• Vassar College (/ˈvæsər/ VASS-ər) is a private liberal arts college in Poughkeepsie, New York, United States. Founded in 1861 by Matthew Vassar, it was...
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  • College, Smith College, and Wellesley College are still women's colleges. Vassar College became coeducational in 1969 and Radcliffe College was absorbed...
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    Matthew Vassar (April 29, 1792 – June 23, 1868) was an English-American brewer, merchant, and philanthropist. He founded Vassar College, a women’s college, in...
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  • This is a partial list of notable alumni and faculty of Vassar College. Selected Vassar alumni (chronologically) Jane Kelley Adams, class of 1875 — educator...
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    financial support to create a program of euthenics at Vassar College. Curriculum planning, suggested by Vassar president Henry Noble MacCracken in 1922, began...
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  • Vassar may refer to: Vassar Brothers Medical Center Vassar College 1312 Vassar, an asteroid John Ellison Vassar (1813–1878), American lay preacher and...
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  • results". The Second World Youth Congress was held in August 1938 at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York. In an attempt to include youth of all political...
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    women's colleges, especially Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York. In a letter written by Emelyn Battersby Hartridge, a student at Vassar, she recounts...
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    The Vassar College Observatory is an astronomical observatory of the private Vassar College, located near the eastern edge of the Poughkeepsie, New York...
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    2018. Leslie Chihuly serves on the boards of the Seattle Symphony, Vassar College and the Pilchuck Glass School. In 2022, President Joe Biden announced...
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    Jason Blum (category Vassar College alumni)
    Sundance Institute, Vassar College, and the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures. In 2022, Blum donated $10 million to Vassar College, the largest gift ever...
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    Kerri Green (category Vassar College alumni)
    Lake, New Jersey, and graduated from Pascack Hills High School and Vassar College. She worked at a Roy Rogers restaurant and made commercials for Jordache...
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  • the first member of the Seven Sisters (not counting the coeducational Vassar College) to introduce an admissions policy that was inclusive of transgender...
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  • Ray Story. The first president of the college was Marion Coats from 1924 to 1929. She was a friend of Vassar College president Henry MacCracken and William...
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    Jane Fonda (category Vassar College alumni)
    Greenwich, Connecticut; the Emma Willard School in Troy, New York; and Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York. Before her acting career, she was a model...
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    Anne Hathaway (category Vassar College alumni)
    semesters studying as an English major and political science minor at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York, before transferring to New York University's...
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    for other women's colleges in the U.S., and both Vassar College and Wellesley College were patterned after Mount Holyoke. Vassar College was the first of...
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  • Invaders and System Shock, which he will also direct. Russo attended Vassar College after graduating high school in Cherry Hill. Russo couldn’t find work...
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    The Main Building of Vassar College is the oldest surviving building on its campus in Poughkeepsie, New York, and the center of academic life. It was built...
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    Meryl Streep (category Vassar College alumni)
    until acting in the play Miss Julie at Vassar College in 1969, in which she gained attention across the campus. Vassar drama professor Clinton J. Atkinson...
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    breweries along the Hudson River, including some owned by Matthew Vassar, founder of Vassar College. Families built palatial weekend homes nearby, such as the...
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    Anthony Bourdain (category Vassar College alumni)
    independent coeducational college-preparatory day school in Englewood, New Jersey—in 1973, then enrolled at Vassar College but dropped out after two years...
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  • Jean Tatlock (category Vassar College alumni)
    philologist and an expert on Geoffrey Chaucer, Tatlock was a graduate of Vassar College and the Stanford Medical School, where she studied to become a psychiatrist...
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    Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (category Vassar College alumni)
    States made her very popular globally. After studying history and art at Vassar College and graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in French literature from George...
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  • India Donaldson (category Vassar College alumni)
    divorced when she was a child. She attended Santa Monica High School and Vassar College, where she majored in English. Prior to becoming a filmmaker, Donaldson...
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  • Martha Firestone Ford (category Vassar College alumni)
    Our Lady of the Elms High School in Akron in 1943. She graduated from Vassar College in 1946. On March 9, 2014, Martha's husband William Clay Ford Sr. died...
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  • filming on November 20, 2020, in Los Angeles. Filming also took place at Vassar College in mid-2021. On June 19, 2021, recurring cast member Sherri Shepherd...
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  • Grace Gummer (category Vassar College alumni)
    school. Gummer attended Vassar College, her mother's alma mater, and received a degree in art history and Italian in 2008. At Vassar, she was involved in...
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  • Louisa Jacobson (category Vassar College alumni)
    Gummer. She attended Poly Prep Country Day School and graduated from Vassar College in 2013 majoring in psychology. She also attended British American Drama...
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    Mike D (category Vassar College alumni)
    Michael Louis Diamond (born November 20, 1965), better known as Mike D, is an American rapper, musician, and music producer. He is a founding member of...
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