Celebrating Our Chaplaincy Legacy at Yale
On May 31, 1922, T. Lawrason Riggs had an appointment at Woodbridge Hall. As he records in his diary, he had a “historic interview” with then Yale University President James Rowland Angell. At the end of the interview, he became the newly appointed Catholic Chaplain of Yale University and would start his ministry to Yale students the fall of 1922.
This fall, STM celebrates one-hundred years of Catholic chaplaincy at Yale University.
About our Logo
If you walk into STM’s Chapel and look up at our crucifix created by Giuseppe Maraniello, a dove flies from Christ’s left hand. You’ll see the dove as part of our Anniversary logo. The dove, who represents the Holy Spirit, moves through the number, 100, as the spirit has moved through our ministry at Yale these past one-hundred years. The beak of the dove looks forward and up, implying that the Spirit will accompany us and our work at Yale well into the future.
View STM History by Decade
STM celebrates one-hundred years of Catholic chaplaincy at Yale University with a series of archival exhibits in Riggs Study throughout the year, focusing on STM's one-hundred years of Catholic ministry throughout the decades. Exhibits will be paired with a blog each month:
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Schedule of Events
Sunday, August 28th
Opening Weekend
Join us after 10am Mass for a panel discussion with five of Yale’s Catholic faculty members as they share their research and their own faith journey. The panel discussion is followed by a box lunch. The distinguished panel of Catholic faculty includes:
Guido Calabresi ’53 ’58 LL.B.
Judge Calabresi was Dean and Sterling Professor at Yale Law School, where he began teaching in 1959, and is now Sterling Professor Emeritus and Professorial Lecturer in Law. He has been awarded some fifty honorary degrees from universities in the United States and abroad and is the author of seven books and more than one hundred articles on law and related subjects. Judge Calabresi was appointed United States Circuit Judge in July 1994.
Teresa Berger Ph.D. ’07 M.A.H.
Teresa Berger is Professor of Liturgical Studies and Thomas E. Golden Jr. Professor of Catholic Theology. She teaches in the fields of liturgical studies and Catholic theology; she holds doctorates in both. Her scholarly interests for many years lay at the intersection of these disciplines with gender theory. More recently, Professor Berger has turned her attention to questions of liturgy and creation, and to liturgical practices in digital worlds. An active Roman Catholic, Professor Berger regularly writes for the liturgy blog “Pray Tell.” Originally from Germany, she has been a visiting professor at the Universities of Mainz, Münster, Berlin, and Uppsala. In 2003, she received the distinguished Herbert Haag Prize for Freedom in the Church.
Jason Schwartz Ph.D.
Jason L. Schwartz is an Associate Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Yale School of Public Health. His research examines vaccines and vaccination policy, decision-making in medical regulation and public health policy, and the structure and function of scientific expert advice to government. The overall focus of his work is on the ways in which evidence is interpreted, evaluated, and translated into regulation and policy in medicine and public health. He holds a secondary appointment in the Section of the History of Medicine at the Yale School of Medicine and is also affiliated with Yale's Institution for Social and Policy Studies and Program in the History of Science and Medicine.
Mary Tinetti M.D. ’78 ‘96 M.A.H.
Mary Tinetti, MD, is the Gladys Phillips Crofoot Professor of Medicine and Public Health and Director of the Program on Aging and the Claude D. Pepper Center at Yale School of Medicine, where she has been on the faculty since 1984. Her current focus is on clinical decision-making for older adults with multiple health conditions, particularly trade-offs among chronic diseases and the need for universal, cross-disease health outcomes. She is a member of the Institute of Medicine and was recently named a MacArthur Foundation Fellow.
Maureen Long Ph.D. ’17 M.A.H.
Maureen Long is an assistant professor at Yale University. Her primary scientific interests lie in the areas of observational seismology and mantle dynamics, with a focus on subduction zone dynamics and processes. Her research program focuses on the delineation, characterization, and interpretation of seismic anisotropy in the Earth's mantle, with the goal of resolving major unsolved problems related to the dynamics of subducting slabs from the surface to the core-mantle boundary.
Sunday, October 9th
Family Weekend Concert
7:30pm in the Chapel
Faith Hope & Charity
Give me, good Lord, a full faith, a firm hope and a fervent charity.
Join us for a special concert commemorating the 100 Years Anniversary of Catholic Chaplaincy at Yale. Karolina Wojteczko, STM’s Music Director has created an immersive musical experience that will capture the essence of this centennial milestone. The concert will include music, song and spoken word with the addition of multimedia imagery and animation backdrops created and rendered by projection artist and Yale (and STM) alum, Camilla Tassi '22 M.F.A.
A reception will follow the concert in the courtyard.
Thursday, February 23rd
Rise Against Hunger Food Packaging Service Project
7pm in the Dining Hall
STM partners with Rise Against Hunger in addressing hunger in the world. Join us in packaging 10,000 meals that will be distributed to countries across the globe.
Sunday, April 30th
100 Years Celebration Dinner
Honored Guests to include:
Tim Shriver, Jr. ’11, Ph.D.
Timothy Shriver the Chairman of Special Olympics International and co-founder of UNITE - an initiative to promote national unity and solidarity across differences. Dr. Shriver is a leading educator who co-founded and currently chairs the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL), the leading school reform organization in the field of social and emotional learning. He has produced four films, authored The New York Times bestselling book Fully Alive – Discovering What Matters Most, and has written for dozens of newspapers and magazines.
Sharon Kugler
Sharon M.K. Kugler became the seventh University Chaplain to Yale in July of 2007. She came to New Haven from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore where she had served as the University Chaplain since 1993. Sharon has over two decades of experience in ministry in higher education, interfaith collaboration, pastoral and social ministry. Sharon holds the appointment of Lecturer of Inter-Religious Engagement and Chaplaincy at the Yale Divinity School and is a contributing author to the recently published College & University Chaplaincy in the 21st Century: A Multifaith Look at the Practice of Ministry on Campuses across America. She is the first woman, first lay-person and first Roman Catholic to hold this position at Yale.
Richard Gard ’02 Mus.M.
Richard Gard served as Director of Music at Yale’s Saint Thomas More Chapel for twenty-one years and, through Saint Thomas More’s Center for Music and Liturgy, which he founded, he published the Cloud Hymnal, an online resource that includes thousands of sacred works. While at STM, Gard produced a benefit concert launching the Saint Thomas More Center for Music and Liturgy featuring over 650 performers from ten states and five countries, uniting several of the world’s most esteemed choirs. The concert was held at Carnegie Hall in NYC.
Check back for more events during the year.