University students who died in the Korean War; $7,077.77 to endow the Ernest Mead Fund for the Music Library; $47,777.77 for the making of a film on the honor system; and $1 million in support of the university's South Lawn Project. Most recently, the society gave a $777,777.77 grant to fund the Mead Endowment, founded in honor of Ernest Mead, which awards grants to professors to teach their "dream classes." In addition to granting spontaneous gifts, the Seven Society sponsors an annual $7,000 graduate fellowship award for superb teaching. Notable members The Seven Society is unusual among University of Virginia secret societies in including members who were not students or alumni of the university. Notable examples include Mary Proffitt, secretary to Dean James M. Page and Dean Ivey F. Lewis; and Ivey F. Lewis himself, a non-alumnus professor and longtime dean of students at the university. Several notable individuals whose Seven Society membership was disclosed at their death include: H. Lockwood Frizzell, drafted by the Philadelphia Eagles Adm. William F. Halsey Frank Hereford, fifth president of the University of Virginia and namesake of Hereford College James Rogers McConnell, student and volunteer for the Lafayette Escadrille during World War I, memorialized in Gutzon Borglum's statue The Aviator John Lloyd Newcomb, second president of the University of Virginia Edward Stettinius, Jr., secretary of state under Presidents Roosevelt and Truman, and first US ambassador to the United Nations Frank Wisner, head of the Central Intelligence Agency's Directorate of Plans during the 1950s Joseph W. Twinam, American ambassador to Bahrain, 1974-1976 Joe Edwin McCary, M.D. Quarterback and Captain 1948 UVA Football. Honorable Mention All-American. Senior Class Treasurer. Graduate of UVA Medical School, June 14, 1954. Ernest Mead, professor of music and chair of the McIntire Department of Music at UVA Glynn Key, Board of Visitors member. Seven Society at other colleges/universities There have been several secret societies with "seven" in their name. No connection between the societies has been shown, but there is at least some tradition in the use of the names. One such secret society is the Seven Society, Order of the Crown and Dagger, known to exist at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. The founding date of the William and Mary society is reported to have been as early as 1826. A second unassociated secret society operates at Longwood University. The society known as Princeps, was founded