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Daryl Deitz Corcoran | '70

VASSAR OFFERED ME
MIXERS AND WEEKENDLONG BLIND DATES,
NEITHER OF WHICH
REALLY WORKED FOR ME.

I left Vassar after my sophomore year because I found the social life
of an all-female college difficult. I came from a coed high school and
enjoyed the ease of being with boys. Almost all of the best colleges
at that time were single-sex. Vassar offered me mixers and weekendlong blind dates, neither of which really worked for me.
But after I transferred to the University of Michigan (as opposite
from Vassar as could be), I realized how much I missed the small
classes as well as the intense intellectual discussions with friends,
demitasse in hand after dinner, that a women's college fostered.
I consider that my leaving Vassar was the first major mistake of my
life; I should have stayed and flowered intellectually.
Five years later, the landscape of education was completely
different. Yet given the options at that time, and knowing what
I know now, I would have chosen Vassar again. The year I transferred, Vassar started an exchange program with all-male liberal
arts colleges. And then, of course, it became coed in its own right.
I always liked talking to alumnae (no offense, guys), so when I moved
to New York 12 years ago, I got involved with the Vassar Club, and
then with my classmates from the class of 1970 who organized the
40th reunion. Even though I did not graduate from Vassar, I am
co-chairing our 50th reunion because the bond that was created
with Vassar remains strong to this day. It probably always will.

Daryl Corcoran lives
in New York City,
where she teaches
English Composition
to international
students at Pace
University.

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