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Title: Spencer, Ruth -- oral history, March 13, 2013:
Description: Associate Vice President of Human Resources, Vassar College. Born in Nuremberg, Germany; grew up in West Virginia; graduated from Oberlin College; got Masters in clinical social work; got law degree.

Title: Giusti, Eugenio -- oral history, Dec. 10, 2013
Description: Eugenio Giusti grew up in Lucca, Italy and was active in gay liberation efforts in Italy. Went to school at the University of Florence, Italy; received his Ph.D. in Italian Medieval Literature from New York University in 1999. He has published several articles on Giovanni Boccaccio's representation of women, Christopher Columbus's enterprise, the novella genre, and contemporary gay movement and culture.
Date: December 10, 2013

Title: Cordes, Drew -- oral history, July 26, 2013:
Description: Drew Cordes is a transgenderqueer who graduated from Vassar with a degree in English in 2004. Drew was born in Boston, Massachusetts. Drew moved to Saratoga Springs as a baby, moved to Rochester, New York, and finally moved to Glens Falls, New York at 6 years old. Drew formed a grassroots group called Transgender Advocates of the Capital Region, is one of the leaders of human rights group Transgender Advocates of the Capital Region, and has been a Bilerico Project contributor (http://www.bile...
Show moreDrew Cordes is a transgenderqueer who graduated from Vassar with a degree in English in 2004. Drew was born in Boston, Massachusetts. Drew moved to Saratoga Springs as a baby, moved to Rochester, New York, and finally moved to Glens Falls, New York at 6 years old. Drew formed a grassroots group called Transgender Advocates of the Capital Region, is one of the leaders of human rights group Transgender Advocates of the Capital Region, and has been a Bilerico Project contributor (http://www.bilerico.com/) since October 2010.
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Title: Schrock, Elizabeth -- oral history, July 24, 2013:
Description: Grew up in Portage, Michigan, graduated from Michigan State University, completed Masters program in social work and PhD program in social welfare at University of Wisconsin-Madison, came to Vassar in 2012 as a Sexual Assault Violence Prevention Coordinator.

Title: St. Germain, Chris -- oral history, July 23, 2013:
Description: Grew up in Virginia; went to doctoral program in San Francisco; Interests in community mental health services for LGBTQIA persons, couples, and families, supports for LGBTQ students at Vassar, Psychological counselor and former Vassar College employee.

Title: Squillace, Kim -- oral history, July 23, 2013:
Description: Born in Newburgh, New York; grew up in Fishkill, New York; worked as dispatcher for Fishkill Police Department; worked as security officer and supervisor at IBM; worked as director of security at Bard College; started working at Vassar in 1996 as Associate Director of Safety and Security.

Title: Serrano, Chris -- oral history, July 22, 2013:
Description: Born in Caguas, Puerto Rico; moved to Fishkill, New York at 5 years old; moved to Beacon, New York a few months later. Currently a pharmacy technician.

Title: Harriford, Diane -- oral history, July 19, 2013:
Description: Harriford is currently Professor of Sociology and Women’s Studies at Vassar College. Harriford grew up in Sioux City Iowa, went to Oberlin and then SUNY Stony Brook, and came to Vassar in 1988. Professor Harriford teaches courses in sex and gender, Black intellectual history, and Black feminism. Please note: two audio files in this interview were left blank for sound quality purposes and have been placed sequentially after the last audio file that contains sound content.
Date: July 19, 2013

Title: Robertson, Karen -- oral history, July 18, 2013:
Description: Karen Robertson was born in Alabama, grew up in Kansas and England, went to high school in Boston, and went to college at Barnard before going on to graduate school at Columbia; Robertson is a Senior Lecturer of English and Director of Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Vassar, where she has been since 1982 (31 years). Robertson co-edited Maids and Mistresses, Cousins and Queens : Women's Alliances in Early Modern England.

Title: Moore, Kiana -- oral history, July 16, 2013:
Description: Kiana Moore grew up in Manhattan, New York, and was the first person to self-identify as 'transexual' at Vassar, from which she graduated in 2002 with a degree in Psychology. She is now a transgender rights activist living in Los Angeles where she is a producer on television shows. In 2001, she spoke to the Department of Agriculture concerning their practice of overlooking Male-to-Female (MTF) needs and misrepresentation. She also assisted HIPS (helping individual prostitutes survive) with ...
Show moreKiana Moore grew up in Manhattan, New York, and was the first person to self-identify as 'transexual' at Vassar, from which she graduated in 2002 with a degree in Psychology. She is now a transgender rights activist living in Los Angeles where she is a producer on television shows. In 2001, she spoke to the Department of Agriculture concerning their practice of overlooking Male-to-Female (MTF) needs and misrepresentation. She also assisted HIPS (helping individual prostitutes survive) with their MTF outreach program, providing clean needles and condoms to those on the street. She now volunteers her time to GLAAD, and helps with transgender representation.
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Title: Ringel, Lance -- oral history, July 15, 2013:
Description: Lance was born in Bloomington, Illinois and grew up in Decatur, Illinnois. He went to college in Washington, D.C., where he worked on political campaigns on Capitol Hill, and then to the University of Pittsburgh for graduate school. He then worked at the National Gay Task Force, was president of the Lambda Independent Democrats of Brooklyn, and served on the board and as chair of the Hetrick-Martin Institute. He moved to Chicago and worked at the Windy City Times, moved to Stamford, Connectic...
Show moreLance was born in Bloomington, Illinois and grew up in Decatur, Illinnois. He went to college in Washington, D.C., where he worked on political campaigns on Capitol Hill, and then to the University of Pittsburgh for graduate school. He then worked at the National Gay Task Force, was president of the Lambda Independent Democrats of Brooklyn, and served on the board and as chair of the Hetrick-Martin Institute. He moved to Chicago and worked at the Windy City Times, moved to Stamford, Connecticut to work as an editor at another newspaper, and finally came to Vassar in April of 2000 as speech writer and letter writer for President Fergusson. Now he is the Director of Development Communications at Vassar and the editor of the Taconic Weekend.
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Title: Schoonbeek, John -- oral history, June 13, 2013:
Description: This interview took place over June 12-13, 2013 and is divided into two parts. Field of study: Human Ethology: Born in Grand Rapids, Michigan; moved to Cincinnati, Ohio; then to Dallas, Texas; left home at age fifteen, studied at Universities of Colorado, Kansas, Michigan, New School (NYC); worked at Quaker summer camps in Vermont; moved to Esopus, NY to work as a counselor at Wiltwyck School for Boys; worked at Floyd Patterson House in New York City; worked at Time Magazine as a copy boy an...
Show moreThis interview took place over June 12-13, 2013 and is divided into two parts. Field of study: Human Ethology: Born in Grand Rapids, Michigan; moved to Cincinnati, Ohio; then to Dallas, Texas; left home at age fifteen, studied at Universities of Colorado, Kansas, Michigan, New School (NYC); worked at Quaker summer camps in Vermont; moved to Esopus, NY to work as a counselor at Wiltwyck School for Boys; worked at Floyd Patterson House in New York City; worked at Time Magazine as a copy boy and then as reporter for Time-Life News Svc; completed PhD at Union Institute with practicum at Albert Einstein College of Medicine; worked as psychologist at Hudson River Psychiatric Center in Poughkeepsie and NY State Psychiatric Institute at Columbia P&S; worked as Vassar’s Associate Director of Student Counseling Service, retired, then was invited to return to create a student-faculty LGBTQ Center for the Study of Social Change in the old Blegen House on Collegeview Ave. Associate Director of Campus Life. Retired permanently 2006. Keywords: LGBTQ, oral history, Blegen House, segregation, family therapy, family, social work, race, queer, identity politics, LGBT youth, education, Stonewall, Marsha P. Johnson, violence, bullying, journalism, war, belonging, counseling, community, organizing, ALANA Center, writing, Judith Nichols, athletics.
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Date: June 13, 2013

Title: Schoonbeek, John -- oral history, June 12, 2013:
Description: This interview took place over June 12-13, 2013 and is divided into two parts. Field of study: social work. Born in Grand Rapids, Michigan; moved to Cincinnati, Ohio; moved to Dallas, Texas; left home at fifteen years old; went to University of Colorado; transferred to University of Michigan; worked at Quaker summer camp in Vermont called Salt Ash Mountain Camp; moved to New Paltz to work as a counselor at boys home; worked at Floyd Patterson House in New York City; worked at Time Magazine as...
Show moreThis interview took place over June 12-13, 2013 and is divided into two parts. Field of study: social work. Born in Grand Rapids, Michigan; moved to Cincinnati, Ohio; moved to Dallas, Texas; left home at fifteen years old; went to University of Colorado; transferred to University of Michigan; worked at Quaker summer camp in Vermont called Salt Ash Mountain Camp; moved to New Paltz to work as a counselor at boys home; worked at Floyd Patterson House in New York City; worked at Time Magazine as a copy boy; worked at Albert Einstein College of Medicine; worked as psychologist in Peekskill, New York at Hudson River Psychiatric Center; worked as Director of Blegen House. Keywords: LGBTQ, oral history, Blegen House, segregation, family therapy, family, social work, race, queer, identity politics, LGBT youth, education, Stonewall, Marsha P. Johnson, violence, bullying, journalism, war, belonging, counseling, community, organizing, ALANA Center, writing, Judith Nichols, athletics.
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Date: June 12, 2013

Title: Jones, Daniel A. -- Oral History:
Description: Field of study: Africana Studies; current occupation: artist, playwright, director, educator. This interview was conducted as part of Spring 2013 Women's Studies Class (WMST 219), "Queering the Archives."
Date: May 6, 2013

Title: Wu, Jason -- Oral History:
Description: Major: independent major, Ethnic Studies; current occupation/field: law. This interview was conducted as part of Spring 2013 Women's Studies Class (WMST 219), "Queering the Archives."
Date: April 29, 2013

Title: Cody, Gabrielle -- Oral History:
Description: Currently professor, Performance Studies. Studied Performance Studies in college. This interview was conducted as part of Spring 2013 Women's Studies Class (WMST 219), "Queering the Archives."
Date: April 26, 2013

Title: Russell, Paul -- Oral History:
Description: Field of study: English; current occupation: professor. Author of six novels, including Sea of Tranquility, The Coming Storm, and The Unreal Life of Sergey Nabokov, as well as a work of nonfiction, The Gay 100: a Ranking of he Most Influential Gay Men and Lesbians, Past and Present. This interview was conducted as part of Spring 2013 Women's Studies Class (WMST 219), "Queering the Archives."
Date: April 16, 2013

Title: Fawley, Christine Maxwell -- Oral History:
Description: Field of study: sociology; current occupation: sex educator. Founder, PleasureMechanics.com; founder, Squirm Magazine, Vassar College (1999). This interview was conducted as part of Spring 2013 Women's Studies Class (WMST 219), "Queering the Archives."
Date: April 13, 2013

Title: Wyss, Shannon E. -- Oral History:
Description: Field of study: International Studies (correlate in French); masters in Women's Studies. Current occupation: AIDS United Grant Manager (nonprofit), gender queer activist. This interview was conducted as part of Spring 2013 Women's Studies Class (WMST 219), "Queering the Archives."
Date: March 30, 2013

Title: Vassar College LGBTQ Oral History Project
Description: The Vassar LGBTQ Oral History Project is a partnership between the LGBTQ Center, the Women’s Studies Program and the Vassar College Archives that began in the fall of 2012. The goal of the project is to capture the experiences, stories, and reflections of LGBTQ and ally alumnae/i as well as former and current LGBTQA staff members.
Date: 2013-2014

Title: Vassar College Choral Ensembles, Tour 2012: Sesquicentennial Concert
Description: 1 of 19. Tallis, Thomas (ca. 1505-1585). O ye tender babes of England [performed by Vassar College Madrigal Singers, Caitlin Arias '13 (piano), student; Drew Minter (conductor), faculty]. 2 of 19. Sheppard, John (1515-1558). Vaine, vaine [performed by Vassar College Madrigal Singers, Caitlin Arias '13 (piano), student; Drew Minter (conductor), faculty]. 3 of 19. Durufle, Maurice (1902-1986). Ubi caritas [performed by Vassar College Madrigal Singers, Caitlin Arias '13 (piano), student; Drew...
Show more1 of 19. Tallis, Thomas (ca. 1505-1585). O ye tender babes of England [performed by Vassar College Madrigal Singers, Caitlin Arias '13 (piano), student; Drew Minter (conductor), faculty]. 2 of 19. Sheppard, John (1515-1558). Vaine, vaine [performed by Vassar College Madrigal Singers, Caitlin Arias '13 (piano), student; Drew Minter (conductor), faculty]. 3 of 19. Durufle, Maurice (1902-1986). Ubi caritas [performed by Vassar College Madrigal Singers, Caitlin Arias '13 (piano), student; Drew Minter (conductor), faculty]. 4 of 19. Mealor, Paul (b. 1975). Ubi caritas [performed by Vassar College Madrigal Singers, Caitlin Arias '13 (piano), student; Drew Minter (conductor), faculty]. 5 of 19. Willan, Healey (1880-1968). Rise up, my love [performed by Vassar College Madrigal Singers, Caitlin Arias '13 (piano), student; Drew Minter (conductor), faculty]. 6 of 19. Billings, William (1746-1800). I am the rose of Sharon [performed by Vassar College Madrigal Singers, Caitlin Arias '13 (piano), student; Drew Minter (conductor), faculty]. 7 of 19. Dowland, John (1563-1626). Say Love, if ever thou didst find [performed by Vassar College Madrigal Singers, Caitlin Arias '13 (piano), student; Drew Minter (conductor), faculty]. 8 of 19. Sarum plainsong. Ave Maria [performed by Vassar College Women's Chorus, Caitlin Arias '13 (piano), student; Christine Howlett (conductor), faculty]. 9 of 19. Anon. 14th c. Fr.. Ave Gloriosa/Duce creature [performed by Vassar College Women's Chorus, Caitlin Arias '13 (piano), student; Christine Howlett (conductor), faculty]. 10 of 19. Clarke, Rebecca (1886-1979). Ave Maria [performed by Vassar College Women's Chorus, Caitlin Arias '13 (piano), student; Christine Howlett (conductor), faculty]. 11 of 19. Holst, Imogen (1907-1984). The Virgin Unspotted [performed by Vassar College Women's Chorus, Caitlin Arias '13 (piano), student; Christine Howlett (conductor), faculty]. 12 of 19. Roueche, Michelle (b. 1964). Cantate Domino [performed by Vassar College Women's Chorus, Caitlin Arias '13 (piano), student; Christine Howlett (conductor), faculty]. 13 of 19. Daley, Eleanor (b. 1955). Lake Isle of Innisfree [performed by Vassar College Women's Chorus, Caitlin Arias '13 (piano), student; Christine Howlett (conductor), faculty]. 14 of 19. Copland, Aaron (1900-1990). An Immortality (1900-1990) [performed by Vassar College Women's Chorus, Caitlin Arias '13 (piano), student; Christine Howlett (conductor), faculty]. 15 of 19. Ravel, Maurice (1875-1937). Trois Chansons [performed by Vassar College Choir, Caitlin Arias '13 (piano), student; Christine Howlett (conductor), faculty]. 16 of 19. O'Regan, Tarik (b. 1978). Had I not seen the sun (Two Dickinson Songs) [performed by Vassar College Choir, Caitlin Arias '13 (piano), student; Christine Howlett (conductor), faculty]. 17 of 19. Barber, Samuel (1910-1981). To be sung on the Water [performed by Vassar College Choir, Caitlin Arias '13 (piano), student; Christine Howlett (conductor), faculty]. 18 of 19. O'Regan, Tarik (b. 1978). I had no time to hate (Two Dickinson Songs) [performed by Vassar College Choir, Caitlin Arias '13 (piano), student; Christine Howlett (conductor), faculty]. 18 of 18. Caldwell & Ivory, arr.. John the Revelator [performed by Vassar College Choir, Caitlin Arias '13 (piano), student; Christine Howlett (conductor), faculty].
George C. Marshall Center, Hotel de Tallyrand, Paris
Part of the Vassar College Choral Ensembles tour 2012. Similar programs presented at Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford ( March 5, 1:00 pm), St Andrew Holborn, London (March 7, 1:00 pm), Priory Church of St. Bartholomew the Great, London (March 7, 7:00 pm), UNESCO Secretariat, Paris (March 9, 1:00 pm).
The Honorable and Mrs. David T. Killion, U.S. Ambassador to UNESCO & Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Friscia '78 Trustee/Vassar College - Co-Hosts
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Date: 03/09/2012, 7:00 PM

Title: Welcome Concert for the Class of 2014
Description: 1 of 6. Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750). Prelude and Fugue in D minor (Dorian) BWV 538 [performed by Gail Archer (organ), faculty]. 2 of 6. Telemann, Georg Philipp (1681-1767). Sonata in f Major TMV 41:F2 [performed by Elisabeth Romano (bassoon), Richard Wilson (Piano), faculty]. 3 of 6. Duparc, Henri (1848-1933). L'Invitation au voyage (1870) [performed by Rachel Rosales (soprano), Todd Crow (Piano), faculty]. 4 of 6. Grechaninov, Aleksandr Tikhonovich (1864-1956). Je t'adore (1911) [perf...
Show more1 of 6. Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750). Prelude and Fugue in D minor (Dorian) BWV 538 [performed by Gail Archer (organ), faculty]. 2 of 6. Telemann, Georg Philipp (1681-1767). Sonata in f Major TMV 41:F2 [performed by Elisabeth Romano (bassoon), Richard Wilson (Piano), faculty]. 3 of 6. Duparc, Henri (1848-1933). L'Invitation au voyage (1870) [performed by Rachel Rosales (soprano), Todd Crow (Piano), faculty]. 4 of 6. Grechaninov, Aleksandr Tikhonovich (1864-1956). Je t'adore (1911) [performed by Rachel Rosales (soprano), Todd Crow (Piano), faculty]. 5 of 6. Copland, Aaron (1900-1990) - arr. Leonard Bernstein. El Salon Mexico [performed by Todd Crow (piano), Richard Wilson (piano), faculty]. 6 of 6. Britten, Benjamin (1913-1976). From Suite for Harp, op. 83, Hymn (St. Denio) [performed by Bridget Kibbey (harp), faculty] ; information from Program addendum.
Martel Recital Hall, Skinner Hall of Music
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Date: 8/29/2010, 8pm

Title: Chanticleer: An Orchestra of Voices
Description: 1 of 17. Gibbons, Orlando (1583-1625). Hosanna to the Son of David [performed by Chanticleer: Dylan Hostetter (Soprano), Michael McNeil (Soprano), Gregory Peebles (Soprano), Alan Reinhardt (Alto), Cortez Mitchell (Alto), Adam Ward (Alto), Brian Hinman (Tenor), Matthew Curtis (Tenor), Ben Jones (Tenor), Eric Alatorre (Baritone & Bass), Gabriel Lewis-O'Connor (Baritone & Bass), Jace Wittig (Baritone & Bass), Matthew Oltman (Music Director), guest]. 2 of 17. Calvisius, Sethus (1556-1615). Unser...
Show more1 of 17. Gibbons, Orlando (1583-1625). Hosanna to the Son of David [performed by Chanticleer: Dylan Hostetter (Soprano), Michael McNeil (Soprano), Gregory Peebles (Soprano), Alan Reinhardt (Alto), Cortez Mitchell (Alto), Adam Ward (Alto), Brian Hinman (Tenor), Matthew Curtis (Tenor), Ben Jones (Tenor), Eric Alatorre (Baritone & Bass), Gabriel Lewis-O'Connor (Baritone & Bass), Jace Wittig (Baritone & Bass), Matthew Oltman (Music Director), guest]. 2 of 17. Calvisius, Sethus (1556-1615). Unser Leben wahret siebzig Jahr [performed by Chanticleer: Dylan Hostetter (Soprano), Michael McNeil (Soprano), Gregory Peebles (Soprano), Alan Reinhardt (Alto), Cortez Mitchell (Alto), Adam Ward (Alto), Brian Hinman (Tenor), Matthew Curtis (Tenor), Ben Jones (Tenor), Eric Alatorre (Baritone & Bass), Gabriel Lewis-O'Connor (Baritone & Bass), Jace Wittig (Baritone & Bass), Matthew Oltman (Music Director), guest]. 3 of 17. Plainchant. Veni sponsa Christi [performed by Chanticleer: Dylan Hostetter (Soprano), Michael McNeil (Soprano), Gregory Peebles (Soprano), Alan Reinhardt (Alto), Cortez Mitchell (Alto), Adam Ward (Alto), Brian Hinman (Tenor), Matthew Curtis (Tenor), Ben Jones (Tenor), Eric Alatorre (Baritone & Bass), Gabriel Lewis-O'Connor (Baritone & Bass), Jace Wittig (Baritone & Bass), Matthew Oltman (Music Director), guest]. 4 of 17. Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi da (1525?-1594). Veni sponsa Christi [performed by Chanticleer: Dylan Hostetter (Soprano), Michael McNeil (Soprano), Gregory Peebles (Soprano), Alan Reinhardt (Alto), Cortez Mitchell (Alto), Adam Ward (Alto), Brian Hinman (Tenor), Matthew Curtis (Tenor), Ben Jones (Tenor), Eric Alatorre (Baritone & Bass), Gabriel Lewis-O'Connor (Baritone & Bass), Jace Wittig (Baritone & Bass), Matthew Oltman (Music Director), guest]. 5 of 17. Daniel-Lesur, Jean Yves (1908-2002). from Le Cantique des cantiques, "Epithalame" [performed by Chanticleer: Dylan Hostetter (Soprano), Michael McNeil (Soprano), Gregory Peebles (Soprano), Alan Reinhardt (Alto), Cortez Mitchell (Alto), Adam Ward (Alto), Brian Hinman (Tenor), Matthew Curtis (Tenor), Ben Jones (Tenor), Eric Alatorre (Baritone & Bass), Gabriel Lewis-O'Connor (Baritone & Bass), Jace Wittig (Baritone & Bass), Matthew Oltman (Music Director), guest]. 6 of 17. Anonymous (15th century). Agincourt Carol [performed by Chanticleer: Dylan Hostetter (Soprano), Michael McNeil (Soprano), Gregory Peebles (Soprano), Alan Reinhardt (Alto), Cortez Mitchell (Alto), Adam Ward (Alto), Brian Hinman (Tenor), Matthew Curtis (Tenor), Ben Jones (Tenor), Eric Alatorre (Baritone & Bass), Gabriel Lewis-O'Connor (Baritone & Bass), Jace Wittig (Baritone & Bass), Matthew Oltman (Music Director), guest]. 7 of 17. Dufay, Guillaume (d. 1474). Lamentatio sanctae matris ecclesiae, Constantinopolitanae [performed by Chanticleer: Dylan Hostetter (Soprano), Michael McNeil (Soprano), Gregory Peebles (Soprano), Alan Reinhardt (Alto), Cortez Mitchell (Alto), Adam Ward (Alto), Brian Hinman (Tenor), Matthew Curtis (Tenor), Ben Jones (Tenor), Eric Alatorre (Baritone & Bass), Gabriel Lewis-O'Connor (Baritone & Bass), Jace Wittig (Baritone & Bass), Matthew Oltman (Music Director), guest]. 8 of 17. Janequin, Clement (ca. 1495-1560). La Guerre [performed by Chanticleer: Dylan Hostetter (Soprano), Michael McNeil (Soprano), Gregory Peebles (Soprano), Alan Reinhardt (Alto), Cortez Mitchell (Alto), Adam Ward (Alto), Brian Hinman (Tenor), Matthew Curtis (Tenor), Ben Jones (Tenor), Eric Alatorre (Baritone & Bass), Gabriel Lewis-O'Connor (Baritone & Bass), Jace Wittig (Baritone & Bass), Matthew Oltman (Music Director), guest]. 9 of 17. Ligeti, Gyorgy (1923-2007). Ejszaka (Night), Reggel (Morning) [performed by Chanticleer: Dylan Hostetter (Soprano), Michael McNeil (Soprano), Gregory Peebles (Soprano), Alan Reinhardt (Alto), Cortez Mitchell (Alto), Adam Ward (Alto), Brian Hinman (Tenor), Matthew Curtis (Tenor), Ben Jones (Tenor), Eric Alatorre (Baritone & Bass), Gabriel Lewis-O'Connor (Baritone & Bass), Jace Wittig (Baritone & Bass), Matthew Oltman (Music Director), guest]. 10 of 17. Yi, Chen (b. 1953). Sping Dreams [performed by Chanticleer: Dylan Hostetter (Soprano), Michael McNeil (Soprano), Gregory Peebles (Soprano), Alan Reinhardt (Alto), Cortez Mitchell (Alto), Adam Ward (Alto), Brian Hinman (Tenor), Matthew Curtis (Tenor), Ben Jones (Tenor), Eric Alatorre (Baritone & Bass), Gabriel Lewis-O'Connor (Baritone & Bass), Jace Wittig (Baritone & Bass), Matthew Oltman (Music Director), guest]. 11 of 17. Sametz, Steven (b. 1954). in time of [performed by Chanticleer: Dylan Hostetter (Soprano), Michael McNeil (Soprano), Gregory Peebles (Soprano), Alan Reinhardt (Alto), Cortez Mitchell (Alto), Adam Ward (Alto), Brian Hinman (Tenor), Matthew Curtis (Tenor), Ben Jones (Tenor), Eric Alatorre (Baritone & Bass), Gabriel Lewis-O'Connor (Baritone & Bass), Jace Wittig (Baritone & Bass), Matthew Oltman (Music Director), guest] ; This work has been recorded by Chanticleer, and are available at tonight's performance.. 12 of 17. McGlynn, Michael (b. 1964). Agnus Dei [performed by Chanticleer: Dylan Hostetter (Soprano), Michael McNeil (Soprano), Gregory Peebles (Soprano), Alan Reinhardt (Alto), Cortez Mitchell (Alto), Adam Ward (Alto), Brian Hinman (Tenor), Matthew Curtis (Tenor), Ben Jones (Tenor), Eric Alatorre (Baritone & Bass), Gabriel Lewis-O'Connor (Baritone & Bass), Jace Wittig (Baritone & Bass), Matthew Oltman (Music Director), guest] ; This work has been recorded by Chanticleer, and are available at tonight's performance.. 13 of 17. Bates, Mason (b. 1977). from Sirens [performed by Chanticleer: Dylan Hostetter (Soprano), Michael McNeil (Soprano), Gregory Peebles (Soprano), Alan Reinhardt (Alto), Cortez Mitchell (Alto), Adam Ward (Alto), Brian Hinman (Tenor), Matthew Curtis (Tenor), Ben Jones (Tenor), Eric Alatorre (Baritone & Bass), Gabriel Lewis-O'Connor (Baritone & Bass), Jace Wittig (Baritone & Bass), Matthew Oltman (Music Director), guest]. 14 of 17. Acosta, Sanchez, arr. Juan Tony Guzman. Paraiso Sonado [performed by Chanticleer: Dylan Hostetter (Soprano), Michael McNeil (Soprano), Gregory Peebles (Soprano), Alan Reinhardt (Alto), Cortez Mitchell (Alto), Adam Ward (Alto), Brian Hinman (Tenor), Matthew Curtis (Tenor), Ben Jones (Tenor), Eric Alatorre (Baritone & Bass), Gabriel Lewis-O'Connor (Baritone & Bass), Jace Wittig (Baritone & Bass), Matthew Oltman (Music Director), guest]. 15 of 17. Cavallaro, Carmen. from Poema de la Siguiriya Gitana, "El Grito" [performed by Chanticleer: Dylan Hostetter (Soprano), Michael McNeil (Soprano), Gregory Peebles (Soprano), Alan Reinhardt (Alto), Cortez Mitchell (Alto), Adam Ward (Alto), Brian Hinman (Tenor), Matthew Curtis (Tenor), Ben Jones (Tenor), Eric Alatorre (Baritone & Bass), Gabriel Lewis-O'Connor (Baritone & Bass), Jace Wittig (Baritone & Bass), Matthew Oltman (Music Director), guest]. 16 of 17. Simons, Moisis, arr. Tanie Leon. El Mansiero [performed by Chanticleer: Dylan Hostetter (Soprano), Michael McNeil (Soprano), Gregory Peebles (Soprano), Alan Reinhardt (Alto), Cortez Mitchell (Alto), Adam Ward (Alto), Brian Hinman (Tenor), Matthew Curtis (Tenor), Ben Jones (Tenor), Eric Alatorre (Baritone & Bass), Gabriel Lewis-O'Connor (Baritone & Bass), Jace Wittig (Baritone & Bass), Matthew Oltman (Music Director), guest] ; This work has been recorded by Chanticleer, and are available at tonight's performance.. 17 of 17. A selection of folk-songs, popular songs and spirituals to be announced. [performed by Chanticleer: Dylan Hostetter (Soprano), Michael McNeil (Soprano), Gregory Peebles (Soprano), Alan Reinhardt (Alto), Cortez Mitchell (Alto), Adam Ward (Alto), Brian Hinman (Tenor), Matthew Curtis (Tenor), Ben Jones (Tenor), Eric Alatorre (Baritone & Bass), Gabriel Lewis-O'Connor (Baritone & Bass), Jace Wittig (Baritone & Bass), Matthew Oltman (Music Director), guest].
Martel Recital Hall, Skinner Hall of Music
At top of program: In Time Of...
A Barbara Woods Morgan Memorial Concert
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Date: 10/11/2009, 3pm

