Vassar Alumnae

Categories Listed in Alphabetic Order

Topics included: [Alumnae] [Scientists] [Poets/Authors] [Teachers] [Architects] [Military] [National Leaders] [Groups]

Alumnae

• Mrs. Edwin A. Abbey 1870 Finances Botanical Garden
• Barbara Allen 1939 Addresses College
• Caroline Swift Atwater 1877 Gives Swift Memorial Infirmary
• Eleanor Dodge Barton '38 Lectures in 1968
• Building Given in Honor of Minnie Cumnock Blodgett
• Cornelia Metcalf Bontecue 1914
• Eve Borsook '49 Lectures in 1968
• Vivian Cadden '39 Lectures in 1962
• Mary Butler 1924 Conducts Archeological Survey
• Mary Steichen Calderone '25, Lectures in 1967
• Ellen Chesler '69 Co-publishes "Vassar and Yale Study: the whole story," in 1968
• Marion Coats 1907 Serves as President of Sarah Lawrence College
• Adalaide Crapsey 1891 Memorial Lectures Presented by Alumnae
• Ruth Crawford 1912 Goes to Prague for Social Survey
• Dorm Given in Honor of Florence M. Cushing 1874
• Nellie Ferrell Cushing, '97, Gives Ferrell House
• Molly S. Drysdale Designs Outdoor Classroom
• Helen Evarts 1917
• David Galbraith '71 Elected First Male Class President in 1969
• Elsa Butler Grove 1905 Works at "La Goutte de Lait"
• Blanche Ferry Hooker 1894 and Queene Ferry Coonley 1896 Present Alumnae House
• Blanchette Hooker 1931 Established Endowed Chair of Music
• Elizabeth G. Houghton 1873 Funds Raymond Room
• Helen Hughes 1914

  Helen Kenyon

• Helen Kenyon 1905 Elected Chair of Trustees
• Hall of Physical Education Named for Helen Kenyon
• Helen Kenyon Lecture Fund Established
• Phyllis Lambert '48 lectures in 1968
• Olive M. Lapham Serves as Officer of Vassar Bank
• Julia C. Lathrop 1880 Lectures in 1922
• Urfaust Translated by Mary Prentice Lillie 1927
• Marion Musser Lloyd 1932 Raises Funds for Chicago Hall
• Rebecca Lawrence Lowrie 1913 Gives Gift to Library
• Patricia McAuley '55 lectures in 1969
• Elizabeth McCarthy '17 lectures in 1969
• Elizabeth McCarthy '17 lectures in 1967
• Maria Dickinson McGraw 1867 Presents American Flag
• Civil Right Worker Carol Merritt '62 Lectures in 1964

  Inez Milholland

• Inez Milholland 1909
• Inez Milholland 1909 Holds Suffrage Meetings
• Inez Milholland 1909 Makes Appeal for Suffrage
• Woman Suffrage Parade Organized by Inez Milholland 1909
• Concert Series Named in Honor of Barbara Woods Morgan
• Helen H. Morris' (1883) Husband Gives Founder's Day Address
• Katherine Moulton 1943 Unveils Tablet in Memory of Father
• Shige Nagai, 1881
• Dorm Given in Honor of Emma Hartman Noyes 1880
• Louise Parsons
• Esther Porter Power 1932 Directs Vassar's Folly
• Dr. Helen C. Putnam Gives Eleanor Plant Science Laboratory
• Mary Morris Pratt 1880 Gives Cost of Remodeling Taylor Hall
• Cornelia M. Raymond 1883 Dies, Memorial Service in Chapel Held
• Mary Raymond 1873
• Aline Saarinen '35 Gives Lecture - 1966
• Mary Augusta Scott 1876 Endows Chair
• Louise P. Sheppard 1896 Chairs Alumnae Endowment Committee
• Harriot Stanton 1880
• Harriot Stanton Blatch 1908
• Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller 1931 Donates Funds for Main Remodeling
• Vera Cooper Rubin '47 lectures in 1967
• Dorothy Sieberling '43 denounces Vassar-Yale Study
• Sally Baker Stanton '97, Leaves Scholorship Money in Will For White Girls Only
• Dorothy Stimson 1912 Lectures
• "Hark Alma Mater" Words Written by Amy Wentworth Stone 1898
• Bessie Rockefeller Strong, 1886-1888

