Inside the temple on High Street hang paintings of some of Skull and Bones's more illustrious members the painting of George Bush, the most recently installed, is five feet high. George Herbert Walker Bush, George W.'s father, Yale '48, was also a Bonesman, and he, too, made a conspicuous success of himself.
Prescott Bush, one of a great many Bonesmen who went on to lives of power and renown, became a U.S. Prescott Bush, George W.'s grandfather, Yale '17, was a legendary Bonesman he was a member of the band that stole for the society what became one of its most treasured artifacts: a skull that was said to be that of the Apache chief Geronimo. Bush, Yale '68.īush men have been Yale men and Bonesmen for generations. This is the home of Yale's most famous secret society, Skull and Bones, and it is also, in a sense, one of the many homes of the family of George W. It still can't ward away campus rumors of the skull appearing in the society's nocturnal initiation rites, staring hollowly at the future rulers of the nation whose expansion he fought so fiercely.On High Street, in the middle of the Yale University campus, stands a cold-looking, nearly windowless Greco-Egyptian building with padlocked iron doors.
A flurry of law suits to retrieve Geronimo's skull followed, but have been deflected by the Skull and Bones, which denies possession of the Apache's remains. The second "tomb" mentioned presumably refers to the society's windowless, red stone edifice in New Haven. is now safe inside the tomb and bone together with his well worn femurs, bit and saddle horn." A letter written by one of the member's of the society in 1918 was brought to light by a New Haven-based researcher four years ago: "The skull of the worthy Geronimo the Terrible," it read, "exhumed from its tomb at Fort Sill by your club. Bush, allegedly dug up Geronimo's grave while serving as army volunteers in Oklahoma during World War I. captivity in 1909: Six members of Yale's Skull and Bones secret society, including Prescott Bush, grandfather of 43rd President George W.
and Mexican troops for nearly three decades until his capture in 1886.īut, as the story goes, the legendary rebel was not allowed to lie in peace after his death in U.S. The Apache warlord Geronimo, part-guerrilla, part-shaman, launched raids across the Southwest and harried and evaded U.S. It's a strange fate that the bones of one of America's most fearful enemies have come to define one of its most hallowed institutions of power.
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