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Happy New Year! Vassar is on winter break; offices open Jan. 2, 2013, and classes begin Jan. 23.
To help her update the 2,400-year-old play Lysistrata, visiting director Ianthe Demos ´00 sought out a wrestling coach. Read the story.Photo: Buck Lewis
Adam Green ´95, founded a boatbuilding organization in the South Bronx that teaches 3,000 high school students per year, and also supports the area’s economy. Read about this inspiring work.Photo: Lowell Handler
The Priscilla Bullitt Collins ´42 Trail in Vassar’s Native Plant Preserve. Learn more about this preserve.Photo: Tamar Thibodeau
Students volunteer with the Hunger Action Network to help in many ways, including serving meals at the Lunch Box in Poughkeepsie. Read more about their community work.Photo: Buck Lewis
Local school groups visit the Warthin Museum of Geology & Natural History in Ely Hall. Learn more about this museum, which had its beginnings in the earliest days of the college.Photo: Ben Rutkowski ‘09
Detail of Tokyo, Japan, 2005 by Naoki Honjo, in the exhibition Recent Acquisitions: Works on Paper, at the Art Center through March 30. Learn more about the exhibit.
Detail of Studio Movement, pastel by Helen Sywalski in Dual Visions, an exhibition of regional high school students’ work, Palmer Gallery through Feb. 13
Raymond Ave looking toward Arlington, early 1900s. The hill on the left would eventually hold Alumnae House. These days, alums can also visit the college virtually on The Hub website. Check it out.
This year, ModFest includes among its offerings the first scene of the opera Eric Hermannson’s Soul composed by acting president Jonathan Chenette. Check the ModFest schedule.
Paozhuzhai@7:00, a photograph of Yunnan Province by Fan Tianyi ’16, a winner in this year’s Vassar International Photo Contest. See more contest photos.
Huang Hung ‘84, often called “China’s Oprah,” recently visited the Alumnae House Pub to discuss politics, media, and design trends in China. See the video.Photo: Evan Abramson ‘00