Vassar College alumna Frances Prindle Taft, class of 1942, has been chosen to receive an award for outstanding service to Vassar College. The award will be presented on Saturday, October 6, by the Alumnae and Alumni of Vassar College (AAVC) at their annual Volunteer Leadership Conference in Poughkeepsie.
Taft is the first recipient AAVC's Award for Outstanding Service to Vassar College. Her record of service to the college extends back more than 60 years – to her days as a student, when she served as president of the Vassar College Athletic Association. After graduating in 1942, Taft joined the first officer class of the U.S. Naval Reserve's Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES). When the war ended, she went on to earn a master's in art history from Yale. She and her husband Seth moved to Cleveland where she joined the faculty at the Cleveland Institute of Art and has served as chair of the department of art history and liberal arts. She has served Vassar as president of the AAVC Board of Directors, with various committees and Vassar clubs, and on the college board of trustees.
The Vassar Leadership Conference is a weekend-long program including workshops for Vassar Volunteers, classroom visiting opportunities, interaction with faculty and administrators, special
academic programs designed exclusively for volunteers, the AAVC Council meeting, and the chance to meet and talk to today's students. The conference draws representatives from the classes, clubs, affiliate groups, admissions committees, fundraisers, and members of AAVC's national Board of Directors. The conference is a collaborative effort of the AAVC, the Development Office, the Office of Admissions, and the Career Development Office.
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