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    Weekdays 7:30-5pm (845) 437-5555

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Upcoming Events

  • May 24

    Mandatory Commencement Rehearsal

  • May 24

    For Better and For Worse: Sixteen Decades of Wedding Wear at Vassar

  • May 24

    Cafe Night for Seniors and Families at the Vogelstein Patio

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    Prize Ceremony

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    For Better and For Worse: Sixteen Decades of Wedding Wear at Vassar

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  • The Polaroid Years exhibit at the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center is the largest ever museum exhibit of its kind

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  • Powerhouse Theater subscriptions now on sale

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  • U.S. Senator Gillibrand to deliver commencement address 5/26

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  • Pastor Joseph Tolton '89 will give the Baccalaureate Service keynote speech

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  • Free walking tours of Vassar College history to be offered on Saturdays 5/11, 6/15, and 6/22

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  • Palmer Gallery exhibiting 160 years of wedding wear from the Vassar Costume Collection

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  • Construction advisory: New England parking lot closed as of Tuesday, May 28; access to New England and Sanders Physics restricted to construction personnel after June 7, 2013
  • Vassar Senior Art Show 2013 in Poughkeepsie until May 25. Opening reception Saturday, May 18, 2013.
  • Pictures of Nothing: Abstract Art from the Permanent Collection will be shown at the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, July 12-September 8, 2013
  • Report praises Vassar enrollment and aid for lower-income students
  • New York Times reviews "The Polaroid Years" exhibit at the Art Center
  • Top Colleges, Please Recruit More Veterans
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  • Zaziski Tabs ABCA/Rawlings All-Region First Team Honors Go to article
  • Holmes Selected For NCAA Track Championships Go to article
  • Holmes Qualifies For NCAA's; Men's Relays Highlight Vassar At ECAC's Go to article
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  • Chief U.S. District Judge Vicki Miles-LaGrange '74 Inducted into Oklahoma Hall of Fame Go to article
  • “Confidence 101” by Sheree Winslow ’92 on Savvy Auntie Go to article
  • Headmaster Susan Diller '83 on the limitations of standardized tests. Go to article
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This Week in Vassar History
  • 1986, May 25

    At Vassar’s 122nd commencement, speaker Garry B. Trudeau, creator of the popular Doonesbury comic strip, encouraged Vassar students to question the Strategic Defense Initiative, called “Star Wars.”

  • 1984, May 23

    Finishing in a 3rd place tie with Princeton in the national finals of the College Bowl, the Vassar team earned $2,500 for scholarship funding and a 15-volume set of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology from the tournament's sponsor.

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