MOVING TO PARIS… OR JUST COMING THROUGH?
Don’t know anyone in Paris? One way to feel more at home is to join us for an event, an ideal occasion to strike up acquaintances with long-established Smith alumnae or with young alums.
The Club organizes numerous in-person and on-line events including talks by outstanding Smith professors and alumnae, private visits to exhibitions, walking tours, “after work” networking events, wine-tastings and joint events with sister-clubs. We also have 2 self-governing Book Clubs.
We are particularly proud of the strong ties we have developed and maintain with the Junior Year Abroad program: we organize a “JYA-Alum Mixer” welcome event every Fall, offer the JYA program an annual Cultural Stipend to help out with the cost of field trips, mediate workshops (how to do a French résumé and look for an internship, “I want to come back to France after graduation” etc.).
We also maintain the network of Smithies in France, the FB group, our Alumnae website page, ongoing relations with Northampton, with the Smith in Europe network, the American University Clubs of Paris alliance and sister university clubs.
Robin Silver (’76), is the current club President and coordinates the club along with a dynamic (and primarily young) Board: Ruth Meade-Roux (’84), Dawn Turek (’00), Julia Behrs (’10), Elizabeth Wroth-Besse (’14) and Janan Fugel (’19).
If you are living in France, we would LOVE to have you join! And please do reach out if you are planning to spend even part of your year here in France (sabbatical, work, pleasure …).
Robin Silver (’76)
President