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East Bay Smith Club Events

Monthly - Book club
Monthly - Young Alumnae events. Email the club to get added to the Evite list!
 
Events in the planning stages:

San Francisco/Marin Smith Club Events:
See their regularly-updated calendar at:
http://www.geocities.com/sfmsmithclub/cal.html

Ivy Alliance Events:
See http://www.geocities.com/ivyalliance/ and check our Ivy Alliance page on this site.

There's a monthly GLBT Intercollegiate Alumni Mixer. See http://alumni.princeton.edu/~ffr-gala, click "Events" and scroll to "San Francisco" for details.

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Planning future events

Some folks would like to volunteer again at the Alameda County Community Food Bank. (See info on the Community involvement page.)

Would you like to see an event? Hear a faculty speaker in the area? Email us your suggestions for possible events and let us know if you are interested in organizing!

Some ideas:

  • Faculty speaker
  • Spring potluck picnic
  • Group hike
  • Monthly happy hour or game night

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2008 Events 
  • Monthly book club meetings
  • Monthly young alumnae events
  • March 19: we had a terrific turnout of around 35 people for an interesting discussion of Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking lead by Jennifer Walters, Smith's Dean of Religious Life. Read more on the book club page.
  • July 20: summer theater outing to An Ideal Husband, by Oscar Wilde, at the California Shakespeare Theater in Orinda
Young Alum Events 2008

Friday, July 11, 2008 - Best of the East Bay Street Fair - you also get free admission to the Oakland Art Museum's "Cool Remixed Bay Area Urban Art + Culture Now." To celebrate the winners of the Best of the East Bay, the Express is throwing the biggest performing and visual arts party in the East Bay at the Oakland Museum of California. This event will feature an Amoeba Music main stage and a Kids Zone sponsored by Chabot Space & Science Center. Headlining bands include Flipper, The Uptones, Dyloot (Deep Voices), Destroyer (the Kiss tribute band, not Dan Bejar), Monarchs, The Whoreshoes, HOTTUB, Mike Glen Dinning, Amoeba Music artist Brandi Shearer, DJ Malachi, The Kev Choice Ensemble and many more. This event is hosted by MC’s Bukue One and Buttercup (KALX). http://www.eastbayexpress.com/ebx/PromotionalEvent?oid=oid%3A632516

Friday, June 13, 2008 - Everyone loved Jupiter so much the last time we were there, that we thought this was the perfect way to kick off the summer and celebrate Friday the 13th!

Saturday, April 26, 2008 - The documentary film Ask Not which was associate produced/assistant edited by a fellow Smith alum is premiering this Saturday at the Castro and it seemed like a great idea to use our precious time together to support each other's work.

Saturday, March 29, 2008 - A hike in TIlden park was planned, but cancelled due to rain. Another time!

Friday, February 29, 2008 - Leap year at the Conga Lounge in Oakland's Rockridge neighborhood.

Smithies from both sides of the bay welcomed the new year with a happy hour at Dalva in SF on Friday, January 25, 2008.

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2007 Events 
  • Monthly book club meetings
  • September tour of the SF Asian Art Museum led by docent (and Smithie) Anne Adams
  • Annual potluck in October
  • A group of alumnae (and friends/relatives) helped sort food donations at the Alameda County Food Bank in December
  • Zucu, Kate, and Tamisha organized a very successful turn-out at Jupiter on November 9th, 2007, and a night on the (oak) town with the first-Friday Art Murmur December 7th. A few Smithies met up at Cafe Van Kleef after work then went to dinner at Pho 84, while another small band trooped around galleries in downtown Oakland: Mercury 20 Gallery (Grand/Broadway, also the shop and another gallery next door) and NoneSuch Space, 2865 Broadway, 2nd floor. They all met up to chat on a street corner before heading home after a lovely evening!

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2006 Events

  • Monthly bookclub meetings
  • Shaping the Future of Smith: In March, Carolyn Dundes hosted Smithies for tea and the opportunity to share our ideas about the future of Smith College with President Carol Christ. The discussions with alumnae over the past months have covered how our Smith experience influences our life, work, and values, and the conversations highlight the following:
    • What distinguishes a Smith education?
    • What intellectual abilities should Smith strive to develop in women of the 21st century?
    • How can we shape the college's future so a Smith education continues to produce generations of remarkable women?
    Other Bay Area events with President Christ were held in Palo Alto, San Francisco, and Sacramento. Notes for this and other alumnae discussions are posted at www.smith.edu/future/shaping/notes.php.
  • Annual theater outing: Live Oak Theater production of Tennessee Williams' Night of the Iguana in Berkeley, August 12, 2006
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2005 Events

The Alumnae Association of Smith College held their weekend program the weekend of January 14-15, 2005 at the Metropolitan Club, San Francisco. Casual feedback from attendees indicates that the keynote speaker Friday night was excellent, and the Smith professors were interesting, but the afternoon sessions led by consultants didn't know quite who their audience was!

