Brendan Gill (S&B 1936)
Yale University. Skull and Bones. Kingswood Oxford School.
Staff Writer, Film Critic, New Yorker Magazine.
A champion of architectural preservation and other visual arts, Gill joined Jacqueline Kennedy’s coalition to preserve and restore New York’s Grand Central Terminal.[5]
The Trustees and Staff of the Whitney Museum of American Art.[6] (15 Years. Founded by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, wife of Harry Payne Whitney S&B 1894)
Member of the Whitney National Committee.[6]
An Honorary Trustee of the Whitney, Brendan was co-chair of the Museum’s Library Fellows.[6]
Founding chairman of The Library Fellows of the Whitney Museum of American Art.[6]
Chairman Emeritus, The Board of Trustees and Staff of the New York Landmarks Conservancy.
Trustee, The Weir Farm Trust.[6]
The Board and Staff of the Film Society of Lincoln Center.[6]
Trustee, The New York Society Library.[6]
Trustee, The New-York Historical Society.[6]
Trustee, Friends of the Upper East Side Historic District.[6]
He also chaired the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts[6] and authored 15 books, including Here at The New Yorker and the iconoclastic Frank Lloyd Wright biography Many Masks.
1936 - Graduated Yale, Skull and Bones Patriarch.[1]
Died 27 Dec 1997, from Natural Course. Age 83.
Note: Son, Michael Gates Gill (S&B 1963) - author of How Starbucks Saved My Life: A Son of Privilege Learns to Live Like Everyone Else.
[[3] - Skull and Bones Membership List by David Luhrssen
https://the-eye.eu/public/concen.org/Americas%20Secret%20Establishment%20Skull%20%26%20Bones%20Society%20322%20%5Bpack%5D/docs/Skull%20and%20Bones%20Membership%20List.pdf
[[4] - FYI - Wiki - Brendan Gill (S&B 1936)] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan_Gill
[5] - Celebrities Ride the Rails to Save Grand Central
[6] NY Times Nov 30, 1997 - Paid Notice Deaths Gill Brendan
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