March 2009 E-Letter

Bryn Mawr Club of New York City Events

• Not-For-Profit & Public Service Career Fair at Columbia University with the Participation of the Bryn Mawr-Haverford Bi-College Career Development Office (March 6)
• A Wealth of Innovation: German and Austrian Design from 1890 to 1940, a Tour of the Cooper-Hewitt Museum and Neue Galerie with Lucille Blair, '76 (March 21)
• Young Alumnae Early Spring Happy Hour at Pete's Tavern (March 26)

Bryn Mawr Club of New York City Connections

• Rebecca Kelly Teen Company Performs at Kids Café Festival 2009 (March 8)
• Seven Sisters Connection: Networking Happy Hour for Seven Sisters Alumnae hosted by Barnard Business & Professional Women (March 10)
• Seven Sisters Connection: An Evening with National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist Paula Giddings, hosted by the Smith College Club of New York City (March 11)
• The Bryn Mawr Book Club Discusses Matrimony by Joshua Henkin (March 18)

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Bryn Mawr Club of New York City Events

Not-For-Profit & Public Service Career Fair at Columbia University with the Participation of the Bryn Mawr-Haverford Bi-College Career Development Office, March 6

Contemplating a career that combines intellectual and personal challenge with civic engagement? Follow your passion. Leave your mark. Explore opportunities in public service at a Not-For-Profit Career Fair hosted by Columbia University with the participation of the Bi-College Career Development Office. Speak with representatives from more than 80 not-for-profit and public service organizations, foundations, and agencies focusing on the environment, human rights, education, the arts, leadership, health care, and more. Find out how each organization recruits for positions ranging from internships for students to full-time opportunities for those with advanced degrees.

This event is not open to the public. You must be a student or alum of a participating school in order to attend. Please print out and bring along this newsletter in order to enter the fair. For more information about the fair, visit the Career Development Office website at http://cdoapps.haverford.edu/resources/events/index.php?gid=1 or contact the Career Development Office by telephone at 610-526-5174.

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A Wealth of Innovation: German and Austrian Design from 1890-1940
A Tour of the Cooper-Hewitt Museum and Neue Galerie with Lucille Blair, ’76, March 21

Eminent art consultant Lucille Blair, ’76, will lead a group of Bryn Mawr alumnae and friends through the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum and Neue Galerie for a breathtaking survey of German and Austrian design from 1890 to 1940, an era of phenomenal artistic and aesthetic innovation.

The tour will begin at the Cooper-Hewitt, which showcases the Smithsonian Institution’s vast collection of historic and contemporary design in a sixty-four-room mansion located along New York City’s Museum Mile that was once home to industrial magnate and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. We will explore the Cooper-Hewitt’s European Modernist collection, paying special attention to works by German and Austrian artists and designers of the period. The tour will then move a few blocks south down Fifth Avenue to the former home of Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt III, which today houses Neue Galerie, a museum devoted to early twentieth-century German and Austrian art and design. With Lucille’s guidance, we will discover how modernist German and Austrian art and design embraced a soaring range of aesthetic interests and cultivated a special relationship between the fine and decorative arts. Following the tour, participants will convene at Neue Galerie’s Café Sabarsky, an elegant café inspired by the great Viennese coffeehouses that served as centers of intellectual and artistic life in turn-of-the-century Europe.

Lucille Blair, ’76, began her career at Christie’s and has over eighteen years of fine art and business experience. Lucille is a marketing and art consultant for corporations and cultural institutions, ranging from Sotheby’s to the Fine Arts Fund of Cincinnati and the Museum for African Art. A long-time resident of New York, Lucille has a keen understanding and love of the city. Through her well-informed insights and extraordinary experience, she is able to offer tour participants new perspectives on and unparalleled access to the many layers of New York City’s art world. To learn more about Lucille, click here.

The tour will be limited to 12 participants. Please RSVP to Kristen Steiner, ’85, at kristenbsteiner@gmail.com.

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Young Alumnae Early Spring Happy Hour at Pete’s Tavern, March 26

Join Bryn Mawr Young Alumnae for an early spring happy hour at the warm and welcoming Pete’s Tavern! Enjoy conversation and refreshment as we return to this historic establishment for a drink, a bite, and an evening of networking with fellow alumnae!

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Bryn Mawr Club of New York City Connections

Rebecca Kelly Teen Company Performs at Kids Café Festival 2009, March 8

Rebecca Kelly Teen Company, part of the Rebecca Kelly Dance Company founded by Rebecca Kelly, ’73, performs for the third year at Kids Café Festival, a program of Dancewave, Inc., a not-for-profit arts and education organization that offers young people of all ethnicities and economic backgrounds unique exposure to a world-class level of performing arts study and a multitude of cultures from their local communities and around the world. The theme of Kids Café Festival 2009 is “Embracing Arab and Israeli Cultures Through Music and Dance.” The festival features performances by more than 200 young dancers from the New York City area and special guest performances by members of the Ensemble of the Israeli Dance Institute.

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Seven Sisters Connection: Networking Happy Hour for Seven Sisters Alumnae hosted by Barnard Business & Professional Women, March 10

Whether you are new in town, looking to enhance your professional network, want to discuss your job search, or would just like to connect with other business and professional women, join fellow Seven Sisters alumnae at this networking happy hour hosted by Barnard Business & Professional Women. Get yourself and your business card out there and enjoy drink specials at the cash bar ($5 martinis & margaritas, $4 draft beers, $6 bistro wines). Register early at http://tinyurl.com/bbpwnetworking; a list of attendees will be provided for your networking purposes.

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Seven Sisters Connection: An Evening With National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist Paula Giddings, March 11

Paula Giddings, Professor of Afro-American Studies at Smith College, is a finalist for the upcoming National Book Critics Circle Award for her new book Ida: A Sword Among Lions, a moving biography of civil-rights and anti-lynching activist Ida B. Wells. Professor Giddings will focus her talks on how the struggle against lynching taught Wells to challenge Victorian notions and become a modern woman and activist. This event is sponsored jointly by the Smith College Club of New York City and Black Alumnae of Smith College.

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Bryn Mawr Book Club Discusses Matrimony by Joshua Henkin, March 18

On Wednesday, March 18, at 7:00 p.m., the Bryn Mawr Book Club will discuss Matrimony by Joshua Henkin (son of Alice Hartman Henkin, ’54). As a gesture to his mother’s alma mater, the author will be joining the Book Club’s discussion of his work to provide first-hand insight into the text. Matrimony, Henkin’s second novel, introduces readers to Julian Wainwright and Mia Mendelsohn, who meet in college, fall in love, and marry. The narrative chronicles career changes, family conflicts, betrayals, and successes and takes the reader on a journey that spans Ann Arbor, Michigan; Berkeley, California; Iowa City; and Greenwich Village. From a review of Matrimony published in Booklist:

Henkin builds a deeply affecting portrait of a marriage, tracing its evolution over the course of 20 years. In this heartfelt homage to the risks and rewards of marriage, Henkin never artificially amps up his material, instead allowing the quiet accumulation of his characters’ shared experiences to create for his readers a world they will recognize and relate to.

Even if you can't attend the Bryn Mawr Book Club meeting, reading suggestions are always welcome - just send an email to Elizabeth Holloway, robinsonholloway@gmail.com. You can also visit the Club's website at: http://www.alumnae.brynmawr.edu/newycclub/events/bookclub.html, and see the Book Club's upcoming selections.

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