JYF ALUMNI MAGAZINE in Paris

NUMBER 44 DECEMBER 2017 Dear Sweet Briar JYF in Paris Alumni,

Greetings from Virginia! Even before I started my post as the 13th president of Sweet Briar College, I had a chance to visit our Paris program in Reid Hall and meet with the superb staff and students there. I want to tell you that I am most proud and gratified that our program, soon entering its eighth decade, is as robust and excellent as ever. Our program is also iconic. It is due in part to history, having pioneered study abroad in Paris. But there is no gainsaying that our program’s insistence on the highest level of excellence and proficiency sets it apart from other programs. Our long tradition of championing multicultural perspectives—American, French, European, and global—is also noteworthy. The internship offerings through JYF prepare our students well for their global future, and the host family network humanizes and enriches the student experience. In order to continue and build upon these strengths, JYF will need to rely on the social and professional network of its alumni. As you probably know, the alumnae at Sweet Briar have made history in American higher education by coming together to support their college. With your help, we can show that the same indomitable and generous spirit ensures the future of JYF. As we look forward to celebrating our 70th anniversary, we hope you will come visit us. We will keep you posted of the plans for the anniversary.

With best regards,

Meredith Woo President of Sweet Briar College JYF ALUMNI MAGAZINE in Paris contents Letter from the President of Sweet Briar College inside front cover

Letter from the Director 2

Message from the JYF Virginia office 2

JYF at a Glance 3

Confessions of a Francophile A memory by Joe Carroll, JYF 1859-60, Univ. of Virginia 4

Returning Home After a Year in Paris (Excerpt) by Jane Rather Thiébault, JYF 1956-57, Sweet Briar College 5

Touched by Genius (Excerpt) by Rick Hauser, JYF 1959-60, Yale University 5

Mots d’Étudiants — “La Vie en France” Excerpts from JYF student posts on Le Blog 6

My internship in a Paris research hospital in bacteriology 8 by Cesar Dominguez, JYF Spring 2016, Williams College

On Being a Host Family for Sweet Briar College JYF in Paris Host Family Testimonials 8

Celebrating SBC-JYF 9 by David A. Bradt, JYF 1975-76, Northwestern University

50th Anniversary Reunion Plans for JYF Cohort 1968-69 9

Class Notes: Anniversary Years 10

Memories of My JYF Year (Excerpt) 10 by Nan Tull Wezniak, JYF 1957-58, Wellesley College

Studying In The Midst of La Révolution de mai 68 12 JYF in Paris NUMBER 44 DECEMBER 2017 Studying Abroad in Paris. Did You Know? 17 Researched and edited by Kim Wood, Re-connect with JYF 17 Pat Wydner Marie Grée Class Notes: Other Years 18 Juliette Monet In Memoriam 19 Content submitted by JYF alumni and current students 2017 Contributors to the JYF Scholarship and Financial Aid Funds 20 Designed by Nancy Marion What did JYF teach you? inside back cover

1 Message from the FROM THE DIRECTOR JYF Virginia office If you have not been to Paris in a while, the next time you come I suspect you will be Dear JYF Alumni, delighted by the urban renewal that has taken place since Anne Hidalgo became mayor We were thrilled to hear in 2014. The first woman to hold the post, she is a tireless champion of “green” Paris, a from so many of you in pedestrian-friendly, bike-friendly city in the heart of Europe. It’s not only the energy that response to the survey is cleaner: the city’s heritage has been scrubbed and freshly gilded and it shines. And we sent out! Surveys were with the coming of the Olympic games in 2024, the pace of renovating and improving sent to those celebrating the City of Light has only increased. anniversary years and As beautiful as Paris is, it remains a vibrant, living city with a heterogeneous popula- for whom we have email tion that for the most part lives together harmoniously. The texture of the town is more addresses. Thank you for international and humanistically tolerant than ever. Its panoply of cultures is, today, one allowing us to re-connect of Paris’ great strengths, from the Tamil neighborhoods of La Chapelle to the Chinese with many of you. We look at Place d’Italie, and from the West African world of Château Rouge to the Algerian en- forward to hearing from claves of Ménilmontant, with literally hundreds of nationalities in between. more of you in the future. Culturally, Paris is a “Movable Feast” this fall: In addition to the numerous seasonal A link to The JYF Alumni fashion shows there is a spectacular Dior exhibit at the Musée des Arts décoratifs. Irving Survey can be found at jyf. Penn and Gauguin both have big shows at the Grand Palais, which ran in tandem with sbc.edu. Feel free to email this year’s FIAC (Foire internationale d’art contemporain). The FIAC presented, as every or call us anytime! year, a world-wide survey of contemporary art including dozens of free performances and installations. And if you would like to see the MoMA’s greatest hits of modernism, Pat Wydner’s retirement! this fall you can do it at the Fondation Louis Vuitton while experiencing its acclaimed new building designed by Frank Gehry. And there is so much more: Rubens at the Mrs. Pat Musée du Luxembourg; Derain, Balthus and Giacometti at the Musée d’Art Moderne; Wydner Sophie Calle at the Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature—and this is the short list! retired in Of course, the heritage we live with is as spectacular as ever, and who doesn’t love a October walk around the Ile St. Louis as the sun sets on the Seine? Such an inspiring promenade 2017 after is now improved by pedestrian zones on both banks, from Bercy to the Tour Eiffel and serving beyond, but a walk around La Villette in the 20th arrondissement may be more illustra- nearly tive of other recent changes. First, you would notice a serious reduction in the traffic, 50 years with all that implies for the quality of the air and ambient noise. There are bike lanes ev- with Sweet Briar College erywhere, and the Canal de l’Ourcq has been cleaned and is now open for public swim- and the Junior Year in ming! Many neighborhoods have recovered their village-like feel without the constant France program in various roar of automobiles. Once again we can hear birds, church bells, footsteps and the sing- capacities. Pat was a song cries of the market vendors. La Villette has aged well in the last 30 years since it tremendous resource to was built; there are museums, concert halls and a variety of public spaces where people our office, having assisted gather to play music and sports and to dance. It is a successful vision of a multicultural, with sending more than tolerant world, an inspiring example of what urban harmony can be. 5,000 students to Paris Our program has changed too with the times, but it remains what it was in the sense and Nice. She worked with that students still receive the same full immersion in French culture, the university sys- six JYF directors and nine tem and family life that we have always offered. Today our students are more multidis- Sweet Briar presidents, ciplinary than ever before: they take courses at the Sorbonne that cover humanities, representing decades of sciences (biology, math, physics, chemistry…), economics and business! The time when institutional memory for 95 percent of our students majored in humanities has evolved, but the core interest in JYF. It will take two of us to French language and culture is something all the students still have in common. Many fill her shoes! junior-year-abroad programs have taken the easy road in recent years with classes in Pat’s constant cheeriness, English, and very short stays, but we still feel that anything less than what we make avail- diligence, energy, and able means missing something important: the experience that all our alumni share of humor will be sorely “deep” France, a France that the tourists will never know. Full immersion and high aca- missed. In retirement, demic standards are still the rule at JYF. she is enjoying spending Next year we will celebrate our 70th anniversary! A great celebration is in the works, time with her children, and we will keep you informed as our plans progress. If you have any thoughts about grandchildren and great- this incredible milestone, please don’t hesitate to contact us. We hope to see you, or at grandchildren. We wish her least hear from you, in the very near future! well. Marie Grée, Ph.D. Juliette and Kim Director, JYF in Paris Sweet Briar College

2 JYF AT A GLANCE 2014–2018

STUDENT RACE DURATION AND ETHNICITY STUDENT GENDER OF STUDY White 65% Women 82% Hispanic (White) 9% Fall Asian 8% Men 17% Black or African-American 6% American Indian or Alaska Native 1% Other 1% 43% Multiracial 11% Spring

