The Bohemian Club 's mascot is an owl, here cast in masonry, and perched over the main club entrance at 20601 Bohemian Ave, Monte Rio, CA 95462.
The following list of Bohemian Club members includes both past and current members of note. Membership in the male-only, private Bohemian Club takes a variety of forms, with membership regularly offered to new university presidents and to military commanders stationed in the San Francisco Bay Area . Regular, full members are usually wealthy and influential men who pay full membership fees and dues, and who must often wait 15 years for an opening, as the club limits itself to about 2700 men. Associate members are graphic and musical artists, and actors, who pay lesser fees because of their usefulness in assisting with club activities in San Francisco and at the Bohemian Grove . Professional members are associate members who have developed the ability to pay full dues, or are skilled professionals selected from the arts community.
Honorary members are elected by club members and pay no membership fees or annual dues. Four women were made honorary members in the club's first two decades, though they were not given the full privileges of regular club members.[ 1] Several honorary members never availed themselves of the club's offer—there is no record of Mark Twain visiting the club, and Boston resident Oliver Wendell Holmes never visited, but he responded immediately with a poem when notified by telegram of the honor, despite being wakened at midnight.[ 2]
Each member is associated with a "camp", that is, one of 118 rustic sleeping and leisure quarters scattered throughout the Bohemian Grove, where each member sleeps during the two weeks (three weekends) of annual summer encampment in July. These camps are the principal means through which high-level business and political contacts and friendships are formed.[ 3]
Notes
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^ Morse, John Torrey (1899). Life and letters of Oliver Wendell Holmes . Vol. 1. Houghton, Mifflin. p. 249. ISBN 9780827429116 .
^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al Peter Martin Phillips, A Relative Advantage: Sociology of the San Francisco Bohemian Club Archived 2012-08-12 at the Wayback Machine , 1994.
^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap aq ar as at au av aw ax ay az ba bb bc bd be bf bg bh bi bj bk bl bm bn bo bp bq br bs bt bu bv bw bx by bz ca cb cc cd ce cf cg ch ci cj ck cl cm cn co cp cq cr cs ct cu cv cw cx cy cz da db dc dd de df dg dh di dj dk dl dm dn do dp dq dr ds dt du dv Bohemian Club Constitution, 1904
^ Trower, W. P. (2009). Luis Walter Alvarez 1911–1988 (PDF) . Biographical Memoirs. National Academy of Sciences . Retrieved March 21, 2013 .
^ Rove, Karl (2010). Courage and Consequence: My Life as a Conservative in the Fight . Simon and Schuster. p. 344. ISBN 9781439199268 .
^ a b c Wilson, Mark (2011). Bernard Maybeck . Gibbs Smith. p. 175. ISBN 9781423611813 .
^ a b Oakland Magazine , March 2007. Matt Dibble, The Life and Times of the Oakland Song . Retrieved on July 14, 2009.
^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y Domhoff, G. William. Social Cohesion & the Bohemian Grove: The Power Elite at Summer Camp , April 2005. Retrieved on July 20, 2009.
^ Lekisch, Barbara (2003). Embracing Scenes about Lakes Tahoe & Donner: Painters, Illustrators & Sketch Artists 1855–1915 . Great West Books. p. 20. ISBN 9780944220146 .
^ San Francisco Social Register, 1927.
^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t Bohemian Club, 1960
^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Fletcher, Robert H. (1898). Annals of the Bohemian Club . The Bohemian Club.
^ "San Francisco Call, Volume 105, Number 146, 25 April 1909" . Center of Bibliographical Studies and Research . 1909.
^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap aq ar as at au av aw ax ay az ba bb bc Social register: San Francisco, including Oakland , 1918.
^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o Bohemian Club, 1922
^ Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Life , No. 17 of the 'Grove-Plays' . Retrieved on June 30, 2009.
^ Music Library Association, Northern California Chapter. MLA NCC Newsletter, Vol. 16, no. 2 (Spring 2002). John L. Walker, Bringing the Masses to the Music: Ulderico Marcelli and the Silent Film in San Francisco . Retrieved on June 29, 2009.
^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t St. Mary's College of California. Hearst Art Gallery. Early Artists of the Bohemian Club . Retrieved on March 29, 2014.
^ a b c d Sancton, Julian (April 1, 2009). "A Guide to the Bohemian Grove" . Vanity Fair . vanityfair.com. Retrieved December 21, 2010 .
