Presidents of Vassar College
Name | Dates |
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Milo P. Jewett | 1861–1864 |
John H. Raymond | 1864–1878 |
Samuel L. Caldwell | 1878–1885 |
James Monroe Taylor | 1886–1914 |
Henry Noble MacCracken | 1915–1946 |
Sarah Gibson Blanding | 1946–1964 |
Alan Simpson | 1964–1977 |
Virginia B. Smith | 1977–1986 |
Frances D. Fergusson | 1986–2006 |
Catharine "Cappy" Bond Hill | 2006— |
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“Our presidents have been getting to be synthetic monsters, the work of a hundred ghost- writers and press agents so that it is getting harder and harder to discover the line between the man and the institution.”
—John Dos Passos (18961970)
“I saw the best minds of my generation
Reading their poems to Vassar girls,
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—Louis Simpson (b. 1923)
“In looking back over the college careers of those who for various reasons have been prominent in undergraduate life ... one cannot help noticing that these men have nearly always shown from the start an interest in the lives of their fellow students. A large acquaintance means that many persons are dependent on a man and conversely that he himself is dependent on many. Success necessarily means larger responsibilities, and responsibilities mean many friends.”
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