Vassar

Catharine B. Hill is the managing director of Ithaka S+R and a former president of Vassar College.

After mostly growing up in L.A. and going to Santa Monica High School, she attended Vassar College and lived in New York for 10 years.

And in New York state, Vassar College vowed “greater transparency about major independent contractors,” as well as a review of a proposal for divestment from defense-related investments.

At Vassar College’s 1970 commencement ceremony, it was probably uncomfortable for many in the audience, particularly the men, when Gloria Steinem declared that “much of the trouble this country is in has to do with the Masculine Mystique: the idea that manhood somehow depends on the subjugation of other people.”

The novel is believed to be where the state’s name came from, Alex Vassar, a spokesman for the California State Library, told me, though the matter isn’t entirely settled.