Comments on: Mary Goodman /profiles/mary-goodman/ Wed, 08 Apr 2015 04:59:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.1 By: Gretchen Schmidt Bishay /profiles/mary-goodman/#comment-17 Wed, 08 Apr 2015 00:13:20 +0000 /?p=107#comment-17 There is more about Mary Goodman at http://afam.yalecollege.yale.edu/womens-history-yale-university-mary-goodman-former-slave-and-new-haven and that points to another article I enjoyed, about a current scholarship recipient, at http://www.yale.edu/opa/arc-ybc/v31.n4/story9.html. I had not read about her until today.

Gretchen Schmidt Bishay
Yale College 1990

]]> By: Silvia Gosnell /profiles/mary-goodman/#comment-15 Tue, 07 Apr 2015 02:22:17 +0000 /?p=107#comment-15 As a former slave and a woman, Mary Goodman would provide an important counterbalance to the current residential-college name mix. Her example of sheer generosity and vision, in the context of humility, would serve as an example to all of us who’ve been fortunate enough to receive a Yale education. I’ll confess that I’m a bit blown away by the depth of her focus on others… by the fact that she literally forgot herself in the process of serving her community and the world. What a powerful and important statement it would make for Yale to name one of its colleges after Mary Goodman.

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