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Recent & Upcoming Events

Thursday, September 11, 2025 | 11:30 a.m. – 2 p.m.
Riverside Yacht Club
102 Club Road, Riverside, CT

Celebrate 150 Years of Smith College Classes – with an Outstanding Smith Professor!

Topic: Why Novels Still Matter

1875: On September 9, Smith students attend classes for the first time.
2025: We celebrate this historic occasion with an engaging lecture by Michael Thurston, Helen Means Professor of English

After five years as Smith College Provost, he is thrilled to be back in the classroom (including ours!), teaching novels (and poems) that matter.

As to our topic’s background: In his July 2025 New York Times Opinion column, “When Novels Mattered,” David Brooks deplores the reduced cultural visibility and importance of the novel. “Literature,” he writes, “plays a much smaller role in our national life and this has a dehumanizing effect on our culture.”

Professor Thurston will respond to these assertions and suggest why, in our time, novels do matter.

Cost: $45 per person
To register, please make checks payable to Smith College Club of Greenwich-Stamford and provide your name, class, and email address as well as those of your guests.
Mail to: Carolyn Gilbert, 17 Cambridge Drive, Greenwich, CT 06831. For questions, call Carolyn at 203-536-8917.

Note: To celebrate this occasion please bring a favorite novel to help create a (temporary) centerpiece for your luncheon table. And remember, guests are welcome.

April 11, 2025
Visit to Greenwich by President Sarah Willie-LeBreton

On Friday April 11, Trustee and Club member, Lile Gibbons ’64, hosted a lunch meeting at the Round Hill Club. President Sarah spoke for about 20 minutes about all the updates at the College and then took questions from Club members. President Sarah’s dedication to excellence, her warmth and sense of humor all were in evidence. Lile cleverly created beautiful centerpieces with Smith College mugs filled with spring flowers, which many of us now have gracing our shelves.

May 28, 2025
Annual Meeting

SMITH COLLEGE CLUB OF GREENWICH-STAMFORD

Please join us for an enlightening, timely, and delicious

Annual Meeting and Luncheon
with guest speaker Associate Professor Alexander Barron

Wednesday, May 28, 2025 | noon
Riverside Yacht Club Ballroom
102 Club Road, Riverside, CT

Speaker: Alexander Barron, Associate Professor of Environmental Science and Policy

Topic: Climate Change: What Does It Look Like to Focus on Solutions?

Amid thunderous Rally Day applause in John M. Greene last February, Alex Barron received a teaching award from the Student Government Association in recognition of “outstanding teaching and ability to connect with students.”

An expert in American environmental policy before coming to Smith, Alex Barron worked in the U.S. Congress, where he helped design comprehensive climate legislation; in the Environmental Protection Agency, where he worked on standards to reduce carbon and mercury pollution; and in the White House Office of Management and Budget, where he focused on cross-government climate and environmental regulations.

At our meeting, he will speak about policies to reduce greenhouse gas pollution and avoid catastrophic climate change. In a recent interview, he said, “I think a lot in my teaching about how to restore the joy and wonder and vision that can come from working on these problems.” He and his students were deeply involved in the planning and decision-making around Smith’s transition to geothermal heating, which President Sarah spoke about during her recent visit here.