Get out your planners, because The Office of Alumni Relations has many exciting upcoming events.

Upcoming Calendar of Events

15th Annual Women's History Month Conference

Don't miss the Women's History Month Conference, "Activism and Scholarship: A Conference Honoring Amy Swerdlow and Gerda Lerner," The Fifteenth Annual Women's History Conference at Sarah Lawrence College honors Gerda Lerner and Amy Swerdlow's life and work as committed and indomitable activist/scholars by making issues of peace and justice its central theme. The events are free and open to the public and take place March 1st and 2nd. Register online for the conference.

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See Office-sponsored Events Calendar

Be sure to visit the Alumni web site frequently, as we are adding events all the time!

SLC alumna and Artistic Director of Portland's Profile Theatre, Adriana Baer '04, invites Portland alumni to attend the play Blood Knot on Friday, March 8th at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are on sale now. Call the box office to purchase tickets at a special rate of only $20 for SLC alumni. Attend a special reception with Adriana after the show. One post-show refreshment is included with the purchase of a ticket. Don't miss out on this exciting opportunity!

For tickets visit: http://profiletheatre.org/12-13/blood-knot/ or call (503) 242-0080

Photo credit: Ben Newman as Morris and Don Kenneth Mason as Zach in Blood Knot; Jamie Bosworth Photographer

We look forward to gathering with Study Abroad in Florence alumni to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the program! Join us in Florence from June 13-16, 2013, to take part in a schedule of events designed to reacquaint you with the city and evoke the joyous memories of time spent there. There will be plenty of opportunities to re-establish old friendships and to meet new friends who have also shared this memorable junior year abroad experience.

The fee of $500 per person will cover all seminars, tours, and dinners during your stay. Once you have registered, you will be invited to sign up for specific sessions. The deadline for registration has been extended through February 15.

Read more about this celebration and the schedule of events

Register for the Florence Reunion today!

A Sarah Lawrence Charitable Gift Annuity can help you make a bigger gift than you may have thought possible. While most Sarah Lawrence gift annuities are unrestricted, under certain circumstances, you can direct your gift to a specific fund: for example, to a scholarship.

To see what a Sarah Lawrence Charitable Gift Annuity can do for you, go to the Planned Giving web site and click on the "GiftCalcs" calculator. It will help you determine the impact of a Charitable Gift Annuity on your own situation.

Sarah Lawrence has partnered with The Princeton Club of New York to establish an alumni club that is available to alumni, faculty and staff of the College.

Membership benefits include: weekly member events, dining business amenities, fitness facilities, Guest rooms at special member prices, reciprocal clubs worldwide, as well as lending library, barbershop, concierge, notary public and discounted parking and car service rates.

The application and instructions are on the left hand side of the website at www.princetonclub.com/slc.

Charitable IRA Rollovers were continued by The American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012. This policy ensures that at least through December 31, 2013, philanthropic members of the Sarah Lawrence community will be permitted to use IRA funds tax-free to benefit the College. These IRA "rollover" gifts are restricted to IRA owners age 70 ½ or older and may not exceed $100,000 in the applicable tax year. The gift must be sent by the IRA administrator directly to the College. Please call Judith Katz, Senior Director of Major Gifts and Gift Planning, at (914) 395-2526 or e-mail giftplanning@sarahlawrence.edu to let us know about your gift or for more information.

Reunion 2013 will offer a variety of seminars, workshops, tours, dinners, and parties. We'll even have Midnight Breakfast! We hope you'll visit SLC's beautiful campus this spring (Thursday, June 6th – Sunday, June 9th, 2013) to reconnect with friends and recount the joys of your college years! This year, we celebrate with undergraduate class years ending in "3s" and "8s" -- but we welcome everyone!

Please click below to let us know if you plan to attend the 2013 Reunion celebration. We have posted the names of alumni who indicated they plan to attend on the Reunion Web site. Check out the list and let us know you’re planning to attend as well. If you do not wish to have your name published in our "Planning to Attend" list, please indicate so on your response.

Yes! I am planning to attend Reunion 2013!

Official registration materials will arrive in homes March 2013.

For a sneak peek of the joys of Reunion weekend, including photos and videos of Reunion 2012, visit the SLC Reunion Web Site. Can't wait to get in touch with your friends? We've created FACEBOOK GROUPS for classes celebrating their Reunion! Find your class Facebook Group.

Chris Toensing is Executive Director of the Middle East Research and Information Project and editor of MERIP's publication, Middle East Report. He holds an M.A. in Near Eastern Studies from Princeton University and later studied Middle Eastern History at Georgetown University. An Arabic speaker, he has lived in Egypt and traveled widely in the Arab Middle East since 1990. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Middle East Studies Association of North America and that organization's Committee on Academic Freedom. His articles have appeared in The Nation, The Progressive and other US newspapers and magazines, as well as Middle East Report.

Title: The Arab Revolts in Balance
Speaker: Chris Toensing
Date/Time: Monday, February 11/ 5:30 p.m. - 7 p.m.
Location: Donnelley Theatre, Heimbold Visual Arts Center

Securing its fourth-consecutive title, Sarah Lawrence College women's swimming triumphed at the 2013 Hudson Valley Women's Athletic Conference Swimming Championship, hosted by College of New Rochelle on Sunday. The Gryphons won 10 of 11 events to extend a championship-winning streak dating back to the 2009-10 season.

At the conclusion of the meet, four Gryphons were honored as members of the 2012-13 HVWAC All-Conference Team. Bates, Leonard, Peschke and Pulitano were recognized for their contributions to the team this season. The season is not over for Sarah Lawrence, as the top Gryphons now set their sights on the 2013 Upper New York State Collegiate Swimming Association Championships, hosted by Ithaca College, February 20-23.

See SLC Gryphons Web Site

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.

Emmy-winning filmmaker Kate Schermerhorn '89 announced the upcoming broadcast premiere of After Happily Ever After. Kate's film, the 2012 winner of the Council for the Contemporary Family Media Award, is her quest for the secret to a happy marriage. The film premieres nationally on Sunday, February 10th, 8pm (PBS's World Channel, as part of the America Reformed series). Scientific American called the film "delightfully quirky".

Eireann Corrigan '99 has released her fifth book for teens, The Believing Game, published by Scholastic Press last December. It tells the story of a cult that infiltrates a therapeutic/reform school called McCracken Hill. Kirkus Reviews calls it "A dark page-turner with a satisfying resolution."

Katie Lippa '95 announced the publication of her first book, Hiding in Water: A Memoir Based Mostly in Reality. In the years before she was born, author Katherine Lippa's father co-founded a group in which the participants believed they could levitate and move buildings with their minds. Young Miss Lippa was a willing participant in the experiment until the day she came to believe that her "powers" caused an unforgivable tragedy. Told with a surprising amount of humor and insight, Hiding in Water uses its unique platform to share a universal story of reconciling belief with reality: belief in ourselves and in others..

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