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Newsletter | Spring 2015
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Cap and Gown Club
News from the Board Chair
Tom Fleming ’69
Dear Cap Members,
There has been a constant barrage of
negative publicity surrounding college
social organizations, particularly fraternities,
including reports of sexual harassment,
assaults, and racial incidents. Dartmouth
faculty voted overwhelmingly to abolish
the Greek system. Lest we think all
the problems are Greek related, Princeton’s Tiger Inn has
suffered from negative publicity over the last year. What are the
implications for Cap and Gown?
It would be naïve to think it impossible for a similar incident to
happen at our club, but many factors significantly reduce our risk.
Princeton Eating Clubs are different from fraternities and
sororities:
• Coeducational
• Non-Residential
• Full-time Professional Management
• Active Graduate Boards
• Independent Security Teams
• Strong relationship with the university
Strengths of Cap and Gown Club:
Clearly, these characteristics did not prevent the negative
incidents at Tiger Inn. It would be inappropriate to discuss in
detail the TI situation other than to say their Graduate Board has
done a first-rate job of recognizing certain cultural issues, which
contributed to their problems. They are pro-actively managing
appropriate responses allowing the university to stay in the
background.
• We have strong female representation among other
undergraduate officers and the graduate board including the
executive committee and committee chairs.
Diversity:
Princeton today is a much more diverse place than it was in
previous decades. Cap and Gown fully reflects that diversity.
As an example, we have benefited from many African American
undergraduate officers including several presidents.
Teamwork:
• We have a close, working relationship among the
undergraduate officers, the club steward, the graduate board,
and the club security team.
• Graduating undergraduate presidents are invited to join the
grad board. Undergraduate officers participate actively in the
various board committees.
• There is a clear emphasis on anticipating problems rather than
reacting to them after the fact.
Proactive Steps Taken both by GICC and Cap:
The GICC (Graduate Inter-Club Council), which I have chaired for
the last three years, is the association of the grad boards of the
eleven clubs. This school year our two priorities were established
before most of the negative incidents. The first addresses the
broad issues of maintaining a safe environment for members and
their guests in the clubs. The second explores how the clubs
can work together to obtain more effective and cost efficient
insurance coverage.
Our approach reflects many of the themes mentioned previously:
• University Involvement: We are working closely with the
university and benefitting tremendously from their human and
financial resources.
In reviewing the implications of the TI situation for Cap, we have
recognized a few of our distinguishing characteristics:
• Student Engagement: Where appropriate, we have provided
the resources so that busy students can provide essential
leadership through the ICC (Inter Club Council).
Coeducation:
Specific examples of coordination:
• Thanks to the foresight of our undergraduates in the early 70’s,
Cap was an early leader in welcoming female members to our
club while Cottage, Ivy, and TI were engaged in expensive and
distracting court battles.
• Press release on creating a safe environment in the clubs,
released by the ICC including comments from the GICC and
senior members of the university.
• Since 2001, Cap has benefitted from the leadership of four
female undergraduate presidents. Ivy elected its first just two
years ago. TI elected its first this February with representatives
of the grad board present to monitor the election. Cottage has
yet to elect a female president.
• Meeting with athletic coaches to benefit from their influence on
street behavior.
• Panel on gender and the eating clubs moderated by our own
Lisa Schmucki ’74.
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The Club Scene
Tyler Rudolph ’16, Cap President
• Committee on insurance: Benefitting
from strong university support, we have
engaged a national insurance broker
to review the coverage of eight of the
eleven clubs and recommend a joint
approach to the market. It is already
clear that insurance companies quote
lower rates when:
• There is substantial female
membership.
• There is full-time professional
management.
• Security policies are clear and
enforced.
Cap and Gown will be celebrating its
125th anniversary in 2016. With your
support we will work diligently in the
above areas as well as others to assure
our continuing success. Nothing can be
taken for granted.
See you at the club,
Tom Fleming ’69
Graduate Board Chair
[email protected]
203-625-0537
Reunions Open House
Saturday, May 30th
This is our biggest event of the year!
Come back for Reunions and stop
by Cap after the P-rade.
Hello Cap Alumni!
It has been a whirlwind eight weeks of late nights, grad
board meetings, and tap room festivities since the latest
Cap officer elections. My name is Tyler Rudolph, and
I will be serving as Cap’s undergraduate president for
the next year. Thanks to the tireless advice of the old
officers, the grad board, and our club steward, Dennis
Normile, the other officers and I have been fitting
snuggly into our roles as new Cap officers. We couldn’t
be more enthusiastic about making this next year the
most illustrious yet.