  Ellen Swallow

• Ellen Swallow 1870
• Ellen Swallow 1870 -- letter to mother
• Ellen Swallow 1870 -- Women's Suffrage
• E-Tu-Zen-Sun '44 Appointed to Radcliffe Institute For Independent Study
• President Simpson agrees with Claudia Thomas '71 regarding "Nine Points"
• Mary Thaw Thompson 1877 Gives Art Gift
• Julia S. Tutweiler, Writes "Our Father and Our Friend"
• Mary Wagner ex-1895 Manages Wagner Inn on Raymond Ave
• Reubena Hyde Walworth 1896, First Female Nurse in Detention Hospital, Spanish American War
• Ida Watson 1901 Discovers Star
• Jean Webster 1901
• Williams House Given as Gift of Harriet Trumbull Williams 1870
• Wimpfheimer Nursery School Given in Honor of Mildred Rosalie Wimpfheimer
• Edith S. Woodruff 1909 Receives Fellowship

Vassar Scientists

• Christine Ladd-Franklin 1869 Granted Fellowship at Johns Hopkins
• Dr. Helen C. Putnam 1878 Establishes Graduate Division of Conservation
• Ellen Swallow Richards 1870
• Ellen Swallow Richards 1870 Fund Established
• Main Building Reconstruction in Honor of Jennie Cushing Underwood

Vassar Poets/Authors

• Harriot Stanton Blatch 1878
• Play by Mary Morley Crapo 1934 Performed
• Edna St. Vincent Millay 1917
• Edna St. Vincent Millay 1917 Reads from Her Poems
• Play by Edna St. Vincent Millay Performed
• Edna St. Vincent Millay Reads at Cooperative Bookshop
• Portrait-Performance of Edna St. Vincent Millay Given
• Muriel Rukeyser '34, Read Her Poetry in 1969
• Constance M. Rourke '07 Lectures

Vassar Teachers

• Achsah M. Ely 1868
• Name of Alumnae Gynasium Changed to Honor Achsah Ely
• Elizabeth Hazelton Haight 1894 Elected Chair of Advisory Council of the American School of Classical Studies in Rome
• Mary Virginia Heinlein 1925 Succeeds Hallie Flanagan as Director of Experimental Theater
• Helen Hewitt 1921 Lectures
• Centennial Math Lecture Given by Grace Murray Hopper 1928
• Olive M. Lammert Laboratories of Physical Chemistry Dedicated
• Helen D. Lockwood 1912 and Barbara Swain 1920 Purchase Library of Nikander Strelsky for College
• Library in Honor of Mary Landon Sague Opened
• Winifred Smith 1904 Chairs Drama Department
• Winifred Smith 1904 Translated Les Mouches
• C. Mildred Thompson 1903
• Dean Emeritus Mildred C. Thompson 1903 Lectures
• Ruth Wheeler 1899, Mary Fisher Langmuir 1920, Directors of Euthenics Program
• Laura Johnson Wylie 1877 Holds Mary Augusta Scott Chair of English
• Memorial Service for Laura J. Wylie 1877

• Ruth Adams 1904 Designs Dean's House

Alumnae in the Military

• Alumnae Association Votes to Send Vassar Relief Unit Abroad
• College Procession Remembers Alumnae, Friends Who Died While Serving the Country
• Memorial Service Held in Honor of Alumnae who Served in WWI
• Julia E. Hamblet 1937 Becomes First Lieutenant in Marine Corps
• Mildred McAfee 1920 Addresses Students
• Mildred McAfee Horton 1920 Lectures
• Julia C. Stimson 1901

National Leaders

• Alumnae Address National Defense Conference
• WACs Spend "Rest Cures" at College, Idea of Mera Galloway 1936
• Julia C. Lathrop 1880, Chief of the U.S. Children's Bureau
• Josephine Roche 1908, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
• Dean C. Mildred Thompson 1903 Attends Conference of Allied Ministers of Education

Groups of Alumnae

Chronologically

• Harriet Warner Bishop, Maria Dickinson McGraw, Elizabeth Geiger McMahon, Helen D. Woodward, 1967
• Florence M Cushing 1874, Elizabeth E. Poppleton 1876, Helen Hiskock Backus 1873 Become Alumnae Trustees
• Mary Augusta Scott 1876, Ellen Churchill Semple 1882, and Julia Clifford Lathrop 1880 Address Fiftieth Anniversary
• Twelve Students, Including Alice M. Campbell 1917, Given Jobs
• Marion Bacon 1922, Helen Voltz 1923, and Fanny Borden 1898 Serve as Cooperative Bookshop Committee
• Marion Coats 1907, Katharine Rogers 1924, Marjorie Dempsey 1915, Barbara Stimson 1919, Lucy Kennedy Miller 1902, and Margaret Jackson Allen 1901 Lecture
• Alumnae Address 75th Anniversary
• Father of Edith Ferry Hooper 1932 and Jean Ferry Davis 1935 Gives Ferry Cooperative House
• Alumnae Gather at Vassar For Update on Colleges Events
• Five Hundred Alumnae atVassar Centennial Festival
• Vassar's Seventy-five Alumnae Clubs Receive Award

Last updated February 6, 1999, by Jeremy R. Linden, '00.