Events Calendar

Annual Meeting

TheCulture Center
410 Columbus Avenue, between 79th and 80th Streets

Tuesday Evening, May 18th, 2004
6:00 - Refreshments
6:30 - Club Business

Keynote Speaker: Julie Beckman, ‘95

All New York City alumnae/i are cordially invited to the Annual Meeting of the Bryn Mawr Club of the City of New York.

Ann Schack ’49 and Susan Bixby Barron ’60, Co-Chairs of the Fundraising Committee, will announce revised plans for the new bookstore.

Club President Lisa Tomeny, ‘91, will summarize the year’s activities and present for confirmation the slate of nominees for various board positions.

Following the business meeting, Nora Lavori, ‘71, Trustee of Bryn Mawr College and gracious host of the Annual Meeting, will introduce our keynote speaker Julie Beckman, ‘95.

Julie Beckman, along with partner Keith Kaseman, designed the 9/11 memorial for the Pentagon. Composed of one-hundred eighty-four benches, each cantilevered over its own reflecting pool, the monument will honor the memories of the victims aboard the hijacked American Airlines Flight 77 which crashed into the Pentagon, and those of the people who were killed inside the Pentagon on September 11, 2001. Maple trees, which will provide shade in summer and retain their foliage in winter, will adorn the structure.

Julie Beckman and Keith Kaseman were working at separate architectural firms in New York City when they submitted their proposal for the 9/11 Pentagon memorial. As finalists, they formed their own partnership KBAS. When their design won the competition, they moved KBAS to Alexandria, Virginia, so they could supervise construction of the memorial, which is to begin later this year.

“ We hoped to inscribe in the earth the magnitude of what happened there that day, and in that inscription, we wanted to tell a story of who these individuals were,” according to Julie Beckman. “We wanted to invite personal interpretation, not tell the visitor what to think or how to feel.” Julie Beckman will discuss the creative process of commemorating those who lost their lives at the Pentagon that fateful day, September 11, 2001.

Please join us.