Multiracial: Amer Ind or Alaska Nat /Asian/Nat Haw or Other 42% Pac.Is/White, American Indian or Alaska Native/ SUBJECTS OF STUDY White, Black or African American/Hispanic, White/ Asian/Black or African American, Black or African Writing Workshop (SBC) 20% Year American/White, American Indian or Alaska Native/ Literature 18% White/Hispanic, Asian/Black or African American, Asian/White, American Indian or Alaska Native/His- History 16% 15% panic Art history 15% European studies / Pol. Sci. 9% Average student Theatre (SBC) 6% GPA 60% Cinema / Communications 3% 3.52 DOUBLE MAJORS Sciences 3% Social sciences 2% Linguistics 2% Economics / Management 2% Average percentage of students TOP 10 MAJORS History / Geography 1% doing an internship French/Literature/ Greek / Latin 1% Francophone studies 37% English 7% Philosophy 1% 36% Psychology 6% English / U.S. studies 1% International relations/studies 6% Political science 5% Top 10 participating U.S. Mathematics 4% Biology 4% Students Registered at JYF’s Paris COLLEGES AND History 4% UNIVERSITIES Business 2% PARTNER Communications/Journalism 2% INSTITUTIONS Amherst 9.7% Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle 21% Kenyon 8.1% STUDENT COUNTRIES Williams 7.6% Paris IV-Paris-Sorbonne 30% OF CITIZENSHIP Northwestern 7.0% Paris VII-Denis Diderot 14% USA 80% Rice 7.0% Dual: USA/Other 11% Paris-Dauphine 1% Lafayette 6.5% Other: 5% Institut Catholique de Paris 1% Connecticut 5.4% China 3% Art workshops and studios 2% Haverford 5.4% Other: Australia, Burundi , Canada , Colombia, Ethiopia, Greece, Honduras, Liberia, New Zealand, Sweet Briar College JYF courses 31% Washington & Lee 4.3% Serbia, Spain, United Kingdom Wheaton 4.3%

3 learned a lesson at the Confessions Louvre I will I never forget. of a Francophile PART 5 By Christmas I was settling in to the daily rhythm of Paris. My roommate and I would usually wake up to the delicious aroma of a large café au lait placed alongside a hot croissant with a small saucer of butter and marmalade. Elise, Madame Gilbert’s maid, would tiptoe into our room and place this breakfast tray on the nightstand that was only inches away from our head. Before we could shave we had to light a gas heater in the bathroom and wait for the water to get hot. Even this annoying task became routine after a few weeks. As George (my roommate) and I did not take the same classes we would usually go our separate ways and not see one another until we returned late afternoon. George was a history major and enrolled at the Sciences Po (student slang for Politi- was open to the public. Monsieur Mona Lisa. (This was the 1950s when cal Science). I was a liberal arts major Serullaz would lead us to the gallery it was felt that having nearby security so I took courses in literature and art. of the paintings we were studying that guards to caution about getting too It was less than a half hour’s walk to week. He would tell us about the artist, near to the painting was sufficient). most of my classes so I enjoyed savor- explain his technique and discuss its The art student was painting an exact ing the sounds, sights and smells of importance. A couple of days later copy of this world-famous painting. Paris. I loved looking into the various we would meet in a classroom in the Monsieur Serullaz explained that part little shops, practicing my French by Louvre and he would show us slides of an art student’s training was to study trying to remember the names of the of the paintings we had seen earlier the technique of the artist using the products I saw in the store fronts. The in the week and ask us to analyze same oils and compounds as the Mas- French word for window shopping is them. It did not take me long to pick ter would have used in the era it was lèche-vitrine (window licking). Very ap- up on his favorite descriptive words: painted. This might even entail grind- propriate for the delicious breads and luminosity and juxtaposition. I’m not ing up charcoal or other ingredients pastries on display. I marveled at how a sure if he realized how often he used to mix with the paint. The copy should small army of street cleaners clad in the these words. When asked to analyze a be as close to the original as possible. ubiquitous French-blue tops and pants, painting I would study it with the best “Then,” said Monsieur Serullaz, “if you sweeping debris into a moving stream critical look I could muster, then wisely want to become a Jackson Pollock and of water flowing in the gutters, could state, “Cette peinture a une certaine throw buckets of paint on a canvas and keep a big city like Paris so clean. The luminosité...” or “La composition et la call it art, you are free to express your- stories and pictures of daily French life juxtaposition des divers personnages self as you like.” I remembered from my first-year high est vraiment remarquable” (The This is a lesson I never forgot. It ap- school textbook were coming to life on composition and juxtapostion of the plied to my teaching years when I told my daily walks. various figures in this painting is truly my students that they must learn the I enrolled in a course in 19th- and remarkable). Monsieur Serullaz was basic principles of the subject we were 20th-century art taught by Maurice always quick to compliment me for my studying before I would allow them to Serullaz, a curator at the Louvre and a astute observations. express their own thoughts. This lesson specialist in French Impressionism. The One morning, as we walked through applied to business, as well, when I lat- class met twice a week. The first class one of the galleries, we came upon er left the academic world for a career started at 9 a.m. before the museum some art students, with paint brushes, in advertising and publishing. easel and canvas set up in front of During the last month of class, Mon- A MEMORY BY JOE CARROLL several of the paintings. One young sieur Serullaz left the confines of the JYF 1959-60, UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA artist was less than 10 feet from the Louvre and took us to the Musée du

4 Jeu de Paume to study French Impres- sionism. In those days, impressionist Confessions paintings were exhibited in what was once a tennis court constructed by PART 5 Napoleon III in the mid-19th century. of a Francophile It was located next to the Place de la Concorde. In 1986 the paintings were moved to the Musée d’Orsay, a much larger building nearby on the Seine. Monsieur Serullaz was now in his ele- ment. His enthusiasm for Impression- Leaving the USA on the SS America to be a ism so inspired me that it is still my guide at the Brussels Fair favorite art period. Returning Home After a Year in Touched by Genius (excerpt) The last week of class he took us to Paris 1956-57 (excerpt) By Rick Hauser, JYF 1959-60, the Musée d’Art Moderne to expose us By Jane Rather Thiébaud, JYF 1956-57, Yale University to contemporary art. As we walked past Sweet Briar College the numerous abstract paintings, Se- Now, I did warn you that my memories rullaz tried to feign appreciation for this During my senior year at Sweet Briar, are layered and multi-vocal, didn’t I? genre of art, but when one of my class- I attended a social gathering for in- So it is in that spirit that I tell you the mates asked him what he personally ternational students from the nearby scholarly apparatus itself is attenuated thought of a particular work, with typ- men’s colleges, including the University and leavened by my apprenticeship ical Gallic disdain for all things lacking of Virginia, Washington and Lee and in the world of French theater. Odd as good taste, he muttered, “It is nothing others. This event took place at the that may seem, it is so because I can- more than beautiful wallpaper.” “Date House,” which was an on-cam- not divorce practice from experience. For my final exam I was asked to pus coffee shop and social center. For me, saying French is tantamount to critique Van Gogh’s “l’Eglise d’Auvers- When I asked the hostess if there were performing the language, hearkening sur-Oise.” As you would probably any students from France in atten- back to classical theater modes and, guess, I found a way to use luminosité dance, she said no, but told me about not coincidentally, to my first exposure and juxtaposition to score a grade of a young post-doctoral lawyer from the to theatrical experiment on Paris stages excellent on the test. French-speaking section of Switzerland — first at the Palais de Chaillot and le As I was rapidly approaching the known as Romandie who was there. It Théâtre National Populaire, and then at end of my junior year in college, I was there I met René-Blaise Thiébaud Châtelet and the Théâtre des Nations knew it was time to declare my major. (RBT). His very first remark to me was or the Théâtre Sarah-Bernhardt (Bar- I loved French language and literature, that he came from Switzerland, the old- nard Blier’s experiment), at the Odéon but what could I do with it other than est democracy in the world. In disbelief and the Théâtre de l’Athénée, at the teach? I had not considered the possi- I replied that it was America that held Huchette — many another salle across bility of becoming a teacher. Whenever this title. He laughed and said I needed the City of Light. someone would ask me what I was go- to know more about history. Little did The very great part of this experi- ing to do upon graduation I would tell I know then that five years later, RBT ence came about because of my year them I was going to law school. I never would become my husband with whom abroad under the auspices of SBC JYF. had any interest in law but it seemed I would move to Geneva, Switzerland. Kudos, Alfred Simon! You remem- like an honorable and interesting pro- ber, right? He was the prof’ for the fession. So whenever I was asked this [To read the full text of Sequel #2: theater course, whatever it was called. question in France, I replied with “Je French Influence in my Life, follow the We saw a lot. And this was often my vais faire du droit” (I am going to study link to the full story online.] very first exposure to European ex- law). It seemed like every time I said perimental theater. I knew The Living this, it evoked an indulgent chuckle. (Judith Malina, Julian Beck), of course, I couldn’t figure out why this was so and would at length be lucky enough amusing. Years later it was explained to be part of their last great strivings to me that it is the French expression in America. But the multifarious exper- for “I haven’t got a clue as to what I am imentation, this transgressive work in going to do.” In my case, it was entire- theater across boundaries, became real ly accurate. to me through what I saw / had seen in Simon’s class on theater in Paris.

