Word: vassar
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...fallings of its elders than the organization recently founded at Princeton. Calling itself the Veterans of Future Wars, the group advances as the chief plank of its platform the immediate payment of a bonus to all males who will be killed in the next war. A similar movement at Vassar, The Gold Star Mothers of the Veterans of Future Wars, declares that it intends to send delegates to view the future burying ground of the future dead...
...Baldrige, 33, to be her social secretary. Lively and chic, "Tish" Baldrige knows her way around Washington and a few foreign parts as well. The daughter of a onetime Republican Congressman, Nebraska's Malcolm Baldrige, she went to Miss Porter's School in Farmington, Conn. and to Vassar, served as social secretary to Mrs. David K.E. Bruce (when Bruce was ambassador in Paris) and Ambassador Clare Boothe Luce in Rome (Roman Candle, Tish's memoirs of her days in Italy, was published in 1956). Jackie and Tish have been friends since both were schoolgirls in Farmington...
...when he realized that his whole life would have to change. The son of a wealthy Cleveland corporation lawyer, Philip Johnson was majoring in Greek and philosophy, but the piece on modern architecture came as a revelation. It had been written by a young Vassar professor named Henry-Russell Hitchcock-a man who was to become famous as an art scholar, and who inadvertently put Johnson on the path of becoming one of the most unusual architects...
Smartly dressed in bright blue blazers, 23 Nigerians stepped off a Greek ship in Montreal last week and headed toward 19 top U.S. colleges, from Yale to Vassar, with full four-year scholarships. Their scholarships were fully earned: the culling they went through made the U.S. race for college look like a free-lunch counter...
...next step toward the millennium, Radcliffe last week formally inaugurated a lady president (Radcliffe's third), to take over from Wilbur K. Jordan, who returns to teaching history at Harvard after ten years. She is Vassar-educated Mary Ingraham Bunting, 48, a microbiologist and mother of four teenagers, who describes herself as "a geneticist with nest-building experience." The widow of Yale Pathologist Henry Bunting, she had a distinguished teaching career at Bennington, Goucher, Wellesley and Yale. In 1955 she became dean of Rutgers University's Douglass College for women, carried on radiation research for the Atomic Energy...