Alfred Whitney Griswold, 1906-1963, President of Yale 1951-1963.

“Ours was probably the last class in history to leave New Haven on a magic carpet. Everyone since 1929 has taken the day coach.”

— Whitney Griswold, Hotchkiss 1925, Yale 1929 and Wolf’s Head, quoted in David Alan Richards’ “Skulls and Keys: The Hidden History of Yale’s Secret Societies,” 2017.