[To read the full text of Touched by [To read the full blog go to Genius, follow the link to the full story foreverfrench.net] online.]

5 Mots d’Étudiants—“La Vie en France” Excerpts from JYF student posts on Le Blog See more of the JYF Blog at jyf.blog.sbc.edu

Comment je suis nostalgique de la puissance. Je trouve Le Jardin du Luxembourg est comme néanmoins cette obsession avec les une exposition des différents types de devenue (un peu) morts un peu étrange. Cependant, la Parisiens (et aussi des touristes, mais parisienne France est une puissance mondiale. Et ils ne m’intéressent pas). Quand je Emily Romero si tu as des doutes, il suffit simplement passe le portail, je vois les joggeurs, Rice University de regarder leurs monuments. (…) Une certains courent seuls et d’autres Je suis tombée amoureuse de ma autre raison d’aimer les Français : la avec leurs amis. Personne ne porte la routine du matin, les heures entre liberté d’expression. Ici on se critique à marque Lululemon, un vrai signe que lesquelles je me réveille et où j’arrive tour de bras. Toutes les conversations je ne suis plus aux États-Unis. Alors dans les locaux de Sweet Briar pour sont vraiment animées, voilà pourquoi que je marche à côté du Palais du mes cours d’orientation. Dans ce laps on dit qu’ils râlent tout le temps. (…) Ils Luxembourg, je regarde les gardes de temps, je peux donner l’impression ont le sang chaud, ils klaxonnent pour républicains. (…) Je vois des groupes (au moins, à mon avis) que je suis se titiller, ne cessent de te rappeler d’étudiants qui rient et puis des petits vraiment Parisienne, bien que je ne qu’ils sont Français, sont obsédés par enfants qui courent sur l’herbe. Quand me sois installée ici que depuis deux des choses minuscules comme des je m’approche de la sortie, j’observe semaines. (…) Quand je m’assieds tasses de café, des petites chaises, des aussi un échantillon de femmes dans le train, j’ouvre immédiatement petits café-restos, manger en petites parisiennes qui portent des manteaux un livre. Comme beaucoup de quantités. Coup de chapeau, par ici on chics et qui inspirent mes choix de Parisiens, je passe tout mon voyage ne gâche pas. mode. (…) à lire. Je cache la couverture du livre avec mes mains ; je ne veux pas que quelqu’un voie le titre en anglais et Un monde dans un jardin Montmartre Kelley Czajka Mary Kate Fox découvre mon secret. (…) Northwestern University Connecticut College Depuis mon premier jour à Paris, Bien que le métro ne soit pas aussi je suis enchantée par mon quartier. agréable que le bus comme mode J’habite dans le 5ème, le quartier de transport, je l’aime parce qu’il est latin, à cinq minutes à pied de Notre comme une téléportation. Hier, j’ai Dame et au coin de la rue du Jardin pris le métro à Montmartre. Quand du Luxembourg. Je me considère je suis sortie du métro, j’étais dans comme étant très chanceuse d’habiter un autre Paris. J’habite dans le dans ce bel endroit, particulièrement cinquième arrondissement. J’adore cet parce que la plus grande partie de arrondissement parce que beaucoup mon trajet jusqu’à Reid Hall se déroule de choses se produisent tout le dans le jardin, et c’est là où je vais temps. Il y a la Rue Mouffetard, une Ibrahim aux champs Elysées pour mieux comprendre les Parisiens. rue parisienne par excellence. (…) Lettre à ma mère Jardin du Luxembourg Ibrahim Nshimirimana Wheaton College Pour me dégourdir les jambes, je longe le Boulevard Ménilmontant et après 10 minutes environ je suis dans le Cimetière du Père Lachaise. Dans ce lieu de mémoire, reposent des grands noms comme BALZAC, BEAUMARCHAIS, MOLIERE, WILDE, MORRISON, PROUST, LA FONTAINE, et beaucoup d’autres. Cela se range dans la liste des choses qui montrent que la France est après tout

6 Manifestation Quand je suis allée à Montmartre, on chinoise le 4 septembre 2016 aurait dit une autre ville ! Il y a des arbres dans la rue, beaucoup de rues pavées et de touristes. Ce que j’ai préféré à Montmartre était la vue de Paris. (…) La meilleure partie était que ces mini vacances étaient dans ma propre ville et c’était à 45 minutes du métro. (…) C’est surprenant de voir à quel point je me sens à la maison ici et c’est réconfortant de savoir que je ne m’ennuierai jamais parce qu’il y a toujours de nouvelles parties de la ville à explorer, juste en un trajet en metro. Les journées du patrimoine Alexandria Marshall Northwestern University vraie langue française: l’argot. Quand un pays avec une identité étrangère. Aux Etats-Unis, il y a des stéréotypes on arrive à Paris, la langue est très (…) Comment une minorité peut-elle sur les Français qui les décrivent différente de la langue qu’on utilise en combattre l’influence des stéréotypes comme distants et impolis, mais classe. Elle peut être bouleversante. sur elle quand elle a du mal à une caractéristique qui n’est jamais On entendra le mot “truc” tout le communiquer avec les autres ? nommée est la fierté que les Français temps. Votre mère d’accueil peut ont pour leur pays. J’ai vu cette qualité, crier “la vache!”. Vos amis français La dégustation de vin et cette fierté, pendant le weekend peuvent dire que leur rendez-vous des Journées du Patrimoine. J’ai fait “était nickel”. Un homme peut fromage la queue au Sénat, à l’Assemblée appeler ses amis “les mecs”. Passer Jing Liang Nationale, et au Petit Palais pour du temps avec les jeunes français et Connecticut College participer, comme les Français, à cette votre famille d’accueil est la meilleure Je dois admettre que je ne pouvais pas petite fête. À la fin de la journée, façon d’apprendre l’argot et la langue manger de fromage avant de venir en j’avais mal aux pieds mais j’ai appris française familière. France.(…) Néanmoins, la dégustation et ai personnellement ressenti la fierté de vin et fromage à Tours m’a donné des Français. La manifestation envie de manger du fromage, comme je ne l’aurais jamais imaginé. (…) Zelda Zhao L’ADN culturel des Wheaton College Ma combinaison de vin et fromage La première manifestation que j’ai préférée est le Bordeaux Blanc avec français vue dans ma vie s’est déroulée à du Bleu, qui est, en fait, le fromage le Taylor Hale Paris le 4 septembre 2016. Cela m’a plus fort. Cette combinaison m’a tout Wheaton College beaucoup touchée parce que c’est la de suite plu, à ma grande surprise. Je Peut-être avez-vous visité Paris dans le communauté chinoise qui exprimait m’explique : le Bordeaux Blanc a un passé, ou peut-être que votre niveau son opinion pour demander plus de goût de vinaigre tandis que le bleu a de français est très bon. Malgré ça, sécurité. (…) Cette manifestation m’a un goût amer. rien ne peut vous préparer pour la fait réfléchir à l’idée de vivre dans

Le Sénat Jing Liang (Connecticut College) et Eryn Hoang (Wheaton)

7 SBC-JYF IN PARIS INTERNSHIPS

My internship in a Paris the internship was beneficial ings with Moïra Dalant were in laboratories outside the research hospital in because I submitted a CV also very helpful through the United States, but now my bacteriology and letter of motivation in process of writing my report outlook has broadened. In French. Mme Hervier was and preparing my presen- fact, I have been able to great in setting up my in- tation (in French). The two look for and identify other The internship was one of ternship, scheduling an ap- final assignments gave me institutes that focus on inter- the main attractions that pointment with the director the opportunity to synthe- disciplinary research across convinced me to apply to and accompanying me to size what I had learned and geographical borders. JYF. I was placed in the hos- the institute for the meeting. reflect on how laboratories pital laboratory at the Insti- Throughout the internship, vary between the United By Cesar Dominguez, tut Alfred Fournier, which she would touch base with States and France. Prior to JYF spring 2016, received dozens of samples me and make sure every- the internship, I would not Williams College, 2017 from patients each day to Major: Biology thing was going well. Meet- have considered working diagnose infectious diseases and determine an appro- priate antibiotic treatment. Additionally, we received samples of gonorrhea from the whole country for a na- tional study on the evolution of antibiotic resistance. I was content with spending 12 hours a week for 12 weeks in the laboratory working with microbes and learning new biochemical and instrumen- tal techniques. The experi- ence allowed me to have a better sense of work in an applied research laboratory that will aid me for future career decisions.

