Skull And Bones Secret Society 1915 Club Yearbook Yale University w/ Photograph For Sale

Great piece of Yale University history with this rare 1915 Skull and Bones yearbook, alongside the original class photograph (Rarely are you able to pair an original class photograph with the yearbook) . As one of the most prestigious secret societies at Yale, Skull and Bones has played a significant role in the university's tradition and lore for generations.

This vintage yearbook offers a glimpse into the lives and identities of Yale's elite students from 1915. Featuring meticulously preserved photographs and their own signatures under the photos and insights into the members of Skull and Bones, this yearbook provides a fascinating look at the university's past.

This was acquired directly through the grandson of Edward Stackpole Jr.

All the members signed beside William Shedden

There are 15 photographs for the members, 2 photographs of African Americans that seem to be servants(per description of another listing of a different year). Also, the iconic Skull and Bones picture and of the front of the club building.

Members:

Most notable ARCHIBALD MACLEISH-

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, playwright, and essayist

Served as Librarian of Congress from 1939 to 1944

Known for his work in modernist poetry, including "Ars Poetica" and "Conquistador,"

Received three Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry

Played a significant role in shaping cultural policy during World War II

Contributed to the development of the UNESCO Constitution

Awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1977

His literary contributions continue to influence American poetry and literature

Lyon Carter-

Participated in WW1 (Officer of Artillery) and WW2 (War Price and Ration Board)

Governor of the New York and Boston Stock Exchange

Vice president, Yale Club of Boston

John Sylvester reilly-

WW1 Captain of Ordnance

President of Diplomat Products Inc.

President of Gordon & Wilworth Inc.

Stephen Rintoul Davenport-

VP of Yardley London

CAC AEF - Captain

Descendent of John Davenport

William Martindale Shedden-

WW2 Commander US NAVY Marine

Instructor of Anatomy at Harvard

Edwin Arthur Burtt -

Professor of Philosophy at Cornell University

10 Publications on science, life, and religion

Edwin A. Burtt, Susan Linn Sage Professor, wrote the influential book "The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Physical Science" (1924). This book grew out of his Columbia University dissertation on Isaac Newton of 1920 and continues to be of significant scholarly interest due to its untimely anti-positivism and anti-scientism. Some of its themes were later taken up by Thomas Kuhn in his groundbreaking "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" (1962). Burtt was a long-time faculty member of the Sage School, remaining at Cornell his entire career and continuing to write well into his 90s.

Edward James Stackpole-

Part of the yale Basketball team

WW2 Brigadier General of the line

President of the Stackpole Company book publishing firm, WHP Radio, and the Military Service Publishing Company

President of the Telegraph Press, which published the Harrisburg Telegraph

Was in with Dwight Eisenhower (Grandson has letters that were exchanged while edward was in hospital)

Edwin Lyon Slocum-

Account Executive at Francis I Dupont Brokerage

WW1 Captain Inf.

Ranald Hugh Macdonald II -

President of the Bond Club of New York

WW1 2nd Lt. USAF Pilot

Museum of Modern Art

NYSE

State Executive Committee of the Y.M.C.A

Thomas Bayne denegre -

Captain of the sport rowing team

served in France as first lieutenant in the Louisiana National Guard's Washington Artillery during World War I

Harold Armostrong pumpelly-

Held record for the longest drop kick in 1912, saving the game for yale.

Varsity Player on Baseball and Football team

Brother to spencer Pumpelly( MLB player)

Louis Middlebrook-

Yale Baseball Star

1st Lt. FA AEF WW1

Irving Paris-

Lt, Naval Aviation, WW1

Thomas Cornell-

1st Lt WW1 AEF

Ely Walker Swift-

President of Dwight Hall

Went on to practice medicine