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Alumnae Education
March 26-27, 2009
 
Schedule of Events
 
Wednesday, March 25
       
7 p.m. Panel for Students
Planning Committee
Kimberly Hess ’96, chair, Patricia Annino ’78, Jennifer Beindorf ’91, Susan Jansen ’79, Lynne Marra Noel ’93, Abigail Slater ’80
  Neilson Browsing Room
 
 
Thursday, March 26
       
11 a.m.–noon Registration   Alumnae House
       
Noon Lunch and welcome
Shawnah Harvey, account manager, Liberty Mutual
Carol T. Christ, President, Smith College
Luncheon sponsored by Liberty Mutual
  Alumnae House Conference Hall
       
2 p.m. Panel
Smith Women Mean Business
Moderator: Carol T. Christ
Panelists: Linda Smith Charles ’74, deputy director and chief operations officer, Office of Human Resources, Ford Foundation, Dolores Kunda ’77, president and CEO, Lápiz Marketing, Anne Morita ’90, senior vice president of marketing and programming, Veoh Networks, Inc., Betsy Stark ’78, business correspondent, ABC News
  Alumnae House Conference Hall
       
3:30 Break   Alumnae House Gallery
       
4 p.m. Panel
Ethics in Business
Moderator: John Connolly, professor, philosophy
Panelists: Lynn Sharp Paine ’71, John G. McLean Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School, Betsy Stark ’78, Linda Chatman Thomsen ’76, former director, Securities and Exchange Commission Division of Enforcement
  Weinstein Auditorium
Wright Hall
       
6:15 p.m. Reception   Alumnae House Living Room
       
7 p.m. Dinner   Alumnae House Conference Hall
       
       
Friday, March 27      
       
7:30 a.m. Breakfast   Alumnae House Conference Hall
       
9 a.m. Session I (choose one)
  • Family Business
    Host: Patricia Annino '78
    Panelists: Nan-B de Gaspé Beaubien '57, Co-Chair, The de Gaspé Beaubien Foundation, Abigail Slater '80, VP, The Suncee Sock Company

  • Power of Philanthropy
    Host: Lynne Marra Noel '93
    Panelists: Linda Smith Charles ’74, Mahnaz Mahdavi, professor, economics, Phyllis Cohen Rappaport ’68, chair, Jerome Lyle Rappaport, Charitable Foundation; director, New Boston Fund, Inc.

  • Charting a Course: Women on Corporate and Non-Profit Boards
    Host: Kimberly Hess '96
    Moderator: Cornelia Mendenhall Small '66, chair, Smith College Board of Trustees
    Panelists: Rita Foley ’75, chair, Pro Mujer Board of Directors, Wendy Markus Webb ’80, chief communications and investor relations officer, Ticketmaster Entertainment, JoAnne Lyons Wooten ’74, president and chief executive officer, Women Work! The National Network for Women’s Employment
  Campus Center 205








Campus Center 103/104







Neilson Browsing Room
       
10:30 Break    
       
11 a.m. Session II (choose one)
  • Navigating Corporate America: Breaking Through
    Host: Jennifer Beindorf '91, director, strategic development, Campos Creative Works (CCW)
    Moderator: Susan Zesiger Callaway '86, contributing editor, Fortune and CNNMoney.com
    Panelists: Lisa Black ’81, managing director, TIAA-CREF, Mary Dickinson ’81, CEO, DF Indie Studios LLC, Jane Nakagawa ’81, global planning director, Infiniti account, TBWA\Chiat\Day.

  • Defining and Redefining Success
    Host: Susan Jansen '79
    Panelists: Claudia Slacik ’79, global head, Trade Services and Finance, Citigroup, Nadine Abraham Thompson, SSW ’91, founder and CEO, Soul Purpose, Laura Weil ’79, CEO, Urban Brands, Inc

  • The Corner Office In Your Living Room: True Stories of Smith Women Entrepreneurs
    Host: Abigail Slater '80
    Moderator: Monique King-Viehland '99, executive director, Capital City Redevelopment Corporation
    Panelists: Linda Hinton Brown ’75, co-owner, Brown Betty Dessert Boutique, Laryn Callaway ’90, ND, CEO, Callaway Consumer Products, Stephanie Kampel Wilson ’94, principal, senior consultant, Innovative Marketing and Design
 

 

Campus Center 205













Neilson Browsing Room







Campus Center 103/104

       
12:45 p.m. Lunch and presentation
Eileen Fisher: A Model of Feminine Values in Practice
Karen Rosenthal Gray ’78
, director of stores, Eileen Fisher Inc., Eileen Fisher, chief creative officer, Eileen Fisher Inc.
  Alumnae House Conference Hall
       
2:30 p.m. Panel
Effecting Change: Transitions, Balance, and Moving Beyond
Moderator: Maureen Mahoney, dean of the college
Panelists: Nan-b de Gaspé Beaubien ’57, Elizabeth Crowell ’93, owner, Sterling Place Boutiques, Rochelle Braff Lazarus ’68, chair, Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide, Barbara Reinhold, former director, CDO and SEE
  Alumnae House Conference Hall
       
4 p.m. Tea with students   Alumnae House Living Room
       
5–6:30 p.m. Reception
Hosted by Eileen Fisher Inc.
  Eileen Fisher Store
24 Pleasant Street
Northampton, MA
 
 
Click here to register online
 
 
For information, contact the Alumnae Association of Smith College at alumedu@smith.edu.
 
 
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