Davenport College
Davenport College | |
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Dean | Adam Ployd[2] |
Undergraduates | 477 (2013-2014) |
Mascot | Gnome |
Website | davenport |
Davenport College (colloquially referred to as D'port) is one of the fourteen
Namesake
John Davenport was born in 1597 to draper and Mayor of Coventry Henry Davenport and Winifred Barnaby. He attended
In 1638 he sailed to North America with his congregation and a
In 1668, Davenport left New Haven to serve as the pastor of the First Church in Boston. His invitation to that position was not without opposition due to his strict Puritan values, especially regarding infant baptism. Davenport died of apoplexy less than two years later.
Buildings and architecture
The College
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Davenport College was, like many of Yale's residential colleges, designed by James Gamble Rogers. It has two distinct styles of architecture: The York Street facade is constructed from gothically-detailed sandstone while the remainder of the college has been built in the red-brick Georgian style of the colonial era.[6] This "hybridization" is meant to complement the monumental gothic streetscape of York Street, on which the western façades of the Branford and Saybrook College complex along with Jonathan Edwards College stand opposite the gothic-inspired Yale Daily News building and University Theater. On the inner, Georgian face, the college entrance has an adaptation of the eastern façade of the original Massachusetts Statehouse, in which the British imperial lion and unicorn have been replaced by a pair of yales. The inner face was featured in the 2008 movie The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2.
The enclosed space of Davenport College features three courtyards: Kumble Court (usually referred to as the "upper courtyard"), the lower courtyard and a recently created stone courtyard in front of the dean's suite, the result of the annexation of the former
Separating the two main courtyards is the Crosspiece, housing both the Dean's and Head's Offices and a classroom space as well as carrels and reading rooms extending from the college's Spitzer Library. The Crosspiece formerly held a second library in the top floor which has since been converted to student housing, with the book holdings moved into the expanded Library. Indoor spaces of architectural note include the Davenport Common Room, the aforementioned Spitzer Library and the Dining Hall. The Dining Hall's walls are adorned with a two-panel portrait showcasing the diversity of the college's staff and students.
The student buttery, or "The Dive", is the snack shop. An entertainment center—and game room is nearby. The Davenport basement also includes a
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Freshman housing
Davenport College freshmen live on the
History
Under the Yale College policy that let incoming students express a residential college preference, Davenport developed a reputation for attracting athletic, upper-class elites until the policy ended with the class of 1958.[9]
In July 2022, Anjelica Gonzalez will succeed John Fabian Witt, making her the first Black woman to serve as Head of College in Yale's history.[10]
Mascot
For a while after Davenport College's inception into the Yale residential college system, students were known as "Hybrids," a reference to the hybrid style of the college's architecture. While the nickname appeared in a few official publications in the 1970s, it was no longer used by either Davenporters or their rivals. Davenport students were without a title or figure to rally behind.
In 1998, then junior Thomas Shaw, upon returning from a semester of mountaineering, brought back from the
The gnome was first placed in the college's courtyard, but after repeated theft by neighbor and unofficial Davenport rival Pierson, the gnome was relocated inside. It was in the entrance of the administrative offices in Crosspiece for the first semester of the 2005–2006 school year, but was moved to the Davenport Dining Hall. In April 2011, Davenport students stopped a group of Piersonites from the most recent attempt at stealing the gnome. The gnome was successfully rescued and taken to its home in the Davenport Dining Hall.[11]
Intramurals
Davenport College has competed for the Tyng Cup, winning the championship 4 times.[citation needed] The college's ice hockey team has won 16 championships, most recently in 1997.[citation needed] Davenport is the current coed football champion and has won championships in table tennis, golf, bowling, men's volleyball, swimming, softball, and track and field in the past 5 years.[citation needed]
Notable alumni
- Sherrod Brown, 1974, United States Senator (D-Ohio)
- Barbara Bush, daughter of President George W. Bush
- George H. W. Bush, 1948, 41st President of the United States
- George W. Bush, 1968, 43rd President of the United States[12]
- Ben Carson, 1973, neurosurgeon, 2016 Republican presidential candidate, former Secretary of U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development[13]
- Michael Gerber, humorist and author
- Jonathan Haidt, social psychologist and author
- Rashid Khalidi, Palestinian-American academic and diplomat
- Michael J. Knowles, 2012, conservative political commentator, author, and media host
- Sarah Lyall, London correspondent for The New York Times
- Robert K. Massie, historian, winner of 1981 Pulitzer Prize in biography[14]
- Tony Award-winning actor
- David McCullough, American historian and best-selling author[15]
- Edwin Meese, 75th Attorney General of the United States
- Karen Narasaki, a civil rights leader and a Commissioner on the United States Commission on Civil Rights
- United States Ambassador to the United Nations
- United States Ambassador to China
- Kurt Schmoke, Dean of Howard University Law School, former mayor of Baltimore, and former Senior Fellow of Yale University[17]
- The Blackstone Group[18]
- Ari Shapiro, 2000,[19] an American radio journalist
- Garry Trudeau, artist/writer of Doonesbury comic strip
- Sam Tsui, YouTube musician and Internet celebrity
- Thornton Wilder, American playwright and novelist
References
- ^ "Head of College Office". Davenport College. Retrieved July 6, 2017.
- ^ "Dean's Office". Davenport College. Archived from the original on October 31, 2011. Retrieved November 15, 2011.
- ^ Pierson, George (1955). Yale: the University College, 1921-1937, Volume 2. Yale University Press. p. 636.
- ^ Seymour, Charles (1933). The Yale Residential Colleges. Yale University.
- ^ Davenport College Home Page Archived August 2, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Brock, H.I. (November 19, 1933). "OLD BECOMES NEW AT YALE AND HARVARD". The New York Times.
- ^ Wu, Brianna (April 23, 2018). "Davenport unveils dining hall portrait". yaledailynews.com. Retrieved January 27, 2021.
- ^ "Davenport". hospitality.yale.edu. Retrieved June 28, 2021.
- OCLC 810552.
- ^ Cook, Sarah; Porayouw, William (April 22, 2022). "Anjelica Gonzalez and Paul North named Davenport and JE heads of college". Yale Daily News. Retrieved April 25, 2022.
- ^ Daniel, Daniel. "Davenport's gnome rescued from Piersonites". Yale Daily News. Archived from the original on May 8, 2011. Retrieved April 26, 2011.
- ^ Kristof, Nicholas D. (June 19, 2000). "Ally of an Older Generation Amid the Tumult of the 60's". The New York Times. Retrieved November 10, 2015.
- ^ Epstein, Reid J. (November 6, 2015). "Ben Carson's Past Faces Deeper Questions". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved November 10, 2015.
- ^ "The Pulitzer Prizes".
- ^ Heller, Karen (June 1, 1999). "A Historian's Voice Made Familiar By TV: PBS's David McCullough Is A Writer First". Philadelphia Inquirer. Retrieved November 10, 2015.
- ^ Needham, Paul (January 21, 2009). "Negroponte '60 to join Grand Strategy program". Yale Daily News. Retrieved November 10, 2010.
- ^ Bruce Fellman (November 2000). "Powerful Persuader". Yale Alumni Magazine. Retrieved January 23, 2013.
- ^ Stewart, James B. (February 11, 2008). "The Birthday Party". The New Yorker. Archived from the original on January 11, 2015. Retrieved November 10, 2015.
- ^ "Stories you won't hear on the radio". Yale Office of Public Affairs & Communications. May 25, 2016.