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What is Skull and Bones ?
(A.K.A Russell Trust Association)

Skull and Bones is the most well known of the so-called secret societies based at Yale University. It was founded in 1832 by William Huntington Russell and Alphonso Taft, two students who were not admitted into Phi Beta Kappa at Yale University, in New Haven, Connecticut. [1] The first Skull and Bones class, or "cohort", was in 1833. Skull and Bones is known by many names, including The Order of Death, The Order, The Eulogian Club, and Lodge 322. Initiates are most commonly known as Bonesmen, Knights of Eulogia, and Boodle Boys. The females who have recently
been permitted to become members would be known as Boneswomen, Ladies of Eulogia, and Boodle Girls.


Who is Eulogia ?





Please note the two owls either side of this ancient carving of the goddess Ishtar.

This shows the obvious link between the cult of Ishtar and the cult of Moloch (Owl).

Eulogia is a female goddess of Blessing that was concocted by the Skull and Bones in order to hide its roots which are found in a ancient babylonian goddess called Ishtar, High-Mother-Goddess. Like Inanna, she is the goddess of fertility, love and war. Her cult was the most important one in ancient Babylon. Ishtar, known under various names, was the most important Goddess of the Near-East and Western Asia. The word Eulogia which, in Greek, means "to be blessed." They believe this goddess ascended into heaven in 322 B.C. (a number that appears in their own logo) upon the death of Greek orator Demonsthenes and subsequently descended from heaven in 1832, landing at Yale University. Also known as Assyrian goddess of sexuality, referred to in the Bible as "queen of heaven" (Jeremiah 7:18, 44:17, 25). However the name "Ishtar" does not actually appear in the Bible, but she does appear under her other titles (i.e. Ashteroth).

What Dose The Number 322 Mean ?

Those familiar with Skull and Bones (S&B) know that "322" is the room number of the initiation room — the sanctum sanctorum or "holy of holies" — in the organization’s forbidding structure on the Yale campus. That structure is commonly known to insiders and outsiders alike as "the Tomb," but is also referred to by members as "the Temple." The "322" also refers to the society itself; it is "Chapter 322" of an older German secret society.

What Happens in Room 322 ?

This is the most private room in the building, known as the Inner Temple, or (this will be no surprise) Room 322, is approximately fourteen feet square and guarded by a locked iron door. Inside, a case contains a skeleton that Bonesmen refer to as Madame Pompadour. Compartments in the case guard the society's cherished manuscripts, including the secrecy oath and instructions for conducting an initiation.

The initiation ceremony, held in April, involves as many alumni, or "patriarchs," as possible, one of whom in each instance serves as the supervisor, known as Uncle Toby. The Inner Temple is cleared of furniture except for two chairs and a table, and Bonesmen past and present assemble: Uncle Toby in a robe; the shortest senior, or "Little Devil," in a satanic costume; a Bonesman with a deep voice in a Don Quixote
costume; one in papal vestments; another dressed as Elihu Yale; four of the brawniest in the role of "shakers"; and a crew of extras wearing skeleton costumes and carrying noisemakers. According to the initiation script, Uncle Toby "sounds like the only sane person in the room."

As an initiate enters the room, patriarchs standing outside the Inner Temple shout, "Who is it?" The shakers bellow the initiate's name, which the patriarchs echo. The shakers push the initiate toward the table, where the secrecy oath has been placed, and he is enjoined to "Read! Read! Read!" The shakers then half-carry the initiate to a picture of Eulogia, and the Bonesmen shriek, "Eulogia! Eulogia! Eulogia!" After another trip to the oath, the shakers fire the initiate toward a picture of a woman that Bonesmen call Connubial Bliss.

Rituals along these lines go on for quite some time, recalling a cross between haunted-house antics and a human pinball game -- "like something from a Harry Potter novel," in the words of one Bonesman, now an engineer. It is perhaps worth noting, in light of George W.'s controversial episode at Bob Jones University and the specter of anti-Catholicism, that at one point in the proceedings every initiate kisses the slippered toe of the "Pope." At last the initiate is formally dubbed a Knight of Eulogia. Amid more raucous ritual he is cast from the room into the waiting arms of the patriarchs.

