Summer 2003 volume 99 issue 3

letters

Founder's Day Relived

What a surprise and/or shock! ... by Frances Kilpatrick Field  Full Story

Re: Letters, Spring 2003

Regarding the letter from Bruce Mendelsohn ’90 in the Spring 2003 issue... by Patricia L. Arnold  Full Story

Re: Letters, Winter 2002

After a long hiatus during which I failed to keep Vassar informed of my changes of address... by Virginia Edwards Castro  Full Story

Main Street, Poughkeepsie

I was glad to read in Corinne Militello’s ’98 sidebar that Main Mall was a thing of the past... by Eric Marcus  Full Story

In Memoriam: Dr. Marian Gray Secundy ’60

It is with great sadness that I share the passing of Dr. Marian Gray Secundy ’60... by Felicia Smith Gittleman  Full Story

Re: Securing the Homefront

I was pleased to receive the newest edition of the Quarterly... by Holly Hilburn

When the Spring 2003 issue of the VQ arrived, I was dismayed... by Jason Weinstein  Full Story

Growing up in Arlington

I graduated from Vassar in 1947; my husband was born in Poughkeepsie and lived in Arlington until he went to Harvard in the late ‘40s... by Carol Verven  Full Story

Navy Recruit

The letters from Nona Brown ’39 and my classmate Roz Emery Rogers ’43 in the spring issue of the Quarterly prompt me to report... by Cornelia Newlin Borgerhoff
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Re: Enlisting Women

Regarding Olivia Mancini's “Learn About Enlisting Women,” in the Winter 2002 Vassar Quarterly, we were interested, as always, to learn about Vassar's history from a well-researched piece... by Caroline Loomis, Lauren Bouyea, Jesse Feldman, and Laura Anderson
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In Memoriam: Emily Westwood Gardner ‘42

On November 14, 2002, our mother, Emily Westwood Gardner ‘42, died peacefully after battling numerous chronic and progressive diagnoses over the last year of her life...by Yael Goldenberg and John L. Gardner  Full Story

In Memoriam: Elizabeth Malcolm Douvan '46

It is with both sadness and joy that I feel compelled to comment to the Vassar community about the recent passing of Elizabeth Malcolm Douvan ‘46... by Adam J. Epstein  Full Story

WAVES Clarification

I am responding to Nona B. Brown’s ’39 letter... by Anna Hemlow-Janis  Full Story

Re: Campus Ecology: Studying Sustainable Alternatives

How pleasing it is to see Vassar students learning about practical solutions to environmental problems... by Gary Skulnik  Full Story

Lady Cornaro

There’s a whole generation of students who don’t know that Vassar was the world leader 25 years ago in an international movement honoring a major first figure in women’s education... by Jane Howard Guernsey  Full Story