Spirit of Vassar Award

2023

Pamela Harris ’92

• Read more about Harris in the June 2023 Vassar Stories article.

2022

Brenda Feigen ’66

• Watch Feigen’s conversation with Vassar President Elizabeth Bradley.
• Read more about Feigen in the October 2022 Vassar Stories article.

2021

Judge Vicki Miles-LaGrange ’74

• Watch Miles-LaGrange’s award celebration.
• Read more about Miles-LaGrange in the October 2021 Vassar Stories article.

2020

Susan “Susie” Neuberger Wilson ’51

• Watch the video program featuring Wilson.
• Read more about Wilson in the Summer/Fall 2020 VQ article.

2019

Russell Baker ’91

• Read more about Baker in the November 2019 Vassar Stories article.

2018

Sherrilyn Ifill ’84

• Watch Ifill’s acceptance remarks.
• Watch Ifill’s conversation with Professor Rebecca Edwards.
• Read more about Ifill in the March 2019 Vassar Stories article.

2017

Jeffrey Brenner ’90

• Watch Brenner’s acceptance remarks.
• Read more about Brenner in the March 2018 Vassar Stories article.

2015

Linda Malone ’75

• Watch Malone’s acceptance remarks.
• Read more about Malone in the Summer 2015 Vassar, the Alumnae/i Quarterly article.
• Read more about Malone in the May 2015 feature article.

2014

Leah Johnson Wilcox ’69

• Read more about Wilcox in the Fall 2014 Vassar, the Alumnae/i Quarterly article.
• Read more about Wilcox in the July 2014 feature article.

2012

Michael Kimmel ’72

• Watch Kimmel’s acceptance remarks.

2011

Former Living AAVC Presidents

Awarded to Frances “Franny” Prindle Taft ’42, Kathleen “Kay” Holman Langan ’46, Joan Andrews Watters ’50, Frances “Frannie” Aaron Hess ’53, Billie Davis Gaines ’58, Susan McCallum Bledsoe ’64, Joan Strashinsky Kjelleren ’71, Paula Williams Madison ’74, and Margaret “Meg” Daly Johnson ’84.

• Read more about the AAVC Presidents in the Fall 2011 Vassar, the Alumnae/i Quarterly article.

2010

Elizabeth Cushman Titus Putnam ’55

• Watch Putnam’s acceptance remarks.
• Read more about Putnam in the Summer 2005 Vassar, the Alumnae/i Quarterly article.

2009

Alison Church Hyde ’59

• Read more about Hyde in the Summer 2009 Vassar, the Alumnae/i Quarterly article.

2008

Cornelia Dettmer ’53

• Read more about Dettmer in the Summer 2008 Vassar, the Alumnae/i Quarterly article.

2007

Grisela Alejandro Jackson ’78 and Reverend Robert Jackson ’77

• Read more about the Jacksons in the Fall 2007 Vassar, the Alumnae/i Quarterly article.

2006

Elizabeth Adams Daniels ’41

• Read more about Daniels in the Summer 2006 Vassar, the Alumnae/i Quarterly article.
• Read more about Daniels in the Fall 2003 Vassar, the Alumnae/i Quarterly article.

2005

Belle Krasne Ribicoff ’45

• Read more about Ribicoff in the Summer 2005 Vassar, the Alumnae/i Quarterly article.

2004

Sylvia Cranmer McLaughlin ’39

• Read more about McLaughlin in the Summer 2004 Vassar, the Alumnae/i Quarterly article.

2003

Mary-Alice Hunter ’38

• Read more about Hunter in the Summer 2003 Vassar, the Alumnae/i Quarterly article.

2001

Steering Committee of the Philadelphia Show House

• Read more about the Philadelphia Show House in the Fall 2001 Vassar, the Alumnae/i Quarterly article.