THIS EVENT WILL BE RESCHEDULED FOR LATER IN THE FALL.

Every year, local Bryn Mawr College alumnae clubs host informal gatherings to welcome our most recent graduates to the Bryn Mawr alumnae community. Welcome to the City provides opportunities for recent alumnae of the last decade to reconnect with classmates, network, and to make new friends. Come meet the Board of The Bryn Mawr Club of New York City, and enjoy tea and conversation as well as job networking advice.

This year’s New York City Club gathering will be a Tea on Sunday, October 14^th from 4:00 to 6:00 PM The event will be hosted by Marcia Young Cantarella ’68 in her gracious apartment once featured in the New York Times. Marcia’s home is on Manhattan’s Upper West Side which is accessible to many forms of public transportation. (www.cantarellaconsulting.com)

WHEN: Sunday, October 14, 4:00 to 6:00 PM
WHERE: The apartment of Marcia Cantarella ’68 (Address provided in email confirmation you will receive after registering.)
RSVP: Online
HOW MUCH:Free − though voluntary dues for The Bryn Mawr Club of New York City to support programming will be welcomed!
WHAT’S AVAILABLE: Tea will be served with light refreshments.

PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION:
Subway:    1 to Broadway and 86^th Street
Bus:
M 10 Central Park West
M 86 Amsterdam or Columbus
M 11 & 7 Columbus Ave. – going downtown
M 11 & 7 Amsterdam Ave. – going uptown
M 104 Broadway

SAVE THE DATE!

On January 19th, New York City will once again join the international community to march in support of equality and promote civil rights for every human. The Bryn Mawr Club of New York City will be participating for the third year in a row. Details and sign-up information will be provided at a later date. Plan to join us!

About No Peacocks! − Inspired by the real-life beloved peacocks living on the grounds of The Cathedral of St. John the Divine, No Peacocks! is a story of friendship and teamwork, with a mild sprinkling of fowl behavior.  Written for children and situated in New York locales.

Raised in New York and Paris, Robin Newman is a graduate of Bryn Mawr College (class ‘89, as is her twin sister, Hilary, and her step-sister, Vanessa Rule ‘91, and soon to be her niece, Isabelle Rule Becker ’22), and the City University of New York School of Law. She’s been a practicing attorney and legal editor, but she prefers to write about witches, mice, pigs, and peacocks. She’s the author of the Wilcox & Griswold Mystery Series, The Case of the Missing Carrot Cake and The Case of the Poached Egg, and Hildie Bitterpickles Needs her Sleep. She’s a member of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators, National Writing Project’s Writers Council, and the Bank Street Writers Lab. She lives in New York with her husband, son, goldfish, and two spoiled English Cocker Spaniels.

WHAT:   Book Launch of No Peacocks! by Robin Newman ’89. Hosted by Liza Royce Agency and Corner Bookstore
WHERE:   Corner Bookstore (1313 Madison Avenue, at 93^rd Street, New York)
WHEN:   Thursday, September 6, 5:30-7:00 p.m.
HOW MUCH:   Free.
RSVP: Online

Come and welcome the BMC class of 2022 at a Send-Off Party for NYC-area students and their families!

The Summer Send-Off welcomes incoming students to the Bryn Mawr College community. It’s a great way for new Bryn Mawr students and their families to meet each other as well as alumnae, current students, parents, and staff.

Graciously hosted by Nora Lavori ’71 P’03 and Liana Sterling ’03 in coordination with the Bryn Mawr Club of New York City.

For more information, and to register, click here.

UNFORTUNATELY, THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

Let’s go on an adventure without leaving the comfort of NYC! To whet your palate, you’ll be welcomed into the event with a custom cocktail featuring Hudson Valley Shiso Farm’s Red and Green Shiso Syrup™. Aki Snyder ’11 and her family will introduce us to the unique, sweetened botanical flavor of shiso.

Then, we’ll move into the main event! Thanks to the generous donation of Nicole Huynh ’06 and her partner, Mike Randolph, they will guide our group on a tour of craft beer ranging in styles from classic Belgian Lambics to English Barleywines, and everything in between. You’ll be presented with a selection of at least 10 different craft beers, and we’ll discuss the flavors of each beer, their aroma, what makes them unique, and what happens to beer as it ages. (Yes, some really can!)

For further information, contact Nicole Huynh ‘06 by emailing the Bryn Mawr Club of NYC at brynmawrclubnyc@gmail.com. Please use subject line “Beer Tasting.”

WHEN: July 26, 6:30-8:30 p.m.
COST:  $100
RSVP:  Register via Eventbrite.

Register via Eventbrite. Tickets are first come, first serve. Alums are welcome to invite guests, but we cannot accommodate anyone under 21 years old.

 About The Hudson Valley Shiso Farm

The Hudson Valley Shiso Farm is a small eco-friendly and organic company that specializes in the production of Japanese shiso syrup. Established in 2013, Hudson Valley Shiso Farm’s mission is to introduce and promote shiso, a unique and healthy herb, to a wider health-conscious community by creating carefully handcrafted Shiso products. It is rich in antioxidants, as well as vitamins, and has been used as a homeopathic treatment for digestive disorders, asthma, coughs, colds, and pain. Hudson Valley Shiso Farm also hopes to create a greater appreciation for this versatile and aromatic Japanese herb. To learn more about them, visit their website http://www.shisojuice.com.

This event will be rescheduled.

Join us for summer cocktails and meet our new Senior Associate Director for Alumnae Career Services, Becky Ross. We’ll share some exciting new career services programs launching this year and welcome your ideas for future programs and events.

Co-hosted by the Bryn Mawr Club of New York and LILAC | Career and Professional Development.

Becky will also be offering one-hour 1:1 coaching appointments on August 15-16. These sessions can cover a range of topics including job search and networking strategies, work/life balance, re-entering the workforce, shifting your focus in work, or other related career concerns. Appointments will be held at her hotel and are filled on a first come, first serve basis.

WHAT: Summer Cocktails & What’s New in Alumnae Career Services
WHEN: Wednesday, August 15, 6:00-8:00 p.m.
WHERE: The cocktail reception location will be shared soon; coaching appointments will be held at the Roosevelt Hotel at 45 East 45th Street.
HOW MUCH: There is no charge for this event.

To register for coaching appointments, use Handshake:

1. Go to https://brynmawr.joinhandshake.com/login
2. Log in:
   1. Your username should be the preferred email address which the College has on file for you (alums 1982-2017 were uploaded in Jan/Feb of this year; if unsure of email username, contact Becky Ross)
   2. You will be prompted to set your password (if you have never used Handshake before); follow on-screen prompts
3. Once logged in, under the “Career Center” menu select “Appointments” to schedule a session
   1. Click “Schedule a New Appointment”
   2. Select “Alumna/us – more than one year”
   3. Select “Alumnae/i in NY 1:1 In-Person Coaching” from the menu of Appointment Types
   4. You will be taken directly to August 15 and can also see that August 16 has appointments available.

Please contact Becky Ross if you have problems registering.

Mondays are hard. Switch things up with an evening of laughs and good company! Join The Bryn Mawr Club of New York City and the New York Comedy Club for a night to remember featuring a spectacular lineup featuring Emma Willmann of Simmons College, and our very own Ashley Gavin ’10

Ashley Gavin is a New York based, nationally touring comedian. Her comedy has been featured on Hulu, FOX, AXS TV, SiriusXM Comedy, and more. Ashley is best known for her hard-hitting, intelligent, and sometimes absurd social commentary about feminism, gender, sexuality, class and more.

Emma Willman (Simmons ‘08) made her Network TV debut last year on The Stephen Colbert show and has since then taken the world by storm performing on an upcoming Netflix special and starring on Crazy Ex-Girlfriend on The CW. Emma discusses her upbringing in a rural town in Maine, living with dyslexia, and experiences as a gay woman.

Purchase tickets using Offer Code “BMC” here: https://newyorkcomedyclub.com/events/smash-gold-comedy-2018-06-25

(General Admission = $25; with Offer Code = $5! Limited tickets will be available for purchase with this Offer Code, so get yours ASAP!)

Hosted by The Bryn Mawr Club of New York’s Young Alum Rep Amani Chowdhury ’14.

7 Sisters Students/Alums and Guests are encouraged to join!

For more information visit:   https://www.facebook.com/events/238782603341254/

For questions, contact:   Amani Chowdhury ’14 – chowdha1@gmail.com

WHAT: Funny Women: Comedy Night
WHEN: Monday June 25^th, 2018 @ 7:00 PM (arrive 15-20 minutes early for best seats!)WHERE: New York Comedy Club (241 E 24th Street New York, NY 10010)
HOW MUCH: $ 5 with code “BMC”

A limited number of tickets will be made available for this Offer Code – be sure to get yours ASAP.

Guests welcome!

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Amani Chowdhury – chowdha1@gmail.com

Join LGBTQ alums from the other Seven Sisters colleges for an evening of networking and community. Co-sponsored by the Wellesley, Mount Holyoke, Seven Sisters Alumnae Association, and Bryn Mawr Clubs of NYC.

WHEN: June 6, 6:00 p.m.

WHERE: Dirty Precious, 317 3^rd Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11215

COST: Pay As You Go.

RSVP: Click on link to RSVP here   https://newyorkcity.alum.wellesley.edu/article.html?aid=388

 PLEASE NOTE: This event will close for registration on June 4th. If you would like to RSVP after that date, please contact us at wcnewyork@wellesley.edu.

Visit the event on Facebook!

If you have questions about the event, or have trouble registering, please contact us at wcnewyork@wellesley.edu.

Please join the Bryn Mawr Club of New York City for a special evening at HERE and Basil Twist’s SYMPHONIE FANTASTIQUE. The performance is Followed by a Backstage Tour and Special Reception with food, wine, and conversation in HERE’s Lounge with Club board members and HERE board member Bethany Haynes ’98.

About the Show
Twenty years ago in 1998, Basil Twist debuted his boundary-breaking response to Berlioz’s 1830 “Symphonie Fantastique” to universal acclaim, inaugurating HERE’s intimate Dorothy B. Williams Theatre and Dream Music Puppetry Program. In the two decades since Symphonie Fantastique’s premiere, Basil Twist has become an internationally recognized artist in opera, ballet, and on Broadway, and has won countless awards including the illustrious MacArthur Fellowship. Twist will revisit his legendary masterpiece as part of HERE’s 25th Anniversary Season- upon its 20th Anniversary. In this revival, accompanied live by a virtuosic pianist Christopher O’Riley playing the exquisite Liszt transcription, Symphonie floats and swirls in a 1,000-gallon water stage. For the many who never saw it, and for those who relish seeing it again and again, the return of this tour de force to HERE is the event of the season.

