Women of Yale

Gitlin Celebrates Ivy Champs

Jay Gitlin writes: I'm teaching my "Yale and America" seminar this semester -- which includes three students on the Ivy champion women's hockey team.

March 14, 2023

On Breaking the Gender Barrier at Yale—50 Years Later

Reprinted from MS. by kind permission of the publisher. 10/1/2019 by SHELLEY FISHER FISHKIN I entered Yale College in September 1969, one of the first group of women who transformed Yale from the all-male institution it had been for the previous 268 years. When I returned to New Haven in…

October 4, 2019

“First Women” of Yale Celebrated in Stone

September 23, 2019

40th Reunion Writeup by Andy Kaufman

We have a sneak peek at Andy Kaufman's writeup on our 40th reunion for the YAM Class Notes: Great weather, great turnout (some 240 classmates, with overall attendance of approximately 375), and unbridled energy and enthusiasm characterized our 40th Reunion in Branford College.  From the opening…

June 10, 2011

YaleWomen Lunch May 10 at NYC Yale Club

Joan O'Meara Winant '73 and Nancy Stratford '77 send this invitation by way of our class secretary Harry Levitt: We are pleased to invite you to our second quarterly YaleWomen NYC Back to the Women's Table Luncheon for interesting conversations and fellowship. Date:             Tuesday May 10th…

April 18, 2011

YaleWomen Initiative

Nancy Stratford '77 sent some details about a new organization for Yale alumnae: YaleWomen is a new initiative for all Yale alumnae. This alumnae organization is inclusive of all women graduates of the college and graduate and professional schools. YaleWomen began in response to the very successful…

March 4, 2011

Celebrating Yale Women Conference, Mar. 26-28

Hope to see many classmates at the AYA's Celebrating Yale Women conference at Yale, March 26-28. Speakers include our own Margaret Warner, PBS NewsHour on-air anchor, and Karen Lawrence, president of Sarah Lawrence College: Celebrating Yale Women: 40 years in Yale College, 140 years at Yale…

March 2, 2010

The Way We Were, June 1971

Chrissy Citron sent in a clipping from the Yale Daily News Commencement Issue, June 1971. Click below to read Mally Cox's story "First Women Graduate," with quotes from Chrissy, Kathy Bennett (not Cathy, as the article has it), and Jane Hunter (posted with permission of Yale Daily News). 1971…

February 11, 2010

Two Yale Students Seek Our Reminiscences

By way of the AYA, we've received an invitation from two current Yale students to contribute to a commemorative publication honoring the 40th anniversary of coeducation: We are Isabel and Emily, two students in Yale College [Emily is Branford '10]. We major in English and Art, and English and…

November 5, 2009

Coeducation Celebration (Including Link to Photos!)

On Friday, October 9, almost 160 alums and guests met for lunch in the Grand Ballroom at the Yale Club in New York to celebrate the 40th anniversary of coeducation at Yale College. The event was conceived of and organized (beautifully) by Vera Wells and Susan Yecies. Rick Cech and Max Addison took…

October 22, 2009