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Even with its ban on female memebrs, the Spee has a history of relative accessibility, at least compared to the other eight clubs. It was apparently the first final club to allow females and non-members into its clubhouse. Today, members' guests may enter all but one room of the club's three-story Georgian brick clubhouse. Like the D.U. and the Fly, the Spee boasts of being the first club to admit a Black member...
...addition to the club's facilities--which include a garden, a pool table, a library, a television room and a bar--members say the Spee's greatest assets are its stewards. William Griffen, who has worked there since 1927, and Bill Mazetti, who has been at the Spee for about 20 years. "It's important for us to keep a sense of history," a club officer said. "Bill remembers a lot of the members' fathers...
While club members boast of the Spee's diversity, only two of the 33 current members are Black, a member says. "We don't have an affirmative action program," one club officer explains...
Scully, who manages the club's finances, declines to disclose the size of the Spee's endowment, but says. "I guess we're better off than most clubs." Despite the club's solven v. Scully says the Spee has suffered from excessive taxation in recent years. "Cambridge taxes have become quite a burden," he says...
...Spee's initiation process is less elaborate than that at other clubs--a fact members say is indicative of the "loose" attitude of the club. According to one member, sophomores who are elected are blindfolded and led into the club's library--the only restricted room--where they recite a pledge, tell a few jokes and sing the chorus of the club song. "To the old Zeta Psi" (the club's name in the late 19th century...