WITHIN the tomb students run on Skull and Bones time, which is five minutes ahead of the time in the rest of the world. "It was to encourage you to think that being in the building was so different from the outside world that you'd let your guard down," a Bonesman ('72) explains. At 6:30 on Thursdays and Sundays the Bonesmen gather in the Firefly Room for supper. The room is dim and intimate; light shines through the gaping eyeholes of fixtures shaped like skulls. Bonesmen drink various refreshments from skull-shaped cups, but never alcohol. The dry-society rule, fervently enforced, was designed to keep members level-
headed for discussions -- a change of pace for George W., who drank heavily during his college years.

At 7:55 barbarian time Uncle Toby rings a bell to summon the members to the session. When the knights are seated, they sing two sacred anthems before the Hearing of Excuses, during which members are assessed fines for errors, such as arriving late or using a society name outside the tomb. Uncle Toby then draws debate topics and an order of speakers from the Yorick, a skull divided into compartments. The ninety-minute period of debate can be frivolous or grave.

One of the standard pieces of lore about Skull and Bones is that each member must at some point give an account of his sexual history, known as the CB (for "Connubial Bliss"). "After the first one or two times it's like guys listing their conquests, and that gets old," one young Bonesman told me recently. "There's just not that much to talk about" -- and so CBs have evolved into relationship discussions. "It's the kind of stuff a lot of guys do with their teammates," says another Bonesman ('83). "There was nothing perverse or surreal or prurient -- just an open exchange. It's like TV's Ricki Lake -- there's now a national mania for purging thoughts at large. This is a way of doing it in a very private, non-sensationalist way that benefits the people who are listening and the people
who are telling."

ibid: http://www.fattyboombatty.com/skullandbones.htm

Who Is Uncle Toby ?

Uncle Toby is one distinguished member serves as Master of Ceremonies.
Once enrobed, he is known as “Uncle Toby”.

ibid: http://www.stopdubya.com/Individual%20Archives/THC%20Skull%20&%20Bones/Societies_p6.htm

What Is Tap Day ?

In the late 1870s, the juniors revolted. Instead of waiting alone in their rooms on election night, they gathered outside on the steps of the Old Campus dormitories to see which societies their friends would accept. But the seniors didn't want to announce the elections publicly, so they simply tapped each selected junior and said only,"Go to your room." Thus Tap Day was born.

Each May on "Tap Day," senior Bonesmen troll around Yale's campus,
selecting, or "tapping," 15 juniors for membership in the upcoming class.

Ibid: http://www.yalealumnimagazine.com/issues/2004_09/old_yale.html,
http://archive.salon.com/books/it/2000/01/21/bones/print.html

I have a image library this will be trasfared my new interface.

http://www.firstplumbline.net/skullandbones/photoarchives/

and for media goto

http://www.firstplumbline.net/skullandbones/audiovideo/

This will also be finished on a web page soon.
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Skull and Bones notebook

http://www.yalealumnimagazine.com/issues/2006_05/images/Yale_Alumn_Magazine.pdf

Whose skull and bones?

By Kathrin Day Lassila ’81 & Mark Alden Branch ’86

Did Skull and Bones rob the grave of Geronimo during World War I? For decades, it has been the most controversial and sordid of all the mysteries surrounding Yale’s best-known secret society. The story was widely rumored but, despite the efforts of reporters and historians and the public complaints of Apache leaders in the 1980s, never verified. An internal history of Skull and Bones, written in the 1930s and leaked to the Apache 50 years later, mentioned the theft. But Bones spokesmen have always dismissed the story as a hoax.

