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BONESMAN--DKE LINK REVEALED
Sun Mar 14, 1999
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Skull and bones
From: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Dear Sir,
I resent that you only think that skull and bones exist
only at Yale. That is a half truth. Every member of Skull
and Bones is also a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon although
the reverse is not true. DKE was founded at Yale in 1844
by 15 Yale sophmores and is now on many college campuses
throughout the country with such notables as Dan Quale and
Gerald Ford as members. Please get your facts straight.
Sincerely,
Guillaume Williams, ZZ '88
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Albert C. Stevens, THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF FRATERNITIES
351-353 (1907).
"Delta Kappa Epsilon. Organized on June 22, 1844, at Yale
College, by William W. Atwater, Edward G. Barlett,
Frederick P. Bellinger, Jr. Henry Case, George F. Chester,
John B. Conyngham, Thomas I. Franklin, W. Walter Horton,
William Boyd Jacohs, Edward V. Kinsley, Chester N.
Righter, Elisha Bacon Shapleigh, Thomas D. Sherwood,
Alfred Everett Stetson and Orson W. Stow, who had just
completed their sophomore year. They had contemplated
being elected members of Psi Upsilon in a body, but some
of thent failing to secure an election to that junior
society, the fifteen stood together and formed a new
junior societv with the foregoing title, to compete with
Alpha Delta Phi and Psi Upsilon, which, until then, had
monopolized junior year Greek-letter soeicty interests at
Yale.
Delta Kappa Epsilon, or "D. K. E." as it is usually
called, beat all records at extension, by placing chapters
at thirty-two colleges and universities between the year
it was founded and the outbreak of the war in 1861, going
as far as Miami and the University of Michigan in the West
and to colleges in Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee,
Mississippi and Louisiana at the South. The southern
chapters were rendered dormant by the war, and since 1866
the fraternity has been much more particular in creating
branches, has made more of an effort to revive inactive
chapterss than to place new ones. Its original plan did
not contemplate a general fraternity, but early
opportunities for new chapters presenting themselves, a
plan for the propagation of "D. K. E." was organized and
was carried out with a thoroughness which, owing in part
to the war, reacted general standing of the society. From
1870 to date the society has built upon far better
foundatiotion and with more care and skill, and ranks as
the largest general college fraternity, with more than
12,000 members, nearly 10 per cent. of the total
membership of the world of Greek-letter societies. The
impression has always prevailed that the parent chapter of
"D. K. E." exercises a dominant influence over the entire
organization, but this has been denied. Certain it is
that, at times, the tie between the Yale "Deke" and his
fraters from other colleges is not as strong as tbat
between members of different chapters of almost any
other college fraternity. But this may due to the peculiar
society system at Yale rather than to a peculiarity in the
government or personnel of Delta Kappa Epsilon. Its
Harvard chapter ran against the anti-fraternity laws there
in 1858 and practically ceased to exist as a chapter of
Delta Kappa Epsilon until 1863. It had not initiated
members for several years, but held meetings in Boston,
where it became known as the "Dicky Club." The chapter was
revived as a sophmore society in 1863, and exists to-day,
occasionally challenging attention when some accident
reveals to the public its ridiculous and at times
reprehensible method of initiating candidates. Dicky Club
is no longer "D. K. E." Quite a number of chapters of "D.
K. E." have houses of their own; the "D. K. E." club in
New York stands as high as similar institutions there, and
there arc associations of "D. K. E." alumni at a score
of cities which hold annual reunions and cultivate the
fraternal relations begun during college life. The
fraternity is governed by an advisory council which is
incorporated. The badge resembles that of Psi Upsilon,
except that in the centre of the black field the golden
letters Delta Kappa Epsilon appear upon a white scroll.
Much is made of armorial bearings, each chapter having a
distinct blazon. The fraternity emblem is a lion rampant,
in black, on a gold background.
On its list of names of distinguished members are those of
United States Senators M. C. Butler and Calvin S. Brice;
Perry Belmont, W. D. Washburn, John D. Long, A. Miner
Griswold, A. P. Burbnak, Theodore Roosevelt, John Bach
McMaster, George Ticknor Curtis, Julian Hawthorne, Robert
Grant, Theodore Winthrop, William L. Alden, ex-Governor
MeCreary of Kentucky; Wayne Mcveagh, Charles S. Fairchild,
General Francis A. Walker, Whitelaw Reid, Robert T.
