WEB HIGHLIGHTS
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The Telegraph profiles writer/director/producer J.J. Abrams '88, calling him "the busiest man in Hollywood."
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Two Sarah Lawrence alumnae, Marian Fontana '89 and Tracey Riese '79, who is also a member of the Board of Trustees, have been named to New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's transition team. Riese and Fontana will serve on the team's sub-committee on arts and culture. Keep up with transition team news online.
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History faculty member Komozi Woodard will join with the Yonkers Public Library in presenting Created Equal: America's Civil Rights Struggle, a series of riveting documentary films that use gripping new footage to illustrate the history of civil rights in America. See more information.
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On Monday, February 10, Brooklyn Law School's Center for Health, Science and Public Policy and the Sarah Lawrence College Health Advocacy Program will co-sponsor a roundtable discussion that brings together community groups, environmental justice advocates, and leading academics to discuss the threat to human health and the environment caused by industrial toxins. Read more.
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CONNECTIONS
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Sarah Lawrence Magazine
Fall Issue: Starting from Scratch
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GIVE TO SLC
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Since we cannot report anything positive about this winter's weather in Bronxville due to our new friend the permanent polar vortex we are tickled green (this is Sarah Lawrence) to report that with your wonderful and thoughtful participation The Fund for Sarah Lawrence has crossed the $2,000,000 mark. This was the earliest (by months) that we have ever reached Two Million Dollars. Thank you to everyone who has already made their donation. With four months and $1,500,000 to go to reach our goals there is still time and an urgent need for you to participate. Why not donate online at www.slc.edu/give on February 14 and show some love for your Alma mater. Or you might donate on February 17 and make George Washington and Abraham Lincoln proud (not to mention our own President Karen Lawrence!). Whether you give on Valentine's Day, President's Day, during the mid-winter break (should you be fortunate enough to have one), or any of the other 21 days in February, when you play the Sarah Lawrence Giving Game and donate to the FSL the entire SLC community are winners! You can also mail your contribution to the 2014 Fund for Sarah Lawrence to 1 Mead Way/Bronxville, NY 10708 or call us at 914-395-2533 to donate by credit card.
We leave you with smiling faces as there are only seven more weeks until the spring and for those of you in undergraduate class years that end in 4 and 9, only 17 more weeks until Reunion Weekend 2014. Thank you for dedication to and support of Sarah Lawrence.
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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 has many exciting upcoming events planned for 2014. Don't miss this opportunity to make new friends and Sarah Lawrence connections.
View photos from recent events held across the country!
Upcoming Calendar of Events
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NYC: Drinks and a Movie: "Rising Star"
New York, NY
Wednesday, February 12, 2014 at 6:30 p.m.
A casual get together at Culture Fix (9 Clinton Street, b/n Stanton and East Houston) for drinks, appetizers, and a screening of "Rising Star." After the screening, you'll have the opportunity to meet director, writer, and co-producer Marty Lang, lead actor and co-producer Gary Ploski MFA '08, and sustainability coordinator Ali Berman '04, MFA '09. Appetizers will be provided. Drinks must be purchased at the bar.
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Boston: Happy Hour in Central Square 2/19/14
Boston, MA
Wednesday, February 19, 2014 at 6:30 p.m.
Appetizers will be provided. Drinks must be purchased at the bar.
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Washington DC: Alumni Happy Hour 2/20/14
Washington, D.C.
Thursday, February 20, 2014 at 6:30 p.m.
Appetizers will be provided. Drinks must be purchased at the bar.
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Boston FOR 3/1/14
Saturday, March 1, 2014 at 1:00 p.m.
Title: Love the Wild Swan: Exploring Poetry
Suzanne Gardinier, Writing Faculty
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Washington DC FOR 3/1/14
Saturday, March 1, 2014 at 1:00 p.m.
Title: Power Plays: American Theatre as Politics
Kevin Confoy, Theatre Faculty
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Philadelphia FOR 3/8/14
Saturday, March 8, 2014 at 1:00 p.m.
Title: Personal Responsibility for Health: the Double-Edged Sword of Patient Empowerment and the New Morality of the Body
Sarah Wilcox, Sociology Faculty
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NYC: Meredith Monk at Lincoln Center 3/31/14
Monday, March 31, 2014 at 7:30 p.m.
The Office of Alumni Relations has 30 discount tickets to this performance at Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall (Broadway at 65th St). Meredith Monk '64, along with Katie Geissinger, will present her piece "Nightfall," written for Musica Sacra, along with selections from "Atlas Part III: Invisible Light" and "Facing North." The evening will also feature the New York premiere of Jocelyn Hagen's "Amass." Tickets are $30 for the Orchestra II section. Don't miss this to enjoy an evening of outstanding music.