Title: The Composers' Concert
Description: 1 of 11. Morgan, Emerson. Evovae [performed by Christien Beeuwkes, Daniel Eccher, Zachary Entwistle, Sarah Hackenberg, Gabriel Jodorkovsky, Annelisse Meyer, Emerson Morgan, Catherine Viscardi, Sasha Zabinski, Brian Grohl (conductor), student]. 2 of 11. Morgan, Emerson. Three Poems by Krista McCann: II. 2 May 1994: tanka; III. 16 November 1992: berceuse [performed by Christien Beeuwkes, Daniel Eccher, Zachary Entwistle, Sarah Hackenberg, Gabriel Jodorkovsky, Annelisse Meyer, Emerson Morgan, Ca...
Show more1 of 11. Morgan, Emerson. Evovae [performed by Christien Beeuwkes, Daniel Eccher, Zachary Entwistle, Sarah Hackenberg, Gabriel Jodorkovsky, Annelisse Meyer, Emerson Morgan, Catherine Viscardi, Sasha Zabinski, Brian Grohl (conductor), student]. 2 of 11. Morgan, Emerson. Three Poems by Krista McCann: II. 2 May 1994: tanka; III. 16 November 1992: berceuse [performed by Christien Beeuwkes, Daniel Eccher, Zachary Entwistle, Sarah Hackenberg, Gabriel Jodorkovsky, Annelisse Meyer, Emerson Morgan, Catherine Viscardi, Sasha Zabinski, Brian Grohl (conductor), student]. 3 of 11. Gleason, Andrew. Three Characters in Search of an Exit [performed by Allison Smith (oboe), Anne Bussard (flute), Cathy Delneo (cello), student]. 4 of 11. Hohenberger, Gary. Relate for Violin and Cello [performed by Amy Leffert (cello), Sasha Zabinski (violin), student]. 5 of 11. Hohenberger, Gary. And Finished knowing-then [performed by Andrew Gleason (guitar), Terrence Murren (bass), Elisha Merriam (drums), student]. 6 of 11. Miller, Paul. Prelude and Fugue in Bb minor [performed by Jennifer Zeyack (violin), Paul Miller (viola), Amy Leffert (cello), student]. 7 of 11. Schechter, Naomi. Forgotten [performed by Catherine Viscardi (soprano), Anne Bussard (flute), Sarah Madru (clarinet), student]. 8 of 11. Tait, Matthew. Untitled ; Tape. 9 of 11. Christopherson, James. Duo for Violin and Cello [performed by Sasha Zabinski (violin), Amy Leffert (cello), student]. 10 of 11. Ogden, Ashley. Refuge [performed by Alexandra Scott (guitar), Joseph Bonk (guitar), student]. 11 of 11. Morgan, Emerson. Elegy [performed by Christien Beeuwkes, Matthew Bishop, Deborah Cowan, Daniel Eccher, Zachary Entwistle, Alexis Glick, David Hawkins, Sarah Hackenberg, Danielle Inagaki, Gabriel Jodorkovsky, Jonathan Liu, Annelisse Meyer, Elizabeth Muryneck, Emerson Morgan, Catherine Viscardi, David Ezer (piano), Melissa Healy (flute), Brian Grohl (conductor), student].
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Date: 4/8/1995, 8:30 PM

Title: Recital by Walter Trampler (viola), Blanca Uribe (piano)
Description: 1 of 4. Schumann, Robert (1810-1856). Marchenbilder, Op. 113 for Piano and Viola [performed by Blanca Uribe (piano), faculty; Walter Trampler (viola), guest]. 2 of 4. Wilson, Richard (b. 1941). Sonata for Viola and Piano (1989) (in four movements) [performed by Blanca Uribe (piano), faculty; Walter Trampler (viola), guest]. 3 of 4. Persichetti, Vincent (1915-1987). Infanta Marina, Op. 83 for Viola and Piano [performed by Blanca Uribe (piano), faculty; Walter Trampler (viola), guest]. 4 of ...
Show more1 of 4. Schumann, Robert (1810-1856). Marchenbilder, Op. 113 for Piano and Viola [performed by Blanca Uribe (piano), faculty; Walter Trampler (viola), guest]. 2 of 4. Wilson, Richard (b. 1941). Sonata for Viola and Piano (1989) (in four movements) [performed by Blanca Uribe (piano), faculty; Walter Trampler (viola), guest]. 3 of 4. Persichetti, Vincent (1915-1987). Infanta Marina, Op. 83 for Viola and Piano [performed by Blanca Uribe (piano), faculty; Walter Trampler (viola), guest]. 4 of 4. Hindemith, Paul (1895-1963). Sonata for Viola and Piano, Op. 11, No. 4 [performed by Blanca Uribe (piano), faculty; Walter Trampler (viola), guest].
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Date: 3/31/1995, 8:30 PM

Title: Vassar College Madrigal Singers, Vassar College Choir
Description: 1 of 5. Faure, Gabriel. Pavane, Op. 50 [performed by Vassar College Madrigal Singers, Vassar College Choir, student; William Appling (conductor), faculty]. 2 of 5. Janacek, Leos (1854-1928). Rikadla (Children's Rhymes) [performed by Marco Granados (flute), Larry Tietze (clarinet), Joanna Schroer (clarinet), Thomas Novak (bassoon), Lester Kantor (bassoon), Susan Powell (bass), Paul Hostetter (percussion), Vassar College Madrigal Singers, student; Todd Crow (piano), William Appling (conductor...
Show more1 of 5. Faure, Gabriel. Pavane, Op. 50 [performed by Vassar College Madrigal Singers, Vassar College Choir, student; William Appling (conductor), faculty]. 2 of 5. Janacek, Leos (1854-1928). Rikadla (Children's Rhymes) [performed by Marco Granados (flute), Larry Tietze (clarinet), Joanna Schroer (clarinet), Thomas Novak (bassoon), Lester Kantor (bassoon), Susan Powell (bass), Paul Hostetter (percussion), Vassar College Madrigal Singers, student; Todd Crow (piano), William Appling (conductor), faculty]. 4 of 5. Wilson, Richard (b. 1941). Poor Warren: Four Poems by John Ashbery: Frontispiece; Crazy Weather; Just Walking Around; Qualm [performed by Vassar College Madrigal Singers, student; William Appling (conductor), faculty] ; World Premier. 5 of 5. Williams, Ralph Vaughan (1872-1958). Flos Campi [performed by Vassar College Madrigal Singers, Vassar College Choir, student; William Appling (conductor), faculty; Christopher Borg (viola), guest]. 3 of 5. Ashbery, John. Reading by John Ashbery: Frontispiece; Crazy Weather; Just Walking Around; Qualm [performed by John Ashberry (reader), guest].
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Date: 3/28/1995, 8:30 PM

Title: Vassar College Orchestra: Family Concert
Description: 1 of 5. Berlioz, Hector (1803-1869). Roman Carnival Overture, Op. 9 [performed by Vassar College Orchestra, student; Tony Rowe (conductor), faculty]. 2 of 5. Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791). Vorrei spiegarvi oh Dio, K418 [performed by Catherine Viscardi (soprano), Vassar College Orchestra, student; Tony Rowe (conductor), faculty]. 3 of 5. Debussy, Claude (1862-1918). Fetes, from Nocturnes (1900) [performed by Vassar College Orchestra, student; Tony Rowe (conductor), faculty]. 4 of 5. ...
Show more1 of 5. Berlioz, Hector (1803-1869). Roman Carnival Overture, Op. 9 [performed by Vassar College Orchestra, student; Tony Rowe (conductor), faculty]. 2 of 5. Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791). Vorrei spiegarvi oh Dio, K418 [performed by Catherine Viscardi (soprano), Vassar College Orchestra, student; Tony Rowe (conductor), faculty]. 3 of 5. Debussy, Claude (1862-1918). Fetes, from Nocturnes (1900) [performed by Vassar College Orchestra, student; Tony Rowe (conductor), faculty]. 4 of 5. Ravel, Maurice (1875-1937). Piano Concerto in G (1931): 1st Movement: Allegramente [performed by Joseph Cohen (piano), Vassar College Orchestra, student; Tony Rowe (conductor), faculty]. 5 of 5. Offenbach, Jacques (1819-1880). Can-Can, from Orpheus in the Underworld (1858) [performed by Vassar College Orchestra, student; Tony Rowe (conductor), faculty].
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Date: 3/4/1995, 3:00 PM

Title: Concert by Continuum
Description: 1 of 6. Gubaidulina, Sophia. Dancer on a Tightrope (1993) [performed by Continuum: Nan Hughes (mezzo-soprano), Renee Jolles (violin), David Gresham (clarinet), Cheryl Seltzer (piano, electronic keyboard), Joel Sachs (piano, conductor), guest]. 2 of 6. Felzer, Oleg. Vestige (1993) [performed by Continuum: Nan Hughes (mezzo-soprano), Renee Jolles (violin), David Gresham (clarinet), Cheryl Seltzer (piano, electronic keyboard), Joel Sachs (piano, conductor), guest] ; Composed for Continuum. 3 of ...
Show more1 of 6. Gubaidulina, Sophia. Dancer on a Tightrope (1993) [performed by Continuum: Nan Hughes (mezzo-soprano), Renee Jolles (violin), David Gresham (clarinet), Cheryl Seltzer (piano, electronic keyboard), Joel Sachs (piano, conductor), guest]. 2 of 6. Felzer, Oleg. Vestige (1993) [performed by Continuum: Nan Hughes (mezzo-soprano), Renee Jolles (violin), David Gresham (clarinet), Cheryl Seltzer (piano, electronic keyboard), Joel Sachs (piano, conductor), guest] ; Composed for Continuum. 3 of 6. Bibik, Valentin. Premonitions (1993) [performed by Continuum: Nan Hughes (mezzo-soprano), Renee Jolles (violin), David Gresham (clarinet), Cheryl Seltzer (piano, electronic keyboard), Joel Sachs (piano, conductor), guest] ; Texts: Alexander Blok, Composed for Continuum ; USA Premier. 4 of 6. Firsova, Elena. Sonata for Clarinet Solo (1976): In one movement [performed by Continuum: David Gresham (clarinet), guest]. 5 of 6. Ustvolskaya, Galina. Trio for Violin, Clarinet and Piano (1949, revised 1975): Espressivo; Dolce; Energico [performed by Continuum: Renee Jolles (violin), David Gresham (clarinet), Cheryl Seltzer (piano) [?], guest]. 6 of 6. Hrabovsky, Leonid. And It Will Be (1993) [performed by Continuum: Nan Hughes (mezzo-soprano), Renee Jolles (violin), David Gresham (clarinet), Cheryl Seltzer (piano, electronic keyboard), Joel Sachs (piano, conductor), guest] ; Texts: Mikla Vorobyov (Sung in Ukrainian), Composed for Continuum.
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Continuum is a service mark of the Performers' Committee Inc., Cheryl Seltzer and Joel Sachs, directors.
1995 Barbara Woods Morgan Concert. This concert is made possible in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
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Date: 3/3/1995, 8:30 PM

Title: Junior Recital by Tara Loughran, soprano
Description: 1 of 8. Handel, George Frideric (1685-1759). Piangero La Sorte Mia, from Giulio Cesare [performed by Tara Loughran (soprano), student; Huguette van Ackere (piano), faculty]. 2 of 8. Schumann, Robert (1810-1856). Schone Wiege meiner Leiden, from Liederkreis (Heine) Op. 24 [performed by Tara Loughran (soprano), student; Huguette van Ackere (piano), faculty]. 3 of 8. Schumann, Robert (1810-1856). Die Lotosblume, from Myrthen, Op. 25 [performed by Tara Loughran (soprano), student; Huguette van...
Show more1 of 8. Handel, George Frideric (1685-1759). Piangero La Sorte Mia, from Giulio Cesare [performed by Tara Loughran (soprano), student; Huguette van Ackere (piano), faculty]. 2 of 8. Schumann, Robert (1810-1856). Schone Wiege meiner Leiden, from Liederkreis (Heine) Op. 24 [performed by Tara Loughran (soprano), student; Huguette van Ackere (piano), faculty]. 3 of 8. Schumann, Robert (1810-1856). Die Lotosblume, from Myrthen, Op. 25 [performed by Tara Loughran (soprano), student; Huguette van Ackere (piano), faculty]. 4 of 8. Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897). Unbewegte laue Luft, from eight songs to texts by Dauner, Op. 57 [performed by Tara Loughran (soprano), student; Huguette van Ackere (piano), faculty]. 5 of 8. Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897). Botschaft, from five songs, Op. 47 [performed by Tara Loughran (soprano), student; Huguette van Ackere (piano), faculty]. 6 of 8. La Contessa de Dia (late 12th cent.). A chantar m'er [performed by Tara Loughran (soprano); , student; Huguette van Ackere (piano), faculty]. 7 of 8. Williams, Ralph Vaughan (1872-1958). Silent Noon [performed by Tara Loughran (soprano), student; Huguette van Ackere (piano), faculty]. 8 of 8. Rachmaninoff, Sergei (1873-1943). The Lilacs; Into my open window; The Coming of Spring [performed by Tara Loughran (soprano), student; Huguette van Ackere (piano), faculty].
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Physical program from Department of Music collection
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Date: 4/16/1994, 8:00 PM