Current students at Smith may attend regular lunch presentations about managing money and investment--more practical information to help Smithies in the world, now and planning for their future.

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Food for Thought - The Smith College Alumnae Clubs of East Bay, Peninsula, San Francisco and Marin invited all Smith alumnae and guests to an event about FOOD. Guest speakers with Smith degrees, wine and catered food provided a delicious and informative evening at The Jewish Community Center of San Francisco on Thursday, April 21 from 6-9pm. Questions to bknott@smith.alumnae.net, 415-359-0167.



Carol Christ receptions Topic: Engineering

At two receptions, one on each side of the bay, Smith President Carol Christ spoke to alumnae about the Engineering program. On March 17 in Berkeley at the International House on the Berkeley campus, and on March 18 in San Francisco.

Alumnae turned out to hear about cutting-edge women's education in a field still dominated by men, meet Smith alums of all ages and scientific orientation, and of course for the wine, cheese, and dessert.

All of us--not only those of us intimately familiar with high-tech industries--are part of this technological age. Carol Christ was invited to talk about Smith's highly esteemed Engineering program: What is it about? How are Smith women making their mark in fields such as biotechnology, robotics, and computer science? How does research form a bridge between current students and alumnae in the field? This is an exciting field to follow in the coming years, especially as the college takes on the challenge of creating a new, eco-friendly, energy-conserving Engineering building on Green Street.

Many thanks to Lynne Withey for coordinating the receptions.


Women and Financial Independence Seminar

The Alumnae Association of Smith College sponsored a seminar entitled Women and Financial Independence on January 14-15 at the Metropolitan Club in San Francisco. 150 Smith Alums attended, among them EBSC club members Nancy and Jane (see comments below).

The keynote address, on Friday night, was given by M. Lucile Reid '72, Former President and CEO, BigStep.com.

The Saturday speakers included:
  • Mahnaz Mahdavi, Associate Professor of Economics; Director, Women and Financial Independence
  • Randall Bartlett, Professor of Economics
  • Roger Kaufman, Professor of Economics
The major goal of the seminar was to give alumnae the information that is currently shared with the student body through a series of lunch time seminars on various topics relating to women and financial independence.

"The main thing I learned," Nancy reported, "was that such a program exists at Smith for current students. It is a very good thing, I think, since so many young people do not know how to handle their money. For myself, I was mainly checking to see if there is something else I should be doing regarding finances, but found that I have pretty much done the right things."

She found the keynote and presentations by the professors to be very well done, but she and Jane found the afternoon small group sessions led by members of various financial institutions to be a waste of time, particularly as some were very opinionated and there was no dialogue. "It would have been better for the faculty members to lead those sessions, too," Nancy thought. Jane would "have broken out topics differently--maybe some more lecture, some get-out-a-pen and write your next steps."

"Like Nancy," Jane responded, "I also went away feeling I was doing mostly the right things, and with a few new ideas about investing... I enjoyed it, felt I learned from it. The Club is architecturally spectacular, and it was fun to meet other Smith women."

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2004 EBSC events:

  • Monthly book club meetings
  • April 4 event with Women's Initiative for Self-Employement (see Community involvement)
  • May 16 hike/BBQ
  • June 9 baseball game - Oakland A's vs. Cincinnati Reds
  • July 23 - "The Good Body" at ACT
  • October 3 - Annual Club Potluck
  • December 4 - Volunteering at the Alameda County Food Bank
 


2009-10 club activity notes

Monthly book club meetings are written up on the book club page.

Annual potluck October 25, 2009

Many thanks to Gretta Mitchell for hosting a well-attended (and delicious!) potluck of around 75 people at her house! The weather was warm enough that we could spread out on the patio and balconies for food and conversations before 50 or so crowded into the living room for the formal part of our meeting when we officially voted in Susan Strom '04 as our new club president and welcomed new AAC Tyreen Turner.  Thanks Mimi for taking the donated food to the Alameda Food Bank.