A former senior editor of the Yale Alumni Magazine
has now discovered the only known contemporary
evidence: a reference in private correspondence
from one senior Bonesman to another. The letter was written on June 7, 1918, by Winter Mead ’19 to F. Trubee Davison ’18. It announces that the remains dug up at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, by a group that included Charles C. Haffner Jr. ’19 (a new member, or “Knight”), have been deposited in the society’s headquarters (the “Tomb”): “The skull of the worthy Geronimo the Terrible, exhumed from its tomb at Fort Sill by your club & the K—t [Knight] Haffner, is now safe inside the T— [Tomb] together with his well worn femurs[,] bit & saddle horn.” Mead was not at Fort Sill, so his letter is not proof. And if the Bonesmen did rob a grave, there’s reason
to think it may have been the wrong one. But the letter shows that the story was no after-the-fact rumor. Senior Bonesmen at the time believed it. “It adds to the seriousness of the belief [that the theft took place], certainly,” says Judith Schiff, the chief research archivist at Sterling Memorial Library, who has written extensively on Yale history. “It has a very strong likelihood of being true, since it was written so close to the time.” Members of a secret society, she points out, were required to be honest with each other about its affairs.

Moreover, the yearbook entries for Haffner, Mead, and Davison confirm that they were all Bonesmen. (The membership of the societies was routinely published in newspapers and yearbooks until the 1970s.) Haffner’s entry confirms that he was at the artillery school at Fort Sill some time between August 1917 and July 1918.

Marc Wortman, a writer and former senior editor of this magazine, discovered the letter in the Sterling Memorial Library archives while researching Davison’s war years for a book—The Millionaires’ Unit, released this month by PublicAffairs press—about Yale’s World War I aviators. The letter is preserved in a folder of 1918 correspondence in one of the 16

ists, the Bones representatives produced a display case like the one in the photo. But they told Anderson that the skull inside it was that of a ten-year-old boy. They offered the skull to Anderson, but he declined, as he believed it was not the same one in the photo.

Some researchers have concluded that the Bonesmen
could not have even found Geronimo’s grave in 1918. David H. Miller, a history professor at Cameron University in Lawton, Oklahoma, cites historical accounts that the grave was unmarked and overgrown until a Fort Sill librarian persuaded local Apaches to identify the site for him in the 1920s. “My assumption is that they did dig up somebody at Fort Sill,” says Miller. “It could have been an Indian, but it probably wasn’t Geronimo.” Mead’s letter, written from one Bonesman to another just after the incident would have occurred, boxes of the F. Trubee Davison Papers. Mead’s was one of many letters Davison received that year about Bones matters. With the war on, the Bonesmen were scattered around the United States and Europe, and society business like choosing new members had to be conducted by mail. “Lists of people to be tapped would come to Trubee and he would comment on them,” says Wortman. Mead’s letter also relays the news that Parker B. Allen ’19 had been initiated as a member in Saumur, France, and Allen’s yearbook entry confirms his membership in Bones and his posting to artillery school in Saumur.

the geronimo rumor first came to wide public
attention in 1986. At the time, Ned Anderson, then chair of the San Carlos Apache Tribe in Arizona, was campaigning to have Geronimo’s remains moved from Fort Sill—where he died a prisoner of war in 1909—to Apache land in Arizona. Anderson received an anonymous letter from someone who claimed to be a member of Skull and Bones, alleging
that the society had Geronimo’s skull. The writer included a photograph of a skull in a display case and a copy of what is apparently a centennial history of Skull and Bones, written by the literary critic F. O. Matthiessen ’23, a Skull and Bones member. In Matthiessen’s
account, which quotes a Skull and Bones log book from 1919, the skull had been unearthed by six Bonesmen—identified by their Bones nicknames, including “Hellbender,” who apparently was Haffner.
Matthiessen mentions the real names of three of the robbers, all of whom were at Fort Sill in early 1918: Ellery James ’17, Henry Neil Mallon ’17, and Prescott Bush ’17, the father and grandfather of the U.S. presidents.
Anderson arranged a meeting with Bones alumni Jonathan Bush ’53, a son of Prescott Bush; and Endicott
Peabody Davison ’45, a son of Trubee Davison. At the meeting, Anderson has told several journal

The letter shows that the story was no after-the-fact rumor. Bonesmen at the time believed it.

