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The Lotos Club
was attended by a host of celebrities; the Most Reverend Fulton J. Sheen pronounced the benediction. And it closed with a dinner in April 1971 at which Joan Sutherland and Claire Boothe Luce extinguished the candles and cut two birthday cakes.
On its Centennial, the Club was greeted by its friends and the presidents of its reciprocal clubs around the world from Viscount Bledsiloe, chair- man of The Garrick Club of London, to Lt. Gen. R. Bierwirth, C.B.E., president of the Melbourne Savage Club of Melbourne. The Lotos moved into its second century under the presidencies of Norris W. Harkness, Edward J. Scheider, Ben Sonz, J. Roger Friedman, Silas R. Mountsier III, Joel F. Lehrer, J. Robert Moskin, Louis Padovano, John Sussek, Irwin Jacobs, Patrick J. Frawley, Anne Russell and, currently, Michael D. Yon.
Lotos began its second century with a unanimous vote in May 1977 to extend membership to women. The Club’s  rst female members, writer and editor Mary Hemingway and international lawyer Rita Hauser, were elected the following month.
The 1980s were a vintage decade for The Lotos Club and its activities rose to a new level of quality and interest. Membership grew steadily as men and women from all the arts and professions
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