Title: Loebl, Eugen, 1907-1987 -- Memorial Minute:
Creator: Rousseas, Stephen
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Date: September 28, 1988
Text: E 9’ 5 F E 1 \- 1 I _.-i-..~..,_,e '-ﬁ#§<-Ir~'"€§-_ 1 , x \ \ ‘Y ' i » Vassar College Faculty Meeting September 28, 1988 I N M E M O R I A M Eugen Loebl 1907 - 1987 Eugen Loebl was born on May 14, 1907 in the village of iwlic, in the Hungarian part of the Austrian Empire. After World War I it became a part of the newly created nation of Czechoslovakia. He started his education in Holic and then went on to study in Vienna, two and a half hours away, at the muversity for...
Show moreE 9’ 5 F E 1 \- 1 I _.-i-..~..,_,e '-ﬁ#§<-Ir~'"€§-_ 1 , x \ \ ‘Y ' i » Vassar College Faculty Meeting September 28, 1988 I N M E M O R I A M Eugen Loebl 1907 - 1987 Eugen Loebl was born on May 14, 1907 in the village of iwlic, in the Hungarian part of the Austrian Empire. After World War I it became a part of the newly created nation of Czechoslovakia. He started his education in Holic and then went on to study in Vienna, two and a half hours away, at the muversity for welthandel (World Commerce) and later completed Ins economics studies in Prague at Charles University, where he .i~ ﬂso subsequently taught. 9 Although Eugen came from a religious background, he was not a"pratiquant," and unlike his brother who was an ardent Zionist, i. Iugen went directly into politics. As a child he had noticed the gqabetween peoples‘ religious beliefs and their acts. And in jﬂm political sphere, the acts of cowardice and accommodation to g, 1‘ sﬂm rising Nazi movement were even more troubling. In Vienna he »~ .4 Imechoslovakian communist party because it was the only group and other Jewish students were beaten by brown-shirted Nazis who - \ ~ﬂm1ked the halls of the university. He was shocked that this 9: kmﬂd.be allowed to happen, and in his mid-twenties he joined the #1 . ( *‘ >< Q "ﬂmt was seriously resisting the rise of Naziism. *1; S Eugen was a very bright young man and he rose quickly within Hm party's ranks. By the time of world War II and the German . -hwasion of Czechoslovakia in 1939, he found himself in London E I s Q v ;, i v E. l F W-Y,-,._..._., -“W 2 with the provisional Czechoslovakian government in exile, where he served as economic adviser to Jan Masaryk, the minister for foreign affairs, and in the immediate postwar years as representative of Czechoslovakia in the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA). Toward the end of the war, when the defeat of Hitler seemed inevitable, Eugen was sent from London to Prague in a roundabout way with plans for the new government. The path to Prague was via Turkey and then through most of the back part of Russia on train. On the last leg of the trip Eugen shared a train compartment with a Russian general who forced him to drink down toast after toast of vodka and black pepper to the Russian nation, to the Czech nation, to the armies, to the generals that led them, and on and on until Eugen became deadly sick. when he finally arrived in Prague, somewhat wobbly, he found the war had ended and the Czech exile government already installed. As close as Eugen had been to Jan Masaryk, he could never bring himself to discuss the death of his friend in the communist takeover of the Czech government -- whether he fell or was pushed out of the bathroom window. Whenever asked about it he went into a pained silence, and one soon sensed it was a topic not to be pursued. In the new communist government Eugen became deputy minister of trade. It was in this capacity that Eugen made a fatal mistake. The Czech government in exile had rovisionally agreed (at a time when Czechoslovakia was still '6 ccupied by Soviet troops) to provide the Soviet Union with O 3 uranium ore at cost plus 10 percent. After the war, in 1947, Eugen headed a Czech delegation that met with Foreign Trade Minister Anastas Mikoyan and Deputy Prime Minister Krutikov to renegotiate the terms of the earlier agreement. Eugen suggested that the Soviet Union pay Czechoslovakia at world market prices for the ore. That was the beginning of Eugen's downfall. Years later, after his release from prison and his rehabilitation as Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Bratislava, Eugen asked his research staff to calculate the difference between the prices the Soviet Union actually paid and the world market price for uranium ore. For the period 1945 to 1965 the difference exceeded one billion dollars. The tragedy of Eugen Loebl is best explained by a book published early in the postwar years under the title The God That Failed, with Ignazio Silone, Arthur Koestler, Stephen Spender, and others as contributors. Eugen was arrested on November 24, 1949 and was brought to trial in 1952 along with Rudolph Slansky, the Secretary—General of the Czechoslovak Communist Party, and 12 other defendants. In the Slansky trial of 1952 Eugen saw his great hope, the thing he most believed in turned into an instrument of terror. He later came to think that the failure was built into the system of Marxism; that betrayal of the revolution was inevitable; that the system itself was fatally flawed and inhuman. And he spent the rest of his life making amends for his earlier beliefs by writing books and articles, by 4 testifying before Congressional Committees, and by taking to the lecture circuit in Spain, Germany, Switzerland, Brazil and India. Eugen set out the story of the 1952 Slansky Trial in his book Stalinism in Prague. In it he repudiated Koestler's thesis in Darkness at Noon, based on the trial of Nikolai Bukharin in 1939, that confessions were made out of a sense of party loyalty and political need. One confessed, according to Eugen, simply because one had no other choice. Of the fourteen defendants, eleven were Jewish. And of the 11 not one was a Zionist. Yet the accused were charged with conspiring to promote world Jewish domination and of trying to sabotage socialism in order to align Czechoslovakia with the West. The charges were espionage, high treason, and sabotage. All were regarded as “Trotskyite, Titoite, Zionist and bourgeois-national traitors in the service of the U.S. imperialists and under the direction of Western espionage agencies." All confessed after extensive grilling and torture by Czech and Russian interrogators. In particular, Eugen Loebl was accused of being an Israeli agent. The shipment of arms in 1947 to Israel from the Skoda plant in Czechoslovakia was seen as part of an international Zionist plot. Of the fourteen charged, only three survived -- Artur London, Vavro Hajdu, and Eugen Loebl. The rest were executed. Eugen spent eleven years in jail, five of them in solitary confinement. It was while in solitary confinement, with no books and no writing material at his disposal, that he began rethinking his Marxism and committing his new thoughts to memory. The 5 critical fault he found in Marxism was its dependence on a primitive labor theory of value based on manual labor. It was while in jail that Eugen devised his notion of "mental" labor, which became the basis of all his subsequent thought in the field of economics. - , ~ with the rise of Khrushchev to power and his repudiation of Stalin in 1956, rehabilitation became a possibility, but Eugen was not to be released from jail until five years later in 1961. For two years after his release he worked as a wrapping clerk and was not rehabilitated until 1963. At that time, Alexander Dubcek, the head of government, insisted that Eugen be given a responsible position in government. He was assigned by the bureaucracy to the central bank of Bratislava with the expectation that he would fail. Instead, he excelled and was shortly made deputy director of the bank. The "Spring Thaw" of 1968 saw the end of "socialism with a human face" and the brutal reimposition of Stalinism in the Eastern European countries. Russian tanks rumbled through Prague's Wenceslas Square in August of 1968 and Eugen fled to the West. It was on January 24, 1969 that President Alan Simpson announced the appointment of Eugen Loebl as Dexter M. Ferry, Jr., Professor of Economics and Political Science at Vassar College, where he stayed as a member of the economics department until his retirement in 1975 at the age of 68. He was an active member of the department of economics and a major participant in the Critical Thought program of Science, Technology and Society. He 1 \ F . i F l A \ v i & K . é \? \L i F ‘- F P F i ‘v 1 i I x w > I ,_ _4,__?_ v K > 2 % x } > : F. i 6 proved to be an inspiring teacher and his classes were extremely popular with the students. It was while at Vassar that he put down in writing his major thoughts on mental labor. His book Humanomics: How We Can Make the Economy Serve us -- Not Destroy gs was widely reviewed and endorsed by such prominent writers as Alvin Toffler, Peter F. Drucker and Michael Novak. It was a controversial book that recommended the doing away of income taxes, the imposition of stiff value added taxes on the products consumed by the rich, and placed human values at the center of the economy -— which in his view was done neither by capitalism nor by communism. Above all, the one thing he most wanted was to remove economists from the center of decision making. "I think all economists," wrote Eugen, "should be given five years of solitary confinement. Half of them might radically rethink their ideas, and the other half would at least be out of circulation where they could do no harm." V His biggest success was in India in 1978 where Prime Minister Moraji Desai not only endorsed the book but was photographed prominently holding it out for the benefit of the photographers -— and the book. So much publicity was received Eugen's ideas in India that a group was formed to promote them (which still continues to function), and the Dalai Lama invited Eugen to visit with him. It turned out the Dalai Lama was interested in combining the religion of Tibet with the teachings of Marx -- in the hope of finding some way of ending his exile in India by compromising with the Chinese communists. Eugen was by I v » I V 1 M » xi ‘x v. :4 I 1 r E I 5 E E 7 appalled by the idea and severely lectured the Dali Lama on the impossibility of doing so, as he did, on another occasion, to Marxist catholic clergy in Brazil on the impossibility of combining christianity with Marxism. But while he was in India his hosts were alarmed at his being constantly followed by agents of the Czech and Russian embassies -- so much so that they appealed to the Indian government for his protection. It was with considerable relief that his official host kissed him goodbye at the airport. In his retirement years, from 1975 to 1987, he attended a conference on human rights in Madrid and travelled extensively in Europe and Latin America. He also served as a consultant to Denison Mines, the world's largest uranium mine in Canada, run by the Slovakian multi-millionaire, Stephen Roman, with whom he wrote a book, The Responsible Society. Less than a year before his death, Eugen travelled to Vienna where a television documentary was being made on the psychological effects of his imprisonment and interrogation (The Confession). Eugen played himself in the documentary, and in prison uniform spent hours walking the prison corridors and reliving his past. The TV documentary was broadcast on June 13, 1987, two months before his death. It was also broadcast in the Czech language. The last project Eugen Loebl worked on was the problem of Peace and Freedom, to which he was convinced he had the answer. His views attracted considerable interest in West Germany, where his papers on peace and freedom are to be deposited, in India, 8 and among some deputies in France. All his other papers will be deposited at the Libraries of Columbia University. Eugen Loebl suffered his first heart attack in 1961, one week after his release from prison. He had a second, and minor, attack in 1983. With the passage of years he had, at times, difficulty in breathing, and in 1987 he decided to undergo bypass surgery at the age of 80. He went into it with courage and was sure that it would turn out all right. He made rapid progress the first two weeks after the operation, but the trauma of the operation, in conjunction with his diabetes, proved too much. He died at home in New York on August 8, 1987, leaving behind a son in Switzerland from his first marriage, and his second wife of eighteen close and very happy years, the artist, well known and well loved in Vassar circles, Greta Schreyer. The extraordinary life of an extraordinary man had come to an end. Throughout his life, Eugen was "engagé." He was not content to sit on the sidelines watching developments from the safety of his classroom, as so many academic "seminar Marxists" are want to do. He was a warm and caring man who, though "engagé," never allowed his critical faculties to be subordinated to an external dogma. To have known Eugen was to have basked in his warmth, his bubbling enthusiasm, and his eternal optimism and belief in the possibility of a better world. Respectfully submitted For the epartment of Economics Stephen Rousseas
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Title: Tremelling, Michael M., 1945-1988 -- Memorial Minute:
Creator: Brown, Robert D., Stout, Edith C., Beck, Curt W.
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Date: September 1988
Text: Memorial Minute Michael J. Tremelling Michael Tremelling died last June at the age of forty—two. For a decade and a half his life had hung by a thread and that thread was getting thinner and thinner. He knew that, but he used what time he had to do his work, to raise his children and to show more concern for others than for himself. when he lost his last battle, his friends, colleagues and students lost the most remarkable man they are ever likely to know. Michael Tremelling was born on...
Show moreMemorial Minute Michael J. Tremelling Michael Tremelling died last June at the age of forty—two. For a decade and a half his life had hung by a thread and that thread was getting thinner and thinner. He knew that, but he used what time he had to do his work, to raise his children and to show more concern for others than for himself. when he lost his last battle, his friends, colleagues and students lost the most remarkable man they are ever likely to know. Michael Tremelling was born on October i4, I945, in Rigby, Idaho. In his undergraduate years, at the Idaho State University, he was the junior member of joint faculty—student research that resulted in his first two publications. This early experience shaped his later professional life as a chemist and as a teacher of chemistry: he was never happier than when he worked with his Vassar students in the laboratory. Mike did his graduate work at Yale, where he earned Master's and Doctor's degrees in physical organic chemistry and then went on to Cal Tech for a year of post—doctoral research. -1- it was during that year that both his kidneys failed and were replaced by a kidney given him by one of his sisters, Jeanne. when Mike applied for an appointment at Vassar early in 1974, he sent along his cu/‘r/‘cu/um wfae on which the entry "Health:" read “Good; kidney transplant May 1973". That laconic assessment reflected his determination more than his optimism. He knew, as we did, that the health of a transplant patient is never simply "good". The drugs administered to prevent the body from rejecting the alien organ inevitably weaken the entire immune system. Even a trivial infection like the common cold constitutes a threat to life. in addition, these drugs cause progressive deterioration of the bone structure. Both of Mike's hips had to be replaced with steel and plastic not once but twice, and during his last stay in the hospital, he faced a third hip replacement, a drug-resistant infection, and a second kidney transplant. That proved to be more than even his tenacity could overcome. Mike had a fierce and dogged will to live, not for the pleasures life afforded him, for those were few, but for his work which he loved, and for his two young sons, Christopher and Jonathan, whom he loved more and for whose custody he had fought a long and wearying battle. Most of his energy went into his work, and he was good at it. _ 2 _ He was a demanding teacher, and a generous one. He was always ready to help students who were honorably struggling with chemistry, and even more so to guide those who wanted to explore it beyond the context of the introductory course. But he had no patience with students who did not try to do their best. For someone who as a matter of course worked to the limit of his capacity under trying circumstances, - who painfully dragged himself to class on crutches and taught with an overhead projector from his chair when he could no longer stand on his feet, - it was incomprehensible and infuriating that there were hale young people who could not be bothered to put their best effort into their own future. At the center of Mike's professional life was his research. Characteristically, he was only interested in difficult problems. He carried out work in three distinct areas of physical organic chemistry: solid-state reactions at high temperatures, steric requirements of physiologically active molecules, especially morphine analogues, and the mechanisms and kinetics of free-radical reactions. His substantial and highly original contributions to these fields have been published in more than a dozen papers, several of them in journals that accept only work of unusual and fundamental importance, like fez‘/"a/lea’/"an Letters and the rapid communications section of the ./0uma/ of 2‘/re Amer/‘can C/?6‘/77/Z‘8/ Social‘;/. His work was supported by grants from the Petroleum Research Fund, the Research Corporation, and the National Science Foundation. He worked and -3- published jointly with two colleagues in the department and, above all, with his students. To a deeply engaged scientist, teaching and research are indivisible: the most effective teaching and the most exciting learning are done when a student and a teacher strive together to trace the lines of order and of beauty in Nature's tapestry. The students who had the good fortune to work with Mike in the laboratory knew and loved him best, both as a scientist and as a man, and their lives have been profoundly changed by knowing him. it is easier to talk of Michael Tremellings work than to convey what kind of man he was. Few could live in such adversity and in virtually constant pain without falling into despondency, self -pity and an acceptance of defeat. That was not Mike's way. He staved off despair by setting aside what he could not change and putting his energy into what he could. If he was discouraged by what he called the rollercoaster ride of small improvements followed by large setbacks, he did not let it show. His health was not a subject of conversation he saw fit to open. As he lay immobilized on his bed for most of last winter and throughout spring, he would talk to his visitors about everything else but that, - about books he read, about college affairs, about national politics. His comments were often funny and always incisive and cuttingly to the point. He did not have the mind, — or the time, — to beat about the bush. Only when asked would he speak of his _4_ condition and then in such a matter-of-fact way that it seemed he was looking not at the ruins of his life but at a biochemical phenomenon he followed with detached interest. Then he would change the subject. The remarkable thing is our clear sense that he avoided speaking of his pain and of his prospects not to protect himself but to spare our feelings. There is no lack of large and noble words to describe Michael Tremelling. There is his genuine brilliance as a scientist. There is his unflagging courage that can only be called heroic. There is the enormous dignity with which he faced multiplying disaster. But at the core of all of these there is that rare and unfashionable quality called goodness. Wordsworth reminds us that the "best portion of a good man's life" are "his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love“. Yes, but not unremembered. All who knew Mike during his short life will remember him for however long we may live. September I988 Robert D. Brown, Department of Classics Edith C. Stout, Department of Chemistry Curt W. Beck, Department of Chemistry -5-
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Title: Christie, John Aldrich, 1920-1987 -- Memorial Minute:
Creator: Bergon, Frank, Brisman, Susan, Gifford, William
Description
Date: April 6, 1988
Text: i k » z § VASSAR COLLEGE POUGHKEEPSIE -NEW YORK 12601 At a Meeting of the Faculty of Vassar College held April 6, 1988 the following Memorial for John Aldrich Christie, 1920-1987, was unanimously adopted: When John Aldrich Christie died last September, he was where lm wanted to be—-at his home in Vermont with his family. Born in Mmthampton, Massachusetts——the son of a Congregational minister—— MM reared in Connecticut and southern Vermont, John was an inveter- Me New Englander. Away at...
Show morei k » z § VASSAR COLLEGE POUGHKEEPSIE -NEW YORK 12601 At a Meeting of the Faculty of Vassar College held April 6, 1988 the following Memorial for John Aldrich Christie, 1920-1987, was unanimously adopted: When John Aldrich Christie died last September, he was where lm wanted to be—-at his home in Vermont with his family. Born in Mmthampton, Massachusetts——the son of a Congregational minister—— MM reared in Connecticut and southern Vermont, John was an inveter- Me New Englander. Away at college in Oberlin, Ohio, he read Ihnry James's Roderick Hudson as a cure for homesickness. He returned to New England to earn two M.A.s, the first at Wesleyan mm the second at Yale. In January 1946, as he was fond of say- hg, Helen Lockwood "plucked him out of Yale" to teach at Vassar. Heliked being close to Vermont. He jokingly told friends that lw had wanted this written into his Vassar contract: in the spring, ﬁning maple sugaring time, he would be permitted to leave for two weeks in Vermont. John received his doctorate in English and American literature hom Duke in 1955. Four years later as a Vassar associate pro- kssor'he was featured in a Pageant Magazine article entitled, ‘Q Professor to Remember: What Makes a Dynamic Teacher?" The wption under one photograph read: "Rapt meeting of minds: Freshman dass, teacher Christie, and poet Milton." With Yankee resignation ad good humor, John characterized the article as "a spoonful for Hm educational cause." "While not stirring me to my professional mes," John wrote, it "does Vassar and teaching no harm." V In his courses on American literature John relished teaching ﬂmt pantheon of New Englanders--Hawthorne, Melville, Dickinson, hmrson, and especially Henry David Thoreau who was the subject of hhn's book, Thoreau as World Traveler, published by Columbia Mdversity Press and the American Geographical Society in 1965. H was Thoreau's sense of the adventurous relationship between wserved and imaginative experience that stirred John's own sense ofhimself as a teacher and a person. The first principle of his waching was always that knowledge is not knowledge until it is uwerienced on the pulse. To him, as to Thoreau, the individual uwerience was primary. "No matter how mild the human adventure," hhn once wrote, "it can be made inestimable" by what one imagina- ﬁvely brings to it. _ 2 _ John's appetite for the human adventure was hard to forget, reflected again in his love of maple sugaring. When one visited him, in Vermont, during sugaring, the air was full of the smell of simmering maple sap. Maple syrup was used on and in everything-— toast, cereal, coffee, ice cream. The sheer energy and physical capacity of the man drew comment, especially if one should also happen to notice he had only one arm. A fall from the rafters of a neighbor's Vermont barn when John was a boy had left his arm badly broken. Infection and the lack of penicillin led to its amputation. John never considered himself handicapped, and neither would anyone who ever saw him splitting logs. Once, as he and a friend approached a toll booth while John was driving, the friend realized that before he could help in any way John had gotten out his wallet, paid the toll, shifted gears, and was leaving the toll booth while simultaneously putting away his wallet and steering with his knees. "Well," the friend thought, "if John is doing it, it must be all right." At Vassar John seemed to serve at one time or another on virtually every faculty committee on campus. He was president of the Faculty Club, when there was a faculty club, from 1947 to 1949. With his first wife Dorothy Sexton Christie, and their three sons, David, John, and Roderick, he brought visiting writers together with students and faculty in his home. In 1951 when he became a Cushing House Fellow, his family became the first faculty family to live in the dormitories. The classes of 1951 and 1963 chose him as their Class Advisor. For nine years he served as an officer in the American Association of University Professors, ranging from president of the Vassar chapter to member of the National Council. He was one of a three—man AAUP investigating team which in 1966 charged the trustees and administration of St. John's University h1Jamaica, Queens, for violation of academic freedom in their dis- missal of thirty—one professors. He enhanced Vassar's financial aid program by creating the position of student research assistant, initially training students himself and paying them out of his own pocket. When John joked about getting money for such projects, his friends could recognize his deft ability to poke sly verbal fun at himself or the institution he was so devoted to. When he was serving as a consultant to Nyack High School in the early sixties, he told Vassar he would need traveling expenses. "How much?" he was asked. '%etween twenty and thirty dollars," he said. Then, John would say, ‘T got a check for twenty—one dollars." John felt proudest of his contribution to multidisciplinary education at Vassar. From the time of his arrival at Vassar he was involved in what was then called the Related Studies Program h1American Culture, a program which collapsed in the mid—l950s for hck of funding. In 1972, John was able to regenerate the program by successfully directing a portion of Helen Lockwood's bequest wward its financial support. As the first director of the v > K 1 V I 1 > k \ 1 k _ 3 _ multidisciplinary program in American Culture, John gave shape to many of the distinctive goals and innovative principles of team- teaching that now mark multidisciplinary education at Vassar. He saw the College as being at the forefront of this experiment in education, and twelve years after forming the Program, he saw ‘genuine multidisciplinary teaching" now quite "come-of-age" at Vassar. In the summer of 1977 John married Elizabeth Garrettson Warner and set off the following year for Greece where he taught as a Fulbright professor. He had previously made two extended trips to India, serving as a consultant to Indian universities on establish- ing graduate programs in American studies, and helping the Univer- sity of Delhi establish India's first doctoral program in American literature. He also visited the University of Kyoto and lectured in northern India, Nepal, Italy, and England. His appetite for new experiences remained strong. When in India, he lived in old Delhi, not the protected atmosphere of New Delhi. In Greece he learned Greek. It was in Greece that a melanoma was discovered on John's shoulder. He was subsequently given a fifty—fifty chance of sur- viving the year. Back in Poughkeepsie, a year later in 1980, his son Matthew was born. For the next five years he energetically continued teaching until he retired, on schedule, in 1985. After ﬂdrty-nine years of service to Vassar, or thirty-nine and a half, as he reminded everyone at his retirement dinner——no detail is too nmll for a scholar, he once said——he moved to Vermont where he and Mizabeth shared their love for the details of life in the house Hwy planned and built together. Visitors heard talk of books, maple sugaring, and music. He and Elizabeth had sung together in Um Christ Episcopal Church choir, and John group that sight—read madrigals. In one of he is happily watching his son Matthew play ﬂit to a colleague was a marvelous plastic Ms last advice, where to get another. His had the the bag sung in a Vassar last photographs piano. His last to collect maple sap last letter, dictated hlthe hospital, was his response to another colleague's book, ﬂﬁth he had just read in galleys. His last wish was to be at home Nth his family. "Our experiences tell us all," John once wrote, _ 'We'are the makers, the poets of our own experiences." Respectfully submitted, Frank Bergon, Chair Susan Brisman William Gifford
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Title: VC '48 '49 40th!: a compendium of songs: Vassar traditional and shows, pop and folk songs. II. Do you remember these?
Description: Vassar traditional
Texts of songs, some with melodies and chord symbols. Title from cover. In title, the V and the C are superimposed to form a symbol for Vassar College. Printed on pink paper.
Date: [1988 or 1989]
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Show more.\ a9\ . 1 AIl...I:s/\\I.v . .» . /v \ Amks. .. n. 1 . 4% -.9..\.% cl . . . 11.2 , ‘ Ii /,5. x- E % /5? an. “mm. .u....1,? ,«l.LV.r./.--l z._.u.s z:vJ.....,.\...M .; ,_.- ,I....1»n.L 4%.» \\,/..l%> . \.......A.. &\ I- ..V . . New» .7. . \\ﬂUC\ﬂ —7”r/s.....l W.//4v.’/\w.\ _ » V , . no u . . . I ¢N .1. u .2. 2/, ‘#11,. DO 3% Qemem he;/~ ~W@se:_ u ’/n‘ ._ . ., GAUDEAMUS -’ --3 ‘ 4545 ‘.‘/.1o\\' Gau-de-a—mus i-gi-tur, ju—ve-nes dum su—mus: Post ju—cun-dam ju-ven—tu—tem, post mo—les-tam se-nec-tu-tem, Nos ha—be-bit hu—mus, nos ha-be-bit hu-mus. U-bi sunt qui an—te nos in mun—do fu-e—re? Va—di—te ad su-pe—ros, trans-i-te- U-bi jam fu-e-re, u-bi jam fu—e-re. ad in-fe-ros, Vi-ta nos—tra bre—vis est, bre—vi fi—ni-e—tur: Ve—nit mors ve—lo—ci-ter, ra-pit nos a- Ne-mi-ni par—ce—tur, Vi—vat A—ca-de-mi-a, Vi-vat mem brum quod- ne-mi-ni~par-ce-tur. tro—ci-ter, vi-vant Pro—fes-so—res, quae—li-bet, Sem-per sint in flo-re, semeper sint in flo—re! Vi-vant om-nes vir-gi—nes, f V4vant et mu—li-e-res, Be-nae, la-bori-o—sae, Vi—vat et res-pub—li—ca, et quae il- Vi-vat no—stra ci—vi-tas, Mae—ce—na— Quae nos hic pro—te-git Pe-re-at tris-ti—ti-a Pe-re—at di—a—bo-lus, qui—vis an-ti At—que ir-ri—so-res, G§1Ld¢§24Lrnc»3 , pe—re—ant o-so—res, at-que ir-ri-so-res! li-bet, vi—vant memebra a-ci—les, for-mo-sae, Dul-ces et a-ma—bi-les, bo-nae , la-bori-o-sae! lam re-git: , quae nos hic pro-te-git! -bur-schi-us, ".%»§.m?A § FROM SENIOR SHOW: Let us all be joyful now While we're still around - (repeat) After youth, fertility After that, senility Then we'll li-ve in the ground (repeat) \ 4 Ir’./,‘\.’i2' \ J ,.,,u\! :. ¢f.“§_ ‘*~ .\ - ‘ . - "Q. s f'.~x \{ ' 3/""':.§‘ ‘ “ 3 '.'-/ 1% I W \ \. *5. “key-¢ D U V\¢f'¢ .4n’ I “A . ,~e’4/ ~ 76‘ , $,*..v=’'.£aM.<.., -. .7.s\"".;“‘ —J WHERE, OH, WHERE Where, Oh, Where are the verdant Freshmen? (3 times) . . . .Safe now in the Sophomore class. _ ;' They've gone out from Baldwins Hygiene (3 times) ‘ ,§ . . . .Safe now in the Sophomore class. :9 {X 2. ....Silly, silly Sophomores,.... ;?&=: ....Safe now in the Junior class. ’ I / They've gone out from Dickey's Music ,. ,3 ' ' Safe now in the Junior class. 3. Where, Oh, Where are the dnmken Juniors? (3 times) . . . .Safe now in the Seniors class. b They've gone out from Lockwood's English, etc. 4. Where Grave Old Seniors, Safe now in the wide, wide world, They've gone out from their Alma Mater Safe now in the wide, wide world. ‘_ , 5. Funny‘, funny, faculty ._ Safe now in their trundle beds, I‘-‘-"-Q‘ They've gone out from Poughkeepsies Movies '1"- Safe now in their trndle beds. an-° A , 03“ O ‘Y,’ I Fhncl 1:3,’; /-\ ~. \n\ '. 7': s" r‘ .~\.,._,’. \ 3-] FLING THE BANNER WIDE ’ ' Fling the banner wide! O'er the towers v let it wave. And as we march comes the sound of singing, T'hrough the valleys ringing. Let the echoes resound - send back the sound Of the ever swelling chorus: Hail Alma Mater, Oh Vassar 1?. . ’ / ~:. hail to thee. S2. Ua44a¢, lb l3¢a4£*1 VASSAR IN BEAUTY DWELLING Vassar in beauty dwelling Through all the changing year; Hail to thee, Mighty Mother, Lovely, serene, austere. Praise we thy bloss'ming springtime, Rose red thy June we praise; Crimson and gold thine autumns, Crystal thy winter days. Vassar enthroned on beauty, Glad in thy gates we throng; Mother of all our dreaming, Lifting to thee our song. Glorious do we behold thee, Gleams on thy head a star; Thine eyes survey undaunted The flaming worlds a—far. Long are thy dreams, 0 Mother, Dreams are we taught of thee; Touched with thy sprit's beauty, Kindling our lives to be. Vassar enthroned on beauty, Glad in thy gates we throng, Mother of all our dreaming, Lifting to thee our song. PEACE I LEAVE WITH You Peace I leave with you, my peace I giV€ Unt0 YOU‘ Not as the world giveth, give I unto you. . _ Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. Peace I leave with you, my peace I give Unt0 YOU- -LJM}: A\"“'- f 4. _5 ' . K‘! [] Q, A } B A! V! ’ E1] I, I )' |‘“ I I ‘V I 7 . W: = , ,4#r~I\~4 ,_ HARK, ALMAMATER Hark Alma Mater through the world is ringing, The praise thy grateful daughters bring to thee. O thou who dost hold the torch of truth before us, ‘A cross thy lawns we hear the magic song. 'Tis Vassar, our beloved Alma Mater, That stands for ever fair and high and strong. As we, thy children, pass from out thy portals, To scatter far and wide the seeds of right, May we be girt with pow'r and inspiration, And worthy be to raise the loyal song. 'Tis Vassar, our beloved Alma Mater, That stands for ever fair and high and strong. Joyous a host come thronging, Alma Mater, All seek the wisdom thou dost ever give. With rev'rence may they take thy name up on them, Send down the years the never ending song. 'Tis Vassar, our beloved Alma Mater, That stands for ever fair and high and strong. Eather Time Father time is a crafty man And he's set in his ways And we know that we never can Make him bring back past days So Vassar, while we are here Let's be friends firm and true We'll have a gay time A happy play time For we all love to play with you. '49 The cry of brave '49ers was "Golden days must be here." And though they all might have mined it, To-day you'll find it — right here. So at the end of our searching, A round of praise is in line, For all the memories of Vassar And for the class of Forty-nine! '48 Together with our spirits high Our only limit's the sky So Sing The Vassar Class of '48 Tho’ small in size we'll take the prize For we're the best and the last class In this college to accelerate. Ever since 1861 the rose and grey has . Never been outdone So let's renew our cheers for you and Once again celebrate Vassar Class of '48 ‘§§!:=!_$::uﬁ::: as/4633+‘ ‘r//r‘\~ I \.:;,— I '~‘ 'T1’h ‘€ir NJ I J Saga 5,», I?Qx .rh\ “;-14': g 4S\ YOU HAVEN'T STARTED TO LIVE Words and Music by Joan Weisman I9W1$CPHomORE PRRTV If you haven't known the ways of smoky cabarets, Or gambling dens wnere wine and women give, You haven't yet begun, To know what's really fun, You haven't started to live! known the lures of short, but gay amours, nk you've trained a temp'rate heart, You'll fi t at you've been wrong, Home's no where you belong, nd virtue is just a lost art. If you haven't And shoul‘ thi b You may contend that it's tragic for the soul, That there's no end where there isn't any goal. But fun's a passing bliss that you so often miss It slips right by like water through a seive So catch it on the fly, before it passes by, You haven't started to live. "You Haven't Started toéﬂive" \“\2| REUIMON Svow New Words by Javits: If you haven't known the joys of grownup girls and boys Who're gone a while and then come back to live, You haven't yet begun Supporting everyone, You haven't started to give! If you haven't spent a thou Upon their wedding vow, Their honeymoon and soon their baby's crib, You haven't known the glee Of total bankruptcy, You haven't started to give! You spend and spend. They have babies you adore, But there's no end.. They just kepp on having more. ,1 5 But l¥g¥{s-a passing bliss That you so often miss. It slips right by like water through a sieve So tell thaose kids byhy:”8Y£_uVE“ Before they bleed you dry. You haven't started to give, You haven't started to give! ‘2 $0’ -""-—“‘¢§_-» /”'§:E?§€if“§7 _ ’Kl\‘ 7;» .1"/y\‘ ( I J\‘ I.» o s \o 3'4 )«,_gf: -;.‘,k/ I\\ «',»\~ ‘Eég’ y 4N Ry‘: scr-xx»: _\A\,\11S W43 Scsrmcu PART)! THIS ISTHEDAYWEGOHOME THIS IS THE DAY WE GO HOME! AFTER WE VE GOI‘ OUR DIPIOMAS SHOW US THE WAY TO GO HOME. The cry Of brave forty niners was ‘GOLDEN DAYS MUST BE NEAR‘ AND OUR CELEBRATION OF THIS GRADUATION HAS MADE IT A GOLDEN DAY HERE! GONE ARE THE LABORS FOR Fs AND As GONE "LOVE THY NEIGHBOURS"! GONE ARE THE DAYS WE USED TO WONDER WOULD IT EVER BE TIME TO GO HOME FROM TENNESSEETO TACDMA WHO HAD A DIME TO CALL HOME? THOUGH THEY ALL MAY HAVE MINED IT TODAY YOU LL FIND IT RIGHT HERE SO LEND US THE WHEREWITHAL TO PAY THE FARE, WITH ALL SPEED WE WILL PAY IT BACK, DEAR. GONE ARE THE NO 1362 5;‘; . gem MIDNIGHT LIGHTS N JUST THINK OF OH» THOSE ~_ WONDERFUL NIGH'I‘S WE RE GONNA SPEND ASLEEP ,..;.‘~ ASSOONASITSTIMETOGOHOME 1|" ROURYEARSWEVEBEENINAOOMA -.-‘ ‘,1 SEEKING A WAY TO GO HOME , 3 NOW AT THE END OF OUR SEARCHING ‘f A ROUND OF PRAISE IS IN LINE ... .,. .. FOR AN INSPIRATIONAL, SUPER SENSATIONAL, EDIFICATIONAL TIME no GONE ARE THOSE PAINFUL 4,,’ ' BILLS IN ARREARS! "4, GONE THOSE DISDAINFUL 2,“: SLAP HAPPY YEARS WE SPENT INSISTING IT WOULD '\’, NEVERBETIMETOGOHOME -_.yr,._.\ THINK OF THE TIME THAT WE WASTED ‘gr’: WISHING THAT WE OOULD GO HOME \I __-.»..- WITH ALL OUR MEMORIES OF VASSAR 1§\\,_ ANDOFTHECLASS OF F$RTY NINE! 3. =' WE DIDN T KNOW HOW TO MEASURE ’ ,1 THOSE FOUR YEARS OF PLEASURE ~ AND TREASURE OUR LEISURELY TIME! ' WE DIDNT KNOW HOW TO MEASURE THOSE FOUR YEARS OF PLEASURE ' AND TREASURE OUR LEISURELY TIME! } ’ :5 97‘: ,_,: I CAN SEE YOU Mart‘ Rueéebksh I can see you every night :Aw\eqDH Just close my eyes and hold you tight gr|_q° I'll always follow wherever you go "°V'*'°"“*Y Do you love me or don't you know? I always want you by my side The beat of my heart made me decide Darling come back and see this through I'll always go on loving you. KRRWn3R ¢FiSKE Siwﬁivnww -. , _ \ 4 "‘*=~U\uCRD-3‘. I:i..LEN Sewny 7 SPREAD IT AROUND when I was a baby my mother told me "Art for art's sake is a good policy", I took her advice and soon after I found You should throw your bread upon the waters, Spread it, spread it around: So many have lines long enough to hang clothes But when I kiss I don't know where the nose goes. So I have devoted my life to my art. Men are fine, that's if you have the time to Spread it, spread it around: Damuist, expressionists the cubists and impressionists Are all in for1s of art. Eurrzalism gets me, but art never lets me T379 time off to spend on my heart. Now art is Just fine for the ballet brigade, And men who know have said that I could be made In thetzer, in opera, in any big town Art's for all so g_*v your all for art, Spread it, spread it around: 1’-{-. *._ __, ,4!’ —i.’ ' ’ -535$. F‘.-.—;'*i‘;."*‘\|I§ \L§¥.‘.“{2/_ \ A ‘-’--’-' ‘c’7||\\ o Senior Party. Spring 1947,, Here we are together, Together on our honey-moon; Who cares about the weather, All we‘ll do is spoon, and soon, Surrounded by people, We're still allalone, No more courtin' on the telephone. Now that life - expectancy Is reachin' eighty-five, That's not the real expectancy That keeps our love alive, Two-thousand eleven We‘ll still bill and”coo. Can't go on without lovin' you. CONEY, CC.\'E‘.’ ISLAND Cone Cone I That's the place for me Where bathing beauts in briefest suits Never see the sea Every red hot mama With her sugar dad Strolling down the boardwalk Flirts with every lad . Junior wants some ice cream Mother wants a tan Daddy wants a dancer Sister wants a man How about some pop corn? Come and see the babes Where the hell's the ocean? Haven‘t seen a wave‘ Coney, Coney Island That's the place for me Now listen kid I‘ve been around I‘ve been kinda giddy In Atlantic City But it's still Coney Island for me. Wadcvf ﬁgﬁb Sm. ml,-.w~ \q H‘! SUP»-Ach'\cRE P{:R*r-y \DC‘\D~‘> B Y: MAGNOLIAS IN YOUR EYES mumc B.‘/3 I can be the bravest man In a cavalry or ten I can face a whole brigade without a rise. But my heart within me balks And I cannot even talk When I see magnolias in your eyes I have kept the upper hand with a savage pirate band I have made my way through armies in dusguise, But I cannot save myself When I see magnolias in your eyes. I could live a year or two In the depths of he bayou I could kill an octopus of any size I can do most any feat But my boldness must retreat When I see magnolias in your eyes. COO We have steered our bikes with skill Up and down on Skinner Hill Nearly fast enough for an Olympic Prize Now we jog a little ways and we're limping several days still we've got magnolias in our eyes. With Miss Mosscrop and MIss Timm We did cartwheels int he gym At lacrosse and soccer got our exercise But our swayback further curves With arthritis and pinched nerves Still we've got magnolias in our eyes. Vassar Devils took us much To the Drug and to the Dutch Th we'd eat two pizza pies of any size NowA ake one spoon of cream and we bul at every seam Still we've got magnolias in our eyes. We'd play bridge for half the night Then start papers we must write Typing on until the sun began to rise Now we drink a glass of wine Fall asleep at 10 to 9 Still we've got magnolias in our eyes. We could live a year or two And we hope that's what we'll do But before we must start saying our goodbyes One more course ma: e survive.... Geriatrics one oh five Still we've got magnolias in our eyes. I65. LcU\$'5 mY;_1\g \( '\\‘\: :‘«£.c ";‘.«,»>:-:~. ’ . ' \ ., a\\ »;,~’i’S\ S MANYOTHERSWAINS HAVE TOLD ~ —- A ‘ “ (Music & Lyrics by Joan Weisman) Love has been a well-known story,- '.’ - Known to many pairs of old, ‘iv And the words I want to tell you, Many other swains have told. J? ‘q_\5 9‘ So if I should say I love you, ,; ‘j, That you set my dreams aglow, gggé Though the words are over—used, dear, ‘ I They still mean I want you so. S ; Though I may not be a Humphrey Bogart, ’ '_Lf{ A Brummel or a Van, »; J Still I can have the one ambition To be your only man. Why must you be so indifferent? Must you be so very cold? When I'm longing so to tell you What many other swains have told. YOU'RE ESSENTIAL TO ME like a new bonnet An old English sonnet A cottage that's built by the sea like week—ends at beaches Sugar on peaches You're Essential To Me. like summer vacations A new book of rations The honey that's made by a bee like winter and firelight Summer and starli_ht You're Essential To Me. was so stunned when I met you -ow could it really be true? lo it have been accidental were the Fates in it too? dge goes with dummy ‘HI! 3711} C) () .3 U ‘I (I 5;. And England can't live without tea like mayor and campaign New Year's and champagne -9 ; -o ...‘-‘ ma \/To .31.‘. ‘SE LSSEI“- :. —~« «~- bji Tonw Imvﬂg. !C!“!'7 SC~f>!’1c\-nc RC-_ T-7Fu\Ty DRUMS THERE'S A PRIMITIVE URGE IN EVERYBODY! THERE'S AN ANIMAL SURGE IN EVERYBODY! IF YOU CAN.........NCT RESIST IT LOVE WILL COME LIKE THE BEATING OF A DRUM! THERE'S A SAVAGE BEATING IN EVERYBODY! A.TAITOO REPEATING IN EVERYBODY! IF YOU €AN.........NOT SUPPRESS IT LOVE WILL START LIKE THE BEATING OF YOUR HEART! THE FORCE COMELS YOU TO LOWER YOUR RESISTANCE! OF COURSE LOVE JUSTIFIES ALL YOUR EXISTENCEJ YOU LOSE ALL INHIBITION, INDIVIDUALITY! FUSE WILD DISPOSITION AND SENSUALITY! V THERE S A TOM TOM SOUDING IN EVERYBODY! AND A PULSE IS POUNDING IN EVERYBODY! IF YOU CANNOT RESIST IT LOVE WILL COME LIKE THE BEATING OF A DRUM. LOVE WILL COME! As Time Goes By ' “§‘1‘{"1s‘i’8r 3?: HX% Hupfeld like You must remember this, how boys begged for a kiss But settled for a sigh. And everyone was really shy But Time Went By. always Now when two people woo, there's nothing they won't do- And nothing's on the sly . No fundamental rules apply Since time went by. Moonlite and love songs, strictly out of date. Sreakers and flashers, movies to X rat. Woman needs man and neither one CAN WAIT To give the thing a try. Its not the same ols saga, their pot has made them gaga their coke has made them high. I think we had more fun in our day But time went by. a’ )3 %. rt .. . ,...:wwv.”.«VﬁI. /.o....s-.Iés\ ...u.. .u.\ 2. ‘I$/W /..- II. \/Q33 "F \ \A/ a , , H ... \.,um.W..x.s“ \. 47”»... - ,..., aM..\/IM1.__7$// .\ CV .44. T,‘ Stein Song (University of l\‘Iaine) Fill the steins to dear old Maine, To the youth, to the fire, Shout till the rafters ringl To the life that is moving and calling us! Stand and drink a toast once againl To the Gods, to the Fates, Let every loyal Maine man sing— To the rulers of men and their destinies; Then drink to all the happy hours, To the lips, to the eyes, Drink to the careless days— To the girls who will love us some day! Oh- Drink to Maine, our Alma Mater, (llepeat chorus) The College of our hearts always. Copyright 1910 by Carl Fischer, Inc., New Yorl To the trees, to the skyl copyright renewed. To the spring in its glorious happiness, Desperado 1,9,7 \‘ 7‘ ‘ we 1, '9’ 7,; ? F .1 2 He was a desperado from the wild and woolly West, ,3; 7 l ' ll Ile came into Chicago just to give the West a rest. ‘ ’ l He wore a big smnbrero and a gun beneath his vest, ‘g-'_'<_ ' And everywhere he went he gave his war whoop. ‘ l . 9. ,5, He was a brave, bold, man and a—desperado, ’-(‘V From Cripple Creek, way down in—Colorado, c-ﬂ _ v _’_ And he walked around like a—big tornado, ' ’ AI “ And everywhere he went he gave his war whoopl ‘I 0, I He went to Coney Island just to take in all the sights, He saw the hootchic,-lcootehic and the girls dressed up in tights, “\ Ile got so darned excited that he shot out all the lights, ~.e_.‘.- I 7 And everywhere he went he gave his war whoop. I 17/ " I A great big fat policeman was a-wallcing do\vn his heat, Ile saw this desperado come a-walking down the street. Q . 1/. lle grabbed him by the whiskers, and he grabbed him by the seat, - ___‘-‘l C‘ And threw him where he wouldn't give his war whoop. 7’ 7 ' ‘ ;ai:-l”: I \\ I9. You can easily see she's not my mother, ’Cause my mother's over forty-nine. You can easily see she’s not my sister, 'Cause I never showed my sister such a wonderful time, You can easily see she’s not my sweetheart, 'C:mse my sweetheart's too refined. She's just a slip of a kid, she didn't know what she did; She's just a personal friend of mine. I With I Were a Wmlo Thugar Bun =55‘-'-'*=?FF}-‘F55 I with I were a wittle thugar bun, (thugar bun), I with I were a wittle thugar hun, I'd thlippy and I'd thliddy down cveryone's inthididie; ' I with I were a wittle thugar bun. I with I were a witllc cake of thope, (Cake of thopc) etc. I'd thlippy and I'd thliddy over everybody's hidie. I with I were a monkey in the zoo; I'd thit upon a thelf and I'd thquat my wittle thelf. I with I were a wjttle muthkitoc; I'd lmlhie and I'd hitie under everyhody's nightie. I with I were a lithie in the then; . I'd thwim around tho eute without a bathing thuit. I with I were a wittle thafety pin,‘ And everything that's buthtcd, l'd hold until I ruthlcd. I with I were a \vittle thlippewy woot; I'd thtick up in the twail, and I'd llop you on your tail. 20. I with I were a wittle hog of mud; I would ooze and I would gooze inthidc cveryl)o<ly's thuze. I with I were a \vittle can of beer; I'd go down with a Ilurp and come up with ah I with l were a wittle Englitli 'l'lipawwow; I'd thit up on a thteeple, and I'd thpit on all the people. I with I were a wittle kangaroo; I'd hippie and I'd hoppie inthide my mother's poekic. I with I were a thpoon of ('allu'r nil, I'd luhrir.-ate the chathies of all the lads and lathies. I with I were a wittle thriped thkunk, I'd thit up in the treethes, and perfume all the hrcethcs. 4 new nub‘ . OI. A II!‘ MID Ah-H jgu.gyp\pr. ~t'u. nun A u~-Au-vv g to-HD0075 an. nul- . F )1 VOUAII TIC‘ Oh, a Zulu king with a big nose ring, fell in love with a fair young maid, And every night by the pale moonlight, across the lake he came. Oh, a hug and a kiss for a Zulu miss, in the shade of the old palm tree, ‘ Whene’er they met, they sang a duct, and it sounded like this to me: Bar-rumph (kiss kiss) bar-rnmph (kiss kiss) bar-rumph ti (li a di aye, Bar—rumph, (kiss kiss) bar-rumph (kiss kiss) bar-rumph ti di a di aye. We'll build a bungalow, big enough for two, Big enough for two, my honey, big enough {or two, walla walla walla ‘ And when we're married, how happy we’ll be, Underneath the bamboo, underneath the bamboo tree, boomboom Boom, boom, boom boom boom boom boom boom! If you’ll be M-I-N-E mine, I'll be T-IIsI—N-E thine, And I'll L-O-V-E love you all the T-I-M-E time; You are the B-E-S-T best of all the R-E-S-'1' rest, , And l’ll L~O-V-E love you all the T-I-M—E time, ' . Wrap 'em up, stack ’em up, any old time. .~ .. .§ 3, . Sornebody’s been here giving lessons in love; It lacks that inspiration sent from Heaven above, walla walla walla Oh, that kiss you gave me sure was a winner; You're no beginner, 'cause somebody's been here before. You're second-hand. '..".,r‘-C .- e fin‘ Throw It Out the Window Qﬁks f ’ﬂ \ <2: 1 I 1—‘»‘!.’ ///. ‘ \ ~.—_.o / ’ / OHM tl"ll ;- . . ,. " I -roketéii if;p3l§i’,3'$:;‘X°1ZZ§.ié’,"'° °""""“"’ TQLK. -L .<.'t‘.l ‘V But when she got there the on board was ba ‘ ‘) \ - Anldlshe thrlew it out the windoliv. .‘ re’ vb ‘cep :1 ie wim ow, the second-stor wii l I r‘ 7" ' ‘ But when she got there, the ctrpyboard bare TM kl Horne And she threw it out the window. I l‘- 21. Drunk last night, drunk the night before; Coin’ to get drunk tonight like I never got drunk before. For when I'm drunk I'm as happy as can be, ' For I am a member of the souse family. Singin' glorious, glorious, One keg o' beer for the four of us. Clorybe to God that there are no more of us, For one of us could drink it all alone. All alone (damn near), all alone (damn near), Glory be to God that there are no more of us, For one of us could drink it all alone. (Tune "C") Oh, when you hear the roll of the big bass drum, Then you kno\v that the Dutch have come. The Dutch Company is the best company That ever came over from the old country. There's the Amsterdam Dutch and the Rotterdam Dutch, The Pottsdam Dutch and the C-- d--- Dutch. lagged But Right Then there's the Irish, but they're not much, But they're a damn sight better than the G-- d-- Dutch. ’ Oh, why do we go with the girls so much, When we could drink beer with the C-- d--- Dutch? When a Greek meets a Greek it's a restaurant or two; When a Dutch meets a Dutch it's a keg of lager brew. (Tune "A") Singin' glorious, glorious, etc. (Tune "D" ) , t " Oh, they had to cart Carry to the ferry, And the ferry carriecl Carry to the shore. And the reason that they had to carry Carry, Was that Carry couldn’t carry any more. (Follow this with "Sweet Eveline") I just called up to tell you that I'm ragged but right, A thief and a gambliu' woman, drunk eve.ry night. C I order porterhouse steak three times a day for my board, 'l‘hat’s more than any ordinary gal can afford. I got a big handsome man to play around at my feet, A big electric fan to keep me cool when I sleep. For I'm a ramblin' woman, a gambliu' woman, and Lord am I tight, I just called up to tell you that I'm ragged but right. Oh, How He Lied I) u’. the sat down beside her and smoked his cigar, -He told her he loved, but oh, how he liedl Smoked his cigar, smoked his cigar. He sat down beside her and smoked his cigar, Smoked his cigar-r-r. She sat there beside him, and played her guitar. She told him she loved him, but she did not lie. ‘ 5—Thcy were to be married, but she ups and dies. 6~—lIc went to the funeral, but just for the ride. 7—She went up to heaven, and flip-flop she flied. 8——Ile went down below her, and sizzled and fried. 9—The moral of this tale is never to lie. l0—Or you, too, may perish, and sizzle and fry. A l’«'rslun kitty, perfumed and fair, Sn-ollml out on a backyard fence for air When a tomcat, lean and lithe and strong, his I y and yuller, came a-strolling along. I In sniilcd at the perfumed Persian cat As she slrutted about with much éclat Ami a~thinlcin' the time to pass, I ie whispered, "Kiddo, you sure get class." " "i‘is iitten and proper," was her reply, ‘/‘\s she arched her whiskers over her e e. I am ribboned, sleep on illows of sil , Ami I daily bathe in certi ed milk. "But I'm not content with what I've got; ‘ I ought to be happy, but happy I'm not. I should be joyful, yes, I should indeed, For I'll have you know, I'm highly pedigreed." "Now, hark," said the tomcat with a smile, “You must trust in your new-found friend for a while. You must abandon your backyard fence, My dear, what you lack is experience." The joys of iivin he then unfurled As he told her ta es of the outside world; And then suggested, with a leering laugh, A trip for two down the primrose path. The morning after the night before, The cat came home at the hour of four, The innocent look from her face had went, And in its place was a smile of content. Two months later the kittens came To that Persian kitty of pedigreed fame; They were not Persian—they were black and tan- And she told them their pa was a travelin' man. He asked to hold my hand, I seriously objected. I knew the feeling was grand, but I might not be respected. He asked me for a hug. l .~«'rimIsly ohjmetcd. I knew the feeling was snug, but I might not be respected. Ile uskv-(l me for u kiss, l .-:«-n innsly uhjuclotl. I know the feeling was l»Ii~.~-;, but I might not bo rn.s'p¢'('iml. 23. ‘L ;.~ ITT" -\9 ¥‘}‘§ . fad.’ , . ,. __ I \\$..‘p N] 5'. Mb ""':’$: -:5 "‘.4‘3"'." «///a\'?—?F’(‘~r'r;7g~ \o ‘iii )«g«.fa_ 1»). H‘ 4,. \_g_ t IT WAS MIDNIGHT ON THE OCEAN -ls» silver ‘threads mmomqmq H It was midnight on the ocean, not a streetcar was insight; While the sun was shining brightly, for it had rained all the night. 'Twas a summer's day in Winter, and the rain was snowing fast, As the barefoot girl with shoes on stood there sitting in the grass. It was evening and the sunrise was just setting in the west; And the fishes in the treetops were all cuddled in their nests. As the wind was bowing bubbles, lightning shot from left to right; Everything that you could see had been hidden out of sight. While the organ peeled potatoes, lard was rendered by the choir; When the sexton rang the dishrag, someone set the church on fire. "Holy Smokes!” the reacher shouted, as he madly tore his hair, Now his head resemhles heaven, for there is no parting there. THE VUL-GAR BCATMAN How I love mine boatman My very vu1ger°boatman He's just a Russian, dﬁtshin', Prussian, Russian from the sea. ~ When he comes from the ocean He smells like Scott's emulsion _ He's got that silky kind of oilskin What you love to touch. He calls me his moimaid I just love to be his slave His kisses upset me just like the ocean wave But I still I love mine boatman My very vulgar boatman« He's just a Russian, crushin', Prussian, Russian from the sea. Mary Ann McCarty (Tune: Battle llymn of the Republic) Mary Ann ML-Curly, she went out to dig some clams; ,-Mary Ann McCarty, she went out to dig some clams; Mary Ann McCarty, she went out to dig some clams, But she didn't get a single solitary clam. . All that Mary got was oysters, (three times) But she didn't get a single solitary clam. She dug up all the mud there was in San Francisco bay. Glory, glory, what a helluva time she hadl " She went to all the parties that the Psi US ever had. All that Mary got was trench mouthl 2L£ ,,» é/’.—— ‘ﬁjﬁg -.>- 3 . AFTER YOU WORE A TULIP ‘ )3 \‘f"-“‘ Adam . . Oh, Adam was the first man before the world began V The Lord took mud and sand and from them He made man :““.J’~"- But Adam wasn't satisfied. He said, "I want a bride," ’ ‘ ,_ So the Lord took out a rib from Adam's side. You could tell them from each other by the clothes the other were 3&3‘ For ‘ v ’!s"“;, He wore tuli a big yellow tulip ':l'K~‘ n she wore a 1g red rose. - When they gfew older twas then he grew bolder ” ‘I From her head down to her toes ‘ _-‘,5’ They started apanic, said "The Lord was some mechanic .. '->’' when He made you from a rib from my side, 141‘- And if I ever want a harem up, I've got six more ribs to spare Him," ;‘&~.‘-£3?-’ And she blushed like a sweet June Bride. ‘ , ls’, - N.B.- - Beforesinging "Oh, Adam", sing one verse of "When you - -wore a tulip." '/,"\‘$ 1 ‘ ’ / ”\'~w_./4 o\\~_. ’A I .!:/‘7' ’ OH, WHEN THE MOON SHIIVES __',-1,5 Oh, when the moon shines, I want to hold somebody’s hand. _!4" Oh, when the moon shines, I begin 4I'~% to understand. _,.1<e Why all the little bees and all the ‘*W5- little bears never go in threes ; they always go in pairs. Oh, when the moon shines, I want to hold somebody's hand. Why all the little bears and all the little bees always go in pairs - they never go in'threes. . - W] '.'. M 4, ?§E1§—~‘L“js;? e//m\‘>:Fﬂ‘r?f 6;!’ vz YIELD NOT TO TEMPTATTON '7 -- . 4; ,. «§\ ’ ' ‘ -3; 1“ geild not to temptation, for flirting is sin, 7' ‘ gme sister will help you, her brother to win. .\‘.g/, F Sht manfully onward, dark passions subdue. Don't run after the boys girls let them run after We do. They don't. We sitagsb what. Some men argozliuxuzb! ;y,;\,1_ _;ﬁ ’$ v n‘ §L% E :3‘. . . _ §even Beers With the Wrong Woman \ ' . ;;&¢§f Seven beers with the wrong woman; - \, We sat at a table for two. "“ And the first thing I knew, she whispered, “f 4“ "Honey Boy, I could sure go for vou!" 4; Then my heart beat a little bit quicker, .".' - As-I fondled her sweet little hand° Sig‘ . I swelled up with pride, but oh boy, how she lied! ' I sure was a foulish young man. — J. .\*‘* , Seven beers with the wrong woman. g.‘L She asked me to get up and dance. .;4é Around and around we circled, I Til I felt for the dough in my pants. -‘ , when I asked her if she had seen it, -S§ﬁ= She looked up at me and said "No". ‘I3/If From that day, to me, it's a great mystery. ..)' I wonder Just where t did go. ‘. Seven beers with the wrong woman. Her husband came in after that. And when he spied us together, He rushed up and told me to scat. He took me by the seat of my britches, And he sure didn't leave any slack. T'was then I got tossed out the door by the boss, And he told me to never come back. Seven beers with the wrong woman. It left me with only regrets. And I guess she was only follin', When she called me her darlin' and pets. Now I wish that the lord had made Adam, And had nver made anyone else. ' But there's one thing I know;—- That the next place place I go, I'll have fourteen beers by myself. .,I‘ _I_)_ubugue ."_~«;§\ ‘I Oh, Dubuque, oh, Ilzubuquehi . ' ,' . cll e me s ver ’ " githyyguregregtmaide streets and your Mississippi River ' \ oh, I love you with my heart .. And I love you with my liver Q , Oh Dubuque (tsck tsck) -.:~? , By the River (stamp feet) , _- lb. ,ll Williams Man Who’: Far, Far Away Around her hair, she wore a purple ribbon; She \vore it in the springtime and in the month of May, | And if you ask her why she were that ribbon, She wore it for her Williams man who's far, far away. - Far away, far away; far away, far away; She wore it for her Williams man whds far, far away. Around her knee, she wore a purple garter; She wore it in the springtime, and in the month of May, And if you ask her why she wore that garter, She \\'on! it for her VVilliaius man who's far, far away. IN THE QUARTER MASTER CORPS Oh. it's ale, ale, ale, that makes you feel so hale. Far away, iar away; far away, far away; She wore it for her \rVilliams man who's far, far away. Around the block, she pushed a baby carriage. Behind the door her father kept a shotgun. On the wall she keeps a marriage license. In the desk, the sheriff keeps a warrant. And in her heart, she has a secret passion; She has it for an Amherst man who's not so far away. Similarly: llraudy-—dan(ly. Cocoa—lo(;o. Liquid-wicked. ltum——bum. ltye—spry. Sherry—merry. Vodka—hotka. VVhiskey—frisky. VVine-fine. Bourl>on—burpin’. Coke—want to choke. Cin—want to sin. Port—want to sport. Mint—want to . — ' squint. Miisca-museatel—feel like llell. Vennouth—makes you so uncouth. *7 lloyal Royal Crowu—-really gets you down. 1’:-psi-gives you apoplexy. (;h:unpagne—gives you such a pain. ()orn—glad you're born. It's the Ainontillado that gives me this vibrato. Scoteh—gives your name a blotch. Mules (Tune: Auld Lang Sync) On mules \ve find two legs behind, and two we find before, \Ve stand behind before we find é what the two behind be for. When were behind the two behind we find what these be for, So stand before the two behind, behind the two before. 27.. 1... ,' ."~ \j, .._g-.''; . - / / "2 /D .Q_‘- \\._tL“_ \\3%"’ MY GIRL . — xi‘ She goes to Vassar, none can surpass her, She is the stroke of the varsity erew. And in my future life, she's gonna be my wife. Ilow in the world do you know that? She told me so. ’ n .4; 2 v I I I Q ' . My girl's from Tlnnith, thhe talkth like thith, ..._. ‘W’/, ll‘ ’ \"“‘ Thhe taught me how to kith, I love her the, t, at Z _ And in my future life, etc. . '\ My girl's from Ilolyoke, she taught me how to smoke, /"" She knows a dirty joke, now I know one too. I‘? , .; ,, _ | 1 .- ‘.-'5 My girl's from Radelille, she is a big stiff, I And she gets sore at me when I tell her so. ‘u. A .' ’)_./E - My girl's from Wheaton, she takes a l)eatin', I And when she‘s feeling good, I take one too. 5‘ ’ . §f;.t= My girl s from Skidmore, she is an awful bore, ’ § / ”.-- She never knows the score, boy don't I knowl _' My girls from Middlebury, she is extraordinary, She's built just like a fairy, three hundred pounds or so. My girl's from Wellcsley, she always tells me I'm bats in the belfry, but I love her anyhow. . My girl's from MIT, she is a travesty, Girls who go for engineering are not so hot appearing. My girls from Connecticut, she knows her etiquette, ' She taught me how to pet, now I do it too. My man's from Yale, he lands in jail, From drinking too much gin—ger ale. Advertise (Tune: Auld Lang Syne) The fish, it never eaekles 'bout it's million eggs or so, The hen is quite a different bird, one egg—and hear her crow. The fish we spnrn, but crown the hen, which leads me to surmise: Don’t hide your light, but blow your horn, it pays to advertise. 28. NORTH AFTER DINNER SONGS "HOME ON THE QUAD”— words by Joan Javits Oh, give me a sub who will scrub out the tub Give me breakfast in bed on a tray Give me something to eat - I'm so sick of puffed wheat ' Old Matt didn't plan it this way. Home, Home, on the quad Where the North Tower's closest to God Nhere seldom is heard The song of a bird - Cause the snow always covers the sod. My rdmmate believes We have 85 leaves Haven't seen her since early last May She's up skiing at Stowe But there isn't no snow Old Matt must have planned it this way. Home, Home in the stacks Where the seniors are breaking their backs If your book's on reserve Dearie, don't lose your nerve Just swipe it and start to make tracks. Give me free cigarettes Give us hundreds of ts Give us no classes on Saturday Give Professors more dough Or I tell you they'll blow Old Matt didn't plan it this way. Home, Home on the(Quad Where the North Tower's closest to God Where seldom is heard The song of a bird Cause the snow always covers the sod. AT THE BOARDING HOUSE (Tune: Silver Threads Among the Cold) At the boarclin house where I stayed, everything was growing old; Silver hairs among the butter, and the bread was all a—mold. When the dog died, we had sausage, when the cat died, catnip toa, But when the landlord diedAI left there, spare;-ibs were too much for mc_ Girls Can Never Change Their Nature (Tune: Silver Threads Among the Cold) Ci . n ver ch e their nature; that is quite beyond their reach. If a girl is born a lemon, she can never be a peach. But the law of compensation is the one I always preach, You can always squeeze a lemon, but just try to squeeze a peach. But you can try! ’Wolves when They're Young They're wolves when they're young, And they're wolves when they're old, So beware of all men because they blow hot, blow cold- All things that shine My dear are not gold, So beware of all men because they blow hot, blow cold. Now you may work like a maniac And jump around like a jumping jack Just to keep your honey from sliding back And then he flies off with a blonde. They're wolves when they're young, etc. Now I said to Jennie Jones the other day "If a man falls for you just let him lay; '" And don't you believe a single word they say. Cause they blow hot, blow cold. When a man proposes by the garden gate, ' He gets you hot and bothered, then procrastinates, So honey, just be careful when you're picking out a mate, They blow hot, blow cold. - Now you may work like a maniac,:tc. I would play with fire any old day, Just as long as I was sure that it was safe to play, But dammit, the men don't play that way, They blow hot, blow cold. All things that shine, etc. 3c>. u. ‘ 7 .u/’- ~ .2’/« ~ —-‘~ ’.~. \ ; ,€bD— ,1’ \, [U7 \\ 7,‘ _,',, . '.‘\ g ~ \ we're marching we're marching our brave little band. I\\‘.‘¢{a ’ ‘HQ On the right side of Heaven we now take our stand. we don't chew tobacco because we do think _ 1-,‘_.J-I‘-‘.~_ That them that does chew it is liable to drink. v -“ - Down with King Alc ohol, Down all you can. ,_ ‘H’ Ah, Men....Ah women. Ah nuts. ‘G’ .{:~'k~‘ evﬁ’. »/ a if» PERSONALITY I .. Oh oh when Freddy danced, he had the girls entranced ,-m, And you can bet it was easy to see * . ;i:‘€:’~’ He had a well developed Peasscnality _ '5‘. - when Lucy Galpin's hips created an eclipse H » And Lela's face started to fall . — ‘“ He came back to Lela xs " ' ./g”"'~‘; _Cagsg,Le1a had the alcohol-; "I . .-O"'l=:‘vo..=..—4§ ‘I’ . .-1' I ’\\_,_,/4 5I‘v,$? ANNAPOLIS 7&9-‘ It I Got our bags and got our reservations _ _ ..7_ Got each dime we could afford N _ Q4‘, with our hearts in wild anticipation N _ . Longed to hear that ‘Ann-a.pgLi_s_ call a Five oclock, th_at's- when we got up at five o'clock, /Ly ' Potsy waitin' up to see us off, countin' every mile _ 7,.‘§_,_s That leads us to our men in blue V ‘ ' Never thought my face could be so pea green ,3,’-‘.'\' Never thought I'd act like this - ’ [’ with my knees as wobbly as spaghetti .;,j'.‘C Here we come, Anapolis We got there, the goys were there to meet us 1.3‘ Took us to a basketball game 5‘, , Went to the hop-, and home.at~2 oqgdggck iﬂ/'1‘ and you can bet that they weren't tame“ ‘ﬂl Got to our rooms and they were full of people \Q;//¢_ 4 on the bed and 4 on the floor ' Listened inqand this is what we heard - 1, _\ Roll over Jack and do it some more “ ;;;°’ ‘ Chapel that8s where we arrived at ten ‘ ‘dish you could have seen our men marching in review...how we love you '9‘ And we still do L After church we went and got some chow‘ . _..,\.‘-. Q‘ Never thought a day could be such bliss /" They left us with our hearts upon our sleeves \_,/’ Fare thee well, Annapolis \.e W--. \ .1.) I ‘\ _; ‘y . \ ~,-H; I ‘ UGLY TO LOOK AT V ,_ II \ :§'-g'..re-ugly to look at, repu1;m?‘y§?yg§y%;y§§§.;;Q? 19%. .. .. ‘\,‘ Hrcombination like this i t t wn /Rf sass “£35312? 55:32.3“ 9 oa . ' S F’ . ?§Lx3z’1§1::: zrgajiirantic bgcause we don't click like other girls -'9 --'. this is the story of P001“ 1119319 .¥“e -.g1e . ...«=. d ' J)?" ajggard old freshman at Vassar __‘y<_>‘14-1_:.3_,e9__y::_f:‘ ‘A ' -’ ' . " .!i’ﬂq.4..n<L4o-4&-\X-JI¢>d§-;:.*Io-&.‘»~41!-3'!"-"~‘i ‘ ’ '”"""“ "J I "\ §‘3| "f 2’ rs 1-’ ~'~' GOODNIGH’: L ‘_ M !_ _ _ .- , , , . . _3 . 7§ooaﬁ‘1té'ht little sirlii gggggiﬂt. . . . ;: _ h ou get home a ‘$5 iougpliigs was divine, and with each Jug Of Wine Ff" ,__ I thought I could make you H108?» any °1d time ' ./.'I But I see, little sirhil wag ygns A‘. ‘I I 1 b a O . “I gotéoﬁgﬁﬁsllcouldewig you with all that Sin in You .e<>odm1é1:t.»..utt1e girl» 8°°F‘“15“‘.. - t OLD HUDSON VALLEY To the tune of "Red River Valley” Oh, remember the Old Hudson Valley Do not hasten to bid it adieu. Everyone goes away every weekend... They‘re sorry when weekends are through. Yes, and down in the Matthew thought that He invested in good c Soon West Point set We‘l1 remember the Old Hudson alley Where our Founder put Vassar to stay. Oh, how often I think of him fondly.... How much beer he could sell here today. NORTH SONG _ Words and Music by Joan Javits We got it over you The tower's got a super view The wings you must admire, they could fly higher, Cause they've got the spirit, tooo... North is the very top, The tower will rock, but never drop, And if you venture forth you'll wind up at North... Don't misconstrue it, we do mean Jewett. Though we don't think you're a total flop, We've got it over you, we've got it over you. TEASIN' TEASIN' (Verse I) Teasin', Teasin', I was only teasing you, Teasin', Teasin', just to see what you would do. (Of course you know that I was) Teasin', Teasin', just to prove your lone was true -Don't be angry, ‘cause I was only, only teasin' you. DEDICATED TO MISS BLANDING (To the tune of TEASIN') Verse II Found ‘er, founde ‘er Vassar found ‘er when she came to us. We found ‘er, found er But we didn't know what name to call ‘er, when we hollered Found ‘er, found ‘er, I But Prexy lends us no relief; If tuition drops or not, she's tops. And let's just call her our Big Chief. 33. 7/ er- I’ .\‘,;9;\§ ,_ . - WI ' .:.’:, ‘:3-. /’/.x\\3~§‘4 .?}§:?_\"!;‘7,?>.\~,»§-‘(F I\\ 5; 7S\‘. sh .a.- do. . Ink — Oh Vussax c.oue_5e upon no. Hudsanjf At We At We BLOOD ON THE SADDLE There's blood on the saddle And blood on the ground And there's great big puddles Of blood all around. The cowboy lay in it. All bloody and red . For his branco dare throwed him And bashed in his head. Oh pity the cowboy All bloody with gore For he ain't gonna ride Any branco no more. BEER THAT PICKLED DEAR OLD DAD I want a beer Just like the beer That pickled dear old dad. It was a beer, and the only beer That daddy ever had, A real old fashioned beer With lots of foam It took six men To carry daddy home. Oh I want a beer Just like the beer That pickled dear old dad. SLING-A DA INK Vassar College upon the Hudson, sling-a da ink and push-a dapen along; Vassar College upon the Hudson, sling-a da ink and push—a dapen along. Sling-a da ink, sling-a da ink and push—a da pen along, sling-a da ink and push—a da pen along At Vassar College upon the Hudson, We sling-a da ink a¥&*push—a da pen along. T ‘.'‘:.I‘ ‘vi ZIP, .Z.LP, ZIP _ _.(_I,_s_‘ Goodmorning, Mr. Zip, Zip, Zip ‘ }"‘_Jr.". With your hair‘: out just as short as mine. “‘ Good morning I:/LI‘. Zip, Zip, Zip, ' You're really looking fine. 3’\'.‘¥"' Now ashes to ashes, and dust to dust, '5," gamels.don‘§h‘ge§iyou£'thegiFatimas must. &.é"')\“ oo morning . p 1p p g - -‘ with your hair out just as,short as mine. « "“], (If cocaine doesn't get you, then the caffein must) ,. (If a good man doesn't get you, then a bad man must) ~ " 32,384 ' '9 \\‘.‘IA. clﬁgé 9" ’ .~'r GOING BACK . _ ‘Ly-(,\ I used to go down to the station 1 Every evening just to watch those pullman trains come rolling in , . And the one night that great temptation Got the best of me and led me to a life of sin. }‘/ t I took my hat and fourteen dollars ’ And I went to all the trouble of this world that always follers '4.‘ When you're rich and huntin? romance But my hu:1tin' days are over I can tell you that. ,1"; we 2 am 2: at we we n as e me d i.e to see e own And I said "Sure that's zfzhat I’m her fer" ”"r’ So he said he'd take me to the hottest spots in town. ,’.._./5 He mentioned things he’s have to fix up ‘ So he took my fourteen dollars but there must have been a mix-up 3-4,}/A He's been gone since Thursday evening * fjfv And I got a hunch I".l,3. n-syer ‘see that man no more. ,'«: when I STOW old and have a grandsozz \\“A/ 4 .. J- ' I 2"" I will tell him of my romance and.I ll watch his e./es bulge out But you can't say I didn-35 W;—;I‘ﬂ_h3-In d P, ne . \, What would happen if I met up with that 01133’ BUY 0°60 ‘ﬁr’ I'm going back to where I__gomg_ r0I]1 c ere e moc:in' Bird is s1ng1n' in the lilac bush. /\ L :~ 7'" ‘ 1/ \7-- Oz ‘ ‘V, .1’ . ~ ja§:>!- ‘EF;"\u 2542 WE MUST BE VIGILANT AMERICAN PATROL We must be vigilant! We must be vigilant! American Patrol With arms for the navy, ships for the navy, let this be our goal. We must be diligant! We must be diligant! American Patrol. A Protect our shore line to the door line of ev’ry native soul We need this solidarity or else divided we will fall; It means the popularity of peace and happiness for all. ~ Behind this cause we must keep rallying, let there be no dilly- dallying; Keep us free from shilly- shallying, hark to freedom’s call 0n the land! in the air! on the sea! ev'rywhere We must be vigilant! we must be vig- ilant! American Patrol. With planes of the army, planes of the navy, always in control; We must be digilent! We must be digilant! American Patrol! In each direction give protection to ev’ry native soul. We must be vigilant! we must be vigilant by day! We must be diligent! we must be digilent by night! Behind this cause we must keep rallying, let there be no dilly-dallying. Keep us free from shilly shallying and we'll reach our goal. The American, the American Patrol. GOT ALONG WITHOUT YOU /W 1’ . _ V Got along without you before I met you Gonna get along without you now. Going to find somebody just as good as you Cause I never loved you anyhow. You ran around with every girl in town, You'll never know how much it got me down. Got along with out ygu, etc THE LAVENDAR cowaor He was only a lavendar cowboy, and the hairs on his chest were but two. Yet he wanted to be like the heros, and do as the he-men-do. Herbicide and many hair tonics, he rubbed in both morning and night, but each time he looked in the mirror, there were only two hairs in sight. He fought to save Red Nellie's honor-he cleaned out an outlaw's nest, and he died with his sixgwns a-smokin' and only two hairs on his chest. Let Her Sleep Under the Bar l,_ u‘ ﬁll ~;"'\4-\, ,~’Iv\\ - 'Twas a cold winter's evening, the guests were all leaving, O'Lear was closing the bar, When he turned and he said to the lady in red, "Cet outl You can't stay where you are!" ‘SMh&"g_§4, ~ //,x‘i=1.‘.\‘i; She shed a sad tear in er bucket of beer As she thought of the cold night ahead, When a gentleman dapper step ed out of the—phone booth, And these were the words that me said. My , *5 /" "Her mother never told her the things a young girl should know, About the \vays of college men, and howthey come and go (mostly go). Age has taken her beauty, and sin has left its sad scar, So remember your mother and sisters, boys, and let her sleep under the bar." \o 3% Bee’: :1» r\‘\ ms En." h\ >>..~t-g = T «x s A ZUM GALI, GALI . ﬁg? _ Israeli Folk Song l Moderately {II .! - Em ' .3 I] g .14 r I I 1 I ‘II J!" . . 1 . 1' " ' . Claorus: x zum 33- ll, 38-“, 31-11, mm, 33-11, 33- ll, 7‘, ..' . I ﬂaws: L_-l l:LJ_J r Ll ‘r r l' 5010: l l Zum ga.-ll, ga-ll, 3:-ll, nun ca.-ll, gs-ll,Zmn£'tv}A-vo-da.h 1e’ Clwruaandsolo: Zum gs-ll 33-11, 33-11, Zum gs-ll, 3:.-ll, Zum. Vassar Hygiene Song ' - A c _ ‘_,.° lliv c c» _ ll.Z_'. 9 ° _. .6-_Cl gn1«s3 g1QﬁIggE$I@;bJ;§] . J-J-J‘ ; Oh, we never used ((5 bathe till we lxearcl the Doctor rave In the lectures that she gave lnow to l)(‘.ll:lV(!; Now we take our daily lmlln even though we miss our math. How in the world do you lmmv llml? Slu: lnl(l us so. \Vl1cn we grow older, (lien wc’ll be l)0l(lcr, VVe'll take it colder, up to the slmuldvr. This we must (lo every day, even llmnglx we pass away. llmv in llle wm'l(l do you know llml? Slw told us SH. Oh, we always used to weep when we l)C:l|‘(l the chickens peep In the boiled eggs that we eat every old week, Now we cut them every (lay; pepper takes the taste away. How in llnc worlcl (lo yun know that? She told us so. '
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Title: The Vassar College Orchestra and the McLain Family Band
Description: 1 of 3. Rhodes, Phillip. Concerto for Bluegrass Band and Orchestra (1974): Breakdown; Ballad; Variations [performed by Vassar College Orchestra, student; Jeremy Balmuth (conductor), faculty; The McLain Family Band: Raymond K. McLain, Michael K. McLain, Raymond W. McLain, Alice McLain White, Ruth McLain Riopel, Al White, guest]. 2 of 3. Traditional. Back Up and Push [performed by Vassar College Orchestra, student; Jeremy Balmuth (conductor), faculty; The McLain Family Band: Raymond K. McLa...
Show more1 of 3. Rhodes, Phillip. Concerto for Bluegrass Band and Orchestra (1974): Breakdown; Ballad; Variations [performed by Vassar College Orchestra, student; Jeremy Balmuth (conductor), faculty; The McLain Family Band: Raymond K. McLain, Michael K. McLain, Raymond W. McLain, Alice McLain White, Ruth McLain Riopel, Al White, guest]. 2 of 3. Traditional. Back Up and Push [performed by Vassar College Orchestra, student; Jeremy Balmuth (conductor), faculty; The McLain Family Band: Raymond K. McLain, Michael K. McLain, Raymond W. McLain, Alice McLain White, Ruth McLain Riopel, Al White, guest] ; "Tune Traditional. Words by Raymond K. McLain". 3 of 3. McLain, Rosemary. You Sing for Me [performed by Vassar College Orchestra, student; Jeremy Balmuth (conductor), faculty; The McLain Family Band: Raymond K. McLain, Michael K. McLain, Raymond W. McLain, Alice McLain White, Ruth McLain Riopel, Al White, guest].
Skinner Recital Hall
Commissioned by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Kentucky Arts Commission.
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Date: 2/2/1987, 8:30 PM

