Spirit of Vassar Award

2022

Brenda Feigen ’66

• Watch Feigen’s conversation with Vassar President Elizabeth Bradley
• Read more about Feigen in the October 2022 Vassar Stories article

2021

Judge Vicki Miles-LaGrange ’74

• Watch Miles-LaGrange’s award celebration
• Read more about Miles-LaGrange in the October 2021 Vassar Stories article

2020

Susan “Susie” Neuberger Wilson ’51

• Watch the video program featuring Wilson
• Read more about Wilson in the Summer/Fall 2020 VQ article

2019

Russell Baker ’91

• Read more about Baker in the November 2019 Vassar Stories article

2018

Sherrilyn Ifill ’84

• Watch Ifill’s acceptance remarks
• Watch Ifill’s conversation with Professor Rebecca Edwards
• Read more about Ifill in the March 2019 Vassar Stories article

2017

Jeffrey Brenner ’90

• Watch Brenner’s acceptance remarks
• Read more about Brenner in the March 2018 Vassar Stories article

2015

Linda Malone ’75

• Watch Malone’s acceptance remarks
• Read more about Malone in the Summer 2015 Vassar, the Alumnae/i Quarterly article
• Read more about Malone in the May 2015 feature article

2014

Leah Johnson Wilcox ’69

• Read more about Wilcox in the Fall 2014 Vassar, the Alumnae/i Quarterly article
• Read more about Wilcox in the July 2014 feature article

2012

Michael Kimmel ’72

• Watch Kimmel’s acceptance remarks

2011

Former Living AAVC Presidents

Awarded to Frances “Franny” Prindle Taft ’42, Kathleen “Kay” Holman Langan ’46, Joan Andrews Watters ’50, Frances “Frannie” Aaron Hess ’53, Billie Davis Gaines ’58, Susan McCallum Bledsoe ’64, Joan Strashinsky Kjelleren ’71, Paula Williams Madison ’74, and Margaret “Meg” Daly Johnson ’84

• Read more about the AAVC Presidents in the Fall 2011 Vassar, the Alumnae/i Quarterly article

2010

Elizabeth Cushman Titus Putnam ’55

• Watch Putnam’s acceptance remarks
• Read more about Putnam in the Summer 2005 Vassar, the Alumnae/i Quarterly article

2009

Alison Church Hyde ’59

• Read more about Hyde in the Summer 2009 Vassar, the Alumnae/i Quarterly article

2008

Cornelia Dettmer ’53

• Read more about Dettmer in the Summer 2008 Vassar, the Alumnae/i Quarterly article

2007

Grisela Alejandro Jackson ’78 and Reverend Robert Jackson ’77

• Read more about the Jacksons in the Fall 2007 Vassar, the Alumnae/i Quarterly article

2006

Elizabeth Adams Daniels ’41

• Read more about Daniels in the Summer 2006 Vassar, the Alumnae/i Quarterly article
• Read more about Daniels in the Fall 2003 Vassar, the Alumnae/i Quarterly article

2005

Belle Krasne Ribicoff ’45

• Read more about Ribicoff in the Summer 2005 Vassar, the Alumnae/i Quarterly article

2004

Sylvia Cranmer McLaughlin ’39

• Read more about McLaughlin in the Summer 2004 Vassar, the Alumnae/i Quarterly article

2003

Mary-Alice Hunter ’38

• Read more about Hunter in the Summer 2003 Vassar, the Alumnae/i Quarterly article

2001

Steering Committee of the Philadelphia Show House

• Read more about the Philadelphia Show House in the Fall 2001 Vassar, the Alumnae/i Quarterly article