Over 500 SLC alumni and their guests joined together for a magical Reunion weekend of old friends and new memories. We now have a retrospective video created by Abby Urban '12 -- as well as all of our Reunion photos up on the SLC Alumni web site. See you and your friends learning, dancing, and having a great time!

Reunion 2012 Video and Photos

Get out your planners, because The Office of Alumni Relations has many exciting upcoming events -- in several of its recently established regional alumni chapters.

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Upcoming Regional Events

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

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Mark your calendars for Reunion 2013: Thursday, June 6th - Sunday, June 9th.

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 alumni 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! In 2013, alumni with undergraduate class years ending in 3 and 8 will be celebrating milestone Reunions. All other alumni are welcome as well!

If you’d like to BE A VOLUNTEER, please sign up here or contact Dania Abu-Shaheen, Associate Director of Alumni Relations, at 914-395-2531 or dshaheen@sarahlawrence.edu.

Sarah Lawrence Writing Institute offers a wide range of fall noncredit classes in NYC and Bronxville.

Starting mid-September there will be three new Writing Institute classes offered in Manhattan: Start Your First Novel, Writing Historical Fiction for Children, and Narrative Writing. The Writing Institute is also offering the popular Nature Writing class in conjunction with the New York Botanical Garden at their mid-town Manhattan location and adding two seasonal writing workshops at the Botanical Garden. For information about all thirty noncredit writing courses offered on campus and in NYC , see http://www.slc.edu/ce/writing-institute/index.html Registration is open through September 13.

Also, the Center for Continuing Education is offering a variety of courses for students of all ages this fall. See http://www.slc.edu/local-community/ for information. And did you know that alumni can take regular Sarah Lawrence classes through our Post BA program?

For information, call 914-395-2205.

Two Sarah Lawrence alumnae are responsible for generous new commitments to the College this summer. The Mary Livingston Griggs and Mary Griggs Burke Foundation is providing a one million dollar grant in honor of the close relationship between their Honorary President, Mary Griggs Burke ’38 and Sarah Lawrence College. The Mary Griggs Burke Endowed Presidential Scholarships will provide financial aid for academically top-ranked students.

We are also pleased to announce that Jerome Siegel has made a $250,000 gift to the College in memory of his late wife, Ruth Leff Siegel ’50. The Ruth Leff Siegel and Jerome Siegel Endowed Fund for Student Life will help cultivate a vibrant and engaged student community by providing funding that brings students together for large-scale events such as dances, musical performances, campus-wide festivals, and lectures by well-known speakers. A portion of the gift will be used to refurbish student spaces in the Ruth Leff Siegel Center (“the Pub”). This gift is a fitting legacy for Ruth Leff Siegel ’50, an Honorary Trustee of the College who demonstrated a life-long commitment to an open, supportive, and joyful student community at Sarah Lawrence.

The College is incredibly grateful for the many years of support these important alumnae and their families have provided.

Dedication of the Physics Lab in the Ilchman Science Center in honor of former faculty member and Nobel Prize Winner Maria Goeppert Mayer will take place on September 12th. Professor Jim Gates, Director of the String & Particle Theory Center at the University of Maryland, will speak, and there will be a faculty panel.

Nobel Laureate Maria Goeppert Mayer was a key figure in establishing a meaningful program in the sciences at Sarah Lawrence, laying the groundwork for such current practices as the Science Third. Dr. Mayer was dedicated to "teaching as it is done at Sarah Lawrence -- not the mere imparting of knowledge, but the human contact with developing personalities". Mayer served on the Manhattan project but vowed her commitment to Sarah Lawrence, saying that if war work "imperiled the possibility of my return to Sarah Lawrence, the personal sacrifice demanded is too much".

Dr. Mayer has recently been honored on a stamp by the United States Post Office. This celebration will mark the 50th anniversary of Dr. Mayer's Nobel Prize in Physics.

This is just one of many exciting upcoming events. The full Fall Campus Events calendar can be viewed on the web site.

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Sarah Lawrence College presents the Salomé Chamber Orchestra, a rare opportunity to hear this prestigious ensemble in an intimate Westchester setting. The orchestra will Perform the Mozart Sinfonia Concertante arranged for String Sextet and Tchaikovsky's Souvenir de Florence at Sarah Lawrence College Reisinger Concert Hall on Sunday, September 30 at 3p.m.The New York Times called New York’s Salome Chamber Orchestra “glowing.” They have performed at Carnegie Hall, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NPR’s Performance Today and on national television. Admission is free.

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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.

Adam Distenfeld '85, in conjunction with the Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, presents the 30th annual outdoor sculpture show, Perpetual Energy. The show will open on August 4, 2012.

Clarion E. Johnson, M.D. '72 is the 2012 recipient of the SPE Health, Safety, Security, Environment, and Social Responsibility Award. He will be awarded this recognition on Tuesday, October 9th, 2012 during the SPE Annual Banquet.

Ox-Bow, school of art and artists’ residency is elated to announce the appointment of Elizabeth J. H. Chodos '04 as its new Executive Director. She earned Dual Masters Degrees in Art History, Theory and Criticism and Arts Administration from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago—where she wrote a thesis on artist residencies. Ox-Bow, school of art and artist residency is a 102 year-old creative community located on a protected 115-acre property in Saugatuck, Michigan.

Poet Estha Lynn Weiner announces Maine Branches--four widely published poets read and reflect on their Maine connections: Margo Taft Stever (Frozen Spring, Mid-List Press); Estha Weiner (In the Weather of the World, Salmon Poetry); Jo Ann Clark (The Paris Review); and John Perrault (Here Comes the Old Man Now, Oyster River Press). Readings will take place on August 2, 2012 at the University of New England Art Gallery (716 Stevens Ave., Portland, Maine, 5:00pm) and August 3, 2012 at York Art Association (394 York Street, York Harbor, Maine, 7:00 pm).

Barbara Bennion '51 announces that her play about Latino immigration, FLOWERS BEHIND THE MOUNTAIN, is a winner of the 2012 Mario Fratti-Fred Newman Political Play Contest at Castillo Theater in Manhattan. The director will be J.J. El-Farr. A previous reading was in 2011 at the CCNY Conference on Immigration and Education. The reading takes place on August 6, 2012 at Castillo Theater in New York City (543 West 42nd Street, between 10th and 11th avenues).

Charlotte Observer profiled Charlotte-based musician Lindsey Ryan Horne MFA 2007. Lindsey just finished her new, self-released album, The Divers.

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