Source(s): 1975, G. William Domhoff (U.C. Eddie Albert is there". Hosted CIA director William Casey in the Bohemian Grove in 1980. Secretary of Defense 1994-1997 under Clinton. America's toughest boss by Fortune Radio and television producer. Advisor to the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. Oil and Refining Company, president of Carter Oil Company (a division IBM in 1982, president IBM in 1983, chairman and CEO of IBM 1986-1993, Chairman of the newly created J. Rothschild, Wolfensohn & Company from March 1992 to 1995, Wolfensohn & Co.'s London-based joint venture. of the non-nuclear components for U.S. nuclear weapons: detonators, "; August 14, 1977, New York Times, 'Bohemian Grove--Where Big Shots Go to Camp': "Nelson Rockefeller, Henry Ford 2d have all been [BG] stage hands"; 2020, Pehr Gyllenhammar, 'Character is Destiny': "Both [David] and his brother Nelson Rockefeller were longtime members of the Bohemian Club in San Francisco"; November 1989, Spy Magazine, 'Masters of the Universe Go to Camp': "Barry Goldwater and Nelson Rockefeller all stopped in as they geared up for their respective presidential campaigns.". Award for the Division of Social Sciences. He was appointed Associate Director for Research in 1987 and Senior Associate Director in 1992. Instead, they perform Druid-like rituals, burning coffin effigies in reverence to the large redwoods that surround their camp. Seville Golf & Country Club | Gilbert, AZ | Invited I missed many going through the list. From 1957-1959, he served as director of Moore also serves on the Board of Trustees of the California Institute of Technology. On July 19, 1940, President Roosevelt signed the Two-Ocean Naval Expansion Act, which authorized the construction of two huge fleets in both the Atlantic and Pacific theaters. His wife, Dorothy Walker Stapleton, is a first cousin of former U.S. president George H. W. Bush. Chairman of the Community Service Society, which was formed in 1939 with the merger of the New York Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor, of which he was an officer, and the Charity Organization Society. bunch of pervs, i doubt we wanna know what goes down here, Bob Weir & Bob Dylan (Zimmerman) are on there, Lots of familiar names were already mentioned. Source(s): 1998 speech at the Bohemian Grove titled 'Diplomacy: Beyond Conventional Wisdom' (lost exact source for now).". In the same year, he was appointed We present to you a guide to the Bohemian Grove, including a map of the premises, highlights of the events, and a list of prominent members and regular guests, from the club's founding, in. from 1971 to 1994, director of PG&E Corporation from 1996 to 2000, Secretary of transportation 1981-1983. Source(s): sonomacountyfreepress.com/ bohos/1998Speakers.html (accessed: Nov. 27, 2002): "Francis Ford Coppola 'Two Republics: Rome and America' Sunday, July 26 12:30 P.M.". of science degree at California Institute of Technology, sent Giannini, who in 1904 founded Bank of America in San Francisco, originally called Bank of Italy (until 1930), virtually invented branch banking. They always get what they want. In 1989, Powell was promoted to four-star general, becoming the first African American to hold that rank, and was named chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Together with David Rockefeller he worked on the Business Committee for the Arts. of classics at Stanford University (199192), a recipient of For two years he was an UPDATE: Thanks to readers and others, this update to the list has a bunch of identifications, and more people of interest highlighted. In the process, he created business entities that produced average annual returns to investors of 25%, reinvigorated AT&T's research and development efforts and initiated AT&T global partnerships in Europe and Asia. Commander in Chief of United States European Command 1974-1979. Gave a speech at the Bohemian Grove in 2003, probably in reaction to his bestselling book 'The Rise of the Creative Class'. Gave a speech at the Bohemian Grove in 1997. Founder and Source(s): sonomacountyfreepress.com/ bohos/scalia.html (accessed: Sep. 6, 2002; source also used by San Francisco Chronicle and such): "Last revised: July, 1997. Sage, II, age 79, has been president of Sage Capital Corporation since 1974. Member Business Council. Lakeside talk; College Physician of president Warren G. Harding 1921-1923. Donovan was given the rank of major general and during the Second World War he built up a team of 16,000 agents working behind enemy lines. since 1997 (chairman is Jacob Rothschild, co-director is Nathaniel Rothschild). a larger invasion, but was wounded in the battle. Member Council Foreign Relations. "Everyone regards Ericsson as a Wallenberg company, and in many ways it is -- simply because of that perception." In Sonoma County, the chairman, Congressional Policy Advisory Board, 199801; member, Secretary and legal counsel Coast Counties Gas & Electric Co. 1944-1951. Knight of Malta. So he was not making his money via money management. He directed operations in the Berlin blockade as U.S. military governor (194749). Co. in 1999 for $1.35 billion. Scripps Company, or Scripps Howard. US Secretary of Defense under Gerald Ford 1975-1977. He served in four strategic nuclear General Electric Company 1940-1942 & 1945-1959, chairman International Co-founder of the JASON Group. Of Joan Of Arc (1885), A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court of California, Santa Cruz (2002). CEO, president and director of Ameron Inc. (manufacturer of Arscott, Norton & Associates 1978-1988, director Lam Research In 1973 he was elected president of the company. But he also knew that McCone, a wealthy Republican businessman from California with no intelligence background, was not in firm control of his own agency. Mr. Lewis was chairman Snyder served as Chief Counsel of the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge Operations Office from 1979 to 1991 and served on the U.S. Commission on Government Procurement. In 2003 the company filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy. struggled throughout his life with depression, earned a business degree Under President Gerald Ford, Cheney became Assistant to the President and the youngest White House Chief of Staff in history (1975-1977). Appointed by President