Spee Club (Harvard)

The Spee Club

The Spee Club is a final club at Harvard University. In September 2015 its members voted to admit female members.[1] The club is located at 76 Mount Auburn Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

The Spee Club was founded in 1852 as a chapter of the Zeta Psi fraternity. In 1965, the club was the first Harvard final club to accept an African-American member.[2][3]

Notable alumni include John F. Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy.[4] Douglas Kenney, later a co-founder of the National Lampoon and a co-writer of the fraternity-centered film comedy National Lampoon's Animal House, was president of the Spee Club during his senior year at Harvard.[5] The club's mascot is a bear.

References

  1. ↑ inviting women undergraduates to join
  2. ↑ "Harvard's Spee Club Accepts Its First Negro Club Member", St. Petersburg Times, December 15, 1965.
  3. ↑ "Negro Student Accepts Final Club Membership", The Harvard Crimson, December 10, 1965.
  4. ↑ "The Men's Final Clubs", The Harvard Crimson, October 5, 2010.
  5. ↑ Josh Karp, A Futile and Stupid Gesture: How Doug Kenney and National Lampoon Changed Comedy Forever (Chicago Review Press, 2006), ISBN 978-1556526022, p.25. Excerpts available at Google Books.
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