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The Yale Club was created in 1897 by the Old Yale Alumni Association of New York, a 29-year-old organization that wanted a permanent clubhouse. One of the incorporators was Senator Chauncey Depew , whose 1890 portrait by the Swiss-born American artist Adolfo Müller-Ury hangs in the building.
Mace and Chain Tomb. Mace and Chain is an undergraduate senior secret student society at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.As one of the "Ancient Eight"—a distinction reserved for societies that own their own tomb—it was founded in 1956 with the mission of offering fifteen rising seniors a traditional senior society experience in a more open and modern setting.
The society is one of the "Big Three" societies at Yale, along with Skull and Bones and Scroll and Key. [2] Active undergraduate membership is elected annually with sixteen Yale University students, typically rising seniors. Honorary members are elected. The current delegation spends its year together answerable to an alumni association.
The second-oldest Latin-letter society, the P.D.A. Society ("Please Don't Ask"), in 1776 refused entry to John Heath, then a student at the college; rebuffed, he in the same year established the first Greek-letter secret society at the college, the Phi Beta Kappa, modeling it on the two older fraternities (see the Flat Hat Club). The Phi Beta ...
Dwight Hall at Yale is a student-run, staff supported public service and social action organization at Yale University. Founded in 1886, "The Hall" stands as one of the oldest and most storied collegiate public service institutions in the nation.
A self-described adrenaline junkie whose hobbies include ice climbing, he was a student at Penn State in the 1980s when it won a national championship in football and later worked at the University of Michigan during a Final Four run in basketball. He has seen how sports success can unite alumni and spark interest in a university.
Members of Delta Kappa Epsilon who have completed their undergraduate education are eligible for membership in The Delta Kappa Epsilon Club of New York. [4] The DKE Club was founded on May 9, 1885, [ 5 ] occupying several clubhouses in Midtown Manhattan , [ 6 ] including 30 West 44th Street which it purchased from The Yale Club of New York City ...
The Ivy Council hosts conferences that draw student leaders from the Ivy League and partner organizations. The Ivy Leadership Congress (ILC) is an annual conference hosted by the Ivy Council to bring together students leaders from the eight Ivy League universities along with leaders from the business, government, academics, and non-profit ...