page_title: St. Elmo (secret society)
section_title: Membership
hierarchical_section_title: St. Elmo (secret society) / Membership
caption_attribution_description: English: Football player Calvin Hill in the locker room of the Cleveland Browns in 1979.
context_page_description: St. Elmo Society, or Elmo's, is a secret society at Yale University. It was founded in 1889 as an independent entity for seniors within the nationally chartered fraternity, Delta Phi, Omicron Chapter.
  Delegations are selected from the entire junior class pool based on students' scholastic standing, his or her seriousness of purpose, maturity, individuality, and other achievements at the university as well as representation of the different backgrounds and interests in each class. There are eight men and eight women in each year's delegation.
context_section_description: Notable members include:
  Harry Valette Day (1895), president, manager, and first member of the board of directors of Custer Consolidated Mining Company, which in 1913 merged with the adjacent Tamarack & Chesapeake Mining Company, forming the Tamarack & Custer Consolidated Mining Company
  Charles James Freeborn (1899), Croix de Guerre recipient for his service in World War I and captain in the United States Army
  Guy Hutchinson (1906), president of Proctor & Schwartz Electric Company, which merged with Silex Company to form Proctor Silex in 1960; he was also an All-American Football quarterback, 1905
  Arthur Harding Bosworth (1908), founder and president of Bosworth, Chanute, Loughridge & Co, which eventually merged with RBC Wealth Management
  Robert Bensen Meyer (1914), Navy Cross recipient for his service in World War I and lieutenant in the United States Navy
  Fotzhugh Quarrier (1935), colonel in World War II in the N.Y. Air Defense Wing and assisted Eleanor Roosevelt in organizing the WAACs
  Ivan Obolensky (1947), Naval pilot, Pulitzer Prize publisher, vice president of Shields & Company, long-time financial analyst, son of Prince Serge Obolensky, Russian Prince and vice chairman of the board of Hilton Hotels Corporation, and grandson of John Jacob Astor IV, great-grandson of John Jacob Astor
  James E. Fuchs (1950), Olympic medalist, 1948 and 1952, Pan-American Games medalist, and former world record holder, shot put. President, chairman, and executive director of the Silver Shield Foundation; chairman and co-chief executive of the Cosamar Group Inc.; former chairman and chief executive officer of The Grenfox Group Inc.; former senior advisor to the committee to Encourage Corporate Philanthropy; former CEO of Fuchs, Cuthrell & Co Inc.
  Alan K. McAdams (1952), professor at Johnson Business School at Cornell and past senior staff member of the President's Council of Economic Advisers
  Andrew H. Marks (1961), former president and CEO of Bollinger, Inc.
  Robert Morse Crunden (1962), professor at the University of Texas, director of American Studies Department, 1985–1990, member of the History Department as well
  John Richard Sack (1963), author of The Franciscan Conspiracy, translated into 20 languages and a top-10 bestseller in Germany, Brazil, France, Italy and the Netherlands
  John Ashcroft (1964), 79th United States Attorney General
  Barrington Daniels Parker Jr. (1965), a federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
  Calvin Hill (1969), All-Pro NFL running back; father of NBA All-Star, Grant Hill
  Dick Caples (1971), executive director of Lar Lubovitch Dance Company
  Gandolfo Vincent DiBlasi (1975), partner at Sullivan & Cromwell, recognized as one of the top litigation attorneys in America
  Arturo Cazares (1979), epidemiologist M.D., M.P.H., Program and Executive Research Coordinator at the National Institutes of Health, recognized contractor to the Department of Justice
  James L. Shulman (1987), author and president of ARTstor
  Ron DeSantis (2001), current governor of Florida
  Matt McCarthy (2002), author of Odd Man Out, which was ranked number 21 on the New York Times Non-Fiction Best Seller List in March 2009
  Allison Williams (2010), actress, Jordan Peele's Get Out, HBO's Girls
caption: Calvin Hill American football running back and member of the 1969 delegation
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