“I found myself slipping into a fugue of irrational, unadulterated joy…. Anyone seeking pure, thought-exorcising escapism — the kind provided by acid trips and dreams of flying — need only plunge into the churning waves of Symphonie Fantastique.”
— BEN BRANTLEY, THE NEW YORK TIMES

About HERE
Home to New York City’s most imaginative live performance experiences, HERE produces work that is affordable, challenging and alternative. We give audiences the chance to be part of something new and fresh. Our artists work across disciplines, disrupting conventional expectations as they cast new molds of collaborative works. This eclecticism makes HERE undefinable at its core, and entirely unforgettable. HERE is proud to have Bryn Mawr alum Bethany Haynes lead our efforts as our esteemed Board Chair.

WHEN: Wednesday, May 16, 8:30 p.m.
WHERE: 145 Sixth Avenue, Entrance on Dominick Street, one block south of Spring Street
COST: Tickets are $50 or $80. To purchase tickets please contact Liene Camarena Fogele at 212-647-0202, ext. 326 or liene@here.org. Please respond by May 12 to ensure a spot.

For any questions, please contact: Jennifer Suh Whitfield ’98, jennifersuh@gmail.com , 917-828-1617

The event is sold out; please click here to be added to the waitlist.

Join the Bryn Mawr Club of New York City for its annual May Day Celebration, a College tradition since 1900! Gather at the lovely home – overlooking the mighty Hudson River and Fredrick Law Olmstead’s Riverside Park – of former Bryn Mawr College Trustee, Donald Gellert, Elaine Koss and Laura Gellert ’93. (Fun Fact: The Gellerts’ home was formerly owned by baseball legend, Babe Ruth!)

Come hear about the Club’s past and upcoming activities, and about its mission to support the College and its New York alums, all while enjoying strawberries & cream, and of course, some bubbly!

While the Bryn Mawr Club of NYC’s May Day is free to attend, this is a good time to pay your annual membership dues to support the Club’s extensive and lively programming that connects alums with each other and with the College.

The 2018-2019 fiscal year annual membership dues are $50 ($30 for Graduates of the Last Decade). You may pay at the door, or via the Eventbrite link below.

WHAT: May Day & Brief Annual Meeting of the Bryn Mawr Club of New York City
WHEN: Sunday, May 6, 2018, 1:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
WHERE: The Home of Former Bryn Mawr College Trustee Donald N. Gellert and Elaine Koss, at Riverside Drive and 83rd Street.
COST: Free; Annual Membership Dues will be gratefully accepted to help defray expenses.
Register online via Eventbrite.

Space is limited. Reservations accepted on a first come, first serve basis. Guests are welcome but we cannot accommodate any children under 14 years of age.

 Scenes from the Event:

Whether you turn on your TV, look at social media or open a newspaper, it is clear that this nation is in a moment of mass action. In this past year alone, millions have come out in protest – many for the first time. Join us for a dialogue about American activism today with March for Racial Justice co-founder and co-chair Dorcas Davis, ’03. We will learn more about the March for Racial Justice and the journey of building a national march. In addition, we’ll discuss the integral part activism and organizing plays in our discourse and the multitude of ways people become involved in causes they support. This is a non-partisan and non-political discussion focused on racial and social justice — which includes women’s rights.

About Dorcas Davis ‘03
Dorcas Davis ’03 is the National Director of Strategic Projects for the Posse Foundation* and the Co-Founder and National Co-Chair of the March for Racial Justice (M4RJ).

Since 2001, when President Emeritus Nancy J. Vickers initiated Bryn Mawr/Posse Foundation partnership, Posse students from Boston, and recently from Houston, have benefited from the excellent Bryn Mawr education, in addition to bringing energy and diversity to the campus community.

Presently the National Director of Strategic Projects for the Posse Foundation, Dorcas Davis is an activist, facilitator, educator, writer and artist. While a studying at Bryn Mawr, Dorcas was part of the selection team that chose Bryn Mawr’s first Posse. She has worked locally, nationally and internationally, consulting for organizations devoted to equity and social change through capacity-building, training, dialogue and education. At the core of her life and work is a commitment to community, our shared liberation and future.

Dorcas began her call to activism as an advocate for students and parents while working as a teacher and facilitator. Her call to activism was heightened after her father was assaulted by police officers. She co-founded the March for Racial Justice as a response to the racial inequity and injustice in the US justice system.

The March for Racial Justice saw tens of thousands of people gather in Washington, DC, New York and 16 other locations across the US. The march was in direct response to the not guilty verdict rendered in the June 2017 trial of Philando Castile in Minnesota. The March for Racial Justice holds firm that the human and constitutional rights of all people should be upheld and affirmed.

She is also the Founder and was Executive Director of Smiling Down Productions – an arts and education company. She is a proud graduate of Bryn Mawr College and has a Masters in Applied Theatre from the City University of New York – School of Professional Studies.

* The Posse Foundation identifies public high school students with extraordinary academic and leadership potential who may be overlooked by traditional college selection processes. The Foundation extends to these students the opportunity to pursue personal and academic excellence by placing them in supportive, multicultural teams—Posses—of 10 students. The Foundation’s partner colleges and universities award Posse Scholars four-year, full-tuition leadership scholarships. With a Posse partnership since 2001, Bryn Mawr College is proud to have hosted the very first women’s STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) Posse in the fall of 2013.

WHEN: Thursday, April 5, 7:00 – 9:00 p.m.
WHERE: WNET, The Kellen Board Room of Channel 13, 825 8th Avenue @ 50th Street
COST: $20 per person. Light refreshments will be served.
RSVP by registering online.

For questions, contact Helen Thurston at jclosk@earthlink.net.

Graciously hosted by Marcia Cantarella ’68, the Bryn Mawr Club of NYC and the Bryn Mawr Book Group are honored to jointly host a gathering featuring Carrie La Seur ’93, who will discuss her path as a writer and her first two novels, The Home Place (William Morrow 2014) and The Weight of an Infinite Sky (William Morrow 2018). The books chronicle the dramas of rural and small town life in La Seur’s home state of Montana, drawing on her experience as an environmental lawyer with issues ripped from the headlines, including coal surface mining. La Seur’s Bryn Mawr education is apparent in her work; she introduces, for example, the plot of Hamlet into the storyline of Infinite Sky. Light hors d’œuvres and wine will be served.

For more information about Carrie La Seur and her work, visit: http://carrielaseur.com/.

Copies of Carrie’s 2 books are available for pre-purchase on the registration checkout screen.

For questions, contact Marcia Cantarella ’68 at mycantarella@gmail.com

WHEN: Tuesday, March 20, 7:00 – 9:00 p.m.
WHERE: The Home of Marcia Cantarella ’68, 144 West 86th Street (b/w Amsterdam and Columbus Avenues)
COST: $10 for Bryn Mawr Book Group Members; $20 per Bryn Mawr College Alums and Guests
RSVP by registering online.

For questions, contact Marcia Cantarella ’68 at mycantarella@gmail.com

Bryn Mawr Club of New York City invites you to hear Elaine Kamarck ’72 and David Wessel, Haverford ’75 both of The Brookings Institution. They will address the Bi-Co community at an event hosted by Sarah Reid ’74 at Kelley Drye & Warren LLP in Midtown. Some topics they will be covering include:

• What do Elaine and David make of the first year of the Trump presidency?
• What are the three or four biggest questions about actual policies (not the tweets) of the Trump/GOP Congress regime to which we will have the answers only a year or two from now?
• How are our institutions standing up to the test that Trump presents?
• What are the biggest risks?

Click here to reserve by Eventbrite. Limited space available on a first come, first served basis.

Elaine C. Kamarck is a Senior Fellow in the Governance Studies program as well as the Director of the Center for Effective Public Management at the Brookings Institution.

David Wessel is a senior fellow in Economic Studies at Brookings and director of the Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy, the mission of which is to improve the quality of fiscal and monetary policies and public understanding of them.

Elaine Kamarck is an expert on American electoral politics and government innovation and reform in the United States, OECD nations, and developing countries. She focuses her research on the presidential nomination system and American politics and has worked in many American presidential campaigns. Kamarck is the author of Primary Politics: Everything You Need to Know about How America Nominates Its Presidential Candidates and Why Presidents Fail And How They Can Succeed Again. She is also the author of How Change Happens—or Doesn’t: The Politics of US Public Policy” and The End of Government-As We Know It: Making Public Policy Work.

During the event, Kamarck will be signing and selling her latest book published in 2016, Why Presidents Fail And How They Can Succeed Again. In her book, Kamarck analyzes recent presidential failures to understand why Americans have lost faith in their leaders—and how they can get it back. She explains the difficulties of governing in our modern political landscape, and offers examples and recommendations of how our next president can not only recreate faith in leadership but also run a competent, successful administration.

Kamarck is a Lecturer in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. She started at the Kennedy School in 1997 after a career in politics and government. She has been a member of the Democratic National Committee and the DNC’s Rules Committee since 1997. She has participated actively in four presidential campaigns and in ten nominating conventions—including two Republican conventions. In the 1980s, she was one of the founders of the New Democrat movement that helped elect Bill Clinton president. She served in the White House from 1993 to 1997, where she created and managed the Clinton Administration’s National Performance Review, also known as the “reinventing government initiative.” At the Kennedy School, she served as Director of Visions of Governance for the Twenty-First Century and as Faculty Advisor to the Innovations in American Government Awards Program. In 2000, she took a leave of absence to work as Senior Policy Advisor to the Gore campaign.

Kamarck conducts research on 21^st century government, the role of the Internet in political campaigns, homeland defense, intelligence reorganization, and governmental reform and innovation. Kamarck makes regular appearances in the media, including segments on: ABC, CBS, NBC, the BBC, CNN, Fox News Now New England Cable News, and National Public Radio.

Kamarck received her Ph.D. in political science from the University of California, Berkeley.

David Wessel joined Brookings in December 2013 after 30 years on the staff of The Wall Street Journal where, most recently, he was economics editor and wrote the weekly Capital column.  He is a contributing correspondent to The Wall Street Journal, appears frequently on NPR’s Morning Edition and tweets often at @davidmwessel.

David is the author of two New York Times best-sellers: In Fed We Trust: Ben Bernanke’s War on the Great Panic (2009) and Red Ink: Inside the High Stakes Politics of the Federal Budget (2012).  He has shared two Pulitzer Prizes, one in 1984 for a Boston Globe series on the persistence of racism in Boston and the other in 2003 for Wall Street Journal stories on corporate scandals. David is a member of the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Data Users Advisory Committee. He teaches in the Dartmouth Tuck School of Business Global 2030 executive education program and has been a visiting journalism professor at Princeton University.

A native of New Haven, Conn., and a product of its public schools, David is a 1975 graduate of Haverford College. He was a Knight-Bagehot Fellow in Business and Economics Journalism at Columbia University in 1980-81.

