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Leaving campus doesn’t have to mean leaving Vassar. From global reunions to local get-togethers, Vassar alums events keep the connection going.

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Alums Spotlight

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Stories and highlights featuring alums.

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Peace and Anti-Nuclear Activist Jonathan Granoff ’70 Receives AAVC Distinguished Achievement Award

Granoff (center) accepted the award from Amy Pullman ’71 (left), Chair of the AAVC Alumnae/i Recognition Committee, and AAVC President Monica Vachher ’77 (right).

Photo: Karl Rabe

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Vassar Innovation and Entrepreneurship Forum Offers Guidance to Budding Innovators

Panelists included (left to right) Julian Aguilar ’23, Johnson Lin ’21, and Arielle Lapiano ’96.

Photo: Grace Adams Ward ’24

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Alum Becomes Vassar’s First General Counsel

Shay Humphrey ’91 (pictured) assumed the post on April 3.

Photo: Grace Adams Ward ’24

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Mug Denizens of the ’80s Fund Major Renovation

Vassar’s beloved campus hangout, The Mug, has been part of the College’s culture since it opened in 1975. Last year, two alums who frequented the place when it was an often raucous bar provided the funding for a long overdue renovation.

Photo: Karl Rabe

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Trustee and Spouse Fund New Environmental Fellowship

A gift from Patrick and Tamar Smith Pichette ’86 will support a two-year conservation fellowship for an alum who will work at a Canadian wilderness preserve and then at the Preserve at Vassar.

Photo: Courtesy of the Kenauk Institute

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Innovative Tennis Complex Will Transform the Student-Athlete Experience

Vassar College will build a $2.5 million tennis center on a site known as Ballintine Field, President Elizabeth Bradley announced.

Photo: Stockton Photo, Inc

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In The Media

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Vassar Alums making news.

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Amina Luqman-Dawson ’97 won the John Newbery Medal for best children’s book of the year, as noted by ABC News.

Photo: Matt Mendelsohn

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Daphne Kalotay ’92 wrote a New York Times guest essay, “What Holocaust Storytellers Like Me Know About ‘Secondhand Smoke.’”

Photo: Courtesy of the subject

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Attorney and author Karen Roberts Turner ’86 shared her story about surviving brain cancer on WUSA9.

Photo: Courtesy of the subject

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Jon Read ’09, a Co-Producer of the Oscar-winning film Everything Everywhere All at Once, was featured in a Daily Voice story.

Photo: Allison Rose Carter

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Dr. June Jackson Christmas ’45-4 was lauded as “a gift to Black mental health” in a Black Wall Street Times profile.

Photo: Karl Rabe

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Alfonso Lopez ’92, 49th District House of Delegates member in the Virginia General Assembly, talked on MSNBC’s Morning Joe about bipartisan gun safety legislation he sponsored.

Photo: Courtesy of the subject

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