Title: Fall Concert by the Vassar College Choir
Description: 1 of 8. Schutz, Heinrich (1585-1672). Cantate Domino canticum novum, SWV 81 [performed by Vassar College Choir, student; Constance DeFotis (conductor), faculty; Hudson Valley Philharmonic, guest]. 2 of 8. Bruckner, Anton (1824-1896). Os Justi meditabitur sapientiam [performed by Vassar College Choir, student; Constance DeFotis (conductor), faculty; Hudson Valley Philharmonic, guest]. 3 of 8. Oliveros, Pauline (b. 1932). Sound Patterns (1964) [performed by Vassar College Choir, student; C...
Show more1 of 8. Schutz, Heinrich (1585-1672). Cantate Domino canticum novum, SWV 81 [performed by Vassar College Choir, student; Constance DeFotis (conductor), faculty; Hudson Valley Philharmonic, guest]. 2 of 8. Bruckner, Anton (1824-1896). Os Justi meditabitur sapientiam [performed by Vassar College Choir, student; Constance DeFotis (conductor), faculty; Hudson Valley Philharmonic, guest]. 3 of 8. Oliveros, Pauline (b. 1932). Sound Patterns (1964) [performed by Vassar College Choir, student; Constance DeFotis (conductor), faculty; Hudson Valley Philharmonic, guest]. 4 of 8. Bruckner, Anton (1824-1896). Locus Iste a Deo factus est [performed by Vassar College Choir, student; Constance DeFotis (conductor), faculty; Hudson Valley Philharmonic, guest]. 5 of 8. Schutz, Heinrich (1585-1672). Heu mihi, Domine, SWV 65 [performed by Vassar College Choir, student; Constance DeFotis (conductor), faculty; Hudson Valley Philharmonic, guest]. 6 of 8. Feldman, Morton (1926-1987). Chorus and Instruments (II) (1967) [performed by Vassar College Choir, student; Constance DeFotis (conductor), faculty; Hudson Valley Philharmonic, guest]. 7 of 8. Bruckner, Anton (1824-1896). Christus factus est pro nobis obediens [performed by Vassar College Choir, student; Constance DeFotis (conductor), faculty; Hudson Valley Philharmonic, guest]. 8 of 8. Handel, George Frideric (1685-1759). PSALM 112 Laudate Pueri Dominum [performed by Vassar College Choir, student; Constance DeFotis (conductor), Karen Holvik (soprano), faculty; Hudson Valley Philharmonic, guest].
Skinner Recital Hall
assisted by members of the Hudson Valley Philharmonic and the Vassar College Music Faculty.
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Date: 11/16/1986, 3:00 PM