 RSVP:           Click here to reserve by Eventbrite Limited space available on a first come, first served basis.

WHAT:         Remarks from Elaine Kamarck ’72 and David Wessel H’ford ‘75

WHEN:         Thursday, February 22, 2018, 6:30 to 8:30 P.M.

WHERE:       Kelley Drye & Warren LLP
101 Park Avenue at 40^th Street
New York, NY 10178
Phone: (212) 808-7800

HOW MUCH:  $20.  Space is limited

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Helen Thurston at jclosk@earthlink.net.

Join the Bryn Mawr Club of New York City and the Bryn Mawr Graduates of the Last Decade (GOLD) Committee on Friday, February 16th celebrate with a Happy Friday Happy Hour (formerly known as Hell Week Happy Hour)!

Reconnect, meet and celebrate with your fellow Bryn Mawr College GOLD and GOLD+ alums. Everyone is welcome!

WHEN: Friday, February 16, 6:00-8:00 p.m.
WHERE: 61 Local (61 Bergen St Brooklyn, NY)
COST: Free! (Cash bar will be availale)
RSVP by registering online.

Contact Amani Chowdhury ’14 with any questions at chowdha1@gmail.com.

PHOTOS FROM THE MARCH:

On January 20th, New York City will once again join the international community to march in support of equality and promote civil rights for every human. The Bryn Mawr Club of New York City will be participating. Join Us!

Any and all are welcome to march with us, regardless of their affiliation with Bryn Mawr or the Bryn Mawr Club of New York City. Please bring your partners, friends, children, etc. We want this to be a big, joyous group. We want to be joined by members of other BMC alumni groups, Seven Sisters, Haverford alums, EVERYONE!

We will meet up at 11:00 a.m. in front of the Beacon Theatre, 2124 Broadway, Between 74th and 75th Streets. We’ll start walking at 11:30. Check here or on the Eventbrite page for further updates.

Click here to sign up via Eventbrite

GENERAL MARCH INFORMATION:

Route: The main entrance point will be between at 72nd & Central Park West. The rally (starting at 11:30EST) will be at Central Park West & 61st/62nd Streets. The full block in front of the stage (61st to 62nd on Central Park West) will be reserved for those with disabilities. The march (starting around 12:30EST) will go past Columbus Circle, East on 59th Street, and South on 6th Avenue with exits at 45th/44th/43rd streets. A map can be found on the March’s FAQ page: https://womensmarchalliance.org/2018wm-faq/

Signs: Signs and banners are encouraged with a few caveats. New York City prohibits any signs that use poles, sticks, or handles as they can become weapons. Also, the March organizers would like to remind participants that children and media will be present. Keep it clean and keep it on message. Be creative!

We will have Bryn Mawr banners and will likely have a Seven Sisters banner. If you are representing a different school please bring something to identify yourself! We want this to be as inclusive as possible.

Weather and clothing: Right now, a week out, the forecast is in the high 30s-low 40s and clear. As the route is fairly long and there will be periods of standing be sure to wear comfortable shoes.

Thank you and we can’t wait to see you on the 20th!

Follow the March on Social Media:

• Website: WomensMarchonNYC.com
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nycwomensmarch
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/nycwomensmarch

A social occasion with wine, sweets, socializing and networking with fellow alums. Come and celebrate at the top of a skyscraper with dazzling city views! For those inclined, there will be a special table for Lizard (aka Flower Day cards) making for next year’s regional freshmen.

As a wonderful feature, we’re excited to have Kierstin Gray ’01 perform at our gathering.

Dynamic songwriting, dazzling acoustic guitar chops, vocals that hit the sweet highs of pop and limbo the lows of the blues… This is Kierstin Gray. Audiences across the country and the world have turned out to see this refreshing artist.

 Live shows have it, and the depth of this singer-songwriter’s melodic range, command of her instrument, and on-stage presence illustrate that Kierstin surely has that undeniable “thing” that people recognize as star quality. Within a few notes, one instantly bears witness to the wiles of an alluring storyteller. Pop, blues, ballads, classic soul — and even country — are represented through Kierstin’s interpretations. In spite of an era when marketing labels divide and conquer musical devotees, Kierstin Gray’s music appeals to the song lover within everyone.

WHEN: Thursday, January 11, 2018, 6:30 to 8:30 PM

WHERE: The Rooftop Party Room at The Westport Apartments (500 West 56th Street. Entrance is on 10th Avenue between 55th & 56th Streets, just 5 blocks from Columbus Circle)

COST: $20 per person for wine and sweets.

R.S.V.P. via Eventbrite by Sunday, January 7, 2018. Space is limited; first come, first served.

For further information, please contact Helen Thurston ‘74 at brynmawrclubnyc@gmail.com. Please use the subject line “Winter Party.” Guests are welcome, but no children under 18 can be accommodated. Space is limited and RSVPs are on a first come first served basis, with priority to alums

Come enjoy an afternoon with other Mawrters and hear one of Bryn Mawr’s most distinguished and globally honored alumnae talk about a life in science. An engaging speaker, Susan Band Horwitz Ph.D. will discuss her career and her research, including her contributions to the development of Taxol, that directly affect millions of women and cancer patients throughout the world. Dr. Horwitz is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Molecular Pharmacology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and the Associate Director of the Albert Einstein Cancer Center. This event is hosted by Joan Kaye ’74 in her beautiful apartment.

Dr. Horwitz began investigating Taxol in 1977, after its isolation from the bark of the Pacific yew tree, Taxus brevifolia. Her pioneering studies led to clinical trials of the drug in the mid-1980s. Taxol is now involved in first line treatment of a number of cancers. Maintaining a continuing interest in natural products as a source of new drugs for the treatment of cancer, Dr. Horwitz has launched countless careers from her own laboratory and inspired innumerable others to embrace questions that change the way scientists think about fundamental aspects of cell biology.

The American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), the world’s largest organization dedicated to cancer research, awarded Dr. Horwitz its Award for Lifetime Achievement in Cancer Research in 2011.   “Dr. Horwitz has had a direct impact on millions of cancer patients around the world through her work in understanding the mechanisms of action of paclitaxel (Taxol) and other cytotoxic drugs,” said Margaret Foti, Ph.D., M.D. (h.c.), chief executive officer of the AACR. “Her remarkable career and pivotal scientific contributions have influenced our understanding of how cancer drugs work and how to translate that knowledge into improved strategic treatments.”

Dr. Horwitz holds the Rose C. Falkenstein Chair in Cancer Research and has authored more than 300 publications, advancing knowledge of antitumor drugs and mechanisms of drug resistance. She has received numerous awards including the American Cancer Society’s Medal of Honor; the C. Chester Stock Award from Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center; the Bristol-Myers Squibb Cancer Distinguished Achievement Award; The Barnard Medal of Distinction; and the Warren Alpert Foundation Prize from Harvard Medical School. She received a Doctor Honoris Causa from Université de la Méditerranée in Marseilles, France.

Dr. Horwitz is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Medicine and American Philosophical Society. She served as president of the AACR from 2002-2003.

WHEN: Saturday, November 4, 2017 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.

WHERE: 515 E 89th Street. Apt. 6A (between York & East End Avenues)

 COST: $20 per person

 RSVP via Eventbrite. (Space is limited and reservations will be on a first come first served basis.)

 For questions, contact: Helen Thurston ’74 at jclosk@earthlink.net

Guests are welcome; however, no children under 14 can be accommodated.

Every year, the College celebrates GOLD Month in October. GOLD Month is a celebration of our young alumnae/i and their connection to Bryn Mawr. This year the Bryn Mawr Club of NYC is happy to partner with the NYC members of the GOLD Committee, Aheli Purkayastha ’09, Tina Chang ’15, and Margaret Hurley ’17 for a night of drinks, snacks, and socializing in celebration of GOLD Month.

 This event is open to ALL alums, lovingly called GOLD+.

RSVP by registering online.

WHEN: Thursday, October 12, 2017 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM

WHERE: Union Hall, 702 Union Street, Brooklyn, NY 11215

 For questions, please contact Larissa Rubic ’11 and Nicole Huynh ’06 at brynmawrclubnyc@gmail.com.

All coaching spots are full. If you wish to be on the waiting list, please contact Cori Ashworth at the email below.

Back by popular demand, career consultant Cori Ashworth, M. Ed., C.A.G.S., C.M.C.is continuing to work with Bryn Mawr College alums for coaching and counseling. This is a free service of the College for alums.

On October 24, 25, and 26 in midtown Manhattan, Cori will be offering 50 minute, one-on-one coaching appointments. Topics for discussion can include career strategy, changing fields, reentering the workforce, work-life balance, planning for retirement, job search, and a host of other career related topics.

Please treat this as a business commitment and avoid making last minute changes. Cancellations should be made well in advance so that wait-listed alumnae can participate.

RSVP: coricoachbmc@gmail.com

Please provide several times that you can meet over the 3 days so she can accommodate as many alumnae as possible. Tuesday 9-5, Wednesday 9-5, Thursday 9-12.

For questions, contact Cori directly at coricoachbmc@gmail.com.

WHEN: Tuesday, October 24 – Thursday, October 26

WHERE: Springhill Suites, just west of 5^th Avenue, at 25 West 37^th Street, NYC

Every year, local Bryn Mawr College alumnae clubs host informal gatherings to welcome our most recent graduates to the Bryn Mawr alumnae community. Welcome to the City provides opportunities for the Class of 2017 to reconnect with classmates, network, and to make new friends. Come meet the Board of The Bryn Mawr Club of New York City, enjoy some drinks and apps, and connect with alums in the area. All class years are invited.

Where: Fiddlesticks Pub (56 Greenwich Avenue, New York, NY)

Date: Tuesday, September 19

Time: 6:00 – 8:00 p.m.

RSVP by Thursday, September 14 by registering via Eventbrite.

• Members of the Class of 2017 will be guests of The Bryn Mawr Club of NYC, which includes 2 drinks and appetizers. Cash bar will be subsequently available.
• Members of the Class of 2016 and older will be charged $25, which includes 2 drinks and appetizers. Cash bar will be subsequently available.

For further information, please contact Nicole Huynh ’06 at brynmawrclubnyc@gmail.com.

Join us for a talk, tea, and book signing with noted author Jessica Harris ’68. This event is hosted by Marcia Cantarella ’68, in her New York Times-featured home on the Upper West Side.

From a review by Dayna Evans in New York Magazine: “Historian, teacher, and inimitable cookbook author Jessica Harris has spent years telling a tale about herself and the people she has known – James Baldwin, Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison, Nina Simone – in her new book, My Soul Looks Back, a memoir about her life writing, editing, and eating in the West Village in the ’70s. The book, just published, is Harris’s 13th and follows a series of critically acclaimed cookbooks and culinary histories that catalogue everything from Creole flavors to African cuisine’s many mutations in America. Harris’s memoir tells her story of growing up black and middle-class in New York City, recounts her years-long relationship with Sam Floyd (James Baldwin’s best friend, who eventually died of AIDS), and examines why the West Village and the Upper West Side were homes to members of the black intelligentsia during that time. It also features a version of Maya Angelou’s recipe for ‘eight-boy curry.’” Books will be available for purchase and signing by the author.

