Yale Bulletin and Calendar

November 2, 2007|Volume 36, Number 9

Memorial service for Lustman-Findling
to be held on Nov. 10

A memorial service will be held on Saturday, Nov. 10, for Katharine (“Kitty”) Lustman-Findling, the first woman master of a residential college at Yale and a founder of the University-affiliated Calvin Hill Day Care Center, who died on May 22 at Connecticut Hospice in Branford, Connecticut. She was 87.

The service will be at 2 p.m. in the common room of Davenport College, 248 York St. A reception will follow.

Lustman-Findling was an early childhood educator who taught at the Yale Child Study Center and later directed its nursery school. Born in Chicago, Illinois, on Dec. 23, 1919, she came to New Haven in 1955 after earning her B.A. at Northwestern University and an M.S. in elementary education from Chicago Teachers’ College. In 1970, Lustman-Findling, a group of Yale undergraduates and others founded the Calvin Hill Day Care Center. The center’s kindergarten was named in her honor in 1983.

In 1971, following the death of her husband, Dr. Seymour Lustman, she was asked to assume the mastership of Davenport College (her husband had been appointed master shortly before his death). Lustman-Findling served in that role for two years, during which time she helped guide and mentor the first class of women undergraduates at the University.

Lustman-Findling served on the boards of many local organizations in the New Haven area.

She is survived by her second husband, Ned Findling of Hamden; her daughter, Susan Katz of Branford; her son, Dr. Jeffrey S. Lustman of Stratford; and her grandchildren, Naomi Tepper, Bethany French and Emily and Andrew Lustman.

Memorial contributions may be sent to the Calvin Hill Day Care Center, Kitty Lustman-Findling Kindergarten, 150 Highland St., New Haven, CT 06511 or to the Seymour L. Lustman Memorial Fund, c/o Yale University Child Study Center, P.O. Box 207900, New Haven, CT 06520.

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