- Matthew Vassar
Matthew Vassar (April 29, 1792-June 23, 1868) was a U.S. (English-born) brewer and merchant. He was the founder and eponym of Vassar College in 1861. He was born in East Dereham, Tuddenham Parish, Norfolk, England. In 1796 Vassar's family emigrated to the U.S. state of New York and settled on a farm near Poughkeepsie, N. Y. When Vassar was 14 years old, his parents had him apprenticed to a tanner. One day before he was to begin his apprenticeship, … - Meryl Streep
Born on June 22, 1949 in Summit, New Jersey Meryl Streep is said to be the greatest living actress in Hollywood today by the film fraternity and the viewers. Her birth name was Mary Louise Streep . Her father Harry Streep was an executive at a pharmaceutical company and mother Mary was a commercial artist. Her parents were unique while his father loved playing piano her mother was good at singing and she loved singing. - Elizabeth Bishop
Elizabeth Bishop (February 8, 1911 - October 6, 1979), was an American poet and writer. She enjoyed critical acclaim in her lifetime, and her poetry continues to be widely read and studied. She is considered one of the finest 20th century poets to have written in English. - Lisa Kudrow
Lisa Marie Diane Kudrow (born July 30, 1963) is an Emmy Award- and SAG-winning American actress best known for her role as Phoebe Buffay in the sitcom "Friends". - Michael Joyce
Michael Joyce (b. 1945) is a professor of English at Vassar College. He is also an important author and critic of hypertext fiction and electronic literature. Joyce's "afternoon: a story", 1986, was among the first literary hypertexts to present itself as undeniably serious literature, and experimented with the short-story form in novel ways. It was created with the then-new Storyspace software, … - Grace Hopper
Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper was an American computer scientist and United States Navy officer. A pioneer in the field, she was one of the first programmers of the Harvard Mark I calculator, and she developed the first compiler for a computer programming language. Because of the breadth of her accomplishments and her naval rank, she is sometimes referred to as "Amazing Grace". - Mary McCarthy
Mary Therese McCarthy was an American author and critic. She was politically active for many years. - Meghan Daum
Meghan Daum is an American author, essayist, and journalist. Although she was born in California, Daum grew up primarily in Ridgewood, New Jersey. She received her bachelor's degree from Vassar College and her Master of Fine Arts degree from Columbia University. Daum spent much of her twenties in New York City. In 1999, she moved to Lincoln, Nebraska, and the experience became the catalyst for her 2003 novel "The Quality of Life Report". - Amitava Kumar
He is the author of Husband of a Fanatic (The New Press, 2005 and Penguin-India, 2004), Bombay-London-New York (Routledge and Penguin-India, 2002), and Passport Photos (University of California Press and Penguin-India, 2000). He has also written a book of poems, No Tears for the N.R.I. (Writers Workshop, Calcutta, 1996). The novel Home Products was published in early 2007 by Picador-India. - Eamon Grennan
Eamon Grennan (1941 -) is an Irish poet born in Dublin. He has lived in the United States, except for brief periods, since 1964. He is Dexter M. Ferry Jr. Professor of English at Vassar College. Though his Irish roots are clear in his poetry, Grennan has an international sense of literary tradition. He has cited as influences American poets including Robert Frost and Elizabeth Bishop (herself an international poet with ties to the U.S., Canada, and Brazil). - Ethan Zohn
Ethan Zohn (born on November 12, 1973 in Lexington, Massachusetts) won $1,000,000 on Survivor: Africa, the third season of "Survivor". Zohn also appeared on the All-Stars edition of the show. - Donald Foster
Donald W. Foster, born 1950, is a professor of English at Vassar College in New York. He is known for his work dealing with various issues of Shakespearean authorship through textual analysis. He has also applied these techniques in attempting to uncover mysterious authors of some high-profile contemporary texts. As several of these were in the context of criminal investigations, Foster has sometimes been labeled a "forensic linguist". - Frances D. Fergusson
Frances Daly Fergusson served as president of Vassar College from 1986 to 2006. A graduate of Wellesley College, Fergusson earned her A.M. and Ph.D. in Art History at Harvard University before starting her teaching career at Newton College. In 1975, she began teaching at University of Massachusetts at Boston, where she later became an assistant chancellor. Fergusson continued her career in academic administration from 1982 until 1986 at Bucknell University, … - Ruth Benedict
Ruth Benedict was an American anthropologist. She was born in New York City, and attended Vassar College, graduating in 1909. She entered graduate studies at Columbia University in 1919, studying under Franz Boas, receiving her PhD and joining the faculty in 1923. Margaret Mead, with whom she may have shared a romantic relationship, and Marvin Opler were among her students and colleagues. - Hallie Flanagan
Hallie Flanagan (27 August, 1889-23 July, 1969) was an American theatrical producer and director, playwright, author and director of the Federal Theatre Project, a part of the Works Progress Administration. Born Hallie Ferguson in Redfield, South Dakota, Flanagan was raised in Grinnell, Iowa. After attending Grinnell College, she enrolled in George Pierce Baker's influential 47 Workshop class at Harvard University. - Uma Narayan