The process of applying to Cesar Dominguez at Giverny

JYF IN PARIS HOST FAMILY TESTIMONIALS On being a host family for Sweet Briar College JYF in Paris The Nemo family has been a “Sweet Briar family” for The Laval-Charvet family some time. I like welcoming young students and sharing with them Now that our three children have left the house, we gain a French life and French cooking, and helping them learn the great deal of joy from discovering new people and person- French language. alities, and people whom we have become very attached to. I am grateful for their presence, because it has exposed me We have built relationships with some of the students, but to many, diverse personalities. It’s an opportunity for person- also with some of their parents, whom we see regularly. al growth for both the student and me. [Hosting American students] has changed our perception Over the course of several months, [I notice] the student of the United States. We have realized that there is not one becomes more mature, their French improves (I don’t hesi- America, but several, with major differences between states. tate to correct them when necessary), and they begin to feel And just like in France, there is a big difference in attitudes more like a part of the family at home. between large urban centers and more rural areas. On the whole, we have been delighted with this experience, which has been — for us and I think for the students — a great opportunity for personal growth. Sweet Briar, by the way, maintains an excellent relationship with the families, which makes it much easier to welcome the students and live with them.

8 Celebrating SBC-JYF by David A. Bradt, JYF 1975-76 Northwestern University

The oldest coeducational intercolle- — lucky to explore the traditional joys incomplete. giate study-abroad program in Paris is of language skills, liberal arts studies, So, let us rededicate ourselves to celebrating new milestones: cultural mores, international friendships the pursuit of excellence offered by • Full restoration of endowed funds to and personal development. JYF. Let us embrace polylingualism the program This is a joy to observe. So, let us and multiculturalism as competencies celebrate with SBCJYF. necessary for the growth of individ- • Steady student enrollment since the Let us also recognize the inter- uals, institutions and nations. Let us annus horribilis of 2015 national context for study abroad is acknowledge the leadership role JYF • A full-time, permanent JYF director, changing. There are new challenges plays in fostering these competencies Marie Grée, maintaining program- to students and program officers alike. among its students as well as among matic continuity after serving a de- The number of complex emergencies, peer academic institutions. And let us cade as resident director internally displaced persons, refugees, believe that the moveable feast in Paris • Tenancy at Reid Hall with new a alli- famine threats and exported terrorist can inspire an individual to engage ance with Columbia University events is today at a post-WWII high. with international challenges, with The U.S. multilateralism exhibited since populations in distress, with bilateral SBCJYF is again demonstrating it WWII is being replaced by a strident and multilateral agencies, and thereby is superb at what it does — tailoring nationalism that links national security strive to make the world a better place. academic programs, convening French to increased military budgets at the ex- thought leaders, renewing host family pense of diplomacy and development. David Bradt networks, mobilizing student finan- Our appetite as well as our tools for cial support, creating internships and engagement are shrinking. Traditional David A. Bradt, M.D., MPH, DTM&H, SBCJYF 1975-76, is a disaster medicine specialist who teaching assistantships, or managing allies are estranged. The Asia pivot is serves as faculty at the Johns Hopkins Medical unexpected health emergencies and now U.S. policy. Institutions, health advisor to the USAID Office cross-cultural mishaps. Moreover, SBC SBCJYF students reflect these soci- of US Foreign Disaster Assistance, and health cluster coordinator to the World Health Organi- JYF is discharging its duties with a etal forces. Fewer students matriculate zation. time-honored kindness, consideration than in the past. They enroll for shorter and generosity of spirit. The traditions periods of time. Many dip into, rather The Bradt Family Fund also sponsors JYF’s annu- al multidisciplinary lecture series with contempo- of JYF instilled by Robert Marshall, than fully immerse in, the French uni- rary French thought leaders held in Paris. Emile Langlois, Margaret Scouten, etc., versity system. Their tolerance of se- are flowering again. curity threats is limited. Their linguistic So, SBCJYF students are again lucky and cultural skills on repatriation are

50th Anniversary Reunion Plans for JYF Cohort 1968-69 Salut! First, we hope to hear from you so we can include you in In 2018 we will mark the 50th anniversary of the begin- our growing list of interested folks. Second, we want to hear ning of our 1968-69 Junior Year Abroad in France (JYF). We from you with your ideas about how we should mark the heard from a number of members of our junior year cohort occasion. who saw the announcements in the most recent Sweet To help us gather information about your preferences Briar magazine already. It was thrilling to catch up. We are and whereabouts, please write to Meredith Ludwig (mer- reaching out once more to those of you who have not yet [email protected]) with a copy to Eric Allemano (eric.alle- contacted us. [email protected]). An informal committee from our program group has Thank you! We look forward to making plans together. been thinking about the timing of a dinner in New York and a trip to Paris, where we hope to participate in activities that — David Adams (Kenyon College); Eric Allemano (Kenyon remind us of our marvelous year. These events are likely to College); Daniel Gorrell (Miami University of Ohio); Bonnie be planned for October 2018. Halpern (Vassar College); Meredith Ludwig (UNC Greens- boro); Cheryl Mann (Dickinson College) Salut!

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textbooks: secondary school - from the School of the Museum 1957-58 French for Master: Discovering of Fine Arts, Boston, and have 60th anniversary French. Our three children all spent my life as a visual artist. (29 men, 55 women, 44 institutions) speak French and our eight Mary Ann (Frese) Witt, Professor-in-Charge: Armand Bégué, Brooklyn College grandchildren all attended bi- Wellesley College Assistant: Lucienne Idoine, Vassar College lingual schools. Granddaughter I majored in French, taught Esmé Valette (Middlebury ‘16) and did an MA in French at UC THIS YEAR IN FRANCE… is just back from a year teaching Berkeley, then a PhD on Com- English in Paris. parative Lit at Harvard. I eventu- March 25— Treaty of Rome, signed by France, West Nan Tull Wezniak, ally became Professor of French Germany, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg), Wellesley College & Italian at NC State University. establishes the European Economic Community (EEC). I was so influenced by my I retired in 2007, but continued year studying inside the galler- to give seminars on Modern First American writers of the Beat Generation (poets Allen ies of the Louvre that I even- French Theater in Avignon in Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky) stay at the “Beat Hotel” 1957-58 tually went on to get a degree July until 2014. (Hotel Rachou) in Paris.

