List of Quill and Dagger members

The Quill and Dagger Society, founded at Cornell University in 1893, selects new undergraduate members in the spring of their junior year or fall of their senior year. A small number of honorary members have been selected since the society's founding, usually qualified individuals who were not eligible for membership as undergraduates, such as Janet Reno and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, both of whom graduated before the society accepted women. Cornell Presidents Dale R. Corson, Frank H.T. Rhodes, Hunter R. Rawlings III, and Jeffrey Lehman all hold membership in the society as well.

Membership is published in The Cornell Daily Sun each semester. Other sources of membership lists include The New York Times during the 1920s and 1930s, The Cornell Alumni News from 1899 to 1961, and The Cornellian yearbook. This list contains notable individuals who were selected for membership as undergraduates. Class years are listed in parentheses.

Arts, architecture, and entertainment

Athletics

Olympians

Professional athletes

Other

Authors and journalists

Pulitzer Prize winners

Other

Business

Banking and finance

Consumer products

Andre Balazs '79

Hospitality

  • Henry B. Williams[67] (1930) – Manager of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel (1947–1950)
  • Josh Katzen (1970) – co-founder of the award-winning vegetarian Moosewood Restaurant
  • Drew Nieporent[44] (1977) – restaurateur; creator and owner of Myriad Restaurant Group, including Nobu, Montrachet, Tribeca Grill, and Rubicon; recognized with numerous awards and nominations from the James Beard Foundation
  • Andre Balazs (1979) – hotelier and businessman; owner of ten hotels in New York, Miami, and Los Angeles, including the Chateau Marmont
  • R. Mark Woodworth (1977) – Senior Managing Director CBRE Hotels' Americas Research; founded PKF Hospitality Research with Cornell University's Dr. Jack Corgel in 1999

Manufacturing

Oil

  • Walter C. Teagle[2] (1900) – President (1917–1937) and Chairman (1937–1942) of Standard Oil; namesake and donor of Cornell University's Teagle Hall; Cornell University trustee
  • Joseph N. Pew, Jr.[13] (1908) – Vice President (1912–1947) and Chairman (1947–1963) of Sun Oil Company; founder of The Pew Charitable Trusts; namesake of Cornell University's Pew Engineering Quad
  • James J. Cosgrove[72] (1909) – General Counsel (1929–1948) and Chairman (1948–1952) of Continental Oil
  • H. Laurance Fuller[21] (1960) – President (1983–1995), CEO (1991–1998), and Chairman (1991–2000) of Amoco; Lincoln Center Humanitarian of the Year (1998); Cornell University trustee; Cornell University presidential councilor

Technology

Other

  • Paul A. Schoellkopf[12] (1906) – hydroelectric energy magnate; President (1919–1933) and Chairman (1942–1947) of Niagara Falls Power Company and later conglomerates; New York State Council of National Defense; Cornell University trustee (1939–1947); donor of Schoellkopf Field[37][38][39]
  • Cedric A. Major[14] (1913) – President of the Lehigh Valley Railroad (1947–1961); ranked 11th tennis player nationally in the 1930s competing against Vincent Richards and Bill Tilden
  • George P. McNear, Jr.[75] (1913) – President of the Toledo, Peoria and Western Railway (1925–1947) during disputes with labor unions; victim of unsolved murder two weeks after testifying for the House Labor Committee in support of stronger labor restrictions
  • Dallas Morse Coors[76] (1940) – founder of the Dallas Morse Coors Foundation for the arts; involved with the founding of the Human Rights Campaign; cousin of Adolph III and Joseph Coors; husband of Sergei Rachmaninoff's granddaughter
  • William E. Phillips[18] (1951) – President (1975–1981), Chairman (1981–1989), and CEO (1981–1989) of Ogilvy & Mather; spearheaded Big Apple campaign for New York City
  • Ray Handlan[5] (1953) – first president of Atlantic Philanthropic Service Co. (1983–1993), the original U.S. arm of secretive foundation Atlantic Philanthropies; responsible for funding that helped launch and expand City Year; founding member of the International Longevity Center; close associate of Chuck Feeney; Cornell University Director of Development
  • Mark A. Belnick (1968) – Chief Corporate Counsel and Executive Vice President of Tyco International (1998–2002); Deputy Chief Counsel of U.S. Senate Iran-Contra Affair Committee; Founder and Director of Cornell Pre-Law Program
  • Kenneth C. Brown[34] (1974) – President of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (1999–2001); Rhodes Scholar; three-time member of U.S. National Rowing team; gold medal at World Rowing Championships (1974)

