Inside the Davenport Cottage’s infamous two-story party suite, stacks of chocolate bars, San Pellegrino, Bounty paper towel rolls and cereal boxes clutter the bar. An empty cooler from the past weekend lies in the other corner, the tap dried out. In the entryway door, beer bottles and other remnants of Saturday night’s party clutter the entrance. But another kind of...
Mary E. Miller GRD '81, the Sterling Professor of the History of Art and master of Saybrook College, was named the next dean of Yale College in a ceremony this afternoon. University President Richard Levin announced Miller’s appointment — first reported by the News this morning — which fills the position that had been opened by Peter Salovey’s move to the...
Friends! October is the month for costumes! Last semester I wrote a column about how springtime made me gayer, but what I really meant is that all the seasons make me gayer, each in their own special way. Each year I will get more and more fabulous until, on the eve of my 30th birthday, I will explode in a cloud of glitter flames. I mention glitter flames specifically...
Running late after a brief visit to his laboratory, a hurried Andy Hamilton walked into his first-floor office in Warner House at 9:30 one morning last spring. Apologizing to a visitor waiting for him, he grabbed a tie off his desk, walked over to a mirror in the back of his office and put it on. Then he sighed. “Chemists don’t wear neckties,” Hamilton explained...
In 1718, Elihu Yale was approached with a request. The Collegiate School was to move into a grand new home in New Haven — one in need of a donor. “If what is forming at New Haven might wear the name of Yale College,” a friend of the school wrote to the wealthy Welshman, “your munificence might easily obtain for you such a commemoration and perpetuation of your...
If the University decides to build two new residential colleges, the Yale Tomorrow capital campaign’s initial target of $3 billion could swell to as much as $3.5 or $4 billion, according to officials involved with the fundraising effort. Because it was not listed as one of the campaign’s priorities at its launch in September 2006, the proposed expansion of Yale...
Suppose, over champagne at a white-tablecloth fundraising affair, a rich Yale College alumnus — a CEO, a hedge-fund manager, a man of unlimited personal wealth — turns to Roland Betts ’68, the senior fellow of the Yale Corporation, the University’s highest governing body. “A billion dollars is yours,” he offers. “Just one condition: Christen one of the two...
Just as University officials begin to strategize for raising what would presumably amount to hundreds of millions of alumni dollars to help pay for two new residential colleges, a report released Wednesday said Yale failed to keep pace with many of its peers in terms of fundraising last year. Yale fell from third to eighth place in dollars raised by universities in...
As Joel Smilow ’54 stood at the podium during a press conference Wednesday to speak about a donation he made recently to the Yale-New Haven Hospital — the largest gift the hospital has ever received — he said he has been brought to tears by cancer twice this week. The first time, he found out that the son of a friend from business school had died from cancer. The...
As the University enters the fourth year of the Yale Tomorrow fundraising campaign, it has raised $1.73 billion toward its $3 billion goal, beating expectations. But some involved with the campaign said the pace of donations could slow over the next year. Although the University is already more than halfway to its goal, many of the wealthiest alumni and other potential...
When Alphonse “Buddy” Fletcher Jr. FES ’04 enrolled in Yale’s School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, he had what the school’s Director of Development Eugenie Gentry called “an unusual profile” for a graduate student. He was 38 and already had an established career as the chairman of the Wall Street firm Fletcher Asset Management, which he founded...
A new $20 million pledge to the Yale University Art Gallery will fund an expansion of the gallery’s education programs and facilities. Half of the $20 million donation will be used to create a new education center in Street Hall, and the other $10 million will be directed toward endowing the department and its fellowships, said Jock Reynolds, the director of the...
