WHAT ARE THE PLANS FOR OUR 70TH REUNION WEEKEND?
Gillett House, our headquarters, will be open to us beginning Thursday May 22nd at 4 pm through 11 am Sunday, May 25th. There will be an evening cookout on the Chapin lawn for the all early arrivals. Breakfast will be served to all. The college programs begin at 11 am 0n Friday. May 23 One our early arrivals might enjoy is a student panel discussion about their Smith Experience. Lunch will be at Gillett. After lunch we (including our companions),are scheduled to have a guided bus tour of the campus that will end at Neilson Library. After a talk about the library we will have an opportunity to tour some area of the building. By then it will be time for cocktails and dinner again at Gillett. After dinner it will be time to relax, reminisce, enjoy the display of memorabilia or play cards.
Saturday will begin with the parade at 10 am. Wear whites from head to toe and your green ribbon. Bring a tote bag from a previous reunion for your sweater, hat, cell phone, etc. Remember to wear comfy shoes. Lunch will back at headquarters. At some point we will have a class meeting. Among other things we need to elect new class officers to serve for the next five years. These officers include, President, Secretary (who also writes class column in the Smith Quarterly), Fund Agent, Memorial Chair, and Website Manager. If you are willing to volunteer for one of these positions please let Sally Greeley Bailey know. Sbailey.140@aol.com or 704-443-6732. After lunch, at a designated time, we will visit the renovated Alumnae House for a tour and refreshments. There will be some programs open to all classes that you may choose to attend. The campus shuttle will be available to take you where you would like to go.
Late Saturday afternoon we will have cocktails back at Gillett followed by dinner. I hope we will be fortunate enough to have musical entertainment provided by a student group during the evening. The evening will be your last opportunity to browse through our class memorabilia of items gathered and preserved since we entered Smith in 1951.
Sunday morning we will have breakfast together, gather the memorabilia we brought, pack our bags, say goodbye to our classmates and head home. I hope it will be a wonderful weekend of reflection and reminiscing about the last 70 years at Smith including the changes to the campus and the curriculum.
NEW YORK CITY 2023
New York City October, 2018
On October 31, 2018 1955 Class Officers met at the NYC apartment of V-President Sally Gooch Paynter to develop plans for our 65th Smith Reunion set for May, 2020. Pictured L. to R: Alice Wayland Cruikshank, Sally Gooch Paynter, President Sally Greeley Bailey, V-President Anne Elmendorf Impellizzerri, House Reps Katie Cowen Weldon, Smith Fund Kay Becker Finney, Adela Bartholomew Wilmerding, Smith Fund–Special Gifts Edie Stenhouse Bingham and Linda Ekstrom Stanley.
2016
A December event at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art Classmates brought together classmates.
(l. to r.) Sally Gooch Paynter, Pat Rediker Goldstein, Liz Sessions Kelsey, Anne Elmendorf Impellizerri, Jan Carlson Oresman and Joyce Loewenthal West
The Neurological Institute of the Columbia University Medical Center honored their member Prof. Dr. C. Dominique Toran-Allerand, MD, Doctor Honoris Causa (Smith 1955) at a reception on October 22, 2015. Dr. Toran became world renowned for her innovative and seminal studies of estrogen and brain research. Sally Gooch Paynter wrote this personal report.
60th REUNION PHOTOS–5/21-24/2015
The Grecourt Gates
Linda Ekstrom Stanley, Adela Bartholomew Wilmerding and Dorothea Hutton Scher
Rachael Jenkins Sherrill, Pattee Caldwell Schlatter and Anne Eiseman Walker
Sue Cross Hunter, Sally Greeley Bailey, Wini Hitz Lumsden, Joan Carey Crowley, Anne Eiseman Walker
Sally Greeley Bailey, Polly Ormsby Longsworth, Kristin Miller Wood, Joan Dutton Romig and Sue Cross Hunter
Katie Cowen Weldon, Wini Hitz Lumsden, Rachael Jenkins Sherrill and Marty Moore Gilbert
Barbara Stein Scott, Shelia Montgomery Cleworth and Judy Ettlinger Cohn
Jan Carlson Oresman, Ginger Owen Schoder and Liz Sessions Kelsey
Kate Copeland Newhall, Diane Neal Emmons, Louise Toole Healey and Jane Fox Crandall
March, 2015
CLASSMATES BRAVE THE ELEMENTS FOR NYC MINI-REUNION
Hosts Sally Gooch Paynter, Jan Carlson Oresman and Joyce Loewenthal West
A delightful luncheon mini-reunion was hosted by Pat Rediker Goldstein, Jan Carlson Oresman, Sally Gooch Paynter and Joyce Loewenthal West at Sally’s NYC apartment on February 5. Despite the inclement weather, the classmates able to attend were: Marilyn Silver Braiterman, Alice Wayland Cruikshank, Ann Rosenthal Satin, Susan Smith Henry, Susan Asher Picard, Dorothea Hutton Scher, Bickley Flower Simpson, Debby Plesser Pinkus, Anne Elmendorf Impellizeri, and Marty Moore Gilbert.
September, 2014
An enthusiastic group of greater Boston-area classmates met at the Peabody Essex Museum to view the Calder exhibit in September. Anne Eiseman Walker noted “Nineteen attended but two had left by the time we remembered to take a picture!” Hopefully all will plan to attend our upcoming 60th Reunion in May 2015.
Pictured standing : Liz Kelsey, Nancy Biddle Bates, Addie Bartholomew Wilmerding, Judy Ettinger Cohn, Susan McWhinney Morse, Lee Cairns Havens, Jill Gillette Reydel, Lola Fortmiller Baldwin, Brita Lehmkuhl Herman, Muffy Finger Marlio, Marion Francis Thornton. Kneeling: Anne Marshall Tarbell and Vera Converse Gibbons. Front row: Hosts Hilary Holcomb Creighton, Kate Copeland Newhall, Libby Jones Thorne and Anne Eiseman Walker. Not pictured: Sue Cross Hunter and Elinor Lockwood Yeo.