Membership Procedures
There are no formal written applications for membership. The Coffee House merely invites men and women to join whom it believes to be in sympathy with its social aims. Any member who wishes to propose a friend for membership should write a letter or email to the Acting Secretary, giving the name, address, background, and qualifications of the candidate; have a seconding letter or email by another member sent as well; and should arrange for the candidate to be brought to lunch or dinner and introduced to the other members present that day.
SOME
COFFEE HOUSE MEMBERS: THE FIRST FOUR YEARS
Chester
Aldrich
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Avery
Hopwood
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Frederick
Lewis Allen
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Rupert
Hughes
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Winthrop
Ames
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Fritz
Kreisler
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George
Arliss
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Walt
Kuhn
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Robert
Benchley
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C.
Grant LaFarge
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W.T.
Benda
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Stephen
Leacock
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Guy
Bolton
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Nicholas
Longworth
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Adolph
Borie
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George
Lorimer
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Robert
Bridges
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Guy
Lowell
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Bliss
Carman
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Frederick
MacMonnies
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Robert
W. Chambers
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Hartley
Manners
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John
Jay Chapman
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Paul
Manship
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Joseph
H. Choate •
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Don
Marquis
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Winston
Churchill
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George
Barr McCutcheon
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Irvin
S. Cobb
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Gari
Melchers
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Royal
Cortissoz
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Samuel
Merwin
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John
Cross
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Christopher
Morley
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Frank
Crowninshield
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Gouverneur
Morris
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Walter
Damrosch
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CondÈ
Nast
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Richard
H. Dana, Jr.
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Henry
Fairfield Osborn
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Jo
Davidson
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Maxfield
Parrish
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Arthur
B. Davies
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Maxwell
Perkins
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William
Adams Delano
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Charles
A. Platt
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Charles
Dillingham
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John
Russell Pope
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George
H. Doran
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Cole
Porter
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John
Drew
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Charles
Scribner
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Finley
Peter Dunne
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Louis
E. Shipman
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Douglas
Fairbanks
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Otis
Skinner
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William
Faversham
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Julian
Street
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James
L. Ford
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Mark
Sullivan
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Daniel
Frohman
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Deems
Taylor
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John
Gade
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Charles
Hanson Towne
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Charles
Dana Gibson
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Pierre
Troubetzkoy
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Ernest
Glendenning
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Ernest
Truex
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Bertram
Goodhue
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Joseph
Urban
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Ralph
Graves
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Hendrik
W. van Loon
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Ben
Ali Haggin
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Walter
Wanger
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Walter
Hampden
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Reinald
Werrenrath
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Learned
Hand
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H.
J. Whigham
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Childe
Hassam
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Ezra
Winter
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Thomas
Hastings
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Owen
Wister
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Oliver
Herford
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P.
G. Wodehouse
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De
Wolf Hopper
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Efrem
Zimbalist
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Herbert
Hoover
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• Indicates Founding Committee Member
† The only Honorary Member at time of his death in 1928
MORE FORMER MEMBERS
George Abbott
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George
Gershwin
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St.
Claire McKelway
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Charles Addams
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Wolcott
Gibbs
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Adolphe
Menjou
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Maxwell Anderson
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Rube
Goldberg
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Burgess
Meredith
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Sherwood Anderson
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Oscar
Hammerstein, 2nd
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Jo
Mielziner
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Joseph W. Alsop, Jr.
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Alfred
Harcourt
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Robert
Montgomery
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George F. Baker
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Sir
Cedric Hardwicke
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Edward
R. Murrow
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John Barrymore
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Richard
Edes Harrison
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Ogden
Nash
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Bruce
Barton
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Leland
Hayward
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John
O’Hara
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Rex
Beach
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Jascha
Heifetz
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Eugene
O’Neill
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Lucius
Beebe
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James
Heineman
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Michael
Powell
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Norman
Bel Geddes
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John
Held, Jr.
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Tom
Prideaux
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Nathaniel
Benchley
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Leslie
Howard
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Basil
Rathbone
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Stephen
V. BenÈt
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John
Huston
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Quentin
Reynolds
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Humphrey
Bogart
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Robert
Trent Jones
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Grantland
Rice
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Heywood
Broun
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Walt
Kelly
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Cyril
Ritchard
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John
Mason Brown
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Rockwell
Kent
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Nelson
A. Rockefeller
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Ward
Byron
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Jerome
Kern
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Richard
Rodgers
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Cass
Canfield
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John
La Farge
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Harold
Ross
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Bruce
Catton
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Oliver La Farge
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Berton
Roueché
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Marc
Connelly
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Ring Lardner
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Richard
Rovere
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Norman
Cousins
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Walter Lippmann
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Alexander
Scourby
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Hart
Crane
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Harold Lloyd
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William
Shawn
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Ralston
Crawford
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Walter Lord
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Robert
E. Sherwood
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N. “Ding” Darling
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Henry R. Luce
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John
Sloane
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Richard
de Rochemont
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Alfred Lunt
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Ben
Sonnenberg
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Reginald
Denham
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Russell
Lynes
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Eugene
Spreicher
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Nelson
Doubleday
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Charles
MacArthur
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Francis
Steegmuller
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Melvyn
Douglas
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Ferris
C. Mack
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Edward
Steichen
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Maitland
Edey
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John
P. Marquand
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John
Steinbeck
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Walker
Evans
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Herbert
Marshall
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Norman
Thomas
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Marshall
Field
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S.
L. A. Marshall
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Gene
Tunney
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Alan
R. Finberg
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Raymond
Massey
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DeWitt
Wallace
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Raoul
H. Fleischmann
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T.
S. Matthews
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Hugh
Walpole
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Henry
Fonda
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W.
Somerset Maugham
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Alec
Waugh
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R.
Buckminster Fuller
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André
Maurois
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Edmund
Wilson
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Paul
Gallico
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Edward
McCartan
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Roland
Young
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