RSVP WITH PAYPAL: Space is strictly limited and on a first come, first served. Click button to reserve by PayPal:

For more information on Jessica Harris and her book, visit:
Epicurious
New York Magazine
New York Times

WHAT: Tea and Book Signing with Jessica Harris ‘68

WHEN: Sunday, June 11, 4:00 to 6:00 PM

HOW MUCH:$20 event fee—includes light refreshments prepared by Jessica Harris ’68 and Marcia Cantarella ’68. Click button below to reserve by PayPal. First come, first served.

FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THE EVENT: Contact Marcia Cantarella ‘68 (mycantarella@gmail.com)

THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT

Join the Club for its annual May Day Celebration, a College tradition since 1900! Gather at the lovely home – with two terraces – of Joan Kaye ’74 for strawberries, cream, and, of course, bubbly!

After a brief Annual Meeting, our special May Day guest, President Emeritus Mary Patterson McPherson will offer some timely remarks. We are honored to have her with us.

While the Bryn Mawr Club of New York City’s May Day is free to attend, this is also a good time to pay your annual membership dues to support the Club’s extensive and lively programming that connects alums with each other and with the College.

The 2017-2018 year basic annual membership dues are $50 ($30 for graduates of the last decade) and may be charged at http://bmcnyc.blogs.brynmawr.edu/club_dues/ or you may pay at the door. Higher dues categories of $75 and $100 and beyond will be gratefully received.

WHAT: 2017 May Day Celebration (space limited)
WHEN: Sunday, May 7, 1:30 to 3:30 p.m.
HOW MUCH: FREE. However, the Club will gratefully accept Membership Dues to help defray expenses.
R.S.V.P.: Register Online (space limited, reservations on a first come first served basis.)
Guests are welcome; however, no children under 14 can be accommodated.

Once again we are delighted to offer a very special wine tasting from the private cellars of Bryn Mawr alums. At this formal wine tasting event, we will be enjoying the world’s notable reds including the wines of Bordeaux, Burgundy and Brunello among others. Led by the renowned wine expert Harriet Lembeck, CWE, a Bryn Mawr alumna, the formal wine tasting will be preceded by a Champagne reception. This is an amazing and congenial opportunity to discern the difference between some of the most acclaimed varieties of red wines of the world.

Guests are welcome; tickets are very limited and offered on a first come first served basis.

WHAT:                      Great Red Wines of the World

DATE:                       April 26, 2017

TIME:                        6:30 PM Sharp

 WHERE:                   Rose Hill Historic House
203 East 29^th Street (between Second and Third Avenues)
New York, NY 10016
Subway, No. 6 train to 28^th Street: Third Ave Bus Nos. 101,102,103 to 28^th Street.

HOW MUCH:           $120 plus PayPal processing fee of $5  (total $125)

PURCHASE TICKETS: Reserve via PayPal below.  First come first served.

Today’s Interviewing and Smart Preparation, by Director of Alumnae/i Career Services, Cori Ashworth, Ed., CAGS, CMC – Wednesday, April 12, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. For One-on-One Career Consultation Appointments, See Below

Hosted by Alex (Kaufmann) Kosslyn ’04.    There are so many interview processes these days! We will briefly review the major types and phases of the interview process; interviewing by phone, Skype, face-to-face, panels, case interviews, and videotaped. Each situation calls for some thoughtful planning and tweaking. Depending on the phase of the interview there may be subtle adjustments to consider as well.

We will also take time to practice face-to-face in triads. It is special and so helpful to have a chance to practice with friendly colleagues from your alma mater! Come with your questions so we can draw on the collective wisdom in the room.
We will have some good munchies and drinks to share.

WHEN:  Wednesday, April 12, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
SPACE IS LIMITED.  CLICK HERE FOR PROGRAM RESERVATION
WHERE:     Pershing Square Capital Management, hosted by Alex (Kaufmann) Kosslyn ’04.
‪888 Seventh Avenue, 42nd Floor (located between 56th and 57th Streets)‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬
HOW MUCH:  We kindly suggest that those attending pay their Club membership dues, if not already paid. You may now pay dues online using PayPal! Visit our membership page at: http://bmcnyc.blogs.brynmawr.edu/club_dues/

Career Coaching One-on-One Appointments

As usual, Cori will be offering 50 minute, one-on-one coaching appointments at her hotel, the Courtyard by Marriott New York Manhattan/Times Square at 114 W 40th St, New York, NY 10018. These appointments can address a variety of career-related areas including career strategy, interviewing, editing or written materials, life/work balance, and planning for new careers or consulting.

Register at this link by April 10th: Career Coaching 1:1’s

Please do not hesitate to contact Cori if you would like any additional information or have any questions or concerns.
Cori Ashworth, M.Ed., CAGS, CMC
Director of Alumni Career Engagement, dashworth@brynmawr.edu 610-526-5230

Looking at Dance, by Anna Kisselgoff ’58, former Chief Dance Critic of The New York Times, Hosted in the Kellen Board Room of Channel 13, WNET by Janice Fuld ‘88, Associate Director, WNET Education.

Anna Kisselgoff will discuss the highlights of reviewing dance during her career. Over the years, she has reviewed modern dance, ballet, tap dance, ethnic dance, rodeo, Michael Jackson and –at the 1988 Calgary Olympics — ice dancing. Her presentation will include some dance clips and also remarks on dance in earlier days at Bryn Mawr College.

Born in Paris, Kisselgoff grew up in New York City where she began studying ballet at the age of four with Valentina Belova, and later for nine years with Jean Yazvinsky, a dancer in Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes. After graduating from Bryn Mawr College, where she was editor of The College News, she studied French History at the Sorbonne and Russian at the School of Oriental Languages in Paris. Later, she received an M.A. in European History and an M.A. in journalism at Columbia University from which she received two Distinguished Alumni awards. Before joining The New York Times, to which she continues to contribute, Kisselgoff wrote features and dance reviews as a freelancer for The New York Times’ International Edition and worked at the English desk of Agence France-Presse in Paris. Aside from writing on staff from 1968 to 2006 for The Times and elsewhere, she has taught ballet history at Yale University, a Contemporary Choreographers course at Barnard College, and lectured at Hollins University. Kisselgoff has also worked as a consultant, and wrote the foreword for Bronislava Nijinska: Early Memoirs. Kisselgoff has been awarded Knight of the Order of the Dannebrog by Queen Margrethe II of Denmark, a Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French Government, and the Order of the Falcon by the President of Iceland.

The Club is deeply honored to have an internationally known leader in dance criticism, a critic by whose body of work many other dance critics are judged, address our gathering.

HOW MUCH: $20 event fee. Light refreshments will be served

RSVP: Click below to reserve by Paypal. Guests welcomed.

WHEN: Tuesday, March 28, 2017,  7:00 to 9:00 p.m.

WHERE:  The Kellen Board Room of Channel 13-WNET, 825 Eighth Avenue, (enter on 50^th Street, just west of Eighth Avenue)

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Helen Thurston at jclosk@earthlink.net

The Bryn Mawr Club of New York City invites you to hear Elaine Kamarck ’72 and David Wessel Haverford ’75 of The Brookings Institute. They will address the Bi-Co community at an event hosted by Sarah Reid ’74 at Kelley Drye & Warren LLP in midtown.

• What political, social and economic developments brought us Donald Trump?
• What do Elaine and David make of the first month of the Trump presidency? What are the three or four biggest questions about actual policies (not the tweets) of the Trump/GOP Congress regime to which we will have the answers only after a year or two?
• What are the biggest risks?

Elaine C. Kamarck is a Senior Fellow in the Governance Studies program as well as the Director of the Center for Effective Public Management at the Brookings Institution.

David Wessel is a senior fellow in Economic Studies at Brookings and director of the Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy, the mission of which is to improve the quality of fiscal and monetary policies and public understanding of them.

Elaine Karmark is an expert on American electoral politics and government innovation and reform in the United States, OECD nations, and developing countries. She focuses her research on the presidential nomination system and American politics and has worked in many American presidential campaigns. Kamarck is the author of Primary Politics: Everything You Need to Know about How America Nominates Its Presidential Candidates and Why Presidents Fail And How They Can Succeed Again. She is also the author of How Change Happens—or Doesn’t: The Politics of US Public Policy and The End of Government-As We Know It: Making Public Policy Work.

During the event, Kamarck will be signing and selling her latest book published in 2016, Why Presidents Fail And How They Can Succeed Again. In her book, Kamarck analyzes recent presidential failures to understand why Americans have lost faith in their leaders—and how they can get it back. She explains the difficulties of governing in our modern political landscape, and offers examples and recommendations of how our next president can not only recreate faith in leadership but also run a competent, successful administration.

Kamarck is a Lecturer in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. She started at the Kennedy School in 1997 after a career in politics and government. She has been a member of the Democratic National Committee and the DNC’s Rules Committee since 1997. She has participated actively in four presidential campaigns and in ten nominating conventions—including two Republican conventions. In the 1980s, she was one of the founders of the New Democrat movement that helped elect Bill Clinton president. She served in the White House from 1993 to 1997, where she created and managed the Clinton Administration’s National Performance Review, also known as the “reinventing government initiative.” At the Kennedy School, she served as Director of Visions of Governance for the Twenty-First Century and as Faculty Advisor to the Innovations in American Government Awards Program. In 2000, she took a leave of absence to work as Senior Policy Advisor to the Gore campaign.

Kamarck conducts research on 21st century government, the role of the Internet in political campaigns, homeland defense, intelligence reorganization, and governmental reform and innovation. Kamarck makes regular appearances in the media, including segments on: ABC, CBS, NBC, the BBC, CNN, Fox News Now New England Cable News, and National Public Radio.

Kamarck received her Ph.D. in political science from the University of California, Berkeley.

David Wessel joined Brookings in December 2013 after 30 years on the staff of The Wall Street Journal where, most recently, he was economics editor and wrote the weekly Capital column. He is a contributing correspondent to The Wall Street Journal, appears frequently on NPR’s Morning Edition and tweets often at @davidmwessel.

Wessel is the author of two New York Times best-sellers: In Fed We Trust: Ben Bernanke’s War on the Great Panic (2009) and Red Ink: Inside the High Stakes Politics of the Federal Budget (2012.) He has shared two Pulitzer Prizes, one in 1984 for a Boston Globe series on the persistence of racism in Boston and the other in 2003 for Wall Street Journal stories on corporate scandals. David is a member of the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Data Users Advisory Committee. He teaches in the Dartmouth Tuck School of Business Global 2030 executive education program and has been a visiting journalism professor at Princeton University.

