Jessica Hill for The New York Times
NEW HAVEN, Conn. — When Yale recruited Carol Roberts in 1977 to play field hockey and softball, the locker room for those sports was still about a half-mile from the women’s playing fields. As Ms. Roberts recalled, both teams shared one portable toilet.
“Like from a construction site,” she said with a laugh. When a trailer was brought in that contained a sink and multiple stalls, she said, “we thought we had arrived.”
Decades later, as chief financial officer of International Paper, Ms. Roberts, 59, a mechanical engineer by training, donated $4 million of a $6 million project to build a field house for Yale’s female athletes between the field hockey and softball fields.