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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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121 days till Reunion!!
Thursday, June 5th - Sunday, June 8th
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Mark your calendar for an unforgettable weekend at SLC.
There will be seminars, local tours, dance parties, a cabaret, an art exhibit, and even Midnight Breakfast! Join us on campus Thursday, June 5 – Sunday, June 8 for a weekend that celebrates the extraordinary education and lasting friendships that characterize the Sarah Lawrence experience.
Registration opens in March. In the meantime, you can view the Reunion schedule on the Alumni Web Site.
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Re-Envisioning Pakistan: The Political Economy of Social Transformation, April 4-5
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We would like to inform and invite you to an international conference on Pakistan to be held at Sarah Lawrence College on April 4 - 5. The conference aims to bring together a range of diverse perspectives to examine current realities and challenges facing Pakistan. Keynote Speaker: Women's rights activist Hina Jilani, Director of AGHS Legal Aid Cell, Supreme Court of Pakistan. You can register online at:
www.re-envisioningpakistan.org. Early registration ends on February 15, 2014. Online registration will close on March 15, 2014. The cost of registration includes breakfast and lunch on April 4 and 5, 2014. Details regarding the conference venue, registration and other particulars are all available through the web site.
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Dr. Fareed Zakaria Is Sarah Lawrence's 2014 Commencement Speaker
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Dr. Fareed Zakaria is host of CNN's flagship international affairs program, Fareed Zakaria GPS, and is also Editor at Large of TIME, a Washington Post columnist, and a New York Times bestselling author. Dr. Zakaria's educational background includes a B.A. from Yale College and a Ph.D. from Harvard University, after which he served eight years as managing editor of Foreign Affairs, a post he was appointed to at only 28 years old. In 2000, he joined Newsweek, overseeing all of the magazine's editions abroad. His cover stories and columns—on subjects from globalization and emerging markets to the Middle East and America's role in the world—reached more than 25 million readers weekly.
It's especially rewarding when the Commencement speaker has a personal connection with Sarah Lawrence, and that's the case this year: Dr. Zakaria's spouse, Paula Throckmorton Zakaria is a 2010 Writing MFA graduate of the College.
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Alice Kaplan presents "A Camus Syndrome"
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The annual Adda Bozeman Lecture will be presented by Alice Kaplan. Since Camus' death in 1960, assessments of the man, the writer, the thinker, the moral figure have been wildly unstable. To measure this instability, Kaplan will look first at Camus's most famous reader, Sartre. Then she will focus specifically on Camus and the Algerian question, and finally on contemporary readers. By concentrating on the ways Camus has been understood by intellectuals, by institutions, and by critics, she hopes to track the uneven way his star has risen and fallen over the years. What she is proposing-to borrow Henry Rousso's formula-is to account for a "Camus syndrome."
Alice Kaplan, John M. Musser Professor of French, chairs the Department of French at Yale University. She is a specialist of 20th century French literature whose work addresses the intersection of literature, history and politics. This lecture is free and open to the public. The event takes place on Monday, March 10, 2014, from 5:30 - 7:30 p.m. at the Heimbold Visual Arts Center, in the Donnelley Film Theatre.
See Calendar for Campus Events Open to the Public
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Mira J. Spektor '50 Invites You to Concert
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Mira J. Spektor '50 invites you to HAVE SONGS WILL TRAVEL, a concert for Sarah Lawrence and friends featuring Darcy Dunn '85 and Mark Singer, with pianist Mimi Stern Wolfe. They will perform songs by Leonard Bernstein,
Kurt Weil, and Mira J. Spektor '50. The concert takes place on Tuesday, February 18, 5pm at Sun & Surf (130 Sunrise Avenue, PH4W Palm Beach, Florida). Tickets are free but seating is limited. Please RSVP to ccipro@sarahlawrence.edu
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Call for Alumni Admission Volunteers!
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Join the STAR Alumni Admissions program! Members of STAR can get involved in various ways, from interviewing prospective students to hosting events to attending college fairs. We currently need volunteers in the cities listed below. If you have any interest in becoming a STAR Alumni Admission Volunteer in these cities or any other location, we want to hear from you. Please complete the online form here or contact Michelle Johnson, Associate Director, Alumni Relations, at mjohnson2@sarahlawrence.edu.