Lincoln, Stewart L. Woodford, Mark H. Dunnell and Henry
Cabot Lodge."
MORE DEKE HISTORY:
1850s--National fraternities establish Harvard chapters,
among them: Delta Kappa Epsilon (1852), Zeta Psi (1852),
Psi Upsilon (1856), Theta Delta Chi (1857). Fraternities
become such a nuisance that the faculty abolishes them
around 1857. Although the ban is lifted in 1865, some are
found to have persisted in hiding.
Early in 1852, a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon from Yale
came to Oxford for a visit and fell in with McNutt and his
friends. The visitor, Jacob Cooper, saw here a likely
group of Dekes and proceeded to initiate them; the Kappa
chapter was established at Miami on March 2, 1852, with
six original members and six more added before the year
was out.
The Porcellian was the loftiest of Harvard's "final"
clubs. The selection process was rigidly hierarchical.
First you had to get into the Institute of 1770, the
oldest and largest club. If you were among the first 70 or
80 of the 100 sophomores accepted, you were taken into
Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity ("the Dickey"). Then you
might join a "waiting" club, and at last a final club like
Porcellian or A.D. Your chances improved if you were a
"legacy"; i.e., related to a member.
OTHER DEKES (MOSTLY FROM CURRENT BIOGRAPHY):
CHAFEE, JOHN H.--U.S. Senator, R.I.
DAVIS, ARCHIE K. (Jan. 22, 1911- )--Banker; former
association official. Of all the issues that occupied
Archie K. Davis as president of the American Bankers
Association in 1965-66, probably the most pressing was his
organization's fight against centralized control of
banking under a federal agency. In championing the dual
system of banking, which permits banks a choice of
operating under national or state charter, Davis spoke for
an association made up of over 18,000 banks and
representing 97.5 percent of the commercial banks of the
country. He is a former North Carolina state Senator and
since 1956 has been chairman of the board of the largest
bank in the Southeast, the Wachovia Bank and Trust Company
of Winston-Salem. For his college preparatory training
Davis attended Woodberry Forest School, a private school
in Orange, Virginia. In 1929, upon his graduation, he
entered the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill,
where he majored in history and completed the
undergraduate course in three years. His social fraternity
was Delta Kappa Epsilon. The recipient of the university's
Algernon Sydney Sulivan Award for outstanding leadership,
he also won election to Phi Beta Kappa and obtained his
B.A. degree with honors in 1932.
DUNHAM, CHARLES L. (Dec. 28, 1906- )--Physician; United
States government official occupying a position in
government that has often subjected him to questioning and
criticism from scientists and members of Congress alike,
Dr. Charles L. Dunham has served the United States Atomic
Energy Commission as director of its division of biology
and medicine since October 1955. He had the responsibility
for supervising the spending of many millions of dollars
annually for work on the application of radioactive
materials and processes to problems of biology,
agriculture, and the diagnosis and treatment of diseases.
These areas of study are so new that even among experts
sharply divergent views remain unreconciled. One of
Dunham's concerns has been with research on a worldwide
scale to estimate the long-range effects on the human
population of radioactive fallout from the testing of
nuclear devices. In his frequent testimony before
Congressional committees Dr. Dunham adopted an objective
and straightforward approach to the difficult and pressing
problems of the nuclear age. On June 22, 1932 Charles L.
Dunham married Lucia Elizabeth Jordan. They have three
children: George Stuart, Carol Jordan, and Sara Gale.
Dunham's Greek-letter societies are Nu Sigma Nu, Delta
Kappa Epsilon, and Sigma Xi; and his clubs are the Cosmos
and International of Washington and the Elizabethan of
Yale University.
Gerald Rudolph Ford, Jr. (BB/CFR). Former President of
U.S. Best known as wild-swing golfer. Attended 1962, 1964,
1965, 1966 and 1970 Bilderberger meetings. Prince Bernard,
two years before becoming Chairman of the Bilderbergers,
came to the U.S. in 1952 to campaign for Ford when he
first ran for Congress. Described by Bo Gritz as "a
Rockefeller protege." Replaced Spiro Agnew (who resigned
on 10-10-1973). First non-elected president under the 25th
amendment. Pardoned Nixon (9-8-1974) and appointed Nelson
Rockefeller the 2nd non-elected Vice-president (12-1974).
