Alumnae/I Community Update: April 2008 Edition

Alumnae/i Community Update: April 2008 Edition

In This Issue Finally, it's summer. Before you hit the beach, get the Dream Jobs in the skinny on Jessica Lange's commencement speech, or find Real World out which alumna was recently named one of the most Thank You for a Record influential people in the world by Time magazine. Now you'll Fundraising Year have something to talk about while you're lounging on your Commencement towel. Enjoy! in the News

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Alumnae/i Announcements Dream Jobs in the Real World

The world of work can be an intimidating place, especially if Wright Makes Time 100 you've never been before. SLC students take their career anxieties on a field trip, hear the voice of a penguin, meet animation producer Josh Selig '86 and music writer Jim Farber '79, and learn that, if you play your cards right, life after college doesn't have to involve cubicles or counter Suzanne W. Wright '98 service. Read the article has been named to Time magazine's list of the 100 Looking for a dream job yourself? SLC can help, Most Influential People. with job listings, free career counseling, and more. Learn Tom Brokaw wrote the more article praising her and her husband, Bob, for their autism advocacy organization, Autism Thanks for Making This Year's Fund Speaks. Our Best Ever! When her grandson was The Fund for Sarah Lawrence diagnosed with autism, Wright says, her family's met its goal and raised a record heartbreak "grew into $3,100,406 last year. A great big outrage at the veil of "thank you!" goes out to the silence surrounding this 3,300+ alumnae/i , parents, and devastating disorder." She friends -- as well as graduating reflects on how her SLC seniors -- whose gifts had a education prepared her for direct, immediate, and powerful effect on the Sarah this important work in this

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Lawrence experience. article. Special thanks for the pace-setting support provided by Associate-level leadership donors and by members of the Graduate Alumnae/i Ruth Wilmot Anderson '29 Society, a core group of loyal Your fellow alumnae/i of the donors who have given consecutively to the Fund for five graduate programs want to years or more. hear from you! Send in a class note and update us Senior Gift on your life. Are you A check in the amount of $168,861.77 representing gifts married? Have a cool job -- and pledges from 142 members of the class of 2008 and or a boring one? What's their families was presented to President Karen Lawrence your dog's name? Submit a note online or via e-mail, or at graduation. This achievement demonstrates how strongly browse class notes for the class values Sarah Lawrence and sets a wonderful inspiration. example for the classes that follow. Bravo!

Westlands Awards And yet another "thank you" to the winners of the SLC in the News Westlands Awards for Reunion giving: Scientist W. Ian Lipkin '74 is featured in NIAID Largest class gift: Class of 1998 Discovery News (a Highest participation: Class of 1953 publication of the National Institute of Allergy and Largest single donor: Class of 1998 Infectious Diseases) as Most improved participation: Class of 1953 "among the notable Most consistent donors: Class of 1973 infectious diseases Most new donors: Class of 2003 investigators in a remarkable generation of discovery." Commencement in the News Lorayne Carbon, director of the Early Childhood Jessica Lange's rousing Center, is quoted in the commencement speech made Newark Star Ledger about waves across the country -- and the relevance of homework in preschool, which has around the world -- as media recently become the norm. outlets seized on her comments about President Bush and the Roommates Douglas Iraq War. Read the speech, McGinness '10, Jessica Friedman '10, watch the video, or see what the other commencement and Michael Donatich speakers had to say. '10 were interviewed by WNBC in a story on all- gender housing. Upcoming Events In a Journal News op-ed, Human Genetics faculty Lessons from the Marshall Plan for member Laura Hercher praises a new federal law Today's American Foreign Policy banning discrimination in Nick Mills, Literature faculty http://www.slc.edu/alumnae-newsletter/June08.html[1/30/2009 2:13:28 PM] Alumnae/i Community Update: April 2008 Edition

employment and health care on the basis of genetic Tuesday, June 17 information. 1:30 p.m. The Demos Society, Manhattan Sara Rudner, dance program director, is extolled as a "dance legend" by the Literature faculty member Nick Mills lecture on the New York Times. Marshall Plan for today's American Foreign Policy.

See more SLC in the News Lectures on the Artist Sacha Kolin

Correction Lisa Thaler '84 In our May issue, we listed Tuesday, June 17, 7 p.m. the wrong graduation year Wednesday, June 18, 6 p.m. for Jessamyn Hope. She Manhattan graduated from the MFA program in 2003, not 1993. Family historian Lisa Thaler will discuss her new We regret the error. biography, Look Up: The Life and Art of Sacha Kolin, at the Austrian Cultural Forum and the National Arts Club.

Letters to the Editor What To Do When You Hate All Your Love the e-newsletter? Not so much? Send an e-mail Friends: to the editor or post your An Antisocial Comedy comment on the editorial message board on One July 21 Mead Way. The Lion @ Theatre Row, Manhattan

SLC alumnae/i receive a discount for this play, thanks to production manager Sally Jane Kerschen-Sheppard '00. There will be an after-party for alumnae/i as well.

Alumnae/i Announcements

Have you recently changed jobs, gotten a promotion, or won an award in your field? Share your accomplishment with the alumnae/i community.

Christy McGillivray '04 recently became the Michigan campaigns director for Clean Water Action, an environmental advocacy organization, where she works to stop the privatization of Great Lakes water, among other things.

Joseph Caputo '07 won a $10,000 grant in the Entrepreneurial Media Studies Competition at Boston University College of Communication for his science Web site, www.sciencemetropolis.com. The site is an online http://www.slc.edu/alumnae-newsletter/June08.html[1/30/2009 2:13:28 PM] Alumnae/i Community Update: April 2008 Edition

community for science hobbyists in the Boston and Cambridge area.

Several alumnae/i published books recently: Love Walked In, a novel by Marisa de los Santos MFA '90, is on the New York Times bestseller list; Elena Karina Byrne's '82 published a book of poems, Masque; and Rachel Stolzman MFA '96 published The Sign for Drowning, a novel.

Sloane Miller '93 has created Worry-Free Dinners, a dining club for allergy-plagued foodies who find restaurant dining to be a harrowing experience. The group's meals offer an allergy-free environment in which to dine.