Summer 2002 Newsletter

Send off party for current Smithies
Sunday, AUGUST 11, 7 pm - 9 pm
We have two current students and two new students who will be at Smith this year from our club region. Laurel Grace Miller-Sims is a rising junior, Class of 2004. Amanda Davenport is a rising sophomore, Class of 2005. We welcome Burke Doherty and Macha O'Brien to the Class of 2006.

Please come meet Burke and Macha at an ice cream send off party in their honor,
August 11th from 7 pm - 9 pm at the Glenmore home of Marleigh Baratz.
To RSVP and get directions please contact Derry Voysey, our Candidates Chair.
Phone her at 434-984-0100 or email her at derry@virginia.edu. The more the merrier!

Fall Luncheon
Glenmore Country Club
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Barbara Nosanow '51 will discuss the discovery of Southern France by Post-Impressionist artists between the two wars; emphasis will be on Matisse. Her talk is entitled: "Matisse and His Contemporaries: The Discovery of the South of France

Barbara S. Nosanow is Director Emerita of the Portland (Maine) Museum of Art. Previously Assistant Director and, earlier, Curator at the National Museum of American Art of the Smithsonian Institution, she has also held positions as Director of the University of Minnesota Art Museum and Director of Publications and Research Fellow at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. She has organized many exhibitions, both at the Smithsonian and at Minnesota, most notably "The Art of Russia: 1800-1850," the first exhibitions of Russian paintings to come to this country from the then-Soviet Union.

Barbara holds advanced degrees in both Art History and Aesthetics (critical theory) from Case-Western Reserve University and an undergraduate degree in French Literature from Smith. She has also undertaken additional graduate work at the University of Minnesota.

A recent resident of Charlottesville, Barbara continues her affiliation with the Smithsonian Institution as Lecturer and Seminar Leader, frequently traveling as Lecturer with the Smithsonian with the program of Study Trips Abroad to France and Russia, areas in which she has special expertise. She is also the author of a number of children's books, presenting themes in art history for students at the junior high school level.

The cost for the luncheon is $25.

Decade Events
The following women have graciously volunteered to host a decade event. Thank you to everyone who agreed to assist or host. The response was fabulous. Maybe this should become a tradition! Invitations for each event will be mailed this fall. Please mark your calendar for your event.

Classes from the 30's, 40's and 50's
Tuesday, October 2nd
Lunch at the home of Anne McGuire, Rosser Lane
Hosts: Anne McGuire, Shelah Scott and Martha Williams

Classes from the 60's and 70's
Sunday, September 29th
Cocktails and dinner at the home of Marleigh Morland Baratz, Glenmore

Classes from the 80's
Saturday, October 12th
Lunch at the home of Katherine "Kakie" Brooks, Ivy

Classes from the 90's and 00's
Saturday, September 14th
Lunch at the home of Fiona Russell, Keswick

Other News
Smith Book Awards
Thanks to Jayne Riew, our Book Award Coordinator, the following high school juniors were awarded the Smith Book Award for their respective high schools.

Alexandra Helprin St. Anne's-Belfield
Bremen Donovan Monticello HS
Nina Zinsser Booth Tandem Friends
Hannah Oakland Western Albemarle High School
Tempe Weinbach Foxcroft School
Johanna Cooper Rockbridge County High School
Heather Serene Collins Covenant School
Amanda McConnell Stuart Hall
Susanah Stoessel Charlottesville High School

If you know one of these rising seniors please extend a congratulations to her and encourage her to apply to Smith!

My mistake
I made an error in our last newsletter and assumed that Margie Lippard, our newest Treasurer, was our only treasurer with a numbers background. I was embarrassed to learn that Sally Kauder, our previous Treasurer and dedicated local Smithie, brought far more skills to the job than I realized. She has a Masters of Science in Accounting and spent the last ten years of her professional life working as the Financial Director of a DC Trade Association. My apologies to Sally. No wonder we were in such good financial shape while she was on the Board.

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2002- 2003 Dues
Young alumnae, graduated after 1992: $15
The rest of us, graduated before 1992: $30

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Please make checks payable to the Smith College Club of Charlottesville, fill out above, detach and mail to:

Margie Lippard
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Lynchburg, Virginia 24503

If you have any questions about items in the newsletter or future club activities
feel free to contact me at 434-386-0049 or kristindabney@adelphia.net.
Many thanks and happy spring!