It is perhaps the perfect historical moment for a celebration honoring the past 50 years of coeducation of Yale College. In a series of events across campus Sept. 19-22, Yale alumni and a roster of speakers will reflect on what coeducation has meant for...
On the occasion of his 80th reunion, 101-year-old Sherret S. Chase ’39 B.S. drove with his daughter Helen Chase from their home in the Catskills to New Haven to revisit his favorite campus haunts. As part of the trip, they arranged to meet with 103-year-...
Email missives from Josh Perez-Cruet ’20 B.S., one of the intramural (IM) secretaries of Grace Hopper College, read like calls to battle. Font size veers wildly from 12pt to 36, and the indiscriminate use of rainbow colors recalls the dizzy days of early...
With its roots planted firmly in Eastern European folk traditions, the Yale Slavic Chorus may seem an unlikely candidate as a feminist organization on campus. But behind the full skirts and peasant blouses, and the resonant, melodic harmonies, lies a...
In 1969, when the Asian American Students Alliance (AASA) was cofounded by Rocky Chin ’71 M.C.P., Lowell Chun-Hoon ’71 B.A., Don Nakanishi ’71 B.A., and Alice Young ’71 B.A., there were fewer than 60 Asian American students at Yale College, and no courses...
Susan Lennon ’85 M.P.P.M., chair of YaleWomen, remembers the moment when the group was effectively born. It was in 2010 at a conference called “Celebrating Yale Women: 40 Years in Yale College, 140 Years at Yale” and Linda Lorimer ’77 J.D., former...
When Patricia Melton ’83 B.A. first came to Yale in 1977, she was just trying to survive. She’d grown up in Cleveland as one of seven kids, and her mother passed away following a serious car accident when Melton was just 12. Through a program called A...
Although she just celebrated her 45th Yale reunion, Laurie Treuhaft ’73 B.A. remembers her Yale College classes so distinctly that she can still recall her professors’ words and conjure the emotions of those heady days. Treuhaft was part of the inaugural...
Juan Carlos (“JC”) Salinas ’03 M.F.A. knew little about life outside of Texas when his advisor, Melba Martinez, at the University of Texas-Austin where he studied theater, suggested he apply to the Yale School of Drama. He’d grown up in the small, low-...