At the time of Vassar's centennial celebration in 1961, Dorothy Plum and George Dowell compiled and wrote a selective chronology of Vassar history. My electronic chronology is a close adaptation and supplement of their work on paper, and I thank them and those before them, for their research and exposition. A future phase of this chronology will extend it to 1996. This compendium should provide a helpful research tool and information clearing house tempting others into the byroads of Vassar history which can be discovered in sources in Special Collections in the Vassar College Libraries.
