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Headshot of Emily Mortimer

Mortimer will speak to Vassar’s class of 2024 at the 160th Commencement. As a precursor to her address, Mortimer’s biggest piece of advice to the general Vassar community is to reject shame. Most of her life, she said, Mortimer focused on pleasing other people, but she has since learned that people-pleasing is a disservice to everyone.

Rollie McKenna sitting with her left hand on her head, holding a cigarette, with books and a typewriter in the background, in black and white.

Making a Life in Photography: Rollie McKenna is the first career retrospective of the single most represented photographer in the collection of the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center—Rollie McKenna ’40. The exhibition, on view at the Loeb through June 2, features more than 100 of her photographs—from portrait and architectural to documentary photography.

A still of Susan Elizabeth Shaw and Robert Downey Jr. from Oppenheimer.

When Screen actor Susan Elizabeth Shaw was cast in the film Oppenheimer as a recent Vassar alum, she decided to learn all she could about her character. She discovered that Laurie Schwab Zabin ’46 had a distinguished career as a champion of women’s reproductive rights.