Book and Snake member list showing current CIA Director, Porter Goss, and former Secretary of Defense, Les Aspin, as 1960 inductees.

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Book and Snake is one of the oldest and most prestigious secret societies at Yale University. Book and Snake was founded at Sheffield Scientific School in 1863. It became a Yale senior society in 1933, and was the first society at Yale to accept women and minorities. It is known as a much more progressive society than most of its counterparts, its members including some of the most socially active and popular students on campus. Each year Book and Snake taps in 16 new members to its society. Members are often leaders in different activities on campus and integral parts of Yale's academic, athletic, artistic and social scenes. Book and Snake is rumored to have a social and secretive relationship with its younger peer group Manuscript Society. A secret society is an organization that requires its members to conceal certain activities—such as rites of initiation—from outsiders. ... Yale redirects here. ... The Sheffield Scientific School was founded as Yale Scientific School in 1854 and renamed in 1861 in honor of Joseph E. Sheffield. ... 1863 (MDCCCLXIII) is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar). ... Yale redirects here. ... 1933 (MCMXXXIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... Manuscript Society, founded in 1952, is the youngest of the landed secret societies at Yale University, and its building, or tomb, though small is one of the nicest and has won several architectural awards. ...

Notable members include Bob Woodward of the Washington Post, who comes from a military intelligence connected family; as well as former CIA Director Porter J. Goss, former Secretary of Defense Les Aspin, former Secretary of Treasury Nicholas Brady, and Florida Senator Bill Nelson. Bob Woodward Robert Upshur Bob Woodward (born March 26, 1943) is one of the best-known journalists in the United States, thanks largely to his work in helping uncover the Watergate scandal that led to President Richard Nixons resignation, in a historical journalistic partnership with Carl Bernstein, while working... ... CIA redirects here. ... Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (D/CIA) serves as the head of the Central Intelligence Agency, which is part of the United States Intelligence Community. ... Porter Goss Porter Johnston Goss (born November 26, 1938) is an American politician and a former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. ... The United States Secretary of Defense is the head of the United States Department of Defense, concerned with the armed services and The Secretary is a member of the Presidents Cabinet. ... Leslie Aspin, Jr. ... The United States Secretary of the Treasury is the finance minister of the Federal Government of the United States. ... Nicholas F. Brady Nicholas Frederick Brady (born April 11, 1930, in New York City) was United States Secretary of the Treasury under Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush, and is also known for articulating the Brady Plan in March 1989. ... There have been several well-known people named Bill Nelson, including: Bill Nelson (politician) Bill Nelson (musician) Bill Nelson (illustrator) Bill Nelson (fictional, Marvel Comics) Former husband of the feline Avenger known as Tigra (Greer Grant Nelson), NYPD officer, deceased as of current writing. ...

External links

• Information on Book and Snake provided Kris Millegan
• Behind the walls of Yale's secret societies
• Secret societies swimming in cash, IRS reports show
• An Irrepressible Urge to Join