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Nice publishers yellow paperback binding with club insignia embossed on the cover
Dimensions: 6” x 9” x 0.5”
Privately printed for the Club - 2002
[146] pp.
Condition: Like New - Binding is sturdy with no tears or rips. Some very light shelf wear to corners/edges. No missing pages.
A rare find!
The Manuscript Society is a secret society, founded in 1951 at Yale University, in New Haven, Connecticut, with the first graduating class being 1953. The Manuscript Society was one of the first senior societies to offer membership to rising females at Yale. The society is one of the reputed “Elite Eight\" societies at Yale, along with Skull and Bones, Scroll and Key and Wolf\'s Head. Each spring the society admits fifteen rising seniors to participate in its activities and carry on its traditions.
This is a RARE and EXTRAORDINARY copy of the Manuscript’\'s history published in 2002 but covers the society\'s history through 2001.
Famous members include:
David Calleo - Intellectual historian and political economist at John’s Hopkins University
Anderson Cooper - Journalist
Eli Whitney Debevoise II - US Director of the World Bank
Jodi Foster - Actress
David Gergen - Presidential advisor and political advisor
H. John Heinz - US Senator; scion of the Heinz ketchup fortune
And many more!
This book is quite rare, privately printed and has 146 pages.
Manuscript 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 achievements in the arts.
