List of Fly Club members
Fly Club is a final club for male students at Harvard University. It was formed as a literary society in 1836 and operated as a chapter of Alpha Delta Phi fraternity from 1837 to 1865 and 1878 to 1906.[1] It adopted its nickname, Fly Club, as its official name in 1910.[1] Fly Club merged with the final club D.U. (Delta Upsilon) in 1996, including absorbing the alumni of D.U.[2]
Following is a list of some of the notable members of Fly Club.
Academia
[edit]- James Barr Ames (1868) – dean of Harvard Law School (1895–1910), known for popularizing the case-study method of teaching law[1]
- James B. Conant (Delta Upsilon, 1914) – President of Harvard University and United States Ambassador to West Germany[3][4]
- Archibald Cary Coolidge (1887) – historian, Harvard professor, first director of the Harvard University Library[1]
- Charles William Eliot (1853) – President of Harvard University[1][5]
- Samuel Eliot (1839) – President of Trinity College and Boston Public Schools superintendent[1]
- Horace Howard Furness (1854) – Shakespearian scholar, lecturer University of Pennsylvania[1]
- Horatio Hale (1836) – ethnologist and philologist[1]
- Rufus King (1836) – president of the University of Cincinnati and dean of the Cincinnati Law School[1]
- A. Lawrence Lowell – historian, 25th President of Harvard University[3][6]
- Charles Stearns Wheeler (1836) – transcendentalist, noted as inspiration for Henry David Thoreau’s Walden[1][7]
Architecture
[edit]- Herbert Dudley Hale (1888) – Boston and New York City architect who designed the Fly Club's house at Two Holyoke Place[1][8][9]
- William Robert Ware (1852) – architect, first professor of architecture at MIT, founder of the School of Architecture at Columbia University[1]
Business
[edit]- Charles Francis Adams Jr. (1888) – president of the Union Pacific Railroad[1]
- Charlie Cheever – co-founder of Quora[10][11]
- George H. Mifflin (1865) – president of Houghton Mifflin publishing company[1]
- Louis Kane – Chairman of Au Bon Pain bakery and café chain[12][13]
- Clarence B. Randall (Delta Upsilon) – businessman, lawyer, and chairman of the Board of Inland Steel Company[14]
- David Rockefeller – American banker[15]
Entertainment
[edit]- Robert Benchley (Delta Upsilon) – humorist, actor, and winner of the 1935 Academy Award for Best Short Film (How to Sleep)[14]
- Robert Carlock – screenwriter and producer[16]
- Fred Gwynne – stage, film, and television actor[17]
- Joseph Losey (Delta Upsilon) – film and theatre director, producer, and screenwriter[18]
- Whit Stillman – writer-director and actor known for Metropolitan, which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay[19]
Law
[edit]- James C. Carter (1850) – co-founder of law firm Carter Ledyard & Milburn[1]
- William Gardner Choate (1852) – Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York and founder of boarding school Choate Rosemary Hall[1]
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1861) – Supreme Court Justice[1]
- John Codman Ropes (1857) – co-founder of law firm Ropes & Grey[1]
Literature and journalism
[edit]- Selamawi Asgedom (Delta Upsilon, 1999) – author and public speaker[4]
- James Russell Lowell (1836) – Poet, editor, U.S. Ambassador to Spain, and U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's[1][5]
- Francis Parkman (1844) – author and historian[1]
- Ernest Thayer – poet, author of "Casey at the Bat"[20]
- Evan Thomas – journalist and author[21]
- Owen Wister (1882) – writer, "father" of western fiction[1]
Military
[edit]- Henry L. Eustis (1838) – General in the Union Army during Civil War; dean of Lawrence Scientific School[1]
- Lionel de Jersey Harvard – first collateral descendant of John Harvard to attend Harvard College, a casualty of World War I. Harvard College's Harvard-Cambridge Fellowship (to Emmanuel College) is named in his honor[22]
Politics
[edit]- Charles Francis Adams III (1888) – Secretary of the Navy and skipper of America's Cup defender Resolute[1]
- Larz Anderson (1888) – secretary at the United States Legation to the Court of St James's, secretary and later chargé d'affaires at the United States Embassy in Rome; U.S. Minister to Belgium; and tU.S. Ambassador to Japan[1][23]
- Edward Bell (1904) – U.S. diplomatic official involved in the decoding of the Zimmerman Telegram in World War I[1][24][25]
