Katharina von Bora Katharina von Bora Katharina von Bora (; January 29, 1499 – December 20, 1552), after her wedding Katharina Luther, also referred to as "die Lutherin", was the wife of Martin Luther, German reformer and a seminal figure of the Protestant Reformation. Beyond what is found in the writings of Luther and some of his contemporaries, little is known about her. Despite this, Katharina is often considered one of the most important participants of the Reformation because of her role in helping to define Protestant family life and setting the tone for clergy marriages. Katharina von Bora was the daughter to
Catharine Bond Hill Catharine Bond Hill Catharine "Cappy" Bond Hill is the former president of Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, NY. She began in 2006, after former president Frances D. Fergusson retired. Before coming to Vassar, Hill was provost at Williams College. In September 2016 she became managing director of Ithaka S+R. A 1976 summa cum laude graduate of Williams College, Hill also earned an Oxbridge MA at Brasenose College, Oxford, with First Class Honours in politics, philosophy and economics, and a Ph.D. in economics at Yale University. In her early career Hill worked for The World Bank (1982–1987) and the Congressional Budget Office