Subject: Invitation - "Skulls and Keys" book talk-David Alan Richards '67, '72 Law with Yale Club of Wash DC
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Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2017 09:46:16 -0500 (EST)

<=trong>Register in advance $20

Tuesday, December 5, 2017

6:30pm to 8:30pm

David Alan Richards '67 BA '72 Law

Skulls and Keys: The Hidden History o= Yale's Secret Societies

Airbus Center

1101 Pennsylvania Ave NW, 8th floorWashington, DC 20004

6:30-7PM - networking

7-8PM - discussion

8-8:30PM - book signing

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T=ere is a progressive side to Yale's secret societies that we rarely hear a=out, one that, in the cultural tumult of the 1960's, resulted in the elect=on of people of color, women, and gay men, even in proportions beyond thei= percentages in the class. It's a side that is often overlooked in favor o= sensational legends of blood oaths and toe-curling conspiracies. <=p>

<=trong>David Richards sheds some light on the lesser known st=ries of Yale's secret societies. He takes us through the history from Phi =eta Kappa in the American Revolution (originally a social and drinking soc=ety) through Skull and Bones and its rivals in the nineteenth and twentiet= centuries. While there have been articles and books on some of those soci=ties, there has never been a scholarly history of the system as a whole.

Register here in adva=ce $20

A= the door - $30

B=oks for purchase and signing will be available from Politics & Prose a= the event.

<=trong>David Alan Richards, (B.A. '67 summa cum laude, J.D. '72) was tas=ed by Yale President Kingman Brewster to write a history of the Yale Corpo=ation to undergird that board's expansion in the 1960's to include previou=ly-excluded women and ethnic and religious minorities. His Rudyard Kip=ing: A Bibliography was nominated for the bibliography prize of the I=ternational League of Antiquarian Booksellers. Earlier works include co-ed=ting Kipling and His First Publisher and authoring Rudyard Ki=ling: The Books I Leave Behind. Residing in Scarsdale, New York, he i= Senior Counsel with S=eptoe & Johnson LLP. He is a longtime officer of New York City's G=olier Club and serves as secretary of the St. Bartholomew's Conservancy an= he's on the legal committee of the Yale Club of New York City.

<= href="http://ycwd.memberclicks.net/message2/link/81819c86-1801-4c53-8ef=-9fccf8620496/3" target="_blank" track="true">Washington Post review By Helen=Andrews (a 2017 Robert Novak Journalism Fellow)-Sept 28, 2017 <=span>

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