January 2007 E-Letter
Bryn
Mawr Club of New York City
Events
- Jumpstart your Career
Search (January 23)
Bryn
Mawr Club of New York City
Events on the Horizon
- Evening with New York Times Reporter on Iraq Robert F.
Worth (February 27)
- Gala Fundraising Party and Auction (April 2007)
Board of Directors: 2007
Candidates–Volunteers and Nominations
Bryn
Mawr Connections
- Bryn Mawr Book Club (January 18)
- An Exhibit through a Curator’s Eyes (Seven Sisters
Connection) (January 30)
Personals
Alumnae
Offer Housing Opportunities:
- Cape Cod Cottage, June and August
- New York City pied à terre, January through March
- Brooklyn apartment sublet from March
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Bryn
Mawr Club of New York City
Events
Jumpstart
Your Career Search 2007
Presenting Jumpstart Your Career Search for
those you who
would like to review your resumes, discuss job searching ideas,
interviewing
techniques, and networking know-how. Please bring your resumes
and talk with Maria Agostinelli, '86, Vice President in Staffing at
U.S. Trust, and
other alumnae about how to get your career search off to a strong start
in
2007. RSVP early—seating is limited.
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WHAT:
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Jumpstart Your Career Search Panel Discussion
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WHEN:
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Thursday, January 23
6:30 p.m.-8:00 p.m.
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WHERE:
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U.S. Trust
114 West 47th Street
New York, NY 10036 |
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RSVPs:
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Required by Friday, January 19
Maria Agostinelli at maria.agostinelli@gmail.com
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COST:
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$10.00 for alumnae 1996-2006, $15 for others
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Bryn
Mawr Club of New York City
Events on the Horizon
Reporting from Baghdad
Reporter Robert F. Worth has been covering Iraq
for The New York Times since
2003 and has also written for publications such as The New York Review of
Books. Save the date of February 27
to join him in conversation at The
Culture Center on the Upper West Side. Additional details will follow in
the Bryn Mawr Club of New York City e-letter.
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WHAT:
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Reporting from Baghdad with Robert F. Worth of The New
York Times
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WHEN:
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Tuesday, February 27
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WHERE:
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The Culture Center
410 Columbus Avenue
New York, NY
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Additional details to follow in next
month’s e-letter
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Gala Fundraising Party and Auction
Tuesday, April 17, 2007
The Gala Auction Party at the Cosmopolitan
Club is
approaching. In April the Bryn Mawr community of New York will
gather for a fabulous party and maintain the momentum of the Club’s
fundraising efforts, including
establishing a New York City Bookshop/Bookspace to support the purposes
of the
Club and the College. The evening cocktail party will include a
live
auction (gaveled by a Sotheby’s auctioneer), a silent auction, and
other
entertainment.
Please think of what you can donate to make
live and silent auctions as successful as the last gala. In 2005
we offered a
wide selection of goods and services and we are now looking for items
with a realistic value of at least $100 that
people will compete to buy. We want: the Auction Gala to be an
event where people
know they will find interesting and useful items. Cool antiques,
desirable collectibles and clever, elegant accessories, exotic food and
wine, time slots at vacation homes, tickets to event, consulting
services and other talents, and
of course financial contributions are among the items we expect to
offer—use your imagination!
Donations are tax-deductible as provided by law.
To make a donation, please contact Tanya
Doughty Olyphant,
’70, Auction Chair, at tolyphant@aol.com
or 212 570 9885 for more
information
and a Donor Form. The donations are starting to come in, and we need
help from all hands to add treasure upon treasure. Tanya also
needs volunteers to help with preparations for the event; everyone had
a great time working to make the last gala success, and you can be part
of this great team as well.
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Board
of Directors: 2007
Candidates–Volunteers and Nominations
The Bryn Mawr Club of New York City
will be electing new members to its Board of Directors at the annual
meeting in
May. Serving on the Board gives you the opportunity to support
the
college and the Bryn Mawr community in New York
City.
Plus it is an opportunity to enjoy the company of other dedicated
Mawrtyrs—long-time
members of the Club and recent grads—and to welcome newcomers to New
York City.
The current Board hopes to nominate a slate that will
reflect the diversity of Bryn Mawr graduates, broaden the Club’s
outreach and
introduce new programs and activities while preserving fondly cherished
traditions. If you are interested in joining the Board, or if you
wish to
recommend one or more candidates for the Board, please contact Michelle
Scott
at mpcscott@aol.com
or
Kristen Steiner at kristenbsteiner@gmail.com.
