List of Fly Club members
Members of Harvard University student group
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The Fly Club is a final club for male students at Harvard University. It was formed as a literary society in 1836 and operated as a chapter of Alpha Delta Phi fraternity from 1837 to 1865 and from 1878 to 1906.[1] It adopted its nickname, the Fly Club, as its official name in 1910.[1] The Fly Club merged with the final club D.U. (Delta Upsilon) in 1996, including absorbing the alumni of D.U.[2]
Following is a list of some of the notable members of the Fly Club.
Academia
- James Barr Ames (1868) – dean of Harvard Law School (1895–1910), known for popularizing the case-study method of teaching law[1]
- Thomas Chase (1848) – Noted Latin scholar, President of Haverford College[1]
- Francis James Child (1846) – first Professor of English at Harvard University, best known today for his collection of English and Scottish ballads now known as the Child Ballads[1]
- James B. Conant (1914) – President of Harvard University and United States Ambassador to West Germany[3][4]
- Archibald Cary Coolidge (1887) – historian, Harvard professor, first director of the Harvard University Library[1]
- Charles William Eliot (1853) – President of Harvard University[1][5]
- Samuel Eliot (1839) – president of Trinity College and Boston Public Schools superintendent[1]
- Horace Howard Furness (1854) – Shakespearian scholar, lecturer University of Pennsylvania[1]
- Horatio Hale (1836) – ethnologist and philologist[1]
- Rufus King (1836) – president of the University of Cincinnati and dean of the Cincinnati Law School[1]
- George Martin Lane (1846) – scholar, influential professor of Latin at Harvard University[1]
- A. Lawrence Lowell – historian and President of Harvard University[3][6]
- James Edward Oliver (1849) – mathematician known for his role in establishing the mathematics department at Cornell University[1]
- Jonathan Westphal (1973) - philosopher and author of "The Mind-Body Problem", MIT 2016.[7]
- Charles Stearns Wheeler (1836) – transcendentalist, noted as inspiration for Henry David Thoreau’s Walden[1][8]
Architecture
- Thomas Curtis Clarke (1848) – American railway engineer, builder and author best known for a series of cast iron bridges in the United States; his firm won the contract to build the east and west blocks of the Canadian Houses of Parliament[1]
- Herbert Dudley Hale (1888) – Boston and New York City architect who designed the Fly Club's house at Two Holyoke Place[1][9][10]
- William Robert Ware (1852) – architect, first professor of architecture at MIT, founder of the School of Architecture at Columbia University[1]
Business
- Charles Francis Adams Jr. (1888) – president of the Union Pacific Railroad, colonel in the Union Army during the American Civil War[1]
- Charlie Cheever – co-founder of Quora[11][12]
- George H. Mifflin (1865) – president of Houghton Mifflin publishing company[1]
- Louis Kane – chairman of Au Bon Pain bakery and café chain[13][14]
- Clarence B. Randall (Delta Upsilon) – businessman, lawyer, and chairman of the Board of Inland Steel Company[15]
- David Rockefeller – banker[16]
Entertainment
- Robert Benchley (Delta Upsilon) – humorist, actor, and winner of the 1935 Academy Award for Best Short Film (How to Sleep)[15]
- Robert Carlock – screenwriter and producer[17]
- Fred Gwynne – stage, film, and television actor[18]
- Joseph Losey (Delta Upsilon) – film and theatre director, producer, and screenwriter[19]
- Bruce Pecheur (1964) – model and actor[20]
- Whit Stillman – writer-director and actor known for Metropolitan, which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay[21]
Law
- James C. Carter (1850) – co-founder of law firm Carter Ledyard & Milburn[1]
- William Gardner Choate (1852) – judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York and founder of boarding school Choate Rosemary Hall[1]
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1861) – Supreme Court Justice[1]
- John Lowell (1843) – judge of the United States Circuit Courts for the First Circuit[1]
- Stephen Henry Phillips (1842) – Massachusetts Attorney General and Attorney General of Hawaii[1]
- John Codman Ropes (1857) – co-founder of law firm Ropes & Grey[1]
Literature and journalism
- Selamawi Asgedom (1999) – author and public speaker[4]
- Octavius Frothingham (1843) – clergyman, author, art critic, and abolitionist[1]
- Francis Parkman (1844) – author and historian[1]
- Ernest Thayer – poet, author of "Casey at the Bat"[22]
