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Morse College is one of the fourteen residential colleges at Yale University, built in 1961 and designed by Eero Saarinen. It is adjacent to Ezra Stiles College and the two colleges share many facilities. The current Head of College is Catherine Panter-Brick. [1] The Associate Head of College is Mark Eggerman. [2] Blake Trimble is the Dean of ...
One of its ten founding ministers, Abraham Pierson, became its first Rector, the administrative and ecclesiastical head of the college. After Pierson, four more ministers served as rectors of the collegiate school, until 1745 when Yale College was chartered by the Colony of Connecticut and Thomas Clap's title was changed to president.
In 1962, another gift from Mellon allowed Yale to build Morse College and Ezra Stiles College on the former site of James Hillhouse High School. Yale attempted to build two more residential colleges in 1972 on Whitney Avenue designed by Mitchell/Giurgola , but aborted the plan after the New Haven municipal government rejected an increase in ...
In 1950, Griswold became president of Yale University, serving until his death in 1963. [12] [9] Griswold was unaware of his imminent rise to the presidency.The day of his elevation, he told his wife, "Thank God we're not in that racket", after they had lunched with a friend, the president of Mount Holyoke College. [13]
Ezra Stiles College is one of the fourteen residential colleges at Yale University, built in 1961 and designed by Eero Saarinen. [1] The college is named after Ezra Stiles, the seventh President of Yale. Architecturally, it is known for its lack of right angles between walls in the living areas. It sits next to Morse College.
Pericles Lewis (born September 13, 1968) is the Douglas Tracy Smith Professor of comparative literature at Yale University [1] and the Dean of Yale College. [2] [3]Previously at Yale, he was the founding president of Yale-NUS College, a liberal arts college in Singapore that is jointly governed by Yale and the National University of Singapore, [4] [5] as well as vice president for global ...
Jeff Van Gundy (attended Yale College for his freshman year), head coach for the NBA's New York Knicks and Houston Rockets [115] Ben Wanger , American-Israeli baseball pitcher, Team Israel Anne Warner (B.A. 1976), first Yale College female undergraduate to win an Olympic medal (bronze, rowing) [ 116 ] [ 117 ]
Ezra Stiles (10 December [O.S. 29 November] 1727 – May 12, 1795) [1] [2] was an American educator, academic, Congregationalist minister, theologian, and author. He is noted as the seventh president of Yale College (1778–1795) and one of the founders of Brown University.