Among the many traditions of the society is use of aliases-sometimes bestowed, sometimes chosen, often macabre-among its members. Bush’s grandfather, Connecticut senator Prescott Bush (Yale 1917), and Charles Taft (Yale 1918), politician and son of President William Howard Taft (who was himself a Bonesman). In the world of business, the Skull and Bones not only operates several major investment and law firms including Brown Brothers Har-riman, but their members. Of course, Bonesmen of this era also included future businessmen and politicians, such as George W.
Among their fellow Bonesmen in the late 1910s and early 1920s were writer Archibald MacLeish (Yale 1915), poet Phelps Putnam (Yale 1916), William Morrow publisher Francis Thayer Hobson (Yale 1920), and Time-Life founder Henry Luce (Yale 1920). Two Skull and Bones members who signed Frank Shay’s door were publisher John Chipman Farrar (Yale Class of 1918) and screenwriter Donald Ogden Stewart (Yale 1916). This was especially true for the classes which graduated during the second decade of the twentieth century. In 1992, when the still exclusively male secret society tapped six women along with nine men, the alumni association changed the locks on the. And whether loved or hated, the society's. However, the society, which was founded in 1832, has also counted among its members many from the world of publishing and writing. Founded in 1832 by Yale students, the elitist, members-only Skull and Bones has since become one of America's most revered and snubbed secret societies. Skull and Bones, Yale University’s legendary secret society, is best-known as a launching pad for leaders in the world of business and politics.
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