Meet the Author of 'May Day at Yale, 1970' Henry Sam Chauncey

Sunday, September 20, 2015, 4:00pm

May Day at Yale, 1970: Recollections: The Trial of Bobby Seale and the Black Panthers by Henry “Sam” Chauncey

• 30 - 40 minute author talk
• Q & A
• Book sales, signing, and refreshments

Free and open to the public.

Henry “Sam” Chauncey, Jr. graduated from Yale in 1957. He then worked for Yale, successively, as an Assistant Dean of Yale College, Special Assistant to the president of Yale (Kingman Brewster) and Vice President and Secretary of the University. He played a major role in bringing about the admission of women to Yale’s undergraduate College and in maintaining peace on the campus during the turbulent 1960s and 1970s.

In 1982 he founded a non-profit entity, Science Park Development Corporation, to renovate an 80 acre abandoned industrial site west of the Yale campus. It both supported high technology start-up companies and attempted to create jobs for a high unemployment neighborhood.

In 1988 he became President and CEO of Gaylord Hospital, in Wallingford, Connecticut. It was then an acute rehabilitation hospital then treated those which major traumatic accidents and events such as brain injury and spinal cord injury.

In 1995 he returned to Yale as Lecturer and Head of the Health Management Program in the Yale School of Public Health. He retired in 2001.

May Day at Yale, 1970: Recollections: The Trial of Bobby Seale and the Black Panthers was published on April 21, 2015.

Chauncey lives in New Haven, Connecticut.

Location : Auditorium plus Reading Room
Contact : (203) 259-0346 ext. 15

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