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Winter 2000 // Volume 14, Number 2 // Northampton, Massachusetts

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Founding Director Will Shape College's Engineering Program

Gift Supports Novel Faculty Projects

Praxis Prodigies

Art on the Move

One 1999 graduate of Smith has already made it into the selective world of professional sports. Christina Hobson, an athlete of note during her two years on the Smith basketball team, has been recruited by the Women's Swiss Basketball Federation to play on the La Chaux-de-Fonds team in the national B level league.

Her performance as a Smith athlete was attention-getting. Hobson set records for the most points scored during the 1997-98 season with 502 points, and for scoring more than 1,000 points (1,619 total) in the two years she attended Smith after transferring here in her third year. Other honors bestowed upon Hobson in 1998 and 1999 included being named an Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) All-Star and being chosen for the New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) All-Conference team both years.
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On February 1, Christopher Loring assumes his new post as director of libraries at Smith College. Until his appointment here he was team leader of reference and consultation services with the university libraries at the University of Minnesota, where he was instrumental in the creation of several research software programs and in the organization of the university's public Web site. As head of access services, he oversaw the automation of circulation and led a major space planning and reorganization effort and a project to improve access to the university's extensive periodical holdings.

Said Provost and Dean of Faculty John Connolly, "Chris has a distinguished record of library service, and his colleagues both in the library and in the faculty at the University of Minnesota praise him highly. His experience, his calm and thoughtful approach and his considerable skill as a team builder will stand the libraries at Smith in good stead in the months and years ahead."
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A four-day student conference was held over Thanksgiving break on the Smith and Mount Holyoke campuses. An annual celebration of heritage and culture, the gathering enabled Latino students attending East Coast colleges to come together to demonstrate their support of the Latino student community. The meeting of the East Coast Chicana/o Student Forum, which dates to a 1972 gathering at Yale University, drew students from Amherst, Barnard, Boston, Dartmouth, Mount Holyoke, Oberlin, Smith and Wellesley colleges. Participating universities included Brown, Columbia, Georgetown, Harvard, MIT, Princeton, Michigan, Yale and the U.S. Naval Academy.
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A Smith professor in the Russian language and literature department traveled this fall to Russia to deliver a lecture. Professor Alexander Woronzoff-Dashkoff spoke in St. Petersburg, at the Russian Academy of Sciences' Institute of the History of Science, on E.R. Dashkova, the only woman to ever head the prestigious academy. Woronzoff-Dashkoff spoke about his edition of Dashkova's autobiography, Mon Histoire: Mémoires d'une femme de lettres à l'époque des Lumières, which was compiled and edited with Catherine Woronzoff-Dashkoff, a lecturer in the Russian department, and Catherine Le Gouis, an associate professor of French at Mount Holyoke College.
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Much to the delight of many Smith seniors, actress and filmmaker Jodie Foster has agreed to deliver the Commencement address to the Class of 2000. She also will be an honorary degree recipient. The other honorees are Ann Winkleman Brown '59, chairman of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission; Judy Chicago, artist and writer; Johnnetta B. Cole, Presidential Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, Women's Studies and African American Studies at Emory University; and Memphela Ramphele, vice-chancellor of the University of Cape Town in South Africa. Commencement will be held this year on Sunday, May 14.
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Five new members joined the Smith College Board of Trustees in 1999. They include the former president of the college's Student Government Association, Cherilyn Cepriano '99, who is a senior staff assistant at the National Governors' Association in Washington, D.C.; Phoebe A. Haddon '72, professor of law at Temple University Law School; Jane Lakes Harman '66, former U.S. congresswoman from California's 36th District; Barbara Alden Taylor '65, executive vice president of Edelman, Public Relations Worldwide; and James Wei, dean of Princeton's School of Engineering and Applied Science, and the Pomeroy and Betty Perry Smith Professor in Engineering and professor of chemical engineering at Princeton.

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