Admitted in a newspaper interview (10-6-1965) that he had
attended two Bilderberger meetings but claimed it was only
an unofficial changing group. When asked why the meetings
were secret, he replied: "I am also a 33rd degree Mason
and a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon, Phi Delta Phi and
Michigamus--all secret societies." He and Henry Kissinger
(both agents of David Rockefeller) convinced Ronald Reagn
to choose George Bush as his VP candidate. Served on
George Bush's National Security Task Force with Henry
Kissinger, Brent Scowcraft and Zbigniew Brzezinski.
Bohemian Grove Participant (Mandalay Lodge). Member,
Warren Commission (1963-1964). Honorary Director,
Citigroup. Director, Santa Fe International (owned by
Sabah family of Kuwait s. 1981). Director, Travelers Group
Inc. (owns 71,598 shares).
GALLICO III, GREGORY (S&B 1968), a Boston Plastic Surgeon,
told the Fort Worth Star Telegram (Austin American-
Statesman Dec. 18, 1998) about himself, Governor Bush (S&B
1968) and other Delta Kappa Epsilon brothers at Yale:
"Drank a ton in college. It was absolutely off the wall.
It was appalling. I cannot for the life of me figure out
how we made it through." Bush told GQ Magazine, while
drinking a non-alcoholic beer: "I had more than my fill of
the real stuff. Ask the guys who used to hang with me back
then. It wasn't pretty." The Governor stopped drinking 12
years ago.
MCKELLAR, K. D. (Jan. 29, 1869-Oct. 25, 1957)--United
States Senator from Tennessee; lawyer. When Vice-President
of the United States Harry S. Truman succeeded to the
Presidency in April 1945, seventy-six-year-old Senator K.
D. McKellar took over the duties of Senate president pro
tem. To "K.D.," as he is known to the Tennessee
constituents who have made him the dean of the upper
chamber, this meant that to his power and prestige were
added: recognizing speakers, appointing the members of
special and conference committees, interpreting the rules,
and generally presiding over the Senate deliberations.
Unlike a Vice-President, McKellar retained all the rights
of a Senator; and in May 1946 he received the chairmanship
of the powerful Appropriations Committee, of which he had
been acting chairman.President Truman had also given
McKellar the unprecedented privilege of sitting in on
Cabinet meetings. honorary degrees, by the University of
Alabama, Tusculum College, and Lincoln Memorial
University. He is a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon, is a
thirty-second-degree Mason (Shriner) and an Odd Fellow,
and has written a 625-page book, Tennessee Senators.
QUAYLE, DAN--His immersion in golf and Republican politics
apparently left him so little time for study that his
mediocre academic record led the school's guidance
counselor to advise him against applying to DePauw
University, in Greencastle, Indiana, though it was the
alma mater of both of his parents and of his grandfather.
He applied anyway and was accepted in 1965. At DePauw he
majored in political science, captained the golf team, and
became vice-president of Delta Kappa Epsilon, the same
social fraternity that had been pledged by his father and
grandfather, as well as by George Bush, during his college
days at Yale
REID, WHITELAW (July 26, 1913- Editor; publisher. In
succeeding to the editorship of the New York Herald
Tribune upon the death of his father, Ogden Mills Reid, in
January 1947, Whitelaw Reid became the fifth editor of
that major United States newspaper since its founding by
Horace Greeley more than a century ago as the New York
Tribune. In 1953 he was named president of the corporation
which publishes the Herald Tribune, having served six
years as vice-president. He succeeded his mother, Mrs.
Helen Rogers Reid, who became chairman of the board.
During World War II Reid served for four years as a U.S.
Navy aviator and saw action in the Pacific theater. While
studying for his B.A. degree at Yale University, New
Haven, Connecticut, where his major subject was sociology,
he belonged to the freshman swimming team, the Yale
Political Union, Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity, and Book
and Snake. He was also publicity manager of the Yale
dramatic association and assistant business manager of the
Yale Daily News. After his graduation in 1936, Reid and
six of his classmates sailed a small schooner, Vagabond,
from Norway to the United States. He helped to get a
reporter's job on the Herald Tribune for one of his Yale
swimming team companions, John Crosby, who now is one of
the newspaper's most widely read columnists.
