bush
- Jim Leach – Fomer U.S. Congressman from Iowa
- 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 of Office of Management and Budget under George W. Bush
- Thomas F. Gibson – First Political Cartoonist of USA Today and Director of Communication under Ronald Reagan
- Michael Lewis – author of Moneyball and Liar's Poker
- Fred Hitz – Former Inspector General of the Central Intelligence Agency
- AB "Buzzy" 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 Coleman – former President of the National League
[edit] External links
- Official Ivy Club Website
- History and culture of the clubs, at Princeton's official site.
- Further information on the renovation from the architect's website