This February, Cap was lucky enough to add a stellar group of 97 new sophomores
and 3 new juniors to our ranks. These spots didn’t come easy though. We had 230
sophomores and juniors join us for three days of bicker, meaning Cap continues to
remain supreme as the most bickered club on the street. This is a significant jump from
the still sizable 213 bickerees we saw last year and is a clear indicator of strong campus
enthusiasm about the club. These numbers were also sustained by an increased focus
on fall sophomore events and the rising level of comfort with multi-club bicker.
Thanks to the creativity and unending patience of bicker chair emeritus Jonathan Bass
’15, the club thoroughly and fairly discussed all 230 bickerees. On February 6th, the
senior officers met all the new members at the 1879 arch and led them to the club
for pickups and a weekend of (safe) celebration. The entire club has wholeheartedly
welcomed the new members and is eager to get to know them better. The admissions
process went off without a hitch and the old officers have set the bar sky high.
While we have a truly intimidating standard to live up to, the new officer corps has been
anything but sedentary. Immediately after elections we organized and hosted the annual
Valentines Day Semi-Formal, complete with Dennis and Chef Greg’s signature (and very
chic) “Asian-Mexi Fusion Finger Foods” (patent pending). The spring has been filled
with a variety of other members’ events, nights out, and social opportunities. With the
weather warming up, we are looking forward to dinner on the back patio, Cap cookouts,
and House Parties. Thanks to the persistence and hard work of our former social chair,
Hillary Jessup ’15, we are lucky enough to be hosting rap artist Chingy (I’m looking at
you class of ’03) during this year’s lawnparties. The membership and officer corps are
all really excited about hosting such a prominent musician in what I’m sure will be Cap’s
most memorable lawnparties yet.
The Club isn’t all about the social life though, and our members continue to impress us
with their dedication to improving the local community. Our community service chairs,
Justin Ziegler ’16 and Collin Edwards ’16, are hard at work on TruckFest 2015. This
event, where Prospect Avenue is closed and lined with food trucks for students and
community members, was one of Princeton’s largest and most successful fundraisers
last year raising over $21,000 to fight food insecurity in our local community. Cap has
also partnered with the Class Councils of 2016, 2017, and 2018 and Community House
to host students from the Big Sibs Mentorship Program (http://tinyurl.com/CapBigSibs)
at the club for a meal and to impress upon them the value of college.
I hope that no matter where you are your spring is full of health, joy, and the occasional
pang of college nostalgia. We love having alumni in the club, so if the beer you are drinking
tastes too expensive or if you are just in the Princeton area please stop in and say hi.
Reunions is around the corner! I’ll see you there.
Tyler Rudolph ’16, President
[email protected]
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Undergraduate Officers
Tyler Rudolph
’16, President
Zhengyang Cong ’16
Technology Chair
Joelle Deleveaux ’16
Vice President
Justin Ziegler ’16
Community Outreach Chair
Alex Fogg ’16
Treasurer
Collin Edwards ’16
Community Outreach Chair
Mallory Banks ’16
Social Chair
Birdie Hutton ’16
Sustainability Chair
John Paul Spence ’16
Bicker Chair
Ryan Barker ’16
Sustainability Chair
Kasturi Shah ’16
House Manager
Dominique Ibekwe ’16
Culturally Cap
Cody Wilson ’16
Athletics Chair
Jack Mazzulo ’16
Culturally Cap
New Members
Janet Adelola
Prince George’s County, MD
Eleanor Roosevelt
High School
Oluwatobi Aladesuru
Spencerville, MD
Chapelgate Christian
Academy
Veronica Edwards
Rancho Palos Verdes, CA
Palos Verdes Peninsula
High School
Samuel Cabot
North Adams, MA
Berkshire School
Andre Chusan
New York, NY
The Bronx High School
of Science
Donovan Falconer
Morristown, NJ
Morristown High School
Susan Farrell
Princeton, NJ
Princeton High School