Title: Pfuetze, Paul Eugene, 1904-1985 -- Memorial Minute:
Creator: Fortna, Robert T., Griffen, Sally, Glasse, John
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Date: October 15, 1986
Text: L 1 MEMORIA L MINUTE FOR PAUL EUGENE PFUETZE When Paul Eugene Pfuetze died 1 - t N my over ei8hty years. He was born Ngjembgieggeriggz 28d lived punhattan, K€psa8.bt?e son of Emil C. and Rogen; scott gfuetze Uﬁee 3e“era °“S 9 Ore him his forebears had f . I S ‘ lb f9tai"ed 3" "abiding love for the Kansas farmclgfe hgmhadxlgzed ass boy. [for] ...memories of Grossvater and Grossmutter h f f - . H.§.§ P?¥§0:e wzrgwork done with horses, the prlde of task and t0° Y S are taken from...
Show moreL 1 MEMORIA L MINUTE FOR PAUL EUGENE PFUETZE When Paul Eugene Pfuetze died 1 - t N my over ei8hty years. He was born Ngjembgieggeriggz 28d lived punhattan, K€psa8.bt?e son of Emil C. and Rogen; scott gfuetze Uﬁee 3e“era °“S 9 Ore him his forebears had f . I S ‘ lb f9tai"ed 3" "abiding love for the Kansas farmclgfe hgmhadxlgzed ass boy. [for] ...memories of Grossvater and Grossmutter h f f - . H.§.§ P?¥§0:e wzrgwork done with horses, the prlde of task and t0° Y S are taken from the memorial m'n t f h’ t Um Poughkeepsie Friends' Meeting.) He also embodied Z £:;11;m a commitme“t t9 193Y"i"8» as did his brothers, three of whom became medical specialists and the fourth a judge, In 1928 Paul received the B.S. degree from Kansas State lmiversity, where he had been a varsity wrestler. He was named a Mwdes Scholar and, at Oxford, planned to study physiology with 5n'Charles Sherrington. But that plan shattered upon the discovery that he had umerculosis. Instead of sailing for Oxford, he relinquished his Mmdes and went to an Arizona desert, where he began years of struggle to recover. Long stretches of waiting were punctuated by one experimental treatment after another. One of his lungs was collapsed. With the outlook for his recovery still in doubt, Imuise Gibson and he ventured to marry in 1932. Her supporting ﬂwm by teaching mathematics at Whittier College was only the beginning of their two-career marriage. By the time Paul was able to resume his studies-—at first intermittently, then full-time-—his direction had shifted from Mwsiology to religion and philosophy. He earned an M.A. from the Pacific School of Religion in 1940 and, the following year, a B.D. from Yale Divinity School. Then came doctoral studies at Yale, ﬂﬁch led to his Ph.D. in 1951. While at Yale he was a Kent Fellow of the National Council on Religion in Higher Education. He taught at the University of Connecticut from 1942 to 1947 mm, in 1948, moved to the University of Georgia, where he W88 hofessor of Philosophy and Chairman of that department. It was Umre that the Pfuetzes adopted their three chi1dren——Scott, Karen, and Walter. They also became active in the struggle for huegration in a racially segregated university and community, well before that cause gained the broad suPP°rtti§ 125:5 ﬁitgiﬁed‘ I" time, backlash against their activities moun , UN university. d J. H d This helped Vassar recruit him, in 1959» t° Succeé Reli gzgr lhwson. U til he retired in 1970, he was Professor 0 g and, durinn mos; Qf ghQ5e.years, held the Frederick Weyerhaeuser Chai 8 1 d artment. His teaching responsibilities r and chaired h s ep 1 Si lal in the historY of reli8i°"$» e3Pe¢ia11Y those of A318 hence that material had not been central to his Prev1°“s st“ es’ embarked on a major Project of "re-t001i"8" bY Eiving his first ﬂmigfl to courses at Columbi 8 and the Univ 1 f d in 1955-56’ devoti h ers ty o Wisconsin :;i3ion at Madras UniV:§31:;.18ave to Btudies in history and Several months after r g 9 i unomobile in front of Main G:€:.n8TEotV:ssar, he was struck by an 3 b k rwarly ﬁiiigis ribs. hlg intensive care a€wa3:o5§ 3,222 :3: one u n n , ’ 1 1on8 But he 3 §a¢ reath that he drew inflicted excruciating gzigined. BUFV Ved, and he recovered-—dogged wrestler that he Th t 8 Same tenacity enabled him to make an enduring difference in VﬂSS*"'8 °“"1¢"1""'- at the Point of Jewish 1; <11 Alth 11 8ﬂwf8£1OnS of students had found the Judaic heﬁiga Zst b Dug _ g 0 e a njof Part °f R9118i°" 105, it was Paul who inaugurated a course |@voted entirely to it. Characteristically, he did this by adding Um course to his full teaching load. Then he secured outside mnds to bring visiting lecturers to address further aspects of ﬂw subject. He lived to see his initiative expand to a variety M Jewish studies at Vassar, a number of them taught by a scholar m the field who has tenure. Then there was the personal side of his teaching, which nudents noted and prized. An alumna has recalled how students mterested in continuing a course of his, beyond the semester's um, gathered in his home for discussions that were a high point ofher Vassar experience. As a scholar, Paul published articles and reviews in a dozen journals in philosophy and religion and belonged to as many wofessional societies. His monograph on "Martin Buber and Mrican Pragmatism" appeared in the volume, The Philosophy of Phrtin Buber, published in Chicago in 1967, after having appeared earlier in German. For the heart of his research and his own reflections, though, one must go to his book, The Social Self, mwlished in 1954 and reissued in 1961 under the title, §gl£L &miety, Existence. Convinced that the tragic and catastrophic ume that modern men and women have made of their powers and technics shows that we have for several centuries misinterpreted Mn own nature, he examines an alternative view--the notion that mu selfhood is essentially social. In his words, "it is in meeting, in interaction between persons, in commication with oﬂmrs, variously conceived, that the free, responsible, _ indepgndeng human person is achieved." Central to this origin MM deve1opmeht_;f our selfhood is speech, the active give and take of dialogue. He elucidates this insight by examining the nriking concurrence in it by two thinkers from diverse d traditions--George Herbert Mead, the American PTa8mati$tv 3“ Martin Buber the Continental Jewish existentialist. He concludes by111uStratin8 the fertility of the idea of the social self in a dozen disciplines, ranging from biology to theo 08?- To those who knew him the fit - ' betwe tn‘ Sdwlarship and the rest of his life was §;pre;zi$gllea8ue's Consider his service to the , _ community be Qnd mwwer of the Society of Friends, he was actiy . campus‘ AS 8 Pmghkeepsie meeting and, beyond that . Ye 1“ the , in r 1 ~ ward 0? Maiaiere Of the Oakwood School, thzgéggzndzéeébgiittege fm-Nationa egislation, and the American F . d . - _ rien s Service Cwmlttee. His Quaker way-—both its prinCip1es and their rdlgious root?-found expression in his advocacy of prison reform M5 participation in Quaker worship at nearb r. ' _ -. y p iso , d h‘ 5ﬂW1Ce t0 Pr°Je¢t Gateway. During the Vietnam War?Shea:erve§ as adIa?t C°unSel}°r' Eventually, he reduced his income through aﬁltlonal charltable glvlng and through acceptance of in—ki d _ . . _ n 5gVlC6S in lleu Of rent, 1n order that no federal taxes of his vmﬂd SUPQOY 3 War that he judged to be both illegal and immoral. Aﬁer retiring, he taught at Dutchess Community College. He ran fm Supervisor Of the Town of Poughkeepsie, against an incumbent ﬂw was 5ubSequent1Y indicted and who pleaded guilty. On election mmming, his wife Louise died of a heart attack, brought on in put by the rigors of the campaign. That night, Paul also lost ﬂw election. In his grief, he took up leadership of Tell Care, a hotline for senior citizens that Louise had founded. He won a tam as a county legislator. He served on the boards of Family Suvices and of the Mid-Hudson Memorial Society, among other agencies. But it was through his letters to the Poughkeepsie Journal, mm sometimes to The Miscellany News, that many came to know Pmﬂ Pfuetze best. (For the curious, Vassar Library's Special Cﬂlections has saved over a hundred and thirty of these.) In Umm, he spoke for gun control, Native American rights, cmwervation of natural resources, and affordable housing; for cmwcientious objectors, student demonstrators, amnesty for those Hm refused service in Vietnam and, especially, for the hsmantling of our nuclear arsenal and for peace. He delighted in pmnting out absurdities in our political life: praying f0r Peace wmle paying for war; prosecuting so—called welfare cheats, when "Um real freeloading chiselers and parasites," as he called them, Hue respectable and successful business and pr0feSS10ﬂ81 Pe°P1ei nmnng a Trident missile ‘Corpus Christi’. In these letters, in his classroom, and in the com?un;§i;8h0f b°U1town and gown, Paul Pfuetze lived for the values o #4 C e Swﬁe in a meditation that he wrote on New Year s Eve, 19 - . - t 'humanity'.... We must understand t at , - - ch technics er ' the one real thing in the face of e p son 1S _ , . - - elves have and mechanized institutions which we ours . the seed created, For he (she), by the grace of Gzgéhis Of whatever human life there will be on e - October 15, 1986 ‘Q ; .¢ n a ;@'>.;; | V f L W Hi‘ Respectfully submitted; A Staliy vG‘jiff‘en"5t} John Glasse, Chai : : $9.“-’> 25,66»? Robert f.*Fortna ‘49o»¢<._ . < (/4 1' 1, w 4‘;i,1»‘.~- -~ ‘I "»,/ ~1 , 1 » * -;v >. §,»,.~<x_\»;,, 1 6. 7 @”;?§“*;;,~‘w,;;‘»'§;¢ I @~,\' , , -,,,, _ .2 , $11? 1$§“,,~ -1;». E!» 3 § Mi $'-‘3: ‘ w:,5m:§»_,§;:*‘§‘I@?'%a‘!e#$.‘*:‘ ;
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Title: Linner, Edward Robert, 1899-1983 -- Memorial Minute:
Creator: Christie, John, Mucci, Joe, Beck, Curt
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Date: May 8, 1985
Text: I ~ EDWARD ROBERT LINNER (l899 - i983) an instructor in chemistry. Born to Swedish parents Ih»J\vu¢~\+ *4 Edward Robert Linner joined the Vassar faculty in l9§h in alo in i899, he had put himself through the University Buffalo by holding a full-time job as chemist for the son Graphite Company. His graduate studies, begun in 25 at the University of Wisconsin, were interrupted by need to take a teaching post at Lafayette College. l93l an appointment as instructor of biochemistry at sued his...
Show moreI ~ EDWARD ROBERT LINNER (l899 - i983) an instructor in chemistry. Born to Swedish parents Ih»J\vu¢~\+ *4 Edward Robert Linner joined the Vassar faculty in l9§h in alo in i899, he had put himself through the University Buffalo by holding a full-time job as chemist for the son Graphite Company. His graduate studies, begun in 25 at the University of Wisconsin, were interrupted by need to take a teaching post at Lafayette College. l93l an appointment as instructor of biochemistry at sued his research interest in physical biochemistry, t . . _ . . p nd a study grant from the American-Scandinavian turn to his class to ask: "Isn't that beautiful. d. He would derive a complex equation on the blackboard 7“ An the versity of Minnesota allowed him to resume graduate work to bring Celestia Davidson of Buffalo west to be his .During his 3l years on the Vassar faculty, Ed Linner ably in adsorption phenomena One of h|s happiest years spent in l9h9-50 under a joint Vassar Faculty Fellow- a . . . tion, at the Biochemical Institute in Upsala in Sweden re he worked with Arne Tiselius who had the year before the Nobel Prize in chemistry. But Ed's deepest commit- t was always to his students and his greatest talent was t of a remarkable teacher. He saw no contradiction in rous mathematical thinking and an undisguised awe at .beauty of the workings of nature laid bare by the human d had boundless patience in conveying to his students an a subject that those who do not know and love it may ider dry. His love for his students, his colleagues and, yea, for administrators combined in a love for Vassar one of bricks and mortar, of administrative bureau- t to the College in all ways. That is what Ed un- rstanding and an appreciation of the stark aesthetics lege that was as right as it is rare. He knew how to an institution, knew what that meant. His Vassar was y or of tradition writ large in sacred letters; it was sum of all the lives given to it. A fitting gratitude those who have gone before;and a proper responsibility those who will come aften demand‘ that one give one's Hingly did, and most visibly during his seven-year ser- e as chairman of the Committee on Admissions. At that me--in the fifties:-the appointed faculty chairman was chargesof the College admissions policies and practices, .H\the Director of Admissions serving under faculty di- tion. For the last two years of that period, Ed was l students. Chairman and Director of Admissions. Under his aegis r changed from a college drawing its students primarily a well-defined group of private schools to one that t together a nearly equal mix of private and public -we Q -2- _ . . . ' h d always incl d Ed L'"“e"S def'“'t'°“ of educat'On OZ lished music? ed th. He was an acc p an Rfeggif agngetheie 2:2 have been few concerts at V95Sar '“ lm > . L in th h Ed d Celestia were n0 _e a\m?St 50 years atwigei reaanin English history and litera- audience. He was Y t d f th h-_ tura and in his later years embarked an a s ulgtg Ceni IS late l8th an ear Y "fies iﬁ2’e3§uZ“§Z;S§£’ sirtnﬁmphrev DavY»ha @aQ a§§§[S5‘?n3§Qd heart. Davy was a close friend of t e 8 e _ » , Wordsworth turned to him for help Wlth $“ECt$?gLOEéie2€Ygt also worked with a number of influentia Bngdoes and Tho & including William Hyde Wollaston, Thomas] e _ I63/6“ mas Wedgewood. Ed spent his second F8CultY egve '“ b t , ‘n the Reading Room of the british Museum Li raryg u in the course of that proJect, his mind took another CIGTECEGFISUC turn. In the Vassar Library he found an early-89t century textbook of chemistry by Thomas Thomson (1773-I 52) that I had belonged to Matthew Vassar. Intrigued by the founders interest in his own SUbJ€Ct, Ed made a study of Matthew Vassar's library and, after his retirement in lQ65, went on to write four long essays on the formative history of the College. In this work, he profited from the advice and encouragement of Betty Daniels and of other colleagues who shared his interest in the College's history. After Ed's death in i983 it was Betty who edited those essays and saw to their publication in l98h under the title, Vassar. the Remarkable Growth of a Man and His College. I855-1865. What remains to be said about Ed Linner is the most important and the most difficult to convey to those who did not know him. He was a man of simple manner, but he was not a simple man. He had a great and irreverent sense of fun: life was fun, work was fun. But he was more serious than most in his commitments and in his values. His sense of rectitude and honor was so deeply embedded in his char- acter that he took it to be natural and universal. When Peeple behaved badly, he might have to admit that they were imperfect, but he refused to think them worse than that. He loved to tell stories but would not traffic in gossip. He had a sharp eye for the difference between dignity and stuffiness. He detested posturing and pomposity and took deliget '“ Pu“¢tutins it, but he had much affection and aff'n'tY for genuine eecentricity. Most remarkably, he seemed to be unaware of anyone's age, including his own He treated small children as equals en'o ed th ' om any _ _ , J y eir c P ??2O??Eggndeﬁ them bY eating his shoelaces (which were of . e never forgot the welcomin ' ' - . g attention given 3;?ha; a Yeah? instructor by the senior faculty, starting 1] FQXY § Feehen, and he returned it to newly arrived co eagues with disarming warmth and directness He liked people without having to make them over t h‘ ' 'f'catimﬁ And he maintained his - - O IS Spec‘ ' t Without relin ui h_ OWn uncompromising standard of eenduc q 5 ‘n9 hie generosity of mind and spirit. John Christie 8, 1985 é3*:."a::.L
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Title: Macmahon, Edna Cers, 1901-1983 -- Memorial Minute:
Creator: Griffen, Clyde, Glasse, John, Marshall, Natalie
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Date: May 8, 1984
Text: / ,’i y / epRfOgQVg t 5'-0,‘, 9 X‘ \i_ . v48 At a Meeting of the Faculty of Vassar College held May ninth, nineteen hundred and eighty—four, the following Memorial was unanimously adopted; Edna Cers Macmahon, Professor Emeritus of Economics was born 9 February 27, 1901 in Riga, Latvia, the daughter of John William and V Alvia Julia Lischmann Cers. Her family emigrated to the United States when she was a child and she grew up on a farm in Massachusetts. Edna began her long career of...
Show more/ ,’i y / epRfOgQVg t 5'-0,‘, 9 X‘ \i_ . v48 At a Meeting of the Faculty of Vassar College held May ninth, nineteen hundred and eighty—four, the following Memorial was unanimously adopted; Edna Cers Macmahon, Professor Emeritus of Economics was born 9 February 27, 1901 in Riga, Latvia, the daughter of John William and V Alvia Julia Lischmann Cers. Her family emigrated to the United States when she was a child and she grew up on a farm in Massachusetts. Edna began her long career of community service by sharing with neighboring farmers helpful information from her careful reading of agricultural bulletins. A favorite teacher persuaded her to change her original plan of going to a normal school; instead, she entered Radcliffe at age l6, working her way through college. A seminar with Frederick Jackson Turner inspired her life-long fascination with the influence of the frontier and of geographic mobility upon American history. At age 20 Edna began graduate work at Bryn Mawr On the Susan B. Anthony scholarship. The next summer, in 1922, she met her d d. . future Vassar colleague, Margaret MYBPS» when they b°th le 1S°“SSl°n ' d t Br Mawr. groups at the School for Women Workers in Industry hel a yn ' Ph'l d l hia when they learned that Y°u"8 "°men °n Strlke at a 1 a e P _ - ' 11 they decided Clothing factcry were being arrested illega Y» . - - ‘ themselves arrested at to provide publicity bY getting -2- the strike site. With support from a young male friend from an Old Philadelphia family, they began interviewing the strikers On the picket line. The police hustled them off to the city jail where they briefly sharéd a Qell next ta a young woman who called out cheerfully: "What are you in for? shoplifting?" The venture ended with a double standard in sentencing which left them furious; their male friend was fined, but the future Vassar economists were let off with nothing but an admonition. In 1923 Columbia University appointed Edna as the first woman to hold its Gilder Research Fellowship. At Columbia she studied under Wesley Clark Mitchell, pioneer institutional economist, whose course on economic theory provided the framework for her thinking about economics. From her studies with Mitchell and with two other famous institutionalists, Thorstein Veblen and John R. Commons, she drew the lesson that economists should be critics and shapers of the societies they study. In 1924 she accepted a fellowship from the newly-founded Robert Brookings Graduate School of Economics and Government, an experiment in studying at the intersection of theory and public policy. She received her Ph.D. in 1930 with a doctoral thesis on labor injunctions. While working toward her doctorate, she investigated child labor in Maryland and Delaware canneries for the Children's Bureau of the United States Department of Labor. She also worked for the District of Columbia Consumers‘ League in 1926 as it brought pressure for the enforcement of District laws on maximum hours for women. In 1927, while employed by the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, she began a study of immigrae tion which continued subsequently for the Council on Foreign Relations. But with teaching her long—term goal, she was glad in 1929 to become an _3_ inst - G ructor of economics at Hunter College. In that Year Edna married Arth P ' ' ur Ihlttler Ma°mah°n» then associate professor and subsequently Eaton pr°feSS°r °f Publi¢ administration a t Columbia University They had two chil ' dreni Gail» now livin ' g in Austria wh h ' ~ ere er husband is a diplomat, and Alan, now a physigigt at the University of Texas. During their childhood, the family lived in Croton where Edna helped run a cooperative school inspired by what remains durable in John Dewey's theories of education. She also ran an annual plant sale for the school notable for the stream of varied advice that accompanied her sales as she visualized each purchaser's plot, its probable disadvantages of soil or shade, and the owner's probable lack of time or knowledge. In later years members of the Vassar community would benefit from Edna's advice on gardening and from the well—developed aesthetic imagination which informed it. That imagination could be seen in the gardens and houses she arranged, and especially in the beloved cottage at Lake Awosting with its wonderful relating of domestic comforts, works of craftsmanship, and the natural beauty of the setting. While still at Croton in the late l93Os, Edna began to travel for research and for consulting assignments. In 1941-42 she served as Director of Research for the Division of Minimum Wage and Women ln h d d Industry of the New York State Department of Labor and also ea 8 . . . O . . . Off‘ f Price the EcQnQmlCS unit in the Consumer Division of the lce 0 Administration. Ed . . d the Vassar fagulty in 19142. At that time the Vassar na ]Oln8 . . - d . t Qf a joint department, economics an economics department was par -u_ sociology, which would shortly become the economics, sociology, and anthropology department-—B.S.A. Edna found the philosophy of the department to her liking. Abstract theory was not for her——she always regarded economic problems in the context of the overall problems facing a society. She described the introductory course in an article for the Alumnae magazine in l9H9: The teaching of economics at Vassar has always been directed, rather deliberately, toward a broad understanding of the economy as a whole, and to analysis and discussion of the major economic issues which confront our society. The introductory course, in particular, frankly aims to equip students to exercise their responsibility as citizens intelligently rather than to provide a mastery of economic principles. This does not mean that theory is neglected, but that it is constantly taught in relation to concrete problems to which it is applicable. The emphasis necessi- tates a continuous search for ways of making theory a more practicable tool in the analysis of current problems. Under Edna's influence the department introduced an introductory interdisciplinary course for the joint department, a course which flouished for a number of years. Economists, sociologists, and anthropologists together prepared the year—long introductory course and a required senior seminar. Students majored in one discipline. _5_ Edna's Special fields -'th' - wi in economics reflected her philosophy- consumer economics ' Amerwo ' ' 0 _ an economic histor ' Y» economic development. Her students were ' - - » ln the Vassar tradition, encoura ged to go to the original sources and th 9 ese sources were often Opepatin ' - - 8 lnstitutions in the community Field tri ‘ - ps to farms and factories were a re gular Part of Economics lO5 and Poughkeepsie residents were surveyed on a variety of topics. In the mid l96Os Edna worked with other faculty in the development of an interdisciplinary course on the river and its impact on those living around it. Her participation in the course was inspired by her long observation of the Hudson and her concern for it before "ecology" became a popular term. A late colleague said he always wanted to follow Edna around with a tape recorder for she was a veritable fountain of ideas. But she was interested primarily in people and in doing. Although she published several journal articles, she never found enough time for her own research, especially for her study of Poughkeepsie shoemakers which was in advance of its time in methodology. Her tracing of craftsmen over time through census and city directories anticipated by more than a decade the historical social mobility studies which became important in the 1960s and 70s. Edna retired from Vassar in 1966, but continued her teaching in the . . . H l d extensive State University of New York for three years er a rea y V _ . . ' sed. She had been activity in the community beyond the College lncrea t t f Dutohess Community College from its founding in 1957, a rus ee o _ _ . - ' d in its formative period. playing 3 ma]OP role in setting policy ur 8 ard for seventeen YEBPS, until 197a‘ She served on the BO ’”!‘\$4'- ~ 161 In government, she served on the Advisory Committee to the Consumer Counsel to the Governor of New York and, in Dutchess County, on its comittees on tax policy and on economic opportunity. Politically, she was an active member of the League of Women Voters and of both the Vassar Democratic Club and the Dutchess County Women's Democratic Club. She delivered countless addresses to community groups, ranging from the Dutchess County Council on World Affairs to the Newcomers’ Home Bueau Club, from the Anti-Defamation League to the YWCA, and from the Poughkeepsie Business and Professional Women's Club to the Dutchess County Grange Tax Comittee. The topics of these talks expressed the range of her concerns: consumer economics, anti-poverty programs, county planning for water and land development, integration and quality in education, and travels with her husband in Europe, Africa, and Asia. Also expressive of her concerns was her membership in the Poughkeepsie Friends Meeting. Bowdoin Park, on Poughkeepsie's bank of the Hudson, is an abiding embodiment of Edna Macmahon's care for the land and for the people of the place where she lived for nearly three decades. There, the Edna Maemahon Trail for the study of nature commemorates her leadership in reclaiming an abandoned waterfront for the use of the community. In 1978 Edna moved to Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, where she died on July 2%, 1983. \hntHal\h¢dlhnl\Qnin,\inIIl1l|\0@ll0II ‘A hnnbllho. muuuuuwuaumn-nmqgquq. luv-¢a\hnrabltl\y\olnbl1lanIpIo¢u\|uqq_|.@§ wwvh. tiwwbvlcw. mvvollwhaumualnauducn Ilnhattawoodtdltlno. !alt\lnba&—0Q\Qqﬂﬂ|p Dhﬂonlqnn QlI.1t1tohlothoIQ0lIUOl|ﬂOIlOd_l»ﬂﬁ onnnltyocvtoonlactlnnltajohugottnruﬂqnnlcilq honnnounoa Inopocthlly Ulﬂtﬂ, cub tum. Quinn <¥~i':- 3%” *5,
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Title: Barber, Lelia, [unknown]-1984 -- Memorial Minute:
Creator: Askew, Pamela, Carroll, Eugene, Drouilhet, Elizabeth, Hunter, Mary Alice, Murphy, Joan
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Date: [after 1984]
Text: All-4i urn!‘ ‘ll Minute for Leila Barber >Leila Cook Barber, who died on December h, l98h, at the of 8l, was a member of the Vassar faculty for 37»years. taught in the Art Department, which she joined in l93l, tH her retirement in I968. Of that generation that in its youth placed more value iod D. I €fl t0 the personally creative than on conformity to professional xy, Leila Barber could and did say of herself: "I am piece. I've never published anything. I have no donlt know why...
Show moreAll-4i urn!‘ ‘ll Minute for Leila Barber >Leila Cook Barber, who died on December h, l98h, at the of 8l, was a member of the Vassar faculty for 37»years. taught in the Art Department, which she joined in l93l, tH her retirement in I968. Of that generation that in its youth placed more value iod D. I €fl t0 the personally creative than on conformity to professional xy, Leila Barber could and did say of herself: "I am piece. I've never published anything. I have no donlt know why they kept me.“- Generations of stu- s, however, and department members, colleagues and col- administrators knew exactly why she was invaluable to College, why it can be said that she has not left her Simply because formalized professional ambition was Leila Barber, this minute, to record her contri- ion to Vassar College must go beyond the framework of academic vita. A phrase often used by Leila to characterize others was bbrm I er and shaker.“ Leila was not a shaker, but she was a r and shaper. And it is the shape of things that she If cared to fashion and foster, or encourage and sup- that became incorporated into the mainstream of learn- enhancing its quality and affirming at the same time values of larger social enterprise. What she gave shape may, perhaps, be traced to her study of philosophy and logy as an undergraduate at Bryn Mawr ﬁollege, from ch she received her B.A. in I925, and to her study of history, begun under the famed Giorgianna Goddard King. earned her M.A. in art history in I928 at Radcliffe, re she did further graduate work until l93l. Related to these fields of study, and what might be d to lie at the heart of Leila Barber's accomplishments ra fundamentally domestic ideal. "Domestic" is not meant the narrow sense here -- not at all implying a channeling energies to private ends -- but signifying that personal where what is within can be ordered and arranged, ex- and controlled, -- to visible effect. It was the from which an inner dynamic of energy radiated out- in many directions: a base from which a response to late surroundings was extended to a critical concern a larger environment -- with working spaces, archi- re and landscape. It was the launching point for a ectory of thought that carried personal compassion into al action -- in her later years to serving meals on ls, to recording for the blind. The domestic core was hstone not only for personal social life, but for Ial responsibility, including her vigilant concern for qual' ' . ' ty of campus life And it was the source of the s reach of her truly liberal point of view which u>forward looking and positive a way embraced every tive idea that could potentially bring about greater -2- understanding, more perceptive knowledge or pleasure, or improved social condition. The operative pattern of her gifts and dedication emerges clearly in her contributions to Vassar College. Part of each summer she worked on student rooming with the College warden, Mrs. Drouilhet; by l9hO she was head resident of Josselyn House; and from i955 on, house- fellow at Josselyn. During the Second World War she helped plan and inaugurate a college system of cooperative living in which household tasks formerly done by maids and white angels were rotated among the students in each dormitory. In addition to getting the work done, this, she thought, brought students of different backgrounds together, and induced a sense of communal responsibility and an active participation in the care for one's environ- ment. She was also chairman of the wartime faculty com- mittee called the Key Center of information at Vassar, which, by appointment of the Office of Education, served as a distribution center for information about the war and postwar problems to six neighboring counties. She represented the Key Center on the Vassar Coordinating Council for War Activities, and served on the council's advisory panel of faculty members who helped students to. choose individual programs of preparation for war service. She also chaired the Emergency Committee, which formu- lated the College defense program. Her committee service for the College, however, en- compassed the entire range of academic process, from visiting schools and talking with prospective students, to the Committee on Student Records, to the Curriculum Committee, to the Board of Residents which advised stu- dents in each house -- lHO in Joss -- to the advising of majors in Art History. She was chairman of the Art De- partment from i965 to i968; and following her retirement, she was briefly Acting Dean of Studies. Her advising, house-fellowing and teaching brought her into touch with an exceptionally wide range of students, with countless of whom she formed enduring friendships. She was master- ful at bringing along the C student; she was a bulwark to those having a difficult time in college, and she was a fearless defender to parents of individual freedom as F. Scott Fitzgerald realized when Leila Barber took him to task for his views concerning the social life of his daughter. In another vein, she was both awe-inspiring and for- midable: formidable in the authority, strength of voice and definitive manner in which she expressed her views; awe-inspiring in her presence, which was stately, ex- ceptional in grandeur and beauty and impeccable in every detail from coif to couture. Today she would be called a"role modelﬂ indeed she inspired a student who saw her 4 ! < I l l -3- alecture last winter to write of her "perfectly seated re,“ finding her "marvelous," and evoking more genera- mm of students than she realized when she wrote, "Perhaps was the child in me that caused the memory of Leila Bar- to become forever crystallized within me." But the phrase "role model," which now verges on empty rgmm is one that Beila Barber would not have used except etiously. Abstraction was not something that experience ted into, but something drawn from it. For this reason, g others, she excelled in the art of teaching. Many hers reach their students; but singular was Leila's le, projection of voice and logically sustained develop- t of analysis and idea. What she said made an indelible ression, and not least because of her invention of Hking, witty and vivid turns of phrase often drawn from commonly shared worlds of food and fashion. Dazzlingly iculate, and lucidly clear, she was able, just in the ling, to raise every work of art that she projected on screen to a higher power, or to consign it to a limbo inferiority where the works of those who misunderstood styles of others seemed rightly to belong. She made history itself a profoundly aesthetic and human--as l as historical-- discipline. k When Leila Barber joined the Art Department, she became third member, teaching twelve l05 conference sections a course in ancient art. It was she who shaped the intro- tory survey course, writing and revising its extensive labus. Printed annually, it was a booklet eagerly t after and cherished by graduate students at other in- tutions long after it ceased to be produced. There was, idly a historical period in the survey course that she not at some time taught herself. She taught American hting as well, and on the advanced level, medieval art iuaiéan Renaissance art from Giotto to Tintoretto beyond, though Tuscan painting of the Fourteenth and teenth Centuries was her special field. With growing ialization in the discipline, no one else in the de- rmwnt could do all that Leila Barber could do, or with intelligence and knowledge that she did it. No one before, and certainly no one has since. Covering the Md, shaping the developing discipline through the curri- lum at Vassar, she was absolutely integral to that llence of teaching and training for which the Vassar Department was so widely renowned in mid-century. A rof the Renaissance Society of America and the Col- Art Association of America, she was well known in art historical world, and it was well known by her. Her shaping of programs extended, moreover, beyond the department. In the Forties, she was a staunch advocate the three-year plan, participating in it. This was an ative arrangement of semesters and of curricular _4_ offerings that enabled students in the war years to gradu- ate in three rather than four years. Part of the raison d'etre of the plan was its potential for encouraging stu- dents to go on to graduate work, to have already launched themselves on a course of advanced study within the canonicm four years. Study in the form of seeing, knowing first hand and re-viewing the works of art that she taught early establishw a regular pattern of summer travel. It was not altogether uneventful. In l936, in Spain with J. B. Ross from the History Department, she was trapped in the bombing of Gran-i ada at the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War. The New York Times photographed them and headlined their ‘Escape by Plane from Rebel Stronghold in Spain.“ They were rescued in a H-seater piloted by the Comte de Sibour, for whom Leila characteristically, held the map that guided them to Tangien In her teaching years she traveled mostly to the Continen including Russia, but especially to Italy; and in the years of her retirement she spent long intervals in Greece and made repeated trips to England.i Although she traveled ex- tensively with undiminished interest in all visible mani- festations of life and civilization, she had a great spiﬂt socially for those enterprises on the local seene, including the League of Women Voters, to whom she gave her enthusiasﬂc support. An alumna who had enjoyed Leila's l05 lectures some years earlier returned to work at Vassar. Still regarding Leila with the awe inspired by their earlier teacher-studan relationship, it was some time before she could stop ad- dressing her as ‘Miss Barber.“ However, in the years ﬁﬂlow-% ing Leila's retirement, they shared many happy times to- gether. These ranged from the concerts and opera workshops in Skinner, and the Drama Department productions, to Honi Cole and his tap-dancing troupe in concert at the Bardavon. Leila's great capacity for enjoying a variety of experi- ences, and her witty comments on the proceedings, made these evenings and many another outing to museums in Williamstown and New Haven a delight. A strong and loyal supporter of the arts in Pough- keepsie, Leila Barber could be seen at virtually every im- portant cultural event. After her retirement she regularly attended concerts, plays and lectures at Vassar and at the Bardavon. She was a major supporter of the Bardavon and a patron of the Hudson Valley Philharmonic. A great film buff, she became the first member of the Bardavon Film So- ciety. She also supported Vassar's Friends of the Art Ga lery and Barrett House. With her unfailing enthusiasm for budding talent, she never missed an audition for the Young Artists Competition, and she played a vital part in guiding a local student play- t,l l l l I 1 l i i J 1 ’ l l 4 4 l 1 l l l 1 l ti fl l 1 § f l I 1 I l l 4 $ l '1 J l x l ! ii i 1 l 1 i l l I _ 1 l 1 .4 E 1 1 i l i -5- roduction, "Mass Appeal " Her personal involvement the arts was boundless No wonder she was heard to "It makes me weary to think of all I shall have done weeks from now." nt, Bill C. Davis, in creating his successful Broad- a ' .' ' D For all that she did do for the College and Art De- fl. af l * ent, art history and the community, we are deeply u . " Respectfully submitted, Pamela»Askew Eugene Carroll Elizabeth Drouilhet Mary Alice Hunter Joan Murphy \ l I l l I l 1 l l l § l v l ll ll | l M w l l J ll ill 7‘! ii !. i l 4 I I 1 I l P l F
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Title: Clark, Jonathan Charles, 1941-1983 -- Memorial Minute:
Creator: Bergon, Frank, Griffen, Clyde, Rappaport, Rhoda, Kohl, Benjamin G.
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Date: October 5, 1983
Text: \ i/ /M-/" *1 ' VVA ‘J ;;4».,_*o {.41 w \'i-I‘. . aLL\'§v.. _. é?,¢ \ saga: ’4 ‘ ab’. V. At a Meeting of the Faculty of Vassar College held October fifth, nineteen hundred and eighty-three, the following Memorial , was unanimously adopted: Jonathan Charles Clark was born in St. Johnsbury, Vermont, on June l8, l94l. He grew up in Vermont and in southern California where he came to love the Pacific coast as he had the New England mountains. As a boy in Vermont, he recalled...
Show more\ i/ /M-/" *1 ' VVA ‘J ;;4».,_*o {.41 w \'i-I‘. . aLL\'§v.. _. é?,¢ \ saga: ’4 ‘ ab’. V. At a Meeting of the Faculty of Vassar College held October fifth, nineteen hundred and eighty-three, the following Memorial , was unanimously adopted: Jonathan Charles Clark was born in St. Johnsbury, Vermont, on June l8, l94l. He grew up in Vermont and in southern California where he came to love the Pacific coast as he had the New England mountains. As a boy in Vermont, he recalled catching perch with his hands by the dam in the Pussumpsic River; and as a boy bodysurfing on the California beaches, he recalled yelling to a friend as they caught a wave together and rode to shore where Jon discovered that his fellow surfer was a California sea lion. In a small apartment on Pacific beach, Jon's mother slept on the living room couch while Jon shared a bed with his step-brother At night he washed out the good pair of pants he had to wear to school. He never had very much money. His father had left his mother just before Jon was born, and his step-father was killed in the Second world war when Jon was still a child. when he was sixteen, his mother was committed to a mental institution. After a brief stay with an uncle on a chicken farm in the San Joaquin Valley-an event that left him with a distaste for chicken the rest of his life-Jon returned to southern California where he was on his own. He had his own apartment and went to La Jolla“High School where he was a brilliant student, especially in mathematics and the sciences, and he was allowed to take a college chemistry course with Linus Pauling. He walked to San Diego to get a bicycle so he could pedal to Scripps Instiunﬁon oFOceanography where he worked after school. He played quarterback for La Jolla High, 3"? when Y0" 1°°¥ed at_J°" 5 "059 Y0" saw the result of his clash with the bruisers of San Diego High who went on to become the bruisers of USC. He received college scholarships to Harvard and Dartmouth» but because Dartmouth offered more money, he said, "I coulmii:affordJ3#% to go to Dartmouth," So he was back in New England where he lggek tte mountains and was on the college ski patrol. He liked to hltﬁl ihe 0 Boston, but in other ways he felt out of place at Dartmouth. _%hd1§w sophomore year he walked off the campus without_both@P1E9 K° Wlwitg tae leaving behind four F's on his transcriPt- He J°l"ed t e rmy . - f Languages, but instead, expectation of being sent to the Monterey School 9 _ G he traveled as a member of the Chemica orp . ]ebrated the fact was glad to be rid of the Army, and he claimed t0]2ZV§S€€ciated with the Ky thiowinghhié bgoéi’ fat‘%:eaewa$grﬁVﬁeyworkgdein advertising layout rmy “to t e as Var’ h American Institute of for Life magazine, then as a catalogue" f°' t e _ W-th his wife Aeronautics. then as a clerk for N0P9a" G“a'a"tee Trust‘ 1 -3- ‘ Judy he moved back to the west coast. While working as head Of the Sample department for the paper distributors of Blake, Moffat. ﬂQd TQWUQ. he began taking night courses at San Francisco State. Trans-@PPl"9 to the University of California at Berkeley, he discovered his love of colonial American history and knew that he wanted to continue his studles at Yale with the historians he admired, Edmund S. Morgan and J. H. Hexter. Jon was graduated with honors from Berkeley and awarded a Danforth Graduate Fellowship. At Yale he won the Tew Prize as the best flPSt—yeap graduate student in history and later the George Washington Egleston Prize for the best dissertation in American history. After a year as a Junior Fellow in History at the Newberry Library in Chicago, he began his teadﬁng career at McGill University in Montreal. The following year, l973, he arrived at Vassar with his wife Judy and his young daughter Hilary. From the moment of his appointment Jon was a popular and influential teacher of history at Vassar. Students flocked to courses in his special area of expertise-colonial America and the period of the ratification of P the Constitution of the United States. But he soon displayed a firm control and versatility in other areas, including American legal history, Atlantic civilization in the early modern period, and historiography. Characteristically, in being a good teacher, Jon broke all the usual mﬂes of good teaching; he laboriously wrote his lectures for each class downim the an's and the‘s and read these lectures aloud to the students. But what would almost always have been a deadening approach became, in Jon's hands, an exciting and lively presentation. Generations of students confirmed that he was not just one of the best lecturers, but one of the best teachers in the department. To say that Jon "took an active part in Department affairs" hardly begins to describe how indispensable he was to his colleagues in History. He was one of the prime movers in the reform of the history curriculum in l97l-78, he played a crucial role in the design and teaching of an ambitious course in comparative cultures, and he took the lead in preparhm 6 Y@aP'l0"9 course that satisfies the freshman reading and writing requht- ment. dudy and he were popular housefellows in Cushing for three years; his chairmanship of the Committee on the Quality of Residential Life brought Perspective and imagination to a vexed area of campus life. His participation in the American Culture Program as advisor, teacher, and planner was much sought and appreciated. These are only the obvious examples drawn from one area of Jon's concerns. In a larger sense, Jon was a living Resource Center for so manX People both on and off the campus. when students or faculty oF—an administrative officer called for some statement of policy from the Hlstvfy Pepartment, more often than not Jon would volunteer to produce the difficult first draft. Just as students gravitated towards Jon, S0, P00, did his fellow historians find him always willing to lay down a book °F 5 Pencil and talk about anything from baseball to Puritanisms. It W65 natural to ask don what the Puritans meant by “preparations” or how to EXP ain Puritanism to nonfBible-reading students. But it was equally Qﬁtugal to discuss with him what to do about an undeserved traffic ticket» a1§ aggnggggdgeg playoff series in l95l, or the comparative ngritg of offer d i . h on never gaye_information; he shared it. Nor did he 8 V ¢8- e was far too unpretentious to do that. One always came -3- away from a conversation with Jon feeling that one had learned a fa t - 0 0 C picked up an idea to think about, collected a Joke never to be f ’ His desk piled h h it °'9°tt6ﬂ- k , 1 19 W h papers, Jon was never too busy to undertake more wor .0P in a arger sens t k ' - membef ef the Department gays? malergmembeﬁ that Shgnhibthable p]ace. one anything, he would turn out the palm of his hand and rejectnthg gdgafthat he had d ne th' scholars? angnhumaggbgingliﬁ But he he]ped a1] °f "5 t° be better teachers, As his mentor Edmund ' u historian for the same reasgﬁrthgthhe §§ldS§°g:§l]5 ri?gn§!ar§ew§S E goﬁd people seriously and took their striving seriously." He was attroot ﬁtter the New England Puritans by their insistence that the world be made E tto than they ever expected it would be. The dominant concern in Jon‘? e er scholarship was understanding the varied ways by which people try toown reconcile their political ideals and ethical standards with the conflictin interests and demands of everyday life. He began by asking whether the g framers of the United States Constitution may have meant what they said ' despite all the debunking of their motives in twentieth century historiography Entitled in its most recent version, That More Perfect Union, Jon's l dissertation foreshadowed all of his subsequent scholarship in the skill with which he revised received opinion without maligning his predecessors, His first published essay demolished the myth of the consolidating ” federalists with wit, impeccable research, lucid presentation, and respect for the honest attempts at interpretation by others. Jon saw his coming to Dutchess County as an ideal opportunity for testing in a more exact way a central conclusion of his dissertation--that political allegiances during the ratification controversy could not be explained by class or interest group. In shifting his attention from the macrocosm of political debate at the federal and state levels to the microcosm of political behavior in its full context in one locality, Jon had to use much more varied kinds of evidence, acquire new skills to deal with them, and acquaint himself with the rapidly developing literature on social history. A major contribution by itself was Jon's reconstruction of the complicated networks of personal relationships in Poughkeepsie based on family, shared religion, economic standing, and occupation. But Jon's aim in the essays which resulted from his research always was to illuminate the choices people faced and what we can learn from their " responses. No wonder bis scholarship contributed so_constantly and powerfully to his teaching. The best illustration is the recently- published booklet, A Government to form, where Jon uses local events and figures to make intelligible a sophisticated analysis of political behavior during our Revolution. In the summer of l982 Jon embarked on a new, ambitious project, less than the explanation of the rise of the two-party Syitem lg ggggeed and America. He had just received a leave in the spréngd egg EDS ital for that research, when 0" 5:"ggYaagggue'ﬂi€O%11§eE2 wgs diagnoseg as . . . a _ complaining of high fever an d he uickly lust "' ' ' t h l ccus aureus an q iggggioisnegscauzexegk latgrf ﬁhothe mornin9,°f M°"deY» February 7' ‘Q83’ Jonathan Clark died at the age of forty-one. d t cher of several parts, but thP0U9h Jgn Clark was a scholar an ea _ . . . - ' - e of inte rity and fierce hls gnaraﬁter ran two dominant traits. a SENS 9 -4- independence on the one hand and a capacity for compassion and friendship on the other. That Jon was able to keep two traits unified in a single personality accounts for the apparent contradictions in his life and work: his tough-minded secular outlook balanced by an abiding interest in Puritan theology, his gruff, sardonic, sometimes earthy, wit, combined with caring for students and colleagues and deep love for wife and daughter, his contempt for unjust authority matched by unstinting service to the Department of History and to Vassar. Jonathan Clark will be remembered as an intensely private man who gave generously of himself to students and community, profession and College. Respectfully submitted, ' Frank Bergon Clyde Griffen K’&/M é)ébﬁ/L5/f/0J1/{’ Qppaport 7 WWW‘ Benjamin G. Kohl, Chairman 1 \
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Title: Tait, Marion, 1911-1982 -- Memorial Minute:
Creator: Asprey, Winifred, Daniels, Elizabeth, Drouilhet, Elizabeth, Pounder, Robert
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Date: September 14, 1983
Text: At a Meeting of the Faculty of Vassar College held A _ September fourteenth, nineteen hundred eighty-three, the following Memorial was unanimously adopted: Marion Tait was born on November A, l9ll, in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, and was raised in Preston, Ontario, where she spent an apparently unexceptional childhood as one of a large family. A vivid memory from those early years, however, was of determinedly wandering off at the age of four to follow a passing parade; a kindly policeman...
Show moreAt a Meeting of the Faculty of Vassar College held A _ September fourteenth, nineteen hundred eighty-three, the following Memorial was unanimously adopted: Marion Tait was born on November A, l9ll, in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, and was raised in Preston, Ontario, where she spent an apparently unexceptional childhood as one of a large family. A vivid memory from those early years, however, was of determinedly wandering off at the age of four to follow a passing parade; a kindly policeman had to bring the reluctant child home. This was undoubtedly a sign that Marion was not destined to stay long in Preston, Ontario. Upon entering high school she was shunted into the so-called "commercial" track, but her admiring teachers, amazed by this young woman who, by the end of the first year, had far surpassed their own skills in typing and shorthand, urged her to move on to the academic honors program. This she did with great success, earning thirteen "firsts" in her senior year. Her achievements won her scholarships -— one of them from the Independent Order of the Daughters of the Empire -- to Victoria College of the University of Toronto. In college she majored in Classics because, as she stated years later, “if one was to understand anything, it seemed important to begin at the beginning."1 The four years of her college career were important in shaping the independent and forthright spirit which remained with her. At Toronto she "belonged to a group that considered itself intellectual, radical, and oh so sophisticated." Moreover, she “read T. S. Eliot, D. H. Lawrence, and Freud. We were 'women,' not 'girls,' and called each other by last names.“ Advised by her professors to seek out a graduate school in the U.S. rather than remain at Toronto, Marion Tait your- neyed south in the midst of the Great Depression to begin advanced work in Latin and Creek literature at Bryn Mawr Col- lege. Her work there was distinguished. She travelled to Italy for study in Rome at what turned out to be JUSE the wrong time. Years later, she loved to describe in vivid and rather frightening detail the triumphant entry into Rome of Adolf Hitler, where he was greeted by his ally, Mu$$°l'"'; Marion was there, too, swept up in the crowd that thronged the Piazza Venezia. Eventually she had to seek refuge lﬂh the house of some hospitable Romans who plucked her, On t e point of being trampled underfoot, from the mob. Her Ph D in hand, Marion taught first at Sweet Briar College, then at Mount Holyoke, whenceshe cameDégn Vgﬁjaghén f 3 , She came as t e new _, _ 23:2’;§€ot2e¢gg§ugity7deeply divided over educational policy. Her predecessor as Dean, C. Mildred Thompson» and PreS'dent e - ' ' Colle e ‘Quotations are from the VarsitY Graduateh V'ctor'a g ' Fvhrniry l9h9- 2 H Noble MacCracken had durin9 the WE" Yea“ d"""'°°"’d a“ enry ' - ' lt ative three Year degree PF°9'am w'th a new c'term ‘n ad' a ern ' - ' ' . . _ Th's innovation had divided the dIt'on to SW0 heggbzontgigﬁding ‘who had been 8PP°'“ted Pres?‘ college. heagﬁd of the war had,not been able to calm the Ssgﬁbiedtwaters inasmuch as many members of thg faculty 9 . ' t liked and wanted to continue the n€:e5¥g5:T-8:? dégﬁeeés many were determined to return to Y Id not bear those members of the facultY who CO“ There wﬁrﬁo each other if they could avoid face-to-face con- fﬁogﬁgiions by altering their routes through Mai“ t0 the post office. Marion Taitls reserved and patient diplomacy soon took over According to one colleague, when Marlo" Firs? arrived at Vassar, she sat quietw in facultY meet'“9§ and d'd FOE plunge in to run the show. She refused to find out whic faculty members stood for which plan. Even her choice of seat in faculty meetings conveyed her attitude: she did not sit with the president, facing the faculty, as had her pred— ecessor, so that she could see which way people voted._ In- stead, she sat in the front row with the faculty and lISt€n€d to what she heard. One person reports that "she was tactful and got on with everybody with her cool, balanced attitude and pleasant warmth. When she did speak her mind, she car- ried conviction.“ In those first years at Vassar, Marion was able to spend more time with students than was possible later in her career, and she was extraordinarily effective with them. Those who were troubled came to her for sage and sympathetic counsel, those who were undecided about courses or career found in her a ready and knowledgeable adviser. Her job at that time en- compassed the duties now performed by the Dean of the Col- lege, the Dean of Studies and the Vice President for Admini- strative and Student Services. As the years went by and some of the tasks she had performed were relegated to others, she saw less and less of students on a daily basis. This she re- gretted, and her return to full-time teaching in I966 after seventeen years of continuous service as Dean was prompted in part by a desire to return to the classroom and to stu- dents. As a teacher she was just as effective as she had been as administrator; nunerous devoted members of her classes will readily attest to that fact. Although she accomplished much in her admin’ t ' _ _ is rative rgleé such as helping to coordinate Vassar's teacher-prepa- n program with the State Department of Education, per- haps the most important moment of Marion Tait's deanship was her defiant challenge in November I959 when the trustees a peared to be about to implement Beardsle Ruml's ‘d P- Y I eas of economy. Ruml's Me o t T ' ~ fifties and it inflme oda rustee was widely read in the u nce many who hoped to streamline lib- eral arts colleges and make them more "efficient " I i959 what was proposed was a move to a 20-to-l student f nl ’ . _ _ - acu ty rat'°' a"d Parlng and tampering with the curriculum. The 3 Ruml Report suggested that the trustees w ' than the faculty in shaping the education:$Igo??c?egeofethéob college, a notion counter to the tenets of governance intro- duced at Vassar by MacCracken in I915. (This new governance was a prototype of academic governance at many other colleges in the country.) Marion Tait at this point rose in the fac- ulty to voice her considered opinion that the Ruml report was in a most essential way a reactionary educational docu- ment and that all colleges would either move forward or back- ward as they responded to its proposals. She accused the trustees of seeming to ignore that governance which gave the faculty the right to determine educational policy. And she called upon the faculty to rise up in protest. They did, and subsequently their differences with the trustees were settled amicably, with the governance intact. It may well be that the course of Vassar history was significantly in- fluenced by Marion Tait's resolve. Not always did Marion agree with the faculty, or with the students. When she did not, she was not afraid to say so and to make difficult decisions, even when they were un- popular or caused her pain. She constantly searched, in her own mind, for what was right, what needed her support, what was possible and desirable, and what should be rejected. Her special talent was an ability to isolate differences of opinion and tackle matters of principle, leaving problems of personality aside. Her service to the college as administrator was over only temporarily after 1966, for she was called back in I970 under President Alan Simpson to serve an interim term while a search was conducted for a new Dean. Even after she again resumed her teaching post for the few remaining years before her retirement, she was called on again and again to render sensible advice to the community. In the words of one col- league, “she took on the role of elder stateswoman." She retired in I975 and went to live in Massachusetts, first in Weston and then in Concord, where she died of cancer on September 30, I982. For many, Marion Tait embodied the highest ideals ofthis college. Her belief in the excellence of the liberal arts and her optimistic faith in her students guided and sustained colleagues and students alike. She was a woman of parts. She loved gardening and watching birds, and roughing it at her Vermont summer house. She loved Homer and unfortunately _ never completed the work on Homeric simile that she took with her into retirement. Though she published little, she was known and respected in the profession, and served for many years on the Managing Committee of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens and on the JUFY for the Prix de Rome of the American Academy in Rome. She will be remembered for the remarkable detachment which coupled with an innate compassion, gave ha; intelgect ’ ' , o o u the strength to resolve numerous thorny ISSUGS h who have seen it will forget the sight of Marion in a faculty meeting, turning as she stood, her glasses perched on the end of her nose, her right hand punctuating her remarks with abrupt strokes, as she went straight to the heart of the mat- ter and offered a telling insight Or, mOre Often, 8 SO|ution? This patrician paradoxically sprung from humble beginnings has left her mark on Vassar College. May the pragmatic ideal ism which guided her continue to guide us who follow in her stead. Respectfully submitted, Winifred Asprey Elizabeth Daniels Elizabeth Drouilhet Robert Pounder
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Title: Claflin, Agnes Rindge, 1900-1977 -- Memorial Minute:
Creator: Pommer, Linda Nochlin, Barber, Leila Cook, Groves, Earl, Kuretsky, Susan Donahue, Askew, Pamela
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Date: October 14, 1981

