Welcome Smith College Class of 1983
Class of 1983, 25th Reunion
Photo by Jill Sprung Alexander
We're still in our prime!
Join our class Facebook group, "Smith College Class of 1983"
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=15244151140
Facebook gives us a wonderful opportunity to keep in touch with each other. A lot of photos from our reunion have been uploaded to the site, there are several discussion threads, and breaking news has been posted. Thank you to all who are contributing, and to our classmates for setting up and administering the site:
Ann Powell Groner
Lisa Bilbrey Hyder
Sarah Bloomer
Our class officers
President: Florie Seery
Vice President: Lori Lober
Secretary: Carole Murko and Shirley Sagawa
Treasurer: Tracy Suitt Keogh
Class fund agent: Ruth Whitlock Foster
Planned Giving Chair: Lisa Barr
Webmaster: Jenny Brophy Paduan
Many thanks to the outgoing officers: Lisa Indovino, Lynda Edwards, Lenora Paglia, and Lisa Bilbrey Hyder, and to Tracy Suitt Keogh, and Ruth Whitlock Foster who are graciously staying on.
Obituaries
It is with great sadness that we report the deaths of two of our classmates, Martha McKay and Anne Van Dusen, both on June 25, 2008.
25th reunion news
Thank you to all who attended and volunteered
Thanks especially to Lynda Edwards, 25th Reunion Chair! Highlights included catching up with old friends and making new ones, the Ivy Day parade, provocative sessions hosted by our classmates, Jill Ker Conway's keynote address at Saturday night's dinner, the parties at our headquarters in Gillette, and Commencement.
Margaret Edson '83 gave the commencement address
Video of her speech is featured on the College Events multimedia page .
Read the announcement from the Alumnae Association.
We are so proud of you, Maggie!
Our donations to the college are record breaking, in both $ and participation
From Florie Seery, Class President, Special Gifts Chair:
"We broke the 25th reunion record!!! Our class donated more than $1.66 million, with 53% of the class participating! Thank you to all who gave so generously. ... If you would still like to donate or to increase your donation, if you do so by June 30 it will count toward our 25th reunion gift."
Our class gifts
Our class has donated gifts to charities that Mrs. Conway supports for historical preservation. Here are their mailing addresses:
Rich Hubbard, Executive Director
Franklin Land Trust
36 State Street
PO Box 450
Shelburne Falls, MA 01370
tel. (413) 625-9152Paul Cawood Hellmund, Director
Conway School of Landscape Design
332 South Deerfield Rd.
PO Box 179
Conway, MA 01341-0179
tel. (413) 369-4044
And just ahead: our 30th!
We are looking for volunteers for fund raising and our 30th reunion. Please contact any of the class officers if you can help!
If you have any questions or would like to add information or links to this site, contact Jenny (Brophy) Paduan