- Baltimore, MD
- Cleveland, OH
- Miami, FL
- San Antonio, TX
- Detroit, MI
- San Francisco, CA and surrounding areas
- Los Angeles, CA (the Valley and Pasadena specifically)
- San Diego, CA
- Phoenix, AZ
- Rochester, NY
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| Stephanie Cooper '65 to Present on the Business of the Arts |
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Past President of the Alumni Association and former Board of Trustees member, Stephanie Cooper '65, will present a three-part series about legal and business issues in the arts. The purpose of the series is to keep music, theatre, and art students up to date on relevant information. Legal and Business Issues in the Arts will take place on campus on February 19, 26, and March 5.
Stephanie Cooper is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College, where she concentrated in literature and music. She earned a Master of Fine Arts Degree in chamber music at Sarah Lawrence in 1976 and went on to pursue a career as a solo pianist, accompanist and chamber musician and a dedicated teacher with positions at The Juilliard School, Mannes College of Music and the Manhattan School of Music. After a career as a concert pianist and chamber musician. Ms. Cooper turned to the study and practice of law. Stephanie has more than twenty-five years' experience in general civil litigation in state and federal courts.
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The Princeton Club of New York Welcomes Sarah Lawrence Alumni
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Join your fellow SLC alums in a diverse community to learn, network, and socialize at the Princeton Club of New York. Sarah Lawrence has partnered with the PCNY to offer applicants membership at the Club for the 2014 year. Club benefits include exclusive social, educational, and networking events; guest rooms in midtown Manhattan; two restaurants; private meeting space; squash courts; and an elegant, welcoming Clubhouse where you can reconnect with alums in NYC. Remember to also join Sarah Lawrence when we host special networking nights and other social engagements at the PCNY, where alumni can connect and share their collegiate experience in the heart of New York City.
Discover more at www.princetonclub.com/join or call 212.596.1240.
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Charles Stinchfield Scholarship Fund Established
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Sarah Lawrence College is pleased to announce the Charles Stinchfield Scholarship Fund established by an anonymous donor in honor of her grandfather. Charles Stinchfield was born in Lincoln, Maine in 1847 and died in Pasadena, CA. in 1918. It was his hard work that has made this gift possible. The fund will provide one scholarship annually to a student from Maine, Michigan, Oregon or California (states where he lived), who demonstrate financial need and display the characteristics of hard work, dedication, love of learning and culture, which reflect Charles Stinchfield's values.
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SLC Swimmers Honored
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Following the conclusion of the 2014 Hudson Valley Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Swimming Invitational, the league announced the members of 2014 All-HVIAC Swimming Team. Sarah Lawrence College swimmers Alexis Bates '15, Colette Harley '17 and Gabby Risica '17 were among the nine women honored by the league.
In other news, Sarah Lawrence College men's basketball trounced Pratt Institute, 78-32, in a Hudson Valley Intercollegiate Athletic Conference game at the Pratt ARC. Four Gryphons scored in the double digits!
See SLC Gryphons Web Site
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Someday My Prince Will Come
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You could be waiting forever to think about a planned gift for Sarah Lawrence. Instead, find out how to make it happen. It's easier than you think.
Contact Dorea Ferris, Director of Gift Planning, at (914)395-2543 or dferris@sarahlawrence.edu with any questions you might have.
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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.
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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Great Caesar's music video Don't Ask Me Why, made by several SLC alumni, got 150,000 views in its first week on Youtube. The video was directed by Doug McGinness '10, Cohlie Brocato '11 served as Director of Photography, Alex Shifman '12 was Fight Choreographer. Kate Montgomery and Chris Johnson worked on the video as well. UPDATE: Hannah Rothfield '11 did the Production Design for this video.
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Writer/Director Rachel Feldman '76 has written and is producing a feature film based on the life of Lilly Ledbetter, the woman for whom President Obama named The Fair Pay Act. Cathy Schulman, Academy Award winning producer of "Crash" and Mandalay Pictures is executive producing.
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Elise DuRant's (SLC '98) debut feature film,Edén, made its world premiere at the International Film Festival at Rotterdam. Edén is fiscally sponsored by New York Foundation for the Arts, a New York State Council on the Arts Individual Artist Grant recipient, a Gabriel Figueroa Film Fund recipient, supported by Women Make Movies, and was selected for the Morelia Film Lab 2011. Elise has been an integral part in the editing of feature films for such notable filmmakers as Spike Lee and Woody Allen—a supporter of Edén.
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Dr. Joseph Shrand's ('80) book, Outsmarting Anger, is up for an award at the 18th Annual Books for a Better Life, honoring the best self-improvement books of 2013.
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Click here for more information on alumni news
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