September 07, 2017
In New Haven, Yale Dedicates Renamed College for Pioneering Woman
Julia Adams, head of the newly named Grace Hopper College, looked out on a gathering of Yale students, faculty and Navy personnel Tuesday and said, “People ask: ‘Do names matter?’ They matter a great deal.”
Adams noted, “We honor those whose names are associated with this beautiful building.” Speaking at the dedication ceremony, Adams alluded to the years of struggle by Yale students at that residential college and others students to have it no longer named for John C. Calhoun, a Southern senator and U.S. vice-president who called slavery a “positive good.” Adams said the culmination of talk and argument resulted in “this excellent outcome.”
Adams noted, “We honor those whose names are associated with this beautiful building.” Speaking at the dedication ceremony, Adams alluded to the years of struggle by Yale students at that residential college and others students to have it no longer named for John C. Calhoun, a Southern senator and U.S. vice-president who called slavery a “positive good.” Adams said the culmination of talk and argument resulted in “this excellent outcome.”