The Bryn Mawr Club of New York City

July 2006 E-Letter

Our apologies for the late distribution of this e-letter due to vacation time at the Alumnae Association.

Bryn Mawr Club of New York City Salutes

• Bryn Mawr 2005 Tony Award Winners

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BMC Connections

• Buff Those Skills, Build that Résumé
• Bryn Mawr Book Club (July 12)

Personals

• Summer rental in the Berkshires
• Manhattan sublet starting August 15

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Bryn Mawr Club of New York City Salutes

Bryn Mawr 2005 Tony Award Winners

The Bryn Mawr Club of New York City would like to recognize the Mawrtyrs who made a fine showing at the 2005 Tony Awards. Sarah Jones was awarded a Special Tony Award for her one-woman show Bridge and Tunnel, playing at the Helen Hayes Theater (extended through August 6—see it while you can!). Lynne Meadow, '68, Artistic Director of the Manhattan Theatre Club, was party to seven Tony nominations, including the winner of the award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play, Cynthia Nixon for Rabbit Hole, of which Lynne was a producer. Congratulations Lynne and Sarah!

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BMC Connections

Buff Those Skills, Build that Résumé

We want you to be proud when you see Club communications or look at the Club website (possibly with a non-alumna/us looking over your shoulder). Over the past year and a half we have worked to professionalize our mailings to you. The Club has the most active communications program of Bryn Mawr alumnae clubs and is the envy of all the other clubs, not to mention some other Seven Sister clubs, as well (a Mount Holyoke grad’s jaw hit the floor when she saw a Club e-letter).

As the Club as a whole continues to become more active, we need a greater generation of IT-skilled alumnae to take this campaign to a higher level. We need more capacity for basic communications— writing with a bit of journalism thrown in (grammar nudges welcome). We need to overhaul the Club web site—it should be eye-popping and fully functional; as cool as we are.

In individual alumna terms, we need the following:

• Two alumnae for writing/editing/proofing,
• Three with HTML code writing skills (one of whom has FTP access during the workday),
• A lead designer with Photoshop skills, plus
• Two more designer types with graphic design skills and an understanding of web page layout.

Not only is this going to be fun, this is going to be worth putting on your résumé. If this sounds like a good opportunity for you, write Kristen Burton Steiner, ’85, on bmc_club_of_nyc@hotmail.com. We plan to constitute the new Communications Committee by the end of July.

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Bryn Mawr Book Club

On Wednesday, July 12, the Bryn Mawr Book Club will discuss The Intuitionist by Colson Whitehead.

From "Thumper," AALBC.com:

The August meeting, date TBA, will discuss August Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See.  Elizabeth Holloway, robinsonholloway@gmail.com.

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Personals

From Kim Hauser Trigoboff, ‘85
Summer Rental in the Berkshires
Our lovely, 2-bedroom cottage on Richmond Pond, with shared lake access for boating/fishing, is available to rent by the weekend, week or longer from July to October.   You can take advantage of the proximity of Tanglewood (summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra), Jacob's Pillow, the Berkshire Theater Festival, Williamstown, and myriad other cultural and natural attractions of the Berkshires and Columbia County, New York.  The cottage can sleep as many as seven, linens/dishes provided.  Please e-mail Kim at kimtrigoboff@aol.com for more information. 

From Gemma Lee, '93
Manhattan sublet near Battery Park City available August 15 onward, a large alcove studio in a luxury 24-hour doorman building. Furnished/unfurnished per your preference. Checkout the "01" line floorplan at: http://ocean1west.com/floorplans.asp (displays 1-BR floorplan only - the studio floorplan is approx. the left 1/2 portion of the plan displayed).  The current lease ends October 31, 2006 if you're interested in renting the space permanently. The current rent is approx. $2,214.50 per month plus telephone, DSL ($30/m) and TV cable ($30/m).  If interested, please write Gemma on yumyumgem@gmail.com

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THE BMC OF NYC E-LETTER
The Bryn Mawr Club of New York City E-letter is submitted to the Alumnae Association for distribution on the first business day of each month. Items for the e-letter should be submitted to the e-mail address below by the 27th of the prior month. If you have news to share with the New York City BMC alumnae community, if you would like to have information about an upcoming event included, or if you just have a question for the Club, please contact us at bmc_club_of_nyc@hotmail.com. For address changes, go to http://www.brynmawr.edu/alumnae/updates.htm.