The Bryn Mawr Club of New York City
May 2006 E-LetterOur sincere apologies for the lateness of this e-letter. Bryn Mawr Club of New York City Events
Bryn Mawr Club of New York City Events on the Horizon
BMC Connections
Bryn Mawr Club of Connections on the Horizon
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------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Bryn Mawr Club of New York Annual Meeting The Bryn Mawr Club of New York City comes together on May 17 for its annual meeting. Please join us in welcoming Lynne Meadow, ’68, as she speaks about her voluminous experience as one of the most influential figures in American theater for more than 30 years. Lynne has been the Artistic Director of the Manhattan Theatre Club (MTC), one of Off-Broadway's most dynamic and award-winning theater companies since she arrived in New York at age 23 to make her way in theater. Over the years she has directed and/or produced more than 400 New York and world premieres for MTC. It has been an amazing journey, and it will be an enjoyable evening hearing the tales. Club business will include voting on the slate of Club officers for the coming year.
The following is a proxy ballot if you will not be able to attend the meeting. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Proxy Vote Form for Members Unable to Attend Annual Meeting PROXY for the Bryn Mawr Club of New York
These Board members will join, in continuing positions,
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on any other business that may properly come before the meeting or any continuation
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AND SEND TO: Please write PROXY on the envelope. DUES FORM The Bryn Mawr Club of New York City receives no financial support from the College or the Alumnae Association. We are entirely self-supporting and in fact exist to support the College. Please support the Club with your tax-deductible donation to support this newsletter, the monthly e-letter, and the many Club events to keep the Bryn Mawr community in New York City active, in touch and supporting Bryn Mawr College. Please fill out this form and return it to the address below: Name: _____________________________________________________________Class:_________ Address: ___________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________ Email address: __________________________________________________ Contribution: _____$25 _____ $50 _____ $75 _____ $100 _____Other Please mail with your contribution with this coupon to: The Bryn Mawr Club of New York City ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Tales From the Expat Harem: Foreign Women in Modern Turkey As the Western world struggles to comprehend the paradoxes of modern Turkey, a country both European and Asian, forward-looking yet rooted in ancient empire, a new nonfiction anthology promises to reveal its most personal nuances.
Please join us for an evening with the editors of Tales From the Expat Harem: Foreign Women in Modern Turkey on May 23 at 7:00 p.m. The editors of the book Anastasia M. Ashman, '86, and Jennifer Eaton Gökmen will lead a discussion touching on cultural affairs, travel, women's issues, the Mediterranean region and the Muslim world, and will sign copies of their book. Turkish snacks will be served. $15. Space is limited. To reserve your spot, email Magda Pecsenye '94 at magda.pecsenye@gmail.com or leave a message at 917-647-3405. To read (stellar) reviews of the book, check out the website at http://www.expatharem.com/.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Bryn Mawr Club of New York City Events On the Horizon The Bryn Mawr College Faculty Lecture Program: Professor Elliott Shore Join the New York Bryn Mawr community to welcome Professor Elliott Shore to New York City. Professor Shore teaches one or two courses each year for the department in his fields of interest, which are the history of advertising, of communications, and of radicalism. He is currently working on a comparative history of German and U.S. advertising between 1850 and 1920 as well as editing and translating a novel published in German in Philadelphia in 1850. An invigorating, exciting speaker, Professor Shore has a big following among undergraduates and graduates who have studied under him or heard him speak and he is at the crux of how teaching and learning methods have changed via technology. Come to be amazed and educated and meet one of Bryn Mawr’s favorite professors.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------ BMC Connections Bryn Mawr Book Club The next book club meeting is Thursday, May 18, to discuss I Claudius by Robert Graves. From Time Magazine’s All-Time 100 Book list on www.time.com: “Though he briefly became emperor, Claudius, the limping, stuttering grandson of Caesar Augustus, is not your usual Roman on a pedestal. Sly, even bitchy, an appalled observer of his treacherous times —in his voice you hear the worldliness of classical literature with none of its marble officialdom. A member of a ruthless and murderous imperial family, he survives because he seems to all around him the least consequential twig of the family tree. But Claudius bears enduring witness to a moment when the virtues of the Roman republic, which has already been disposed of by the time he begins his tale, are being lost to the bloodlusts and hubris of the Roman empire.—Richard Lacayo.” Most of us know this 1935 classic by Robert Graves via the 1976 BBC series, but discover just how good the book is.
The selection for June has been changed to 'The Plot Against America' by Philip Roth (date TBA) and the July selection is 'The Intuitionist' by Colson Whitehead, (date TBA). Elizabeth Holloway, erobinsonh@aol.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Bryn Mawr Club of New York City Connections on the Horizon From Deborah Chadwick Clearman, '72, Program Director of the NY
Writers Coalition: The NY Writers Coalition creates opportunities for formerly voiceless New Yorkers to be heard through the art of writing. The Coalition runs free writing workshops for the homeless and formerly homeless, at-risk and disadvantaged youth, the formerly incarcerated, residents of supportive housing, senior citizens, and others. Please join the coalition for an exciting, inspiring day of writing. How’s this as incentive to surmount writer’s block; create your own personal Write-A-Thon page and ask friends and family to donate in support of your day of writing. Writers of all genres and levels of experience are welcome—everyone has a voice and a story, and Write-A-Thon activities are geared for everyone. For more information go to www.nywriterscoalition.org/writeathon.htm
------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Personals From Fazana Saleem-Ismail '94: --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- THE BMC OF NYC E-LETTER |