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John got a job with the Legal Aid Society of Northeastern New York -having only looked for legal aid services work -and in fall 1985, he began working in New York’s capital city (“I didn’t know Albany at all”), helping clients of few means with cases involving landlord-tenant disputes, Social Security disability, and family court. As a result, he lost his mother’s support economically, and although they continued to speak, their relationship was never the same.Īfter graduating from law school, St. When she finally got hold of me, she asked me point-blank, ‘Are you a homosexual?’” The young law student, unprepared, felt he had to be honest, and told her the truth.

With a growing interest in governance and the relationship of policy to law, he had decided to go to law school -“but not to practice law.” He was at Cornell Law in January 1983 when, he recalls, “I was seeing someone, and my mother called in the late evening or early morning when the rates were lower, so I missed a lot of her calls. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, and on to the Institute of Policy Sciences and Public Affairs at Duke. Sloan Foundation fellowship to the John F. After graduating from Vassar, he landed an Alfred P. That was to cause a deep rift with his mother a couple of years later. I was finally able to have a close working relationship with professors, and that really worked for me.” “Vassar is the best thing that could have happened to me. And, he adds, at Vassar, “I started discovering my sexuality.” He served as President of Jewett House and Chair of the Board of House Presidents while earning his degree in economics. Instead, he became politically active, and discovered that he liked to take leadership positions. John, a self-described “Type A, very driven, who liked to represent the interests of people,” did not himself relax at Vassar. I loved how different and fun the people were, and the relaxed personality of the school and student body.”Īs it turned out, St. “I was finally able to have a close working relationship with professors, and that really worked for me. “Vassar is the best thing that could have happened to me,” he says. It was a decision he has never regretted. While he enjoyed his two years in New Haven, after he took a year off to address some issues and make some money, he concluded that he might be better off someplace not so large -“a smaller school where I wouldn’t feel so lost.” John had been offered admission to all eight schools to which he had applied, including Harvard, which he turned down much to his mother’s chagrin, because he knew someone who lived around the block who was going to Yale.

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