Situated near the suite of Harrison Rooms is another small
conference room, named for a contemporary of Benjamin
Harrison. Whitelaw Reid was one of the first 12 members of
the Miami chapter of Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity,
founded in 1852. He graduated from the University to
become the editor of the New York Tribune, a member of
the commission that negotiated peace with Spain and a
speaker to the 1884 Commencement. In 1892, Republicans
Harrison and Reid became the only Presidential ticket in
history to claim graduates from the same University.
Whitelaw Reid Room--Situated near the suite of Harrison
Rooms is another small conference room, named for a
contemporary of Benjamin Harrison. Whitelaw Reid was one
of the first 12 members of the Miami chapter of Delta
Kappa Epsilon fraternity, founded in 1852. He graduated
from the University to become the editor of the New York
Tribune, a member of the commission that negotiated peace
with Spain and a speaker to the 1884 Commencement. In
1892, Republicans Harrison and Reid became the only
Presidential ticket in history to claim graduates from the
same University. Due to its location away from the major
traffic flow in Shriver Center, this conference room is
ideally suited for groups who desire minimal distraction
or greater privacy. The Whitelaw Reid Room can easily
accommodate 12 to 15 people around the conference table.
STRAUS, JACK I. (Jan. 13, 1900-Sep. 19, 1985)--Department
store executive. The chief executive of what has been
described as the "world's largest store" is Jack I.
Straus, the third in successive generations of the Straus
family to head R. H. Macy & Company, Inc. Associated with
the New York store since his graduation from college, Jack
Straus became its president in 1940 after serving in
administrative capacities in most of the departments and
as vice-president from 1933 to 1939. For a year previous
to assuming his present position he was acting president
in charge of all operations of the institution. In the
subsequent years, as department stores in other cities in
the United States were acquired by Macy, Straus became
director of these wholly owned subsidiaries and divisions.
The business executive, known also for his service in
civic affairs, has been since 1942 the director of the
Greater New York Fund. Jack Isidor Straus was born in New
York City on January 13, 1900, one of three children of
Jesse Isidor and Irma (Nathan) Straus. He is the grandson
of Isidor Straus, who in 1854 came as a small boy to the
United States from Rhenish Bavaria, worked as supply agent
for the Confederate States in 1863, and in 1866 joined his
father and his brothers, Nathan and Oscar Solomon Straus
(CFR21), in forming the firm of L. Straus and Sons,
importers of pottery and glassware. In 1888, with his
brother Nathan, he became one of the partners of the R. H.
Macy & Company department store in New York City and later
a member of the firm of Abraham & Straus of Brooklyn, New
York. Jack I. Straus's father, Jesse Isidor Straus, was
also an executive of Abraham & Straus and from 1919 to
1933 was president of R. H. Macy & Company. During the
last few years of his life he was United States Ambassador
to France. Other members of the Straus family have also
been business executives, have held government positions,
and have been directors of philanthropic societies. In
this environment of business and philanthropy the member
of the third generation of Straus executives spent his
early years. For his secondary education Jack Straus
attended the Westminster Preparatory School, in Simsbury,
Connecticut, graduating in 1917. He then entered Harvard
College, of which his father was an alumnus, and chose
English as his major study. At Harvard Straus was a member
of the Hasty Pudding Club and the Delta Kappa Epsilon
fraternity.
SWIFT, HAROLD H. (Jan. 24, 1885-June 8, 1962) Meat packer
Swift & Company, the largest of the "Big Four" meat
packers, has as chairman of its board of directors Harold
H. Swift, youngest son of the founder of the firm. He
entered that company in 1908. Active in philanthropic
projects, he was a member of the Rockefeller General
Education Board and of the executive committee of the
Chicago Community Trust, and is a trustee of the
Rockefeller Foundation. He was chairman of the United
States Treasury War Finance Committee of Illinois during
1941-44 and a member of the President's Commission on
Higher Education (1946-48). Born in Chicago, Illinois, on
January 24, 1885, Harold Higgins Swift is the youngest son
in a family of eleven children. The parents, Gustavus
Franklin and Ann Maria (Higgins) Swift, were descendants
of English ancestors who came to America on the Mayflower.