James Almeida
Hillsdale, NJ
Pascack Valley High School
Jim Cunningham
Columbus, MS
Mississippi School for
Math and Science
Vinicius Amaral
San Diego, CA
La Costa Canyon HS
Eliza Davis
Watertown, CT
Taft School
Michael Anderson
Montreal, Canada
French-American School
of New York
Rebeca De La Espriella
Palm City, FL
Martin County High School
Maureen Flanagan
Rochester, NY
Pittsford Sutherland
High School
Mary Helen deGolian
Atlanta, GA
Woodward Academy
Simon Gee
London, England
St Paul’s School
Francesco Di Caprio
Saint Paul, MN
St. Paul Academy
Grant Godeke
Tampa, FL
Strawberry Crest
High School
Andre Arslan
New York, NY
Hunter College High School
Emily Avery
Stratham, NH
Exeter High School
Jared Bell
Portland, Maine
Deering High School
Erin Berl
Champaign, IL
University of Illinois
Laboratory High School
Xavier Bledsoe
St. Louis, MO
John Burroughs
Andreas Dias
Pensacola, FL
Pensacola High School
Hunter Dong
Manhasset, NY
Manhasset High School
Isabella Douglas
Bloomington, IN
Bloomington High
School North
Adrian Felix
Waycross, GA
The McCallie School
David Goldstein
Coral Gables, FL
Ransom Everglades School
Jesse Goodman
Briarcliff Manor, NY
Briarcliff High School
Christian Gray
Montrose, CO
Montrose High School
William Guiracoche
Seattle, WA
The Northwest School
Mitchell Hammer
Phoenix, AZ
Desert Vista High School
Selah Hampton
College Park, GA
Phillips Exeter Academy
Ariel Hsing
San Jose, CA
Valley Christian High School
Tiffany Huang
Holmdel, NJ
Holmdel High School
Nicole Katchur
Mullica Hill, NJ
Clearview Regional
High School
Enji Kim
Scottsdale, AZ
BASIS Scottsdale
Trent Kowalik
Wantagh, NY
The Jacqueline Kennedy
Onassis School
Emily Kraeck
Yardley, PA
Pennsbury High School
Jake Kramer
Levittown, PA
Neshaminy High School
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New Members cont’d
Peter Kuenne
Princeton, NJ
The Lawrenceville School
Paulina Orillac
New York, NY
Marymount School
Tiffany Richardson
Spotsylvania, VA
Riverbend
Maria (Catalina) Trigo
Weston, FL
Cypress Bay High School
Eloise Langaker
Oslo, Norway
Oslo International School
Moniade Owoade
Lagos, Nigeria
Phillips Exeter Academy
Joshua Roberts
Miami, FL
Miami Killian Senior High
Andrew Lauria
Northport, NY
Northport High School
Yaw Owusu-Boahen
Plainsboro, NJ
West Windsor-Plainsboro
High School North
Alexandria Robinson
Houston, TX
St. John’s School
Andrew Tynes
Richmond, VA
Maggie L. Walker
Governor’s School
Tiara Lawson
Lebanon, NJ
North Hunterdon High
Ben Leizman
Pepper Pike, OH
University School
Anna Lewandowska
Poznan, Poland
Juliana Lopez
Miami, FL
Coral Reef Senior
High School
Daniel Ma
Williamsport, PA
Williamsport Area
High School
Natasha Madorsky
Cleveland Heights, OH
Cleveland Heights
High School
Samuel Maron
Petersham, MA
Gann Academy
Elana Meer
Los Angeles, CA
Harvard Westlake
Emma Michalak
Evanston, IL
Latin School of Chicago
Amarachukwu Nnaeto
Morristown, NJ
The Pingry School
Erica Nori
Weston, FL
St. Thomas Aquinas
Chad Nuckols
Brownsville, TX
Science Academy of
South Texas
Mica O’Brien
Washington, DC
Maret School
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Taylor Pearson
Hunt Valley, MD
The Lawrenceville School
Caleb Peckham
Gilbert, AZ
Tempe Preparatory
Academy
Kristina Phillpotts-Brown
Kingston, Jamaica
Christopher Piller
Herndon, VA
Thomas Jefferson HS
Sean Poosson
Kensington, MD
Walter Johnson
High School
Kalea Power
Los Angeles, CA
Palisades Charter
High School
Michal Prenovitz
Erie, PA
Cathedral Prep
Hannah Priddy
Denver, CO
Mullen High School
Austin Pruitt
Englewood NJ
Bergen County Academies
Sukrit Puri
New Delhi, India
The Dwight School, NY
Asheshananda Rambachan
Apple Valley, MN
Eastview High School
Ada Rauch
Valencia, CA
Valencia High School
Grant Rheingold
Brookline, MA
Noble and Greenough
School
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Ellen Roop
Potomac, MD
Winston Churchill
High School
Stephen Rossettie
Corning, NY
Corning East High
Daniel Rounds
Media, PA
Academy of Allied
Health and Science
Aaron Schwartz
Melville, NY
Half Hollow Hills
High School East
Nicholas Sexton
Jersey City, NJ
McNair Academic
