The home of Skull and Bones on the Yale campus is a stone building resembling a mausoleum, and known as “the Tomb.” Initiations take place on Deer Island in the St. Older graduate members, the so-called “Patriarchs,” give special backing in business, politics, espionage and legal careers to graduate Bonesmen who exhibit talent or usefulness. Graduating members are given a sizable cash bonus to help them get started in life. Madden started with Brown Brothers Harriman in 1946, under senior partner Prescott Bush, George Bush’s father.Įach year, Skull and Bones members select (“tap”) 15 third-year Yale students to replace them in the senior group the following year. “The order was incorporated in 1856 under the name “Russell Trust Association.” By special act of the state legislature in 1943, its trustees are exempted from the normal requirement of filing corporate reports with the Connecticut secretary of state.Īs of 1978, all business of the Russell Trust was handled by its lone trustee, Brown Brothers Harriman partner John B. It provides the following description of the Skull and Bones Society and its use of Deer Island: A search for “Deer Island” on one of the resulting links was called “George Bush – The Unauthorized Biography” by Webster Griffin Tarpley and Anton Chaitkin. Apparently most of these pages, if not all, are negative in content ranging from politically opposite perspectives to the equivalent of a good old fashioned conspiracy. The Thousand Islands International Tourism Council is quoted as saying “Deer Island is owned by the Skull and Bones Society of Yale University, whose members include former President George Bush.” It is noteworthy to add that our current president Bush, is also a member.Ī quick search with for “Skull and Bones Society” will show about 1,010 matches. However, the fact that the ownership of Deer Island is by the society, or the Russell Trust Association (see below), appears to be accurate does provide a more challenging environment within which to investigate the ruins. The existence and doings of this society as well as investigations into the validity of the many interesting and provocative claims that exist about it are not within the context of the NewRuins project. Quasi-secret because its existence is well established and even its membership appears to be known, though its undertakings and internal affairs are not of public record.
The Skull and Bones Society is a quasi-secret society that purports to recruit students, of selected family background, attending Yale University. … a secret society with an interesting membership
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