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From the
WellesleyWire, 7/9/03
Included in this issue are the following:
Wellesley Names New Dean of Students
President Walsh Applauds Supreme Court's Decision on Affirmative Action
Trailer for Mona Lisa Smile Released
Online Slide Show of Wellesley Faculty Commencement Regalia
WELLESLEY NAMES NEW DEAN
OF STUDENTS
President Walsh
recently announced the appointment of Kimberly Goff-Crews as the new
Dean of Students. "Kimberly Goff-Crews is a person of integrity,
intelligence, warmth, and energy who will bring many strengths to
Wellesley," said Walsh. A student life professional with a broad range
of higher education experience, Goff-Crews most recently has served as
chief of staff and director of planning at Lesley University in
Cambridge, Massachusetts. A former bankruptcy attorney, she was an
assistant dean at Yale for six years. She will join the Wellesley
community on August 1.
More information
about Ms. Goff-Crews can be found at:
http://www.wellesley.edu/PublicAffairs/Releases/2003/070803.html
PRESIDENT WALSH APPLAUDS SUPREME COURT'S DECISION ON AFFIRMATIVE ACTION
In a written
statement to the campus community, President Diana Chapman Walsh praised
the Supreme Court's recent decision upholding affirmative action,
calling it "a victory for all colleges and universities because it
upholds their freedom to craft admissions policies and practices to
achieve their institutional goals." She noted that the Court upheld the
University of Michigan Law School's admissions practice of considering
race as one factor in a process which considers each application on its
individual merits -- the same type of approach that Wellesley College
practices. President Walsh's full statement can be read at:
http://www.wellesley.edu/PublicAffairs/Releases/2003/062303.html
MONA
LISA SMILE TRAILER HIGHLIGHTS WELLESLEY CAMPUS
The preview for
Mona Lisa Smile, a movie starring Julia Roberts as a fictional
Wellesley College art history professor and set in 1953-54, was recently
released in theatres and online. Last fall and winter, the cast and
crew spent a total of eight days filming scenes on the Wellesley campus.
More than 200 students, faculty, and employees were cast as "extras"
and several dozen students worked as production assistants during the
on-campus filming. The trailer includes shots of hooprolling, Houghton
Memorial Chapel, crew on Lake Waban, Galen Stone Tower, Founders Hall,
Tower Courtyard, Severance Green, and the Claflin living room.
In addition to
Roberts, the movie features Kirsten Dunst, Julia Stiles, Maggie
Gyllenhaal, Ginnifer Goodwin, and Wellesley's own Laura Allen '96 as
students and friends who are influenced by and who, in turn, influence
their professor. The movie is scheduled for release in mid-December.
The trailer can
be found online at:
http://www.themoviebox.net/trailers/moviebox_trailers/mona_lisa_smile.htm
(Requires
Windows MediaPlayer, RealPlayer, or QuickTime to view.)
ONLINE SLIDE SHOW OF WELLESLEY FACULTY COMMENCEMENT REGALIA
Commencement at
Wellesley is a time for the entire college to shine -- students,
faculty, and the campus itself. Thanks to Connie Haddleton and Flick
Coleman of the Chemistry Department, alumnae and friends can see a
selection of photographs of Wellesley faculty in their colorful
commencement regalia.
To view the
online slide show, go to:
www.wellesley.edu/Chemistry/Flick/chcommencement.html
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you recognize?
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