Archive for 2008
Date: November 20, 2008
Time: 6-8 p.m.
Location: The Hampshire House, 84 Beacon St, Boston, MA
The Bryn Mawr Alumnae Association is honored to invite you to a reception at The Hampshire House to introduce you to President Jane Dammen McAuliffe on Thursday, November 20 from 6 – 8 pm.
The reception will include a faculty-student panel moderated by President McAuliffe. The reception will be held at The Hampshire House, 84 Beacon Street, Boston and the cost is $25 per person.
Please arrive promptly between 5:30 and 5:45 pm so that we can begin the program at 6:00 pm
5:30-5:45 pm Check-in at The Hampshire House
6:00 – 7:00 pm Program begins promptly with remarks by President McAuliffe, followed by a faculty-student panel moderated by President McAuliffe.
7:00 - 8:00 pm Wine reception with President McAuliffe
November 20 2008 | Lectures | No Comments »
Date: October 16, 2008
Time: 7:15 p.m.
The Bryn Mawr Club of Boston Book Group discussed The Jewish Policeman’s Union by Michael Chabon.
October 16 2008 | Book group | No Comments »
Date: September 25, 2008
Time: 7:15 p.m.
The Bryn Mawr Club of Boston Book Group discussed Ever Since Darwin by Stephen Jay Gould.
September 25 2008 | Book group | No Comments »
Date: September 12, 2008
Location: Old Frog Pond Farm, Harvard, MA
Thirteen was the lucky number of Mawrtyrs and companions who visited the idyllic orchard property of Linda Hoffman ’78, sculptress and orchard mistress, on a clement Saturday, September 12th. Linda studied Fine Arts under Fritz Janshka where she expressed her love of the circus and pantomime. Today we saw this love of humor and the fantastical in Linda’s sculptures as she guided us around the property and in her atelier, guarded by a welded circus lion hanging from a catalpa tree.
A tall wooden clown-like sentry with sliding-barn-door feet indicates the mossy way to the Sculpture Path featuring larger metal and wood sculptures by Linda and others. We circled the pond enjoying the quiet woods on one side and the waterlily-edged pond on the other. A favorite piece was three 20-foot high gleaming bone-white fish “luminaries” leaping on struts dramatically reflected in the water. Another was a landing seabird formed of wooden pieces perched over a pretty pattern of scum in an eddy near the little spillway. Old saws are featured in several pieces such as the “saw-toothed crane.” The Sculpture Path with signs and maps will be open until Columbus Day from 1-5 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday afternoons.
Linda has also produced books of photos of some of her wood-and-metal collages coupled with haiku-like poetry. She is also co-editor of Wild Apples a new Thoreau-inspired journal celebrating nature. Her sculptures have been exhibited at museums, gardens and parks throughout New England. In October, one of her tree harps will be installed at the Virginia Thurston Healing Garden in Harvard, a refuge and resource for people living with breast cancer.
For the seven years she has been in Harvard, Linda has lovingly restored the old orchard and farmhouse. Thanks to a meeting with a knowledgeable orchardist, she has created the only Pick-Your-Own organic orchard in Massachusetts. Her organic fruit is not cosmetically pristine, but the flavor is wonderful. “We have grown accustomed to perfect, unblemished apples,” says Linda, “but in Washington State where apples are grown in the desert, growers don’t have the same pressures found in New England orchards!” In recent years (since my childhood, in fact) I have seldom bitten into such a fine and crunchy MacIntosh, so unlike the leatherskinned pasty-fleshed supermarket fruit. How can I ever go back to those? Tonight will be an applesauce- and pie-fest. Maybe some crisp or pandowdy, too. Mmm.
Attendees were: Sharon Gershman ’00; Margaret Hoag ’86 with twins Joe and Mickey Valle; Sierra Laidman ’04; Jane Lifton ’76; Gwedolyn Miner ’92 with Claudia Miner and Jesse Looney; Cassandra Phillips-Sears ’04 and friend Daniel Bergey; Cornelia Robart ’61; Shubha Sunder ’05.
September 12 2008 | Outings | No Comments »
Date: June 29, 2008
Location: New Charles River Run
This spring, Mawrters in eight states came together to participate in 5 km runs/walks as part of the Alumnae Association’s “Bryn Mawr Women Running the World” program. Here in the Boston area, five alumnae ranging from the class of ‘79 to the class of ‘07 tested their stamina at the New Charles River Run on Sunday, June 29th. On the scene were Katharine Davidge ʼ79, Artemis Hionides ʼ82, Polly Osell Kienle ʼ89, Kate Long ʼ00 (who ran the 7.5 mile race), and Abbey Mann ʼ07. We had
perfect runnerʼs weather, misty, grey, and cool-ish, for this sold-out race that took us on a loop on both sides of the Charles River near Harvard Square. All of us were quite pleased with our own performance and with how the race was organized and executed. Upon meeting after the race, our group agreed that we would like to continue participating in runs together throughout the summer.
Other area alums are welcome to join us in this. In the longer term, some women are already thinking about fall races, namely the 5k Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure on September 7 and the Tufts Health Plan 10K for Women on Monday, October 13.
Please join us during the summer and/or in the fall – bring your honed running stamina, your dream of it or your unabashed lack of it. If interested, contact Anna Fox Doherty ʼ97 or Polly Osell Kienle ʼ89.
June 29 2008 | Uncategorized | No Comments »
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