2021 Join Us Online Annual Prytanean Meeting and Afternoon Tea Hosted Virtually Over Zoom Saturday, May 1St, 2021 4:00 P.M
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PRYTANEAN ALUMNAE, INC. DEDICATED TO EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION Spring 2021 Join Us Online Annual Prytanean Meeting and Afternoon Tea Hosted Virtually Over Zoom Saturday, May 1st, 2021 4:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. Featuring: Professor Henrike Lange, 2020 Faculty Award Winner Honoring: The Class of ’70 and ’71, 50 Year Membership Milestone Announcing: The 2021 Faculty Award and Student Scholarships Congratulating: Graduating Seniors, Class of 2021 Pre Covid Prytaneans 2020 Including: Our Business Meeting and Board Member Election Prytanean Emergency Student Grant This year, we will meet for a virtual afternoon tea instead of our traditional in-person brunch. We look forward to seeing you online! Prytaneans have always come together to face a challenge. In the wake of COVID-19, in-person classes and social meetings were cancelled, some suddenly How to RSVP moved away from the campus, and others lost tuition Your RSVP must include an email address so we can send you Zoom funding. In recognition of the significant disruption in meeting login instructions. the lives of University of California, Berkeley scholars, RSVP by Mail Postmarked by Thursday, April 22, 2021: Prytanean Alumnae set aside $5,000 for a limited number of $200 individual grants to current members Mail your RSVP with the form in this newsletter to: of the Prytanean Women’s Honor Society and those Prytanean Alumnae, Inc., P.O. Box 5006, Berkeley, CA 94705-2712 who were invited to become Prytanean members but RSVP Online by Monday, April 19, 2021: whose initiation was disrupted due to COVID-19. These grants were not intended to be used for routine expenses. https://tinyurl.com/2e43ka3r Rather, requests were for urgent and unforeseeable needs such as unanticipated food, toiletries, or medication Please direct any questions to [email protected] (continues on page 5) About Our Featured Speaker: Professor Henrike Christiane Lange Professor Henrike Christiane Lange holds a joint appointment in UC Berkeley’s Departments of History of Art and Italian Studies. She specializes in Italian and European medieval and early modern art, architecture, history, visual culture, and literature in relation to the Mediterranean. She has a second area of expertise in nineteenth and twentieth century historiography, literature, and art in Europe and the United States. Her scholarship focuses on questions of perspective, narrative, medium, materiality, and spirituality in specific historical contexts. After studying art history and Romance studies (Italian language and literature, linguistics) in Hamburg and Vienna (2000-2008), Henrike Lange moved to the United States to conduct her graduate work in art history at Yale University (2009-2015) and joined Berkeley’s faculty in 2015 as Assistant Professor in the Departments of History of Art and Italian Studies. —Andrea Rice, ’13 Programs, Events & Prizes Chair Professor Henrike Christiane Lange Message from the President Prytanean Alumnae Board This past year has been one of absolute astonishment. The contents of this newsletter reflect our 2020–2021 immersion in the global pandemic and the unpredictable change we Prytaneans went through. Once everyone found out about the danger of spreading COVID-19, we couldn’t meet in person, President and soon much of the University was shut down. We postponed, and then canceled, our beloved Maria Protti ’79 Annual Meeting and Spring Brunch in March. Programs, Events, & Prizes Chair The students faced hurdles. Some were in a scramble to move back home, to acclimate to Andrea Rice ’13 long-distance lessons, and to absorb unexpected job and financial loss. And so, in early April, the Board decided to help and for two semesters made small emergency grants to Prytanean students in Chief Financial Officer need. Anh Tran ’06 And we carried on. We held the Prytanean Homecoming Lecture, our initiation ceremony, and Corporate Secretary the Faculty Award Reception on-line over the Internet. Isabella Brandes ’17 Andrea Roth, Professor of Law, gave the Prytanean Homecoming Lecture—COVID-19 and Criminal Trials: Lessons for the Future. She focused on the impact of the pandemic on the courts. Treasurer Angela Dai ’15 Court administrators are creating procedures to operate through video-conferencing while ensuring the accuracy of evidence, and upholding the appearance of justice and the integrity of law. A significant Faculty Award Chair problem is that jurors can’t assemble in the courtroom. To dissuade her audience from believing that Phyllis Tien ’86 the courts were handling an unencountered situation, Professor Roth showed a photograph of a San Francisco Court conducting proceedings outdoors to counter the 1918 virus. Her timely presentation Student Awards Chair garnered many compliments and hundreds signed-up for the lecture. Michelle Nie ’17 We welcomed twenty-seven newly initiated members into our fold including four honorary Campus Projects Chair members: La Dawn C. Duvall, Executive Director, Visitor