Committees and Groups...
Meet fellow alums with similar hobbies and interests. Check out these fun activities!
NETWORKING LUNCHEON
Share ideas and make new friends! Come join fellow alums for a delightful luncheon--see HOME page for event specifics.
YOUNG ALUMS (Classes '00-'10)!
Please email Gayla Burks and Isabel Lagdameo at youngalums@smithclubnyc.org to join the growing Young Alums Group. We have some exciting activities planned and would love to see you all there.
HANDICRAFTS
All novice as well as experienced knitters, crocheters, and crafters are welcome to join our group. Never knitted or crocheted? Come join and we can teach you. Please contact Ann Lemon at handicrafts@smithclubnyc.org for more information.
ADMISSIONS COMMITTEE
One of the most important and rewarding contributions alumnae can make to Smith is to get involved in the recruiting effort. If you are interested in working with other admissions volunteers to interview prospective students, attend events, or help with Smith book awards, please contact Lenore Cho and Frances Gutter Lisk at mailto:admissionscommittee@smithclubnyc.orgPlease include your name, telephone, e-mail, and your location preference (Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, or Staten Island). We look forward to hearing from you!
HOUSING COMMITTEE
The Housing Committee seeks volunteers who can house students or alumnae for one or two nights while they visit New York for interviews, apartment hunting, etc. Also, the committee has put together a brief guide on moving to New York for interns, new graduates, and relocating alums. If you have questions about housing a student/alum, or would like to volunteer, please sign-up on website homepage.
BOOK CLUB Date: Monday, July 26th , 2010 - 6:30 PM NEW DATE
Book: SO BIG by Edna Ferber - Pulitzer Prize 1925. Fran Vieta will lead the discussion Place/ RSVP Please goto Home Page 'Let Us Know' Box, select Other and ask for info
August 2010:No Meeting
Fall 2010 - dates to be determined Books: PRESENCES: A BISHOP'S LIFE IN THE CITY by Paul Moore and THE BISHOP'S DAUGHTER: A MEMOIR by Honor Moore. Erica Brewer will lead the discussion.
SUGGESTIONS FOR THE GROUP: - re refreshments : in an effort to minimize costs, the hostess will provide light drinks only; attendees are asked tp bring wine, other drinks and/or food; suggest they check with the hostess ahead of time to determine what to bring . Please check with Beth to see what to bring.
- in order to facilitate the discussion, when the usual notice is sent out, major questions or "themes" for discussion should be included for each selection - to give those who are attending time to think about these major issues. Will send these out separately.
3) SUGGESTIONS FOR FUTURE READING - Please come to the next meeting with suggestions for reading through the end of 2010 and into 2011.
- Nobel Prize winners / Pulitzer Prize winners
- memoirs and biographies: Vladimir Nabokov - "Speak Memory: An Autobiography Revisited"
- women authors - more Willa Cather, George Eliott
- mysteries Donna Leon - " Death at the Fenicia ;" read this with John Berendt "City of the Fallen Angels" John Grisham Agatha Christie - " Death on the Nile " or others
- miscellaneous William Faulkner, more of William Styron, J.D. Salinger, John Updike,"The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million" by Daniel Mendelsohn (recommended by Lois), "Women of the Silk" and "The Language of Threads" by Gail Tsukiyama, "The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon" by Richard Zimler (recommended by Juliana Roberts), "Uncle Tom's Cabin" by Harriet Beecher Stowe (recommended by Fran),"The Elegance of the Hedgehog " by Muriel Barbery and Alison Anderson (recommended by Marcia),"The Cradle " by Patrick Somerville (recommended by Christine)
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