Silliman College

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Silliman College is a residential college at Yale University. It opened September 1940 as the last of the original ten residential colleges, and includes buildings that were constructed as early as 1901. It is the largest college in terms of area and students, constiting of a full city block in New Haven, Conn, bordered by College, Wall, Grove and Temple streets.

The older, stone part of the college consists of the Vanderbilt-Sheffield dormitories and Byers Hall, both originally part of the Sheffield Scientific School. A newer, brick part includes many student rooms and the Master's House.

Silliman College's shield has a white background, three curving red lines emerging from near the bottom of the shield, and a green crossing bar containing three acorns. The colors represent the four ancient elements: red for fire, white for air and water, and green for earth. The acorns are in honor of Frederick Vanderbilt 1876, who funded the college's construciton. The college's mascot is the salamander.

Students in the college may refer to themselves as Sillimanders. The college's library, located in Byers Hall, is called the Sillibrary.

Special facilites within Silliman include a climbing wall, a squash court, a half-court basketball facility called the Sillidome, a printing press, a dance studio, multiple music practice rooms, and a state-of-the-art sound recording studio.

As part of an ongoing series of renovations at Yale, work is started on the roof of Silliman in the summer of 2004. The interior of the tower of the college will undergo a complete interior renovation in the summer of 2005, and the rest of the college will be renovated between May 2006 and August 2007. When the buildings reopen, they will have been completely renovated, complete with a reconfigured dining hall and servery, a stadium-seating movie theater, and a large student activities space that includes a new art gallery, dance studio, gym, basketball court, buttery, game room, and TV entertainment space.

Each fall, Silliman hosts a Yale-wide 80's theme party called the Safety Dance. For its own students, Silliman has an annual freshman olympics where students from its various entryways compete in teams for the "Clean Sweep" broom and Richfest, an outdoor day of fun complete with a dunk tank, cotton candy, and a moon bounce, thrown as classes end in the spring. The Silliringers, a group of students using hand bells donated by a former master, perform each year at the college's Christmas Party. The college has its own newspaper, College and Wall, named for two of the streets that border it.

The College has links to Trinity College, Cambridge and Brasenose College, Oxford. Its rival college at Yale is Timothy Dwight College, located directly across Temple Street.

Famous Alumni

• James Jeffords, 1956, U.S. senator from Vermont
• David Hyde Pierce, 1981, actor

External link

• Silliman College, Yale

Categories: Colleges of Yale University