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Spirit of Vassar Award: Leah Johnson Wilcox ’69

Spirit of Vassar Award recipient Leah Johnson Wilcox ’69 began volunteering as a student and hasn’t looked back. A former member of the Alumnae and Alumni of Vassar College (AAVC) Board of Directors, reunion chair, and admission interviewer, Wilcox continues to look for ways to serve her community.

“Writing China, Peipei Qiu, ‘Chinese Comfort Women’,” Wall Street Journal, June 24, 2014.

Q&A with Peipei Qiu: Chinese “comfort women,” Voice of America, June 2, 2014.

“Giving voice, for the first time in English, to the Chinese ‘comfort women’,” an interview with Meghan Murphy of Rabble.ca and Feminist Current, April 2014.

Abstract or impressionist painting of birds.

“Calling it Art, not Native Art”

New York Times art review

Image: Kenojuak Ashevak (Inuit, Cape Dorset, Canada, 1927–2013) and Johnniebo Ashevak (Inuit, Cape Dorset, Canada, 1923–1972)
Animals Out of Darkness, 1961
Stonecut on paper, 5/5019.5 x 21.75 inches
Reproduced with the permissions of Dorset Fine Arts

In the Media–March 2023 Roundup

A monthly roundup of Vassar alums, students, faculty, and other employees in the news.

Glen Johnson Receives Inaugural AAVC Outstanding Faculty/Staff Award

The Alumnae and Alumni of Vassar College (AAVC) presented the first-ever Outstanding Faculty/Staff Award to Shirley Ecker Boskey Emeritus Professor of Political Science and International Relations Glen Johnson on Saturday, October 21, 2017.