Comments for New Yale Colleges

Comment on About Us by Daniel Case

Daniel Case — Tue, 28 Apr 2015 02:18:58 +0000

Congratulations on this achievement. One wishes that each of the profiled persons could have a college named after her/him.

Comment on About Us by Nancy Alexander

Nancy Alexander — Mon, 20 Apr 2015 17:38:39 +0000

moderators: forgot to include my affiliation – TD ’79, MBA ’84

Comment on About Us by Nancy Alexander

Nancy Alexander — Mon, 20 Apr 2015 17:36:01 +0000

All excellent ideas. I would like to see one of the colleges named for Hanna Holborn Gray, the only woman president in Yale’s history (acting president 1977-78) and first woman president of a major US university (UChicago, 1978-1993). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanna_Holborn_Gray

Comment on Elga Wasserman by Gretchen Schmidt Bishay

Gretchen Schmidt Bishay — Fri, 17 Apr 2015 18:26:15 +0000

This is a wonderful biography. I do not find Dr. Wasserman’s on Wikipedia. I have read that women are underrepresented there, as subjects and as contributors. I wonder if the author would consider sharing Dr. Wasserman’s achievements with more people by posting a version of this biography there.

Comment on Grace Hopper by Gretchen Schmidt Bishay

Gretchen Schmidt Bishay — Wed, 15 Apr 2015 23:47:07 +0000

“Since Yale College was not co-educational when Hopper was ready for college at 17, she attended Vassar College.” Your sentence implies that Admiral Hopper would have attended Yale College if she could have. There is a lot to be said for women’s colleges. Do you have a citation supporting that Admiral Hopper wanted to attend Yale as an undergraduate?

Comment on About Us by Martin Cobern

Martin Cobern — Sat, 11 Apr 2015 16:41:59 +0000

All of the suggestions are excellent. My top two choices would be Grace Hopper and Edward Bouchet.

Martin E. Cobern ’74 Ph.D.

Comment on Elga Wasserman by Nancy Cohen

Nancy Cohen — Fri, 10 Apr 2015 21:44:22 +0000

An extraordinarily inspired choice. Wasserman blazed trails in so many directions, and thousands of women have followed her — over barriers to higher education where they were previously barred because of their gender; to positions of authority in educational institutions; to achievement in the sciences. As a child, I dreamed about attending then-all-male Yale. As I entered high school, it seemed my dream might be in reach. The Wasserman shield is elegant.

Comment on Yung Wing by Yunming Zhang

Yunming Zhang — Wed, 08 Apr 2015 04:59:41 +0000

a predecessor to study, to reimagine and a future to fulfil.

Comment on Mary Goodman by Gretchen Schmidt Bishay

Gretchen Schmidt Bishay — Wed, 08 Apr 2015 00:13:20 +0000

There is more about Mary Goodman at http://afam.yalecollege.yale.edu/womens-history-yale-university-mary-goodman-former-slave-and-new-haven and that points to another article I enjoyed, about a current scholarship recipient, at http://www.yale.edu/opa/arc-ybc/v31.n4/story9.html. I had not read about her until today.

Gretchen Schmidt Bishay
Yale College 1990

Comment on About Us by Jerald Dana Cole

Jerald Dana Cole — Tue, 07 Apr 2015 21:53:53 +0000

You should name one of your colleges in honor of Grace Hopper.