Young Alum Events 2009-2010

  • November 20th ~ Young Alums happy hour at Jupiter in downtown Berkeley (easy BART and bus access!)
    Look for us upstairs, we'll try to have a Smith sign or sweatshirt visible wherever we are.

Email the club be added to the Evite list for future events. Young is your own definition!

     


2008-09 club activity notes

January 17, 2009 ~ Docent-led tour of the Afghanistan exhibit at the Asian Art Museum.

Monthly book club meetings are written up on the book club page.

Young Alum Events 2008-2009

Friday, July 11, 2008 - Best of the East Bay Street Fair plus you also get free admission to the Oakland Art Museum's "Cool Remixed Bay Area Urban Art + Culture Now." To celebrate the winners of the Best of the East Bay, the Express is throwing the biggest performing and visual arts party in the East Bay at the Oakland Museum of California. This event will feature an Amoeba Music main stage and a Kids Zone sponsored by Chabot Space & Science Center. Headlining bands include Flipper, The Uptones, Dyloot (Deep Voices), Destroyer (the Kiss tribute band, not Dan Bejar), Monarchs, The Whoreshoes, HOTTUB, Mike Glen Dinning, Amoeba Music artist Brandi Shearer, DJ Malachi, The Kev Choice Ensemble and many more. This event is hosted by MCs Bukue One and Buttercup (KALX).

Annual potluck November 9, 2008

Many thanks to Anne Adams '73 for hosting a well-attended (and delicious!) potluck of around 75 people at her house, and for taking the donated food to the Alameda Food Bank afterwards.


2007-08 club activity notes

Congratulations to seven bay area members of the class of '05 who rode the AIDS Life Cycle event in June! Thanks to all who supported them and the effort to eradicate AIDS.

Young Alum Events 2007-2008

Friday, June 13, 2008 - Everyone loved Jupiter so much the last time we were there, that we thought this was the perfect way to kick off the summer and celebrate Friday the 13th!

Saturday, April 26, 2008 - The documentary film Ask Not which was associate produced/assistant edited by a fellow Smith alum is premiering this Saturday at the Castro and it seemed like a great idea to use our precious time together to support each other's work.

Saturday, March 29, 2008 - A hike in TIlden park was planned, but cancelled due to rain. Another time!

Friday, February 29, 2008 - Leap year at the Conga Lounge in Oakland's Rockridge neighborhood.

Smithies from both sides of the bay welcomed the new year with a happy hour at Dalva in SF on Friday, January 25, 2008.

Zucu, Kate, and Tamisha organized a very successful turn-out at Jupiter on November 9th, 2007, and a night on the (oak) town with the first-Friday Art Murmur December 7th. A few Smithies met up at Cafe Van Kleef after work then went to dinner at Pho 84, while another small band trooped around galleries in downtown Oakland: Mercury 20 Gallery (Grand/Broadway, also the shop and another gallery next door) and NoneSuch Space, 2865 Broadway, 2nd floor. They all met up to chat on a street corner before heading home after a lovely evening!

Book Discussion with Dean Jennifer Walters, March 19, 2008
 
We had a terrific turnout of around 35 people for an interesting discussion of Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking lead by Jennifer Walters, Smith's Dean of Religious Life. Read more on the book club page.

Annual potluck October 28, 2007

Many thanks to Esther Thal for hosting this year's potluck! And to Aiko for organizing it to run so smoothly. It was a lovely warm evening to be outside socializing, meeting, and reconnecting with local Smithies of all ages -- around 50 people attended, alumnae, some partners, and a couple of children (one babysitting the other)!

In addition to the formal election of the club board, the Young Alum co-ordinators got inspired and started planning events, people signed up to volunteer at the Alameda Food Bank, and 70 lbs of food was donated for the Food Drive for Alameda County Community Food Bank (Kathy delivered it).

Fall '07
The school-year started off with a tour of the Asian Art Museum led by docent Anne Adams on Saturday, September 15th, 11am.

Chinese art and culture are hot topics right now given China's re-emergence as a major world power in the 21st century as well as the upcoming Beijing Olympics. The Asian Art Museum's 45 minute "Arts of China" tour examines approximately 15 important works in the museum's Chinese galleries. In doing so, tour group members will gain a greater understanding of the breadth (thousands of years), variety (jades, ritual bronzes, porcelains, etc.), and recurring themes in Chinese art.