A native of New Haven, Connecticut, and a product of its public schools, David is a 1975 graduate of Haverford College. He was a Knight-Bagehot Fellow in Business and Economics Journalism at Columbia University in 1980-81.  Wessel has received honoraria for speaking from NMS Management, Tudor Investment Corp., Carlyle Group and Nomura Securities International Inc.

RSVP: Reserve by PayPal Below. Limited space available on a first come, first served basis.
WHAT: Remarks from Elaine Kamarck ’72 and David Wessel H’ford ‘75
WHEN: Thursday, February 16, 2017, 6:30 to 8:30 P.M.
WHERE: Kelley Drye & Warren LLP, 101 Park Avenue at 40th Street, New York, NY 10178 Phone: (212) 808-7800
HOW MUCH: $20. Space is limited
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Helen Thurston at jclosk@earthlink.net.

In 1968, the great civil rights leader Whitney Young, Jr. spoke to the American Institute of Architects challenging the profession to design for the poor as well as for the rich.   Whitney M. Young Jr. was the respected leader of the National Urban League, and advisor to five United States Presidents and the father of Bryn Mawr alumna Dr. Marcia Cantarella ’68.  Now, almost five decades later, a panel of distinguished Bryn Mawr alums and architectural, urban design and political leaders will discuss the advances and challenges still ahead of the profession.  Dr. Cantarella will lead the panel discussion and Professor Mindy Fullilove ’71 will be the Respondent.

For questions, contact:   Helen Thurston at jclosk@earthlink.net

WHEN:                   Wednesday, February 1, 2016, 6:00 – 8:00 p.m.

WHERE:                  AIA reception and conference space
(536 LaGuardia Pl – just south of Washington Square, New York, NY)

HOW MUCH:        $10, includes reception and conference, guests welcome.

RSVP via PayPal:                  

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Young Alum Event: Done Is Good Ice Skating, Saturday, January 28, 2:00 – 4:00 p.m., Followed by Happy Hour, 4:00-6:00 p.m. Done is so, so, so good! Say goodbye to 2016 and skate into 2017 with the Bryn Mawr Club of New York City! Didn’t finish your gym credit? Doesn’t matter. Come out for some festive, wintry fun at the iconic Bryant Park skating rink, followed by a bone- and soul-warming drink at Proper West. All guests are welcome; the more the merrier!

WHAT:                   Ice skating: 2:00 – 4:00 p.m., followed by Happy Hour: 4:00-6:00 p.m.

WHEN:                   Saturday, January 28, 2017

WHERE:                  Bryant Park Winter Village and Proper West (54 W 39th St)

HOW MUCH:           Free with your own skates/$20 to rent
Skaters are encouraged to bring their own locks to store items
in lockers.
Happy Hour will offer $6 select beers, $7 house wines and $8
mixed drinks

RSVP:                     Done is Good! Skating and Cocktails with the Bryn Mawr Club of New York City

On January 21st, New York City will proudly join the international community to march in support of equality and promote civil rights for every human. This historic and peaceful event is open to the public and all are welcome to participate.  Register with fellow Mawrters – an assembling location and a procession order will be coordinated with the organizers of the Women’s March. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/womens-march-on-nyc-bryn-mawr-club-of-new-york-city-tickets-30860549735

ALL ARE WELCOME, INCLUDING FELLOW SEVEN SISTERS ALUMNAE, FORDS, SPOUSES, AND FRIENDS!

The Mission Statement for the March describes the purpose as follows: “[to] send a bold message to our new administration on their first day in office, and to the world that women’s rights are human rights. We stand together, recognizing that defending the most marginalized among us is defending all of us.  We support the advocacy and resistance movements that reflect our multiple and intersecting identities. We call on all defenders of human rights to join us. This march is the first step towards unifying our communities, grounded in new relationships, to create change from the grassroots level up. We will not rest until women have parity and equity at all levels of leadership in society. We work peacefully while recognizing there is no true peace without justice and equity for all.” From WomensMarchonNYC.com

Follow Us:  Website: WomensMarchonNYC.com

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nycwomensmarch

Twitter: https://twitter.com/nycwomensmarch

THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT!

Join us for a performance of Sell/Buy/Date, an exuberant new show from Tony Award-winning playwright and performer – and Bryn Mawr alumna – Sarah Jones (Bridge & Tunnel), followed by a discussion with Sarah herself after the show.

Sarah Jones returns to the New York stage as a dazzling medley of characters in inspired by the real-life experiences of people affected by the sex industry. Brimming with Jones’ masterful, multicultural characterizations, Sell/Buy/Date presents an honest, moving and even humorous look at a complex and fascinating subject, all while preserving the full humanity of voices seldom heard in the theater.

Tickets are available at a reduced rate of $45 for this event, while supplies last.

For more information, visit: http://shows.manhattantheatreclub.com/sell-buy-date/

RSVP:             Please email brynmawrclubnyc@gmail.com in order to
access the reduced rate.

WHEN:           Saturday, December 3, 2016.  Performance starts at 2:30pm.

WHERE:        The Studio at Stage II, Manhattan Theatre Club, New York City
Centre, 131 West 55th St (between 6th & 7th Avenues

HOW MUCH:  $45 per ticket, guests welcome.

Cost: $22.00 payable in advance through PayPal. Please register by November 1.

Resume styles evolve. We will be looking at current resume formats and editing. We will then move on, considering how to integrate strategic content effectively into your prepared interview responses. Everything is related to everything, including projecting your brand and emphasizing the right transferable skills. Reservations are limited to Bryn Mawr alumnae and further details will be available in the October e-newsletter. Event arranged by Cate Megley ‘08 and hosted by Alex (Kaufmann) Kofflyn ’04.
In addition to the career program on Thursday evening, Ms. Cori Ashworth will be available for coaching appointments Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, November 17 – 19. Reservation slots for these individual appointments, limited to Bryn Mawr alums, will be available in October.

Anassa Kata! The Bryn Mawr Club of New York City congratulates recent graduates and invites the city’s recently arrived alumnae – from newly minted to veteran – to our annual Welcome to the City event. This year, grab a Zabar’s bagel and a drink from our mimosa bar before taking in the cityscape from a fabulous rooftop. As always with the Bryn Mawr connection, we are here for you. Only one guest per person, but you never know who you will meet! Event arranged by Sara Capasso ’11 and Larissa Rubic ’11 and hosted by Pamela Feuer ’83.

RSVP: Online. Space is limited; RSVP REQUIRED
WHEN: Saturday, September 24, 12:00 – 2:00 p.m.
WHERE: The Westport, 500 West 56th Street (enter on 10th Avenue between West 55th & West 56th Streets), Sun Terrace Level
HOW MUCH: Bryn Mawr Club annual membership dues gratefully received.
QUESTIONS: Sarah Capasso ’11, sarah.c.capasso@gmail.com and Larissa Rubic ’11, rissrubic@gmail.com

Sign up to attend a private tour with Bryn Mawr Alums at the “By the People: Designing a Better America” Exhibit at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in NYC. The tour will be led by Barbara Toews GSSWSR PhD, 2014 and visiting instructor at Haverford College, 2008-2014. The newly opened exhibit explores social justice and design concepts. There will more than 60 exhibits promoting design to improve America, including an exhibit created by an incarcerated participant in Haverford’s’ men and women in the workshops.

Space is limited; RSVP REQUIRED
Cost: $20.00 payable in advance through PayPal. Includes museum admission and PayPal fee.

WHERE: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, 2 East 91st Street at Fifth Avenue, New York, NY

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION: Contact Helen Thurston ‘74 at jclosk@earthlink.net

We welcome the Class of 2020 to the Bryn Mawr College community. The Send-Off is an excellent way for new students to meet each other, alums, current students, parents and staff.

Hosted by Karen Davidov ’79 & Henry Myerberg in coordination with the Bryn Mawr Club of New York City.

Please register online by 7/26/2016

Date: 8/2/2016, 7:00 – 9:00 pm
Location: 1239 Broadway, Penthouse, New York, NY 10001

View Attendee List
Learn More – New York City Class of 2020 Summer Send–Off

UPDATE: The event was a great success. Here is networking in action!

Join Bryn Mawr alums engaged or interested in entrepreneurship and startups. This is a kickoff event for the Entrepreneurship Affinity Group. The Entrepreneurship Affinity Group is group of Bryn Mawr graduates who are entrepreneurs, founders, early startup employees, investors, or those interested in the subject. The goal of the group is to bring together the Bryn Mawr alum community for social and supportive events in cities around the world.

If you are not in New York, but interested in or engaged in entrepreneurship and startups, please let us know! We look forward to events around the country.

Le Pain Quotidien
340 Madison Avenue (Entrance on 44^th Street)
New York, NY 10173

There is no charge for this event. RSVP to Faith Wallace-Gadsden ’05, faith@archimedesproject.com

Joint Club Event with Bryn Mawr Book Club to discuss the recent book
Daughters of the Samurai with the author, Janice Nimura,
Tuesday, May 17, 7:00 p.m.

Save the Date: Joint Club Event with Bryn Mawr Book Club to discuss the recent book Daughters of the Samurai with the author, Janice Nimura, Tuesday, May 17, 7:00 p.m.

Did you know that Bryn Mawr has a sister college in Tokyo? Come to a joint Club event with the Bryn Mawr Book Club to discuss the recent book Daughters of the Samurai with the author Janice Nimura.

In 1871, the Japanese government sent 6-year-old Ume Tsuda to the United States as part of a delegation to study the role and education of American women. The youngest of the five girls in the mission, Ume eventually was the first Japanese student to attend Bryn Mawr (1889-1892). Bryn Mawr was her model and M. Carey Thomas her inspiration when she founded one of the first private institutions of higher education for women in Japan in 1900, The Women’s Institute for English Studies (Joshi Eigaku Juku). Known since 1948 as Tsuda College (Tsuda Juku Diagaku), it has maintained a close relationship with its western sister through the exchange of students.  President Emeritus Nancy Vickers visited Tsuda in 2000 to celebrate the centennial of its founding.   Daughters of the Samurai sympathetically details the difficulties and successes these young women experienced, both during their time in the United States and upon their return to Japan.

RSVP:  to Helen Thurston at jclosk@earthlink.net. Space is very limited.

For more information contact Helen Thurston at jclosk@earthlink.net

WHEN: Tuesday, May 17, 7:00 P. M.

WHERE: 10 Downing Street, Apartment 5W, New York, NY 10014 – graciously hosted by Jane Engelhardt ’84

Entrance to the building is on the west side of 6^th avenue between Houston Street and Downing Street.

