How to be a member of the cosmos club?

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Anonymous wrote:I’d like to be nominated as a member. I’ve been a leader in the education field doing work in diversity, leadership and organizational development as a superintendent of schools and a church leader in Penna. Have done some work with President Bush and Gov Tom Ridge.
I want to continue to grow and learn, and contribute, through membership. Thank you!

Nobody values the field of education as an intellectual pursuit. I switched careers and people are much more impressed with me now. I’m the same person. I doubt anybody involved in k-12 education will get in, unless they’re at the very top of the DoE and even then, I’m not sure.

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Anonymous wrote:The easiest way to get invited to join is to become an Ambassador.

I am personally more interested in how people get to join the Metropolitan Club and who those people are.

Lol, so you just need to be a big donor? That seems antithetical to CC

Social clubs are dying, they need the cash and membership desperately. Nobody under 70 wants to pay thousands a year to drink with geriatrics and nobody under 40 could afford it even if they wanted to.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The easiest way to get invited to join is to become an Ambassador.

I am personally more interested in how people get to join the Metropolitan Club and who those people are.

Lol, so you just need to be a big donor? That seems antithetical to CC

Social clubs are dying, they need the cash and membership desperately. Nobody under 70 wants to pay thousands a year to drink with geriatrics and nobody under 40 could afford it even if they wanted to.

Really? Some of the Clubs in DC now have multi-year waiting lists where there was no wait just a few years ago and the new members/applicants are all under 40.

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The famous line is that Cosmos is for people with brains, the Met for people with money and University is for those with neither.

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Anonymous wrote:Most members I know are not wealthy. I mean wealthy on a global perspective, but more like professor/think tank money, not robber baron or even big law wealthy. All but one has written at least one book, generally more. The one who didn't was a chemist, so off the hook for a book but still academic.

This.

You need to have accomplished something to be invited. It’s a cerebral group. I know two past presidents of the club. Whenever I was invited for lunch or an event, there were recognizable people in the dining room. I saw more notable people there than in the members dining room on the Hill (where I swear I never saw Pelosi eat; she only ordered hot water with lemon).

PS - I also know former kitchen staff at Cosmos. The food is gross. I got food poisoning there one time.

The best wedding reception I have ever attended was at the Cosmo Club and the food was superb

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Anonymous wrote:I've been invited to join twice, and I declined both times. The best thing about it, as I saw things, was to eat lunch there with interesting people. (As a resident of the DMV, I had no need for the hotel rooms.) However, for me, as a government employee, I would have had to take a cab across town back and forth to DuPont Circle, and my employer (and co-workers) were fairly strict about a lunch HOUR. I agreed with that. The networking potential was pretty amazing, I'll admit, but I did not feel it was worth the expense and hassle. I was, and still am, happy with a ham sandwich for lunch, often at my desk!

I would be shocked that someone who is under such professional strictures would be asked to join. You are just not at the same level of those who are members. We don’t have time restrictions and bosses to worry about.

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Anonymous wrote:The Cosmos Club is, at least, much cooler than the Society of the Cincinnati across the street which is a club started by some Revolutionary War veteran officers where membership is passed down via primogeniture so I guess they just…missed the point of the war?

Putting your sword down and picking up your plough is the point of the place.

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I've eaten there with my friend who is a Georgetown Law professor. I thought it was cute. My drinks were good; the food was mostly decent if quite old fashioned. The building was lovely with lots of cool little hidden bits. At 45, my friend was roughly 20 years younger than any other member we encountered while there!

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I've heard the bathroom on the ISS is quite cramped so there are very few members.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Most members I know are not wealthy. I mean wealthy on a global perspective, but more like professor/think tank money, not robber baron or even big law wealthy. All but one has written at least one book, generally more. The one who didn't was a chemist, so off the hook for a book but still academic.

This.

You need to have accomplished something to be invited. It’s a cerebral group. I know two past presidents of the club. Whenever I was invited for lunch or an event, there were recognizable people in the dining room. I saw more notable people there than in the members dining room on the Hill (where I swear I never saw Pelosi eat; she only ordered hot water with lemon).

PS - I also know former kitchen staff at Cosmos. The food is gross. I got food poisoning there one time.

The best wedding reception I have ever attended was at the Cosmo Club and the food was superb

I’ve been in the kitchens at the Cosmos Club (delivering wedding cakes) and everything was clean, calm and orderly and everyone I’ve ever encountered there on staff was exceedingly helpful and polite. I didn’t taste the food but the kitchen looked great.