High School
Violet Sharpless
Indianapolis, IN
Park Tudor
Matthew Silberman
Lincolnwood, IL
Ida Crown Jewish Academy
Jorge Augusto Silva Tapia
Arequipa, Peru
Jane Urheim
Wynnewood, PA
Lower Merion High School
William Van Cleve
New York, NY
The Bronx High School
of Science
Pablo Vasquez
New York, NY
The Bronx High School
of Science
John Wilson
Washington, DC
Maret School
Lacey-Ann Wisdom
Trenton, NJ
Portland, Jamaica
Stuart Country Day School
Catherine Wu
Edison, NJ
John P Stevens
High School
Asanni York
Union City, GA
Langston Hughes
High School
Jong-Min (Vic) Youn
Old Tappan, NJ
NVOT
Juniors
Colter Smith
Bronxville, NY
St. Paul’s School,
Concord, NH
Daniel Toro
Bogota, Colombia
CNG
Carlos Sotelo
Pasadena, TX
Sam Rayburn High School
Grace Hack
Omaha, NE
Westside
Megan Soun
Memphis, TN
St. Mary’s Episcopal School
Lily Dattilo
Pittsburgh, PA
Mt. Lebanon High School
Tehila Stone
Teaneck, NJ
The Frisch School
Olivia Trase
Chestnut Hill, MA
Groton School
The House Report
Karl D. Pettit, III ’67, Co-Chair, House Committee
The House Committee is charged with
the task of observing the general repairs
and furnishings of the Clubhouse and
making recommendations for remediation
to keep the Clubhouse in good, functional
and respectable condition. We look at
things like exterior & interior painting,
carpet, roofing, furniture and the like,
and determine what items need to be
addressed each summer. Additionally,
the committee focuses on major
capital improvements and clubhouse
enhancements that will make it a truly
wonderful facility for club-mates well into
the future.
The House Committee has been busy
working on the completion of current
improvements and planning for new
projects to keep our beautiful clubhouse
in great condition. The important
improvements accomplished in 2014
included:
• Restoration of our five
historic chimneys.
• Renovation of the
third floor bathroom
in the same traditional
style as the second
floor bathroom.
• New ceiling in the
TV room.
• New sound
system in the tap
room, followed by
relocating the tap
room juke box to the
second floor billiards
room.
Our future
improvements have
been organized into three phases:
1) Phase 1 Improvements (2015):
Repairs to the exterior trim and bay
window restoration, and exterior
painting.
2) Phase 2 Improvements (2016): third
floor window replacement, new storm
windows.
3) Phase 3 Improvements (2017 and
beyond): west terrace addition.
Phase 1 – 2015: Carlos Romero will
begin Phase 1 by removing all of the
failing storm windows from the original
clubhouse windows. New storm
windows will be installed as part of
Phase 2. Since the completion of the
new addition, the PVC/Azek trim has not
performed well; therefore, much of it will
be replaced with the new, very stable
composite material Boral. In addition to
the Azek replacement, carpentry work
will include the replacement of failed
and damaged wood trim on the original
clubhouse, and the restoration of the
library bay window. Once the carpentry
work is done, all of the exterior trim,
windows and doors will be repainted
so that the existing clubhouse and new
addition have the same three-color paint
scheme.
The new single membrane roof over the
sunroom and kitchen servery developed
two leaks during the
winter that needed
to be repaired.
The committee
solicited competitive
bids from three
qualified contractors
to do the Phase 1
work, which will be
done by or before the
end of August 2015.
Phase 2 – 2016:
The phase 2 work,
targeted for 2016,
includes replacing the
clubhouse’s original
third floor dormer
window sash with new
Marvin thermopane
double hung windows, and installing new
Mon-Ray Storm Windows on all of the
original clubhouse windows. Before this
work is awarded, the scope of work will
be more clearly specified, and then bid
by three contractors. The work will need
approval from the Finance Committee.
Phase 3 – 2017: As reviewed in our
fall newsletter, the House Committee
engaged Knight Architects to investigate
options for providing a more permanent
roofed pavilion on the side terrace
between the clubhouse and Roper Lane.