Transportation: By subway: Closest stops are IND line to West 4^th street or the IRT west side line to Houston Street. By bus: The 7^th Avenue line stops at Houston and 7^th/Varick. The 5 stops at Houston as well on 6^th Avenue coming from downtown. By car: Parking can be hard in the village.  There are garages on Thompson Street between West 3^rd and Bleecker and on West 3^rd between MacDougal and 6^th Avenue. Both are expensive (e.g., $30 for a couple hours).

HOW MUCH:  Bryn Mawr Club membership dues gratefully received.

The Bryn Mawr Club of New York City Invites you to

Celebrate May Day with Us and Attend Our Annual Meeting!

 Sunday, May 1, 12:00 – 2:00 p.m.

Join the Club for its annual May Day Celebration, a College tradition since 1900! Gather for strawberries, cream, and, of course, bubbly! Board Vice President, Pamela Feuer ’83 is hosting us in the lovely rooftop room at The Westport, an elegant building five blocks from Columbus Circle on 10^th Avenue,

Attend the Annual Meeting and mingle with the Bryn Mawr Club of NYC Board and alumnae of all decades and enjoy the fabulous views.

Come hear about the Club’s past and upcoming activities, and about its mission to support the College and its New York alums.

While May Day is free to attend, this is also a good time to pay your annual membership dues to support the Club’s extensive and lively programming for alums and the College.

The 2016-2017 year basic annual membership dues are $50 ($30 for graduates of the last decade) and may be charged at http://bmcnyc.blogs.brynmawr.edu/club_dues/. You may pay at the door.  Higher dues categories of $75 and $100 and beyond will be gratefully received.

WHAT:   2016 May Day Celebration

WHEN:    Sunday, May 1, 12:00 – 2:00 p.m.

WHERE:    The Westport 500 West 56th Street (5 blocks from Columbus Circle at Tenth Avenue) New York, NY 10019 (The 57^th Street crosstown bus stops one block away)

HOW MUCH:   FREE. However, we invite you to pay your annual Club membership dues.

R.S.V.P.:   To brynmawrclubnyc@gmail.com, making sure to use the subject line “May Day.” One guest may attend at $20; however, no children under 14 can be accommodated. Please include your name, graduation year, and the name of any guest. Space is strictly limited and RSVPs are on a first come first served basis, with priority to alums!

Annual Meeting 2016
at The Westport (5 blocks from Columbus Circle) 500 West 56^th Street New York, NY 10019

The Bryn Mawr Club of New York City invites you to its Annual Meeting to be held at The Westport on May 1, 2016 at 1:00 p.m.  The 10 minutes of business to be conducted consists of a report on the Club’s activities by the President of the Club, the Treasurer’s Report, and the election of Club Officers and Board Members.

Nominations of officers and members for the following positions:

President…………………………………………………………..Helen Thurston,’74
Vice President……………………………………………………Pamela Feuer,’83
Secretary…………………………………………………………..Helen Freeman,’02
Treasurer…………………………………………………………..Laura Waldrop, ’98
Young Alumnae Coordinators…………………………….. Sarah Capasso, ’11, Larissa Rubic,’11, and Amani Chowdhury, ’14
50s and 60s Membership Rep……………………………..Nancy Kirk, ’59/’60
70s Membership Rep………………………………………….Lucille Blair,’74
80s Membership Rep………………………………………….Jane Engelhardt, ’84
90s Membership Rep………………………………………….Jennifer Suh Whitfield,’98
00s Membership Rep………………………………………….Nicole Huynh,’06
Member-At-Large……………………………………………….Marlies Bull,’93
Member-At-Large……………………………………………….Janet Sachs
Career Development Representative…………………….Cate Megley,’08
Webmistress………………………………………………………Maya Amis,’79/’87
Social Media Rep………………………………………………..Faith Pilacik, ’09

Dues Form

The Bryn Mawr Club of New York City provides a full range of activities for alums in New York City and receives no financial support from the College or the Alumnae Association.  Please help the Club continue to offer exciting events to Bryn Mawr Alums in New York City.  The suggested basic annual dues contribution is $50 ($30 for those from last decade), and larger amounts are welcome.

Name: _______________________________________________Class:_______

Address: _________________________________________________________

E-Mail: _________________________Telephone: ________________________

Dues:             _____ $50   _____ $75   _____ $100 or higher

_____ $30 for GOLD (graduates of last decade)

Proxy Voting Form for Members Not Attending the Annual Meeting

PROXY for the Bryn Mawr Club of New York City, Submitted by the Present Officers

The undersigned, whose name is (please print) ________+______________________ residing at ___________________________________________________________, being a voting member of the Bryn Mawr Club of the City of New York, hereby appoints Helen Thurston, President of the Board, with full power of substitution, as her proxy to appear and vote in her name as instructed below at the Annual Meeting of the Bryn Mawr Club of New York City to be held on Sunday, May 1, 2016, or at any continuation or adjournment thereof.

Nominations of officers and members for the following positions:

President……………………………………………………………Helen Thurston,’74
Vice President…………………………………………………….Pamela Feuer,’83
Secretary……………………………………………………………Helen Freeman,’02
Treasurer……………………………………………………………Laura Waldrop, ’98
Young Alumnae Coordinators………………………………Sarah Capasso, ’11,
Larissa Rubic,’11, and Amani Chowdhury, ’14
50s and 60s Membership Rep………………………………Nancy Kirk, ’59/’60
70s Membership Rep…………………………………………….Lucille Blair,’74
80s Membership Rep…………………………………………….Jane Engelhardt, ’84
90s Membership Rep…………………………………………….Jennifer Suh Whitfield,’98
00s Membership Rep…………………………………………….Nicole Huynh,’06
Member-At-Large………………………………………………… Marlies Bull,’93
Member-At-Large………………………………………………… Janet Sachs
Career Development Representative………………………. Cate Megley,’08
Webmistress………………………………………………………… Maya Amis,’79/’87
Social Media Rep…………………………………………………. Faith Pilacik, ’09
Dues:              _____ $50   _____ $75   _____ $100 or higher

_____$30 for GOLD (graduates of last decade.)

Signature: ___________________________________________ Date: ___________

Telephone: ____________________________E-mail: _________________

 Mail this proxy form to: The Bryn Mawr Club of New York City
Church St. Station
P.O. Box 2052
New York, NY 10008-2052

Bryn Mawr Club of New York City and Haverford Alumni and Parent Relations
Invite You to
An Evening with Juan Williams ’76, presenting his new book, We the People.

Tuesday, April 12, 2016
7:00 – 9:00 p.m.

The American Scandinavian Foundation
58 Park Avenue
Volvo Hall
(between 37th and 38th Streets)
New York, NY 10016
212-779-3587

Cost: $20.00 payable in advance through PayPal

Hors d’oeuvres will be served.
Copies of We the People will be available for purchase at the event.

For more information contact Helen Thurston at jclosk@earthlink.net
Juan Williams, a former White House correspondent at the Washington Post, where he worked for over 21 years, also has been a senior correspondent and talk show host at NPR. He is currently a political analyst for Fox News and cohost of the daily news roundtable show The Five. He writes a weekly column for The Hill, a Washington, D.C. newspaper. Williams is the author of such bestselling and critically acclaimed books as Eyes on the Prize: America’s Civil Rights Years, 1954–1965; Thurgood Marshall: American Revolutionary; Enough; and Muzzled. He lives in Washington, D.C.
In WE THE PEOPLE: The Modern-Day Figures Who Have Reshaped and Affirmed the Founding Fathers’ Vision of America (Crown; April 5, 2016), acclaimed social historian, bestselling author, and Fox News political analyst Juan Williams examines the lives and ideas of people he calls “America’s Modern-Day Founders.”

THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT!!!

Join the Club for a tour of the Roosevelt House with Curator Deborah Gardner ’70. The former double residence house of Franklin, Eleanor and Sara Delano Roosevelt, now owned by Hunter College, offers visitors an opportunity to get closer to a family as unique as the city they inhabited, and to explore where some of the most iconic public policy of the 20th century was shaped. The exhibit Women Take the Lead: From Elizabeth Cady Stanton to Eleanor Roosevelt, Suffrage to Human Rights shows original and important treasures from the Women’s Suffrage Movement, some unseen for a century. It features about 75 rare posters, broadsides, pamphlets, books, and manuscripts that were actually used in the early 20th Century to promote voting rights for women. We will have the unique pleasure to be joined by Ms. Grania Gurievitch, whose family was close to the Roosevelts and who will share her personal reminiscences of Mrs. Roosevelt. This event was made possible by Dorothy Samuels, ’73, who serves on the External Advisory Board of the Roosevelt House and is a Senior Fellow at the Brennan Center for Justice.

Total cost for admission and the tour is $20.00. You may preregister via PayPal below, or pay at the door.

For more information about the house and exhibit, visit: http://www.roosevelthouse.hunter.cuny.edu/rh-news/women-take-the-lead.

THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT!!!

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Managing your career is so important, and a big part of that is related to your direct manager and senior manager as well. It can also be related to mentors or sponsors! If you know how to assess the organization, and the management styles and individual preferences, you can position yourself for success and more effective movement in your career.

Bryn Mawr Director of Alumnae Career Services Cori Ashworth will offer guidelines for effective management and building smart, cordial relations with your manager, as well as offer coaching on particular situations that may be arising for you at your current location.

Come and join us for an evening of learning and substantive BMC discussion that you can apply directly and immediately. We will have good munchies to sustain our energy for the evening!

Please contact the Alumnae Association to register.

For more information contact Helen Thurston ’74 @ jclosk@earthlink.net

WHAT: Managing Up with Cori Ashworth M.Ed., CAGS, CMC

WHEN: Monday, March 7, 6:30 – 9:00 p.m.

WHERE: This event is hosted by Jane Engelhardt ’84 at Debevoise & Plimpton, 919 Third Avenue, just east of 55th Street. Please make sure to bring a photo ID.

HOW MUCH: Voluntary donations of $20 as well as Bryn Mawr NYC Club dues will gratefully be accepted.

Individual One-on-One Career Coaching:

The one-on-one career coaching appointments with Cori Ashworth have all been filled. We will announce future opportunities when Cori next visits the New York Club. The College website has contact information for Cori Ashworth.

This event is sold out! Nobody will be admitted without a confirmed registration. If you would like to be on the wait list, please contact the Alumnae Association at bmcalum@brynmawr.edu.

Join us for a festive reception for Nancy Vickers, President Emeritus, Bryn Mawr College, hosted by Elizabeth V. Warren, ’72, a Trustee of Bryn Mawr College, on Wednesday, January 27, from 6:30 – 9:30. President Vickers will be offering some remarks on the joys of reading Dante with eagerly engaged Bryn Mawr alumnae.

For more information, contact Helen Thurston at jclosk@earthlink.net

Order your tickets to the Loubaton Wine Tasting via PayPal below.

