FALL 2006 EVENTS

Reading and Reflection: Mountains Beyond Mountains Tuesday, September 5 at 8:00 p.m. John M. Greene Hall

Tracy Kidder, author of the Smith 2006 summer reading selection Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World, will discuss his work with physician and anthropologist Paul Farmer. Tracy Kidder is a winner of the Pulitzer Prize and author of The Soul of a New Machine, House, Among Schoolchildren, and Home Town. A book signing will follow. Read more about the book and author. Sponsors: Office of the President, Dean of the College Office, Student Affairs, Alumnae Association of Smith College, Friends of the Smith College Libraries, Smith College Lecture Committee.

SPRING 2006 EVENTS

FSCL Commencement Reception
Saturday, May 20, at 2:30 P.M., Mortimer Rare Book Room.
This annual event honors graduating seniors who have worked in the libraries, and welcomes returning alumnae and their guests.

Special Collections Tour
Saturday, May 27, at 2:00 P.M., meets at the Neilson Library Circulation Desk.
As part of reunion weekend activities, the Friends will host a tour of the Mortimer Rare Book Room, the Smith College Archives and the Sophia Smith Collection. This is a special opportunity to learn about the collections and view artifacts and exhibits. A reception will follow in the Alumnae Gymnasium, Level A at 3:30 P.M.

2006 Annual Meeting: “From Margin to Center: New Voices of Feminism”, a lecture by Loretta Ross
Thursday, April 6 at 7:30 P.M., Neilson Browsing Room.

Activist Loretta Ross will be the guest speaker at the 2006 Annual Meeting. She will share her experience working with the Sophia Smith Collection to preserve the histories of women of color, part of a four-year project to broaden the scope of the Collection and debunk the myth of feminism as a white, middle-class movement. Ross has spent over thirty years fighting for human rights and against racism and sexism in the United States and abroad. She currently directs SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Health Collective, an Atlanta-based organization dedicated to improving the lives of women of color in the United States. Ross’s voluminous personal papers, now preserved in the Sophia Smith Collection, document her participation in an array of feminist organizations she has founded, directed, or worked with.

Loretta Ross

“Gift From The Sea: A Reading"
Sunday, April 2, 2:00 - 5:30 p.m., Alumnae House Living Room.

A Gift From the Sea (50th Anniversary Edition) by Anne Morrow Lindbergh '28

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the publication of this seminal work by the late Anne Morrow Lindbergh ‘28, alumnae and Friends are invited to attend this reading. Reeve Lindbergh who wrote the introduction to the new anniversary edition will be present. Whether you come for the afternoon or just a portion of it, please R.S.V.P. to Alison Kriviskey ‘67, alison-bruce@comcast.net, (413) 587-7979, or Linda Smith ‘60, hmslfs@aol.com, (413) 256-6020. Light refreshments will be served. Sponsored by the Hampshire County Smith College Club, with support from the Friends of the Libraries, the Alumnae Association of Smith College and the Poetry Center.

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