Every year since the college began in 1932, every Bennington College student has engaged in internships and volunteer opportunities each winter term. The college was the first to include the visual and performing arts as full-fledged elements of the liberal arts curriculum. The first class of eighty-seven women arrived on campus in 1932. In 1929 Leigh authored the Bennington College Prospectus which outlined the "Bennington idea". Leigh presided over the forging of Bennington's structure and its early operation. In 1928, six years before the college would begin, Robert Devore Leigh was recruited by the Bennington College executive committee to serve as the first president of Bennington. One of the trustees, John Dewey, helped shape many of the college's signature programs such as The Plan Process and Field Work Term through his educational principles. As a result of the Colony Club Meeting, a charter was secured and a board of trustees formed for Bennington College. Hall Park McCullough, organized the Colony Club Meeting in 1924, which brought together some 500 civic leaders and educators from across the country. Hall Park McCullough, and William Heard Kilpatrick. While many people were involved, the four central figures in the founding of Bennington were Vincent Ravi Booth, Mr. The planning for the establishment of Bennington College began in 1924 and took nine years to be realized.
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