| 词条 | The Twilight Club of Pasadena (California) |
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}}{{Infobox |bodystyle = width:20em; |name = Infobox/doc |title = The Twilight Club of Pasadena (California) |titlestyle = |headerstyle = |labelstyle = width:33% |datastyle = |header1 = |label1 = Founded |data1 = October 16, 1895 |header2 = |label2 = Type |data2 = Private Social Club |header3 = |label3 = Activities |data3 = Evening dinner meetings with program |header4 = |label4 = Membership |data4 = Limited to 135 |header5 = |label5 = Admission |data5 = Through sponsorship by a member |header6 = |label6 = Meetings |data6 = 8 per year, mostly at Annandale Golf Club |header7 = |label7 = Archives |data7 = Maintained by Pasadena Museum of History }}The Twilight Club of Pasadena (California) is a private social group that was founded in 1895 as an organization where prominent men could assemble on a regular basis and be stimulated by lectures from notables of the day and entertained by individuals and groups of distinguished talent. From its earliest days its membership size was fixed and a waiting list kept. Its sole function was to serve as a convocation of interested and interesting people who gathered to hear speakers on issues of the day. The group met eight evenings a year. The group is much the same today.[1] Present ClubThe Twilight Club meets eight times a year, has a fixed limit of 135 members and still has a waiting list of individuals who have been proposed by existing members, vetted by a committee and who have been voted on by the overall membership. The most significant change is that the group is no longer all-male. The first woman admitted into the club was The Honorable Cynthia H. Hall, a judge on the Ninth District Court of Appeals, in 1995.[2] The club keeps careful records of its programs and can document every speaker and subject of every single meeting back to its November, 1895, meeting when Charles F. Lummis spoke on “The Pleasures of Southern California.” The Pasadena Museum of History keeps the club’s archives. HistoryThe Twilight Club’s history is documented in a 78-page book published by the club in 2008. The club was founded during a very active period in the life of the new city of Pasadena. Other institutions that began life around the time of the Twilight Club’s founding were the Rose Parade in 1890 and Throop Institute (now the California Institute of Technology) in 1891. Pasadena had been incorporated 22 years earlier as the first city in Los Angeles County other than the City of Los Angeles.[3] John Windell Wood, in his Pasadena, California, Historical and Personal: A Complete History of the Organization of the Indiana Colony, wrote, “This club represents the highest type of intellectual life in men’s clubs, and with it membership limited to eighty, there is always a long waiting list.” [4] The Twilight Club has met in a number of locations over the years, including the Valley Hunt Club, the Shakespeare Club and the University Club. Currently it meets seven times a year at the Annandale Golf Club and an eighth time during the summer at one of the Pasadena area’s famous institutions. It is overseen by a board of directors and set of officers who serve one-year terms. SpeakersIts speakers over the years have included:
The list also includes various U.S. Cabinet members, mayors of Los Angeles, successive presidents of Caltech and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. In 1912 the club hosted Sir Thomas Lipton of tea fame, whose British International yacht race became the America’s Cup.[5] Notable MembersTwilight Club members have included architects Charles and Henry Greene; industrialists R. Stanton Avery, Arnold Beckman, Joe “Trader Joe” Coulombe; Protestant leader Rev. Eugene Carson Blake; Herbert Hoover, Jr. and successive presidents of the University of Southern California, Caltech and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.[6] References1. ^Read, Nat B. The Twilight Club of Pasadena. Pasadena 2008 2. ^Read, Nat B. The Twilight Club of Pasadena. Pasadena 2008 3. ^Scheid, Ann. Pasadena; Crown of the Valley, Northridge, Calif. Windsor Publications, Inc. 4. ^Wood, John Windell. Pasadena, California, Historical and Personal: A Complete History of the Organization of the Indiana Colony, 1917 5. ^Read, Nat B. The Twilight Club of Pasadena. Pasadena 2008 6. ^Read, Nat B. The Twilight Club of Pasadena. Pasadena 2008 Bibliography
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