Edward Bloomberg, H.S. and university level. Also Yale University I have spoken French with my Would love to hear from ’57- 3 grandchildren once or twice ’58 people. a week since their birth. The eldest, now 22, became fluent Sylvia (Kowitt) Crosbie, Bryn Mawr College after a couple of brief visits to I especially used my fluency France. It works! in French working with Israel’s Rebecca (Loose) Valette, Department for International Mount Holyoke College Cooperation of the Ministry for On my return to Mt. Holy- Foreign Affairs and later taught oke, I changed my major from French. history to French, and then went on to get a PhD in French. Sarah (Hanson) Manno, Mount Holyoke College My entire career was spent as a Enjoying primarily a career in French professor. Later I served dance, I augmented my income as president of the AATF. My with teaching French at the husband and I write French

Memories of My JYF Year (Excerpt)

from Wellesley in this SBC JYF to children, with 1/3 of a glass lanes of traffic. Sweating, and year…me, Sully, Sarah Dailey, of red wine mixed with 2/3 of a with no co-pilot navigator or Gretchen Shartle, Mary Ann glass of water. It worked, apart anything like GPS, I made it Frese and Rosamond Brown… from my stomach troubles, for to my neighborhood before all good friends. My excitement which I was prescribed some getting trapped in a one-way was huge, as this was my first chartreuse-colored liquid, which taxi lane at the Gare St. Laza- voyage abroad! Only the rum- only made me throw up. The re, from which I exited to the blings from some undiagnosed French doctor declared it was sounds of curses and shouts stomach malaise that summer mon foie having trouble adapt- flung my way! Sully and I lived marred the perfect start to a ing to the new cuisine. Apart not far from there, in the 8eme year of incredible exploration from that, the six weeks were arrondissement at 27 rue d’Ed- and travel that continued until a glorious adventure into the inbourg with Mme. Lemmonier, Nan Tull in front of 27 rue d’Edin- my return in July, 1958, on the many chateaux of the region or Mme. Citron, as we called bourg, 8eme, Paris, June, 2017 Queen Elizabeth with 5 bottles with their visually sumptuous her, for she was the antithesis of sparkling Vouvray in my lug- spectacles de son et lumiere, of the kind Mangins. We lost Nan Tull Wezniak, JYF 1957-58 gage! many of which we visited by weight that year, as she was a Wellesley College The group went from Le bike. miser and made sour yogurt September 5 has had out- Havre to Tours and the Institut Before classes began in Paris sprinkled with a little sugar, size importance twice in my life! de Touraine in the Loire Valley at the beginning of November, which I despised, for our des- On Sept. 5, 1957, I departed for a six week intensive French we had 10 free days, and a sert. We had one bath a week, on the Mauritania from New course. Housed with French group of us decided to drive and stored our books in the York to Le Havre, France, with families, Sully’s and my hosts, to Germany in a rented car, bidet! We ate gauffres chaudes my Wellesley classmate and M. and Mme. Jean Mangin, which I had to pick up alone, an before performances at the new roommate, Sully McCau- were kind, wonderful ambas- event still seared in my brain. Comedie Française, loved ley (deceased July 26, 2014), sadors for their country. They I went around and around the the opera and ate in student both of us hailing from S.C. introduced us to French food Etoile trying to get onto the restaurants, such as at the Ecole There were, in fact, six of us and wine, giving us the latter as Champs-Elysées through five de Beaux Arts, where I ate les

10 1967-68 THIS YEAR IN Laurence Ach, also learning to play a new happy SBC survived its finan- FRANCE… Trinity College musical instrument, the bass cial crisis. Enjoying life, good health, viola da gamba, with the in- March 22 — Daniel , long marriage, children & tent of being able to perform Steven Dauer Cohn-Bendit and seven Yale University grandchildren - still working, French baroque literature for other students occupy The junior year in France traveling extensively. the instrument (e.g., Marin Administrative offices was one of the best and most Marais) in public. During this of the University of formative of my life. I was 19 Genette Ashby-Beach, transitional year, I’ll be writing Nanterre, setting in years old, and a vivid sense of Oberlin College a 25th anniversary edition of motion a chain of events personal adventure invested I had already decided to Not What the Doctor Ordered, that will lead France to everything I did, from speak- major in French and Political my book that has probably the brink of revolution ing French and studying the Science before participating had the most impact over the in May. literature to living in a pension in the JYF program. However, years. My wife and I would with a group of eccentrics, April 23 — surgeons at total immersion in all aspects really like to spend much more riding the metro, walking from the Hôpital de la Pitié, of French academic and cultur- time in France, more than the Monmartre to Montparnasse, Paris, perform Europe’s al life during my year in France 2 weeks a year that has been having smart conversations first heart transplant influenced my career choice as our norm, but the international with friends over dinner and operation. a professor of French literature. political situation is a deter- wine at Reid Hall. I felt myself After my graduate studies in rent. If things settle down, I’m blossom culturally and intellec- French at Columbia Universi- thinking seriously about writing tually, while also carrying on a ty, I taught French at various a book about how French wine 1967-68 romance with my future wife universities in the U.S. and ends up on American tables. It ( ), 50th anniversary overseas. would require a lot of research Rebecca McKeever Dauer (32 men, 68 women, 40 institutions) another 1967-68 JYF alum, , in France... Professor-in-Charge: Robert Jeff Bauer against the picturesque back- Colorado College G. Marshall, Wells College Linda (Koerber) Boyd, drop of old Europe. We hitch- After devoting 48 years to Assistant: Joanne C. Dauphin, University of Maryland hiked together the following Mt. Holyoke College strategic and economic anal- Hope that we have a re- summer from Paris to Istanbul Dear “Petits Sweets,” ysis of health care and having union sometime?? and, for the first ten years of Best wishes and much love turned 70, I’m still energetic our marriage, traveled and from your former Assistant and ready for some other Bruce Croushore, lived abroad in Greece, Ger- Franklin and Marshall College Director! line of work (not retirement) many, and Scotland. Though I have always told my class- Joanne Coyle Dauphin – hopefully turning my hobby we eventually settled down to mates that my best year at of conceptual art (acrylic paint- careers in the U.S., I as a prac- F&M was my JYF in Paris. Very ings) into a second career. I’m ticing clinical psychologist and tripes for the first (and only) from the MFA in 1980 after my Angelus in an open field. I re- guage of French, squired me time served on a tin tray. $50 a fourth-year diploma and a year member playing the part of the around to all the sights, even month allowance only went so of graduate work, I set up a stu- hoe the farmer leaned on! Won- the Lido beach, where I was the far, so I economized wherever dio in the sleepy (now Boston’s derful laughs. The whole SBC sole female not in a bikini! ... possible! hottest real estate area) Fort JYF group went another time to I was stimulated to send you Enrolled in various branches Point district. Five years later I Mont St. Michel, where the full this letter, as I was in Paris in at the university, (la Sorbonne, became a founding member of moon, the hard cider and foamy June (2017), prior to a barge/ “Sciences Po,” l’Ecole du Lou- the state’s first legal artist live- omelets, along with the racing walking trip into the Cham- vre) a course in French painting work cooperative, where I have tides, created an impossibly pagne district with my husband quickly became my favorite . had my studio for 33 years. I romantic adventure. There were of almost 58 years. (We married M. Serullaz, complete in black continue to exhibit in many many other travel adventures, exactly two years to the day on suit, tie and bowler hat, deliv- venues, have my work in a num- including a memorable trip to Sept. 5, 1959, after I sailed to ered our lectures (in French, ber of museum collections and Spain over Holy Week, where France…the other important of course) up and down the have had many solo exhibitions Sully and I got rerouted from September 5 in my life!) The Grandes Galleries du Louvre (www.nantull.com). Through it the Portugal extension part of day before the barge left Paris, and in the spring at at the Jeu all, I have never forgotten my the trip to the Rock of Gibraltar, I was for the first time in many de Paume, where the impres- love of French and France, and because an Arab/English young trips to Paris in the vicinity of sionist paintings were then have participated wherever man talked us into continuing where I had lived in 1957-58. housed and where high heels possible in maintaining my pro- on to Tangiers, where he met We walked there and my old had to be covered to protect ficiency in the language. us (without cell phones!) and street is now dazzlingly cleaned the parquet floors. It was in the The year was socially active, put us up in his uncle’s hotel in and beautiful (all the monu- Louvre I saw students copying and Eric Hicks, from Yale, be- the Muslim quarter! Other des- ments in ’57-58 were grimy old master paintings and fell in came my best companion. We tinations involved Ireland, as I black), so also enclosed is my love with art, which changed explored many parts of Paris had met a young Irish doctor on photo at my old front door! my life, as I eventually went on, together and even had a great the Mauritania, and he invited Vive la France! after Wellesley and an M.A. at trip to Holland and Belgium me to visit; there was a solo trip [To read the full story, follow Stanford, to the School of the with David Tresan (Yale) and to Italy in June, where I met a the link on the online ver- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. (Wellesley), stopping young Venetian in a museum Mary Ann sion of the magazine.] Winning a traveling scholarship en route to re-enact Millet’s who, using our common lan-

