The section of Fairfield Avenue where the Yerwood Center is located will bear the commemorative name of “Dr. Joyce Yerwood Way” pending the approval of a resolution by the Board of Representatives.
A committee of city representatives voted unanimously late last week to recommend that the full board pass the resolution honorarily naming the portion of Fairfield Avenue between West Main Street and Richmond Hill Avenue after Yerwood. The board’s next regular monthly meeting is June 6.
Yerwood, who died in 1987, was the first Black woman medical doctor in Fairfield County. She practiced medicine in Stamford for years, “providing quality medical care for low-income women, children and families,” according to the Board of Representatives’ resolution.
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