Alums

Reunion 2019 was full of many highlights, including a record-setting class gift of $16.3 million from the class of 1969, six class attendance records, and absolutely gorgeous weather.

CNN host and criminal justice advocate Van Jones delivered the Commencement address on May 26 at Vassar’s 155^th graduation ceremony.

Thanks to a Time Out grant, Eve Madalengoitia ’86 will spend the next 12 months composing music, a lifelong passion that she never had an opportunity to pursue full time.

Shona Tucker, Associate Professor and Chair of the Drama Department, tells us what it’s like to be in the hottest show on Broadway—To Kill a Mockingbird. But Tucker is not the sole member of the cast who is part of the Vassar community.

Nearly a century after Vassar students and alumnae raised money for a new auditorium in a lecture hall at Tokyo Women’s Christian University, the two schools rekindled their bonds at a meeting recently on the Vassar campus.

More than 450 visitors spent a day on the Vassar campus, attending classes, taking tours and enjoying a concert by members of the Music Department. “A Day at Vassar” was a huge success.

Thirty-five years after graduating from Vassar, film producer Jeffrey Soros returns to campus to shoot some scenes for his new movies.

Lovely weather and a stunning campus greeted 1,800 alumnae/i and guests for Reunion 2018. From June 7-10, alumnae/i enjoyed dozens of events from the annual parade to receptions, tours, lectures, and more!