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{{Short description|Yale University society members}}
[[Scroll and Key]] is a [[Collegiate secret societies in North America|secret society]] at [[Yale University]] in [[New Haven, Connecticut]].Scroll and Key. It was established in 1841.<ref name=":2">{{Cite news |date=1903-09-13 |title=Change in Skull and Bones; Famous Yale Society Doubles Size of Its House |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1903/09/13/archives/change-in-skull-and-bones-famous-yale-society-doubles-size-of-its.html |access-date=2026-03-12 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> Following are some of the notable members of Scroll and Key.
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{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:left; width:auto"
!Name
!Yale class
!Notability
!{{Refh}}
|-
|[[Dean Acheson]]
|1915
|[[United States Secretary of State]]
|<ref name="history1942" />
|-
|[[James C. Auchincloss]]
|1908
|[[United States House of Representatives]], [[New York Stock Exchange]] governor
|<ref name="history1942" /><ref>{{Cite news |date=1902-05-25 |title=Society at Home and Abroad |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1902/05/25/archives/society-at-home-and-abroad.html |access-date=2026-03-12 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
|-
|[[Tracy Barnes]]
|1933
|Senior [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] official during the [[Cold War]]
|<ref name=":1" />
|-
|[[Peter Beard]]
|1961
|Photographer
|<ref>{{Cite web |title=Peter Beard, Photographer and Artist, Was 82 |url=https://www.easthamptonstar.com/obituaries-villages/2020423/peter-beard-photographer-and-artist-was-82 |access-date=2026-03-12 |website=The East Hampton Star |language=en}}</ref>
|-
|[[Dunbar Bostwick]]
|1932
|competitive horseman, who competed in polo and [[Harness racing]]
|<ref name=":1" />
|-
|[[Benjamin Brewster (financier)|Benjamin Brewster]]
|1929
|Director of Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey (later Exxon)
|<ref name="history1942" />
|-
|[[William C. Bullitt]]
|1912
|[[U.S. Ambassador to France]], [[U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union]]
|<ref name="history1942" />
|-
|[[Leonard Case Jr.]]
|1842
|Founder of [[Case Western Reserve University|Case School of Applied Science]]
|<ref name="history1942">{{cite book |last=Giamatti |first=A. Bartlett |title=History of Scroll and Key, 1942–1972 |publisher=The Scroll and Key Society |year=1978}}</ref>
|-
|[[Wayne Chatfield-Taylor]]
|1916
|Undersecretary of Commerce; [[Assistant Secretary of the Treasury]]
|<ref name="nytimes1">{{cite news |date=1915-05-21 |title=Yale's Great Oak Sees 'Tap Day' Again |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1915/05/21/archives/yales-great-oak-sees-tap-day-again-senior-societies-return-to-the.html |access-date=2008-10-17 |newspaper=The New York Times}}</ref>
|-
|[[Calvin G. Child]]
|1855
|[[United States District Court for the District of Connecticut|United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut]]
|<ref name=":22">{{Cite news |last=Times |first=Special to The New York |date=1903-09-13 |title=CHANGE IN SKULL AND BONES.; Famous Yale Society Doubles Size of Its House -- Addition a Duplicate of Old Building. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1903/09/13/archives/change-in-skull-and-bones-famous-yale-society-doubles-size-of-its.html |access-date=2026-03-12 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
|-
|[[Gilbert Colgate]]
|1883
|President and chairman of [[Colgate & Company]]
|<ref name="history1942" />
|-
|[[H. Page Cross]]
|1932
|Architect
