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]
^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
ISBN978-0990527022
^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
^Poletti, Therese; Tom Paiva (2008). Art Deco San Francisco: The Architecture of Timothy Pflueger. Princeton Architectural Press. p. 14.
ISBN978-1-56898-756-9.
^"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.
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]
^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
ISBN978-0990527022
^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
^Poletti, Therese; Tom Paiva (2008). Art Deco San Francisco: The Architecture of Timothy Pflueger. Princeton Architectural Press. p. 14.
ISBN978-1-56898-756-9.
^"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.