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Becky as a linguist/phonetician spent the equivalent of some STUDYING IN THE MIDST OF with many international col- 12 years in France, usually in LA RÉVOLUTION DE MAI 68 leagues, we always continued Paris. I have lifetime friends in to see the world with rather France. Pamela (Tipton) Newton, odor of tear gas in the streets of alienated, nonAmerican­ eyes. Sweet Briar College Paris! The CRS and the students

Of the others I knew that year, Paul Levy, I was doing a special one- having it out on the Left Bank! Lehigh University Elliot, Herb, Terry, and Drake year degree in Political Science I remember walking halfway Got job as CEO of Yves (who attended our wedding) at Sciences Po. When it came across Paris to see my mother.... Saint Laurent. are a few that I remember with time to sit our exams, there was and in heels no less! What a so much turmoil that we could joyous experience to be young, special warmth and fondness. Judith (Lee) Moeckel, Sadly, Becky’s life was re- Colby College not take our exams. No exams fearless, and to have so much cently cut short by cancer, so Over the years, I have gone taken; no Certificat d’Etudes energy! What an amazing time! we will not get to enjoy all back to Paris many times. I al- Politiques! What indelible memories of the of the pleasurable returns to ways have Paris “in my heart”. I hung around Paris (no year that was! France we had envisioned for The JYF program changed hardship there!) for weeks hop- our retirement together. But my life, all for the better, and ing that I could complete my I am forever grateful that we I thank my Colby professor studies at l’Institut d’Etudes were there in our youth, when (and past JYF director) Archille Politiques! Finally, weeks and all was fresh and new, and that Biron for encouraging me to weeks after les événements de on the Queen Mary, sailing apply! mai 1968 began, French stu- across the Atlantic on my way dents decided that their foreign Rusty William Park, to an experience that cannot be “comrades” should be allowed Yale University reproduced at any other time to take their final exams. I sat Have remained in touch of life, I met an incomparably my exams well into that sum- with Linda Morrison, now Lin- beautiful, intelligent, talented, mer and was awarded the one- da Zug. Would be delighted and loving young woman, who year degree! to hear more from others. became my life partner for al- I also will NEVER forget what most 40 years. Darlene Pierro, it was like to have no electric- Sweet Briar College ity (studying by candlelight Carolyn (Foster) Durham, Wonderful memories from was not really wonderful!), no Wellesley College JYF! France and French has public transportation, no gar- I didn’t change my major had a large effect on my life. bage collection, no gasoline, back to English, went on to get I taught French for years, no telephone, no mail service, a Ph.D., and spent 38 years as a planned and executed 4 and skimpy food supplies! The professor of French. During that trips to France for students. time, with year-long sabbati- Anyone in the Washington, cals and summers, I no doubt DC area should give a call or email. Best to everyone. those breathtaking, magnif- 1977-78 icent chateaux that almost 40th anniversary magically transported you back 30 men, 84 women, 39 institutions) into history and filled you with awe. I’m sure you will never for- Resident Director: Marilyn Marrs Gillet get the Fete d’Adieu, given in honor of the host families. The Assistant: Janet Wagner Greetings to all in the 1977- program was created just two 78 JYF program! weeks before final exams, an Although forty years have astounding feat. The perfor- gone by, I still have some very mance was outstanding, one of vivid memories of the Tours the very best I’ve attended; the séjour, when we met almost abundance of talent was truly daily. Let’s reminisce a bit! stunning. Your fête was indeed There was that most an- a grand finale, marking the end ticipated first encounter with of the Tours séjour and a lovely host families in the courtyard way to say good-bye to your when all of us could feel the families and the city. adrenalin rush. How exciting After we arrived In Paris, that was, and how relieved I the group was less tightly knit. was that all went smoothly. Not You were enrolled in various always the case! classes and programs and I also remember exploring lodged throughout Paris. The the Loire valley with you and new host families were very enjoying wine tasting at local pleasant, helpful and accom- wineries along the way; howev- modating, while encouraging er, the high point was visiting independence, which was wise. I saw you on excursions and in

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THIS YEAR IN Pamela (Davenport) DaSilva, Loire—thought my daughter’s FRANCE… Mount Holyoke College eyes would pop out when May 16 — Amoco Cadiz Although I had hoped to we pulled up at Chambord), ran aground off the work in a field where I could Uniworld Arles-Lyon river coast of Brittany, split use my French, that did not cruise alone 2011, TripMas- in two and spilled 68.7 work out. But I have traveled ters “French Wine by Train” million U.S. gallons back to France many times and 2015–Paris–Reims–Beaune (260,000 m3) of oil. it is my home away from home. –Lyon–Toulouse (day trips to I feel as comfortable walking Carcassonne & Lourdes) - Bor- the office when you stopped the streets of Paris or shopping deaux. On that trip, I met my by, but basically it was up to in a market in Bonnieux as I do other French foreign exchange you to discover and absorb in my own neighborhood. student of 29 years past & hub- by for dinner in Paris at “Nos Paris and to take advantage of Erika Greenberg-Schneider, Ancêtres les Gaulois” (highly Ed Samuelson, Debbie Parker at a unique educational experi- Amherst College chez Deux Magots ence. And that you did! I moved to France and lived recommend that unique & fun restaurant—brought them Uni- I retired from Radford there for 20 + years. encouraged my sons to travel versity of Florida “Go Gators!” University in Virginia in 2001, and one currently lives in Bei- Cheryl (Harris) Lofland, t-shirts; they were totally over- where I taught French for many Sweet Briar College jing and the other in Israel. whelmed). years. After my retirement I I loved Europe from the moved to the Chicago area, Been looking for Catherine Michael Wise, time I arrived and, although it Georgetown University reunited with my family, re- Crosbie, 1977–1978 from Mt. took a few years after gradua- In 2012, I cofounded New kindled old friendships and Holyoke, for years. tion, ended up living and work- Vessel Press, a New York- made new ones. I have revis- Dorothy Trench-Bonett, ing here since - now 17 years based publishing house de- ited France on two occasions Yale University and counting! voted to translated literature to see friends and check out I became bilingual in France and narrative nonfiction. We Paris. Since I love opera and Laura (Simpson) Loveland, and still am today. I’ve taught University of North Dakota publish books from around the the theater, I’m often attending French language and French I fearlessly went back to visit world—take a look at www. performances in Chicago, lo- literature and published (in Paris during the Gulf War in newvesselpress.com—but cated only 40 minutes from my 1991) the first English trans- 1991, brought my daughters I’m particularly proud of our Orland Park home. If you are lation of a play by Alexandre on a Uniworld Paris-Beaches French titles, including The ever in the area give me a call. Dumas, Charles VII chez ses of Normandy river cruise 2008 Madeleine Project by Clara My phone number is (708) 403- grands vassaux. Because I had (brought them to the JYF Of- Beaudoux, The Eye by Philippe 3920. Perhaps we could meet lived in France, I had the cour- fice; elevator was out so we Costamagna, The 6:41 to Paris for lunch; I would like that very age to go and live in Taiwan hiked 7 flights so they could by Jean-Philippe Blondel and much. after college, where I became see it; took them on a private Guys Like Me by Dominique fluent in Chinese, as well. I day trip to the Châteaux of the Fabre.

