WEB HIGHLIGHTS
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Literature faculty member Nick Mills discusses J. D. Salinger's Franny & Zooey in the Daily Beast.
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"A Dream, or a Premonition, Leads to a New Beginning," an essay by writing faculty member Mary Morris, was featured in the "Modern Love" section of The New York Times.
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This past Spring Break, several students headed to Sri Lanka to help restore Buddhist temples. These restorations are a symbol of hope to local communities. The students worked to reconstruct the temples in the traditional manner in which they were built, using no machinery. Other students helped with trail maintenance in a Virginia State Park and others participated in projects organized by Habitat for Humanity.
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Riley Strom '13, co-proprietor of the Brooklyn-based independent fine art gallery 99 Cent Plus, discusses the gallery's upcoming one-year anniversary with The Greenpoint Gazette. Strom owns and operates the gallery in partnership with fellow alumni Zoe Fisher '13 and Simran Johnston '13
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The Chronicle of Higher Education shines a spotlight on noted alumna Barbara Walters' $15 million donation to Sarah Lawrence, and how the college has helped shape her career.
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Alumna Tovah Feldshuh discusses her role on "The Walking Dead" in a Q&A with Variety.
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CONNECTIONS
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Sarah Lawrence Magazine
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The Meaningful Life
Fall 2014
The point of going to college—and especially of going to Sarah Lawrence—is to begin crafting a meaningful life. That means making a career, usually, but also distilling your values, understanding your strengths and weaknesses, and confronting change and loss. Easy, right? In this issue, we'll get some practical advice about how to create a life rich in meaning—no matter how you define success.
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GIVE TO SLC
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Spring has finally sprung in Bronxville and students are back from Spring Break. In several of the major cities across the country admitted students are being welcomed this month at receptions. As the Class of 2019 takes shape, now is the perfect time to make your donation to the 2015 Fund for Sarah Lawrence to guarantee that academic and extra-curricular resources will be available for these “new” students. With two months to go and over $1,000,000 to raise, it is critical for alumni to contribute. You can embrace your passion and realize your purpose by donating online at www.slc.edu/give, mailing your contribution to the 2015 Fund for Sarah Lawrence to 1 Mead Way/Bronxville, NY 10708 or calling us at 914-813-9220 to donate by credit card. Thank you to everyone who has already made their donation. We greatly appreciate your dedication to Sarah Lawrence.
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Reunion 2015 Online Registration is Now Open!
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63 DAYS UNTIL REUNION! That's right folks, only 63 little days left until alumni return to the alma mater and enjoy a fantastic Sadie Lou weekend!
Reunion weekend is Thursday June 4 – Sunday June 7, 2015. Return to campus! Reconnect with friends! Revel in the memories! We hope you will enjoy our schedule of events for the big weekend which includes a variety of exciting events and programs including seminars (with Bill Shullenberger, David Hollander MFA '97, Scott Calvin, Carl Barenboim, Mary Porter, and Vijay Seshadri, to name a few), local tours, dinners, and parties. Remember, regardless of class year, all are welcome at Reunion. REGISTER NOW!
This year marks the 30th anniversary of the Art of Teaching Graduate Program. To commemorate this milestone, Reunion weekend will feature two Art of Teaching seminars on Friday June 5. On Saturday June 6, we will honor Art of Teaching founding director Sara Wilford '72 during a special anniversary celebration. We hope you'll be able to join us! Register for Reunion events HERE.
If you register before May 8th, you will be entered into the Reunion 2015 Early Bird Registration Raffle! 1st Prize: $100 Amazon Gift Card, 2nd Prize: $50 Amazon Gift Card, 3rd Prize: $25 Amazon Gift Card
Check out the full Reunion schedule here.
Show your work at the Alumni Art Exhibit During Reunion!
See more info on the Art Exhibit
Share your talents at the Alumni Cabaret during Reunion!
See more info on Cabaret
Visit the SLC Reunion Web Site
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Join SLC Alumni for an Upcoming Event!
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Get out your planners, because The Office of Alumni Relations already has many exciting upcoming events.
View photos from recent events.
