Vassar College in popular culture

Vassar College has been featured in many books, movies, and television shows. This is a partial list of references and fictional alumni.

  • Martin Geldhart, Vassar professor of landscape architecture in The Substance of Fire
  • Holly Goodhead, character from Moonraker and its novelization
  • Miss Jane Hathaway, a character in The Beverly Hillbillies, graduated from Vassar.[1]
  • Erica, the main protagonist of the Academy-Award nominated film An Unmarried Woman (1978), went to Vassar
  • Three Vassar Girls Abroad, a book series by Elizabeth Williams Champney about Maud Van Vechten, Barbara Atchison and Cecilia Boylston (current students)
  • Katherine "Kitty" Montgomery, character played by Susan Sullivan on Dharma and Greg
  • Olive Snook, character played by Kristin Chenoweth on Pushing Daisies; attended on a jockey scholarship
  • Georgina Tuskin, character in Susanna Kaysen's memoir Girl, Interrupted
  • Lilly Kane from Veronica Mars attended Vassar in a second-season dream sequence; in the actual storyline, she had been murdered three years earlier.
  • Two young men in Terrence McNally's Off-Broadway play Some Men portray gender studies majors from Vassar College.
  • Heidi Holland, main character of The Heidi Chronicles by Wendy Wasserstein
  • In Miss Congeniality, Benjamin Bratt introduces Sandra Bullock to Beth, an undergrad at Vassar, doing a paper on law enforcement.
  • Two old ladies in The Dark Tower, the seventh and final book of the series of the same name, by Stephen King
  • Principal Willoughby, from the Nickelodeon cartoon Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius
  • Characters from the 1963 novel, The Group, by alumna Mary McCarthy
  • Cricket Feldstein, from Hamlet 2, an ACLU attorney who holds a degree in French.
  • Betsy Ann Fitzgerald, from The Curse of the Jade Scorpion
  • Kathy Lacey, from Gentleman's Agreement, a high-status New Yorker portrayed by Dorothy McGuire.
  • Marian Stevens, from Robin and the Seven Hoods, a mob daughter, portrayed by Barbara Rush
  • Selena St. George, from Dolores Claiborne, an alcoholic journalist portrayed by Jennifer Jason Leigh
  • Elizabeth Vaughan, the central character of the musical If/Then, as well as her friend Lucas[2]
  • Catherine Meyers, First Daughter of the United States in the HBO series Veep, majored in film studies at Vassar.
  • Hallie Shea, a journalist in the HBO series The Newsroom, graduated from Vassar.
  • Winter Anderson, in the series American Horror Story: Cult, dropped out of Vassar to campaign for Hillary Clinton.
  • Jared Dunn, from the HBO series Silicon Valley, went to Vassar.[3]
  • Dr. Harris Bonkers, Ph.D., a rabbit portrayed in the "Amnesty" arc of the podcast The Adventure Zone, went to Vassar[4]
  • Lisa Simpson, in the season 6 episode "The PTA Disbands" of the animated TV series The Simpsons, makes a reference to her possibly attending Vassar in the future: "There's no way I'll get into an Ivy League school now. At this rate, I probably won't even get into Vassar." Homer replies, "I've had just about enough of your Vassar bashing, young lady!"
Jane Hathaway (center, portrayed by Nancy Kulp), a character from The Beverly Hillbillies, graduated from Vassar.[1]
Three Vassar Girls Abroad cover, by Elizabeth Williams Champney

References
  1. Feldman, Leslie Dale (2013). Rustics and Politics: The Political Theory of The Beverly Hillbillies. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. p. xviii. ISBN 978-0-7391-7148-6.
  2. "Theater Review: In Duality and Doubt, If/Then Is a Musical of City Life Now".
  3. https://www.thrillist.com/entertainment/nation/silicon-valley-jared-backstory
  4. http://www.maximumfun.org/adventure-zone/setup-adventure-zone-amnesty
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