and Parent Services; Henrike Christiane Tina Cheung ’07 Lange, Assistant Professor of the History of Art and Italian Studies; Tsu-Jae King Liu, Dean of the College of Engineering and Roy W. Carlson Professor of Engineering; and Elaine C. Tennant, Webmaster Director of the Bancroft Library and Professor of German. Jessica Taio ’11 Chancellor Carol Christ co-sponsored our Faculty Award Reception, and congratulated our Honor Society Liaison newest faculty award recipient, Professor Henrike Christiane Lange. It did not go unnoticed that Christine “Cici” Ambrosio ’95, Hon. ’03 Professor Lange had positioned a gorgeous bright yellow tea rose near her when she acknowledged her award—a hat tip to the long-stem roses that we use traditionally in our initiations. Professor Lange Cal Alumni Association Liaison Cassidie Carmen Bates’19 engaged us at the virtual reception with showings of gorgeous pictures of medieval/renaissance art and buildings in Italy. Campus Liaison We were pleased that California, the Cal Alumni magazine, devoted its Fall 2000 issue to the Maya Goehring-Harris ’99, Hon. ’16 sesquicentennial of women matriculating at Cal. The issue was meant, as the editor of the magazine Honor Society President said—to put the “her” back into Cal’s history and focus on “truly extraordinary” Cal alumnae. The Alexandra Tien-Smith ’21 issue featured a timeline of women connected to Cal with a short description of the founding of the Prytanean Society (page 27, “150 years of Women at Cal”). Known to us, and not the editor, is Immediate Past President the astounding fact that twenty-six women named in the timeline are Prytaneans. Our members are Kristen Lee ’12 represented on the timeline in every decade since Prytanean began in the academic year 1900 – 1901. ¶ß Everyone who made contributions of their time or donated to Prytanean over the last year deserves applause. Special thanks go to our hard-working Board members who worked almost Newsletter Editor exclusively online. Samantha Yates Francois ’91 Join me in taking pleasure in the fact that, in the past year, Prytanean women continued their steadfast pledge to serve the University of California. The Prytanean Society remained active and productive, and maneuvered well in the face of the pandemic. I am certain that Prytaneans will continue to be of service to Cal beyond our 125th Anniversary which will occur in four years. —Maria Protti ’79, President Alumna Spotlight: Jennifer Prah Ruger Jennifer Prah Ruger ’88 has been in the news lately. She is in demand as a speaker on global political responses to COVID-19, and shares her theory of Provincial Globalism with news outlets and at academic seminars. Her theory posits that humanitarianism cannot defeat COVID-19, the “worst global crisis since the Second World War,” because it is not based on empowering collective action. A Professor of Health Equity, Economics, and Policy at the University of Pennsylvania, she believes that there is a Jennifer Prah Ruger need for global standards of responsibility and accountability. Professor Prah Ruger traveled widely in Asia and Africa researching health policy, and wrote over 100 articles and three books. The United Nations, the U.S. Government, the World Bank, and the World Health Organization have cited her work. In addition to her bachelor’s degree from Cal, she holds advanced degrees from Oxford University, Yale University, and Harvard University. —Maria Protti ’79, President Fall 2020 Community Service Cardmaking Thank You: Cleo Johnson Gibson In Memoriam Cleo Gibson ‘50, who passed away recently, generously bequeathed $10,000 to our organization. Sadly we did not have an opportunity to thank Cleo because the gift MARY LOU WILLIS BERG ’52 came as a surprise. Cleo Johnson, as she was then called on campus, studied Business BARBARA SHANKS COPELAND ’44 Administration and was very involved in student government. She was one of the SYLVIA ADAMS DOBROW ’55 students who welcomed newcomers and made them feel at home on campus. This was not part of some quick orientation at the beginning of a school term. Cleo Johnson led JOAN ZUBER EARLE ’53 a group of women who initially greeted students at orientation, and then checked-up ELOISE PHELPS JEFFRIES ’53 on the new students guiding them throughout the school year and inviting them often CLEO JOHNSON GIBSON ’50 to Cal activities. For many young arrivals at Cal, her efforts prevented loneliness and HEIDI ALTORFER GILLIES ’59 home-sickness. We are greatful for her support. We all can be proud of Cleo. MARJORIE GUNDERSON GLICKSMAN ’53 —Maria Protti ’79, President MARION PIERCE HARRIS ’50 ANN “DEAN” HAWLEY ’54 VIRGINIA CARPENTER REI ’48 Oral Histories SANDRA PAMPHILON REYNOLDS ’57 Newly available at our website <prytanean.org> are links to transcripts of interviews BETTY BARTON SHAFER ’41 of Cal Prytanean members. The transcripts, part of the holdings of the general DIANNE DOWNS STREET ’73 UC Berkeley Oral History collection, are full-text searchable. Among them are BETTY LOU TAYLOR ’38 “Conversations with Willa Baum, Director of the Oral History Office, UC Berkeley, JANET HUGHES TOWLER ’44 1958 – 2000.” Willa Baum was a national pioneer in the field of oral history.