Upcoming Calendar of Events
DC: Where We Are From: Place and Personhood in Fiction
An Evening with SLC Alumnus and former faculty member Allan Gurganus & Elizabeth Strout.
Tickets are $10.
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April 7, 2015
7:30 p.m.
Folger Shakespeare Library,
201 E. Capitol St SE, DC
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A Day at Sarah Lawrence
Join fellow alumni on campus and be a Sadie Lou student again for a day! The day will begin with brunch at Bates at 10:30 a.m., followed by a seminar with Adam Brown (Psychology Faculty) at 12 p.m. The seminar will be based on Professor Brown's course "The Psychological Science of Happiness." We'll conclude the day by cheering on the Women's Softball Team at Marshall Field at 2 p.m. as they take on SUNY Purchase.
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April 11, 2015
10:30 a.m.
Sarah Lawrence College
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Savannah Luncheon
Join fellow Savannah-based alumni for an informal luncheon.
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April 11, 2015
12:00 p.m.
French Bakery and Café
430 William Hilton Parkway (Pineland Station Shopping Center)
Hilton Head, SC
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NYC Networking with Student and Alumni Athletes
Join present and former SLC Athletes along with Campbell Sports Center staff for an evening of reminiscing and celebrating exciting new athletic endeavors at SLC. Appetizers will be provided, and the first drink is included with your registration.
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April 13, 2015
6:30 - 9:00 p.m.
Stout NYC
133 West 33rd Street
New York, NY
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Brooklyn: Williamsburg Gallery Crawl
Alumni will meet at Art 101 (101 Grand Street, Brooklyn) followed by self-guided tour and lunch at Baci & Abbracci.
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April 26, 2015
12:00 p.m.
Art 101
101 Grand Street
Brooklyn
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Philadelphia Faculty on the Road
Bella Brodzki '72, Literature faculty, leads a seminar titled, "The Role of Translation in Our Literary Marketplace: How Foreign Works Become 'Global' " .
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April 26, 2015
1:00 p.m.
The event will be hosted by Elizabeth Clark '05 in Rittenhouse Square.
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MPLS: Guided Tour Kunin Exhibit @ MIA
Join alumni for a special tour of the Kunin Exhibit at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts.
Tickets are $7.
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April 26, 2015
2:00 - 3:00 p.m.
Minneapolis Institute of Arts
2400 Third Ave South, Minneapolis, MN
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NYC: Alumni 5K Fun Run
Join SLCers for a 5K Fun Run in Central Park organized by the Campbell Sports Center Staff. All participants must register via the alumni website in advance. On the day of the run, runners must check-in at Jack Rabbit Sports at 9:30 a.m. There will be room to leave your bags. After the run, light refreshments will be provided. This run is not timed or competitive - all are welcome to participate!
Registration fee is $10.
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May 2, 2015
9:30 a.m..
Jack Rabbit Sports
140 West 72nd Street
New York, NY
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Register for an event today!
See Office-sponsored Events Calendar
Be sure to visit the Alumni web site frequently, as we are adding events all the time!
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Funk: A Live Retrospective
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Funk: A Live Retrospective is an evening of music featuring SLC students past, present, and future. The show is a medley-style revue of highlights in the history of funk in four movements - each movement has a song that includes a brief lecture on the themes of the movements... This event will take place on April 8, 2015 at 5:30 p.m in the Reisinger Concert Hall on campus. Professor Paqamaq and the Funky Historians will perform over a dozen funk songs from the likes of Chaka Khan, James Brown, and Prince.
Musicians include:
- Jules David Bartkowski '10 – arrangements, vocals
- Ethan Meyer '10 – arrangements, drums
- Kyle Bann '10 – guitar
- Viviana Niebylski '10 – vocals
- Jules Belmont '13 – arrangements, guitar
- Aaron Lindenberg '15 – keyboard
- Rowan Schoales '15 – vocals
- Chloe Combs '19 – vocals
- Gabriel Nathanson '20 – arrangements, trumpet
- Gabriel Garcia '20 – saxophone
See SLC Events Master Calendar
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SLC Writing Institute Presents: THE FUNNY THING IS….
