[2] The Club staked out strongly anti-German, anti-Irish, anti-Black, and generally xenophobic views in its early years,[3][4] though it did support questionable policies it believed benefited Native Americans in California.
[1] 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.”[8] The 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 first woman admitted into the club was The Honorable Cynthia H. Hall, a judge on the Ninth District Court of Appeals, in 1995.
In 1912 the club hosted Sir Thomas Lipton of tea fame, whose British International yacht race became the America’s Cup.
Eugene Carson Blake; Herbert Hoover, Jr. and successive presidents of the University of Southern California, Caltech and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.