What is secret society ?
A secret society is a club or organization whose activities and
inner functioning are concealed from non-members. The society may or may
not attempt to conceal its existence. The term usually excludes covert
groups, such as intelligence agency,
or guerrilla insurgencies, which hide their activities and memberships
but maintain a public presence. The exact qualifications for labeling a
group as a secret society are disputed, but definitions generally rely
on the degree to which the organization insists on secrecy, and might involve the retention and transmission of secret knowledge, denial
of membership or knowledge of the group, the creation of personal bonds
between members of the organization, and the use of secret rites or
rituals which solidify members of the group.
FAMOUS secret society
1. Skull and Bones
Members of Skull and Bones (George Bush is left of the clock (1947)
- This society was originally known with the name of Brotherhood Of Death. The order of Skull and Bones, Yales University oldest students secret society in the United States and it was founded in 1832. This society is so exclusive that the membership is open to only few elite member. The society uses masonic inspired rituals to this day. Members will meet on thursday and sunday of each week in a building they call 'TOMB'
- Skull and bones are founded by undergraduate senior at Yale University, New Haven Connecticut. The Russell Trust Association which is the society alumni organization owns the society's real estate and oversees the organization. The society is informally known as 'BONES' and the members are known as the 'BONESMAN'.
- Was founded in 1832 after a dispute between Yale debating societies Linonia, Brothers in Unity and The Calliopean society over the season's Phi Beta Kappa award. It was co-founded by William Hunting Russell & Alphonso Taft as the order of the skull and bones.
- Skull and Bones membership was almost exclusively limited to white protestant males for much of its history. But some of excluded group eventually join such groups, jews were more often not eventhough Yale itsel fhad exclusionary policies directed at particular ethics and religious groups.
- Some of these excluded groups eventually entered skull and bones for sports reason, through the society's prctice of tapping standout athletes.
- Al hessberg, class of 1938 is a star football player and also first jewish to tap this society.
- African-American Levi Jackson, class of 1950, turned down Berzelius society invitation to be tapped for skull and bones,
-According to Judy Schiff, Chief Archivist at the Yale University Library, the names of the skull and bones member were not kept a secret until the 1970s , but the rituals always have been. Both of Bush presidents were member of the society while studying at the Yale University and the number of member have gone on the great and fortune.
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