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Inauguration of Frances D. Fergusson - AAVC Panel, part 1

Date
1986 October 11
Description

AAVC (Alumnae and Alumni of Vassar College) panel discussion chaired by President-elect Fergusson the morning of her inauguration. The speakers were Willa Baker (VC 1987), Maryellen Hadjisky (VC 1945), Helen King Ikeler (VC 1922), Judith West McCarter (VC 1962), Demetrios Papanikolas ( VC 1987)

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Inauguration of Frances D. Fergusson - AAVC Panel, part 2

Date
1986 October 11
Description

Second and last part of the AAVC panel discussion chaired by President-elect Fergusson. The speakers were Willa Baker (VC 1987), Maryellen Hadjisky (VC 1945), Helen King Ikeler (VC 1922), Judith West McCarter (VC 1962), Demetrios Papanikolas ( VC 1987), Mediera Meder (VC 1937), Katharine Forbes

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Inauguration of Frances D. Fergusson - Ceremony preparation

Date
1986 October 11
Description

Clips of raw footage from the preparation for and beginning of the inauguration of Frances Fergusson as President of Vassar College. Includes visitors and trustees mingling in the Rose Parlor and hallways of Main Bulding; (2:40) the President-elect in her offices; (4:45) Virginia Smith helping Mary

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Inauguration of Frances Daly Fergusson - Ceremony

Date
1986 October 11
Description

Edited compilation of scenes from the inauguration of Frances Fergusson as President of Vassar College. Includes the installation ceremony performed by Chair of the Board of Trustees Mary Draper Janney (VC 1942) and Fergusson's address

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Inauguration of Frances Daly Fergusson - Ceremony

Date
1986 October 8-11
Description

Edited compilation of scenes from the inauguration of Frances Fergusson as President of Vassar College. Begins with a clip from the Octoberth 8th interview with Fergusson, followed by welcoming remarks by Chair of the Board of Trustees Mary Draper Janney (VC 1942). Next are portions of remarks by

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Inauguration of Frances Daly Fergusson - Ceremony

Date
1986 October 11
Description

Edited compilation of scenes from the inauguration of Frances Fergusson as President of Vassar College. Includes a portion of the procession, the installation by Mary Draper Janney (VC 1942), the inaugural address of Frances D. Fergusson, and the recessional

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Inauguration of Frances Daly Fergusson - Ceremony, part 1

Date
1986 October 11
Description

First part of the inauguration of Frances Fergusson as President of Vassar College. Includes a portion of the procession and welcome remarks by Chair of the Board of Trustees Mary Draper Janney (VC 1942). The speakers following include Vassar Student Association President Richard D. Feldman (VC 1987

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Inauguration of Frances Daly Fergusson - Ceremony, part 1

Date
1986 October 11
Description

First part of the inauguration of Frances Fergusson as President of Vassar College. Includes the full procession and welcome remarks by Chair of the Board of Trustees Mary Draper Janney (VC 1942). The speakers following include Vassar Student Association President Richard D. Feldman (VC 1987); AAVC

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Inauguration of Frances Daly Fergusson - Ceremony, part 2

Date
1986 October 11
Description

Second and final part of the inauguration of Frances Fergusson as President of Vassar College. This recording begins with the last nine minutes of remarks by University of Rochester President Dennis O'Brien, followed by the installation ceremony performed by Chair of the Board of Trustees Mary

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Inauguration of Frances Daly Fergusson - Ceremony, part 2

Date
1986 October 11
Description

Second and final part of the inauguration of Frances Fergusson as President of Vassar College. This recording begins mid-performance of the Vassar College Choir and brass quartet; University of Rochester President Dennis O'Brien; the installation ceremony performed by Chair of the Board of Trustees

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Inauguration of Frances Daly Fergusson - Interview

Date
1986 October 8
Description

Interview by the Vassar Press Office with Frances D. Fergusson in the President's House three days before her inauguration. The interviewers' voices are frequently inaudible.

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Inauguration of Frances Daly Fergusson - Picnic

Date
1986 October 10
Description

Raw footage from the picnic on Ballentine Field, outside Walker Field House, the evening before inauguration. Includes a performance by the Vassar Jazz Band

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Inauguration of Frances Daly Fergusson - Residence house festivities, part 1

Date
1986 October 10
Description

President-elect Fergusson visiting the first four of nine dormitory open house events, where each dorm was meant to represent a different presidential era of Vassar history. The dorms visited were Lathrop, Jewett, Raymond, and Main. There was dancing, an acapella group performance (the Raymond

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Inauguration of Frances Daly Fergusson - Residence house festivities, part 2

Date
1986 October 10
Description

President-elect Fergusson visiting the second four of nine dormitory open house events. The dorms visited were Davison, Josselyn, Strong and Cushing. President Emeritus Alan Simpson can be seen at the Cushing House event.

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Inauguration of Frances Daly Fergusson - Residence house festivities, part 3

Date
1986 October 10
Description

President-elect Fergusson visiting the last of nine dormitory open house events. The dorm visited, which is either Noyes or Ferry House, was having a casino-themed event

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Inauguration of Virgina Smith as President of Vassar College

Date
1978 April 15
Description

Narrated film about the Inauguration of Virginia Smith as President of Vassar College. Includes clips of the procession into the Vassar College Chapel. followed by remarks by Barbara Austin Foote (VC 1940), President of the Alumne and Alumni of Vassar College (AAVC); Winifred A. Asprey

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Meeting Emotional Needs in Childhood: The Groundwork of Democracy, part 1

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Meeting Emotional Needs in Childhood: The Groundwork of Democracy, part 1
Date
1947
Description

Part one of the fifth film in the Vassar College Child Study Department series, "Studies of Normal Personality Development." This installment tracks the evolution of personality development through favorable and unfavorable interpersonal relationships in the home, school, and neighborhood. The

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Meeting Emotional Needs in Childhood: The Groundwork of Democracy, part 2

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Meeting Emotional Needs in Childhood: The Groundwork of Democracy, part 2
Date
1947
Description

Part two of the fifth film in the Vassar College Child Study Department series, "Studies of Normal Personality Development." This installment tracks the evolution of personality development through favorable and unfavorable interpersonal relationships in the home, school, and neighborhood. The

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One Night At Vassar

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One Night At Vassar
Date
1990
Description

Promotional film produced for the Admissions Office. The narrator portrays a student writing a description of the college over the course of one evening. Themes include student life, friendship, intellectual rigor and curiosity, diversity, and open-mindedness. Spaces featured include the All Campus

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Playwrights In The Contemporary Theatre: Brecht and Piscator

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Playwrights In The Contemporary Theatre: Brecht and Piscator
Date
1959
Description

Norris Houghton speaking on "Playwrights in the Contemporary Theater," a television program produced by New York's Metropolitan Educational Television Association (META) in conjunction with Hunter College and the Phoenix Theatre. Additional credits include Amram Nowak (producer); Frank Jacoby

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