^ a b c Music Library Association, Northern California Chapter. Newsletter, Fall 2003. Michelle Squyer, Beyond Measure: L.S. Sherman and Sherman, Clay & Company, A San Francisco House of Music, 1870-1926 . Retrieved on July 23, 2009.
^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Bohemian Club Constitution, 1895
^ a b Morain, Dan (May 26, 1987). "Bohemian Club Unyielding : Bastion of the Powerful Clings to Male Mystique" . Los Angeles Times .
^ a b Who's Running America?: The Conservative Years . Pearson Education Canada. 1986. p. 215.
^ a b c Coutts caricature of Herman George Scheffauer, photograph by Gabriel Moulin, Bohemian Grove 1908. Online Archive of California.
^ Starr, Kevin (1996). Endangered Dreams: The Great Depression in California . Oxford University Press. p. 139 . ISBN 9780195100808 .
^ Ryder, David Warren (1962). 'Great Citizen': A Biography of William H. Crocker . Historical Publications. p. 190.
^ Serrano, Richard A.; Savage, David G. (December 31, 2004). "Justice Thomas Reports Wealth of Gifts" . Los Angeles Times . Archived from the original on January 2, 2005. Retrieved June 25, 2022 .
^ McIntire, Mike (June 18, 2011). "Friendship of Justice and Magnate Puts Focus on Ethics" . The New York Times .
^
Dmytryk, Edward (1995). Odd Man Out: A Memoir of the Hollywood Ten . SIU Press. p. 145. ISBN 9780809319992 . Retrieved 2 June 2020 .
^ Lekisch 2003, p. 53.
^ San Francisco Genealogy. Obits. "Da - Dg" . Retrieved on July 21, 2009.
^ "Obituary – Bobby Enriquez" . San Francisco Chronicle . August 10, 1996.
^ Evans, Richard B.; Donald L. Winks; Adrian McNamara; Bohemian Club. Tyburn Fair , Bohemian Club, 1991.
^ Syukhtun Editions. Theo Radic, Manuel Y. Ferrer . Retrieved on July 21, 2009.
^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o San Francisco Genealogy. Bohemian Club Officers and Members, 1905 . Retrieved on July 23, 2009.
^ a b c d e f g Garnett, 1908.
^ Drew, Elizabeth (1995). On the Edge: The Clinton Presidency . Simon and Schuster. p. 370 . ISBN 9780684813097 . Gergen resigned his membership in 1993 when he joined the Clinton presidential team .
^ "Where Powerful Men Go to Misbehave: Secrets of the Bohemian Grove Unveiled in Photos" . HistoryCollection.com . 2017-12-04. Retrieved 2020-12-14 .
^ Bohemian Club, 1973
^ Lekisch 2003, p. 77.
^ Lekisch 2003, p. 81.
^ Lekisch 2003, p. 93.
^ Lekisch 2003, p. 94.
^ "In Memoriam: Charles D. Hollister" . Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute. August 25, 1999. Retrieved April 13, 2010 .
^ a b Starr 1996, p. 293
^ San Francisco Genealogy. Obits. "Hs - Hz" . Retrieved on July 21, 2009.
^ Thorpe, James Ernest. Henry Edwards Huntington: a biography , University of California Press, 1994, p. 127. ISBN 0-520-08254-0
^ Drew 1995, pp. 370–372
^ "The Midsummer Music of Bohemia" . Pacific Coast Musical Review . 34 : 4. 1918.
^ Nachman, Gerald . The Columnist , May 10, 2006. "Timidity and dull writing helping kill newspapers" Archived 2006-11-27 at the Wayback Machine . Retrieved on July 14, 2009.
^ Kinnaird, Lawrence (1966). History of the Greater San Francisco Bay Region . Vol. 3. Lewis Historical Publishing Company. p. 321.
^ Reagan, Ronald (2004). Reagan: A Life In Letters . Simon and Schuster. p. 122. ISBN 9780743219679 .
^ Schevitz, Tanya (June 24, 2011). "George Lenczowski – UC Professor, Middle East Expert" . San Francisco Chronicle . SFGate.com. Retrieved July 10, 2012 .
^ "Constitution and By-laws of the Bohemian Club of San Francisco" . 1895.
^ John McNaught, member of the Bohemian Club of San Francisco
^ Steven Lanier McKnight, member of the Bohemian Club of San Francisco
^ Pinchard, 1922, pp. 222–233
^ Bohemian Club. The Rout of the Philistines, A Forest Play (1922).
^ Bohemian Club. Aloha Oe: a Legend of Hawaii (1958).