The fire escape at the west end of the
clubhouse could be removed to make
room for the addition and still meet the
life safety code. With such a structure
in place, we would not need to rent
tent structures for social events, and
therefore significantly reduce the costs
associated with holding large club events
and summer bookings. As designed, the
pavilion would include a basement-level
storage space (connected to the existing
clubhouse basement), to truly solve the
club’s storage space needs.
Other desired improvements include:
1) A new beverage counter and
beverage machines in the dining room
servery.
2) Additional exterior landscaping.
3) New period-style light fixtures in the
library, living room and 1st floor front
hall.
4) Large-scale bas-relief of the Cap and
Gown Logo mounted on the upper
gable-end wall above the dining room
bay window.
5) New carpet/area rug in the library.
6) Repurposing the existing 2nd floor
computer room with more functional
furniture.
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Thank You to Our 2014 Donors!
The following Cap members and friends donated $100 or more to the Cap Annual
Fund in 2014. Thank you for your generous support!
1938
Norman M. Carter
1944
Henry C. Gibson Jr
C. S. Lovelace
1945
Tom L. Horn Jr
1949
John Butterworth
MacFarlane L. Cates Jr
David H. Semmes
1951
Broadus Bailey Jr
1952
H. B. Atwater Jr
David C. Boyer
H. Darby Houston
1953
Peter R. Carney
Caleb F. Gates Jr
Bayard Henry
Lewis C. Kleinhans III
William F. Ogden Jr
John H. Roberts
James Stenson
Frederick S. Wonham
1954
James W. Braham
Ronald E. Carr
Donald J. Keller
Daniel T. Kingsley
Stephen E. O’Neil
Donald H. Rumsfeld
Howard M. Stoner
1955
John W. Castle
Paul C. Jaenicke
Stephen McNamara
Randall O. Mooney Sr
1956
F. Boyd Hovde
Richard E. Martin
1957
Michael P. Erdman
Robert W. Kent
Elliott N. Otis
Michael McD. Seymour
1958
William W. Fortenbaugh
George T. Maye
James W. Schroeder
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1959
Richard S. Bodman
Arthur L. Brown II
Ray L. Fite Jr
F. Laurence Pethick
Lawther O. Smith
Andrew P. Steffan
1960
John W. McCarter Jr
Richard B. McGlynn
Rob Roy MacGregor III
Robert A. Sellery Jr
1961
Robert H. Craft Jr
Paul W. Earle
Peter A. Georgescu
A. Donald Wiles II
1962
William A. Carr
Douglas A.C. Davis
Roger O. Hoit
Alfred W. Kaemmerlen
W. Pennock Laird
W. Scott Magargee III
Michael H. McConihe
John H. Montgomery
Robert F. Morris Jr
Robert P. Noble Jr
1963
George R. Bunn Jr
James R. Griffith
Jack D. Gunther Jr
Anthony A. Jones
1964
Richard H. Chandler
Howard E. Cox Jr
Richard F. Price Jr
Richard A. Purkiss
1965
Robert W. Chambers Jr
Philip E. Coviello Jr
Bruce C. McMillen
T. Rodney Oppmann
Gregory M. Perry
1966
Kent E. Johnson
Stanislaw Maliszewski
John B. Slidell
1967
William A. Beale
David H. Blair
James F. Evans
Arthur D. Fulton
David H. Hoster II
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1968
Peter B. Hamilton
W. Scott Slocum
1969
Thomas F. Fleming Jr
Reese H. Horton Jr
Jeremy J. M. Hubball
Stephen S. Kennedy
Edward R. McLean Jr
Christopher H. Milton
Jeffrey M. Peek
Randall T. Shepard
1970
Roger W. Arrington
Michael A. Camp
Charles R. Meyer
Donald H. Roberts Jr
William L. Rulon-Miller
William P. Trotter
1971
Edwin S. Hetherington
William R. Kuntz Jr
George W.C. McCarter
Richard D. Quay
Stephen C. Townend
1972
Francis C. Bagbey
Christopher Forbes
Russell R. Krug
Jonathan C. McCall
Wilson G. McWilliams
Daniel J. O’Grady
Priscilla W. Stumm
Arthur M. Wood Jr
1973
C. W. Flynn IV
Paul F. Francke
Alexander T. Mason
Arthur G. Oller
E. Burke Ross Jr
Ralph A. Simmons
1974
John F. Barry III
David B. Kelso
Lisa W. Schmucki
1977
Vaden M. Lackey III
1978
Darcy Schaffer Hadjipateras
Christopher Rulon-Miller
1981
Joanna McNeil Lewis
John G. Christensen
1982
Barbara Griffin Cole
Karen Stauffer Murphy
Standish H. O’Grady
Deborah Hicks Quazzo
1983
Linda Riefler Boyatt
Elizabeth Hunt Rutledge
1984
C. Redington Barrett III
Jean K. Wilson
1985
Norman B. Champ III
Christopher B. Kuenne
1986
Patrick J. Blake
1987
Adam J. Zweiback
1988
Gregory S. Morzano
1989
Charles W. Forlidas
Wendy M. Reiners
Aditi Viswanathan
1990
L. Camille Hackney
Kevin P. Kavanagh
Robert J. Khoury
1992
Edward T. Calkins
1993
Carlyn Kenny Casey
Louisa Bartle Clayton
1994
Donald F. Douglas
Troy B. Ewanchyna
Alison Keiller Hagan
DeLu Jackson
1995
Pedro V. Balderrama
Ethan J. Early
1996
Pamela Adams Baker
Lisa Rebane Ewanchyna
Carl D. Long
1999
Stephen P. Lamberton
Cap History Project
Do you have your copy of the Cap History?
