The Office of Alumni Relations recently introduced new regional alumni chapters. As part of the chapters' mission to reconnect alumni with one another, there will be seven regional alumni parties! Registration is now open for these exciting holiday parties.

Register for your regional holiday party now!

See Regional Chapters Page

Upcoming Regional Holiday Parties

Upcoming Regional Events

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See Office-sponsored Events Calendar

The Edith Ingalls Vignos '45 Faculty on the Road Program season is underway. Already, we've been to San Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston, and Washington, D.C. Check below to see if we're coming by you soon!

See the Faculty on the Road Seminar List

Register for an Upcoming FOR

The 8th Annual Palm Beach Poetry Festival takes place from January 16 - 21, 2012, in partnership with Old School Square Cultural Arts Center, in the heart of Delray Beach, Florida. The festival features six days of reading events, craft lectures, and poetry workshops, with some of the most extraordinary and engaging poets in America. This year's special guest reader is Charles Wright. Miles Coon MFA '02 is the founder of the Palm Beach Poetry Festival. Registration and more information is available at http://www.palmbeachpoetryfestival.com

Reunion weekend is the perfect time to reminisce, reconnect, and return to Sarah Lawrence. You'll have the opportunity to take a seminar, go on local tours, explore new buildings on campus, cheer or perform at a cabaret, admire the work of fellow alumnae/i at an art exhibit, and of course dance to your heart's content on Westlands Lawn. If all of the above works up an appetite, there's always midnight breakfast after the dance and a champagne brunch the next morning! Faculty also look forward to seeing you during Reunion, so don't miss out!

For a sneak peak of what Reunion weekend is like, check out this video of Reunion 2011 created by Mario Paniagua '09

For more information on Reunion weekend contact
Dania Abu-Shaheen, Associate Director of Alumni Relations at dshaheen@sarahlawrence.edu

Alumni volunteers are essential to making Reunion a memorable experience for all. Help create the magic by getting in touch with classmates to encourage attendance, providing program suggestions, and/or fundraising for your class gift. If you'd like to be a Reunion Volunteer, contact Dania Abu-Shaheen, Associate Director of Alumni Relations at dshaheen@sarahlawrence.edu or (914) 395-2531.

February 2, 2012

Luncheon with President Karen Lawrence,
followed by a lecture
at the Society of the Four Arts

For more information,
email ccipro@sarahlawrence.edu
or call 914.395.2535.

If you winter in Florida and wish to be invited to these events, please let us know.

A charitable IRA “rollover” may help you make a larger gift to Sarah Lawrence than you ever thought possible. It may help you make a gift, even if you thought you couldn't do it this year.

The IRS is again permitting IRA owners age 70 and one half years or older to make direct tax-free transfers to charities like Sarah Lawrence, before December 31, 2011. The total of these transfers may not exceed $100,000 per tax year. These transfers will qualify—in part or in whole—for the yearly required IRA minimum distributions, yet they will not be considered taxable income to the IRA owner.

This means that your IRA assets could be an important new source of charitable gifts. What a difference you could make for Sarah Lawrence! If you don't qualify, perhaps your spouse does… Please check with your professional advisers to see if a Charitable IRA Rollover Gift might be the best idea for you. Thank you!

Email Director of Gift Planning, Annetta Love, for information

See the Office of Gift Planning

The Office of Alumni Relations has created Facebook Groups for you to connect with classmates and fellow alumni in your area. Please, stay active in these groups -- and keep the content coming!

Click here to join the Facebook group for Alumni in your city and Alumni in your class year.

Don't forget to network with fellow alumni on LinkedIn for all of your career-related inquiries, needs, or announcements.

All SLC alumni groups are closed and membership is by request and invitation. To gain membership, you must click the "request to join" button at the top right corner of the group. Once you're a member, be sure to invite your friends to grow the group!

Have you recently changed jobs, received a promotion, or won an award in your field? Share your accomplishment with the alumni community.

Zilpha Starnes '05 and Dania Abu-Shaheen '04 are happy to announce the release of their new album "Red Brick Tide." The two alumnae have been performing together as Starnes&Shah for 5 years and "Red Brick Tide" is their third record. To celebrate, they will be throwing a record release party/show at Kenny’s Castaways in NYC (157 Bleecker between Sullivan and Thompson) on Saturday November 12th at 8pm. Zilpha and Dania love seeing fellow SLCers at their shows, so swing by and say hello! For more information please visit: http://www.starnesandshah.com

Janet Kaplan MFA 1995 announces her third book, Dreamlife of a Philanthropist, a collection of prose poems and sonnets.

Judith Brin Ingber '67 is the editor/author of Seeing Israeli and Jewish Dance recently published by Wayne State University Press. Judith will be presenting a short program and offering book signings at several book fairs in November. She will be in Houston in November, at Temple Beth Tikvah, Clear Lake on November 7th at 7:30 pm and at JCC Houston on November 8th at 6:15 pm. Judith will then be at the Atlanta JCC on November 13 at 4:30 and at the National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia on November 20th at 3:00 pm.

Jane Trigere '70 announces Women of the Balcony Art Exhibit, which runs from October 30th through February 5th. At the opening, Jane will talk about her four pieces that memorialize the women of a closed synagogue in upper Manhattan.

Rachael Solomon's ('09) original play, Underdeveloped, which she also directed, recently premiered at Manhattan Repertory Theatre. It involved two other Sarah Lawrence alumni: cast member Antony Yaeger '99 and dramaturge Matthew Nicohlson '10.

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