Fund Established to honor Dr. Edward Bouchet

A new endowed fund has been created to honor Dr. Edward A. Bouchet, and mark a collaboration between Hopkins School and the Community Foundation for Greater New Haven.

At a signing ceremony at Hopkins on Thursday, June 20, Head of School Matt Glendinning and Will Ginsberg, President and CFO of the Community Foundation, signed the official documents to establish the Dr. Edward A. Bouchet Fund for the Community Foundation for Greater New Haven. This endowed fund is designed to provide learning and educational growth opportunities for students in New Haven, especially Black and Hispanic children, through the activities of impactful organizations in the area. Angela Wardlaw, Hopkins' Director of Community Engagement, and Erica Bradley, Manager of Community Philanthropy for the Community Foundation, spoke at the signing and were integral in making this collaboration possible.

Dr. Edward A. Bouchet was an American physicist and educator from New Haven. He was a graduate and valedictorian of the Hopkins School Class of 1870. Bouchet went on to Yale University, and was the first African American to earn a Ph.D. from any American university, completing his dissertation in physics at Yale in 1876.