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50 YEARS
FORWARD:
A FOR EWOR D

THE TWO OF US GRADUATED ALMOST 50 YEARS APART. BUT IF YOU WERE TO ASK
OUR RESPECTIVE FRIENDS TO DESCRIBE US, THEY WOULD PROBABLY USE THE
SAME PHRASE: WILDLY ENTHUSIASTIC ABOUT VASSAR.

Our positions on the Board of Trustees probably made us good candidates for the job; Gerry attended Vassar
during the pre-coed years, and Brian is the youngest trustee in the college's history. With typical enthusiasm, we
began talking with wide ranges of alumnae/i, administrators, faculty, and students to determine how we might
celebrate coeducation. But it didn't take long for us to realize that "celebrate" wasn't quite the right word.
"In 2019, you're going to celebrate men?!" one alum expressed in horror, referencing the #MeToo movement.
Another had a different, but equally negative, reaction: "How can you possibly celebrate coeducation? We're still not
50/50!" he complained, referencing our male-female ratio and arguing that Vassar's coeducation remains incomplete.
Current students offered concerns from another angle, explaining that the gender binary itself-the idea that
there are only two immutable genders-makes the notion of celebrating "co"-education somewhat anachronistic,
even offensive. Some early male alumni have unhappy memories of entering the job market faced with perennial
questions from employers about earning their bachelor's degree from a "girls' school." And then, of course, we
were reminded that there are still living Vassar graduates who believed in 1969 that coeducation was a mistake.
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FA L L / W I N T E R 2 0 1 9

Brian Farkas '10

Gerry Laybourne '69

Portraits courtesy of the subjects

SO WE FELT FORTUNATE WHEN TONY FRISCIA '78, CHAIR OF THE BOARD OF
TRUSTEES, AND STEVE HANKINS '85, PRESIDENT OF THE ALUMNAE/I ASSOCIATION,
ASKED US TO CO-CHAIR A POTENTIAL "CELEBRATION" OF THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY
OF VASSAR'S MOMENTOUS DECISION TO BECOME COEDUCATIONAL. AN OPPORTUNITY TO CELEBRATE VASSAR? ABSOLUTELY! SIGN US UP!



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