A recently discovered letter to F. Trubee Davison ’18 (top, left) from Winter Mead ’19 (top, right) seems to confirm the rumor that Skull and Bones members plundered the grave of the Apache warrior Geronimo (left) and brought his skull to their “Tomb” in New Haven. The letter (far left) begins with a discussion of new members: “Knights” (initiates), including Charles C. Haffner Jr. ’19, had visited Mead to give “dope” (information) about possible candidates. Mead also mentions that Parker B. Allen ’19 had been initiated at Saumur, France. The rest of the letter (not shown) speculates on the whereabouts of Haffner’s Army unit.


suggests that society members had robbed a grave and had a skull they believed was Geronimo’s. It does not speak to whether Skull and Bones may still have such a skull today. Many have speculated that they do, but there is no direct evidence. Alexandra Robbins
’98, who wrote the 2002 Bones exposé Secrets of the Tomb, says she persuaded a number of Bones alumni to talk to her for her book. “Many talked about a skull in a glass case by the front door that they call Geronimo,” Robbins told the alumni magazine.
(Representatives of Skull and Bones did not return calls from the magazine by press time.)

Alleged grave robbers, clockwise from top left: Prescott Bush ’17, Charles C. Haffner ’19, Henry Neil Mallon ’17, and Ellery James ’17. Haffner, who is credited with the theft of Geronimo’s skull in the recently discovered letter, went on to become a general in World War II and then chair of the printing company R. R. Donnelly & Sons. A purported Skull and Bones account of the theft, leaked in the 1980s, identifies the other three by name. Bush became a Connecticut businessman, a U.S. senator, and the father and grandfather of two U.S. presidents. Mallon became chair of the oilfield service company Dresser Industries and the first employer of George H. W. Bush ’48. James was a banker with Brown Brothers Harriman until his untimely death in 1932.

Skull and Bones and other Yale societies have a reputation for stealing, often from each other or from campus buildings. Society members reportedly
call the practice “crooking” and strive to outdo each other’s “crooks.” And the club is also thought to use human remains in its rituals. In 2001, journalist Ron Rosenbaum ’68 reported capturing on videotape
what appeared to be an initiation ceremony in the society’s courtyard, in which Bonesmen carried skulls and “femur-sized bones.”
it may have been easier for the bonesmen to plunder an Apache’s grave if they shared the racial attitudes typical of their era and social class. At the time, says Gaddis Smith, Larned Professor of History
emeritus, who is writing a history of Yale since 1900, “there was a racial consciousness and a sense of Anglo-Saxon superiority above all others.” He notes that James Rowland Angell, who became president of Yale in 1921, “would say, very explicitly, that we must preserve Yale for the ‘old stock.’” Smith adds, “The slogan of the first major fund-raising campaign for Yale, in 1926, was ‘Keep Yale Yale.’ The alumni knew exactly what it meant.”

At the same time, many of those complicit in what was apparently the desecration of a grave cherished ideals of service and fellowship, and had lived up to them by enlisting for the war voluntarily. A striking example is chronicled in Marc Wortman’s book, The Millionaires’ Unit, which began as an article for this magazine about a group of Yale undergraduates who took up the new sport of aviation in order to fight for the Allies (“Flight to Glory,” November/December



Many of those complicit in what was apparently the desecration of a grave cherished ideals of service and fellowship and had enlisted for the war voluntarily.

2003). Trubee Davison was the co-founder and moving
spirit of this project. Before the United States had even entered the war, he recruited two dozen elite and wealthy young Yalies of his set—five of them Bonesmen—to devote themselves to flying. Out of these efforts grew the first squadron in what is today the Naval Air Reserve.
The letter might not have been discovered if Davison
hadn’t founded the aviation group. It might not even have been written if he hadn’t endured great personal suffering for the war effort. Davison never made it overseas; he crashed during a training flight and was disabled for the rest of his life.
It was while he was recuperating at home that his fellow Bonesmen wrote to him about candidates for membership, initiations abroad, and other society business. The Geronimo letter, with its matter-of-fact reports of troop units and its boast about a grave robbery, speaks to the complex and contradictory mores of the privileged class in early twentieth-century
America.
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