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THE RECRUITMENT OF MEN
KICKED INTO HIGH GEAR IN
1969. VASSAR'S ADMISSION
REPS VISITED MORE THAN
400 HIGH SCHOOLS, UP FROM
37 THE PREVIOUS YEAR.
were talking about what students were
going to need." There was not much time
to plan. The decision to go coed had come
in May of 1968 and the first men-a handful
of exchange and transfer students-matriculated in the spring of 1969. "We met very
regularly with architects and deans, an
overwhelming group of smart people
around a table," Laybourne recalls.
According to the December 8, 1972 issue
of the Miscellany News, the Trustee Buildings
and Grounds Committee met at least 90
times over four years as Vassar expanded its
living and dining options. The college built
the Town Houses in 1971 and Terrace
Apartments in 1972, and in 1973 converted
the Students' Building, given to the student
government by one of the organization's
past presidents in 1913, into the All Campus
Dining Center.
Vassar Archives and Special Collections
NOW, THERE'S
AN IDEA...
Vassar debaters defeated a team
from Columbia University in 1944
on the resolution: "All colleges in
America should be coeducational."
A member of the Vassar team, Mary
Jane Bausman Kenworthy '45,
asserted that a lack of male constituents at a certain institute on the
Hudson interfered with work. Men
at college would eliminate a lot of
unnecessary letter writing, and
long distance telephone calls. She
also proved that coeducation
would necessarily reduce expenses
since "people in love don't eat."
Beyond bricks and mortar, another big consideration for the
Master Planning team was how best to socially integrate men into
a formerly all-women's institution. It was clear that a situation in
which women represented all four years and men represented only
the first year might not make for the easiest or best transition. Firstyear men would do better if they had some upperclassmen as role
models. Further, they reasoned, Vassar women might relate more
easily to Vassar men if at least some of the men were a bit older.
Vassar approached Amherst, Bowdoin, Dartmouth, Colgate,
Trinity, Williams, and other liberal arts institutions in the fall of 1968,
proposing an exchange program for male students who would matriculate at Vassar the following year. The Twelve-College Exchange
Program brought 77 men to Vassar in the spring of 1969. Over
one-third of these men applied to transfer to Vassar at the end of
the semester, and by March 1969, Vassar had amended its charter to
include the education of men. Several female students from Vassar,
Smith, Mount Holyoke, and Wellesley went on exchange to all-male
colleges, including Wesleyan, Trinity, Williams, and Amherst.
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