- Evan Thomas – journalist and author[23]
- Owen Wister (1882) – writer, "father" of western fiction[1]
Military
- Alexander Bliss (1847) – assistant quartermaster general of the Union forces and a colonel in the United States Army during the American Civil War[1]
- Henry L. Eustis (1838) – General in the Union Army during Civil War; dean of Lawrence Scientific School[1]
- Manning Ferguson Force (1845) – lawyer, judge, Union Army general, and recipient of the Medal of Honor[1]
- Peter A. Porter (1845) – lawyer, politician, member of the Breckinridge family, and a Union Army colonel in the American Civil War[1]
Politics
- Charles Francis Adams III (1888) – Secretary of the Navy and skipper of America's Cup defender Resolute[1]
- Larz Anderson (1888) – secretary at the United States Legation to the Court of St James's, secretary and later chargé d'affaires at the United States Embassy in Rome; U.S. Minister to Belgium; and U.S. Ambassador to Japan[1][24]
- Edward Bell (1904) – U.S. diplomatic official involved in the decoding of the Zimmerman Telegram in World War I[1][25][26]
- Lathrop Brown (1904) – United States House of Representatives[1][27]
- Joseph Hodges Choate (1849) – U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom[1]
- Dwight F. Davis (1900) – U.S. Secretary of War and Governor General of the Philippines; Olympic tennis player, and founder of the Davis Cup; International[1]
- Thomas H. Eliot (Delta Upsilon) – United States House of Representatives[19]
- Grenville T. Emmet (1898) – U.S. Ambassador to the Netherlands and U.S. Ambassador to Austria[1]
- Charles S. Fairchild (1863) – United States Secretary of the Treasury and Attorney General of New York[1]
- John B. Felton (1847) – Mayor of Oakland, California[1]
- Joseph Grew (1902) – U.S. Ambassador to Japan, oversaw the development of U.S. Foreign Service[1][28]
- Charles Hale (1850) – Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives and United States Assistant Secretary of State[1]
- Wickham Hoffman (1841) – U.S. Minister to Denmark and Colonel in the Union Army[1]
- Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. – United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom, chair of the U.S. Maritime Commission, and 1st Chair of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission[15][4]
- Jared Kushner – Senior White House Adviser and head of the Office of American Innovation[29]
- Anthony Lake – National Security Advisor and Executive Director of UNICEF[3]
- James Russell Lowell (1836) – U.S. Ambassador to Spain, U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, poet, and editor[1][5]
- Deval Patrick – Governor of Massachusetts[30]
- Roger Putnam – Mayor of Springfield, Massachusetts and director of the U.S. Economic Stabilization Administration
- Jay Rockefeller – United States Senate[31]
- Franklin D. Roosevelt (1904) – President of the United States[1][27][32]
- James Roosevelt (1907) – United States House of Representatives[1][33]
- Theodore Roosevelt (1880) – President of the United States[1]
- George R. Stobbs (Delta Upsilon) – United States House of Representatives[19]
- Bill Weld – Governor of Massachusetts[34]
Religion
- Phillips Brooks (1855) – clergyman, author, lyricist[1][5]
- Charles Edward Grinnell – clergyman, lawyer, and writer[35]
- Edward Everett Hale (1839) – author, historian, Unitarian minister, chaplain to the U.S. Senate[1][5]
- William Appleton Lawrence (1911) – Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Western Massachusetts[1]
- Logan H. Roots (Delta Upsilon, 1891) – Episcopal Bishop of Hankow[36]
Science
- Francis Cabot – gardener, horticulturist, chairman of the New York Botanical Garden, and founder of the Garden Conservancy[37]
Sports
- Arthur Cumnock (1891) – one of the greatest college football players in Harvard's history, namesake of Cumnock Field[1]
- Charles Dudley Daly (1900) – college football player and coach who was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame[1]
- Dwight F. Davis – Olympic tennis player, three-time U.S. Open doubles champion, founder of the Davis Cup, International Tennis Hall of Fame inductee, U.S. Secretary of War, and Governor General of the Philippines[1]
- W. Palmer Dixon – two-time winner of U.S. squash championship[38][39]
- Henry Thrun – professional ice hockey player for the San Jose Sharks, winner of a gold medal at 2021 World Junior Championship[40]
- Ian Moore — professional ice hockey player for the Anaheim Ducks