Halloween

The calendar and the candy aisle of the drugstore are in agreement: Halloween is right around the corner.  What are you doing to celebrate? Tell us your best costume idea, post photos of your costume (or your kids’), and get ideas for dressing up on the One Mead Way Halloween page.

Reunion 2008 is not as far away as you might think. Now’s your chance to get involved—you can suggest a seminar topic or volunteer to help by sending us an e-mail, or start reconnecting with your classmates on the Reunion message boards.

SLC Presidents Quiz

In our last issue, we offered Amazon gift certificates to three people who got all the correct answers to our presidential trivia quiz.  Apparently our trivia was a little too… trivial, because none of our readers earned a perfect score.  No matter.  We drew names from the pool of everyone who participated and awarded prizes to Laura Matthew-Thompson ’76, Gillian Culff ’88, and Samantha Hinds ’06. (See? Participation counts!) Maybe next time we’ll do an essay question instead…

See the correct answers

Associates Party

The Fund for Sarah Lawrence Associates party took place on September 24 at the home of trustee Ellen Flamm ’59, celebrating the generosity of donors who gave $1,000 or more to the Fund for Sarah Lawrence in 2006-07. This year also marked the start of a new tradition—recognizing donors who have given to the Fund for five or more consecutive years at any level.

In addition to standard party activities, writing faculty member Carolyn Ferrell ’84 read her funny and heartbreaking essay, "Endless Summer Job," which was published in the New York Times magazine in August.

Citation Awards

Know any SLC alums who deserve an award? Nominate them for one! SLC will present citations for achievement and service at Reunion 2008. You can nominate someone by filling out our handy online forms.

Career Connections

If you need some extra help around the office (who doesn’t?) you can post a job on One Mead Way.

Or, impart your wisdom on impressionable young minds by volunteering to mentor an alum who’s interested in your field.

More Career Connections»

It’s October, and change is in the air. Though it was 85 degrees last weekend in Bronxville, the weather is finally cooling off. Sweaters and boots are coming out of hiding. And at Sarah Lawrence, we officially have a new president. Things are looking good.

SLC Celebrates Inauguration

Last Friday, under the tent on Westlands Lawn, Karen Lawrence was inaugurated as the tenth president of Sarah Lawrence College.

Delegates representing 83 colleges and universities joined approximately 700 members of the College and surrounding communities, as well as other friends, to celebrate the occasion.

The festivities kicked off Thursday evening, with a musical welcome to President Lawrence performed by music faculty, students, and guests.

In addition to the ceremony itself, Friday’s events included a “New York street fair” style luncheon, a symposium on the role of liberal arts education in today’s fractious world (presenters included two SLC alums and two other college presidents), and a formal dance featuring Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings.

Visit the Inauguration Web site to read more about the events, download video and audio clips, and read Lawrence’s speech. Check back next week for even more coverage.

Inaugural Year Events

The fun of inauguration didn’t end when the band left Friday night. The College will host a variety of events throughout the academic year to keep the celebration going. The first two are coming up this month:

• Carolyn Brown
  Chance and Circumstance: Twenty Years with Cage and Cunningham

  Monday, October 15
  3:45 - 8:45 p.m.
  Bessie Schonberg Dance Theatre

  Dancer Carolyn Brown and Sarah Lawrence faculty discuss visionaries in 20th century art with discussions, performances, and films about Merce Cunningham and John Cage. Learn more

• The Helen Merrell Lynd Colloquium:
  A Celebration of the Life and Work of Jean Baker Miller '48

  Wednesday, October 24
  4 p.m.
  Donnelley Film Theatre, Heimbold Visual Arts Center
  
  

  Jean Baker Miller '48 was a noted psychoanalyst and author who profoundly affected the way psychology views women. Learn more

Get to Know...Brian Emery ’07

Brian Emery ’07 explains how to fake a motel room in your uncle’s basement and reveals other secrets of his short film, Contrition, which was recently featured at the Anthology Film Forum in N.Y.C. 

Read the profile or  view the trailer for Contrition.

Faculty on the Road

Should you get tested for genetic diseases? Human genetics faculty member Laura Hercher MS ’01 discussed the ethics of predictive testing at the first Faculty on the Road event of the year.  Beverly Haviland ’74 hosted the energetic group of Rhode Island alumnae/i on September 29. View photos

The following day, writing faculty member Joshua Henkin read the opening sentences of several works of fictions and had participants vote on which they liked best, leading into a discussion of plot in fiction. The event was held at the Connecticut home of Arthur and Teddy Edelman, both class of 1950 alums. View photos

There are lots of Faculty on the Road seminars
coming up—get in on the fun at an event near you.

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Searching by Location

Expand your searching powers and find alumnae/i in your town (or anywhere else, for that matter) with a location search.

Take the Find Alums by Location Tutorial

Alumnae/i Accomplishments

Alumnae/i are making waves in the world of theatre and literature this month.  Here’s just a sampling from the News and Announcements page:

In N.Y.C., Elyse Pasquale ’98 is producing her first off-Broadway play, "Die! Mommie! Die!" Nicole Betancourt ’90 and Bray Poor ’89 are working on a production of “MILK-N-HONEY,” a multimedia play about the politics and pleasures of eating, while the writing of Sally Jane Kerschen-Sheppard ’00 and Scott Ritter MFA ’04 is included in “Dancer For Money: An Evening of Ten Minute Plays.” Meanwhile, Marina Morrow ’99 will play Kate in "The Taming of the Shrew" in Springfield, Mass., beginning in November.

In the literary world, Dalia Sofer MFA ’02 has gotten excellent press for her novel, The Septembers of Shiraz, and Porochista Khakpour ’00 is on a national book tour to promote her novel, Sons and Other Flammable Objects. Plus, four art books by Claire Jeanine Satin ’56 were recently acquired by the Library of Congress, and her work will be exhibited at the Bridge Art Fair in London this month.

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