Fellow Smithie Anne Kahn, who has just finished the Museum's 3+ year docent training program, led the tour.

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Nancy, Jane, Lynne, Sherrill, Anne, Jennie, Mary, Jennifer (several others not pictured here)

Summer Theater Outing: Romeo and Juliet
Thursday, August 9, 2007 at 8pm at Chapel of the Chimes in Oakland, at the end of Piedmont Avenue.

For our annual summer theater outing, the East Bay Smith Club attended a Woman's Will production of Romeo and Juliet:

"After generations of hatred breeding still more hate, an improbable, fragile, but true love springs forth. Can a society learn from its losses and emerge a better place? Woman's Will places its unique mark on Shakespeare's timeless tale."
We had a picnic on the lawn of the cemetery before the show which was in the chapel of the beautiful building designed by Julia Morgan. The site has "beautiful gardens, alcoves, stairwells, fountains and chapels rising into vaulted ceilings and illuminated by natural light" and is open to the public at the summer solstice when local performance artists appear in different parts of the building. It's well worth a visit!


2006-07 club activity notes

03.26.07
We had another small gathering of Smithies and friends for "happy hour" (supper) on Friday 3/23 at the Crepevine, and realized that we need to plan or advertise differently because so few people attend.

03.23.07

AASC 125th Anniversary Book Club with Professor Susan Van Dyne - Wednesday, March 21, 2007
To celebrate the Alumni Association of Smith College's 125th Anniversary, the AASC sponsored a faculty guided reading program. As part of this program, the East Bay Smith Club hosted professor Susan Van Dyne for a lecture and discussion of the book Stone Diaries, by Carol Shields at Aimee Fisher's in Piedmont.

We had a terrific turnout of more than 40 alumnae at Aimee's house for a lively and interesting discussion. Although the group was large, professor Van Dyne managed to incorporate audience involvement by passing out some questions and having us discuss them in smaller groups. As various attendees mentioned, it felt quite like being back in a class at Smith.

(This event was not limited to book club members.)

02.24.07
We had a small gathering for happy hour on Friday 2/23, a couple of regulars delighted to greet a Smithie new ot the area! Hope to see more folks out next time.

02.14.07
Book club met at Jane's house in Oakland on February 13th to discuss Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood, a graphic memoir by Marjane Satrapi.

02.02.07
Molly Ivins '66, writer, journalist, and humorist, died of cancer on Jan. 31. There are several obituaries, including one by Maya Angelou that you can read here: http://www.commondreams.org/views07/0206-22.htm

01.29.07
Around five Smith alums plus sweeties, friends and children had a lovely time upstairs at the Crepevine on Friday night 1/26. Join us next time!

01.25.07
  • San Francisco Smith College Club Tea
    Smithies all around the Bay Area gathered for the 6th Annual San Francisco Smith College Club TEA! They mingled and munched with fellow alumnae and prospective students, heard from the past years' profilees from our newsletters. Annual Smith Tea Evite

  • East Bay Student Recruitment Tea
    Our recruitment co-chairs and Betsey Warrick hosted an event for prospective students to meet current students and recent graduates to get to know more about Smith. We also made cards and care packages for current Smith students! Sunday, January 21st at 2pm.

01.12.07
Book club met at Sherrill's house in Oakland on January 10th to discuss Ariel Levy's Female Chauvinist Pigs.

11.30.06
Book club met last night at Betsey's to discuss Zadie Smith's On Beauty.
 
 
Fall Potluck
Sunday, November 12 was the annual fall potuck at Gretta Mitchell's lovely Berkeley home. We had a terrific turnout, and good food and lively discussions were enjoyed by all. Catherine Veramo's presentation on Identity Theft gave us all helpful guidance about this problem. A few key points to remember:
 
1. Buy a shredder and use it!
2. Get an annual free credit report from each of the three main credit reporting agencies at www.annualcreditreport.com

11.02.06
Book club met at Nancy's house in the Berkeley hills on September 20th to discuss A New Life, by Bernard Malamud, and at Patricia's house in the Oakland hills on October 23rd to discuss the blog Baghdad Burning.

08.13.06
Each year the bookclub reads a play and goes to see a local production. We went to see Night of the Iguana by Tennessee Williams on Saturday Aug 12, 2006 at the Live Oak Park Theater in Berkeley. In this play, "the self-loathing, sexually angst-ridden Reverend T. Lawrence Shannon seeks refuge in a hidden Mexican hotel." Our group included several Smithies plus friends and partners, and we quite enjoyed the show. Many of us had read the play before seeing it, and from brief conversations at intermissions and on the way out, the characters and relationships on the stage were much more complex than the written script had indicated.

