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It's February and the flowers are starting to bloom! We love California.
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Upcoming Club Events
Recent-Alum Happy Hour at Stein's
Friday, Feb. 7th from 5-7pm
Close out your week with some Smithies and join us for bites & brews at Stein's Beer Garden in Mountain View (895 Villa Street). First drink on us! We'll be hanging out in the bar section and some may stick around for dinner in downtown Mountain View. Extra points if you bring your dancing shoes to enjoy the local nightlife.
Upcoming Recent-Alum Events!
Feb. 19th: Trivia Night at Katie Bloom's in Campbell, 6-9pm
Feb. 27th: Happy Hour at Calave in Palo Alto, 5-7pm
March 4th: Happy Hour at Milagro's in Redwood City, 3-6pm
Club News
Check out our NEW website!
We're switching over to a new website, check it out
HERE!
Join the Club Board
Two positions are open on the board. We're looking for a Membership Chair and a Webmaster to join the club board! If you're interested, please contact
[email protected]
. Come manage our spiffy new website!
Annual Cider Party for Prospective Students
Our Annual Cider Party for Prospective Students and Alumnae was held on Sunday, Jan. 12th at the home of Laura Selznick '68. It is one of our favorite new year's traditions to welcome incoming Smithies (the class of 2021!) to our local Smith community. We enjoyed meeting prospective students, incoming students, their families, current students and other alumnae over cider and delicious baked goods. We love the story Laura tells each year about the cider ladle passed down to her that we are still lucky enough to be using. We're looking forward to getting to know them better as they join the Smith community!
Upcoming College Events
Evening with President Kathleen McCartney and VP for Alumnae Relations Denise Wingate Materre '74
Smith College has a remarkable story to tell. It is a story of leadership, of women helping women, and of using the power of education and community to make a better world. Smith today is vibrant and innovative. Smith students are bold and creative thinkers. Smith graduates are driven, passionate changemakers. There is a lot to be excited about: the renovation of Neilson Library, Smith's Year on Climate Change initiative, and our Here For Every Voice campaign to raise $75 million in scholarship aid for students.
6 p.m. Reception
7 p.m. Program and Q&A
President Kathleen McCartney
VP for Alumnae Relations Denise Wingate Materre '74
Tuesday, February 11, 2020
The Computer History Museum
1401 N. Shoreline Boulevard
Mountain View, CA 94043
Tickets $20 for alumnae, parents and guests; $10 for alumnae in classes 2009 to 2019 (Tickets are nonrefundable.)
Book Club Events
On Wednesday, Jan. 15, six of us (plus a visiting cousin) met at Nisha Thatte-Potter's home to discuss Victor Hugo's "The Hunchback of Notre-Dame." Most of us managed to finish this very wordy book, and we enjoyed it: vivid and amusing, as well as touching, it gives a kind of sociological portrait of medieval Paris complete with social commentary and well-drawn characters. We had mixed reactions to his extensive discussion of architecture but valued his devotion to the cathedral.
We chose books for March and May, so the upcoming schedule looks like this:
Feb. 19: "The Marriage of Opposites" by Alice Hoffman
March 18: "Bad Blood" by John Carreyrou
April 15: TBD
May 20: "Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant?" by Roz Chast
If you're interested in joining the book club, please contact
Sally Smith '64
for more information.
Stay tuned for more Smithie events and news next month. If anyone is interested in volunteering with the club, please feel free to reach out to
[email protected]
! Thanks!
Samantha Li '09
Newsletter Editor
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