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The Lotos Club
any inhabitant of this jolly old world who has done something. When the Club started, its only property was two candles stu ed into empty bottles. The candles were consumed but the empty bottles multiplied, and today we nd our membership large, our health normal and our thirst splendid.”
In 1923, Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia University, was elected president of The Lotos Club.
The Club’s seventieth anniversary in 1940 was celebrated elaborately; the committee included such well-known names as George M. Cohan, Fletcher Pratt, Ogden Reid, David Sarno , Herbert Bayard Swope, Arthur Hays Sulzberger and Lawrence Tibbett. At the anniversary dinner, the speaker was Dr. Henry Noble MacCracken, president of Vassar College; Dr. Harry Woodburn Chase, chancellor of New York University and president of the Club, presided.
In 1947, the Club moved to its present home at Five East Sixty-sixth Street. This ve-story mansion was known among connoisseurs as one of the nest examples of French Renaissance architecture in America. It had been built in 1900 by Mrs. Elliott F. Shepard, daughter of William H. Vanderbilt, as a present for her daughter, Mrs. William Jay Schie elin. Schie elin was
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