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The Writing Institute at Sarah Lawrence College is pleased to present The Funny Thing Is…. Examine and demystify the comedic process in three evenings of laughing and learning, beginning Friday, April 17th. Join award-winning Comedy Central director, writer, and producer Dave Steck as he and a cast of top comic talents examine the process of creating great comedy in lively roundtable discussions and performances.
Each individually sold evening's event begins with a roundtable discussion by the evening's artists followed by performances and screenings of these funny peoples' work:
- April 17, 2015: Acting Funny: An Evening With Sketch and Improv Performers. Dave Steck speaks with members of Upright Citizens Brigade who then perform.
- May 1, 2015: Writing Funny: An Evening with Movie and TV Comedy Writers. Dave speaks with movie and TV writers and screens some of their short films.
- May 15, 2015: Talking Funny: An Evening with a Stand up Comedian. Dave Steck speaks with stand up comedians, who then each perform a short set.
The series will take place at the Donnelley Film Theatre in the Heimbold Visual Arts Center on campus. Tickets are $18 per session ($12 with student discount). Register here. For more information, call 914-395-2205 or e-mail cce@sarahlawrence.edu.
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Three Health Advocacy Graduate students will present at the New York Academy of Medicine
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The Health Advocacy Program is proud to announce three students have been selected to present their History of Health Care in America conference papers at the prestigious New York Academy of Medicine 5th Annual History of Medicine night. This is the second year in a row that the Academy has recognized the scholarly, and fascinating, historical research our students have conducted and the importance of sharing this work with leaders in the field of health. Under the guidance of Rebecca Johnson MFA '07 and Jean Kahler MFA '08, faculty for the Health Advocacy Program History of Health Care in America course, the three students delved into the early 20th century history of a health issue, each of which continue to be of timely concern: the use of marijuana; discrimination; and, access to reproductive contraceptives.
- Puffing and Passing Legislation: The History of Marijuana and Its Place in Society, Devon Santoro '16
- Medical School Discrimination: Advocacy in a Postwar World, Jane Himmel '16
- The Unequal Burden of Censorship: Classism in the Wake of the Comstock Law, Natalie Taylor '16
Join us at the New York Academy of Medicine on Wednesday, May 6th at 6:00 PM and then for an intimate reception afterward. The New York Academy of Medicine is located at 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street. Register here.
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Invitation to Alumni Panel: Practical Applications of Women's History
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You're invited to a panel of Women's History Alumni on History, Research, Policy, and Advocacy. The panel will include speakers Joon Lee MA '07, Researcher at the Guttmacher Institute, Joshua Riegel '02, MA '04, Law Student at NYU, and Thea Michailidis MA '11, Director of Strategic Research, International Union of Painters and Allied Trades.
This panel will take place on Monday April 20th, 2015, Heimbold 208, on-campus, at 6:00 p.m.
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Adda B. Bozeman Lecture In International Affairs: "Sanctions and U.S. Power"
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The annual Adda Bozeman lecture series, endowed by friends and family of the international relations specialist who taught at SLC from 1947 to 1977, will take place on April 21, from
5:30 - 6:30 p.m. in the Heimbold Visual Arts Center (Donnelley Film Theatre). Daniel Moger will lead this year's lecture in International Affairs, "Sanctions and U.S. Power". Daniel Moger is a financial industry consultant and former Assistant Director, The U.S. Treasury Office's of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence.
See Bozeman Lecture event listing
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Summer Programs at SLC!
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Sarah Lawrence College Summer Programs have something for all interested students ranging from rising sophomores to recently-graduated seniors in high school! During the summer, we offer a variety of intensive non-credit courses designed for every kind of student: writer, actor, dancer, activist, budding filmmaker or enthusiastic storyteller.
Registration is open now for all our 2015 offerings! Have questions? Give us a call at (914) 395-2205, or e-mail us at specialprograms@sarahlawrence.edu. We look forward to hearing from you.