|<ref name=":1">{{Cite news |date=1932-05-13 |title=Sixty are Honored at Yale Tap Day |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1932/05/13/archives/sixty-are-honored-at-yale-tap-day-more-than-20-juniors-from-the.html |access-date=2026-03-12 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
|-
|[[Harvey Cushing]]
|1891
|Neurosurgeon, considered father of brain surgery
|<ref name="time1" />
|-
|[[John Dalzell]]
|1865
|[[United States House of Representatives]]
|<ref name="history1942" />
|-
|[[Edward Salisbury Dana]]
|1870
|[[mineralogist]] and professor of physics at Yale University
|<ref name="history1942" />
|-
|[[Henry deForest]]
|1876
|[[Southern Pacific Railroad]]
|<ref name="history1942" />
|-
|[[William Adams Delano]]
|1895
|Architect who designed many of Yale's buildings
|<ref name="history1942" />
|-
|[[Frederick B. Dent]]
|1944
|[[United States Secretary of Commerce]]
|<ref name="history1942" />
|-
|[[Richardson Dilworth]]
|1921
|[[Mayor of Philadelphia]]
|<ref name="times2">{{cite news |date=May 20, 1921 |title=Tap Day Exercises are held at Yale |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1921/05/20/98691396.pdf |access-date=2008-11-10 |newspaper=New York Times}}</ref>
|-
|[[Peter H. Dominick]]
|1937
|[[United States Senate]], [[United States Secretary of Commerce]], [[U.S. Ambassador to Switzerland]]
|<ref>{{cite web |title=J. Peter Grace — Business Executive, leading Catholic layman, Advisor to three U.S. Presidents — dies at age 81. | Government > Government Bodies & Offices from AllBusiness.com |url=http://www.allbusiness.com/government/government-bodies-offices-heads/7119633-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090108111053/http://www.allbusiness.com/government/government-bodies-offices-heads/7119633-1.html |archive-date=8 January 2009 |access-date=2008-10-17 |publisher=Allbusiness.com}}</ref>
|-
|[[Fred Dubois]]
|1872
|[[United States Senate]]
|<ref name="history1942" />
|-
|[[John Enders]]
|1919
|[[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]]
|<ref name="history1942" />
|-
|[[Thomas Enders]]
|1953
|[[U.S. Ambassador to Spain]], [[U.S. Ambassador to the European Union]], [[U.S. Ambassador to Canada]]
|<ref name="history1942" />
|-
|[[Cory Finley]]
|2011
|Film director
|<ref name="Ivygate">{{cite web |last=D'Addario |first=Daniel |date=April 18, 2010 |title=Exclusive: Yale Secret Society Taps – Scroll and Key + Wolf's Head |url=http://www.ivygateblog.com/2010/04/exclusive-yale-secret-society-taps-scroll-and-key-wolfs-head/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120221221304/http://www.ivygateblog.com/2010/04/exclusive-yale-secret-society-taps-scroll-and-key-wolfs-head/ |archive-date=February 21, 2012 |work=[[IvyGate]]}}</ref>
|-
|[[Willa Fitzgerald]]
|2013
|Actress
|<ref name="Rumpus2013">{{Cite web |date=May 2012 |title=Secret Societies |url=https://issuu.com/rtapublications/docs/secretsocieties2012_9e1c6ce30ca042/4 |access-date=2026-03-12 |website=Yale Rumpus |page=4 |language=en |via=Issuu}}</ref>
|-
|[[A. Bartlett Giamatti]]
|1960
|Yale University president; [[National League (baseball)|National League]] president, [[MLB]] commissioner
|<ref name="nytimes1" />
|-
|[[Randall L. Gibson]]
|1853
|[[United States Senate]], Confederate brigadier-general, and president of [[Tulane University]]
|<ref name="history1942" />
|-
|[[George Bird Grinnell]]
|1870
|Anthropologist, historian, naturalist, and writer
|<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Taliaferro |first1=John |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UxF1DwAAQBAJ&q=grinnell+scroll+and+key&pg=PT64 |title=Grinnell: America's Environmental Pioneer and His Restless Drive to Save the West |date=2019-06-04 |publisher=Liveright |isbn=978-1-63149-014-9}}</ref>
|-
|[[Raymond R. Guest]]
|1931
|[[U.S. Ambassador to Ireland]]; special assistant to [[United States Secretary of Defense]]