Cap and Gown will be celebrating our 125th anniversary next
year. Be sure to get your copy of the memories!
2000
Jane Fleming Fransson
Nathaniel T. Massari
Douglas N. Silverman
Preston B. Tims
2001
Victoria J. Siesta
Adam F. Sorensen
2002
Liam P. Morton
2003
Roger H. Hopkins Jr
2004
Christopher E. Connolly
McGregor K. Johnson
Jonathan D. Nuger
Akila Raman-Vaseghi
Peter B. Schwaikert
2005
Solomon D. Barnett
Briana A. Bennett
Morgan E. Streech
W. Drew Weyerhaeuser
2007
Christine L. Kan
Jennifer Johnson Livsey
2008
Alexander R. Willis
2010
Conor T. Pigott
2011
Jasper Sneff-Nanni
2012
Alexis B. Johnson
Ryan T. Lee
Alexandra Jayne McIlraith
Gifts from Friends of Cap
Brent & Diane Liljestrom
IMO: Steve Taylor ’54
David Maddox
IMO Steven Taylor ’54
Francis S. Urbany
Laurence K. Gould
IMO: Stephen Taylor ’54
Larry L. McMullen —
friend of class of ’54
Jerry Whitman —
friend of class of ’54
Cap Members from the 1951 – 2015 sections have come together
to tell the story of the past 60 years of Cap history in a beautiful
hard-bound, color volume.
History of Cap and Gown: 1951 – 2015
Memories and tales of Cap members, section by section, with
lots of color photos with special sections on the history of the
clubhouse, the greatest prank of all time, and coeducation.
$90 plus $7 shipping and handling.
Deluxe 2-Volume Set
History of Cap and Gown: 1890 – 1950
History of Cap and Gown: 1951 – 2015
A hard-cover boxed set that includes a reprint of the early history of
the club, plus the new book. $170 plus $9 shipping and handling.
Place your order online at
http://tinyurl.com/CapHistoryOrder
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Cap News
More news on Cap and Gown alumni:
• Brooke Shields ’87 was in Princeton recently to discuss her new book, There Was a
Little Girl, the Real Story of My Mother and Me.
• Todd Harrity ’13, who has been competing on the PSA world tour since graduation,
won the U. S. National Squash Championship in March.
Deborah Hicks Quazzo ’82 and Dennis Keller
’63 at the ASU GSV Summit in April 2015.
Cap Member Dennis Keller ’63 was
recently awarded a Lifetime Achievement
Award at the 2015 ASU + GSV Summit
for his work as the co-founder of Devry
Inc. and for his generous philanthropy,
with his wife Connie, in support of
Princeton and many other organizations.
The Summit was co-founded by Cap
member Deborah Quazzo ’82. In a
recent New York Times article, the
Summit was described as “The MustAttend Event for Education Technology
Investors.” The conference now draws
over 2,000 founders and executives
from education technology startups and
companies and many members of the
investor community. Cap member Lisa
Schmucki ’74, the founder and CEO
of edWeb.net, attended as one of the
270 companies invited to present at the
conference.
• Joe Barrett ’14, who was awarded the Pyne Prize, the University’s highest academic
honor, was selected as a recipient
of a Rhodes Scholarship, awarded
to 32 students in the U. S. Barrett
co-founded Students for Prison
and Education Reform in 2012.
He plans to attain a Master of
Philosophy in Economic and Social
History at Oxford.