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Fareed Zakaria Defends Liberal Arts Education
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One of the greatest virtues of a liberal education, Fareed Zakaria argues in his new book, is that it bestows "a very strong sense of the basics: the ability to think, to learn, to analyze." Zakaria emphasizes the importance of a liberal education, "knowledge for its own sake, rather than to acquire skills to practice a trade or do a job" in his book In Defense of a Liberal Education. This is the CNN host's fifth book and was published by W.W. Norton & Co. At his commencement address to the Sarah Lawrence Class of 2014, Zakaria spoke powerfully about the strengths and value of a liberal education and called SLC "the quintessential liberal arts college."
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Gryphons' Road Trip!
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Sarah Lawrence College men's volleyball concluded its inaugural Skyline season with five conference matches over three days. The Gryphons traveled to NJCU on Friday before hosting Purchase College and No. 5 Kean University on Saturday. This last contest was Sarah Lawrence College's first-ever against a ranked NCAA Division III opponent.
In other news, Sarah Lawrence College participated in the Snowbird Softball event in Myrtle Beach, SC, but unfortunately, fell in all its games.
Read more on gogryphons.com
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 Here Comes the Sun
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Mark the end of the long, cold, lonely winter with a sunny charitable gift annuity. When you can see income coming from those dormant assets, you'll join a bunch of charitable gift annuity donors whose smiles have returned to their faces.
Contact Dorea Ferris, Director of Gift Planning, at (914)395-2543 or dferris@sarahlawrence.edu with any questions you might have. And please visit our website at
slc.edu/giving/planned
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Connect on Facebook and LinkedIn!
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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.
Join the SLC Alumni Office's Twitter feed: @SLCAlums.
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!
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Alumni Announcements
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Have you recently changed jobs, received a promotion, or won an award in your field? Share your accomplishment with the alumni community.
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Emmanuelle Morgen '98 is excited to announce the opening of a new independent bookstore, Little City Books, in her adopted hometown of Hoboken, New Jersey. The Grand Opening is May 2. "I would love to extend an invitation to the Sarah Lawrence community to come out to Hoboken for it." Fellow alum Sharyn November '82 has been a very active supporter. Find Little City Books on Facebook.
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Ka’ramuu Kush MFA ’00 shares his latest goings-on: director shadowing Debbie Allen on ABC’s hit show Scandal, developing a TV series with Oscar-nominee John Singleton entitled Solomon, and shooting his first feature length film As The Freak Takes You this fall in Detroit, Michigan. Ka’ramuu was also recently honored as Filmmaker-In-Residence for the 2015 Pan African Film Festival. He adds, “And of course, all is accessible via my website: karamuu.com.”
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Ann Cefola '81 announced that she will be presenting "Furious Stardust: Poems of the Night Sky" in honor of National Poetry Month and National Astronomy Month. The reading, which will take place on Sunday, April 26 from 3:30 - 4:15 p.m. at the Hudson River Museum Planetarium (511 Warburton Avenue Yonkers, New York 10701), will combine poems from Ann's new book, Face Painting in the Dark (Dos Madres Press, 2014) and dramatic astrophotography by Doug Baum and Hubble among others. Come enjoy a poetic space exploration!
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Benjamin Breen '07, editor-in-chief and co-founder of The Appendix, will earn his PhD in history at the University of Texas at Austin this summer. His dissertation (and book manuscript) centers around the notion of "early modern globalization" and explores the origins of international drug cartels and the pharmaceutical industry, two of the most commercially successful and culturally influential enterprises in the world today. Next year he will be a postdoctoral fellow at Columbia University’s Society of Fellows and a lecturer in Columbia’s history department, where he will be teaching history of medicine and Atlantic history.
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Rosalind Brenner '09 announced the Second Annual LTV Poetry Affair (75 Industrial Road, Wainscott, New York, 11975), to take place on April 10, 2015, from 6:30 - 9 p.m. This event features reading from fourteen of the finest Poets in the area: Rosalind Brenner, Duane Esposito, Dr. Graham Everett, Barbara Reiher-Meyers, Annabelle Moseley, Susan Pilewski, Anthony Policano, Carole Stone, Marlo Susko, Pramila Venkateswaran, George Wallace, Claire Nicolas White, Nina/Nanette Yavel, and Pauline Yeats.
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