07.27.06
Chick lit to chick flick. We had a small outing to see The Devil Wears Prada at the Grand Lake Theater on Wednesday, July 26, 5pm, followed by dinner at Zza's (celebrating Sherrill's birthday too!).

We had such a lively discussion of "chick lit" at our December '05 bookclub meeting, we thought it would be good silly summer fun to go see the movie--which was quite different from the book. We agree with Lynne who said, "It's a piece of fluff, but Meryl Streep's performance is great." So was her fashion! If the first chapter of the book put you off, just watch the movie (or push through--it gets more engaging).


2005-06 club activity notes

06.23.06
Book club met at the big table in Tully's coffee shop in Berkeley to discuss Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson on June 20.

04.03.06
In Betsey's cozy living room, book club discussed Thomas Pynchon's Vineland on March 30.

05.25.06

Three of us (plus one child) met for Smith happy hour Thursday, May 25 6-8pm, at Pacific Coast Brewing Co., 906 Washington St. in downtown Oakland (1 block south from the 11th St. exit from Oakland City Center BART station, at 9th/B'way you should see the patio diagonally across the Smart & Final parking lot).

Book club met at Ros' in Alameda on Thursday, May 18, 2006 to discuss Al Franken's Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right. See the bookclub page for details and a write-up of the discussion about Random Family last month!

05.08.06
This week's Chronicle of Higher Education article At Smith College, a Mission to Serve the Underserved is available online for non-subscribers at the address of this link through 5/13/06. "Without fanfare, one of the few remaining women's institutions offers financial aid and personal support to needy students," says the subtitle; the article describes Smith's commitment to funding accepted students' education, and discusses the experience of socio-economic diversity on campus. The article is always available to Chronicle subscribers at this address: http://chronicle.com/weekly/v52/i36/36a01401.htm

04.26.06
Book club's large circle discussed Adrian Nicole LeBlanc's Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble and Coming of Age in the Bronx on April 25th at Jane's house. Great discussion ensued, and we recommend the book which reads like a novel yet is thoroughly researched non-fiction.

04.03.06
In Betsey's cozy living room, book club discussed Thomas Pynchon's Vineland on March 30.

03.28.06
On Saturday afternoon, March 25 from 4-6pm, Carolyn Dundes hosted Smithies for tea and the opportunity to share our ideas about the future of Smith College with President Carol Christ. The discussions with alumnae over the past months have covered how our Smith experience influences our life, work, and values, and the conversations highlight the following:
  • What distinguishes a Smith education?
  • What intellectual abilities should Smith strive to develop in women of the 21st century?
  • How can we shape the college's future so a Smith education continues to produce generations of remarkable women?
Other Bay Area events with President Christ were held in Palo Alto, San Francisco, and Sacramento.

Discussion notes for the Berkeley gathering should soon join notes of the other alumnae discussions posted at www.smith.edu/future/shaping/notes.php.

If you weren't able to attend but have something to share, you can post it here: www.smith.edu/future/shaping/join.php

02.13.06
Thanks to Aiko for coordinating club members to see W;T at the Town Hall Theatre in Lafayette, Feb. 19, at 7 p.m. "W;t" is a Pulitzer Prize-winning play by 1983 Smith graduate Margaret Edson. The Town Hall Theater in Lafayette presented the play in February, in a new production directed by Jake Witlan and starring Scarlett Hepworth.

Aiko reported that the production and the casts were excellent, and that the play was very intense, clever and very emotional. There were just about 10 alums; 6 or 7 Smithies. There was a reception afterwards where some of the few "Far" East Bay Smithies (Livermore & Pleasanton), including Aiko, enjoyed meeting one another.

02.06.06
Hilary Bryan '89 performed 1/27 at the Hillside Club in Berkeley and 2/5 at ODC in San Francisco (where at least two EBSC members were in the audience of her interactive piece). See http://www.hilarybryan.com/SacredSpaces.htm for details.

01.26.06
We went to tea!
Several East Bay Smithies attended the 5th annual San Francisco/Marin Smith Club afternoon tea on January 22nd, complete with silver teapots, china cups, and tasty cookies and snacks. It was a full house, with many alumnae and some prospective students as well. We heard from three Bay Area alumnae featured last year in the SF/Marin club's newsletter--see their website to read the profiles yourself: www.geocities.com/sfmsmithclub. Photos coming soon.