• Kim Wilson ’84 writes that she had
a great visit with Heidi Hoffmann
Slye ’84 over lunch at the club
while Heidi was showing her son
McCabe around Princeton and, of
course, Cap. All were absolutely
impressed by the impressive beauty
of the club!
Left to Right: McCabe Slye, Sam Slye, Heidi Hoffman
Slye ‘84 and Kim Wilson ‘84
Big Sibs Program
Cap and Gown hosted the Community House Big Sibs
program for brunch on a Saturday in April. Several Cap
members—including Big Sibs board chair and Cap
member Sofi Gomez ’16—participate bi-monthly in this
program that pairs Princeton University students with local
under-represented elementary school students in one-onone mentorship relationships. We’re excited to host the
program at Cap and Gown!
Cap member Yende Grell ’16
with her Little Sib
Cap Puppies!
Here is a wonderful video honoring
Dennis Keller’s achievements and his
dedication to making a difference,
including an introduction by Deborah
Quazzo and interviews with former
President Shirley Tilghman and Bob
Murley ’72. You can watch it at
http://tinyurl.com/DK-ASUGSV
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Our club manager, Dennis Normile, recently bred one of
his two champion French Griffons, Chase, and was the
proud papa of a litter of 4 puppies over the winter holidays.
They all were given “J” names: Joy, Jingle, Jack, and Jolly.
Three of the puppies are off to their new families. Dennis
is keeping the little girl puppy orginally named Joy, but
now “Jaxs de Chez D” or Jaxs for short. Jaxs joins Chase
and Delta as part of Dennis’ birding crew. You would think
Dennis had enough to handle as “papa” to all of our Cap
members!
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News on the Street
Cap and Gown members are very involved in the
“Street.” Our Board Chair, Tom Fleming ’69 has been
Chair of the GICC (Graduation Interclub Council)
for the past three years. He’s forged a new era
of cooperation between all of the clubs and the
University. The clubs are working together with the
help of the University to address key issues.
Princeton TruckFest 2015
One of the key issues is sexual conduct/harassment.
The University has made a number of changes to its
policies and procedures as a result of the Department
of Education’s Office of Civil Rights Investigations
of more than 50 colleges. Both the GICC and the
ICC (Interclub Council of club presidents) have been
working on providing guidelines and advice to the clubs, especially club officers, on
how to ensure a safe environment at the clubs and to follow proper procedures when
improper situations occur. Two Cap members, Mark Bur ’08, the ICC Advisor, and
Bryant Blount ’08, the Assistant Dean of Undergraduate Students, have been very
involved in supporting these efforts.
Another recent initiative has been for the clubs to work together to investigate insurance
options. In today’s climate, the risk of losing insurance is one of the highest risk
factors for the future of the clubs. A task force on insurance has been created with the
participation of 8 clubs – Cap and Gown, Cloister, Cannon, Tiger Inn, Quad, Colonial,
Charter, and Terrace. The University has been very helpful in this matter. Megan Adams,
the Assistant Treasurer and Director of Risk Management for Princeton, is leading the
effort to review club policies and interview brokers. Much has already been learned.
The good news is that Cap and Gown has about the best coverage of any of the clubs
participating in this evaluation.
Lisa Schmucki ’74, the GICC Advisor, has been focusing attention on community service
and began, two years ago, organizing a monthly dinner (and club food tour) for all of
the club community service chair. The interclub fundraiser, TruckFest, evolved from that
effort. The interclub community service effort has become so organized and popular that
a new, official Community Service ICC has been formed, so that there are now three
official interclub organizations – the ICC, the GICC, and the CSICC.
During Alumni Weekend in February, the University hosted a panel on “Women and the
Eating Clubs.” The panelists included Joanna Anyanwu ’15 (Cap & Gown), Sydney Kirby
’15 (Cannon), Lucia Perasso ’16 (Terrace), Julia Blount ’12 (Quad), Joe Margolies ’15
(President of the ICC), and Hap Cooper ’82 (Grad Board Chair of Tiger Inn). The panel
was moderated by Cap member Lisa Schmucki ’74. Here is a link to an article on the
panel in the Alumni Weekly:
http://tinyurl.com/WomenandtheClubs.
Princeton TruckFest is a collaborative
fundraiser hosted by all eleven of
Princeton’s Eating Clubs. TruckFest
was co-founded in 2014 by Cap
member Justin Ziegler ’16 and Austin
Sanders (Cannon) ’14 with the help of
Cap member and GICC Advisor, Lisa
Schmucki ’74. The clubs work together,
with the help of the town and University, to
close Prospect Avenue and host 11 food
trucks—with entertainment and contests.
