February 2008
E-Letter
Play It By Ear Benefit
Canceled
- Bryn Mawr Club of
New York City Events
-
Young Alumnae Happy Hour (February 21)
- The Bryn Mawr Book Club discusses
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry (February
21)
Bryn Mawr
Connections
Announcements
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Benefit Canceled
We regret to tell you
that the Play
It By Ear benefit that was scheduled
for February 27 has been canceled. We received several
large contributions for the evening–one for $1,000
and several for $500–but sadly not enough
people planned to attend. Despite an
intensive e-mail and telephone campaign beginning
just after Christmas, by February 1 we had met less than 50
% of our projected attendance numbers. But
the Bryn Mawr Club of New
York City will carry on the work
of raising funds for our activities and for scholarships
at the college. We shall plan and
proceed with another benefit in the future, and we
look forward to your support then.
Kristen and Virginia
are most grateful for the support
and cooperation we did receive. And
to those who mailed checks or whose “checks are
in the mail,” all are being returned.
Indeed, your checks and our thanks are back in
the mail to you. Thank you. | |
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Bryn
Mawr Club of New York City Events
Young Alumnae Happy
Hour
Take the edge
off the winter chill and join the Bryn Mawr College Young
Alumnae for a happy-hour meet n’ greet at historic Pete’s
Tavern, New York City’s oldest continually operating bar. Come
see where O. Henry wrote The Gift of the Magi, and where Miranda
Hobbs of HBO’s Sex and the City proposed to Steve…
Friends, co-workers, significant
others welcome!
| WHAT: |
Young Alumnae Happy Hour
(Classes of 1997-2007) |
| WHEN: |
Thursday, February 21
6:30-8:30 p.m. |
| WHERE: |
- Pete's Tavern
- 129 East 18th Street (one
block from Gramercy Park)
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Tel: 212 473 7676
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www.petestavern.com |
- RSVP:
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- By February 14 to Liana
Sterling, Young Alumnae
Rep
- Liana.Sterling@gmail.com
- 917-362-5827s
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Bryn
Mawr Book Club On Thursday, February 21, the
Book Club will discuss Lonesome Dove by
Larry McMurtry. From
Amazon.com :
Larry McMurtry, in books like The Last Picture
Show, has depicted the modern degeneration of the myth of
the American West. The subject of Lonesome
Dove, cowboys herding cattle on a great trail-drive,
seems like the very stuff of that cliched myth, but McMurtry
bravely tackles the task of making meaningful literature out
of it. At first, the novel seems like the kind of
anti-mythic, anti-heroic story one might expect: the main
protagonists are a pair of drunken and
inarticulate former Texas Rangers turned horse
rustlers. Yet when the trail begins, the story picks up
an energy and a drive that makes heroes of these
men. Their mission may be historically insignifcant or
pointless—McMurtry is smart enough to address both
possibilities—but there is an undoubted valor in their
lives. The result is a historically aware, intelligent,
romantic novel of the mythic west that won the 1986
Pulitzer Prize for fiction.
WHAT:
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Discussion of Lonesome
Dove by Larry McMurtry |
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WHEN: |
Thursday, February 21
7:00 p.m. |
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WHERE:
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Home of Jim Kafadar and Elizabeth
Holloway
350 Bleecker Street, Apt
6E (between Charles and 10th Street)
(ring buzzer no.35 if doorman is on
break)
New York, NY 10014
212 645
2737
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Even if you can't attend Bryn Mawr Book
Club, reading suggestions are always welcome—just send an
email to Elizabeth Holloway,
robinsonholloway@gmail.com
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Bryn Mawr
Connections
Rebecca Kelly
Ballet Teen Company: "Making the Band" at Kids Cafe Festival,
Brooklyn
The Rebecca Kelly Teen Company
premieres "Making the Band," a non-stop, fast-paced,
funkadelic, hip-hoppish spoof of rock icons, set to
Israeli rap music, satirizing reality TV shows such as So
You Think You Can Dance and Making the
Band. This is the Teen Company's second
annual appearance at the Kids Cafe Festival which features
performances by 200 young dancers representing 20 different
dance groups.
| WHAT: |
Rebecca Kelly Ballet Teen
Company: "Making the Band" at Kids Cafe
Festival |
| WHEN: | Sunday, February
10
3:00 p.m. |
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WHERE: |
- Kumble Theater, Long Island
University
- Dekalb and Flatbush Avenue
- Brooklyn,
NY
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| HOW MUCH: |
$20 adults, $12 children 12 and
under |
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FOR TICKETS AND
INFO:
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Contact the LIU Kumble
Theater box office at
718-448-1624.
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Announcements
Call For Volunteers For
Communications Committee
We need you! The Bryn Mawr Club of New York City is
looking for a few good women to help with the continuing
development of the Club’s communications program. We are
especially in need of IT-savvy alumnae with graphic and web
design skills to help overhaul the Club website. We are
also looking for individuals who know how to write in HTML
code to assist with producing the monthly e-letter. (Having
FTP access would be a big plus.) Not only will this be
fun, it will also look good on your résumé. If you are
interested in joining our merry band, please contact Bonnie
Walker ’91 at bhwalker3@gmail.com .
Call For Volunteers For Career
Committee
The Club seeks alumnae to get involved
with career development among alumnae and students! You will
work closely with the current Career Development
Representative, Maria Agostinelli, '86, as well as the Bryn
Mawr Career Development office to plan and participate in
career network events and programs in New York City throughout
the year. If interested, please contact Maria at maria.agostinelli@gmail.com.
Position
Available
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Red Tree Consulting, Inc., a small
consulting firm located in New York City, seeks a senior
accounting analyst.
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For more information or to submit
your resume, contact Adam Jacobson, Haverford '89, at adam@redtree.com
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