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In MemoriamThe Vassar community lost two influential emeritus faculty members this year with the passing of Norman Hodges, Professor Emeritus of History and Africana Studies, and Raymond Cook, Professor Emeritus of Dance.Norman Hodges, pictured right, graduated summa cum laude from Fisk University and earned a PhD in Africana studies from Columbia University. He was the first tenured Black professor in the departments of History and Africana Studies (previously called Black Studies) and taught courses on African American, African, and Caribbean history from 1969 until his retirement in 1998.Teaching at Vassar at the inception of the Africana Studies program (which he directed twice), Professor Hodges left an indelible, positive mark on Vassar, its students, and the community. He was tireless in his advocacy and support for Black students and the full integration of Africana Studies into the curriculum.Professor Hodges was called upon by President Jimmy Carter to serve on a panel on U.S. Relations and Africa, specifically contributing his views on future American policy toward what was then Rhodesia. His pathbreaking research focused in part on what he described as “the relentless spread of pernicious neo-colonialism throughout many areas of the African continent.”img2Professor Hodges also called for “greater understanding of the common experience of oppression, exploitation, and sufferance which binds all blacks in Africa and in the diaspora together.” Following his retirement, the College created the Norman Hodges Lecture Fund on Race and American Law.Raymond Cook, pictured right, was an Australian-born ballet and modern dancer and expert on Labanotation, a notation system by which dance movements are recorded in the form of symbols. He attended the Juilliard School, where he studied with José Limón and Anna Sokolow. His work led him to restage dances around the country and across the globe.During his years at Vassar (1981-1996), Professor Cook originated the Vassar Repertory Dance Theatre (VRDT) and staged several iconic dance works with VRDT students. He was an inspiration and mentor to many and continued to play an important role in their lives after graduation.img3Those who would like to honor Professor Cook are invited to commemorate his legacy with spoken tributes, photos, and video during a memorial event on October 13 at 6:30 p.m. in the Frances Daly Fergusson Dance Theater, Kenyon Hall. A selection of works that he staged for his students will be performed by current VRDT dancers. A reception with light refreshments will follow. Please RSVP by September 25 to Peggy Cheng ’93 (peggycheng@gmail.com) and indicate whether you’d like to speak at the memorial.Dividing Rule1939 Nancy Kellogg Lea
April 27, 20131940 Marianne Henry Pfaelzer
January 23, 20191941 Kazuko Tsurumi
July 31, 20061942 Jeanne Thompson Stephenson
March 26, 20231944 Anne Buzzell
February 26, 20201944 Lesley Cherbonnier Knowles
March 13, 20231945 Nancie Coan
March 20, 20231945 Jean Trippett Erdman
May 28, 20171946 Sarah Harding Frost
February 5, 20231946 Mary Ann Loeb Kohnstamm
February 20, 20181946 Judith Wright Matchett
April 4, 20231946 Elizabeth McCracken Ross
January 30, 20191947 P. Alden Duer Cohen
March 12, 20231947 Patricia Yocum Pollock
December 28, 20211947 Marjorie Smith Sirrine
April 25, 20231947 Ann Riggs Teeter
February 12, 20221947 Yvonne Barnett West
November 1, 20151948 Lois Dalis Blumenfeld
April 2, 20231948 Caroline Barnett Bryan
March 7, 20151948 Barbara Davidson Croswell
March 29, 20231948 Deborah Stark Ecker
February 19, 20231949 Judith Baldwin Vore
March 1, 20231950 Alice Werder Bares
September 21,20221950 M. Elizabeth Brothers
April 21, 20231950 William W. Close
March 17, 20231950 Elizabeth de Cuevas
March 19, 20231950 Adeline Feidelson Kahn
January 26, 20231950 Ramsay Cumpston Lawless
November 26, 20221950 Elaine Title Lowengard
June 21, 20221950 Patricia Grant Mudge
March 23, 20231950 Elizabeth Stratton Pratt
March 17, 20231950 Carol Krasne Sheldon
November 16, 20221951 Sue Lentz Bailey
November 11, 20211951 Ursula Field Clark
April 21, 20231951 Dolores Paul Rogers
April 7, 20231952 Eleanor Elkins Kahn
May 20, 20231953 Sylvia Bacon
April 29, 20231953 Martine Vilas Conway
April 1, 20231953 Janice Bennett Galusza
March 1, 20231953 Dinorah Aronson Goodell
May 31, 20221953 June Nordblom Robinson
April 22, 20231953 Barbara O’Neil Ross
April 22, 20231953 Sheila Schermerhorn Scott
April 14, 20231953 Constance Quackenbush Umberger
March 29, 20231954 Audrey Fentress Gorter
February 14, 20231954 Suzanne Durstine Schumacher
December 12, 20221955 Susan McClintock Halstead
March 12, 20231955 Judith Brown Hollinshead
April 14, 20231955 Elaine Hess Russell
January 7, 20231956 Audrey Maise King
January 29, 20231956 Faith Nachman Klein
April 11, 20231956 Laurie McDonald Meigs
April 26, 20231956 Katherine Douglas Romanski
March 30, 20231957 Patricia Glavin Colton
March 18, 20231957 Charlotte Ober Goodwin
February 23, 20231958 Sheila Brownlie Gibbon
May 17, 20231959 Alison Fleischmann
April 16, 20231959 June Baker Higgins
February 28, 20231959 Carole Kaplan Ulin
February 23, 20231959 Constance Strike Wadsworth
March 21, 20231960 Nina Bayard Cornell
August 15, 20211960 Caroline Reeves Lampert
March 31, 20231960 Victoria Nott
January 1, 20191960 Joan Rusin
October 16, 20181962 Nancy McDiarmid Norling
April 26, 20231962 Harriet Kimble Wrye
June 20, 20221965 Deborah Detchon Dodds
April 16, 20231965 Carol Cadwgan Lavell
March 27, 20231965 Frances Pandolfi
September 29, 20211966 Sally Howe
April 8, 20231967 Gail Gibson Hunt
January 13, 20221967 Ann Cozad Jansson
March 21, 20231968 Carey Chittenden Curtis
April 7, 20231968 Aliette Mandelbrot
March 31, 20231968 Harriette Clay Porter
May 8, 20231970 Elisabeth Ann Petry
February 22, 20231971 Marnia Kennon
May 26, 20231971 Brenda Shepper Verbeck
February 8, 20231972 Maile Mitchell Melrose
January 18, 20231972 Cynthia Devore Rossetti
May 15, 20231973 Deborah Edge Abele
September 22, 20221973 Janet Shoring Walbridge
April 15, 20231975 Kenneth Joseph
March 28, 20231976 Rick R. Massumi
February 18, 20221976 Laurie Watson
September 9, 20211977 Beverly Ann Singer
Brodsky November 4, 20221977 Marilyn Mittenthal
October 16, 20221977 Luther Woodrum
March 8, 20231978 Katrina Williams
April 13, 20231980 Jordan M. Meschkow
March 13, 20171980 Karen Hodges Walker
February 2, 20091981 Linda Mishkin
February 21, 20231983 Peter J. Reddy
May 1, 20231988 Tamara Hawkinson
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March 20, 20071992 Anna Warr
January 15, 20231995 Jeffrey D. Nasch
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April 17, 20232013 Alexander W. Koechlin
May 25, 20232019 Emma N. May
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