Title: Miscellaneous printed material about E.C.S., 1981-06-02
Date: 1981-06-02
Text: Actor’: donation hops preserve hsioric home W A S H I N G - TON (AP) --The home _ oi womerfs rights leader Elizabeth Cady ‘ Stanton * will be preserved partly through the gift of $11,©w’ from actor Alan V Alda, the Natiﬂﬁm al Park Service . .~ said Monday. M-9* put the Eiizabeth Cady Stanton Foundation over the top in its ‘ drive to buy the home, which was pﬁrohased for $43,090. V The foundation is acquiring property in the Seneca Falls, N.Y.,, area for a Womerfs Rights National Historical‘...
Show moreActor’: donation hops preserve hsioric home W A S H I N G - TON (AP) --The home _ oi womerfs rights leader Elizabeth Cady ‘ Stanton * will be preserved partly through the gift of $11,©w’ from actor Alan V Alda, the Natiﬂﬁm al Park Service . .~ said Monday. M-9* put the Eiizabeth Cady Stanton Foundation over the top in its ‘ drive to buy the home, which was pﬁrohased for $43,090. V The foundation is acquiring property in the Seneca Falls, N.Y.,, area for a Womerfs Rights National Historical‘ Park, which was authorized by Congress last *December. r Aida made the contribution that, 3 Hm e/:1/WW i ¢
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Title: Miringoff, Helen, 1916-1981 -- Memorial Minute:
Creator: Johnson, M. Glen, Griffen, Clyde, McLaughlin, Elsie
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Date: May 6, 1981
Text: At a Meeting of the Faculty of Vassar COll€ge e May sixth, nineteen hundred eighty-one, the following Nemorial was ““a“'m°u$lY adopted; Helen Miringoff spent thirty years of her life deep] immersed in the field work program of V C 11 Y was, 35 the PO?9hkeeP$ie J0uFnal commeniigaat ﬁheegimesgf her death, a vibrant and vital link between the colle e d Hm community. She loved them both d h l - 9 an an s e worked ti l l to help them understand and relate to each other. Vaisgﬁs Y lwg a long...
Show moreAt a Meeting of the Faculty of Vassar COll€ge e May sixth, nineteen hundred eighty-one, the following Nemorial was ““a“'m°u$lY adopted; Helen Miringoff spent thirty years of her life deep] immersed in the field work program of V C 11 Y was, 35 the PO?9hkeeP$ie J0uFnal commeniigaat ﬁheegimesgf her death, a vibrant and vital link between the colle e d Hm community. She loved them both d h l - 9 an an s e worked ti l l to help them understand and relate to each other. Vaisgﬁs Y lwg a long tradition of field study and com ‘t ' 1 _ nmnt dating back to the l9th Century. In tE:npeZt|2h?r¥§ years that tradition hasbeen maintained and strengthened largely through the work of Helen Miringoff. Helen was born in Brooklyn on February 2, l9l6, the daughter of Samuel and Yetta Frohlich. She grew up in P Brooklyn and attended Corlears Business College and Brook- lyn College but could not afford to continue to a degree atthat time. She earned her B.A. from Bard College in l975. Helen worked for l0 years as a secretary and office nwnager at Isbet Electric Manufacturing Company in New York City and from l9AA to l9h6 was with the American Red Cross at the U.S. Army Hospital in Martinsburg, W. Va. tmfore coming to work as a secretary in the Public Rela- Hons Office at Vassar in l9h9 when her elder son started in the Vassar Nursery School. After a brief interruption of anployment during the infancy of her younger son, she returned to Vassar in l95h. She served in the Field Work Office from then until her death on March 22, l98l. Helen grew up in a family which believed you have to mafor yourself but you also have to do for the community. She exhibited to the community the caring concerns with Much she was raised and which she continued to practice until her death as a member of numerous boards of directors Oi a great number of community agencies. Among the °r9an" zations to which she gave her committed, selfless SGFXICGC “Ere Adelphi/Hudson Valley Program, CommunitY Actlo? wgeﬁezg mﬂchess County Arts Council, Dutchess County 5°c'a . or Club, Neighborhood Services Organization, P°u9hkeeP5'e d EXecut' ' Cl b, the Peughkeepsie FamilY DeVe'°Pme“t a“ ives u _ . h V - Day care center, the Jewish Communitycﬁengegnagg Eh: as 5aFSummer Program for Disadvantaged ' r Poughkeepsie Area. b t clearly n0 9Fdin' In l95b. Helen was a secretﬁgy Wi3e_ranging Curloslty MW one Her drive and ener9Y> ' - ~ to turn in “W compassion. and her shrewd sense of where 1 \ 2 the community set her apart. Her enQ Roosevelt gnd for Eleanoris Sense thaimgggorespect for Eleanor t be built at the loc l l cfa¢Y and JUStlCe mU5 a evel als ' knew her. O lmpressed a"Y0ne who When the first director of Vas I - . _ F - Clarice Pennock, retired, and a sucgzsszr lgfi W§;le0ff'ce’ Office. _She ran it exceptionally well, not only adm? fan the it eEflCl€ntlYtbUtTﬁlSO reaching out to develop new tghiggténs in E e ¢OmmUU' Y- e then Dean of th F l . fin, had decided after careful considgraiigntfhaghihles Grlf_ hould become the Ass st t ~ - e Secrefary 5 O Su erior dl én and Actlng DlFeCtOr. He recognized that n p cre ent|als from outsid ' as valuable to the college as the quite :xf@:of3T2:CltgbY?i€ of Helen M'f'n9OfF t0 persuade Vassar students and fgcult ayd residents of Poughkeepsle that they could learn much fromyeagh Other. That decision by Charles Griffin and Helen's elevatiqn to Director in I970 were among the college's finer mQment5_ Helen believed passionately in action informed by knowledge and commitment. Field work gave her one opportunity to put that belief into practice and to spread it around. She did so with enormous enthusiasm and energy. To faculty -- often in- clined to knowledge for its own sake -- she talked always of the need for action and involvement. To students -- some- times eager for involvement but impatient with study -- she counseled the importance of knowledge. Helen knew better than most of us that changing anyone's perspective requires skill and patience. She did not expect easy results; she knew how long it takes to get your mind out of old ruts and think something through in a fresh way. Her salty tongue helped here. She could draw you up short with a sharp characterization or a sarcastic question which exposed whatever shallow or wishful thinking you had been engaging in. &m you didn't feel that she had diminished you or reduced the abject. You Knew she cared. She saw clearly the needs of her pupils as individuals. Held wor< has not been -- and is not now -- regarded highly by all members of the Vassar faculty. Helen worked ceaselessly to expand field w0rk opportunities. She taught the faculty d about field work. With some, she patiently and '=>ubtlY $E'99eSte Often over several years; with others, she served as facilitator brlnging them into contact with agency heads or businessmen O Qenerate a common interest in educational oPP°ftun'F'?Sd Ord Vassar students; with still others, she needledi <_1aJ° e gain Prbdded. She used the same techniques °f,per5uaS'OgQn?¥3 in 9 and education on a9@“¢Y heads and Others ln the 69m the . . ' ' contributing t0 her unstinting efforts to enhst them In education of Vassar students. _ . ' owth of field wOFk Her @ffect'VeneSS '5 measured In tge gs but in the range at Vassar -- not just in numbers of stu eh 3 Of Subjects in which it is ava-1 bi . faculty involved. She always tozk :pg2?a=n the numbers of ving more and more faculty in th P easure in invol- - e enerations of facult me b program» She reached across 9 _ Y m ers d b Oider together in common endeavgcs rghghwelggmgaungerfand - the most open of '. new aculty she had made. Ways and never '9n0F€d the old friends H le 's — ‘d - - - . _ e hm] San? 5' ed PaFtICipation in the life of Pough- keeP5l@ 6 De a l of her students -- under rad . t , and t0WnSpeOple alike -- to see connectionsgbetwgeﬁsclgZE:gé% and cOmmun'ty mofe clearlY- But she resisted an tend ' the connectio ' ' - y .encY to \”eYd ‘W8 S C “S as Primarily practical or convenient. You cou a y ount on Helen to raise ue ' could be learned from particular fielg wgfioggsighmenfgwahdcio urg€ dropping those with too little intellectual challenge Benefits for community programs or for students‘ career plan- ning remained secondary to the primary purpose of developing students‘ critical powers and imagination, even in smaller activities. Nothing so well exemplified Helen's understanding of the proper marriage between the life of the mind and our particular circumstances and traditions as her life-long devotion -- ﬂared with her beloved husband, Hy -- to perpetuating the study of Yiddish. Those happy few who enjoyed the good com- pany, food and conversation in her house off Hooker Avenue lmow what excitement and pleasure she brought to their ex- Moration of Yiddish. She was proud of the culture which Jews had created in Europe and the United States, and its dual appreciation of learning and of community. She exem- Mified both values in her own life and in her direction of Hm Office of Field Work. %;eci';g ii su itte M. Glen Johns Chairmé£aL*\\\ <:ZZQt(2§?> .,.;Q%?4»cu Clyde Griff . Elsie McLaughlin O O
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Title: Vassar College Musical Events, Fall 1980 [Calendar of Events]
Description: At bottom of calendar: Please note the location of the first two concerts. Skinner Hall is currently undergoing renovations now expected to be completed by October 1. Any changes in the schedule will be announced in the local newspaper.
Date: 9/7/1980