Uma Narayan (born 16 April 1958) is a feminist scholar. She is the author of "Dislocating Cultures: Identities, Traditions and Third World Feminism" in which Narayan disputes feminism as a solely Western notion, while challenging assumptions that East Indian feminism is based on Western models. Additionally, Narayan holds that the charges of what constitutes "Westernization" need to be radically re-examined. - Chris Welty
Chris Welty, an American computer scientist, is a Research Scientist at IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Hawthorne, NY, and formerly a professor in the Computer Science Department of Vassar College and a "distinguished lecturer" of the Association for Computing Machinery. He is best known for his work on ontologies. While on sabbatical from Vassar in 1999-2000, he collaborated with Nicola Guarino on OntoClean. - Jane Smiley
Jane Smiley (born September 26, 1949) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist. Born in Los Angeles, California, Smiley grew up in Webster Groves, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis, and graduated from John Burroughs School. She obtained a A.B. at Vassar College, then earned a M.F.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Iowa. While working towards her doctorate, she also spent a year studying in Iceland as a Fulbright Scholar. - Sam Endicott
Sam Endicott (b. 1974) is the lead singer for the New York-based band The Bravery. Endicott grew up in the Washington, DC, suburb of Bethesda, Maryland. Before moving to NYC and founding The Bravery, he received a degree in psychology from Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York, where he was classmates with Bravery keyboardist John Conway. He wrote all of the songs on The Bravery's debut album, which was reportedly recorded in "various bedrooms" in New York. - Nancy Willard
Nancy Willard (born June 26, 1936, in Ann Arbor, Michigan) is a children's author and poet. In 1982, she received the Newbery Medal for "A Visit to William Blake's Inn". She lives in Poughkeepsie, New York and lectures at Vassar College.. She was educated at the University of Michigan, where she won a Hopwood Award and received a B.A. and a Ph.D, and at Stanford University, where she received her M.A.. - Giovanna Borradori
Giovanna Borradori is Professor of Philosophy at Vassar College. Borradori was born in Milan, Italy, in 1963. Since 1989, she has lived in the United States with her husband, Arturo Zampaglione, a financial columnist for La Repubblica. Borradori is a specialist of Continental philosophy, Aesthetics, and the philosophy of terrorism. A crucial focus of her work is to foster new avenues of communication between rival philosophical lineages, … - Hope Davis
Hope Davis (born March 23, 1964) is an American actress. She has starred in more than 20 feature films including "About Schmidt", "Flatliners", "Mumford", "American Splendor" and "Next Stop Wonderland". She played Slim Keith in the 2006 film Infamous. Davis was born in Englewood, New Jersey. - Annea Lockwood
Annea Lockwood is a New Zealand born American composer and teaches electronic music at Vassar College. Her work often involves recordings of natural found sounds, though she may be more famous for her Fluxus inspired pieces involved burning or drowning pianos. Annea studied composition as a girl in New Zealand and went on to pursue a B.Mus (hons) from Canterbury University, New Zealand. - Ellen Swallow Richards
Ellen Henrietta (Swallow) Richards (December 3, 1842 - March 30, 1911) was the foremost female industrial and environmental chemist in the United States in the 1800s, pioneering the field of home economics. Richards was the first woman admitted to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and its first female instructor, the first woman in America accepted to any school of science and technology, and the first American woman to earn a degree in chemistry. - Gabriela Mistral
Gabriela Mistral was the pseudonym of Lucila de María del Perpetuo Socorro Godoy Alcayaga, a Chilean poet, educator, diplomat and feminist who was the first Latin American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, in 1945. Some central themes in her poems are nature, betrayal, love, a mother's love, sorrow and recovery, travel, and Latin American identity as formed from a mixture of Indian and European influences. - Catharine Bond Hill
Catharine (Cappy) Bond Hill is the current president of Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, NY. She began in 2006, after former president Frances D. Fergusson stepped down. Before coming to Vassar, Hill was provost at Williams College. Hill had been the Williams provost since July 1999, holding major financial and academic responsibilities. As chief financial officer of the college, she was responsible for the annual college budget and long-range financial planning, … - Dexter M. Ferry
Dexter Mason Ferry, Jr. (b. November 22 1873, Detroit, Michigan - d. 1959, Grosse Pointe, Michigan) was an American politician from Michigan. He was the son of Dexter and Addie (Miller) Ferry and married Jeannette Hawkins in 1907. The Ferrys resided in both Detroit and Grosse Pointe, Michigan. Dexter M. Ferry died in 1959, aged 85, and was interred at Woodmere Cemetery, Detroit. Dexter M. Ferry Elementary School was named after him. - Vera Rubin
