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The membership of the CORE Club is drawn from the economic and social elite of New York City. Writing in the New York Times in 2005 Warren St. James described the club as being a place for "a geographically and socially diverse set of wealthy people to gather and meet others of the same disparate tribe" and an "ambitious act of social exclusion". [2]
The Des Moines Club (1909–2002), merged with the Embassy Club to become the Des Moines Embassy Club [169] The Des Moines Embassy Club (1909), formed in 2002 from the merger of the Embassy Club and Des Moines Club [169] [170] The Embassy Club (1946–2002), merged with the Des Moines Club to become the Des Moines Embassy Club [169] Iowa City
The University Club of New York (also known as University Club) is a private social club at 1 West 54th Street and Fifth Avenue in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City. Founded to celebrate the union of social duty and intellectual life, the club was chartered in 1865 for the "promotion of literature and art".
The Columbia University Club was founded in 1901 by recent graduates of Columbia University. [4] The Club had 1,000 members in 1910. By the early 1970s, in need of capital, and down to less than 500 members, it sold the building to the Unification Church of the Rev. Sun Myung Moon. [5]
The club's membership book includes the original constitution, and each member must sign the membership book when they join. [229] The original bylaws allowed servicemembers to pay half the usual dues; this privilege was extended to clergy members in 1940. [230] Since 1989, prospective members can be nominated only by existing members.
Those individual motor clubs included the Chicago Automobile Club, Automobile Club of America, Automobile Club of New Jersey, and others. [6] The Automobile Club of Buffalo joined in 1903. [7] Winthrop E. Scarritt was its first president. [4] One of the first things the organization advocated for was the building of a cross-country highway. [8]
Seawane Country Club; Sigma Pi Phi; Société Anonyme (art) Soho House (club) Soldiers', Sailors', Marines', Coast Guard and Airmen's Club; Somerset Club; Sons and Daughters of Oregon Pioneers; Sons and Daughters of Pioneer Rivermen; Southern California Striders; Southern Highlands Golf Club; Spanish Benevolent Society; Spring Place (club ...
In February 1988, the California Club admitted its first black member in the person of Joseph L. Alexander, 58-year-old surgeon and former Army colonel. The club also approved Ivan J. Houston, the chief executive officer of the predominantly black Golden State Mutual Life Insurance Company. A "number of Jews" were said to have been admitted in ...