Garnet Sages: Members gathered at the Highland Park Club in Lake Wales, Fla., Jan. 27-Feb. 2. This annual event gives vacationing Sages an opportunity to catch up with those living in the Lake Wales area.
New York: New York: More than 80 Swarthmoreans attended a Carnegie Hall concert by P.D.Q. Bach (aka Peter Schickele '57) in December. Peter attended a postconcert reception, organized by Regina Lambert '85. Area alumni toasted the new year at Wine Symposium X in January. This semiannual event was hosted by Don Fujihira '69 and David Wright '69. The Pig Iron Theater Company, a young alumni troupe, held a Connection reception in January after the New York premiere of their ensemble piece Dig or Fly. The group will return to Swarthmore this summer to create a new work. Also in January Richard Martin '67, curator of the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, led a sold-out private tour of the Christian Dior exhibit at the Met. New York Swarthmoreans gathered once again with Penel Owens Adelmann '66 at the 20 Mott Street Restaurant for a Chinese dinner in February. And the unlikely host Johnnie Walker featured Scotch whisky tasting at a reception for Tri-College alumni.
Los Angeles: Los Angeles: Robin Mamlet, the College's new dean of admissions, attended a reception with alumni and parents in November at the home of John '41 and Barbara Crowley. Robin is a California native and Occidental College graduate. During winter break in January, Jenny Rickard '86 coordinated a reception for the men's basketball team after their victory over Occidental. About 30 alumni, parents, and students attended. Mark Soper '77 invited Connection members to the premiere performance of his original play An Age of Angels in February.
Garnet Sages: Members are invited to join a Hudson River Valley tour, April 23-24, including a visit to Kykuit, the Rockefeller estate; Union Church with its Chagall and Matisse windows; the Pepsico Sculpture Gardens; Lyndhurst mansion; and Sunnyside, the home of Washington Irving.
Philadelphia: Following up on a festive skating party in February, Connection members can look forward to a city mural tour Saturday, April 5; a breakfast and tour of the Philadelphia Art Museum Sunday, April 27; a picnic in May; and a Habitat for Humanity volunteer project in late spring.
North Carolina: Save Sunday, March 16, for the PlayMakers' production of Molly Sweeney and a Triangle Connection reception following the performance, all at UNC at Chapel Hill.
Washington, D.C.: Theater of the First Amendment invites Connection members to a performance Saturday, March 29, of Things That Break, including a postperformance discussion with dramaturg Kristin Johnsen-Neshati '87. Serge Seiden '85 brings alumni to the Studio Theatre's highly acclaimed Love! Valour! Compassion! on Saturday, May 3.
Please contact Fran Cuneo, office manager of the Admissions Office, at (610) 328-8310, or e-mail fcuneo1@swarthmore.edu.
Laurels available ... Alumni are invited to make nominations for the 1997 Shane Award, named for the late Joseph B. Shane '25, who served Swarthmore as vice president for two decades. The award is presented at Alumni Weekend to an alum who has contributed outstanding service to the College. Please send nominations, preferably of graduates who will celebrate reunions in June 1997, to the Alumni Relations Office by Friday, Jan. 17.
Speech! Speech! There are several events each year where the College features thoughtful and articulate alumni as speakers. If you know a fellow graduate who is doing interesting work and could talk about it engagingly in public, the Alumni Relations Office would be happy to hear from you. You may remain anonymous if you wish!
The Crum Regatta doesn't count ... Did you belong to a crew club when you were at Swarthmore (or try to start one)? Do you know anyone in the Philadelphia area who has connections to such a club? Seth Garber '99 and other students are interested in starting a Swarthmore Crew Club. If you're able to provide assistance, please call Seth at (610) 690-5664 or e-mail him at sgarber1@swarthmore.edu.
Alumni visiting the campus this winter have been welcomed by a bright new face in Parrish 135. Katie Bowman '94 became assistant director of alumni relations in January. A native of Oak Park, Ill., she worked in arts administration in Chicago before assuming her new position. Her previous jobs included managing a community orchestra, writing grant proposals for a music school, serving as assistant to the Chicago Sinfonietta manager, and interning in public relations for a dance company.
Katie has been coordinator of volunteers and a child care worker at a group residence program and a tutor of adults in a program at Northwestern University.
An English literature major at Swarthmore, Katie played a leadership role in the restructuring of the Women's Resource Center and was a writing associate. During a semester in Grenoble, France, she sang at a bistro near the university.
Please stop by and meet Katie when you're back on campus.
A December reception in New York City honoring Helen F. North attracted many former students. Swarthmore's Department of Classics hosted the event, in cooperation with the Alumni Relations Office, to mark a major award to Professor North, the Centennial Professor Emerita of Classics. The American Philological Association (APA) presented her with its Distinguished Service Medal at its annual meeting.
Among those at the gathering was Helene Foley '64, the APA's president-elect and the fourth Swarthmorean to hold that office. Foley's predecessors were the late professor Lucius Shero; Martin Ostwald, the William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor Emeritus of Classics; and North.
At the reception David Schaps '67, chair of the Department of Classical Studies at Bar Ilan University in Israel and a former student of Ostwald's and North's, gave them copies of his Introductory Greek Book, which he dedicated to them. Also attending was Alan Shapiro '71, an expert on Greek vase painting, who is joining the Johns Hopkins faculty after chairing the Classics Department at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand.
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