Chicago City Treasurer Stephanie Neely ’85 not only oversees billions of dollars in city assets, she also uses her office to support small businesses and educate the public about the importance of financial literacy.
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Barbara Brenner ’73, former head of Breast Cancer Action—which she took from a grassroots nonprofit to a national organization that changed the conversation about breast cancer—has died of complications from ALS.
Shelly Lazarus ’68 has been named a 2013 Advertising Hall of Fame inductee. In “Love Letter to Shelly Lazarus,” Liz Olsen writes, “Years before Sheryl Sandberg, Shelly Lazarus was out there as living proof of what leaning in looks like.”
Drafts of one of Sylvia Plath ’55’s last poems will soon go to auction. These papers include a fragment from an earlier short story that Plath discarded, and it illustrates what haunted the poet for most of her life.
Your exploration of Peru’s treasures begins at the Larco Museum in Lima and continues in Cusco, capital of the Inca empire and one of the great archaeological sites of the Americas.
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Cruise to Northern Europe’s most fabled port cities in luxurious style aboard the 684-passenger Nautica.
This expedition to some of America’s finest national parks offers a primer on their geology, flora, fauna, and cultural histories.
“Success the way we’ve defined it is no longer sustainable,” said Arianna Huffington, head of The Huffington Post Media Group, at the 2013 Smith College Commencement on May 19. See the entire address.
Paul Alpers, husband of President Carol Christ and professor-in-residence in English language and literature, died on May 19. Alpers served as a member of the English department at UC, Berkeley, for 38 years.
Founding board member of the Asian Women’s Leadership University Mona Ghosh Sinha ’88 delivered the 25th Reunion Address at Smith’s Ivy Day celebration on May 18: “Take risks, be daring, think big and always think Smith.”