Nixon, General Walters was deputy During Stephen's Bechtel Sr.s tenure on the board, Award. in developing the hydrogen bomb and he is a leading promoter of Star Richard Butler, former head of the United Nations Special Commission (UNSCOM) to disarm Iraq is an expert in arms control, international security issues, the United Nations and the Middle East. one of these directors is in business with the Bechtels), Source(s): July 20, 1983, Washinton Post, 'All-Male Club Highlights 'Business' Trip': "A handful of top Reagan administration officials, including Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger Navy Secretary John F. Lehman Jr. and research chief Richard D. DeLauer, and White House national secuairs adviser William P. Clark will [visit] the Bohemian Grove north of San Francisco.". According to Helms personal assistant, George McManus, Helms knew that if McCone had been asked to approve an assassination, he would have reacted violently immediately. Helms indeed knew for certain because McCones assistant Walt Elder told him so. Among his other activities, Burns is a director of the American Ireland Fund, and founding chairman of the board of the Palm Beach Pops Symphony Orchestra. Of the U.S. News & World Former owner of The Washington Star. Producer of the syndicated 'Voices of America with Jesse Jackson' 1990-1991. Director of the Alaska State Bank. Director of Fluor, which has contracts in Iraq and Afghanistan, Massey Energy Company, SBC Communications and Temple Inland. Director at Franklin Templeton Investments, where Anne M. Tatlock is vice-chairman (left her WTC office on 9/11 to meet with Warren Buffett at Offutt AFB, where Bush would land that day) and Thomas Kean is a director (headed the 9/11 commission in 2004-2005). by President Clinton to serve as Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Mark Twain (pseudonym of Samuel He was accepted, graduating in 1962. Abuse (CASA) at Columbia University. When Nixon then resigned in the wake of the Watergate scandal on August 9, 1974, Ford assumed the presidency, proclaiming that "our long national nightmare is over". University of Southern California in 1964. of the Graduate School of Business on July 1, 1969. Iran-Contra Affair but received a presidential pardon from George Michael McFaul, Political Science Prof. Stanford Unv". Wriston was venerated as a the most influential commercial banker of his time. Jowitt received his bachelor's when he left government service. Walters wrote in his memoir. The Four Pillars focused events performed at the Bohemian Grove are the culmination of the creative and production process undertaken at the City Club during the year. (Hill Billies visitor based on a 2001 roster); 2008 list (Hill Billies). The chairman is his son, Peter Coors. An insurance executive and member of the Business Advisory Council later play a major role in three wars: World War II, the Korean War Mr. William J. Zellerbach. with other Pilgrims from General Electric. Call me parochial, but it's reassuring to see some Aussies and Brits on the list of members. He was president, general manager, and director of United Press International from 1962 to 1972. the PFC for nine months, overseeing the recruitment of personnel, He put New York banker Elisha Walker, who headed Blair & Co. until it was taken over by Transamerica in March 1929, in charge as CEO. Thanks for publishing the list, it's appreciated. Chairman and CEO of the Times Mirror Company 1968-1980, director -1986. Source(s): 1975, G. William Domhoff (U.C. Among those he named were Senator Bob Dole and the neoconservative William Safire. ': "All Bohemians must be willing to help out; George Bush has served as a stagehand, as has Unocal Chairman Fred Hartley.". In 1973, he was named Chief Executive Officer and in 1981 he became Chairman of the Board. Chairman Commonwealth Edison Company of Chicago, chairman Chicago director John McCone, and Lucius D. Clay"; November 1989, Spy Magazine, 'Masters of the Universe Go to Camp': "It was in the phone circle that Henry Kissinger alienated some brother Bohemians on the middle weekend. Director of Ford Motor Company 1981-, vice-chairman 2001-. Gay and considered erratic and mentally ill. B.S. Enterprise Institute and the University of Chicago. He said he thought Jock's problem with the Grove was political, not with the forestry plan. Source(s): 1975, G. William Domhoff (U.C. study of comparative politics, American foreign policy, and postcommunist His father donated the land the United Nations headquarters was built on. Bush joined the club in 1973, while chairing the Republican National Committee during the Watergate scandal. Member Executive Committee of Caltech University. "You come upon it suddenly," poet and club member Will Irwin wrote of the Grove in 1908. Hearst shared a 1956 Pulitzer prize for international reporting shortly after being named editor in chief of the Hearst Corporation. Real estate impresario. Boskin is a Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research and serves on the Commerce Department's Advisory Committee on the National Income and Product Accounts. Gyllenhammar, operating from Gothenburg, presides over Volvo and the food and drug group Procordia. It'd be good for you. Member of the American Society of the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem. Director at General Chemical Group. the Eric Breindel Award for opinion journalism (2002), and an Alexander The Times Mirror Company owned the Los Angeles Times (1884-2000), Newsday in New York City (1970-2000), The Denver Post (1980-1987), The Dallas Times Herald (1969-1986), The Baltimore Sun (1986-2000), the Hartford Courant (1979-2000) and The Greenwich Time and The Advocate of Connecticut (both 1977-2000). Brother of Steven Bechtel, Sr. Their father, Warren Bechtel, died from an accidental insulin overdose while on a business trip in Moscow in 1933. Within two years he was general manager and was elected vice president. Joseph C. Wilson, had criticized George W. Bush for relying on false During the First World War Donovan joined the United States Army and as a colonel in the 69th Infantry Regiment won the Medal of Honor and three Purple Hearts. Robert Finch was born in Tempe, Arizona. Founder/Divisional Senior VP of Scientific Learning Corporation. 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