Mixed Media
Nonfiction, Fiction, Drama, Poetry
Fall 2009 volume 105 Issue 4
beyond vassar
A Meaningful Life on the “Other Side”: Patrick Manning ’86
At first glance, former New York State assemblyman and 1986 Vassar grad Patrick Manning’s life in “retirement” seems almost slow and peaceful. At his farmhouse in Hopewell Junction, New York, a padded hammock graces the back porch and several chickens cluck under foot; his property hosts acres of woods, a waterfall, a pond, and a neatly tended garden.
Anne Cleveland '37
Every Vassar graduate is familiar with the work of Anne Cleveland ’37, even if she or he doesn’t know Cleveland or her frequent collaborator, Jean Anderson ’33, by name.
AAVC Outstanding Service to Vassar Award: Richard "Ricky" Roberts '74
After considering Judge Ricky Roberts’s numerous commitments, both academic and extracurricular, during his time at Vassar — Madrigal Singers, house fire captain, Senate Grievance Panel member, and a double major in black (now Africana) studies and political science, to name a few — it may come as no surprise that this Renaissance man did not stop wearing multiple hats after graduation.
A Survivor
“Soccer crazy. Inspired philanthropist. Mad inventor. Survivor winner. Big dreamer.” The words Ethan Zohn ’96 chooses to describe himself embody all that has kept him in the headlines since his Survivor: Africa win in 2002.