|<ref name="history1942" />
|-
|[[Carter Harrison III]]
|1845
|[[United States House of Representatives]], [[Mayor of Chicago]]
|<ref name="history1942" />
|-
|[[William Hawks]]
|1923
|Film producer
|<ref>{{cite news |date=18 May 1923 |title=Yale 'Tap Day' Brings Honors to Rowing Men |newspaper=New York Tribune |location=New York, N.Y. |page=9}}</ref>
|-
|[[Philip B. Heymann]]
|1954
|[[Watergate scandal|Watergate]] special prosecutor, deputy U.S. attorney general; professor at [[Harvard Law School]]
|<ref name="history1942" />
|-
|[[George Roy Hill]]
|1943
|[[Academy Award for Directing]] ''[[The Sting]]''
|<ref name="history1942" />
|-
|[[Zora Howard]]
|2014
|Actress and writer
|<ref name="thedickinsonian">{{Cite web |last=Aldini |first=Enrica Nicoli |title=New Grey Hats Join Scroll and Key |url=https://thedickinsonian.com/news/2013/05/02/new-grey-hats-join-scroll-and-key/ |access-date=2026-03-12 |website=The Dickinsonian}}</ref>
|-
|[[Brewster Jennings]]
|1920
|Founder and president of the [[Mobil|Socony Mobil Oil Company Standard Oil of New York]]
|<ref name="history1942" />
|-
|[[Abraar Karan]]
|2011
|Infectious disease doctor
|<ref name="Ivygate" />
|-
|[[Seymour H. Knox I|Seymour H. Knox]]
|1920
|co-founder of [[F. W. Woolworth Company]]
|<ref name="history1942" />
|-
|[[Rick E. Lawrence]]
|1977
|Associate justice of the [[Maine Supreme Judicial Court]]
|<ref name="history1942" />
|-
|[[Johan Lenox]]
|2011
|Composer and songwriter
|<ref name="Ivygate" />
|-
|[[Charlton Thomas Lewis]]
|1853
|[[Lexicographer]]
|<ref name=":22" />
|-
|[[John Vliet Lindsay]]
|1944
|[[Mayor of New York City]], [[United States House of Representatives]]
|<ref name="New York Times" />
|-
|[[Dahlia Lithwick]]
|1990
|editor at ''[[Newsweek]]'' and [[Slate (magazine)|''Slate'']]
|<ref name="Indeterminate">{{cite web |title=Archived copy |url=http://www.ctrl.org/boodleboys/boodleboysgphx/Scroll_%26_Key.xls |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071009201128/http://www.ctrl.org/boodleboys/boodleboysgphx/Scroll_%26_Key.xls |archive-date=9 October 2007 |access-date=15 January 2022 |website=www.ctrl.org}}</ref>
|-
|[[Maynard Mack]]
|1964
|Literary critic; [[Yale]] English professor
|<ref name=":1" />
|-
|[[Joseph Medill McCormick]]
|1900
|[[United States Senate]] and publisher of the ''[[Chicago Tribune]]''
|<ref name="history1942" />
|-
|[[Robert R. McCormick]]
|1903
|owner and publisher of the ''[[Chicago Tribune]]''; lawyer who co-founded [[Kirkland & Ellis]]
|<ref name="history1942" />
|-
|[[Donald R. McLennan]]
|1931
|founder and chairman of the insurance brokerage firm [[Marsh McLennan]]
|<ref name="history1942" />
|-
|[[Paul Mellon]]
|1929
|Philanthropist and [[thoroughbred]] [[Horse racing|racehorse]] breeder
|<ref name="nytimes1" />
|-
|[[Timothy Mellon]]
|1964
|businessman and grandson of [[Andrew Mellon]]
|<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/viewer/468234/?offset=0#page=1&viewer=picture&o=info&n=0&q= |title=Yale Class Book: 1964 |date= |publisher=Yale Banner |year=1964 |volume=CXXIII |page=430}}</ref>
|-
|[[Cord Meyer, Jr.]]
|1943
|[[Central Intelligence Agency]]; [[United World Federalists]]
|<ref name="history1942" />
|-
|[[Newbold Morris]]
|1925
|[[New York City Department of Parks and Recreation|Parks Commissioner of New York City]], president of the [[New York City Council]]
|<ref name="history1942" />
|-
|[[Robert D. Orr]]
|1940
|[[Governor of Indiana]]; [[U.S. Ambassador to Singapore]]
|<ref name="history1942" />
|-
|[[Herbert Parsons (New York politician)|Herbert Parsons]]
|1890
|[[United States House of Representatives]]
|<ref name="history1942" />
|-
|[[Joseph Medill Patterson|Joseph M. Patterson]]
|1901
|Founder of the ''[[New York Daily News]]''; manager of the ''[[Chicago Tribune]]''
