3 VASSAR GOES COED BY ELIZABETH R ANDOLPH Vassar Archives and Special Collections THE FEBRUARY 1967 ISSUE OF THE VASSAR ALUMNAE MAGAZINE BEGAN WITH A TWO-PAGE "OPEN LETTER TO ALUMNAE" BY PRESIDENT ALAN SIMPSON. "I AM WRITING TO YOU," HE SAID, "ABOUT THE ACADEMIC BOMBSHELL OF DECEMBER 16, WHICH HAS AROUSED SO MUCH INTEREST AND APPROVAL IN THE WORLD OF HIGHER EDUCATION, AND PRODUCED SUCH A TURMOIL OF EMOTIONS IN OUR OWN HEARTS." THAT "BOMBSHELL" WAS THE NEWS THAT VASSAR'S TRUSTEES HAD ACCEPTED THE INVITATION OF YALE TO JOINTLY STUDY THE "POSSIBILITIES" BETWEEN THE TWO INSTITUTIONS. OF MAJOR INTEREST WOULD BE THE DESIRABILITY AND FEASIBILITY OF RELOCATING VASSAR COLLEGE TO NEW HAVEN. The Vassar-Yale Study was to be conducted by a Joint Trustee-Fellow Committee, which would include four members of the Vassar Board of Trustees and four members of the Yale Corporation, the university's governing body. They sought to devise a "coordinate arrangement" that would have Vassar remain a separate entity but under Yale's umbrella-two bodies not fully merged into a coeducational institution. President Kingman Brewster of Yale was adamant that the university would not consider any plan that did not include Vassar's moving to New Haven. Vassar President Alan Simpson Elizabeth Adams Daniels '41 VA S S A R Q U A R T E R LY 17