Saybrook College

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Saybrook College
Established	1933
Sister House	Adams House
Master	Prof. Mary Miller
Dean	Paul McKinley
Graduates	2
Undergraduates	approx. 480

Saybrook College is one of the 12 residential colleges at Yale University. It was founded in 1933 by partitioning the Memorial Quadrangle (built in 1917-1921) into two parts: Saybrook and Branford.

Each student room is decorated with panes of stained glass from G. Owen Bonawit. Unlike many of Yale's residential colleges that are centered around one large courtyard, Saybrook has two courtyards -- one stone and one grass, hence the college cheer beginning "Two courtyards, stone and grass: two courtyards kick your ass."

Saybrook College was one of the original Yale Residential Colleges. Its name comes from the original location of the university, Old Saybrook, Connecticut. The college has the highest student-to-land-area ratio of any of the colleges. Some students believe that Saybrook (or the combination of Saybrook and Branford) most resembles Gryffindor House in the Harry Potter books.

Saybrook students are known on campus for "the Saybrook Strip," a ritual performed during football games when one minute is left in the third quarter. Both male and female college residents strip down to their underwear (some brave seniors remove all their clothing during The Game) to accompaniment by the Yale Precision Marching Band, which formerly played The Stripper or Sweet Child o' Mine but now chooses different tunes from game to game.

The college was renovated during the 2000-2001 year.