Title: Domandi, Mario, 1929-1979 -- Memorial Minute:
Creator: Griffen, Clyde, Daniels, Elizabeth, Kohl, Benjamin, Piccolomini, Manfredi
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Date: November 14, 1979
Text: , 1»- . Attachment #1 I At a Meeting of the Faculty of Vassar College held November fourteenth, nineteen hundred and seventy-nine, the following Memorial ’ was unanimously adopted: Hario Domandi, Professor of Italian on the Dante Antolini Chair, was born in New York City on February 5, l929, the son of Santo and Filomena Domandi. Educated in the city's public schools, he took his undergraduate degree at St. John University College. He spent the l95O-5l academic year as a Fulbright Fellow...
Show more, 1»- . Attachment #1 I At a Meeting of the Faculty of Vassar College held November fourteenth, nineteen hundred and seventy-nine, the following Memorial ’ was unanimously adopted: Hario Domandi, Professor of Italian on the Dante Antolini Chair, was born in New York City on February 5, l929, the son of Santo and Filomena Domandi. Educated in the city's public schools, he took his undergraduate degree at St. John University College. He spent the l95O-5l academic year as a Fulbright Fellow at the University of Rome and then completed a Master's degree in history at Columbia University in l952. After two years of military service, he resumed his studies at Columbia in European intellectual history. His dissertation on the German youth movement was supervised by Jacques Barzun. For Hario,Barzun represented the life of the nnndat its best, urbane and elegant, yet humane and deeply serious. » Mario came to Vassar as an instructor of Italian in 1956. From l958 to l963 he served as House Fellow in Jewett dormitory and from l96l to l964, as Dean of Freshmen. His success as teacher and administrator and his productivity as a scholar were rewarded with early promotion to tenure. In Hay, I964, he delivered the convocation address at the request of the senior class. Characteristically, he told his hearers that the result of their education "should be a refined sensibility and a civilized instinct. Just as the entirety of our personal experience is embodied in what we call our ‘instinctive’ reaction to a situation, so too our whole intellectual experience is contained in our instinctive judgments about art, politics, ethics, and the rest. If a college has done its job well, the instinct should be healthy, free of myths and prejudices." In l965 Mario became chairman of the Italian department. In l969 he became the second recipient of the Dante Antolini chair in Italian language and literature which had been given by Hrs. Julia Coburn Antolini in honor of her husband. H Mario maintained a lifelong interest in modern German history and culture, but at Vassar he soon turned to the field where he was to make his scholarly reputation: the translation of significant works on and of the Italian Renaissance from both German and Italian. His first translation was of Ernst Cassirer's The Individual and the Cosmos in Renaissance Philosophy_Published by Basil Blackwell in @}iord and by Harper and Row in New York. he book s _ immediate scholarly and commercial success cemented Mario's close relationship with Harper‘s history editor, Hugh Van Dusen, and over the next decade Hario translated five books for the Torchbook Series. _In l965 appeared Mario s ' translation of Guicciardini's Ricordi under the title of MaximS ﬁHQuRBfl@¢tlP0§, Of a Renaissance Statesman. It made his reputation as a Renaissance sﬁholﬂr andlremains in priht today. In l97O Mario published buicciardini s History of Florence with introduction, glossary, and notes. His translation Of _ _ -2- Luigi Salvatorelli's interprefatl°" ° . \in 1972 Mario also coipleted of Tomas Nald0nad0'$ Wofk °" “rba" p'ann'ng. give study of the rise of translation from the German of Ernest Nolte S mas European fascism which~was never published Mario's special knack as a translator was his ability to convoy difﬁ - - ' l d skein of events in C196?’ Teadahli: a?d ph1]?SOpE1cl!shde€Zsgnd lhigngalent attracted the interest of Charles Sing f'°w'ng nq 1 p ' ' d Italian sources ouoted - ‘ . - i ' 1 t of Latin an - T 5 ?:°t§:]l§§§nQ§:y0¢§ gigglgtonégsegigion of Dante's Divine Comedv. ihig t Florence. But ultimately he abandoned this plan in av projects on Hedicean Florence that were to lie unfinished at his death, Om was a volume of the familial letters of Lorenzo de' Medici and his circle done in collaboration with the Florentine paleographer ulnO_COFtli Thelc second was a translation with notes and glossary of oiovanni Cava canti s. Florentine Histories, a prime narrative source on the origins of the nedim regime, for which Mario received a grant from the National Endowment fort Humanities. To his students Marb brought the same qualities of sound scholarship, his clear but never simple exposition, and the magic of his manner. Studm f flocked to his Renaissance classes especially because Mario's recreations that civilization permitted students to discern some of the most humane aspects of the teacher himself. He would talk of Machiavelli and murder ,n Ariosto and the poetic forms, of romance and history, of fortuna and virtm but ultimately for Mario the Renaissance was best represented by a letter Lorenzo de' Medici wrote to his young daughter whom the family had left behind in Florence: if everyone lS gone, and the naughty ones left you alone, do not worry; I will come back purposely to stay with you, and wﬂ stay only with you. Mario used to comment, "He was a good daddy.“ lhis artificer of balance of ower and f t‘ t‘ ~ - - ~ Mario that Virtue the L 2_ o “ar is ic excellence exemplified for _ a ins called humanitas and the Italian hUm&WlStS t;l€d to revive. "Humanitas" is also the best word to describe Mario's 1% ° m°"e than twenty Years as teacher and department chairman. It - c imam for anyone to remain indiffere t t h‘ Va’ + to Iove him’ immediate]y. n o lS warm, almost fatherly, ways and nm l I F ' ' from Ggr$Z;§ gizég 2gggg$ggA%a€; ﬁggrggriwhozhad come to the United Statgs divorce in 1972. Their O 1 h_] i 7 e one. Their marriage ended W delight in her development was A :9 Mary Char10tte’ was born In 196'. h1S - _ x raordina H ' - .’ became known for their h ' ry' 'ar'° and Agnes qUl¢h'Y - t ' - - - . . They bridged worlds easilyT1t3lni%qa3?ffgr the d1verS]ty of th€1r fr]end& exhilarating conversation. Mario's prid ?nce§ of Opinion and taste int0 scholar never detracted from his rid ‘e 1n h1S Own cosmopolitanism as a father's success as a Qarme t p e 1" h'5 Slﬁllian ancestry or in his he attributed to Unc]e Luiq?, gggﬁfggturegk who will forget the aPhorism5 I who will forget the accordion on which h Or Poor, it s nice to have moml to pop tunes to Protestant hymns? 8 ranged with such zest from Polk” In recent years his fa to drinks at six o'clock. Uﬁlikg min? gf ﬁarty fO]]owed from an '"V'tatiM °"$t°maYllY were occasions where a mixedqgrogﬂtherings, Mario's parties » p °f People engaged in liveU ' f the Pisorgimento appﬂﬁfed '" '97'6M 6 O l h l HE‘ I U I l M r I i l 7| i l I Cl‘ i l m . . . - ' lers and for a the kindled Mario's interest in the early Florentine chronic P , - .- ' ' ' E lish a documentary volume on name he toyed with the idea of providing in "9 _ f or of two ]arqe sh -3- _ discussion on a wide range of topics, taking the key from their host who treate the party as an event rather than as a mechanical routine. It was not unusual for him to ask members of his classes and Italian majors to the parties; he deferred to them with the same cordiality that he extended to his friends from the faculty and from the community. It was the rare party that did not end with_Mario in the kitchen making spaghetti al dente or some other preferred dish. But in between the coming and the going at the party, those invited to share it knew that they had a host who took seriously the mandate to honor guests. when a guest comes, Christ comes, Mario said, and he meant it. Every part of Mario's life contained the other parts. His dying was part of his living. Learning that he had a large, malignant tumor which made survival improbable, Mario chose to deal directly with his fate. Defiant, he discovered that in Houston, Texas, there was a project experimenting with nuclear radiation therapy. In the face of uncertainty about the outcome, Hario went to a hospital there as a participant in the experiment. He was subjected to routines which, as he told his friends over the long distance phone, stirred in his mind passages from Dante's Inferno. Mario underwent an operation in the Fall of 1978 which removed the tumor. He was able to spend the next several months in Poughkeepsie, recuperating and preparing to reengage in his scholarly activities. On February 4, l979 he was married to Ann Hedlund whom he had known for many years and who gave him the most loving support in his final months. when the cancer recurred, he first was hospitalized in New York. In lucid moments, he retained his geniality and his flair for telling a story. In the midst of pain, he remained gentle and considerate. He returned to Poughkeepsie and died here on July 8, 1979. He is buried in Little Compton, Rhode Island, where he had spent his summers for many years. . Respectfully submitted, );¢2& Cl d iffen Chairman Y 9 r 0 _ 8%/;\‘@1l€"ii7k A . '>@>w~»»le@~.e» 1 Eliiabeth Daniels f§¢dx?cvvC¢~ C7{ flgiiif . Benjam n Kohl ﬂ(»Cr/L’-5514' " , edi Piccolomini %?'*\ ?:*\%\ \. Q\ d
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Title: Matthew Vassar's birthplace
Description: Room with table, chairs, fireplace, door, hanging light fixture and kitchenware.
Date: 1979