|<ref name="time1" />
|-
|[[Tom Perriello]]
|1996
|[[United States House of Representatives]]; executive director of the [[Open Society Foundation]]
|<ref>{{Cite web |date=2017-04-05 |title=Phony 'Populist' Tom Perriello Received Payment From Secret Society at Yale |url=https://www.rga.org/phony-populist-tom-perriello-received-payment-from-secret-society-at-yale/ |access-date=2025-08-13 |website=RGA |language=en-US}}</ref>
|-
|[[Michael Grace Phipps]]
|
|champion [[polo]] player and owner/breeder of racehorses
|<ref name=":1" />
|-
|[[Stone Phillips]]
|1977
|''[[Dateline NBC]]''
|<ref name="history1942" />
|-
|[[Frank Polk]]
|1894
|[[United States Secretary of State]], partner in [[Davis Polk & Wardwell]]
|<ref name="history1942" />
|-
|[[Cole Porter]]
|1913
|Entertainer and songwriter
|<ref name="robbins1">{{cite book |last=Robbins |first=Alexandra |url=https://archive.org/details/secretsoftombsku00robb |title=Secrets of the Tomb: Skull and Bones, the Ivy League, and the Hidden Paths of Power |publisher=Back Bay Books |year=2002 |isbn=978-0-316-73561-2 |url-access=registration}}</ref>
|-
|[[John Addison Porter]]
|1842
|professor of [[chemistry]] and physician
|<ref>{{Cite book |last=Kelly |first=Howard A. |title=American Medical Biographies |last2=Burrage |first2=Walter L. |publisher=The Norman, Remington Company |year=1920 |publication-place=Balitmore |page=924}}</ref><ref name=":22" />
|-
|[[Frederic A. Potts]]
|1926
|[[New Jersey Senate]], chairman of [[Philadelphia National Bank]]
|<ref name="history1942" />
|-
|[[Mortimer R. Proctor]]
|1912
|[[Governor of Vermont]]
|<ref name="history1942" />
|-
|[[Jeannie Rhee]]
|1994
|[[Deputy Assistant Attorney General]]
|<ref>"Jeannie Rhee". ''Diversity Journal''. Retrieved January 19, 2018, January 30, 2019</ref>
|-
|[[Dickinson W. Richards]]
|1917
|[[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]]
|<ref name="history1942" />
|-
|[[Alexandra Robbins]]
|1998
|Journalist and author
|<ref>{{Cite web |title=Skull & Bones: The Secret Society That Unites John Kerry and President Bush |url=http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0122-10.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071012033559/http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0122-10.htm |archive-date=2007-10-12 |access-date=2007-10-12}}</ref>
|-
|[[James Stillman Rockefeller]]
|1924
|Olympic gold medalist for rowing, banker
|<ref name="history1942" /><ref>{{Cite news |date=1925-02-05 |title=J. S. Rockefeller to; Grandnephew of John D. Engaged to Daughter of Mr. and I Mrs. Andrew Carnegie 2d. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1925/02/05/archives/j-s-rockefeller-to-grandnephew-of-john-d-engaged-to-daughter-of-mr.html |access-date=2026-03-12 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
|-
|[[James Gamble Rogers]]
|1889
|[[Architecture|Architect]], designed many of Yale's buildings
|<ref name="time1" />
|-
|[[Gideon Rose]]
|1985
|Editor of ''[[Foreign Affairs]]''
|<ref name="history1942" />
|-
|[[Theodore Runyon]]
|1842
|Envoy and [[U.S. Ambassador to Germany]]
|<ref name="history1942" />
|-
|[[William Nelson Runyon]]
|1892
|Acting [[Governor of New Jersey]]
|<ref name="history1942" />
|-
|[[Ari Shapiro]]
|2000
|Co-host of ''[[All Things Considered]]'' for [[National Public Radio]]
|<ref name="Indeterminate" />
|-
|[[Huntington D. Sheldon]]
|1925
|Central Intelligence Agency; president of the Petroleum Corporation of America
|<ref name="history1942" />
|-
|[[Lewis Sheldon]]
|1896
|[[Paris Peace Conference]], Olympic gold medalist
|<ref name="history1942" />
|-
|[[Ethan A. H. Shepley]]
|1918
|Chancellor of [[Washington University in St. Louis]]
|<ref name="history1942" />
|-
|[[George Shiras Jr.]]