Please let us know attendee name(s) and class year as appropriate for all registrants.

If you have to cancel, please notify us as soon as possible.

Contact Helen Thurston (Jclosk@earthlink.net) to provide attendee names and class years, and Alice Loubaton (alice@loubatonimports.com) for further information on wines.

Confessions of an All-Night Classical DJ, or how Bryn Mawr prepared me for a career keeping New York’s insomniacs company along with Beethoven and Mozart and Bach and…….

Scheherazade spun tales for a sultan for a mere 1001 nights: Nimet Habachy has been spinning records, tapes and discs for over 7001 nights for New York’s insomniacs and is still counting. How did a woman who grew up in Cairo, Egypt become the all night classical DJ for WQXR radio? Upon arrival in America, Nimet took one look at the Siamese children in Rodgers and Hammerstein’s the King and decided that all she wanted was to be one of them. Hopelessly wrong for the part, she settled for a starring role as Benjamin Franklin in a jingoistic school play, and went on to work backstage at an opera house, in Summer Stock, and on the radio. Come and hear one of the world’s most fascinating classical DJ’s, who has had a successful career in a field so often dominated by men.

Nimet received a BA in French from Bryn Mawr College and an MFA in Theater from Columbia University. Her first official job was cleaning books in the National Library in Florence after the floods in 1966 and later spent 7 years working for the New York City Opera as Assistant to the Company Manager and Language coach for French and Italian.

In 1980, Nimet took and flunked the announcer’s audition for WQXR, the radio station of the New York Times. Her accent, it was alleged, was too English. She perfected an eastern seaboard accent, whatever that is, re-auditioned and was accepted on the reserve list. She became the host and programmer of WQXR’s New York at Night, which was broadcast live from midnight till 5:30 a.m. for 26 and a half years. Nimet is once again doing the night shift three times a week on the “new” WQXR. She is also continuing her career as a writer, interviewer and free lance lecturer based in New York City. Nimet will be speaking on Rigoletto and Manon Lescaut next season for the Metropolitan Opera Guild.

RSVP to Helen Thurston ’74 @ jclosk@earthlink.net. Please provide name and class year.

WHAT:   Confessions of an All-Night Classical DJ

WHEN:   Wednesday, November 4, 7:00 to 8:30 p.m.

WHERE:   Home of Nimet Habachy ’54

HOW MUCH:   Light refreshments will be served.

Suggested donation $20. Voluntary dues and contributions for the Bryn Mawr Club of New York City will be welcomed.

MORE INFO:   For more information, contact Helen Thurston ’74 at jclosk@earthlink.net by Thursday, October 29

Every year, local Bryn Mawr College alumnae clubs host informal gatherings to welcome our most recent graduates to the Bryn Mawr alumnae community. Welcome to the City provides opportunities for alumnae of the last decade to reconnect with classmates, network, and to make new friends. Come meet the Board of the Bryn Mawr Club of New York City, and enjoy tea and conversation as well as job networking advice.

This year’s New York City Club gathering will be a Tea on Sunday, October 18 from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. The event will be hosted by Marcia Young Cantarella ’68 in her gracious apartment once featured in the New York Times. Marcia’s home is on Manhattan’s Upper West Side which is accessible to many forms of public transportation. (www.cantarellaconsulting.com )

WHAT:   Welcome to the City Tea for 2005 to 2015 Graduates

WHEN:   Sunday, October 18, 4:00 to 6:00 p.m.

WHERE:   The Apartment of Marcia Canterella ’68
144 West 86th Street – between Amsterdam and Columbus Avenues
New York, NY 10024

Public Transportation:

Subway

# 1 to Broadway and 86th Street

C line to 86th and Central Park West

Bus

M 10 Central Park West

M 86 Amsterdam or Columbus

M 11 & 7 Columbus Ave. – going downtown

M 11 & Amsterdam Ave. – going uptown

M 104 Broadway

HOW MUCH:  Free – though voluntary dues and contributions for The Bryn Mawr Club of New York City will be welcomed!

RSVP:   Contact Bryn Mawr Alumnae Association

MORE INFO:   For more information, contact Helen Thurston ’74 at jclosk@earthlink.net

Join us for an intimate and hands-on training evening workshop on Negotiations led by Career Strategist, Cori Ashworth at the google Corporate Campus in Manhattan. Come and develop frameworks and capabilities applicable to any career while enjoying refreshments with alumnae.

Negotiations go on all the time, from little agreements at work to major discussions as you take a new position at a new organization. It is well documented that women do not negotiate as well as they might to advance their careers. With this in mind, we will review the Harvard model for negotiations that can be broadly applied to many situations; for benefits, for fostering win/win solutions working with colleagues, and overall strengthening your ability to find that sweet spot for an agreement that favors you. Armed with this approach, you can create stronger momentum for your career. Save the date for the evening of August 26^th. Substantial munchies will be offered for sustenance.

Career Coaching with Cori Ashworth M.Ed., C.A.G.S., C.M.C., Bryn Mawr Alumnae Career Program Manager

— As part of the career outreach to alumnae, the Bryn Mawr Alumnae Association will also be offering a full day of hour-long, one-on-one career coaching 50 minute appointments with Cori on August 27^th and 28^th from 9-5.

Look for the Alumnae e-calendar on July 30^th to sign up for these meetings. Additional information and appointment sign-ups will be circulated on July 30^th in the Alumnae e-calendar.

Bryn Mawr alumna Susanna Prough ’99 will lead a tour of the famed concert hall and venue. Susanna currently works at Carnegie Hall as Director of Capital Projects and will give us an insider tour of the building, complete with historical highlights of its 124-year history.The tour will last an hour and a half.

The tour is limited to 15 participants; reservations will be on a first-come, first-served basis.

RSVP via PayPal and the Bryn Mawr Club of NYC website.

WHAT:   Insider’s Tour of Carnegie Hall

WHEN:   Tuesday, June 23, 6:00 p.m.

WHERE:   881 Seventh Avenue (NE Corner of 56th Street)
New York, NY

HOW MUCH:   $20 fee. Register via PayPal:

We would be very grateful if you would take this opportunity to renew your BMC NYC membership (the new fiscal year started June 1). Pay dues via PayPal:

Membership Dues: $30 (last decade), $50, $75, $125, Other

MORE INFO:   For more information, contact Helen Thurston ’74 at jclosk@earthlink.net.

Save the Date! The Bryn Mawr Club of New York City invites you to its Annual Meeting to be held at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, May 28 at The Culture Center. The business to be conducted consists of a report on the Club’s activities by the President of the Club, the Treasurer’s Report, and the election of Club Officers and Board Members. Refreshments provided. Please join us for this special evening! Meet Board Members and Officers and mingle with fellow alumnae!

WHAT:   Annual Meeting

WHEN:   Thursday, May 28 at 6:30 p.m.

WHERE:   The Culture Center

410 Columbus Avenue

New York, NY 10024

HOW MUCH:  Dues and contributions to support the work of the Club will be gratefully accepted.

QUESTIONS:   Please RSVP to Liana.Sterling@gmail.com by May 22nd. Attendees must RSVP.

Please join the Bryn Mawr Club of New York City for our annual celebration of May Day, graciously hosted by Suzan Habachy ’54.

WHAT:                  May Day Celebration

WHEN:                 Saturday, May 2^nd, 2015, 1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.

HOW MUCH:         Dues and contributions to support the work of the Club will be gratefully accepted.

RSVP:                     Please RSVP to Liana.Sterling@gmail.com by April 27th. Space for this event is very limited and will be taken on a first-come first-served basis. Attendees must RSVP.

The event is hosted jointly by Wendy Fairey and by John Major, Haverford ’64, at his spectacular Chelsea loft recently featured in The New York Times.

BOOKMARKED(Arcade/Skyhorse Publishing) is a memoir of a life of reading. As the daughter of Hollywood columnist Sheilah Graham—F. Scott Fitzgerald’s lover in the last years of his life—Wendy Fairey began as a child reading the books Fitzgerald had assembled for her mother and escaped into the landscape of classic English novels. She felt akin in sensibility and aspirations to David Copperfield, worried she was as plain as Jane Eyre, and craved the panache of Becky Sharp. Bookmarked also touches on books encountered at Bryn Mawr that helped to shape her as a reader, a scholar, and a person.

Wendy W. Fairey holds a doctorate from Columbia University and teaches English literature and creative writing at Brooklyn College, where she was also formerly a dean. She is the author of One of the Family (Norton 1992), a family memoir, and Full House (SMU Press 2002), a collection of linked stories. Fairey is married to Mary Edith Mardis with whom she lives in Manhattan and East Hampton. She has two children and four grandchildren.

WHAT:   BOOKMARKED: Reading my Way from Hollywood to Brooklyn, By Wendy Westbrook Fairey ’64

Book reading, signing, reception – light refreshments will be served.

WHEN:   Wednesday, May 20, 6:30 to 8:00 p.m.

WHERE:   144 W. 27th Street, Apt 5F
New York, NY 10001

The building is between Sixth and Seventh Avenues; closest subway stop is 28th Street and 7th Avenue on the no. 1 line; 28th Street on the Broadway line (N and R trains) is also pretty convenient. Slightly further away but still at walkable distance are 23rd Street and 8th Avenue (C and E trains) and 23rd Street and 6th Avenue (F train). 5th Floor

HOW MUCH:   Free—but of course, the chance to get the author’s dedication in your own book copy is a wonderful opportunity!

RSVP:   RSVP to Helen Thurston ’74 at jclosk@earthlink.net by May 15

SOLD OUT: For wait list please e-mail Helen Thurston jclosk@earthlink.net with your name and class year.

Please come to a very special red Bordeaux wine tasting conducted by Harriet Lembeck, President of the Wine & Spirits Program, in her historic town house. Thanks to a generous Bryn Mawr alumna donor, a selection of great Bordeaux will be offered. Led by the renowned wine educator Harriet Lembeck, CWE, also a Bryn Mawr alumna, the formal wine tasting will compare top chateaux from both the right bank and the left bank of Bordeaux. Guests are welcome; tickets are very limited and offered on a first come, first served basis.

Proceeds of this event will support the work of the Bryn Mawr Club of New York City.

WHAT:   Bordeaux Tasting: Selections from a Great Private New York Wine Cellar

WHEN:   Thursday, May 7th at 5:30 p.m.

WHERE:   Rose Hill Historic House
203 East 29th Street (between Second and Third Avenues)
New York, NY 10016
Number 6 subway train or Third Avenue bus numbers 101,102,103 to 28th Street

HOW MUCH:  $120 ($115 plus PayPal fee of approximately $5). First come, first served. Click here to register via PayPal:

QUESTIONS:    Contact Helen Thurston ’74 jclosk@earthlink.net for more information.

