Vassar College

Topics included: [Official Vassar College Events] [Charter] [President's Reports] [Anniversaries][Centennial]

Official Vassar College Events

• Charter
• First Meeting of Trustees
• Staking Out of Ground
• Visitors Banned During Construction
• College Opens
• Word "Female" Removed from Main
• College Opens with No Preparatory Students
• First Student Handbook Published
• Fiftieth Anniversary Celebrated
• "Hark Alma Mater" Officially Adopted
• Governance of Vassar College Adopted
• 75th Anniversary Celebrated
• Blanding Inaugurated as Sixth President
• Blanding's Comments on 100th Anniversary
• Charter Day Celebrated for 100th Anniversary
• Founder's Day Celebrated "Founder's Day" for the First Time Since World War II
• Alan Simpson Inaugerated as Seventh president of Vassar College

Charter

• Amended to Provide Exemption
• 50th Anniversary of Granting of Charter
• Charter Day Celebrated for 100th Anniversary

President's Reports

• Taylor Notes Need for Endowment Campaign
• MacCracken Comments on "Freedom in Class Attendance," 1921/22
• Comments on George Henry Nettleton
• Comments on Russian Curriculum
• President's Report Discusses House Fellows

Anniversaries

• Member of Class of 1867 Present at 75th Anniversary
• Tenth
• Twenty-Fifth
• Fiftieth Anniversary of Granting of Charter
• Fiftieth Anniversary of the College's Opening
• Play by Edna St. Vincent Millay 1917 Performed for 50th Anniversary of Associate Alumnae
• 75th Anniversary Celebrated

Centennial

• Centennial Photographic Exhibition Opens
• Charter Day Celebrated for 100th Anniversary
• 100th Birthday Party Celebration
• Centennial Math Lecture Given
• Portrait-Performance of Edna St. Vincent Millay Given
• Bruckner's Mass in E Minor Performed
• Luncheon to Honor Blanding Held
• Benefit Performance of Il Trovatore Given
• International Conference: Women Consider World Problems
• Celebration Dinner Sponsored by London Vassar Club
• Founder's Day Celebration Held
• Licia Albanese Gives Concert
• Matthew Vassar Day Established in Poughkeepsie
• Exhibition of Drawings and Watercolors from Alumnae and Families
• Graduation for Class of 1961
• Hudson Valley Philharmonic Orchestra Gives Concert
• Centennial Play, "Colors of the Day," Presented
• Academic Convocation Held
• Festival of the Contemporary Arts Held, 1961
• Premiere of New Opera Written for Centennial
• Senior Class Pays Tribute to Matthew Vassar and Centennial Year
• The Contemporary Art Conference Held at Vassar in Celebration of Centennial

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