Word: vassar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wife Barbara, who were the only passengers on the chartered KLM plane that brought them from New York. At week's end Governor Nelson Rockefeller flew in with the rest of the family: Steven's two sisters, Mary. 21, Michael's twin and a student at Vassar, and Ann, 25, the wife of Episcopal Clergyman Robert L. Pierson. None of Steven's 17 first cousins (the children of Laurance, Winthrop, Abby, John D. III and David Rockefeller) made the trip...
...needs only a bit more "weight" and presence to fore-shadow the grandeur of her deed at the climax. Why anyone saw fit to dye Miss Rawlin's honest red hair to black, however, as well as fitting her out in a costume and coiffure that belong to the Vassar cocktail hour rather than an innocent Italian peasant girl--is quite beyond me; one hopes that it will be soon corrected...
...graduated from Vassar in 1931, and took her Ph.D. in agricultural bacteriology at the University of Wisconsin three years later. She subsequently taught at Bennington, Goucher, Wellesley, and Yale...
...Vassar girl. I never went to school a day in my life. I was raised, if you wish to call it that, in vaudeville, going from town to town, playing with musicians, acrobats, dancers, even freaks. Some were nice, some tender, some vicious. Many were genuinely bigtime, and you knew it the moment you were with them. Others were simply small-time human beings-petty, meager-minded, whiny, changing from week to week as we traveled from town to town...
...Bunting became the dean at Rutgers in 1955. A Vassar alumna, she had previously taught at Bennington, Goucher, and Yale. She received her Ph.D. in Biology from Wisconsin...