Administration

Topics included: [Administrative Offices] [College Administrators] [College Committees] [Lady Principals] [Wardens][House Fellows][Finance/Endowment] [Labor Union]

• Vocational Bureau Established
• Business Administration Reorganized
• Winifred Earl Vakas Becomes Director of Halls

College Administrators

• Office of Superintendent Abolished
• Ella McCaleb, College Dean
• Vassar Appoints First Dean of Studies
• Sarah Gibson Blanding Announces Her Retirement
• Dr. Alan Simpson to Replace Dr. Sarah Gibosn Blanding
• Farewell Banquet Held For President Blanding
• Dr. Alan Simpson Became President of Vassar
• Nell Eurich, Dean of Faculty
• Charles Frankel, Planning Director, Institute for the Advancement of College and University Teaching at Vassar

College Committees

• Committee on Admission Formed
• Student Curriculum Committee Conducts Time Study
• Board of Residents Formed
• Coordinating Committee on Educational Policy Authorized
• Committee on New Dimensions Formed
• Committee on New Dimensions Examined Alternatives to the Yale-Vassar Study

Lady Principals

In Alphabetical Order

• Kendrick House Founded in Memory of Alida Avery
• Abby Goodsell 1869
• Hannah Lyman at Opening
• Hannah Lyman
• Scholarship in Memory of Hannah Lyman
• Secretary Recognized as Dean, Ella McCaleb 1878 Holds Position
• McCaleb House Named for Ella McCaleb
• Harriet W. Terry Selected
• House Named for Francis A. Wood
• Lady Principalship Abolished

Wardens

• First Board of Wardens Appointed
• Louise P. Sheppard 1896
• Palmer House Named for Jean C. Palmer 1893
• Board of Residents Replaces Wardens
• Cornelia M. Raymond 1883 Dies

House Fellows

• House Fellow Program Recommended

Finance/Endowment

• Money Provided by Vassar's Will
• Jacob P. Gerard's Will to Fund Museum
• First Endowment Fund Campaign
• Jacob P. Geraud Jr Professorship of Natural History Established
• Taylor Notes Need for Endowment Campaign
• Plays Given to Benefit Endowment Fund
• $350,000 Raised
• Pension Plan Approved
• Alumnae Raise $40,000 for Endowment
• Taylor's Accomplishments as President
• Endowment Fund Campaign Completed
• Salray Endowment Fund Inaugurated
• Trustees Recognize Alumnae Fund Committee as Official
• Trustees Inaugurate "Invest in Vassar"
• Pension Plan Established
• Trustees Approve Plan for Investment in Stock
• 75th Anniversary Fund Completed
• Management Engineers Say Vassar Business Doing Well
• Twenty-five Million Dollar Development Program Initiated
• Total Received for Development Program Hits 13 Million
• Gifts to College Set New Record
• Money Won by Students Given to Scholarship Fund
• Vassar Recieves Grant from the U.S. Steel Foundation
• Vassar Alumnea Give College 1,352,681 Dollars in Gifts
• 2,510,000 Dollars in Gifts Given to Vassar in 1960-61 Academic Year
• Vassar Recieves Grant from Old Dominion Foundation
• Vassar Alumna Leaves Scholarship Money in Will For White Girls Only
• James Foundation Gives Grant to Vassar
• $50 Million Capital Campaign Approved

Workers' Union

• First Vassar Worker's Union Created

Last updated February 5, 1999 by Jeremy R. Linden, '00.