September 2006
Volume 2, Issue 2 |
What’s Brewing?
Saturday, September 30
AFAVC: 2006 VC Baseball Alumni Game
Saturday, September 30
AAVC: Legacy Reception for Vassar Freshmen
Sunday, October 1
LAGAVC and MIT BGALA: A Reception and Seminar on Protecting Vital LGBT Personal Legal Rights
Monday, October 9
Cleveland Vassar Club: Mary Ann Cunningham, Assistant Professor of Geography Presenting at CASE
Wednesday, October 18
Palm Beach/Martin Counties Vassar Club, Cocktails and Conversation with Frances Sternhagen ’51
Thursday, October 19
St. Louis Vassar Club: Special Event: Save the Date
Sunday, October 29
Inauguration of Vassar College’s 10th President, Catharine Bond Hill
Saturday, November 4
Southern California Vassar Club: Bead Class
Saturday and Sunday, November 4-5
AAVC: Alumnae/i Sons and Daughters Program
Reminder:
Remember Annual Club and Treasury Reports are Due!
Check out all the events on the AAVC Online Calendar.
Contact Candace Schuster
at caschuster@vassar.edu if you would like to have your club event advertised in the AAVC calendar. |
Online Resources Provides a link to valuable AAVC online resources
Infosite For information about upcoming events and all you want to know about Vassar, feel free to visit the college information site at http://info.vassar.edu/. |
View the March Newsletter |
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Tech Topics
Advertise your club events with Broadcast Email!
Give your constituents time to plan for events. 30 days is best - 7 days is the absolute minimum. No announcement will be sent less than 7 days prior to an event.
Allow at least 3 business days scheduling time prior to your preferred delivery date. A follow-up message can be sent about a week prior to an event as a reminder–just note the date you prefer the follow-up message be sent.
To request a broadcast email to your club, send an email to Charlene Larson at chlarson@vassar.edu.
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This issue of the Club Brewer is dedicated to the extraordinary volunteer efforts that regional Vassar clubs and networks have put into the admissions process. Without your dedication Vassar would not be as successful in attracting highly qualified prospective students and helping to guide their decisions to become a part of the Vassar community. The volunteers are on the frontline, interviewing prospective students, representing Vassar at local college fairs, congratulating admitted students, and welcoming new students into the Vassar family.
The campus is buzzing with excitement as the class of 2010 gets settled into their new home. In addition, Vassar’s new president, Catharine (Cappy) Bond Hill, will embark on her freshman year with much excitement and enthusiasm. She shared her sentiment at Fall Convocation, the official start of the academic year and an occasion for new beginnings for all members of the Vassar community. Salve,
Charlene Larson ’05
Assistant Director of Alumnae/i Relations |
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Club Spotlight: Colorado/Wyoming Vassar Club |
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 The Vassar Club of Colorado including Wyoming encompasses about 500 alumni living in the two states. The club has an active admissions program which has helped Colorado be overrepresented in student numbers compared to its population. An annual barbecue is held to welcome newly admitted students and their families. Current students are included as are all alumni. This event has long drawn a broad mix of ages from the most recent graduates to the stalwart supporters of the club. The host, which has been the club president for many years, provides the main course and beverages and alumni are asked to bring a dish. Attendance has ranged from a total of about 30 to the 50 we had this year. Incoming students from Colorado rarely know others who are attending or will be entering Vassar, so they seem very appreciative of the opportunity to meet their fellow students. |
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Fall Convocation |
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On September 6, for the very first time, new President Catharine Bond Hill welcomed the Class of 2010 and officially opened the academic year at Vassar.
Vassar Student Association President, Abel McDonnell outlined his plans for the coming year.
Robert DeMaria, Jr., Henry Noble MacCracken Professor of English Literature delivered the Fall Convocation address, “My Vassar Education.” Transcripts from Fall Convocation are available online at:
http://collegerelations.Vassar.edu/remarks/convocation/
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Who are the Class of 2010? |
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Six hundred and seventy-seven student selected from the third largest applicant pool in the college’s history, including: twenty-seven valedictorians, twenty-seven salutatorians, forty National Merit Finalists or Semi-Finalists, one hundred and seven students with perfect scores on one or more standardized tests, three Intel Science Research or Talent Search Finalists, fifty-eight winners of major book award, thirty-five first generation college students, two National Achievement Scholars, two National Hispanic Scholars, fifteen National Honor Society Presidents, twenty-eight class or student council presidents, one hundred and twenty-six varsity sports captains, thirteen all-state music/art winners, fifty-nine high school club founders, sixty-two editors-in-chief of major high school publications, and four National Council of Teachers of English Award winners. They have an average combined (verbal and math) SAT score of 1382, with a mean score of 705 on the new SAT writing exam, and a mean recomputed high school grade point average of A-minus. We welcome them from forty-seven states, the District of Columbia, Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, and twenty-seven foreign countries.
Welcome Class of 2010! |
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Vassar Facts |
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In 1973, Margo Slade created the Vassar Campus Patrol, which was completely run by students by 1978. Campus Patrol was originally started to create more jobs for males when Vassar turned co-ed, but Ester Goldberg (’75) demanded that Campus Patrol also be co-ed. |
| September Birthdays!
Suzanne Agnew Buffum, Mark A. Camfield, Marian Foster Clifford, Toni Crouch, Ellen Bristol Hamilton, Sara Offutt Hebblethwaite, Misao Matsumoto Maki, Diana Hartley Mutz, Lydia Mange Payne, Samantha Trautman Soper, Hillary Strilko, Tamara Hawkinson Sulistyo, Jennifer L. Turner, Tammy Van Valkenburgh
Happy birthday to our volunteers! May your special day be filled with happiness and best wishes. Please accept our apologies if your name was inadvertently omitted; let AAVC know so we can update our records.
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Candace's Corner |
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It’s hard to believe that September is here already! I hope you all had a wonderful summer, and that you are enjoying the beginning of fall as much as I am. Here at Vassar, the leaves are just beginning to turn, there is a little bit of chill in the air, and the students are all back on campus. It’s also the time when the AAVC Program Departments’ thoughts turn to Annual and Treasury Reports. Yes, I know, it’s not as much fun as jumping in a pile of leaves, but there you have it!
We have received some of your reports back, but there are still quite a few that have not been returned. I do know, from my own years of volunteering, that trying to fit the demands of career, personal relationships, outside interests, and all of the obligations of being a volunteer into your schedule can be extremely difficult. Because of this personal knowledge, I would like to gently remind you, if you are one of those who have yet to send your report in, please take a moment to do so. If you have already sent your report in, thank you.
Remember, if we receive all of your updated information, it’s easier for us to work for you!
Vassar for a lifetime!
Respectfully,
Candace J. Schuster |
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