Happy Graduation

This past weekend I was proud to watch my son, Daniel graduate from Yale University.  We enjoyed the endless activities and the celebration of an important family milestone. Perhaps knowing that it might be my last trip to the campus, I absolutely appreciated its beauty and incredible architecture.  There are so many buildings of historic significance, and I purposely took the time to appreciate the fine details and design. Here are some favorites:

Sterling Memorial Library

Linsley – Chittenden Hall

Battell Chappel

The graduation exercises took place on the lawn of Old Campus, and from this vantage point, I enjoyed looking at the beauty of Harkness Tower, constructed in the Collegiate Gothic style as many of the buildings on campus are.  Baccalaureate services were in the beautiful Woolsey Hall, an ornately decorated hall that serves as Yale’s primary auditorium and performance space.   My son was in the residential college, Ezra Stiles.  Constructed in the early 1960’s, it is a modernist group of concrete buildings designed by alumnus Eero Saarinen.