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HIKING THIS WEEKEND @ CASTLE ROCK NEAR LOS GATOS
Saturday, May 13 @ 8:30AM - 11:30 AM
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BOOK CLUB
Wednesday, May 17 @ 7:30 PM
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At this month's meeting of the book club we will discuss The Years by Annie Ernaux. Winner of the 2022 Nobel Prize in literature, The Years is a personal narrative of the period 1941 to 2006 told through the lens of memory, impressions past and present -- even projections into the future -- photos, books, songs, radio, television and decades of advertising, headlines, contrasted with intimate conflicts and writing notes from six decades of diaries.
If you're interested in joining the conversation this month, please contact the Book Club Coordinator Sally Smith '64 via email.
To get details about the monthly meetings click here to join the book club.
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COUNTRY LINE DANCING WORKSHOP
Saturday, May 20 @ 1:00 PM
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Yeehaw, y'all! Join us as we learn the Boot Scootin' Boogie, the Cowboy Hustle, Texas Two-Step and more in this workshop led by our very own Appalachian princess Amy Gardner '92 at the JCC in Los Gatos @ 14855 Oka Road (near the Lark Avenue exit off Hwy 17).
The workshop will last about an hour, but you can stick around and practice for as long as you please.
This event is open to all alums. Club members have received an Evite, and it's listed as an event on our Facebook page so you can let us know if you're planning to shake your boot scootin' bootie with us.
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FACULTY SPEAKER
Saturday, June 17 @ 1:00 PM
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Professor Jon Caris, Director of the Smith College Spatial Analysis Lab will join us in Palo Alto to educate us on his work in developing a drone code of ethics, and the history of drones at Smith College.
Date: Saturday, June 17
Time: 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Location: Channing House, 11th Floor,
850 Webster Street, Palo Alto, CA
It's very important that we get a headcount for this event. Club members have already received an Evite (on March 31 if you need to find it in your inbox) and we have listed this event on our Facebook page. BUT ALSO this event is open to all Bay Area alums, including our sibs in San Francisco, Oakland, Alameda, Santa Cruz and beyond and we have made an RSVP form for anyone outside of our normal communication channels. Please help us spread the word!
About the Speaker
Many of Professor Caris’s initiatives build upon the notion of making invisible, visible. He enjoys creating conditions that afford opportunity to see through a spatial lens, prompting new questions and discussion. Primarily trained as a geographer and environmental planner, Professor Caris received a M.S. in Geo-Environmental Studies from Shippensburg University and a B.A. in Geography from SUNY Geneseo.
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IN MEMORIUM - JEAN DAVIDSON '73 | |
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It is with profound regret that we report the death of Jean Ann Kunkel Davidson ‘73 on Monday, April 10, following a gallant fight against cancer.
Jean was a longtime member of the Smith Club, and more. About twelve years ago, she took the initiative to rebuild the Club’s board, which had shrunk to only a few members. Repeatedly hosting organizational meetings, she recruited Smithies to fill the empty positions—and in the process, she rescued our 502(c)(3) status, which was about to expire. Once the Board leadership was on course, she continued to serve as treasurer and eminence grise, providing institutional memory, lawyerly guidance and Board mentoring in addition to fiscal responsibility until she retired from the Board in 2020. She generously offered her home for club events and was a mainstay of the book club as well. She will be dearly missed.
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Student Care Packages - April 1
A group of us met at Nirvana Soul in Cupertino on a lovely Saturday to assemble these sweet little care packages for the 25 Peninsula Bay Area students currently on campus at Smith. We stuffed small glass jars with candy and an origami craft and included a note on the gift bag to let the students know that we're back home rooting for them. As a club we gather for these micro-volunteer events twice a year -- a great way to meet your fellow local alums and be involved in the club without a big time commitment. Keep an eye out for the next one this Fall!
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Admitted Students Tea - April 8
What a beautiful day to meet some new and potential Smithies. THANK YOU to all those alums who joined us to answer questions, field concerns, and share personal experiences to TEN newly admitted students and their parents. Half of the students had already accepted their Smith College offers, and the others were still weighing their options. An extra, enormous THANK YOU to Donna Dong for opening her home and hosting this event for the 25 people who showed up, far surpassing our expectations!
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ARE YOU GOING TO REUNION THIS SPRING? | |
Some of your local Smith sibs are too and would love to talk about planning and the excitement of getting back to Northampton! Write to us at thepeninsulasmithclub@gmail.com and we will share contact information with those of you who are heading east this month. | |
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Join the Fun! Become a Member!
As a paying member of the Smith College Club of the Peninsula, you will get proactive evites to every planned event, and the following additional perks:
- Discounted admission to Club events, including lectures by faculty from the College
- Evite invitations to fun programs geared toward the varying interests of local alums
- The opportunity to meet and form lifelong connections with intelligent, interesting alums
- A sense of satisfaction knowing that Club funds help Smith attract outstanding young women from the Peninsula and provide scholarship funds to enable them to attend the College
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Suggest a Group Event
We're always looking for new ways to meet up and connect. If you have great ideas for group events, there's a way to make those suggestions: Go to our website under the Events tab, or just click here, and you will be presented with a Google form to guide you through your event suggestion. Please complete the form, including as much information as you can. After you submit the form, someone from the club's events team will contact you.
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