The Ivy Club is the oldest eating club at Princeton University. It was founded in 1879 with Arthur Hawley Scribner as its first head.[1] The members of each class are selected through the bicker process, a series of ten screening interviews, which are followed by discussions amongst the members as to whom of the remaining to admit.
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 the Henley 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.[2]
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 by Demetri Porphyrios, the new wing will include a two-story Great Hall and a crypt to provide additional study space.
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Notable alumni
- Arthur Hawley Scribner - first head of the eating club[1]
- 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 – Arts Patron and Founder of the Professional Golfers' Association of America (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 – 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 – Former 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 – White House Chief of Staff and Office of Management and Budget director under George W. Bush
- Thomas F. Gibson – first political cartoonist of USA Today and Director of Communication under Ronald Reagan
- Terdema Ussery – president and CEO of the Dallas Mavericks professional basketball team
- Michael Lewis – author of Moneyball and Liar's Poker
- Frederick Hitz – Former Inspector General of the Central 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 the National League
References
- ^ a b "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.". New York Times. July 4, 1932. http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F10D16FC3E5513738DDDAD0894DF405B828FF1D3. Retrieved 2008-07-24. "Arthur Hawley Scribner, president of the publishing house of Charles Scribner's Sons, died of a heart attack In his sleep early ..."
- ^ Eating Clubs Records, 1879-2005: Finding Aid
- Rich, Frederic C. (1979). The First Hundred Years of The Ivy Club. Princeton, NJ: The Ivy Club. ISBN 0-934756-00-7.
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
- At Ivy Club, A Trip Back to Elitism from the New York Times
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