September 1997

Recent Events

Alumni Council Members 1997-98

For the address or telephone number of any member of the Alumni Council, call the Alumni Office (610) 328-8402, or e-mail alumni@swarthmore.edu.

Officers of the Alumni Association

President: John A. Riggs '64 (Zone D)

President Designate: Elenor G. Reid '67 (Zone F)

Vice President: Richard R. Truitt '66 (Zone G)

Vice President: Betty Jo Matzinger Lash '87 (Zone D)

Secretary: Stratton C. Jaquette '66 (Zone G)

Members of Alumni Council

Zone A (Delaware, Pennsylvania)

Elizabeth Killackey '86*
Lansdowne, Pa.

Doris Morrell Leader '44
York, Pa.

Matthew R. Lieberman '95
West Chester, Pa.

Joseph M. Ortiz '72
Merion Station, Pa.

Jack Schecter '96
Quakertown, Pa.

Barbara Seymour '63
Moylan, Pa.

Anne Titterton '86
Philadelphia, Pa.

Peter R. Warrington '69*
Kingston, Pa.

Zone B (New Jersey, New York)

Penelope Owens Adelmann '66
Scarsdale, N.Y.

Andrew R. Feldman '96
New York, N.Y

J. David Gelber '63*
New York, N.Y.

Willa Freeman Grunes '47*
Ithaca, N.Y.

John W. Harbeson '60
Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y.

James A. Perkins '34
Princeton, N.J.

Robin M. Potter '72
Haddonfield, N.J.

Kenneth Reeves '88
White Plains, N.Y.

Harlan Stabler Sexton '79
City Island, N.Y.

Zone C (Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont)

Christine Frasch Caldwell '74
Stratham, N.H.

J. Andrew Daubenspeck '66
Lebanon, N.H.

Dean W. Freed '43
Acton, Mass.

Margaret D. Gold '95
Hartford, Conn.

John F. Leich '42*
Cornwall Bridge, Conn.

Ruth Jones McNeill '70*
Medford, Mass.

Zone D (District of Columbia, Maryland, Virginia)

Margery G. Dunn '63
Washington, D.C.

Catherine L. Fernandez '80*
Bethesda, Md.

Stephen L. Gessner '66*
Baltimore, Md.

Cynthia Norris Graae '62
Washington, D.C.

Anne Newman Hirshfield '70
Columbia, Md.

Barbara D. Merrill '69
Washington, D.C.

Andrew D. Pike '72
McLean, Va.

Zone E (Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, West Virginia, Wisconsin)

Diana Scott Beattie '56
Morgantown, W.Va.

Dagmar Strandberg Hamilton '53
Austin, Texas

Linda J. Lee '69
New Berlin, Wis.

Melissa Dietz Lojek '72
Grand Rapids, Mich.

Richard W. Mansbach '64*
Huxley, Iowa

Joanna Bailey Van Harn '88*
Grand Rapids, Mich.

Zone F (Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, territories, dependencies, and foreign countries)

Timothy M. Kuykendall '89*
Mooresville, N.C.

Eileen Nixon Meredith '65
Atlanta, Ga

Christine L. Moe '79
Atlanta, Ga.

Mark T. Shullenberger '72
Paris, France

Jean R. Sternlight '79
Tallahassee, Fla.

Elizabeth Pierce Swift '42*
Hilton Head, S.C.

Zone G (Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, Wyoming)

John B. Collins '59*
Seattle, Wash.

C. Geoffrey Davis '73
Burlingame, Calif.

Marian Westover Gade '56*
Kensington, Calif.

Joanna Dalrymple Stuart '55
Portland, Ore.

Member at Large

Cynthia A. Jetter '74
Philadelphia, Pa.

Connections Representatives

Chair of Connections: Don Fujihira '69, New York, N.Y.

Boston: Chair pending

Chicago: Chair pending

Los Angeles: Walter Cochran-Bond '70

Altadena, Calif.

New York: Jim DiFalco '82
New York, N.Y.

North Carolina: Priscilla Coit Murphy '67
Chapel Hill, N.C.

Paris: Chair pending

Philadelphia: Martha Salzmann Gay '79

Fort Washington, Pa.

San Francisco: Sohail Bengali '79

San Mateo, Calif.

Seattle: Deborah Read '87, Seattle, Wash

Washington, D.C.: Chair pending.

*Elected to Council in 1997

Recent Events

New York City: Thirty alumni followed David Wright '69 to the North Fork of Long Island for a day of history, geography, and wine. They picnicked at the home of Eric Bressler '72 and Gail Wickham '73 before touring Hargrave Vineyard. In the city Jim DiFalco '82 and Rachel Preiser '91 led a visit to the Metropolitan Museum's Cloisters.

Debbie Branker Harrod '89 and Team Swarthmore entered the "Race for the Cure" for breast cancer in Central Park in September.

Durham, N.C.: Triangle-area alumni gathered for a poolside potluck picnic, organized by Priscilla Coit Murphy '67 and George Telford '84.

Philadelphia: The Philly Connection returned to the Philadelphia Museum of Art to see a photography exhibit, "India: A Celebration of Independence, 1947&endash;1997."

Wickford, R.I.: The Pan-Twilight Circus attracted alumni from Rhode Island and southeastern Massachu-setts. Anne-Marie Atkinson '82, Celia Gelfman '82, and producer Tom Sgouros '82 invited alumni to a Shakespeare circus, Prospero's Magic Island, or A Tempest in a Big Top.

Seattle: Deborah Read '87 organized Seattle alumni into a trail maintenance work party on Cougar Mountain, one of the largest wildland parks in a U.S. urban area.

Upcoming Events

Philadelphia: Martha Saltzmann Gay '79 has sent out a full schedule, including tours of Dock Street Microbrewery and CoreStates Center and gardening in the city with the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society.

1997-98 ALUMNI EVENTS

Volunteer Leadership Weekend

September 19-20

Fall Weekend

October 24-26

Black Alumni Weekend

March 20-22

Alumni College

June 3-5

Alumni Weekend

June 5-7

Keep up with Swarthmore alumni through Connections Events

The Alumni Association wants to hear from you!

Please write to Jack Riggs '64, president, Swarthmore College Alumni Association, in care of the Alumni Office, 500 College Avenue, Swarthmore PA 19081-1397.

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