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Scroll & Key - Yale Senior Society - Memorial Sketches of Members Killed in WW2
Book Details:
Blue hardcover binding with a gold Scroll & Key engraved on the cover
Privately printed for the Club - 1948
Includes biographical and personal information about members of the club killed in World War II
Condition: Very Good - Boards and hinges are sturdy with no tears or cracks. Some light shelf wear to corners/edges. No missing pages.
A rare find!
This is a RARE and EXTRAORDINARY copy of the Scroll & Key Society\'s \"Memorial Sketches of Members Who Gave Their Lives in WWII.\" Scroll & Key is one of Yale’s most exclusive senior / secret societies.
Keys has the largest endowment of the senior secret societies. This book is quite rare and privately printed.
Scroll and Key taps annually a delegation of fifteen, composed of men and women of the junior class, to serve the following year. Membership is offered to a diverse group of highly accomplished juniors, specifically those who have \"achieved in any field, academic, extra-curricular, or personal.\" Delegations frequently include editors of the Yale Daily News and other publications, artists and musicians, social and political activists, athletes of distinction, entrepreneurs, and high achieving scholars.
Famous members include:
Calvin Trillin - Author
Bart Giamatti - Yale President
Gary Trudeau - Cartoonist
Sargent Shriver - Peace Corps founder
Dean Acheson - Diplomat, Secretary of State
Benjamin Spock - Pediatrician and Olympic Medalist
Cyrus Vance - Secretary of State
Fareed Zakaria - Journalist
Stone Phillips - News Anchor
And many more!
