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Saybrook College
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| Saybrook College | |
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| Motto | ? Say what? Saybrook! |
| Named For | Old Saybrook, Connecticut |
| Established | 1933 |
| Colors | Blue, gold |
| College Master | Mary Miller |
| College Dean | Paul McKinley |
| Undergraduates | 480 |
| Called | Saybrugians |
| Location | 242 Elm Street |
| Harvard Sister House(s) | Adams House |
| Homepage | http://saybrookcollege.com |
Saybrook College is one of the 12 residential colleges at Yale University. It was founded in 1933 by partitioning the Memorial Quadrangle (built in 1917-1921) into two parts: Saybrook and Branford.
Saybrook College takes pride in its history of scholarly excellence, intramural athletic heroics, the beauty of its two courtyards ("Grass" and "Stone," officially "Killingworth" and "Saybrook"), and its ever-vibrant student spirit. Members of the Saybrook community are known as "Saybrugians,"(with a soft "g") and every one of them knows the Saybrook cheer: "Say what? SAYBROOK" (repeat at least three times).
Each student room is decorated with panes of stained glass from G. Owen Bonawit. Unlike many of Yale's residential colleges that are centered around one large courtyard, Saybrook has two courtyards -- one stone and one grass, hence the college cheer beginning "Two courtyards, stone and grass: two courtyards kick your ass."
Saybrook College was one of the original Yale Residential Colleges. Its name comes from the original location of the university, Old Saybrook, Connecticut. The college has the highest student-to-land-area ratio of any of the colleges.
Saybrook students are known on campus for "the Saybrook Strip," a ritual performed during football games when one minute is left in the third quarter. Both male and female college residents strip down to their underwear (some brave seniors remove all their clothing during The Game) to accompaniment by the Yale Precision Marching Band, which formerly played The Stripper or Sweet Child o' Mine but now chooses different tunes from game to game.
The college was renovated during the 2000-2001 year.
Mary Miller, Vincent J. Scully Professor of the History of Art, has served as Master of Saybrook since 1999. She has also served as Chair, Director of Graduate Studies, and Director of Undergraduate Studies for History of Art. Master Miller is a specialist in the art of ancient Mexico and Central America, especially the Maya, and she teaches classes in Maya, Aztec, and Mesoamerican Art.
Paul McKinley has served twice as Saybrook's dean, first from 1997-2003 and then again since 2005. A graduate of the Yale School of Drama's Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism program, Dean McKinley teaches in Yale's Theater Studies program.
- Oliver Stone (did not graduate) - director
- Maya Lin '84 - artist
- Janice Kaplan '76 - best-selling novelist
- Kellie Martin '01 - actress
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