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Bryn Mawr Connections
Bryn Mawr Book Club
Todd Pruzan lovingly adapted the Victorian writer Favell Lee
Mortimer’s writings that Book Club will discuss on January 18. See the following:
Edited Excerpt from Introduction to The
Clumsiest People in Europe:
Or, Mrs.Mortimer's Bad-Tempered Guide to the Victorian World:
It's 1855. Do you know where your
great-great-great-great-grandparents are? And more to the point: What's
their
problem? No matter where your ancestors had the misfortune of living—no
doubt smoking
too much, or taking snuff, or reading useless novels—Mrs. Favell Lee
Mortimer
had something nasty to say about them. Their issues, according to Mrs.
Mortimer, might have amounted to just about anything. The Irish "are
very
kind and good-natured when pleased, but if affronted, are filled with
rage." In Italy,
"the people are ignorant and wicked." In southern Sweden,
"the cottages are uncomfortable." For the better part
of the nineteenth century, Mrs. Mortimer
was something of a literary superstar to an impressionable audience,
both in
her native England
and beyond, never having gone abroad more than once, briefly, herself. Given her success at the
time, it's not impossible that your own elders were schooled in Mrs.
Mortimer's
pronouncements on the world's many filthy, wicked, heathen cultures.
| WHAT: |
Reactions to The Clumsiest People in
Europe: Or, Mrs.Mortimer's Bad-Tempered Guide to the Victorian World |
| WHEN: |
Thursday, January 18
7:00 p.m. |
| WHERE: |
Home of Jim Kafadar and Elizabeth Holloway
350 Bleecker Street, Apt 6E (ring buzzer no.35 if doorman is on break)
(between Charles and 10th Street)
New York, NY 10014
212 645 2737 |
The February
selection is The Lake, the River & the Other Lake by Steve
Amick,
date TBA.
Even if you can't attend Bryn Mawr Book Club, reading
suggestions are always welcome—just send me an email. Elizabeth
Holloway, robinsonholloway@gmail.com
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An Exhibit through a Curator’s Eyes (Seven Sisters
Connection)
Smith Club and Princeton Club of New York Co-Hosts
Bryn Mawr (and all Seven Sister) alumnae are invited by the
Smith Club to attend a talk and wine reception at the Grolier Club on
the Upper East Side. Jan
Carlson
Oresman, Smith ’55, will discuss the prints being shown in “Hot Off the
Press–Prints of 2006 from New York Printshops,” an exhibit she is
curating for
the Grolier Club, 47 East 60th Street. The exhibit, containing prints released
within 2006 by fifty-four artists from twenty printshops, surveys
today’s
printmaking and its span of subject matter, styles, and printing
processes both
innovative and time-honored. Each one was chosen for its own special
qualities
and for what it particularly tells us about current printmaking and how
each
artist has approached it.
“This exhibition views the most recent chapter in
printmaking in the New York
area,” Ms. Oresman comments. “It is an opportunity to see a wide array
under
one roof. It certainly whets my appetite
for the coming years as methods of reproducing images advance beyond
the
wildest dreams of the earliest printmakers.” In
addition to being a well-known art curator and advisor
to corporate
art collectors, Jan is a member of the Visiting Committee of the Smith
College
Museum of Art.
Bryn Mawr alumnae will pay $40 as non-member attendees, no
reservations required.
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An Exhibit through a Curator’s Eyes at the Grolier,
Smith/Princeton Club Event |
| WHEN: |
6:00 – 8:00 p.m.
Tuesday, January 30 |
| WHERE: |
The Grolier Club
47 East 60th Street
New York, NY 10022 |
| COST: |
$40 for talk and wine reception |
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Personals
From Jean Entwistle, ’55:
Cape Cod Cottage/complex
A beautifully restored, genuine antique (1820) cottage available in
early June and in August through Labor Day. The cottage sleeps a total
of three and has a guest house adjacent that sleeps an additional
three, all on one acre of tranquil land across a country lane from
Cotuit Bay. Photos available. This cottage is across the road from our
private residence and is offered at a very reasonable rate for quiet
occupancy. Air conditioned, washer/dryer, fully modernized. Use of
kayaks included. No pets please, references required. Contact Jean on
212 249 1555.
From Ethel Sussman, ’61:
Your New York City home away
from home: Newly redecorated beautiful and spacious 1-bedroom
apartment of Bryn Mawr alumna. Includes living room that can also sleep
two and kitchen with small dining area. Charming, historic building on
quiet, tree-lined street known as the best in Manhattan's East Village.
Very convenient to public transportation, shops, libraries,
universities, restaurants, theatres, parks. No smokers, no pets.
Available to rent for any part of January, February, March 2007. Rent
$600 weekly (negotiable for longer periods), fully furnished, linens
and dishes included. Email Ethel on ethelsussman@cs.com.
From Soledad Sklate, ’03:
Brooklyn sublet: I am
subletting my apartment for six months beginning March 2007. It is a
one junior bedroom, comfortable, furnished and in great condition, in
Prospect Heights, Brooklyn in a very nice, quiet area and very
convenient for transportation. Rent is $1150. Contact Soledad on yosole2003@yahoo.com or 718 938
9502.
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