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Almost 200 alumnae, family and friends gathered at Neilson Library on September 7th to pay tribute to Anne Morrow Lindbergh '28, who died in February 2001 at her home in Vermont. The Alumnae Association, the library special collections, and Friends of the Library collaborated to host the event to honor one of our country's most famous women.
John Connolly, acting president of the college, welcomed alumnae and highlighted the myriad contributions the Morrow family has made to Smith. Susan Van Dyne, Professor and Chair of the Women's Studies Program, offered a presentation entitled "A Journey toward Insight: Anne Morrow Lindbergh's Feminism," which featured photographs from the Smith Archives and the Sophia Smith Collection and insights into Mrs. Lindbergh's influence and contribution to women's place in the world. Reeve Lindbergh, daughter and author of Under a Wing, a memoir of her mother, read from her recent book, No More Words, A Journal of My Mother, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, a poignant and deeply moving memoir about the last year of her mother's life. Sherrill Redmon, Head of Sophia Smith Collection, Nanci Young, Director, Smith College Archives, and Karen Kukil, Associate Curator of Rare Books, Mortimer Rare Book Room, were on hand to interpret two exhibits devoted to Anne Morrow Lindbergh. Entitled "The Journey, Not the Arrival: Anne Morrow Lindbergh '28," the exhibits feature photographs and other documents from the Sophia Smith Collection and the Smith College Archives, as well as artifacts, literary manuscripts, and published works from the Mortimer Rare Book Room. The exhibits are on view at the Morgan Gallery and the Book Arts Gallery at Neilson Library through October. Margaret Storrs Eaton, niece of Margaret Storrs Grierson who was the first director of the Sophia Smith Collection in 1942, attended the event. |
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Susan Van Dyne Professor and Chair of the Women's Studies Program
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Sherrill Redmon (right) Head of Sophia Smith Collection (pictured with Margaret Storrs Eaton far left)
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Nanci Young
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Martin Antonetti, Curator of Rare Books, Mortimer Rare Book Room, welcomed guests at a reception in the Book Arts Gallery following the program.
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“Caprice,” a poem by Anne Morrow ’28, was published in the Smith College Monthly, October 1926 (Vol. 35, No.1), p. 19.
CAPRICE[Doggerel written after seeing Raquel Meller]
“I should like to be a dancer,
A slim persuasive dancer,
A scarlet Spanish dancer,
If you please!”
But he said, “Just now we’re crowded
With these Carmens–simply crowded–
I can’t find,” His forehead clouded,
“Vacancies.
“I suppose you want to tango,”
And he sighed–“Or a fandanco
Scarlet cigarette and tango–
Scarlet smile–
In a century or twenty
We may want you. We have plenty
Just at present–more than plenty
For a while.
“There’s a place for Quaker Maidens.
For brown-haired Quaker Maidens,
For blue-eyed Quaker Maidens
There’s a place.”
So I play the role of Quaker
And I do not blame my maker
For I think I wear the Quaker
With a grace!
But when a tune is lilting,
Like a scarlet skirt is lilting,
That my rebel heart is lilting
No one sees:
“For I want to be a dancer,
A slim persuasive dancer,
A scarlet Spanish dancer,
If you please!”
Anne Morrow