Presidents

Topics included: [Sarah Gibson Blanding] [Samuel Caldwell] [Milo P. Jewett] [J. Ryland Kendrick] [Henry Noble MacCracken][George Henry Nettleton][John H. Raymond][Alan Simpson][James Monroe Taylor]

Listed in Alphabetical Order

Sarah Gibson Blanding

• Sarah Gibson Blanding Takes Office
• Blanding Inaugurated as Sixth President
• President Blanding Takes Tea in an Igloo
• Blanding Denounces Premarital Sex and Excessive Drinking
• Blanding Announces her Retirement
• Blanding Appointed Study State's Minimum Drinking Age
• Blanding Attends White House Dinner
• Blanding Opposes Raising State's Drinking Age to 21
• Blanding Supports Arrested Student
• Blanding Recognizes Cooperating Teachers in Vassar's Student Teaching Program
• Alan Simpson Elected to Replace Blanding
• The Hudson Valley Philharmonic String Quartet Honors Blanding
• Blanding Dedicates the New Poughkeepsie Day School Building
• Faculty Presented Retirement Gifts to Blanding
• College Pays Tribute to Blanding

Samuel Caldwell

• Samuel Caldwell Elected President
• Caldwell Resigns

Milo P. Jewett

• Milo P. Jewett
• Milo P. Jewett
• Milo P. Jewett
• Milo P. Jewett

J. Ryland Kendrick

• Rev. J. Ryland Kendrick Made Acting President

Henry Noble MacCracken

• Henry Noble MacCracken Becomes President
• President MacCracken Announces Completion of Endowment Fund Campaign
• MacCracken Develops, Organizes Junior Red Cross
• MacCracken Addresses Township Day
• MacCracken Serves on Board of Vassar Bank
• MacCracken Helps Found Sarah Lawrence College
• MacCracken Lectures on Founding of College
• MacCracken Retires
• McCracken Opposes Vassar-Yale Study

George Henry Nettleton

• George Henry Nettleton Becomes Acting President While MacCracken is Away

John H. Raymond

• Rev. John H. Raymond
• Rev. John H. Raymond
• Raymond's Daughter Marries
• Raymond Dies
• Dormitory Named After John H. Raymond
• President Raymond's Daughter Cornelia M. Raymond 1883 Dies

Alan Simpson

• Dr. Alan Simpson Became 7th President of Vassar College
• Alan Simpson Gives his First Convocation Address
• Simpson Responds to Drug Poll
• Students Petitioned Simpson for Better Communication
• Simpson Announced the Formation of the Committee on New Dimensions
• Simpson Announces Vassar-Yale Study
• Simpson Rules Out Alternatives to Moving to New Haven
• Simpson Confirms Effort to Examine Alternatives to the Yale-Vassar Study
• Simpson Addressed AAVC on Vassar Yale-Study
• Simpson Comments on New Computer Center and Its IBM 360 Computer
• Simpson Announces Rejection of the Merger with Yale
• Simpson Appears on NBC's Today Show
• Simpson Receives Report on the Possibility of a Men's Coordinate College
• Simpson Petitioned to Condemn Police Action at Columbia University
• Simpson Welcomes the Possibility of Mid-Hudson Graduate Center at Vassar College
• Simpson Received Anti-Vietnam War Petition
• Simpson Called the First College Council
• Simpson Authorized Moratorium
• Simpson Presented with "Nine Points"
• Simpson Signed an Agreement with S.A.S
• Simpson Requested Resignation of Dr. Nell Eurich
• Simpson Receives First Draft of Report on Vassar Institute of Technology
• Simpson Lobbies in Washington, D. C. Against Involvement in Vietnam
• Simpson Broke Ground For Town Houses
• Simpson Broke Ground For Olmsted
• Students Protest Simpson's Dismissal of Faculty Members

• James Monroe Taylor Becomes President
• Taylor's Annual Report, 1888
• Taylor's Message to Trustees
• Taylor Announces Vassar Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa
• Chair Established in Honor of Taylor
• Taylor Speaks at Celebration of Tercentary Anniversary of Publishing of King James Version of Bible
• Taylor Holds Mass Meeting for Suffrage
• Taylor Asks Emerson David Fite to Lecture
• Taylor Retires
• Taylor Hall Opened in Honor of President Taylor

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