Richard Gerstle Mack
Thomas Wilder MoseleyGeorge Harold Pfau, Jr.
Samuel Sloane Walker, Jr.
Howard Sayre Weaver
Valleau Wilkie, Jr.
Survivors of this 1948 Bones group were interviewed for a 1988 Washington Post campaign profile
of George Bush. The members described their continuing intimacy with and financial support for
Bush up through his 1980s vice-presidency. Their original sexual togetherness at Yale is stressed:
The relationships that were formed in the ``Tomb'' ... where the Society's meetings took place each
Thursday and Sunday night during the academic year, have had a strong place in Bush's life,according to all 11 of his fellow Bonesmen who are still alive.
Several described in detail the ritual in the organization that builds the bonds. Before giving his life
history, each member had to spend a Sunday night reviewing his sex life in a talk known in the
Tomb as CB, or connubial bliss''.... The first time you review your sex life.... We went all the way around among the 15,'' said Lucius
H. Biglow Jr., a retired Seattle attorney. That way you get everybody committed to a certain extent.... It was a gradual way of building confidence.'' The sexual histories helped break down the normal defenses of the members, according to several of the members from his class. William J. Connelly, Jr. ... said,In Skull and Bones we all stand
together, 15 brothers under the skin. [It is] the greatest allegiance in the world.''@s1@s2
Here is our future U.S. President with the other wealthy, amoral young mfuture unlimited power over the ignorant common people, sharing their sex secrets in a mausoleumen, excited about their (^)
surrounded by human remains. The excited young men are entirely directed by the Patriarchs,'' the cynical alumni financiers who are the legal owners of the Order. The Yale Tories Who Made Skull and Bones This chart depicts family relationships which were vital to the persons appearing on the chart. At less exalted levels of society, one is supposed to be praised or blamed only according to one's own actions. But in these Yale circles,family''--genealogy--is an overwhelming consideration when
evaluating individuals. Thus what we present here is more than simply a system of associations. It
is a tradition which has operated powerfully on the emotions and judgment of the leaders of YaleUniversity; they have merged their own identities into this tradition.
Lines are directed downwards from parents to their children. A double hyphen--signifies the
marriage of the persons on either side.
GUIDE TO THE YALE FAMILY CHART
- Rev. Nodiah Russell: One of 10 or 12 men who founded Yale University in 1701. Yale Trustee
1701-13. Pastor, First Congregational Church, Middletown, Ct. ca. 1691-1716. - Rev. James Pierpont: Most celebrated of the Yale founders. Yale Trustee, 1701-14.
- William Russell: Yale Trustee 1745-61. Pastor, First Congregational Church, Middletown, Ct.
1716-61.