This is Vassar: The newsletter for Vassar College Alumnae/i and Families

Students to Benefit From Vassar and Dutchess Community College Partnership

Vassar College and Dutchess Community College students will be able to benefit from a new agreement between the two colleges. The joint venture enables full-time students from either college to take up to two courses per year, tuition free, at the other institution. Read More …

Lots of Learning Goes on at “A Day At Vassar”

Vassar’s 2,450 students began a one-week Fall Break in mid-October, but the campus was still teeming with teaching and learning on October 13—as more than 450 visitors from Poughkeepsie and beyond took part in “A Day at Vassar.” Read More …

All Campus Dining Center Renamed Gordon Commons

Thanks to the generosity of Ellen Rubin Gordon ’52, her family, and the Cele H. and William B. Rubin Family Fund, Vassar’s All Campus Dining Center has a new name. In a ceremony Oct. 25 in the foyer of the Students’ Building, the dining center was officially designated Gordon Commons. Read More …

FLLAC Director James Mundy ’74 to Retire

James Mundy ’74, the Anne Hendricks Bass Director of the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, will retire after nearly 30 years at the museum. During his tenture, Mundy helped the art center’s collection grow from 11,000 to more than 21,000 works—including those of Pollock, Gorky, and Picasso. Read More …

November 2018


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