The Vassar Club of Boston is offering two service opportunities for the Vassar community in Massachusetts to participate in Vassar Serves, a global initiative and demonstration of Vassar’s legacy of service encouraging alums to come together and unite around the critical theme of climate action.

In-Person Charles River Cleanup Project
The Vassar Club of Boston invites you to join us for the Charles River Cleanup on Earth Day at 10 a.m. EDT to pick up litter and assist with other park maintenance tasks along the Charles River. This day of service will be part of the national project by American Rivers’ National River Cleanup®, which has removed over 25 million pounds of trash from America’s waterways.

We will be working at a site in Boston reachable by public transit. We have requested to be assigned to a site in either West Roxbury or Newton and will send more details to registrants as the event approaches. We also plan to arrange carpools in case the site is a little far from the train lines.

Important Info: Please bring your own work gloves, if you have them. Other supplies will be provided by the Charles River Cleanup Project (think trash bags, picker-uppers, etc.) The Vassar Club of Boston will be in touch via email closer to the event day regarding what to wear and how to get to our assigned work site.

Pollinator Seed Planting Project

We are offering an additional service opportunity.

The Club Steering Committee is making packets of pollinator seeds specific to Massachusetts. (No invasive alien species!) If you sign up for the Pollinator Seed Project, you will receive a seed packet in the mail with instructions, after which you get to plant them in your yard or other appropriate space in your community. All we ask is that you send us a picture of you planting them for a group montage.

We will have a limited number of these packets and will need to make them up in time to mail them to you for the Day of Service. It will be a great help to us if you register early.

RSVP: Please register for one opportunity by Wednesday, April 18.

http://connect.vassar.edu/VassarServes_VCBoston2023

If you're unable to participate but want to join us in support of climate action, please consider making a donation to sustainability efforts at Vassar.

Questions? Contact Dee Dee Barry, [email protected]
Email the club at [email protected].

We are excited to welcome you all to the Vassar Club of Boston's first event of the year. On Saturday, 25th January from 6 - 9 PM, we're reserving a room and bowling lanes for alumni across a range of classes to connect over flatbread and candlepin bowling at the Brighton location of the Flatbread company.
Here's the tentative schedule:
6-7 PM: Food/Drink + Connecting w. Alums
7-9 PM: Bowling

The cost of the event is $20 and this grants you:
- Your first drink
- Bowling costs
- Shoe rentals
- Variety of quick food options between 6 - 7 PM

So better not be late. Because of the logistics involved, please purchase your tickets as soon as possible so we can make the experience for everyone involved as smooth as possible.

Sign up link: https://connect.vassar.edu/s/1654/2/16/interior-ai.aspx?sid=1654&gid=2&pgid=4825&cid=7860&ecid=7860&crid=0&calpgid=383&calcid=1000&fbclid=IwAR3jlUCSrKDhLJsYQi9l8XHEeH3o4Fzs1tXKjuNRZ0Jgvb9963z5MyLkSKg

Its in your emails as well.

Come join your fellow Vassar alums for a night at the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes will play one of his signature works, Edvard Grieg’s Piano Concerto. The program includes one of Gustav Mahler’s best-known works, his Symphony No. 4, featuring German soprano, Genia Kuhmeier performing the final movement, Des Knaben Wunderhorn.

Tickets are available at two price points ($85.50 and $50.35) both in the First Balcony Center.

We will host an informal gathering before the concert in the Cabot-Cahners Room at 7:00pm. The Cabot-Cahners Room is on the same level as the First Balcony.

For more information or to register, follow the link:
https://connect.vassar.edu/s/1654/2/16/interior-ai.aspx?sid=1654&gid=2&pgid=4671&content_id=3898&authkey=YJ1nYCZSq99Ysu0OkAS8lLgx4qnjXOke2d%2fYwfZFBpdvjgcsh3Zasw%3d%3d

Come join us at our annual Welcome to the City event! Meet and reconnect with Vassar friends in Boston while welcoming recent grads and young alums. Open to graduates of the last five years.

Registration is $10 and includes appetizers and your first drink.
Free for the Class of 2019.

Please RSVP by September 9.

Questions? Contact Jane Lu '17 at [email protected].

We look forward to seeing you there!

For more information and to register, follow the link:
https://connect.vassar.edu/s/1654/2/16/interior-ai.aspx?sid=1654&pgid=4616&gid=2&cid=7535&ecid=7535&post_id=0

Come join fellow Vassar alumnae/i for a historically accurate performance of the Baroque opera, Orlando, featuring Amadna Forsythe, Class of '98, : https://bemf.org/2019-festival/festival-operas/centerpiece-opera/.

The Boston Early Music Festival is offering Vassar a group discount of $5.00 per ticket, which you may use toward a purchase at any price class via this link: https://bemf.secure.force.com/ticket/#sections_a0F3700000Czr0yEAB. Use the code: vassar 1980s. (When prompted to order another item, just click "okay".) You may also order by calling David Cronin at 617.661.1812

Sara Sezun '88 is also organizing an informal gathering beforehand at the Hyatt Regency Boston in the Third Floor Bar. If you'd like to join, please contact Sara at [email protected].

Please join the Vassar Club of Boston for an opportunity to give back to our local community. We will be completing a two-hour shift at the Cradles to Crayons Giving Factory warehouse, during which we will help support this wonderful organization by helping to quality-check, sort, and package donations, which will ultimately be distributed to the children served by Cradles to Crayons.

All volunteers will also be asked to bring a donation of one of Cradles to Crayons’s "most needed items" (identified at the following link: https://www.cradlestocrayons.org/boston/take-action/donate-goods/items-we-accept/).

For additional questions, visit the Cradles to Crayons FAQ page here: https://www.cradlestocrayons.org/boston/take-action/volunteer/resources/.

Parking is limited. Please do not park in the New Balance parking garage or in spaces designated for CORT Furniture. On-street parking is available on North Beacon Street and on-street, two hour parking is available on Etna Street and Life Street.

Please note: You will be required to complete a brief registration with Cradles to Crayons in advance of May 14. The link for the registration will be sent in your confirmation email.

For more information and to register, follow the link: https://connect.vassar.edu/s/1654/2/16/interior-ai.aspx?sid=1654&gid=2&pgid=4420&content_id=3663&authkey=7Dds79%2bBfZAl8Vqf1M6JnY8e159LG6xdRz17Y8%2bAxheDshigFqeUHg%3d%3d