Award for Distinguished Achievement
The Award for Distinguished Achievement is presented annually to an alumna or alumnus who has reached the highest level in her or his field, including the professions, science, the arts, and public affairs. While demonstrating exceptional talent, application, creativity, and skill within a certain career, this individual must at the same time exemplify the ideals of a liberal arts education and have used her or his position of visibility, power, or leadership to better the human community and serve the wider goals of society.
Award winners:
- 2008: Laurie Schwab Zabin '46
[Campus Lecture (video), Spring 2008 Vassar, the Alumnae/i Quarterly article] - 2007: Vera Rubin '48
[Acceptance Remarks, Winter 2006 Vassar, the Alumnae/i Quarterly article] - 2006: Katharine Lee Reid '63
[Winter 2005 Vassar, the Alumnae/i Quarterly article] - 2005: Jamshed J. Bharucha '78
[Winter 2004 Vassar, the Alumnae/i Quarterly article] - 2004: Ellen May Galinsky '64
[Acceptance Remarks, Winter 2003 Vassar, the Alumnae/i Quarterly article] - 2003: Dr. June Jackson Christmas '45-4
[Winter 2002 Vassar, the Alumnae/i Quarterly article] - 2002: Judge Pauline Newman '47
[Winter 2001 Vassar, the Alumnae/i Quarterly article]
Award for Outstanding Service to Vassar College
The AAVC Outstanding Service Award is presented annually to an alumna/alumnus in recognition of her or his extraordinary commitment, leadership, and service in promoting the goals and highest interests of Vassar College and AAVC. The award honors outstanding contributions made over a number of years in any or all of these volunteer capacities: class, club, and committee activities; fundraising; enriching campus life; or stewardship as board members, trustees or donors. Outstanding Service Award winners are ambassadors on behalf of Vassar College to the alumnae/i and to the larger community.
Award winners:
- 2007: Mary Pick Hines '53
[Acceptance Remarks Video: Broadband: Part 1; Part 2; Part 3; Dial-up: Part 1; Part 2; Part 3, Winter 2007 Vassar, the Alumnae/i Quarterly article] - 2006: Richard Van Demark '77
[Fall 2006 Vassar, the Alumnae/i Quarterly article] - 2005: Virginia Cretella Mars '51
[Acceptance Remarks, Fall 2005 Vassar, the Alumnae/i Quarterly article] - 2004: Kathleen Holman Langan '46
[Acceptance Remarks, Fall 2004 Vassar, the Alumnae/i Quarterly article] - 2003: Eugenie Aiguier Havemeyer '51
[Acceptance Remarks, Fall 2003 Vassar, the Alumnae/i Quarterly article] - 2002: Frances Aaron Hess '53
[Acceptance Remarks, Fall 2002 Vassar, the Alumnae/i Quarterly article] - 2001: Frances Prindle Taft '42
[Remarks to Students and Alumnae/i, Acceptance Remarks, Fall 2001 Vassar, the Alumnae/i Quarterly article]
Spirit of Vassar Award
The Spirit of Vassar Award is given to an individual or group whose volunteer efforts exemplify an enduring spirit of community and caring.
Award winners:
- 2008: Cornelia Dettmer '53
[Summer 2008 Vassar, the Alumnae/i Quarterly article] - 2007: Grisela Alejandro Jackson '78 and Reverend Robert Jackson '77
[Fall 2007 Vassar, the Alumnae/i Quarterly article] - 2006: Elizabeth Adams Daniels '41
[Summer 2006 Vassar, the Alumnae/i Quarterly article, Fall 2003 Vassar, the Alumnae/i Quarterly article] - 2005: Belle Krasne Ribicoff '45
[Acceptance Remarks, Summer 2005 Vassar, the Alumnae/i Quarterly article] - 2004: Sylvia Cranmer McLaughlin '39
[Summer 2004 Vassar, the Alumnae/i Quarterly article] - 2003: Mary-Alice Hunter '38
[Summer 2003 Vassar, the Alumnae/i Quarterly article] - 2001: Steering Committee of the Philadelphia Show House
[Fall 2001 Vassar, the Alumnae/i Quarterly article]