Winter 2006 Volume 103 Issue 1 : letters
Re: Class Notes, Fall 2006
My initial pleasure at seeing my news in the Class Notes quickly gave way to despair. How is it that a college that has historically encouraged women to go out into the world and be independent would arbitrarily attach my husband’s name to my own? Though I love my husband dearly, I choose to use my own name, a conscious decision I made 26 years ago. No one will find my books listed under “Darra Jane Goldstein Crawford,” and there is no Professor Crawford at Williams.
I hope that the VQ will reconsider its policy of automatically listing alumnae under their husbands’ names.
Darra Goldstein ’73
Williamstown, Massachusetts
[Editor’s note: It is the VQ’s policy to list alumnae/i as they are recorded in the college’s files. If you are receiving correspondence from Vassar addressed to a name you do not prefer to use, please notify the college so that an update can be made to reflect your wishes.]