- Lathrop Brown (1904) – United States House of Representatives[1][26]
- Joseph Hodges Choate (1849) – U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom[1]
- James B. Conant (Delta Upsilon) – United States Ambassador to West Germany and President of Harvard University[3]
- Dwight F. Davis (1900) – U.S. Secretary of War and Governor General of the Philippines; Olympic tennis player, and founder of the Davis Cup; International[1]
- Thomas H. Eliot (Delta Upsilon) – United States House of Representatives[18]
- Grenville T. Emmet (1898) – U.S. Ambassador to the Netherlands and U.S. Ambassador to Austria[1]
- Charles S. Fairchild (1863) – United States Secretary of the Treasury and Attorney General of New York[1]
- Joseph Grew (1902) – U.S. Ambassador to Japan, oversaw the development of U.S. Foreign Service[1][27]
- Wickham Hoffman (1841) – U.S. Minister to Denmark and Colonel in the Union Army[1]
- Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. (Delta Upsilon, 1912), United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom, chair of the U.S. Maritime Commission, and 1st Chair of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission[14][4]
- Jared Kushner – Senior White House Adviser and head of the Office of American Innovation[28]
- Anthony Lake – National Security Advisor and Executive Director of UNICEF[3]
- James Russell Lowell (1836) – U.S. Ambassador to Spain, U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, poet, and editor[1][5]
- Deval Patrick – Governor of Massachusetts[29]
- Roger Putnam – Mayor of Springfield, Massachusetts and director of the U.S. Economic Stabilization Administration
- Jay Rockefeller – United States Senate[30]
- Franklin D. Roosevelt (1904) – President of the United States[1][26][31]
- James Roosevelt (1907) – United States House of Representatives[1][32]
- Theodore Roosevelt (1880) – President of the United States[1]
- George R. Stobbs (Delta Upsilon) – United States House of Representatives[18]
- Bill Weld – Governor of Massachusetts[33]
Religion
[edit]- Phillips Brooks (1855) – clergyman, author, lyricist[1][5]
- Charles Edward Grinnell – clergyman, lawyer, and writer[34]
- Edward Everett Hale (1839) – author, historian, Unitarian minister, Chaplain to the U.S. Senate[1][5]
- William Appleton Lawrence (1911) – Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Western Massachusetts[1]
- Logan H. Roots (Delta Upsilon, 1891) – Episcopal Bishop of Hankow[35]
Science
[edit]- Francis Cabot – gardener, horticulturist, chairman of the New York Botanical Garden, and founder of the Garden Conservancy[36]
Sports
[edit]- Charles Dudley Daly (1900) – college football player and coach who was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame[1]
- Dwight F. Davis – Olympic tennis player, three-time U.S. Open doubles champion, founder of the Davis Cup, International Tennis Hall of Fame inductee, U.S. Secretary of War, and Governor General of the Philippines[1]
- W. Palmer Dixon – two-time winner of national squash championship[37][38]
- Henry Thrun – professional ice hockey player for the San Jose Sharks, winner of a gold medal at 2021 World Junior Championship[39]
See also
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- ^ Yeomans, Henry (1977). Abbott Lawrence Lowell. Arno Press. ISBN 0-405-10009-4. p.38. "He tried to avoid what he considered Wilson's mistake in alienating them at Princeton, and he accepted honorary membership in the Fly in 1904."
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But one prominent alum, Evan Thomas, who is the Washington bureau chief for Newsweek magazine, said that his informal polling of fellow alumni showed strong support for a co-ed Fly.
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[Grew] was critical of Berlin society as being too rank-conscious, preferring Vienna society where admission to the inner circle depended on personal merit alone. This had been his reason for favoring the Fly Club at Harvard.
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- ^ "W. Palmer Dixon, Stockbroker, 66; Partner in Loeb, Rhoades, Ex-Squash Star, Dies". The New York Times. July 27, 1968. p. 27. Retrieved May 11, 2021.
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