13 CLASS NOTES 1992-93 25th Anniversary (18 men, 74 women, 35 institutions)

Resident Director: Charles Whiting, Northwestern Univer- sity Assistant: Carol S. Denis

Gretchen (Zeratsky) Feeney, Connecticut College I am a French teacher! Joshua Gibson, Williams College I am happily living with my wife Sara and daughter Amelia (age 7) in the Adams Morgan neighborhood of Washington, DC. I am Director of Commu- nications for the DC Council. SBCJYF year made me love living abroad so much, I ended up spending three additional wife in Paris, and my daugh- my husband, Mark, and our use out of my French degree). years in Paris: on a fellowship ter has already visited several children, Elizabeth (14) and Erik I am crrently living in Que- teaching English at the Lycee times even though she’d only (12). Elizabeth just started high bec City, with my husband, and Henri IV (1994-1995), on a re- seven years old. We now travel school and is a competitive three kids. After 20 years in search fellowship at the Ecole to Paris as a foursome – along swimmer. Erik is in 7th grade France, and a year sabbatical Normale Superieure (1998- with my mom, Bobi. Most and plays flag football, soccer sailing, we wanted to return 1999), and conducting research importantly, I am still in close and runs track. Mark has his to North America to be closer (2007-2008). I proposed to my contact with Iris deMonicault, own law firm and is a litigator. to my family. Quebec City is my host mother from my SBC I’m a political fundraiser, main- a good compromise of living JYF year. She is one of the ly for candidates and causes in North America, in French, dearest people in the world to in AZ. We are planning a big with a slightly European feel. I 1992-93 me. We always make multiple Europe trip for summer 2019 currently work as a Global HR THIS YEAR IN visits to her home in Boulogne and would love to see anybody Business Partner for an R&D FRANCE… whenever we are in Paris, that may be there as well. team, in a telecommunications and it remains a warm and company, EXFO, Inc., which April 12 — Euro Disney Elizabeth (Schubert) Mortier, resort and theme park welcome place for food and Northwestern University was founded in Quebec City. opens to the east of Paris. conversation. Our time there is I am now a French citizen Rebecca Sims, precious, and I have SBCJYF to (dual nationality) – I spent Northwestern University September 20 — Maastricht thank for it, 25 years later! 20 years on and off living in I recently started my own Treaty referendum held, Kelly (Schmitt) Molique, France, and am married to a research consulting business, with a small majority in Sweet Briar College French man, with French chil- Survey by Design (www.survey- favor of ratification of the Living in Scottsdale, AZ with dren. I speak French on a daily bydesign.com). Maastricht Treaty. basis (and am getting good

14 2007–08 ing French language and pilot- Benjamin Hewes, THIS YEAR IN 2007–08 Lafayette College ing an upper-level conversation FRANCE… 10th anniversary I decided to pursue teaching and composition class for our July 15 — Vélib’ bicycle- (21 men, 119 women, 41 institutions) French and maintained contacts consortium. sharing system introduced with the Francophone students in Paris. Resident Director: Marie Grée Sarah (Lube) Roe after returning from JYF. Trinity College Associate: Karen Parnet I went on to graduate January 1 — Smoking Alisha Laventure, Katherine (Dayton) Danko, Washington and Lee University school for French literature. banned in all public places (including bars and College of Wooster Newly married! Lisa Shames I had such a great host fam- College of Wooster restaurants) in France. Sarah (Hall) Lehtinen, ily, and just all the dinner time Sweet Briar College I returned to Paris the next conversations are some of my As a French teacher, I come summer and later moved to Erica (Camp) Torphy favorite memories to recall. I back to the things I learned Montpellier to teach English. I Agnes Scott College actually contacted them last (language, culture, geography) have returned to France many I got married in New Zea- time I was in Paris and they almost every week. The fluency times and have not lost my land in March 2016 and am had me and my husband over boost has made a difference French. I moved to Montpel- expecting my first child around for dinner – it was great to visit for me professionally. lier. I continue to have French Christmas 2017. I live just out- them again, and my husband I recently got married to friends I visit every year. side of Los Angeles. said it was his favorite thing he fellow French speaker, Simon, Lives in London, works in did in Europe! and moved to Charlottesville, Museum Education VA. I’m eager to now be teach-

15 independence, to be flexible with JYF, I’ve been accepted 2015–16 and to be open to new expe- as an Assistant Teacher of En- Seniors riences. It has also instilled in glish as a second language in (12 men, 45 women, 21 institutions) me a life-long desire for travel- Bordeaux for the 2017-2018 2015–16 ing and seeing new places and school year. Five years ago THIS YEAR IN Resident Director: Marie Grée cultures. I have no set plans I was in high school, hated FRANCE… Associate: Lucy Hervier yet. I hope to be attending French, and thought I wanted The Paris Agreement Christopher Bobbe, graduate school for Clinical to go to art school. None of or Paris climate accord Haverford College Psychology. that came to fruition, so now I will probably be working I tend to take my own pro- was negotiated by Alyza Ngbokoli, representatives of 196 as a freelance editor and possi- Williams College jections into the future with a parties at the 21st bly French to English translator. Next year, I will be working grain of salt. I don’t know what Conference of the Parties I hope to be working over the as Kindergarten Associate I’ll be doing 5 years from now, (COP) of the UNFCCC internet so I can travel. Teacher at the Chapin School but I hope it involves yet an- in Paris and adopted by Meghan Collins, in Manhattan. I will also be other adventure! consensus on Dec. 12, Williams College coaching cross country and Sarah Ratsimbazafy, 2015. Next year, I’ll be pursuing track and field at the school. In Bates College a Master’s degree in Compar- five years from now, I hope to I am planning on continu- ative Literature at Dartmouth. stay working with kids, in edu- ing work at the Reading and I may decide to pursue a PhD cation, in fitness, or some com- Writing Project at the Teachers in Comparative Literature. Or bination of the three. I would College of Columbia. 5 years I may try to teach literature at also like to get an advanced from now, I will hopefully be a high school level. I’m also degree in urban education going to law school. considering the Peace Corps, and/or school psychology. Anna Sucsy, where my French language Juliette Norrmén-Smith, Bates College skills could be useful. I’m also Williams College JYF Paris opened me to interested in library science I will be teaching English possibilities of working abroad. and rare books conservation, in Andorra with a Fulbright Because of my experience so that’s another route I might Fellowship. I hope for a job living in Paris, I wanted to con- explore. that enables me to continue tinue to live in a Francophone Jordyn Elliott, traveling. I would love to do country and will be living in Sweet Briar College some sort of journalism; the Senegal this year on a Ful- I am very interested in ideal would be radio/broadcast bright grant teaching English pursuing a Masters degree journalism, working for NPR or in Senegal. Later I hope to be abroad. a television station. attending law school. Yedidya Erque, Elizabeth “Liz” Parant, Williams College Wheaton College My time with JYF in Paris Thanks to the fluency I has enabled me to learn more gained while living in Paris

16 DID YOU KNOW According to Open Doors 2017,? France is the 4th most popular study abroad destination among U.S. students with 5 % of the 325,339 students who studied abroad for credit during the 2015-16 academic year.

Open Doors is conducted by the Institute of International Education (IIE), with the support of the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the U.S. Department of State. Online at: www.iie.org/opendoors

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Husband Jim, Daphne, Brigitte and Jean-Pierre crossing the Indre river in a hand-pulled ferry east of Angers as we headed to Tours.

Here’s a photo taken in August 2017 of a mini-reunion of four William “Bill” Bonk, participants in the 1966-67 JYF. Northwestern University, JYF The reunion took place at the Here is a fun picture of Melinda home of Ann and Philip Gallant in 1984-85 Moore Wellvang (MHC 1975) and Baltimore. The first time all four of Bill Bonk continued with his me, Catherine Cranston Whitham us had been together in 50 years. love of languages and culture, (SBC 1975) in a café in Sidi Bou In March 2016, Julie (O’Neil) Arn- (note the Mistinguinett poster in living abroad for 12 years and Said outside of Tunis. heim (Sweet Briar) and Margaret the background!) earning a doctorate in Cogni- (Moore) Henry (Mt. Holyoke) of L to R: Julie Seibels Northup tive Science. He now works on JYF ’59-’60 search out “agriculture (Sweet Briar); Fred Northup (Uni- foreign language testing and biologique” edibles in Berkeley, versity of the South-Sewanee); lives in Boulder, Colorado with CA. Ann Teat Gallant (Agnes Scott); his wife and two young sons. Ann Webster (Sweet Briar)