|1853
|[[U.S. Supreme Court Justice]]
|<ref name="history1942" />
|-
|[[Sargent Shriver]]
|1938
|[[U.S. Ambassador to France]], first director of the [[Peace Corps]]
|<ref name="history1942" />
|-
|[[Brinley D. Sleight]]
|1858
|[[New York State Assembly]], newspaper editor
|<ref>{{Cite news |date=2 January 1914 |title=Brinley Dering Sleight, '58 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AzM6AQAAMAAJ&q=%22Brinley%20Dering%20Sleight%22 |work=Yale Alumni Weekly |location=New Haven, C.T. |page=416 |via=[[Google Books]] |volume=XXIII |issue=16}}</ref>
|-
|[[Benjamin Spock]]
|1925
|Olympic gold medalist
|<ref name="nytimes1" /><ref>{{Cite web |last=Garza |first=Joe |date=2023-05-06 |title=Yale Has More Secret Societies Than You Realize. Here's The History |url=https://www.grunge.com/1273426/yale-more-secret-societies-than-realize-history/ |access-date=2026-03-13 |website=Grunge |language=en-US}}</ref>
|-
|[[Homer Sprague]]
|1852
|President of the [[University of North Dakota]]
|<ref name=":22" />
|-
|[[Roscoe S. Suddarth]]
|1956
|President of the [[Middle East Institute]]; [[U.S. Ambassador to Jordan]]
|<ref name="history1942" />
|-
|[[Charles Henry Tenney]]
|1933
|Judge of the [[United States District Court for the Southern District of New York]]
|<ref name=":1" />
|-
|[[Calvin Trillin]]
|1957
|Writer
|<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=8zS-KSreMQ0C&dq=%22Calvin+Trillin%22+%22scroll+and+key%22&pg=PA223 Remembering Denny – Google Books]</ref>
|-
|[[Garry Trudeau]]
|1970
|''[[Doonesbury]]'' cartoonist
|<ref name="nytimes1" /><ref>{{Cite web |last=Garza |first=Joe |date=2023-05-06 |title=Yale Has More Secret Societies Than You Realize. Here's The History |url=https://www.grunge.com/1273426/yale-more-secret-societies-than-realize-history/ |access-date=2026-03-13 |website=Grunge |language=en-US}}</ref>
|-
|[[Mark Twain]]
|Honorary
|author and humorist
|<ref name=":0">''Mark Twain's Letters'', Volume 2, 1867–1868, [[University of California Press]], editors Harriet E. Smith, Richard Bucci and Lin Salamo, pg. 281</ref>
|-
|[[Joseph Twichell]]
|1859
|writer and Congregational minister
|<ref name=":0" />
|-
|[[Cyrus Vance]]
|1939
|[[United States Secretary of State]]; [[United States Secretary of the Army]]; chairman of the [[Federal Reserve Bank of New York]]
|<ref name="history1942" />
|-
|[[Cornelius Vanderbilt III]]
|1895
|Brigadier general in the [[U.S. Army]] during the [[World War I]]
|<ref name="time1" />
|-
|[[Tyler Varga]]
|2015
|Professional football player
|<ref>{{Cite journal |date=June 2015 |title=Secret Societies 2015 |url=https://www.scribd.com/doc/268029539/Secret-Societies-2015 |journal=Rumpus |page=4 |access-date=March 12, 2026 |via=Scribbed}}</ref>
|-
|[[George Edgar Vincent]]
|1885
|President of the [[University of Minnesota]]; president of the [[Rockefeller Foundation]]
|<ref name="time1">{{cite news |date=May 31, 1926 |title=Wedlock |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,729273-6,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071230102810/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,729273-6,00.html |archive-date=December 30, 2007 |access-date=2008-10-17 |work=[[Time (magazine)|Time]]}}</ref>
|-
|[[Robert F. Wagner, Jr.]]
|1933
|[[Mayor of New York City]]
|<ref name="New York Times">{{cite news |date=October 11, 1948 |title=Mary A. Harrison, Lawyers Fiance. Vassar Graduate Will Be Bride of John V. Lindsay, Former Lieutenant in the Navy |url=https://select.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=FA0A17F8355F167B93C3A8178BD95F4C8485F9 |access-date=December 12, 2011 |newspaper=New York Times |pages=29}}</ref><ref name=":1" />
|-
|[[Allen Wardwell]]
|1895
|lawyer and parner of [[Davis Polk & Wardwell]]
|<ref name="history1942" />
|-
|[[John Hay Whitney]]
|1926
|[[U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom]], publisher of ''[[New York Herald Tribune]]''
|<ref>{{cite web |date=May 2002 |title=Yale Alumni Magazine: John Hay Whitney |url=http://www.yalealumnimagazine.com/issues/02_04/old_yale.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101230124108/http://www.yalealumnimagazine.com/issues/02_04/old_yale.html |archive-date=2010-12-30 |access-date=2011-02-13 |publisher=Yale Alumni Publications inc.}}</ref>
|-
|[[Fareed Zakaria]]
|1986
| journalist, political commentator, editor, and author
|<ref>{{Cite web |last=Mangino |first=Andrew |date=February 13, 2006 |title=Trustee Zakaria '86 found his niche at Yale |url=https://yaledailynews.com/articles/trustee-zakaria-86-found-his-niche-at-yale |access-date=March 12, 2026 |website=Yale Daily News}}</ref>
|-
|[[Warren Zimmermann]]
|1956
|[[U.S. Ambassador to Yugoslavia]]
|<ref name="history1942" />
|}

== References ==
{{Reflist|30em}}

[[Category:Yale University-related lists]]
[[Category:Lists of members of Local Honor Societies members]]
[[Category:Lists of members of United States student societies]]

List of Scroll and Key members - Revision history

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