Among the members of the American Swift family were Doctor
Thomas Swift, who settled in Dorchester, Massachusetts, in
1630, and General Joseph A. Swift, who was one of the
first graduates of West Point (1802), and who served in
the War of 1812. Harold Swift attended the Graham Grammar
School and the Hyde Park High School in Chicago. He was
president of his high school senior class when he was
graduated in 1903 (the year his father died). Entering the
University of Chicago, he majored in economics and
English; he was president of the senior class and a member
of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity. Upon his graduation
in 1907 he received the Ph.B. degree. One year later he
joined the firm his father had founded.
WOOLLEN, EVANS, JR. (Mar. 15, 1897-Jan. 25, 1959)--Banker;
bankers' association official. The president of the
American Bankers Association for 1948-49 was Evans
Woollen, Jr., Indianapolis banker, who was active in many
of the organization's committees. The Fletcher Trust
Company, of which Woollen was chairman of the board, is
one of Indianapolis' largest commercial banks. He has also
participated in civic affairs, having held a number of
posts in educational as well as welfare organizations in
his home city. Evans Woollen, Jr., was born in
Indianapolis, Indiana, on March 15, 1897. His parents are
Evans and Nancy (Baker) Woollen, who sent him to the
Hotchkiss School in Lakeville, Connecticut, for his
secondary education. After his graduation in 1916, young
Woollen enrolled at Yale University. His college training
was briefly interrupted during World War I when he served
as a second lieutenant in the Seventy-third Field
Artillery. Returning to Yale, where he pledged Delta Kappa
Epsilon, he was awarded the B.A. degree in 1920.
Famous Cornell DKEs
Political Leaders and Public Office Holder
Rutherford Birchard Hayes 'Hon. President of the United
States
Frank DeElwin Nash '72 U. S. Congressman from Washington
John DeWitt Warner '72 U. S. Congressman from New York
Leon Orlando Bailey '80 Indiana Senate Member
Cuthbert Winfred Pound '87 Chief Justice, N. Y. Supreme
Court
Mario Garcia-Menocal, III '88 President of Cuba
Louis William Marcus '89 Justice, N. Y. State Supreme
Court
Maurice Francis Connolly '97 U. S. Congressman from Iowa
Thomas Carey Hennings, Jr. '24 U. S. Senator from Missouri
Andrew John Biemiller '26 U. S. Congressman from Wisconsin
Naval and Military Officers
Webb Cook Hayes '76 LTCOL Congressional Medal of Honor
Mario Garcia Menocal, III '88 MGEN Hero of Victoria de las
Tunas
Robert Julius Thorne '97 Distinguished Service Medal
Samuel E. Hunkin '16 Silver Star for Gallantry
John Milton Nazel, USA '18 PFC Croix de Guerre
Charles Baskerville '19 COL Silver Star for Gallantry
McClary Hazelton Brown '19 Croix de Guerre
C. A. Grasselli, II, USA '22 COL Legion of Merit & British
O.B.E.
Prominent Figures in the Professions
James Julius Chambers '70 Author, Editor and Explorer
Emillus Oviatt Randall '74 Court Reporter and Historian
Charles Edwin Atwood '80 Neurologist
Guy Sterling '87 Civil Engineer and Inventor
Henry Reubin Ickelheimer '88 Investment Banker
Benjamin Lee Wilson '88 Novelist and Educator
Ervin Sidney Ferry '89 Physicist
William Griswold Smith '92 Educator, Mechanical
Engineering
Paul Goodwin Brown '95 Civil Engineer
William Ayer Baldwin '96 Railroad Official
Robert Julius Thorne '97 President, Montgomery Ward & Co.
Dean Clark '98 General Manager, Savage Arms Co.
Norman Allan Merritt '98 President, Lehigh Paper Mills,
Inc
Alden Howe Little '02 Investment Association Executive
Samuel E. Hunkin '16 CEO & President, Hunkin-Conkey
Howard Winchester Hawks '18 Motion Picture Director and
Producer
Charles Baskerville '19 Portrait and Mural Painter
David Selsor Graham '22 Champion Livestock Breeder
Caesar Augustin Grasselli, II '22 Industrialist
Howard Archibald Acheson '23 Industrialist and
Philanthropist
Teneyck Powell '25 Chairman, Powell & Minnick Brickworks
George Townshend Turner, Jr. '29 Smithsonian Curator of
Philately
Robert Trent Jones '30 Landscape Architect
Louis de Agramonte Gimbrede '32 Geologist
Caleb Alan MacDonald '55 President, The Nestle Company
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