Vassar College

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Vassar College
logo
motto Purity and Wisdom
founding 1861
Sponsorship Private
place Poughkeepsie , New York , United States
United StatesUnited States 
president Elizabeth Bradley
Students 2,450
Foundation assets 804.9 million US dollars (2012)
University sports Brewers ( Liberty League )
Website www.vassar.edu
main building
Vassar College, engraving from 1864

The Vassar College is an American elite university in Poughkeepsie in the state of New York . It was founded by Matthew Vassar in 1861 as a college for women, but in 1969 it was a pioneer in the joint training of men and women as part of the co-education efforts at private universities. Vassar College is one of the “Seven Sisters” colleges with six other traditional colleges for women .

The campus is a 4 km² area on which the majority of the approximately 2,400 students live. The library there is known for its collection of Albert Einstein and Elizabeth Bishop's sources .

Personalities

Professors

Numerous well-known people have been employed as teachers at Vassar College over the years:

Graduates

Diplomats, politicians, activists and spies

Authors

  • Shana Alexander , journalist. She was a writer and columnist for Life magazine and the first woman in that position. Beyond that, however, she was better known for her debates on Point-Counterpoint in the news magazine 60 Minutes.
  • Elizabeth Bishop , modern poet and writer
  • Elizabeth Williams Champney , author
  • Esther Mona Friesner-Stutzman , writer
  • Sue Kaufman , author best known for "Diary of a Mad Housewife"
  • Joseph Hillstrom King , writer. His works appear under the pseudonym Joe Hill.
  • Owen King , writer
  • Jane Kramer , journalist and writer
  • Lois Bancroft Long , columnist who was best known at the time of Prohibition for her work for the American magazine "The New Yorker" under her pseudonym Lipstick (lipstick).
  • Mary McCarthy , novelist, critic and suffragette.
  • Edna St. Vincent Millay , poet and playwright and the third woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Lyric Poetry. She was known for her unconventional and bohemian lifestyle. For her early prose works she used the pseudonym Nancy Boyd.
  • Regina Nadelson , journalist and novelist, best known for her crime series about New York cop Artie Cohen.
  • Mary Oliver , writer and Pulitzer Prize winner
  • Kimberly Quinn , journalist. From 1996 to 2004 she was editor of the English magazine The Spectator . Her affair with British Homeland Security Secretary David Blunkett led to the minister's resignation.
  • Edith Rickert , writer and historian
  • Alexandra Ripley , writer and others for Scarlett , a sequel to Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell.
  • Marie Freid Rodell , literary agent whose clients included the non-fiction author Rachel Carson and, for a short time, Martin Luther King.
  • Greg Rucka , author
  • Jane Smiley , Pulitzer Prize winner, novelist
  • Paula Volsky , writer who mainly wrote quasi-historical fantasy novels. Her novel The Grand Ellipse was nominated in 2000 for the World Fantasy Award and Michael Whelan for the cover of her book Illusion for the Hugo (original artwork).
  • Jean Webster , writer and journalist who mainly dealt with women's issues.
  • Christina Weir and Nunzio DeFilippis , comic book writers

Theater, film and television

science

  • Ruth Benedict , anthropologist and founder of a comparative cultural anthropology
  • Csilla Freifrau von Boeselager , chemist and humanitarian aid person
  • Edna Carter , physicist
  • Patricia Goldman-Rakic , neuroscientist who made fundamental discoveries about the neural basis of higher cognitive functions in the prefrontal cortex and neocortex.
  • Grace Hopper , computer scientist and computer pioneer
  • Mary Cover Jones , Developmental Psychologist
  • Christine Ladd-Franklin , mathematician (logic) and psychologist. She is considered to be the first woman in the USA who achieved all the formal requirements for a doctorate in mathematics (1883), although her doctorate was not formally recognized until 1926, 43 years later.
  • Antonia Maury , astronomer who published an important early star classification catalog.
  • Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards , chemist and ecologist. She was one of the founders of "environmental hygiene", the preliminary stage of modern scientific ecology.
  • Vera Rubin , astronomer who mainly dealt with the recording of the distribution of dark matter.

art

Former students with no degree from Vassar College

Mention in culture

  • Nick's Film - Lightning Over Water (1980, documentary by Wim Wenders about the cancer death of director Nicholas Ray , who gives a lecture in the film at Vassar College ).
  • The Group . Best seller by Vassar graduate Mary McCarthy (German: Die Clique) revolves around a group of Vassar graduates
  • Georgia's law . Film drama with Lindsay Lohan, Felicity Huffman and Jane Fonda. Leading actress Lindsay Lohan's plan to attend this college.
  • Miss Undercover . Film comedy with Sandra Bullock in which she is introduced to the student Beth from Vassar College.
  • The Dark Tower (Original title: The Dark Tower ) In the last volume of the fantasy saga of the writer Stephen King .
  • Under the spell of the Jade Scorpio . Woody Allen gangster comedy. Betsy Anne Fitzgerald, played by Helen Hunt, was a graduate.
  • The Simpsons mention Vassar College several times, e.g. B. in episode 124 or 210.
  • Gilmore Girls in episode 2.21. If Lorelai Gilmore hadn't gotten pregnant in high school, her upper-class parents would have expected her to attend Vassar College.
  • Friends in episode 2.20.
  • Crazy (original title: Girl, Interrupted) The character Georgina Tuskin is a graduate of Susanna Kaysen's literature on memory.
  • James Bond 007 - Moonraker - Top Secret . The character Holly Goodhead plays a graduate.
  • An unmarried woman . In the feature film, the lead actress Erica Benton went to Vassar.
  • Dharma & Greg . Greg's mother, Kitty Montgomery, was in Vassar College. Greg's secretary (ep.3.13) was there too.
  • In the book Three Vassar Girls Abroad: Rambles of Three College Girls on a Vacation Trip Through France and Spain for Amusement… by Elizabeth Williams Champney.
  • Silicon Valley . Jared Dunn is a graduate of Vassar College, where he studied economics.
  • In the novel light and anger by Lauren Groff , the two main characters as graduates of Vassar know.

literature

Web links

Commons : Vassar College  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Office of the President> Biography. Vassar College, accessed December 5, 2020 .


Coordinates: 41 ° 41 ′ 12.7 "  N , 73 ° 53 ′ 42.7"  W.