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Vassar College

EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION

Female college, fully coeducational in 1969.

Location:
Poughkeepsie, NY

Founding Date:
1861

Team:
Brewers

Enrollment:
2400

Official Website:
http://www.vassar.edu/

STUDENTS

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Shana Alexander
Journalist
6-Oct-1925 23-Jun-2005 Nutcracker: Money, Madness and Murder
Anne L. Armstrong
Government
27-Dec-1927   US Ambassador to the UK, 1976-77
Ruth Benedict
Anthropologist
5-Jun-1887 17-Sep-1948 Anthropologist, Patterns of Culture
Elizabeth Bishop
Poet
8-Feb-1911 6-Oct-1979 North & South
Anthony Bourdain
Chef
25-Jun-1956   Kitchen Confidential
Beth L. Bronner
Business
c. 1950   Mistral Equity Partners
Patricia M. Byrne
Diplomat
1-Jun-1925   US Ambassador to Burma, 1979-83
Mary Calderone
Activist
1-Jul-1904 24-Oct-1998 Questions and Answers about Love and Sex
Janet Cooke
Journalist
23-Jul-1954   Caught writing fake news
Mike D
Rapper
20-Nov-1965   Beastie Boys
Erin Daniels
Actor
9-Oct-1973   The L Word
Hope Davis
Actor
23-Mar-1964   American Splendor
Lurita Alexis Doan
Government
4-Jan-1958   General Services Administration
Robert Holt Edmunds, Jr.
Judge
17-Apr-1949   Justice, North Carolina Supreme Court
Caterina Fake
Designer
c. 1969   Co-Founder of Flickr
Frances Farenthold
Educator
1926   President of Wells College, 1976-80
Julie Finley
Socialite
c. 1938   US Ambassador to the OSCE
Jane Fonda
Actor
21-Dec-1937   Prominent Vietnam War protester
Alicia Goranson
Actor
22-Jun-1974   Becky on Roseanne
Katharine Graham
Publisher
16-Jun-1917 17-Jul-2001 Washington Post publisher, 1966-79
Kerri Green
Actor
14-Jan-1967   The Goonies
Anne Hathaway
Actor
12-Nov-1982   The Princess Diaries
Bernadine P. Healy
Doctor
4-Aug-1944   President, American Red Cross, 1999-2001
Maryellen C. Herringer
Attorney
c. 1944   Former Partner, Morrison & Foerster
Grace Murray Hopper
Computer Programmer
9-Dec-1906 1-Jan-1992 Invented the COBOL compiler
Martha R. Ingram
Business
c. 1936   Chairman of Ingram Industries
David Keating
Activist
?   Club for Growth
Bobbie Kilberg
Administrator
?   Northern Virginia Technology Council
Joan W. Konner
Journalist
c. 1929   Dean, Columbia School of Journalism, 1988-97
Lisa Kudrow
Actor
30-Jul-1963   Friends
Gloria C. Larson
Business
c. 1951   President of Bentley College
Gerry Laybourne
Business
19-May-1947   CEO of Oxygen Media
Rick Lazio
Politician
13-Mar-1958   Congressman from New York, 1993-2001
Stacy London
TV Personality
25-May-1969   What Not to Wear
Justin Long
Actor
2-Jun-1978   Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story
Antonia Maury
Astronomer
21-Mar-1866 8-Jan-1952 Stellar classification
Mary McCarthy
Author
21-Jun-1912 25-Oct-1989 The Group
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Poet
22-Feb-1892 19-Oct-1950 Renascence
Richard Miniter
Pundit
1967   Losing bin Laden
Marguerite Moreau
Actor
25-Apr-1977   Easy
Jane Margaret O'Brien
Educator
c. 1953   President, St. Mary's College of Maryland
Mary Oliver
Poet
10-Sep-1935   American Primitive
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
First Lady
28-Jul-1929 19-May-1994 Wife of John F. Kennedy
Lara Parker
Actor
27-Oct-1937   Angelique on Dark Shadows
Joan Quigley
Government
10-Apr-1927   Reagan's astrologer
Judith Regan
Publisher
1953   ReganBooks
Margaret Milner Richardson
Government
14-May-1943   IRS Commissioner, 1993-97
Vera Rubin
Astronomer
23-Jul-1928   Structure of galaxies
Ellen A. Rudnick
Business
c. 1950   Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship
Muriel Rukeyser
Poet
15-Dec-1913 12-Feb-1980 The Book of the Dead
Naomi O. Seligman
Business
c. 1939   The Research Board
Jane Smiley
Novelist
26-Sep-1949   A Thousand Acres
Frances Sternhagen
Actor
13-Jan-1930   Misery
Meryl Streep
Actor
22-Jun-1949   The Deer Hunter
Anne M. Tatlock
Business
c. 1940   CEO of Fiduciary Trust, 1999-2006
Jon Tenney
Actor
16-Dec-1961   Brooklyn South
Jonathan Togo
Actor
25-Aug-1977   Ryan Wolfe on CSI: Miami
Margaret Floy Washburn
Psychologist
25-Jul-1871 29-Oct-1939 First female American psychologist
Benson K. Whitney
Diplomat
1956   US Ambassador to Norway
Anne Marie Whittemore
Business
c. 1945   Partner, McGuireWoods LLP
Nina Zagat
Critic
1942   Zagat Survey
Lisa Zane
Actor
5-Apr-1961   Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare

TEACHERS AND PROFESSORS

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Frances D. Fergusson
Educator
3-Oct-1944   President of Vassar, 1986-2006
Grace Murray Hopper
Computer Programmer
9-Dec-1906 1-Jan-1992 Invented the COBOL compiler
David Ignatow
Poet
7-Feb-1914 17-Nov-1997 Rescue the Dead
Margaret Mead
Anthropologist
16-Dec-1901 15-Nov-1978 Coming of Age in Samoa
Maria Mitchell
Astronomer
1-Aug-1818 28-Jun-1889 First American female astronomer
Muriel Rukeyser
Poet
15-Dec-1913 12-Feb-1980 The Book of the Dead
Margaret Floy Washburn
Psychologist
25-Jul-1871 29-Oct-1939 First female American psychologist
Frances E. Willis
Diplomat
20-May-1899 1983 First Female US Ambassador

ADMINISTRATORS AND TRUSTEES

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Lurita Alexis Doan
Government
4-Jan-1958   General Services Administration
Frances D. Fergusson
Educator
3-Oct-1944   President of Vassar, 1986-2006
Martha R. Ingram
Business
c. 1936   Chairman of Ingram Industries
Sarah Orne Jewett
Author
3-Sep-1849 24-Jun-1909 The Country of the Pointed Firs
Gerry Laybourne
Business
19-May-1947   CEO of Oxygen Media
James Pike
Religion
14-Feb-1913 Sep-1969 5th Episcopal Bishop of California
Anne M. Tatlock
Business
c. 1940   CEO of Fiduciary Trust, 1999-2006


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