Proceeds for the event come from
donations from the Princeton Prospect
Foundation, the Undergraduate Student
Government, local businesses, individuals,
and proceeds from ticket sales.
TruckFest was held this year on April
25th and was another huge success with
5,000 people attending from the campus
and the community. A donation of
$24,000 will split between Send Hunger
Packing and Meals on Wheels. In just two
years, Truckfest has become the largest
Princeton student fundraiser.
For more information about the event
and to learn more about the charities
TruckFest supports please visit:
http://princetontruckfest.org
This year, the University funded the
update of a video on the eating clubs.
You can watch in on the eating club
website at: www.princetoneatingclubs.org/
get-know-eating-clubs
You can see that there is a lot going on on
Prospect Street, and Cap plays a strong role
in leading the way.
www.capandgownclub.org | PO Box 1448, Princeton, NJ 08542
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Have Your Event at Cap
Save the Date
Reunions Open House
Saturday, May 30th
This is our biggest event of the year! Come back for
Reunions and stop by Cap after the P-rade.
Cap is a fantastic place to host all kinds of parties, events, and
meetings when school is not in session.
• Rehearsal dinners
• Retirement dinners
• Engagement parties
• Class reunion lunches and
dinners
• Wedding receptions
• Wedding showers
• Alumni birthday parties
There are spaces for parties large and small, indoors and
outdoors, and the club is now fully air-conditioned. The club is
handicapped accessible with an elevator. The back terrace fits
a 40 x 40 tent perfectly. The club has a state-of-the-art AV and
projection system with a giant screen that pulls down in the new
dining room, and a large screen monitor in the historic dining
room. The main dining room has a raised floor at the end that is
perfect for a band, as a stage, or for a presentation. To find out
more and for rates, contact our club steward, Dennis Normile at
609-258-0799 or at [email protected].
In Memoriam
We are sad to report the loss of the
following Cap members in the past year:
Henry Gardiner ’38
Albert E. Van Court, Jr. ’41*
Howard D. Edwards ’43
Arthur P. Morgan ’44
James M. Hester ’46 H62
Bruce B. Winter ’48 P72
James E. Butterworth, Jr. ’50
Robert J. Poor ’51
Guillermo E. Gonzalez, Jr. ’54
Martin R. Hoffmann ’54 P84
George W. Van De Weghe ’54 P83*
Richard E. Clark, M.D. ’56
Thomas R. Flagg ’57
Robert W. Kent ’57 P80
James A. Clarkson, III ’64 P03
Jonathan Dyer, A.I.A. ’67 P95
Marcus L. Boggs, Jr. ’70
Ellen L. Farnum ’75
Diana K. Soule ’85
* Deaths in past years that were reported in 2014
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Connect to Cap
Give to Cap!
Annual Dues and the Annual Fund
Cap and Gown has continued to thrive over the generations
thanks to the devotion and support of our members. Our recent
Capital Campaign is a shining example of that, raising $5.5
million to expand and renovate the club.
Visit the Cap Website
www.capandgownclub.org
Read the Cap blog, see more pictures, take a virtual tour of the
club, find out about upcoming events, pay your dues, and make
a donation to the Annual Fund on the Cap website.
We count on your support through the payment of dues and
donations to the Annual Fund. Operating and maintenance
costs continue to rise, and we want to continue to improve our
beautiful clubhouse. Here are the ways your support helps Cap:
facebook.com/capandgown
• Annual dues fund communications with our alumni, such
as this newsletter, and alumni events at the club to keep us
connected with each other.
tinyurl.com/CapLinkedInGroup
• The Annual Fund provides funds for ongoing maintenance and
improvements to the clubhouse.
Pay your annual dues online or make a donation to Annual Fund
at http://tinyurl.com/Give2Cap
@capandgownclub
Thank you for supporting Cap!
Coming soon!
Cap celebrates our 125th
anniversary in 2016!
Contact Cap
You can send an email to [email protected], and
we’ll direct your inquiry to the right person. You can also reach
the following key people directly:
Dennis M. Normile, Club Steward
[email protected]
609-258-0799
Tom Fleming ’69, Graduate Board Chair
[email protected]
203-625-0537
Lisa Schmucki ’74, Alumni Relations
[email protected]
908-407-2755
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Spring 2015 Newsletter
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Coming soon! Cap celebrates our 125th anniversary in 2016!