June 2006 E-Letter
Bryn
Mawr Club of New York City Events
- Bryn Mawr Professor Elliott Shore addresses the Bryn Mawr
Club of New York City (June 7)
BMC
Connections
- NY Writers Coalition Write-A-Thon (June 3)
- Bryn Mawr Book Club (June 15)
Personals
- House for one-year lease available in August, Maplewood, NJ
- Room in two-person apartment available in August, East
Williamsburg
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Bryn Mawr Club of New York City Events
Professor Elliott Shore
addresses the Bryn Mawr Club of New York City on
Teaching and Learning at
Today's Bryn Mawr: Blending
together traditional and new technologies
To Marianne Rutter, ’74, former President of the Alumnae
Association, he “really ‘gets it.’” For Rhonda Newton, ’90, his “mini
class…made me want to go back to college!” Megan Mendillo, ’01, writes
that, “The
genuine intellectual curiosity that he exhibited and fostered in his
class has
had a lasting effect on me.” And Elizabeth Brettschneider, ’01, an
immigration
attorney, says “I can honestly say that his class inspired me in
my career
choice, and for that I will always be grateful.”
Professor Elliott
Shore has had a
powerful influence
on Bryn Mawr students, alumnae, and the College itself. As Constance A.
Jones
Director of Libraries and Professor of History and as Chief Information
Officer
of Bryn Mawr College, he understands and leads the College in, as
Marianne
Rutter, ’74, puts it, “how the printed word is changing in ways
that make
traditional notions of library and archive at once both obsolete AND
perhaps
the most exciting arena for growth in today's academic environment.” Click
here to read the full quotes from alumnae about Professor
Shore and then RSVP
now; space is limited, so please respond soon.
| WHAT: |
Professor Elliott Shore addresses
the Bryn Mawr Club of New York City |
| WHEN: |
Wednesday, June 7
7:00 p.m. |
| WHERE: |
Home of Denise Hurley
830 Park Avenue, #10A
New York, NY 10021 |
RSVP
Required:
Space Limited
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mratnesar@hotmail.com
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BMC
Connections
NY Writers Coalition Write-A-Thon
From
Deborah Chadwick Clearman, '72, Program Director of
the NY Writers Coalition:
A reminder that the NY Writers Coalition will hold its first
ever Write-A-Thon at the Bowery Poetry club to
benefit the Coalition’s unique and powerful creative writing
program. 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 other. For
more
information go to www.nywriterscoalition.org/writeathon.htm.
| WHAT: |
NY Writers Coalition Write-A-Thon |
| WHEN: |
Saturday June 3
10:30 a.m.–6:00 p.m., followed by after-party 6:00-7:00 p.m. |
| WHERE: |
The Bowery Poetry Club
309 Bowery
New York, NY 10012 |
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Bryn Mawr Book Club
On Thurday, June 15, Bryn Mawr Book Club will discuss The
Plot Against America by Philip Roth.
Jana L.
Perskie writing
on mostlyfiction.com:
Alternate history, is the
exercise of looking at the past
and asking "what if?" What if some major historical event had gone
differently? How might the world have been changed? Ultimately,
alternate
history is the road not taken. Philip Roth's novel, The Plot Against
America,
is based on the premise that in the 1940 U.S.
presidential election, last minute Republican candidate Charles Lindbergh defeats
Franklin
Delano
Roosevelt. Imagine!! Roth, the author, has imagined, and his result
is both
brilliant and mind boggling—an extraordinary, bone chilling story,
beautifully
written. This is, at least partially, an autobiographical novel. The
subject is
fear—fear and anxiety so sharp the reader can smell it, almost taste
it—a boy's
fear, and that of the Roth family's of Newark,
NJ,
their neighbors' and community's. It is also a love story. I have
rarely read
fiction where the writer pours so much love onto the page—especially
for his
parents and brother. Herman Roth, Philip's father, is the book's hero,
and Bess,
his mother shines as the ultimate Jewish heroine, "whose worth is far
above rubies."
| WHAT: |
Discussion of The
Plot Against America by Philip Roth |
| WHEN: |
Thursday, June 15
7:00 p.m. |
| WHERE: |
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 July meeting will be Wednesday, July 12, to discuss The
Intuitionist by Colson Whitehead. Elizabeth
Holloway, robinsonholloway@gmail.com.
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Personals
From Melissa
Paolella, '93:
House for rent,
Maplewood, NJ
(New York City Area) Available August 1
(flexible), One year lease, rent $3,200 (negotiable). Four bedroom,
1.5 bath Colonial with all mod cons and 2 1/2 car garage. Located in
Tuscan
elementary school district in Maplewood, 10 minute walk to NYC train
(35 minute
direct ride to Midtown), or 5 minute ride on "Jitney" shuttle bus
that picks up right across the street. It’s only a short walk to
quaint,
historic downtown Maplewood,
which,
if you're not familiar with it, is a diverse community, with a town
center,
very popular with "city people.” Possibility of fully or partially
furnished rental, pets considered with deposit. Click
here for full description.
From Kim Newman, ’98:
I have a room available in a three-bedroom apartment as of
August 1 in East Williamsburg, rent $950 plus
utilities.
This is a cozy and somewhat newly refurbished apartment with two
bathrooms. I currently
share the space with one other and would like to continue to do so. We
each get
a bedroom, a bathroom, and a shared office space (or in other words,
room to
stretch out). Click
here for more information.
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