Education

Government, law, and politics

U.S. Congress

U.S. State Department and National Security

Other

Science and engineering

  • Elias Judah Durand (1893) – mycologist and botanist; foremost expert on discomycetes
  • Thomas Hall[47] (1893) – inventor of the four-valve steam engine (patents #584,023, #979,002, #1,013,549, #1,050,213)
  • John B. MacHarg[47] (1893) – inventor of lantern slide mounting apparatus sold to Eastman Kodak (patents #2,153,149, #2,256,399)
  • Eads Johnson[48] (1899) – marine engineer, naval architect, and diesel power pioneer with numerous patents
  • John V. Miller[48] (1899) – brother-in-law and personal aide of Thomas Edison; member of Yale senior society Wolf's Head
  • Alan MacDonald[41] (1905) – designed the first American concrete ship in 1917–1918
  • Ralph E. Chapman[94] (1911) – Inventor of underwater welding torch (patents #1,286,227, #1,324,337, #1,687,081)
  • Oswald C. Brewster[25] (1918) – Manhattan Project engineer
  • Robley C. Williams[70] (1931) – first President of the Biophysical Society (1958–1960); developed process for coating mirrors by evaporation in a vacuum
  • Wilbur R. LePage (1933) – electrical engineering pioneer and educator; helped develop the proximity fuze in World War II
  • LaRoy B. Thompson[95] (1942) – physically assembled the first atomic bomb dropped at Bikini Island in 1946 and made practice run in B-29 bomber
  • Robert L. Trimpi (1948) – NASA Langley Research Center engineer on Project Mercury, Viking program, Apollo program, and Space Shuttle program; inventor of the wind tunnel capable of simulating atmospheric re-entry conditions for spacecraft
  • Thomas J. Kelly[96] (1951) – chief engineer of the Apollo Lunar Module; NASA Director of Space Programs (1972–1976)
  • Peter T. Schurman[19] (1952) – holder of more than 50 patents in plastics machinery and packaging; inventor of the double-wall carrying case; founder of the Plastic Forming Co.; grandson of Jacob Gould Schurman, Cornell University's third president and U.S. Ambassador to China and Germany
  • Donald P. Greenberg[60] (1955) – visual graphics pioneer; founding director of the National Science Foundation Science and Technology Center for Computer Graphics and Scientific Visualization; Professor of Computer Graphics at Cornell University; recipient of Steven Anson Coons Award
  • Richard M. Ehrlich (1959) – professor of medicine and physician; president of the Society for Pediatric Urology and American Academy of Pediatrics-Urology Section; photographer
  • Tyrone D. Taborn (1981) – CEO of Career Communications Group; editor-in-chief and publisher of US Black Engineer & Information Technology; named one of the "50 Most Important African-Americans in Technology" (2002); founder of Black Family Technology Week, La Familia Technology Awareness Week, and the Native American Technology Awareness Project
  • Regina Clewlow[97] (2001) – founder and Executive Director of Engineers for a Sustainable World

Notable family members

  • George C. Boldt, Jr.[41] (1905) – son of George C. Boldt, millionaire and Waldorf-Astoria Hotel proprietor who built Boldt Castle on Heart Island (just over one mile away from Deer Island owned by Yale's Skull and Bones society)
  • Robert E. Treman[72] (1909) – Cornell University trustee (1931–1953); member of prominent family of Ithacans, Cornell trustees, and Quill and Dagger members, including father Robert H. Treman (honorary), uncle Charles E. Treman (honorary), brother Allan H. Treman (1921), cousins Arthur B. Treman (1923) and Charles E. Treman, Jr. (1930), nephew Barton Treman (1953), and others; second husband of famous actress Irene Castle
  • Leopold Tschirky[98] (1912) – son of Oscar Tschirky, famed Waldorf-Astoria Hotel maître d'hôtel
  • George M. Schurman[14] (1913) – son of Jacob Gould Schurman, Cornell University's third president and U.S. Ambassador to China and Germany
  • Jacob Gould Schurman, Jr.[16] (1917) – Chief Magistrate of New York City; Cornell University trustee; son of Jacob Gould Schurman, Cornell University's third president and U.S. Ambassador to China and Germany
  • A. Buel Trowbridge[99] (1920) – Director of Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Paris office; Rhodes Scholar; father of Alexander Buel Trowbridge III, United States Secretary of Commerce (1967–1968); son of Alexander Buel Trowbridge, dean of Cornell University College of Architecture (1897–1902)
  • Harrison Stackhouse Wilson[100] (1935) – son-in-law of Larry E. Gubb; class of 1916, President of Cornell Alumni Association, Cornell Trustee; descendant of James Wilson, creator of the Electoral College
  • Benjamin E. Dean[76] (1939) – claims to be the great-great-great-grandson of George Washington through illegitimate son Israel Dean; author of the Virginian in Yankeeland series of books
  • Teh-Chang Koo[101] (1940) – son of Wellington Koo, Chinese Minister to the U.S., representative to the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, League of Nations representative; acting President of the Republic of China (1926–1927); grandson of Tang Shaoyi, first Premier of the Republic of China (1912)
  • Frank M. Knight[102] (1950) – son of John S. Knight, publisher and Pulitzer Prize winner
  • Marco T. Einaudi[22] (1961) – grandson of Luigi Einaudi, first President of the Italian Republic; son of Mario Einaudi, namesake of Cornell University's Center for International Studies
  • Ezra Cornell IV (1970) – Cornell University trustee; great-great-great-grandson of Ezra Cornell, founder of Cornell University
  • Katherine Cornell (2002) – great-great-great-great-granddaughter of Ezra Cornell, founder of Cornell University

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