Women at Yale: A Tour prospect north mansfield science hill street winchester street street sachem 36 avenue 35 45 canal street street trumbull 34 hillhouse whitney prospect temple 33 ashmun grove street cemetery avenue avenue street street street 32 31 grove street 44 kway ar 38 p 42 r hewitt e 43 30 w quad 37 o t 40 41 39 8 wall street 27 9 4 7 2 13 29 3 broadway 26 1 whalley 28 avenue 10 6 elm street 11 25 street street street street street street 15 12 old campus park high york temple 5 church college 16 new haven green 17 24 edgewood ave 18 21 22 23 8 19 chapel street 0 300 ft 600 ft 20 crown street south frontage road c h u street r medical center lafayette c street h s york t r e 14 e t ue s cedar o n u avenue t 47 h street ave 46 48 congress gton n howard i 49 h street s avenue wa amistad Red indicates audio-guided tour To download the audio-guided tour, visit www.yale.edu/womenatyale prospect street north mansfield street science hill winchester avenue sachem street 19 36 35 45 canal street trumbull street 34 hillhouse avenue whitney avenue prospect street temple street 33 12 17 ashmun street grove street cemetery 32 Welcome to Women at Yale: A Tour. This tour journeys through the 31 grove street 44 kway histories and iconographies of women on campus, beginning with ar 38 p 42 r hewitt e 43 30 w quad 37 the inception of Yale College over three centuries ago. After you take o t 40 41 39 8 in some of the spaces, places, and stories, we hope you will continue to wall street 27 9 4 look for evidence of women and men co-living, co-learning, co-teaching, 7 2 13 29 3 broadway 26 and co-operating here at Yale and beyond. For fuller descriptions 1 whalley avenue 28 of each site, please visit the website at www.yale.edu/womenatyale 10 6 elm street and download the audio-guided tour, which features many of the 11 25 stories as told by the people who lived them. 15 12 old campus park street high street york street temple street 5 church street college street new haven green 16 1 Women’s Table When Maya Lin (ba 1981, m.arch by much larger campus movements calling for the 17 24 1986) decided to place her sculpture on the Rose coeducation of Yale College and nationwide racial edgewood ave 18 Walk, a pedestrian walkway, she envisioned a desegregation. 21 22 23 nurturing space in the heart of Yale’s busy urban 8 19 campus. The name evokes a sense of community and 3 Sterling Memorial Library In an article for the 25th chapel street family gathering. Commissioned by Yale President anniversary of coeducation, Kathy M. Newman Benno Schmidt (ba 1963, jd 1966) to celebrate the (ph.d 1997) writes about discovering a world of twentieth anniversary of the coeducation of Yale female iconography at Yale. Of the Alma Mater 0 300 ft 600 ft College in 1989, the Women’s Table calculates the above the circulation desk at Sterling, she explains: presence of all registered female students since the “In college mythology, [Mother Knowledge] replaces 20 inception of Yale in 1701. Those numbers continue to actual mothers, to pro-create knowledge itself, crown street change, however, as more is discovered. Although and a whole new family of knowledge seekers.” In 1873 marks the earliest admit date, we now know 4 one of the Stone Reliefs which line the wall along that the Silliman sisters were among the first the courtyard in SML, she points out that the man students at the School of Fine Arts when it opened holding the book appears to gaze into space while in 1869. And, although many believe the numbers the nude woman framed above him reads over end in 1993 because women finally outnumbered his shoulder. Newman’s other finds include the men that year, a simpler explanation is correct: the female portraits welded into the stained glass in the south frontage road numbers end when the sculpture was completed. 5 Branford College Mendel Room: “Silhouetted women c h in lead and glass have been sitting in on Yale classes u r 2 Linonia and Brothers Room On June 18, 1963, since Branford College was built in the 1930s.” A medical center lafayette street c h s york street University Librarian James T. Babb (ba 1924, hon. ma 6 walk along the Elm Street side of Berkeley College t r e 1945) circulated a memo declaring that the Linonia features architectural reliefs: in one, a woman’s high- 14 e e t u s and Brothers Room would henceforth “be open to heeled shoe appears to dance with a man’s dress cedar street o n e u v t the ladies.” Since its creation in the 1920s, Library shoe. In another, a woman who looks like Cleopatra 47 h a n rules had declared the room “a ‘stag’ room… closed as a telephone operator suggests the power of the 46 o 48 congress avenue t g to members of the opposite sex.” In the spring of women who “worked behind the scenes” to connect n howard avenue i 49 h 1963, female graduate students picketed to protest the men of Yale with the outside world. s a their exclusion. When the young men returned to the w amistad street newly desegregated room that fall, hundreds signed 7 Farrand Courtyard After Beatrix Jones Farrand, noted a petition against the “evil integration.” One junior landscape designer, accepted Yale’s first salaried described his disgust with the women, who sat “in position of Consulting Landscape Gardener in those big leather chairs in an absolutely undignified 1923—the first time the university had employed a way.” The complaints, however, were drowned out woman in a position of high authority—she hired a 3 staff, started a nursery, and designed the landscapes Master Basil Duke Henning. The nineteenth century for at least 16 Yale buildings over the next 22 years. portraits depict Dotha Woodward De Forest and Farrand believed that “the primary object is to make Mrs. Daniel Tyler Coit (Jane Griswold Lanman), both the outward appearance and surroundings of the from families of Yale graduates and benefactors. buildings an education for those who work and Mrs. Stephen B. Harkness is the same Anna M. study in them. Surely the training of the eye to daily 12 Harkness who donated Harkness Memorial Tower settings both beautiful and fit is as large a part of and the Memorial Quadrangle (look for the two education as is the regular academic routine.” The inscriptions inside Memorial Gateway). Other Farrand Courtyard with its centerpiece fountain female Harkness contributions on campus include showcases one of her few extant designs at Yale. 13 William L. Harkness Hall and the Mary S. Harkness 14 Auditorium in the Sterling Hall of Medicine. 8 Yale Law School In 1885, anxious whispers passed down the registration line at the Law School 15 Davenport College The portrait of Anne Allen, when the new students spied a certain A. R. Jordan which hangs in the Davenport Dining Hall, (llb 1886). Jordan had used initials to avoid exposing portrays a “faithful and beloved servant” who that she, Alice Rufie Jordan, was a woman. When the worked here during the first twenty years of registrar balked, Jordan argued that the catalogue Davenport’s existence. did not specify the gender of the student body. She was admitted. Although the Yale Corporation 16 Jonathan Edwards College In 2007–2008, the Junior refused to print her name in the catalogue, she Common Room in Jonathan Edwards College was continued her studies and received a degree. renovated through a gift from the women of the After she graduated, the Corporation quickly added JE class of 1973. A beautiful commemorative wall a clause to ensure classes were open only to males carving includes the names of all 23 women in unless otherwise indicated. In 1919, women were that first freshman class. After noticing the date officially admitted. Six of the 72 portraits in the of coeducation misidentified in a Yale newspaper, Law School display images of female graduates. the alumnae were driven by the need to preserve a The earliest depicts lawyer Carolyn Agger (llb 1938). small part of the history of women at Yale, and, by Also pictured are Judge Patricia M. Wald (llb 1951) extension, of women in the world. Perhaps with the and Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton help of this space, Yale will remember the women (ma 1963, llb 1964), the most recent portrait. who entered with that first class, the women who continue to shape the meanings and structures of 9 Mory’s In 1969, in response to the coeducation of coeducation at Yale. Yale College, the Board of Governors at Mory’s, Downstairs are two stone benches, copies of the a private club exclusively serving the men of the Princeton tombstones of Sarah Edwards (described Yale community, added the word “male” to the as a “Friend, Neighbor, Mother, Wife, and Christian”) membership requirements. Women were allowed in and her husband, Reverend Jonathan Edwards only as guests, only at dinnertime, and only via the (ba 1720, m.div 1722). back stairs to private rooms. For five years, picketers protested on the sidewalk in front of Mory’s, President 17 Linsly-Chittenden Hall After the death of Mary Brewster declared that official university business Hartwell Chittenden Lusk, her father, Simeon no longer be held there, and a lawsuit was brought Baldwin Chittenden (hon.