Vera (Cooper) Rubin (born 23 July 1928) is an astronomer who has done pioneering work on galaxy rotation rates. Her discovery of what is known as "flat rotation curves" is the most direct and robust evidence of dark matter. After she earned an A.B. from Vassar College (1948) she tried to enroll at Princeton but never received their graduate catalog as women there were not allowed in the graduate astronomy program until 1975. - Inez Milholland
Inez Milholland Boissevain (born August 6, 1886 in Brooklyn, New York - November 25, 1916 in Los Angeles) was a suffragist, labor lawyer, World War I correspondent, and public speaker who greatly influenced the women's movement in America. Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, she grew up in a wealthy family. She attended Vassar College, where she was once suspended for organizing a women's rights meeting. The president of Vassar had forbidden suffrage meetings, … - Linda Fairstein
Linda Fairstein (born 1947) is one of America's foremost legal experts on crimes of violence against women and children. She was head of the sex crimes unit of the Manhattan District Attorney's office from 1976 until 2002 and prosecuted several highly publicized cases. Ms. Fairstein is an honors graduate of Vassar College (1969) and the University of Virginia School of Law (1972). - Erin Daniels
Erin Daniels (born Erin Cohen on 9 October 1973) is an American actress. Daniels was born in and grew up in St. Louis, Missouri. Her father was an architect and her mother was a clinical social worker. She grew up in a Jewish family (her mother co-founded the Central Reform Congregation in St. Louis and her grandmother received an award from the National Conference of Christians and Jews) and attended Clayton High School. - Sarah Gibson Blanding
Sarah Gibson Blanding was an American educator and academic administrator who served as Vassar’s sixth president (1946-1964) and its first female president. A strong public advocate, she worked hard to advance the professional, political, and academic place of women in the world and was a general proponent of expanded educational opportunity. - Rachel Simmons
Rachel Simmons, born August 10, 1974, is an American author of the book "Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls". The book was made into a TV film starring Alexa Vega and reached No. 4 on the New York Times Best Seller list. Simmons graduated from Vassar College and was a Rhodes Scholar at Lincoln College, Oxford. - Rick Lazio
Enrico Anthony "Rick" Lazio (born March 13, 1958) is a former U.S. Representative from the state of New York. A Republican, he is most known for having run unsuccessfully against Hillary Rodham Clinton for the U.S. Senate in New York's 2000 Senate election. Lazio was born in Amityville, New York in Suffolk County. He graduated from West Islip High School in 1976. - Stacy London
Stacy London (born May 25, 1969 in New York City, New York) is an American fashion consultant and media personality, known best for her role as a co-host on the makeover reality program "What Not to Wear", which broadcasts on TLC in the United States and Canada. London was born to Jewish-American parents in New York City on May 25, 1969. She received her B.A. from Vassar College with a double major in philosophy and Germanic studies, graduating Phi Beta Kappa. - Jon Tenney
Jonathan F. W. Tenney (born December 16, 1961 in Princeton, New Jersey) is an American actor. Tenney received his B.A. degree from Vassar College, where he majored in drama and philosophy. He then studied at Juilliard, after which he made his professional debut starring in a touring production of "The Real Thing" directed by Mike Nichols. This led to his working steadily on and off-Broadway, as well as in regional theater. - Adelaide Crapsey
Adelaide Crapsey (September 9, 1878-October 8, 1914), was an American poet. Born in Brooklyn, New York, she was raised in Rochester, New York, daughter of Episcopal priest Algernon Sidney Crapsey, who had been transferred from New York City to Rochester, and Adelaide T. Crapsey. She attended public school in Rochester, and then Kemper Hall, an Episcopal girls' preparatory school in Kenosha, Wisconsin, before entering Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York, … - Crystal Eastman
Crystal Catherine Eastman (June 25, 1881 - July 8, 1928) was a lawyer, antimilitarist, feminist, socialist, and journalist. She was born in Marlborough, Massachusetts and graduated from Vassar College in 1903, receiving an M.A. in sociology from Columbia University in 1904. She was second in the class of 1907 at New York University Law School. She was the sister of socialist American writer Max Forrester Eastman. - Noah Baumbach
Noah Baumbach (born September 3, 1969, in Brooklyn, New York) is an American independent film writer and director. He attended Midwood High School (1987) and Vassar College. He is the son of novelist/film critic Jonathan Baumbach and "Village Voice" critic Georgia Brown. He made his writing and directing debut at the age of 24 with "Kicking and Screaming" (1995), a comedy about four young men who graduate from college and refuse to move on with their lives, … - Geraldine Laybourne
Geraldine Laybourne founded Oxygen Media and has served as its chairman and chief executive officer since its inception. Oxygen was launched in 2000 to fill a void in the television landscape -- creating a television network targeted to younger women. Oxygen is the only women-owned and operated cable network. Available in more than 71 million cable households, Oxygen airs series including "Campus Ladies", …
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