Join Bonni-Dara Michaels ’77 for a specially curated tour of three fascinating exhibits at Yeshiva University Museum located just off Union Square in Manhattan. The exhibits are:
Echoes of the Borscht Belt: Contemporary Photographs by Marisa Scheinfeld
Modeling the synagogue from Dura to Touro
Shabbat – Inside and Out

RSVP to Helen Thurston at jclosk@earthlink.net  AND register at the link below by March 11, 2015.

For more information including travel instructions visit: Yeshiva University Museum’s webpage at www.yumuseum.org

Suggested donation of $20 to cover museum admission, a small contribution to the Club and PayPal fees.

Click HERE to pay by PayPal

Rebecca Perkins BMC ’02, makeup artist in film and television and co-founder of the makeup salon, Rouge New York will once again host us for a day of beauty services. Individual services from the menu at http://www.rougeny.com/services/ and a special event deal will be available for attendees. Light refreshments will be served.

Contact Pamela Feuer ’83 with questions at pf2121@nyc.rr.com

WHAT:   A Day of Beauty

WHEN:    Saturday, January 24, 11:00 a.m.– 2:00 p.m.

WHERE:   Rouge New York
130 Thompson Street, New York, NY 10012
(between Houston St and Prince St, Soho)
http://www.rougeny.com

HOW MUCH:
Individual beauty service costs and gratuities payable to Rouge NY

Bryn Mawr Club of NYC dues and voluntary donations will be gratefully accepted

RSVP: 

RSVP to Pamela Feuer ’83 at mailto:pf2121@nyc.rr.com

BOOK SALON SERVICES directly online at http://www.secure-booker.com/Rougeny/MakeAppointment/Search.aspx Use PROMO CODE: BMCRouge

A special reception with food, wine and conversation will follow the performance!

Inspired by the 1960 short story by James Hurst, The Scarlet Ibis is a new American opera that explores the pain and wonder of childhood. The piece fuses singers, puppets, and nimble, multimedia stagecraft to evoke a primal, dreamlike landscape where two brothers struggle over the meaning of normal.

Home to New York City’s most imaginative live performance experiences, HERE produces work that is affordable, challenging and alternative. They give audiences the chance to be part of something new and fresh. This eclecticism makes HERE undefinable at its core, and entirely unforgettable. HERE is proud to have Bryn Mawr alum Bethany Haynes lead their efforts as their esteemed Board Chair.

WHAT: Special evening at HERE with a Performance of The Scarlet Ibis, followed by a reception.

WHEN: Tuesday, January 13, 7:00 p.m.

WHERE: HERE
145 Sixth Avenue
Entrance on Dominick Street, one block south of Spring Street

RSVP: To buy tickets, click here and choose the “Bryn Mawr Club” $50 Ticket Option.

Mingle with friends and enjoy wine and nibbles at the beautiful Park Avenue apartment of Gurdon Howells Metz ’52. See Richard Tsao’s lovely and colorful creations — and pick up gifts for yourself or someone special. NEW designs at attractive prices!

Richard Tsao designs are shown at august venues such as the gift shops of the Metropolitan Opera, Asia Society and Museum of Modern Art. The Club is thrilled to bring his designs, including those specially created for us, to our guests at a range of prices to suit all. A portion of the proceeds will be donated to the Bryn Mawr Club of New York City to support the work of the Club on behalf of the College.

WHAT: Holiday Party and Richard Tsao Trunk Show

WHEN: Saturday, December 6, 12:00 – 6:00 PM

WHERE: Apartment of Gurdon Howells Metz ’52
580 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10065
(Between 63rd and 64th Streets)

6 Train at 68th Street; F Train at Lexington Avenue & 63rd Street; Bus Numbers 1, 3, 4, 98, 101, 102, 103

RSVP: RSVP to Helen Thurston ’74 at jclosk@earthlink.net

WHAT: Career Event: How To Deal with Office Politics
WHEN: Tuesday, November 18, 7:00 – 9:00 p.m.
WHERE: Kellen Board Room, WNET Offices, 825 8th Avenue, 14th Floor, New York, NY 10019

Join the Bryn Mawr Club of New York City for our next career event, How To Deal with Office Politics, featuring Cori Ashworth, Bryn Mawr College Director of Alumnae Career Engagement. Office politics are fraught with challenges for all of us in the world of work, and all organizations have them. We will look at models for analyzing the root cause of the situation and design your strategy for best addressing the challenges in an office situation. Learning to handle office politics well is essential in your quiver of career skills; it can make a significant difference as you progress in your organization. As usual, this will be an interactive workshop and we will draw on each other’s wisdom as well as apply new information from the evening.
Click here to register for the event.

The names of registered participants will be on the attendee list given to security in the lobby. Please check in with security when you arrive. You will need to show them a photo ID. If you have any trouble getting in, please ask security to call Janice Fuld ’88, our hostess at WNET.

For further information on this program call Janet Sachs, Career Rep., Bryn Mawr Club of NYC, at 917-526-2383.

In addition to the program, as part of the Alumnae Association’s career programming, Cori will be offering 50-minute appointments for career coaching. These appointments will be offered at her midtown hotel, SpringHill Suites, New York Midtown Manhattan/5th Avenue on November 17 from 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. and November 18 from 9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. Alums should plan to arrive about 5 minutes early to check in at the hotel front desk.

Click here to register for appointments.

Every year, local Bryn Mawr College alumnae clubs host informal gatherings to welcome our most recent graduates to the Bryn Mawr alumnae community. Welcome to the City provides opportunities for recent alumnae of ’14 and ’13 to reconnect with classmates, network, and to make new friends. Come meet the Board of The Bryn Mawr Club of New York City, and enjoy tea, light refreshments, and conversation as well as job networking advice. This year’s New York City Club gathering will be a Tea on Sunday, October 12th from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. The event will be hosted by Marcia Young Cantarella ’68 in her gracious apartment once featured in the New York Times. Marcia’s home is on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, which is accessible to many forms of public transportation.

WHEN: Sunday, October 12, 4:00 – 6:00 p.m.

WHERE: The apartment of Marcia Canterella ’68
144 West 86th St. – between Amsterdam and Columbus Avenues
New York, NY 10024

Public Transportation:
Subway: 1 to Broadway and 86th; C and B to 86th and Central Park West
Bus: M10 to Central Park West and 86th Street; M86 to Amsterdam or Columbus; M11 & M7 along Columbus Avenue going downtown; M11 along Amsterdam Avenue going uptown; or M104 along Broadway

HOW MUCH: Free – though voluntary dues and contributions for The Bryn Mawr Club of New York City will be accepted.

REGISTER: Contact the Alumnae Association to register.

Come see a one-hour documentary, excellently produced and fascinating about a remarkable man who worked behind the scenes, advised presidents, and moved the needle in a difficult time. His daughter, Marcia Young Canterella ’68, will lead a Q & A after the screening and there will be a reception with light refreshments and drink. The WNET Channel 13 studios will host us and you will enjoy being in the midst of Lincoln Center where the city’s cultural and artistic leaders gather.

This year is the 60th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education and the 50th Anniversary of the Civil Rights Act and the Club is delighted to host this documentary with the involvement of Marcia Cantarella. With a fascinating career in education, she has served as Associate Dean at Hunter College, a Dean at Princeton University and part of the Dean’s staff at New York University’s College of Arts and Science. She is the author of I Can Finish College and advises on inclusion and educational matters.

For more information on the film, see the article in the New York Times.

RSVP to Helen Thurston ’74 at jclosk@earthlink.net. Please include class year.

Please join the Bryn Mawr Club for a very special May Day Celebration! Strawberries, Cream, and Critique: Education and its Discontents, with Dr. Hanna Holborn Gray.

Come and celebrate May Day with your college friends and a legendary academic leader who once said, “The greatest danger, large because also least tangible and most wasting, would be to engage in an apparently principled descent to decent mediocrity.”

Hanna Holborn Gray ’50 is known for her leadership in many fields: academic, administrative, intellectual and institutional. She is the recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian award, and the 1997 M. Carey Thomas Award among many others. Born in Germany, and raised in New Haven after her family sought exile form Nazi Germany, she entered Bryn Mawr College at 15, and upon graduation travelled to Oxford as a Fulbright scholar. After receiving her PhD degree from Harvard in 1957, she taught there for several more years, being promoted to assistant professor in 1959.

She met her husband Charles Montgomery Gray in a Renaissance history seminar while both were graduate students at Harvard. Hanna Gray received tenure at the University of Chicago in 1964, and taught Western Civilization as well as other graduate and undergraduate classes on Renaissance and Reformation Europe. She is an academic scholar of renown with special interests in the history of humanism, political and historical thought, church history and politics in the Renaissance and the Reformation.

Gray rose to prominence as an administrator after she was appointed to a committee to investigate whether a professor had been denied tenure because of her gender and political sympathies. Recognition of Gray’s administrative acumen led to her being named dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Northwestern University in 1972, one of many appointments she was to hold as the first woman in a position. Gray’s reputation as an administrator was enhanced at Yale where she was provost and professor of history from 1974 to 1978, and then served as acting president for 14 months.

Returning to the University of Chicago as President in 1978 in a time of deficits and retrenchment, with balancing the budget one of her first tasks, Gray worked to strengthen the University’s historical commitment to scholarship. The problems to be faced were real: erosion of material resources, inflation, changing demographic trends, shifting policies and attitudes of external sources of support, and narrowing opportunities for young scholars. But the greatest danger, she said in her inaugural address, “would be to engage in an apparently principled descent to decent mediocrity.”

After planning and presiding over a year-long celebration of the University’s hundredth anniversary, Gray retired at the end of June 1993, making her 15-year tenure as president the third longest, and one of the most productive, in the history of the University, where she now holds the position of President Emeritus.

Gray’s most recent publication is Searching for Utopia: Universities and Their Histories, published by the University of California Press in 2011.

The information above is excerpted, with editing, from the University of Chicago’s Office of the President website which cites the The University of Chicago Centennial Catalogues, Special Collections Research Center, The University of Chicago Library, with additional information provided by the University of Chicago News Office.

More information can be found on Hanna Gray’s biography on the University of Chicago’s History Department’s website.

WHAT:   May Day Party and Talk by Hanna Holborn Gray ’50

WHEN:   Sunday, May 4, 12:00 – 2:00 p.m.

WHERE:   The home of Dr. Eugenie Birch ’65
765 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10021

HOW MUCH:   While this event is free, we ask that you consider Club membership dues to support NYC alumnae activities. And if you would consider a contribution to support a Bryn Mawr College summer internship in New York, we would be grateful!

RSVP:   RSVP to Helen Thurston ’74 at jclosk@earthlink.net by April 25. Please include class year.

Photos from the event are here: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10152086832093176.1073741827.146589958175&type=1