Title: Matthew Vassar's birthplace
Description: White house, fence and trees.
Date: 1979

Title: Howson, J. Howard, 1894-1978 -- Memorial Minute:
Creator: Drouilhet, Elizabeth M., Glasse, John H., Linner, Edward R.
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Date: [After 1978]
Text: Attachment #l VASSAR COLLEGE POUGHKEEPSIE - NEW YORK l26Ol At a Meeting of the Faculty of Vassar College held ~ October eighteenth, nineteen hundred and seventy-eight, the following Memorial was unanimously adopted: d. HOWARD HOWSON, l89Q-l978 When J. Howard Howson retired, in I959, he had been , Professor of Religion and Chairman of his Department for thirty years. He died in January of this year. Born in Totonto, Canada, in l89h, he was reared in the Puritan tradition. He graduated from the...
Show moreAttachment #l VASSAR COLLEGE POUGHKEEPSIE - NEW YORK l26Ol At a Meeting of the Faculty of Vassar College held ~ October eighteenth, nineteen hundred and seventy-eight, the following Memorial was unanimously adopted: d. HOWARD HOWSON, l89Q-l978 When J. Howard Howson retired, in I959, he had been , Professor of Religion and Chairman of his Department for thirty years. He died in January of this year. Born in Totonto, Canada, in l89h, he was reared in the Puritan tradition. He graduated from the University of Toronto in l9l6. In l9l7, he became an officer in the Northumberland Fusileers and began serving with the British Expeditionary Forces in France. He fought two years in frontline trenches without wound from shellfire but, just before the Armistice, was burned by gas. When released from the hospital, he returned to Canada and went West in search of an outdoor life. He dug coal in Alberta for nine hours a day and, at night, taught English to fellow miners. Then he worked on government lands in Northwest Canada. He came to New York City in i920, at age 26, to study at ' Union Theological Seminary. l923 was a banner year: he received the B.D. degree, maqna cum laude, from Union, and its Travelling Fellowship; Columbia Teachers College awarded him an M.A.; he was elected Fellow of the National Council for Religion in Higher Education; and he married Lillian Campbell. He taught at both Union and Teachers College for the next two years and then, for three, at Hamilton College. , Howard Howson joined the Vassar faculty in i929, on the Frederick Weyerhaeuser Chair. He created Religion lO5, a course in which he introduced generations of Vassar students to scholarly study of the Judeo-Christian tradition. His course in the history of religions helped to pioneer Asian studies in the curriculum. He taught for years in the Vassar Summer Institute of Euthenics, on ethics and religion, adolescent psychology, and mental hygeine and the family. In the early nineteen forties, he taught summer courses in marriage at Michigan State. Later in the'forties, the Rev. James A. Pike then Rector of Christ Episcopal Church, Poughkeepsie, publicly attacked his liberal approach to the study of religion. That attack was not Mr. Howson's only link with the community. He belonged to the First Congregational Church, to the local chapter of the League for Industrial Democracy, and to the Dutchess County Society for Mental Health, in all of which he held elective office. After retiring from Vassar, //.1 //. J. Howard Howson -2- he taught a course in religions of the world at Dutchess Community College. His wife, Lillian, died in l9h6. They had three children-- John, Carol, and Christine--who grew up in the college community. In l9h7 he married Alice Guest, of the Department of English, later Study Counselor, who survives him. He spoke countless times in chapel, which then met daily. Francis White Field '36 has recalled that one clique of students attended day after day, so handsome was Mr. Howson, until they discovered that he was married. Then they dropped chapel. Mrs. Field also recalled this touch of his teaching: In l932...it was still the custom to assign specific seats to new students in a classroom, at least until everyone got well acquainted. Being tall, and having a name that began with "W", I had spent my life so far at the end of the line or the back of the room. Not so in Howard's class. He had decreed that W, X, Y, Z should be in the front row. That is how my appreciation of him got off to such a good start. Howard Howson had a consideration for persons that was at once deep and unsentimental. Over the years, one member of the Vassar community after another turned to him for counsel. We close with some words of his own. They come from an address on "Academic Freedom“ that he gave during the McCarthy era: Academic freedom involves much more than society's recognition of the role of the scholar as the re-examiner of our cultural heritage. Academic freedom involves society's legitimate expectation that the scholar as teacher will educate scholars as competent as himself, with an - integrity equal to his own, with independence of judgment ~ comparable to that he claims for himself. This means that he must create in his classes an atmosphere of mutual intel- lectual respect, in effect, a miniature scholarly society of students, under the guidance of the teacher. This involves the recognition of obligations on both sides. On the side of the teacher there must be a recognition of the student as a person in his own right. He is a creative person with his own aspirations, his own aptitudes and inter- ests for which no apology need be made. He is no tabula rasa on which the teacher inscribes the truth as he knows it; no empty vessel waiting for the truth to be poured into him. if he is to be initiated into the society of scholars he must be treated in such a way that he has a growing respect for him- self as a scholar. This means that he must learn that dis- cipline of scholarship that will take him back to the living data of knowledge with tools that will enable him to distin- guish the important from the trivial, the significant from J. Howard Howson -3- the insignificant, the more permanent from the ephemeral. the student is to think fearlessly, the scholar as teacher must acquaint him with points of view and conclusions othe than the teacher's own in such a manner that he as student ' is free to accept other possibilities without any sense of disloyalty to his teacher or fear of censure by him. lf the student is to think creatively, the scholar as teacher must be perceptive, and appreciate the significance to the student of efforts that may be pitiably faltering when compared with the assured strides of the mature sch l o ar. This calls for humility in the very area of the scholar's sense of power. Respectfully submitted, Elizabeth M. Drouilhet John H. Glasse Edward R. Linner October l8, i978 I" /' /L1‘ If
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Title: Recital by Kumari Srividya, dancer (Bharathanatyam), Padmabhushan M. L. Vasanthkumari, singer
Description: 3 of 9. Alarippu [performed by Kumari Srividya (dancer) , Padmabhushan M. L. Vasanthkumari (singer), Assisted by: Vanaja Narayanan (nattuvangam), Kumari A. Kanyakumari (violin), Karaikkudi Krishnamoorthy (mridangam), guest]. 1 of 9. Welcome Address [performed by Professor Janet Knapp, faculty]. 2 of 9. Introduction of Artists [performed by A. Nagarajan, guest]. 4 of 9. Varnam [performed by Kumari Srividya (dancer) , Padmabhushan M. L. Vasanthkumari (singer), Assisted by: Vanaja Narayanan (nat...
Show more3 of 9. Alarippu [performed by Kumari Srividya (dancer) , Padmabhushan M. L. Vasanthkumari (singer), Assisted by: Vanaja Narayanan (nattuvangam), Kumari A. Kanyakumari (violin), Karaikkudi Krishnamoorthy (mridangam), guest]. 1 of 9. Welcome Address [performed by Professor Janet Knapp, faculty]. 2 of 9. Introduction of Artists [performed by A. Nagarajan, guest]. 4 of 9. Varnam [performed by Kumari Srividya (dancer) , Padmabhushan M. L. Vasanthkumari (singer), Assisted by: Vanaja Narayanan (nattuvangam), Kumari A. Kanyakumari (violin), Karaikkudi Krishnamoorthy (mridangam), guest]. 5 of 9. Ashtapadi [performed by Kumari Srividya (dancer) , Padmabhushan M. L. Vasanthkumari (singer), Assisted by: Vanaja Narayanan (nattuvangam), Kumari A. Kanyakumari (violin), Karaikkudi Krishnamoorthy (mridangam), guest]. 6 of 9. Javali [performed by Kumari Srividya (dancer) , Padmabhushan M. L. Vasanthkumari (singer), Assisted by: Vanaja Narayanan (nattuvangam), Kumari A. Kanyakumari (violin), Karaikkudi Krishnamoorthy (mridangam), guest]. 7 of 9. Thillana [performed by Kumari Srividya (dancer) , Padmabhushan M. L. Vasanthkumari (singer), Assisted by: Vanaja Narayanan (nattuvangam), Kumari A. Kanyakumari (violin), Karaikkudi Krishnamoorthy (mridangam), guest]. 8 of 9. Felicitations to Artists [performed by Professor Janet Knapp, faculty; Homi Sarkary, guest]. 9 of 9. Vote of Thanks [performed by Arvand Patel, guest].
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Date: 9/22/1976, 8:30PM

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