Quill and Dagger - Membership

Membership

Undergraduates are selected for membership in Quill and Dagger in the spring of their junior year or fall of their senior year. A small number of honorary members have been selected since its founding, often qualified individuals who were not eligible for membership as undergraduates. Honorary members include Edward Leamington Nichols and Ernest Wilson Huffcut, who graduated from Cornell University before the society was founded, and Janet Reno and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who graduated before the society accepted women. Cornell University presidents Dale R. Corson, Frank H.T. Rhodes, Hunter R. Rawlings III, and Jeffrey Lehman all hold membership in the society. Nobel Prize-winning chemist Roald Hoffman also received an honorary membership.

Membership is published in The Cornell Daily Sun each semester. Alumni include:

• 175 Cornell University Athletic Hall of Fame members
• 23 Frank H.T. Rhodes Exemplary Alumni Service Award winners
• 12 of the 100 Most Notable Cornellians
• 11 Olympic medalists
• 11 Rhodes Scholars
• 8 Cornell University Council chairmen
• 8 U.S. Congressmen
• 6 Cornell University Board of Trustees chairmen
• 6 Cornell University Convocation speakers
• 6 Pulitzer Prize winners
• 4 Cornell University Athletic Directors
• 4 Cornell University Entrepreneurs of the Year
• 2 United States Directors of Policy Planning
• 2 United States National Security Advisors
• 2 World Bank presidents

Other notable alumni who were selected for membership as undergraduates include Sandy Berger, Barber Conable, Adolph Coors III, Ken Dryden, Austin H. Kiplinger, Drew Nieporent, Jeremy Schaap, Leah Ward Sears, Jay Walker, Seth Harris, E. B. White, and others.