Membership
Notable members include:
- A. Peter Dewey (1916-September 26, 1945), shot by accident by Viet Minh troops on September 26, 1945, the first American casualty in the Vietnam War. Pictured with his BZ Class of '39
- William Warren Scranton, (b. 1917), Republican Governor of Pennsylvania from 1963 to 1967. United States Ambassador to the United Nations 1976 to 1977. Also pictured with his BZ Class of '39:
- Levi Jackson (1926 - 2000), first African American member of a Yale secret society. Elected by his teammates the first African American to captain an Ivy League football team.
Read more about this topic: Berzelius (secret Society)
Famous quotes containing the word membership:
“The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers. The people don’t acknowledge this. They claim membership in two imaginary parties, the Republicans and the Democrats, instead.”
—Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (b. 1922)