That's what makes this staggering,¡± says Robbins. Since then, it has chosen or "tapped" only 15 senior students a year who become patriarchs when they graduate - lifetime members of the ultimate old boys' club. Skull and Bones, with all its ritual and macabre relics, was founded in 1832 as a new world version of secret student societies that were common in Germany at the time. Secret or not, Skull and Bones is as essential to Yale as the Whiffenpoofs, the tables down at a pub called Mory's, and the Yale mascot - that ever-slobbering bulldog. ¡☋ut probably twice that number hung up on me, harassed me, or threatened me.¡± I spoke with about 100 members of Skull and Bones and they were members who were tired of the secrecy, and that's why they were willing to talk to me,¡± says Robbins. And they've responded to outsiders with utter silence – until an enterprising Yale graduate, Alexandra Robbins, managed to penetrate the wall of silence in her book, Secrets of the Tomb.¡± Correspondent Morley Safer reports. Its a social and political network like no other. There are conspiracy theorists who see Skull and Bones behind everything that goes wrong, and occasionally even right in the world.Īpart from presidents, Bones has included cabinet officers, spies, Supreme Court justices, statesmen and captains of industry - and often their sons, and lately their daughters, too. Bush - like his father and his grandfather - belonged to Skull and Bones, an elite secret society that includes some of the most powerful men of the 20th century.Īll Bonesmen, as they're called, are forbidden to reveal what goes on in their inner sanctum, the windowless building on the Yale campus that is called "The Tomb." He's forbidden to share these secrets even with the vice president - secrets he has held ever since his days as an undergraduate at Yale. Bush guards at least as carefully as any entrusted to a president.
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