^ Marston, Otis R., (2014). "From Powell To Power; A Recounting of the First One Hundred River Runners Through the Grand Canyon. Flagstaff, Arizona: Vishnu Temple Press, p. 531 ISBN 978-0990527022
^ Gale, Phil, (2011). The Marstons in Berkeley Part 2: The Children. Exactly Opposite, The Newsletter of the Berkeley Historical Society, Vol 29, No 1 Spring 2011
^ ArchitectDB – architect record id 368: Clarence W. W. Mayhew [permanent dead link ]
^ a b Buck, Richard P.; Bethards, Jack M. (2005). Music and Musicians in Bohemia: The First One Hundred Years: a Research Document . The Bohemian Club. pp. 393 (Raffetto), 535 (Raffetto).
^ Officers, List of Members, House Rules, Grove Rules . Bohemian Club. 1911. p. 11. Retrieved May 24, 2017 .
^ "The Bohemian Club | History & Facts" .
^ a b c Brittain, Amy (March 7, 2006). "An Elite Alliance – Chancellor confirms membership in club" . The Daily Reveille . Louisiana State University. Archived from the original on February 9, 2007. Retrieved May 13, 2014 .
^ Lage, Ann.; Lage, Ann; Helfman, Bill; Hicke, Carole; Caswell, John; Bry, Stanley; Mellon, Knox; Library, Bancroft (1988). The Patterson family and ranch: southern Alameda County in transition . doi :10.5962/bhl.title.19264 .
^ Poletti, Therese; Tom Paiva (2008). Art Deco San Francisco: The Architecture of Timothy Pflueger . Princeton Architectural Press. p. 14. ISBN 978-1-56898-756-9 .
^ Congressional Directory . United States Congress. 1915. p. 8.
^ Starr, Kevin. Material Dreams: Southern California through the 1920s , Oxford University Press US, 1990, p. 276. ISBN 0-19-504487-8
^ "Frank H. Powers, A Former Stockton Attorney, Is Dead" . Stockton Daily Evening Record . Stockton, California. 19 Nov 1920. p. 1. Retrieved 2022-03-07 .
^ Weir, Bob. [1] , Bohemian Grove Secrets and Stories Told by Bob Weir
^ Hughes, Edan Milton (2002). Artists in California, 1786–1940: L-Z . Crocker Art Museum . p. 912. ISBN 978-1-884038-08-2 – via Google Books .
^ Social register: San Francisco , 1920.
^ Rhodes, William Henry ; edited by Daniel O'Connell . Caxton's Book: A Collection of Essays, Poems, Tales and Sketches , A. L. Bancroft, 1876
^ Shoup Papers archived at Stanford Library Ustashi. Retrieved on March 26, 2019.
^ Brown, Ethan. "Professor X" . Wired .
^ "Chemist Alexander Shulgin, Popularizer of the Drug Ecstasy, Dies at 88" . MAPS .
^ "The Last Interview With Alexander Shulgin" . www.vice.com .
^ "Will Sparks, Noted Artist, Dies in S.F." . The Oakland Tribune . March 31, 1937. p. 1. Retrieved July 9, 2017 – via Newspapers.com . He was long a member of the Bohemian Club and identified with early growth of the art colony.
^ "Visalia Times-Delta from Visalia, California on August 26, 1929 · 2" . Newspapers.com . Retrieved 2021-08-30 .
^ San Francisco Genealogy. Obits. "Tg - Tl" [permanent dead link ] . Retrieved on July 21, 2009.
^ a b Maher, Michael J. John Charles Thomas: beloved baritone of American opera and popular music , McFarland, 2006, pp. 17, 120–125, 136, 160. ISBN 0-7864-2668-3
^ California School for the Deaf. History: Douglas Tilden [permanent dead link ] . Retrieved on July 21, 2009.
^ Lekisch 2003, p. 215.
^ "Bohemian Grove Secrets and Stories Told by Bob Weir - YouTube" . www.youtube.com . Retrieved 2020-12-12 .
^ Congress, The Library of. "LC Linked Data Service: Authorities and Vocabularies (Library of Congress)" . id.loc.gov . Retrieved 2020-12-12 .
^ "William V. Wells (Wells, William V. (William Vincent), 1826-1876) | The Online Books Page" . onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu . Retrieved 2020-12-12 .
^ SF Weekly , July 29, 1998. Silke Tudor, "Night Crawler" . Retrieved on July 22, 2009.
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