18 IN MEMORIAM 1950-51 1966-67 Patricia (Carle) Powers Karen (Gernenz) Youngman Skidmore College Denison University Patricia Carle Powers ’52 Karen passed away on April of Longmeadow, Mass., died 16, 2017 after a long battle on January 3, of complications with breast cancer. I know she from a stroke. A French major, valued highly her experiences she studied at the Sorbonne in the Loire Valley and Paris in Paris during her junior year. during her year in France, as She enjoyed a long career I’ve heard many stories about L to R: Cécile Lambert and Donna Colleen Brady, right, and Morton teaching French at Westfield her experiences there, as well Blanton at the summit of Stone Bast, both Spring 2010 JYF alums, High School. Patricia was an as a skiing trip to Austria, on Mountain just east of Atlanta. in Strasbourg this summer. active patron of the Springfield the Orient Express to Greece, Symphony. She is survived by a etc. From Lex Youngman, Kar- d’un chef Indien de l’Amazonie Donna (Beck) Blanton, brother and a sister-in-law, Lee en’s husband. He can be con- (Albin Michel, 2015) will be Agnes Scott College, JYF and Ellora Carle, and a niece. tacted at youngman@wingate. released on Earth Day, 2018 by 1986-87 Her husband, John, prede- edu. Schaffner Press. ceased her. Of all my wonderful mem- 1968-69 ories of JYF 1986-87, if I had Colleen Brady, 1955-56 to choose just one, it would Washington University in St. Robert Nunn have to be meeting and be- Louis, JYF Spring 2010 Judith “Judy” (Weinberg) Resident Director From Laura Nunn: It is with friending a lovely young Pa- Bonjour de Strasbourg! I Weidenthal Cornell University great sadness that I send this risienne (Cécile Lambert) and met up with fellow JYF alum From Daniel T. Weidenthal, obituary regarding my Dad, to fête Bastille her family. Cécile and I have Morton Bast M.D.: Judy died on January 8, Robert Nunn, who had a very kept up our friendship over Day — I spent the summer 2017 at age 81. She journeyed busy but rewarding year in the decades and have greatly in Strasbourg for a research to France on the Mauretania 1968-69 as the Resident Di- enjoyed visiting each other internship with the Mayor’s as part of JYF in September, rector of Sweet Briar JYF. He “across the Pond” a couple Office, and Morton interned 1955 and returned on the Ille inspired me to major in French of times. Thank goodness for for a law firm in Paris. We en- de France in May of 1956. In and study in Paris with Sweet Facebook! joyed putting the vestiges of 1957, she graduated from Cor- Briar in 1981-82, so I also had Je souhaite beaux souve- our French language skills to nell University with a BFA. Judy an amazing Study Abroad year. We often spoke of our nirs, bonne santé, et bonnes use by eating an abundance spoke often of that year and I know that the experience per- Sweet Briar experiences and fêtes à tous mes camarades de of cheese and embarking on manently enriched her intel- our very fond memories of historic tours of the city. classe de JYF 1986-87! lectual and artistic life. For the Paris. Julia Grawemeyer, Reba Campbell-Munoz, last 25 years she had to deal 1974-75 Denison University, JYF 2003- Sweet Briar, Fall 2012 with progressive Parkinson’s 2004 Getting ready to celebrate disease which ended her life in Jane “Bambi” (Bachman) Julia Grawemeyer (2003- my first year anniversary Sep- January. Wulf 2004) is a French translator tember 2. I’m completing my 1957-58 Mt. Holyoke College and language teacher. Her first masters for teaching languages. From Carole Grunberg: full book-length translation, Barry Corn It is with great sorrow that I share our junior year class of Sauver la planète: le message Cornell University Barry Francis Corn, 78, a 1974-75 lost a great friend this 37-year resident of Ridgefield, June, Jane “Bambi” Wulf, who CT, passed away on March 28, was one of our class officers. 2017, at Regional Hospice & She and I remained very close Palliative Care in Danbury, CT, after being roommates chez with his family by his side after Mme Riviere, and traveled a recent diagnosis of late stage many times back to France and cancer. Paris over the past 40 years. I Barry leaves behind his wife recommend the tribute from of almost 40 years, Cynthia Sports Illustrated, where she Swenson Corn; his daughters had an amazing career. In ad- Allegra Kavlich (James), Celina dition to her years with SI, she Corn (Roland), Lili Corn Oza- was also an associate editor of rowski (Bernard), Rachel Corn, Time Magazine. She is survived and Chu Chen Corn; and his by her husband of 38 years, grandsons, Conner Hires and Steve Wulf, and 4 wonderful Lochlan Feretti. His lessons, children. brilliance, and humor will con- tinue to burn bright within the many people whose lives he 2003-2004 JYF alumnae Caitlin Kelley, Tegra Stone Nuess, two friends, touched. Barry was much loved and Julia Grawemeyer. We have traveled together since graduating to and will be very missed. four countries and have remained very close.

19 2017 Contributors to the Scholarship and Financial Aid Funds of JYF

We wish to thank the following alumnae and alumni, friends of JYF, and corporations making matching grants, who contributed a total of $12,540 during the 2016-17 fiscal year (July 1, 2016 – June 30, 2017).

1948-49 1963-64 1972-73 Mary Morris Booth, Sweet Briar Alice Grover, Wheaton Mary Jane Cowles, Mt. Holyoke 1951-52 1964-65 1973-74 Josephine W. Rodgers, Eugenia Francis, Southern Methodist Vincent Doddy, III, Villanova Sweet Briar L. Cassandra Hamrick, Elizabeth Haile Hayes, Emory Sweet Briar Louisa Browne Soleau, Middlebury 1952-53 Julie Howard Parker, 1965-66 1974-75 Middlebury Kendall Blake, Princeton Peter M. Labombarde, Colby Dr. Anthony S. Caprio, Wesleyan Mary Whitmore, 1953-54 Susan Fedel, Colorado Randolph-Macon Deborah Kennedy, Phyllis J. Ringler, Wellesley Mt. Holyoke 1975-76 R. Curtis Steele, Jr., Arthur Humphrey, Bowdoin 1954-55 Hampden-Sydney Peter B. Dirlam, Cornell Jane Wilson, Sweet Briar 1976-77 Beverly Oyler Shivers, Carleton Norfolk Southern Foundation Barbara Mendelssohn Price, Sweet Briar Jean F. Topping, Radcliffe 1967-68 1977-78 1955-56 Bruce Croushore, Cheryl Elizabeth Lofland, Sweet Briar Helene Mewborn, Duke Franklin and Marshall 1979-80 Jane R. Thiébaud, Sweet Briar Herbert Wigder, Trinity Samuel M. Howell, Kenyon 1956-57 1968-69 Michael J. Olecki, Haverford Nancy Savage Paula Cook, Bryn Mawr 1984-85 Angela Toussaint, Wheaton 1957-58 1969-70 Benita Campbell, Bryn Mawr Margaret Feldmeier, 1989-90 Edith Ann Dobyns Gilson, Randolph- Sweet Briar Patricia Stewart, Cornell Macon Robert M. Gill, Washington & Lee 1992-93 1959-60 Kelly Schmitt Molique, Joseph Carroll, U/Virginia 1970-71 Sweet Briar David Freund, Yale Rose Ackermann (The Ackermann Foundation), Emory 1993-94 1960-61 Kelly E. Hall, Sweet Briar Bettye Chambers, Sweet Briar Maria Corpora, Moravian Anne Lee Gravely, Sweet Briar Virginia Tarris, Goucher 1998-99 H. David Rosenbloom, 1971-72 Jennifer Wistrand, Northwestern Melinda Davis, Sweet Briar Princeton 1999-00 Colette Volpe, Sweet Briar Cornelia Sage Russell, Middlebury Kathryn Manz, Haverford John M. Shuey, 2004-05 1961-62 Washington & Lee Judith Alperin, U/Illinois Caville Stanbury-Woolery, Sweet Briar Charles Lee Smith, III (Family Fund of Antoinette Farrar Seymour, Bryn Mawr Triangle Community Foundation), 2008-09 Michelle Jay, Mt. Holyoke 1962-63 U/North Carolina Michael S. Koppisch, Johns Hopkins Marshall Metcalf Seymour, Sweet Briar

Class Giving Scholarships Thanks to generous annual donations from alumni and revenue from JYF Of the 2016-17 donors: endowments, we are happy to be able to award $60,000-90,000 in student 1% attended JYF in the 40s scholarships and financial aid each year. Scholarships are awarded from JYF’s 18% in the 50s scholarship operating budget consisting of annual donations and revenue from 36% in the 60s endowed funds. 26% in the 70s 4% in the 80s How to help JYF in Paris? 6% in the 90s Please check our website in the new year for new ways to support JYF now and 4% in the 2000s forever! 4% unknown

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