01.20.06
Filling Jennie Abbott's living room (lots of readers lately! yay!), book club discussed short stories on January 19th.

12.09.05
Filling Maggie Seeley's living room, book club discussed several "chick lit" books on rainy December 1st.

Saturday, 12/3 nine of us, from class of '59 through '05, sorted food donations at the Alameda County Food Bank warehous in Oakland. See the Commuity involvement page for photos.

11.15.05
We had a great turn-out for our annual fall potluck at Anne's in Piedmont on November 13! Alumnae classes ranged from 1946 to 2005. Delicious food, fabulous conversations, and a showing of Smith's latest promotional video made for a very enjoyable evening. Many thanks to Anne for hosting and serving as events coordinator, and to the EBSC board elect.

10.30.05
Tuesday, Oct 18th: Ivy Alliance Community Service Event. Details on the Ivy Alliance page.

Book club met Tuesday, October 25, 2005 at Betsey's in Berkeley to discuss Tracy Kidder's Mountains Beyond Mountains: Healing the World: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer.

9.23.05
Book club discussed Kettle Bottom in September, the first-year reading assignment. Club board meeting.

8.26.05
Book club discussed Middlesex in August, various summer Ivy Alliance events (see Ivy Alliance).

7.11.05
Book club met in May and June, various Ivy Alliance events (see Ivy Alliance).


2004-05 club activity notes

4.14.05
Book club discussed the mysteriously titled and vast topic-covering White Teeth by Zadie Smith at Betsey Warrick's on 4/13.

3.21.05
Carol Christ spoke to a group of about 25 alums of all decades in the charming Sproul room of International House (UCB campus) on Thursday, March 17. She discussed the Engineering program in depth, how it has developed and where it's going --across Green Street in a few years when the new, eco-friendly science center is built! She also answered the questions on diverse topics. She spoke to another group on Friday, March 18 in San Francisco.

03.09.05
Book club discussed Anything You Say Can and Will Be Used Against You, a collection of stories about female police officers in Baton Rouge by Laurie Lynn Drummond at Sherrill Lavagnino's on 3/8. We had a special guest, Jonna Watson of the Oakland police force, as well as our regular reader, Detective Catherine Veramo '93, who provided real-life stories about policing here and now.

2.17.05
Book club discussed Lost in Translation, an autobiography by Eva Hoffman that explores the affect of language on experience at Kathryn Kasch's on 2/16.

1.21.05
Book club discussed Live, Laugh and Learn: Tales of Tumultuous Times Ros McIntosh, at Catherine Veramo's on 1/20.

12.07.04
How many Smithies does it take to stack a row of cans? Eight of us met at the Alameda Country Community Food Bank warehouse on Saturday afternoon, December 4th, to volunteer. We sorted crates of donated canned food into shopping carts, then stacked the cans on the shelf of the "store" by category, for people from other organizations to "buy" for family food bag distribution, soup kitchens, etc. A bunch of other people were there from a school and a software company... maybe next time the EBSC could cover the whole three-hour shift! For related EBSC events see the Community involvement page.

11.18.04
Book club discussed The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon at Maggie Seely's on 10/17.

10.18.04
Book club discussed The 9/11 Report at the Betsey Warrick's on 10/15. It's a more interesting read than you might expect!

10.04.04
Many thanks to Anne Adams for hosting our Annual Potluck on Sunday, October 3 at her home in Piedmont. About 20 alunmae and partners enjoyed the house and grounds, the delicious food, and the company. Meeting new and old faces, those gathered discovered links from career to family to location to Smith class connections. During the requisite formal meeting, we heard updates about the club, solicited volunteers to help with college recruiting, and made plans for the next community service activity in December, with the Alameda County Food Bank.

09.24.04
Book club discussed The Gangster We Are All Looking For by Lê Thi Diem Thúy at the Claremont Hotel on 9/23.

08.16.04
Dartmouth alum group organized a private showing of CYMBELINE, Shakespeare’s Romantic Comedy in the Fairy Tale Tradition on August 8th.
 
Book club discussed Khaled Housseini's The Kite Runner at Nancy Spaeth's.

07.25.04
Book club had it's annual theatre event on July 16: Eve Ensler's The Good Body at the Geary Theater.

Please join us for an event, or let us know if there's one you'd like to organize or announce!